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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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It is. I’ve always disagreed with the progressive wing of the Church, and have had my doubts about their priorities, but that a cardinal would say this is shocking. The Catholic Church should have two goals: convert the unconverted, lead the converted to sainthood. If we do that, everything else, the environment, immigration and everything else will take care of itself.
I agree with @dr.bastiat. Cupich is a cardinal. By his very role he speaks for the Church. That he would say such things is disgraceful and yes he should resign. I suspect this is the least of his sins.
I think (and hope) that that is what is starting to happen now. But it will be brutal. We each have to pick up our crosses and follow the Lord where he leads.
He only speaks for the Church when he speaks in union with the Magisterium and Tradition. I find what he says and thinks about climate change being more important than sexual morality and chastity in the priesthood to be apostasy – that is not speaking for the Church. That is just a SJW flapping his gums.
In papalspeak, “ideologized” means traditional and faithful and “pastoral” means in full alignment with Francis’ goals of changing a few of the “outmoded” thoughts of the Church. Nothing important, just things like sin, hell, holiness. Can’t make people feel bad. It wouldn’t be “pastoral.”
As someone else has said, he may not believe in hell now, he will when he gets there.
I read an analysis yesterday that said schism is almost certain. If Francis doesn’t resign, some number of orthodox will hold him to be an anti-pope and refuse to follow him. If he does resign, some number of progressives will claim it was coerced and therefore invalid and claim that he is still pope and his successor is invalid. What a mess.
As someone famously said:
¡Hagan lío!
When a cardinal speaks about Church matters, he is inevitably a spokesman for the Church and purportedly speaking for the Church. That, of course, does not mean his blatherings have any teaching authority. But it is exactly because his comments betray his role as a cardinal that he must resign.
Because they have already won. We are just finding out about it now.
Thanks for finding this! I was having trouble the other day in locating everyone’s favorite cocaine gay sex fueled orgy enabling Cardinal. And now you can dance to it.
Have you not been following the adventures of George Neumayr has he visits the Nunciature and requests the documents? Everyone appears to have gone into hiding and his encounters of various prelates and priests and nuns is sometimes darkly hilarious. They’re likely attempting to shred all documentary evidence, but the good guys suspect multiple copies have already been made.
No they haven’t. This is just the part where the corruption is made visible to all and before the correction occurs.
The victory occurred almost 2K years ago.
Winning is defined by who spends eternity where.
https://twitter.com/EMaguire1776/status/1034960633991778304
https://twitter.com/EMaguire1776/status/1035050182570848256
Ouch!
I’m not sure if Social Justice Warriors are interested in understanding basic terminology.
You can be sure. They aren’t
Ahahahaaaaa! Deelightful!
Only the people in the small village of Bricco Marmorito seem to know “Bergoglio” is Italian! And I suspect they’re starting to regret it.
Perhaps he’s a “white Latino” just like George Zimmerman was a “white Hispanic.”
Oh for goodness sakes. Have you ever prayed to ask God to have the Holy Spirit to clean up the Church? What do you think that looks like? I’ll give you a hint:
Great minds, Joseph. I had the exact same thought.
Aren’t Italians Latino too? Seems like many Italians I know are less white than the Pope anyway.
Given that Italians are descended from the Latins, one could argue they are the original Latinos.
They are whatever they need to be to call people racist.
This is a sign of hope.
An armed and armored Holy Mother, bringer of victory over the Muslim Turks on behalf of the Holy League?
I do not think you could find a more triggering image for the Left and their modernist catspaws in the Catholic hierarchy.