Speaking to LifeSiteNews in Rome, soon-to-be Cardinal Stephen Chow fielded questions about the Sino-Vatican deal and argued Cardinal Zen supported him.
On this week's Faith & Reason, John-Henry and Liz discuss the Pope's secret meeting with cardinals, Theodore McCarrick's proteges taking part in the Synod on Synodality, Shia LaBeouf's powerful interview with Bishop Barron, and why the upcoming Padre Pio film starring LaBeouf may greatly benefit the Church's Latin Mass movement.
The Pope cannot change the Church's hierarchical and sacramental order by appointing lay people as heads of a diocese or of a curial office, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith emphasized.
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said that the cardinals were unable to engage in open dialogue with one another in consistory after Pope Francis instituted linguistic divides.
Until this sect of corrupters and fornicators is thrown out of the temple, we will not be able to hope that civil society will be any better than those who ought to be edifying it rather than scandalizing it.
The Pope skipped over higher ranking prelates in the U.S. in appointing Bishop Robert McElroy to the College of Cardinals, despite the bishop's record of support for giving Communion to both pro-abortion Catholic politicians as well as the divorced and 'remarried.'