Pope Francis covered up McCarrick abuse, former US nuncio testifies

contd. from previous post (Archbishop Vigano's statement)/.........

I would like to make a special appeal to Cardinal Ouellet, because as nuncio I always worked in great harmony with him, and I have always had great esteem and affection towards him. He will remember when, at the end of my mission in Washington, he received me at his apartment in Rome in the evening for a long conversation. At the beginning of Pope Francis’ pontificate, he had maintained his dignity, as he had shown with courage when he was Archbishop of Québec. Later, however, when his work as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops was being undermined because recommendations for episcopal appointments were being passed directly to Pope Francis by two homosexual “friends” of his dicastery, bypassing the Cardinal, he gave up. His long article in L’Osservatore Romano, in which he came out in favor of the more controversial aspects of Amoris Laetitia, represents his surrender. Your Eminence, before I left for Washington, you were the one who told me of Pope Benedict’s sanctions on McCarrick. You have at your complete disposal key documents incriminating McCarrick and many in the curia for their cover-ups. Your Eminence, I urge you to bear witness to the truth.

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Finally, I wish to encourage you, dear faithful, my brothers and sisters in Christ: never be despondent! Make your own the act of faith and complete confidence in Christ Jesus, our Savior, of Saint Paul in his second Letter to Timothy, Scio cui credidi, which I choose as my episcopal motto. This is a time of repentance, of conversion, of prayers, of grace, to prepare the Church, the bride of the Lamb, ready to fight and win with Mary the battle against the old dragon.

“Scio Cui credidi” (2 Tim 1:12)
In you, Jesus, my only Lord, I place all my trust.
“Diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum” (Rom 8:28).


To commemorate my episcopal ordination on April 26, 1992, conferred on me by St. John Paul II, I chose this image taken from a mosaic of the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice. It represents the miracle of the calming of the storm. I was struck by the fact that in the boat of Peter, tossed by the water, the figure of Jesus is portrayed twice. Jesus is sound asleep in the bow, while Peter tries to wake him up: “Master, do you not care that we are about to die?” Meanwhile the apostles, terrified, look each in a different direction and do not realize that Jesus is standing behind them, blessing them and assuredly in command of the boat: “He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Quiet! Be still,’ … then he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?’” (Mk 4:38-40).

The scene is very timely in portraying the tremendous storm the Church is passing through in this moment, but with a substantial difference: the successor of Peter not only fails to see the Lord in full control of the boat, it seems he does not even intend to awaken Jesus asleep in the bow.

Has Christ perhaps become invisible to his vicar? Perhaps is he being tempted to try to act as a substitute of our only Master and Lord?

The Lord is in full control of the boat!

May Christ, the Truth, always be the light on our way!

+ Carlo Maria Viganò
Titular Archbishop of Ulpiana
Apostolic Nuncio



September 29th, 2018
Feast of St. Michael, Archangel

 

Perhaps the most critical part of this second letter is that Vigano is the following, where it is stated that Cardinal Ouellet has the ability to corroborate the Accusations...

"Your Eminence, before I left for Washington, you were the one who told me of Pope Benedict’s sanctions on McCarrick. You have at your complete disposal key documents incriminating McCarrick and many in the curia for their cover-ups. Your Eminence, I urge you to bear witness to the truth."

Cardinal Ouellet will surely need to respond to this. The Faithful will demand it of him.

 

I was wondering how much longer he would hold his tongue. Thank God for men and women unafraid to speak the Truth and with a healthy fear and love of God.
Pray for Cardinal Ouellet!

 

And thank you Archbishop Vigano, for your honest and courageous testimony. I think its a beautiful letter and that he is a real hero, I wish we had a few more of them around the place...

 

He is a living Saint.

 

So true. God bless you Archbishop Vigano. Thank you for something the Vatican has lost, the truth.

 

http://catholicherald.co.uk/

Archbishop Vigano issues new letter on Pope Francis and McCarrick
by Catholic News Agency
posted Thursday, 27 Sep 2018

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Viganò also called on Cardinal Ouellet to release information on McCarrick

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has issued a new letter addressing his allegation that senior prelates have been complicit in covering up alleged sex abuse by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.

Headed with Archbishop Viganò’s episcopal motto, Scio Cui credidi (I know whom I have believed), the letter, dated Sept. 29, was released Sept. 27.

The former apostolic nuncio to the US prefaced his letter giving “thanks and glory to God the Father for every situation and trial that He has prepared and will prepare for me during my life. As a priest and bishop of the holy Church, spouse of Christ, I am called like every baptized person to bear witness to the truth … I intend to do so until the end of my days. Our only Lord has addressed also to me the invitation, “Follow me!”, and I intend to follow him with the help of his grace until the end of my days.”

He noted it has been a month since he released his testimony, “solely for the good of the Church,” alleging that Pope Francis and other high-ranking prelates knew of grave sexual sins committed by Archbishop McCarrick.

He said he chose to disclose the cover-up “after long reflection and prayer, during months of profound suffering and anguish, during a crescendo of continual news of terrible events … The silence of the pastors who could have provided a remedy and prevented new victims became increasingly indefensible, a devastating crime for the Church.”

“Well aware of the enormous consequences that my testimony could have, because what I was about to reveal involved the successor of Peter himself, I nonetheless chose to speak in order to protect the Church, and I declare with a clear conscience before God that my testimony is true.”

Archbishop Viganò affirmed that some of what he revealed is covered by the pontifical secret, but defended himself saying that “the the purpose of any secret, including the pontifical secret, is to protect the Church from her enemies, not to cover up and become complicit in crimes committed by some of her members.”

He called himself a witness “of shocking facts,” and said he believed very grave harm could be avoided “only by divulging the truth.”

“Neither the pope, nor any of the cardinals in Rome have denied the facts I asserted in my testimony,” the archbishop noted; referring to the proverb “silence is consent”, he said that “if they deny my testimony, they have only to say so, and provide documentation to support that denial.”

“How can one avoid concluding that the reason they do not provide the documentation is that they know it confirms my testimony?”

Archbishop Viganò noted that Pope Francis’ response to his testimony was, “I will not say a word,” though “he has compared his silence to that of Jesus in Nazareth and before Pilate, and compared me to the great accuser, Satan, who sows scandal and division in the Church — though without ever uttering my name.”

The former nuncio charged that rather than simply saying, “Viganò lied”, the pope has “put in place a subtle slander against me — slander being an offense he has often compared to the gravity of murder.”

“The pope’s unwillingness to respond to my charges and his deafness to the appeals by the faithful for accountability are hardly consistent with his calls for transparency and bridge building,” Archbishop Viganò asserted.

He said that “the pope’s cover-up of McCarrick was clearly not an isolated mistake,” noting that Francis “has defended homosexual clergy who committed serious sexual abuses against minors or adults.” He gave as examples Fr. Julio Grassi, Fr. Mauro Inzoli, “and his halting of the investigation of sex abuse allegations against Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor.”

Archbishop Viganò called on Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and the other American bishops who met with Francis Sept. 13 to state whether the pope refused “to carry out a Vatican investigation into McCarrick’s crimes and of those responsible for covering them up,” saying that “the faithful deserve to know.”

He also appealed to Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

Archbishop Viganò said that Cardinal Ouellet “had maintained his dignity … at the beginning of Pope Francis’ pontificate.”

“Later, however, when his work as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops was being undermined because recommendations for episcopal appointments were being passed directly to Pope Francis by two homosexual ‘friends’ of his dicastery, bypassing the Cardinal, he gave up. His long article in L’Osservatore Romano, in which he came out in favor of the more controversial aspects of Amoris Laetitia, represents his surrender.”

Addressing Cardinal Ouellet, he said: “before I left for Washington, you were the one who told me of Pope Benedict’s sanctions on McCarrick. You have at your complete disposal key documents incriminating McCarrick and many in the curia for their cover-ups. Your Eminence, I urge you to bear witness to the truth.”

Archbishop Viganò closed his letter by encouraging the faithful to “never be despondent” and to have faith and complete confidence in Christ.

“This is a time of repentance, of conversion, of prayers, of grace, to prepare the Church, the bride of the Lamb, ready to fight and win with Mary the battle against the old dragon,” he said.

He referred to an image of the calming of the storm from St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, which shows Christ both in the boat asleep, with Peter trying to wake him, and also standing behind the apostles and in command of the boat.

“The scene is very timely in portraying the tremendous storm the Church is passing through in this moment,” Archbishop Viganò said, “but with a substantial difference: the successor of Peter not only fails to see the Lord in full control of the boat, it seems he does not even intend to awaken Jesus asleep in the bow.”

“Has Christ perhaps become invisible to his vicar? Perhaps is he being tempted to try to act as a substitute of our only Master and Lord?”

“The Lord is in full control of the boat,” he concluded. “May Christ, the Truth, always be the light on our way!”

 

Many are waking up.

 

It all is beginning to fit together like some huge, awful jig saw puzzle.

 

I can see how people could be deluded a few years ago, but today God is making it so evident that one almost has to willfully be blind not to see what is going on.

A cabal has taken over.

The Bride of Christ has been kidnapped.

We are facing the worst chastisement ever.

Apostasy.

 

I am totally shocked and saddened by what these very,very evil people have been up to.

But I am amazed and delighted about how this wickedness has been exposed in such a public and miraculous manner.

I have to say I take a very , very dim view of Cardinals, Bishops and priests who shrug and have a , 'Buisness as usual', attitude to this when, actually, they should be howling the entire place down.

Layfolk who can't take it all in, I am a lot more sympathetic too, for, after all these are the sheep, those the Shepherds.

The silence of the World's Media should not surprise, we know who and what they word for. But their total and complete silence does still surprise.

Mark 4:22
For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

 

If the next papal conclave occurs relatively soon and the Cardinals are truly looking for a reformer for the Church, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano is the perfect candidate for the next Pope.

In addition, if we are truly on the cusp of the period of peace which is ushered in by a Holy Pope (and a Great Monarch) he appears to fit the bill.

I pray that the next Pope is Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano!!!

 

It is something I don't think one can explain to someone piece by piece and have the lights come on in their eyes. One needs to look for themselves, have a personal inquisition of sorts to come to grips with the level of depravity that has taken hold because it blankets across many changes which have taken hold in the Church over the years. It is not simply a matter of perversion in the clergy.
Our priest gave a homily a while back addressing these things lightly and he said that he thought that there were very very few involved with this scandal. I feel badly for him. I think truly that there are very few who are not aware and have not been part of this in some way.
When the Arian crisis was in full swing how many priests simply remained silent for fear of losing their flock or for retribution from their Bishop or other prominent laity who embraced the squishy doctrine that tickled peoples ears.

 

I like this last question in Archbishop Vigano's letter about Pope Francis: Perhaps is he being tempted to try to act as a substitute of our only Master and Lord?

notice the inflammatory headline from Spirit Daily in red letters: Vigano demands Pope break Silence
notice the article that Spirit Daily links to and the real headline from the Catholic Herald: Archbishop Vigano issues new letter on Pope Francis and McCarrick

 

It reminds me of the words of Our Lord,

'Those from whom much have been given much will be demanded'.

I understand layfolk live very busy lives. In this as so many things they just have to trust in the experts. Doctors Lawyers, Bank Managers, Lawyers and so on.

The clergy have very, special graces associated with and to aid them in their office, their vocation. Given they are granted such graces...and they are ...their blindness becomes totally culpable.

But there are of course many bad mechanisms we can recognise from our own Spiritual Lives. Self Deceit, denial, self interest, Fear of the Truth and so on. If we didn't all do such things, to some extent, we wouldn't be sinners..and of course we are all of sinners.

But this is a huge, huge, Truth to practise such self deceit with. Really huge and the guilt grows in proportion with the self deceit.... and its consequences.

The shepherd really does need to be sharper eyed that his sheep.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it so! But what will you do at the end of it?

 

Boy, wouldn't THAT open up a can of worms. Wow.

 

Whistleblowers don't get upped; anywhere.

Sad Human nature

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An interesting Charismatic take.

Thank God people do seemt o be waking up at last.

Thank God and His Holy Mother.

 

I believe Pope Benedict and John Paul II was both prophets of our time. Much of what they had to say was not self perceived, but heavenly wisdom, which most of mankind has ignored.