Columnist: Marco Tosatti

Marco Tosatti: Leo XIV, A Hope Of Stability After An Unbalanced Pontiff
For nearly 45 years, essayist Marco Tosatti has chronicled the highlights and shadows of the Vatican. Based in Rome, he was, until 2008, the Vatican commentator for the national daily ...

Francis Reportedly Attempting To Modify Conclave Rules Before He Passes
Rumors are becoming more and more insistent that Bergoglio is about to modify the apostolic constitution that regulates the conduct of the conclave, removing the two-thirds quorum established as mandatory ...

Bergoglio Out Of Control, Censorship Is Activated
Communication incidents are many. Words misunderstood and misinterpreted, others uttered without imagining the consequences (often diplomatic), or speeches modified on the fly that have gone on to cause havoc. If ...

Marco Tosatti: The Head of the Serpent
After the death of Benedict XVI, the difficult coexistence of the two popes in the Vatican ended, the way was finally clear for the reforms, the real ones, so long ...

“Sedemenefreghismo”: Nine Theologians Weigh-In on State of Affairs Under Francis
“Sedemenefreghismo” is an invented Italian word based on the word “sedevacantism” which means “holding that the (Holy) See (sede) is vacant” and “me ne frega,” meaning, “I don’t care” (link), ...

Archbishop Viganò: In Defense of Women’s Monasteries of Contemplative Life
Statement in Defense of Convents of Religious Sisters of Contemplative Life With profound sorrow and strong indignation, I follow the events related to the Apostolic Visitations that the Congregation for ...

Pachamama as a Monstrance
Just when you thought it could not get worse, Marco Tosatti files this report at Stilum Curiae: Dear friends and enemies of Stilum Curiae, it is really true that truth ...

Oops. Vatican’s McCarrick Report Catches Pope Francis Taking ‘Tiny Liberties With The Truth’
Dear friends and enemies of Stilum Curiae, now that the din of the McCarrick Report has died down a bit – the report written by the Secretariat of State ad ...

Vatican in Crisis: Shut Down All External Accounts and Transfer Money to APSA
Dear friends and enemies of Stilum Curiae, we have received a letter which the Prefect of the Secretariat of the Economy and Finance, Juan A. Guerrero, S.J., sent to the ...

Cloistered Nun Writes to Archbishop Viganò: Preparations Being Made for Manifestation of the Antichrist
Most Reverend Excellency Monsignor Carlo Viganò, I am a cloistered religious sister, and I am writing to you after a conversation I had with our spiritual Father. Our conversation concerned ...

Marco Tosatti: The Battle of Joseph Ratzinger
The fact that Benedict XVI is still living and witnessing what is transpiring today in the Church is perhaps a mystery of the Faith. First as cardinal and then as ...

The Pope of the Pachamamas
So, he did it again. But this time with even greater arrogance than the previous one. In a nutshell: he organized a local synod - which should have been carried ...

Marco Tosatti: A Refresher on Liberation Theology
The fact that Benedict XVI is still living and witnessing what is transpiring today in the Church is perhaps a mystery of the Faith. First as cardinal and then as ...

BUSTED: Vatican Caught Trying To Modify Pope’s Interview
After nine months Pope Bergoglio has responded, in a certain sense, to the testimony of Archbishop Viganò on the McCarrick case. In the last post we saw how he responded: ...

Francis Knew About McCarrick
Sodom (titled as "In the Closet of the Vatican" in the English version), the book by Frederic Martel we have been dealing with in recent days, reserves sensational news. According ...

Pope Francis’ Parade of Embarrassing Friendships
The least we can say is that the figure of Pope Bergoglio is embarrassing. Perhaps not so much for who he is as a person in himself – but then ...