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Note to readers: See our "Conclave" blog from when I was in Rome from March 7-22 - Oremus! - jv


AUDIO CDs
sale extended to May 5, 2013
NEW! Fatima Ignored and the Approach of Midnight
NEW! Catholic Jewish Relations and Vatican II:
Nostra Aetate: a “New Compass” • 2 CDs for only $9.95
CONTAINS A SPECIAL ADDENDUM ABOUT POPE BENEDICT’S RESIGNATION AND THE UPCOMING CONCLAVE
ALSO: Sale still running - Audio CDs - regularly $10.00 - $5.00 each
New titles and old favorites
.
click here for details

March 22: On my way back home from Rome - jv
"Francis’s papacy may not so much move the Church into the future as back to the recent past, circa 1970." This statement, and this "Tea Leaves" article, confirm my own fears. Time will tell, but I think all the signs are there. Pointing to Kasper in his first address? Good grief. Oremus!. jv

Hans Kung
Reading the Papal Tea Leaves
“I was overwhelmed by joy,” said Hans Kung, the dissenting European theologian, in a radio interview after the elevation of Pope Francis. “There is hope in this man,” gushed Kung, who predicted that Pope Francis will conform to the progressive interpretation of Vatican II and not follow the “line of the two popes from Poland and Germany.”
click here
• • •
March 20: Pope Francis Confirms Committment
to Ecumenical and Interreligous Dialogue
Vatican Information Service - click here
• • •

March 19: Inaugural Mass of Pope Francis
Photo story - from John Vennari in Rome
• • •

March 18 updates:
A Papal Audience for Journalists
photo story - click here
• Pope provisionally re-confirms top jobs in Vatican bureaucracy
• New Pope Approved Medjugorge Visits
Cardinal Bergoglio
and the SSPX in Argentina
DICI obtained the opinion of Fr. Christian Bouchacourt, District Superior of South America, on the evening of the Pope’s election. click here
• • •

March 15 Updates on Conclave Blog:
• Pope Francis Yet to Appoint Curial Posts
• Pope Francis postpones meeting with Benedict XVI
• New Pope Writes to Chief Rabbi in Rome: Wants to Continue Jewish-Catholic Relations in light of Vatican II
• Argentine Muslims: Pope Francis 'a friend of the Islamic community'
• 2005: Cardinal Bergoglio says he prays 15 decades of Rosary every day
• Vendors selling off Pope Benedict XVI souvenirs
• Pope Francis' personality begins to change routines
• Hans Kung Calls Francis Pick a "Very Happy Surprise"
• Pope Francis's first homily in the Sistine Chapel
• Scola betrayed by the Italians from the very first vote
click here for all of these stories
J Vennari at Vatican - March 13, 2013 - Election of Pope Francis - short film


More on Pope Francis
By John Vennari
In the post-conciliar world, where the definition and practice of Catholicism
encompasses a bizarre elasticity, modern prelates tend to be mixed bags. click here
• • •
As Cardinal, Pope Francis strongly condemned
abortion including in rape cases
Lifesitenews - click here
• • •
Bergoglio Against SS Marriage in 2010
click here
Then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio celebrated Hanukkah
with Argentine Jews as Cardinal of Buenos Aires, 2012
Liturgical Aberations
October 15, 2011. Mass celebrated by Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio


Argentine Cardinal Bergoglio elected
Pope, takes name Francis


New 2013 Conclave Blog from Rome
Due to some techno-quirks with the CFN webpage while here in Rome, we are transferring our daily blog to the Oltyn Library Service site. Please check this new blog each day for updates from Rome. I will file one or more reports daily This will be the site used for the duration of my stay in Italy.
Bookmark this new page. Stay tuned. - John Vennari - click here

Note to readers: See our "Conclave" blog from when I was in Rome from March 7-22 - Oremus! - jv


AUDIO CDs
sale extended to May 5, 2013
NEW! Fatima Ignored and the Approach of Midnight
NEW! Catholic Jewish Relations and Vatican II:
Nostra Aetate: a “New Compass” • 2 CDs for only $9.95
CONTAINS A SPECIAL ADDENDUM ABOUT POPE BENEDICT’S RESIGNATION AND THE UPCOMING CONCLAVE
ALSO: Sale still running - Audio CDs - regularly $10.00 - $5.00 each
New titles and old favorites
.
click here for details

March 22: On my way back home from Rome - jv
"Francis’s papacy may not so much move the Church into the future as back to the recent past, circa 1970." This statement, and this "Tea Leaves" article, confirm my own fears. Time will tell, but I think all the signs are there. Pointing to Kasper in his first address? Good grief. Oremus!. jv

Hans Kung
Reading the Papal Tea Leaves
“I was overwhelmed by joy,” said Hans Kung, the dissenting European theologian, in a radio interview after the elevation of Pope Francis. “There is hope in this man,” gushed Kung, who predicted that Pope Francis will conform to the progressive interpretation of Vatican II and not follow the “line of the two popes from Poland and Germany.”
click here
• • •
March 20: Pope Francis Confirms Committment
to Ecumenical and Interreligous Dialogue
Vatican Information Service - click here
• • •

March 19: Inaugural Mass of Pope Francis
Photo story - from John Vennari in Rome
• • •

March 18 updates:
A Papal Audience for Journalists
photo story - click here
• Pope provisionally re-confirms top jobs in Vatican bureaucracy
• New Pope Approved Medjugorge Visits

and the SSPX in Argentina
DICI obtained the opinion of Fr. Christian Bouchacourt, District Superior of South America, on the evening of the Pope’s election. click here
• • •

March 15 Updates on Conclave Blog:
• Pope Francis Yet to Appoint Curial Posts
• Pope Francis postpones meeting with Benedict XVI
• New Pope Writes to Chief Rabbi in Rome: Wants to Continue Jewish-Catholic Relations in light of Vatican II
• Argentine Muslims: Pope Francis 'a friend of the Islamic community'
• 2005: Cardinal Bergoglio says he prays 15 decades of Rosary every day
• Vendors selling off Pope Benedict XVI souvenirs
• Pope Francis' personality begins to change routines
• Hans Kung Calls Francis Pick a "Very Happy Surprise"
• Pope Francis's first homily in the Sistine Chapel
• Scola betrayed by the Italians from the very first vote
click here for all of these stories
J Vennari at Vatican - March 13, 2013 - Election of Pope Francis - short film


More on Pope Francis
By John Vennari
In the post-conciliar world, where the definition and practice of Catholicism
encompasses a bizarre elasticity, modern prelates tend to be mixed bags. click here
• • •
As Cardinal, Pope Francis strongly condemned
abortion including in rape cases
Lifesitenews - click here
• • •
Bergoglio Against SS Marriage in 2010
click here
Then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio celebrated Hanukkah
with Argentine Jews as Cardinal of Buenos Aires, 2012
Liturgical Aberations
October 15, 2011. Mass celebrated by Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio


Argentine Cardinal Bergoglio elected
Pope, takes name Francis


New 2013 Conclave Blog from Rome
Due to some techno-quirks with the CFN webpage while here in Rome, we are transferring our daily blog to the Oltyn Library Service site. Please check this new blog each day for updates from Rome. I will file one or more reports daily This will be the site used for the duration of my stay in Italy.
Bookmark this new page. Stay tuned. - John Vennari - click here
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