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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal decries Vatican ‘silence’ on homosexuality at abuse summit ROME, February 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Organizers of the recent Vatican sex abuse summit deliberately avoided the issue of homosexuality in order to advance a “homosexual agenda” in the Church and protect homosexual networks that thrive in “climate of complicity and a conspiracy of silence,” a cardinal has said.  In a new interview with Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register, German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said that “discussing the problem of homosexuality would have become dangerous for them, because it’s evident there is a network of homosexuals within the Vatican.”  “That’s the problem,...

Who Will Watch the Watchmen? he usual metaphor for complications brought about through deceit is that of a web. But a web, even one greatly tangled, remains a flimsy structure that can easily be brushed aside. A more apt metaphor for the accumulation of deceit is that of weight. Each lie adds to the mass that covers the truth until that mass becomes too ponderous to be supported by the underlying structure.  Whatever individual or institution the deceit was intended to protect is then crushed beneath its weight; buried beneath the lies.We have come to a point in time when...

[Catholic Caucus] PINK ELEPHANT SUMMIT: Vatican Coverup Continues (Michael Matt in Rome) RTV in Rome. . . CNN's Delia Gallagher asks Cardinal Cupich the million-dollar question just before Cardinal Cupich loses his red hat.  Reporting from the Vatican, Michael Matt comments on what's fast becoming a 'Pink Elephant Summit, with everyone ignoring the real problem but going on and on about 'synodality,' 'collegiality', 'pilgrim church', 'accompaniment', 'path forward', 'radical listening'--pretty much anything BUT the pink elephant in the room. And now these guys claim that because they've been listening to abuse victims here in Rome this week, they now know...

Vatican Sex Summit Report: Day Three Disgruntled papal nuncios meet in secret in Rome Church Militant has learned exclusively of a secret meeting that occurred with a good number of papal nuncios last night. The point of the meeting was to air their grievances among each other at how the Vatican simply ignores whatever bad behavior of priests or bishops they report — meaning bad sexual behavior. The nuncios, we were told — a somewhat sizable group of them who are here because of the sex summit — are extremely upset and angry and didn't really discover the scope of...

Abuse summit day two: How to hold bishops to account The bishops discussed how to make themselves accountable, but will this be enough for the victims around the world? (ROME – February 22nd, 2019) “Accountability”: that was the theme chosen for Day 2 of the meeting for the protection of minors taking place this week at the Vatican.An address by the Archbishop of Mumbai, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, set the tone for the day. His Eminence focused primarily on bishops’ accountability to each other — in the key of “collegiality” — and spoke of the bishops’ need to engender and...

Second Day of the Summit. With New Accusations Against Bergoglio, From His Argentina The following are five entries from the notebook of February 22, the second day of the summit between Pope Francis and the leaders of the hierarchy from all over the world, on the subject of the sexual abuse of minors.*1. On the question of the homosexuality that underlies most of the sexual abuse committed by priests, almost all of it with young and very young males above the threshold of puberty, an insurmountable wall of silence continues to be raised.Questioned at the midday press conference, Archbishop Charles...

Vatican summit organizer: Gay subculture in seminaries has ‘nothing to do with sex abuse of minors’ ROME, February 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Decades of widespread homosexuality in US seminaries had “nothing to do with the sexual abuse of minors,” a key organizer of the Vatican abuse summit said on Friday. At today’s summit press briefing, LifeSite asked Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, adjunct secretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and papal appointee to the summit’s organizing committee, a follow-up to a question posed yesterday by Italian journalist Sandro Magister.  Magister had asked the Maltese archbishop on Thursday why the...

Overcoming a Credibility Crisis The Boston Globe reports that 130 living bishops have been accused of covering up priestly sexual abuse of minors. No steps have been taken to discipline them. So far, all we have seen our episcopal leaders do is take measures to ensure that priest abusers who are not part of the episcopacy are reported to civil authorities, although The Boston Globe states that 50 living bishops have been accused of cover-up since the Dallas Charter of 2002. The hierarchy has done nothing to ensure that bishops accused of such are reported. Laity are appalled that some...

At the Summit, Homosexuality Is Taboo. But There Is Caution Over “Zero Tolerance” On the opening morning, February 21, of the summit between Pope Francis and the leaders of the worldwide Church on the issue of the abuse of minors, the big no-show was the word “homosexuality.” And this in spite of the fact that the great bulk of the abuse tabulated so far has taken place with young or very young males, past the threshold of puberty.The word “homosexuality” did not appear in the pope’s inaugural discourse, nor in the 21 “points of reflection” that he had distributed in...

Prominent Sex Abuse Whistleblower on the Summit: ‘This Cannot Be the Catholic Response’ During the press conference for the Vatican Summit on Sex Abuse, early Monday, Cardinal Blase Cupich was asked by CNN’s Delia Gallagher to address whether “part of the problem is that priests, bishops and Cardinals are, themselves, engaged in illicit sexual behavior and therefore unwilling to denounce each other.” Cardinal Cupich, who was hand-chosen by Pope Francis to lead the summit, responded. “You are right in saying this is a hypothesis — and a hypothesis has to be proven … and I think that is something that...

Catholics sex abuse summit sidesteps role of gay priests Some conservative U.S. Catholics are dismayed by the official schedule for Pope Francis’ Vatican summit with bishops on clerical sex abuse that begins Thursday, saying it ignores the root cause of the scandal: gays in the priesthood. They point to Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, who will lead the nearly 200 bishops through three days of discussions and listening sessions addressing the clergy sexual abuse scandal, which has shaken the Roman Catholic Church to its foundation. He evaded questions on the topic of gay priests and their adult victims three...

There’s No Business Like Show Business: “The Protection of Minors” Summit In two days (February 21) the Vatican will launch another of the publicity stunts that have taken the place of rightful governance of a Church now harvesting the bitter fruits of an epochally reckless attempt to update her in a vain appeal to the sensibilities of “the modern world.”  I mean the so-called summit on “The Protection of Minors.”Protection from whom?  From a homosexual-infested clergy whose emergence has been presided over and even protected by many of the prelates participating in this farce, who continue to pretend that “protection...

An Open Letter from Two Cardinals to the Bishops gathered at Rome. Why only two? http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinals-burke-brandmueller-abuse-crisis-symptom-of-turning-away-from-trut Dear Brothers, Presidents of the Conferences of Bishops, We turn to you with deep distress! The Catholic world is adrift, and, with anguish, the question is asked: Where is the Church going? Before the drift in process, it seems that the difficulty is reduced to that of the abuse of minors, a horrible crime, especially when it is perpetrated by a priest, which is, however, only part of a much greater crisis. The plague of the homosexual agenda has been spread within the...