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Slideshow Cardinal Blase Cupich, in his latest column wrote: " The Holy Father’s core conviction about the resurrection of Jesus also helps us make sense of his urging not to judge others or become an obstacle by denying God’s grace to those whose lives are imperfect. The pope rightly believes that, as one who has broken down the barrier between time and eternity through his resurrection, Christ loves without limit or condition." "... For instance, like Pope Francis, he advocated for “the law of gradualness” when it comes to judgment in particular cases. He wrote that there is a need to recognize “the distinction between objective disorder and subjective guilt, which depends greatly on intentions, motivations and concrete circumstances. … In this line the law of gradualness has been rightly developed. … As judge, Christ is not a cold legalist.” "... Absent such an appreciation, there will always be a tendency to fixate on laws and rules, or to place one’...

One of the greatest saints, St. Catherine of Siena, gave the following advice to those who seek the reformation of the Church. She said: "I shall recognize whether we have truly conceived love for the reform of holy Church, because if this is indeed the case, you will follow the will of God." (Letters, December 1378) She said we do this by praying for the grace of loving God above everything including ourselves and loving our neighbor as ourselves wishing their salvation. If you are fearful because of the crisis and darkness in the Church, remember that Jesus, the saints and angels are in this battle with you. I know St. Catherine is praying for us to have light and peace who are seeking the reformation of the Church. She is praying for us as she prayed for Niccolo in his darkness and fear: "I waited for him at the place of execution, and as I waited, I kept praying in the presence of Mary and Catherine, virgin and martyr. Before he arrived, I lay down and s...

As Jesus suffered under Pontius Pilate so it appears that China's Catholics will suffered under Pope Francis. Were Pilate's hands innocent of the blood of Jesus after he washed his hands in water? Are Francis's hands innocent of the Chinese victim's blood to come after his so-called "diplomatic action to dialogue?" The Vatican spokesperson for the Pope, Greg Burke in a statement asserted that Pope Francis has been "in detail" informed about everything happening in China directly by the Secretariat of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The January 30 statement said: "[T]he Pope is in constant contact with his collaborators, in particular in the Secretariat of State, on Chinese issues, and is informed by them faithfully and in detail on the situation of the Catholic Church in China.” [ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/despite-regrettable-reports-francis-is-well-informed-on-china-vatican-says-29546 ] Is the Francis/Parolin action a sc...

A true physical or spiritual father when his children are abused or being lead on a destructive path will defend his children from the abusers or promoters of evil paths that will lead them to hell. If he only cries because the children have been abused as Pope Francis did with the Chilean sex abuse victims, but doesn't defend them from the priest sex abusers and the bishops who protect them then he is not acting like a man. Francis showed he is effeminate by not having a manly and fatherly heart that is outraged by the evil of his spiritual children being sexually abused. Francis is not behaving like Jesus Christ who declared: "It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones." Former federal investigator Leon J. Podles , Ph.D., thinks that the bishops don't behave like Jesus or even like men. Being amazed at how bishops in the Church are effeminate, Podl...

Fr. George Rutler in his 2017 Crisis article said Fr. Antonio Spadaro, and by implication Francis since both he and Spadaro are liberal Jesuits, "grew up in a theological atmosphere of... Transcendental Thomism [which] was Karl Rahner's attempt to wed Thomistic realism with Kantian idealism. Father Stanley Kaki, theologian and physicist, called this stillborn hybrid 'Aquikantianism.'" (Crisis, "The Mathematical Innovations of Father Spadaro," February 22, 2017) Both the liberal Jesuits: Spadaro and Francis it appears are total relativists, as are most Jesuits and all liberal theologians. Rahner's "Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook" says: "The German Jesuit Karl Rahner (1904-1984) remains one of most influential theologians of the twentieth century." (Foundation of Theological Study: A Sourcebook, https://booksgoogle.com>books) Rahner was a disciple of Kant as Rutler said. Jaki, also, makes this clear in h...

Five days before Tony Annett's February 17 Twitter attack on EWTN and free speech as well as freedom of the press which was retweeted by Pope Francis's "mouthpiece" and close collaborator Antonio Spadaro, guess who was on the Twitter thread? The so-called moderate Cardinal Sean O' Malley. O' Malley on February 12 on the Annett thread said "[E]nvironmental justice and what needs to be done to address this real and compelling challenge." Others that joined O'Malley on the thread were gay activist Fr. James Martin, Socialist Bernie Sanders, abortion advocate Jeffrey Sachs and leftist Paul Krugman. Was O'Malley endorsing Annett's radical environmentalism as well as the "detraction and calmuny" of that Twitter page? The American Catholic had this to say of, it appears, one of O'Malley's favorite tweeter pages: "Anthony Annett['s]... twitter page is especially full of nasty invective. A quick perusal of h...

According to the USA Today and former Guam Senator Robert Klitzkie, it appears that Pope Francis has a new Bishop Juan Barros-like sex abuse scandal. The Vatican Insider has a photo of Francis on February 7 meeting with, hand on shoulder and smiling at, Guam Archbishop Anthony Aurpon who according to former Guam Senator Klitzkie "has been accused of child sexual abuse by five men, one of them Aurpon's own nephew." (Robert Klitzkie press release, "Press Release of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, February 18, 2017 & Vatican Insider, "Guam's Archbishop Apuron breaks his silence: "I deny all allegations made against me - The February 7th audience with Pope Francis," February 10, 2017) In a press releases Klitzkie said: "The Pope appointed Cardinal Burke to head a tribunal to try Aurpon. We're told that the tribunal's decision was reached in October. So - more cover-up?" The USA Today reported: ...

Communist expert Robert Royal on EWTN's World Over said the Chinese government is a totalitarian regime that doesn't respect truth, religious rights and most of all human life. It is evil and totally godless. Human life for them is cheap. People are killed and tortured at the whim of the regime. Listen Pope Francis! This are real people. They are not worthless things you can discard to play at the so-called game of "diplomacy." The media invented the lie that Pope Pius XII was Hitler's Pope because of the lying myth that he was silent about the totalitarian Nazi regime and even collaborated with Hitler. If Francis is actively collaborating with the Stalinist totalitarian Chinese Communist regime, then he is the: The Totalitarian Communist Pope. Pray that this Pope is stopped from betraying the Chinese Catholic people. Pray that enough people pray and demand that he stop treating people like things in a game of "diplomacy."

- Updated August 26, 2018 - The secular and liberal Catholic media as well as leftist such as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) have been involved in a massive cover-up of Pope Francis after each of his serial sex abuse cover-up scandals. Almost all the sex abuse enabling media agreed with pro-gay National Catholic Reporter journalist Thomas Reese's whitewashing of Francis's cover-ups which was posted on the SNAP website saying: "The overwhelming consensus in the media is that Pope Francis has a blind spot when it comes to sexual abuse." (snapnetworks.org, "Pope Francis' blind spot on sexual abuse," Religious News Service, January 25, 2017) Now, they are at it again, with the Vatican's former Apostlic Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's report that Francis covered-up the sex abuse crimes of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Most all of them are enabling Francis's sex abuse cover-up by down playing the devast...

-Updated October 11, 2018- Today, Michael Dougherty in an article for National Review titled "The Case against Pope Francis" revealed that "Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, is set to stand trail in France for his role in covering-up a child-sex-abuse scandal. Francis made him head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, which adjudicates [judges] abuse cases." Maybe even worst, Francis's top advisor, also, is accused of sex abuse cover-up. Vatican expert John Allen reports who is the Pope's top advisor and that he "symbolizes" the "Pope Francis era": Cardinal  Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga  "symbolizes" the "Pope Francis era... he comes off as virtually a 'vice-pope,' the coordinator of Francis’ all-important council of cardinal advisors [C9] and his most visible and outspoken interpreter." [ https://cruxnow.com/church/2015/05/12/comeback-of-honduran-vice-pope-symbolizes-pope-francis-era/ ] Sadly, the Car...

The left-leaning Catholic Crux's headline on December 14, 2015 was: "How can the Church allow Bernard Law to remain a priest?" The question that needs to be asked of all leftist Catholics is: "How can the Church allow Pope Francis to remain a pope?" The Cardinal Bernard Law scandal pales in comparison to the Francis and Bishop Juan Barros sex abuse scandal. Crux on December  20, 2017 summarized the Law scandal: "It was late 2001 when the Boston Globe began running its first stories on the John Geoghan case, a former Boston priest sentenced to prison in 2002 for sexual abuse and killed there less than a year later by another inmate. Records from the Boston archdiocese showed that reports of Geoghan’s behavior had been made to church officials, and despite that, he was transferred to a series of different assignments where he continued to commit acts of abuse." "Not long afterwards, similar reports surfaced about another Boston pries...

Cardinal Joseph Zen believes that Cardinal Pietro Parolin is the puppet-master behind Pope Francis's plan to betray the underground Chinese Catholics to the Chinese Communist regime. (LifeSiteNews, "Cardinal Zen rebukes the Vatican's Secretary of State over China: He [Parolin] is a 'man of little faith,'" February 6, 2017) How long has Parolin been behind the scenes with Francis pulling strings? In the last decade, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was having problems with conservative Catholics, some linked to the Knights of Malta, lead by Argentina Vatican embassador Esteban Caselli who had attempted to block Bergoglio becoming a bishop. (MondayVatican.com, "Pope Francis and the Order of Malta: A Key to Understanding this Pontificate?," January 30, 2017) The conservative Catholics then blocked his selection of liberal bishops when he became a Cardinal for the country and finally attempted to remove him from Argentina by getting him sent to a "...

La Nova Bussola Quotidiana, on February 6, reported: "[T]he Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [all CDF members were appointed by Pope Benedict XVI], had already conducted on Barros and other bishops close to Karadima an investigation that lead them to exempt [bar] them from their offices. But with a letter signed by the Pope [Francis] in January 2015... the request for exemption [barring from office] is blocked and... Barros is promoted [to bishop] of Osorno." (La Nova Bussola Quotidiana, "Barros, the shock letter that denies the Pope," February 6, 2017, translation from Italian by Google) Pope Francis overturned the Pope Benedict appointed CDF ruling to bar Juan Barros from the office of bishop and then appointed him bishop of Osorno. Francis overturned the CDF ruling despite the fact that congregation found credible evidence that Barros covered-up for the predator Karadima. In another article, La Nova Bussola said " the Barros case is not a...

On December 12, 2002, the New York Times headline was: "Catholic Lay Group Demands Resignation of Cardinal Law" No accusation against Cardinal Bernard Law for covering-up sex abusing priest ever came close to the accusations made by the victims of Fr. Fernando Karadima against Bishop Juan Barros and the Pope Francis cover-up that the Associated Press reported today: "Pope Francis received a victim's letter in 2015... contradicting the Pope's recent insistence that no victim had come forward to denounce the cover-up... members of the Pope's Commission for the Protection of Minors... hand-deliver[ed] a letter to the Pope about Barros. The letter from Juan Carlos Cruz details the abuse... He described how Karadima would kiss Barros and fondle his genitals, and do the same to younger priests and teens." (APnews.com, "AP Exclusive: 2017 letter blies pope's claim of ignorance," February 5, 2018) Imagine if Cardinal Law had kissed the se...

Ganesh Sahathevan is a Fellow at the (American Center for Democracy) ACD’s Economic Warfare Institute.  The ACD/EWI team specializes in economic warfare, purposeful interference in civilian infrastructure, including the financial markets, transnational criminal and terrorist organizations. ACD fellow Sahathevan  said Pope Francis's closest collaborator has "an illegal slush fund financed by George Soro": "Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the so-called "Vice Pope" given his close association with Pope Francis, has refused to answer questions concerning his work with a number of NGOs funded by billionaire George Soros.Cardinal Oscar has also refused to answer queries concerning any funding he, or entities associated with him, may have received from Soros..." "... It does appear as if the "Vice Pope" is on some campaign to change the Vatican from within, and that he is doing so with what amounts to an illegal slush fund financed b...