De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

The Italian publication La Verità has secured an interesting interview with the author of The Dictator Pope , the pseudonymous Marcantonio Colonna. "It was necessary to use a pseudonym because, as the book tells us, Pope Francis takes merciless revenge on those who oppose him. For example, the three assistants of Cardinal Müller who were dismissed in October 2016 for alleged criticism of the Pope."~Colonna In this interview, Colonna says that the media image of Pope Francis is one of the most amazing scams of contemporary life. All who work in the Vatican know the abyss between that image and reality and we should not be surprised that someone eventually reveals the truth. Asked why he wrote the book, he explains that he intends it "to prevent the Church from making a similar error again. That is to elect as Pope a little-known cardinal who turns out to be very different from what he seemed." According to Colonna Pope Francis is "sovereign who exe...

A few of days ago I posted about a new book called The Dictator Pope which has been really causing a stir as it claims to be the inside story of the most tyrannical and unprincipled papacy of modern times . Now this was first posted on One Peter Five , which I love, but some criticise because it is a site critical of progressive catholic attitudes and modernism. Anyway some people these days dismiss certain sources because they tend to contradict their own agenda. I don't, as I have said here numerous times before, we are all parts of the body of Christ and that body has many parts (cf.  1 Cor 12 ). If I agree with everything someone says, I'm probably reading my own blog. We all get it wrong sometimes. Anyway, I was concerned initially that this would be seen as a diatribe against the pope with an agenda. This would make the contents easier to dismiss. Almost read “The Dictator Pope”, of course it is all libelous gossip, the Church is not a dictatorship, is it? —...