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Whistleblower: Detroit Archbishop Covered Up Homosexual Harassment of Young ManAbp. Allen Vigneron, Msgr. Michael Bugarin implicatedDETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - A priest is accusing the Detroit archbishop of covering up sexual harassment by an active homosexual employee, while punishing the priest for blowing the whistle on it.Fr. Michael Suhy Father Michael Suhy was abruptly removed as pastor on Nov. 17 from his parish, Our Lady of Good Counsel in Plymouth, Michigan. A statement issued by Aux. Bp. Gerard Battersby claimed the reason was because Suhy had "become overwhelmed with the responsibilities, burdens and challenges of administrating a large and complex parish ......

McCarrick Victims Suing VaticanComplaint: Policy of cover-up a violation of international lawNEWARK, N.J. (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Holy See is being slapped with a lawsuit over sex abuse cover-up.Homopredator and ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick In a virtual press conference Thursday, attorney Jeff Anderson announced he was filing a complaint in federal district court in New Jersey on behalf of four victims of serial homosexual predator, former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.One of the victims is a priest, but his identity is hidden in this case to shield him from repercussions from his bishop and the Vatican.In his address, Anderson, who specializes in prosecuting clerical...

Embattled Toronto Catholic school trustee fights back against LGBTQ lobbyANALYSISTORONTO, November 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — An embattled Toronto Catholic school trustee who has been under a year-long attack by LGBT activists, their allies on the board, and more recently, members of the provincial legislature, is now fighting back.Michael Del Grande has lawyered up and is launching an appeal after eight Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustees voted during an often rancorous and chaotic seven-hour meeting on Wednesday to revisit code of conduct complaints of which he was cleared in August.This time, the trustees voted that Del Grande’s comments from...

Exclusive: EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo Interviews Archbishop Viganò About McCarrick Report More than any other person except for Theodore McCarrick himself, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is responsible for triggering the 449-page Vatican report released this week that details what other Church leaders knew about the disgraced ex-cardinal’s decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct, and the actions they took or failed to take with respect to what they had learned.As the report itself documents, the archbishop was the first senior Vatican figure to call concretely for action to be undertaken against McCarrick, at a time when Archbishop Viganò was serving as a...

Viganò skewers McCarrick Report on EWTN: ‘Bergoglio is to the deep church as Biden is to the deep state’ Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò responded to the Vatican’s recently released McCarrick Report which tries to pin the lack of adequate response to McCarrick on Viganò himself November 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In an interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo this evening, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal representative to the United States, responded to the Vatican’s recently released McCarrick Report which tries to pin the lack of adequate response to McCarrick on Viganò himself.  Asked by Arroyo about the report claiming Viganò “did...

No, there isn’t any sign the Church has learned from the McCarrick case The feeling is that one person has been made to pay so others may just continue along their way. The McCarrick Report reveals a substantial degree of tolerance towards homosexual conduct by the clergy, which is punished only if minors are the persons abused. This report also ignores the fact that the McCarrick case is only the tip of the iceberg of a power system controlled by the gay lobby. Whether it is a “truth operation” as announced, or a “surreal operation of mystification” as immediately defined...

The Three Lessons of the McCarrick Report There are at least three lessons to be drawn from the 461 pages of the "Report" on the case of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick published on November 10 by the Vatican secretariat of state:> RAPPORTO ...> REPORT ...The first lesson is the inadequacy of the response from Church authorities - including the last three popes - to the buildup of accusations against McCarrick.These are accusations that cover a span of decades. But it was only in June 2017, with the first public charge of having abused a minor, that the canonical process and...

McCarrick report confirms Pope Francis knew about rumors of ex-Cardinal’s sex abuse and did nothing This confirms an essential argument made by Viganò, namely, that Francis knew and chose to collaborate with McCarrick November 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The newly released, long-awaited November 10 “McCarrick report” indicates that Pope Francis was not to be blamed for the fact that he did not restrain then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in his activities in international affairs and church politics. The report points out that he merely followed the path chosen by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI with regard to McCarrick. Francis...

Inside the Vatican Slams McCarrick Report as Exercise in ‘Cover-Up, Evasion, and Scapegoating’ ROME — Veteran Vatican journalist Robert Moynihan blasted the Vatican’s long-awaited “McCarrick Report,” writing Tuesday that the text brings injury and obfuscation rather than healing and clarity.In his scathing review, Moynihan — founder and president of Inside the Vatican — declares that after two years of careful investigations, the 460-page report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and his serial homosexual abuse “leaves us still in the ecclesial swamp of cover-up, evasion, and scapegoating of others.”Instead of exploring the true causes of the disgraced former cardinal’s meteoric rise...

McCarrick Report: Pope Hero, Viganò Villain Francis' dossier fails to name key abuse victim James Grein VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The McCarrick report is portraying Pope Francis as the hero who immediately dismissed the homopredator prelate on receiving credible complaints while painting whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò as the villain, whose reports of complaints to the pope regarding Theodore McCarrick are disputed.Viganò slams the McCarrick report for trying to discredit him The long-awaited 450-page document, which fails to mention the name of earliest named victim James Grein, was published by the Vatican Secretariat of State Tuesday afternoon, two hours after the...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘The Vatican fiction continues’: Abp. Viganò issues first response to McCarrick report 'Unlike many characters involved in this story, I do not have any reason to fear that the truth will contradict my denunciations, nor am I in any way blackmailable.' November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Below is the first reaction of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to the McCarrick report. Today the official Report of the Holy See regarding the McCarrick case has been made public. Before I express myself on its merit, I will take time to analyze its content. However, I cannot fail to note the surreal...

Vatican Scandal: Exposed Pope Shuffles Deck Francis moves money matters to new department VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis has transferred responsibility for funds and real estate assets managed by the Secretariat of State to another department on the same day it was revealed that the scandal-ridden London property deal was made "with the approval of the Holy Father."Venezuelan homosexual Abp. Edgar Peña Parra The Vatican Press Office announced the transfer to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) Thursday, as Italian newspaper La Stampa reported that the pope had also endorsed hiring Italian middleman Gianluigi Torzi for...

Francis Promotes Civil Unions for Homosexuals: The Secretary of State Confirms A note, sent to all the nuncios by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, confirms the remarks about civil unions between homosexuals made by Pope Francis in the documentary “Francesco.” It thereby confirms the serious opposition of the reigning Pope to his two immediate predecessors. And through them, to enduring Catholic doctrine. The note sent to the nuncios by the Secretary of State was posted by Mgr. Franco Coppola, nuncio in Mexico, on his Facebook account. Contacted by the cath.ch agency, the nuncio confirmed that this...

Fr. James Martin says not placing foster kids with gay couples is ‘homophobia’ The dissident priest suggested that religious liberty is used ‘as a cover for homophobia.’ Fr. James Martin, S.J. sports double 'devil horns' to introduce Metallica on the Colbert Report, Sept. 24, 2013. November 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Fr. James Martin SJ reacted to a major U.S. Supreme Court religious liberty case pitting so-called homosexual rights against a Catholic adoption agency’s conscience rights, siding with LGBT activsts and a host of far-left organizations.  When court observers yesterday suggested that a majority of the nine justices had signaled they would...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican set for November release of long-awaited McCarrick report. Will it be honest? Whether the upcoming report will reveal the full truth remains to be seen November 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Reuters reports today that, according to its own sources within the Vatican, the long-awaited McCarrick report on the history of Theodore McCarrick's misbehavior and the high-ranking cover-up or tolerance of it will be published before the Fall Meeting of the USCCB, November 15-19. LifeSite was told the same by several sources. According to Reuters, this report is to be published ahead of the USCCB meeting and is...

Viganò reveals details – including names – about homosexual lobby in the Vatican The enemy has succeeded in penetrating the interior of both the State and the Church, in order to rise to the very top, building a network of complicity and connivance that binds all of its members by means of blackmail, having chosen them precisely because of their corruptibility. November 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In my recent essay for the Catholic Identity Conference in Pittsburgh, I spoke of the eclipse that is obscuring the Church of Christ, superimposing over it an anti-church of heretics, corrupt men, and fornicators....

Afineevsky About Francis: “We Are Friends” The preparations for the film Francesco started three years ago, the producer Eleonora Granata told Cinecittà News. She wanted to stress Francis’ usual characteristics: social commitment, sensibility for “the poor,” environmentalism, and his fight “against the infamies perpetrated by capitalism.” It was Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, the ex-Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, “who gave us true access to the Vatican.” Granata admits that she hoped that Francis’ statement about homosex partnerships would cause a media uproar, “It is so important to all of us who worked on the film that the message was...

Insidious Rumours: Neo-Cardinal Had A Gay Relationship With A Priest? Neo-Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the Neo-Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has turned Albano Diocese into the Italian capital of the "Catholic-gay movement," Riccardo Cacioli writes on LaNuovaBq.it (October 29).Albano hosts an annual “Forum of Italian LGBT Christians” promoting the acceptance of active homosexuality in the Church.Semeraro wrote the preface to Possible Love a homosex-book by the homosex-activist Aristide Fumagalli, who coincidentally is a priest.After Francis’ endorsement of homosex civil unions, Semeraro supported them as well. He did so already in January 2016.John Paul II made Semeraro first...

THURSDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 13:31-35 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen who longs to gather her chicks under her wing. As the theologian N.T. Wright points out, this is much more than a sentimental image. It refers to the gesture of a hen when fire is sweeping through the barn. In order to protect her chicks, she will sacrifice herself, gathering them under her wing and using her own body as a shield. On the cross, Jesus used, as it were, his own sacrificed body as a shield, taking the...

Bp. Barron hit with massive backlash after praising pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin ‘Fr. Martin is a winsome guide to all those who want to deepen their friendship with the Lord,’ Barron wrote. Los Angeles auxiliary bishop Robert Barron chaired the revision of the U.S. Bishops’ teaching on the death penalty in Baltimore, Md., June 2019. October 31, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop for Los Angeles and founder of the popular “Word on Fire” ministry, experienced a tsunami of criticism after praising pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin in an endorsement for the Jesuit’s new book about prayer.   “Delighted...