Papal Appointment
Pope Leo Appoints Bishop Who Backed Same-Sex Blessings
Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Marek Forgáč, 52, as metropolitan archbishop of Košice, Slovakia, last Thursday while accepting the resignation of Archbishop Bernard Bober and elevating the longtime auxiliary bishop ...
Another Troubling Appointment By Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV’s decision to appoint Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola as Archpriest of St Peter’s Basilica will understandably unsettle Catholics attached to the traditional Roman liturgy. A prelate closely associated ...
Pope Leo Appoints Proponent Of Female Ordination To Top Vatican Post
On October 8, Leo XIV appointed Sister Mary Teresa Barron adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization and president of the Pontifical Mission Societies. She will oversee an organization that ...
Pope Leo Appoints Radically Pro-LGBT Tagle As New Dean Of College Of Cardinals
Pope Leo XIV has approved the radically pro-LGBT Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as dean of the College of Cardinals. The election of Tagle, who has been called the “Philippine Pope ...
Cardinal Cobo: The Cork That Floats In Every Shipwreck
He came on Friday in the Vatican list for the meeting on Amoris laetitia (the section of the Pope’s guests, which is the one that counts) with only one Spanish ...
Leo Promotes Immigration Czar To Bishop of Joliet
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas, as the new bishop of Joliet, Illinois. The appointment was publicized in Washington Sept. 17 by Archbishop Gabriele ...
Pope Leo Promotes Synodality Bishop Who Has ‘Courage To Make A Different Church’
Pope Leo XIV appointed a synodality enthusiast who accepts as “open questions” the possibilities of Holy Communion for unrepented active homosexuals and the “ordination” of women to the diaconate. The ...
Pope Leo Appoints McCarrick-Linked Cleric As Bishop Of Metuchen
Pope Leo has appointed a new bishop for the Diocese of Metuchen. The new ordinary for the New Jersey diocese is Bishop Michael A. Saporito, currently an auxiliary bishop for ...
Leo’s New Appointment Says “The Church Is Called to Disappear” and Muslim Saints “Intercede” for Us
There are careless phrases, and then there are phrases that tell you how a man sees the Church. “The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow.” ...
Pope Leo Appoints Freemason To Vatican
Pope Leo XIV appointed Professor Umberto Longo to the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences. The speaker argues that Longo has an extensive public connection to Freemasonry, including a 2014 Scottish ...
Cardinal Marx Reconfirmed in the Curia, Despite Challenging Rome with Homosexual Blessings
Barely two weeks after receiving Marx in audience following the letter from the 26 priests, the Pope confirms him at the head of the body that oversees the finances of ...
Pope Leo’s Appoints Speak Volumes
One of the first little moral lessons we learn as children is that actions speak louder than words. Countless times, my own mother would tell me after I had messed ...
Leo XIV Approves Another Communist-Vetted Prelate
Joseph Chang Yanfeng was consecrated Bishop of Chifeng on July 22 after Leo XIV approved his candidacy under the secret Vatican–Beijing agreement. The Vatican announced the appointment in the bloodless ...
Leo Appoints ANOTHER ‘Synodal’ Bishop
When it comes to papal appointments, you shall know them by their fruits. Pope Leo XIV has appointed the former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Friburgo (Germany), Christian Würtz, ...
Leo’s DEI Prefectress: The Revolution Gets a Victory; The Rest of Us Lose
The Vatican itself openly described Alvarado’s appointment as a continuation of Francis’s reforms and his effort to place more laypeople, including women, in positions of governance. Sometimes the joke writes ...
Leo Appoints Bishop Who Says Catholicism Is Not Superior
Leo XIV’s appointment of Fr. Kenneth Thorson as Bishop of Prince Albert would have been almost unimaginable in the age of Pius XII. Consider the themes that emerge from his ...
Pope Plays Politics With Papal Appointments
Pope Leo XIV has appointed three new U.S. bishops who have expressed criticism of President Donald Trump's actions. Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar has been named as the new bishop for the ...
Viganò on Scandalous Rumored Appointment of Peña Parra
The rumored appointment of Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, currently Substitute for General Affairs at the Secretarat of State, as the new Apostolic Nuncio to Italy is disconcerting and scandalous. At ...
Leo Demotes African Priest Who Tried To Enforce Priest Chastity
Gnéba was not a recently arrived outsider to the diocese who took sudden and dramatic action based on a first or partially formed impression of the local Church. The Vatican ...
Leo Elevates Bishop Who Should Have Been Excommunicated
An important principle in Freemasonry and other occult practices is to “hide things in plain sight,” but I guess the depraved worldly kingdom has descended to such satanic depths that ...
Leo Appoints a Sister to Rule Over Bishops
When Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life in January 2025, shockwaves rippled through Catholic media. Here was the first woman (and first ...
