{"id":353784,"date":"2018-03-25T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T08:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vatican-cracks-down-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-25T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T08:13:49","slug":"vatican-cracks-down-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vatican-cracks-down-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Cracks Down – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D
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March 24, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Vatican has taken new measures to punish critics of Pope Francis in a move that seems to belie the pope\u2019s earlier calls for greater dialogue and debate within the Church.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Rome-based Sovereign Order of Malta, which reports directly to the Holy See, suspended historian Henry Sire after he was revealed to be the author of the bestselling\u00a0book\u00a0The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy<\/em><\/a>, a critical examination of the pontificate of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Vatican has\u00a0hired<\/a>\u00a0the international law firm of Baker McKenzie to force a small Spanish\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0called InfoVaticana.com to close its doors, allegedly for its sometimes critical tone toward aspects of the Francis papacy. The firm recently threatened a lawsuit if Infovaticana isn\u2019t shut down and \u201cits internet domain transferred to the Vatican.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Order of Malta announced its decision Wednesday to suspend the British historian Henry Sire, a member of the order, calling his book a \u201cvile attack\u201d on Pope Francis.<\/p>\n


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\u201cFollowing the press articles reporting the name of the author of the book \u2018The Dictator Pope\u2019 the Grand Magistry of the Order of Malta has taken the decision to suspend Henry Sire, author of the book and member of the Order of Malta. The provisional suspension from membership has immediate effect and an investigation is being launched,\u201d it said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In January, 2017, the Vatican took\u00a0control<\/a>\u00a0of the Knights of Malta after ousting its Grand Master Matthew Festing for his \u201cdefiance of papal authority.\u201d The pope asked Festing to\u00a0\n<\/div>\n

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By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D Breitbart March 24, 2018 The Vatican has taken new measures to punish critics of Pope Francis in a move that seems to belie the pope\u2019s earlier calls for greater dialogue and debate within the Church. On Thursday, the Rome-based Sovereign Order of Malta, which reports directly to the Holy See, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}