Tag: Pope Francis

The Wrong Kind of Diversity: Vatican Suspends Ordinations in Toulon

A choice of diversity and openness—to use concepts that should be in vogue—has worked to reverse the aging trend in apostolic vocations in Bishop Rey’s diocese. But the decision from Rome proves that the Pope, and he alone, determines what passes for diversity and openness.

La tradition, c’est moi

It is noticeable that many of the book’s Anglophone contributors are almost bewildered by the sudden papal attack on the traditional liturgy. This is a shortcoming of the Anglo-centric perspective, which underestimates the depth of the antipathy towards the Apostolic Roman Rite amongst many non-Anglophone bishops.

Vatican Announces New Constitution

Defined by an emphasis on evangelization, charity, and the inclusion of the laity, the new constitution to govern the Roman Curia will go into effect on Pentecost.

Pope Francis on European Secularism

Pope Francis’ comments on the anachronistic and watered-down secularism of the modern EU suggest that the globalization of liberal ideology is little more than a form of ‘ideological colonisation’ that neither respects the cultural particularity of individual nations nor protects the openness of the public sphere to the worship of God.