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Mark Lambert’s analysis focuses on how Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle’s election as Dean of the College of Cardinals signals a quiet redistribution of power and a reordering of influence within Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican. Writing for Regina Unscripted, Lambert highlights several core takeaways regarding the "quiet politics" behind the move: 1. Cardinal Parolin Was Effectively Passed Over Lambert points to reports from Vatican correspondent Nico Spuntoni indicating that Cardinal Pietro Parolin actively aspired to the Dean position as early as 2025 but faced internal resistance. While official concerns cited Parolin having "too many commitments," Lambert notes the irony given that Tagle also holds massive responsibilities within the Roman Curia. He views this as a sign of broader, underlying tensions between Parolin and Pope Leo XIV. 2. A Shift Away from the Italian Establishment Lambert observes a massive shift in traditional Vatican dynamics: • The Global South Over Europe: By electing Tagle, the cardinal-bishops preferred a younger, missionary figure representing the Church’s growing demographic center of gravity outside Europe over Parolin’s heavy diplomatic and administrative weight. • New Leadership Geography: With an American Pope (Leo XIV) and a Filipino Dean (Tagle), the traditional stranglehold of the historically powerful Italian establishment is visibly loosening. 3. The Enduring Legacy of Pope Francis Because Tagle is one of the most recognizable figures associated with the Francis era, Lambert argues his election proves that the influence of Pope Francis remains deeply embedded in the Church's senior leadership. However, Lambert cautions against viewing this purely through a polarized, "progressive-versus-conservative" ideological lens. Instead, he notes that Tagle’s popularity among his fellow cardinal-bishops shows a complex institutional confidence that transcends simple factional narratives. 4. Constitutional Ambiguity in the Vatican Lambert also raises "canonical questions" regarding rumors that Tagle's appointment was rushed to ensure stability during the Pope's cancer surgery. He clarifies that the Dean does not hold governing authority when a Pope is incapacitated, highlighting a genuine systemic gap in how the Vatican handles a temporarily impeded or anesthetized pontiff. Ultimately, Lambert views Tagle's rise not just as a routine change in personnel, but as a highly strategic development that sets the stage for who will control the narrative, preparations, and execution of the next papal conclave.

Mark Lambert’s analysis focuses on how Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ’s election as Dean of the College of Cardinals signals a quiet redistribution of power and a reordering of influence within Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican. [ 1 , 2 ] Writing for Regina Unscripted , Lambert highlights several core takeaways regarding the "quiet politics" behind the move: [ 1 , 2 ] 1. Cardinal Parolin Was Effectively Passed Over Lambert points to reports from Vatican correspondent Nico Spuntoni indicating that Cardinal Pietro Parolin actively aspired to the Dean position as early as 2025 but faced internal resistance . While official concerns cited Parolin having "too many commitments," Lambert notes the irony given that Tagle also holds massive responsibilities within the Roman Curia . He views this as a sign of broader, underlying tensions between Parolin and Pope Leo XIV . [ 1 , 2 ] 2. A Shift Away from the Italian Establishment Lambert observes a massive shift in traditional Vatican...
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Mark Lambert @sitsio Cardinal Tagle's election as Dean of the College of Cardinals is becoming more intriguing by the day. New reporting from Vatican correspondent Nico Spuntoni suggests that Cardinal Parolin, who presided over the conclave that elected Leo XIV, was effectively passed over for the very office that would ordinarily place him at the centre of the next papal election. Why? And what does this tell us about the emerging relationships within Leo's Vatican? There is also a fascinating wider picture. We now have an American Pope and a Filipino Dean, while the influence of Pope Francis remains deeply embedded in the Church's senior leadership. What might this mean for the traditionally powerful Italian establishment? In my latest Regina Unscripted article, I explore the significance of Tagle's extraordinary rise, the intriguing questions surrounding Parolin, and what these developments reveal about authority, influence and the future direction of Leo XIV's pontificate. A story about far more than Vatican personalities. Read my analysis 👇 From reginaunscripted.org 8:03 AM · Oct 18, 2026 · 68.3K Views

Mark Lambert @sitsio Cardinal Tagle's election as Dean of the College of Cardinals is becoming more intriguing by the day. New reporting from Vatican correspondent Nico Spuntoni suggests that Cardinal Parolin, who presided over the conclave that elected Leo XIV, was effectively passed over for the very office that would ordinarily place him at the centre of the next papal election. Why? And what does this tell us about the emerging relationships within Leo's Vatican? There is also a fascinating wider picture. We now have an American Pope and a Filipino Dean, while the influence of Pope Francis remains deeply embedded in the Church's senior leadership. What might this mean for the traditionally powerful Italian establishment? In my latest Regina Unscripted article, I explore the significance of Tagle's extraordinary rise, the intriguing questions surrounding Parolin, and what these developments reveal about authority, influence and the future direction of Leo XIV...
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Its argument—that positivism and historicism both leave no standard of law beyond human authority or historical context—also resembles Leo Strauss’s critique of those two schools: FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN: Legal positivism and historicism wear thin garbs. The former is bleak and dull, the latter is often rich and lavish, varnishing with glitter of tradition. Both, however, teach at bottom the same thing. Legal positivism would have it that law is what princes say it is, whether that prince be the authority of a legislature or judiciary or executive.

Legal positivism and historicism wear thin garbs. The former is bleak and dull, the latter is often rich and lavish, varnishing with glitter of tradition. Both, however, teach at bottom the same thing. Legal positivism would have it that law is what princes say it is, whether that prince be the authority of a legislature or judiciary or executive.
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Robert F. Prevost-Martinez has malignant Lung Cancer, entire lobe removed

Robert F. Prevost-Martinez has malignant Lung Cancer, entire lobe removed October 13, 2026 Editor 1 Comment Click to read the story. The actual state of health is very serious, since, as was reported in the Italian press, the entire floor of Gemelli Hospital was closed off during Prevost’s stay, to conceal his state of health. Like with Pope Francis, the real truth is always worse. And if they say it’s a cyst, yesterday, but today a lobe of the lung, which had to be removed: the truth is that the cancer must be malignant and the intervention was to prevent the spread of the cancer to other organs. Let us pray for the repentance of the man before the end swallows him up like it did his “master in heaven”, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who died after 18 months of steroid abuse , as reported at FromRome.Info in the spring of 2025. UPDATE, evening of October 13, 2026: The Vatican press office has admitted that Leo lied during his Angelus address, when he said it was to remove only a cyst; or Le...
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Barnhardt Antipope PERVost has VAIDS turbo cancer. Satan hates his lackeys the most, and luxuriates in double-crossing them. This is why we pray in the Matthew 17:20 intention for the repentance and REVERSION TO CATHOLICISM of the living Antipope.

Antipope PERVost has VAIDS turbo cancer. Satan hates his lackeys the most, and luxuriates in double-crossing them. This is why we pray in the Matthew 17:20 intention for the repentance and REVERSION TO CATHOLICISM of the living Antipope. Sow the death injection wind, reap the turbo cancer whirlwind. No, going from asymptomatic to having half a lung cut out isn’t “catching it early”. It’s called turbo cancer. In the literature, it’s literally called “VAIDS”- Vaccine Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. In my local community a pharmacist died without warning last week of cancer DAYS after first symptoms and diagnosis. Everyone is pretending to be shocked and flummoxed at the speed of his demise. A boomer pharmacist… one shudders to think how many death injections he took over the past years, and more terrifyingly, how many death injections he gave to others. A virologist explained the death injection carcinogenic mechanism to me thusly: the death injection causes your immune system to fai...
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The decisive question is not whether human beings have freedom, dignity, or rights. It is whether those things are grounded in a good that human beings discover and participate in—or whether the exercise of will is increasingly treated as sufficient to create the very standards by which it is judged.

 From Nominalism to Nietzsche – How We Got Into the Mess We’re In Today - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Sun, Jun 8 at 12:47 AM https://dphx.org/tob-tuesdays-10/#:~:text=Ockham%27s%20solution%20was%20to%20get,language%2C%20only%20its%20external%20properties .... "... Language itself has fallen under the modern guillotine of Nominalism as new words and pronouns rapidly multiply to describe self-constructed realities rather than an interior, objective order of reality. The “betterment of mankind” has morphed into the “betterment of the individual self” with the teeth of civil laws to back up one’s perception of self and reality. After all, if, according to Ockham and Nominalism, God could command anything He wanted and make it Law, then why can’t man – made in His image and likeness – do the same?" ChatGPT: The passage presents a distinctly classical and Thomistic critique of modernity: when reality is no longer understood as possessing an objective order that reason can...
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