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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
Probably time to put the vatican on the travel ban list.
At the start I would point out I’m not a Roman Catholic, and I hold no brief for it.
Nevertheless, in the OP I clicked in the twitter (twit?) link. One of the comments I saw there was this:
The Cardinal is not the Catholic Church: Neither is the Pope. Neither is any college of Bishops, or Cardinals or Priests or nuns or monks.
The Catholic Church is a body of many millions of believers with a certain common faith. From Ricochet and from elsewhere it is patently obvious the body of the church is quite willing to address this issue and to protect the innocent. That is why this is causing so much difficulty for men in positions of authority – they arrogantly think it’s their church, and they are just wrong.
What a headline, takes the high road? Really??
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1034825495156846593
It’s those darned Conservatives mucking things up for the Catholic hierarchy again don’t you know.
You’d think even the NYT would have enough common sense to say nothing rather than beclown themselves.
I think the Pope himself challenges the Bee for satire.
It was just over a week ago that Pope Francis issued a Letter to the People of God on the world-wide sex abuse/cover-up crisis in the Church. He wrote:
It was just a few days ago when he was asked on the plane returning from his Apostolic Visit to Ireland to comment on the allegations in the Vigano Letter. He said:
So much for penitential openness, I guess. Who will ever believe another word from this man? The following may be the most honest statement he has been reported to utter:
Muggeridge’s law in action.
As a practicing Catholic, I thank you @chuckles for this insightful comment. The needed purification and cleansing of the Church is now squarely on the shoulders of the faithful because too many in leadership are in no moral or spiritual position to enact needed reforms. Pull out the big guns – no more money for the Bishops, write letters to your diocesan Bishop and cc the local paper. Comment on Twitter, sign petitions, call in to Catholic radio and did I mention – no money to the Bishops?!
The Babylon Bee just doubled down on Muggeridge’s Law.
It is like they are taunting – Reality this, B!^#h!
Thank you, well said!
There are indeed many millions of us, specifically 1.4 billion at last count.
Heh.
Apparently Archbishop Vigano is fearful for his safety and has gone into hiding. This is seismic…
Well no one can say the warning signs were not there.
Alarm bells should have been going off well over a year ago that cleaning house was no priority for Francis, quite the opposite.
The sins and foibles of men can only serve to demonstrate the Holiness of God. “Let God be true and every man a liar” – Rom. 3:4 (whole passage is appropriate)
Sources now claim this is why Francis canned Cardinal Muller and three priests from the CDF: they actually wanted to follow Church procedures.
BREAKING: Vatican Source: Pope Dismissed Cardinal Muller for Following Church Rules on Abuse Cases
A very good article from Matt Walsh.
There is seemingly no end to this rot.
Boom. Bishop Steven Lopes, First Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
Uh, who provides confession for the pope? There has to be some spiritual advisor or confessor for him.
Also, if the pope is unrepentant of grave sin, who fires the canon law cannon at him? Francis seems like he wants to be listed next to the Borgia popes.
But, but, he carries his own luggage! And he refused the papal apartments and the red shoes!!
It’s a beautiful space. The monstrance is over 5 feet tall. A very holy place. It is also the national shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe.
And Benedict XVI had placed tough sanctions on McCarrick and other bishop molesters and enablers. Benedict warned Francis of those Bishops. Francis lifted the sanctions. He must be held accountable.
I can’t imagine what hell is like. I hope and believe that I won’t experience it. I can’t even begin to fathom what a priest’s hell is like.
Probably because he wanted no questions when he had extra keys made.
I have never see a monstrance that big. Awesome!
My weekend retreat with the Friars was very fulfilling.
Does anyone have any further details on this? Some counter-example?
I expected the media to downplay this but are they attempting to ignore it completely?
It is their Church. They own and run the infrastructure. They do not own the flock and the flock’s souls. The Church’s flock needs to abandon the Church and let it die. A new infrastructure can be built later on the old Church’s ashes.
Why should the corrupt and immoral inherent the Church? Is that not exactly backwards? I’m an outsider but that seems entirely wrong to me. Should not the moral and resolute force out the corruption instead of retreating before it?
You seem fatalistic such that you believe it is impossible to even try.
Latino…??!!? Are we supposed to believe the Pope is Cesar Chavez or something? Pope Francis is a white guy from a white country. Argentines aren’t “Latino” in any way a Social Justice Warrior would understand the term.
I can’t figure out if Cardinal Cupich is brilliantly trolling us, or just clueless.