@BpStika issues a Decree for @knoxdiocese and people react. Wherein Fr. Z makes an entreaty.

by | May 11, 2020

I has come to my attention via LifeSite that His Excellency Most Rev. Richard Fr. Stika, Bishop of Knoxville on 6 May issued a DECREE (it says “decree”) which says, inter alia, that “Reception of Host on the tongue is strictly prohibited at this time.”

I believe the bishop is acting ultra vires in this matter, but that’s not why I am writing this today.

Obviously Bp. Stika got push back, and rightly so. People have the right to make their concerns known both to him directly (preferable as a first step) and the Holy See. However, the push back that he received is a mixed bag.

Praise the Lord

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Vatican official was director in London property broker’s company

by | May 11, 2020

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 11, 2020 / 06:05 pm (CNA).- As the Vatican’s Secretariat of State finalized its purchase of a London luxury apartment building, a lay secretariat official who oversaw investments was appointed a director of a company owned by the financier who brokered the property deal.

Vatican sources tell CNA that appointment is now under investigation, as Vatican prosecutors continue their look into suspicious financial transactions and investments at the Vatican Secretariat of State.

The official, Fabrizio Tirabassi, is one of five Vatican employees suspended in October 2019, following a raid conducted by Vatican gendarmes, who seized computers and documents related to financial dealings at the department.

Praise the Lord

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