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Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Only Sky ✏ Metaphorically, of course. But it might as well have been physical.
Last week, the Catholic Christ-o-sphere was abuzz with news of Pope Francis punishing a cardinal (archive) for criticizing him and his plans for the ailing organization. It wasn’t that big a punishment, but it didn’t need to be. It sent a direct message. Alas, it looks like the hardliners in that organization have spent too long dealing with Pope Francis’ indirect attacks to understand exactly what’s going on here.

Situation Report: What Pope Francis did this time

Last week, the news broke that Pope Francis held a meeting (archive) with the heads of the offices of the Roman Curia at which he canceled Cardinal Raymond Burke’s subsidy for an apartment in Rome, along with his salary as a retired cardinal.

Burke is one of the leaders in the largely American hardliner Catholic faction that opposes Francis for (it seems) literally everything Francis says and does. So it’s little surprise that La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (“The New Daily Compass”) first reported the news, according to Franciscan Media (archive).

This Rome-based newspaper is very sympathetic to the hardliners.

Continue reading @ Only Sky.

Why Pope Francis Just Nose-Thwacked A Dissenting Cardinal

Associated Press ✒ Pope Francis pledged Wednesday to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a day after the Vatican released a detailed report into the decades long church cover-up of his sexual misconduct.
Nicole Winfield
11-November-2020

The Vatican report blamed a host of bishops, cardinals and popes for downplaying and dismissing mountains of evidence of McCarrick’s misconduct starting in the 1990s — but largely spared Francis. Instead, it laid the lion’s share of the blame on St. John Paul II, a former pope, for having appointed McCarrick archbishop of Washington in 2000, and making him a cardinal, despite having commissioned an inquiry that found he had slept with seminarians.

Francis concluded his weekly general audience Wednesday by recalling that the report into the “painful case” of the former high-ranking American cardinal had been released the previous day.

“I renew my closeness to victims of any abuse and commitment of the church to eradicate this evil,” Francis said. He then paused silently for nearly a minute, apparently in prayer.

Continue reading @ Associated Press.

Pope Francis Vows To End Sexual Abuse After McCarrick Report

From UnHerd ➤ Catholic Christian Crazies blame the Pope for Covid-19.
Following the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, arch-Catholics with strong ties to the far-Right in America and Italy are apportioning blame onto one of their favourite targets: Pope Francis. 

This anti-Bergoglian network (Pope Francis’s birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio), comprises newspapers, sites, associations, foundations and figures such as Steve Bannon and Roberto Fiore (the leader of Forza Nuova). It perceives the coronavirus as divine punishment for the Pope’s relatively liberal attitudes towards migration, homosexuality and environmental protection.

An Italian documentary (not yet translated to English) that aired this week lays bare the extent of the hatred felt by those on the Catholic Right — both from within the Vatican hierarchy and political figures from abroad — towards not only the Pope, but also the decision to close churches during lockdown too.

Continue reading @ UnHerd.

Far-Right Catholics Blame The Pope For Covid

The church's role and support of the dictatorship hasn't been fully shown under the light of day - Ian Mount

Last night within minutes of learning that the new leader of Roman Catholicism hailed from the Church hierarchy in Argentina I posted the following comment on my Facebook wall:

I wonder what his position was during the dirty war. The then cardinal was an absolute bastard and backed the government when it was murdering, raping, torturing and disappearing people.

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