Gloria.TV News on the 18th of November 2014

Necessary Corrections: In 1972 Joseph Ratzinger claimed in an article that the divorced and remarried should be allowed to receive Communion under certain conditions. The article has now been republished in the fourth volume of the collected works of Joseph Ratzinger. But Benedict XVI has corrected the article. The controversial part that remarried divorcees should receive Holy Communion was cancelled. Instead, Benedict wants to accelerate the annulment process.

Wrong Friend: 78-years-old Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo has claimed during a visit in Buenos Aires that – quote – “Pope Francis has saved the Church from suicide toward which his predecessors were pushing her because of a literal reading of Scripture and dogma”. And: “Francis holds a positive vision of homosexual love.” Vattimo admits that in historical terms this is – quote – “something scandalous”. Vattimo calls John Paul II an “unmatched reactionary” while Benedict XVI was – quote – “a very opaque figure, sometimes perhaps the most opaque figure in Church history.” Vattimo is an openly homosexual Communist who – quote - “welcomes God's death."

What Is Mercy? Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, a famous Church historian and personal friend of Benedict XVI, talking to a German paper has declared that not only among Conservatives but also among Liberales there are those you are merciful and those who are not. Brandmüller added: “Is a physician mercifull if he avoids a life-saving surgery or if he tells his patient that smoking and drinking at will is fine?”

The Same is True for Adultery: During an interview with 60 Minutes on American television network CBS Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said among others: “If I were founding a church, I’d love to have women priests.” And: “But Christ founded it, and what he has given us is something different.”