Sorry, I can't shrink this photo. This was sent to me from my friend living in Rome. Pupil student p. Maciel and the abuser card. Mac Carrik, has always denied knowing their crimes http: //magister.blogautore.espresso.repubb...dinale-farrell/ 02 Aug McCarrick and his proteges . The miraculous career of Cardinal Farrell Farrell As has been known for some days, with a laconic statement Pope Francis has made public that Theodore McCarrick, 88, archbishop emeritus of Washington, is no longer a cardinal, is forced to live, must live a prayer and penance and in fact is suspended "a divinis". And all this waiting for the outcome of the "regular canonical process". It is necessary to go back to 1927 to find a previous case of removal from the college of cardinals. That time the Jesuit Louis Billot was deprived of the purple because of his adherence to the "Action Française" political movement, condemned the year before by the Holy See. But for McCarrick the reasons are quite different and incomparably more serious from a moral point of view. They concern his prolonged and disordered sexual activity with adults, young people and even minors, with priests and seminarians, practiced for decades without jeopardizing - despite being known to a large number of people at various levels of the Church - his triumphant ecclesiastical career. McCarrick has already written a lot in these days. But still little about how it involves not only the protagonist of the story, but also the clergymen who are more closely related to him, who are also beneficiaries of careers on the verge of the miraculous. One of these, in particular, raises serious questions. It is Kevin J. Farrell, 71, in 2016 made cardinal by Pope Francis and prefect of the new dicastery for the laity, family and life. Born in Ireland, Farrell entered the mid-sixties among the Legionaries of Christ, when this organization was still small and its evil founder Marcial Maciel was enveloped in an aura of universal respectability. Released fifteen years later by the Legion, Farrell has subsequently kept a complete silence on the sexual misdeeds of Maciel - come blatantly to light - and has always flaunted never having had any noteworthy contacts with him. However, it results from reliable testimonies that he had positions in the Legion and enjoyed a proximity with Maciel that is not episodic, which makes his total inadvertence of the unhealthy behaviors of his superior unlikely. After leaving the Legion, Farrell incardinated himself as a priest in the Archdiocese of Washington. And he became an auxiliary bishop at the end of 2001, when McCarrick was the owner for a year. The promotion of McCarrick to the archbishop of the United States capital - at the height of an ascent that had seen him first as auxiliary in New York, then bishop of Metuchen and then again archbishop of Newark - had already provoked serious objections from what had transpired of his insatiable sexual practices. The objections arrived as far as Rome. But the appointment did its course anyway and the following year McCarrick was also made cardinal. But even the nomination of Irishman Farrell as his assistant provoked amazement. His previous militancy among the Legionaries of Christ certainly did not lay in his favor, given what was beginning to leak on the double life of its founder Maciel and on the complicity or silencing of many guilty around him. But McCarrick was now a power, in the high American hierarchy and beyond. He wanted Farrell next to him and got it, ordering him a bishop in person. And he also wanted that in Washington he lived in his own apartment, not in the bishop's palace but on the fourth floor of a former orphanage, appropriately readjusted. Again, it seems unlikely that Farrell would feel nothing of his patron's repeated uninhibited sexual adventures. In 2006, McCarrick left the Archdiocese of Washington for exceeding age limits, while continuing to maintain considerable weight among the high hierarchies of the Church. And the year after also Farrell changed his seat, promoted to bishop of Dallas, a diocese of the first order, with the clear support of his mentor. In the final phase of the pontificate of John Paul II and during the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Farrell never expose himself to the forefront, among the American cardinals and bishops of progressive sign. McCarrick yes. For example, he was among the critics of the directive given by Joseph Ratzinger to the bishops of the United States to deny Eucharistic communion to Catholic politicians in favor of the legalization of abortion. And he was an open supporter of one of these "pro-choice" politicians, John Kerry, in the 2004 presidential election campaign. Ever since Pope Francis took over from Benedict XVI, Farrell has also quickly aligned himself with the new course. In the United States he immediately teamed up with the new progressive leaders - also with their patron McCarrick - Blaise Cupich and Joseph Tobin, promoted by Jorge Mario Bergoglio respectively in Chicago and Newark, both of whom were also promptly cardinals. He greeted with enthusiasm "Amoris laetitia" in his reading favorable to communion for the divorced and remarried. Above all, having meanwhile become cardinal prefect of the new Vatican dicastery for the laity, family and life, he signed the preface and recommendation of one of the most representative books of the new bergoglio climate: > James Martin SJ, "Building a Bridge." The author, one of the best-known Jesuits in the United States and a leading figure in the weekly "America", with this book he wanted to pave the way for a substantial revision, by "pastoral" approach, of the Catholic Church's doctrine on homosexuality. But the preface by Cardinal Farrell to the book is not the only authoritative support given to this urgent change of paradigm. Farrell, for the role he now holds in the curia, is also the official director of the next world gathering of families in Dublin, at the end of August, where Martin will be among the guests and speakers, Not to mention the personal move of Pope Francis in this same direction, with the appointment of Martin as a consultor to the new Vatican dicastery for communication, a clear sign of appreciation for the work of this Jesuit. Of course, it is easy to impute to John Paul II and to the Vatican leaders of the time of having failed to prudence in promoting at the highest levels an ecclesiastical with a notoriously exemplary life like McCarrick, ignoring all the alarms received by them. But even more reckless appears the decision of Pope Francis to call in Rome to preside over the dicastery for the family a character like Farrell who had one after the other as his bad teachers the serial predators Maciel and McCarrick and moreover proposes today as an advocate of a legitimation of homosexual loves. And this is not at all an isolated case. In the council of the nine cardinals called by Francis to help him in the "governance of the universal Church", there are already three people crippled for reasons of sexual abuse: - the Australian George Pell, under trial at home; - the Chilean Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, accused of having defended to the extreme, against all evidence, the serial abuser priest Antonio Karadima and the bishop his disciple Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid, on whose innocence even Pope Francis himself spent all his authority until the beginning of this year, only to recognize the guilt and remove it; - Honduran Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, who is still coordinator of the "C9" but whose auxiliary bishop and protégé Juan José Pineda was removed on 20 July because of continued sexual abuse confirmed by an apostolic visit. But to these must be added also the few ecclesiastics by the uninhibited homosexual behaviors that populate the court of Bergoglio, which he wanted close to him one by one: "first of all" that Monsignor Battista Ricca who directs Casa Santa Marta and acts as an official intermediary between the Pope and the Institute for the Works of Religion, the Vatican "bank" chat. Distinguished by scandalous conduct when he was nunciature councilor in Algiers, Berne and even more in Montevideo, and for this recalled in Rome, Ricca saw his personal file in the curia rewritten "ex novo" with deleted these previous ones, he redid head of career and entered the graces of the current pope, who reported to him, at the beginning of his pontificate, that famous phrase: "Who am I to judge?" cont.
I will say, by the end of this article, I wanted to spit, gag and weep. Sooo much bigger and deeper than we realize!! Made me wonder, but voicing that would only further fed the negativity mill. I found myself praying, begging for a thorough cleaning purging of Christ's House/Bride!!! May we all be protected from this atrocious mess!! PF predecessors have warned of a big mess coming which would find the Church purged .....'Tis here!! We know in the end 1/3 who are true and sincere will remain. That is so unnerving and sad. To echo Bishop Barron's words: "In the meantime, and above all, we should ask the heavenly powers to fight with us and for us. I might suggest especially calling upon the one who crushes the head of the serpent." I have been adding St John Vianney (patron saint of Priests) to my chosen litany, which also includes St Michael Archangel, always our Mother!!
Thank you, ComeSoon!, for posting this article. Might I ask you to post the rest of the article? I went to the site but got to the first part and could not locate a link to the rest of the article. I apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you.
Regarding the article Bishop Barrons wrote, that is all there is. https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/the-mccarrick-mess/5873/ The post with the photo is the complete writing. It was sent to me as a post from another forum. I don't know which forum. The following is the entire article as copied from the link: http://magister.blogautore.espresso...es-the-miraculous-career-of-cardinal-farrell/ McCarrick and His Proteges. The Miraculous Career of Cardinal Farrell As has been known for days, with a terse statement Pope Francis has announced that Theodore McCarrick, 88, archbishop emeritus of Washington, is no longer a cardinal, is under house arrest, must lead a life of prayer and penance, and is suspended “a divinis.” And all this while awaiting the results of the “regular canonical trial.” One must go back to 1927 to find a previous case of removal from the college of cardinals. That time the one to be stripped of the scarlet was the Jesuit Louis Billot, on account of his allegiance to the political movement “Action Française,” condemned the year before by the Holy See. But for McCarrick the reasons are of a completely different nature and incomparably more serious under the moral profile. They concern his prolonged and disordered sexual activity with adults, young people, and even minors, with priests and seminarians, practiced for decades without having the slightest effect - in spite of the fact that it was known to a great number of persons at various levels of the Church - on his triumphant ecclesiastical career. Much has already been written about the McCarrick case in recent days. But not much yet on the extent to which it may involve not only the protagonist of the affair, but also the churchmen most closely connected to him, they too the beneficiaries, thanks to him, of careers verging on the miraculous. One of these in particular prompts serious questions. It is Kevin J. Farrell, 71, made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2016 and the prefect of the new dicastery for laity, family and life. Born in Ireland, Farrell entered the Legionaries of Christ in the mid-70’s, when that organization was still small and its malevolent founder Marcial Maciel was shrouded in an aura of universal respectability. After leaving the Legionaries about fifteen years later, Farrell then maintained complete silence over Maciel’s sexual misconduct - dramatically come to light - and has always insisted that he never had any noteworthy contact with him. But it emerges from credible testimonies that he occupied positions in the Legion and enjoyed a more than sporadic proximity to Maciel, which makes it implausible that he was completely unaware of the depraved behavior of his superior. After leaving the Legion, Farrell was incardinated as a priest of the archdiocese of Washington. And at the end of 2001 he became auxiliary bishop there, when McCarrick had been archbishop for a year. McCarrick’s promotion as archbishop of the capital of the United States - at the summit of an ascent that had seen him become auxiliary of New York, then bishop of Metuchen, and then archbishop of Newark - had already prompted serious objections back then, motivated precisely by what had already leaked out about his insatiable sexual practices. The objections made it all the way to Rome. But the appointment moved forward all the same, and the following year McCarrick was also made a cardinal. But the appointment of the Irishman Farrell as his auxiliary caused astonishment too. His previous militancy among the Legionaries of Christ was certainly not set down in his favor, seeing what was starting to leak out about the double life of its founder, Maciel, and about the complicity or the culpable silence of many around him. But by this time McCarrick was a force to be reckoned with, in the upper echelon of the American hierarchy and not only there. He wanted Farrell there with him and he got him, ordaining him bishop personally. And he also wanted him to live in the same apartment with him in Washington, not in the bishop’s residence but on the fourth floor of a former orphanage, conveniently renovated. Once again, it appears implausible that Farrell knew nothing about the ongoing casual sexual adventures of his patron. In 2006, McCarrick left the archdiocese of Washington for reasons of age, while continuing to exert significant influence in the upper hierarchy of the Church. And the following year Farrell changed sees, promoted as bishop of Dallas, a diocese of the first rank, with the clear support of his mentor. In the final phase of the pontificate of John Paul II and during the pontificate of Benedict XVI Farrell never stood out among the American cardinals and bishops of progressive stamp. McCarrick did. For example, he was among the critics of the directive given by Joseph Ratzinger to the bishops of the United States to withhold communion from Catholic politicians in favor of the legalization of abortion. And he was an open supporter of one of these “pro-choice” politicians, John Kerry, in the presidential election campaign of 2004. But after Benedict XVI was replaced by Pope Francis, Farrell also rapidly aligned himself with the new course. In the United States, he immediately teamed up with the new progressive leaders - they too with McCarrick as their patron - Blaise Cupich and Joseph Tobin, promoted by Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Chicago and Newark respectively, both of them also promptly made cardinals. He enthusiastically hailed “Amoris Laetitia” in its interpretation in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried. Above all, having become in the meantime the cardinal prefect of the new Vatican dicastery for laity, family and life, he signed the preface to and recommendation of one of the books most representative of the new Bergoglian climate: > James Martin S.J., "Building a Bridge. How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity", HarperCollins US, 2018. CONT.
The author, one of the best-known Jesuits in the United States and a leading writer for the magazine “America,” wants this book to open the way to a substantial revision, by the “pastoral” path, of the doctrine of the Catholic Church on homosexuality. But Cardinal Farrell’s preface to the book is not the only authoritative form of support he has given to this coveted paradigm shift. Farrell, because of the role he now occupies in the curia, is also the official director of the upcoming world meeting of families in Dublin, at the end of August, where Martin will be among the speakers and guests, together with homosexual couples from all over the world. Not to mention Pope Francis’s personal move in this same direction, with the appointment of Martin as an adviser for the new Vatican dicastery for communication, a clear sign of appreciation for this Jesuit’s activity. Of course, it is easy to charge John Paul II and the Vatican officials of the time with having lacked prudence in promoting to the highest levels a churchman with a notoriously unexemplary life like McCarrick, ignoring all the alarm signals that came to them. But what seems even more rash is the decision of Pope Francis to call to Rome as head of the dicastery for the family a character like Farrell, who had one after another as his villainous mentors the serial predators Maciel and McCarrick, and moreover presents himself today as a proponent of the legitimization of homosexual amours. And this is by no means a matter of an isolated case. On the council of 9 cardinals called by Francis to assist him in the “governance of the universal Church,” no fewer than three have been hamstrung on account of sexual abuse: - the Australian George Pell, on trial in his country; - the Chilean Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, accused of having defended to the extreme, against all evidence, the serial abuser priest Antonio Karadima and his disciple bishop Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid, on whose innocence even Pope Francis himself expended all of his authority until the beginning of this year, only to acknowledge his guilt afterward and remove him; - the Honduran Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, still the coordinator of the “C9” but whose auxiliary bishop and protoge Juan José Pineda was removed last July 20 on account of continuous sexual abuse verified by an apostolic visitation. But to these must be added not a few churchmen of nonchalant homosexual behavior who populate Bergoglio’s retinue, whom he has wanted close to him on an individual basis: “in primis” that Monsignor Battista Ricca who manages Casa Santa Marta and acts as the official go-between for the pope and the Institute for Works of Religion, the gossip-ridden Vatican “bank.” Having distinguished himself for scandalous conduct when he was a nunciature official in Algiers, in Bern, and even more so in Montevideo, and having been called back to Rome for this reason Ricca saw his personal dossier in the curia rewritten “ex novo” with this record of his expunged, rebuilt his career from the ground up and entered into the good graces of the current pope, who referred to none other than him, at the beginning of his pontificate, with that famous phrase: “Who am I to judge?” which has become a universal byword. (English translation by Matthew Sherry, Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.A.)
Thank you, ComeSoon! It was a cognitive hiccup on my part, I assumed that when you wrote Cont. that the next article was a continuation.
I always hoped Bishop Barron was sound. Thank God, he seems to be coming good. On the other hand, there seem to be vast areas of the hierarchy equivalent to a cess-pool. Let us call upon the one who crushes the head of the serpent.
Right, actually they were two separate articles, though clearly related to each other. I had intended to post them in one. It turned out to be too long.
I do as well. I'm thinking he is sound, though uses language easier for most Progressives to relate to. "language intended to reach the broader audience." He is an ecclesiastical educator, Catholic "Evangelist".
Following the McCarrick 'disclosures' (as if almost everyone in the US Church hadn't known for decades), the report into the Benedictine teachers at Ampleforth and Downside schools has been published and its contents are truly appalling. It recounts forty years of abuse of boys as young as seven, monks being blatantly clear to staff and pupils about their attraction to boys and worst of all joint activity between pairs or more of monks and a boy or boys. There was a continuing conspiracy to cover up while a pretence was maintained that, when a case came to light, that the order was shocked and surprised, indeed the abbot of Downside apparently made a bonfire of staff files to destroy evidence. There have been several suicides by former pupils who were abused or believed to have been. The infamous Archbishop Weakland was/is a Benedictine as was his great friend, and former abbot of Ampleforth, Cardinal Basil Hume (deceased). I am beginning to think that I am financing an international homosexual 'club' which uses a significant amount of our money to satisfy their unnatural lusts and to pay off those who threaten to go public or have had awards by a court. BBC Radio 4 has been serialising Dante's 'Divine Comedy' which recounts a soul's insights after death and details the state of the Church at that time, the degenerate Papacy and its court, and the worldliness of the religious orders which all make it seem like a news report from today. Benedict knew what he was up against and did not have the strength to fight the 'wolves' in the hierarchy whom he mentioned when elected. Francis was the declared choice of such 'wolves' as McCarrick and Daneels and who owes them favours, we can expect no respite from that quarter.
I've never been quite had the time to examine Bishop Barron in depth. However, he does seem to have extraordinary evangelising energy - and results. Which is saying something. Or rather, a lot. If only more bishops had this fire to evangelise ...
I met Cardinal Hume and always regarded him as a saint. He wrote some marvellous books on prayer. In fact there is a move to get him raised to the altar in the English Church. I continue to be confused as to the attitude of prelates (including Abbots) towards child abusers. My own attitude would be to call the police and then set the dogs on them (not necessarily in that order...just whatever worked). I am confused because Cardinal Hume was Abbot of Ampleforth at a time when I am fairly certain there may very well have been operating there. Yet no monks , to my knowledge have been either eaten by dogs or locked up by the police. But I don't know for sure if they were operating way back then. Hopefully not. What awful times.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/11/benedict-xvi-prophet-2/ Benedict XVI: Prophet Fr. Robert P. Imbelli Saturday, August 11, 2018 Note: Fr. Imbelli tells us he was reading along in some works by Pope Benedict XVI and was moved to extract several passages that seemed to speak powerfully to the multiple scandals in which we find ourselves. We agree, and thought you would like to see them as well. – Robert Royal During his last trip to Germany, at Freiburg im Breisgau, on September 24thand 25th2011, Benedict XVI gave two addresses to German bishops, clergy, and lay leaders. Reports at the time indicated they were not well received by the audience. From the vantage of the present crisis, however, they appear prescient. Here follow extended excerpts from the two discourses: “We live at a time that is broadly characterized by a subliminal relativism that penetrates every area of life. Sometimes this relativism becomes aggressive, when it opposes those who say that they know where the truth or meaning of life is to be found.” “And we observe that this relativism exerts more and more influence on human relationships and on society. This is reflected, among other things, in the inconstancy and fragmentation of many people’s lives and in an exaggerated individualism. Many no longer seem capable of any form of self-denial or of making a sacrifice for others. Even the altruistic commitment to the common good, in the social and cultural sphere or on behalf of the needy, is in decline. Others are now quite incapable of committing themselves unreservedly to a single partner. People can hardly find the courage now to promise to be faithful for a whole lifetime; the courage to make a decision and say: now I belong entirely to you, or to take a firm stand for fidelity and truthfulness and sincerely to seek a solution to their problems.” “The Church in Germany is superbly organized. But behind the structures, is there also a corresponding spiritual strength, the strength of faith in the living God? We must honestly admit that we have more than enough by way of structure but not enough by way of Spirit. I would add: the real crisis facing the Church in the western world is a crisis of faith. If we do not find a way of genuinely renewing our faith, all structural reform will remain ineffective.” “If the Church, in Pope Paul VI’s words, is now struggling ‘to model itself on Christ’s ideal,’ this ‘can only result in its acting and thinking quite differently from the world around it, which it is nevertheless striving to influence.’ (Ecclesiam Suam, 58) In order to accomplish her mission, she will need again and again to set herself apart from her surroundings, to become in a certain sense ‘unworldly’.” Freiburg im Breisgau, September 25, 2011 “In the concrete history of the Church, however, a contrary tendency is also manifested, namely that the Church becomes self-satisfied, settles down in this world, becomes self-sufficient and adapts herself to the standards of the world. Not infrequently, she gives greater weight to organization and institutionalization than to her vocation to openness towards God, her vocation to opening up the world towards the other.” “In order to accomplish her true task adequately, the Church must constantly renew the effort to detach herself from her tendency towards worldliness and once again to become open towards God. In this she follows the words of Jesus: ‘They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world’ (Jn 17:16), and in precisely this way Jesus gives himself to the world. One could almost say that history comes to the aid of the Church here through the various periods of secularization, which have contributed significantly to her purification and inner reform.” “Secularizing trends – whether by expropriation of Church goods, or elimination of privileges or the like – have always meant a profound liberation of the Church from forms of worldliness, for in the process she, as it were, sets aside her worldly wealth and once again completely embraces her worldly poverty.” “History has shown that, when the Church becomes less worldly, her missionary witness shines more brightly. Once liberated from material and political burdens and privileges, the Church can reach out more effectively and in a truly Christian way to the whole world, she can be truly open to the world. She can live more freely her vocation to the ministry of divine worship and service of neighbor.” “It is not a question here of finding a new strategy to re-launch the Church. Rather, it is a question of setting aside mere strategy and seeking total transparency, not bracketing or ignoring anything from the truth of our present situation, but living the faith fully here and now in the utterly sober light of day, appropriating it completely, and stripping away from it anything that only seems to belong to faith, but in truth is mere convention or habit.” “To put it another way: for people of every era, and not just our own, the Christian faith is a scandal. That the eternal God should know us and care about us, that the intangible should at a particular moment have become tangible, that he who is immortal should have suffered and died on the Cross, that we who are mortal should be given the promise of resurrection and eternal life – for people of any era, to believe all this is a bold claim.” “This scandal, which cannot be eliminated unless one were to eliminate Christianity itself, has unfortunately been overshadowed in recent times by other painful scandals on the part of the preachers of the faith. A dangerous situation arises when these scandals take the place of the primary skandalon of the Cross and in so doing they put it beyond reach, concealing the true demands of the Christian Gospel behind the unworthiness of those who proclaim it.”
A homosexual priest blogged that he was living openly with another male and, as he expected, someone reported the matter to his archbishop who was also the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. He said that the Cardinal he met about the matter is not the current holder of that post which means that it was either Murphy-O'Connor or Hume. He said that he assumed that he was to be disciplined/asked to leave the parish or priesthood. However the Cardinal asked him a lot of questions about the parish and his background and his interests, they discussed holidays and the weather and he was thanked for coming and that was the end of the interview. As he reached the door, the Cardinal said, 'Oh, by the way, please be more discreet'. I don't know which of the two said this (if true) but (if so) I know where my money is.
I read a book of his, a biography of St. Thomas Aquinas. The book's fairly old, but it demonstrates a small bit of dodgy seventies/eighties style 'theology', notably referring to God in the feminine. Nevertheless, he comes across as an orthodox Thomist, otherwise. Hopefully, he's left such 'blips' behind. Bishop Barron projects a masculine persona, in contrast to the effete, simpering, feminine one of so many of his colleagues. It is reassuring to see him nail his colours to the mast, because people can wear all sorts of masks and trust in the human beings that hold these offices has been almost completely eroded. Sadly, we live in a world in which the liberal establishment propagates masculinity as something 'toxic'. How have so few managed to gain dominance over so many? The influence of satan sees the only plausible explanation for such unnatural inversions. It's considered sexist to say so, but the Church has become feminised. Obviously, there are many priests, bishops and even cardinals who are homosexuals/homosexualist. There is not enough lay male involvement in the day-to-day running of the Church and altar girls seem to outnumber altar boys. One needs a strong masculine side of the Church for evangelisation. Perhaps, this is why growth is mainly occurring in Africa, a continent that shows little willingness to embrace feminist or homosexualist heresy.
Yes Bishop Barron seems to be turning out better. Thank God. But the hell is empty no one might be there idea of his is very,very troubling indeed. Very troubling.
