Clericalism?

Catholic Herald Vatican correspondent deplores ‘clericalist internal culture that Pope Francis has fought so hard to reform’. Uh? It’s a strange ‘reform’ that requires the protection of clergy convicted of sexual assaults on seminarians or accused of the mass rape of nuns. It’s…

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) March 19, 2025

Anaxios

A day before Cardinal McElroy’s installation in Washington, a frantic attempt to explain why he didn’t act after he was given details of McCarrick’s assaults on seminarians:https://t.co/M9rbYWqhvj

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) March 10, 2025

What Direction for Men?

Pope Francis during his weekly general audience announced the canonization dates of two of the Catholic Church’s most popular young saints-in-the-making: the “techie teen” Carlo Acutis, and outdoorsman and activist Piero Giorgio Frassati.https://t.co/hcvDyEoIWs

— Crux (@Crux) November 21, 2024

Pope Francis has announced that Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonised during the 2025 Jubilee Year — Blessed Carlo on April 27 and Blessed Pier Giorgio sometime between July 28-August 3 @cnalive https://t.co/5dN9Tdpwzu

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) November 20, 2024

Ecclesial Propaganda

With the encyclical Dilexit Nos, the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says Pope Francis has offered a “simple and powerful” cure to many of the problems that plague modern society.https://t.co/KhxBqpIllp

— Crux (@Crux) October 25, 2024

A Unity That Requires Uniformity

In a meeting with Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and members of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church at the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis urged unity and obedience amid a long-simmering liturgical conflict that continues to rock the Eastern church. https://t.co/2s1lfRs6sy

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) May 13, 2024

Return to "Tradition"

Pope Francis reinstates the papal title of ‘Patriarch of the West’ (the title was removed in 2006) in the annual Vatican Diptychs (Pontificio Annuario del Vaticano 2024), which will be released next Tuesday. https://t.co/b9TN1pfQGg

— Aristomenis Papadimitriou (@arist0men1s) April 8, 2024

Obsequium Religiosum

At this Press Conference for the Vatican’s document on Human Dignity, coming prepared with a copy of the Code of Canon law, Tucho Fernández bizarrely starts quoting Can. 752 that religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff… pic.twitter.com/Nv52hackYV

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) April 8, 2024

Portent of Things to Come?

After completing his massive overhaul of the Roman curia in 2022, Pope Francis has now turned his attention to women, inviting several female theologians and even a female Anglican bishop to informally join his select group of advisors.https://t.co/ehgrTc2dCZ

— Crux (@Crux) February 6, 2024

Female Anglican Bishop Addresses Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinals | National Catholic Register https://t.co/G6LWdJVnqh @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) February 6, 2024

We Can Hardly Wait

Vatican’s Doctrinal Office Preparing ‘Very Important Document on Human Dignity,’ Cardinal Fernández Says | National Catholic Register https://t.co/Ibn3bmcCSf @NCRegister

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) January 13, 2024

Rome Has a Problem

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández’s response to ten dubia from Cardinal Dominik Duka, Archbishop Emeritus of Pragues, seems to require the faithful to embrace teachings contrary to Catholic doctrine, write E. Christian Brugger and Fr. Peter Ryan, SJ.https://t.co/t6u7jcx4mb

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) December 10, 2023

It Doesn't Happen Automatically

Seems like an important story - Cardinal Muller discusses whether Pope Francis has lost office for heresy.https://t.co/mH5ySt0pY8

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) November 7, 2023

Predictable

The synod on synodality assembly sent a letter to the Church Wednesday, urging more synodality.https://t.co/MJ92RpZ60e

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) October 25, 2023

This is analysis of without an understanding of the reality:

"With the synodal body now issuing letters to all the Christian faithful in its own name... it appears to be growing into a rival pole of authority to the Bishop of Rome, under whose authority and care it is meant to exist."

Analysis via @canonlawyered https://t.co/WvnxKHKdeN

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) October 25, 2023

The Bergoglian Rupnik Scandal Continues

The influential mosaic artist Fr. Marko Rupnik has been incardinated into a diocese in his native Slovenia, according to multiple reports.https://t.co/hlrZ7q2QGN

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) October 25, 2023

Disgraced ex-Jesuit priest, Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik, has been incardinated in the Slovenian diocese of Koper, @katholisch_de has confirmed. https://t.co/XUjjXkOTcT

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 25, 2023

Since *August* this vile abuser has been enjoying 'all the rights and freedoms of a diocese priest'. How will Synod members who fail to condemn this abomination manage to sleep tonight? https://t.co/lqmffeOSPp

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) October 25, 2023

Now updated with comments from the diocese. Yikes. https://t.co/xLiEFi6e49

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) October 25, 2023

Who Will Finish Whom?

From the declaration of infallibility at Vatican I, a doctrinal ultramontanism has led many Catholics to equate the papacy with Catholicism.https://t.co/EeemlM5SeQ

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) September 28, 2023

Bergoglio as Legislator

Pope Francis changed canon law on Tuesday regarding the governance of Opus Dei and any future personal prelatures.https://t.co/bZOdTmOffO

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) August 8, 2023

What a new papal policy means for Opus Dei:https://t.co/FA3iwJCABe

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) August 8, 2023

Confirmed: Anaxios?

“We don’t want to convert the young people to Christ or to the Catholic Church or anything like that at all,” said Bishop Américo Aguiar, head of World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023 who will be created a cardinal by Pope Francis in September — @cnalive
https://t.co/liWgp4atUo

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) July 10, 2023

Taking Ownership of the Church of Rome?

Pope Francis Reorganizes Diocese of Rome in Face of ‘Epochal Change’ https://t.co/jQsuDMSvNl @cnalive

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) January 10, 2023

Franciscan Laxism in the Works?

Francis has already accepted it in principle by endorsing contraception for Zika. And let's not forget his gratuitous swipe at conscientous married couples--that they shouldn't breed like "rabbits." https://t.co/JF2BqNc3Zg

— George Neumayr (@george_neumayr) January 4, 2023

Chapp on the Rupnik Case

Fr. Rupnik’s case is now only shocking in the fact that it no longer shocks. It is the same story of past decades, just a different chapter, writes Larry Chapp. https://t.co/pErvhZSNIo

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) December 29, 2022

Anaxioi

Pope Francis has named newly elevated cardinals to Vatican dicasteries. Among the members: +Roche joins Bishops, Evangelisation, Education & Culture; +McElroy becomes a member of Laity, Family & Life and Integral Human Development; +Heung-sik now member of Bishops, Evangelisation pic.twitter.com/csz1vvuqiI

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 7, 2022