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Former Vatican Official Accuses Pope Francis of Knowingly Reinstating Abusive Cardinal

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Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP26 Aug 20184,998In a bombshell report, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States has accused Pope Francis of reinstating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to a position of prominence despite knowing of McCarrick’s sexual abuse of priests, seminarians, and laypeople, including minors.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released an 11-page affidavit on Saturday alleging that Pope Benedict had imposed “canonical sanctions” on Cardinal McCarrick in 2009-2010 forbidding him from traveling, celebrating Mass in public, or participating in public meetings, but that Pope Francis later lifted these sanctions and made McCarrick a close personal advisor.


Presenting himself as a whistleblower, Viganò declares that bishops “must have the courage to tear down the culture of secrecy and publicly confess the truths we have kept hidden.”


The archbishop concludes by calling on Pope Francis to resign his office as pope.


Now that “the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy,” he says, “my conscience dictates that I reveal those truths regarding the heart-breaking case of the Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, which I came to know in the course of [my] duties.”


Cardinal McCarrick enjoyed a “long friendship with Cardinal Bergoglio” and played an “important part” in his recent election, the archbishop claims, which led the pope to continue using McCarrick as a trusted aide in the naming of bishops even after learning of his misdeeds.


Viganò states that he personally informed the pope of McCarrick’s abuse on June 23, 2013 and yet Francis “continued to cover for him.”


“Holy Father, I don’t know if you know Cardinal McCarrick, but if you ask the Congregation for Bishops there is a dossier this thick about him,” Viganò claims to have told the pope. “He corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance.”


Nonetheless, Pope Francis “did not take into account the sanctions that Pope Benedict had imposed on him and made him his trusted counselor along with Maradiaga,” Viganò said, the latter being Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, who has been embroiled in scandals.


In past months, the 75-year-old cardinal has faced a series of accusations involving financial mismanagement and embezzlement of funds, protecting a sexually abusivebishop, and covering up a homosexual “epidemic” in his diocesan seminary.


So Pope Francis “knew from at least June 23, 2013 that McCarrick was a serial predator,” Archbishop Viganò states, and yet, “although he knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end; indeed, he made McCarrick’s advice his own.”


Viganò claims that Pope Francis only took action against Cardinal McCarrick when he was forced to do so by the public report of the cardinal’s abuse of a minor, and that he did so “to save his image in the media.”


The archbishop also claims that Cardinal Wuerl, the current archbishop of Washington DC, was “well aware of the continuous abuses committed by Cardinal McCarrick and the sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict” and yet ignored the sanctions imposed by Benedict XVI and allowed McCarrick “to reside at a seminary in Washington D.C.”


“In doing so, he put other seminarians at risk,” Viganò states.


Viganò attributes a number of important papal appointments in the United States—including those of Cardinals Blase Cupich in Chicago and Cardinal Joseph Tobin in Newark—to McCarrick’s influence over Pope Francis.


“The appointments of Blase Cupich to Chicago and Joseph W. Tobin to Newark were orchestrated by McCarrick, Maradiaga and Wuerl, united by a wicked pact of abuses by the first, and at least of coverup of abuses by the other two,” Viganò states.


As other bishops and priests have done recently, Viganò ties both the abuse crisis in the Church as well as coverups by bishops to an extensive “homosexual network” in the Church.


“These homosexual networks, which are now widespread in many dioceses, seminaries, religious orders, etc., act under the concealment of secrecy and lies,” he declares, “and strangle innocent victims and priestly vocations, and are strangling the entire Church.”


As an example, Viganò alleges that former Vatican Secretary of States Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone insistently presented “candidates known to be active homosexuals” for the episcopate and withheld compromising information on candidates from then-Pope Benedict XVI.


Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, two Francis appointees, “belong to the homosexual current in favor of subverting Catholic doctrine on homosexuality,” Viganò writes.


He also claims that Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich is “blinded by his pro-gay ideology.”


The archbishop ends his report by citing recent words from Pope Francis himself, in which the pontiff said that “everyone is guilty for the good he could have done and did not do” and “If we do not oppose evil, we tacitly feed it.”


“If this is rightly to be considered a serious moral responsibility for every believer, how much graver is it for the Church’s supreme pastor, who in the case of McCarrick not only did not oppose evil but associated himself in doing evil with someone he knew to be deeply corrupt,” Viganò says.


“He followed the advice of someone he knew well to be a pervert, thus multiplying exponentially with his supreme authority the evil done by McCarrick. And how many other evil pastors is Francis still continuing to prop up in their active destruction of the Church!” he states.


Viganò concludes that the only acceptable response is for the pope to resign his office, thereby setting a “good example” for other bishops.


“In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them,” he says.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/26/former-vatican-official-accuses-pope-francis-of-knowingly-reinstating-abusive-cardinal/

They've all knowingly done this for decades.

And these are the people who preach to us/demand that we HAVE TO allow illegal aliens into our country.

The Catholic Church is beyond redemption


By Kevin D. Williamson

August 25, 2018 | 12:19pm

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Pope Francis is trying to keep order in a Catholic Church besieged with sex-abuse scandals.

The Catholic bishops in the United States thought they had put this behind them: The Boston Globe publicized the horrifying sexual abuse in the church and the equally horrifying cover-ups in 2002; the movie “Spotlight” based on that story won an Oscar; settlements were paid; and there was a solemn meeting in Dallas during which the bishops adopted new rules — rules from which they exempted themselves — and promised “never again.”

And here we are — again.

The new round of revelations involves pornographic episodes of sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses. (The situation in Philadelphia, the state’s largest diocese, was separately documented in a 2005 grand-jury report.) On top of that, the leading figure from that 2002 convention in Dallas, the former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, is accused of sexually assaulting two children in addition to carrying on a series of exploitative sexual relationships with adult seminarians — relationships that had been an open secret among his colleagues. And just last week The Post revealed that the Archdiocese of New York has paid out close to $60 million to sex-abuse victims in the last two years.

The rot is not exclusive to the United States. The Catholic communities in Chile, in Australia, in France and in Ireland have all experienced similar scandals, some of which are ongoing. Scandal has even touched Vatican City itself: At the beginning of the summer, Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella was convicted by a Vatican court of distributing child pornography and sentenced to five years’ incarceration. In 2014, Monsignor Jozef Wesolowski, previously the Holy See’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was defrocked for abusing young boys but died before facing criminal proceedings.

There is more talk of reform. What’s needed is something closer to corporate decapitation, the wholesale replacement of an American episcopacy that has shown itself to be beyond institutional redemption.

Perhaps it is time for a smaller but better Catholic Church.

The American Catholic community has been stagnant for a very long time, and it would not be surprising if these scandals — the sheer weight of them going back decades, now — were to hasten the decline in Mass attendance and perhaps hasten an exodus of Americans from the Catholic Church entirely.

If this is likely, it is in part because a considerable share of American Catholics are not Catholic in the sense of believing what the church teaches and receiving the church’s sacraments.

Rather, for many Americans, particularly in the baby-boomer generation and those near to them, Catholicism is not a religious faith but a cultural identity. There are many Catholics who are Catholic in the sense that restaurateurs in South Philly are Italian and ward-heelers in Boston are Irish — it is an identity marker that is less about who they are and more about who their grandparents were. If Catholicism is only a social club, then membership is at this moment not highly desirable.

Still, Americans compose only 5 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics. Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines are the heaviest hitters, and the growth market is Africa, where the church faces a different kind of sexual scandal.

The baptized Catholic population of Africa has grown by a fifth in the past four years, from 186 million to 222 million. The general impression of the African church is that it is more conservative than the American or European communities — except on the matter of celibacy. Monsignor Giacomo Canobbio, a theologian and proponent of allowing more married priests, says bluntly: “In Africa a good percentage of priests de facto have a family.” Compared to McCarrick et al., a Catholic priest married to a woman hardly seems scandalous at all. And it isn’t, necessarily: The church already permits married priests in narrow circumstances.

Liberal critics of the church have long linked the practice of celibacy to clerical degeneracy, though that leaves unexplained and identical pathological degeneracy in Protestant communities, in Jewish congregations, in public schools, in the Secret Service, etc.

A more likely explanation is the one poet Ezra Pound hit upon 80 years ago: The trouble in the Catholic Church — its cultural and doctrinal crises — was rooted, he thought, in the fact that the Catholic hierarchy had ceased believing its own dogma.

Things have not improved in the subsequent eight decades. If the US bishops had truly taken to heart their own teachings, then they would not have proceeded as though their hats liberated them from the human condition and exempted themselves from the same oversight they imposed on their subordinates. A church with a laity alive to the full implications of the Catholic notion of communion would not have accepted it.

What do American Catholics believe? For the laity, the answers may be found in the polling data. For the bishops, the answer is, apparently, that they believe most intensely in their own sublimity, unholy though it may be.

That’s an old story for Christians. The oldest, in fact. There’s no putting that behind us, either.

https://nypost.com/2018/08/25/the-ca...nd-redemption/

These Churches need to lose their tax exempt status. They have been raping women and children for centuries.

Now they think they can harbor, aid and abet illegal aliens and TELL us what to do and throw our borders wide open.

Those that advocate this and YELL it at the top of their lungs are just as corrupt and evil as those pouring across our border.



TEAR DOWN THAT WALL AT THE VATICAN...THEY BUILT IT TO KEEP MUSLIMS OUT...IT IS STILL STANDING

BUILD A BRIDGE INTO THE VATICAN...SELL YOUR ARTWORK AND CASH IN YOUR WEALTH TO PAY FOR THESE CRIMINALS!

PUT UP TENTS IN YOUR FRONT YARD TO HOUSE THEM AND YOU FEED THEM!

THE POPE DOES NOT LIKE BIRTH CONTROL...NO PROBLEM...THEY WILL OUTBREED YOU AND TAKE OVER YOUR SAFE CUSHY COMPOUND IN NO TIME AND DESTROY IT! PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!!!

YOU LIKE RAPE? I AM SURE THEY WILL ACCOMODATE YOU, LEAVE YOUR BEDROOM DOOR UNLOCKED. THEY ARE HERE RAPING AND MURDERING OUR CITIZENS IN COLD BLOOD.

WHAT? NO OUTCRY FROM THE POPE FOR THE DEATH OF KATE, MOLLIE, JAMILE, SARAH AND THE REST WHO HAVE BEEN RIPPED FROM THEIR MOTHERS ARMS?

THIS IS DISGUSTING.

Many entities start with good intentions, But to survive they need money. Pretty soon money is the reason for them to survive and their mission takes a back seat. The central Catholic church has become powerful and obsessed with wealth. And the heads of the church, like most organizations, protect each other to the peril of those they supposedly protect. This large organization needs to end for the church to survive.

Originally Posted by jtdc

Many entities start with good intentions, But to survive they need money. Pretty soon money is the reason for them to survive and their mission takes a back seat. The central Catholic church has become powerful and obsessed with wealth. And the heads of the church, like most organizations, protect each other to the peril of those they supposedly protect. This large organization needs to end for the church to survive.

All of our "institutions" is all about the money. So when you hear the opposition whining about our "democracy" and the "values of our institutions" ... they're just talking about the money.

They are nothing but a big money making business now.

It is the "career" they chose to make money. Just like any other career on the planet.

They need to start paying up the taxes...then they will SHUT their mouths about open borders when they have to foot the bill and the ONE BILLION a year of our taxpayer money get cut off that facilitates THEIR human trafficking!

They are just people in these Churches, no better, no worse than ANY other person on the planet. You can believe in what you want, just don't force in anybody else.

AND THEY ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW...THEY RAPE AND GET AWAY WITH IT, THEY HUMAN TRAFFIC AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND NOW THEY STICK THEIR BIG NOSE INTO OUR GOVERMNET AFFAIRS. NO!!!

THEY ARE AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL. THEN TAKE WELARE AND FOOD STAMPS OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THOSE PEOPLE CAN GO KNOCK ON THE CHURCH DOOR TO GET FED.

I AM FOR BIRTH CONTROL AND DO NOT WANT TO BE FORCED TO PAY FOR THIS BELIEF THAT PEOPLE CAN ROMP IN THE SACK, HAVE 8 KIDS AND I HAVE TO WORK AND GIVE THEM MY MONEY TO FEED THEM. IT IS SICK AND DISGUSTING! KEEP YOUR PANTS ZIPPED. WHY SHOULD THE REST OF US PAY FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S SEX? IT IS ABSURD.

Former Vatican Official Corroborates Allegations Against Pope Francis

A monsignor who worked at the apostolic nunciature to the United States has corroborated an explosive report accusing Pope Francis of rehabilitating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick despite knowing of his record of homosexual abuse of priests and seminarians.

Contacted by the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counselor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C., declined to give an interview, but affirmed the veracity of the report by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.


“Viganò said the truth. That’s all,” he wrote to CNA.


In a written 11-page “testimony” published Saturday, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States said that Pope Francis had reinstating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to a position of prominence despite direct knowledge of McCarrick’s sexual abuse.


Archbishop Viganò alleged that Pope Benedict XVI had imposed “canonical sanctions” on Cardinal McCarrick in 2009-2010 forbidding him from traveling, celebrating Mass in public, or participating in public meetings, but that Pope Francis later lifted these sanctions and made McCarrick a close personal advisor.


Now that “the corruption has reached the very top of the Church’s hierarchy,” he wrote, “my conscience dictates that I reveal those truths regarding the heart-breaking case of the Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, which I came to know in the course of [my] duties.”

https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-pope-francis/

In the future, instead of using the boogie man to scare kids, parents will be using priests to scare kids......"Get to bed, or the priest will come get you." Haaaaaa!!! I kill me!