Posted on 09/24/2004 8:10:11 AM PDT by NYer
Written nearly 2 years ago, this article provides the answer to the question: "How did certain bishops become appointed?"
Archbishop Jean Jadot, Pope Paul VI's apostolic delegate to the United States from 1973-1980, has no regrets about the spate of bad bishops he inflicted on the Catholics of this country.
And, if veteran Vatican reporter Robert Blair Kaiser, who recently interviewed Jadot at his home in Belgium, can be believed, Jadot is still proud of some of his most notorious picks, such as Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond, Va., Archbishop Jean Jadot, Pope Paul VI's apostolic delegate to the United States from 1973-1980, has no regrets about the spate of bad bishops he infficted on the Catholics of this country. And, if veteran Vatican reporter Robert Blair Kaiser, who recently interviewed Jadot at his home in Belgium, can be believed, Jadot is still proud of some of his most notorious picks, such as Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond, Va., Archbishop Rembert Weakiand of Milwaukee, and Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles - to name but a few, many of whom are known more for their advocacy of homosexual rights, their protection of pederast priests, and their conunitment to modernism than to their commitment to the Church's doctrines.
Other men who became bishops during Jadot's tenure in the United States include Rochester Bishop Matthew Clark; Albany's Howard Hubbard; former Santa Fe Archbishop Roberto Sanchez, who resigned in a sex scandal; former San Jose Bishop Pierre DuMaine; former Honolulu Bishop Joseph Ferrario; San Antonio Archbishop Patrick Flores; former Newark Archbishop Peter Gerety; Joliet, Ill., Bishop Joseph Imesch; Louisille Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, O.P., a former staffer at the apostolic nuncio under Jadot; Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston (whom Jadot selected as bishop for Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo.), Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk; Saginaw, Mich., Bishop Kenneth Untener - to name a few more - all of whom, supposedly, mirrored his own progressive image as a "man of the people."
Each of these prelates has been a strong advocate of the pro-homosexual agenda in the U.S. Church, ordaining homosexuals, imposing pro-homosexual education on Catholic schools, aiding and abetting special rights legislation in the civil realm for homosexuals, and giving free rein to homosexuals and lesbians in religious orders which operated schools, universities, parishes, seminaries, and retreat houses in their dioceses and archdioceses.
Kaiser, who covered the Second Vatican Council for Time magazine and recently wrote a book, Clerical Error: A True Story, asserting, he was cuckolded by the late Malachi Martin, recently met Jadot in Belgium, and published the interview for The London Tablet, September 7, under the headline, "Where's the Red Hat?"
Kaiser wonders why, when both Jadot's predecessor and successor as papal delegates to the U.S. received the red hat of a cardinal, Jadot never received one in recognition of his work here.
"When Jean Jadot left his native Belgium to become a papal diplomat in 1968, he took his instructions from Pope Paul VI, who saw an evolving role for his nuncios after Vatican 11 - not to be the Pope's eyes and ears, but his heart," Kaiser opened. "Nuncios should travel, Paul VI said, not so much as the representatives of Rome to secular governments, or even as legates between Rome and the world's bishops. They should 'how the Pope's concern for the poor, the forgotten, the ignored.'
"Paul VI, of course, was still on a conciliar high," continued Kaiser. "He had seen the Church through three stormy sessions of the council launched by his predecessor, John XXIII, to a glorious end with the Promulgation of the council's crowning charter document, Gaudium et Spes, which was designed to set the Church on a new course - caring less about itself as an institution, caring more about working for justice and peace. Jadot sought to run that course - first in the Far East, then in Africa, then, from 1973 to 1980, in the United States, where he identified episcopal candidates among the American priests who were in line with the ideas of Paul VI.
"Soon after the Pope's death, however, he was yanked from his post, brought back to the Vatican, told not to concern himself any longer with anything American, and put in charge of an ill-defined bureau, the Pontifical Council for Non-Christians. Jean Jadot's predecessor received a red hat; so did Jadot's successor. Jadot never did. In fact, he is the only Vatican diplomat assigned to the United States who was never made a cardinal.
"What harm had he done?
"In the United States today, that all depends on one's point of view. An American priest who is second in command of his ancient religious order in Rome says Jadot was 'the best man we ever had.' The reason: 'For seven years, Jadot helped pick our very best bishops.' He instanced Ted McCarrick, now the cardinal archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Roger Mahony, the cardinal archbishop of Los Angeles, two of a very small group inside the College of Cardinals who could be called Progressives. (Jadot also plucked a priest out of the Diocese of Jackson, Miss., and had him made bishop of Springfield, Mo. He is now the embattled cardinal archbishop of Boston, Mass., Bernard Law. But that's another story.)
"If, however, you were to ask a conservative like Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, he would say Jadot hurt the Church in the United States by picking the ‘very worst' bishops. This is because John Paul II had changed the criteria. It was part of his plan to bring a runaway, postconciliar Church back to its senses."
Most of Kaiser's interview with Jadot focused on such issues as how bishops are selected when a vacancy arises, and whether or not the current system - of selecting three names and forwarding them to Rome - works, or whether or not there should be popular election of bishops. Jadot thinks the current system works, though not as well as it might.
Kaiser then focused on the old prelate, reviewing his career in the Church, and the obvious satisfaction he feels from a long life's work.
"The Jadot I found in Brussels," Kaiser wrote, "did not strike me as a man who was nursing any grievances. He knew he had done a fine job - for Paul VI and for the Church. He refused to speculate about why he did or did not become a cardinal, and had good words, moreover, for some in the Roman Curia. He said he liked Cardinal Gianbattista Re. 'I trust him very much. He's in the category of honest people.'
"I asked him how many cardinals he put in that category.
"Jadot hesitated, then laughed. 'I don't know all the cardinals,' he said.
"When I asked Jadot what qualities he would like to see in the next Pope, he said: 'I would like, to see a Pope who is ready to listen."
Kaiser also provides some insights into Jadot's family, which remains one of the wealthiest in Europe. His father, Lambert, was an engineer who "built the electrical system and streetcar network in Tientsin, China, the harbor city for Peking, and later managed the building of a railroad through the Congo."
The family became enormously wealthy by developing "the largest [gold - editor] mining center in the country, one that produced more than half of the Congo's income, . . . Jadotville," but Jadot, after studies at Louvain and the Institut Cathohque in Paris, became an anti-colonialist, and advocated "a progressive handover of administration and government to the African community. He helped the local Church adapt, to history by freeing itself of colonial influences over its catechesis and its liturgy....
"From 1952 to 1960," Kaiser continued, "Jadot was chief chaplain to the colonial forces in the Belgian Congo, and found himself engaged for the most part in trying to conciliate the Belgian colonialists and the Congolese.... During the 1960s, Jadot was a cheerleader in Belgium for a number of his friends from Louvain University who helped run Vatican II. One was Dom Lambert Beauduin, the Benedictine from Chevetogne who, in 1945, planted the idea in the mind of a papal diplomat in Paris named Angelo Roncalli that the Church needed a council.
"In 1960, Jadot was appointed national director of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith as a public relations man and fund-raiser for the missions. The job put him in close contact with a number of cardinals in Rome. One of them, Sergio Pignedoli [d. 1980], recruited him into the papal diplomatic corps. In 1968, he was made a titular bishop and sent as a papal legate to Bangkok.
"On December 3, 1968, attending a conference of Catholic and Buddhist monks, Jadot had an hour's fascinating conversation with Thomas Merton, the Trappist poet and author who had become a peace activist. Two hours later, Rembert Weakland, the abbot primate of the Benedictines (who was also attending the conference), rushed to Jadot's room to tell him Merton had just been electrocuted in his bath. Together, Jadot and Weakland negotiated the release of Merton's body with the Thai government and arranged for its transfer to the United States.
"When Jadot got the word on the Internet in May of Weakland's resignation in yet another sex scandal, he e-mailed him. 'I am your friend. I will always be your friend. Sed libera nos a mato'."
Besides Weakland, another of the "good bishops" Jadot identified for Pope Paul VI, wrote Kaiser, was a young labor priest from Fresno, Calif., Roger Mahony, now cardinal archbishop of Los Angeles.
Jadot was struck by Mahony's advocacy for migrant grape pickers and his close involvement with Cesar Chavez. According to Kaiser, "Mahony was a man of the people, who had grown up shoveling manure on his father's chicken ranch in the San Fernando Valley. It was 'no surprise' to Jadot when Mahony was finally appointed archbishop of Los Angeles in 1985.
"Walter Sullivan, soon to retire as bishop of Richmond, Va. Kaiser continued, "was another of Jadot's choices. He turned out to be a pastor who included everyone, even gay Catholics on the margin of the Church.... He naturally became the target of a whispering campaign for more than 20 years by some of those who think they can be more Catholic by being less-catholic. The whispers went all the way to the Roman Curia, which sent an investigator to Richmond more than a dozen years ago to look into Sullivan's heresies. Sullivan was exonerated."
I apologize. I thought you were going to the Eastern Orthodox Church, and had a problem with those who were unhappy with the Roman Rite.
I guess I need a program to keep up with things around here.
I beg to differ with you. From various sources:
"Cardinal Roger Michael Mahony was appointed Archbishop of Los Angeles by Pope John Paul II on July 16, 1985 He was installed as the fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles on September 5, 1985. Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal on June 28, 1991."
"Following the death of John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, Pope John Paul II appointed the promising Archbishop Bernardin to perhaps the preeminent See in the United States – the Archdiocese of Chicago. On August 25, 1982, Bernardin was installed as the Archbishop of Chicago by the Apostolic Delegate, the Most Reverend Pio Laghi."
"Pope John Paul made him ((Bernard Law) archbishop of Boston in January 1984 and the following year made him a cardinal."
"In March of 1981 Pope John Paul II made him a Prelate of Honor. on November 19, 1981 Pope John Paul II appointed Msgr. O'Brien the third Bishop of Phoenix. He was consecrated at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome by Pope John Paul II on January 6th and installed in Phoenix on January 18, 1982."
"Cardinal Walter Kasper was born in Heidenheim-Brenz, Germany, in 1933 and was ordained in 1957. An accomplished theologian and author of many books and articles, Kasper studied at the University of Tübingen where he later became professor of dogmatic theology. He taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1983. In 1987 he was ordained bishop of Rottenberg-Stuttgart, Germany."
"Father Cawcutt (of Capetown, South Africa) was created a bishop in 1992."
"In 1981 Bishop Ryan was named by Pope John Paul II titular bishop of Surista and auxiliary to the Most Reverend Joseph L. Imesch, Bishop of Joliet, and was ordained bishop by Bishop Imesch, September 30, 1981.
In 1983 Bishop Ryan was appointed by Pope John Paul II seventh Bishop of the See of Springfield in Illinois, succeeding Bishop Joseph A. McNicholas, deceased, and was installed as diocesan bishop in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Springfield, January 18, 1984."
Apologies accepted ... and thank you!
I thought you were going to the Eastern Orthodox Church, and had a problem with those who were unhappy with the Roman Rite.
Actually, I am a Roman Catholic who attends an Eastern Catholic Church, which has NEVER separated from Rome.
A Roman rite Catholic may attend any Eastern Catholic Liturgy and fulfill his of her obligations at and Eastern Catholic Parish. A Roman rite Catholic may join any Eastern Catholic Parish and receive any sacrament from an Eastern Catholic priest, since all belong to the Catholic Church as a whole.
I guess I need a program to keep up with things around here.
.... or a scorecard! ;-D
Some of his early work--Seven Storey Mountain and The Sign of Jonas, especially--are inspired. His later work was trash. By the late sixties he had taken a left turn and was digging into eastern mysticism; he also entered into an affair with the young nurse he had met during a stay in a Kentucky hospital. Since he was living alone in a hermitage in the woods by this time, he was able to arrange to see her frequently. He also partied a good deal with his New York friends. So much for the benefits of contemplative life...
"Didn't the pope personally ratify all these selections?
Why then lay all the blame at the feet of Jean Jadot?"
Exactly. And I have noticed that JPII actually rejected the resignations of some of these reprobates when they reached the age of retirement, ignoring the pleas of thousands of faithful who suffer under such men. The Pope was not, and is not, as unhappy with them as some here would have others suppose. If he were, he would have imposed some discipline on wayward bishops long ago. Instead they continue to plague the people. During the present pontificate, moreover, John Paul has not elevated a single traditional bishop, the sole exception being the Bishop of Campos. That is a disgraceful record and tells us all we really need to know about where he's coming from. Perverts and apostates and incompetents are routinely favored and elevated--but not traditionalists. The Pope has got the Church he wanted as a result.
Bingo. I know of know other organization in the world where everyone is held culpable except the person in charge.
Except, of course, for CBS and Dan Rather.
I said everyone knows that Paul VI stacked the deck with most of the rogues. I guess I thought you knew too,evidently I was wrong. You need to study up.
I said everyone knows that Paul VI stacked the deck with most of the rogues. I guess I thought you knew too,evidently I was wrong. You need to study up.
So it's OK to promote rogue bishops to be Archbishops or the Cardinalate rather than dismiss them?
What's your excuse for Reggie Cawcutt?
.....and what of Assisi, .....what of Fatima, .....what of the denial and suppression of Roman Catholic Dogma and Tradition through his complete support of V2 heresy, .....what of his embrace and indulgence of terrorist Arafat and the PLO, ......and of his silence toward blaspheming priests and bishops,.....what of his passive silence toward sodomites and baby killers who dare call themselves Roman Catholic and debase the Sacrament of Holy Communion every Sunday, .....what good came from his well publicized gathering in the Vatican of American imposters clothed as bishops? Was this ( the mere tip of his mountain of wrongs ) "....part of his plan to bring a runaway, postconciliar Church back to its senses"?
Just a minute!!! Which coven of warlocks prepped this smoke and mirrors spin on truth?
Soon we, the faithful of His Church, will be asked to sit by in silence, while the wicked choose one of their own to sit in Peter’s Chair. Will the faithful refuse to be silent? Will we stand, and demand in a single global voice for the election of a devoted and holy priest, as the Vicar of Christ on Earth???
A massive re-write of reality is now unfolding to sculpt a hollow monument where none should stand -- but for the barren grounds behind the walls of the Kremlin.
A global re-education is necessary to assure the numbing of the ignorant as they expectedly stare unknowingly at the coup de grace taking place within the walls of the Sistine Chapel.
Of course, speculation continues as to who might be the Cardinal in pectore Karol Wojtyla named in 2003.
Some believe Wojtyla appointed a member of the heretic Catholic association created by the Chinese communist government! These heretics and their ignorant flocks have declared their allegiance - not to the Holy See - but to the atheist communist Chinese.
All the more reason to watch and identify the ingress of the 123 electors who levitate into the conclave. Clearly, the presence of a heretic in those proceedings will void any decision made by the cardinals.
The communists are persecuting the true Roman Catholic Church in China. Should the Cardinal in pectore be a heretic, and stand to deceitfully declare his loyalty to the Holy See, it won’t be the first time a cardinal has lied to mask his evil intent. This will be a the last and final chapter crafted by Wojtyla alone.
Pope John Paul II, chose his name to honor his predecessor, John Paul I, who died just 33 days after being elected pope. John Paul I chose his name to honor predecessors Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.......an unparalleled concurrence of action in papal history....and curiously.......all working from the same agenda. Now that’s determination - come hell or holy water (?).
Wojtyla, like the rest of us, was endowed by Our Father with free will, and he, and we, will account for those choices. I would guess a wrong is magnified by the amount of harm brought to His faithful, and the collateral harm brought to His Church. I can think of a number of men and women I’m glad I did not follow on my way to my accounting with Our Heavenly Father.
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us. Saint Pius X, pray for us.
Which wacko made Dupre a bishop?
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6346303
Says it all - and that was back in 93....
http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr46/cr46pg6.asp
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