Cleric: Carlo Martini

Permanent Synodal Church — A Progressive Jesuit Cardinal’s ‘Dream’ Come True

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The announcement of a two-year process for the upcoming synod on synodality appears to reflect the ideas of Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who viewed synodality as a vehicle for questioning Church teaching. The Vatican’s announcement today that Pope Francis has changed his plans for the next Synod of Bishops and made it into a … Read more

Team Francis Reveal Their Plans for Revolutionary Change

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On March 3, 2013, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor—an alumnus of the St. Gallen mafia—met with then-Cardinal Bergoglio over risotto and wine. It was the evening before the pre-conclave general congregations—as Murphy-O’Connor recalls in his memoirs—and the old friends were discussing “the sort of person we felt the cardinals should elect.” A day earlier, an anonymous cardinal had been … Read more