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The Pope’s Point Man in the USA on the Sex Abuse Crisis
Cardinal Cupich of Chicago responds to the allegations in the Vigano Letter. This is outrageous.
“The Pope knows we have a bigger agenda. He’s got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church. We’re not going to go down a rabbit hole on this. … …Quite frankly, they also don’t like him because he’s a Latino.” —Cardinal Cupich
"Never tweet angry" means I will never tweet what I REALLY think about Cdl. Cupich's describing whether Pope Francis knew his promoter, McCarrick, was sexually abusing minors and/or seminarians, as a "rabbit hole". Still, for that outrageous statement alone, Cupich should resign. https://t.co/OBDfNtEffh
— Edward Peters (@canonlaw) August 28, 2018
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Published in Religion & Philosophy
If only.
It’s a win/win, now the Chicago Archdiocese can use the money saved by combining the parish schools to settle the latest surge of pederast priest lawsuits.
I think this clip from the end of the original Planet of the Apes sums up my feelings today:
Cupich is a cardinal worthy of Chicago, not one worthy of the Church.
I was visiting with the Franciscan Friars at Marytown one weekend this summer. One of the friars said to me, “That’s a picture of Blase Cupich, he’s our Cardinal. We wish that he wasn’t. We’d pretty much have anyone else but him.”
I keep telling myself, Jesus will purify His Church. Jesus will purify His Church…
This is unbelievable, will the Times be endorsing pedophilia next as a positive good?
Despicable.
Virgen del Rosario Coronada – aka The Virgin of Lepanto. And yes, I believe she is armed and armored. And I think we need her badly. More rosaries
Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
Now that’s what happens in a church with perpetual adoration.
Livestreamed, too!
That puts the monster in monstrance! I’m a Monday 2 am guardian for our parish’s perpetual adoration chapel. It’s a little more intimate than that space, but I’m still kind of jealous of the architecture…
The video mentions the Attorney General of Illinois launching a statewide investigation of diocesan records, so at least that’s some good news.
If anyone had any doubts as to whether the Catholic Church hierarchy has lost it’s way, having the New York Times run interference during yet another sexual abuse scandal is proof positive something is very very wrong.
Black is white, night is day, and the New York Times comes out with a puff piece supporting the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
It is time to excommunicate all free radicals.
Hey, one of their co-religionists (Marxism) is driving at the Vatican now. Of course they support him. And if he covers for and supports pedophiles … they will too.
I am dismayed, at first it was hard to believe that this was called a “rabbit hole”, and the statements on climate change are straight out of The Onion. I don’t believe a worse statement could have been made by this guy out of Chicago.
It hurts me to see the Catholic church hurting this way. The cancer that resides in the belly of the church is plain to see, I fear that this will get worse before it gets better.
I am not Catholic. However, I believe that the primary agenda must be on saving souls (not the environment or migrants), and molestation of boys is not part of that agenda.
The code of West Point is that a cadet does not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate anyone who does.
Priests who molest children are a cancer on the church, and must be removed from the church along with bishops and cardinals who protected them.
I wonder what would happen to the Catholic Church if 11 million illegal aliens disappeared from the US, especially aliens from Central and South America where far too often the Catholic Church has been a willing partner with Marxist/corrupt regimes?
They must have guilty consciences because where they’re headed is about 2,000 degrees every day with no rain forecast forever.
Scandals are breeding like rabbit holes.
I find it interesting that one of the alleged statements of Pope Francis in the Vigano letter/testimony was Francis’s preference for “pastoral” bishops rather than “ideologized” (which I’m guessing means a bishop who is captive of an ideology?). In any event, Cupich’s response to Vigano’s charges sounds way more ideologized than pastoral.
As far as I can tell, “pastoral” in the Catholic Church has the same meaning as “modernist” in the Church of England.
That pretty much sums it up as pastoral has become a code word meaning don’t ask any of the hard questions. I can get this kind of pastoral from the New York Times, or Howard Stern.
Rabbit Holey Water.
Very powerful coming from Moses.
The Rites of Degradation need to be performed publicly.
So . . . looks like the Babylon Bee predicted this two weeks ago:
The workload on satirists to keep ahead of this Pontificate is awe inspiring.