Posted on 03/08/2023 9:50:16 AM PST by ebb tide
Pope Francis has announced the new roster of cardinals comprising his select Council of Cardinals, including the prominently pro-LGBT Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich amongst the number.
In a March 7 press release, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had restructured his famous advisory group of nine cardinals, known as the Council of Cardinals and also, for a time, as C9. Only four of the cardinals remain in place, with the other five being new to the group.
The selection highlights the manner in which the Pontiff is looking to govern the Catholic Church – and the Vatican in particular – in the next stage of his pontificate, with the appointments appearing to centralize both power and information, and channel it to the Casa Santa Martha.
The small number of cardinals represents the people which the Pope decides to rely upon for advice, as well as the arguments which he is likely to promote more heavily. As such, the C9 has a crucial role, acting in a sense as a mini-version of the Vatican Curia. From its inception, the C9 was tasked with drawing up the reforms of the Roman Curia, which finally emerged last March.
While it started out with nine cardinals at its inception in 2013, the Pope then dropped 3 cardinals in 2018 – including the late Cardinal George Pell – while adding Cardinal Ambongo Besungu in 2020 to bring the number to 7. With today’s changes, the cardinals number nine once again.
The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, remains, as do three other cardinals:
Among the five new cardinals are:
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the emeritus Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, the former president of the Vatican Governorate, are among those whose term has not been renewed.
Also dropped from the select group of advisors is the 69-year-old Cardinal Reinhard Marx. As noted by LifeSite’s Dr. Maike Hickson, Marx and Francis have had a strained relationship.
Marx had been part of the C9 since 2013, and also the co-ordinator of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, and famously had his resignation over mishandling of sex abuse cases refused by Francis in 2021. But, as LifeSite has reported, Marx has not been afraid to exert his own will and power in the Vatican, even to the displeasure of Francis.
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The inclusion of Hollerich is arguably the most prominent appointment among the new cardinals taking their seats at the table. As well as head of the European Bishops’ Conference and Archbishop of Luxembourg, Hollerich is relator general of the Synod on Synodality, and as such hold a crucial role in a cause which is close to Francis’ heart.
Cdl. Hollerich brags that Synod on Synodality opponents ‘won’t be able to stop it’
His appointment has been welcomed by supporters of the radical Synod agenda.
In many ways, Hollerich fills the hole left by the now-exiting Marx, with Hollerich’s promotion of anti-Catholic ideology – particularly homosexuality – being just as prominent as Marx’s.
Hollerich has described as “false” the Church’s denouncement of homosexual acts as sinful, which comes on top of his openness to “ordaining” women to the sacred priesthood and opening Holy Orders to married men.
In October he gave a lengthy interview to L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s daily newspaper, in which he continued his already public promotion of homosexuality. “No one excluded: even remarried divorcees, even homosexuals, everyone,” he stated, adding that the “Kingdom of God is not an exclusive club.” Instead, he described it as opening its doors “to everyone, without discrimination.”
He argued that for the Catholic Church, “a deeper change of cultural paradigm is needed, and a conversion of the spirit,” and that offering same-sex “blessings,” like Protestant churches, was not enough.
But shortly before he died, the late Cardinal Pell wrote that the Synod had “developed into a toxic nightmare despite the bishops’ professed good intentions.”
READ: Cdl. Pell called Synod on Synodality a ‘toxic nightmare’ just before he died
The Australian cardinal, who served on the C9 for four years, accused Hollerich of open heterodoxy, saying that “as the Relator (chief writer and manager) [of the latest Synod working document] Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich has publicly rejected the basic teachings of the Church on sexuality, on the grounds that they contradict modern science.”
With the Vatican currently in a state of financial upheaval and the Pope issuing a steady stream of dictates regarding the Vatican’s governance and financial situation, the importance of the choices of his revamped C9 should not be underestimated.
Ping
Pay no attention to what people in power say, pay attention to what they do. Everything Francis does smacks of a man who is working to transform the church into a leftwing haven run by pedophiles and gays where anyone who doesn’t like it will be asked to leave.
I’ll bet Gyorgy Schwartz is pulling the strings of Francis, just like with Zelensky, Trudeau and Brandon.
Given the number of molesters in the LGBT mob and the Catholic church, and the Church’s evil history of tacitly promoting child molestation, this guy’s history needs to be searched.
Why am I not surprised?
Should we plan on seeing Brinton showing up in the Vatican, wearing a red dress?
Of course the commie pope would do that.
Pope Frankie just looking to expand revenues.
RCINC is the oldest most profitable multinational corporation on the planet.
Amazing they always cry poverty but can hire 700$/hr. attorneys to smear victims of sexual abuse by RCINC (priests) employees.
Amazing they scream for open borders, but Vatican is protected by a 40’ high wall and tightly controlled access at choke points.
If you believe in apostolic succession then abide by the teachings of the apostles. Those who contradict the teachings of Christ and the apostles are not their successors.
1st Thessalonians 5:21-22 --- But test [a]all things carefully [so you can recognize what is good]. Hold firmly to that which is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it].
[a] Or everyone, that is, anyone claiming to be a prophet.
Basically, Paul taught us that it's up to us Christians (such as the Christians in Thessalonica) to test what's taught to us by people claiming to be our spiritual guides. We don't have the luxury of ignoring false prophets just because they claim to be part of the apostolic clique.
Yes, and the actions, the jargon, the fake hand-wringing over equality, the steady erosion of existing norms - plays out EXACTLY in the same way as it does in dirty secular politics.
And just as in Washington DC, it can NOT be corrected by simply voting for a new leader.
The old joke of “is the Pope Catholic” now becomes “is the Pope a homosexual”.
More and more like a possible the “FALSE PROPHET” of Revelation.
I’ve met so many devout Catholics who love Jesus. How in the world did they come up with this apostate leader?
Oh sure,Catholic Church and Sodomites.
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