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To: Dr. Brian Kopp

Yes. I don’t KNOW for sure, but I suspect that, as that article suggests, Cardinal Sodano is a corrupt insider, a Macchiavellian, a guy who thinks that insider Italians should run the Church, rather than a member of a gay, liberal Mafia that crept into the Church. He is corrupt, too, but they are two different kinds of corruption.

FWIW, I recall that the Legionaries of Christ were generally thought of as a very conservative and faithfully Catholic organization. Fr. Maciel was not the typical liberal, dissenting child molester. He pretended to be something that he was not, and managed to hide what he was from most of his followers, from what I have seen, although when he was outed the evil that was revealed was so great that it seems to have pretty much destroyed the organization as a going concern.

I don’t think Sodano covered it up because he approved of gay priests, but because it was convenient politically for his position of power.


10 posted on 03/12/2013 8:18:06 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
Furthermore Sodano did everything in his power to bury the messages of Fatima and make them into something that applied only to the past, something of historical note only. Pope Benedict XVI finally put Sodano's spin on Fatima to rest when he gave the interview on the plane on his way to visit Fatima in 2010:

"Consequently, I would say that, here too, beyond this great vision of the suffering of the Pope, which we can in the first place refer to Pope John Paul II, an indication is given of realities involving the future of the Church, which are gradually taking shape and becoming evident. So it is true that, in addition to moment indicated in the vision, there is mention of, there is seen, the need for a passion of the Church, which naturally is reflected in the person of the Pope, yet the Pope stands for the Church and thus it is sufferings of the Church that are announced. The Lord told us that the Church would constantly be suffering, in different ways, until the end of the world. The important thing is that the message, the response of Fatima, in substance is not directed to particular devotions, but precisely to the fundamental response, that is, to ongoing conversion, penance, prayer, and the three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity. Thus we see here the true, fundamental response which the Church must give – which we, every one of us, must give in this situation. As for the new things which we can find in this message today, there is also the fact that attacks on the Pope and the Church come not only from without, but the sufferings of the Church come precisely from within the Church, from the sin existing within the Church."

12 posted on 03/12/2013 8:26:09 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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