"CORRUPTION AND FILTH MUST BE PURIFIED"

Many faithful Catholics saw a showdown like yesterday's Vigano revelations coming at us like an express train - even here in far-away New Zealand, where the NZ Bishops' Conference has hung on every word coming from the lips of Pope Francis, and we had to depend on the net for the real oil.

Today, Cardinal Raymond Burke - probably not so much a pin-up for the NZ bishops - says this:

"The declarations (of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Papal Nuncio to the US) must be totally taken to heart by those responsible in the Church. 

"Each declaration must be subject to investigation.

"After the truth of each declaration" (sounds like Cardinal Burke doubts them not) "has been established, appropriate sanctions must be applied for healing the horrible wounds inflicted on the Church and reparation of the grave scandal caused."

Back in May Cardinal Willem Eijk, lamenting Pope Francis' failure to bring clarity on intercommunion with Protestants, stated that such failure on the part of the Pope to uphold the Church's authentic faith made him think of the Catechism of the Catholic Church's prophecy of "a final trial" for the Church before the Second Coming of Christ.

And now Cardinal Burke is rallying "all good Catholics … to insist upon knowing the truth and asking them to pray and sacrifice for the Church at this tumultuous time … the corruption and filth must be purified".