Even if he wasnt a pedophile, its so wrong to have a 6 ft portrait of the Bishop or Cardinal there. How gross to elevate a man to the status of a God or a Saint. How about a 6 ft image of Jesus the Divine Mercy instead.
At our parish, there is an employee in charge of scheduling events in the center Maybe you could quietly share your feelings with that person or someone else in charge Just a suggestion
I'd be astonished if you have to say anything. When you get there I would expect they'll have put it in the trash can. If it was me and it was there I would quietly walk up and turn it face to the wall and watch and see if anyone has the cheek to turn it back.
Allegations against McCarrick are now very well substantiated and he himself seems to admit them by resigning and accepting confinement. Any pictures of him should be removed, it is a big scandal for the faithful to keep them on the walls of the parish. In good conscience, I think you should not only ask but you should request, with firmness, that his picture be removed right away. I am saying enough is enough with sexual abuse in the Holy Mother Church, zero tolerance from here on, our priests and bishops and cardinals need to understand, they just don't seem to get it!
What do we tell our teen and preteen children about all this? I do t want them to lose faith in the Church.
Well you can introduce them to some of the Blessed Mother’s prophecies Akita is a short prophecy about Cardinals against Cardinals and Bishops against Bishops La Salette’s secret talks about the scandals to come The gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church, we have Christ’s word on that The same kinds of predators are active in the world, not just the Church Unfortunately they are in the schools and on buses, just everywhere We need to teach the children not to tolerate unwanted touching and to report it to you and the police right away No matter who it comes from
There is no way to sugarcoat what is happening. Think of the children of Fatima. Our Lady showed them visions of Hell and gave Lucia understanding of the visions. We are in a decisive battle against evil that has infiltrated even into our own Church with the intent to destroy it. In the end the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady will triumph. We can not spare them the truth of the matter. This has been building for a long long time and we must hold the line in our beliefs. The Church has always suffered persecution. Remind them that we do not worship the Pope or the Churches prelates but God. That God refines his people. That hardships build character and are an opportunity to practice what we believe. Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well that from the Jews came salvation. That many of their officials were corrupt and cared not for the least amongst them was well known. The people persisted because they knew the Truth. Don't underestimate them.
He is a problem but I don't believe he is the problem. Rather, I see him as a symptom of a problem which has been ever present in the Church since the beginning, popping up in various ways down through the years. It's called heresy. That he became Pope and has so many people idolising him says as much about the time we are living in as it does about him. In fairness to him, the cult of the Pope as a personality didn't begin with him. I think that began with Pope John Paul 11. SgCatholic and Divine Mercy have a point when they say that Pope John Paul made mistakes. He did because he was human. He wasn't nearly ruthless enough in dealing with heretics. He made some attempt to correct the Jesuits but not enough, hence they now have a Superior General who denies that Satan is a real being - at a time when the work of Satan both inside and outside the Church is evident to anyone with eyes to see. He listened to advisers - heretics and apostates who had plenty of practice at covering up their lack of faith while entrenching themselves in positions of power. What better example of that could we have than his following their advice re the consecration of Russia. Pope John Paul did try to do something about the abuse scandals. He put Cardinal Ratzinger in charge of dealing with it, and Cardinal Ratzinger was starting to make progress when the oh-so-liberal and merciful clergy hooked up with the atheist media, giving him the nickname "the Pope's Rottweiler" and eventually brought about his resignation. That will be glossed over as the real culprits search around for yet another dead prelate to blame. Now, they're blaming Pope John Paul and hinting that Pope Benedict was culpable. As soon as he dies and can't defend himself, the hints will turn into outright accusations. Bishops, and not the Pope, are responsible for running their dioceses. Some of them were evil. Some of them were stupid and incompetent. Some of them put too much trust in lawyers and mental health professionals. Some of them were terrified and way out of their depth. I wouldn't have been in any of their shoes for all the tea in China. I believe that Pope John Paul is a Saint in Heaven. Sure, he made mistakes just like every other saint apart from the Blessed Mother. I didn't agree with the hasty declaration of his sainthood, which I believe was just another tactic of Pope Francis and his regime. I expect that Pope Paul Vl will also be declared a saint to take the bad look of the "development" of Humane Vitae. The Pope we have now is the product of a plan to take over the Church and, essentially, reverse the decisions of the Council of Trent. Maybe Pope Francis believed his part in it was ok because he thought the end justified the means. If so, he ignored St. Paul's denunciation of doing evil so good may come of it. Then, if we're to believe Fr. Rosica (who teaches in a US Seminary), Pope Francis is the master and not the servant of scripture and tradition. Some people are glad that Cardinal O'Malley won't be at the WMF. For all we know, Cardinal O'Malley was the best of a bad lot. Others scheduled to grace Ireland with their presence will be: Cardinal Wuerl, Cardinal Farrell, Cardinal Cupich, Cardinal Tobin, Cardinal Maradiaga, Cardinal Schonborn, and the ubiquitous Fr. James Martin. Hard to criticse the blogger who called the WMF "the Pope's big Coming Out Party".
Pope names new Vatican bishop who claims Jesus didn’t ‘establish rules’ Catholic, Homosexuality, José Tolentino Calaça De Mendonça, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican Secret Archives August 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Francis has consecrated as a bishop a Portuguese priest who claims that Jesus didn’t “establish rules” and who promotes the theology of a dissenting nun who defends the legalization of abortion and homosexual “marriage.” José Tolentino Mendonça, a priest and poet who was the vice-rector Catholic University of Lisbon, will now be heading the Vatican Secret Archives for Pope Francis, a post he will assume in September of this year. “The Holy Father expects of me that I will continue to be an instrument of dialogue and of rapprochement between the Church and the culture,” Mendonça told the Portuguese news service SAPO 24. “That is what I will do, apart from the Apostolic Library, undoubtedly placing my talents and my way of doing things at the service of the Church, and writing is a form of communication I will continue to bet on as the place of representation, of communication of Jesus in the world of today.” Asked by SAPO 24 if he was open to the pope’s reforms, Mendonça answered that his appointment “certainly is to place me in close proximity with his message, with his program for the Church of our time.” Tolentino Mendonça is yet another theologian associated with Pope Francis who has close ties with homosexual advocacy. Mendonça has associated himself closely with Teresa Forcades, a Spanish nun who has become famous for claiming that homosexual “marriage” should be legal and that abortion should be permitted as part of a right of “self-determination.” In the earlier part of the 2010s, Mendonça worked in an LGBT “Catholic” ministry that served homosexuals who embrace the “gay” identity but were left to their own spiritual guidance. Regarding the ministry, Mendonça told the Portuguese publication Publico in 2010 that “the Church isn’t a place of fullness, it’s a place of searching. Our condition is thirst and desire. It isn’t here and now that we realize our dreams. The Church is this common road, not exempt from imperfections, open to a kind of progressivity.” He added that the Church had to welcome people in a way that is “unconditional.” The Publico article implied that members of the group were continuing to engage in homosexual acts. Mendonça was invited by Pope Francis to preach and give spiritual guidance at his Lenten retreat this year, from February 18 to February 23. In addition to the pope, other high Vatican officials were also in attendance. READ: Pope Francis chooses pro-LGBT priest to guide Lent retreat who holds Jesus didn’t ‘establish rules’ Following the retreat Francis thanked Mendonça for having “shown how [the Holy Spirit] works in non-believers, in ‘pagans,’ in people of other religious confessions” and that the Holy Spirit “is universal, it is the Spirit of God, which is for everyone. . . Thank you for this call to open ourselves, without fear, without rigidity, to be pliable to the Spirit and not mummified in our structures that enclose us.” Opposition to 'traditionalism' in the Church In his 2013 introduction to the Portuguese translation of her book, “Feminist Theology in History,” Mendonça compares LGBT activist Teresa Forcades to St. Hildegard of Bingham. He writes that her theology is expressed in “a form that is symbolic, open, and sensitive about addressing the real” as opposed to the Church’s traditional way of speaking in clear, non-metaphorical terms, which he calls “the triumphal univocal grammars that we know.” “It’s necessary that the doctrinal narrative understands itself to be more of a reading than a writing, more like a voyage than a place, because the memory that transports is not reducible to a legal code, a vision, something automatic,” writes Mendonça, claiming that such a theology is given to us by Forcades. “It is precisely here that the frightening [provoking] work of Teresa Forcades i Vila, Feminist Theology in History, which the reader has in his hands, comes to our aid,” he writes. “Teresa Forcades i Vila reminds of that which is essential: that Jesus of Nazareth did not codify, nor did he establish rules,” writes Mendonça. “Jesus lived. That is, he constructed an ethos of relation, somatized the poetry of his message in the visibility of his flesh, expressed his own body as a premise.” In 2016, Mendonça gave an interview to the Lisbon Radio station Renascença, in which he denounced Catholics, and particularly cardinals, who have criticized Pope Francis’ deviations from traditional Catholic doctrine, dismissing their views as “traditionalism,” which he claims actually contradicts the Church’s tradition. “Today, we see Pope Francis being contradicted by a more conservative wing of the Church and by some important names, even cardinals, which in a certain way are willing to place traditionalism above the tradition,” said Mendonça. Regarding Pope Francis “welcoming” attitude towards those who are stubbornly living in gravely sinful situations of homosexuality and adultery, Mendonça told the interviewer, “No one can be excluded from the love and mercy of Christ. And that experience of mercy has to be taken to everyone, whether they are Christians who are remarried, wounded by disastrous matrimonial experiences, whether it be the reality of new families, whether it be homosexual persons, who in the Church must find a space to be heard, a place of welcome and mercy.” Also in 2016, Mendonça introduced his new book, “Towards a theology of the senses,” at a press conference in which he was joined by Forcades. Vatican archivist position crucial in project to revise doctrine on contraception The position of Vatican Archivist given to Mendonça is a key one in the current context of Vatican politics. In recent months Pope Francis has been giving exclusive and unprecedented access to the Vatican Secret Archives to a small group of scholars who appear bent on altering the Catholic Church’s doctrine regarding contraception. The scholars, including Gilfredo Marengo of the Pontifical John Paul Institute, Pierangelo Sequeri, president of the same institute, Philippe Chenaux, a professor of Church history at the Pontifical Lateran University, and Angelo Maffeis, president of the Paul VI Institute of Brescia, are in the process of creating a revisionist history of the formulation of the papal encyclical Humanae vitae, which reiterated the Catholic Church’s perennial condemnation of artificial birth control. As a step in this process, Marengo has recently produced a book that claimsHumanae Vitae was devoid of “any tone of doctrinal and disciplinary rigor” and instead focused on “the perspective of accompanying couples, who are invited to progressively adhere to the fullness of the Christian form of their mutual love,” an interpretation that dovetails with Pope Francis’ agenda of making moral https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/p...p-pro-gay-priest-who-says-jesus-didnt-establi
Just what the heck do these people mean!!??? "Mendonça compares LGBT activist Teresa Forcades to St. Hildegard of Bingham. He writes that her theology is expressed in “a form that is symbolic, open, and sensitive about addressing the real” as opposed to the Church’s traditional way of speaking in clear, non-metaphorical terms, which he calls “the triumphal univocal grammars that we know.” “It’s necessary that the doctrinal narrative understands itself to be more of a reading than a writing, more like a voyage than a place, because the memory that transports is not reducible to a legal code, a vision, something automatic,” “Teresa Forcades i Vila reminds of that which is essential: that Jesus of Nazareth did not codify, nor did he establish rules,” writes Mendonça. “Jesus lived. That is, he constructed an ethos of relation, somatized the poetry of his message in the visibility of his flesh, expressed his own body as a premise.” Marengo has recently produced a book that claimsHumanae Vitae was devoid of “any tone of doctrinal and disciplinary rigor” and instead focused on “the perspective of accompanying couples, who are invited to progressively adhere to the fullness of the Christian form of their mutual love,” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/p...p-pro-gay-priest-who-says-jesus-didnt-establi
That we follow Jesus, at the End of the Day....and that even Bishops can be followers of Satan. As was Judas the false Apostle.
I just sent this plus the attached article on Fatima from last year to my Bishop's office. Time to stop being afraid of the truth and LEAD without fear. I did? Yes I did. I can't know at this point what else is going in behind doors in my diocese but I do see and hear other things. It does make me want to visit Portugal. I went to a celebration last night of the 25th Anniversary of the 1st Adoration Chapel in my diocese. True Catholicism is alive and well. The Mass for Our Lady's Assumption was absolutely beautiful!!
https://www.catholicaction.org/cardinal_burke_addresses_the_clergy_scandal Cardinal Burke Addresses the Clergy Scandal posted by THOMAS MCKENNA | 15sc August 16, 2018 SAN DIEGO- August 16, 2018, Thomas McKenna, the president of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, interviewed Cardinal Raymond Burke this week on the clergy abuse scandal. Thomas McKenna: Your Eminence, a new wave of clergy sexual abuse has surfaced and is indicating a widespread practice of homosexuality among clergy in dioceses and seminaries across the country. What would you say is the root cause of this corruption? Cardinal Raymond Burke: It was clear after the studies following the 2002 sexual abuse crisis that most of the acts of abuse were in fact homosexual acts committed with adolescent young men. There was a studied attempt to either overlook or to deny this. Now it seems clear in light of these recent terrible scandals that indeed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even within the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root. It is of course a tendency that is disordered. I think it has been considerably aggravated by the anti-life culture in which we live, namely the contraceptive culture that separates the sexual act from the conjugal union. The sexual act has no meaning whatsoever except between a man and a woman in marriage since the conjugal act is by its very nature for procreation. I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church, especially among the clergy and the hierarchy, that needs to be addressed honestly and efficaciously. Thomas: Your Eminence, many are saying what needs to be done to address this problem is to determine better procedures and structures to deal with it and that this then would be a solution to resolve the situation. Do you agree with that proposal? Or what do you see needs to be done to resolve this crisis in a thorough manner? Cardinal Burke: There is no need to develop new procedures. All of the procedures exist in the Church’s discipline, and they have existed throughout the centuries. What is needed is an honest investigation into the alleged situations of grave immorality followed by effective action to sanction those responsible and to be vigilant to prevent that similar situations arise again. This idea that the conference of bishops should be responsible for addressing this is misguided because the bishops’ conference does not have surveillance over the bishops within the conference. It is the Roman Pontiff, the Holy Father, who has the responsibility to discipline these situations, and it is he who needs to take action following the procedures that are given in the Church’s discipline. This is what will address the situation effectively. Thomas: Your Eminence, the faith of many in the Church, as a holy rather than corrupt institution, has been shaken. People don’t know what to think about their bishops and their priests. How should the faithful respond to this crisis, especially taking into consideration that many are feeling discouraged and ashamed of their Church? Cardinal Burke: I understand fully the anger, the profound sense of betrayal that many of the faithful are feeling, even as I experience it myself. The faithful should insist that the situation be addressed honestly and with determination. What we must never permit is that these gravely immoral acts, which have sullied so much the face of the Church, permit us to lose trust in Our Lord, who is the Head and Shepherd of the flock. The Church is His Mystical Body, and we must never lose sight of that truth. We should be profoundly ashamed of what certain shepherds, certain bishops, have done, but we should never be ashamed of the Church because we know that it is pure and that it is Christ Himself, alive for us in the Church, Who alone is our way to salvation. There is a great temptation that our justified anger over these gravely immoral acts will lead us to lose faith in the Church or to be angry with the Church, instead of angry with those who, even though they held the highest authority in the Church, have betrayed that authority and have acted in an immoral way. There existed in the Roman Pontifical (the Latin Catholic liturgical book that contains the rites performed by bishops) for centuries the rites for the degradation of clerics and also of hierarchy who had failed gravely in their office. I believe it would be helpful to read over again those rites to understand deeply what the Church has always understood, which is that shepherds can go astray, even in a grave way, and then must be appropriately disciplined and even dismissed from the clerical state.
