Friday, 8 August 2025

+LEO ACCUSED OF COVER-UP; NZ TRAD ORDER EXPELLED

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Critics of pope favorite Robert Prevost allegedly received $150,000K to remain silent 




+Robert Prevost with Bergoglio, author of Traditionis Custodes which suppressed the Latin Mass (EF) 



In a move which may be the strongest indication yet of Pope Leo XIV's position on the Traditional Latin Mass, the Vatican confirms that the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (FSSR) have been stripped of their priestly faculties and ordered to leave New Zealand's diocese of  Christchurch. 


Following an Apostolic Visitation and trial by socialist media, Bishop Michael Gielen has kept secret any reasons for expelling NZ's first home-grown religious order. The FSSR and their flourishing EF (Extraordinary Form) community are left in the dark, to assume their offence is celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass and that unlike them, Pope Leo is privy to the Visitation's report and agrees with its conclusions. https://juliadufresne.blogspot.com/2023/11/vatican-investigates-sons-of-redeemer.html?spref=tw


However. As soon as he was elected in May, +Leo was accused of mishandling or covering up sex offences in Chicago and Peru, and a Peruvian woman has repeated allegations that as bishop he failed to investigate her allegations of abuse against two priests in his diocese.  A report in Madrid-based InfoVaticana alleges that before his election, three Peruvian girls who had publicly blamed their former bishop, Robert Prevost, for covering up their sexual abuse by a popular priest, were paid $150,000 to silence them. ttps://globebanner.com/stories/671154673-report-critics-of-pope-favorite-prevost-received-150k-to-remain-silent



Traditional Catholics and celibate priests in the post-Vatican II Conciliar Church are inured to vile, inveterate clerical sex abuse, sodomy and hush money, but that doesn't mean we must put up and shut up. We can't all be bought. 




At a July 31 SNAP press conference in Chicago, Ana María Quispe Díaz, center, repeated allegations that Pope Leo XIV, as a bishop in Peru, failed to investigate allegations of abuse she and two sisters reported to him against two priests in his diocese.



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 A Peruvian woman has repeated allegations July 31 that Pope Leo XIV, as a bishop in Peru, failed to investigate allegations of abuse she and two sisters reported to him against two priests in his diocese.


The Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, has repeatedly denied that then-Bishop Robert Prevost did not investigate the allegations. 


Ana María Quispe Díaz said that Prevost lied to her about investigating allegations of abuse that she and two other women made against Frs. Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles and Ricardo Yesquén Paiva. 


Quispe has said Yesquén touched her inappropriately and kissed on the mouth when she was 9 years old, and that Vásquez shared a bed with her and fondled her during a service trip when she was a minor.


Quispe made the public remarks, her first since Pope Leo XIV's election, at a news conference in Chicago, the pope's hometown. She said her two children were her motivation to go public with her allegations. 


National Catholic Reporter viewed a video of the news conference made available by the organizer, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, a victims' rights group, which provided NCR correspondence between Quispe and the diocese.


NCR does not name people who say they were victims of sexual assault unless they consent to being identified or tell their stories publicly, as Quispe did at the news conference.


"Prevost never investigated, Prevost never offered us psychological support," Quispe said in Spanish at the press conference.


Robert Prevost celebrates Mass in 2023 in Peru.

Then-Bishop Robert Prevost distributes Communion during Mass in Chiclayo, Peru, in this screengrab from a video obtained on social media and released on April 11, 2023. (OSV News/Lambayeque Regional Governor Jorge Perez Flores via Reuters) 

The Chiclayo Diocese has flatly denied Quispe's version of events. 


In statements, the diocese has said that Prevost commissioned a preliminary investigation into the allegations raised by the three sisters, and that he submitted its findings to the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on July 21, 2022. 


The diocese said Prevost also sent to the dicastery on April 3, 2023, the results of the local prosecutor's investigation, which found that the case lacked corroborating evidence and exceeded the statute of limitations. Because of the local prosecutor's decision, the dicastery closed the case.


Quispe has previously alleged on social media that the diocese mishandled her case. Members of SNAP said they spent time with Quispe in Peru after the conclave that elected Leo.


In March, almost a month before Pope Francis died, SNAP sent a complaint against then-Cardinal Prevost to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and the heads of two other Vatican dicasteries. It alleges that Prevost "intended to interfere with or to avoid a civil or canonical investigation, whether administrative or penal, against certain clerics of the Diocese of Chiclayo."


Prevost, who became Pope Leo May 8, led the Diocese of Chiclayo from 2014 to 2023. In April 2022, Quispe and her sisters met with Prevost to present their allegations against the priests. 


In November 2023, Quispe wrote on Facebook that in their meeting, Prevost said he believed the women, encouraged them to file a case with the civil authorities and said he would ask Vásquez to leave the parish where he was ministering. 


The diocese said that it has acted in accordance with church guidelines since receiving the allegations and had enforced a "prohibition on exercising priestly ministry in public." Social media posts, however, showed Vásquez concelebrating Mass with Prevost in March 2023, and leading in a Eucharistic procession in the diocese while surrounded by children in June 2023. 


In December 2023, Bishop Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón, then-apostolic administrator of the Chiclayo Diocese following Prevost's promotion to the Vatican, reopened the case and said he had again asked Vásquez not to celebrate Mass and that the priest was being investigated. 



A letter provided by SNAP network showed that the diocese wrote to Quispe July 1 this year stating that Vásquez had requested to be removed from the clerical state and "is suspended from all priestly functions." It said that his laicization would take "around six or seven months to complete."


Quispe and the other women, in return, asked for public clarification on why Vásquez requested being removed from the clerical state since it "prevented a real investigation from being launched."


The diocese had said that a case was not opened against Yesquén, who was unable to defend himself due to a "degenerative psychiatric illness." He had not exercised his priestly ministry in years, the diocese said. 


In the letter, the diocese said it "remains available to cover the costs of therapy" and noted that therapy that had taken place since April had stopped and not resumed.


In the Chicago news conference, however, Quispe said the diocese's claim that she and the other accusers were offered psychological support from the moment they brought the allegations to the diocese was "absolutely untrue."


She said that in the meeting with Prevost they were urged to report the case to civil authorities "because in the church there was no form to investigate, to denounce." Thus, a civil case "could function so that they could maybe do something within the church."


That, Quispe said, was untrue. 


"He lied to us," she said. She noted that Prevost had previously investigated allegations of abuse involving the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a controversial lay-led society of apostolic life that Pope Francis officially suppressed in January.


Prevost's advocacy on behalf of numerous Sodalitium victims of physical, psychological and spiritual abuse is largely credited with triggering a Vatican investigation into the once powerful Peruvian group and ultimately toppling it. 


In an interview following the conclave that elected Pope Leo, Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said that reports of abuse received by the heads of dicasteries while they were diocesan bishops were handled "according to applicable norms, and they were sent from the diocesan bishops to the competent dicastery for review and evaluation of the accusations." 


Though Parolin did not explicitly mention him by name, Prevost was then the head of the Dicastery of Bishops after serving as a diocesan bishop in Chiclayo, where he was presented with the allegations of abuse.https://www.ncronline.org/news/woman-rebuts-peruvian-dioceses-assertion-future-pope-investigated-sex-abuse-claims








Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us


35 comments:

  1. Mario Alongi Jr8 August 2025 at 17:58


    The full context is not disclosed. The devil loves division. It really had nothing to do with the Trad mass. I would recommend the faithful to be patient and keep prayer and watch what Leo will do with the mass. In the meantime, be wary of those that try to spark division and disunity.

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    1. Mario Alongi Jr the devil loves those who keep silence in the face of his evildoings, too.
      Did you read the post? Plenty of context there. To say this has nothing to do with the Trad Mass I'm afraid is wishful thinking,

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    2. Mario Alongi Jr8 August 2025 at 18:00


      Not at all. Actions speak louder then words. He extended the Charlotte deadline and I can’t divulge much but definitely not on a path to continue the previous papacy’s trend on the mass. I pray you and hope for more prayers for the Pope as opposed to the dividing rhetoric.

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    3. Mario Alongi Jr I absolutely agree that actions - in this context, inaction - speak louder than words. And I would add that the 'previous papacy' was not a papacy.

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    4. Mario Alongi Jr8 August 2025 at 18:25


      Julia du Fresne The Lord will have the last word and truth always wins. Time will tell. But Pope Leo
      XIV is still in the Chair of Peter and to not encourage prayer, but rather induce scandal to him….hmm. Evil is all over, agreed.

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    5. Mario Alongi Jr of course Our Lord, and the truth, will always win. But Our Lord needs his faithful to discover what the truth is, and reveal it. Did you read the post, which ends with prayer to Him and His Immaculate Mother?

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    6. Mario Alongi Jr is asking why you have not encouraged prayer for Pope Leo but rather have embroiled him in scandal.

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    7. Jesus likes division too when it's necessary, even among family members. He said: I have come to bring a sword.

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  2. “You will know them by their fruits.” -Jesus

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    1. Erik Miller could cut both ways

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    2. Erik Miller of course, and in this case, the FSSR's fruits are a community so flourishing that they've bought an historic Anglican church to make room for their congregations. While the Christchurch Diocese is 'consolidating' parishes flat out.

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    3. " I no longer believe the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is in any way primarily an advocacy organization for sexual abuse victims. Instead, I think it is more a noisy little group that hates the Roman Catholic Church and has discovered a way of making a living off the victimization others have suffered. My poor opinion of SNAP was formed some time ago, but the organization returned to my attention as I’ve followed the most recent scandal unfolding in the Kansas City“St. Joseph diocese.

      As regular readers know, I am a Lutheran with no axe to grind against the Roman Catholic Church
      ...
      SNAP targets Roman Catholics. If SNAP routinely seeks “donations” from settlements, well, Catholic pockets are easier to reach, for a lot of reasons starting with media bias.

      Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

      Do not mistake what I am saying. Victims of clergy sexual abuse, victims of any sexual abuse by any trusted adult, do need ready and generous listeners. They also need openhanded charitable support from the institutions that employed their abusers. Victims most assuredly also need independent advocates to speak and even raise a loud clamor on their behalf.

      But SNAP is not the outfit to do it.

      Russell E. Saltzman is the mission development pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Gothenburg, Nebraska" https://firstthings.com/snap-is-no-fit-advocate-for-sexual-abuse-victims/

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  3. It is quite possible that Pope Leo knows nothing about the FSSR's appeal or the decision on the appeal. Perhaps the FSSR can appeal directly to Pope Leo on this matter. Also, this statement that Pope Leo then Archbishop Prevost covered up abuse claims is a further attempt to smear him. As regards SNAP I certainly wouldn't be promoting them as they have made serious attempts to discredit a very holy priest who celebrated the TLM in New Zealand, among others, by naming priests and asking people to come forward with complaints against them. No one doubts that there has been abuse in the Church but how many have come forward with a view to obtaining money by deception? The case of Cardinal Pell springs to mind.

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  4. Thaddeus Noel G Laput9 August 2025 at 02:18


    The recent decision to revoke priestly faculties from the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer in Christchurch, New Zealand, reflects Pope Leo XIV’s firm commitment to safeguarding ecclesial unity and pastoral care—not some shadowy plot or unjust persecution. The so-called “Apostolic Visitation” and subsequent actions were conducted with serious discernment, far beyond the sensationalism of partisan media.
    To insinuate that the Holy Father covers up abuses without credible evidence is a grievous affront to the Petrine ministry. Pope Leo XIV, like his predecessors, takes allegations of clerical abuse with utmost gravity and strives for transparency and justice within the Church’s canonical processes. Unverified claims, especially those circulated by fringe outlets, should not distract the faithful from the real work of reform and holiness that the Pope pursues.
    Meanwhile, the expulsion of priests devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass under suspicious pretexts reveals the danger of factions that prioritize ritual preferences over obedience and charity. The Church is not a playground for Taliban Catholics who weaponize the Vetus Ordo as a tool of division and rebellion. True fidelity to the Church’s liturgical heritage must be coupled with humility, submission to legitimate authority, and a spirit of communion.
    The scandals of clerical abuse wound the Church deeply and must be confronted decisively, but they cannot serve as an excuse to undermine the Pope or the post-Vatican II reforms that seek renewal and justice. Holy priests are not expelled without cause; nor are bad priests protected without consequence. The path forward is clear: justice, truth, and unity under the Successor of Peter.

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    1. Jerimie Mueller9 August 2025 at 02:19


      Thaddeus Noel G Laput I call B. S. On this statement. Period.

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    2. Thaddeus Noel G Laput9 August 2025 at 02:21


      Jerimie Mueller Oh, how profound — a two-sentence theological treatise consisting entirely of “I call B.S.” and “Period.” Truly, the Doctors of the Church will be studying your method for centuries: dismiss the facts, ignore the context, skip the evidence, and crown it all with punctuation. Period, indeed.

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    3. Jerimie Mueller9 August 2025 at 02:22


      Thaddeus Noel G Laput What facts? That a corrupt Homesexual pedophile clergy has been destroying the church? There's enough facts to back that up.

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    4. Thaddeus Noel G Laput9 August 2025 at 02:23


      Jerimie Mueller Of course, the clergy homosexual predation scandal is not denied — it’s a documented and grievous wound in the Church. What I am pointing out is that this Taliban Catholic specific claim that Pope Leo XIV himself is involved in a cover-up has been made without a shred of evidence. That’s not whistle-blowing; that’s character assassination.

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    5. Thaddeus Noel G Laput, do you have inside information on the reasons for the expulsion of the FSSR community in Christchurch, or are you just guessing?
      Why won’t Bishop Gielen disclose the apostolic report that got FSSR expelled, or even give reasons? I think I can tell you why. When Bishop Cullinane was expelling the TLM community from Ashhurst he tried (to his credit) to meet with the community and explain his actions. It was a bloodbath. He was up against committed Catholics who knew their faith and would not accept his weak arguments that his brand of liberal Novus Ordo faith was the way of the future. After all, his liberal Novus Ordo agenda over 30 years had gutted the Palmerston North diocese. Without the huge number of new immigrant Indian, Filipino and Pacifica faithful there would now be practically nothing left.
      I think Bishop Cullinane advised Bishop Gielen that when annihilating a Latin mass community, it is better not to try to justify it, don’t try to give reasons, you can’t argue the case. This is what Bishop Gielen is now doing.
      I believe the reason Pope Francis wanted to get rid of the TLM was because faithful Catholics stand in the way of his “new synodal church”. Pope Leo will have approved the expulsion of the FSSR community from Christchurch, he is now fully complicit.
      Thaddeus Noel G Laput, you say “the path forward is…truth”. Yes, let’s have the truth.

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  5. Mercifully, you may wish to do more research before putting such things out as fact. I do not know and have not done the research in the Peru and New Zealand cases, but I have in the Chicago case.

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    1. Steve Kramer are you denying that +Leo has been accused of covering up clerical sex abuse in Chicago?

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    2. Julia du Fresne No, I am not saying that he was not accused. He was accused, ergo, it is only detraction. Were he not accused, or if you do not cover his exoneration, that would be slander. Either is a mortal sin.

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    3. Steve Kramer the Baltimore Catechism (Q 1311) defines detraction as “revealing the sins of another without necessity.” In the first place, I did not reveal the putative sins of +Leo. I reported its revelation by another.
      In the second place, there is a necessity, when the Church is mired in clerical sexual abuse, to report that the pope himself MAY be guilty of covering it up. The Church has suffered long enough from its protection of guilty parties.
      In the third place, the sin of detraction is not necessarily mortal.

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  6. If you people do not like the Pope, leave the church! If you are just going to talk bad and accuse him of things, and hate him it doesn’t matter. God says we need to forgive and love and the way you’re acting your never going to get to heaven anyway!

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    1. Terry Meister
      You probably haven’t read the about section yet.
      Might do that.

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  7. I am so confused. Didn't Pope Leo XIV just celebrate a Latin Mass recently?

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    1. Lynn Petz +Leo has celebrated Mass ad orientem, in Latin, but I believe it was the Novus Ordo Missae.

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    2. Anonymous participant 60611 August 2025 at 01:25


      You will burn in hell because of this made up story of yours. Just because we're living in the second vatican council you will hate the pope from Paul VI to Leo XIV. Why don't you condemn Alexander VI who had children and make his son a cardinal? You stupid traditionalist. That's the reason why Francis restricted the latin mass because you think you know better than the pope.

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    3. Heather McHenka Jolly11 August 2025 at 15:40




      Lynn Petz According to church approved prophecies of LaSallette there will be two worm ridden popes in the end times, Jorge MArio BerGOGlio (Magog of Revelation 20) and his successor "Francis 2.0" are, I believe, these two popes our Lady spoke of. Peter, the Roman, is guiding the True Church through the Holy Spirit per Jesus' prophecy in April 12, 2012 (which was fulfilled a year later on March 13, 2013): "The Truth of My Scripture contained in the Book of Revelation has been interpreted by My many churches, so many variations, all of which are based on human interpretation.
      My beloved Pope Benedict XVI is the last true pope on this Earth.
      Peter the Roman, is My Peter, the original apostle, who will rule My Church from the Heavens, under the command of My Eternal Father. Then, when I come to Reign, at the Second Coming, he will rule over all of God’s children when all religions will become one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
      I only speak the Truth, My daughter.
      I must warn you that many new self-proclaimed prophets will now emerge, who will contradict My Holy Word given to you, the end time true prophet.
      First they will convince believers that their words come from Me.
      Their words will be carefully chosen and their meaning will be vague and a little confusing. But many will dismiss this weakness and embrace their Messages, because they seem to be in line with Holy Scripture.
      When many souls have been seduced, the attack will begin.
      They, My daughter, are being sent to prepare God’s children to accept the next pope, who comes after My beloved Vicar ,Pope Benedict. This pope may be elected by members within the Catholic Church, but he will be the false prophet.
      His electors are wolves in sheep’s clothing and are members of the secret Masonic and evil group led by Satan." https://fatherofloveandmercy.wordpress.com/.../the-next.../
      The next pope, may be elected by members within the Catholic Church, but he will be the false prophet
      FATHEROFLOVEANDMERCY.WORDPRESS.COM
      The next pope, may be elected by members within the Catholic Church, but he will be the false prophet

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  8. Yes, it was Novus Ordo.

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  9. Anonymous participant 606 false.

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    1. Anonymous participant 60611 August 2025 at 01:27


      Kathleen Fresne Oh so you're the source of truth now? You're the magisterium? Christ gave you the power to exercise the office of papacy? Feeling holier because you know tridentine mass compare to those people who go to pauline mass?

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    2. Alexander Cornwell11 August 2025 at 01:27


      Anonymous participant 606 No attendee of the TLM feels holier than anyone else. The TLM, itself, is definitely more sacred than the Novus Ordo, though.

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    3. Alexander Cornwell11 August 2025 at 01:29

      Alexander Cornwell
      Anonymous participant 606 You have no authority to condemn anyone to Hell and your flagrant disregard for charity is absolutely vile. Nobody is defending Alexander VI and nobody is saying they hate the post-V2 Popes. You are projecting your own hatred of Traditionalists onto us.

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    4. Anonymous participant 60611 August 2025 at 01:30


      Alexander Cornwell as if all traditionalists are charitable toward the other people? As if a traditionalist looks at those people who are new to tridentine mass with judgment? Stop pointing your finger at me we all know the reason why the tridentine mass was suppressed because Francis think you're the magisterium. The clergy of SSPX does not think they're the magisterium and also Archbishop Lefebvre. The problem in the church is those laity who are inclined to tridentine mass. Tell me I'm wrong in this matter.

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