De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

  Speculation is growing that diminutive Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna is soon to be appointed prelate for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , the oldest among the nine congregations of the Roman Curia. Edward Pentin has provided an exhaustive analysis of this which you can read here . In it, Pentin details the positive things about Scicluna, but also how he seems to have changed dramatically under this papacy and has said and done some deeply problematic things. Scicluna held positions in the Roman Curia from 1995 to 2012, when he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Malta. Both as a curial official and since becoming a bishop he has conducted investigations into sexual abuse by clergy on behalf of the Holy See and led a board that reviews such cases. He has been called "the Vatican's most respected sex crimes expert" by the Washington Post . Scicluna obtained a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rom...

As Catholics reel after Pope Francis fails to renew Cardinal  Müller's position as Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ,  traditionally known as La Suprema , or the "supreme" congregation, it is interesting to look back to a source I seldom quote, the National Catholic Reporter , to see what was said about  Müller's   replacement, Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer SJ, formerly Secretary of the CDF, when he was appointed secretary: As rumors of the appointment began to circulate early this week, I reached out to Ladaria's colleagues at the Gregorian and on the ITC for a "read" on who he is, and what one might expect from him at the CDF. It's telling that the two most common terms Italians used to characterize him were gentile , meaning "kind," and affidabile , meaning "reliable" -- both in the generic sense that he's a responsible, hard-working person, and in the more narrow ecclesiastical sense that h...