Whispers in the Loggia: Zero Hour, 9AM

Monday, November 28, 2005

Zero Hour, 9AM

It's just been announced that the official text of the "Instruction on the Criteria of Vocational Discerment Regarding Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in Light of their Admission to Seminaries and Sacred Orders" (preliminary English translation here) will be formally available to the journalists accredited to the Holy See at 9 tomorrow morning, Rome time -- 3AM on the US East Coast. The document will be translated from the original Italian into German, French, English, Spanish and Portugese. There will be no press conference.

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About Me

One of global Catholicism's most prominent chroniclers, Rocco Palmo has held court as the "Church Whisperer" since 2004, when the pages you're reading were launched with an audience of three, grown since by nothing but word of mouth, and kept alive throughout solely by means of reader support.

A former US correspondent for the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet, he's been a church analyst for The New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NBC, CNN and NPR among other mainstream print and broadcast outlets worldwide.

A native of Philadelphia, Rocco Palmo attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. In 2010, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St Louis.

In 2011, Palmo co-chaired the first Vatican conference on social media, convened by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and Social Communications. By appointment of Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Cap., he's likewise served on the first-ever Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese, whose Church remains his home.

Whispers in the Loggia

Monday, November 28, 2005

Zero Hour, 9AM

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