The Catholic Bishops: When It’s Time to Call the Police

[I don’t like Caesaropapism in any form; the Church should find and “relax to the secular arm” those of Her members who are liable for secular punishment – rather than for the state to enter Her sacred precincts to search for and haul away such criminals, because it’s the case of “the camel’s nose in the tent,” and as in the case of New Hampshire described below and of Communist China described elsewhere on AQ, the state (especially the Liberal State) will soon be doing more than vetting clerical appointments! – AQ Tom] read more

Two Washington, D.C. newspapers: ‘LaDonna Cardinal Wuerl must go’

[The liberal Post (an op-ed piece by its token conservative – actually, a neo-conservative) and the Examiner (“slightly – i.e., little or none – to moderately – i.e., neo? – conservative“) – AQ Tom] 

Claire Chretien

Cardinal Wuerl needs to resign Sign the petition here.

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Two Washington, D.C. newspapers have published articles calling for Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign as fallout from the Pennsylvania grand jury report continues. read more

The bishops’ “Apalachin moment” has arrived

An Apostolic Visitation of the Church in the US is destined to fail if its scope is limited to McCarrick, even if it illuminates every dark corner in which McCarrick’s baleful influence is hiding.

August 16, 2018 – Christopher R. Altieri 

The Press Office of the Holy See has issued a statement in response to the Grand Jury Report released in Pennsylvania earlier this week, expressing “shame and sorrow” over the contents of the report, while praising the efforts of Church leaders to implement reforms. read more

A new prison for the Church in China: Sinicization

By the end of August, all the dioceses of China have to present a five-year plan (2018-2022) to the National Patriotic Association (PA) and the Council of Bishops  (BCCCC) on how they can implement the syncization, commissioned by Xi Jinping. The National Five-Year Plan augments the physical control over members of the Church (bishops, priests, laity), also control over culture, theology, social doctrine, art, architecture, liturgy. A political and non-religious document: Jesus Christ is mentioned only once; the Patriotic Association is mentioned 15 times. read more

When a pope politicizes doctrine, he betrays the teaching of Christ and His Church

Peter Kwasniewski

August 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – David Warren has written an excellent piece at The Catholic Thing on “Deathgate,” as Fr John Hunwicke names the latest scandal emanating from the halls of the Vatican—namely, Pope Francis’s attempt to change the teaching of divine revelation and the ordinary universal magisterium of the Church on the moral legitimacy and therefore admissibility in principle of capital punishment, whatever the prudential limitations on its use might be in this or that contingent set of circumstances. Warren writes: read more

HAVE WE, FOR THE MOST PART, ABANDONED THE ETHOS OF THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS–THAT OF JESUS’ SUFFERING AND DEATH FOR THE EXPIATION OF OUR SINS AND INSTEAD EMBRACED A THEOLOGY OF THE MASS BASED SOLEY ON HIS GLORIOUS RESURRECTION? read more

Text: Giuseppe Nardi – Trans: Tancred – Thursday, August 16, 2018

Cardinal Sean O’Malley Will Not Be Attending World Family Meeting in Dublin — Another Snub of FrankenPope’s Sodomite Agenda?

(Rome / Dublin) Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley surprisingly bowed out from attending the World Family Meeting in Dublin. Is he protesting against the sodomite maneuvers that pull certain ropes for the recognition of homosexuality in the Church? The Cardinal is responsible for protecting children from sexual abuse in the Church and seems to have put one and one together. 

World Family Meeting 2018: Doubtful guests and program items

The World Family Meeting in Dublin, which starts in a few days is in the midst of a tempest. Because of dubious program points and guests the largest international Catholic family event has received fierce criticism in the run-up. From the ranks of devout Catholics, including the Spanish news portal InfoVaticana , have even called for the World Family Meeting to be cancelled.
 
Yesterday, Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley OFM Cap., the Archbishop of Boston, announced that he would not attend the World Family Meeting held on 21-26  August taking place in Dublin. read more

World Over – 2018-08-16 – The Clerical Abuse Crisis, Liz Yore and Brad Miner with Raymond Arroyo

“We need to return to the more explicit and detailed language of the 1917 Code of Canon Law”, Cardinal Raymond Burke told EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo on August 16.

Burke called the language of the 1983 Code “not adequate”, after Arroyo confronted him with the paragraphs concerning sexual abuses of 1917 and of 1983.

The cardinal reminds that there are liturgical rites for the degradation of bishops and clerics who have sinned gravely, “Those rites were not only there for the sake of completeness.” read more

FrankenPope Turns Vatican Into Latin American Sodomite Junta

en.news – 8/17/18

Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra (58), Francis’ new Substitute (second man) in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State is a “very close friend” of Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga and of his disgraced auxiliary bishop Juan Jose Pineda who is suspected to be an active homosexual, Edward Pentin wrote on Twitter (August 16).

A source told Pentin that “this appointment bears the hallmark of Maradiaga who still has great power” and wants to secure his own power.

Peña will take over on 15 October from Cardinal Angelo Becciu who was said to have major differences with the Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. read more

THE REAL CATHOLIC CRISIS: Universal Apostasy and Abuse of Power (not merely homosexuality)

Written by  Michael Matt | Editor – 8/16/18

Tempted to leave Church over sex abuse crisis? That’s exactly what Satan wants

Peter Kwasniewski

August 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In the midst of the current second tidal wave of clerical sex abuse allegations and revelations—a wave likely to continue building in magnitude as it sweeps through one diocese after another and churns up decades of episcopally-authorized muck—we have to guard against and help others to guard against certain popular errors that always crop up at a time like this.

Years ago, I remember reading seven or eight letters to the editor in an old issue of Time magazine, an issue with an oil-covered seabird on the cover. These were letters written in reaction to the hierarchy’s complicity with clerical abuse, about which we are rightfully indignant. Almost all of the letters reflected the liberal stance of Time itself, and all of them revealed a level of ignorance of basic Catholic doctrine that could only be called stupendous. read more