Reflections on Luther, the doors of the anniversary of his pseudo “reform”, for which nothing, the Catholics, They would be celebrated

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REFLECTIONS ON LUTHER, ALLE PORTE DELL’ANNIVERSARIO DELLA SUA PSEUDO “REFORM”, FOR WHICH NOTHING, THE CATHOLICS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO CELEBRATE

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"We Catholics have no reason to celebrate 31 October 1517, the date considered the beginning of the Reform that led to the Schism of Western Christianity "

[Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller¹]

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Author Father Ariel

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

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As they approach the celebration of pseudo-reform heresiarch Martin Luther, the fathers of’Patmos Island propose to the two short essays Readers: the first, drawn these days by John Cavalcoli ON, The second one, It is the revival of a written text and published over a year ago by Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo.

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Francesco gives goblet Lutherans

the Supreme Pontiff Francis, during his visit at the center of worship of the Lutherans in Rome, donates the Reverend Jens-Martin Kruse a chalice for the holy Eucharistic celebrations. The question, very subdued and devout, is the following: to what purpose that gift, perhaps to celebrate the simple “memory of a Dinner“? By clicking on the photo you can see the Vatican Television movie, of which we recommend the vision by minute 6.15 following, which speaks repeatedly of “price” without ever naming the Eucharist, memorial of the holy and living sacrifice …

Luther wanted an internal reform of the Church, I wanted the purification and renewal, He wished that many believers were released by forms of mere popular superstition; and both of purification both of renewal is liberation from mere forms of popular superstition, the Church had deep need. The movement away from him and that after him came to life any reform but only a never break soon became schism has not yet generated; it more for interest and for political self-interest for the requirements and ideals of faith. This is the reason why I do not like to use the popular term - unfortunately, even in Catholic circles, indeed even repeatedly mentioned on The Osservatore Romano - The "Reformation". I believe that Luther would want a reform. His followers and those who have collected and appropriated his voice instead have combined to create a dramatic break in virtue of which the Catholic Church, soon led to a bath of healthy and perhaps even deserved realism, It was forced to react with internal reform: the Council of Trent, called in my opinion in a completely improper under the name of counter-reform also - unfortunately! - As part of what should be the most educated and highest theological and historical-theological studies promoted within our ecclesiastical academic institutions.

The Church reacted to the painful laceration through the means, language and effective ways and relevant adopted by the Council Fathers at that time their historical. But since the term "Tridentine" has become a sort of synonymous derogatory, unfortunately also for "theological" Catholic, you may lose the extraordinary significance of that great Council that the facts did the reform that Luther wanted, but that in part to his guilt, in part because of his blind and deaf Roman interlocutors, but above all because of the political and personal interests of many rulers, He could not pass.

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[1] From the book interview with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Report on hope, 2016

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21.04.2015 Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo - REFLECTIONS ON LUTHER AT THE GATES OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS PSEUDO “REFORM”

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Giovanni Cavalcoli
Of the Order of Preachers
Presbyter and Theologian

( Click on the name to read all its articles )
Father Giovanni

L’ Lutheran ethics anthropology of Luther

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L’ETICA LUTERANA, L’ANTROPOLOGIA DI LUTERO

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Luther insists a lot about humility, but he did not intend as obedience to the commandments, let alone how to obedience to the Roman Church, governed according to him by the Antichrist — the Pope — then synagogue of Satan, but as his conviction be incorrigible sinners, But trust in God's mercy. It seems obvious that this is a fake humility suggested by the devil …

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Author John Cavalcoli OP

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Giovanni Cavalcoli, ON

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21.04.2015 Giovanni Cavalcoli, ON – L’ETICA LUTERANA

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I ask forgiveness to His Holiness for the “April Fools” offering a reflection on careerism-chameleon

WONDER FORGIVENESS TO HIS HOLINESS THE 'APRIL FOOL"OFFERING A REFLECTION ON Careerism-chameleon

 

Who hopes to get something never tells the truth, limited only to try to please in every way the boss to get every possible benefit from it. And in the Church today, unfortunately, we have not nor a St. Bernard of Clairvaux or a St. Catherine of Siena that address to the Roman Pontiff so decided, wrapped in love and sacred respect for the August Person of the Holiness of Our Lord; I fear, therefore, that in these times of lean Your Holiness should settle for half scrap like me.

 

"No one sews a patch of cloth on an old garment; otherwise the new patch tears the old, and a worse tear '

[Gospel of St. Mark 2, 21]

Author Father Ariel

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Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Most Holy Father.

Aware that a "patch" can bring about a "worse tear" [MC 2, 21] humble and sincere I ask pardon for having made his debut on April 1, followed the online magazine The Island of Patmos with a kind of joke known in Europe as "April Fools» [ed. see WHO], the same kind of joke that the lands of origin of Your Holiness is known instead as "jokes dia de los Santos Inocentes» [Jokes of the day of the Holy Innocents], that in Latin America falls 28 December.

Trust also in the smile of S.It is. Mons. Guido Pozzo that by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei was promoted apostolic nuncio in the Republic of Nauru, because also in his church life will perhaps received or made some "joke as a priest”, starting from the days when he was a student at the old Collegio Capranica, from which came out during the last decades of cordate subjects of jokes to the Church have made several and heavy; many of the bishops donated to the Italian diocese of quest'Almo College under the previous presidency of the CEI. they are in fact clear evidence.

No one can say that I have the hidden feelings of careerism, scourge against which I have often fought and wrote in harsh tones in my books and articles; that whoever seeks within himself to anything is careful not to promote himself as a joke to a bishopric, much is known and recognized that even one who aspires to become pastor of a church in the country would make jokes like that public.

The careerists have not disappeared, they only changed as: under the pontificate of your Supreme Predecessor were all taken into boastful of attention to the sacred liturgy and its major equipment, so much so that at the time the tailors ecclesiastical vestments and factories of artistic did brisk business. Today, however, the same tailor shops and factories crying poverty, because the new style inaugurated by Your Holiness is all based on simplicity and a Franciscan poverty that even St. Francis of Assisi never knew, saw that his brothers were so poor, but their churches were equipped for the glory of God the most beautiful vestments and furnishings more valuable. The glasses crock began to use recently for ostentatious "poverty" those certain Friars Minor who then pushed his Order into bankruptcy by reckless financial speculation with Swiss banks, while joyous singing the praises of Lady Poverty and placed at the same time the Body and Blood of Christ in terracotta pottery decorated with the colors of “peace flag“, which arises, however, in the field of esoteric and occult, as is now well known and often unnecessarily repeated to several priests who insist on putting it on the altar from which time they removed the crucifix from the central, so that the shadow of our Lord should not tarnish the image of the “priest-protagonist“.

I am therefore certain that with the grace of your state and the wisdom of which you are the Supreme Master will be prudent and far-sighted enough to not trust these Camaleonti, because the careerists who today speak of the poor and homeless are the same ones who, until two years ago, spent exorbitant sums of money just to organize a sumptuous dinner to celebrate their anniversary of episcopal consecration, in the presence of gotha the old aristocracy and members of the orders of chivalry that during certain festivals worthy of the Renaissance courts shed tears of nostalgia for the old Papal States. But then suddenly there they are found before totally transformed, and just two years after then, Today every opportunity to talk about the poor and homeless at every public occasion propitious.

Perhaps it would be good to inform Your Holiness that there are bishops who in their homilies have now placed into the background the Word of God made man to speak to the faithful of the homeless, showers and barbers that the Roman Pontiff has made available to them. As far as we can tell, however, none of them has made available to the homeless nor its super-penthouse in the city, nor his villa, nor the precious country home that you are prepared with great care and waste of money to be able to withdraw quiet life when they are "retired bishops"; nor does it seem that any of them have made available to the homeless the substantial savings accumulated during the years of his episcopal ministry.

My modest experience teaches me that you should never trust those who passed with such ease from brocades decorated in gold and silver to rags cheesy acrylic Synthetic, because this shows that these clerical change artists are never themselves and then never manifest the genuine sincerity of his being. Those that after your election to Augusta Sacred Throne have placed in the safe pectoral crosses of gold to show up at meetings of bishops or in private audience by the Pope with pectoral crosses iron, or those who appear to poorer still occur directly with pectoral crosses of wood shaped yes Franciscan, are the living sign of unreliability most false and dangerous, as well as the paradigm of that appalling mediocrity that today stifles the Church of Christ from the lowest to the highest levels.

Those that joke very seriously are a lot more reliable than these transformists, because as we were taught that playful saint of Philip Blacks they truly serve the Church and the Roman Pontiff even to the shedding of blood, while i Camaleonti always betray; and do not just betray the living, betray even the dead.

I wish that during the blessing Urbi et Your Holiness is presented seated on the golden throne with the papal choir dress, after celebrating the Solemnity of Easter in the vestments of the most beautiful historic that abound in the papal basilica of St. Peter, because at that point, those who ride a picture of poverty by marketing media and offering homilies solely based bums, describing our many faithful who no longer know even the basics of the Catechism of the Catholic Church the importance of showers and barbers placed at their service; modernist heretics on the one hand and on the other hand heretics Lefebvrians, would put all of them in total confusion; and we will put them in more confusion, most will take them into the open; most will take them into the open, the better chance we will have to liberate the Holy Church of Christ in these tumor cells scattered in his Corpo Santo as metastasis.

These days, to preserve and to save the Holy Church of Christ we must not bring peace, but a sword [Mt 10, 34], which if necessary can also be a sword of sound and useful Christian irony to expose those who are ready to change very easily flag and to instantly jump on the bandwagon of new winner, in order to remain the same as always, trying to get all that you can be able to get in benefits and ecclesiastical offices even after some radical changes of government. And they, from which Your Holiness is unfortunately surrounded, are the modern incarnation of Judas rebuked Mary had anointed the Lord with a precious nard oil which in the opinion dell'Iscariota could be sold for 300 money to then give it to the poor [GV 12, 5]; are the same after that accompanied the Lord in his triumphal entry into Jerusalem shortly after abandoned him before the danger and fled [Mt 26, 56], while the crowd yesterday, like today's, chose Barabbas and cried into the judgment hall of Pilate: "Crucify, crucify!» [GV 19, 6].

My heart rejoices before the mercy and tenderness repeatedly invoked by Your Holiness and that makes me confident that together we will be able to receive these benefits even bums us your sons and devoted servants of the Church, rendered unworthy to share the mystery of grace to the ministerial priesthood of Christ, although we priests increasingly deficient both in mercy both tenderness by our Church authorities.

Your Holiness has ever thought — and with you those Your Venerable brother bishops devoted today to the preaching of the new Gospel of bums send these lovable bums to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice, to give the sacred rites to a sick, to absolve the faithful from their sins, to drive in various ways the people of God on the path of faith in all those regions of the world where the lack of priests is increasing more and more, and where the age of the clergy is always higher? Because we too priests who serve the Church with our lives and at the cost of our lives and that we are often a lot more alone and abandoned the homeless, we need to “showers”, Of “barbers” and various other attentions but nobody gives us.

Who hopes to get something never tells the truth, limited only to try to please in every way the boss to get every possible benefit from it. And in the Church today, unfortunately, we have not nor a St. Bernard of Clairvaux or a St. Catherine of Siena that address to the Roman Pontiff so decided, wrapped in love and sacred respect towards the August Person of the Holiness of Our Lord; I fear, therefore, that in these times of “lean” Your Holiness should just settle for half scrap like me.

Prostrate at your feet kiss with devout obedience the Fisherman's ring, with eyes illuminated by the gift of grace in faith through which I shall never cease to worship You in the Mystery of the Church built by the Word of God on the rock of Peter.

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, presbyter

From the island of Patmos, 1 April 2015, hours 23.00
Eve of Mass of the Lord's Supper

Pope chrism

In the picture: Pope Francis during the Chrism Mass of 2014

Redeemer, receive song

click WHO

Dear Readers: “I'm sorry, but at the same time they are moved”

DEAR READERS: "I apologize, BUT AT THE SAME TIME ARE MOVED »

Ambition makes it nearly always the man not free, therefore false, and false, in addition to not be in any way reliable, and the penalty is always a malicious poisoner of ecclesial life, and damages and fratricidal wars that often produces within the ecclesiastical world are sometimes incalculable.

 

April Fool

Appendix to “April Fool”

 

It is difficult that others mock me because I take out alone. Then, to be really serious should never be dire but playful, because with a smile, what is more serious, there is transmitted and imprinted, while with the grim seriousness, and especially the clerical, what is more serious, there is clear and nothing remains [Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo]

 

 

Author Father Ariel

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+ Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo Titular Bishop of Laodicea Combusta

Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe shows from the altar of the Cathedral of Nap

Readers were okay for this failure to appoint not despair: for the “April Fools” the 2016 I will be appointed Archbishop of Naples [photomontage of Andrea]

Dear Readers / Dear Readers.

Please those who moved in even tones I have sent messages of congratulations to my appointment as titular bishop of Laodicea Combusta, not feeling mocked for this April Fools [see WHO]. But suffice wait a little that I may happen to the cardinal of a residential ancient seat: Sepe, Archbishop of Naples. I already have the evidence for April Fools 2016 and I can anticipate a picture of me with the relic of San Gennaro in hand, photomontage by friend Andrea in which incidentally — I would like to point out — the two loaves you see in the picture are not my hands but those dell'amabile episcopo ancient Partenope.

Just when I joke very seriously and many of you will grasp the underlying message which is this: who hopes to achieve anything, small or large, does some jokes, to do what must be the strength of the human and Christian freedom from any hidden or ill-concealed ambition. For ecclesiastical ambition is particularly nefarious, because if the devil can take in it, of us may be able to do whatever he wants. Long and painful it would be a list resulting from my experiences of priestly life sometimes painful. I met bishops who serve and love rather than the particular Churches entrusted to them dispelled his episcopate to try to promote themselves to bigger and prestigious venue, always available for political, journalists or members of the Roman Curia as ravvoltolati little women in the washroom in the worst chatter, unfriendly and not dedicated to the care of their clergy and their faithful; ready to marginalize even cruel ways all those who honestly and devout than put them in front of their burdensome pastoral responsibility, but surrounded in return for greasy and adoring secretaries or collaborators of the bishop himself strictly mediocre, often promoted in turn to the episcopal dignity. Indeed, it is now common practice and uncontrolled sad that half figures, before you encircle, then bring forward the following figures even half of them, so much so that hardly, a chicken clucking in the yard, you put an eagle in their vicinity.

I met young priests who saw already apostolic nuncios in Washington, but thank God, finally slipped on a banana peel, victims of their own craftiness whole alleged. Is that unfortunately I have seen many more go ahead and much worse. Too many others I have seen accompanied servile and pimps to cordate of curial to which a priest for ever better not lengthen the hand even with the fishing rod; and are the same ones who just yesterday, under the pontificate of Benedict XVI Venerable, were all a triumph of bobbins, damaschi e poses ieratiche, always ready to sigh in good Latin liturgical. Today these same characters wear vestments cheesy vile acrylic, go around with half clergyman scollacciato and you explain that in ecclesial life the value of poverty is all; and if by chance you let escape from his mouth half oration in Latin, risks being branded as Retro. Evidently they understood - or believe they have understood - that today, to make a career in the new ecclesiastical world, you have to talk about the poor, bums and existential suburbs of various kinds; unaware that perhaps, all this, could instead be just a clever game to make them come out and cause them to fall into the fishing net in their tense masterfully, or if you prefer with authentic cunning Papal-Jesuit.

In this varied sample of the worst ever are surely those who have failed in their climb and finished later dismissed from the Roman Curia or the diplomatic service, once sent trumpet&frustrated in their dioceses of origin have turned to their bishops and their brethren of unmanageable concentrated of the worst poisons.

Ambition makes it nearly always the man not free, therefore false, and false, in addition to not be in any way reliable, and the penalty is always a malicious poisoner of ecclesial life, and damages and fratricidal wars that often produces within the ecclesiastical world are sometimes incalculable.

Repeatedly, speaking privately with my student and collaborator and several others my children, I said with sad irony that I could write in advance as of now the list of all the worst elements known during my training for the priesthood, and below in my priestly life, that one by one all become bishops, the bishops will become more mediocre Cardinals, Cardinals will become more mediocre, maybe … because they are programmed to do so since the early months of the seminar and many of them manage to achieve what you have set. That said I always added: … and ineffable mystery, these subjects false, limited, mediocre, often weak from the doctrinal and pastoral and often embarrassing on moral, received the sacred anointing and with it the fullness of the priesthood will be still the legitimate instruments of grace; and as such should be respected and revered and protected as necessary treasures, but not for what they are, but for what they represent, and especially for the sacraments they will have to administer. Of course, will never addressed my esteem, but will always be recipients of my priestly worship, because they embody the fullness of the apostolic priesthood in the mystery of the Church since its birth struggle with the Mystery of Evil.

Too long in seminaries and novitiates Religious has often emphasized and exaggerated in ways sometimes verges on obsession cardinal sin of lust, as if he were residing in human sexuality the whole mystery of evil. And while we were taken to focus on this, under the eyes of pious trainers, bishops and major superiors and only worried about the dangers of human sexuality of future priests and monks, grew and multiplied armies of uncontrollable superb, misers, envious, iracondi. And pride, how many times I wrote and repeated on these our columns of’Patmos Island, is the queen of all sins, the sum charioteer that you pull behind all other. It is for this and certainly not by chance that the first place is she, the Superbia, not lust, which is still a serious sin but that the list of the Seven Deadly Sins is however in 5th place, because before it there are four other: I. pride, (II). avarice, III. envy, IV. IRA … perhaps that these are more serious, if the chronological order of degree of the Catechism of the Catholic Church has a precise meaning?

For my spirit of freedom from certain ambitions which I think is quite healthy, I confess that sometimes I would even like to be a little’ appreciated by the Ecclesiastical, instead treated to fish in the face. When, however, in this PITA - And often dwarf suffering from all the giants terrified for this from the comparison with the others - triggered in me the human desire to be loved, I try to escape this “temptation” reciting the Litany of Humility by Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val … and everything pass me. Several times I have recommended to several of my brother priests penitents, and also their, or at least to the most, everything is past.

And now rinchiudiamoci in the mystery of the Sacred Rites Pasquali, tomorrow morning priests from around the world will celebrate with their Bishops the Chrism Mass during which renew their promises, then the Mass of the Lord's Supper which renews the memory of the institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood.

 

 

Litany HUMILITY

written by the Servant of God Rafael Merry del Val

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart! Grant me.
From the desire of being esteemed - Set me free, Jesus.
The desire to be loved - Set me free, Jesus,
From the desire to be praised - Set me free, Jesus.
From the desire of being honored - Deliver me Jesus.
From the desire to be praised - Set me free, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others - Set me free, Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted - Set me free, Jesus.
From the desire of being approved - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being despised - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rejections - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being slandered - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being caught in ridiculous - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being abused - Set me free, Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected - Deliver me Jesus.
Others to be loved more than me - Jesus, datmmi the grace to desire!
That others are estimated more than me - Jesus, give me the grace to desire!
That others can grow in the opinion of the world and that I can decrease - Jesus, give me the grace to desire!
Others can be used and I put aside - Jesus, give me the grace to desire!
That others may be praised and I, untreated - Jesus, give me the grace to desire!
That others may be preferred to me in everything - Jesus, give me the grace to desire!
That others may be more holy than me, provided that I may become holy as I can - Jesus give me the grace to desire!

The Dio, that withstand the proud and grace to the humble: grant me the virtue of true humility, with which Your only begotten showed the example to the faithful in His Person; so that will never happen to cause Thy indignation with the elated pride, ma Rather, humbly submit myself to receive the gifts of Thy grace.
Amen.

The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Ariel S. Levi Gualdo appointing him Secretary of the Commission Ecclesia Dei

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THE POPE

HAS ELECTED BISHOP ARIEL S. LEVI of GUALDO

BY APPOINTING HIM SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION

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Elected to the titular bishop of Laodicea Combusta Father Ariel was appointed secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. It happens in this assignment to S.It is. Rev.ma Mons. Guido Pozzo, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio, entering the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

 

Author Drafting of the Island of Patmos

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the Island of Patmos, 1° April 2015 – St. Hugh of Grenoble

 

 

Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

In the picture: Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo, 51 year old, new Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei and bishop elected to the titular see of Laodicea Combusta

The Editor of 'Patmos Island is pleased to announce that the Rev. Stefano Levi Ariel Gualdo was appointed by the Supreme Pontiff Secretary of the Commission Ecclesia Dei [see WHO]. It happens in this assignment to S.It is. Rev.ma Mons. Guido Pozzo, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio.
In his private meeting took place at the House of Santa Marta at the beginning of March, the priest tried to affix a humble refusal stating that they felt not up to the task, But it seems - to reports the direct question - that the Holy Father would have replicated: "If as you say you are not up to, it will mean that you will add or take away anything from what until now has not been possible to complete '.
The Supreme Pontiff has then promoted to the episcopal dignity and elected to the titular see of Laodicea Combusta, already a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antioch [historical notes WHO, WHO].
S. AND. Rev.ma Mons. Guido Pozzo instead enter the diplomatic service of the Holy See with the delicate task of setting up the new apostolic nuncio in the Republic of Nauru, in Oceania Micronesia [see WHO, WHO].

Episcopal shield

Episcopal shield in which the newly elected bishop will then insert his coat of arms with the motto below

We will communicate to our readers as soon as the date and the place where he will receive episcopal consecration, as that of canonical practice will take place within three months of the appointment.

We thank the competent ecclesiastical authority for having granted permission to write with a few hours in advance that this news will be made official in the coming hours by the Holy See.

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Ed. Those who are promoted bishops must hold a seat because the episcopate is tied to a particular Church. The bishops are not responsible for the governance of a diocese but named as such to hold various offices within the Roman Curia, the diplomatic service of the Holy See, or why assigned as auxiliary bishops for a diocese, must always hold a seat, in this case proceed to assign the locations holders of the diocese of which remained the only existing title [see WHO].

 

To read the text of the Bull of appointment click below

BUBBLE APPOINTMENT Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo

Laodicea Combusta

Image of what remains today of the ancient Laodicea Combusta who was bishop's residence and suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Antioch, now home owner whose title was awarded to the new Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei