Sources indicate Pope may have restored the Papal title, Patriarch of the West
According to our information, Pope Francis reinstates the title of Patriarch of the West (Old Rome) in the annual Vatican Diptychs (Pontificio Annuario del Vaticano 2024), which will be released next Tuesday. The title, which was removed by Pope Benedict XVI, after pressure from the conservative circles of the Vatican and at the urging of the theologian Adriano Garuti, from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of of the Faith (Dottina della fede). An act, which extreme conservatives imposed in 2006 on Pope Benedict XVI. (Cathcon: half-right on this, Garuti authored for the conservative Ignatius Press, "The Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Ecumenical Dialogue" which contains the germs of the idea of the title of Patriarch as a barrier to ecumenism- the Papacy should not use ideas of power but should persuade and collegiality and the title of Patriarch are at odds. He cannot be described as "an extreme conservative" rather of the Ratzinger school. The insider knowledge
