"Published on May 13, 2019 Get book: https://wordonfireshow.com/letter Today we discuss my new book, titled “Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis.” In light of this current crisis, many Catholics are understandably asking, “Why should I stay? Why not abandon this sinking ship before it drags me or my children under?” This book explains why this is not the time to leave, but the time to stay and fight. Thanks to generous donors, you can claim a copy of the print book for free (you just cover shipping) and place bulk orders of 20+ copies for just $1 per copy (with free shipping). Encourage your pastor and staff to order copies for your whole parish! NOTE: Any and all profits from the sale of this book will go to trusted charities that support the victims of sexual abuse."
And of course this has the purpose of countering with the Gospel....no??? Vatican Hosts Major Atheism Conference With University Of Kent The global Understanding Unbelief programme to advance the scientific understanding of atheism and nonreligion is presenting results from its research at the Vatican in Rome. The multidisciplinary research programme led by the University of Kent maps the nature and diversity of ‘unbelief’ across six countries including Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, UK and the USA The research is supported by a £2.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, and is led by the University of Kent in collaboration with St Mary’s University Twickenham, Coventry University and Queen’s University Belfast. Researchers asked about attitudes to issues like supernatural phenomena, such as life after death and astrology, whether the ‘universe is ultimately meaningless’ and what values matter most to them. They used internationally recognised terms to identify unbelievers – atheists (i.e., people who ‘don’t believe in God’) and agnostics (i.e., people who ‘don’t know whether there is a God or not, and don’t believe there is a way to find out’). Key findings from the research include: Unbelievers exhibit significant diversity both within, and between, different countries In all six countries, majorities of unbelievers identify as having ‘no religion’ Relatively few select ‘atheist’ or ‘agnostic’ as their preferred (non)religious or secular identity Popular assumptions about ‘convinced, dogmatic atheists’ do not stand up to scrutiny Unbelief in God doesn’t necessarily entail unbelief in other supernatural phenomena and the majority of unbelievers in all countries surveyed expressed belief in one or more supernatural phenomena A common supposition – that of the purposeless unbeliever, lacking anything to ascribe ultimate meaning to the universe – does not bear scrutiny Most unbelievers endorse objective moral values, human dignity and attendant rights, and the ‘deep value’ of nature, at similar rates to the general populations in their countries Unbelievers and general populations show high agreement concerning the values most important for ‘finding meaning in the world and your own life’. ‘Family’ and ‘freedom’ ranked highly for all. Co-hosting the event are the Pontifical Council for Culture – the Vatican department responsible for dialoguing with non-believers – and the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network, co-founded in 2008 by University of Kent sociologist Dr Lois Lee. Dr Lee, who is Senior Research Fellow in Kent’s Department of Theology and Religion, is Principal Investigator for Understanding Unbelief. The project is co-led by psychologist Dr Miguel Farias (Coventry University), anthropologist Dr Jonathan Lanman (Queen’s University Belfast), and sociologist Professor Stephen Bullivant (St Mary’s University). Speaking about the research project, Dr Lee said: ‘These findings show once and for all that the public image of the atheist is a simplification at best, and a gross caricature at worst. Instead of relying on assumptions about what it means to be an atheist, we can now work with a real understanding of the many different worldviews that the atheist population includes. The implications for public and social policy are substantial — and this study also stands to impact on more everyday interactions in religiously diverse societies.’ Dr Lanman said: ‘Our data directly counter common stereotypes about unbelievers. A common view of unbelievers is that they lack a sense of objective morality and purpose but possess an arrogant confidence and a very different set of values from the rest of the population. Our representative data across six diverse countries show that none of this is true. In a time when our societies seem to be growing more and more polarized, it has been both interesting and encouraging to see that one of the supposed big divides in human life (believers vs. unbelievers) may not be so big after all.’ https://www.eurasiareview.com/28052...r-atheism-conference-with-university-of-kent/
Wouldn't you at least expect the man in such a position to at know basic history....protecting borders from literal invasion is somewhat different than holding citizens captive to a Communist State and preventing escape. Once again the clueless man is listening to his advisors of choice....gaming and parroting the "separation of children from parents" overused meme. Very frustrating. Pope Francis Compares Trump’s Border Wall to Berlin Wall Pope Francis compared the border wall going up between the U.S. and Mexico to the Berlin Wall built in 1961 to keep East Germans from escaping into West Berlin and freedom. Asked by Mexican reporter Valentina Alazraki what he thought of the Trump wall and of children being separated from the parents at the border, the pope said that building the wall is a mistake. “I do not know what is going on with this new culture that defends territories by building a wall,” the pope said in a lengthy Spanish-language interview published Tuesday by Vatican News. “We already dealt with one, the one in Berlin, which brought us enough headaches and enough suffering.” “But it seems that man does what animals do not do, right?” he continued. “Man is the only animal that falls into the same hole twice. We are repeating the same thing, right? Building walls as if that were a defense.” “When defense is really dialogue, growth, welcome and education, integration, or the healthy limit of ‘that’s as far as we can go,’ but it’s human,” he said. The pontiff, who is the ruler of the only completely walled-in country in the world and the smallest independent state by both area and population, said that he was not only referring to the U.S.-Mexico border here but of “all the barriers that exist.” The pope also had severe words regarding the separation of children from their parents. “And separating kids from their parents goes against the natural law, and those are Christians. But they cannot really be. It’s cruel. It falls into the greatest cruelty,” he said. “To defend what? The territory or the economy of the country or who knows what, right? But they are ways of thinking that are applied to politics and they turn out a policy like this. It’s very sad,” he said. “Whoever builds walls ends up as a prisoner of the walls he has built,” he said. This is not the first time that Pope Francis has spoken out against the proposed U.S. border wall. Back during the 2016 election campaign the pope suggested that anyone who thinks of building walls instead of building bridges is no Christian. Asked at the time about the pope’s comment in a town hall interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Mr. Trump said he had no intention of fighting with Pope Francis, but he did remind the audience that the pope has “an awfully big wall at the Vatican.” The massive, 40-foot high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by an earlier pope, Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846 AD. The original wall encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding what came to be known as the Leonine City, but was later reduced to circumscribe the 110-acre Vatican City that exists today. https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/05/28/pope-francis-compares-trumps-border-wall-to-berlin-wall/
Here we go with the wall again...really? ..Mr. Trump said he had no intention of fighting with Pope Francis, but he did remind the audience that the pope has “an awfully big wall at the Vatican.” Enough said. Praying for Pope Francis.
EXACTLY Those who earnestly say they are personally pro-Life agreeing it is murder, while refusing to impose that conviction on others seem to be filled with fear of...reprisal?, great criticism from those they feel a need to maintain "solidarity". Many are convinced those who are pro-Life only see one issue and ignore all other global issues. That conviction alone has blinded many. In my experience, some of these people have allowed themselves to be completely blinded. They need our prayers and compassionate education. Some will see the truth only through the Holy Spirit. Be our thoughts, words and actions. May we get out of Your way oh Lord. Zealousness will not succeed in education.
Pope Francis Denies He Knew of U.S. Cardinal’s Sexual Misconduct VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis responded for the first time to an accusation that has dogged his pontificate since last year, denying that he knew about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s history of sexual misconduct before it was revealed by a church investigation. “I knew nothing about McCarrick, obviously, nothing, nothing,” the pope said in an interview with Mexico’s Televisa network, according to a transcript published Tuesday by an official Vatican news outlet, Vatican News. “I knew nothing about McCarrick, otherwise I wouldn’t have remained silent, right?” In February, Mr. McCarrick, an 88-year-old former archbishop of Washington, became the first cardinal in modern times to be dismissed from the priesthood after a Vatican trial found him guilty of sexual abuse of minors and sexual misconduct with adults. The McCarrick case is one of several high-profile scandals since last year in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Australia that have reignited the church’s long-running crisis over clerical sexual abuse, threatening to overshadow Pope Francis’ reign. Last August, a former Vatican envoy to the U.S. published a letter accusing Pope Francis of ignoring Mr. McCarrick’s history of misconduct with adult seminarians and making Mr. McCarrick a powerful adviser. The envoy, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, said he had informed Pope Francis of Mr. McCarrick’s history in 2013, telling the pope that his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI had placed the then-cardinal under restrictions to punish him for the misconduct. In October, the Vatican confirmed that Mr. McCarrick had been restricted from travel and public appearances and told to lead a “discreet style of life of prayer and penitence” because of rumors about his behavior. At a news conference in August last year, the pope declined to respond to Archbishop Viganò’s accusations. He has maintained a public silence on the matter till now. In the new interview, Pope Francis appeared to refer to his previous private denials of the accusations, saying: “I said so several times that I didn’t know, had no idea.” But he also said, regarding Archbishop Viganò’s account of their 2013 conversation: “I don’t remember if he spoke to me of this. If it’s true or not, I have no idea.” The pope said his public silence had been inspired by that of Jesus before Pontius Pilate on Good Friday. “Before a climate of cruelty one cannot answer. And that letter [by Archbishop Viganò] was a work of cruelty,” the pope said. https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-f...f-u-s-cardinals-sexual-misconduct-11559069410
I suppose that a faithful Catholic is expected to say "I believe him" although thousands wouldn't. He's certainly loyal to his friends, especially Cardinal Maradiaga. https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/05...francis-says-he-knew-nothing-about-mccarrick/ Meanwhile, is this more damage control? https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-u...firms-restrictions-speaks-to-wuerl-and-china/ The priest's full report is here: https://cruxnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-Figueiredo-Report-May-28-2019.pdf I suppose the statement is meant to give the impression that someone caught in the sewer is coming clean for the sake of the Church. That it smacks of a hit-piece against Pope Benedict is probably due to my suspicious mind. I'm reminded of what the then-Nuncio to the US, (Archbishop Sambi?) said about the US Church being in schism when he advised the parents of an abuse victim to take a case through the civil courts. If memory serves me, Cardinal Bernadin (another hero of the Cafeteria and their anti-Catholic friends) was their stumbling block. It was Archbishop Sambi who delivered to McCarrick the letter outlining the restrictions imposed on him by the Vatican which McCarrick was confident enough to ignore, and nobody is that confident unless they have very powerful backing. That priest has launched a website and published an email address for clergy to contact him if they fear repercussions for speaking out. If I were such a clergyman, someone linked to McCarrick is the last person I would reach out to. May Almighty God keep Archbishop Vigano safe wherever he has sought refuge.
EXCLUSIVE: Abp Viganò says Pope is lying in latest denial about McCarrick Diane Montagna https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/e...ope-is-lying-in-latest-denial-about-mccarrick Tue May 28, 2019 - 6:26 pm EST pope francis, theodore mccarrick, vigano testimonies ROME, May 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — For what appears to be the first time, Pope Francis has openly denied that he knew anything of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s immoral activities, directly contradicting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s account of their conversation on the subject. “I didn’t know anything ... nothing, nothing,” Pope Francis said in a new interview on Vatican News. In response, the former apostolic nuncio to the United States has directly accused Pope Francis of lying. In comments to LifeSite following the release of the interview, Archbishop Viganò said: “What the Pope said about not knowing anything is a lie. [...] He pretends not to remember what I told him about McCarrick, and he pretends that it wasn’t him who asked me about McCarrick in the first place.” Both interviews coincide with the release of a leaked correspondence between Pope Francis, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, confirming that restrictions were placed on McCarrick by the Vatican in 2008, and that the former cardinal (who has now been laicized over charges of sexual abuse) travelled extensively during the Francis pontificate, playing a key diplomatic role in establishing the controversial Vatican accord with Communist China. The new interview In the May 28 interview with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki, Pope Francis sought to explain why he has never openly denied Archbishop Vigano’s original testimony, while issuing a denial seemingly for the first time. Readers will recall that news of the former US nuncio’s testimony broke last August 25, while Pope Francis was attending the World Meeting Families in Dublin. One day later, during an inflight press conference on his return to Rome, the Pope sidestepped questions about the explosive allegations that he knew of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s abuse. “Read the [Viganò] statement carefully yourselves and make your own judgment. I am not going to say a word about this,” the Pope told journalists aboard the papal plane (see video here). “You all have sufficient journalistic ability to draw conclusions,” he said. “It is an act of trust,” the Holy Father added. “When a little time goes by, and you have drawn conclusions, perhaps I will speak about it, but I would like your professional maturity to do this work. It will do you all good, really.” In today’s interview with Alazraki, the journalist and long-time friend of John Paul II candidly tells Pope Francis: “That silence has been very burdensome, because for the press and for many people, when one is silent it is like a husband and wife, isn’t it? You catch your husband and he doesn’t answer you. And you say, ‘There’s something rotten here.’” “So why the silence?” Alazraki pointedly asks Pope Francis. “The time has come to answer that question we asked you on the plane.” “Yes,” Pope Francis responds. “Those who studied Roman law say that silence is a way of speaking.” He continues: The Viganò case: I saw it, I hadn’t read the whole letter. I saw a little and I already knew what it was, and I made a choice: I trust the honesty of journalists and I said to them, “Look, here you have everything. Study it and draw your conclusions.” And that’s what you did, because you did the work, that was great, and I was very careful to say things weren’t there but then, three or four months later, a judge in Milan said them when he was convicted. “You’re talking about his family,” Alazraki asks. “Of course,” the Pope responds. “I kept quiet, why should I make it worse. Let the journalists find out. And you found it, you found that whole world. It was a silence of trust towards you … And the result was good, it was better than if I had started to explain, to defend myself.” Pope Francis is suggesting that Archbishop Viganò has been exposed as unreliable because of a legal conflict with his brother that was settled in a Milan court. In comments to LifeSite, Archbishop Viganò dismissed the Pope’s attempt to cast doubt on his reliability over a dispute with his brother concerning the management of their inheritance — a question he pointed out had “no relevance to the allegations regarding Cardinal McCarrick.” “What Pope Francis said regarding the Milan ruling and my family has nothing to do with anything, because it has been completely clarified. It was only a division of property between brothers. I accepted it to make peace. Neither me nor my brother appealed the ruling, so the story ended there. And it has nothing to do with McCarrick. It is one of the many stories that they raised to destroy my credibility.” Archbishop Vigano’s account of these proceedings has been extensively verified by LifeSite News. In Oct. 2018, the Vatican announced that a “thorough study” of all relevant documents housed in Vatican offices would be conducted. It’s unclear however why Pope Francis would require an archival investigation to say whether he knew about Cardinal McCarrick’s misdeeds. In his comments to LifeSite, Archbishop Viganò said: “On the return flight from Dublin, the Pope told journalists: ‘I trust in your professionalism.’ He promised to provide documents and he doesn’t provide the documents. Tell me how journalists are supposed to know the truth if you don’t provide the documents.” “How much time has passed since the Vatican promised an investigation? It’s all a contradiction. He completely contradicts himself,” he said. “The Pope pretends not to remember what I told him about McCarrick,” Archbishop Vigano added. “He pretends that it wasn’t him who asked me about McCarrick in the first place. And he pretends not to remember what I told him.” The Pope even claimed during the interview that there have been allegations that Archbishop Vigano was bribed to make damaging claims about him [it is obscure to whom the Holy Father is referring], insinuating in the context a comparison of the former US nuncio to Judas Iscariot. Pressing Pope Francis In the May 28 interview, Alazraki presses Pope Francis further on whether or not he knew about former cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s misdeeds. “I didn’t know anything about McCarrick, obviously, nothing, nothing,” he says. “I’ve said that several times, that I didn’t know, I had no idea.” It’s unclear as to what Pope Francis is referring to when he says that he denied knowledge of McCarrick’s immoral activities on several occasions as his refusal to comment one way or another has been a particularly notable element of the scandal. Pope Francis continues: “When [Archbishop Viganò] says that he spoke to me that day [on June 23, 2013], that he came … I don’t remember if he told me about this, whether it’s true or not, no idea! But you know that I didn’t know anything about McCarrick; otherwise I wouldn’t have kept quiet, right?” Archbishop Viganò observed of this remark: “He tries to be clever, claiming that he doesn’t remember what I told him, when he was the one who asked me about McCarrick.” The Pope says in the interview that there was a twofold reason for his silence. “First,” he tells Alazraki, “because the evidence was there, you judge. It was really an act of trust.” “Secondly,” he adds, “because of the [example of Jesus], that in moments of viciousness it is better not to speak, because it makes it worse. Everything is going to go against you. The Lord taught use that path and I follow it.” (read the rest at the link above)
The Pope must have not read his job description in it's entirety. What a breath of fresh air it would be to hear about Heaven and Hell, ya know, Catholicism. So, so tired of the political pope. The Berlin wall is NOTHING like the border wall. We can come and go, in and out of the country, as we please. No one is prevented from leaving. But hey, people are so far removed from reality let's just throw in a word, even if it is a lie or a redefinition, and see if it sticks. Cuz not allowing people to over run your country and murder you is racist and uncharitable and unloving Ya know, I have heard this nonsense for so long now it is just humorous. Doesn't even hurt my feelings. Praying for our Pope.
Yep. Muslim raiding parties used to land in various places and raid the Christian lands stealing valuables and kidnapping the women to use as slaves. The Vatican built the wall to protect it from their attacks.
EXCLUSIVE: Abp Viganò says Pope is lying in latest denial about McCarrick Share on Facebook 1.7k Share on Twitter Comment on this Article 56 Share via Email Print this Page NewsTue May 28, 2019 - 6:26 pm EST EXCLUSIVE: Abp Viganò says Pope is lying in latest denial about McCarrick pope francis, theodore mccarrick, vigano testimonies ROME, May 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — For what appears to be the first time, Pope Francis has openly denied that he knew anything of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s immoral activities, directly contradicting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s account of their conversation on the subject. “I didn’t know anything ... nothing, nothing,” Pope Francis said in a new interview published on Tuesday in Vatican News. In response, the former apostolic nuncio to the United States has directly accused Pope Francis of lying. In comments to LifeSite following the release of the interview, Archbishop Viganò said: “What the Pope said about not knowing anything is a lie. [...] He pretends not to remember what I told him about McCarrick, and he pretends that it wasn’t him who asked me about McCarrick in the first place.” Both interviews coincide with the release of a leaked correspondence between Pope Francis, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, confirming that restrictions were placed on McCarrick by the Vatican in 2008, and that the former cardinal (who has now been laicized over charges of sexual abuse) travelled extensively during the Francis pontificate, playing a key diplomatic role in establishing the controversial Vatican accord with Communist China. The new interview In the May 28 interview with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki, Pope Francis sought to explain why he has never openly denied Archbishop Vigano’s original testimony, while issuing a denial seemingly for the first time. Readers will recall that news of the former US nuncio’s testimony broke last August 25, while Pope Francis was attending the World Meeting Families in Dublin. One day later, during an inflight press conference on his return to Rome, the Pope sidestepped questions about the explosive allegations that he knew of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s abuse. “Read the [Viganò] statement carefully yourselves and make your own judgment. I am not going to say a word about this,” the Pope told journalists aboard the papal plane (see video here). “You all have sufficient journalistic ability to draw conclusions,” he said. “It is an act of trust,” the Holy Father added. “When a little time goes by, and you have drawn conclusions, perhaps I will speak about it, but I would like your professional maturity to do this work. It will do you all good, really.” In today’s interview with Alazraki, the journalist and long-time friend of John Paul II candidly tells Pope Francis: “That silence has been very burdensome, because for the press and for many people, when one is silent it is like a husband and wife, isn’t it? You catch your husband and he doesn’t answer you. And you say, ‘There’s something rotten here.’” “So why the silence?” Alazraki pointedly asks Pope Francis. “The time has come to answer that question we asked you on the plane.” “Yes,” Pope Francis responds. “Those who have studied Roman law say that silence is a way of speaking.” He continues: The Viganò case: I saw it, I hadn’t read the whole letter. I saw a little and I already knew what it was, and I made a choice: I trust the honesty of journalists and I said to them, “Look, here you have everything. Study it and draw your conclusions.” And that’s what you did, because you did the work, that was great, and I was very careful to say things weren’t there but then, three or four months later, a judge in Milan said them when he was convicted.
“You’re talking about his family,” Alazraki asks. “Of course,” the Pope responds. “I kept quiet, why should I make it worse. Let the journalists find out. And you found it, you found that whole world. It was a silence of trust towards you … And the result was good, it was better than if I had started to explain, to defend myself.” Pope Francis is suggesting that Archbishop Viganò has been exposed as unreliable because of a legal conflict with his brother that was settled in a Milan court. In comments to LifeSite, Archbishop Viganò dismissed the Pope’s attempt to cast doubt on his reliability over a dispute with his brother concerning the management of their inheritance — a question he pointed out had “no relevance to the allegations regarding Cardinal McCarrick.” “What Pope Francis said regarding the Milan ruling and my family has nothing to do with anything, because it has been completely clarified. It was only a division of property between brothers. I accepted it to make peace. Neither me nor my brother appealed the ruling, so the story ended there. And it has nothing to do with McCarrick. It is one of the many stories that they raised to destroy my credibility.” Archbishop Viganò’s account of these proceedings has been extensively verified by LifeSite [see our report here]. In Oct. 2018, the Vatican announced that a “thorough study” of all relevant documents on McCarrick housed in Vatican offices would be conducted. It’s unclear however why Pope Francis would require an archival investigation to say whether he knew about Cardinal McCarrick’s misdeeds. In his comments to LifeSite, Archbishop Viganò noted: “On the return flight from Dublin, the Pope told journalists: ‘I trust in your professionalism.’ He promised to provide documents and he doesn’t provide the documents. Tell me how journalists are supposed to know the truth if you don’t provide the documents. How much time has passed since the Vatican promised an investigation? It’s all a contradiction. He completely contradicts himself.” “The Pope pretends not to remember what I told him about McCarrick,” Archbishop Viganò added. “He pretends that it wasn’t him who asked me about McCarrick in the first place. And he pretends not to remember what I told him.” The Pope even claimed during the interview that there have been allegations that Archbishop Viganò was bribed to make damaging claims about him [it is obscure to whom the Holy Father is referring], insinuating in the context a comparison of the former US nuncio to Judas Iscariot. Pressing Pope Francis In the May 28 interview, Alazraki presses Pope Francis further on whether or not he knew about former cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s misdeeds. “I didn’t know anything about McCarrick, obviously, nothing, nothing,” he says. “I’ve said that several times, that I didn’t know, I had no idea.” It’s unclear as to what Pope Francis is referring to when he says that he denied knowledge of McCarrick’s immoral activities on several occasions as his refusal to comment one way or another has been a particularly notable element of the scandal. Pope Francis continues: “When [Archbishop Viganò] says that he spoke to me that day [on June 23, 2013], that he came … I don’t remember if he told me about this, whether it’s true or not, no idea! But you know that I didn’t know anything about McCarrick; otherwise I wouldn’t have kept quiet, right?” Archbishop Viganò observed of this remark: “He tries to be clever, claiming that he doesn’t remember what I told him, when he was the one who asked me about McCarrick.” The Pope says in the interview that there was a twofold reason for his silence. “First,” he tells Alazraki, “because the evidence was there, you judge. It was really an act of trust.” “Secondly,” he adds, “because of the [example of Jesus], that in moments of viciousness it is better not to speak, because it makes it worse. Everything is going to go against you. The Lord taught use that path and I follow it.” Leaked Correspondence News of Pope Francis’s comments about Archbishop Viganò coincide coincided with today’s release of a correspondence between Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis and Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The correspondence, obtained by former aide to Theodore McCarrick, American Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo, confirms that restrictions were placed on Theodore McCarrick by the Vatican in 2008, and that the former cardinal, who was laicized over charges of sexual abuse, travelled extensively the Francis pontificate, playing a key diplomatic role in establishing a Vatican accord with China. Asked today about the correspondence, Archbishop Viganò told LifeSite “the letters sing.” “Msgr. Figueiredo was McCarrick’s personal secretary when he came to Rome,” the former US nuncio said. “He has released these letters from McCarrick to Parolin and the Pope in which he reports on his trips to China, to Iran and other places. Therefore, they were all well informed about this.” Archbishop Viganò also noted that the correspondence shows that the Vatican was informed about the fact that McCarrick was sharing a bed with seminarians. “McCarrick admitted it,” he said. “To defend himself with the Pope, McCarrick said he never had sexual relations with anyone, but that he slept in the same bed with seminarians and priests,” the former US nuncio said. Archbishop Viganò explained: It’s the same thing he said before the ruling from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The sentence to reduce him to the lay state him was based on abuse against adults, minors and also abuse in Confession. Either the sentence from the Holy Office [Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith] is irrelevant, or what McCarrick said, that he never had relations with anyone, is a lie — just like what the Pope said about not knowing anything is a lie, just like what he said about not remembering what I told him is a lie, when he was the one who asked me. The former nuncio to the United States also noted that the letters confirm Cardinal Parolin’s involvement in the McCarrick affair, adding that it’s time for him to be investigated. “As I wrote in my first testimony, in May 2014 — when the article came out in the Washington Times referring to McCarrick’s trip to Central Africa — I wrote to Cardinal Parolin, asking him: Are the restrictions that were placed on McCarrick still valid or not?” “Parolin never responded to me,” the archbishops said, adding that the Vatican Secretary of State should also be investigated. “He never responded to my letter, because is a total yes-man, as we see with the China deal.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/e...ope-is-lying-in-latest-denial-about-mccarrick
If the following is true, and only Lifesite News has reported it, it's the worst part of the entire dirty affair because it means that the Pope instigated the smear campaign against Archbishop Vigano while casting himself in the role of Jesus: "The Viganò case: I saw it, I hadn’t read the whole letter. I saw a little and I already knew what it was, and I made a choice: I trust the honesty of journalists and I said to them, “Look, here you have everything. Study it and draw your conclusions.” And that’s what you did, because you did the work, that was great, and I was very careful to say things weren’t there but then, three or four months later, a judge in Milan said them when he was convicted. “You’re talking about his family,” Alazraki asks. “Of course,” the Pope responds. “I kept quiet, why should I make it worse. Let the journalists find out. And you found it, you found that whole world. It was a silence of trust towards you … And the result was good, it was better than if I had started to explain, to defend myself.”
