Posted on 04/29/2016 10:41:52 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
(Madrid) Pope's confidant as a censor? Madrid Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra forbade Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the faith of the Catholic Church, to present his latest book "Informe sobre la esperanza" (State of Hope) at the Catholic University of San Dámaso present in Madrid. The reasoning? Because it was "a book against the pope."
The renowned Spanish Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (BAC), whose director is the priest Carlos Granados, led the interview with Cardinal Müller, on which the book was based, has invited the German cardinal for next week to Spain in order to present the interview book in Valencia, Madrid and Oviedo.
The book is about the situation of the Church.The title is a reference to the famous book, published 30 years ago this week by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Vittorio Messori "State of the faith". The content promises the same explosiveness. A German edition is already in preparation.
Archbishop of Madrid Prohibits Book Launch
"Informe sobre la esperanza" - The new book by Cardinal Müller
In Madrid, the Spanish capital, the presentation was to take place at the Archdiocesan University San Dámaso, which doubles as a seminary of the Archdiocese of Madrid. But Archbishop Osoro banned the book launch. He wanted "nothing to do with a book against the pope" said Infovaticana .
The presentation will now be at the University Francisco de Vitoria instead, a University of the Legionaries of Christ and of course without Archbishop Osoro, who had refused the invitation.
The unfriendly uninviting of the Cardinal Prefect and the repellent treatment by the Madrid Archbishop had been a prelude. In the Spring at the Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Bishops' Conference Osoro and other bishops close to him made the publication an issue. The group criticized that the BAC had published this book, "without asking". Osoro justified his criticism by saying that the book highlighted a "conflict" between Cardinal Müller and Pope Francis that it did not exist in reality.
As recent events show, Archbishop Osoro doesn't even believe his own thesis. It only served to exert pressure on the BAC, who did not back down and did not cancel the series of events at the book presentation. Thereupon the ban the book from the archdiocesan university was imposed as the next step. Has Archbishop Osoror falsified his resume?
Catholic University of San Damaso in Madrid Meanwhile, there is provided in Spain with increasing insistence on the question of why Archbishop Osoro "has lied to the Vatican," said Infovaticana . Archbishop Osoro, born in 1945, was formerlythe Archbishop of Valencia. When Pope Francis made Madrid Archbishop Cardinal Antonio Maria Varela Ruoco an emeritus for reasons of age, it was left to him by the Congregation for Bishops, to propose as is usual, the selection of three candidates. Francis refused all and promoted instead, Osoro, from Valencia to Madrid. However, as the Archbishop of Valencia, he appointed Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, whom he removed from the office of Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Prior to his appointment to Madrid, Osoro had to send a resume to the Vatican, which was published in extracts with the appointment. Therein, Osoro claimed to have achieved four licentiates: in philosophy, theology, science and education.
In Daily Bulletin of the Vatican press office, which announced the appointment in 2014, it states: Mons. Carlos Osoro Sierra è nato a Castañeda, provincia e diocesi di Santander, il 16 maggio 1945. Dopo aver studiato Magistero presso la Escuela Normal ed aver esercitato la docenza per un anno a Santander, è entrato nel seminario per le vocazioni adult Colegio Mayor El Salvador di Salamanca, ove ha frequentato i corsi di Filosofia e Teologia presso la Pontificia Università di quella città, ottenendo la licenza nelle due discipline . Ha pure conseguito la licenza in Scienze Esatte dell'Università Complutense di Madrid e in Pedagogiadell'Università di Salamanca. (Emphasis added by the editors)
In Spain, voices claiming publicly that Osoro have not acquired in reality one of the four Licentiates. In the Congregation for Bishops journalistic inquiry was excluded because of the secrecy of the proceedings of a bishop's appointment. Unofficially it was said, in the Congregation, the resume was not checked after Pope Francis rejected all of the tested and nominated candidates and had appointed Osoro instead.
Spanish observers do not rule out that there is a connection between the affront to Cardinal Müller and the rumors about the fake CV. "Osoro now needs a friend in Rome. A very high friend," said Francisco Fernandez de la Cigoña.
Whatever may be the personal reasons for Archbishop Osoro: To deny access of a Cardinal Prefect of the CDF to a Catholic university to present his book, presents an unprecedented break in manners. The justification that the book is allegedly "against. the pope" is an affront that certainly has a very sharp point. "The book must be important," said Fernandez de la Cigoña, "if there are censorship attempts."
I am a Spanish speaker (second language) and I follow Church news in Spain. This was really stunning.
For those who don’t know what this is about, when the orthodox Cardinal Archbishop Rouco of Madrid had to retire, the Pope skipped over a list of qualified (and orthodox) candidates and appointed the complete nobody, Osoro. He is the Cupich of Madrid. He has since spent his time sucking up to the radical leftist government of Madrid, he cancelled the very successful family event that Rouco had held every year, and he has marginalized the orthodox. However, he also, in his resume, announced that he had several Masters Degrees in various fields, including mathematics. It turns out that he has none whatsoever, so the author was suggesting that this is why he needs a friend in Rome (meaning, Francis) to protect him.
I don’t think Francis cares about his lack of degrees or his lies, but what Francis and his cronies have realized, like the good mafia they are, is that here is somebody they can use. The idea that an Archbishop should prevent the head of the CDF from speaking at a Catholic institution is incredible, or at any rate, would have been until now.
Schism is coming, but it’s going to be started by the Francis band and not by the orthodox.
Thank you for your assessment of the situation. The sad fact is, for those who follow current events in the Catholic Church (culminating in the publication of the execrable A.L.), this news is not surprising anymore.
Thank you for your assessment of the situation. The sad fact is, for those who follow current events in the Catholic Church (culminating in the publication of the execrable A.L.), this news is not surprising anymore.
Thank You for the backstory!
Thanks - I wish more people knew about this. Spain has got some very orthodox clergy. There is a blog, Denzinger Bergolio, run by orthodox (generally anonymous) diocesan clergy from all over Spain, that analyzes and criticizes Francis’ utterances. They have recently added an English language site.
“Is the pope Catholic?”
Seems that’s a valid question these days.
The Great Division - Müller rips the Synod Report: "Undignified, Shameful, Completely Wrong!"
I'm not sure, but I think Francis did not re-invite Mueller to his second SinNod.
Muller: “Francis not a professional theologian.”
http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/muller-francis-theologian.htm
Some of Francis’ personal pontifical appointments to SinNod II were such “orthodox” prelates as follows:
Cardinals Danneels, Kasper, Maradiaga, Wuerl, Dolan, Tagle and Archbishops Bruno Forte and Blase Cupich.
Although they attended SinNod I, neither Cardinals Burke nor Mueller were invited back to SinNod II.
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