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Riaan Van Zyl is a convert to the faith, an ultra-Traditionalist Catholic Counter-Revolutionary, and advocate for integralism. A seasoned journalist, he has worked as a crime and political reporter, investigative writer, and columnist. His Catholic writing has thus far appeared on his blog, Radical Fidelity. He occasionally commits poetry and lives in Roodepoort, South Africa
“Magnifica humanitas entrusts the Church with a specific responsibility: to face the struggles of history in its own distinctive way, through a synodal approach rooted in the theological virtues and focused on serving the human person,” reads Vatican News’ summary of Cardinal Stephen Brislin’s remarks during the third session of the Extraordinary Consistory on June 27.