THE WORD THE POPE'S MAN FORBADE THE BISHOPS TO UTTER TO THE PRESS

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With Cardinal George Pell of Sydney wickedly, egregiously now proclaimed a convicted pederast, who cares that I've been called bitter and twisted? 

Well, not quite that, but nearly.  

"Bitter and negative" were the exact words used last week by someone I love very much, who because of my recent posts has 'unfriended' me on Facebook. This person is probably not alone in doing such a thing (previously unheard of by moi), and although  prepared by the words of Christ - "you will be hated by all because of my name" (Mt 10:22), still I was cut to the quick.

I'm 99% sure I was 'unfriended' because on this blog I've elucidated Catholic Church doctrine on homosexuality.

Useless for me to protest that my dearest-ever friend is gay - and anyway St Teresa's counsel stands me in good stead: don't ever defend yourself, because our Lord didn't. If you need defending, our Lord will prompt someone to do it for you.

I simply said my next post would be positive, and I knew and told her the topic: the Traditional Latin Mass.

But no matter what my deep joy in following Christ, in this reign of Pope Francis it's hard to sound positive. Now we have Cardinal Pell wickedly declared a pederast and the Pink Elephant Sex Summit-About-Now't has come and gone. (Serial plagiarism has forced the resignation from two Catholic universities of Vatican media chief and clerical homosexual lobbyist Fr Tom Rosica, so I'd better admit the 'Pink Elephant' appellation was coined by Remnant Tv's Michael Matt - a guy you need to get to know.)

The 'pink elephant' is of course, homosexuality, a word which Pope Francis' man, Cardinal Blase Cupich, actually forbade the bishops to utter to the press. I kid you not. This when 80% of sex abuse victims in the Church are male and over the age of 14. (So much for 'pedophilia'.)

If the mind boggles at that, let's get boggling seriously.

• Cardinal Cupich is a protégé and protector of the late, unlamented cardinal, now mere Mr Theodore McCarrick, laicized for serial homosexual abuse against seminarians. (But it looks now like his laicization was just a bone thrown to the media, clergy and laity howling for Something To Be Done.) 
• Cardinals convicted of sex abuse and/or coverups who are pals of Pope Francis include McCarrick, Murphy-O'Connor, Coccopalmerio. Bishops: Zanchetta, Pineda, Maccarone, Marx, Maradiaga. Priests: Grassi, Inzoli, Corradi.  
• Pope Francis not only lifted sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict against McCarrick, but allowed him huge influence in the Vatican.
• According to Michael Voris of Church Militant, who was in Rome covering the summit, "McCarrick's men were running the show".
• Cover-ups of clerical sex abuse, Voris says, were not really on the agenda.
• Accountability was not really on the agenda.
• Crimes against seminarians were not on the agenda.
• The pot of Pope Francis' personal involvement in sex abuse coverups in South America is about to boil over, with criminal charges said to be pending against the Pontiff. 
• The Pope's off-hand remarks about "the great majority of Catholic marriages" being "null" and being "sure that … cohabitations have the grace of a real marriage" are destroying young Catholic lives.
• The Pope has denied the miracle of the loaves and fishes, attributing it to the social justice ideal of 'sharing'.
• The Pope has said contraception is okay in 'grave circumstances'.
• Cardinal Cupich, who 3 years ago awarded McCarrick the prestigious 'Spirit of (Pope) Francis' award and who lobbied for a pro-abortion politician, says 'Ministers of Communion' must "respect the conscience" of people receiving who are in irregular situations, that is, not in a state of grace, that is, mortal sin.
• The very worst - so far - of the coveruppers, Cardinal Godfried Daneels, who publicly supported same-sex marriage and is said to have tried to persuade King Baudouin to sign off legalisation of abortion (against the monarch's conscience), and not surprisingly presided over the precipitous collapse of the Church in Belgium, was chosen by the freshly-elected Pope Francis to appear beside him on the loggia to wave at the crowds cheering the 'Great Reformer'. 

And now let's wade into deeper, even murkier waters, which in 1917 Our Lady of Fatima warned might well engulf the world. 

During the summit, Michael Voris of Church Militant revealed information from former Communists agents who say that in 1950 ex-Cardinal McCarrick lived for a year in St Gallen Switzerland.

So what? 

So, subsequent to the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of the Soviet empire, released KGB records show the Communists ran an indoctrination centre in St Gallen at that time. It was only one of thirty such in Europe post-WW II where personable young men, preferably with homosexual proclivities, were trained for infiltration into the Catholic priesthood. 

You've heard that name, St Gallen, before, right? Yes, that's where, as Cardinal Daneels bragged, the 'St Gallen mafia' plotted the election of a socialist-sympathizing pope. Bergoglio.

The nexus between Communism and homosexuality is revealed in Joseph Stalin's plan to destroy Communism's main opponent, the Catholic Church, from within, destroying its moral authority chiefly by means of homosexuality. 

In an earlier post I wrote about the testimony of Communist-turned-Catholic Bella Dodd to a US Senate investigating committee in '52-'53, to the effect that she was personally responsible for insinuating 1100 intelligent, attractive young men into the Catholic Church. 

Since then a strange little book, AA-1025:The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle, has come into my hands. Published by French nurse and convert Marie Carre in 1972 in France as Eleve Seminariste (Seminarian)-1025, it's basically autobiographical notes she found in the '60s in the briefcase of a man with no ID, mortally wounded in a car crash in an unnamed French city, who died on her watch.

AA-1025 bears out Dodd's testimony, but from the perspective of a young man recruited in Poland by the Communists for a career in the Church. AA-1025, the designation given by his 'Uncle' in the KGB, signified that 1204 men had preceded him into Catholic seminaries, all with the impious hope of promotion to the hierarchy.

Now consider that, ironically, three years ago Cardinal Cupich awarded McCarrick the prestigious 'Spirit of (Pope) Francis' award, for making "his own unique mark on the Church". 

You can say that again.

Because in his international junkets (more like a diplomat than an archbishop, joked then-President Bill Clinton), Voris says McCarrick "sowed moral, doctrinal and spiritual confusion", smuggling his pet left-wing 'social justice' doctrine and Liberation Theology into South America in Jesuit baggage, undermining the Church there and in the last years of his cardinalate closing the deal with Communist China which many describe as "a total sell-out" for the Church in that country.

But I must Be Positive. 

The Sunday before last, I attended my second Latin Mass since Vatican II ushered in the Novus Ordo. My first experience was at the tiny Catholic church in Ashhurst; last week it was a funeral parlour, for heaven's sake, in Napier. Now I mustn't get started on the funeral parlour, I must remember to Be Positive. 

Is it positive to posit that ditching the Traditional Latin Mass, celebrated throughout the world for 2000 years, in favour of something that bishops and priests seem happy to tweak, interrupt (this week, with a discussion about leaks in the roof) or furnish with jokes and snickers, was the major factor in the Church's decline since Vatican II? And is the liturgical reform really, as Mons Dwyer, Archbishop of Birmingham, spokesman for the Episcopal Synod, put it, "where the revolution begins"? 

The moment I entered that funeral parlour, set up with altar and all its traditional furnishings but without pews - which had been lent for Art Deco Weekend - I was filled with a sense of mystery, reverence, and beauty. I understand now why St Alphonsus Liguori called the Mass the best and most beautiful thing which exists in the Church here below, and why Satan always tried and has succeeded, through his children the heretics, to deprive us of it.

Maybe the clerics who fixed the date for the Pink Elephant Sex Summit's opening were too blinded by lust to read the liturgical calendar, where they'd have seen it was the feast day of St Peter Damian, who over 900 years ago declared that acceptance of homosexuality was "creeping through the clerical order, and indeed is raging like a cruel beast within the sheepfold of Christ".

St Peter Damian (Doctor of the Church) insisted that the Church must uncompromisingly preach, holistically and completely, God's beautiful design for human sexuality.

Otherwise, he warned, "it is certain that the sword of divine fury is looming to attack, to the destruction of many". 

Come back, St Peter Damian, we need you now!

Adelie Reid on Facebook says: 
An interesting read.

Paul Collits says:
A truly outstanding post Julie. Posting things like photos of your food or what you had for breakfast gets lots of likes in Fb world. Saying serious things gets fewer. Telling unpleasant truths approaches zero. I guess most people don't go to Fb for anything but fun comms. Sigh.


'Anon' says:
What a good post. We don't know the detailed truth re infiltration into the Church, but the results speak for Satan and if by the communists then are we surprised. And McCarrick did the job of corruption of other priests and seminarians before that. Similar to Fr Maciel of the Legions of Christ. A lot funny there.

You are correct that you will be vilified, but only by the ignorant, ignorant of the True Faith that is. 

Sharon Crooks says:

As a sacristan it is hard to imagine how the case against Pell could play out. I maintain that the Australian hatred for Pell stems back to mass media attention accorded him in walking Gerard Ridsdale (convicted Ballarat pedophile) to court and denying any knowledge of his sexual abuse, thus seemingly supporting him. 

It was from this seed that the monster now being played out sprang  from, yet no one in the international media has joined these dots - yet!!

What I remain undecided on is how much Pell knew 30-40 years ago and did nothing about.  However regardless of whether he knew nothing back then or he believed what he was told, this would seem the point of departure for Catholics in Australia - from their pews first, then their faith in general, followed by the growth of hatred, which has spread like leaven and is now shaping what is being dished up as staple fare, that is a menu seemingly governed by the ‘vox populi’. 

I say: 

From what I glean about Cardinal Pell's character, I believe that the idea of such sex abuse might never have occurred to him (Charity thinketh no evil, Cor 13:5).

Linda Clarke says:
Oh, it's great. I'm not alone in thinking he's innocent. It doesn't fir that a man so faithful, so true to our Tradition, would suddenly stoop after no apparent going-down-the-drain to such incredibly heinous acts. No sense at all. The Church is all he loves, all he has lived for and for my part, I believe he is suffering as did our Lord, who was wrongly condemned. He will be a great saint, methinks!

I say:
With our prayer, I agree; he will be a great saint.