Pope Francis Makes First Curia Appointment
From the NY TIMES VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed a Spaniard as secretary for the Vatican’s office for religious orders. The appointment of the Rev. Jose Rodriguez Carballo , announced...
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Pope Francis sets up a group of eight cardinals to advise him From http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/francesco-francis-francisco-24044/ Francis has taken a most...
View ArticleTO THE ROMAN CURIA: PROFESSIONALISM, SERVICE AND SANCTITY IN LIFE
THE POPE TO THE ROMAN CURIA: PROFESSIONALISM, SERVICE AND SANCTITY IN LIFE Vatican City, 21 December 2013 (VIS) – During the final days of Advent, the Holy Father traditionally meets with the...
View ArticlePope Francis Christmas Message: Heads Will Roll
From Liberty Voice Pope Francis Christmas Message: Heads Will Roll Added by Anthony Clark on December 21, 2013. Pope Francis’ has delivered his first Christmas message to the Curia since taking the...
View ArticleNot only Burke — Purge of those Prelates who Disagree or Criticize
From Eponymous Flower Not only Burke — Brotherly Purge of Francis the Merciful (Rome) The Vaticanist Matteo Matzuzzi analyzed the reasons that led to the removal of Cardinal Burke from two Roman...
View ArticleHow the Bishop Factory is Changing
From Chiesa Vatican Diary / How the bishop factory is changing Among the cardinals and bishops who are members of the congregation, Pope Francis has replaced half of them. With glaring exclusions. And...
View ArticleCouncil of Cardinals = Recommendations of Modernism
Referenced from Harvesting the Fruit A closer look at Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga’s speech Please read a reasonably detailed analysis of Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga’s speech, which sets the tone for...
View ArticleCuria Reform, Same Same
From Fr. Michael Brown’s blog Sunday, 12 January 2014 Awards and Honours again OK I may have misunderstood but I thought the situation was as follows. The conclave gathered after the unfortunate...
View ArticleChurch Entering ‘New Era’
From Catholic Herald UK Church entering ‘new era’ under Pope Francis, top papal adviser says By Jonathan Luxmoore on Thursday, 23 January 2014 Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa (CNS)...
View ArticleCardinal Kasper at it again – Women in the Curia
Excerpts from Vatican Insider “Women’s role in the Church should be rethought and integrated into the Pope’s ideas for greater synodal dynamism and a missionary conversion”: women should be offered...
View ArticleCARDINAL KASPER ENCOURAGES INCREASED LAICIZATION OF THE CURIA
From Eponymous Flower Cardinal Kasper Encourages Increased Laicization of the Curia Edit: laicism has ever and always been a vice condemned by the Church in previous days, identified with materialism...
View ArticleFrancis’s shake-up of the sclerotic Vatican has begun
Excerpts from Damian Thompson Pope Francis’s shake-up of the sclerotic Vatican has begun. Today he appointed the Australian Cardinal George Pell to head a new department: he’ll leave Sydney to become...
View ArticleCuria rumblings about a pope who won’t be filtered
Excerpts from John Thavis While in Rome this week, I’ve made some soundings inside the Roman Curia, and found concern among Vatican officials in two areas. First, they’re worried about the doctrinal...
View ArticlePope Francis Makes First Curia Appointment
From the NY TIMES VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed a Spaniard as secretary for the Vatican’s office for religious orders. The appointment of the Rev. Jose Rodriguez Carballo , announced...
View ArticlePope Francis sets up a group of eight cardinals to advise reorganizing Church...
Pope Francis sets up a group of eight cardinals to advise him From http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/francesco-francis-francisco-24044/ Francis has taken a most...
View ArticleHighly Centralizing and Hardly Collegial – That’s How the Bishops See Him
From Chiesa Highly Centralizing and Hardly Collegial. That’s How the Bishops See Him In spite of the promises to strengthen their role, for the episcopal conferences these are difficult times. Francis...
View ArticleTO THE ROMAN CURIA: PROFESSIONALISM, SERVICE AND SANCTITY IN LIFE
THE POPE TO THE ROMAN CURIA: PROFESSIONALISM, SERVICE AND SANCTITY IN LIFE Vatican City, 21 December 2013 (VIS) – During the final days of Advent, the Holy Father traditionally meets with the...
View ArticleFrancis Eliminates more Conservative Curial Cardinals
Excerpts from Eponymous Flower (Vatican) Pope Francis is preparing for the renovation of the Vatican “foreign ministry”. The former “foreign minister” of the Holy See, the French Curial Archbishop...
View ArticleTosatti: “De-Ratzingerization” purge moving full steam ahead
From Rorate Caeli Tosatti: “De-Ratzingerization” purge moving full steam ahead – If you’re too “conservative”, get out of the Roman Curia! De-Ratzingerization underway Marco Tosatti [Senior Religion...
View ArticleFaithful Prelate Purge – Exile to Malta for Cardinal Burke
From Sandro Magister at Chiesa Vatican Diary / Exile to Malta for Cardinal Burke As the impeccable prefect of the supreme tribunal of the apostolic signatura, he is on the verge of being demoted to the...
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