IF TRUE, THIS SEEMS TO BE A GOOD REVERSAL FROM POPE FRANIS BY POPE LEO, YET ANOTHER ONE AND THIS ONE MORE THAN TONE!

Although not the point of this post, but for the edification and education of those who oppose Roman vestments, a couple of photos are worth more  than a million words and Pope Leo puts his backing behind Roman vestments and grandma's lace and does so in the most eloquent and elegant way possible!

 

Over the last 12 years, Pope Francis listened to a close group of questionable cronies who advised him, and usually the last person who approached him is the one who got Pope Francis’ ear. He bypassed the College of Cardinals, he bypassed the Roman Curia and evidently he bypassed nuncios who collect information about potential episcopal appointments and recommendation that they make to the pope.

Of course this created divisive situations for the Church and a tone of suspicion about the pope and his advisors, a tone that has made a 360 degrees change under our wonderful new pope, Pope Leo XIV!

As I recall, there seem to be some skullduggery as it concerned to appointment of the new Archbishop of Washington, DC. Evidently the US nuncio had recommended someone else than Cardinal McElroy to be the new Washington Archbishop and Cardinal Prevost and even Cardinal Gregory were on board with that candidate and  Cardinal Prevost proposed that candidate to Pope Francis. But, as in the past, Cardinal Cupich and Cardinal Tobin got to the pope last and Pope Francis heard them and acted on their request that spirit of Vatican II heterodoxy, Cardinal McElroy of San Diego, the US’s LEFT coast, be named Washington’s new Archbishop and it came to be. 

I wonder if that was an “ouch” for then Cardinal Prevost and now Pope Leo XIV? I suspect he did not like the skullduggery. But who knows, that’s just my clairvoyant intuition.

Press the title below for the full Pillar article:

Is Leo reforming Spanish episcopal appointments?

According to some, the new pope has paused appointments while he retools the process for selecting candidates

Moneybyte:

During Francis' pontificate, episcopal appointments became increasingly complicated in many parts of the world.

One reason was the growing number of priests who declined episcopal appointments, contributing to delays and resulting in many bishops — especially metropolitans — serving well past retirement age.

However, there were other factors at play as well.

In some countries, individual bishops and informal advisors close to the pope seemed to wield more influence in eiscopal appointments than the local nuncio or even, on occasion, the Dicastery of Bishops, most recently led by Cardinal Robert Prevost. This dynamic became increasingly pronounced in the last few years of the Francis pontificate.

Spain became a prime example of this phenomenon, ultimately leading to the creation of an informal “episcopal commission” composed by a group of Spanish cardinals and bishops with an effective veto power over the episcopal shortlists prepared by the nuncio.

But Pope Leo XIV seems poised to change this dynamic.