Gloria.TV News on the 12th of July 2013 To watch all the news click here: @Gloria.TV News Sandro Magister has published a comprehensive article on his blog about Pope Francis. He sees a huge difference …More
Gloria.TV News on the 12th of July 2013
To watch all the news click here: @Gloria.TV News
Sandro Magister has published a comprehensive article on his blog about Pope Francis. He sees a huge difference in how the new pope is treated by the media compared to Benedict XVI – quote: “When Francis announced the fact that there is a “gay lobby” at the Vatican “it's there, it's true,” the damage control emerged throughout the media. Even secular public opinion, more lavish today than ever in hurling accusations of homophobia, forgave Pope Francis for his comment with an indulgence that certainly would not have been granted to his predecessor.”
In the same article Magister notices that quote, it cannot be an accident that after the first 120 days of Pope Francis' pontificate, he has not yet spoken the words abortion, euthanasia or homosexual marriage. According to Magister, Pope Francis – quote - succeeded in dodging them even on the day that he dedicated to “Evangelium Vitae," the encyclical published by John Paul II in 1995, in defense of life “from conception to natural death.”
According to Magister, it now seems clear that Francis has decided to remain silent on issues like abortion, euthanasia and homosexual marriage – subjects that touch upon the political sphere of the West including Latin America. Magister believes that the pope is – quote - convinced that such statements are not the responsibility of the pope but of the bishops of each nation. He told the Italian bishops in unmistakable words: “The dialogue with political institutions is your affair.” According to Magister, this silence is one of the factors that explains the benevolence of secular public opinion with respect to the pope..
Magister also mentions the Vatican bank and the investigations of the Italian magistracy concerning the former director and vice-director of the bank, Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tulli. Both men have been accused of suspicious movements of money. The result of the investigation was the resignation of Cipriani and Tulli. Magister remembers that in the spring of 2012, the then president of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, had demanded that these men should be removed maintaining that Cipirani and Tulli were the ones truly responsible for the misdeeds of the institute. Instead, on May 24, Gotti Tedeschi himself was expelled by the board of the bank at the demand of cardinal secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone.
According to the same article, on June 15 Pope Francis appointed as “prelate” of the Vatican Bank, with full powers, Monsignor Battista Ricca, who he knew and respected when he was the director of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. This is the hotel that Francis chose to live instead of in the pontifical apartments. But, according to Magister this was a mistake. Meeting the Vatican nuncios who had come from all over the world to Rome in the days immediately before June 24, Francis received from some of them incontestable information regarding the “scandalous conduct” of which Monsignor Ricca had been guilty of in 2000 and 2001 while he was in Uruguay. At that time, he was serving at that nunciature from which he was quickly removed before he was ultimately called back to Rome.
To watch all the news click here: @Gloria.TV News
Sandro Magister has published a comprehensive article on his blog about Pope Francis. He sees a huge difference in how the new pope is treated by the media compared to Benedict XVI – quote: “When Francis announced the fact that there is a “gay lobby” at the Vatican “it's there, it's true,” the damage control emerged throughout the media. Even secular public opinion, more lavish today than ever in hurling accusations of homophobia, forgave Pope Francis for his comment with an indulgence that certainly would not have been granted to his predecessor.”
In the same article Magister notices that quote, it cannot be an accident that after the first 120 days of Pope Francis' pontificate, he has not yet spoken the words abortion, euthanasia or homosexual marriage. According to Magister, Pope Francis – quote - succeeded in dodging them even on the day that he dedicated to “Evangelium Vitae," the encyclical published by John Paul II in 1995, in defense of life “from conception to natural death.”
According to Magister, it now seems clear that Francis has decided to remain silent on issues like abortion, euthanasia and homosexual marriage – subjects that touch upon the political sphere of the West including Latin America. Magister believes that the pope is – quote - convinced that such statements are not the responsibility of the pope but of the bishops of each nation. He told the Italian bishops in unmistakable words: “The dialogue with political institutions is your affair.” According to Magister, this silence is one of the factors that explains the benevolence of secular public opinion with respect to the pope..
Magister also mentions the Vatican bank and the investigations of the Italian magistracy concerning the former director and vice-director of the bank, Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tulli. Both men have been accused of suspicious movements of money. The result of the investigation was the resignation of Cipriani and Tulli. Magister remembers that in the spring of 2012, the then president of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, had demanded that these men should be removed maintaining that Cipirani and Tulli were the ones truly responsible for the misdeeds of the institute. Instead, on May 24, Gotti Tedeschi himself was expelled by the board of the bank at the demand of cardinal secretary of state Tarcisio Bertone.
According to the same article, on June 15 Pope Francis appointed as “prelate” of the Vatican Bank, with full powers, Monsignor Battista Ricca, who he knew and respected when he was the director of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. This is the hotel that Francis chose to live instead of in the pontifical apartments. But, according to Magister this was a mistake. Meeting the Vatican nuncios who had come from all over the world to Rome in the days immediately before June 24, Francis received from some of them incontestable information regarding the “scandalous conduct” of which Monsignor Ricca had been guilty of in 2000 and 2001 while he was in Uruguay. At that time, he was serving at that nunciature from which he was quickly removed before he was ultimately called back to Rome.
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Shooting the messenger, are we?
Because what he writes doesn't appeal to the "Pope is impeccable crowd," doesn't necessary mean Magister's comments are not accurate.
Perhaps you can prove he's inaccurate by quoting and sourcing where and when Pope Francis, since he has been elected pope, has indeed spoken authoritatively regarding the horror of abortion, euthanasia or homosexual marriage?
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Shooting the messenger, are we?
Because what he writes doesn't appeal to the "Pope is impeccable crowd," doesn't necessary mean Magister's comments are not accurate.
Perhaps you can prove he's inaccurate by quoting and sourcing where and when Pope Francis, since he has been elected pope, has indeed spoken authoritatively regarding the horror of abortion, euthanasia or homosexual marriage?
if you are unable to do that, then the narrow-vision is yours not Magister's.
Because what he writes doesn't appeal to the "Pope is impeccable crowd," doesn't necessary mean Magister's comments are not accurate.
Perhaps you can prove he's inaccurate by quoting and sourcing where and when Pope Francis, since he has been elected pope, has indeed spoken authoritatively regarding the horror of abortion, euthanasia or homosexual marriage?
if you are unable to do that, then the narrow-vision is yours not Magister's.
