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CDF assumes duties of Ecclesia Dei Commission With a new Apostolic Letter issued "motu proprio", Pope Francis has suppressed the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which was established thirty years ago by Pope St. John Paul II. By Christopher WellsThe Holy See has published the text of an Apostolic Letter, issued motu proprio on 17 January 2019, by which Pope Francis suppresses the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.Established by St John Paul II The Commission was established by Pope St John Paul II on 2 July 1988, with the “task of collaborating with the bishops, with the Departments of the Roman Curia...

A "Low-Intensity" Pope, As the Times Demand > Italiano > English> Español> Français> All the articles of Settimo Cielo in English*The most updated diagnoses of the religious phenomenon in the West converge in defining it as “low-intensity.” Fluid, with no more dogmas, without binding authorities. Highly visible, but irrelevant in the public arena.Even Catholicism is reshaping itself this way. And the pontificate of Francis is adapting in a spectacular way to this new phenomenology, in its successes and in its limitations.As a good Jesuit, Jorge Mario Bergoglio instinctively goes along with the signs of the times. He is not even...