Posted on 09/07/2018 4:07:33 AM PDT by Repent and Believe
Developments & Reactions
This post continues our coverage of the ongoing ecclesiastical Chernobyl unleashed by the accusations of the former Vatican nuncio to the United States, “Abp.” Carlo Viganò, which were first published on Aug. 25 and have the potential not only to bring an end to the Francis “pontificate” but even to throw the entire Vatican II Sect into unprecedented chaos:
Thursday, Sep. 6, 2018 Developments
In his daily sermon, a passive-aggressive Francis stresses that being “accustomed to accusing others” and being “nosy” about their lives is “an ugly sin”
Legatus, a national organization of Novus Ordo businessmen, has announced it is placing its annual tithe to the Vatican in escrow until they can get clarification on how these funds are used
Thousands of Novus Ordo laymen are asking Francis to address the allegations made by “Abp.” Vigano — FULL TEXT HERE
The Attorney General of New York “has subpoenaed all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of her office’s investigation into the church’s handling of sex abuse allegations”
The Attorney General of New Jersey has also announced an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the state’s Novus Ordo dioceses
“Cardinal” Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, says that “the Holy Spirit is working ‘like a hurricane’ to smash structures of clericalism through the current clergy sexual abuse crisis”
“Cardinal” Donald Wuerl suggests a “Season of Healing” for Washington, D.C., Archdiocese
Church Militant reports that the 2017 movie Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence, which accuses Francis of enabling sex abuse in Buenos Aires as “Cardinal” Bergoglio, is getting increased traction — Full Video is available on Amazon Prime here
Reactions from Select Blogs and Web Sites
The Spectator‘s Damian Thompson asks, “What has Pope Francis covered up?”
The National Catholic Register‘s Benjamin Wiker argues that “there are reasons to believe that we are now entering the biggest crisis the Church has faced”
Related Stories
Crux‘s Mark Pattison notes that McCarrick is ‘not the first prelate with seminarian abuse charges’
The diocese of Buffalo, New York, has reinstated a “priest with multiple allegations of sexual abuse dating back decades” because they “were unsubstantiated”
Prior Days’ Coverage
Days 1-3 (Aug. 25-27) Day 4 (Aug. 28) Day 5 (Aug. 29) Day 6 (Aug. 30) Day 7 (Aug. 31) Day 8 (Sep. 1) Day 9 (Sep. 2) Day 10 (Sep. 3) Day 11 (Sep. 4) Day 12 (Sep. 5)
The EWTN News Nightly broadcast for Sep. 6, 2018: https://youtu.be/hI8jysGxrFY
A “Should Francis resign?” debate can be watched here: https://youtu.be/IARu7xjot-4
What will tomorrow bring?
The bad fruit comes by and large from the bad tree well known as "Vatican II", dear people. Modernism is the synthesis of ALL HERESIES, said a little known (yet modern-day) Saint.
THIS IS HUGE.
I weep for Christianity. The Catholic Church held together under threat of massacre for centuries, will fold under the weight of sexual perversion.
I read your website. The fundamental error there is the claim that no true Pope could possibly impose "evil disciplines" like the post-VC2 popes allegedly have, therefore none of those men are "true Popes". (Sounds a lot like the "true Scotsman" fallacy.)
There is no such promise contained in Pastor Aeternus or anywhere else. We've had Popes who approved slavery, for example (and others who condemned it).
The only promise you have in Pastor is that the Pope, when (a) speaking in his supreme authority as Pope (b) to the whole Church (b) teaches definitively (c) a doctrine concerning faith and morals, he will not err. All four conditions must be met. There is no claim that the Pope will never promulgate an "evil discipline".
This is a Catholic caucus. If you are not a Catholic then refrain from comments, per forum Caucus rules.
Well, that is probably the hope of the Adversary, but I don't think so. The Church has survived far worse. Reform is already beginning to coalesce in the grassroots, and with today's improved communication, will spread far, far more quickly than in the past.
Baptized at St Hedwig’s, confirmed at Our Lady of Sorrows. McBride High School. Is the Pope Catholic? No, he’s Jesuit.
But see:
http://christorchaos.com/?q=content/if-it-acta-apostolicae-sedis-it-official-teaching
Wherein it states (with corrections):
...the One responsible for the formulation of dogma is the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, under Whose infallible protection popes teach the truths of the Catholic at all times, yes, even when not proclaiming something solemnly ex cathedra. Catholics are bound to obey everything proposed by a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter without any degree of dissent, reservation or qualification. Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton proved that this is so in his scholarly treatises cited above.
In other words, if it’s in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, it is official. No Catholic may take it unto himself to decide what is or is not binding upon himself or other Catholics.
Those Catholics who keep insisting that they have the “right” to “sift” through official papal teaching have been condemned throughout the course of Holy Mother Church’s history.
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