Posted on 10/22/2022 6:41:05 PM PDT by marshmallow
Youths turn backs to prelate and wave rainbow flags in Vatican basilica
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Over two hundred altar servers turned their backs on German Cdl. Rainer Maria Woelki in a mass protest at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls last Monday.
As the cardinal-archbishop of Cologne began his homily to nearly 2,000 acolytes from Germany, small groups of servers abruptly stood and faced the cathedral's main entrance to the west, rudely interrupting the preacher.
Pilgrims Protest
Woelki was presiding at the opening Mass for the acolytes, who are on pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi. The pilgrimage includes evening prayer at the Lourdes grotto in the Vatican gardens, a general audience with Pope Francis and a closing service in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi.
The protestors were objecting to Woelki's handling of clerical sex abuse cases in the archdiocese of Cologne and Pope Francis' reluctance to accept the cardinal's resignation. Several servers walked out of the basilica.
A number of protestors also waved rainbow flags and wore LGBT-colored face masks to show their solidarity with the German Synodal Path, which seeks to change Church teaching on homosexuality. Others repeatedly shouted, "Woelki must go!"
Cardinal's Defense
Clearly stunned by the protest, the archbishop interrupted his sermon to address the protestors by pointing out that Jesus never turned His back on anyone and always showed people His face openly — the "face of the Father who accepts and loves every person."
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Frankenchurch Barf Alert
If they don’t like Catholic moral teachings, there are plenty of “churches” all over Europe they could join where waving the rainbow flag is practically a requirement.
That is a lie. The type of lie told in Genesis
Did God really say, (Gen 3:3)
They want to change God's words (the unchanging God), His teaching not Church teaching.
Fr. Sweeney would have backhanded them even before he knew he was doing it...
it’d been an automatic
i miss the clarity of it all back then
Backhand them for protesting against a perve-enabler?
interrupting mass.
He’s not a perve-enabler. These were perves protesting against him. He’s anti-trans, anti-LGBTQRSTUV “marriage,” etc., all of them causes so dear to the German bishops. He’s about the only one who is resisting.
I’m sure the Vatican would be happy to see him gone, but they were unable to show that he had covered up anything in his diocese and it was found that he had correctly hired outside investigators to follow up on old cases (dating to the 60s).
He has offered his resignation and I’m sure he’ll be gone before long, but the fruits and nuts in Germany are getting impatient.
OK ... I did read the article, and I found it quite confusing. Obviously.
So ... how exactly DID the Cardinal handle the clerical sex abuse cases? -3
There were two separate groups of people protesting here. First up was the altar servers (allegedly, 1/3 of the sex abuse victims within the dioceses were altar servers). The second group, the Alphabet Mafia, did their usual and piggy-backed on that protest to make it all about them. It most certainly is not, but there are many who will gladly let them have the spotlight apparently.
Some of the charges were very old so he hired an outside firm to investigate them. Then they declared that there was something corrupt about the contracting practices, although actually he was able to show that everything was done correctly and with the approval of the Vatican,
They’re just out to get him because he is about the only German bishop opposed to the LGBTQ takeover. Very often false sexual abuse charges or charges of negligence are the thing they use to retaliate.
Satan does not just want your soul. He wants you to go out into the world and continually attack the Catholic Church.
He doesn’t care about Protestant Churches and their constantly changing and fluid “doctrines.”
Foe all of Her faults the Catholic Church is still the only Church founded by Jesus Christ Himself and the only Church Jesus has promised to standby and protect until the end of days “and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Why does satan send his slaves into Catholic Churches to steal consecrated hosts but NEVER into Protestant Churches to steal ritz crackers and grape juice masquerading as a symbol of the body and blood of Jesus?
Black satanic “masses” need the real presence of Jesus Christ to blaspheme.
Exactly! You don’t see the leftists and communists go after the protestants for a reason. They’ve started and will continue to stray from the faith.
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