There's new bad news almost every day with regard to Pope Francis's appointment for the

doctrinal chief in the church, Tucho Fernandez, who is an archbishop at this point, Victor

Manuel Tucho Fernandez.

He's about to become a cardinal because his elevation to the cardinal, it has been announced.

Diane Montagna, who is an independent reporter, has been all over the Archbishop slash

Cardinal elect. Fernandez's new appointment in the world, his moving on up in

the Catholic Church.

And so what we're going to talk about today are the last five or six developments since,

let's say, July the 2nd over the last eight days, there has been at least

one development, according to Diane, every day. Follow her on Twitter, if you do not. She deserves

a wider followership. She's one of the people. She usually DMs me stories when she breaks

one. And I usually just, my finger instinctively goes to

retweet. We're going to talk about all the fast action that Pope Francis has taken with regard to

Cardinal. I'm going to call him Cardinal Fernandez over the last week and a half, under a week

and a half. We're going to talk about the, you call it the

DDF, I'm going to still call the prefect position, the CDF, the Congregation for the Doctrine

of the Faith, just because I'm old school like that. This has been something we've speculated

for over the course of the last seven months when we thought

we were going to get one radical heiner wilmer heiner wilmer of germany the most radical guy in the

german church turns out that was wrong instead we got the most radical guy in the South American church.

And so once again, there is a scatter pattern for Pope Francis's appointments.

He actually, it was rumored two different times that the naming of Heiner Vilmer was forthcoming,

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