Posted on 11/20/2018 7:34:52 AM PST by libstripper
Pope Francis administered a stunning and humiliating shock to the bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States last week. The American bishops had gathered in Baltimore to discuss a pair of measures to deal with the continuing crisis over clerical sexual abuses in this country.
The measures were fairly modest. One sought to build on the 2002 Dallas charter measures designed to stop priests abuse of children, mostly young boys by extending its rules on reporting and accountability to bishops. The other would have launched an investigation, led by lay Catholics, into reports of abuses by bishops. Conceivably, this would have looked into how former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., could have risen to the top of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, despite being widely known in secular circles, to the Vatican, and to many in the church as being a serial abuser and harasser of young adult male seminarians (and at least one young boy).
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Keep in mind that the very first "collegial" act ever done by our first bishops, the Apostles, was to run like scalded cats out of Gethsemane. Abandoning the Lord. That was right after Peter, James and John fell asleep when the Lord implored them to pray with Him one hours.
The only one who was worth his salt, on that dreadful Friday, was John, who remained at the Cross embracing Christ's ruined, bloody feet, and consoling His Mother.
I know my weakness, but I intend to stay with John, Mary, and Christ on the cross. Because at that moment, that was the Church.
Worse...he's from Argentina.
Having worked and lived in South America for almost 10-years including 2-years in the Andes on the Argentina side, the Pope's behavior is consistent with how the Argies think and behave.
A + B + C = D.
A = Argentine origin.
B = Jesuit order.
C = Francis name.
D = Marx follower.
(Through no fault of his own, Francis is taken as an avatar of socialism. Becoming the first pope with the name of Francis is therefore, in itself, propaganda.)
“Aaaaaack! Sorry for all those typos, including whole sentences that dropped out. I composed that on my Kindle,and that’s always bad news.”
LOL! Love you. I have the same kind of Kindle problems, especially with their horrible auto-spell.
I don't think I was made for the 21st century. My handwriting is actually better than my typing, albeit slower. I could have written 13th century classics so beautifully with a quill.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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