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By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNew - Pope Francis has removed the cardinal-vicar of Rome and one of the city’s auxiliary bishops, in a move which is suggested to be due to personal conflicts and objections to the Pope’s handling of the Father Marko Rupnik case... Announced by the Holy See Press Office bulletin April 6, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Angelo De Donatis as cardinal-vicar of Rome, to become Apostolic Penitentiary. ...

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - To paraphrase Saint Paul, if Christianity did not give a reliable account of the Truth, then we, or more precisely I, would have no use for it... Or rather, I would just have the use of another “comparative religion,” the way I use Shinto, or Zoroastrianism, or the way Richard Dawkins uses the Flying Spaghetti Monster... In which case, Saint Paul’s hypothetical advice would be, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.” (1 Corinthians 15:32). Verily: for “comparative religion” has always made me thirsty.

By Jonathan Liedl, EWTN News - However, Dignitas Infinitas, as the text is called, will also differ from other notable Vatican interventions on the subject in another pivotal way: It’s likely to bear the full theological imprint of Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, its presumptive chief architect... Since he became prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in September 2023, the Argentinian prelate and longtime Pope Francis confidant has made his mark on the Church’s doctrine through a torrent of teaching documents and clarifications, which some contend have subverted doctrinal truth in favor of pastoral exceptions.