Gloria.TV News on the 29th of April 2015

Ready: Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical is already being translated from the Latin final draft according to Andrew Revkin writing on his blog. Quote: “There’s not much need for interpretation, given the clarity in Vatican signals about what’s in the encyclical.” Revkin lists: the care for creation, integral human development (whatever this is) and concern for the poor.

Ideological Cake: American Father Marcel Guarnizo has published an article on cnsnews.com under the title: “Radical homosexuals want to have their ‘ideological cake’ and make you eat it too.” About bakeries who are forced in the U.S. to produce cakes designed for homosex pseudo-marriages Guarnizo states: “The ‘homosexual cake,’ is not just a cake, it is an ideological statement, and here the vendor must decide if he wants to engage or participate in an ideological statement.”

Earthquake: On April 14th, the general of the Jesuits fired the rector of the famous Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, American Jesuit Father James McCann and the two deans, Jesuit Fathers Philippe Luisier and Michael Kuchera. The superior general denounced the – quote - “uncharitable” spirit that has split the faculty. The deans had asked for the removal of the rector, judged to be incapable of steering the academic apparatus. Sandro Magister believes that the present earthquake is only a prelude to a temporary closing of the institute.

No Public Mass: The diocese of Reggio Calabria has forbidden a Mass commemorating the 70th anniversary of the homicide of Former Italian Duce Benito Mussolini on April 28. Mussolini, a former socialist, was anti-clerical and an atheist who made vitriolic attacks against the Church. The Mass wanted also to remember – quote – “all those who have believed in the honor and the greatness of the people of Italy.”