Posted on 02/25/2019 5:50:35 AM PST by ebb tide
On March 3, 2013, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor—an alumnus of the St. Gallen mafia—met with then-Cardinal Bergoglio over risotto and wine. It was the evening before the pre-conclave general congregations—as Murphy-O’Connor recalls in his memoirs—and the old friends were discussing “the sort of person we felt the cardinals should elect.”
A day earlier, an anonymous cardinal had been quoted saying, “Four years of Bergoglio would be enough to change things.” Later, Murphy-O’Connor would utter that same phrase, adding: “But pray to God we have him for much longer than that.”
Murphy-O’Connor was, as his memoirs detail, arrested by the careening post-conciliar “runaway Church”—cracking open the “rather rigid and self-righteous” Church of the past. But Murphy-O’Connor understood that “incremental change is usually best”—that the “trick” to keeping peace was to “let the leash out gently, so that you could allow things to develop while staying in control.”
And Cardinal Bergoglio was the mafia’s chosen leader for “gentle” revolution on a leash. In 2001, Bergoglio had been introduced to the mafia by its leader, the radical “ante-pope” Cardinal Carlo Martini. In the days before the 2005 conclave, Murphy-O’Connor sat with a gin and tonic giving his then-press secretary, Austen Ivereigh, hints about Bergoglio, the eventual runner-up. Now, in 2013, Murphy-O’Connor gave Ivereigh another tip-off that Bergoglio could well be the next pope.
For Murphy-O’Connor and other mafia alumni, including Cardinals Kasper and Danneels, had expertly toured pre-conclave gatherings promoting Bergoglio. And according to Marco Politi, on the evening of March 9 Murphy-O’Connor had met with Cardinals Kasper, Coccopalmerio, Bertello, Nicola, and Tauran to strategize seeking the backing of others. It is unclear whether one of the Italians in the group was the “influential Italian gentleman” who asked then-Cardinal McCarrick to “talk up” Bergoglio, but both McCarrick and Coccopalmerio gave early interviews pushing for a “Latin American” pope.
On March 12, before the conclave’s start that evening, Murphy-O’Connor fell into walking beside Bergoglio.
“Watch out, now it’s your turn,” Murphy-O’Connor said.
“I understand,” Bergoglio replied. He was calm, said Murphy-O’Connor, and “was aware that he was probably going to be a candidate going in.”
The next day, Pope Francis emerged at St. Peter’s Loggia flanked by Danneels—the mafia popemaker who had told a king to legalize abortion and a sexual abuse victim to seek forgiveness. A year later, Murphy-O’Connor boasted that a “Pandora’s box” had been opened—that the cardinals “did not know what a steely character [Bergoglio] was, they did not know that he was a Jesuit in very deep ways, they did not know who they were electing.”
For the new pope shared Martini’s “dream” of “permanent” synodality—permanent revolution, via synods, on “knots” such as marriage and sexuality. Murphy-O’Connor said Pope Francis told him how crucial synods were for enstructuring “collegiality”—mafia code for decentralized Church authority. Eugenio Scalfari, too, said Francis told him how “long and difficult” Martini’s synodal road would be—how “gently, but firmly and tenaciously” he would need to proceed.
All this talk about long, inexorable marches sounded ominously Gramscian, ominously like cultural Marxist “revolution by stealth.” When Humanae Vitae was released, Murphy-O’Connor himself let the leash out artfully, paying lip service to the “Vatican position” on contraception while dispensing “pastoral compassion” on dissenters. Later, amidst the family synods, he would let the leash extend again, saying that doctrine changes indirectly and could “develop” on adultery.
Long ago, Murphy-O’Connor and his mafia predecessor, Cardinal Basil Hume, had received letters from Rome after saying “vaguely provocative things” about ordaining married men to the priesthood. Later, Hume would write a document on homosexuality softening the “harsh” term “objectively disordered” and Murphy-O’Connor would crusade for “gay Masses”—which he called a “route back to the sacraments,” with “rather better” music to boot.
Now, Murphy-O’Connor was saying how brilliant it was that Pope Francis had quipped, “Who am I to judge?”—a response to a question about Francis’s promotion of a cleric with a history of homosexual scandals. Historian Henry Sire argues that such patronage fits a “pattern”—“well established” during Bergoglio’s time in Argentina—“whereby he surrounds himself with morally weak people so as to have them under his thumb.”
Asked, before the conclave, if he’d advise that the new pope be “free from any kind of taint of cover-up,” Murphy-O’Connor at one point said: “You’re not going to get a saint straight away, you know; we’re all sort of, we’re all sinners” (31:31). Murphy-O’Connor had himself covered up for a notorious abuser who went on to molest other young victims, some disabled. One of the priest’s confirmed victims claimed that when he abused her Murphy-O’Connor and others were present and involved—yet the CDF’s 2013 investigation into Murphy-O’Connor was stopped because it lacked Pope Francis’s approval. Sources for a respected Vaticanist claim that an angry Francis interrupted Cardinal Müller while he was saying Mass, ordering the investigation’s shutdown.
Murphy-O’Connor died in 2017, too soon to witness what lay beyond “four years of Bergoglio.” After five years, the pro-“LGBT” Fr. James Martin and alumni of the “gay Masses” were speaking officially at the World Meeting of Families—while Archbishop Viganò was claiming that Pope Francis had knowingly rehabilitated McCarrick and that Coccopalmerio was part of a “homosexual current” trying to subvert doctrine on homosexuality.
Coccopalmerio, who helped elect Francis after serving as Martini’s longtime personal secretary, has openly praised the “positive elements” of same-sex unions—and is allegedly connected to a drug-fueled homosexual orgy at a CDF apartment. He reportedly pushed for leniency for sex abusers as a Francis-appointed member of an appellate review board—even swaying Francis to overrule CDF sanctions against a notorious molester of boys.
In 2014, Ivereigh pointed out that Coccopalmerio, then the Vatican’s top canon law advisor, was “working out the details” on giving synods real decision-making power. In 2018, a new papal document said a synod’s final document could be declared part of the pope’s “ordinary magisterium”—and then a youth synod final document largely authored by the Vice President of the Martini Foundation smuggled in rigged agendas on “LGBT” causes, conscience’s autonomy, and mafia-style “synodality.” Pope Francis, who helped draft the contentious final text, will release a full post-synodal exhortation soon.
Meanwhile, the synodal machine prepares to churn out revolution on the mafia’s other “knots,” including the “shortage of ordained ministers,” the “role of woman” in the Church, and the “need to revive ecumenical hopes.” Shortly before the 2013 conclave, Murphy-O’Connor said the issue of ordaining married men to the priesthood “very well might come up,” though it wouldn’t be “first on the agenda” (21:38). Now, Pope Francis has said he’s “open” to the practice—presaging the agenda of this year’s Amazon synod.
The larger goal, as Kasper’s book on Martin Luther makes clear, is to fully overcome “confessionally constricted Catholicism” in the name of ecumenical unity. Hence, as others explain, the revolution’s attempts to weaken Catholic markers such as the papacy, celibacy, auricular confession, indissoluble marriage, and the Holy Eucharist. The plan is to refashion the Church into a sort of federation of local churches—a postmodern “polyhedron” with diversity on doctrine and more (cf. Evangelii Gaudium 236, 32).
Pope Francis’s “small-step strategy is the right one,” explains Kasper to the homosexual activist Frédéric Martel. “If you advance too quickly, as in the ordination of women or the celibacy of the priesthood, there will be a schism… I tried to move the debate [on recognizing homosexual couples] forward at the [2015] synod, but we weren’t listened to. Francis found a middle way by talking about people, about individuals. And then, very gradually, he moved the lines.”
Kasper was gesturing towards the mafia’s ominous last “knot”: the relationship between “civil laws and the moral law.” Both Kasper and Danneels hailed homosexual “marriage” laws—while Martini and Danneels defended or even promoted legal abortion. For the “gently” leashed revolution leads, finally, to the “anti-creation”—pillared on the legal “rights” to abortion and the homosexual subversion of marriage.
“We will win,” insists Kasper to Martel, smiling.
Ping
If the gays win this, it’s the end of the church.
The homosexuals will not easily or willingly release the death grip they have on the Catholic Church. It is necessary to turn over as much documentation to government prosecutors when molested a minor so that there is at least the chance that they will be imprisoned. Also there ought to be a mechanism outside the Church where the boys who have been molested, their parents or guardians or whoever is aware of the abuse can make an immediate criminal complaint to secular authorities. These homosexual predatory priests are not only unholy but they are vile criminals and must be punished by the secular authorities.
Remember Malachi Martin..?
He said the Vatican had a yuge homo mafia guided by Satan.
I just thought, MEH! more Art Bell craziness, wth...??
But now I believe him, RIP.
The secular authorities are not the answer. The authorities within the church must acknowledge the problem and work to eliminate it. Otherwise, the church is just a rotting shell.
THAT seems to be going around...sadly.
Not to wear out an old saying, but you're wrong, Kasper. In the end, GOD wins.
Sorry but these homosexual predatory phony priests should be imprisoned. That is the best way to rid the Church of these vile criminals. Are you happy with how the Church has dealt with these criminals? You have to recognize that they are predatory homosexual criminals and need to be imprisoned. They must not be allowed to deceive the faithful by posing as priests.
When the authorities within the church are all faggots or faggot enablers who will fight to the death to protect their butt buddies, the secular authorities are the ONLY answer.
No victim of homosexual molestation will EVER get justice from the Catholic church until many Catholic priests, bishops and cardinals are behind secular bars. Even the pope should be imprisoned if a secular court finds he has molested (and I have no doubt whatsoever that he has).
The church cannot reform itself because it is too badly infected (infested) with homosexuality. The faggots need to be removed and imprisoned so that real Christian and Catholic priests can pick up the pieces and reform the church.
The church is just a rotting shell, I’m sad to say. Like a virus the homosexual / pedarest block has infested the church, taken control of its leadership and left it a dying husk. And waiting for the gay leadership to cleanse itself is futile it now seems. Can there be any doubt that they took the last Pope out, such is their power? They will never cede it now. Scandals are just ignored, what can anyone do to them? Power and vice is all they care about.
“We will win,” insists Kasper to Martel, smiling.
Pope Francis:
"Yesterday, before going to sleep - although I did not do this to put myself to sleep - I read or rather re-read the work of Cardinal Kasper, and I would like to thank him because I found profound theology, and even serene thinking in theology. It is pleasant to read serene theology. And I also found what Saint Ignatius told us about, that 'sensus Ecclesiae," love for Mother Church. It did me good and an idea came to me - excuse me, Eminence, if I embarrass you - but the idea is that this is called 'doing theology on one's knees.' Thank you. Thank you."
The question is regarding our ability to maintain the faith throughout the chastisement.
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