The 21 new cardinals: Last week in the Church with John Allen Jr.

[@robertwaguespack9414]

I remember Sister Concetta. The principal, the principal of the parochial school I went to over 60 years ago. Talk about power in the Church.

[@AnthonySejda]

Ruler and Commander

[@robertwaguespack9414]

@@AnthonySejda when the nuns were involved you better not get out of line.

[@edwinkubena9944]

Catholic schools before they became Marxist were the highest quality

[@susand3668]

May we all speak "Catholic"!! Thank you for this explanation of the terminology of contrary meanings of "liberal" and "conservative" in secular speech and Catholic speech!

[@chadstne]

23:12 I think it’s more about the laity being able to express their concerns about where failures occurred and the clergy, after devastating the church, being humble enough to listen - Pope Francis delivered a wonderful example

[@markgraham2312]

Enjoyed it very much.

[@briandelaney9710]

Belgium used to be a strong Catholic country

[@karlheven8328]

until it became ultraliberal

[@sky57975]

People started thinking for themselves. And discovered that many things the church taught were made up by men.

[@expatmartin]

And once again the well deserving archbishops of major archdioceses around the world such as Sydney and Melbourne have been overlooked. 😓

[@AllanMcKinnon-d6s]

A cardinal has just come out of Melbourne.A Ukrainian archbishop great pick

[@fredphilippi8388]

John, would you please, please, please begin each of your programs saying "Today is [date]"? I find podcasts that you made months or years ago continuing to pop up in my YouTude algorithms. I have to make an effort to figure out what is going on NOW!

[@carolynkimberly4021]

Good for the Pope in this instance

[@rogeliomacias138]

There are boundaries that even the Holy Father can't cross, because the Holy Spirit is with him.

[@Jimboken1]

At best, more like 'preventing him'.

[@t090e]

Oh! Would that that were the case!

[@jamesmartello1]

God help the Church

[@imatrOlda]

He is.

[@leonbaylon1893]

Open your eyes and your heart, you will see His will in the signs of the times. God never left us!

[@jacktracy8356]

1 Corinthians 2:2 "For I determined not to know any thing among you, except JESUS CHRIST, and HIM crucified."

[@dvdhr1]

he who rejects you...rejects Me ... Jesus telling Peter ... ...are you rejecting peter in favor of your man made pastor!?

[@jacktracy8356]

@@dvdhr1 My pastor is the HOLY SPIRIT WHO is GOD's only REPRESENTATIVE on Earth and indwells me forever teaching me all things from the HOLY SCRIPTURES which is GOD's Word. The head of your church is a sinner pope. As a true King and Priest of the real true Church which is spiritual and not a palace in Rome (1 Peter 2 KJV) and saved by GOD's Grace through faith and not of works, I have the authority to inform you that your sins are retained because you deny CHRIST and that HE paid the full penalty for sin which is death in our place giving every true believer forgiveness of all sins forever along with eternal life and you yourself admit this because you still believe you have sins to be forgiven in the unbloody sacrifice of the mass which sacrifices CHRIST (you say) over and over again and you also acknowledge as a catholic that you don't know where you would go if you died right now. Again, denying My LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

[@phaedruscj3330]

Notice how the laicization of Argentina's Principi doesn't get a mention

[@Jimboken1]

The Vatican media stays well away from Francis' protection of sexual abusers with correct leftist politics.

[@Tybourne1991]

Is the role of cardinal still relevant? It seems to encourage unhealthy ambition within the clergy-climbing the greasy pole. And let’s not forget, red or purple robes were banned in the early Church! As for saying no to women deacons, it’s curious how the examples given of prominent women in the Church all appear after Constantine. What about before then? Political labels like liberal or conservative feel out of place in a spiritual community. On St John Henry Newman’s feast day, it's worth remembering how he was seen as too conservative by some Anglicans, yet too liberal by some Catholics later on. Let's follow his example of wisdom and courage!

[@roddumlauf9241]

I'm a traditionalist, but not a Trad. I'm a traditionalist and not a Conservative. I hold to the Apostolic Tradition which the Trads and the "Conservatives" threw away centuries ago.

[@karinmaryturner]

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit AMEN•Lucifer hates the TRINITY • Get thee behind me SATAN

[@Shevock]

You use the type of tone with the pope you might with a president of a nation or an earthly king. The pope holds the keys to the kingdom of God. You don't want to be a gnat in God's eye but an obedient and fruitful servant. Synnods have always been one way the Church has had its conversations. As for female deacons, the infallible Bible has already spoken on that.

[@DSTH323]

The people on the Neo-modernist Titanic think the future is looking good for them. Proverbs 19:21.

[@iraachievement1346]

Dude, this is literally what crazy trads think too, it's a horseshoe...

[@terrawhenua]

I appreciated most of your analysis. Balanced

[@leonbaylon1893]

Agenda is in Latin plural. Admittedly i learned it more than fifty years ago.

[@williamcampagna9851]

How long, O Lord, must we tolerate this pontificate? Salva nos.

[@sky57975]

How long, O Lord, have we tolerated the nonsense of the church? 👼

[@dvdhr1]

sedevacantist be silent

[@fr.billfox2961]

17:20 the key word here is "ordained." I think the question is whether deaconesses would be established/restored as an Installed ministry à la Lectors, Acolytes (cf. Spiritus Domini), and Catechists (cf. Antiquum Mysterium).

[@TheGariego]

Since they no longer officially appoint lector and readers, etc., that doesn't seem likely.

[@fr.billfox2961]

@@TheGariego Well, I'm not clear on what you are arguing. I'm talking about Installed Ministries, not mere "appointment." Seminarians, since the suppression of the Minor Orders, have been required to be admitted to the Installed Ministries of Lector and Acolyte (canon 1035). What Pope Francis changed in 2011 in Spiritus Domini is that one does not need to a) be in seminary formation or even b) be a man to be eligible for those ministries. And, indeed, some dioceses have started admitting women to those Installed Ministries.

[@TheGariego]

@fr.billfox2961 I was simply saying I don't know of any parish that installs lectors or acolyte. Your average parish just gives some training, and sometimes not, and that's it.

[@fr.billfox2961]

@@TheGariego well, the types of Installed Ministers I am writing about are not typically installed by priests but by bishops. Since it's a sacramental, not a Sacrament, I imagine that it would be easy to delegate a priest to install those ministries. In Spiritus Domini, the Holy Father expanded the Installed Ministries of Lector and Acolyte, but did not give much guidance about implementation. I reckon it'll take 10 years or so to work that out.

[@Jimboken1]

I was educated by the Dominicans. The two Dominicans Francis has elevated are theologically heterodox to be kind. I don't know the rest but if they are as bad as those two........ Francis has never elevated an Ugandan. Apparently Uganda, one of the biggest Catholic populated countries, isn't peripheral enough for Francis. Pope Francis' 'peripheral' isn't particularly geographical apparently.

[@TheGariego]

Maybe there's no one liberal enough in Uganda.

[@briandelaney9710]

Have the Ugandan bishops ever spoken out about the Death Penalty law for gays ?

[@davidpritchard604]

⁠​⁠@@briandelaney9710The penalty is not as broad as it has been made out in western corporate media. It is not like they are hunting down male interior decorators and ballet dancers. The death penalty is for “aggravated homosexuality” and the text of the law on the Ugandan Parliament website defines this an act against a minor, a disabled person, an unconcious person, a person under the influence, against the mentally ill, infecting another with HIV, acts with genetically related persons, etc. The death penalty for any or most of these offenses were on the books in many western countries earlier in the 20th century.

[@Jimboken1]

@@briandelaney9710 The Anti-homosexuality Act of 2023 calls for the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” which involves cases of same-sex relations involving people who are HIV positive, children and other vulnerable people. We need more of the same across the western world.

[@jr400rl]

A candidate must me a intellectual heavy weight, holy and capable before chosen to be cardinal. Maybe not this period. Maybe in the next consistory. There is already an African Bishop elevated, just wait for the go signal of the Holy Spirit.

[@ptraynor]

CCR Man!!! LOLOLOL 😂

[@mayrafernandez7303]

I or you missed the point. Please clarify your last sentence of the explanation.

[@carolynkimberly4021]

The Synod is a flop

[@PalermoTrapani]

100% Agree. I have totally tuned off what comes from Rome, other than pray for the Pope. I stay focused on my local parish, very solid parish that very reverently celebrates the 1970 Roman Missal. I have voiced my displeasure with Pope Francis Papacy by not donating one penny to the annual Peters Pence collection sent to the Pope. The last time I donated, Pope Benedict XVI was Pope. And before the mods get upset, I do not hold to any sedevacantist position, Pope Francis is 100% the Pope, but I don't have to agree it is a good Papacy. Cheers and God Bless

[@nathandg0924]

You are just bitter and jealous of the Pope because you know he's attracting millions to the faith but you can't.

[@nathandg0924]

Don't justify your views. Reflect on them instead.

[@PalermoTrapani]

@@nathandg0924 No, I have my views that are not yours. And that is Ok. In fact, Theologically, Pope Francis papacy to me Has in fact only shown that Christ promise in MT 16:18 still is true and He (Christ) is guiding the Catholic Church the same way He did during the time of Pope Honorious, Pope John XXII and the Great Western Schism before the Council of Constance (1414-1418) when there were 3 Papal Claimants.

[@nicholasharding1845]

no comment about Timothy Radcliffe op? No thought about this could indicate conclave soon?

[@masterspinIT]

What, Radcliffe gets to vote for 6 months and then ages out.

[@karlheven8328]

​@@masterspinITthat is the point😮

[@edwardjohn5]

I'm Indonesian, born and raised. And it looks like that you're wearing a batik shirt?

[@rahawa774]

Hello neighbour! 🇮🇩✝️🇦🇺👋

[@edwardjohn5]

@@rahawa774 halo rekan sebangsa

[@clarageoghegan2071]

Still smiling over Cardinal-elect Mikola Bychok...

[@marshalldarcy7423]

The Pope made a big mistake by going to a Kings tomb in Belgium thus entering into politics. He opened a door that created decent in a secular society.

[@wendyfield7708]

He did not visit that tomb for political reasons. +

[@marshalldarcy7423]

@@wendyfield7708 You obviously do not think that abortion is a political consideration however I beg to disagree.

[@ValentinBrutusBura]

If they were all checked on "the Pontiff's Chair" then it's all good. I know they can't be dumb, nobody's dumb :)

[@timfronimos459]

You are horrendously naive or I hope being sarcastic. Francis is an enemy of the Catholic Faith.

[@K-Hsueh]

Someday that Belgian prime minister will discover that Christ is King over this whole world, even little Belgium, and that he (the PM) had been working for the Usurper who, along, with other unrepentant rebels, will be sentenced to hell. Pope Francis should be gentle but firm with such fools because he’d be doing them a favor to open their eyes to reality.

[@briandelaney9710]

@@K-Hsueh only God can condemn to Hell. Humans should be very wary of assigning places there lest we end up there

[@K-Hsueh]

@@briandelaney9710 I made no final judgement, only the valid warning on which God will at least in part base His final judgment in the absence of repentance. The PM still has time to repent but his public arrogance will be an obstacle to humble recognition of his grievous error.

[@damairiapakpahan5678]

The new cardinal from Indonesia, was silent on the cases of children sexual abused some years ago...

[@carolynkimberly4021]

Friends in the sense that they are gay or at least gay friendly

[@tombarmaryam7462]

Peru and Japan are not peripheries. They have always had cardinals.

[@st.josaphateparchyofparmao1128]

What about the Ukrainian Catholic candidate? No comment?

[@paulnguyen8104]

How is the bishop has the right to promote someone to cardinal ? For example the bishop of Rome.

[@adjmm]

Why is Archbishop Paul Gallagher not a Cardinal?

[@fredphilippi8388]

Who the hell is Gallagher?

[@timothysullivan2997]

@@fredphilippi8388 I believe he's a British born Vatican diplomat.

[@adjmm]

Vatican Secretary of State….google him, no need to swear

[@johndonovan5752]

Perhaps eventually.

[@nathandg0924]

I am surprised that he did not mention soon-to-be Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, well known for his pro-poor advocacies and even visiting shanty towns.

[@joeandrade8158]

Isn’t exactly that that evry Pope does ?

[@jbwentworthe6082]

The designation of Authority to😮 " Peter " and "The Disciples", was established by Jesus. How could that establishment of The Church, be "reversed" in a hypothetical conversation between an imaginary Female Pope and another imagined Female - Cardinal, Bishop, or other Church Official ?

[@peitsing951]

Vote R all the way down ballot. Family judge. County commisioner. Etc. If there is no R running, write in your name. Down ballot is where the Swamp thrives. Local contracts.

[@johnjon1823]

Razor razor tell me true, are you worn or are you new? Could it be, could it might, have been a hard night? Is it style? Is it sloth? Me thinks something is off.

[@Jimboken1]

After many years of refusing to give up his effete Gillette brand, he just hasn't given up hope of sporting a beard.

[@juliaortiz8316]

The question : Is pope F. Catholic?

[@juancarlostownsend7013]

Deeply

[@Jimboken1]

Pope Francis reverses the traditional rhetorical meaning of that question.

[@apextraxx2903]

😂😂😂oh look! the people who terrorized the people in the Bible, then the whole world using the Bible...and wears their murder weapon around their necks. 🤮

[@arthurhallett-west5145]

You blithely describe the assassination of a leader of a sovereign state a victory?

[@metodalif4770]

Private citizen initiate abortions and private citizens carry them out, not the State. Jesus asked to teach and to turn away if the teaching is not accepted. He did not say to legislate/penalize. Inquisition was efficient vat that.

[@thomasjoseph3488]

Twenty-one new "Cardinals" from a renegade "Pope." It's inane.

[@gedat5538]

Your report on the appointment of 21 new cardinals is sarcastic, offensive and cynical. I think the Holy Spirit would be quite upset with your take on church matters! Should not the 'periphery' and those whose last names seem strange to you matter in the church?

[@peterpluim7912]

The pope should have the guts to recreate lay-cardinals based on ordination in the minor orders. He already allowed women to be ordinated in minor orders so he could create female cardinals.

[@CatYu-t5i]

Synod waste of time just like the last one - the resources of the church could have been better used to serve the poor rather flying these yahoos to Vatican

[@trojanhman8136]

On the question of Israel, that is my wheelhouse. That is my area of expertise. I want to make the comment, that everything you said, and the perspective you took to arrive at those conclusions are all wrong. You in fact have the Israeli perspective. That is a no no. Please pay attention to the military perspective. In regards to a two state solution; that is literally an impossibility; and that is the reason it was promoted by the US. The US is Israel and Israel is the US, there is no daylight between them. What should have occurred, is a hearing at the International Court. That is the reason it was created to settle these disputes. The reason why it wasn't used, is because Israel would have lost. So they advertise "peace" talks, when what is needed is "justice" talks. Now that opportunity is past. It will be settled militarily.

[@Jimboken1]

Yours is an insane take. And on the first anniversary of sheer unadulterated savagery never witnessed on video ever before. 1200 mostly innocents including babies and 250 kidnapped. Ur a very sick puppy.

[@karlheven8328]

​@@Jimboken1this conflict did not start 1 year ago😢. A sick ethnonationalist country

[@Jimboken1]

@@karlheven8328 Maybe it started when Jesus walked this land? But he was a Jooo tooooo

[@trojanhman8136]

@@Jimboken1 Jesus was a jew, the Ashkenazi are "those who say they are jews but are not." Revelation 2:9 and Revelation 3:9.

[@Jimboken1]

@@trojanhman8136 You really are a terribly sick puppy.

[@ConanTheLibrarian-n5q]

1) As a Ukrainian-Rite Catholic, I am thrilled that Pope Francis will elevate Bishop Mykola Bychock of the Ukrainian Rite Diocese in Melbourne as a cardinal. The elevation is interesting in a couple of different ways. The bishop will be Australia's only cardinal, so technically he will outrank his fellow his bishops in Australia, His diocese is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. Also, by naming Bishop Bychock a cardinal, the pope bypassed Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the major archbishop of Kyiv (Kiev) and primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. From what I have gathered, Francis and the archbishop have a rather frosty relationship. Their falling out concerns the pope's efforts to broker a peace between Ukraine and Russia. 2) As an unabashed progressive Catholic, Pope Francis is more liberal than his predecessors. However., a lot of liberal Catholics, such as myself, would like to see Francis move the church further to the left

[@briandelaney9710]

Well , Cardinal is a pretty Latin title for a Ukrainian bishop. Maybe Metropolitan would have been better

[@ConanTheLibrarian-n5q]

@@briandelaney9710 touche!

[@karlheven8328]

​@@ConanTheLibrarian-n5qYou cannot in the full sense of the word be liberal and at the same time catholic😢. Read Pascendi and the Syllabus Errorum. Liberalism is not catholic.

[@philominaeapen9240]

Does Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest, approve all these appointments? Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on Your Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church 🙏🏼✝️⛪️

[@dr.davidhoward3179]

Antipope

[@edwinkubena9944]

Modernism is new god in novus ordo

[@carolynkimberly4021]

Women should not be heard in the Church--St. Paul

[@ConanTheLibrarian-n5q]

Au contraire -- Minneapolis

[@TheGariego]

He was probably referring to the context of a homily at mass, not as a general rule. Even today, no one, man or woman, is supposed to give the homily unless ordained priest or deacon.

[@davidpritchard604]

@@TheGariegoBut being ordained and a woman is not even a possibility according to the Scriptures, so why even mention the word woman?

[@davidpritchard604]

Better to have married priests as in the examples of the various eastern catholic rites than be heretical with ordained females. Female Catholics who insist of the impossible should be shown the door. They do nothing but erode the Church.

[@willweeverknow696]

That was 2000 years ago. Since then many things have changed. The church is a living organization. By its own understanding the catholic church evolves by the influence of god. So, it is up to us, living now to manage helpimg people to find their way to god. That may well include actions that would not have been appropriate 2000 years ago, but are necessary now.