The Holy See formally protested to France after a court there ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order. The Lorient tribunal on April 3 ruled in favour of the nun, Sabine de la Valette, known at the time as Mother Marie Ferréol. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Cardinal Marc Oullet’
Top Vatican cardinals express concern about German Synodal Path
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Two top Vatican officials expressed concern that German bishops were allowing participants in the Synodal Path to adopt positions in contrast to the faith of the universal church, particularly regarding sexuality and women’s ordination. The bishops met on 18 November with the heads of Vatican dicasteries to discuss the Synodal Path. The German bishops’ conference Read more
Inside the top secret process of appointing Catholic bishops
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
When Father John Wester received a call just before 8 a.m. Mass, he had no idea it would be the nuncio, the pope’s ambassador, phoning to tell him he would be the next auxiliary bishop of San Francisco. “I think my knees were knocking,” now-Archbishop Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., told America’s “Inside the Vatican” Read more
John Newman should be a Doctor of the Church
Monday, October 14th, 2019
St John Henry Newman, who was canonised on Sunday along with four others, should be considered a Doctor of the Church. He should rank alongside early Christianity’s great thinkers, Cardinal Marc Ouellet says. Ouellet, who is the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and a respected theologian, told the 20,000-strong crowd at the canonistaion that Read more