Posted on 10/27/2020 8:59:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis has named 13 clergymen to be appointed to the college of cardinals, nine of whom are eligible to vote in upcoming papal conclaves. This brings the number of cardinal electors appointed by Francis to 57 percent of total electors, increasing the likelihood that the next elected pope will share Francis’ vision for the Church.
Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, writing for Religion News Service, noted that when the appointees “officially become cardinals, there will be 128 cardinal electors, eight more than the canonical limit.”
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Among the named cardinal electors are archbishops known for heterodox stances: Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, D.C.; the Maltese Mario Grech of the Vatican-based Secretary of the Synod of Bishops; Italian Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints; and Celestino Aós Braco of Santiago, Chile.
The most well-known among them, Archbishop Gregory, has been a source of controversy for his heterodox views, political statements, and involvement in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) handling of the sex abuse crisis.
For a snapshot of his views, consider that in 2017 Gregory delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of one of the most liberal and heterodox Catholic organizations in America, the dissident Association of U.S. Catholic Priests. The group has published essays calling for priest-less parishes, female deacons, married clergy, and pro-homosexual initiatives.
In the same year, Archbishop Gregory spoke at an event organized by far-left Cardinal Blase Cupich where he praised Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia as a document that “challenges the church and its pastors to move beyond thinking everything is black and white, so that we sometimes close off the way of grace and growth.”
Gregory also has a history of supporting the LGBT movement within the Catholic Church.
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Grech co-authored with Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta the notorious Maltese bishops’ pastoral guidelines on Amoris Laetitia, which gave access to Holy Communion to divorced and civilly “remarried” Catholics, living in sin, who “with an informed and enlightened conscience ... acknowledge and believe that he or she are at peace with God.” These guidelines were republished by the official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
In 2017, Grech “attacked a group of Maltese faithful Catholics” after it defended “real marriage against ‘unnatural’ homosexual ‘marriage’” in a full-page ad in a widely read paper. The bishop called the ad “propaganda.” He has also accused opponents of these guidelines of having “attitudes” that “annihilate all hope in people,” calling them “prophets of doom.”
The following is the full list of cardinals-elect who will be eligible to vote in the next conclave:
Those who will be ineligible to vote in the next conclave are:
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Talk about ‘packing the court.’
It seems to me you don’t get promoted to cardinal unless you are part of the mafia. Sincere Christian priests can be sent out to local parishes but they don’t get into the upper ranks.
That’s what it looks like.
RE: It seems to me you don’t get promoted to cardinal unless you are part of the mafia.
There are still Cardinals who get appointed and are faithful to traditional doctrine. I know the newly appointed Filipino cardinal, Jose Fuerte Advincula will not be wishy washy on the issues of abortion and the sanctity of marriage.
I’ve seen his sermons on these subject and they sound solid.
Yes Frankie is filling the Vatican with fellow travelers so when he’s gone it will more of the same.
Modernity says, “You are living in our world. Bow to us.” The Pope says, “Of course.” So Much for the “deposit of faith” — it was deposited into the trash can of history.
The Catholic Church is finished. Francis put a stake in its heart. He started by slamming anyone who beleived in the Catholic teachin on faith and morals as 'rigid' and rejecting them from positions of authority at every level.
Today, under Francis, what is the difference between the Catholic church and a secular socially left-wing PAC? Certainly when the Pope rejects traditional moral teachings and rejects the concept that there is one Universal truth and instead says all religious tradtions are equally valid (especially Islam) it's no longer a religious organizations, cool vestments and high end real estate notwithstanding.
No doubt in my mind that Benedict’s retirement was a coup by the leftists in the C of C
Pope Francis appoints 13 new cardinals, some of whom are pro-LGBT, back communion for adulterers
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Well, why not? Catholicism hasn’t quite been made irrelevant enough by it’s leadership yet. Let’s continue to make it indistinguishable from modern secularism in virtually every way!
Papa Chico is a heretic.
Yes Frankie is filling the Vatican with fellow travelers so when he’s gone it will more of the same.
The pope is by definition catholic and the leader of the Roman catholic church. The question is how long will any remaining Christians in the catholic church remain in the apostate organization.
Cardinal stacking?
The pope is there to fundamentally change the Catholic Church, in a similar manner to how obama planned to destroy our country.
I don’t need the Pope to get to Heaven I just need Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. This Communist Pope, this antiPope is irrelevant.
Under this pope, we can expect LGBT priests and bishops.
I am not Catholic-—but this Pope seems out of step. I don’t trust him one little bit.
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