De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

  Recorded on the 29th December before Pope Benedict XVI died. We discuss the incongruity between the laicisation of pro-life hero Frank Pavone & the cover up of abuse committed by Marko Rupnik. I wrote extensively about Pavone here . Although the problems that led to this sanction are well documented, it is extremely difficult to reconcile the removal of his vocational calling, given he has responded with humility and always sought obedience while maintaining the mission he has been a part of for numerous years, with the leniency given to disgraced Jesuit abuser Rupnik.  I was one of the first to report on the Rupnik scandal for the Catholic Herald (see my article here ). On the 21st December, I was asked to write a summary for Rorate Caeli , which you can read here . Pavone was laicised, according to the letter to US bishops from the Nuncio, for disobedience and blasphemy. What precisely was the blasphemy that Pavone committed and what precisely was his disobedience? As ...

Just before Christmas, rumours abounded that Pope Francis was about to appoint a German radical to the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, the prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith has been in post since the Summer of 2017, when Pope Francis removed Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former bishop of Regensburg. Mandates at the Roman Curia are for five years. On July 1, 2022, Ladaria's term expired. Since it was not renewed, it has been clear since then that Francis is looking for a successor. Reliable voices from the Vatican already stated that it was certain that Ladaria's successor would be the German bishop Heiner Wilmer of Hildesheim. Bishop Wilmer is also firmly within the consensus of the German episcopate that the radical reinvention of Catholicism being proposed by the German Synodal Way is necessary. Writing in Catholic World Report, George Weigel stated that such an appointment would seem a papal repudiation of the man Pope ...