...but I won't blow the whistle on non-Catholics if you want to constructively discuss how to get more Catholic women's signatures on this Open Letter to the Pope.
Why do I think this matters?
On the one hand, a miracle might happen and the Pope will take these concerns seriously.
May God's will be done. But even if Pope Francis is utterly unmoved by tens of thousands --- or hundreds of thousands or millions --- of women demanding answers from him, the organizers of this petition --- if they are as smart as I think they are --- will use their burgeoning e-mail list to organize further actions to press for honesty, atonement and purification.
And when necessary, criminal indictments.
It's up to us to use now the graces of our Baptism and Confirmation: to speak up clearly and pay up personally. Contact your bishops. Contact your priests and deacons and get THEM to contact your bishop.
Make it clear that we will not support the parish/diocesan structure with $$ unless they stop the silence and speak up for the whistle-blowers.
Only 10 bishops, to my knowledge, have spoken out for former Vatican Ambassador Vigano's "Testimony" about cover-ups at the top.
Here's a link to Vigano's 11-page Testimony. If you haven't read it yet, read it now (make sure you're sitting down) asnd then send the Vigano link AND the Catholic women's letter link to everybody you know.
If you are not a Catholic woman, send this to your favorite Catholic woman!
This is just one step, but it's a step.
Remind your Bishop that it is HIS duty to offer his fraternal support to whistle-blowers like Vigano by demanding an investigation of his charges, and demanding answers from Pope Francis, Cardinal Wuerl, and the rest.
Don't let them say the equivalent of "Not my job, boss." At this point it's everybody's job, and theirs above all.
Please respond and encourage others.
"He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices, it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong."
-St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Father of the Church.
"Anger is a praiseworthy thing and justifiable with a proper zeal. It becomes sinful when it is sought to wreak vengeance upon one who has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than it has been deserved." -
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia
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Thanks for taking action and your prayers.
We need to pray, ask for forgiveness and do penance for the sins of the church.
Talk to your priests and seek their thoughts. I sense some are unwilling to speak out on the corruption in the church and do not want to offend Pope Francis.
God’s Peace be with you.
Can. 1404 The First See is judged by no one.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P5A.HTM
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If God wanted female apostles, he would have made it so.
The pope and everyone involved with preying upon children and anyone within the church, or covering it up, needs to resign. It is destroying the church. Homosexuals, which are the source of much of this evil, need to be removed from the church without exception. Even my wife, who defends all things Catholic, now frets that Pope Francis and this evil is destroying the church. Me, I think they, starting with the pope and anyone involved on done to the parish priest, need to be convicted by the church and executed, else turn over all information for 100% transparency and let local authorities try, convict, and jail or execute them. Give no quarter to anyone that harms a kid or young adult.
The Church is in schism/civil war.
Signed!
If it were not for you and the Church Militant, I’d have much less knowledge about what is going on in my world. Thank you so much.