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Let us start with your expulsion from Radio Maria, justified, in the words of the director, Father Livio Fanzaga, by an increasingly critical attitude towards the pontificate of Pope Francis. You have been charged with not putting your great cultural qualifications at the service of the Successor of Peter(even if you have written a book on the Pope: The Vicar of Christ, published by Fede&Cultura). In the end your dismissal was justified by an incompatibility with the aims of Radio Maria, which are those of adhesion to the Magisterium of the Church and of support of the pastoral activities of...

The Mercy Memo: "Like it, swallow it – or get out…” Radio Maria, a conservative radio station, used to be the most popular Catholic Catholic radio in Italy -- and quite understandably, since it provided an oasis of orthodoxy in a sea of post-conciliar platitudes. Not anymore: less than 24 hours following the death of Mario Palmaro, whom he had fired last year for an article critical of the current pope (not pronounced on the Radio, but printed in an altogether different medium, the daily Il Foglio), the radio president, Fr. Livio Fanzaga, made the new directives clear: "Like it,...