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PopeWatch: Hmmm

Apparently the Pope Emeritus is none too happy with the gutting of the JPII Institute:

 

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI met last week with a recently dismissed professor of moral theology at Rome’s Pontifical John Paul II Institute, amid ongoing controversy regarding recent changes to the Institute.

Benedict XVI invited Monsignor Livio Melina to meet with him in on Aug. 1, a source close to Melina told CNA.

The pope emeritus “wanted to receive Prof. Mons. Livio Melina at a private audience. After a long discussion of the recent events at the Pontifical Institute John Paul II, he granted his blessing, expressing his personal solidarity and assuring him of his closeness in prayer.”

Melina, who was president of the John Paul II Institute from 2006 until 2016, was dismissed from the institute after the recent promulgation of new statutes, or rules of order, for the graduate school, and a decision to eliminate the chair of moral theology which Melina held.

The new statutes were first called for in 2017, when Pope Francis announced he would legally refound the Institute, and broaden its academic curriculum, from a focus on the theology of marriage and the family to an approach that will also include the study of the family from the perspective of the social sciences.

After new statutes were approved last month, students, alumni, and faculty have raised concerns about the role of faculty members in the institute’s new governing structure, about the reduction of theology courses and the elimination of some theology disciplines, and about the dismissal of some faculty members, including Melina and Fr. Jose Noriega.

Go here to read the rest. The usual suspects at the Vatican are acting in their usual contemptuous manner in regard to the gutting of the JPII Institute:

 

In contrast to the student’s impassioned announcement, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J. tweeted a message today advising that the public take no interest in what he says is a “vendetta” within the Institute.

“The strategy is in fact obvious: to frame the expected renewal of the [JP II Institute] as a purge of ‘orthodoxy’ by the ‘modernists’. This nonsense is just a form of internal revenge. Forget about it,” wrote the consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. 

Meanwhile, Fr. Ricardo Mensuali, the spokesman for Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the Grand Chancellor of the Institute, has stated that the school would not be answering questions regarding the new changes.   

Writing for the UK’s Catholic Herald, Christopher Altieri reported today that Mensuali explained that “this unavailability is momentary because we want to be absolutely serious” when they do answer the questions.

Altieri noted that the Institute’s July 29 press release had stated that “The press office is always available for clarifications and information.”

“On Tuesday and Wednesday, phone calls and emails to the institute’s press officer went unanswered, while officials at the Academy for Life promised answers that never came,” the journalist added. 

 

Go here to read the rest.  The unofficial slogan of this Pontificate:  Who are you going to believe?  Us or your lying eyes.

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father of seven
father of seven
Tuesday, August 6, AD 2019 5:39am

This would be a bad parody of 1984 except for the fact these charlatans appear to be so serious. Yes, they really think we ( the “Peoples”) are that stupid. What a cabal of clowns.

WK Aiken
WK Aiken
Tuesday, August 6, AD 2019 6:43am

“Nothing to see here, citizens. Just move along . . .”

ken
ken
Tuesday, August 6, AD 2019 8:19am

Stinks of clericalism or do we only use that excuse to cover up for homosexual pederasts?

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Tuesday, August 6, AD 2019 12:48pm

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Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Wednesday, August 7, AD 2019 2:39am

More and more it appears the Vatican is in the hands of the devil.

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