In a news report that comes to us from our Spanish-language partners Adelante la Fe, OnePeterFive has learned that Bishop Toribio Ticona — an 81-year-old Bolivian prelate who is alleged to be living with a woman as husband and wife with two children — will be raised to the status of cardinal by Pope Francis.…
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has given an interview to the Italian journalist Costanza Miriano, who works for the Italian television broadcaster RIA. In this new interview, the German cardinal rejects the notion of “homophobia” and explains that it is an instrument of an ideology…
Today, the German media are filled with reports about the new interview given by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the recently elected General Secretary of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and thus Angela Merkel’s “right hand” and one of the most influential professedly “conservative” leaders in Germany. She now openly calls for more influence of women in…
The Decomposition of Pope Francis’ reign continues. In light of what Onepeterfive has shown in the recent past concerning Pope Francis’ close advisors – Cardinals Maradiaga, Errazuriz, and Marx – it might be of interest that now one of the most prominent Swiss newspapers – Der Tages-Anzeiger – joins in that discussion, talking about the…
The German bishops’ vice president, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, is now announcing that the German bishops would – and should likewise – ask the pope for a special permission for the ordination of “viri probati” (married proven men to be ordained as priests) in Germany, should the pope come to allow the same for the Amazon…
As the Austrian Catholic news website Kath.net reports today, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – with explicit approval of Pope Francis – rejected the 22 February 2018 pastoral handout concerning the admittance, in individual cases, of Protestant spouses of Catholics to Holy Communion as it had been approved by the German Bishops’ Conference…
In an unusual move, seven German bishops have now protested against the 22 February decision of the German Bishops’ Conference to allow, in some cases, Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion. This move comes without previously informing Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German bishops in Germany. As the German newspaper Kölner…
Yesterday, we shared with you the words of Riccardo Cascioli, Editor of La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana: One letter, the letter of Benedict XVI, we have finally succeeded in reading in its entirety. Now we are still missing two letters: the one sent on January 12 by Monsignor Dario Viganò to Benedict XVI, which provoked the…
Here is a summary of the major stories we’re keeping an eye on today: The Bishop Barros story continues to progress, as we reported yesterday, with some members of the pope’s own commission on sexual abuse now going public with information that he received a victim letter in 2015, contrary to his claims of no…
I first asked the question, “Where Does Pope Francis Really Stand on Clerical Sex Abuse?” in October of 2015. One of the two cases I cited was that of his episcopal appointment to Osorno, Chile, Bishop Juan Barros. At the time, despite serious evidence that something was very much amiss in the pope’s promised “zero…
A new statement from the Holy See Press Office today indicates that despite assertions to the contrary from an outspoken Chinese cardinal, Pope Francis is fully aware and approves of recent diplomatic steps taken by the Vatican to appease the Chinese government. Yesterday, we reported that Cardinal Joseph Zen, Bishop-Emeritus of Hong Kong, had released…
