Did God Comment on the Recent Sex Abuse Summit in Rome?

By David Martin

The worst storm to hit Malta since 1982 produced hurricane force winds of up 133km/h, according to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. The storm, which occurred on February 24, generated the intense sea turbulence that can be seen in the video below. One immense wave in particular rolled over the Ricasoli Breakwater Lighthouse in Valletta, Malta, which was filmed by Ben Cardona for Pineapple Media where he works. The slow-motion effect was added in post-production.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6769395/A-30ft-lighthouse-covered-wave-85mph-winds-hit-Malta-islands-worst-storm-1982.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490

What is interesting is that February 24 was the closing day of the Vatican summit on clerical sexual abuse, which excused homosexuality rather than to address the cause of sexual-abuse in the Catholic Church. The issue of homosexual priests—the very cause of the sex-abuse scandal—was completely sidestepped at the summit.

And who was the key organizer of the summit but Archbishop Charles Scicluna of MALTA, who said on February 22 that decades of widespread homosexuality in U.S. seminaries had "nothing to do with the sexual abuse of minors," and who likewise said that he would never dare point to the category of homosexuality as having "the propensity to sin." Unfortunately, the summit he organized was all about concealing the Vatican’s collusion with homosexuality under the guise of "protecting minors."

A wave of divine justice appears to have collided with the lighthouse in Malta to punctuate the fact that the episcopal beacon of Malta has gone out! We pray this will be a wake-up call for the archbishop and the entire hierarchy as to how Almighty God feels about the infamous summit that served, not to halt, but to further the advance clerical sexual abuse by deflecting the attention from homosexual activity of bishops and priests. 

This negligence was punctuated by Pope Francis’ own statement at the summit's close, when he said, "Those who perpetrate abuse, that is acts of physical, sexual or emotional violence, are primarily parents, relatives, husbands of child brides, coaches and teachers." Not a word about homosexual clergy.

The hand of divine justice apparently has refused to waivethis negligence. Hopefully, this puts the matter in the rightlight for all to behold from afar.

More on +Scicluna:

https://fatima.org/news-views/did-god-comment-on-the-sex-abuse-summit-in-rome/

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Richest Church in the World Pays Abuse Victims 5,000 Euros

Bundestag vice-president Kubicki "If we consider that many people are marked by these terrible deeds for life, then such a sum, which a bishop earns in half a month, appears maximally unjust.”

Berlin (kath.net) An abuse victim is typically paid only  5,000 Euros for compensation in Germany in the past few years by the Catholic Church. This was reported by BILD, citing the Central Coordination Office. This had been recommended until autumn 2017 for 1788 applications of 8.7 million euros in compensation, which on average is only 5,000 euros per victim. Bundestag Vice-President Wolfgang Kubicki made heavy criticism of these compensatory payments: "If we bear in mind that many people are marked by these terrible deeds for life, then such a sum, which a bishop earns in half a month, appears maximally unjust." Those affected are outraged by these low payments. "For years, the richest church in the world has been offering ridiculous compensation payments to its victims. 1000, 3000, 5000 Euro are a new humiliation for those affected," says Matthias Katsch of the victim association Eckiger Tisch. "In the US, victims were awarded millions of dollars, but there the state carries out the proceedings, in Germany because of the statute of limitations, the church itself.

Edit: it has more to do with the German Church being a spiritual, welfare arm of the Bundesland.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Bishop Huonder of Chur to Keep Contact With SSPX for The Vatican as He Retires

Acceptance of the age-related resignation of the 77-year-old Swiss bishop is expected shortly - Diocese Chur recently confirmed that Huonder is keeping contact with the Society for the Vatican

Edit: he’s been one of the most Catholic Bishops in Europe, who has remained astonishly in his post till past retirement in a hostile diocese run by professional Catholics in a hostile Church that destroys its best disciples and exults evil ones.

Vatican City (kath.net/KAP) Bishop Vitus Huonder of Chur was received on Monday by Pope Francis in private audience. Details of the conversation were not announced by the Vatican and the Swiss diocese. Vitus Huonder (76) has been Bishop of Chur since 2007; In April 2017, the Pope had extended his term by two years. As the acceptance of his resignation is expected shortly, on April 21 Huonder will complete his 77th year of life.

As the diocese confirmed at the end of January, Huonder wants to retire to Wangs in the canton of Sankt Gallen. There he will keep contact with the Society for the Vatican. The "Society of Saint Pius X" runs a school in Wangs, the "Institut Sancta Maria".

In January, Pope Francis dissolved the Vatican Commission "Ecclesia Dei" responsible for the dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X and integrated its task into the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In the dispute with the Society, there were only differences in Church doctrine, and for this, only the Congregation itself was responsible, it was said in the Pope’s decree.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Pastor Shortage in Protestant Church in Germany

Edit: if they only allowed them to marry and have normal lives, the Evangelical Church in Germany wouldn’t be having these problems. They really need to get with the times.

According to a report by the FAS, the number of pastors is falling faster than the number of church members among Protestants

Frankfurt (kath.net) The Protestants in Germany also have a pastor's shortage. This has been reported by the FAS (Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung). According to the Protestants, the number of pastors is falling faster than the number of church members. According to the report, more and more churches have to share a pastor. Sixteen of the twenty Protestant churches announced that they could no longer meet the needs of pastors until 2030.

Meanwhile, Washington Post asks if Protestant Ministress can streamline her stodgy, dying Protestant mainline church into a progressive, cringey (and presumably more lucrative) Evangelical one.

As mainline Protestant churches struggle with membership losses across denominations, Butler is looking for ways to infuse some of what has made evangelicalism thrive into a more progressive form of Protestantism, two forms of Christianity usually seen at odds with one another.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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How New Can Something Be Which is Only Fifty Years Distant From Us

The tomb of Msgr. Annibale Bugnini.

A book review by Christoph Matthias Hagen

In 2019 it is fifty years since Paul VI. promulgated his new Missale Romanum. What it contains is still more colloquially called the Novus Ordo Missae or even more striking: the New Mass. In the February issueof the Information Paper of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Fr. Sven L. Conrad asks the question: "When was the liturgy new?" (See above, pp. 3-5) and answers it soberly and at the same time clearly. Whoever wants to deepen his understanding of the question and the English is powerful, should read the book published at the end of 2018: Annibale Bugnini. Reformer of the Liturgy. This is a translation of the Bugnini biography originally published in 2016 by the French historian Yves Chiron.

With even more detail than can be accomplished in Conrad's compact review, the reader can follow the steps that took place from 1962 to 1965 and then in 1967 and 1968 which led to the new liturgy of 1969/70. From a certain point of development, being new means that it is no longer up to date, but different or non-Roman.

In a way, this is true even with the reorganization of the Ordo of the Mass in 1965, but undeniably with the creation of alternative prayers alongside the Canon of the Mass. The difference is at least a task of the Roman, at least when one understands more than just the formal departure of the so-called post-conciliar liturgical reform of the Pope in Rome.

Ritual correctness as typical Roman

This Roman character of the liturgy consists more in a typical Roman mentality, the roots of which were even pre-Christian and can be decisively localized in a certain understanding of religion as ritually correct cult-performance, accompanied by customary legal thinking. It can even be said that Roman religiosity and jurisprudence were at first identical and that Roman law is in a sense already the secularized independence of a segment that originally formed a unity with the Roman religion. It is only with this historical understanding that one quite understands the scope of the section, Paul VI. has completed.

Universal liturgy as a creeping tendency

It was prepared, of course, by an old tendency, which, with the rise of the Franciscan movement, made the liturgy of the papal court so ideal that it was adopted outside Rome, not least in order to prove its special solidarity and fidelity to the pope. After 1570, the Roman-Tridentine liturgical books were increasingly used for a principally universal liturgy of the whole world, which, strictly speaking, did not correspond to the intent of the Council of Trent, but in the nineteenth century absorbed even the last, local ecclesiastical rites in an ultramontane undertow. It is not surprising that the prototype of Novus Ordo Missae Paul VI. of Bugnini's so-called Missa normativa, of all things, was a unitary rite, geared in principle to globalization. This uniformity tendency seems to be the deciding factor for Paul VI. which could be seen in his own  liturgical re-creation could and, as early as 1955, Pius XII. had done this with his intervention in the venerable rites of Holy Week.

If, fifty years later, one critically reviews the post-conciliar liturgical reform and the resulting wide liturgical practice, one must first of all first realize these fundamental, historical conditions of the Roman rite, before it makes sense to note the deficits in the content of the Novus Ordo Missae and problematize and distance yourself from it. The value of an Editio typica of 1962, which was formally universal until 1965, must then be scrutinized critically. The Bugnini biography by Chiron can be an important help.

Bibliographic information:

Chiron, Y., Annibale Bugnini. Reformer of the Liturgy, (Angelico Press) Brooklyn 2018, 200 pages, paperback, ISBN 978-1-62138-411-3, € 21.00, - (D). The book can also be purchased in a linen-bound edition and as an e-book.

The book can be purchased through our (Katholisches) partner bookstore.

Image: Orbis Catholicus Secundus (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Newspaper: Italian Bishops Write Letter to Victims of Abuse

Chairman Bassetti announces "full cooperation with civil authorities" 

Rome (kath.net/KAP) Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, has written a letter to Italian victims of abuse, according to a media report. This was reported by the newspaper "Il Messaggero" on its website. Accordingly, the Episcopal Conference announces that it will cooperate with the Italian judiciary. At their meeting in May, the bishops said they wanted to "fully cooperate with civil authorities," the newspaper quoted from the letter to Francesco Zanardi, founder of the Italian victims' association "Rete l'abuso". 

The bishops wanted to avoid "any forms of concealment, whether by the victims or their families, or by ecclesiastical authorities." Action must be determined by "respect for the truth, justice and the well-being of the child, as well as people in charge of protection." These should come first. The Episcopal Conference also wants to order that in the commissions of the dioceses for dealing with cases of abuse victims should also be represented, it says to other contents of the letter. 

Zanardi had been disappointed after the four-day Catholic anti-abuse summit in the Vatican. The victims would have expected something different at the end of the global meeting - "at least the announcement of the expulsion of several bishops," he told the Italian daily La Repubblica. 

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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USCCB: Catholic Representatives Should Not Present Themselves for Holy Communion

KANSAS, February 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, who chairs the American bishops’ Committee on Pro-life activities, has requested that Catholic politicians who support abortion should “not present themselves to receive Holy Communion.”

Speaking about recent efforts to "perpetuate and expand abortion in state laws" — such as New York’s Reproductive Health Act, which was signed in January by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Catholic — Archbishop Naumann wrote in a Feb. 19 piece republished on the USCCB website that such legislation has “illuminated the deplorable actions of some Catholic public officials and advocates.” Noting that these efforts will result in the killing of many more unborn children, the archbishop said that advocacy of “intrinsically evil acts, like abortion” is seriously immoral.

“While we can object to the actions of these public officials, we are not able to judge their souls. At the same time, we know there will be a Judgment Day,” he said. 

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California Lawmakers Considering a Law to Regulate Catholic Seal of the Confessional

[Town Hall] Lawmakers in California are currently considering a bill that would require priests in the Catholic Church to violate the seal of confession when it comes to the subject of child sexual abuse.

The newly-proposed legislation was introduced Wednesday by Democratic State Senator Jerry Hill, according to a report by Fox News.

Senate Bill 360 is titled “Removing Clergy Exemption from Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting.” The bill would remove an exemption in the state’s “mandated reporter” law that allows all clergy members to withhold knowledge of suspected child abuse from law enforcement if that information is obtained during a "penitential communication," such as Catholic confession.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/briannaheldt/2019/02/25/california-bill-would-require-priests-to-break-the-seal-of-confession-to-report-abuse-n2542136

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Cardinal Coccopalmerio on Homosexuality, Gender Theory and Women’s Fashion

Interview with Cardinal Coccopalmerio on homosexuality in the Church, gender theory and prayer.

(Rome) Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts until April 2018, described in an interview all allegations of being part of the gay lobby in the Vatican as "false". With a smile he replied to every question, including the question of why the allegations are being made against him: "To harm me especially and to harm the Pope."

The canon lawyer Coccopalmerio owes his rise to the high ecclesiastical hierarchy to "Ante-Papa" Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini SJ, whose Auxiliary Bishop he was in Milan. With his self-designation "Ante-Papa" in deliberate reference to "anti-papa" (anti-pope), the Jesuit Martini clarified his claim as a counterweight to John Paul II and as "future pope". This did not happen. Martini died in the summer of 2012, not without first vigorously demanding Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation. While he personally did not succeed in 2013, another Jesuit, whom Martini had already supported in 2005 as an alternative to the prevention of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger: Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio.

Whatever the channels, it was Benedict XVI who brought Coccopalmerio to Rome in 2007, where he was very inconspicuous. That was to change under Pope Francis. The new line evidently meant more to the priest of the Archdiocese of Milan, as evidenced by his public defense of controversial decisions.

In June 2017, Coccopalmerio's secretary, Msgr. Luigi Capozzi, was arrested by the Vatican gendarmerie at a drug homosexual party in his home. It was not only the situation, but also the fact that the apartment was in the Palace of the Congregation of the Faith. Although the whole thing had nothing to do with it, but with the fact that the palace is accessible to both the Vatican and Italy. It was apparently a security breech, which was suitable to bring drugs and homosexuals into the building.

Pope Francis ignored the event, which also had no apparent consequences for Coccopalmerio. However, since then, the cardinal has no longer appeared in public to make statements.

In October 2018, when the largely homosexual abuse scandal of minors by clerics and the McCarrick Affair dominated the headlines, more details were passed around that could explain why the Cardinal had become so quiet: The Canadian news agency LifeSiteNews reported that it was not only the cardinal's secretary who was caught at the sodomitical drug orgy. The gendarmes had also found Coccopalmerio himself in the apartment, but quickly pushed him out of the rooms for reasons of state and put the veil of silence over it. Corresponding reports of the incident also reached the Pope, who left Coccopalmerio in office until his 80th birthday in April 2018. According to reports, the question arose as to whether the purple bearer could remain cardinal any longer. Pope Francis ignored the whole thing.

In an interview published today by InfoVaticana, the cardinal stated that he was an opponent of today's "female fashion". However, this is currently not necessarily the focus of the a”interview. By contrast, concerning the "hot iron" of homosexuality, the cardinal was quite reserved.

As for him personally, he denied all homosexual allegations against his person. Incidentally, if he were a pope, Coccopalmerio said, he would have invited the Dubia cardinals "for an aperitif".

The interview by journalist Almudena Martínez-Bordiú was coincidentally agreed upon before the recent flight to Rome and led just before the Abuse Summit in the Vatican, in which Cardinal Coccopalmerio did not attend. The cardinal's photo was taken on the occasion of the interview.

Some excerpts:

Martínez-Bordiú: Who is Francesco Coccopalmerio?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: I can define myself as a Christian who believes in and hopes for Jesus.

At the age of thirteen, the current Cardinal first felt the call to the priesthood.

Martínez-Bordiú: Have you had any faith crises since then?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Maybe not during my life ... during the past years, although I can not say that I had a crisis, but I had temptations.

Martínez-Bordiú: Temptations?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Yes, to think that our faith is not true. I believe that we all have these moments of temptation that must be overcome with the grace of the Holy Spirit. I recently met a very good priest, a missionary, who told me that he had great crises of faith, and I believe that the Lord does not escape that experience. We have great saints like Mother Teresa of Calcutta ... or at first I would call Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, who had had these experiences with the "Night of Faith", a dimming, as if the Lord had withdrawn completely from her life. Jesus also had this experience on the cross.

Martínez-Bordiú: The Cardinals Brandmüller and Burke have written a letter to the participants in the summit on the sexual abuse of minors. They point to "the homosexual evil that has spread throughout the Church" and call on the bishops to "break the silence" at the meeting. Archbishop Charles Scicluna said that 80 percent of sexual abuse victims are male. Do you believe that there is a connection between homosexuality and clerical abuse?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: I am not a psychologist, it has many problems and is difficult to judge. I could not even if I was a psychologist. I would have to be a specialist in this area, so I can not give judgment. It is true that homosexuality is widespread, that is a notorious fact. There may be a connection between homosexuality and abuse, but I can not say for sure because I'm not a subject matter expert.

Martínez-Bordiú: Do you think that this topic should be dealt with at the summit?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: I think they could talk about it, yes. But I do not know what they will talk about.

Martínez-Bordiú: In your opinion, what measures should be taken with regard to the evil of abuse against which the Church suffers? What solutions can be found for the selection of candidates for the priesthood?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: This topic should be studied and deepened. For example, I have always supported the need for all those who wish to enter the seminary to be ordained priests or deacons to be subjected to a serious psychological study.

The Code of Canon Law only states that if the rector or the bishop allows a person to attend the seminary, only they can attest the candidate's mental and physical health. The physical health certificate can be given by a doctor, but the psychic test must be done by a psychologist, by a psychiatrist. It is therefore necessary that this test exists. It is not enough to say: "Yes, it is a person who shines well". The psyche must be examined with a certain amount of attention, as I have always argued.

My position, which I consider fair, has always been rejected: "It is not necessary, some may do this test, but not all ..." It is necessary for this test to be done and for the aspects of each personality to be looked at.

Martínez-Bordiú: And what happens if it is discovered at some point that the person has mental problems?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: You can say to him, "Look, you are not fit for the priesthood, and we dispose you of it." Every case has to be considered, because there are simple cases that can be solved with therapy, and more complex cases. If it is not curable, we can say, "It is not your place, not your service."

Martínez-Bordiú: In February 2018, you published a book on the eighth chapter of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Why did you find it necessary to talk about this section?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: I've written about this chapter because it's the one that has a closer relationship to my specialization. Labor law, behavior, intentions, practice. I pay particular attention to this chapter because it is a very rich and rather confusing chapter.

Martínez-Bordiú: Why confusing?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Confusing in the sense that there are things that could have been said more clearly or with greater logical order. Sometimes something is said that could have been said before, other things that could have been said later. I wanted to create a tutorial guide to make the text more readable and clearer. But I did not want to comment on the eighth chapter or add anything to the chapter. I just wanted to create a clarifying guide for reading this text.

Martínez-Bordiú: In September 2016, four Cardinals demanded an opinion from Pope Francis on Amoris laetitia. What do you think, why the Holy Father has not responded to the Dubia to this day?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: That's his decision. If I had, I would have called the four of them and said: Brothers, let's have a coffee, an aperitif or a dinner together to talk. I would have done that, but he seems to think otherwise.

Martínez-Bordiú: In June 2017, the media reported that the Vatican gendarmerie has uncovered  homosexuals in the Vatican rooms of Mgr. Luigi Capozzi, then your secretary. A few months later, a North American media source assured that you, too, were found in your secretary's apartment that night. Were you really there?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Everything that has been said is wrong. The unbelievable thing is that they invented everything.

Martínez-Bordiú: That of Capozzi too?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: He did not do anything bad. They invented that there was a meeting in his apartment between homosexuals, with drugs, and that I could not have known ... all wrong, all invented! Any why is this the case? In the first place, to harm me and harm the Pope.

How should I say ... you look in the Curia, in the Vatican: Who is there? There is one like Coccopalmerio, who is a friend of the Pope, and then ... Do you understand that? Unfortunately, things come like that. If someone meets them on the street, pulls a gun and shoots them, what can they do about it? What can they do when they are dead?

The problem is that they do not want to believe it. It has been denied, but from time to time this thing comes up again. There was news about this case a few months ago, and now there has been an official denial. But while many ch is made of false news, Little is made of clarifications.

Martínez-Bordiú: Have you taken action against those who claim otherwise?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: We did not do anything like that ... But it is sad that it is so.

Martínez-Bordiú: What do you think of gender ideology, this current that denies the existence of biological differences between men and women and the so-called LGBT group?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: This gender theory is very complex. As I said, I am not a psychologist or an expert in this field. I can say the same about this topic now. There are things that need to be studied and deepened by several experts. But I think there are some things that can not be easily accepted. For example, that you are a man and then declare that you are a woman, that seems to me to be such a thing ... Or to deny that there is a difference, at least of a physical nature, between a man and a woman. Some things, I mean, can not be denied. "I decide that there is no difference, then it has to be that way", that's not right.

I've been to a Latin American country in recent months where I've been told something I did not know, and I was surprised that there is this theory of "macho": the man who dominates the woman. And they explained to me the example of a man who comes to the bank with a woman, and the bank official was respectful and cordial when he talked to him. As soon as the woman opened her mouth, the officer turned away and did not listen. An amazing thing. This whole part should be studied.

I also take the opportunity to say that I am very worried and think we need to do something about female fashion.

Martínez-Bordiú: The female fashion?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Yes. Now, when summer starts, you can see in St. Peter's Square that generally all girls are dressed as if they were on the beach. For me, this is not an acceptable thing, because they cause different reactions in the men, which can be overcome with intelligence, goodness and virtue. But why should people get into trouble? You should know that there are also "non-normal" people who do not have the intelligence and not the virtue and easily fall. Something has to be done here. The girls can not go that way, they should not dress provocatively, so they provoke no reactions of the same kind in the opposite sex. That should be said. My opinion may be popular or unpopular, but it seems fair to me.

Martínez-Bordiú: This Thursday [21. February], the book "Sodoma" by the French sociologist Frédéric Martel, who claims after interviews with the highest dignitaries of the Vatican, that 80 percent of the consecrated people in the Vatican are homosexuals. What do you say to this claim?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: I do not know ... I find it an assertion that does not convince. There may be homosexuals who have this tendency and at the same time overcome this condition. And there may be others who get into this situation from time to time. But I think it's an exaggerated assertion that needs proof.

Martínez-Bordiú: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick was dismissed. Is sexual abuse an example that mercy must be overcome by justice?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: That's a topic of criminal law. When they say, "I must forgive, I must also exercise mercy toward those who are heavy sinners." At the same time, the church must also say that it does not agree, that this kind of action is not good, it can not be accepted. There must be a reaction to the evil that immediately takes place against the person who has wronged.

When assigning an official position or task to a person, this is because that person should perform the assigned function. If this person is unable to fulfill what has been assigned to them, there is a reaction against wrongdoing, but also a sanction, such as the impossibility of continuing work in the same capacity.

You can be merciful to the person, but you must put an end to the evil and remove the person who has caused it. This does not contradict mercy, because mercy can also be shown to the person with closeness, prayer, and even friendship. This would be on the personal level.

Criminal and administrative sanctions are public. Friendship, closeness and prayer are something private. You have to make that distinction. But if the Church sees that this priest has committed abuses, and nothing is done about it, it would quickly mean that the Church approves of this behavior. The reaction shows that this behavior is wrong.

Martínez-Bordiú: Do you think that you should hold to account those who knew what had happened but kept silent?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: I can not tell you that because I did not investigate the case. Whether they knew it or not, I can not say it. Concerning these things, this problem of having covered such behaviors can also be said ... If you have a child ... Are you married?

Martínez-Bordiú: No ...

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Well, if you had a child doing bad things, something serious, what is your immediate reaction? "I hope nobody knows, because I want my son to be respected". By that I mean that this is not concealment that justifies the bad action. It can also be covered, because that would be a nuisance to many believers. Then the shepherd, the bishop says: "We hope that it will not be known to avoid a scandal".

Martínez-Bordiú: But McCarrick was allowed to continue doing evil ...

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: If lying is about being able to carry on, that's not ... You have to intervene and say, "Look, you can not go on doing what you do, I'm taking your office away." In this sense you should not cover up. It however, can also be understood that there can also be types of cover-ups in the sense of saying, "We hope that it will not be known so there will be no scandal". It can also be understood that there have also been cover-ups in this sense. But if it means that it is still allowed to continue the evil, then obviously it is not right. You have to see from case to case what happened.

Martínez-Bordiú: Pope Francis said at the general audience on Wednesday said that "one should not pray like parrots". How do you pray as a cardinal?

Cardinal Coccopalmerio: Like most people, I have a daily routine of prayer. As a priest, I celebrate Mass and the Litirgy is the Hours. Then I put a lot of emphasis on the Lectio Divina, a part of Scripture, and I do not read it as if it were some book, but as the Word of God, as something Jesus told me at that moment. I also attach great importance to the visit to the Blessed Holy. In general, I stay 15 minutes before Jesus, because He allows a face to face friendship. And I always devote a time of prayer to the Virgin by praying the Rosary. And then there is the confession that I - I do not know - go to once a month.

The journalist Almudena Martínez-Bordiú added at the end of the publication of the interview, a personal assessment, which should also be added:

"It is said that the look is the reflection of the soul, and even if only God knows, his eyes seem to speak the truth."

Former Apostolic Nuncio in the US, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò  names Cardinal Coccopalmerio in his dossier as a member of the gay lobby. It was therefore all the more peculiar that Pope Francis expressly instructed him in early September 2018 to take legal action against Archbishop Viganò, although the cardinal was directly affected.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: InfoVaticana

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Pope’s Official Mouthpiece Fired From Post Over Plagiarism

Update: Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, reports on Twitterthat Fr. Rosica has also resigned from the boards of St. John Fisher College and the University of St. Thomas in Houston. We are currently confirming.

TORONTO, February 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A Vatican spokesman who is the CEO of Canada’s Salt + Light Media has stepped down from an important academic post after admitting to plagiarism.

Father Thomas Rosica, CSB, has resigned from the Collegium, one of the governing councils of the University of Saint Michael’s College in Toronto. 

In a message released this morning, the Chair of the USMC Collegium wrote on Twitter, “Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB made significant contributions while serving the St. Michael's community as a member of its Collegium. Over the weekend, I received and have respectfully accepted his resignation from the Collegium.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-vatican-spokesman-fr.-rosica-resigns-from-catholic-college-after-a

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Traditional Monastic Community Seeks Canon Lawyer to Establish Community in Rome

Community of tradition would like to apply for canonical recognition as a monastic congregation.

(Rome) A traditional community seeks a canon lawyer for the canonical establishment of a monastic community in Rome.

The Prior of a monastic community has turned to the traditional website Messa in Latino with the request to publish an appeal. The community of tradition wants to take the step to canonical recognition and is looking for a capable canon lawyer.

"Out of concern over the usual persecution by the usual bishops" he asked not to publish his name for the time being.

The desire of the community is the foundation of a monastic order in Rome. For this, they are urgently looking for a canonist who is ready to help them for free, as the community of strict observance lives in extreme poverty.

The community is aware, according to Messa in Latino, that such an undertaking seems almost impossible in the prevailing climate of "misercordia". But for that very reason they trust all the more in Divine Providence and take seriously that with God "nothing is impossible."

The members of the community want "the canonical permission to live and die as faithful monks of the Holy Mother Church, near St. Peter's Basilica and in the shadow of Peter".

Should a canon lawyer be willing to help the community, he can contact the editors of Messa in Latino redazione [a] messainlatino.it, or to Katholisches.info. We will then forward the letter.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Sanremigioverona (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred@hotmail.com

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Woman Who Accused Bergoglio Found Dead — Foul Play Suspected

BUENOS AIRES (ChurchMilitant.com) - The mysterious death of a whistleblower in Argentina is prompting family members to demand an investigation into what they suspect to be murder.

Natacha Jaitt, a model and actress, had been working on outing what she claimed to be a pedophile sex ring among celebrities and elites. Two weeks before she was scheduled to give court testimony against Gustavo Vera, whom she accused of sex trafficking and who is a close associate of Pope Francis, she was found dead.

Two weeks before she was scheduled to give court testimony against Gustavo Vera, whom she accused of sex trafficking and who is a close associate of Pope Francis, she was found dead.Tweet

At 2 a.m. Saturday, her naked body was found on the bed of a room in the hotel Xanadu in Villa La Ñata in the town of Benavidez. Two men were questioned at the scene: 47-year-old Guillermo Riconi, owner of the Villa, and 48-year-old Raul Velaztiqui, a film producer and the one who placed the call to police on finding her body.

The autopsy report claimed the cause of death was "Heart-respiratory failure (multi-organ failure) that led to pulmonary edema." The autopsy also revealed traces of cocaine in her nasal passages.

According to Spanish magazine Clarìn:

A vehicle, cocaine, a fanny pack and a telephone were seized from the room. It was discovered that at least three more people were with the actress, who were captured by security cameras while fleeing the place, before police arrived. In the video recording you see them throwing a package into a ditch. It is suspected it contained some type of narcotics.

Document Involving Bishop’s Crimes Implicates Francis

The document proving that the Vatican had been aware of the sexual wrongdoing of Bishop Zanchetta for years - long before Francis promoted him to the high post in the Vatican.

(Rome) It is not just the case involving former Cardinal McCarrick that has been putting Pope Francis in distress for months. This also applies to the case of the Argentine bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta. Francis is silent and seems to be hoping that the storm may soon abate. He does not give a good example.

So far, the bill has been upheld because the leading mass media are still sparing Francis. Since the fall of January 2018, the fall of the Chilean Bishop Juan Barros Madrid exploded, the image of Francis nevertheless took some damage. Since then, the responsible head of the Church has not been liable for the scandal of sexual abuse by bishops who are close to him. The Barros case was followed by further cases in Chile, in Honduras, then the McCarrick case and the Pennsylvania report in the United States of America.

Through the dossier of the former Apostolic Nuncio in the USA, Carlo Maria Viganò, Francis fell directly into the line of fire. In late August 2018, the archbishop publicly accused him of being informed of McCarrick's sexual misconduct since June 2013, but he nevertheless rehabilitated McCarrick and allowed him influence on bishop appointments in the US and the Vatican China policy.

Last December, another case was added, that of the Argentine bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta. The Argentine newspaper El Tribuno and the international press agency AP are publishing a joint report that the Vatican was already aware of the Bishop's sexual transgressions in 2015 and 2017, but did nothing. On the contrary: Zanchetta, who disappeared overnight from his diocese in the summer of 2017, suddenly reappeared in the Vatican half a year later. Two days after Zanchetta's descent, Pope Francis resigned without giving an explanation to the irritated believers in the diocese of Oran. Moreover, after Zanchetta reappeared in the Vatican, Francis promoted him to a high position in the Apostolic Property Administration (APSA). He still sits there today.

The background of his escape from Argentina was unclear. The reason given was the shattered finances he left behind in his diocese. With this justification, Francis already deposed far less traditional bishops. The "Franciscan friend" Zanchetta (El Tribuno), on the other hand, was promoted and of all people to an office dealing with goods management.

It became known through the El Tribuno and AP reports that the real reason for Zanchetta's disappearance was a gay double life, and the bishop sexually corrupted seminarians of his own seminary.

Since the case of Barroso, Pineda (former Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa), McCarrick and Zanchetta, there is the question of how Pope Francis keeps himself from covering up sexual misconduct. While publicly denouncing the cover-up as an unacceptable evil, he still owes answers to more questions than any other high dignitary of the Church.

El Tribuno, the daily newspaper on the occasion of the Vatican Abuse Summit, published a document dated April 26, 2016, featuring five high-ranking prelates of the diocese of Oran, including the Vicars General, Chancellor and Rector of the Seminary, and other Monsignori, who informed Pope Francis  about the unacceptable misconduct of their bishop. The five-page document provides detailed information and bears their signatures.

The last page of the document containing five signatures.

Only so much is said: Bishop Zanchetta gave the chancellor on June 21, 2015, the order to publish photos of some events on his mobile phone on the Facebook page of the diocese. On the bishop's mobile phone, the shocked chancellor also found pornographic footage of homosexual acts by adolescents and nude selfies by Bishop Zanchetta, which he had shared with third parties through WhatsApp.

The pictures were saved and the Vicar General informed. Finally, in April of the following year, the five prelates and the chancellor sat down and set out the document they sent to the apostolic nuncio in Argentina, Msgr. Emil Paul Tscherrig.

The subject of the letter was also the authoritative treatment of the bishop with his priests and the financial mismanagement he caused.

Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta was named Bishop of Oran in 2013 by Pope Francis, although he had previously left a mess in administration and finance as Vicar General in the Diocese of Quilmes.

What credibility can Pope Francis claim for the abuse scandal, as long as he does not answer the questions about his role in those cases?

His refusal to address homosexuality, the main reason for the abuse of minors, raises further questions. Does Francis only want to condemn what is being prosecuted by the secular states, but not what is punishable under Church law? Will he continue to protect homosexuality in the Church?

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: El Tribuno (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Was McCarrick a Communist Agent?

(Rome) While the Pope Francis' summit on sexual abuse of minors is taking place in the Vatican, new revelations about the ex-homosexual cardinal and ex-priest Theodore McCarrick have become known.

According to Vatican planning, the Abuse Summit wants to avoid the main motive of sexual abuse: homosexuality [Let's not try to be neutral about this scourge, call it aberrosexuality.] At least 80 percent of all abuse victims of clerics are male adolescents 11 and up.

Now, new revelations surrounding homosexual McCarrick, whose case set the abuse summit  rolling, became known. Besidss this, there is a connection between homosexuality and the summit. This is especially true because of the great influence that McCarrick exercised by his offices, his rank, the Papal Foundation initiated by him and not least by the Sodo-Cliques.

Church Militant's American Michael Voris reported "explosive" news late yesterday evening:

"The Communists have been incredibly successful in infiltrating the church. McCarrick was one of her men. "

Voris is convinced that the Abuse Summit is a major diversionary tactic of homosexual clerics in the Church. For decades, the same cliques have covered McCarrick, who - following Frédéric Martel's statement in his new book "Sodoma" - was one of the heads of the homosexual network.

Michael Voris

Church Militant relies on information from former communists who "played a key role" after the Second World War in building a secret network of communist training and education centers in Europe. Their information "implies" a direct involvement by McCarrick, Voris said.

According to him McCarrick was in his early years, "secretly trained in Europe by Soviet Communists" with the aim to implant him as a communist "in the heart of the Church.”

When Stalin took control of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, it was one of his plans, so much is certain, to weaken the influence of the Catholic Church, if not entirely eliminating it. This was "part of the communist world domination plans that Our Lady warned in Fatima in 1917.”

A central point of the plan, according to Voris, was the "infiltration of seminaries with young men who were to work to undermine the Church's moral code".

This strategy was confirmed by Bella Dodd (1904-1969), a senior member of the US Communist Party (CPUSA). She herself, according to her own information, placed 1,100 men in US seminars. The teacher Dodd was a leading communist activist and trade unionist in the 1930s and 1940s. She began to withdraw herself internally  from communism in the course of a purge of exclusion from the party in 1949. Under the leadership of Fulton Sheen, then Auxiliary Bishop of New York, she returned to the Catholic Church and became an opponent of dialectical materialism.

Dodd revealed that according to Stalin's order, "immoral men", especially homosexuals, were to be introduced to the Church.

"Dodd's testimony is important because it not only reveals the infiltration plan, but also the connection between communism and homosexuality in this plan," which was not limited to the US.

When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989 and the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991, information from the KGB became known that the Polish seminaries had been infiltrated with hundreds of Communist agents. "The reality that the Church was besieged from within for decades shook Polish Catholics to the core," Voris said. At the same time, Catholics in Lithuania had to realize that their "hierarchy was interspersed with Soviet agents."

"Liberation theology had been carried to Latin America by KGB agents to undermine the Catholic Church through the Jesuit Order."

To train young men who would not be noticed in their home countries, various training centers were set up. One, according to Church Militant, existed in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where McCarrick was around 1950. He came from a poor family. The father had died young and the mother struggled with simple work to make ends meet.

Bella Dodd

In 2001, McCarrick told the New York Times about his time in Europe right after graduating from college. He had "no plans for his life" back then. "A friend" invited him to Switzerland, where he stayed for a whole year, without saying where he had the money for such a trip and the long stay. Something that at that time only wealthy could afford.

That McCarrick was in St. Gallen is known by James Grein, one of his sexual abuse victims. Church Militant points out that one of the Communist training centers in the West was located in Sankt Gallen, where recruited young men were trained, among other things, to be introduced to the Church.

McCarrick told the New York Times he found his priestly calling during his time in Europe. Voris:

"McCarrick would have been the ideal candidate for Soviet recruitment: a fatherless young man with homosexual inclinations and no particular ambition in life. It was a perfect match for the pattern, especially the homosexual dynamic, which made it easy to control it by blackmail. "

The fact is that McCarrick entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of New York on his return to the United States and was consecrated there in 1958.

"If McCarrick was actually recruited as a Soviet agent to undermine the Church, he fulfilled his clients' wishes perfectly."

"He rose quickly and spread moral, doctrinal and spiritual confusion on every level, inflicting injuries - not just his victims among the seminarians and other young men."

Indeed, if McCarrick had been a communist agent steeped in Marxist thought and a socialist worldview at an early age, that would explain a great deal how his way in the Church in the United States was struck by his rise to power..

The so-called "Social Justice" wing in the Church of the United States became a leader under McCarrick who is one of its central figures. Under US President Bill Clinton, he was even able to extend his influence to the government by sitting for three years in the Foreign Affairs Committee on Religious Freedom from 1996 onwards. From 1999 to 2001 he was also a member of the US Commission for International Freedom. The membership in both committees enabled him numerous foreign trips. During a ceremony, Clinton joked that these constant trips abroad were more for diplomats than archbishops.

While Benedict XVI. Restricts McCarrick's room for maneuver and imposed sanctions on him for the strong suspicion of sexual misconduct, Pope Francis rehabilitated him and made him his special envoy to the Communist People's Republic of China. As such, McCarrick was involved in preparing the secret agreement between the Holy See and Beijing, signed in September 2018, and caused critic s to call him a "seller of the Chinese Church."

The proof of Michael Voris is thin, which he knows himself. But he is right in pointing out that the evidence is too numerous to dismiss the revelations. McCarrick had "routinely bribed" and paid Roman curial officials with "benefits and probably cover-ups".

"He has been instrumental in propagating social justice that has dominated the life of the Church in the United States for decades - a movement that hides behind a language of charity, but regularly reveals its left-wing policies and its links with socialist organizations of which many are offshoots of Saul Alinsky. "

Voris also links Saint Gallen with the secret circle of high and highest progressive Church representatives founded by Cardinal Martini in the 1990s, which played a central role in the election of Pope Francis. The association of Church progressive to political left is obvious. The decidedly political action of Pope Francis confirms this. In fact, his election not only brought with it the immediate lifting of the sanctions imposed on him, but also granted him unprecedented influence in the Vatican.

Voris concludes from his information and agrees that McCarrick's case is not only closer to sexual abuse, but much broader. His entire influence on the Church in the United States and on the Universal Church should be scrutinized - and his year in Switzerland.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Vatican.va/Justice4Poland/Youtube/Church Militant (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@gotmail.com

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Bergoglio Appoints Evil McCarrick Creature to Camerlengo

Cardinal Kevin Farrell was named Camerlengo. In the next Sedis vacancy, he will direct the affairs of state and convene the conclave.

(Rome) Pope Francis yesterday named US Cardinal Kevin Farrell as Cardinal Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, better known simply as Camerlengo. Against Kevin Farrell has been repeatedly mentioned in recent months in connection with the case of ex-Cardinal McCarrick and homophilic Church circles. Pope Francis entrusted him with a key position at the next conclave one week before the start of the Abuse Summit in the Vatican.

Theodore McCarrick made Kevin Farrell general vicar of his archdiocese of Washington in 2001. As such he was promoted to auxiliary bishop at McCarrick's request and lived for six years, until McCarrcik's retirement, in the same house with McCarrick. After the scandalous homosexual double life McCarricks became known, Farrell asserted several times, not having heard anything, not even of suspecting something. Since the summer of 2018, repeated doubts have been expressed about this idea.

The career of the McCarrick protégé

McCarrick was pushed by Pope Francis to renounce cardinal status at the end of July last year after it became known that he had homosexually corrupted priests and seminarians in his dioceses and even reportedly molested minors.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell

The doubts about Farrell's statements are not only related to his close relationship with McCarrick, who sponsored the miserable career of his former auxiliary bishop to Pope Francis. Farrell also stood out for his homophile attitude. At his initiative as Prefect of the Dicastery for Lay, Family and Life, the World Family Meeting, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in late August 2018, for the first time in the history of this event, he offered his own program for homosexuals. Despite considerable criticism, which was announced in advance and led to cancellations of participants, the Vatican stuck to it.

The World Family Meetings were initiated by Pope John Paul II to strengthen marriage and family. A promotion or even an intrusion of homosexuality into the family is diametrically opposed to his idea, say critics, who were not heard in Rome. The sodomy program was designed by the evil US Jesuit Fr. James Martin.

Investigations by the Congregation of Socteine and the Faith?

Against Farrell, the Roman Congregation of the Faith became active in connection with the McCarrick case. As the traditional Messa in Latino website reported, Pope Francis was preparing a trial about six months ago, after the McCarrick case had exploded, and a dossier was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The congregation asked Pope Francis to initiate an official case against Farrell. It is not known if Pope Francis granted the request, or if it was prevented as with Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

Farrell's stellar career under Pope Francis continues unabated:

~ In August 2016, Francis appointed him to the Roman Curia and named him the first prefect of the newly established dicastery for lay, family and life.

~ Already in November of the same year he created Farrell Cardinal, making him a member of the College of Cardinals.

~ In June 2017, he was appointed a member of the Administration of Goods of the Apostolic See (APSA).

~ In December 2017, he was appointed to the Pontifical Commission for the State of the Vatican City;

and in February 2019 the appointment as cardinal chamberlain.

Key position in the conclave

As Camerlengo, Farrell takes a key position in the upcoming conclave. The cardinal's chamberlain manages not only the apostolic chamber and the papal treasure. He notes the death of the ruling pope and proclaims the vacancy. During the sedevacante he leads the affairs of state as well as the preparations and the convocation of the conclave.

In connection with the APSA, probably the most wealthy institution in the Vatican, which successfully dedicated itself to the dismantling of Cardinal George Pell, the first prefect of the Economic Secretariat, the question was asked whether Cardinal Farrell had anything to do with the accommodation of the Argentine Bergoglian, Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta. Zanchetta, appointed by Pope Francis against the strong reservations of the diocesan Bishop, had disappeared in the summer of 2017 from his diocese overnight. A few months later he reappeared in the Vatican and was given a high position in the APSA by Francis. The appointment caused horror among insiders, as Zanchetta was known for having shattered the finances of two dioceses, first as Vicar General and then as Bishop. In early 2019, allegations were made in Argentina that Zanchetta, like McCarrick  had committed preyed on his own seminarians. That was the reason for his sudden plunge. Rome has been informed about this since 2015.

Pope Francis is silent and sets the course.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Vatican.va/MiL

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Vatican Reluctantly Suspends Uncle Ted

Edit: defrocked doesn’t really mean much. I’d expect they’re suspending him a divinis, and so it’s a wonder, since that’s usually reserved for intransigents who believe that sodomy is a grave sin, like the late Bishop Rogelio Plan , who was shut out of his episcopal residence without warning and basically thrown on the street by the Gang of Mercy. He didn’t get a cushy retirement home in Kansas a reasonable drive from a large metropolitan area and a few blocks from a Catholic grade school like Uncle Ted.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.

McCarrick, 88, is the highest-ranking churchman to be laicized, as the process is called. It means he can no longer celebrate Mass or other sacraments, wear clerical vestments or be addressed by any religious title.

The scandal swirling around him was particularly damning to the church's reputation in the eyes of the faithful because it apparently was an open secret that he slept with adult seminarians. Francis removed McCarrick as a cardinal in July after a U.S. church investigation determined that an allegation he fondled a teenage altar boy in the 1970s was credible.

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Brazilian Intelligence Service Warns Amazon Synod Will Be Abused by “Leftist Clergy”

(Rom / Brasilia) The Amazon Synod, convened by Pope Francis this coming October, wants to use the "progressive clergy" to attack the new Brazilian government. A report by the Brazilian secret service warns.

Yesterday's edition of the Brazilian daily O Estado de Sao Paulo opened with a big headline on the front page.

"The upper echelon is to fight the action for the 'left clergy'".

According to information from the Brazilian intelligence agency Agência Brasileira de Inteligência (ABIN), the "progressive clergy" wanted to use the Amazon synod to attack the new Brazilian government of President Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsanaro’s Vice President  is Antônio Hamilton Mourão. Mourão was general of the Brazilian army. He is from the state of Amazonas and is of indigenous descent. The Amazon as a space and the indigenous peoples are, according to official Church information, the central themes of the synod.

Conflict between Brazil's government and leftist clergy. 

Report of "O Estado de S. Paulo".

It is not part of the Synodmakers' Amazon image that the state of Amazonas was won by Bolsonaro and his coalition last fall. Since January 1, Wilson Lima of the Christian Social Party (PSC) is Governor of Amazonas. The Partido Social Cristão was also Bolsonaro’s party, until he founded in 2018 for the presidential elections his own party ticket. The Deputy Governor of Amazon represents with Carlos Almeida, the party of Vice President Mourão.

The state of Amazon spreads over a gigantic expanse of more than 1.5 million square kilometers, but is inhabited by only four million people. According to the Brazilian statistics office, only 0.1 percent of them refer to themselves as members of indigenous peoples. The Brazilian statistics office lists five "races". A quarter of the population are whites, three quarters are pardos ("browns"), which in Brazil means the different mixes of the other four races (whites, blacks, Asians and Indians).

The figures have prompted observers to assume that there is a "deeper agenda" behind the synod topics that are publicly mentioned.

The Brazilian intelligence service ABIN bases its report on its own findings and information from various military commands. The secret service report, says the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo, also discusses Pope Francis' recent meeting with Brazilian cardinals at the Vatican, which discussed the themes of the upcoming synod.

Organizer of the Amazon Synod is founded in 2014 Church network REPAM, which consists of an umbrella organization and national offshoots in the Amazon riparian states. Of real weight is only REPAM Brazil. The umbrella organization and the Brazilian offshoot are led by two Church representatives belonging to the progressive fringe of the Church. The umbrella organization is headed by Claudio Cardinal Hummes and REPAM Brazil, and emeritus missionary bishop Erwin Kräutler from Austria. Hummes and Kräutler are in favor of the abolition of priestly celibacy  nd the admission of married priests. Both have spoken repeatedly in the past for the introduction of women's priesthood. Both are close to the political left. Hummes is a personal friend of ex-President Lula, who has been imprisoned for corruption since April 2018. Kräutler is a darling of the left-wing media, as every home visit to Austria has confirmed.

The political left in Brazil, Latin America and beyond refuses to recognize Lula's condemnation. It claims that it was a political process to repress the influence of the left. Pope Francis expressed his sympathy and closeness to Lula. Even more unforgivable was Bolsonaro's election victory. The Brazilian left suffered a defeat in the fall of 2018, comparable to that of the Democratic Party in the US against Donald Trump.

Above all, Pope Francis again bet on "the wrong horse". His warning of a political electoral defeat in Brazil led to the new leadership recognizing the Catholic Church, significant parts of the Brazilian hierarchy, and the church leadership in Rome as declared government opponents.

Bolsonaro is a Catholic, his wife is a free-church member. In the election campaign, the new president has relied mainly on the Protestant free churches. Behind it is a massive emigration movement from the Catholic Church to the Free Churches. The reason is the massive political and theological left pressure in the nation’s Catholic Church which has been developing for decades and has led to an alienation of the faithful from their Church.

The Amazon Synod is pushing, as the intelligence report shows,  the intention of the world Church to install a new "other", "second" priesthood, the secular political dimension to score also by social and environmental statements in the left-liberal mainstream, but also an intra-Brazilian dimension of political explosiveness.

The impression is confirmed, with friends and opponents, that Pope Francis acts more as a politician than as a Church leader.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Wikicommons

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Cardinal Müller:"I did not like the praise of the Freemasons for the Pope"

Cardinal Gerhard Müller: "What does clericalism mean? Homosexual inclinations are responsible for most of the cases of sexual abuse by clerics "

(Rome) While Pope Francis was preparing to sign a document on "human brotherhood" in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), yesterday he signed his signature with the Islamic Grandimam of Al-Azhar, an authority of Sunni Islam, Nuova Bussola Quotidiana published an interview last Sunday with Gerhard Cardinal Müller, former prefect of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In it, the German cardinal again criticized the "clericalism" thesis and talked about "the real reason" for sexual abuse by clerics, but also about "the biggest problem" that the Church has today. He rejects allegations that there is "a plot" against Francis and makes no secret of the fact that he does not like the "great praise" Francis receives from the Freemasons.

Vatican Issues a Clarification in Statement About Women Religious

According to Vatican spokesman Gisotti, the Pope was referring in particular to a 2013 scandal-ridden community in which sexual assaults on women by priests had “reached a certain level"

Edit: the article doesn’t point out that the female branch started a new order called,The Sisters of Mary, Morning Star. They have communities all over the world with about 250 women.

Vatican City (kath.net/KAP) The Vatican has issue a clarification by the Pope about the abuse of women religious. With his words of "sexual slavery" as the reason for the dissolution of a religious community of women, Francis had meant "'manipulation in the form of abuse of power', which also manifests itself in sexual abuse," reads a statement by the Vatican press office (Wednesday).  In his response to a similar question on the return flight from Abu Dhabi, the Pope said on Tuesday that there were also abuses of religious women by clerics in the Catholic Church.

He mentioned that, inter alia, a community had been dissolved when sexual assaults on women by priests "reached a certain extent". There had been real "slavery up to sexual slavery by clerics.” Francis had referred thereby to a spin-off of the Johannes Community (Congregation Saint -Jean), specified the acting Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti to "Kathpress.”

The Johannes Community, founded by the French Dominican Marie-Dominique Philippe in 1975, was recognized by canon law in 1986 and has branches in numerous countries, including Austria. Some time after the founder's death in 2006, a sister community split off from the new leadership appointed by the responsible bishop. This splinter group of the "Congregation of Saint Jean" caused scandals; Pope Benedict XVI. then shut the group down. Pope Francis has referred to this in his press conference on Tuesday, Gisotti said.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Pope Throws Spotlight on Traditional Female Contemplative Order

Edit: CNN just posted an article wherein it quotes Francis taking responsibility for priests and bishops who've allegedly raped nuns.  We all know what he thinks of contemplative orders, particularly the females. It's not an exaggeration to say they are in the cross-hairs.

For the purposes of this exercise, he's singled out a traditional contemplative female order was suppressed by Benedict XVI.  He excused his predecessor, as if to say, surely he did nothing wrong.  He was a strong leader.   

We'd already covered this, here, here,  and the superior's comment here

One of the commenters said they went on to form a new Society, Sisters of the Morning Star, which was founded in 2014 and has 250 members worldwide.

Photo from article by Marian T. Horvath....

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Francis Signs Unprecedented Document With Sunni Imam

Pope Francis ends his historic visit to Arabia with a Mass - The joint statement was so explosive for Arab relations that their publication was not announced in advance -

correspondent report by Roland Juchem

Abu Dhabi (kath.net/KAP) 120,000 participants from 100 nations, including 4,000 Muslims: The Mass that Pope Francis celebrated on Tuesday morning in Abu Dhabi's stadium is the practical side of what he shared with the Grand Emam, Ahmad Ap-Tayyeb, of Cairo’s  Al-Azhar Mosque the night before, in a landmark document on "Human Brotherhood:” brotherhood, plurality, and lived faith in the peaceful coexistence of one Creator's children.

This religious document has enormous political significance, especially in this part of the world. As clearly as the Grand Imam and the Pope promote freedom of religion, women's rights and sustainability as clearly as they condemn violence and extremism in the name of God, but also anti-religious secularism and amoral individualism, not every ruler or traditionalist preacher wants to hear that, but not only in the Middle East.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) pretend to be patrons and protectors of tolerance and dialogue - also in contrast to their big neighbor Saudi Arabia. The Emirates not only provided the Zayed sports stadium for the Pope's Mass free of charge. No expense or effort was spared for the two-day interfaith conference on "Human Fraternity," and it was a major buzzword for what was said to be "historic gatherings of the world's two most important religious leaders."

"Brother and good friend" is what Francis and al-Tayyeb call each other. The Egyptian has hardly left the pope's side in the past two days. It is their fifth encounter. In his speech, al-Tayyeb calls for Christians to have full citizenship rights in the region. He receives applause just as much as for his criticism of Western caricatures of Muslims.

The Pope, in his subsequent speech, sharply criticizes the war and arms race in the region, but praises the Emirates for granting freedom of worship. However, according to Francis, true freedom of religion is "not limited to the free exercise of religion, but sees in the other one really a brother and a sister ... of the same humanity to whom God grants freedom."

On the evening of the first day, both will receive the Human Fraternity Award, given by Abu Dhabi's ruling family, the Zayed Dynasty. While gentle music and incense flow through the small arena in front of the founder's monument and rain down confetti, the head of the Catholic Church and the head of the main teaching authority of Sunni Islam, sign their joint statement.

This is so explosive - at least in this region - that its publication was not announced in advance. Its signing was not to be jeopardized by any political interference. Together, as well as in each of their denominations, Pope and Grand Imam want to promote peace, dialogue, tolerance and genuine piety, counteract any instrumentalization of religion for hatred and violence, and advocate equal rights for all.

"A justice that applies only to family members, compatriots, and believers of the same faith is a hobbled righteousness that is veiled injustice," the Pope had warned in his speech on Monday night. Even in the tolerant emirates, non-Muslims enjoy worship, but not religious freedom. Every believer is allowed to practice his religion, many in official churches and temples, others - for lack of space - in rented hotel meeting rooms.

Mission and pastoral care among the "others" are prohibited. For Muslims who turn their backs on religion, the death penalty is officially still in force. "You have achieved a lot which is praiseworthy - but all this can be improved," could be summed up with the polite, but certain estimation by the esteemed guest. 

On Monday, when interfaith dialogue took place, Tuesday morning was for Christians in the Middle East. At the Mass with tens of thousands of people in the stadium and tens of thousands more before, Francis gave consolation to the Christians in Arabia, who come from more than 100 different ethnic groups and countries living far from their homeland. He encouraged them and thanked them for living their faith as described in the document signed the day before.

This also corresponds to the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount, the Pope said in his sermon - unlike the standards of this world, according to which the rich, powerful and successful are blessed and cheered by the masses. He calls for "serving rather than being served". That sounds a bit different to the tens of thousands of people from abroad who are workers and servants in Arabia and are confronted everywhere with the large, theatrical images of powerful local emirs.

With the largest Christian worship on Arab soil to date, Christians in the Islamic world have been brought to the light of the global public. With the declaration signed by Francis and al-Tayyeb, the Catholic Church and the highest teaching authority of Sunni Islam have set a milestone behind which Christians and Muslims can not easily recede.

Video of the Mass in Abu Dhabi

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