Posted on 11/13/2018 8:42:10 AM PST by marshmallow
ROME, November 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò today has issued a brief note to the U.S. Bishops, urging them to confront sex abuse as “courageous shepherds” rather than “frightened sheep.”
The U.S. Bishops are currently in Baltimore at their much-anticipated fall annual meeting at which they were expected to vote on concrete proposals to hold bishops accountable for their failures after the revelations about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
The message from Archbishop Viganò, who served as U.S. Nuncio from October 2011 until April 2016, comes one day after the Vatican insisted that U.S. Bishops not vote at their fall assembly on two action items to prevent sexual abuse coverup: standards of accountability for bishops and the special commission for receiving complaints against bishops.
Here below we publish the official English text of Archbishop Viganò’s message to U.S. Bishops, dated November 13.
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They dare not, as many are complicit and vulnerable.
Baaa!
But, I thought Frankie wanted to be "just" a bishop of Rome where he would be equal to all the other bishops.
So true. And the Feds are coming with the wide ranging GJ investigations by the U. S. Attorneys in Philadelphia and Buffalo.
Synodality!
You have ruled them harshly and brutally. 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. 6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them...
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
And another of Francis’ favorites: sensus fidei
Viganò keeps nailing his own version of 95 Thesis onto the All Saints Door! The Catholic church needs more people like him.
Agreed. See my tag line.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I agree! The American bishops should go ahead with their vote. The number one item should be to throw all the queer priests completely out of the priesthood. No man can be a homosexual and a priest at the same time.
I would say this is rather definitive and I don’t see an expiration date.
This Papal Bull calls for the defrocking of homosexual clergy and those who cover for them!
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PAPAL BULL
HORRENDUM ILLUD SCELUS
(“That Horrendous Crime”) BY POPE ST. PIUS V
Issued August 30, 1568
Reprinted in:
Magnum Bullarium Romanum: A Pio Cuarto Usque ad Innocentium IX, vol. 2 (Lugundi, 1642), pp. 267-268
Translated by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
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PIUS,BISHOP
Servant of the Servants of God: For perpetual memory
That horrendous crime, for which polluted and filthy cities were burned by the frightful judgment of God, pains Us most bitterly, and gravely stirs our soul, so that, insofar as it is possible, we might strive to crush it.
§ I. It is reasonably established in the [Third] Lateran Council that any Clerics who are discovered in that act of incontinence that is against nature, because of which the wrath of God came upon the children of unbelief, should be expelled from the clergy, or be cast into monasteries for the purpose of doing penance.
§ 2. However, lest the contagion of such a disgrace, from the hope of impunity – which is the greatest incentive to sin – strengthen in boldness, we have decided that the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime are to be more gravely punished, so that the avenger of the civil laws, the secular sword, might certainly deter those who do not fear the death of the soul.
§ 3. And therefore, seeking to more completely and forcefully pursue what We already decreed regarding this matter at the beginning of our Pontificate, any and all priests and other secular and regular Clergy of whatever grade and dignity who practice such a dire sin we deprive of every clerical privilege, and of every Ecclesiastical office, dignity, and benefit, by the authority of the present canon. So that, having been degraded by Ecclesiastical Judgment, they may be handed over to the secular power, which may exact from them that same punishment that is received by laity who have fallen into this ruin, which is found to be constituted in legitimate ordinances.
(The Nulli ergo is a reference to a standard clause following many papal bulls that read, roughly, as follows: “Let no one whosoever infringe this page of our declaration or to dare to oppose it.” It is normally followed by the Si quis clause, which reads, “If, however, anyone attempts to do so, let him know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of his holy Apostles Peter and Paul.” Often only the first two words of the clause are given in reference works like the Magnum Bullarium Romanum, followed by “etc.”)
Given at St. Peter’s in Rome, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord 1568, on the third Kalends of September (August 30), in the third year of our Pontificate.
Thank you for your very apt post.
Hang in there Bishop Vigano!
We just got horrible news last night about the college parish where our daughter attends. The pastor had AIDS and was being treated in Canada at a place that handles sex addictions of priests. He told the congregation that he was going up there for cancer treatments, and a lot of people contributed to a GoFundMe and made other donations, out of love and concern for him. Turns out, he didn’t need any money for care, etc., because the diocese has coverage for all of that. He was living very nicely, for a parish priest, apparently. He is being investigated, the parish is being audited, and the diocese is also being investigated to see if they were improperly trying to hide his situation.
The students are appalled and heartbroken. They trusted and respected this man. My daughter considers this her home parish, moreso than the one she grew up in. The associate pastor will become the acting pastor, and he is likely to serve well, as far as the students know. My daughter and her friends are praying for their parish, and for the soul of this man who betrayed them. Nothing like having a problem that is “out there” suddenly arrive right where you live.
Except the Borgia popes actually professed the Catholic Faith.
BTTT!
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