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Reuters reported that Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, the "Vatican's doctrine chief until 2017" in a "thinly veiled attack on pope [Francis]" said: "Church leaders 'have abandoned the people... severely damaging their faith". He warned against 'the fraud of (the) anti-Christ'." (Reuters, "Sacked cardinal issues manifesto in thinly veiled attack on pope," February 9, 2019) In what Reuters called a "thinly veiled attack" on Francis, Mueller, also, apparently "attacked" the cowardly silent "bishops not teaching the hard truths of the faith" according to the National Catholic Register: "Müller [Mueller] warned that to 'keep silent' about these truths is 'the greatest deception'... leads man to religious delusion, 'the price of their apostasy;' it is the fraud of the Antichrist." (National Catholic Register, "Cardinal Müller Issues 'Manifesto of Faith,'

Canon lawyer Ed Peters is basically saying the new canon law makes it nearly impossible to excommunicate politicians like a Andrew Cuomo or a Adolf Hitler. As a side note: if the new canon law makes it nearly impossible to excommunicate anyone even a Cuomo or a Hitler, does this mean that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Pope Francis critic Fr. Alessandro Maria Minutella were never excommunicated? Why is it that defenders of Catholic orthodoxy and tradition can be excommunicated by canon law while mass killing politicians like Cuomo and Hitler can't? But getting back to the point, Peters in his new excommunication article on Cardinal Timothy Dolan needed to more forcefully restate what he said two weeks ago on Canon 915 about Cuomo and other pro-abortion politicians not receiving Communion: "Canon 915 ... requires... action... alerts an individual about his or her morally gravely dangerous public conduct, to protect the faith community from scandal... Are these not the

Pope Francis in the "Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together" said: [T]he diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God." LifeSiteNews reported that "a Dominican theologian who wished to remain anonymous" said of the above passage: "[I]n its obvious sense [it] is... heretical." (LifeSiteNews, "Pope Francis under fire for claiming 'diversity of religions' is 'willed by God," February 5, 2019) According to the LifeSiteNews article, Fr. Z claimed the passage wasn't heretical because it can be read to mean by "God's permissive will." The Dominican theologian said God's permissive will allows or "permits" the evils of sin, "diversity of religions" and "gassing Jews," but these are not God's positive will such as virtue, truth and created goods like "color, sex and races." The theologian in the article said

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, whom Pope Francis embraced and just co-signed a so-called "religious freedom" document, has declared that Christian converts should be "killed" on his daily Muslim television show: "[T]he apostate [Christian convert] must either renounce his apostasy or else be killed." (Raymond Ibrahim.com, "Egypt's Top 'Moderate' Cleric: Apostasy a 'Crime' Punishable by Death," 6-24-2016) The Sheikh has a history of saying different things to Western and Muslim audiences. To Muslims he says "kill" Christian converts. It appears that Francis is betraying Christians by embracing al-Tayeb. Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church.

Pope John Paul II rebuked Ed Peters' claim that abortion accomplice Andrew Cuomo can't be excommunicated in Evangelium Vitae, 62: "The excommunication affects all those who commit this crime... and thus includes those accomplices without whose help the crime would not have been committed... abortion is a most serious and dangerous crime... excommunication is to... foster genuine conversion and repentance." (The reproach of Christ, Catholic theologian  Ronald Conte Jr., "Contra Ed Peters on Excommunication for Abortion," September 9, 2015) In fact, Pope John Paul II rebuked not only Peters, but Cardinal Timothy Dolan and all the United States bishops except for Bishop René Gracida and, it appears possibly, about five other US bishops. Moreover, he rebuked Pope Francis who lauded as "a great Italian" abortionist Emma Bonino who was "directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of approximately six million Italian babies."(LifeS