Inaxios

In expected news, Pope Francis has replaced Peter Cardinal Turkson with Michael Cardinal Czerny S.J. as head of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This marks the first time in more than a generation that no African serves as the head of a major Vatican office pic.twitter.com/HcG5JRK2hs

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) December 23, 2021

Whom Does the Vatican Serve?

As Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin put it, “means transforming instruments of hatred into instruments of peace... It means rejecting the increasing proliferation of arms & accepting the promotion of the common good & the alleviation of poverty.”https://t.co/NjFopgUCw8

— Crisis Magazine (@CrisisMag) July 29, 2021

Clerical Naivete or Clerical Duplicity?

NB: Cardinal Turkson mentions that Davos has played a large part in engaging world leaders with @Pontifex vision expressed in “Laudato Si”, with world leaders (he cites @EmmanuelMacron) quoting the Pope.

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) May 27, 2021

American Mediocracy

.⁦@ChelseaClinton⁩ tells #UnitetoPrevent Vatican conference ⁦about the @ClintonFoundat⁩’s determination to overcome vaccine hesitancy globally; personally calls for crackdown on media disinformation. No discussion of abortion-tainted vaccines or Church’s views on them pic.twitter.com/ByBL7OwuYv

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) May 7, 2021

Promoting His Favorites Again

What would this mediocrat know about human development?

VATICAN—⁦@americamag⁩ reports Pope Francis has appointed San Diego’s Bishop McElroy to board of Vatican office promoting human development https://t.co/CyyeDcSfkp

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) April 21, 2021

Clowns at the Vatican

Anthony Fauci, Chelsea Clinton, and Deepak Chopra are among the featured speakers at a Vatican conference being held in May on the interplay of mind, body, and soul in healthcare. https://t.co/EpEMbw8jlo

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 15, 2021

Other speakers at health conference co-organised by the Vatican include new age guru Deepak Chopra, conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, Michael Bloomberg’s daughter Emma, supermodel Cindy Crawford, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, Kerry Kennedy, Google Health chief David Feinberg https://t.co/dDPW5l5Lo4

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) April 15, 2021

Clerics Should Refrain from Making Political Judgments

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, said that though it’s “legitimate” to speak of a decadence and decline of the West, he’s optimistic that the decline is not irreversible.https://t.co/1jhKFEpMRt

— Crux (@Crux) April 14, 2021

A Latin Prog at Heart?

Cardinal Parolin says sometimes internal Church division and resistance arises from the inability to distinguish "between what is essential and cannot change and what is not essential and must be reformed, must change according to the spirit of the Gospel"https://t.co/GumGSP6vof

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) April 6, 2021

What Is Going On at St. Peter's Basilica

The Secretary of State instruction is genuine but many questions remain including what canonists say are violations of universal Church law and doctrinal defects. Still awaiting comment and clarification from @HolySeePress https://t.co/ZegWiSciFA

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) March 13, 2021

Edit.

On March 12, the Secretariat of State of Pope Francis published a document regarding the offering of the Holy Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. Both the form and content of the document rightly sustain the deepest concerns of the faithful and of priests. https://t.co/fZKuPY2I9r

— Cardinal Burke (@cardinalrlburke) March 13, 2021

Full Text of Cardinal Burke’s Statement on the Offering of the Holy Mass in the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter https://t.co/Gc9GmJ178L

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) March 13, 2021

From a Byzantine pov, concelebration is not only ideal but recommended, but what do Latins know about doing concelebration reverently?

Cardinal Burke pushes backhttps://t.co/JmpDE9C0y3

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) March 13, 2021

CWR: “Private” Masses banned in St. Peter’s Basilica? by Peter M.J. Stravinskas
The recent unsigned document from the Secretariat of State is yet another insult and assault on the priesthood and a glaring violation of ecclesial hospitality to laity who visit the church which is the common home of all believers.

An Accurate Take?

Some ultramontanists have tried to claim that absence of any mention of the role of the pope in approving bishops is not the same as denying that the pope has any role. Has it been conclusively shown that they are wrong? Ultramontanists never learn...

A stunning development. Pope has NO authority to appoint Chinese bishops. ALL clergy must be registered supporters of the Communist Party. The Vatican isn’t even getting its 30 pieces of silver. https://t.co/zULYlQyEfi

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) February 25, 2021

Whom to Believe and Trust?

A Vatican investigation has exonerated retired Bishop Joseph Hart of Cheyenne on seven accusations of sexual abuse towards minors, while five other accusations “could not be proven with moral certitude,” the diocese announced in a statement Monday.https://t.co/EzkN5Co9nj

— Crux (@Crux) January 26, 2021

#READ: “The sentence showed the arbitrary nature of the #Vatican’s canonical sex abuse judgments, which aren't public. Hart’s previous diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph reached court settlements years ago with at least 10 victims.”

Ref: https://t.co/ES6EiATojl@newsmax pic.twitter.com/5jpITbC4MC

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) January 26, 2021

The Diocese of Cheyenne announced yesterday a canonical rebuke against Bishop Joseph Hart, who is accused of serial sexual abuse.

What's a "canonical rebuke?" "Is this important?"

I cover Bishop Hart in this week's Tuesday @PillarCatholic Pillar Post:https://t.co/OzvLt28yHG

— JD Flynn (@jdflynn) January 26, 2021

Pell is Deliberately Subverting Stereotypes

Or an inversion of roles. These are the verbal contortions politicians must do.

#BREAKING: Cardinal George Pell welcomed @Pontifex’s inclusion of lay women on the #Vatican’s economy council, saying he hopes “clear headed” women will help “sentimental males” do the right thing concerning Church finances.https://t.co/fhpoP210Cq

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) January 16, 2021

Would the CCP Hatch a Plot to Destroy His Reputation?

It's not beyond the realm of possibility. God bless Cardinal Zen.

The Vatican-China Agreement: When the Music Stops https://t.co/EAJgBEkI7u

— Joseph Zen (@CardJosephZen) January 1, 2021

Catholic Herald

Bishop Andrea Han Jingtao, 99, one of the most revered leaders of the underground Catholic Church in China, died yesterday evening, December 30th. https://t.co/Kz8dWASdG8

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) December 31, 2020

Msgr. Han Jingtao, Underground #Catholic Bishop of Siping (Jilin), has died. He spent 27 years in a forced labor camp in #China. From 1997 onwards he faced constant checks by the police. Please, #PrayForChinesePeople. pic.twitter.com/Gw0j2isHOC

— Dalù (@Dalu_1989) December 31, 2020

#Opinion by @KevinCarrico 凱大熊｜"The rise of the #ChineseCommunistParty, whose politics intersected with Marxist theology to herald #China as the leader of an oppressed global proletariat seeking..."

Read more: https://t.co/LDaFnEWt7Y#AppleDailyENG

— Apple Daily HK 蘋果日報 (@appledaily_hk) January 1, 2021

The Plot Thickens

#BREAKING: After news that over $2bn were transferred to unknown recipients in Australia in the last 5yrs, @Pontifex has reportedly signed a law formally stripping #Vatican Secretariat of State of Assets.

⁦@nwinfield⁩ of ⁦@AP⁩ reports. https://t.co/lrtyuJ7ES0

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) December 28, 2020

I'd Rather Not be Honored by Parolin

What a nice touch. And they even wrote V instead of U, until Secretarius Status. Rest in Peace, Fr Reginald. pic.twitter.com/FZ9TxYA4st

— Bernard Mulcahy OP (@FrBMulcahyOP) December 27, 2020

Latin Progs Love It When the Shoe is on the Other Foot

Let this put an end to bishops who were opposing vaccines and endangering lives. Roma locuta, causa finita. https://t.co/fr1gD7dj9i

— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) December 21, 2020

Not quite. The CDF note requires us to continue to reject and condemn the practice of abortion and is use in vaccine development. This is still a moral evil, and we are right to oppose the evil, even if our remote cooperation makes its use morally acceptable. https://t.co/uYoBRjn1Vf

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) December 21, 2020

Related:

A note from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was approved by Pope Francis, gives the green light during the pandemic to the use of vaccines produced with cell lines derived from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s.https://t.co/LV5mw7u4xT

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) December 21, 2020

By @eliseannallen, Vatican green-lights COVID vaccines, finds no ‘cooperation’ in abortion for users https://t.co/tmoKAWIo15

— Crux (@Crux) December 21, 2020

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has today issued a Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines: https://t.co/5O7PQkljPa

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) December 21, 2020

Hey Pope Francis, How's That Sino-Vatican Agreement Working Out for You?

“The Vatican did not announce the appointment of a bishop of Qingdao prior to this ordination, and has not responded to CNA’s request for comment on the ceremony.”

Vatican-Chinese cooperation on episcopal appointments is working smoothly, we see. https://t.co/nQMutScXkL

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) November 24, 2020

Cardinal Zen Responds to DW News

Vatican Neutrality?

"Omissions were also revealing. In the run-up to the election, Vatican officials were silent about Trump policies that coincided w/the Church’s social doctrine: pro-life position, defense of religious freedom & persecuted Christians..."
via @EdwardPentinhttps://t.co/TEiEuO0Sp4

— National Catholic Register (@NCRegister) November 10, 2020

Another Election

The new Lieutenant of the Grand Master of the Sovereign #OrderofMalta, Fra’ Marco Luzzago has been sworn in. The Pope’s Special Delegate, Cardinal-elect Silvano Tomasi, and the Council Complete of State were present. He is will remain in office for a year. pic.twitter.com/FTydtYC75Q

— Order of Malta (@orderofmalta) November 8, 2020