Communist Journo at NPR Decries Catholic Voices

Edit: as reported in Wiki, Sylvia Poggiolo of NPR has Communist parents who founded the Mazzini League, named after the evil Freemason and father of morern Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini. Therefore, it's really not shocking she's well sympathetic to Bergoglio's Communist inclinations, and hostile to actual Catholics and even fellow Masonic types like George Weigel, who pose as Catholics giving the media a tame opponent whose synthetic Catholic image they can contrast to their own beliefs. From the article:
JAMES ALTMAN: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat, period. Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches. Repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.

POGGIOLO: That's Father James Altman of La Crosse, Wis., in a video uploaded to YouTube last August and seen more than a million times. Not all conservative Catholics sound so apocalyptic about Democrats, but they're critical of Biden. In a podcast last month with a conservative think tank, George Weigel, who has written extensively about the Catholic Church, said the new president is a professed Catholic who, in his personal piety, seems quite sincere. But...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GEORGE WEIGEL: Mr. Biden is an incoherent Catholic. And incoherent Catholics should not be presenting themselves for Holy Communion as if they were living in full communion with the church.

POGGIOLO: As both Francis and Biden ignore their Catholic critics, presidential historian Timothy Naftali sees potential parallels with 60 years ago at the peak of the Cold War. Six months after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the precipice of nuclear annihilation, Pope John XXIII issued an encyclical. Addressed not just to Catholics but to all people of goodwill, it called for peacemaking through negotiation. A week later, citing the document in a major speech, President John Kennedy was able to win domestic support for a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. Naftali says both the Pope and Biden believe climate change is today's existential threat, and they can work together.

TIMOTHY NAFTALI: These are two leaders powerful in different realms. That's an opportunity. And it's not an opportunity that comes every generation.

POGGIOLO: Amidst so much disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic and on vaccines, Naftali says these two prominent Catholics could also help convince more people that science and faith are not mutually exclusive.

Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Rome. AMDG

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Snotty British Journalist Takes Swipe at Integralism

 

When John F. Kennedy was president, McDonald’s invented the Filet-O-Fish to cater for Catholics who wouldn’t touch hamburgers on Fridays and were harming their profits. Nearly 60 years later, the flaccid fish sandwich is still on the menu, but it’s unlikely that McDonald’s or anyone else will introduce products catering specially for Catholics during the administration of America’s second Catholic president. The tumbleweed in the ruined dioceses of the rust belt is rolling across the country. Countless parishes will die of the complications of COVID-19; many will be euthanized by their own bishops, who’ve found just the excuse they needed to close them.

[Spectator] So it’s an odd time for Catholic intellectuals to be proposing changes to the US Constitution that they hope will be a prelude to the worldwide subjugation of secular rulers to the Catholic Church. But, as I report in the most recent episode of The Spectator’s Holy Smokepodcast, that’s what’s happening. The movement is generally known as Integralism, a label previously applied to ultra-conservative Catholic reactionaries before World War Two. Action Française, for example, was a far-right Catholic monarchist movement with firm but not exterminationist views on Jews; they had their place in an ‘Integral’ France, but it was a lowly one where they could be baited and harassed.

Brazilian Military Bishop Opposes PC Non-Sense

Indigenous people wait to receive the Sinovac’s CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine in the village of Itacoatiara, Brazil, Feb. 13, 2021. The Brazilian bishops’ conference has come under fire from some of its more conservative members since it announced this year’s Fraternity Campaign, which defends Indigenous peoples, criticizes the high rates of femicide and speaks up against LGBTQ violence and homophobia. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

By Lise Alves, Catholic News Service

SAO PAULO — The Brazilian bishops’ conference has come under fire from some of its more conservative members since it announced this year’s Fraternity Campaign, which defends Indigenous peoples, criticizes the high rates of femicide and speaks up against LGBTQ violence and homophobia.

Archbishop Fernando Guimarães of Brazil’s Military Archdiocese has instructed chaplains working with Brazil’s armed forces to refuse to participate in the 2021 campaign. In a public letter sent to Bishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, president of the bishops’ conference, the archbishop said “evangelization of the faithful … at any time and even more so in a special time such as Catholic Lent, is not a place for dialogue on controversial topics and contrary to the authentic doctrine of our church.”

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Fauci in hot water

Using the DeathVax to euthanize a busload of Lapel Pill Nuns??  These gals have been watching too much TV and now put their faith in needles.

Things aren't going well in the Netherlands.

Two Nuns Die After Receiving Vaccine

 by Brian Shilhavy

Editor, Health Impact News

Earlier this month WKRC Local 12 in Kentucky reported how two nuns died and 28 out of the 35 nuns at a Northern Kentucky monastery tested positive for COVID just two days after receiving their first experimental mRNA COVID injections.

The leadership of the monastery, as well as the local media, were shocked at the “outbreak” of COVID and resulting two deaths, because the monastery was not open to visitors, and the residents had not traveled outside of the monastery.

If ever one wanted to find a totally locked down facility with no exposure to the outside world, a monastery is about as locked down as one can get.

Link...

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The Freemasonic Europa Movement

 The Freemasons strive to overcome the European nation-states as a stage towards a world republic, the world-unit state.

By P. Paolo M. Siano *

Professor Gianmario Cazzaniga, a scholar esteemed by the Grand Orient of Italy, explains how the idea of a World Republic between the 17th and 18th centuries was prepared by a Republic of Scholars and Scientists, that is, by a cultural network of writers, nobles Writers, publishers, antiquarians and scholars, which was promoted by Huguenot circles, by Protestant (but not only) financial sectors in Geneva, Amsterdam and London, and from 1717 by the Masonic lodges. 1

The French scholar Yves Hivert-Messeca also affirmed that the Freemasons in the 18th century dreamt of a supranational and interdenominational society / fraternity, that is, of a new Europe.

 2

It is logical to deduce that the realization of a European Republic or World Republic according to Masonic principles, as a project or at least implied the hope of a socio-cultural transformation (according to the Masonic principles of secularism and anti-dogmatism) and / or the revolution and the political-military overthrow of denominational Catholic monarchies (for example the Habsburgs) and the then the Papal States.

In 1868, the first edition of the newspaper Les Etats-Unis d'Euro-pe printed [The United States of Europe], an organ of the International League for Peace and Freedom, based in Bern (Switzerland), and offices in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany and England. In the first edition of January 5, 1868 it is announced that the Freemason Giuseppe Garibaldi is its honorary President (p. 1). Freemasonry is praised in number 47 of November 22, 1868 (p. 187f).

Bawdy Irish Priest is a Triple Threat

Edit: a triple threat to Faith, Hope and Charity. I thought the fictional Father Jack was bad, but this priest is laughably indecent. This sort of thing is an abominable mockery to the priesthood.  There's a similar, more recent video of this bawd here at TIA. 

Events like this are conceived to demoralize you. Don't let it. Ignore your Bishop's annual appeal and send the money to a more worthy and pious effort. 

 

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“Monsignor” Craig Harrison Resigns Priesthood

 Edit: wow, if only they could get rid of more narcissistic flamers like this. 

Tbh, he sounds like the kind of person who doesn’t belong in the priesthood in the first place.

Stephen Brady had this cancer in his sights. 

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Lawyers representing Monsignor Craig Harrison said he has tendered letters of resignation as the Pastor of St. Francis Parish and from his obligations as a Catholic priest.

According to a release from the Law Offices of Kyle J. Humphrey, Msgr. Harrison will address his resignation at 12:10 p.m. Thursday.

Allegations against Harrison were investigated in Kern County, Merced County and Fresno County. No authorities have moved to file charges against the monsignor.

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A Shameful Attack Against the Bacon Priest

Father Werenfried van Straaten in a picture of the aid organization he founded, Church in Need, where a pathetic "purge" of its founder is currently in progress.

Notes by Giuseppe Nardi

The steamroller is once again being driven around in the German Church. That's not new. The stage directions are known, hence who is steering the steamroller and against whom it is directed. And the result is also foreseeable. The victims are currently a cardinal and a long dead man who can no longer defend himself. How convenient.

In a decades proven alliance between left main-stream media, and progressive Church circles are conquering and defending positions of power. Bit by bit, the axis in the Church in Germany has been shifted to the left over the past 60 years. Every successful operation does not mean saturation, but only an intermediate stage to the next operation. What personalities and institutions stand in the way of “another” Church are dismantled. Labels are awarded for this so that the non-church allies always and immediately know who is friend and who is enemy.

The first labels were for the so-called “pre-Conciliarists” including the variants “backward-looking”, “the day before yesterday” and “archconservative”. The latter title became a "long runner". It is suitable to this day. The Mainstream, so far removed from any understanding of the Church, that not the slightest chance exists for more than merely a minimal understanding, means that any Church representative, who isn't stamped with the "seal of approval:" progressive,  left, liberal or modern, is considered "arch-conservative." But that is only one of several practiced assasin vocabularies.

As early as the 1960s it became clear that the interplay between inner-Church circles and non-church media results in an efficient alliance that benefits both sides to achieve a shift in power in the Church for one and the enjoyment of Church dismantling for the other.

Many well-known and less well-known Church representatives have since fallen victim to this unholy alliance. When they licked blood in the 1990s and realized that they could even “shoot” bishops, things really got going. Since then, one campaign has followed the next, always with the same pattern, always with a shameful pretext, always with the same hunting party, always with a prominent victim, always with another axis shift to the left. The trophies include prominent names such as Archbishop Haas, Bishop Mixa, Bishop Krenn and, with Archbishop Groer, even a cardinal. One to one was implemented in the Church area, which was also the case in the political area. The most recent example of this alliance is the presidential election campaign in the USA. With the election of Pope Francis, the unholy alliance has moved into the highest position.

According to the Maoist principle, one opponent must be beaten by way of example in order to intimidate a hundred opponents. Every successful persecution in the past decades has meant a growing intimidation of conservative Church circles, even greater reluctance, and even more abstinence from the public. It also meant that the criteria for the selection of future bishops were constantly being scaled back and adjusted. The dominant image was that of docile submission in the hope of appeasing the hounds. Nothing of the sort happened, as was foreseeable, which frightened conservative Church leaders even more and made the superiors, who openly or surreptitiously sympathize with the left, ever bolder. 

So bastion after bastion was lost. Anyone who looks at the Church in the German-speaking area today can no longer imagine a situation that still prevailed in the 1950s. Most bishops may be pious men, at least this is what the believing heart hopes, but with only a few exceptions they are characterized by two aspects: They are latently, even if gradually graduated, positioned progressively. And the less progressive they are, the less leadership they show. 

In the past 60 years, the Church was dismantled not from below, but from above. It is also not conceivable otherwise in a hierarchically constituted, divine foundation.

Hunt for Cardinal Woelki - the hunters are called Marx and Bätzing

 

The most recent prey selected by the hunting party is the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, and the "Bacon Priest" Werenfried van Straaten. Cardinal Woelki does not necessarily belong to the type of bishop and prince of the Church who should go down in history. His unforgivable flaw is that he is more conservative than the left-wing majority of the German Bishops' Conference. His institutional position as Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal of the Holy Church makes him a troublemaker among his confreres. And in 2018 he dared to turn to Rome against the impossible majority decision of the Bishops' Conference to admit Protestant spouses to Holy Communion. What under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. in extremis was able to remedy the situation, but since Pope Francis rules Rome, it became an own goal.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith wanted to take action, but was called back by Francis. Cardinal Woelki had exposed himself without being able to achieve anything. The small minority of bishops he heads because of his rank were counted. The DBK majority found Woelki's heckling against the "Synodal Way", with which the Church in Germany is on its way to schism, is no less disturbing. 

The reaction to this is that the majority leaders of the Bishops' Conference are working towards the transfer of the Archdiocese of Cologne, one of the largest, richest and most important in the Church along with those of Milan and Chicago, into other hands. It's all a question of power. So it is not surprising that the most dangerous headwind for Woelki does not come from any media, but from the Church itself. Nor is it surprising that Cardinal Reinhard Marx, as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, the holder of the most important bishop's seat after Cologne, and Bishop Georg Bätzing, the President of the German Bishops' Conference, put themselves in the limelight as Woelki's most vocal critics.

The excuse can always be found. That seems to be the slightest problem in a dishonorable power struggle: whether dodgy behavior by religious women in the diocese of Speyer, or whether dealing with a clerical abuser in Cologne. But anyone who assumes that one or the other case is actually at issue is vastly wrong. It's about a power struggle within the church that is supposed to bring Woelki to his knees, ideally even to steal the Archdiocese of Cologne from him.

The second hunt illustrates this striving for power even more clearly, because the "prey" is long dead. Buckets of dirt are pelted at an outstanding, but long-dead personality. It is a kind of monument fall that has been in vogue on the left not only since the racist machinations of organizations like Black Lives Matter.

The Bacon Priest - a fighter who suffered less and less after 1968

The Dutch Premonstratensian Werenfried van Straaten, canon in the Flemish Abbey of Tongerlo, was one of the real greats of the post-war Church. When Germany was the war on the ground, he did something that probably today by definition would already regarded as shameful and intolerable. He began to help the defeated Germans who had been displaced and made homeless in the millions. This resulted in the Ostpriesthilfe because Father Werenfried initially helped the Catholic priests from the eastern German regions and linguistic islands, who were stranded as displaced persons in the western Allied occupation zones. Over time it became an international aid organization for the persecuted Christians behind the Iron Curtain, and later worldwide. In 1953 he also founded the Bauorden, in which young adults could help with social and non-profit building projects. The first projects were homes for German displaced persons.

Wherever Father Werenfried preached, he filled the churches in the 1950s and 1960s. For an extensive media apostolate he used the most modern means available. Above all, however, he was not a man of low tones. When in the course of the Second Vatican Council the wind shifted in the Church, which also hit him. His adherence to ecclesiastical social and moral doctrine and his understanding of the Church made him as a “conservative” more and more an undesirable person. This development within the Church coincided with the overall development, as the political left seemed to be spurred on by an apparently unstoppable rise in the 1970s. The Bacon Priest was denounced an enemy, as it states in the anticlerical communist East block and the local Catholic underground Church, but it also supported the persecuted Orthodox Church. Communist groups in West Germany controlled by the KGB and MfS from Moscow and East Berlin targeted Father Werenfried.

His main problem, however, was that he was no longer suffered within the Church in the 1980s and was therefore increasingly left out in the rain by his own side. The division of Germany seemed irreversible to many, anti-communism only a nuisance. Eventually Father Werenfried began to be marginalized. In some dioceses he was hardly suffered any more and had to be happy if he got churches to preach there. Through his fiery words to the conscience of the people, with which he also addressed those topics that hardly anyone dared to address in the Church, such as chastity, celibacy, marriage, the right to life of unborn children, he had become an outsider.

He did not let that deter him. He had with the relief organization Church in Need, as the Ost Priesterhilfe was now called, because its area of operations had expanded, created something lasting, something that the Christians persecuted more than ever needed worldwide. When Father Werenfried - a name, a concept - died shortly after his 90th birthday in 2003, he was no longer in the middle of the Church where he had started, but rather on the edge. Not because he had changed, but because the leading Church districts had changed.

He was lucky to have found a capable successor in his niece Antonia Willemsen, who continued his legacy with the help of capable employees. In doing so, they understood this inheritance in full in the sense of the Bacon Priest only as material help for the persecuted Christians in distant countries, but also as spiritual help for the Christians in the western states. The German section in particular developed a number of initiatives for evangelization in the German-speaking area after the turn of the millennium. The relief organization, still disliked by Father Werenfried in some Church circles, was seen by progressive Church representatives as one of the few remaining “conservative” organizations, which is hardly tolerated today.

Since the death of Bacon Priest there is a more or less intense impulse contending for control of ACN in progress. This not only has to do with the ideological opposites described, but also with desires such as power and influence. In order to have their backs, some personalities are pressing to limit themselves to helping persecuted Christians abroad. Also a form of quiet kicking.

The dirt buckets with Church tax money

Yesterday, the supplement Christ & Welt of the left-liberal weekly newspaper Die Zeit published a frontal attack on Father Werenfried. A confidential letter from a now retired auxiliary bishop from 2010 had been leaked to the paper, listing aspects of Rome that could stand in the way of a possible beatification process. It's routine. In the Roman method, there is, the historical figure of advocate diaboli. These references would only be relevant if they were confirmed.

The letter was sent to the Church in Need, the German bishops and the Vatican. It is not difficult to imagine from which side it was leaked to the Hamburg newspaper editors. For this, it is enough to know that Christ & World since 1980 was owned by the German Bishops' Conference, is that as editorially independent special supplement of the weekly newspaper since 2010. The time is displayed. The attack is financed with Church tax money.

On February 10th, Christ & Welt (Die Zeit) published the accusation against Father Werenfried under the title “Good and Evil”. The two authors use that mocking and derogatory tone that is now taken for granted in left-wing circles when reports are made about people who think differently. So it says boldly in the opening credits: "What happens to the Church if it loses an icon?"

The focus is on an alleged "coercion", also known as an alleged "rape attempt", which the then 60-year-old Werenfried is said to have undertaken against a 23-year-old employee. The charges are being flogged 18 years after the death of the Bacon Priest. The alleged victim did not report herself until years after his death.

The accusation of sexual abuse (for once, not homosexual) is currently the most targeted manslaughter instrument against a cleric and the Church as a whole. Indeed, shameful things have been done and neglected by a small clerical minority, think of the McCarrick case, but mostly in a homosexual context. This club can be swung particularly easily against Father Werenfried: he can no longer defend himself.

The extent of the dilemma in which the Catholic world finds itself in our latitudes has become evident in the past few hours. In fact, there is nobody to defend Father Werenfried, while the media in unison drag his memory through the dirt without questioning it. The younger ones don't know him anymore. In addition, the different parts of the Church have drifted apart, an organization like Kirche in Not [Church in Need], which has been branded with the label “conservative”, feels this particularly hard.

The result was shown yesterday. No sooner had Die Zeit started its shameful attack, reminiscent of the conviction in a show trial, than the aid organization Church in Need went on its knees, without a fight and weak in the knees as pudding. Thomas Heine-Geldern, the managing president, hurried to keep the greatest possible distance from Father Werenfried and implicitly hammered hard on the monument of a great man, as if he were eager to support the two Zeit journalists in the fall of the monument. To get praise and recognition? The motto in the aid organization's headquarters in Königstein seems to be: "Save yourself, whoever can!"

Heine-Geldern listed a total of 27 partly redundant points, which are a single pathetic dismantling of the renouned Bacon Priest. A shameful act by someone who basks in the life's work of Father Werenfried, but does not even attempt to defend him. A mere shout from a certain side is enough to capitulate today.

Nothing should be ruled out, but credibility and probability are at stake. It is not enough to jump out of cover after 36 or 48 years, that is, six or 18 years after Werenfried's death, and make the most serious accusations. The executive president of Kirche in Not, Heine-Geldern explains succinctly that the description of the then 23-year-old woman about the alleged coercion, alias rape attempt, is “credible”. That is not enough to take a guilt for granted, but that is exactly what the Heine-Geldern declaration means. In this way every deceased could be destroyed effortlessly. With Friends Like These, who needs enemies?
Whoever got to know Father Werenfried personally, like the author of these lines, knows about his integrity. Of course, even in the 80s it was a pleasant exception in the midst of the Church leaders who lagged behind the zeitgeist. It is therefore not enough for me what allegations are now being brought against him by journalists financed by Church taxes with obviously destructive intent, and it should not be enough for anyone.

What “credible” means is known since the literally unbelievable allegations against Hans Hermann Cardinal Groer. The archbishop of Vienna at the time did not fall because of the hostile, campaign-like attacks by the media and politics, but because of internal Church bills that were paid and because of the cowardice of Church officials, whose duty it would have been to defend the cardinal. Instead, those who wanted to "wash their hands in innocence" as quickly as possible, prevailed. The fact that the accused had to jump over the edge was accepted in a weighing of interests in which it was asked what was “more important”.Some did not want to put themselves in the line of fire of the press and socialists. 

A similar calculation seems to have been made in today's leadership of the Church in Need. The "credibility" that Church in Need President Heine-Geldern mentions sounds like a fearful endeavor to get rid of a story that was perceived as unpopular - and that means buckets of filth for the media. The result was available yesterday. Father Werenfried van Straaten, a great figure in the post-war Church era, does not deserve that. 

And many do not seem to have earned their offices and posts in Church in Need and the German Bishop Conference.

Image: Church in Need (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Battleground Swiss Diocese of Chur Handed Off to Opus Dei Prelate

Msgr. Joseph Bonnemain is the new Bishop of Chur.

(Rome) Msgr. Marian Eleganti, the auxuliary bishop of Chur, was retired today by Pope Francis. At the same time, the Holy See announced the appointment of the new Bishop of Chur. The diocese has been deeply divided for decades.

In 2019, the Benedictine Msgr. Eleganti, although only 63 years old at the time, offered Pope Francis his resignation in the course of the retirement of Bishop Vitus Huonder. While the diocese of Chur was vacant, Francis left the former abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St. Otmarsberg in office. With the appointment of a new diocesan bishop today, the Pope accepted Eleganti's offer of resignation.

The diocese of Chur is the oldest and largest diocese in Switzerland. A struggle for control of the diocese has been raging since the late 1980s. Therefore, towards the end of his episcopate, Bishop Johannes Vonderach (1962–1990) asked for a bishop coadjutor with succession rights. This was granted to him in 1988 in the person of Wolfgang Haas. The resistance against Msgr. Haas was so strong that in 1997 he was sent to the Archdiocese of Vaduz, which was set up especially for this purpose. Up until then, the Principality of Liechtenstein had belonged to the Diocese of Chur. The conflict flared up again with each new appointment. Through the interaction of non-church media and progressive church circles, a priori image of the bishops was drawn and the development of their work was severely impaired.

In 1999 Marian Eleganti was elected Abbot of the Mission Benedictines of Uznach. In 2010 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. at the request of Bishop Vitus Huonder as auxiliary bishop of Chur. Among other things, Eleganti acted as the Rector of the Chur seminary and episcopal vicar for the religious. Media remote from the Church and progressive church circles repeatedly put the two bishops under pressure and publicly pilloried them.

Because of such discrepancies in the Swiss Bishops' Conference about the October 2018 Youth Synod convened by Pope Francis  Msgr. Eleganti resigned in 2018 from his position as youth bishop of Switzerland. He had accused the Synod Director of "contradictions and not being inscribed by the Holy Spirit."

The auxiliary bishop of Chur and the Austrian philosopher Joseph Seifert exercised 2,019 sharp critique of the Abu Dhabi document on the "brotherhood of man", which Pope Francis signed with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar in the United Arab Emirates as the "heresy of all heresies ”. 

Msgr. Marian Eleganti: The Benedictine has been auxiliary bishop of Chur to this day

The controversial post-synodal letter Amoris Laetitia -actuated critical remarks by Eleganti in defense of marriage and family. He was the first and only Swiss Bishop who signed the Commitment to the Inalienable Truths of Marriage Sacrament, which had been presented by Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider and other Kazakh bishops at the end of the 2017.

In the course of the so-called Corona pandemic, he created a spiritual dimension to the events and called for penance and conversion. In early March 2020 he regarded the development with  plain words and drew heavy criticism on himself because certain opinions are barely tolerated. He criticized the fact that the Church's answer to the Corona crisis was largely limited to hygiene regulations, which was tantamount to "capitulation". He also emphasized that receiving Communion could not pose a risk of infection. With their provisions on Holy Communion, the bishops would say that receiving the body of Christ could make one sick. However, it was more important for the Swiss bishops to keep step with the government. Even bishops from the neighboring Federal Republic of Germany kept their distance from Msgr. Eleganti. The Apostolic Administrator of Chur, Msgr. Peter Bürcher, issued a de facto ban on speaking to Eleganti in the matter of Coronavirus on the grounds that the auxiliary bishop would cause “confusion among the faithful and in public”. The official Corona narrative, which is known to be supported by most governments, but which is not known who invented it, were not to be disrupted.

 

The new bishop of Chur

Almost two years after the retirement of Bishop Vitus Huonder, Pope Francis today appointed a new Bishop of Chur. The appointment of the shepherd of such an old diocese takes place according to proper law. According to this, Pope Francis should have received a three-way proposal from the cathedral chapter and the 22 canons, should have chosen the new bishop. In November 2020, however, the cathedral chapter waived this privilege because no one could agree on a candidate. In this way, as in the more recent bishops, Francis made it possible for himself to make the decision that fell on Joseph Maria Bonnemain, priest of Opus Dei and himself a member of the cathedral chapter.

The Pope preferred a temporary solution, since Monsignor Bonnemain is 72 years old and has to offer his resignation in three years. Even in the event that the Pope should leave him in office beyond the canonical age limit, his term of office is likely to last for a maximum of five years.

Bonnemain is the son of a Swiss from the canton of Jura and a Catalan, which is why he was born in Barcelona. He studied medicine in Zurich and then philosophy and theology in Rome. In 1978 he was ordained a priest for Opus Dei, now a personal prelature. At the University of Navarre he studied canon law and worked since 1981 as a Church judge for the diocese of Chur. From 1983 to 1992 he was a member of the Delegation of the Holy See to the WHO in Geneva. 2002, he was appointed Swiss Bishop Conference of the Secretary for the Commission of Sexual Abuse. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Chur cathedral chapter. Most recently he worked as an official of the diocese and hospital chaplain.

The diocese of Chur is the only diocese in the world that has its own episcopal vicar for the matter of the traditional rite. This task has fallen since June 2015 to P. Martin Ramm from the Pristly Fraternity of Saint Peter. 

Until the enthronement of the new bishop, the diocese is headed by the Apostolic Administrator Msgr. Bürcher. He announced that he would announce the date for the episcopal ordination and the inauguration as soon as possible.

Text: Giuseppe di Nar-
image: MiL

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Trump was Right!