Weekly News Roundup April 7, 2022

o Our stories today include: (1) a look at the Pope's recent trip to Malta (a small island nation south of Sicily with a rich Catholic history), during which the ongoing conflict in Ukraine remained at the forefront; (2) Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas calling out German Cardinal Reinhard Marx on social media for his claim that "one is allowed to doubt" the contents of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (specifically, the Church's immutable condemnation of unnatural vice); (3) an attempted defense of Germany's openly heretical "Synodal Way" by Bishop Georg Bätzing (head of the German episcopal conference); (4) two new texts from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò; and (5) a beautiful tribute to our departed friend and longtime CFN editor John Vennari.