Pope Francis has set off an earthquake at the Holy See’s doctrine office.

It's not just the appointment of Archbishop Fernández but the complete overhaul Francis is bringing about at the oldest department in the Roman Curia.

My analysis &🧵

thetablet.co.uk/news/17300/ana… .@austeni describes the latest changes as having enormous implications for the synod process.

The doctrine office, he says, is not so much about “controlling orthodoxy, but rather opening up new paths of theological reflection, above all that arise from a synodal church.”

Church leaders, including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, bless #KingCharles immediately after the crowning #Coronation The last Catholic bishop to have a formal role in a #Coronation was Bishop Stephen Gardner, who crowned Queen Mary in 1553

Church leaders arrive for the #Coronation including @CardinalNichols, @ArchbishopEamon, @churchmoderator, Bishop Hugh Gilbert, president of @BishopsScotland, Archbishop Mark O’Toole if @CatholicCardiff & Archbishop Nikitas Cardinal Nichols — who will give a blessing to the new King after he is crowned — is the first Catholic bishop to have a formal role in the #coronation since the Reformation.

🧵Archbishop Broglio, the US Bishops’ conference's new president, has dismissed the idea he’s anti-Pope Francis.

But Broglio was once linked to a nexus of power that sought to prevent the future pope being appointed archbishop of Buenos Aires & later tried to have him unseated. During his time as “Chief of Cabinet” to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican, Broglio became friendly with a wealthy Argentinian businessman, Esteban Caselli, a powerful opponent of Jorge Bergoglio. (Pic: Broglio, Sodano, Caselli)

🧵In EWTN's @WorldOverLive, Raymond Arroyo & the papal posse dismisses my description of the synod as a Holy Spirit-listening exercise.

The programme mistook me for Christopher White (I can only apologise to @cwwhiteNCR). But it wasn't the only bit of incorrect information... Mr Arroyo said my description made the synod sound like a “Vatican-sanctioned seance” (🤔🤔)

Robert Royal & Fr Gerald Murray dismissed the synod document with Fr Murray saying it is “basically complaints from those who have embraced immorality and heretical notions.”

Pope Francis in #Quebec calls for a "discerning view" of the world instead of a "negative view".

This negative view is "often born of a faith that feels under attack and thinks of it as a kind of 'armour', defending us against the world... Such a view, Francis explains, says “the world is evil, sin reigns” and risks becoming clothed in a “crusading spirit”.

"We need to be careful because this is not Christian"

#PopeInCanada

Archbishop Arthur Roche, in an interview with @The_Tablet, says the Vatican's divine worship office is preparing a document on liturgical formation in seminaries.

He says the reasoning behind Vatican II's reforms needs to be better understood.

thetablet.co.uk/features/2/215… Roche says standing against the Pope is an "astonishing act", "full of hubris"

The belief “that things will change under a new pontificate is not only misplaced but reveals an enormous ignorance about the mandate given to the entire Church by the Second Vatican Council.” /2

Pope Francis says that the protests following the killing of #GeorgeFloyd had the spirit of the Good Samaritan.

“This movement did not pass by on the other side of the road when it saw the injury to human dignity caused by an abuse of power.” Francis, addressing a @EnMovPop meeting, says it “saddens me” that some in the Church “get annoyed” by Catholic social doctrine.

“The Pope must not stop mentioning this teaching, even if it often annoys people, because what is at stake is not the Pope but the Gospel.”

Why is the Pope’s letter to @JamesMartinSJ so significant? It’s the first-ever written papal endorsement of a priest’s ministry to #LGBT Catholics Francis’ language in the letter is in stark contrast to that used by the recent Vatican document barring same-sex blessings.

And it refutes the bishops who anonymously briefed a media outlet last year claiming that the Pope had expressed “anger” with Fr Martin

Archbishop Arthur Roche has been chosen by Pope Francis new leader of the Holy See’s liturgy office. The Leeds-born bishop, 71, succeeds Cardinal Robert Sarah and will be tasked with implementing a renewal of the liturgy as articulated by the Second Vatican Council. #PopeFrancis The Pope has chosen a Franciscan, Bishop Vittorio Viola, until now Diocese of Tortona, Italy, as the secretary to the congregation. Fr Aurelio García Macías will be under-secretary (he studied liturgy at Sant'Anselmo University, Rome)

Cardinal Czerny speaking during a Mass in Rome to mark 40 years since four female missionaries martyred in El Salvador

@jesuitczerny is reading an account of their "passion & death" as described by Fr Gregory Chisholm He explains the security forces found the "four
American missionaries in the vehicle, they beat them, raped them, and executed each one with a bullet in the head. They buried them in a shallow grave"

Short thread on Martin Bashir (personal):

Martin has been a colleague for the past several on the religious affairs beat

I have always found him to be a responsible journalist who covers religion seriously and sensitively. I believe he is a person of integrity

(1/4) The circumstances around his interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, 25 years ago, are subject to an inquiry, and any unethical behaviour should be judged or sanctioned accordingly.

But it’s also true that people are more than the worst thing they have ever done (2/4)

The testimony by Archbishop Vigano against #PopeFrancis are important but so is the fine detail and the context of what is being alleged.

There is nothing in Vigano’s testimony that says he informed #PopeFrancis of allegations concerning McCarrick and minors. The first allegations of grave sexual misconduct with seminarians against McCarrick were made in the Benedict XVI era. After credible claims that McCarrick abused minors came to light, Francis sanctioned McCarrick’s removal from ministry and as a cardinal.