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Posted on 09/15/2018 4:14:18 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
In the weeks after the Viganò letter was published, Francis preached a homily in which he declared, “with people lacking good will, with people who only seek scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction” the best response is “silence” and “prayer.” If this sounds like Francis believes the real villains in this mess are Archbishop Viganò and people who want to know what the bishops knew, and when they knew it, well, yes.
In another homily on September 11, Francis went further, saying that not only was Viganò the real villain, but the bishops were the real victims: They were being persecuted by the devil: “In these times, it seems like the Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops,” Francis preached. And Satan “tries to uncover the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people.” (The Father of Lies—as he is referred to in the Bible—has not traditionally been regarded as the revealer of sins in Catholic thought, but this pope has never been known for having a supple mind.) Francis then offered counsel for his poor, suffering brother bishops: “The Great Accuser, as he himself says to God in the first chapter of the Book of Job, ‘roams the earth looking for someone to accuse.’ A bishop’s strength against the Great Accuser is prayer.”
Other parts of the church hierarchy also seem to view themselves as victims. In late August, Washington Post columnist Elizabeth Bruenig decided to try to get to the bottom of the Viganò story by asking McCarrick himself. She went to the church-owned property where the former cardinal now resides and knocked on the door. Whatever representative of the church—God’s vessel for Truth and Light—lives there declined to answer. Instead, he called the Post to complain about her.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
I thought this article, though not injecting anything new that I could see, was a good summary of the situation.
Yep, saw this one yesterday. Not a fan of Bill Kristol’s rag lately, BUT this piece was an exception. Very good summary of where we’re at right now.
I just finished reading it when I saw your post. It is very good at telling the state of the church at this moment. I thought his 4 options of what would be the end results of all this was spot on.
What do you think of this part?
“The pontificate of Francis can, perhaps, best be understood as a political project. His election at the conclave in 2013 was—unbeknownst to the world at the time—the result of a campaign planned out in advance by four radical cardinals who saw then-cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the perfect vehicle for the revolution they wanted to launch within the church. (The story of how Cardinals Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Walter Kasper, Godfried Danneels, and Karl Lehmann formed “Team Bergoglio” is detailed in Austen Ivereigh’s worshipful biography of Francis, and even though the cardinals subsequently denied the account, their protestations are supremely unconvincing.) As the Catholic News Agency reported at the time, this politicking wasn’t simply a matter of bad taste: The apostolic constitution, Universi Dominici gregis, expressly prohibits cardinals from forming pacts, agreements, promises, or commitments of any kind. Oh well.”
It answers a lot of questions about his whole pontificate, but if pre-judging who was gonna be voted for goes explicitly against the rules, do you feel Francis is a true pope? I wonder if he also wonders, why does he always have pope Benedict bless the cardinals he elevates? Thoughts?
Furthermore, it appears he has no intention of letting go.
A good summation, but it leaves out how Bennie was forced out.
Yes, I believe your right. I guess we’ll be doing option 4, resist!
#FireFrancis
How in the world can it be extricated without killing the host?
This is going to take a miracle...a very large miracle.
Who would have thought Flip Wilson was popular in Argentina.
I agree, Francis is the result of the church swamp having power and using it to elect one of their own, and they all need to be expelled from the church like poison from a wound.
I wonder if any of us will be alive to find out the truth of how a healthy pope was forced out and this charlatan brought in..
“Certainly that is a step in the right direction, but Frankie isn’t the architect of this evil takeover, he is just the public face of it. This rot runs from the very top right down to the bottom.”
Agree. This is will be long and painful. The Vatican agreement with China is evidence of the “new” Church. This is war.
In front of the Pope
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