Gloria.TV News on the 8th of April 2013
Pope Francis’ First Appointment Within the Roman Curia
Pope Francis has made his first appointment within the Roman Curia, choosing his friend, the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, Father José Rodríguez Carballo to be an archbishop and the secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Yesterday, in an interview with La voz de Galicia Carballo state that it is – quote – “meaningful for him that a pope in the stile of John XXIII was elected to the cathedra of saint Peter exactly 50 years after this pope had passed away. I think that we will witness a new spring in the Catholic Church.”
The Mainstream and the Popes
The blog Rorate Coeli has recalled what the mainstream media had to say about this picture taken during the Good Friday ceremony with Pope Benedict XVI:
“What on earth is that Hitler Youth member doing with those ridiculous red shoes?”
“Hopefully, the old man fell down on …More