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ANALYSIS: The appointments of key officials who report directly to him, as a means of securing his legacy, shows that he knows that he has not conquered everyone’s heart.
With a choice that is a natural sequel to that of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has assigned Auxiliary Bishop Michele Di Tolve of Rome to lead the Roman Major Seminary and above all to the formation of priests — an assignment, says Pope Francis, which must be carried out in agreement with Bishop Baldassare Reina, vice-regent of the Diocese of Rome, but which at the same time must report only and directly to the Pope on its most critical issues.
Bishop Di Tolve’s appointment and the decree establishing his new powers arrived on July 5. When the announcement was made that Msgr. Di Tolve would become auxiliary bishop of Rome last May 26, he had not been assigned any office. Now he has an extraordinary task because it concerns the formation of priests.
In this sense, the appointment is in perfect continuity with that of Archbishop Fernández to the Doctrine of the Faith. The Pope has appointed Fernández with the aim — declared in a letter sent to the archbishop himself together with the appointment — of carrying forward his idea of developing theology with a constant dialogue that hardly (if ever) reaches the condemnation of doctrinal errors. Now he chooses a priest who has come from Milan to define the formation of priests in his diocese, effectively indicating the path that he wants to follow and that he wants others to follow. In short, after engaging on the development of doctrine, the Pope is also engaging on the formation of priests, thus finally defining what should have been, for some time, his paradigm shift.
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With a choice that is a natural sequel to that of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has assigned Auxiliary Bishop Michele Di Tolve of Rome to lead the Roman Major Seminary and above all to the formation of priests — an assignment, says Pope Francis, which must be carried out in agreement with Bishop Baldassare Reina, vice-regent of the Diocese of Rome, but which at the same time must report only and directly to the Pope on its most critical issues.
Bishop Di Tolve’s appointment and the decree establishing his new powers arrived on July 5. When the announcement was made that Msgr. Di Tolve would become auxiliary bishop of Rome last May 26, he had not been assigned any office. Now he has an extraordinary task because it concerns the formation of priests.
In this sense, the appointment is in perfect continuity with that of Archbishop Fernández to the Doctrine of the Faith. The Pope has appointed Fernández with the aim — declared in a letter sent to the archbishop himself together with the appointment — of carrying forward his idea of developing theology with a constant dialogue that hardly (if ever) reaches the condemnation of doctrinal errors. Now he chooses a priest who has come from Milan to define the formation of priests in his diocese, effectively indicating the path that he wants to follow and that he wants others to follow. In short, after engaging on the development of doctrine, the Pope is also engaging on the formation of priests, thus finally defining what should have been, for some time, his paradigm shift.
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Pope Francis and His Lack of Confidence in His Own Revolution
ANALYSIS: The appointments of key officials who report directly to him, as a means of securing his legacy, shows that he knows that he has not conquered everyone’s heart.
