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Gloria.TV News on the 18th of March 2014 In the last moment: The late bioethicists Mario Palmaro who died on March 9th was buried after many difficulties in the Old Rite. More than a thousand believers …More
Gloria.TV News on the 18th of March 2014

In the last moment: The late bioethicists Mario Palmaro who died on March 9th was buried after many difficulties in the Old Rite. More than a thousand believers flocked into the dome of Monza, Northern Italy. Before his death Palmaro had personally asked the local archpriest to be buried in this rite but the clerical refused. Therefore Palmaro asked the mayor of Monza to allow a Tridentine funeral on the square of the dome to which the politician agreed. At this point the archpriest allowed the funeral.

Conflict: Pope Francis has slapped the president of the Italian Bishops Conference, Conservative Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa in the face according to ilfattoquotidiano.it. The reason: Francis will take Bagnosco’s place and open the next assembly of the bishops. This has never happened before. Bagnasco was also recently removed from the powerful Congregation of Bishops. Now it is expected that he will be removed as a president. Bagnasco was very close to Benedict XVI.

Good news: For the British journalist Damian Thompson the nomination of Fr Robert Byrne, founder of the Oxford Oratory, who regularly celebrates the old mass, as a Birmingham auxiliary bishop is a miracle. Thompson writes: “Well! Traditionalists were preparing themselves for nothing but bad news, what with Pope Francis not being keen on the Old Rite and Cardinal Nichols sitting on the Congregation for Bishops.”

Boycott: The New York based Catholic League is calling for a boycott of Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams beer. These companies have pulled their sponsorship of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade because the organizers have refused to turn it into a St. Patrick’s Gay parade. The Catholic League writes: “The parade is quintessentially Catholic, beginning with a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It is this Catholic element that angers those who are engaged in a bullying campaign against the St. Patrick’s Day parades.”