The Vatican is full of sadness and unrest. The Viganò dossier shakes the current pontificate and the next storms are already gathering together.
(Rome) In the Vatican, the dossier of the former Apostolic Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò is obviously irritating.It is recognizable by contradictory reactions. Obviously, there is no real strategy on how to deal with it. The minimalist counter-strategy is: ignore and sit out.
A strategy that is not lacking in explosiveness, because in the past,
sexual abuse allegations have often been addressed in the same way.
Pope not distressed, Avvenire
First, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Monday night that Pope Francis was "saddened" by the dossier, but not thinking of resigning. A resignation request had been linked by Archbishop Viganò with the publication of the dossier. ANSA did not name a specific source but merely "collaborator" of the Pope.
There is, however, no reasonable doubt that the information was not
from the immediate circle of the Pope and that their publication
was intentional at that time. On Tuesday, however, two journalists very close to the Pope reported the opposite in Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Episcopal Conference:
"Pope Francis is not sad about the Viganò letter".
And further:
"The personages over of Francis's reaction to the dossier of the former nuncio demanding his resignation were denied."
As in earlier moments of this pontificate, one source of the Vatican denied another, and the same immediately. According to Avvenire , "the Pope works as usual". An assertion to the contrary of "a press agency" was described by the bishops' newspaper as "machination" and "vulgarity." Even Avvenire noted only "credible Vatican sources", but no specific names. Regardless, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke responded to journalist questions with a sneaky counter-question:
"Did the Pope seem sad on Sunday evening on the plane? I ask you …"
So much for the aspect of papal affliction. On the more explosive aspect, Avenire did not deny the ANSA report on Curial Archbishop Viganò's demand for resignation. That the pope does not think of resignation corresponds to the facts.
Aldo Maria Valli, long-time Vaticanist of the RAI, who supports his
colleague Marco Tosatti on the Viganò dossier, published an interview on
Tuesday with Nuncio Viganò. He defended himself against harsh criticism from the papal circle, which cast doubt on his motivations and credibility.
"I'm not acting for revenge. I just want the truth to come to light."
In the interview, Viganò said even more:
"I was talking because corruption has now reached the top of the Church hierarchy.
Turning to the journalists, why do not they ask what has become of the
document box that - we all saw it - was handed over to Pope Francis by
Pope Benedict on Castel Gandolfo? Was everything in vain?"
In fact, filming in March 2013 showed how the recently retired Benedict XVI. at the first meeting with Pope Francis he handed over a whole box of documents to him.
At that time, the Vatican media attached great importance to showing a
harmonious relationship between the two church leaders, which is why
masses of pictures were distributed by both popes. It was not announced what the two discussed. Yesterday, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin spoke on the Viganò dossier.
"The pope is calm," the headline of Vatican Insider in direct speech, but "in the Vatican sorrow and unrest prevails." The Cardinal Secretary of State thus ironed out the conflicting reports of the previous day. It grieves, but it is not the Pope who is sad, but employees in the Vatican.
The dossier of the former nuncio in the USA had caused "great pain",
but not Francis, according to Parolin, but "with the collaborators
of Francis". The Cardinal endeavored to give the impression that everything was going its usual course. The conversation with Vatican Insider
took place on the outset of a reception in one of the courtyards of the
Vatican Museums with "typical Mexican food and Mexican music". If one reads the statements Parolin more accurately, they do not quite say what the title claims. Literally, the Secretary of State said:
"I have seen a statement from the Vatican press office saying that the pope is calm. What I have seen (these days I was traveling with him to Ireland and beyond), he seems calm."
So Parolin did not want to confirm this serenity. Next he said:
"The Pope is a great mercy, even in the face of such things that, of course, cause so much sadness and unrest. But he has an ability to be very serene."
The Cardinal Secretary of State did not want to comment on the case of Archbishop Viganò:
"Compared to such things it is only possible to express the pain, great pain. I hope that we all work in search of truth and justice, that these are the points of reference of our actions and not others. Of course, the matter is by no means alarming."
In response to explicit demand from Vatican Insider, the Secretary of State refused to comment on the contents of the Viganò dossier:
"It's better not to go into details about these things. I repeat what the Pope said: Read it yourself and form your judgment. The text speaks for itself. "
Voices surrounding the allegations, they are very "alarming." The refusal to even attempt to refute them raises new questions. With this sentence cited by Parolin, formulated on the return flight on Sunday evening from Ireland, Francis once more followed his strategy of avoiding unpleasant questions by a non-response. The fact that the Cardinal Secretary of State has also repeated this sentence confirms how much the bomb of the Viganò dossier shakes the current pontificate. The counter-strategy is to ignore and it sit out. Ironically, this is the strategy that has been too often used by the Church to respond to sexual abuse allegations.
Meanwhile, the next storm is already brewing. Archbishop Viganò accuses Francis of having been informed of Cardinal McCarrick's depravity and yet remaining silent. Meanwhile, Francis is accused of having said nothing on Nicaragua. It is about a similar case: a gay double life and sexual relations of a bishop with his own seminarians and subordinates. The signs are pointing to storm, and it seems to be the "homo-heresy" that shakes up this pontificate.
Jullio Cesar Grassi: sexual abuse case in Argentina
by Antonio Tortillatapa The case of Julio César Grassi has been holding Argentina under his spell for 25 years now. Julio César Grassi (born 1956) was ordained a priest in 1981. As part of Liberation Theology
and post-conciliar, humanitarian social engagement, he was particularly
involved in social work and "pastoral accompaniment" for poor children
and disabled people from deprived backgrounds in Argentina.
The decade-long economic decline of Argentina, the political turmoil,
the impoverishment of large parts of the population and the chronic
recurrent disappointed hopes with deep frustration of the poor
population strata, formed an excellent [hunting] ground for the activities of
Grassi.
Under Grassi's leadership, a large complex of social
welfare institutions and homes for the care and support of children and
adolescents from precarious conditions emerged.
Grassi promoted everything with a great media hype through television
and radio, with publications and with very complex and opaque financial
transactions. Grassi excelled in tying politicians and wealthy, well-known personalities to his activities and facilities.
Especially in the Peronist milieu (or in the political leadership caste
of Peronism at the end of the 20th century), he found many
sympathizers.
At the same time, his ability to raise funds for his
facilities was very great, and he became widely known through television
appearances. One focus was the establishment of Felices Los Ninos ("Happy Children") for children and adolescents with problems. The center of activities was the Argentine diocese of Morón, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. In 1992, a lawsuit was filed against Grassi on behalf of children and adolescents at the Felices los Ninos in a local court.
The case was not pursued and the proceedings suppressed.
In 1995, the world public was shaken by many cases of severe and
widespread and institutionalized sexual abuse of children and wards in
the Catholic Church in North America. Pope John Paul II wrote extensively to the bishops of North America.
At the same time, the sexual abuse of children and the disabled in Church institutions in Belgium came to light, in addition to abstruse advertising for pedophilia in local diocesan newspapers and religious books (affair Barzin , affair Roeach3 , case Anneke ).
At the turn of the millennium, the tremendous extent of child abuse was
perceived in the ecclesial context of Western Europe and North America; it was discussed in great detail in the media.
The Church establishment responded in 2005 mainly with cover-up,
beautification, attempts at deescalation and slick financial
compensation.
The number of trials became Legion, the convictions increased rapidly
and the compensation payments reached astronomical heights in the US. In 2002, the Argentine TV station Telenoche reported in a sensational report that a lawsuit had been filed against Grassi for pedophile abuse.
The news struck like a bomb: huge popular upheaval, broad media
interest, loud defiance of Grassi, and spirited complaints from angry
family members.
Anticlerical resentments, clerical protective reflexes, competition
between media holdings, financial irregularities and political fronts
additionally colored the Grassi case: a victim was very fiercely
defended by a protagonist of the Montoneros (left-wing Peronists); at the same time, much of the Peronist nomenklatura was associated with the omnipresent Grassi on television.
Extensive police and financial investigations took place. The complaints were examined very carefully; especially the cases "Gabriel", "Ezequiel" and "Luis" were very stressful.
The sealed-off structures of the facilities were screened, tons of
little Christian material came to light, many co-workers testified, and
not least the horrendous financial mismanagement and embezzlement came
to light. Grassi defended himself in a very strange way:
He did not respond to the allegations and substantiated very
hard-backed complaints with exhaustive, substantive evidence and
evidence, but threatened with very expensive lawyers, attacked the
victims loudly, tingled through radio and television stations and railed
against a media extermination campaign by the Argentine press group Clarin against him (Grassi) and his private broadcaster. Grassi refused to comply with a subpoena in court, became fleeting and also gave an interview with the radio before the camera. The matter escalated: In 2003 there were threats and attacks with firearms on witnesses and claimants.
The Grassi case has now become nationally known.
The Argentine episcopate was already aware of the explosive nature of
the Grassi affair in 2003: the responsible Bishop of Morón, Justo Oscar Laguna, had immediately forwarded the case to the next higher instance, the
Archbishopric of Buenos Aires, given the complexity of the case and the
manifold additional interests.
The victims and the witnesses, intimidated and threatened with
firearms, asked Cardinal Bergoglio, then archbishop of
Buenos Aires, for a meeting to stop the attacks on the victims and the witnesses. The request for a conversation was denied. By contrast, the plaintiffs and the witnesses were able to raise their concerns with Monsignor Justo Oscar Laguna (1929-2011), Bishop of Morón (1980-2004) and former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner. From various sides much pressure was exerted on the judicial organs.
On 10 June 2009, the Tribunal N ° 1 of Morón sentenced Don Julio Cesar
Grassi to 15 years' imprisonment for sexual abuse of minors and
corruption.
In September 2010, the Second Chamber of the Court of Cassation of the
Province of Buenos Aires rejected all appeals against this verdict.
On 27 November 2012, the Supreme Court rejected all recourses and
confirmed in January 2013, the first instance imprisonment of 15 years. However, Grassi then remained on the loose for a long time for unclear reasons.
He was arrested only on 23 September 2013 (according to the 2 + 1 rule
in force in Argentina - the period of pre-trial detention is double and
is counted towards the sentence - he would have been released in 2018). In 2016, Grassi was sentenced to another 15 years in prison for financial fraud and tax evasion. Theoretically, Grassi will remain in custody until 2033.
By the way: the word misericordia (mercy) did not even fit in this context. Sources:
Destruction of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow under Stalin 1931
"The massacres of Stalin's 'Great Terror' in 1937/1938 may not have constituted a genocide in the technical sense, at least according to the restrictive definition given to it by the UN under pressure from the Soviet Union. But one can probably say that there was a genocidal action, at least against the clergy. "This statement is made by Nicolas Werth in his 2009 book L'Ivrogne et la Marchande de Fleurs: Autopsie d'un Meutre de Masse, 2011 in Italian, but has not yet appeared in a German edition.
The French historian Nicolas Werth is internationally regarded as one of the best explicators of the history of the Soviet Union and the political violence practiced there. Werth, whose German-born grandparents fled to England before the October Revolution, used a large amount of previously unpublished documents from Soviet archives for his book..
Nicolas Werth: Stalin arrested and executed 90 percent of the priests
"In less than 16 months, one and a half million people were arrested and around 800,000 executions were carried out. It was a true process of 'prophylactic cleansing' of society as a whole, not just certain elites. This was the radical climax of a whole series of measures that had been taken since the time of Lenin. The Soviet world should be purged of any real or potential opponent of the only accepted opinion and the new integrated society.”
Werth shows that Stalin is directly responsible for this genocide, and who was above all in the crosshairs of the communist dictator. "First, the clergy. 90 percent of the priests were arrested and executed. Then the former members of the revolutionary socialists, the Trotskyists, were to be named as the main competitors of the Bolsheviks. "Systematically, victims also became common criminals, homeless and socially excluded, the elites of the Tsarist empire, the free peasants and the Poles. "Stalin managed to portray all these groups as potential members of a 'fifth column' of enemies, spies and rebellious."
In an interview with the Catholic daily Avvenire, Werth stated: "Various documents prove the determined will to put an end to the clergy once and for all. For this reason, too, it is almost paradoxical that in the immediately following years of World War II, the 'patriotic war' of propaganda, Stalin will try to exploit the remaining 10 percent of the clergy and bring them into his sphere of influence. The dictator was greatly impressed by the results of the 1937 census, in which 57 percent of the population still believed. It is unlikely that the Church was a direct threat to the regime. But Stalin, more than ever, perceived them as the last organized, non-regime-controlled institution.”
Edit: Stevie Ray just can't unequivocally support this pope like the Neocon establicons of Ave Maria.
The President of Ave Maria just can’t handle Vignanò’s criticism of the Bishop of Rome!
Der Wanderer has been critical of Pizza U since it tried to become lamestream in its move to Florida. Why did it take Steve Ray so long? Does his Apologetics hat no longer confer magic powers?
A reliable reader, TR, sends me this.
(Rome) There was an incident at today's general audience in St. Peter's Square. A group of the faithful called out, "Viganò, Viganò". The leftist Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano reported the episode and documented the incident with a video. The report was written by journalist Francesco Antonio Grana, a Bergoglian:
"At the end of the general audience today, Wednesday, a group of faithful joined the chorus, Viganò, Viganò '. A clear tribute to the former Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò, who recently called for Bergoglio's resignation."
Certain media, notably the New York Times, attempted to downplay the implications of the Viganò memorandum and
cast doubt on the credibility of the former top diplomat of the Holy
See, speaking of an intrigue of "ultra-conservative" circles against the
"good" pope. In the same style an attempt was made to reinterpret the protest of the faithful in St. Peter's Square.
The believers called not "Viganò" but "Italo," referring to Bishop
Italo Castellani of Lucca in Tuscany, who had attended the general
audience with the names of his diocese.
The reality in Rome is so different now that the dossier of the former
nuncio in the US has rocked Santa Marta like no other document in the
past five years.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi Image: Vatican.va Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com AMDG
[Catholic Herald] Every Priest’s nightmare just happened, and it’s a story of what’s happening with this media-orchestrated pogrom being built up against Catholics by the fourth estate and it’s masters. For those of you clamouring for more secular control, don’t imagine there will be less corruption and sexual abuse. In this case, a Byzantine Catholic priest was attacked on Monday in the sacristy of his church in Merrilville, Indiana by an anonymous thug...
The priest, Father Basil Hutsko, suffered a concussion in the attack at St Michael Church, and the extent of his injuries is currently unknown.
The illusive attacker approached Fr Hutsko from behind, and choked him unconscious, according to Fr Thomas Loya, director of the Respect Life Office for the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, and a member of the eparchy’s presbyteral council.
In a Facebook posting after the attack, Fr Loya said, “The attacker choked him and slammed his head to the ground. Father Basil lost consciousness. Before going unconscious, Fr Basil heard the attacker say, ‘This is for all the kids!'” – a reference to clergy sex abuse scandals that have resurfaced in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Hutsko, who is in his 60s, is not suspected of any abuse, Fr Loya told Catholic News Service in an August 21st telephone interview.
Fr Loya said Fr Hutsko was alone in the church after having finished the morning liturgy at the time of the attack. The assailant “must have been pretty strong, because Fr Hutsko is a pretty healthy, strong guy,” he added. The attacker wore gloves, Fr Loya noted. “He was smart enough to not leave any fingerprints.”
Father Loya said, “All clergy now have to be vigilant. Not paranoid, but vigilant,” he added. “It’s time to witness.”
Perhaps we also need to be more vigilant before we uncritically air narratives concocted by self-serving journos like the opprotunistic Rod Dreher, the editors of media giants like the New York Times and the Boston Glob?
Kreuznet was fond of saying that those who write these legends reap shattered stain glass, burning churches and murdered priests.
Edit: this just came in my email box. I will help disseminate it.
Update: Marco Tossati apparently helped Vignanò write his statement. Thanks Canon212.
For Immediate Release
In Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s statement, he also implicated Cardinal Coccopalmero, former President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Text.
As far as the Roman Curia is concerned, for the moment I will stop here, even if the names of other prelates in the Vatican are well known, even some very close to Pope Francis, such as Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who belong to the homosexual current in favor of subverting Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. . . (page 5 Vigano’s 11-page letter)
However, Mary’s Advocates’ knows that Cdl. Coccopalmerio is doing more than subverting Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. He’s subverting the Catholic Doctrine on separation of spouses and divorce. With the non-profit organization Mary’s Advocates, I work to reduce unilateral no-fault divorce. I’ve found proof going back to the council of Trent in 1563, that the Catholic Church was never supposed to relegate to the government forum the authority to judge the obligations of spouses toward each other and their children in cases of separation of spouses, civil divorce, or annulment.
I found that In the entire world, those with Catholic marriage are required to get the bishop’s permission before filing in the civil forum for legal separation, civil divorce, or any court orders resulting in separation. The requirement is only waived if one’s territory’s bishop waived it with approved particular Church legislation. In the United States, particular law was enacted in the late 1800’s (that is still in effect) that further states that if a spouse files in the civil forum without the bishop’s permission, that person incurs grave guilt and is to be punished by the judgement of the bishop. See Art. 126 of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. These particular penal laws put into effect by the US bishops’ conference were not abrogated by the 1917 Code of Canon Law or the 1983. Those codes abrogated old penal laws applicable to the whole world, but not those applicable to a particular territory.
Cardinal Coccopalmerio turned that doctrine upside down in a personal opinion he mailed to a bishop sent on the letter-head of the Pontifical Council. He posted his opinion on the Pontifical Council’s website too. He says in the entire world everyone is free to file in the civil forum for divorce or legal separation without the bishop’s permission unless one’s territory’s bishop enacted particular Church legislation creating requirement, or the bishops have treaty with the civil government in which the government agrees to require the bishop’s permission first (i.e. concordat).
I wrote the Cardinal myself shortly after learning of his unauthorized overhaul of canon law (see article here).
Presently Mary’s Advocate has a case pending at the Signatura about the confusion caused by Cdl Coccopalmerio on this issue (see article here). A 9-page summary of my research findings is available here that has 100 pages of exhibits of original sources.
"Pray daily for the Roman Rota and for all who work in the sector of the administration of justice in the Church, with recourse to the motherly intercession of Mary Most Holy, Speculum iustitiae." Pope Benedict XVI's Address Jan. 26 2008
Edit: is it any wonder that creatures like Mark Shea have attacked Vignanò, who was himself no traditionalist. His loyalties to Benedict were certainly in question, since he fueled the fires of speculation on the Vatileaks which led to the Pope’s administrative neutering and eventual resignation.
Vox makes some remarks, and one of Vignanò’s colleagues defends him as a man of inestimable character and talent, who tried to root out these evils as the supervisor of all Nuncios in the Office of the Governorate prior to being demoted to the USA.
Bishop Olmsted also defends him, saying those who cover for predators like Archbishop McCarrick, should be dealt with.
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A former papal nuncio is defending himself in the face of accusations impugning his integrity.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, who published explosive testimony Sunday alleging Pope Francis covered for homosexual predator Abp. Theodore McCarrick, issued a two-page statement Monday responding to charges that he thwarted a sex abuse investigation in 2015.
"These accusations — alleging that I ordered the two Auxiliary Bishops of Minneapolis to close the investigation into the life of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt — are false," he wrote.
Pope Francis: Especially in childhood psychiatry can achieve a lot in this area
UPDATE: The Vatican did not include these papal statements in the official transcript of the interview (Suggesting treatment of children sexually abused by Daneels’ friends?
Anyway, how does anyone, much less a child, *know* he’s a “homosexual”. Is it because he’s merely eccentric, or is perceived that way because some of his behaviors fit cultural stereotypes? It sounds like marketing for depravity to me.
Vatican (kath.net) When parents realize that one of their children is showing homosexual inclinations, they should send that child to the psychiatrist for therapy. Especially in childhood, psychiatry can achieve a lot here. Pope Francis said this at the press conference on the return flight from the World Family Meeting in Ireland."N-TV"reported this. Specifically, he would advise parents to "pray, not condemn, conduct conversations, understand, and give a place to the son or daughter," the Pope explained. However, he does not regard "silence" as an antidote. The Pope described it as a "lack of fatherliness or motherliness if one ignores one's child" when it shows homosexual tendencies.
ROME, August 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — What you are about to read is an explosive testimony of the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, implicating Pope Francis and several senior prelates in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged sexual abuse of seminarians and priests.
In an extraordinary 11-page written statement (see official English text below), Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, claims that Pope Francis knew about strict canonical sanctions imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò at the Rome Life Forum on May 18, 2018. Steve Jalsevac / LifeSiteNews
In his testimony, dated August 22, Archbishop Viganò, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011-2016, states that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis,” and that Viganò personally spoke with Francis about the gravity of McCarrick’s abuse soon after his election in 2013.
Edit: I just want to take this opportunity it to challenge the Church’s teaching on clerical celibacy. It’s such a stumbling block!
[IFR] While attending the sentence hearing for Donald Biggs, a former youth pastor who admitted to sexual misconduct with female minors, the father of one victim jumped over the railing and attacked Biggs.
Mail Tribune reports that because of the attack, not only was the sentence hearing postponed, but Biggs was sent to the hospital after being punched and falling into the fetal position.
Biggs had pleaded guilty to “transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity” along with secretly recording young girls changing clothes, showering, and using the bathroom in his home.
BECAUSE THE FIREFIGHTER COULD NOT SAVE MAN, A MOB IMMEDIATELY GATHERS BEFORE THE DOOR
Berlin - Early Friday evening, dramatic scenes took place in Berlin-Neukölln. The fire department tirelessly fought for the life of a man, but after 60 minutes, the rescuers were defeated. But what happens next in the apartment, according to TAG24, is unbelievable.
Rescue forces gather in front of the house at Siegfriedstraße 58.
The emergency services, including an ambulance, quickly rush to Siegfriedstrasse 58. There, shortly after 7 pm, the rescuers find a lifeless man and immediately initiate resuscitation measures. For an hour they fight for the man and the situation in the Neukölln apartment becomes increasingly threatening.
Other people become aggressive and assaulting the forces. An unreasonable situation, so that reinforcements and police are alerted.
Some members of the family would not accept that the life of the man could not be saved. So a mob of acquaintances and family members formed in front of the house. Forcibly, they try to gain access to the hallway, which the then present police prevented.
But while the violent mob in the Siegfriedstraße inexorably grew to a size of over 70 people, more support had to be requested.
But why such an escalation? The deceased is supposed to be a person from a well-known extended Arab family or may have traveled in their circles.
Local police warned attending media representatives against taking pictures. "We were told not to work with the cameras in the open because they could not protect us," reports our TAG24 reporter.
The situation calmed down after the doctor discovered a natural cause of death. The ranks of those affected then gradually dissolved, like the B.Z. reported.
Pope Francis is not preparing any new provisions for the fight against clerical pedophilia
(Rome) Pope Francis related circles denied the day before his arrival in Ireland that there will be another document with new standards to combat sexual abuse by clerics. "The rumors of another text from Francis to the bishops fighting pedophilia are not true," Andrea Tornielli wrote today on Vatican Insider.
Tornielli is Pope Francis’ house Vaticanist. He has direct access to the Pope. What Tornielli reports is information that comes either directly from Francis and his immediate circle, and the publication is desired by the Pope.
Last Monday, August 20, Pope Francis had published a letter to the People of God. With this, Francis reacted to the recent abuse scandal, which has shaken especially the Church in the United States with the so-called Pennsylvania Report.
The writing could not convince everyone. Critics accuse Francis of preaching in words with "zero tolerance" but not taking any action to enforce them. Even in papal circles, this criticism does not seem to be completely unjustified. Only in this way can it be explained that in response to this criticism in the past few days voices have been raised, especially in Francis-related media in the USA, that the letter is only the prelude to a normative document that Francis will enact as a law for the universal Church ( see the press review by Il Sismografo of the Vatican Secretariat of State). To silence the voices that described the papal letter as too vague and unclear, a clear-cut document was in the pipeline that would provide for sanctions against clerics who were guilty.
However, such a document will not exist, as Andrea Tornielli clarified today.
"The Pope expects the Episcopal Conferences to take the letter seriously 'to the people of God' and its concrete instructions."
Tornielli wrote:
"There are no new papal directives on abuse, and Francis is not preparing a bishops' document for the fight against clerical pedophilia. Significant Vatican sources deny Vatican Insiders that following the unprecedented "Letter to the People of God" written just days after the publication of the Pennsylvania Report, another text is now being prepared that will be announced soon after his return from Ireland as it has been rumored by various media in recent days. The Pope views his letter as comprehensive and believes that the Church has endowed itself with the normative means and the necessary provisions - to fight against whoever commits the crime of molesting minors, and also to hold to account the superiors, who are responsible for the crime of negligence or for other reasons do not act in an appropriate way - by thinking of the welfare of the victims."
Edit: well, it’s from the Groniad, one of the most evil purveyors of fake news there is. Gee, there’s a lot to unpack [sarcasm, I hate this expreasion] here, and maybe I’ll look at it later, but I noticed that the piece didn’t fail to mention the Irish orphanage with “400 graves” of children run by Ursuline Sisters.
What’s shocking about this is the implication of Satanic rituals. It’s unusual because for years the mainstream press has been denying the existence of ritual abuse. Of course, we never stopped talking about this.
Maybe if we had an Inquisition, we would be less squeamish about rooting out witches.
We thank Randy Engel for this, who says:
Hi Everyone – A few years back I did a series for John Vennari at CFN on the state of female religious orders in the United States with special reference to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). I made mention of the active lesbian networks that have taken over a number of these Modernist orders. I had known about the network from researching the Rite of Sodomy.
You might recall that Rome selected a traditional, competent nun superior to carry out the 2009-2010 Visitation. In connection with my CFN series, I contacted the superior whose headquarters was in Connecticut . I sent her an e-mail explaining that the lesbian network had to dealt with. But it all came to naught.
The long-suffering laity quietly paid all the bills for the Visitation which in the long run ended up exonerating LCWR and its leadership. And the long-suffering Catholic laity was none the wiser for the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on still another papal misadventure.
Like male homosexuality and pederasty, lesbianism in female religious orders is nothing new. Many saints, male and female, have railed against “particular friendships” down through the ages.
My experience with activist lesbians, especially lesbian religious like Sister Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry who dominate the Homosexual Collective, is that they are much more aggressive and vicious than their male counterparts.
Since the McCarrick Affair came to light, I had a passing thought that maybe the Vatican will now be forced to clean out lesbian infested convents and houses of female religious formation along with clerical male homosexual- infested seminaries and male religious orders and dioceses. But, I don’t think that will happen. First Rome would have to face the issue of lesbians and lesbian sexual abuse in female religious orders, and I suspect that it will not want do battle with the more deadly sex of the homosexual species. Randy Engel
The Guardian:
by Severin Carrell
Scotland editor
Police in Scotland have arrested and charged nuns and a number of other former staff in an investigation into alleged child abuse at a Catholic children’s home. The nuns are among 12 people who have been charged by detectives investigating detailed allegations of systematic physical and sexual abuse of children over many decades at Smyllum Park in Lanark. Police Scotland saidanother four former staff at the Catholic institution would be reported to the Crown Office, Scotland’s prosecution service, later on Thursday. The force would not release any further details about the identities of those charged or the offences they face, pending final decisions by prosecutors. “Twelve people, 11 women and one man, ages ranging from 62 to 85 years, have been arrested and charged in connection with the non-recent abuse of children,” it said.
“All are subject of reports to [the] Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal. A further four individuals will be reported today. Inquiries are continuing, it would be inappropriate to comment further.”
The allegations of abuse at Smyllum Park, including unsubstantiated claims of “satanic” rituals at the home, have been at the centre of a long-running official public inquiry into child sexual abuse at children’s homes in Scotland.
The Scottish child abuse inquiry (SCAI) has been told by former residents that lay staff and nuns at the home, run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul until it closed in 1981, repeatedly beat and punched them, verbally abused and humiliated them for wetting beds and left them without food and that some male and female staff sexually abused the children in their care. It is alleged thatat least one child, a boy aged six, died as a result of a severe beatingthat prevented him from recovering from an infection some days later. GregorRolfe,a lawyer for the Daughters of Charity, told the SCAI last year thatone male former member of staff may have sexually abused children whom he took on holidays. Those allegations were reported to nuns but not passed to the police.
Edit: although Bild doesn’t name the man’s ethnicity, he is of Turkish background and was recently handed a two year sentence.
How much would he get for Holocaust denial?
21.02.2018 - 3:33 pm
Lauenförde - gasoline bomb attack in Lauenförde (Kreis Holzminden)
Because he is alleged to have doused a former colleague (47) with gas to burn him, a man (41) is in custody. The public prosecutor of Hildesheim had requested a warrant, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The man is accused of a treacherous and cruel attempted murder. The investigators assume revenge as a motive. The 41-year-old is holding his former ex-colleague responsible for the loss of his job, said the spokeswoman for the prosecutor.
The 41-year-old had, according to prosecutors, assailed his former colleagues on Tuesday morning in front of a garage used as a garage barn in Lauenförde in Holzminden Circle to kill him. To do this, he poured petrol out of a specially prepared container. However, the alleged plan to subsequently light the victim failed.
The 47-year-old at first defended himself with pepper spray and then made good his escape. The 41-year-old was arrested at the scene by the police. He said he just wanted to set fire to the vehicle of his ex-colleague.
Markus Büning, lawyer and theologian, but also a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, protests against the too vague letter from Pope Francis to the abuse scandal. Büning has also distanced himself from the action Pro Pope Francis, to whose first signatories he belonged a year ago.
(Berlin) Yesterday Pope Francis published a letter to the People of God. On the same day, the German theologian, lawyer and journalist, Markus Büning, responded by withdrawing his support signature for the Pro Pope Francis initiative of 2017, in protest. Büning himself belongs to those who are victims of sexual abuse by clerics. As a child he had been abused by a priest.
Büning's victim status was officially recognized by the Church. The competent diocese apologized to him and made a symbolic compensation.
This personal concern leaves the lawyer, who also holds a degree in theology, an aptitude for the question of how Pope Francis, as head of the church, deals with the issue of child abuse by clerics and the handling of this abuse by the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Büning's juridically and theologically trained sensibility was disappointed by the letter of Pope Francis. He had expected more. Instead, the Pope remained too vague and unspecific for Büning despite the large number of cases, including some with which he had been personally involved in the past 12 months. Büning writes:
"This text is absolutely inadequate and a great disappointment".
Indignation prompted the lawyer to ask Pope Francis to repent instead of removing the bishops who were guilty.
Büning had reproached worried Catholic intellectuals a year ago when they issued Correctio Filialis, a clear criticism of the administration of Pope Francis. They accused him of tolerating, if not promoting, the spread of heresies in the Church, especially with the controversial post-Synodal letter Amoris laetitia The lawyer and theologian was of the opinion that the nature and tone of the criticism went too far and would not correspond to the duty of obedience and allegiance to the reigning pope. For this reason, he was one of the initial signatories of the counter-initiative Pro Pope Francis, which was launched by the Viennese pastoral theologian Paul Zulehner to respond to the Correctio filialis. In addition to the names of Paul Zulehner, Alt-Bishop Erwin Kräutler, Völker Beck [Green Party’s Meth user and Pedophile Apologist], Thomas Sternberg, Leonardo Boff, Alder Abbot Martin Werlen, Alt-Bishop Fritz Lobinger and P. Anselm Grün was also that of Markus Büning. Meanwhile, his name has been deleted.
After yesterday's letter from Pope Francis, Büning told Zulehner to cancel his name from the Pro-Pope Francis list. The German theologian and lawyer also sharply criticized Pope Francis. Maike Hickson quotes him on LifeSiteNews as saying:
"Meanwhile, it is clear that Pope Francis, apart from many words, does not assume his responsibilities. I can only pity such a pope. "
He shared his protest not only with the initiator of the ProPope Francis initiative, but also with the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany and a number of leading church representatives, including Cardinal Woelki and Cardinal Burke.
So far it has been only US Cardinal Raymond Burke, who has, by the way, already been demoted twice by Pope Francis, to the recent abuse scandal in the United States in a way that would be expected of a pope.
The Cardinal told EWTN in an interview on 16 August that the abuse scandal "hits the heart of the Church":
"We are dealing with the most serious sins here. For the bishop, who has failed in this area painfully, the penal means of the Church are also means of expiation for his well-being ".
And further:
"That a bishop exploits the flock and commits deadly sins: that is simply unacceptable and must stop."
Büning's critique summarizes: Pope Francis proclaims a zero tolerance with words, but does not implement them.
Catholic resistance to the revolutionary spirit, the Jacobins and Napoleon: flag of the Sanfedists
by Giuseppe Nardi
The Catholic resistance to the French Revolution and later Napoleon Bonaparte found little attention in general historiography or disappears behind other motivations to resist. It was precisely this resistance that permeated large parts of Catholic Europe as a popular and mass movement and was more effective on the psychological level than the resistance of states.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus as a symbol of the Catholic resistance of the Vendée
The Sacred Heart of Jesus as a symbol of the Catholic resistance of the Vendée
It all started in 1793 with the French Vendée, who chose the heart of Jesus as a symbol. From 1796 in the German-speaking part of the world, it was mainly Tyrol, whose resistance was also placed under the Heart of Jesus, and from 1808, Spain.
However, the resistance of the Italians against the Jacobin Regiment is largely unknown.. More precisely, one has to speak of a multitude of insurrections. Hardly anyone remembers the deeds of Fra Diavolo or Cardinal Ruffo. It was also on the Apennine peninsula a mass phenomenon that covered all the historical regions of Italy. Italian historiography still prefers to ignore this chapter.
"This is true in the Jacobin tradition for both the liberal and the Marxist historians" 1, according to the historian Massimo Viglione.
In the textbooks you look for a footnote in vain. In professional circles, the phenomenon has hitherto at best dealt with hastily, if not completely denied. Where the surveys were nevertheless mentioned, they were attributed to peasant backwardness and clerical fanaticism, and the insurgents were often portrayed as subproletariat or even as brigands or criminals. Therefore, Ettore Beggiato presented his book on the Anti-French uprising in Veneto: "1809: the Venetian revolt. The fight against Napoleon in the land of Saint Mark "2) the question put forward:"bandits or patriots? “
Catholic resistance defamed as "brigandage”
Fra Diavolo
Fra Diavolo
The Jacobins had already insulted their Catholic opponents of Vendée as brigands. The term "brigands" for the Italian insurgents dates back to the spring of 1797 and came from Napoleon himself. He referred to the anti-French, Venetian emigrants who had fled over the border in the Italian part of Tyrol and there supported the resistance of the Tyroleans. The contemptible term was intended to discredit the opponents of revolutionary France and the native Jacobin. Massimo Viglione speaks of an "ideological twist" 3), which continues to ache today.
The standard work on the subject (until 1999) came from the French historian Jacques Godechot: La contre-révolution (1789-1804), which was published in Paris in 1961. Godechot only examined the period until 1804, although the resistance lasted until 1813 and 1815, respectively. He strove to reduce the causes of resistance to local conditions and to ignore the common concern to defend Christianity. The scope of the uprisings he played down as well as he completely ignored some areas of rebellion.
"But even such neglect or even insults can tell us something," wrote Roberto Cavallo.
"In this case, they indirectly show an extraordinary affinity and interest that united church and people between 1796 and 1815."
Sanfedists, led by Cardinal Ruffo, liberate Naples under the protection of St. Anthony of Padua
Sanfedists, led by Cardinal Ruffo, liberate Naples under the protection of St. Anthony of Padua
Only the historian Massimo Viglione of the University of Cassino put in 1999 with the book "Forgotten riots. The elevations of the Italians from the beginnings to 1815 "5) the first comprehensive account of the anti-revolutionary, Catholic resistance in Italy between 1796 and 1815 ago.
Italy was made up of several sovereign states at the end of the 18th century. Since the Peace of Aachen in 1748, the peninsula has had a long peacetime. The new ideas of the Enlightenment were just beginning to find modest entrance to princely courtyards, and a little more in the salons of an aspiring bourgeoisie, who had cast eager looks at the church property.
When the French Revolutionary Forces first set foot on Italian soil in 1792, they not only put an end to a long period of peace, but soon met with resistance because of their unrestrained hostility towards the church and their Jacobin allies in Italy. They solved in all states armed surveys in defense of the Catholic religion, but also the captured and abducted popes Pius VI. and Pius VII, from.
Almost without exception, the Italian Jacobins belonged to the wealthy bourgeoisie. They came from that part of the bourgeoisie that considered itself "enlightened" and aspired to become the new leadership of the peninsula. Wherever the revolutionary French came, they emptied the coffers of the Italian states and plundered the churches, pawnshops and even the hospitals. Added to this was the oppressive yoke of new taxes designed to finance the French army in permanent warfare. After three years of Jacobin rule, the resistance reached its climax with a general survey involving some 300,000 Italians in arms according to recent estimates, of which at least 100,000 lost their lives. Overall, the numbers are much higher. More than 60,000 Catholic fighters (not counting women and children at all) were the sole victims of the Franco-Jacobin Terror Regiment in the Kingdom of Both Sicily.
When the tide turned, the Jacobin Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel, besieged by the Lazzars in Naples, wrote in a call for help to the French Revolutionary General Jean-Etienne Championnet the significant sentence:
"Not the nation, but the people are against the French."
Viglione explained:
"This is an impressive sentence, because it says in the end: We are 30 trapped in here are the nation, the four million out there are just the people and count nothing." 6)
Fra Diavolo, Massa Cristiana, Viva Maria and Sanfedisten
The troops of "Viva Maria" 1799 when moving into Florence
The troops of "Viva Maria" 1799 when moving into Florence
After some representations of individual insurgency areas over the past 20 years, Massimo Vigliones book offers a first synopsis of all Italian surveys. A brief glance at the political map reveals the extent of this Catholic resistance: in the Duchy of Piedmont and the Habsburg duchy of Lombardy, belonging to the Holy Roman Empire (the imperial Major Branda de Lucioni at the head of the Massa Cristiana Catholic movement), in the Venice Maritime Republic (with the famous "Veronese Easter"), in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Maritime Republic of Genoa (the "Viva Maria", bearing the coat of arms of the Virgin on their caps), in the Papal States and the Duchies of Emilia (with the cry " Viva il Papa, viva Gesú e Maria "), in the Kingdom of both Sicily (with Fra Diavolo, the" Lazzaroni "or" Lazzaroni "and the Sanfedist of Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo). Not only in the ecclesiastical states, but also beyond, the papal banner became the very symbol of Italian resistance. Welschtirol, the Italian south of the Habsburg County of Tyrol with the centers of Trento and Rovereto (today Trentino), which actively participated in the Tyrolean defensive battles of 1796/1797 and 1809 in the Tyrolean freedom fight under Andreas Hofer, should not be forgotten either.
The historian Massimo Viglione concluded:
"The Italians were fully aware that the French Revolution was a war against the Church and traditional European society."
(London) Luther had no mercy on the Holy Mass. He tore it up. He had no more mercy on the papacy. He sank it. It was precisely by breaking up the liturgical rite that the heresiarch from Eisleben led his merciless war against the Church. A drama from which only the Council of Trent and St. Pius V, who extended the Roman Rite to the entire Latin Church, showed a way to rebuild the Church, while the Pope retained the possibility of using other existing rites as well if they were at least 200 years old and therefore safe from Protestant infiltration.
Gianfranco Amato showed in his book, The Indult by Agatha Christie, how the Tridentine Mass was saved in England.1) Step by step, as it became possible, despite the post-conciliar liturgical reform of 1969, to retain the never-abolished Vetus Ordo in England.
On the British island, the Mass of St. Pius V was never extinguished thanks to the Indult of October 30, 1971. The Indult was granted by Pope Paul VI. after an Appeal to Preserve the Mass was sent to the Vatican addressed to him, which was published on July 6, 1971 in the Times. The appeal was signed by 57 personalities of English cultural life, including the famous writer Agatha Christie. Thus the appeal and the indult are named after her. Among the signatories were not only well-known Catholics such as Graham Greene, but also ecclesiastics and Anglicans, such as Agatha Christie, who invented famous characters such as Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, or the bishops Robert Cecil Mortimer and John Richard Humpidge Moorman, the delegation the Anglican Council observer had cited.
The comparison was introduced by the great English intellectuals in this wonderful appeal:
But it is a fact that the basilicas and the cathedrals were built by the Christian peoples to celebrate a rite there that a few months ago was a tradition of universal vitality. It is the Roman Catholic Mass (...) Without considering the religious and spiritual experience of millions of people during 2000 years, this rite has lived and continues to thrive with its splendid Latin texts in a multitude of infinitely precious works. Works, not only of mystics and theologians, but also of poets, philosophers, musicians, painters and sculptors, and of the greatest of all countries and times. It therefore rightly belongs to world culture, not less than the Church and the faithful.
Luther wrote:
If we triumph over the Mass, I think, then we triumph over all the papacy. For at the Mass, as on a rock, the entire papacy is built with its monasteries, its bishoprics, its quorums, its altars, its priests, its teachings, and leans upon them with its whole body. And all these things must collapse with the sacrilegious and despicable Mass.
In England, the Holy Mass was the starting point for the dismantling of the Catholic Church, as the Blessed John Henry Newman had recognized. The more one engrosses oneself in these suggestive and meticulously documented pages of the book, which are more topical than ever, the more questions arise, especially because of the sad events surrounding the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Why did the Montini pope grant the indult to England? Was it the kind of demand that made the pope mild? Was it perhaps the esteem he cherished for some signers? Or was it the diplomatic skill of Cardinal Heenan, who proved his loyalty and loyalty to the Pope in difficult moments? Perhaps because many of the signatories belonged to the "modern world" with which the Pope wanted to talk so stubbornly? Or did he do it in the name of those 40 martyrs who were murdered in England and Wales for their attachment to the Old Mass, and were canonized by Paul VI. on October 25, 1970?
