Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican expert from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, announced in an article on Sunday that Pope Benedict has decided to appoint as Vatican delegate to the troubled Legionaries of Christ Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, C.S., President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.

“The Pope has decided the name of the delegate that will take care of the congregation of the Legionaries of Christ, acting as a commissioner after the grave crisis and the emergence of the immoralities of the founder Fr. Marcial Maciel. The new delegate will be Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, an accomplished canon lawyer, President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, (a) close (associate of) the Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone,” Tornielli writes.

Tornielli also says that De Paolis’ appointment “will be made public in the upcoming days, with the appointment of the two vice-delegates, one for the Spanish speaking area and the other for the English speaking.”

Adding support to Tornielli’s prediction is that De Paolis was received in a private audience by the Holy Father last Saturday.

Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, who will turn 75 on September 19, was born in Lazio province near Rome, and later became a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, also known as “Scalabrinian Missionaries.” The Congregation was founded by Bishop Giovanni Battista Scalabrini with the goal of maintaining “the Catholic faith and practice among Italian emigrants to the New World.” With the slowdown of Italian emigration, the congregation and their sister organizations, the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo and the Secular Institute of the Scalabrinian Missionary Women, minister to migrants and refugees around the world.

Archbishop De Paolis received a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, and a law degree at La Sapienza University in Rome.

He was ordained to the priesthood on March 18, 1961, and went on to teach canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Since earning his doctorate in canon law, De Paolis has become an accomplished scholar in the field, teaching at several pontifical universities. He was appointed Dean at the Faculty of Canon Law at the Pontifical Urban University in 1998.

On December 30, 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed De Paolis as Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican equivalent to the Supreme Court.

In April 2008, Pope Benedict appointed him President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, making him the chief auditor for the Vatican.

On January 25 of 2010 he was appointed a member of the Apostolic Signatura, where he will remain on as a member until his 80th birthday.

Archbishop De Paolis has always kept a low profile in the Roman Curia. Nevertheless, inside the Vatican he is not only known as an accomplished canon lawyer, but as one of the top experts on religious life from the canonical standpoint. 

In fact, this year, Marcianum Press published his latest book, a 758-page long work titled “La vita consacrata nella Chiesa” (Consecrated Life in the Church.)

He has been author or co-author of several other books on canon law, religious life and the financing of the Church, including “Non per denaro. Il sostegno economico alla Chiesa,” (Not Because of Money, economic support for the Church.”

In Italy, De Paolis is also known for being very strong on the rare occasions he  makes public statements.

In 2008, he explained that the Vatican denied access to Catholic churches in Rome to the producers of “Angels and Demons,” the Dan Brown novel turned into a film by American director Ron Howard, because Brown had “turned the Gospels upside down to poison the faith."

“It would be unacceptable to transform churches into film sets so that his blasphemous novels can be made into films in the name of business,” he said, adding that Brown’s work “wounds common religious feelings.”

Early this year, he locked horns with the city of Turin after the city council announced a special tax on pilgrims visiting the famous Shroud, to allegedly cover the “carbon footprint” of the buses coming into the city.

“You don’t greet visitors, especially pilgrims, with a tax to offset some debatable costs. You welcome them, not only because their presence already brings benefits to the city, but especially because they come following the deepest motivation of the human soul,” De Paolis said of the proposed tax.

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"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin. Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man!  The Creator condemns those who do not repent of this sin." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1977

"Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you?  Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father.  Yet sin has become a way of life.  Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap.  Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body.  Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981

The awesome Bayside Prophecies... https://www.tldm.org/../Bayside/
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

READ  YOUR  BIBLES
"Your word of homosexuality can be explained by the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Read in your Bibles or consult your clergy.  Find yourselves, My children, a humble, pious clergy.  Many have fallen away from the Faith." Our Lady, October 6, 1992 

WOE  TO  THE  PASTORS
"My children, can I bring you a message of joy when My heart is torn by the murders and the loss of respect for your elders?  Children against parents, parents going about, running to and fro, marrying and giving in marriage, living adulterously, consorting with evil, with homosexuals and lesbians!  What manner of life do you show for your children to make example of?  Woe to the parent that scandalizes his child.  It is better if that parent had died in his mother's womb!  Woe to the pastors that scandalize the children!  They shall burn in an eternity of hell for their deception!" Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1977 

PASTORS  HELD  RESPONSIBLE
"We hold the pastors of My Son's House, We hold them as being responsible for the fall of the children.  Be ye warned now, My children, that woe to the man who has this responsibility upon his conscience and his soul.  Scandals have been brought into the lives of your children.  Perversion, homosexuality, immorality, perverted sex, My children-where shall you stop but at the abyss!" Our Lady of the Roses, December 7, 1977

"YOU  WILL  BE  REMOVED"
"I am your God, and I say unto you:  continue to change My Church and you will fall!  You will build a secular church, bringing in all--even heretics, even homosexuals.  All aberrations condemned by the Eternal Father, you will permit in the name of humanism.  Nay, no!  I say unto you as your God.  You will be given a short reign, for I consider you then an abomination, and as such you will be removed." Jesus, May 23, 1979 

AN  ABOMINATION
"Man shall not condone evil or rationalize sin. Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God and man! The Creator condemns those who do not repent of this sin." Our Lady, August 5, 1977

BLACK  CLOUD  OVER  AMERICA
"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women. As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America."  Our Lady, July 14, 1979

SODOM:  "WE  DESTROYED  IT"
"And the great issue now of homosexuality in your country, that shall be on the balance that Michael holds.  Unless this balance is evened by removing this evil from your country and bringing in just laws to prevent the spread of homosexuality, you cannot be saved; your country cannot be saved.  Because I repeat again, as I have repeated in the past:  When a country has given itself over to immorality and all pleasures of the flesh, and abominations of the flesh, then that country will fall!  If you do not believe Me, My children, I say:  You will read your history books, and you will find out that there was a Sodom and Gomorrah.  And what did We do to that abominable city, Sodom?  We destroyed it!  And what did We do to Gomorrah?  We destroyed it!  And We destroyed all who did not follow the plan for their redemption." Jesus, November 1, 1985 

 SIN:  FORERUNNER  OF  WAR
"For sin is always a forerunner for war, My children:  murders, persecutions, robberies, all manners of sins of the flesh, homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion, sodomy.  Sodom and Gomorrah fell for less sins than you have committed now upon your earth.  Noah took to the ark and the world was in a better state spiritually than your world now; for you have accepted a sophisticated manner of sin, based on man's reasoning and not God's truth." Our Lady, October 2, 1979 

ANY  COUNTRY
"Any country that allows homosexuals to roam and to seduce the young shall be destroyed."  Our Lady, June 30, 1984

HOLY HOUR
"I wish that there be held on these sacred grounds an hour of reparation on the Day of the Lord.  This hour will be for your Vicar and the fallen hierarchy in the House of God.  This hour will also be in atonement for the discard of the holy Day of God." - Our Lady, September 14, 1972

Directives from Heaven... https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D63 - The Third Secret  PDF
D169 - Stigma of a Fallen Hierarchy, Part 1 PDF
D170 - Stigma of a Fallen Hierarchy, Part 2   PDF
D171 - Stigma of a Fallen Hierarchy, Part 3   PDF
D172 - Priestly Celibacy PDF
D174 - Homosexuality, Part 2  PDF
D177 - Seminaries  PDF

Articles…

A Rude Awakening - My experiences in the Legion of Christ 2000-2001
http://www.regainnetwork.org/article.php?a=47245755

Spiritual Schizophrenia - The Legion of Christ cannot affirm both a Wise Pope and a Holy Maciel
http://regainnetwork.org/article.php?a=47245965

Father Maciel suspended: New allegations against other Legionary priests on the horizon?
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mershon/060525

Vatican says no to homosexuals in priesthood - approved by Pope Benedict
https://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityPriesthood3.htm

Vatican appointed seminary investigator says homosexuals should not be ordained
 https://www.tldm.org/News8/SeminaryInvestigator.htm

Cardinal George of Chicago reaffirms longtime Vatican teaching: no homosexuals allowed in priesthood
https://www.tldm.org/News8/homosexualityPriesthood.htm

John Paul II and a Vatican official speak out against homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood
https://www.tldm.org/News5/gays_in_priesthood.htm  

Clear Vatican statement against ordaining homosexuals: "a person who is homosexual or has homosexual tendencies is not, therefore, suitable to receive the sacrament of sacred orders."
https://www.tldm.org/News5/Estevez.htm

Bishop D'Arcy urges ban on gay priests
https://www.tldm.org/News7/D'Arcy.htm 

Philippine Bishops Conference bans homosexual seminarians and priests
https://www.tldm.org/News7/PhilippineBishopsBanHomosexuals.htm 

Santo Domingo Cardinal says gays do not belong in seminaries
https://www.tldm.org/News7/homosexualityCardinalNicolas.htm 

Austrian seminary: no more homosexuals
https://www.tldm.org/News7/HomosexualityAustrianSeminary.htm

American seminaries: "hell-holes of error and heresy"
https://www.tldm.org/news5/seminaries.htm

John Paul II orders cleanup of U.S. seminaries
https://www.tldm.org/news5/seminaries2.htm

Vatican document: homosexuals should not be ordained or admitted to the seminary
https://www.tldm.org/News5/Vatican_document.htm 

“This hapless bench of bishops”
https://www.tldm.org/News5/hapless.htm 

Gay and lesbian newspaper reports: “Victory at Bishops' Conference”
https://www.tldm.org/News5/WindyCity.htm 

The American bishops and homosexual priests
https://www.tldm.org/news4/scandal1.htm 

81% of clergy sex crimes committed by homosexuals
https://www.tldm.org/News6/homosexuality9.htm

What the Saints say about the sin of homosexuality
https://www.tldm.org/news7/homosexualitySaints.htm

What the Bible says about homosexuality
https://www.tldm.org/News6/homosexuality3.htm

Great Britain study says 43% of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have a mental disorder
https://www.tldm.org/news7/GayMentalDisorder.htm

Our Lady of the Roses gave 17 requests to save America from annihilation
https://www.tldm.org/news5/17-steps.htm

Homosexuality and Hope: excerpts taken from a document by the Catholic Medical Association
https://www.tldm.org/news6/ssa.htm

America: Slouching towards Gomorrah
https://www.tldm.org/news5/gomorrah.htm

Homosexuality: dispelling the lies
https://www.tldm.org/News4/homosexuality2.htm

Supreme Court Justice Burger speaks out against homosexuality
https://www.tldm.org/news6/homosexuality1.htm

Sin is insanity
https://www.tldm.org/news6/insanity.htm

Links...

U.S. Bishops to Begin Inspecting Seminaries, National Catholic Register
http://www.ncregister.com/articulo.php?artkod=NTU-

Expected Vatican Ban Roils American Church, [U.K.] Guardian, September 22, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5295980,00.html

Trust us to fix it, Catholic World News
http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=2791

Bishops meeting to avoid gay issue, Washington Times, June 15, 2005
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050614-114626-2482r.htm

Why won't our bishops solve the 'gay' priest problem? New Oxford Review, July-August 2004
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=0704-notes-bishops

How America's Catholic Church crucified itself, [London] Times Online, March 13, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1517560,00.html

Vatican Monsignor says gays shouldn’t be priests, Washington Times, September 20, 2002
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020920-85049356.htm

Catholic official argues against gay priests, Modesto Bee, September 19, 2002
http://www.modbee.com/24hour/nation/story/543081p-4290797c.html

John Paul II to Church: Risky seminarians must go, National Catholic Register, Sept. 15-21, 2002
http://www.ncregister.com/Register_News/091002sem.htm

John Paul II: Men with deviant affections can’t be priests, ABC News, September 5, 2002
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20020905_339.html

Catholic Medical Association: Homosexuality and Hope
http://www.cathmed.org/publications/homosexuality.html