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Bergoglio's Reign of Terror against traditional, faithful Catholics

Antipope Bergoglio (aka Pope Francis) continues to wield the wrecking ball in his determined demolition of the Catholic Church. 

His latest recruits to the Vatican Lavender Mafia: Bishop Robert McElroy, protector of serial sex abuser Cardinal McCarrick and pro-LGBT Archbishop Leonardo Steiner, both elevated to the cardinalate. 

And he's stacked the Congregation for Divine Worship with heterodox - not to say heretical - prelates who hate the Traditional Latin Mass.

The Pope skipped over higher-ranking prelates in the US in appointing Bishop Robert McElroy to the College of Cardinals, despite the bishop's record of support for giving Communion to pro-abortion Catholic politicians and the divorced and 'remarried.'

The Pope also announced that the anti-tradition Vatican liturgy head Archbishop Arthur Roche will be among those receiving the red hat.

McElroy has firmly opposed refusing Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who promote abortion, calling any such ban a “political weapon” which is being used to “assault … unity” and ultimately describing moves to exclude “pro-choice” political leaders from Communion as “the wrong step.”

His appointment to the College of Cardinals comes just days after San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banned Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist over her ardent support of abortion.

The prelate has also been an outspoken supporter of “LGBT” ideology, defending pro-homosexual Jesuit Father James Martin and his book Building a Bridge as “fully consonant with Catholic teaching,” despite demands therein that the Church change its stance on “LGBT” issues.

Taking to Twitter, Father Ryan Hildebrand described McElroy’s appointment as “a scandal,” especially in light of the prelate’s alleged knowledge of ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s criminal abuses.

With the Congregation for Divine Worship already led by Cardinal-elect Arthur Roche, Pope Francis has assembled a number of prelates to guide the Church's worship who firmly oppose the traditional Mass.

First, and most prominent among the Pope’s nominees, are a number of cardinals notable for their attachment to heterodox views on the Catholic faith. The cardinals include:

·         Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle: Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, hailed as a possible future Pope and known for his promotion of LGBT ideology.

·         Cardinal Blase Cupich: Archbishop of Chicago and member of the Vatican’s Congregation of Bishops, known for his widespread deviation from Church teaching on a variety of issues and opposition to the Traditional Latin Mass.

·         Cardinal Kevin Farrell: Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, who opposed the Vatican’s ban on same-sex blessings and current papal Camerlengo. Farrell was a close colleague of ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

·         Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero: Archbishop of Rabat (Morocco) and member of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, who was praised by dissident Jesuit Father Thomas Reese for his ecumenical dialogue with Muslims in Morocco.

·         Cardinal Mario Grech: Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, responsible for the Synod on Synodality, and who has praised the German Synodal Way.

·         Cardinal-elect Lazarus You Heung-sik: Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy.

·         Among other duties, the CDW, soon to be renamed as a Dicastery on June 5, is responsible for overseeing the fate of the Traditional Mass, in light of the sweeping restrictions imposed by Pope Francis in Traditionis Custodes last July. 

·         Staunch anti-traditionalist Cardinal-elect Arthur Roche – who succeeded Cardinal Robert Sarah as CDW head last year – then issued his December 2021 Responsa ad dubia, enacting even more restrictions upon the Latin Mass and the sacraments. Some Vatican observers had suggested Roche had fallen out of favor with Francis, due to the harshness of his Responsa. However, such an outcome appears unlikely with Roche now set to receive the red hat in August.

·         Cardinal Cupich has become one of the more prominent supporters of the Pope’s motu proprio, enacting his own harsh restrictions on the Latin Mass while allowing LGBT “Masses” and endorsing Communion and funeral rites for unrepentant homosexuals. Cupich has also gone so far as to declare that priests may not deny the Eucharist to anyone in a state of homosexual sin. He has made similar comments about divorced and “remarried” Catholics and pro-abortion lawmakers. Cupich is not alone in his support for the LGBT movement, however. Fellow cardinal members of the CDW Tagle, Farrell, Grech have made headlines due to their public, supportive stance both of LGBT ideology and even of “blessings” of same-sex unions. Indeed, such is the common support for LGBT ideology among the recent nominees to the CDW and the recently announced new-cardinals, that some have pointed to adherence to LGBT ideology as a key factor for promotion within the Vatican.    ·         

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In light of the new nominees to the CDW, Augustinian Brother Martin Navarro suggested that “the belief that the TLM will continue only by priests and Religious that are in an irregular canonical standing is further proven true. To believe anything else is denial.”

Cardinal Cupich’s appointment in particular has been met with outrage from faithful Catholics online, with one Twitter user asking “Can things get any worse?”Pope Francis appoints pro-LGBT, anti-Latin Mass cardinals to Vatican liturgy office - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

As one might expect, that valiant defender of what's left of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has something to say about Bergoglio's most recent machinations:

Pope Francis has made a number of appointments to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, including certain prominently anti-Traditional cardinals such as Blaise Cupich and Kevin Farrell.

If we could ask Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Pius V, Blessed Pius IX, Saint Pius X, and Venerable Pius XII what was the basis of their assessments in deciding on which Prelates to bestow the sacred scarlet of the cardinalate, we would hear from each of them, without exception, that the main requirement for becoming princes of the Holy Roman Church is holiness of life, excellence in particular virtues, erudition in the ecclesiastical disciplines, wisdom in the exercise of authority, and faithfulness to the Apostolic See and the Vicar of Christ.

Many of the Cardinals created by these popes went on to become popes themselves; others distinguished themselves for their contribution to the government of the Church; still others merited to be elevated to the glory of the altars and to be proclaimed Doctors of the Church, like Saint Charles Borromeo and Saint Robert Bellarmine.

Likewise, if we could ask the cardinals created by Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Pius V, Blessed Pius IX, Saint Pius X, and Venerable Pius XII how they considered the dignity to which they had been elevated, they would have responded, without exception, that they felt themselves to be unworthy of the role they held and confident that they would receive the assistance of the Grace of state.

All of these, from the most famous to the least known, considered it essential for their own sanctification to give proof of absolute fidelity to the immutable Magisterium of the Church, heroic witness to the Faith by the preaching of the Gospel and the defense of revealed truth, and filial obedience to the See of Peter, the Vicar of Christ and the successor of the prince of the Apostles.

Anyone who would today pose these questions to the one who is seated on the throne and to those whom he has elevated to the cardinalate would discover with great scandal that the appointment of cardinals is considered to be the same as any prestigious appointment in a civil institution, and that it is not the virtues required for the office of cardinal that lead to the choice of this or that candidate, but rather his level of corruptibility, his blackmailability, and his adherence to this or that political current.

And the same, indeed perhaps worse, would happen if one were to presume that, just as in the things of God the Lord’s ministers must be examples of holiness, so also in the things of Caesar those who govern are guided by the virtues of government and moved by the common good.

The cardinals appointed by the Bergoglian church are perfectly consistent with that deep church of which they are an expression, just as the ministers and functionaries of state are chosen and appointed by the deep state. And if this happens, it is because the crisis of authority which we have been witnessing in the world for centuries and in the Church for sixty years has now metastasized.

Honest and incorruptible leaders demand and obtain convinced and faithful collaborators, because their consent and collaboration derive from the sharing of a good purpose – one’s own sanctification as well as that of others – using morally good instruments to achieve it. Analogously, corrupt and treacherous leaders require subordinates who are no less corrupt and disposed to betrayal, because their consent and their collaboration derive from complicity in crime, the blackmail of the hitman and the one who hires him, and from the lack of any moral hesitation in following orders.

But loyalty in doing evil, let us not forget, is always only for a time, and hanging over it there is the sword of Damocles of the boss remaining in power and of the absence of a more attractive or more profitable alternative for those who serve him.

Conversely, loyalty in doing good – which is rooted in God who is charity and truth – does not know any second thoughts, and is ready even to sacrifice life – usque ad effusionem sanguinis – for that spiritual or temporal authority that is the vicar of the Authority of Our Lord, who is both King and High Priest. This is the martyrium symbolized by the cardinal’s robes. This will also be the condemnation of those who profane it, believing themselves to be protected by the Leonine walls.

It is therefore not surprising that an authority that is based on blackmail surrounds itself with people who are vulnerable to blackmail, nor that a power exercised on behalf of a subversive lobby wants to guarantee continuity with the line that has been undertaken, preventing the next conclave from electing a Pope rather than a vaccine vendor or a New World Order propagandist.

I wonder, however, which of their eminences who dot the foul-mouthed press with their colorful nicknames and the burden of financial and sexual scandals would be ready to give their lives – I do not say for their boss in Santa Marta, who would of course himself take good care not to give his life for his courtiers – but for Our Lord, assuming that they have not replaced him in the meantime with the Pachamama.

It seems to me that this is the crux of the matter. Peter, do you love me more than these? (Jn 21:15-17). I do not dare to think how Bergoglio would respond; instead, I know what these characters, who have been awarded the cardinalate just as Caligula conferred the laticlavius [the rank of senator] on his horse Incitatus in order to show his contempt for the Roman Senate: I do not know him (Lk 22:54-62).

It is the primary task of Catholics – both lay people and clergy – to implore the Master of the vineyard to come and do justice to the wild boars who are devastating it.

Until this sect of corrupters and fornicators is thrown out of the temple, we will not be able to hope that civil society will be any better than those who ought to be edifying it rather than scandalizing it.  

Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

 

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