The Biggest Scandal – “The darkest mystery of Francis’s 12-year reign was his persistent habit of shielding credibly accused and even convicted sexual predators from justice.” REVEALED: How the People’s Pope shielded sexual predators in the clergy – including one priest accused of violently raping nuns (Daily Mail)
Christ-centered Africa – ““I want a Pope who thinks and acts like Christ, and we pray that God gives us a good pope – a pope who can help us to go in heaven…”” Bishops in Africa say they don’t want a Pope like Francis; we want a Pope like Christ (Crux)
Predicting the Next Pope – “From Rome to the Global South, the cardinals are preparing to elect a new pope — but history shows that the Holy Spirit often surprises.” Edward Pentin’s List of 10 Papal Contenders You Should Know (National Catholic Register)
Religious Songs in Schools – “In an email to National Review on Thursday, Allegan Public Schools Superintendent James Antoine said the staffers who had threatened to prohibit the performance of religious-themed music ‘were unfamiliar with the legal guidelines concerning religious expression in a public school setting.'” After Censorship Threat, Students to Be Allowed to Sing Christian Songs at Talent Show (National Review)
Post-Sexual Revolution Culture – “As the extent and impact of the world’s birth rate crisis become clearer, another issue has finally become respectable to talk about: the unforeseen impacts of the sexual revolution.” Demographic Decline and the Failure to Love (Fairer Disputations)
Religious Liberty Commission – “President Trump designated the following individuals to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission.” President Trump Announces Religious Liberty Commission Members (The White House)
The Church in China – “The current approach is defined by the Vatican’s controversial 2018 agreement with China to share power with Beijing in the appointment of Catholic bishops.” The Next Pope Needs a Better China Policy
Catholic Identity Matters – “Shortly after Pope John Paul II died in 2005, I received a note from a rabbi. He asked, in a friendly way, why Catholics seemed to spend so much time worrying over matters of doctrine … ” What the Church Needs in the Next Pope (Wall Street Journal)
Zero Misconduct – “In the 20+ years of publishing our web site and spotlighting numerous cases of falsely accused priests, we have never encountered a case quite like that of Rev. Jay Fostner from Wisconsin.” A Message of Victory and Hope: Wisconsin Priest Wins Defamation Lawsuits Against False Accusations Then Writes Book to Support Others (TheMediaReport.com)
Franciscus – “Now that the late Holy Father has been laid to rest, the College of Cardinals turns its attention to what the Church needs from the next successor of St. Peter.” Interregnum: Restoring the Petrine Office (The Catholic Thing)
Public Charter Schools – “The goal is to provide more options for parents, no matter their finances or circumstances, so families can find the right fit for their children’s educational needs.” Why should religious charter schools get tax dollars? Because kids deserve a choice. | Opinion (USA Today)
Life More Abundantly – “The Jubilee call I propose is simple, but it’s not easy: Build companies and lead teams with John 10:10 as the guiding mission.” Abundant Leadership: A Jubilee Call for Catholic Business Leaders (National Catholic Register)
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Per “The Biggest Scandal,” that is the sum of the Pontiff Francis, aka Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio. From Grassi to Rupnik, and every predator in between, the Pontiff Francis was the Pontiff-for-the-Predators. And as his longtime friend Theodore McCarrick reminded us all upon his “miraculous” election in 2013: “I am very biased…I love this man God has given us to lead the Church.”
Jorge Bergoglio and Theodore McCarrick…together in eternity.
A photograph that I can’t forget (though I’d love to) shows Cdnl. Cupich handing Uncle Ted the “Spirit of Francis” award. A caption reading “birds of a feather” would be supfluous.
DeSouza’s essay on Franciscus, at TCT, Franciscus ROCKS. Read it. Interregnum: Restoring the Petrine Office (The Catholic Thing).
DeSouza lists the likes and wishes of—frankly, let’s make it simple, let’s make it ‘frank’—the lately demised pope to “do away with all” titles and trappings of the Petrine office.
I wonder whether one Peter reads and weeps at the realization of how one Peter served neither God nor His people. Let us pray that Peter’s successor today will know, love, and serve God. In that holy order.
@ The Biggest Scandal
While the cardinals glowingly celebrated the life of Pope Francis during the Novendiales the horror of “The darkest mystery of Francis’s 12-year reign” [Daily Mirror] returns, reading this account, like a jolt of electricity.
The best we can say is that Jorge Bergoglio was intent on protecting sinners assuming since we’re all sinners, we all deserve God’s merciful compassion. A new chance. Worst is that the former pontiff was a purveyor of disorder structurally, as well as sexually, the entire spectrum of morality.
Our Church can’t brush this over as if it didn’t exist. It must be faced head on by the new pontiff. Foreseen is a change of the participants of the Vatican power structure.
@Catholic Identity Matters
Archbishop Chaput explains that the content of the faith matters and that, as practiced, synodality didn’t help. We might remember the final tipping point that drew John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church was the Anglican proposal (Act of Parliament, Oct. 5, 1841) to install Anglican Bishoprics indifferently over Protestants and others (but not Catholics!) under British jurisdiction. He protested about consistency of doctrine–the Jerusalem population, for example, was Orthodox and Jewish, with only a “half-a-dozen” Anglicans.
Newman: “The Anglican Church might have the Apostolic succession, as had the Monophysites, but such acts as were in progress led me to the gravest suspicion, not that it would soon cease to be a Church, but that it had never been a Church all along” (Apologia Pro Vita Sua).
@The Post-Sexual Revolution Culture
We read: “But as demographic decline worsens, it’s time to start thinking more seriously about what sexual norms are conducive to healthy family formation.”
The regressive and seamless garment: contraception, co-habitation, sequential bygamy, abortion, homosexuality, LGBTQ tribalism, transgenderism, and the kissing-cardinal’s Fiducia Supplicans’ eyes-shut blessing of irregular couples as “couples”…
…and the 2024 Synod on Synodality Instrumentum Laboris—which mentioned biological “families” only three times, “moral” only twice (and then as “non-moralistic” and “moral expression”!), and parroted “synod” 228 times; and then from the follow-up fifteen “hot-button-issue” Study Groups, nothing except maybe inclusively, obliquely, and fluidly #9: “Theological criteria and synodal methodologies for shared discernment of controversial doctrinal, pastoral, and ethical issues” (!).
But, of course, the marriage vocation was not the subject of navel-gazing synodality.
Thank you, CWR, for your honesty and courage in exposing the monstrous horror of the Bergoglian papacy as it is revealed in the story, “The Biggest Scandal.”
It is clear: Bergoglio permitted the systematic — indeed, horrific — abuse of the innocent by predatory perverts, while summarily dismissing faithful prelates for the offense of saying the Mass in the same form it had been celebrated for the previous eighteen centuries.
We are finally through this horrific chapter in our Church’s history.
This time, may the cardinals’ choose a man of God.
Same old lies to discredit the pope who was simple, sincere and spiritual!
Hah! Bergoglio was “simple, sincere and spiritual,” you say?
What a joke!
He did nothing about his buddy Rupnik who sexually assaulted dozens of sweet, innocent women under his spiritual care.
He did his best to wipe out the Catholic Mass as it had been said for the last 1,800 years.
He appointed pro-abortion activists to the Pontifical Academy for Life.
And he actually attempted to correct Jesus’ wording of the Lord’s Prayer.
Pray for the repose of his soul. I fear he will need it.
Please read the tribute of Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso! May be you will change your mind! His tribute is also available in YouTube.