If Jesus walked the earth today. Would he be like Cardinal Burke, Bishop Schneider or Pope Francis, Cardinal Schonborn, Cardinal Kasper, Bishop Bonney, Cardinal Daneels or the rest of the St. Gallen Mafia? Keep up the good word Bryan.
Jesus knows the difference between right and wrong. Read the Gospels and read his hard teachings! Tell me then how often does he talk of Hell as a real place? It is not a popularity contest. It is about the truth.
You're right. It isn't a popularity contest and I'm ashamed of the tit-for-tat comment in my last post. This is about the future of Christ's Church. Archbishop Josef deKessel of Brussels, Belgium is about to be made a Cardinal. This is what Church Militant wrote in January about his appointment as Archbishop last November: "Like fellow Belgian bishop Johan Bonny, Bp. Jozef de Kesel is known to be gay-friendly The lamentable situation in Belgium continues unabated. In October 2014, a priest accused of sexually abusing a minor was appointed priest for the town of Middelkerke, in the Bruges diocese, raising a public outcry. The matter was resolved only by the man's refusal to accept the appointment — but the bishop responsible for appointing him— Jozef de Kesel — never apologized for the mishap. On November 6, 2015, that same bishop was announced as the new archbishop of Brussels, replacing orthodox appointment Abp. André-Joseph Léonard, who had reached the age of 75, with its mandatory letter of resignation. As spokesman for Pro Familia, a pro-life apostolate based in Belgium, we believe the new appointment of Abp. Jozef de Kesel is a grave mistake. December 12 was the installation date for the new archbishop of the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese. The ceremony in the Mechelen cathedral was attended by leading figures, including the Catholic king and queen of Belgium, as well as the man considered the unofficial "boss" of the Belgian Church — Koen Geens, head of the Belgian Department of Justice, who pays the salaries of all the Catholic bishops and priests in the country. Also present was Jan Peumans, a self-proclaimed Buddhist and the head of the Flemish parliament, as well as Mechelen mayor Bart Somers and Siegfried Bracke, head of the Belgian federal parliament. The latter two are self-proclaimed Freemasons. Of the 250 official guests, most were on the state's payroll."
This list of new cardinals has some disturbing names. Cupich for one. And these men will be voting for our next Pope. I only hope that orthodox appointees will still outnumber the likes of Cupich and de Kessel....
Shorter, more succinct title: Pope appoints heretic as one of 17 new cardinals. Personnel is, as usual, policy. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-appoints-very-liberal-progressive-cupich-a-cardinal Pope appoints very liberal Blase Cupich as one of 17 new cardinals Claire Chretien Follow Claire October 9, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)—On Sunday, Pope Francis announced that Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich will be appointed a cardinal on November 19. The move is alarming pro-life, pro-family, and tradition-minded Catholics because of Cupich’s record as an extremely liberal bishop. As a cardinal, Cupich will be eligible for the papacy and able to vote in papal elections. At the end of his Angelus message Sunday, Pope Francis announced that he will hold a consistory to appoint the new cardinals. Pope Francis named two other Americans, Archbishop Joseph Tobin (not to be confused with strongly pro-life Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin) and Bishop Kevin Farrell, cardinals as well. The latter was recently appointed to head the Vatican’s new Dicastery for the Laity, Life, and Family. Pope Francis also recently named Cupich to the Congregation for Bishops, a key role giving the archbishop a significant say in determining who are appointed new bishops in the United States. Cupich, whom a reliable Vatican source warned LifeSite that the then Spokane bishop was potentially the most dangerous-to-the-faith bishop in the United States, has undergone a rapid increase in status and influence in the Church under Pope Francis. As the bishop of Spokane, Washington, Cupich requested that priests and seminarians of his diocese not participate in 40 Days for Life prayer vigils outside abortion facilities. In August 2015, in the wake of the Center for Medical Progress videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s baby body parts trafficking scandal, Cupich wrote that unemployment and hunger are just as appalling as killing children in the womb. Cupich has openly contradicted Catholic canon law on giving Holy Communion to those in a state of mortal sin. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Chicago, Cupich said that giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians can be a good thing. Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law instructs those “conscious of grave sin” on their soul to refrain from receiving Holy Communion. At the 2015 Synod on the Family, Cupich laid out a pathway for same-sex couples and the divorced and remarried to receive Holy Communion in accordance with their consciences. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that proper consciences are formed according to the teachings of the Church. “Conscience can remain in ignorance or make erroneous judgements. Such ignorance and errors are not always free of guilt,” the Catechism teaches (CCC 1801). Cupich hailed Pope Francis’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia as a “game-changer” that could normalize his unorthodox approach to those living in situations the Church labels objectively sinful. Cupich recently concurred, with another progressive Francis U.S. bishop appointee, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, that “the issues of global poverty and the degradation of the environment now need to be put in that first tier of (election) issues" for Catholics in line with “Pope Francis priorities.” In 2002, when he was the Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, Cupich locked the doors of a Catholic parish during the Easter Triduum, one of the holiest points of the Catholic liturgical year, in order to prevent Traditional Latin Masses from taking place. The church was forced to hold its Good Friday liturgies on the sidewalk. National Catholic Register columnist, Edward Pentin, wrote in his column on the appointments today, Notable eligible prelates omitted at the upcoming consistory include those from a number of sees that have traditionally been cardinalatial. In the U.S. these include Los Angeles and Philadelphia, headed respectively by Archbishops Jose Gomez and Charles Chaput. Instead, Pope Francis has chosen prelates whose views are closer to his, and in particular those who have been publicly and clearly supportive of his interpretation of his post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. Here is a list of 13 of the prelates who Pope Francis announced are to be appointed cardinals and who are still of conclave voting age: Italian Archbishop Mario Zenari, currently Apostolic Nuncio in Syria Central African republic Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. of Bangui Spanish Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra of Madrid Brazilian Archbishop Sérgio da Rocha of Brasilia American Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago Bangladeshi Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario, C.S.C. of Dhaka Venezuelan Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo of Mérida Belgian Archbishop Jozef De Kesel of Mechelen-Brussels Mauritian Archbishop Maurice Piat of Port-Louis American Bishop Kevin Joseph Farrell, prefect of the new dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life Mexican Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes of Tlalnepantla Papua New Guinean Archbishop John Ribat, M.S.C. of Port Moresby American Archbishop Joseph William Tobin, C.S.S.R. of Indianapolis LifeSite will present further information on this this development and the other appointments in the days ahead.
