Still Proud Of Bishops He Gave U.S.

DOTM ^ | September 26, 2002 | Paul Likoudis

[NYer]

Written nearly 2 years ago, this article provides the answer to the question: "How did certain bishops become appointed?"

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Archbishop Jean Jadot, Pope Paul VI's apostolic delegate to the United States from 1973-1980, has no regrets about the spate of bad bishops he inflicted on the Catholics of this country.

 

And, if veteran Vatican reporter Robert Blair Kaiser, who recently interviewed Jadot at his home in Belgium, can be believed, Jadot is still proud of some of his most notorious picks, such as Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond, Va., Archbishop Jean Jadot, Pope Paul VI's apostolic delegate to the United States from 1973-1980, has no regrets about the spate of bad bishops he infficted on the Catholics of this country. And, if veteran Vatican reporter Robert Blair Kaiser, who recently interviewed Jadot at his home in Belgium, can be believed, Jadot is still proud of some of his most notorious picks, such as Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond, Va., Archbishop Rembert Weakiand of Milwaukee, and Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles - to name but a few, many of whom are known more for their advocacy of homosexual rights, their protection of pederast priests, and their conunitment to modernism than to their commitment to the Church's doctrines.

 

Other men who became bishops during Jadot's tenure in the United States include Rochester Bishop Matthew Clark; Albany's Howard Hubbard; former Santa Fe Archbishop Roberto Sanchez, who resigned in a sex scandal; former San Jose Bishop Pierre DuMaine; former Honolulu Bishop Joseph Ferrario; San Antonio Archbishop Patrick Flores; former Newark Archbishop Peter Gerety; Joliet, Ill., Bishop Joseph Imesch; Louisille Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, O.P., a former staffer at the apostolic nuncio under Jadot; Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston (whom Jadot selected as bishop for Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo.), Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk; Saginaw, Mich., Bishop Kenneth Untener - to name a few more - all of whom, supposedly, mirrored his own progressive image as a "man of the people."

 

Each of these prelates has been a strong advocate of the pro-homosexual agenda in the U.S. Church, ordaining homosexuals, imposing pro-homosexual education on Catholic schools, aiding and abetting special rights legislation in the civil realm for homosexuals, and giving free rein to homosexuals and lesbians in religious orders which operated schools, universities, parishes, seminaries, and retreat houses in their dioceses and archdioceses.

 

Kaiser, who covered the Second Vatican Council for Time magazine and recently wrote a book, Clerical Error: A True Story, asserting, he was cuckolded by the late Malachi Martin, recently met Jadot in Belgium, and published the interview for The London Tablet, September 7, under the headline, "Where's the Red Hat?"

 

Kaiser wonders why, when both Jadot's predecessor and successor as papal delegates to the U.S. received the red hat of a cardinal, Jadot never received one in recognition of his work here.

 

"When Jean Jadot left his native Belgium to become a papal diplomat in 1968, he took his instructions from Pope Paul VI, who saw an evolving role for his nuncios after Vatican 11 - not to be the Pope's eyes and ears, but his heart," Kaiser opened. "Nuncios should travel, Paul VI said, not so much as the representatives of Rome to secular governments, or even as legates between Rome and the world's bishops. They should 'how the Pope's concern for the poor, the forgotten, the ignored.'

 

"Paul VI, of course, was still on a conciliar high," continued Kaiser. "He had seen the Church through three stormy sessions of the council launched by his predecessor, John XXIII, to a glorious end with the Promulgation of the council's crowning charter document, Gaudium et Spes, which was designed to set the Church on a new course - caring less about itself as an institution, caring more about working for justice and peace. Jadot sought to run that course - first in the Far East, then in Africa, then, from 1973 to 1980, in the United States, where he identified episcopal candidates among the American priests who were in line with the ideas of Paul VI.

 

"Soon after the Pope's death, however, he was yanked from his post, brought back to the Vatican, told not to concern himself any longer with anything American, and put in charge of an ill-defined bureau, the Pontifical Council for Non-Christians. Jean Jadot's predecessor received a red hat; so did Jadot's successor. Jadot never did. In fact, he is the only Vatican diplomat assigned to the United States who was never made a cardinal.

 

"What harm had he done?

 

"In the United States today, that all depends on one's point of view. An American priest who is second in command of his ancient religious order in Rome says Jadot was 'the best man we ever had.' The reason: 'For seven years, Jadot helped pick our very best bishops.' He instanced Ted McCarrick, now the cardinal archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Roger Mahony, the cardinal archbishop of Los Angeles, two of a very small group inside the College of Cardinals who could be called Progressives. (Jadot also plucked a priest out of the Diocese of Jackson, Miss., and had him made bishop of Springfield, Mo. He is now the embattled cardinal archbishop of Boston, Mass., Bernard Law. But that's another story.)

 

"If, however, you were to ask a conservative like Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, he would say Jadot hurt the Church in the United States by picking the ‘very worst' bishops. This is because John Paul II had changed the criteria. It was part of his plan to bring a runaway, postconciliar Church back to its senses."

 

Most of Kaiser's interview with Jadot focused on such issues as how bishops are selected when a vacancy arises, and whether or not the current system - of selecting three names and forwarding them to Rome - works, or whether or not there should be popular election of bishops. Jadot thinks the current system works, though not as well as it might.

 

Kaiser then focused on the old prelate, reviewing his career in the Church, and the obvious satisfaction he feels from a long life's work.

 

"The Jadot I found in Brussels," Kaiser wrote, "did not strike me as a man who was nursing any grievances. He knew he had done a fine job - for Paul VI and for the Church. He refused to speculate about why he did or did not become a cardinal, and had good words, moreover, for some in the Roman Curia. He said he liked Cardinal Gianbattista Re. 'I trust him very much. He's in the category of honest people.'

 

"I asked him how many cardinals he put in that category.

 

"Jadot hesitated, then laughed. 'I don't know all the cardinals,' he said.

 

"When I asked Jadot what qualities he would like to see in the next Pope, he said: 'I would like, to see a Pope who is ready to listen."

 

Kaiser also provides some insights into Jadot's family, which remains one of the wealthiest in Europe. His father, Lambert, was an engineer who "built the electrical system and streetcar network in Tientsin, China, the harbor city for Peking, and later managed the building of a railroad through the Congo."

 

The family became enormously wealthy by developing "the largest [gold - editor] mining center in the country, one that produced more than half of the Congo's income, . . . Jadotville," but Jadot, after studies at Louvain and the Institut Cathohque in Paris, became an anti-colonialist, and advocated "a progressive handover of administration and government to the African community. He helped the local Church adapt, to history by freeing itself of colonial influences over its catechesis and its liturgy....

 

"From 1952 to 1960," Kaiser continued, "Jadot was chief chaplain to the colonial forces in the Belgian Congo, and found himself engaged for the most part in trying to conciliate the Belgian colonialists and the Congolese.... During the 1960s, Jadot was a cheerleader in Belgium for a number of his friends from Louvain University who helped run Vatican II. One was Dom Lambert Beauduin, the Benedictine from Chevetogne who, in 1945, planted the idea in the mind of a papal diplomat in Paris named Angelo Roncalli that the Church needed a council.

 

"In 1960, Jadot was appointed national director of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith as a public relations man and fund-raiser for the missions. The job put him in close contact with a number of cardinals in Rome. One of them, Sergio Pignedoli [d. 1980], recruited him into the papal diplomatic corps. In 1968, he was made a titular bishop and sent as a papal legate to Bangkok.

 

"On December 3, 1968, attending a conference of Catholic and Buddhist monks, Jadot had an hour's fascinating conversation with Thomas Merton, the Trappist poet and author who had become a peace activist. Two hours later, Rembert Weakland, the abbot primate of the Benedictines (who was also attending the conference), rushed to Jadot's room to tell him Merton had just been electrocuted in his bath. Together, Jadot and Weakland negotiated the release of Merton's body with the Thai government and arranged for its transfer to the United States.

 

"When Jadot got the word on the Internet in May of Weakland's resignation in yet another sex scandal, he e-mailed him. 'I am your friend. I will always be your friend. Sed libera nos a mato'."

 

Besides Weakland, another of the "good bishops" Jadot identified for Pope Paul VI, wrote Kaiser, was a young labor priest from Fresno, Calif., Roger Mahony, now cardinal archbishop of Los Angeles.

 

Jadot was struck by Mahony's advocacy for migrant grape pickers and his close involvement with Cesar Chavez. According to Kaiser, "Mahony was a man of the people, who had grown up shoveling manure on his father's chicken ranch in the San Fernando Valley. It was 'no surprise' to Jadot when Mahony was finally appointed archbishop of Los Angeles in 1985.

 

"Walter Sullivan, soon to retire as bishop of Richmond, Va. Kaiser continued, "was another of Jadot's choices. He turned out to be a pastor who included everyone, even gay Catholics on the margin of the Church.... He naturally became the target of a whispering campaign for more than 20 years by some of those who think they can be more Catholic by being less-catholic. The whispers went all the way to the Roman Curia, which sent an investigator to Richmond more than a dozen years ago to look into Sullivan's heresies. Sullivan was exonerated."

[saradippity]

Great article. Pilla is also on the list of those vetted by Jadot. Manny Moreno the xbishop of Tucson (second diocese to declare bankruptcy) who protected all sorts of homosexuals for his lavender friends was another proud pick of Jadot. Dittoes for dead bishop Rausch of Phoenix,who trolled for teen-age boys in a neighboring diocese.There were others too.

I regularly used to post these same names,always asking that Catholics take note and recognize that John Paul II,stepped into a mined field. I had hoped that recognizing that,some of the really excellent minds could come up with a plan where all Catholics could work together to:1) push out the modernist/liberal/communist/progressives that moved in to destroy the Church,2)support the Pope and 3)bring back the Church Christ established to bring souls back to God for eternity with Him.

They used guerrilla techniques to accomplish their ends and we must use counter insurgency techniques to get it back. And yet we cannot resort to dishonest,unethical,immoral or illegal tactics. Our weapons are living,speaking and pursuing Truth and praying unceasingly. What a job we have before us.

Salvation,I notice a bishop Powers (I think)of Portland was a Jadot apointment,I think he was in from 74 to 86. Is that when the major sex abuse that caused your diocese to declare bankruptcy occurred?

Jadot was working hand in glove with Bernardin,I wish someone could write the book that would document and assure for posterity the real bernardin.

Everyone should take not of Jadot's endorsement of Cardinal Re. On the surface it should mean Re is our mortal enemy. However,these ba-tar-s are so topsy-turvy we need to do our own research,he might be the best for all I know right now,although I have had my doubts. Jadots family history is also interesting. I wonder if the family was involved in the horrible sex scandal that has surfaced in Belgium a year or two ago.

[saradippity]

I wonder if Thailand in those years was notorious,as it is now,as a place for sex with little boys? It would figure,wouldn't it?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Hadn't thought of that. Now that you mention it...

Considering how sophisticated the Soviet penetration of British Intelligence was, the Cambridge Spy Ring of Philby, Burgess, MacLean, etc., it would seem likely that similar efforts were directed at other Western institutions (like the church). http://www.paperlessarchives.com/philby.html

"A few months back, during social chit-chat which turned with predictable concern to the modern plague of clerical apostasy, a venerable member of the Society of Jesus recounted various word of mouth histories of Communist infiltration of the Jesuits. These included two men sent to join the Society in Italy and Spain by their respective national Communist Parties - the former having left to return to the Party in the early 1950s after more than a dozen years of study and actual ordination; the latter leaving the Society before ordination a decade ago. More disturbing still was the case of a prominent Jesuit seminary rector in Rome who, after being run over and killed, was allegedly found to be a member of the KGB. We pondered briefly all the imponderables of such infiltration as well as the domino effect it might have set in train, like: how many students were deformed by the seminary professor down the years; how many others, clerical and lay, they in turn, as priests, had corrupted; how many other seminaries and Orders were similarly infiltrated; and, above all, how many of the infiltrators and their warped progeny had risen to the episcopate."

"In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within." - Bella Dodd

"...The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: "Right now they are in the highest places in the Church" - where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church's effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that "you will not recognise the Catholic Church." http://www.christianorder.com/editorials/editorials_2000/editorials_nov00.html

[NYer]

Wish I could find the document I read a while ago regarding Jadot's plan for Holy Mother Church. According to the article, he carefully selected 'young' candidates for appointment as bishops. Both Howard Hubbard (Albany)and Matthew Clarke (Rochester) recently celebrated their Silver Anniversary (and they're only 67).

Jadot made certain they were 'progressive' thinkers. His goal was to plant as many of them as he could in the USCCB, fully expecting that because of their youth, they would eventually be elevated to cardinal. This would ensure the possibility of moving his agenda forward (ordaining women and homosexual priests, etc.). What Jadot didn't count on was the Holy Father outliving many of the bishops he had appointed through Paul VI. Nor did he envision that JPII would fill the College of Cardinals with so many 'like minded', conservative men.

There is a breeze beginning to blow in the church. Many of thes 'progressive' bishops are now dieing and they are being replaced with more conservative men. It's just a matter of time ... but that change has begun.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

If he turns out to have been a homosexual Communist in bizarre secret societies, I will not surprised.

Strange and sad about Deal Hudson. I wasn't surprised.

[saradippity]

No question there was a plan to destroy the Catholic Church by the year 2000. it almost worked,but thank goodness we have more time.

I found two more Jadot appointments. Ninenot,poor archbishop Dolan should hire a court taster,his auxiliary Skylba is one of them. The other is possibly even more dangerous,it's Skylstad of Spokane and he is in postition to be the next chairman of the USCCB.

No recounting of bad bishops whould ever omit the name of Lynch from St. Petersberg in Florida.

[NYer]

Jadot was working hand in glove with Bernardin,I wish someone could write the book that would document and assure for posterity the real bernardin.

Would a newspaper article qualify?

Bernardin's 'Gay-Friendly' Ghost

[marshmallow]

There is a breeze beginning to blow in the church. Many of thes 'progressive' bishops are now dieing and they are being replaced with more conservative men. It's just a matter of time ... but that change has begun.

The great irony of course is that many of the so-called progressives who brought us heterodoxy and confusion in the '60s, '70s and '80s were the product of pre-Vatican II seminaries. The newer men who will clean up this mess will be products of post-Vatican II seminaries.

[thor76]

There are many things I could comment on here, but one item struck my sense of humour:

Friend of Rembert?

BWHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I laughed so hard .....that was a goodie!

[thor76]

After all the sordid absurdity and grotesque tragedies that have been revealed, you do begin to wonder exactly who or...ahem...what has been prowling and roaming the halls and corridors of the church all these years. Bizarre.

Senior Warden: "Tyler, see to it that all present are members".

[thor76]

"by their fruits, ye shall know them".

[saradippity]

Thanks NY'er. Pray that the Pope can navigate the Barque through these trecherous waters. We are surrounded by the enemy. On land and sea we see armies or navies of homosexuals,bolshevics,liberals,marxists,anglo/american establihment elitists,socialists,progressives,modernists, dissenters.Some open and others closeted and "sleeping" until they are set to go off.

While we look at them all as the enemy,it is not quite so simple. The only thing the two sides (within the Church) have in common is that they do not believe in a transcendent,Triune God.The fact that the ring leaders of both sides use the same type of siscreant characters for their troops to fight their battles has made the identification of the enemy almost impossible up until very recently.

Because so many people are apt to believe that the enemy of my enemy is my friend has caused so many of us to feel betrayed. If we had been looking for two separate groups of enemies we might have trusted less and been disappointed less often. I am sure the poor Pope fell into this same type of trap more than once or twice. He needs so many prayers.

[thor76]

Good analysis!

[NYer]

Pray that the Pope can navigate the Barque through these trecherous waters.

I never cease to be amazed at how the Holy Spirit continues to guide the Catholic Church, despite the efforts of all those prelates and religious who believe their vision is more in keeping with the times. Can you imagine the frustration some of them must feel each time they see the pope off on a new journey or even saying the Mass! Imagine their consternation each time he elevates another group of conservative bishops to the rank of Cardinal ... lol! Where does JPII historically stand now, insofar as longest living pope? Is it #2?

I am sure the poor Pope fell into this same type of trap more than once or twice. He needs so many prayers.

Yes, 'Thor76' has commented on this many times. From Zenit News Agency:

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Date: 2004-09-21

Auckland Bishop Says Pope Presides From the Cross

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, SEPT. 20, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Though physically ailing, John Paul II might well be experiencing the greatest days of his pontificate, says a bishop who recently visited him.

In a statement in the wake of the New Zealand prelates' five-yearly visit to Rome, Bishop Patrick Dunn of Auckland said of the Pope: "Although his eyes are bright and piercing, he is indubitably frail, and has not walked in public for over a year. His condition makes it an effort for him to talk, and at times even to swallow."

"It seems that Pope John Paul II now presides over the universal Church from his place upon Christ's cross," said Bishop Dunn, who traveled with seven other prelates to Rome.

"We bishops in Rome had the sense that this outstanding Pope, now so manifestly crippled and paralyzed by illness, is perhaps at this time living out the greatest days of his extraordinary pontificate," the Auckland prelate added.

London-born Bishop Dunn, 54, recalled that the Pope asked the prelates to continue to proclaim "the splendor of Christ's truth."

"We bishops found the Pope's message immensely encouraging and helpful," he said. Bishop Dunn appealed to New Zealand's Catholics to "keep him in your prayers."

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The Holy Father is in my daily prayers, along with ALL the Patriarchs, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Monsignors, and clergy that serve our Lord.

[Arguss]

Interesting article, but nothing that is not pretty well known.

What interests me is why a non Catholic, former Catholic, who, at times, defends the same sick magisterium that is written about in this article, is interested enough in the Catholic Church to even care.

These men have diseased the Church here on earth, of that there is no doubt. And thank you for pointing that fact out. But why? Most of us know that. And you don't belong to this Church.

But yet, if someone else expresses a desire for a more profound Mass, and a tried and true doctrine, perhaps by going to another Church, perhaps the SSPX, or attending an indult mass, and expressing dissatisfaction with the magisterium of the Roman Rite, they are castigated by you, a schismatic.

What gives? It takes some sorting out. Why do you go to this trouble. Are you saying these Bishops are not guided by the Holy Ghost, or do you want someone else to say it?

Why don't you come back to the Church and try to fix it from within, instead of throwing rocks from without?

[NYer]

*Why don't you come back to the Church and try to fix it from within, instead of throwing rocks from without? *

You obviously have me confused with someone else.

[AskStPhilomena]

Still proud of the bishops he gave U.S.

This fellow deserves a mention along with the likes of Mahony, Weakland etc etc etc...
http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/events/021797ev.htm

[AskStPhilomena]

"Archbishop Jean Jadot, Pope Paul VI's apostolic delegate to the United States from 1973-1980, has no regrets about the spate of bad bishops he inflicted on the Catholics of this country."

Didn't the pope personally ratify all these selections?
Why then lay all the blame at the feet of Jean Jadot?

[saradippity]

Why then lay all the blame on Jean Jadot?

Because everyone on this thread is aware that Paul VI gave the Church most of the rogues that high-jacked us. There is no reason to go over that yet again.

This thread is beyond that and looking for other common threads that exist Sun-tsu says it is of utmost importance to know your enemy. That is what we are working on.

[Arguss]

"This thread is beyond that and looking for other common threads that exist Sun-tsu says it is of utmost importance to know your enemy. That is what we are working on."

I'm not disputing what you have to say, but to me the prime importance is what to do now that we have them.

It's true, I always thought Cardinal Bernardin was the king maker, but I suppose the Papal Nuncio would make a good partner, and I think that'show it really went. Bernardin proposed, and the nuncio rubber stamped it. But even knowing that does us no good. Te point is, they are here, and we must deal with them.