SgC: The Bishop of St. Gallen said that the group stopped meeting after the election of Pope Benedict. With the Jesuits on board along with other Bishops like Cardinal McCarrick and Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor and no doubt the likes of Maradiaga and others we can only guess at, they didn't need to keep meeting and even if they had there's no proof. Anyway, those rules for the election of a Pope were not written for us. They were for the Cardinal electors and we don't have the authority to discipline them. The history of the Church has plenty of examples of Popes gaining power in dubious circumstances. The papacy has even been bought and sold. If ever we needed proof that God protects the Church, the very fact that it has survived some of our popes and prelates is proof enough because only God could make good come from what some of them were and the decisions they made. Thankfully, we also get saints interspersed among the scoundrels and if we pray sincerely enough some of today's scoundrels could end up saints. There's plenty of material for a future Council to determine whether or not Pope Francis was an anti-Pope. The only time we would ever have a choice would be a case where two men were claiming to be Pope and we need to pray very much that we will never be faced with such a choice because in the past even saints have backed the wrong man. Best leave it to the Bishops rather than risking our own souls by assuming an authority we don't have.
Accusing Pope of heresy is 'worst thing' says Müller Cardinal Müller: 'The Church is going through one of the worst crises in its entire history.' Accusing Pope of heresy is the "worst thing that can happen in the Church of the living God'"says former CDF Prefect, Cardinal Gerhard Müller. The former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Müller, has defended Pope Francis against the accusations of heresy that have been made against him, but has cautioned against idealising Francis. “Accusations of heresy against the representative of the true faith revealed in Christ are the worst thing that can happen in the ‘Church of the living God, pillar and support of the truth’ (1 Timothy 3:15), Müller told the German "Die Tagespost" on 16 May in a long interview on the present situation of the Church entitled “Time for a Clear Word”. It was “principally wrong” to blame the Pope for everything that was going wrong in the Church today, he said, but the corresponding public remonstrances by “well-known theologians” should be answered. Their worries were understandable and the desire for greater clarity as far as statements by the Pope were concerned were justified, but the means the theologians had chosen were not. “It would be important for the Holy Father to have the CDF – and not the State Secretariat or journalists or theologians that he is on good terms with – publish an official clarification”, emphasised Müller. The flaws in recent papal documents were in his eyes caused by the fact that the documents had been prepared by “people who may well be the Pope’s friends but are neither officially nor professionally qualified theologically. They have incurred a heavy burden of guilt upon themselves by causing irritations which have greatly harmed the Pope and the papacy.” It was a fact that the Church was at the moment going through one of the worst crises in its entire history, acknowledged Müller. It would not continue to exist if it turned into a “religious-political NGO” and relativised the faith revealed to it by Jesus Christ and its moral doctrine or gave both up altogether, he underlined. Asked what he would advise Pope Francis to reply to the “Dubia” cardinals who were still waiting for an answer from him, Müller said the whole affair should never have been made public but should have been settled internally. “We believe in the one Church of Christ united in faith and love,” he said. He again warned against inner-church divisions. It was wrong to “celebrate Pope Francis as the best Pope in church history at the expense of all his predecessors”. “All the talk” about opposition to Francis came from “ideologues who wanted to lead the Church into the abyss”. It was time for Pope Francis “to say a clear word on the unity of all Catholics in revealed faith”, Müller underlined. https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/11694/accusing-pope-of-heresy-is-worst-thing-says-m-ller
No worries at all Dolours and thanks for the kind words. I was not upset at you, just concerned maybe I said something offensive when I didn't mean to. I don't think there is anything wrong with discussing these things. I think we need to. I just meant that I don't think we should be bent on finding an answer until it makes us mad or sick because I don't think there really is a realistic solution this side of Heaven. We still need to try though and also discussion will help those who are still lost and stumble upon this forum in the quest for answers. I do think though spending more of our time in humility and prayer is the best solution for spiritual guidance in these times and if we feel we need to "do" something to help solve all this.
Peace be with you, Praetorian. I do not want to be at loggerheads with anyone. This forum is a space for discussion, and I treasure it.
Me too SG. I know you're trying your best and I don't mean to pester you. I'm just concerned, that's all. I don't want anyone falling out of the boat. We're all confused here. Peace
We have been warned by Our Lady of Good Success about these times. We must pray hard and receive the sacraments to be strong and get the graces we need to persevere. We can’t do it alone.It is God’s church and with our prayers and sacrifice he will save it. The more involved we get the more frustrated we become so keep it simple.We know what we have to do. Monthly confession and prayer and Eucharist.
Fr Cusick is taking the high road He had a message on his parish sign welcoming Bishop Wilton Gregory Tomorrow is his installation At 1:30 pm on ewtn coming from the National Shrine We know that this means: prayer and penance We take a wait and see attitude As Praetorian said, and I agree, what’s the point in trying to find an answer? Only God knows Peace to all here in the name of our Risen Lord and may He continue to bless and sanctify His shepherds, as only He can.
Agreed, Rory. This is my to-do list for survival. 1) Daily Mass and Holy Communion, and Eucharistic Adoration, whenever possible. Try to make Spiritual Offerings of the Precious Blood of Jesus to the Eternal Father, like in the Divine Mercy or Holy Wounds Chaplet, followed by Spiritual Communions. 2) Praying the Rosary every day, our strongest weapon outside Mass, and strongly recommended by Our Lady of Fatima, and Sr. Lucia, for ushering in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart urgently. Sr. Lucia even recommended praying the Holy Rosary as a quasi-liturgical prayer at every 3rd hour (like the Liturgy of the Hours) whenever we can. We are undergoing the diabolical disorientation and need great light and grace to see the Truth and remain in it till the end. April 12, 1970: "People must recite the Rosary every day. Our Lady repeated this in all Her apparitions, as if to arm us in advance against these times of diabolical disorientation, so that we would not let ourselves be fooled by false doctrines, and that through prayer, the elevation of our soul to God would not be diminished.... This is a diabolical disorientation invading the world and misleading souls! It is necessary to stand up to it..." (Sister Lucy, to her friend Dona Maria Teresa da Cunha) 3. Offering everything we do and all our daily duties- as well as any cross we may carry, which can we so useful to our Lord and Lady when offered up in reparation, for cancelling sin and dispensing graces- to the Twin Hearts in love and reparation. 4. Standing firm ourselves by living and remaining in the Truth of the Catholic Faith, without which we cannot be saved, irrespective of what morals liberals try to corrupt or what eternal doctrines modernists vainly try or hope to change. 5. We should read good traditional Catholic books and our Catechisms and know our Faith, so as not to be deceived by anyone. We could wear the Scapular, consecrate ourselves to Jesus through Mary, carry our Rosary always with us, and make good use of sacramentals, after they are blessed. A terrible storm is coming and, if we hope to persevere through it, we should be preparing for it daily starting today. Daily or at least frequent Mass is a must. We need the Bread of Life to persevere in the Faith and in Love and Grace till the end. Our Lord says so in the Gospel and the Saints and Doctors say the same, especially St. Alphonsus Liguori. Dear brother Praetorian, it's quite understandable in this terrible crisis, but please consider going back to regular sacramental life. If a Bishop or Priest does something wrong like deliberately giving Holy Communion to unrepentant adulterers, he will answer to God for it. No one else need suffer being deprived of God's Graces because of that sinful choice. No need to punish ourselves for other people's mistakes, imho. God will provide for us, we don't need to worry about whatever they want to do next in Rome. But we must save each of our souls and strive to attain the degree of sanctity God wills for us individually. And we can only do that through the Sacraments. God bless.
Wise words, Xavier. Thank you and may we all be blessed with following these simple steps to sanctity.
Why can’t our Bishops and priests “keep it simple?” Why can’t they just clean out seminaries? Why can’t their sermons be simple enough to inform the people of what are actual sins? I mean just list the sins from the act of homosexuality, pedophilia, pornography, abortion, pre marital sex, drugs, etc., on a weekly basis. Get back to simplicity.
I'll tell you why, although many do not agree he is here, but he is and the Antichrist is well embedded within the highest to the lowest areas within the church clergy. Many mystics and prophets in the past 20 years have said as much, including Josyp Terelya in his message on October 21, 2002. He has acted very subtly, stealthly and effectively, but will soon act abruptly and strongly in events to come starting with the schism in God's house, then global war and the economic, political and social collapse. It's all been written.
Thank you Fatima for your response. I know Antichrist is here. Pope Paul VI said the smoke of Satan has entered the Church back in the 60’s. But it does not mean we can’t fight against it. The city of Dallas last week took matters into their own hands by confiscating evidence against those priests who abused in their dioceses. People are tired of the slow actions from our Catholic institutions. We need to get to the bottom of it all. Crimes have been committed and justice must be served. Prayer is important for all of us of course, but action here is needed. It’s time the lay get involved to clean up the Church. We want simple demands for simple solutions. I was in the last major fund raising gala in my city a few months ago for the Catholic diocese. Speaking to some of the priests that night shocked me. They were all in denial with the crisis. Some even joked about it. And they collected that night hundreds of thousands of dollars. As long as the money keeps rolling in, they don’t worry. It’s that simple.
Fatima seers St. Francisco (L) and St. Jacinta Marto (Public domain) Blogs | May. 13, 2019 At 100, St. Francisco Shares Lessons on May 13 Fatima Anniversary From that first apparition at Fatima, Francisco quickly began to give lessons and examples to everyone on how we’re to react to what Our Lady revealed and asked. Joseph Pronechen | http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jose...ssons-on-our-lady-of-fatimas-may-13th-anniver May 13 marks the 102nd anniversary of Fatima. While not the same date, this year also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Fatima seer St. Francisco. Let’s recall the major event of the apparition first. May 13 was the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament. Keep that in mind for when we get to Francisco. The children were tending sheep at the Cova outside the town. They ate lunch and began to pray a Rosary, although a rather shortened one using on the first few words of each prayer. They saw what they thought was lightning, although the sky was clear. Moments later, while moving the sheep, they saw a second flash and Our Blessed Mother appeared before them. She asked the children: Will you offer yourselves to God, and bear all the sufferings he sends you? In atonement for all the sins that offend Him? And for the conversion of sinners? “We will,” they said. Our Lady answered, Then you will have a great deal to suffer, but the grace of God will be with you and will strengthen you. Then a heavenly light streamed from her hands and the children “knew somehow that this light was God, and we could see ourselves embraced in it.” Our Lady told them, “Say the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war.” Francisco’s Reaction Teaches Lessons In her memoirs, Lucia described how her cousin Francisco was overjoyed when he was told of Our Lady’s promise that he would go to heaven. (Remember, he saw Our Lady but did not hear her.) Lucia said her cousin exclaimed how he would pray: “Oh, my dear Our Lady! I’ll say as many Rosaries as you want!” From that time, he would separate himself somewhat from Lucia and his sister Jacinta and when they wondered why he did this, he would show them his rosary. Lucia said when they asked him to play and then pray the Rosary afterward, he would tell them, “I’ll pray then as well. Don’t you remember that Our Lady said I must pray many Rosaries?” He would even skip lunchtime to pray the Rosary. What an example and what a lesson from a youngster who was not even 10 years old about how we should listen to our Blessed Mother’s requests. Just think how in these last 102 years how many people have actually taken her simple requests to heart. Lesson Two from Francisco Connected to that first apparition comes something else he soon shared with Lucia. He told her how much he loved “seeing Our Lady. What I loved most of all was to see Our Lord in that light from Our Lady which penetrated our hearts. I love God so much! But He is very sad because of so many sins! We must never commit any sins again.” “Thus, he was a great promoter of reparation,” says John Preiss, president of Fatima Family Apostolate International. Again, take a look at the world’s slide from May 13, 1917, to 1939 and World War II, then through the last 15-20 years when it comes to sin and offending God. But Francisco, not yet 10 years old, was not about to stray from what Our Lady revealed and asked. “Didn’t Our Lady say that we would have much to suffer, to make reparation to Our Lord and to her own Immaculate Heart for all the sins by which They are offended?” Francisco reminded Lucia. “They are so sad! If we can console them with these sufferings, how happy we shall be!” And another time he said, “I am thinking about God, Who is so sad because of so many sins! If only I could give Him joy!” Preiss finds great lessons in this. He shares how we can see a unique spirituality in Francisco “which made him more engaged with consoling Our Lord than converting sinners. In Lucia’s memoirs, she illustrated Francisco’s desires: ‘One day I asked him: ‘Francisco, which do you like best: to console Our Lord or to convert sinners so as to prevent souls from going to Hell?’” Francisco answered “I liked more to console Our Lord. Didn’t you notice last month how Our Lady was so sad when she said people must no longer offend God, Our Lord, who is already much offended? I wanted to console Our Lord and, afterward, to convert sinners so they will no longer offend Him.” Preiss explains that Francisco’s priority of consoling God was so clear that he spoke often about it. He reminds of the day Lucia visited Francisco, “already in his final sickness, and he complained about a massive headache. When Jacinta reminded him to offer it up for the conversion of sinners, he replied: ‘Yes, but first I offer it to console Our Lord and Our Lady; and only then I offer it for sinners and for the Holy Father.’” Now, remember how the first apparition fell on the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament? Francisco would spend hours in church before the Blessed Sacrament consoling the “Hidden Jesus.” He would skip school to do so, explaining how he was going to heaven soon. He decided to spend his time more productively consoling the Hidden Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament over all the sins committed against him. “Francisco’s witness challenges us all,” says Preiss. “How do we respond when we receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist? Is it simply out of habit, or with profound love? Often, in the rush of our everyday lives, we lose focus on our spiritual lives. Francisco grew in faith through what became a life of constant prayer, especially praying the Rosary.” During the great influenza epidemic on April 4, 1919, Francisco died at the age of 10 after leaving a lifetime’s worth of example following the guidance and requests of Our Lady of Fatima. *** Blogs | May. 20, 2019 Cardinal Sarah Praises Benedict’s ‘Notes’ on Abuse Crisis Cardinal Sarah said that he, like the Pope Emeritus, was “deeply convinced” that abuse of minors will increase “if we do not adore the Eucharistic body of our God, if we do not treat him with joyful and reverent fear.” Edward Pentin | http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-sarah-praises-benedicts-notes-on-abuse-crisis
Vatican | May. 17, 2019 Dutch Cardinal on Gender Ideology: It Sets the World ‘Against the Christian Faith’ In a Register interview, Cardinal Willem Eijk discusses his concerns about gender ideology, and how faithful Catholics can respond to the current moral crisis in the Church. Edward Pentin | http://www.ncregister.com/daily-new...ogy-it-sets-the-world-against-the-christian-f Gender theory, the notion that male and female roles have no, or merely a remote, connection with the biological sex, sets the human race and world order “against the Christian faith,” Cardinal Willem Eijk warned at a Rome conference. Speaking May 16 at the Rome Life Forum, an annual meeting of members of the international pro-life movement, the archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, explained how the ideology, which has spread rapidly, is rooted in “radical feminism” and that “many organizations” inside and outside the West are now aiming to introduce what has become known as “gender equity.” One result of enforced gender equality could be to make hospitals, doctors and others vulnerable to litigation if they oppose a particular sexual orientation or performing gender alteration surgery. Cardinal Eijk stressed the urgency to highlight the errors of gender ideology due to its “grave consequences,” not just for society and sexual morality, but also for the proclamation of the Christian faith. In this May 16 interview with the Register, the Dutch cardinal summarizes his concerns about gender theory and discusses his views on the current moral crisis in the Church — what it means, and how to approach it. Your Eminence, you spoke about radical feminism, contraception and their connection with gender ideology. What does link them together? Radical feminists in the ’60s said: “Well, you know, now we have contraception and we can use it in order to redeem, so to say, women of the tyranny of maternity, of having children, of bearing children.” But you know, they did not limit it to motherhood and female biology, they extended it to all biological sexes. So they say, well, “We have now the means to liberate people from their biological sex and to give them the gender they like. They can choose whatever they like, because there is no, or only a pretty remote connection, between gender, your social role and your biological sex.” They think it in a dualistic way, they think the body is something secondary, and that the human person is only his mind, his center, with which he thinks and which he makes autonomous decisions, and these are very complicated functions of the brain that emerged during evolution, but the rest of the body is what we have in common with animals. So, we can dispose completely of our bodies, even our biological sex. It's a very materialistic view. Sure, it is a materialistic view of the mind. It’s a kind of Cartesian view of man. Soul and body. The soul became the human mind, and that is explained in a very materialistic way. You also say it’s a danger to the proclamation of the Church, the Church’s ability to proclaim the Gospel. How is it an attack on this, as well as sexual morality? God reveals himself as a Father in the Old and the New Testament. He reveals himself as the Bridegroom of his people, Israel. The relationship between Christ and the Church is compared to the relationship between man and wife in marriage, that’s in St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. Now these analogies lose every sense if you completely alter the sense of paternity-maternity marriage, because when you proclaim the matrimony, so-called matrimony, between people of the same sex, what is left of the analogy between God and his people and the spouses within matrimony? And is that where we get calls for women priests, etc.? Yes, we use these analogies, the Holy Scripture, in order to reveal something of God, the Triune God. And when we accept the theory of gender, we make it impossible for ourselves to proclaim the Christian faith. That’s the great problem we are facing now. Moving on to the current crisis in the Church, some people are very concerned, as we’ve seen in the open letter calling on bishops to investigate Pope Francis for heresy and other initiatives. What words of comfort can you give to the faithful who are very concerned about the way the Church is going, and where do you think it’s going and what can be done about it? There’s much confusion, because people are burdened with a lot of information. We are living in an information society, everything from the media, public opinion, to the world of advertisements, and social media. People are bombarded with this, and all these confused ideas are entering the Church. They don’t stop at the entrance of our churches, they enter the Church, so people are confused. You see also confusion about priests, our leaders, religious leaders. It happened in other times as well and it is our duty to believe that the Holy Spirit is guiding our Church also in this time. The holy Church is active in our heart when we believe and we have to follow him. And at a certain moment, Christ will change, through the Holy Spirit, the situation in the Church, as he has done many times. We are the eldest concern in the whole world. We’ve existed for 2,000 years, and we will exist until the end of times. The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, so we have to really believe that. Amid all the confusion, just pray for the guiding of the Holy Spirit and you will find the true way of Christ. [Emphasis added.] Do you think that the Holy Spirit is working through this pontificate, perhaps inadvertently, to reveal the errors, the sins of the past 50 years or so? The sins and corruption that have remained hidden in the Church have been coming to the surface such as the sexual abuse crisis. Is that the work of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is working in this confusion, too. What is the sense of all this? What is the meaning of God with this crisis in the Church? Mostly, we only see the meaning of it, what God meant to say to us, afterward. At this moment we must live in the now, the present. We have to believe in Christ who gave us his Holy Spirit, and we have to follow what he says in our heart. We all have the Holy Spirit, have the faith of the Holy Spirit through baptism and confirmation, so we can rely on him. He will work in the magisterium as well. In what way? Sometimes that’s difficult to decipher for us, at other times it is easier, but just believe that and afterward you will see what God meant with this crisis in the Church. [Emphasis added.] Is it a time of purification? I think it is a great purification in our Church, and perhaps we need it, such purification. The Dutch Church was still very strong in the ’40s and ’50s. But priests saw then that Catholics had more of a social relationship with the Church than a relationship based on the personal faith, on their prayers. John Paul II, as Karol Wojtyła, while he was studying in Rome, here at the Angelicum, he visited our country for a few days and he admired the organization, the mighty organization of our Church. At the same time, he said what it lacks is a life of personal prayer, of personal faith among people. When this individualism came in the ’60s, Catholics only had their social relationships with the Church, but not relationships based on faith, and therefore many left the Church, especially in the second half of the ‘60s, and afterward the decline became slower but it is still going on. The quantity of people who are believing is getting smaller, but the quality is getting higher. People are more believing, the people who go to Church are praying people. [Emphasis added.]
Ex-Legionary, Fox News Personality Asks To Leave Priesthood Jonathan Morris announced that he's asking Pope Francis to allow him to leave the priesthood. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Jonathan Morris.) Father Jonathan Morris, a former member of the Legion of Christ who was at one time among the most prominent Catholic priests in America as a contributor to Fox News, has asked to be dismissed from the clerical state, indicating he wants to be free to “marry and have a family” though saying it’s not about an “existing relationship.” In a statement released Friday, Morris writes that the decision has filled him “with newfound joy,” though he says he knows some people won’t understand his decision to leave the priesthood. “After taking some months of sabbatical to be with family and to dedicate more time to prayer and retreat, I have decided to ask the Holy Father, Pope Francis, to release me from the duties and responsibilities of the clerical state,” Morris said in a statement, which he made available to Crux. Morris left the troubled Legion of Christ in 2009, three years after the Vatican suspended its founder, Father Macial Marciel, from his priestly duties, having found Maciel guilty of various forms of sexual abuse and misconduct as well as abuse of power. Morris was incardinated into the Archdiocese of New York with the support of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. He’s appeared on several TV networks and is best known for his role with Fox News, though he was also a theological adviser to Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ”, and was the program director for “The Catholic Channel,” a project of the Archdiocese of New York, on the Sirius XM radio network for three years. Morris said in his statement that the fear of “disappointing people’s expectations” has held him back from taking the step he’s now taking, something he’s considered “often and at length in years past and discussed with my spiritual guides.” In his statement, Morris acknowledges that even though he’s “loved and thrived” in much of his ministry, he’s struggled with his vocation and the commitments demanded by being a Catholic priest, particularly not being able to marry and have a family. Morris writes that his decision “is not about an existing relationship, but rather about the peace and spiritual freedom I trust will come in the future by following God’s will for my life now.” Lastly, Morris says that his decision shouldn’t “take away anything from the many heroic men and women who are living out their religious vocations with admirable fidelity and fulfillment.” “I will always be in the pews ready to support you, because my faith in God and love for my Church is stronger than ever,” Morris said. “I look forward to serving in new ways alongside of you.” Morris told Crux he’s “just beginning the process to request laicization,” and there’s no indication of when a response to his request is expected. Morris is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. To read the full text of Morris’s statement, click here: Morris statement. https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-u...ews-personality-asks-to-leave-the-priesthood/
Just the Facts, Ma’am: False Accusations Against Catholic Priests Are Now At Epic Proportions The media will never tell you this, and the professional victims' groups will outright lie. But facts are facts. Bogus abuse accusations against Catholic priests are rampant. The fraud being perpetrated against the Church is now off the charts. But don't take our word for it. Here are the numbers: ● In 2011, a declaration submitted to the Los Angeles County Superior Court asserted that a former FBI investigator examining abuse claims against priests in Los Angeles had determined that "ONE-HALF of the claims were either entirely false or so greatly exaggerated that the truth would not have supported a prosecutable claim for childhood sexual abuse." (The capital letters are in the original document.) ● In 2016, in a church of 70 million people in the United States, 25 current minors came forward alleging that a current priest had recently abused them. Some of the cases still remained under investigation a year later, but of the 13 allegations in which a determination was made, only two were found to be "substantiated," while the remaining 11 (or 85%) were found to be completely bogus. ● According to independent annual audit reports, as little as 15% of all accusations against Catholic priests in any given year are even deemed "substantiated" by the very lenient standards of diocesan review boards, with the majority of accusations deemed either "unsubstantiated" (indeed false*), "unable to be proven," or still under review. ● The Archdiocese of Boston – arguably the most publicly transparent with regards to accused priests – has published the names of 68 priests who have been determined guilty of abuse by either canonical of civil proceedings. Yet it has also concluded that 35 priestshave been falsely accused. In other words, more than one in three accused priests in Boston are determined innocent after a complete investigation. Let that sink in. And then there's the money Yes, it's all about the money In an article only a few weeks ago in The New Yorker, the Archdiocese of New York openly admitted that it has "lenient standards of evidence" when it comes to doling out some $61+million to accusers and that it has paid on many "weak claims." The archdiocese pays out on flimsy cases "in order to lead to a collective sense of resolution," according to the article, whatever that means. That the Church regularly pays out on rickety claims should not surprise any longtime reader of this site. We reported a while backhow the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, a small diocese in Louisiana, openly acknowledged that even though "there has not been a case that we deemed to be true," it had paid out at least one financial settlement for a claim alleging abuse decades earlier. Simply put: Fraudsters, flimflammers, and mental cases now score big cash settlements for themselves by making claims of past abuse. And the more the Church pays out on these bogus claims, the more claims it gets. Why not file suit? You have nothing to lose! Indeed, there was the shocking story of two robbers who walked into a sacristy in Illinois after Mass and demanded money from a priest with the ominous threat, "We'll say you touched us, read the paper, they'll believe us." And then there was the story of a prisoner actually recorded on phone calls scheming to rip off the Church over a bogus abuse claim with a friend who had already done so. (An East-coast attorney once wrote that prisoners falsely accusing a priest for money was a "current and popular scam." And he wrote this in 2001, 18 years ago.) And not to be forgotten: the travesty in Philadelphia, where multiple priests were falsely accused and a completely innocent priest died in prison. (Note to writers in the Catholic media: If you don't know what transpired in Philly a few years back, please take the time to learn about it.) A time to step up The persecution of the Church is not always violent. Sometimes it is economic, as it is here in the West. Fueled by media hysteria and hatred, plaintiffs are now coming out of the woodwork to file phony claims against the Church to cash in on the big dollars being offered to them. It is high time for defenders of truth and justice to call out the extortion racket for what it is and push back. Or more fraud will surely follow. ————————————- * Important note: Some readers are unclear on what is meant by "unsubstantiated" allegations in the annual audit reports of Church abuse. Well, straight from the reports themselves (emphasis added): "'Unsubstantiated' describes an allegation for which an investigation is complete and the allegation has been deemed not credible/false based upon the evidence gathered through the investigation." In other words, "unsubstantiated" claims are indeed bogus claims. http://www.themediareport.com/2019/05/13/false-accsuations-against-catholic-priests-facts/
How some conservative sites see the Pope after listening to his pronouncements and reading his opinions, and writings. I wonder if the UN would be a possible venue chosen by Pope Francis to control such globalist goals of governance even over science and be one of the worm holes to force sovereign nations to bend before the growing ignorance of socialism/communism type rule over all. Dangerous Red Francis Calls for Global Governance to Battle Climate Change Dangerous Catholic leader Pope Francis called for a new global governance to battle climate change junk science during his address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in early May. Red Pope Francis frequently speaks out on the controversial issue of global warming. In 2017 he told climate “skeptics” history will judge you. Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars reported: Pope Francis recently called for global governance to fight climate change, asserting, “The nation state cannot be considered as an absolute.” During an address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the Pope condemned “growing nationalism that neglects the common good” and called for more globalism. “The nation state cannot be considered as an absolute, as an island with respect to the surrounding context,” he said, adding, “The nation state is no longer able to procure the common good of its populations alone.” Pope Francis said that a “special authority legally and concordantly constituted” was necessary to facilitate the implementation of new climate change policies. He went on to demand that power be transferred from nation states to “intergovernmental institutions that manage their common interests.” “This universal common good, in turn, must acquire a more pronounced juridical value at international level,” concluded Francis. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...r-global-governance-to-battle-climate-change/
