Gloria.TV News on the 28th of November 2016

A Warner: Last Saturday, Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach died in Beirut, Lebanon. He was the Superior General of the Jesuits from 1983 to 2008. Kolvenbach allegedly wrote to the Vatican recommending that Jorge Mario Bergoglio not be made archbishop of Buenos Aires because he was emotionally unstable and temperamentally unreliable. John Paul II promoted him anyway, believing that liberal Jesuits were unduly prejudiced against Bergoglio because he had been unsympathetic to Liberation Theology.

Bad Relationship: As the Argentinean provincial of the Jesuits, Bergoglio did not form as warm a relationship with the superior general, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, as he had with his predecessor, Pedro Arrupe. Kolvenbach even intervened to unseat Bergoglio and spurned him on his trip to Argentina in 1988. Bergoglio was exiled to Cordoba and his followers sent abroad.

Censorship: The Vatican has allowed the BBC to film letters of Henry VIII who abandoned his wife for the sake of Anne Boleyn, provoking the splitting away of the Anglican Community. One of those letters which are preserved in the Vatican was, however, excluded, the one where Henry writes to Anne. Quote: “Wishing myself, specially in the evening, in my sweetheart's arms whose pritty duckys I trust shortly to kysse."

Prayer Request: John Vennari, the Editor of Catholic Family News, was scheduled for surgery Saturday morning because of cancer, which has caused an obstruction in his gastrointestinal tract. Vennari’s case has been serious from the start. This latest problem came to a head at the same time he returned from three weeks of cancer treatment in Mexico. Vennari asks for prayers.