Posted on 12/19/2020 5:38:58 PM PST by ebb tide
December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Historically anti-life and left-wing Wilton D. Cardinal Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, has again been appointed to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life by Pope Francis. The Pope has assigned a further nine of the cardinals he created at a recent consistory to various positions within the Roman Curia.
The D.C. bishop, who made headlines in June after excoriating the administrators of the John Paul II National Shrine for “allowing” Trump to visit and pray, had already been a member of the dicastery since 2016. The appointment of Gregory to an office with “life” and “family” in its name might come as a shock, given his record on both topics.
While Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia, Gregory backed a campaign to outlaw abortion that made exceptions for rape and incest, despite the fact that the legislature was in a strongly pro-life position. Following Gregory’s affiliation with the compromised “pro-life” group, the legislature capitulated. Georgia Right to Life’s Dan Becker told LifeSiteNews in June that as “soon as Archbishop Gregory backed a compromised position on life, which he did, the politicians took the easy route.”
Gregory has even been quoted as saying that “birth is only the first moment of a person’s human dignity,” contravening the Catholic teaching on the nature and sanctity of human life being from conception onwards. The Washington Archdiocese later clarified that the archbishop’s “full statement makes clear that respect must span the seamless garment of life from conception to natural death.”
Furthermore, Gregory has publicly announced that he will not be denying presidential hopeful Joe Biden Holy Communion, despite the politician’s ardent and unabashed support for the pro-abortion cause. “On my part, it’s a matter of the responsibility that I have as the archbishop to be engaged and to be in dialogue with him, even in those areas where we obviously have some differences,” Gregory said.
The newly appointed cardinal has also been at odds with the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. In 2013, as bishop of Atlanta, Gregory reinstated a priest who had previously been removed for engaging in a homosexual affair. In 2018, Gregory appointed a pro-homosexualist priest as one of three “spiritual guides” in the diocese tasked with reaching out to victims of clerical sex abuse. This decision was widely panned by faithful Catholics, who noted that clerical sex abuse is overwhelmingly homosexual in nature.
Gregory also has a friendship with pro-homosexual priest Father James Martin, S.J. Gregory invited Martin to speak in the diocese of Atlanta on his book Building a Bridge. Gregory even penned a review of the pro-homosexual book, saying it is “a wonderful book that challenges the institutional church to be in dialogue with the LGBT community,” and that it “has challenged a lot of people, because you don't want to build a bridge if you already think you're right. But this is where we have to go next.”
The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life was created by Pope Francis in 2016, merging together the now-defunct Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Pontifical Council for the Family, assuming their functions. In the process of creating the new dicastery, the Pope devised new statutes by which the dicastery would function, further revising them in 2018.
In the revised statutes, under article 9 on marriage, the Pope writes that the “Dicastery works to deepen the reflection on the relationship between men and women in their respective specificity, reciprocity, complementarity,” affirming the Church’s teaching on marriage as between one man and one woman.
It does, however, go on in article 11, §2 to include “the pastoral care of the Church also in relation to so-called ‘irregular’ situations,” referencing the famously difficult “discernment of ‘irregular’ situations” section of his 2016 Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
Later, under article 13, the Pope writes that the office “[s]upports and coordinates initiatives in favour of responsible procreation,” but does not clarify exactly what is meant by “responsible procreation.”
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That church is dead, Jim.
Is it my imagination or was it just a couple of short months ago that a Supreme Court Justice-ette’s qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice-ette was called into question because of her religious beliefs? And what religion was she accused of practicing?
In other words, it is through others that we know his mind.
If the Catholic Church replaced the current Commie Pope and half of their cardinals and bishops from the membership roster of the Church of Satan, that would be an improvement - “overall Godliness up by 22.5% in the latest reporting period”.
The Catholic Church hierarchy believes it is killing the Church. But the Church is not the wealth of Rome or corrupt, heretic clerics. It is the Faithful. The Catholic Church needs to be cleansed by fire, as do many Protestant denominations, and return to the simplicity of 2000 years ago. The fake Pope and his evil minions are digging themselves an eternal grave.
The unanimous Declaration of the Catholic Faithful, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the religious/denominational bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of God and the Commandments of Jesus entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Religious Denomination are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Religious Denomination becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Religious Denomination, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Religious Denomination long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations and ungodliness, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them to absolute evil, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Religious Denomination , and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Catholic Faithful; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Religious Denomination. The history of the present Evil Pope is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny and Evil over the Catholic Faithful.
That's on top of that it's in aid of murder and eugenics.
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