Holy See Engenders Nothing but Defeat

Cardinal: “The Holy See always encourages surrender, everywhere.”

Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, talking to Al Jazeera, called Pope Francis’ deal with China a “betrayal, evil and a sellout”. Francis wants to recognize the Chinese Regime Church. According to Zen, a majority of the state bishops are “slaves of the Communist regime” who really have – quote - “no faith”. Zen told Al Jazeera that – quote – “the Holy See always encourages surrender, everywhere.” He points out that – quote - “many people in the universal church may lose their faith in the pope."

Cardinal Kasper Keeps Making Confusion

The Anti-Catholic Cardinal Walter Kasper has claimed in an interview with Vatican Insider that Second Vatican Council’s decree on Ecumenism Unitatis Redintegratio (8) basically allows Protestant Communion. In reality, the passage speaks about “worship in common” and says that this “should not be considered as a means to be used indiscriminately for the restoration of Christian unity.” Worship in common has always been understood as assisting at a liturgy and not as receiving Communion.

Do The Same With Jews/Moslems And All Hell Will Break Loose

Although the recent Met Gala in New York made fun of the Catholic Church, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan participated in it. Piers Morgan wrote about this in the British Daily Mail – quote, “If the Met Gala was Islam or Jewish-themed, all hell would break loose – so why was it OK for a bunch of flesh-flashing celebrities to disrespect MY religion?” About the fact that the Vatican participated actively in this, Morgan replies, “What the hell was the Vatican thinking?”

Christian Holocaust in the Middle East

The Christians of the Middle East may disappear within ten years according to the Syrian-Orthodox Bishop George Saliba. 70% of the Christians have left Syria after the beginning of the under-cover aggression of the Western Regimes against the country. Since the American assault on Iraq, 85% of the Christians have fled the country. At the same time, Saliba notices that the West is about to become atheistic or Islamic.

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Previously Unpublished Texts by Benedict XVI on Human Rights

Former Pope urges in essay 2014: Replacement of human rights for the concept of God "ends in a nihilistic 'right' of man to deny himself"
 

Vatican City (kath.net/KAP) From the perspective of former Pope Benedict XVI. faith in God is the best foundation for the concept of human rights. At the same time, however, he also qualifies these so that man can not and should not reverse them. These are the essential statements of a previously unpublished text by Benedict XVI, which will appear recently in a new book with selected contributions and speeches of the emeritus Pope on the subject of faith and politics. [And a forward by Pope Francis.]

The essay "The Multiplication of Rights and the Destruction of the Legal Concept" was a response Benedict XVI. (2005-2013) penned in autumn 2014 to a book written by the Italian philosopher and politician Marcello Pera. In his book "Church, Human Rights and the Abandonment of God" is about what happens when "the concept of human rights is replaced by the concept of God," wrote Benedict XVI.

He summarizes his analysis of Pera as follows: "The multiplication of rights ... ends in a nihilistic 'right' of man to deny himself," Abortion, suicide and the "production of a human being as a thing" would then be regarded as human rights "which deny him at the same time."

Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI. had already contributed to Pera's books in 2005 and 2009. The now published statement is in the form of a letter to the philosopher and longtime Forza Italia politician. In it, the emeritus Pope initially dealt with the topic of human rights in papal teachings. After their condemnation in the 19th century, the encyclical "Pacem in Terris" by John XXIII. (1958-1963) took a turn.

However, the topic of human rights has become especially important in the thinking of John Paul II (1978-2005). In their obedience to God, the Pope from Poland saw the first Christians' resistance to the claims of absolute power of the Roman Emperor, an early Christian justification of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These in turn were for him, a suitable instrument in the fight against the ideologies of National Socialism and Communism.

The new volume "Freeing Freedom - Faith and Politics in the Third Millennium" [In English, "Faith and Politics" by Ignatius Press] with political texts and speeches by the theologian Joseph Ratzinger and later Pope Benedict XVI. will be released worldwide next Monday (5/14.). In Italy he has been trading since Thursday. The German version is published by Verlag Herder.  The foreword was written by Pope Francis.

Trans Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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More Violence in Hospitals Since the Migrant Invasion in Vienna

Staff representatives in the well-known Viennese Wilhelminenspital have raised the alarm: drawn  knives, threats, insults and brawls have increased since the migrant movement in 2015.

Vienna (kath.net) "The violence in the hospitals in Vienna has increased since the migration movement in 2015. No one dared say it so far."   Heinrich Schneider, the staff representative in the well-known Viennese Wilhelminenspital, explains this for Krone. Schneider now demands that only one accompanying person be allowed each patient. Schneider explained that in the ambulances, when Austrian people have come for medical reasons, there are always riots. Then there would be drawn knives, threats, insults and brawls.

"We need signs in German, English and Arabic that only one additional person per patient is allowed." he explains. Also more security employees have become necessary, according to Schneider. He also wishes that refugees be educated about how the home health system works. The sentence "I do not want to be treated by a woman" is common. "Doctors are not accepted, arrangements questioned or not followed."

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Pope Foe Retires in Argentina — Replaced by Pope’s Speech Writer?

Archbishop Héctor Ruben Aguer

(Buenos Aires) The Archdiocese of La Plata responded to recent media reports with a statement that Archbishop Hector Ruben Aguer, the Argentine compatriot of the Pope, had already submitted his resignation to Francis for his 75th birthday.

Everything has already been decided, according to the report by the daily El Día on 9 May. Archbishop Aguer has offered his resignation and his successor, titular Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, is ready.

The Archdiocesan  Press Office said on the same day that Canon 401 of the Code of Canon Law requires bishops to offer their resignation to the Pope at the age of 75. It is up to the Pope alone to decide if and when he accepts this resignation.

"Meanwhile, Mgsr. Aguer continues his usual work without changing the agenda he has defined. "
The statement does not seem to deny the media reports at first sight, but it does provide a clarification. It notes that Archbishop Aguer will not turn 75 until the 24th of May. In other words: the claimed resignation request does not exist yet. Only at the age of 75 will Msgr. Aguer, "as prescribed in the aforementioned canonical provision", submit his resignation petition to the Pope.



Jorge Mario Bergoglio with Victor Manuel Fernandez

By the end of April, media reports had surfaced that one of Pope Francis' closest associates, his ghostwriter Victor Manuel Fernandez, had resigned from the post of rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina to become the new Archbishop of La Plata.

Archbishop Hector Ruben Aguer is considered to be Pope Francis' most important anti-church opponents in his native Argentina (see Bergoglios Lonely Opponent - Where no Bells rang on March 13, 2013), Or.

Archbishop Aguer was Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires at the same time as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. At the end of his life Cardinal Antonio Quarrancino, the archbishop of the Argentine capital, favored Bergoglio and not Aguer for his successor. The two auxiliary bishops held different positions, with those Bergoglios Cardinal Quarrancino was ultimately closer. While Bergoglio became Archbishop of Buenos Aires and thus cardinal, Aguer became archbishop of La Plata and conservative opponent of Bergoglios in the Argentine Episcopal Conference, where they led different groups.

After his election as Pope Francis dismantled the Aguer group among the Argentine bishops, but left Aguer himself in office. It has long been speculated in Argentina that Francis is just waiting for his opponent to celebrate his 75th birthday in order to emeritus him. Pope Benedict XVI. extended archbishops usually for at least two years in office. The appointment of Titular Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez as his successor would be an even greater humiliation for Aguer.

Francis is known to defend opponents of his office as a rule fast, while leaving party members generously in office.

Through the press release of the Archdiocese of La Plata, Rome was signaled that Msgr. Aguer would follow exactly the rules of canon law, but that he would not give the field of his free will.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: La Tercera / MiL (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Italian Philospher: “Pope Hires the Worst Betrayers of the Faith”

Edit: this isn’t entirely fair, the House Vaticanist, and Papal biographer, Andrea Tornielli was manifestly bad years before the Sankt Gallen Mafia put their man on the papal throne. He was already pushing Communion for the remarried and divorced at least in 2012. (It was thought he had a personal investment in the issue.)

[Gloria.tv] The persecution of the Catholics inside the Church is growing stronger according to Monsignor Antonio Livi, a philosopher who served as a professor and dean at the Roman Lateran University. Talking to Gloria.tv, Livi points out that Pope Francis accuses of “heresy” those who are faithful to the doctrine and fight confusion. Livi added that Pope Francis has put at the top of the Church – quote – “the worst heretics” and that he has his encyclicals written by – quote – “the worsts heretics”.

Catholics Are Persecuted in the Catholic Church

According to Livi, those who profess the integral Catholic Faith are now often forbidden to give talks, and their publications are hidden away in the Catholic bookstores. Quote: “All the official Catholic media in Italy ostracize the solid Catholic doctrine.” Livi further states that it has become “habitual” to sack theology professors for beeing “too Catholic.”

Bishops’ Newspaper Slams Its Long-Time Contributor

As an example, Livi cites Avvenire, the daily of the Italian Bishops which – quote – “hosts and exalts the worst betrayers of the Faith”. Livi criticizes this on the Internet and was furously attacked by Avvenire’s editor-in-chief Marco Taquinio although Livi has been a contributor to Avvenire for thirty years, at a time when Avvenire was still Catholic.

Supporting Pope Francis Is Profitable

Gloria.tv asked Livi how Andrea Tornielli who before Francis’ election was defending Catholic positions, suddently became Francis’ court journalist. Livi replied that Tornielli and others have made the “choice of convenience” in order to become “propagandists”. Livi commented that Tornielli became rich with this choice while, Marco Tosatti, who was working with him at the daily La Stampa, but resisted the temptation to join the Bergoglio party, is now poor. Livi adds: “I am also poor”. The Lateran University refused to pay a pension to Livi. This leaves him with a minimal state pension.

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CDU General Secretary Wants Women Priests

Church Demo Expert

(Berlin / Vienna) The ecclesiastical demolition squad is on the move. The new President of the Pastoral Council of the Austrian Diocese of Linz, Wolfgang Froschauer, is in favor of "married and female priests.” The CDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, diocese of Trier, who, despite her age, is already strikingly reminiscent of Rita Süssmuth, calls for "Catholic priestesses" in the new edition of Christ & Welt. Above all, elite Catholics seem to know one thing, which is the opposite of Church doctrine and order.

Whether Kramp-Karrenbauer, who became CDU General Secretary only in February, is already considering a career alternative, is not known. After all, she could have "imagined herself becoming a priestess." More questionable is whether her remark was of a private nature or is it a meddling of politics in Church affairs.

The married Froschauer, since 2011, a permanent deacon, on the other hand, seems to feel quite safe to speak in his own right. As a trained theologian, he would rather be at the head of the parish than just parish assistant.

Frogauer for married and female priests

Froschauer does not have to worry about anything. He ventured only as far as his bishop has already gone. He is even a faithful servant of his Episcopal Lord. Bishop Manfred Scheuer, the steward of the decline, said shortly before Easter that married priests were his "hope".

Instead of keeping basic catechesis and, first and foremost, instructing one's own full-time bureaucracy in ecclesiastical doctrine and Church ordinance, makes big careers for professional Catholics with feeble faith among some bishops.

This should not be surprising if even the important President of the German Bishops' Conference, Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of Munich-Freising, manages to be on the wrong side of all the controversial issues. Whether as a Luther reveler, Karl Marx admirer, homosexuals, adultery-enabler, a hater of the cross in public spaces, migration funders ...

He who has such bishops no longer needs enemies.

If things were done rightly, Pope Francis would have to find the world's most remote monastery for certain church hierarchies and banish them there with a strict fast and penance order - perhaps for life.

Instead, they sit wide and powerful on their throne and deconstruct like the demiltion squad the remainder of the Church. In addition, everything is financed with Church contributions. And if it were not fitting for Rome, the threat seems to come through behind closed doors, it will be done just like Dr. Martin Luther did, and with all the benefices of the Church. Everything that is not nailed down, goes with it. Especially the Church tax. From history, one learns above all the refinement of negative things: In the German-speaking world, too, the state has in the past 500 years already gained some experience with the expropriation of Church property.

It also demands that those bishops, priests, religious and faithful, who wish to remain faithful to Christ and the truth entrusted to him by the Church, organize themselves - completely without illusions, but also unwavering.  Because Christ’s promise that the Church can not be destroyed, is for them. The promise does not apply to peoples and states. What the future will bring can not be said in terms of a policy that is not determined by believing Christians. The promise of Christ, however, is quite independent of it.

Text: Martha Burger

Image: Die Zeit / Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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A Tale of Two Clergypersons

Edit: as noted earlier by Novus Ordo Watch, Archbishop Gänswein was a gatekeeper and approved of this non-sense. Father West has also still not taken his post down.

Edit: remember when Bishop Rogelio Plano was arbitrarily dismissed and had the door slammed on his face when he came to Rome shortly after to ask why, and died shortly after?  It was clear to us then that it had to do with him calling out one of his fellow bishops and accusing him of being an aberrosexual, as well as being a victim of his own success, growing more vocations in this seminary than all the rest combined. Even the Vatican admitted it had nothing to do with accused predator, Carlos Urrutigoity.  Now, we have a similar situation where another conservative priest is taking a stand against the post-Conciliar behemoth.  I think we know how this one will turn out. If it hasn’t happened already, expect a concerted attack from the usual creatures of the USCCB on Father Peter West, President of Human Life International, in the social media. Father West has a large following on Facebook himself. This won’t end well.

Here is Father James Martin, the Jesuit who had a hand in planning the blasphemous Met Gayla, with Cardinal Dolan. We expect he will go far in today’s Vatican with its aberrosexual meth parties. It’s certainly a Vatican which increasingly appreciates and extols these kinds of histrionic and blasphemous invasions of the world on the things of the divine.

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American Bishop Wants New Conclave

Monsignor Rene Gracida, 94, the retired bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, has again expressed his conviction that Francis’ election was invalid.

Talking to okietraditionalist.blogspot.com(May 6), Gracida said that he encourages “the validly appointed Cardinals” [before the conclave 2013] to elect another pope.

Gracida argues that the conspiracy of the so called St Gallen mafia is violating the provisions of John Paul II and making the election of Jorge Bergoglio invalid.

Gracida believes that some cardinals should silently and discretely move to hold a conclave.

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Belgium’s ISLAM Party Set to Make Significant Gains in Elections

Redouane Ahrouch, President of the ISLAM Party

(Brussels) "Whichever way you look at it: where Islam exists, it will decide," said Corrispondenza Romana in connection with an incident in a program on the French-speaking Belgian television station RTL. Another indication of the ongoing Islamization.

In the direct transmission of the program C'est pas tous les jours dimanche, the President of the Islamic party ISLAM was a guest. Redouane Ahrouch refused, in amazement, to moderator Emmanuelle Praet, who interviewed him, to shake hands, or even look at her. The repellent attitude was justified by the Islamic party leader with the female gender of the journalist.

Green Belgium, green, the color of Islam.

"I can not violate the values ​​and commandments of my faith," said Ahrouch, after he was made aware that his behavior showed a lack of respect for the presenter and in general for women.

When the spotlights and the cameras were switched off after the show, the visibly outraged journalist said she had never felt so "humiliated and offended" in her life. Redouane Ahrouch did not respond to the indignation of Emmanuelle Praet.

Currently, his party has municipal representatives in two cities in the Brussels region, specifically in Anderlecht (120,000 inhabitants) and Molenbeek (100,000 inhabitants). Both places are strongly Islamised. In Molenbeek in 2015, 41.2 percent of the inhabitants were Muslims (see 2015 Islamic Map of Belgium . Entire neighborhoods are considered "Islamic controlled". In the entry "Molenbeek" of the French edition of Wikipedia, it reads that contemporary personalities are exclusively Muslims. Anderlecht, a Flemish place, with claims to historic figures like Pope Hadrian VI. and Erasmus of Rotterdam,  had a Muslim share of 30.2 percent. In Brussels, it was already 31 percent three years ago. The trend is rising rapidly everywhere.

In Brussels and the surrounding communities and other Islamic strongholds, including Farciennes with 29 percent Muslims, Ahrouch's party ISLAM will participate in the local elections this fall. Overall, the Islamic party will run in 30 communities in Belgium with the highest proportion of Muslims. Ahrouch considers their chances are good.

Text: Andreas Becker

Image: sudinfo.be/Corrispondenza Romana (screenshots

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.con

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Green Minister-President Kretschman Ridicules Söder Over Crucifix Legislation

Baden-Württemberg Green  Minister-President Kretschmann (ZdK member): "I had to think of vampire films - as if someone wanted to fend off almost  any danger with the threateningly raised crucifix."

Stuttgart (kath.net) The Minister-President of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, has ridiculed the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) in the debate over the crosses in Bavarian state offices. Talking to the "Süddeutsche Zeitung," Kretschmann said that he felt the photo of Söder with a cross in his hand "bizarre": "I had to think of vampire movies - as if someone wanted to fend off any danger with the almost threatening crucifix any danger." Kretschmann added that such arrangements were not “one Iota Christian.”

Kretschmann is a politician of the Greens and member of the [Evil] Central Committee of German Catholics. He governs in Baden-Württemberg with a coalition of the Greens with the CDU.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Pope Appears on Stage at Cult “Mass” with Convicted Pedophile

[Pacific Daily News] Nearly two months after the Vatican announced he had been convicted in a canonical trial, former Archbishop Anthony Apuron was seated near Pope Francis on a stage in Rome during Saturday's 50th anniversary of the founding of the Neocatechumenal Way.

 Apuron is part of the Neocatechumenal Way, which he welcomed to Guam in the mid-1990s, and whose practices are sometimes at odds with traditional Catholic teachings, beliefs and practices. 

 Apuron found guilty 

 Apuron was found guilty of unspecified accusations in a canonical trial that included allegations that he sexually abused children, based on a March 16 announcement from the Vatican.

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Osservatore Romano Praises +Marx for Praising Marx

Cardinal Marx almost made Karl Marx a "Father of the Church" - and the Osservatore Romano supports this attitude.

(Rome) Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the President of the German Bishops' Conference, elevates the Communist leader Karl Marx as a doctor of the church - at least almost. And the Osservatore Romano, the pope's official newspaper, supports him.

If anyone is looking for proof of who really has influence in the Church, then read the Osservatore Romano. Anyone who is allowed to publish from the church representatives there and whose initiatives are taken up there and benevolently passed on, enjoys prestige and influence from Pope Francis or the closest in the papal circle.

In yesterday's Sunday edition of the Italian Osservatore Romano, an initiative of Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, President of the German Bishops' Conference and member of the C9 Cardinal Council, was benevolently published: the "canonization" of Karl Marx.

Karl Marx no "Church Father" - but almost

Cardinal Marx makes Karl Marx church father

On the day before, Saturday, May 5, the 200th birthday of the founder of "scientific materialism" was celebrated in Trier. His unusual namesake Reinhard Marx, who is a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, also participated in the celebration. The praise of Marx for Marx was published yesterday by the Osservatore Romano with the article "Marx in controluce", "Marx in the back light". The title means something like "closer to Marx". The namesake of Marxism is "illuminated" by the cardinal with such sympathy and such spiritual encouragement that it must speak of a quasi-canonization.

 Osservatore Romano reported:

"We are all on the shoulders of Karl Marx. That does not mean that he is a church father. "

This outrageous formulation reserved for former popes and church leaders means that Karl Marx is not a church father, but almost one.

These astonishingly unrealistic words by the German cardinal were printed without comment and above all without contradiction by the pope's daily newspaper. The same applies to the acquittal of Karl Marx from any responsibility for the million-fold murder committed in his name by communists and socialists of all stripes in the last 170 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848.

Marx, according to Marx, is not responsible for crime

The Osservatore Romano quoted Cardinal Marx:

"If one can not, historically, separate a thinker from what others have done later in his name," it is true, but also true, that he can not be blamed for everything that was committed by his theories in the gulag of Stalin."

That's how easy it is with the "responsibility" of Karl Marx, at least according to Cardinal Marx, who stares at Marxism and all its shades with stare.

The "Flag of Communism"

Cardinal Marx’s controversial statement, quoted by the Osservatore Romano in his edition yesterday, is reminiscent of a sentence by Pope Francis.

"In any case, concludes the cardinal," we should never have stolen an unbridled capitalism, the banner of justice against the workers and solidarity with those who are trampled. "

Pope Francis said in an interview with the Roman daily Il Messaggero on June 29, 2014:

"The Communists stole the flag from us. The banner of the poor is Christian ".

The German cardinal varied and extended the phrase in the sense of the "Papist International", which according to Gianni Vattimo was to replace the Communist International.

The American publicist George Neumayr, author of the book "The Political Pope" said euphemistically in September 2017 in an interview with Maike Hickson on the Pope's comment:

"The popes of the past, who recognized the power of communism to enslave the poor, would have been greatly irritated at such comments."

Under Pope Francis, Osservatore Romano does not irritate with either its near-canonization of Martin Luther or the quasi-elevation to Doctor of the Church of Karl Marx.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Osservatore Romano (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Tendentious Church Journalism

Edit: it's like there's an editorial template for this sort of thing that journalists in the Western world are expected to use when it comes to distort the public's understanding of these power struggles. Never mind that they're like the ritual combats of professional wrestling.


What has recently been read in aggressive commentaries and reports against conservative bishops brings to mind the papal expression "explosive hostility." This is how Pope Benedict XVI. had complained in 2009 complained of media reactions to his statements.

A guest contribution by Hubert Hecker.

At the Spring General Assembly, the majority of German bishops adopted a paper on pastoral care for sectarian marriages. Thereafter, a Protestant spouse should then approaching Holy Communion would be admitted if they affirmed the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist and at the same time disallowing Communion would plunge the spouses into a "serious spiritual emergency".

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The Sack of Rome in 1527 is a Meditation for the Church Today

Edit: the Sack of Rome in 1527 is a terrible event, which offers both meditations if loyalty and bravery from the most noble, like the Swiss Guards:

The oath to swear in the Swiss Guards takes place every year on May 6th, in remembrance of the "Sack of Rome" in 1527.  It was then that 147 Swiss soldiers fell defending Pope Clement VII.  Today they are counted as the "smallest army in the world."  It was their valor and that of their leader, Captain Röist, who fell, even as his wife looked on, which gave the Pope time to escape to down the Borgo, a secret passageway, to the Castel Sant'Angelo and to be safe for a time from the depredations of Charles V's Lutheran and Spanish soldiery. 

They also valiantly defended the Pope on September 20th, 1870, when the Masonic armies of Italian unification breached the walls of Rome.

It also offers a meditation on the current state of the Church, as we see these events from afar this from Ludwig Pastor as cited by Roberto de Mattei:

This unlimited license to steal and kill lasted eight days and the occupation of the city nine months. We read in a Veneto account of May 10, 1527, reported by Ludwig von Pastor “Hell is nothing in comparison with the appearance Rome currently presents” (The History of Popes, Desclée, Rome 1942m, vol. IV, 2, p.261). The religious were the main victims of the Landsknechts’ fury. Cardinals’ palaces were plundered, churches profaned, priests and monks killed or made slaves, nuns raped and sold at markets. Obscene parodies of religious ceremonies were seen, chalices for Mass were used to get drunk amidst blasphemies, Sacred Hosts were roasted in a pan and fed to animals, the tombs of saints were violated, heads of the Apostles, such as St. Andrew, were used for playing football on the streets. A donkey was dressed up in ecclesiastical robes and led to the altar of a church. The priest who refused to give it Communion was hacked to pieces. The City was outraged in its religious symbols and in its most sacred memories”. (see also André Chastel, The Sack of Rome, Einaudi, Turin, 1983; Umberto Roberto, Roma capta. The Sack of the City  from the Gauls to the Landsknechts, Laterza, Bari 2012).

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Altoona Franciscans Given Light Sentences for Negligence

Edit: some will remember the horrible Altoona diocese and the way it was managed by +Adamec.

[WGAL] Attorney General Josh Shapiro said his office accepted pleas from two former Franciscan friars accused of allowing a member of their religious order to sexually abuse more than 100 children over a period of many years at a Catholic high school in Johnstown.

Robert D'Aversa, 70, and Anthony Criscitelli, 63, entered no contest pleas to endangering the welfare of children, according to a release from the attorney general's office. A Blair County judge sentenced the men to five years of probation. Each will also be fined $1,000 and the cost of prosecution.

"These defendants knew the abuser was a serious threat to children, but they allowed him to engage with children and have access to them as part of his job within their order," Shapiro said. "They chose time and time again to prioritize their institution's reputation over the safety of victims."

The Office of Attorney General charged D'Aversa and Criscitelli in 2016 with failing to properly supervise Brother Stephen Baker, who was accused of molesting youth while working at Bishop McCort High School in the 1990s. Baker later took his own life.

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Chancellor of Knights of Malta Loses Case — Being Asked to Step Down

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - As the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is welcoming its newly elected Grand Master, senior knights are calling for the Grand Chancellor to step down. Leaked documents obtained by Church Militant reveal widespread discontent towards Albrecht von Boeselager, after a German court judged him to be untruthful.

"We cannot have a Grand Chancellor whose truthfulness has been impugned by a court of law," said one senior knight. "He must resign. It is as simple as that."

An internal email dated April 30 sent to all members of the Order of Malta begins,

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/knights-of-malta-call-for-chancellor-to-resign#.Wu4wjmnpGpo.twitter

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12,000 Euro Fine for Child Porography in the Possession of Married Deacon

Edit: some will recall the media assault on Bishop Tebartz-van Elst that completely ignored truly decadent prelates like Cardinal Marx, the fast cars, the 10 million Euro villas in Rome, for example. He has been given a fairly light sentence.

The former bureau chief of the Bishop Bätzing of Limburg had child pornography images on his service computer in the bishop's palace
 

Limburg (kath.net) As bureau chief of the Limburg Bishop Georg Bätzing, he had stored child pornography on his service computer. The District Court of Limburg has issued a penalty order against the married theologian and canon lawyer with a conviction to a total daily fine of 150 daily to 80 euros each. The employee, who has since been released from the diocese, has accepted the punitive order, he is thus considered to have a criminal record. According to the Attorney General, the photos showed no brutal scenes, but mostly children in sexual poses, reported the "Nassauische Neue Presse." The diocese is now continuing a canon law case against its employee, at least until then he remains exempted from his work. The Congregation of the Faith is already involved in the lawsuit.

The permanent deacon and father of his own children had already told the "Nassauische Neue Presse", that he deeply regretted his offense and  that he was undergoing therapy.

At the beginning of February 2017, the offices of the clerical employee in the bishop's palace and in the seminary had been searched, as well as his apartment.

The former office manager was the dean, he was a judge at the episcopal marriage court and training director of deacons. In addition, the 57-year-old was the president of the nationwide active consortium Permanent Diaconate, from which he resigned from office shortly after publicity of the first suspicions.

Tran: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Rocco Buttiglione Defends “Amoris Laetitia”

Former Italian politician Rocco Buttiglione defends "Amoris Laetitia", Francis says to the remarried divorced: "Go to confession, not to communion"

Bratislava (kath.net/KAP) Former Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Rocco Buttiglione has described Pope Francis' statements in the context of the Slovak Hanus Academy which has been criticized by conservative sources of the apostolic letter "Amoris Laetitia,” as correct. Buttiglione defended the Argentine Pope and said that he had "merely developed and not corrected the doctrine of John Paul II." The Austrian National Council and ÖVP human rights spokesperson Gudrun Kugler also attended Hanus Academy on the weekend in Bratislava.


Francis says to the remarried divorced: "Go to confession, not to Communion," says Buttiglione. The post-synodal letter "Amoris Laetitia" is erroneously taken as a "general amnesty for the divorced.” In fact, the divorcees are considered  to be "special sinners" in whose judgment, the confessor considers "not only their indebtedness but also the extent of responsibility." The confessor tries to "find a form of complete communion with the Church.”

Gudrun Kugler, former Czech presidential candidate Pavel Fischer, Hungarian State Secretary for Family and Youth Katalin Novak (Fidesz) and Slovak EU Member of Parliament Anna Zaborska (Christian Democratic Movement / European People's Party) took part in a podium discussion in the context of a "Conservative Summit.” The aim of the Pressburger and Kaschau Hanus Event and the year-round programs of the Hanus Society is to educate high school students and young academics as an elite, which does not shy away from the confrontation with atheists and liberals and courageously advocates for the Catholic values ​​in politics.

The namesake is the Slovak theologian and priest Ladislav Hanus (1907-1994). Trained at the University of Innsbruck, he was a confidant of the national Slovak priest-politician Andrej Hlinka (1864-1938) in the late 1930s. In the Slovak government of Monsignor Jozef Tiso (1887-1947) he was an exponent of the critical wing within the fascist system "whose stable order under the direction of a leader deserves the trust of all.” From 1952 to 1965, Hanus was allowed to exercise his priesthood again. In 1992, Comenius University in Bratislava awarded an honorary doctorate to the "Slovak Guardini".

Great media attention was given with the Academy's US Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Cardinal Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. After his arrival in Bratislava on Friday, the former Cardinal Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura met with representatives of pro-life organizations. In a discussion on the context of the fight for life and against corruption, Burke supported the "commitment to justice in its entirety" and pointed to the existence of a "hierarchy of moral goods". The right to life is a key value, "because a person deprived of this right can not benefit from any other good in society".

In a lecture, Burke - co-author of a  critical letter to Pope Francis - pointed to the danger of weakening the Catholic doctrine of the "lifetime commitment of marriage vows" and called those attending, "not to shy away from heroic efforts in fidelity to Christ and his teaching. " In the subsequent public discussion, the American honored the Jesuit of Slovak descent, John Hardon (1914-2000), who campaigned in the US for the "spread of orthodox Catholic catechesis" and for whom a process of beatification is running.

At the end of his stay in Slovakia, which he had last visited in 2012, Cardinal Burke celebrated the Inmemorial Mass on Saturday in the Pressburg Elisabethinenkirche. In an interview with the Catholic "Radio Lumen," Burke criticized how "bishops' conferences present conflicting views." When people consult a priest, “they are given different explanations from the right solution by another priest.” This condition in the current church must be "corrected".

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Cardinal Müller Calls Pope’s Statement, “Very Thin”

After German bishops’ visit at the Congregation of the Faith because of the inter-Communion dispute, Müller says: For the good of the Church, "a clear expression of the Catholic faith necessary" right now. The Pope should "reaffirm the faith.”

Vatican (kath.net/pl) The statement was "very thin" and contained "no answer to the central and essential question". For it is not possible that one is "in sacramental communion without ecclesial communion.” The former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, explained this  to  Vaticanist Edward Penton, as he reported on his blog in the "National Catholic Register". Müller, after several German bishops (among them the DBK President Reinhard Cardinal Marx and the Archbishop of Cologne Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki) were invited to a discussion in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, after a dispute over the proposal had erupted in the German Bishops' Conference, in mixed confessional marriages and the Protestant spouse receiving Catholic Communion “in an individual cases.” .

For the welfare of the Church “a clear expression of the Catholic faith necessary," said Müller. The Pope should "reaffirm the faith", especially with regard to the "pillar of our faith, the Eucharist.” At the same time, the Pope and the Congregation of the Faith should give "clear orientation", not through "personal opinion but according to the revealed faith.”

Pentin also reported that one source interpreted the statement as the "official answer that there is no answer." The Holy Father did not fulfill his duty as pope in relation to a dogma question, but left it to his office. The Pope refused to draw a line and left it to the Congregation of the Faith to be a postman for this information. But dicasteries are "useless" if the decisions are left to the episcopal conferences. The unnamed source further stated that he expected Marx to further reduce the number of bishops who reject the DBK proposal. "Our task now is to strengthen these seven bishops." One could assume that a "long fight" was imminent.

However, Pentin commented, even the advocates of the DBK Inter-Communion Initiative would not have received the Pope's approval.

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Merciful Pope Demands Unanimity at German Bishops' Meeting in Rome -- His Unanimity, No Doubt

Edit: at Katholische.de is the site of the German Catholic Bishops of Germany, most of whom want to officially sanction the sacrilegious communions which go on almost everywhere anyway. Remember when a priest tried to enforce that by refusing Communion to an unrepentant aberrosexual in Washington, and Wuerl gave him the sack? Catholic conservative fall guy, Edward Peters, even agreed with Wuerl and false mercy, applying his canonical folderol.  We expect a that Cardinal Woelki, a notable and frequent defender and promoter of Old Liberal positions himself, will take the fall in the fifth.  The Pope expects unanimity, we expect Woelki to give it to him after a half-hearted defense of the Church's position.

+++Marx is probably enjoying his multimillion euro villa during the affair and isn't too worried about the outcome of this meeting.

 [KNA] The German bishops have ended their conversation with representatives of the Curia in the Vatican on a dissent on the issue of communion reception on Thursday evening. The Vatican has remanded the conflict to the German bishops. Pope Francis asked them to find a unanimous agreement in the spirit of ecclesial communion, according to the German Bishops' Conference and the Vatican. The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, explained in his speech in German that the Pope acknowledges the ecumenical commitment of the German bishops.
Various points of view were discussed in the conversation, such as the relationship of the question to faith and pastoral care, its relevance to the world Church and its legal dimension. Ladaria will inform Francis about the content of the conversation. According to the Episcopal Conference and the Holy See, the meeting was "in a warm and fraternal atmosphere."
 
The parties to the conflict, led by Cardinal Reinhard Marx and Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, had discussed the reception of Communion for non-Catholic spouses for about three and a half hours on Thursday afternoon, under the direction of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, explained that Pope Francis appreciates the ecumenical commitment of the German bishops and asks them to find as unanimous a settlement as possible in the spirit of ecclesial communion.

KNA

There is dissent in this question within the Episcopal Conference. A majority of German bishops including their President, the Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx, advocates that Protestant spouses in Catholic churches may receive Communion. Seven bishops around the [Neoconservative] Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, however, expressed disapproval and formal reservations against a corresponding pastoral care and turned to the Vatican. At the request of Francis, a meeting of some bishops with senior leaders of the Holy See was agreed.
 

The conflicting parties traveled separately to the conversation at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The group around Cardinal Marx arrived at 15:45 at the headquarters of the Vatican. Since then, people have been meeting behind closed doors. In addition to the cardinals Marx and Woelki, the bishops Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (Speyer), Felix Genn (Münster), Gerhard Feige (Magdeburg) and Rudolf Voderholzer (Regensburg), as well as the secretary of the German Bishops' Conference, Father Hans Langendörfer, took part in the deliberations. (Lu / bod / KNA)
 
04.05.2018, 8:50 am: updated with reference to source (Vatican) and first paragraph specified
 Photo: KNA
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Saint Statues and Crosses Destroyed in Bamburg Churches

The Archdiocese of Bamberg speaks to kath.net about the "rash of violence" and says: "We can currently confirm 6 cases of vandalism in 5 churches"
 

Bamberg (kath.net/pl) Saints statues and crosses have been destroyed in five Bamberg churches. Catholic churches and a Protestant church were affected. The spokesman for the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Harry Luck, told kath.net on request: "We are shocked and saddened by the violence in Bamberger churches. We can currently confirm 6 cases of vandalism in 5 churches. Sculptures and saints statues were overturned, pictures were torn off the walls and a pane hit. In consultation with the police we call the communities, believers, sacristans etc. to special attention. The police are investigating and will continue to inform during the day. Consult the press office of the police inspector Bamberg."

According to Bavarian Radio, the property damage apparently amounts to several thousand euros, the Criminal Police determined and have promised to give more information about it today.

The Association of Sacristans of the Archdiocese of Bamberg wrote on Facebook: "Keep your eyes open! Here in Bamberg yesterday and today. It was yesterday and today in the monastery church. St. Otto today and the Evangelical Church of the Redeemer also got it."

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Cowardly Ryan Caves on Firing Evil Jesuit

Edit: of course he caved. The first decent thing he’s probabaly done in his entire life, and he fails.

[Raw Story] Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has reversed his position on firing a liberal Catholic Chaplain after the priest, Father Patrick Conroy, rescinded his forced resignation Thursday afternoon.

“I have accepted Father Conroy’s letter and decided that he will remain in his position as Chaplain of the House,” Ryan said in a statement Thursday evening.

 “My original decision was made in what I believed to be the best interest of this institution. To be clear, that decision was based on my duty to ensure that the House has the kind of pastoral services that it deserves. It is my job as speaker to do what is best for this body, and I know that this body is not well served by a protracted fight over such an important post. I intend to sit down with Father Conroy early next week so that we can move forward for the good of the whole House.”
Father Conroy is a liberal Jesuit Catholic priest who supports same-sex marriage.

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Knights of Malta Elect New Grand Master

Former governor Fra'Giacomo Dalla Torre has received office for life by election of the 54-member State Council - oath of office on Thursday before the Order’s papal delegate Becciu

Rome (kath.net/KAP) The Order of Malta has elected Fra 'Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto (73) as its new Grand Master. This was announced by the Order on Wednesday in Rome. Dalla Torre previously served as a governor. In this role, he led the community transition ally after a severe management crisis since 29 April 2017. The current election was carried out by the 54 members of the Grand Council of State. Dalla Torre receives the position of Grandmaster for life.

Prior to the announcement, Pope Francis was informed in writing of the election result. Subsequently, the Grand Priorate and other institutions of the Order became aware, as well as the governments of the 107 States, to which the Order maintains diplomatic relations with the rank subject to international law. On Thursday morning, Dalla Torre takes his oath of office in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Aventino in front of the papal special delegate to the Order, Archbishop Angelo Becciu.

The last Grandmaster, the Briton Matthew Festing (68), came back in early 2017 under pressure from Pope Francis. This had been preceded by turbulence at the head of the Order, which temporarily cost the German Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager (68) his position as Grand Chancellor.

The draft of a new constitution for the Sovereign Order of Malta should also be presented this week. It comes from a reform committee under the supervision of Archbishop Delegate Becciu; However, the document still had to be discussed, it was said at last. So far, the constitution has regulated that a grandmaster must always be "from an old noble family" and belong to the "First Estate" of the Order of Malta. These include men who, as professed knights, have taken the three vows of poverty, honorability and obedience and then become true religious in the sense of canon law. Women can not become grandmasters under the current constitution.

Order and Subject of International Law

The Order of Malta is in the tradition of the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the world's first Christian Nursing Order founded in the 11th century. After the Reformation, the community split into the Catholic Maltese and the Protestant Hospitallers.

As a Catholic Order, the Sovereign Order of Malta is subordinate to the Holy See. At the same time it is politically ita own subject under international law. This status gives it unique access at the political and diplomatic level and is intended to provide special independence in conflicts.

The Maltese have 13,500 male and female members and about 120,000 honorary and full-time employees. They are active worldwide in development and disaster relief as well as in the health sector. In Germany, the German branch of the Order of Malta and the German Caritas Association founded the Malteser Hilfsdienst (MHD) in 1953 as a medical and civil protection organization.

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Archbishop Sample Praises Notes Youthful Fascination With Immemorial Mass on EWTN

[Catholic Herald] Young people are drawn to the Traditional Latin Mass by its “beauty”, “sense of mystery” and “transcendence”, Archbishop Alexander K Sample has said.

Speaking during a Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, Archbishop Sample praised Pope Benedict XVI for the “great gift” of Summorum Pontificum – the document that allowed the traditional Mass to be more widely celebrated – and said the “reverence and sacredness” of the old Mass would enrich the Novus Ordo.

The Archbishop of Portland, Oregon also noted how many young people were in the congregation, saying: “You are a sign—a great sign—of encouragement and hope for the Church tossed about these days on the troubled waters of secularism and relativism. As they say: you ‘get it.’”

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School Board Suspends Catholicism at Ontario Catholic Schools

Edit: meanwhile, Salt and Light, CCCB, Crux will have nothing meaningful to say.

[The Globe and Mail] An Ontario Catholic school board has suspended a controversial policy that forbids students from raising money for charities that support abortion, euthanasia and other activities opposed by the church.

After months of outcry from many parents and students and criticism from the province’s Education Minister about a lack of consultation, trustees at the Halton Catholic District School Board voted on Tuesday night to pause the implementation of the board’s “Sanctity of Life” policy until after it had received and considered feedback from the wider school community.

Trustees first passed a motion in February stating it would no longer provide or facilitate financial donations to non-profits or charities that publicly support, “either directly or indirectly, abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell research.”

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Bishop of Innsbruck Wears Groovy Plastic Chasuble

Please, help me escape this avant garde pose. I’m about to dance now....

Edit: episcopal twiggy as reported by Damian Thompson on his Twitter. Is Damien still going to the New Mass?  

I thought I’d seen everything, but then I underestimated the sheer degeneracy of the Austrian Bishops.

[Choosing — Him] The museum of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria, has presently displayed exhibits belonging to the new bishop of Innsbruck, Hermann Glettler who was consecrated in December 2017.

Among the exhibits is a 2004 photo of Glettler wearing a transparent "chasuble" made from plastic. The photo is also on the cover of this years's catalogue of the museum.

Glettler believes in female priests. His appointment was enthusiastically praised by the commercial media.




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Deputy Head of CSU: Three Years Ago Marx Wanted Crosses in Public Buildings

Dorothee Bär, the deputy leader of CSU, has rejected the criticism of the President of the Catholic German Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Marx, on the cross-decree of Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder.

Munich (kath.net) Dorothee Bär, the deputy leader of CSU, has rejected the criticism of the chairman of the Catholic German Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Marx, on Prime Minister Markus Söder’s cross decree. "The statements of Cardinal Marx are very puzzling: Three years ago he pleaded publicly for the crosses in schools and courtrooms," said the State Minister for Digitization in the Federal Chancellery to the "Handelsblatt." Nobody could deny, according to Bear, "that our homeland is Christian-Jewish. "Marx had previously claimed that Söder's initiative created, "division and unrest."

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