Tag: Pope Francis

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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On September 14 I wrote a post on the pathetic inaction from the Holy See on the sexual abuse crisis in the Church (predatory men having sex with men [MSM]). In a press release dated September 19, we got this small beam of light from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB): Preview Open

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MichaelHenry
MichaelHenry
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A senior Vatican official has confirmed previous reports to The Newspaper of Record that $400 million in Vatican gold bullion was authorized by veteran Roman Curia officials and delivered on pallets to Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford last week, just two days before she agreed to go public with her allegations of heavy petting […]

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Brian Watt
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A professional foul in soccer is defined as a deliberate act of foul play intended to bring about an advantage for the perpetrator’s team. In the current crisis of the Catholic Church, professional fouls abound. In the past couple of years, I’ve become intrigued (as hundreds of thousands of others have) with Dr. Jordan Peterson’s re-approach to the […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. The Pope’s Projectionist Play

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Brian Watt
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The Pope, in his message to Catholics Monday, is accusing those demanding answers and an investigation into his actions as a “pack of wild dogs” and that they are seeking scandal, division, and destruction — even familial destruction. The cognitive dissonance and tone deafness is heavy with the pontiff, or worse and more troubling, if he’s deliberately projecting and attempting to deflect the blame away his Leftist and Lavender Mafia clerical supporters and put it squarely on orthodox Catholics.

“With people who do not have good will, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within families,” the solution is “silence. And prayer,” Francis said, according to Crux Now.

To paraphrase Aragon from the Lord of the Rings: “Scandal, division and destruction are upon you whether you would acknowledge it or not.”

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Good GOP Primary Night, Cardinal Sins, McCain Tribute Uproar

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer the results of primaries in Florida and Arizona, pointing out that the GOP enjoyed turnout advantages in both states, and got its best option for holding the Senate seat in Arizona while Democrats nominated an avowed socialist for governor of Florida. They also unload on a Catholic cardinal from Chicago for suggesting Pope Francis cannot go down “rabbit trails” like rampant allegations of pedophile priests and bishops who covered up the crimes because the pontiff needs to focus more on climate change and building acceptance for migrants. And they roll their eyes as Democrats and the media (but we repeat ourselves) are horrified that any Republican senator would not immediately rush to rename a Senate office building in honor of John McCain and that any opposition to the idea is an endorsement of the segregationist views of the senator for whom the building is currently named.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Prelates and Pederasts

Paul A. Rahe
Paul A. Rahe
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Sixteen years ago, reporters at The Boston Globe conducted an extensive investigation of the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Not long thereafter, reporters elsewhere detailed similar abuse in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and the like. The word used in the press to describe what had been going on was pedophilia, which is a misnomer deliberately employed to cover up what journalists then considered and still consider now an inconvenient aspect of the truth.

As a report commissioned by the National Review Board of the American Catholic bishops and issued in 2004 revealed, something like 81 percent of the victims were boys, and very few of them were, in the strictest sense, children. They were nearly all what we euphemistically call young adults. They were male adolescents on the younger side – at the age when boys as they mature can briefly be downright pretty.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Your Daily Reminder That the Death Penalty Is Both Moral and Necessary

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Shawn Buell, Jeopardy Champ!
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Noted moral philosopher Jorge Bergoglio (Pope Francis) issued a statement last week regarding the Catholic Church’s updated position on the Death Penalty:

Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme means of safeguarding the common good, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes; Consequently, the church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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Every Friday during the year, the Church prays Psalm 51, The Miserere, at Lauds. It is a prayer by King David to God for mercy, cleansing, and pardon, and reminds us that our inmost being must be renewed, and that we must put on the new man (Ephesians 4:23-24). It is a necessary prayer, because […]

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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You might not have noticed, but the Catholic Church is a mess under Pope Francis (and this was all a part of his doing!). I have been chronicling the disaster of this papacy on this site and want to turn once again to something that strikes deep at the heart of the Church – the […]

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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Amidst the confusion of today’s Catholic Church, there are voices that speak out clearly and distinctly. I profiled one of these voices here (where Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, penned a commentary wherein he hammered the German episcopate and Pope Francis for playing fast and loose with giving Holy Communion to Protestant spouses […]

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells us “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil”. So why is it that Pope Francis puts out so many confusing statements? His latest has to do with the Chilean sexual abuse crisis. Preview Open

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In “‘Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones’. Considerations for an ethical discernment regarding some aspects of the present economic-financial system” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, 17.05.2018 the Vatican takes a look at modern finance. It recycles some agency problem theory, implies that all borrowers are weaker than […]

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, has penned a commentary wherein he hammers the German episcopate and Pope Francis for playing fast and loose to giving Holy Communion to Protestant spouses of German Catholics. To be able to receive the Eucharist, one must be properly disposed (in a state of grace) and must […]

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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This is a cool story. After all the grief I give Pope Francis, I hope he has had a chance to enjoy his bottle of 23 year old Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon. If you’re from Kentucky and get invited to the boss’s house, to make a good impression you might bring a bottle of bourbon. […]

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Scott Wilmot
Scott Wilmot
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Today, the Vatican released Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad), the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on the call to holiness in today’s world. He gives us his reasoning for writing to us in the opening two paragraphs: 1. “REJOICE AND BE GLAD” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord […]

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