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Leo XIV Appoints New Rome Auxiliary Bishops: "Religion Can Hide God"

Pope Leo XIV has appointed today four priests as new auxiliary bishops of the Diocese of Rome, all of them insiders of Roman diocesan machinery.
Mons Stefano Sparapani, 69
- Born in Rome (1956)
- Ordained priest in 1991
- Episcopal Vicar for the North Sector (since Jan 2025)
- Spiritual Father at the Almo Collegio Capranica (since 2015)
- Parish priest of St Basil (since 2010)
His parish San Basilio has a high concentration of immigrants, poor people and a lot of criminal activity (drugs, abuses, thefts, violence).
He told OsservatoreRomano.va in June 2020 that Pope Francis is liked very much there: “Because people recognize him as someone ‘real,’ someone who believes in and loves the Gospel.”
Mons Sparapani described himself as “not coming from the sacristy”. “I have always been in the world, where I try to bring a bit of light to those who never see the light and therefore despair.”
He commissioned the accused pervert Marko Rupnik to paint his parish church.
In February 2021, …More

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jobina

Keep the doors of the churches open. Except during a flu season....

Scapular

Anyone saying this has no knowledge of the Confessional “religion set up as law that does not know mercy”,

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Prevost is zealously completing the takeover of what was once known as hierarchy of Catholic Church. Heavens lead us know.

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Monsignor Valenti claimed: "Our Lord is where it is more complex to discern between good and evil..." For him, “Christian life is not chasing an absolute ideal good”.

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Sandy Barrett

Rome has 4 new Auxiliary Bishops, three of whom are native Romans. Any Catholic among them?

P. O'B

“Religion can hide the true face of God” -- as do all of those non-Catholic religions that the Vatican II Church has so much esteem for.

Wilma Lopez

@P. O'B But all religions are ways to God and willed by God.

P. O'B

Phooey! I forgot the teaching of the holy Francis, who is looking down upon us from Heaven right now.