Gloria.TV News on the 13th of February 2015

The substance is the same: Benedict XVI has never regretted his decision to resign, said Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the papal household and personal secretary to the retired pope in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Pope Benedict is doing fine. Every now and then his legs give him some problems. He plays often Piano from memory: Mozart especially. Asked, what Popes Benedict and Francis might have in common, Archbishop Ganswein said that the one thing they share is quote: “the substance, the content, the deposit of faith to be proclaimed, promoted and defended”.

A lesbian is less controversial: Just weeks after Pope Francis announced his intention to canonize missionary Father Junipero Serra during his upcoming visit to the states, a California legislator has proposed to replace the soon-to-be-saint's statue in the U.S. Capitol. Father Serra helped establish the California missions, many of which became the centers of major cities like San Diego. Now California State Sen. Ricardo Lara has proposed that the priest's statue be replaced with a less quote “controversial” figure: pioneering astronaut Sally Ride. This would make Ride the first woman to represent California and the first known gay person to be included in the statue collection.

Not the priority of Pope Francis: On February 6 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone addressed the Catholic High School Teachers Convocation. He said: “Catholic school teachers are uniquely placed to impact the moral formation of students and provide clarity on Church teachings amid the confusion of secular society”. He added: “Faculty and staff must uphold Church teaching in their lives”. In his efforts to protect the Catholic identity of his dioceses schools, the Archbishop meets huge resistance from teachers and parents. The archbishop has been accused in numerous quarters of opposing Pope Francis’ direction and message for the Church. Boston College professor of Moral Theology Father James Bretzke told San Francisco Chronicle that Archbishop Cordileone “does not have his finger up to the ecclesial wind.” “This is not the priority of Pope Francis,” he said.

You can be a Christian, or you can be successful: Jonathon van Meren writes on Lifesitenews that Communists for example in Hungary allowed Christians to worship privately but they could not make a career. The situation in the Western countries nowadays is the same. It is difficult here for Christians to work as lawyers, doctors or politicians. For example graduates of the Catholic Trinity Western University are being barred by different lawyer associations from practicing law, because the university is promoting Christian moral values and is critical toward active homosexuals.