De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

In a new article in The Boston Pilot , George Weigel (Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.)   takes an interesting look at the recent bizarre article in La  Civiltà Cattolica  I posted about here . Weigel explains why, despite its' minuscule readership, the publication is important: ...the vast majority of them will read (or at least scan) it, not for scintillating content, but because its articles are vetted by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, and are thus assumed to have some sort of quasi-official status: which means that those articles are taken to reflect the cast of mind of the current pontificate . So if you want to be in the know, you read (or at least scan) Civiltà Cattolica. [emphasis mine] Weigel, like just about everyone else on the planet who has read this article, is scathing on its content and inaccuracy: ...its ill-informed misrepresentation of American religious history; its surreal descriptions of ...

Pope Francis accepts an issue of 'La Civilta Cattolica' from Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Jesuit-run magazine, during a Feb. 9 meeting with editors and staff. (Credit: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout.) Part of the problem with the Franciscan papacy are the clowns he seems to rely on. They are petty, ignorant and, far from the much lauded models of dialogue & accompaniment, seem intent on simply bullying anyone they disagree with. Who can forget this ridiculous episode?  Or this fiasco ? The latest cringe-making event has been co-authored by Francis' confidants, Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa, the editor-in-chief of the Argentinean edition of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano . It is this extraordinary essay on US religious politics published in the Jesuit magazine La Civiltà Cattolica . Writing for Crux , Fr Raymond de Souza states: If Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro was not the editor of La Civiltà Cattolica , his recen...