Pro-Gay Archbishop Rips ‘Conservative’ Bishops for ‘Attacks’ on Pope

LifeSite News ^ | 9/13/18 | Doug Mainwaring

[marshmallow]

SANTA FE, New Mexico, September 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A bishop known for his radical pro-LGBT views has issued a letter to the priests of his diocese ripping “conservative” bishops for statements critical of Pope Francis.

Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester accuses “conservatives” within the Church of using recent revelations of homosexual abuse and subsequent cover ups in order to “further an agenda.”

“Sadly, since the recent revelations of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury and the abuse committed by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, there have been many who, it seems to me, have been using these tragedies to further an agenda,” said the Santa Fe Bishop.

In particular, Wester says he is disturbed by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s testimony which revealed wrongdoing in dealing with sexual abuse at the highest levels of Catholic leadership, including many current prelates and the Pope himself. He goes on to say that Viganò, too, is attempting to “promote a certain agenda.”

Wester minimizes the explosive allegations found in Viganò’s testimony as “ecclesial politics” which serves as a distraction. He suggests that focusing the Church’s attention on anything other than assisting victims is polarizing and therefore harmful.

“I am deeply saddened by those who attack Pope Francis and even go so far as to call for his resignation,” said Wester in his letter. “Incredibly, some of these attacks are from my brother bishops.”

[Leep]

Pope aphobes!

[DarthVader]

Defrock and excommunicate this bum.

[CH3CN]

He thinks we have an agenda? Well, yes. Yes we do as a matter of fact.

[Vaquero]

The pope needs to go too

[mimaw]

My objective is to get gays out of the priesthood and keep them out. If fancy pants in New Mexico doesn’t like it I suggest he and his fellow travelers join
the episcopalians.

[Fido969]

The Pope has stacked the College of Cardinals. He’s invulnerable from within the church.

[Petrosius]

Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester accuses “conservatives” within the Church of using recent revelations of homosexual abuse and subsequent cover ups in order to “further an agenda.”

Dear Bishop,

That "agenda" is called the Gospel and the Ten Commandments.

[CitizenUSA]

The agenda? Why, yes! The preaching of Christ!

[Ouchthatonehurt]

[DarthVader]

Yep!

[Missouri gal]

The New Mexico Attorney General is Hector Balderas, a Democrat running for re-election. Not expecting a close contest. Hard to guess whether he is interested in investigating child sex abuse in the diocese.

[Architect of Avalon]

The church needs a gardener to uproot all the weeds.

[G Larry]

What we conclude is that he doesn't want to acknowledge this is a homosexual problem, more than a child predator problem.

It would be easy to stop and prosecute the relatively small number of priests abusing minor girls, if there were not the overarching problem of active homosexual clergy.

You can't be a Priest or Bishop and promote active homosexuality.

[irishjuggler]

Meet the next American Cardinal!

[Fedora]

"The Archdiocese of Albuquerque is currently hosting a conference run by a dissident priest organization with the full support of Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester. The conference, put on by the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP), is in full swing until June 28. It features Archbishop Wester as its Episcopal Moderator. AUSCP has advocated for homosexuals to be admitted to the priesthood contrary to Church teaching, championed the ordination of married men, and pressed for the ordination of women to the diaconate. The AUSCP is part of an “international coalition of heretical ‘church reform’ organizations called the International Church Reform Network,” reports Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute, who is at the event. Hichborn says that Wester is “playing host for heretics.”: US archbishop hosts conference put on by pro-homosexual priests who want to remake Church (06/27/2018)

[Fedora]

Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester grew up in San Francisco during the 1960s. Despite his proximity to a hotbed of political activism during a turbulent period, he wasn’t active in any political or social cause as a youth. . .“I went to the seminary at the age of 13, but I turned 14 quickly,” Wester said in a recent interview at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. “The Vietnam War was raging, but I approached it from the lens of a child. I didn’t know much about it, and frankly I thought, well, if the United States is doing it, it must be good.”. . .As the spiritual leader of more than 323,000 Roman Catholics in New Mexico, Wester, 67, has become a voice for many hot-button issues, including immigrant rights, reducing poverty, the death penalty, workers’ rights and climate change.: Wester: The arch-activist