Tag Archives: Card. Levada

14 September 2011

SSPX Bp. Fellay interviewed after CDF meeting today

From the site of the SSPX.  Here is the salient parts, as far as I can tell.  Read the whole thing there.
[...]When I stated on August 15 of this year that we were in agreement on the fact that we … Continue reading

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9 September 2011

A pessimistic article about SSPX and talks with Rome

In Vatican Insider of La Stampa comes this.  My emphases and comments.
Beware: Weird translation.  You might have better success in Italian.  Or else the original French, more more nuanced, here.
Before a key meeting in Rome, the leader of the traditionalists … Continue reading

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26 August 2011

CDF speculations

You might want to have a look at the intrepid Andrea Tornielli’s article in La Stampa (in English) about the proximate need for a a new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  Card. Levada is coming … Continue reading

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9 July 2011

Card. Levada opines about the upcoming Assisi meeting

The Assisi inter-faith meeting for peace.   All you have to do is mention it in some circles and the fireworks begin.
Benedict XVI, Pope of Christian Unity, has slated another meeting in Assisi, also an inter-faith gathering for peace.   It will … Continue reading

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31 March 2010

Card. Levada on the present clerical sexual abuser controversies

The former Archbishop of San Francisco, now CDF Prefect, His Eminence William Card. Levada, offered a piece to his former archdiocesan newspaper about the recent controversies.
His Eminence is now the head of the Vatican dicastery that handles the cases of … Continue reading

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9 March 2010

Card. Levada’s speech in Canada on Anglicanorum coetibus

I am starting a lot of entries with anecdotes these days about old Vatican days.
I was speaking one day, some time ago, to high official involved in the Vatican’s efforts for Christian unity.  I pushed him, hard, on a question … Continue reading

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3 March 2010

A few musings about Card. Levada’s homily in Nebraska

I am listening to Card. Levada’s homily at the consecration of the new FSSP chapel in Nebraska.
A few things popped out at me.
First, I think it very interesting that he mentioned Anglicanorum coetibus in this talk.
The Cardinal, Prefect of the … Continue reading

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9 February 2010

“Vatican Tempests. The Academy for Life Puts Its Neck on the Line”

Everyone… read this.  I just finished it on the Italian site and then found it in English.
This is about the civil war in the Pontifical Academy for Life over remarks made by Archbp. Rino Fisichella about a case of abortion … Continue reading

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16 June 2009

ZENIT: Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” makeover & new threats to SSPX

From ZENIT with my emphases and comments:
Pius X Society: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei ImminentFaces Threat of New Excommunications in Germany
By Kris Dmytrenko
TORONTO, JUNE 15, 2009 (Zenit.org).- An announcement that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will now oversee … Continue reading

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