lifesitenews--2020-07-27--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

July 27 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
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(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-07-27--Archbishop Viganò: ‘Heresy, sodomy, and corruption’ are trademark of ‘deep church’

July 25 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has pointed out three elements that have become what he calls the trademark of the deep Church : “ heresy , sodomy , and corruption.
” In a new wide-ranging interview with Vatican expert Marco Tosatti ( read full interview below ) , the Vatican whistleblower speaks about the deeper significance of the case of former Cardinal McCarrick in relation to the “ doctrinal crisis ” the Church is facing .
“ There is a very strict relationship between the doctrinal crisis of the Church and the immorality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to the highest levels of the hierarchy .
But it is also apparent that this crisis is being used by the ultra-progressive wing not only to impose a false morality together with a false doctrine , but also to irremediably discredit the Holy Church and the Papacy before the faithful and the world , through the action of its own leaders , ” stated the Archbishop .
Viganò says that a “ gay lobby ” has “ infiltrated into the Church and that is literally terrified that good pastors will shed light @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Secretariat of State , in the Congregations of the Roman Curia , in the Dioceses , and over the entire Church.
” “ Bergoglio has surrounded himself with compromised and thus blackmailed personalities , whom he has no qualms about getting rid of as soon as they risk compromising him in his media image , ” he said .
Viganò said that “ these three elements – heresy , sodomy , and corruption – are so recurrent that they are almost a trademark of the deep state and of the deep church.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ The commitment of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò , the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America , to denounce the veil of silence and cover-ups in the management of abuse cases by members of the clergy , is well known .
The spicy and annoyed response by the Vatican authorities – and in particular of various prelates – to the well-argued refutations of the combative prelate is also well known .
In this interview , we investigate with His Excellency the developments in the case of former Cardinal McCarrick , also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Church Militant entitled The McCarrick Bombshell .
( 1 ) But before we get into the content of this article , let ’ s make a brief review .
From February 21 to 24 , 2019 , a meeting was held in Rome of all of the Presidents of the Bishops ’ Conferences on the topic of The Protection of Minors in the Church .
( 2 ) A few days earlier , on February 16 , 2019 , the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced the dismissal from the clerical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accused of other serious crimes , and added : “ The Holy Father has recognized the definitive nature of this decision made in accord with law , rendering it a res iudicata ( i.e.
, admitting of no further recourse ) .
” ( 3 ) Marco Tosatti : Your Excellency , can you tell us what the news is on the McCarrick case ?
Abp .
C.M .
Viganò : I fear that there is no news , and this is precisely the news .
With the reduction of McCarrick to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put an end to an age-old affair that came to light with my testimony only in 2018 , but everything possible has been done so that the details and results of the process did not emerge .
The deception perpetrated through the strategy of proceeding administratively rather than judicially , as well as the decision of Bergoglio to authoritatively confirm the sentence [ so that there was no further recourse ] , prevented not only McCarrick ’ s objective crimes from coming to light , but also the responsibility of those who for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extent of the crimes he committed , protecting his accomplices and those who , with their silence , have covered up his crimes .
In this way the conviction of the culprit did not clarify the obscure details .
As a simple layman , Mr. McCarrick now enjoys a total freedom of movement and action , and he is still capable of intervening at every level : on the ecclesial level – even with those who covered up for him and supported him , in the Vatican and elsewhere ; on the political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means of the people who remained in contact with him and who received favors from him .
The reduction to the lay state does not constitute in any way a medicinal punishment ( this is only the necessary premise , because of the proven indignity of the offender ) , it does not include any form of reparative penance , nor does it render justice to the victims , but rather it grants to Mr. McCarrick the ability to continue undisturbed in his criminal activity , including sexual predation .
The administrative procedure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while the testimonies gathered only recently by the lawyer Jeffrey Lena , the legal representative of the Holy See , seem to have been written under dictation : those who have suffered harassment give excuses for the delay in the publication of the Report , attributing it to the large volume of testimonies , ( 4 ) with indulgent and justifying tones that are difficult to reconcile with the extreme gravity of the crimes contested by the accused .
( 5 ) It seems that some victims , protected by a pseudonym @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aimed at lightening the responsibility of the Holy See and validating the narrative that it maintains before public opinion .
There is also the suspicion that these anonymous testimonies are pure fiction .
In any case , this is a deception that must be denounced forcefully , because if the corruption of an individual prelate is a scandal , the guilty silence of the one who represents the Church is even more so .
If these episodes had been verified under the Pontificate of Benedict XVI , they would have unleashed the fury @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of understanding towards Jorge Mario reveals the complicit attitude of mainstream information .
Marco Tosatti : The convocation of the summit at the Vatican was announced as the occasion of giving a firm and determined response to the clergy sexual scandals .
In his introductory address , Pope Francis had declared : “ In this meeting , we sense the weight of the pastoral and ecclesial responsibility that obliges us to discuss together , in a synodal , frank and in-depth manner , how to confront this evil afflicting the Church and humanity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to us , and expects from us not simple and predictable condemnations , but concrete and effective measures to be undertaken .
We need to be concrete.
” ( 6 ) Abp .
Viganò : The solemn proclamations which preceded , accompanied , and followed this meeting absolutely did not lead to any concrete practical action , as was hoped for .
( 7 ) Just as during the meeting no answer was given to the legitimate and insistent demands made by journalists to Bergoglio on August 26 , 2018 , after my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the content of the interventions at the summit , it seems that even the clergy sexual scandals , instead of toughening the penalties and making the interventions more incisive , have only led to almost obsessive repetition about the new “ synodal ” aspect of the Church , which corresponds to a precise intention to change her constitution in a democratic key .
The Archbishop of Chicago Blase Cupich – a friend of Theodore McCarrick and the president of the Vatican summit – focused his own intervention at the summit on “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ structural , legal and institutional reform ” ( 9 ) of action only nominally intended to stem abuse .
Marco Tosatti : In what way can “ synodality ” help the bishops to resolve the problem of clergy abuse ?
Abp .
Viganò : The proposal to establish a commission of independent lay persons who would have overseen the work of the bishops , formulated during the plenary assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 2018 , was blocked by Cardinal Marc Ouellet , Prefect of the Congregation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intervention by the Vatican disavowed the proclamations of “ synodality ” as soon as the decisions of the Bishops ’ Conferences did not coincide with what Rome wanted .
However , I consider His Eminence Cardinal Ouellet to have been merely the executor of maneuvers that were imposed on him from higher up .
Marco Tosatti : Isn ’ t it a good thing that the Vatican is keeping decisions that involve doctrinal and moral questions to itself ?
Abp .
Viganò : The authority of the Roman Pontiff , which expresses itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not obviously be delegated to merely consultative organs that do not have any jurisdiction and that are not a part of the hierarchical structure of the Church as Christ instituted it : on this point we need to be clear .
However , it is significant that the “ synodal path ” hoped for by the highest authorities in Rome does not encounter any obstacle , except for the moments in which it risks becoming embarrassing in the media , as in the case of a special commission appointed to receive denunciations against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ synodality ” is a theme that is dear to the progressive theological current that wants to strip away the hierarchical structure of the Church .
In this regard , the recent articles of Massimo Fagggioli are very clarifying .
He is a professor at Villanova University , where on October 11 , 2013 then-Cardinal McCarrick affirmed that he had supported the election of Cardinal Bergoglio during the General Congregations prior to the Conclave that had been held just a few months earlier , and that he had spoken with “ a very influential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had confided to him that within the span of five years the new pope would reform the Church .
It ought to arouse alarm that the same school today is giving disturbing signs of dissatisfaction with the work of Bergoglio , whose pontificate is defined as being “ in crisis ” by “ deluded people ” ( 12 ) – perhaps because the five years that McCarrick alluded to have not yielded the results they hoped for .
Marco Tosatti : In the address Cardinal Reinhard Marx gave about the Vatican summit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serve to establish the truth , and form the basis for imposing a punishment which is appropriate for the relevant offence .
People in the Church also need to see how this judge comes to the sentence and what the sentence is ; nearly all are secret , we can not see this .
I think that in our situation it is not good .
In addition , they establish trust in the organization and its leadership .
Lingering doubts about the proper conduct of court proceedings only harm the reputation and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also applies to the Church.
” ( 13 ) Abp .
Viganò : The publication of the procedural acts should be one of the cornerstones of the operation of transparency and honesty towards the victims of abuse by members of the clergy .
It appears evident to me that the words of Cardinal Marx have been disregarded , beginning with the McCarrick case , precisely through Bergoglio ’ s initiative .
I further recall that Cardinal Daniel DiNardo , the President of the United States Bishops ’ Conference , was disavowed with little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ replaced him at the meeting in Rome the following February with Cardinals Blase Cupich and Joseph William Tobin , who are also not exempt from suspicions on their own account .
These interferences , clearly desired from on high , have created a media image that does not correspond to reality , in which Bergoglio is presented as the architect of a non-existent reform , for mere propaganda purposes .
Even the request made by Francis for the resignation of the entire Chilean Episcopate is part of a facade operation that is clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the two-fold measure reserved for the American and French Bishops ’ Conferences is emblematic : on the U.S. side , Bergoglian interventionism prevented an operation of transparency by authority ; while on the French side , it allowed clear violations of canon and civil law , permitting the investigations of the ecclesiastical forum to be entrusted to a Masonic judge who is also in favor of euthanasia .
The Jacobin spirit in pursuing French clerics accused of child molestation fails however to recognize the responsibility of the Ordinaries and religious Superiors , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that are consolidating in practice also in Rome .
Marco Tosatti : And yet we have also heard the Pontiff recall , in his final address , the words he had already spoken to the Roman Curia in 2018 : “ The Church will never try to cover up or underestimate any case.
” Abp .
Viganò : This solemn affirmation is disavowed by the most emblematic case , the very case of Theodore McCarrick , and makes us think that other interests may have led to the decision to liquidate the matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even more gravely , without the publication of the judicial acts .
Marco Tosatti : What are those other interests , in your opinion ?
Abp .
Viganò : They want to focus attention on the abuse of minors , moving it away from the clear and dutiful condemnation of the homosexual behaviors which are often the cause of these abuses .
For Bergoglio and his entourage sodomy is not a sin that cries out for vengeance in the presence of God , as the Catechism teaches .
Bergoglio ’ s words on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actions and words of those who surround him – unfortunately confirm that an operation of legitimization of homosexuality is currently underway , and that prelates and theologians are carrying this discussion forward who have manifested without equivocation that they are unfaithful to Catholic teaching .
Cardinal Tobin himself – whose embarrassing messages on his cell phone speak for themselves ( 14 ) – has clearly stated that he does not agree with the condemnation of sodomy present in the Catechism , refusing to define homosexual acts as “ intrinsically disordered.
” ( 15 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s support for the book Building a Bridge by Father James Martin , S.J.
, that has the same content .
Thus we find a cardinal who is a friend of McCarrick lined up in favor of the LGBT movements and the Jesuit whom Bergoglio appointed as a Consultor of the Secretariat for Communications of the Holy See , even inviting him to speak at the World Encounter of Families in Dublin in 2018 and receiving him in audience .
( 16 ) Cardinal Cupich has expressed himself many times in favor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Youth – to which he was sent to participate by direct appointment of the Pope without having been elected to represent the American bishops – the controversial theme of homosexual relations was inserted into the Instrumentum Laboris even though no group of young people had requested it .
I recall , en passant , that Cupich was imposed on the See of Chicago by Bergoglio , against the opinion of the Nunciature .
The interests are therefore clearly those of the “ gay lobby ” that has infiltrated into the Church and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will shed light on the influence that it exercises in the Secretariat of State , in the Congregations of the Roman Curia , in the Dioceses , and over the entire Church .
The obscene , even sacrilegious homoerotic fresco that Archbishop Paglia commissioned for the cathedral of Terni ( 17 ) is an arrogant ideological manifesto that no Authority has ever censured or deplored ; the excessive financial affairs of the Substitute of the Secretariat of State Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra ( 18 ) – tied to Cardinal Maradiaga ( involved in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ auxiliary bishop , Juan José Pineda , without there being news of any ecclesiastical initiative against him ) – and the very grave accusations de Sexto that weigh on him ( 19 ) and that I have amply denounced , ( 20 ) have not in any way interrupted his cursus honorum in the Vatican ; the same holds for Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta , ( 21 ) whom Bergoglio has promoted and , while a criminal trial is still pending , has recently reappointed as Assessor of the Administration of the Patrimony @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) After the order to bring all the current accounts of the dioceses and religious congregations of the world to APSA , Zanchetta finds himself managing the finances of the Church ( being able to boast in his own curriculum of having the authoritative diploma of an electrician ) and being at the same time easily the object of internal and external blackmail .
( 23 ) And let ’ s not forget the work of Archbishop Ilson de Jesus Montanari , Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops , Secretary of the Sacred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Church , in the name of and on behalf of those who elevated him to the highest ranks of the Roman Curia as a reward for his fidelity .
I believe it is essential to clarify once and for all the close link between sodomy and pedophilia , which is also confirmed by the statistics themselves : a link that the Vatican summit scrupulously kept silent about in order not to offend the current mentality that is widespread even among many prelates .
But it would be hypocritical and culpable to condemn pedophilia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without equally condemning sodomy , which today ’ s aligned thought does not consider to be criminally relevant but which the Church identifies among the sins that cry out for vengeance in the presence of God .
But there is also another interest , of a political nature , that should not be underestimated ... Marco Tosatti : What are you referring to ?
Abp .
Viganò : I am speaking of the political role of McCarrick , which the latest article by Church Militant also mentions : “ It was McCarrick who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mission given to him personally by Pope Francis .
Francis unshackled him from Benedict-imposed restrictions just weeks after becoming pope — a fact confirmed by Abp .
Viganò .
Likewise , sources in China [ … ] show that McCarrick may have been instrumental in working out the ongoing secret payments of billions of dollars from the Chinese communists to Francis ’ Vatican .
If that 's true ( and it looks plausible given McCarrick ’ s communist ties and friendliness with Beijing ) that could go a long way in explaining why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's desk , unpublished.
” Just in the last few days the news has been divulged on Christian Today according to which “ China has ordered Christian villagers to renounce their faith and worship the nation ’ s Communist Party leaders instead.
” ( 24 ) In the face of this persecution of Christians – and of those Catholics faithful to the Holy See – by the communist dictatorship , the silence of Santa Marta is literally deafening , as it was a few days ago when at his Angelus message Bergoglio omitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that had been given to the press .
( 25 ) The secret agreement made between the Holy See and Beijing that has been denounced publicly by Cardinal Zen , demonstrates the subjection of the Bergoglian church to the diktats of the communist dictatorship , handing over the local Hierarchy into the hands of its persecutors and keeping silent on the human rights violations perpetrated by the regime .
I recall that in the spring of 2014 I wrote to the Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin , asking him if the provisions taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ valid or not , following an article that appeared in the Washington Times which reported about his trip to the Central African Republic on behalf of the U.S. Department of State .
( 26 ) Cardinal Parolin never responded , but the news that is coming out in recent days seems to clarify these aspects too .
The freedom of movement given to McCarrick was also known , ( 27 ) and he himself wrote in 2012 : “ I was in Doha last week and go to Ireland… and following that… I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beirut , Jordan , Egypt , Thailand , Myanmar , Cambodia and Hong Kong… before I start again in the Holy Land and Belarus.
” ( 28 ) And in 2014 : “ I leave for China on Thursday the 27th… I am sure that [ Secretary of State ] Cardinal Parolin would see me since he is involved with my China trip.
” ( 29 ) Among other things , the cooperation of the Society of Jesus in the diplomatic moves of the Vatican with the dictatorship of Beijing – beginning with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – confirms the willingness of the Holy See to give an endorsement to China , just as suspicions materialize about its responsibility for the spread of the Covid virus in order to destabilize the international geo-political balance .
The role of Antonio Spadaro and other Jesuits – all frequent visitors to Villanova University – is emblematic and demonstrates the red thread that links doctrinal progressivism to moral perversion and political corruption .
On the other hand , these three elements – heresy , sodomy , and corruption – are so recurrent that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state and of the deep church .
Speaking of the deep state , it is not surprising that the World Health Organization has made itself complicit in this operation of social engineering in order to please China , nor that President Trump has decided to withdraw the funding that has benefited it to date .
What surprises and scandalizes is rather the complicit silence of the Vatican , faced with a sort of coup d'état that makes the Bergoglian church the spiritual arm of the World Government , under the aegis of communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parties .
Italy , with its unelected government and the majority in a most serious political crisis , seems to be following the agenda and does not seem to want to review its positions towards Beijing : the constant threats of a return to the Covid emergency and to a lockdown are clearly instrumental in maintaining a power which in the presence of democratically convened elections would demonstrate its inconsistency .
What is certain is that a slightly more incisive and less-aligned opposition to the mainstream narrative could be seen positively by both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Italy .
Marco Tosatti : Let ’ s return to the question of the clergy scandals .
On February 19 , 2019 , two days before the beginning of the summit presided over by Cardinal Cupich , an Open Letter was published by Cardinals Raymond Burke and Walter Brandmüller to the Presidents of the Bishops ’ Conferences : “ Before the drift in process , it seems that the difficulty is reduced to that of the abuse of minors…which is , however , only part of a much greater crisis… .
Sexual abuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first and primary fault of the clergy does not rest in the abuse of power but in having gone away from the truth of the Gospel… In the face of this situation , Cardinals and Bishops are silent .
Will you also be silent ?
... Today , [ our ] dubia have not only not had any response [ from the Holy Father ] but are part of a more general crisis of the Faith .
Therefore , we encourage you to raise your voice to safeguard and proclaim the integrity of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 30 ) What result came from this appeal of the eminent Prelates ?
Abp .
C.M .
Viganò : Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller , like other Prelates , have done nothing but laudably reaffirm Catholic doctrine : the unheard of thing is that they are the ones who are considered “ strange ” in the ecclesial structure , while a voice is given to those personalities who for their acquaintances , their endorsements of the LGBT agenda , and in some cases even for the shadows that hang over their conduct ought to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ censured .
In April 2019 , Benedict XVI published a strong intervention in Klerusblatt , which was then reprinted in Italy by Corriere della Sera ( 31 ) and was fiercely censored by Marco Politi at Il Fatto Quotidiano .
( 32 ) This article was in reality intended for the summit in Rome through the Secretariat of State , but it was boycotted , confirming the intervention of the “ lavender mafia ” to impede the Holy Father from making his position on the subject known to the Bishops .
Marco Tosatti @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this intervention of Benedict XVI consisted of ?
Abp .
Viganò : The focal point of the article of Ratzinger that infuriated the supporters of Bergoglio was precisely that it pointed out the connection between homosexuality and pedophilia and also between the relaxing of morality following the Council and the spreading of the plague of abuse .
Obstinately closing his eyes in the face of the evidence , the progressive Marco Politi wrote : “ What does the abandonment by the Church of an ethic based on natural law have to do with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moral theology have to do with it , what do gay cliques in seminaries have to do with it , what do porn films have to do with it , what does the relativization of values and moral judgment have to do with it ?
” ( 33 ) And yet it is evident that where the formation of candidates for the priesthood and religious life cancel discipline and the interior life , vices and sins multiply that degenerate even into the most grave crimes against minors , and not only that .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the “ spirit of the Council , ” which Benedict XVI wanted only to mention but which did not fail to be immediately grasped by those who saw the superdogma that was being questioned : “ Truly grotesque [ sic ] is the attempt by the ex-pontiff to attach to the “ conciliar ” spirit the position of extreme guarantism of ecclesiastical processes , aimed at the protection of the accused to the bitter end “ to the point of practically excluding the condemnation of the guilty , ” the essay says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the advocates of the Council , said more plainly the fault of the reformers , if the network of cover-up artists and pettifoggers , which in any case tried and still tries to impede the trial and condemnation of clerical predators , was revealed to have always been so overbearing and powerful ?
” ( 34 ) Marco Tosatti : Do you think that Marco Politi is right ?
Abp .
Viganò : I believe that the answer to this rhetorical question of the vaticanist Politi can be indisputably affirmative : there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctrinal crisis of the Church and the immorality of the clergy , that scandalously reaches up to the highest levels of the hierarchy .
But it is also apparent that this crisis is being used by the ultra-progressive wing not only to impose a false morality together with a false doctrine , but also to irremediably discredit the Holy Church and the Papacy before the faithful and the world , through the action of its own leaders .
Marco Tosatti : Don ’ t you think that in the end the Report that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Abp .
Viganò : If it is possible to shed light on this affair , this will happen despite the Vatican : the interests at stake are enormous and directly affect the very top of the Church , and not only for questions of a doctrinal , moral , or canonical nature , but also for political and diplomatic aspects that have seen the Holy See become the object of a coup d'état with the complicity of those who should have defended it in its sovereignty and independence .
What did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was brought to fruition after his resignation .
How can we hope that the one who is indebted for his own election to McCarrick – who was one of the main proponents of the secret agreement with China – will be able to clarify a series of events that involve him personally , demonstrating the connivances with the Chinese dictatorship against Catholics faithful to the Holy See and perhaps also the responsibility of that regime for the resignation of Pope Benedict ?
How can we imagine that the murky events of Saint Gallen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there that the conspirators organized the election of Bergoglio ?
And how can we believe that the Church will purify herself of the corruption and vice of her clerics and prelates , when they are the ones who have taken power and who are promoted to the highest levels in a web of complicity between heretics , perverts , and traitors ?
The one who ought to investigate the scandals is heavily involved in the appointment , promotion , and protection of those who are guilty : Bergoglio has surrounded himself with compromised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has no qualms about getting rid of as soon as they risk compromising him in his media image .
Let ’ s not forget that the legitimization of homosexuality is part of the agenda of the New World Order – to which the Bergoglian church adheres openly and unconditionally – not only for its destabilizing value in the social body , but also because sodomy is the principal instrument with which the Enemy intends to destroy the Catholic priesthood , corrupting the souls of the Ministers of God .
For this reason , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible , the entire truth about McCarrick will never officially come to light .
Marco Tosatti : How can we respond to this corruption ?
Abp .
Viganò : Today what can not be deferred is a joint action of those who are good – those who in my Open Letter to President Trump I defined Biblically as “ the sons of Light ” – in order to bring to light the complicities and crimes of those who make war on the Good so as to establish the New World Order .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the role of the United States may be decisive , above all when those who should and could contribute from the Vatican practice a code of silence .
As the Lord said , “ I tell you that if they keep silent , the very stones will cry out.
” ( 35 ) But there is a more important aspect , of a spiritual nature .
We must understand that the ecclesial crisis was caused by having wanted to remove the crown from the Church ’ s King , Our Lord : He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our hearts and families but also in civil society and most of all in the Church .
Oportet illum regnare .
And along with the King of Kings , Our Lady must also reign , the Queen and Mother of the Church , which has culpably disobeyed her by not consecrating Russia to Her Immaculate Heart .
This is my most sincere wish , to which I ask all people of good will to unite themselves .
• Crimes to which are added others that have recently been documented : cf .
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Figuereido , qualified himself as “ an adjunct member of the foreign service.
” ; cf.https : //www.cbsnews.com/news/cardinal-theodore-edgar-mccarrick-vatican-restrictions-anthony-figueiredo-letters-report-2019-05-28/ • According to Catholic News Agency : “ In a 2009 visit to China , then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi conveyed McCarrick ’ s greetings to Bishop Aloysius Jin of Shanghai , a priest who was a leading Chinese Jesuit , then spent decades in prison on charges of aiding counterrevolution before his release in 1982 .
He was ordained an auxiliary bishop without Vatican approval in 1985 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2005 .
The bishop said he and Cardinal McCarrick had exchanged visits “ beginning when the latter was Bishop of Newark ( sic ) .
” Pelosi said she would convey the bishop ’ s greetings back to Cardinals McCarrick and William Keeler , then an Archbishop emeritus of Baltimore » .
; Cf.https : //www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/despite-mccarrick-abuse-claims-state-department-leaves-questions-unanswered-70448

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July 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has pointed out three elements that have become what he calls the trademark of the deep Church: “heresy, sodomy, and corruption.”
In a new wide-ranging interview with Vatican expert Marco Tosatti (read full interview below), the Vatican whistleblower speaks about the deeper significance of the case of former Cardinal McCarrick in relation to the “doctrinal crisis” the Church is facing.
“There is a very strict relationship between the doctrinal crisis of the Church and the immorality of the clergy, that scandalously reaches up to the highest levels of the hierarchy. But it is also apparent that this crisis is being used by the ultra-progressive wing not only to impose a false morality together with a false doctrine, but also to irremediably discredit the Holy Church and the Papacy before the faithful and the world, through the action of its own leaders,” stated the Archbishop.
Viganò says that a “gay lobby” has “infiltrated into the Church and that is literally terrified that good pastors will shed light on the influence that it exercises in the Secretariat of State, in the Congregations of the Roman Curia, in the Dioceses, and over the entire Church.”
“Bergoglio has surrounded himself with compromised and thus blackmailed personalities, whom he has no qualms about getting rid of as soon as they risk compromising him in his media image,” he said.
Viganò said that “these three elements – heresy, sodomy, and corruption – are so recurrent that they are almost a trademark of the deep state and of the deep church.”
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Marco Tosatti’s introduction: The commitment of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America, to denounce the veil of silence and cover-ups in the management of abuse cases by members of the clergy, is well known. The spicy and annoyed response by the Vatican authorities – and in particular of various prelates – to the well-argued refutations of the combative prelate is also well known. In this interview, we investigate with His Excellency the developments in the case of former Cardinal McCarrick, also in light of a recent article at Church Militant entitled The McCarrick Bombshell. (1)
But before we get into the content of this article, let’s make a brief review. From February 21 to 24, 2019, a meeting was held in Rome of all of the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences on the topic of The Protection of Minors in the Church. (2) A few days earlier, on February 16, 2019, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced the dismissal from the clerical state of Theodore McCarrick, who was accused of other serious crimes, and added: “The Holy Father has recognized the definitive nature of this decision made in accord with law, rendering it a res iudicata (i.e., admitting of no further recourse).” (3)
Interview
Marco Tosatti: Your Excellency, can you tell us what the news is on the McCarrick case?
Abp. C.M. Viganò: I fear that there is no news, and this is precisely the news. With the reduction of McCarrick to the lay state, it was hoped to put an end to an age-old affair that came to light with my testimony only in 2018, but everything possible has been done so that the details and results of the process did not emerge. The deception perpetrated through the strategy of proceeding administratively rather than judicially, as well as the decision of Bergoglio to authoritatively confirm the sentence [so that there was no further recourse], prevented not only McCarrick’s objective crimes from coming to light, but also the responsibility of those who for years contributed to hiding the nature and extent of the crimes he committed, protecting his accomplices and those who, with their silence, have covered up his crimes. In this way the conviction of the culprit did not clarify the obscure details. As a simple layman, Mr. McCarrick now enjoys a total freedom of movement and action, and he is still capable of intervening at every level: on the ecclesial level – even with those who covered up for him and supported him, in the Vatican and elsewhere; on the political, social and financial level, by means of the people who remained in contact with him and who received favors from him. The reduction to the lay state does not constitute in any way a medicinal punishment (this is only the necessary premise, because of the proven indignity of the offender), it does not include any form of reparative penance, nor does it render justice to the victims, but rather it grants to Mr. McCarrick the ability to continue undisturbed in his criminal activity, including sexual predation.
The administrative procedure also prevented the victims from being heard, while the testimonies gathered only recently by the lawyer Jeffrey Lena, the legal representative of the Holy See, seem to have been written under dictation: those who have suffered harassment give excuses for the delay in the publication of the Report, attributing it to the large volume of testimonies, (4) with indulgent and justifying tones that are difficult to reconcile with the extreme gravity of the crimes contested by the accused. (5) It seems that some victims, protected by a pseudonym, have lent themselves to an operation aimed at lightening the responsibility of the Holy See and validating the narrative that it maintains before public opinion. There is also the suspicion that these anonymous testimonies are pure fiction. In any case, this is a deception that must be denounced forcefully, because if the corruption of an individual prelate is a scandal, the guilty silence of the one who represents the Church is even more so. If these episodes had been verified under the Pontificate of Benedict XVI, they would have unleashed the fury of the media: their demure attitude of understanding towards Jorge Mario reveals the complicit attitude of mainstream information.
Marco Tosatti: The convocation of the summit at the Vatican was announced as the occasion of giving a firm and determined response to the clergy sexual scandals. In his introductory address, Pope Francis had declared: “In this meeting, we sense the weight of the pastoral and ecclesial responsibility that obliges us to discuss together, in a synodal, frank and in-depth manner, how to confront this evil afflicting the Church and humanity. The holy People of God looks to us, and expects from us not simple and predictable condemnations, but concrete and effective measures to be undertaken. We need to be concrete.” (6)
Abp. Viganò: The solemn proclamations which preceded, accompanied, and followed this meeting absolutely did not lead to any concrete practical action, as was hoped for. (7) Just as during the meeting no answer was given to the legitimate and insistent demands made by journalists to Bergoglio on August 26, 2018, after my denunciation. (8)
With regard to the content of the interventions at the summit, it seems that even the clergy sexual scandals, instead of toughening the penalties and making the interventions more incisive, have only led to almost obsessive repetition about the new “synodal” aspect of the Church, which corresponds to a precise intention to change her constitution in a democratic key. The Archbishop of Chicago Blase Cupich – a friend of Theodore McCarrick and the president of the Vatican summit – focused his own intervention at the summit on “synodality” as a necessary passage of “structural, legal and institutional reform” (9) of action only nominally intended to stem abuse.
Marco Tosatti: In what way can “synodality” help the bishops to resolve the problem of clergy abuse?
Abp. Viganò: The proposal to establish a commission of independent lay persons who would have overseen the work of the bishops, formulated during the plenary assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November 2018, was blocked by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. (10) This intervention by the Vatican disavowed the proclamations of “synodality” as soon as the decisions of the Bishops’ Conferences did not coincide with what Rome wanted. However, I consider His Eminence Cardinal Ouellet to have been merely the executor of maneuvers that were imposed on him from higher up.
Marco Tosatti: Isn’t it a good thing that the Vatican is keeping decisions that involve doctrinal and moral questions to itself?
Abp. Viganò: The authority of the Roman Pontiff, which expresses itself also through the Roman Congregations, cannot obviously be delegated to merely consultative organs that do not have any jurisdiction and that are not a part of the hierarchical structure of the Church as Christ instituted it: on this point we need to be clear. However, it is significant that the “synodal path” hoped for by the highest authorities in Rome does not encounter any obstacle, except for the moments in which it risks becoming embarrassing in the media, as in the case of a special commission appointed to receive denunciations against the bishops.
This call for “synodality” is a theme that is dear to the progressive theological current that wants to strip away the hierarchical structure of the Church. In this regard, the recent articles of Massimo Fagggioli are very clarifying. He is a professor at Villanova University, where on October 11, 2013 then-Cardinal McCarrick affirmed that he had supported the election of Cardinal Bergoglio during the General Congregations prior to the Conclave that had been held just a few months earlier, and that he had spoken with “a very influential Italian gentleman” (11) who had confided to him that within the span of five years the new pope would reform the Church.
It ought to arouse alarm that the same school today is giving disturbing signs of dissatisfaction with the work of Bergoglio, whose pontificate is defined as being “in crisis” by “deluded people” (12) – perhaps because the five years that McCarrick alluded to have not yielded the results they hoped for.
Marco Tosatti: In the address Cardinal Reinhard Marx gave about the Vatican summit, he said: “Proper legal proceedings serve to establish the truth, and form the basis for imposing a punishment which is appropriate for the relevant offence. People in the Church also need to see how this judge comes to the sentence and what the sentence is; nearly all are secret, we cannot see this. I think that in our situation it is not good. In addition, they establish trust in the organization and its leadership. Lingering doubts about the proper conduct of court proceedings only harm the reputation and the functioning of an institution. This principle also applies to the Church.” (13)
Abp. Viganò: The publication of the procedural acts should be one of the cornerstones of the operation of transparency and honesty towards the victims of abuse by members of the clergy. It appears evident to me that the words of Cardinal Marx have been disregarded, beginning with the McCarrick case, precisely through Bergoglio’s initiative.
I further recall that Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the President of the United States Bishops’ Conference, was disavowed with little regard by the Vatican intervention, which replaced him at the meeting in Rome the following February with Cardinals Blase Cupich and Joseph William Tobin, who are also not exempt from suspicions on their own account. These interferences, clearly desired from on high, have created a media image that does not correspond to reality, in which Bergoglio is presented as the architect of a non-existent reform, for mere propaganda purposes. Even the request made by Francis for the resignation of the entire Chilean Episcopate is part of a facade operation that is clearly denied by the facts.
I think that the two-fold measure reserved for the American and French Bishops’ Conferences is emblematic: on the U.S. side, Bergoglian interventionism prevented an operation of transparency by authority; while on the French side, it allowed clear violations of canon and civil law, permitting the investigations of the ecclesiastical forum to be entrusted to a Masonic judge who is also in favor of euthanasia. The Jacobin spirit in pursuing French clerics accused of child molestation fails however to recognize the responsibility of the Ordinaries and religious Superiors, who are guilty of those same cover-ups that are consolidating in practice also in Rome.
Marco Tosatti: And yet we have also heard the Pontiff recall, in his final address, the words he had already spoken to the Roman Curia in 2018: “The Church will never try to cover up or underestimate any case.”
Abp. Viganò: This solemn affirmation is disavowed by the most emblematic case, the very case of Theodore McCarrick, and makes us think that other interests may have led to the decision to liquidate the matter through the administrative path, and, even more gravely, without the publication of the judicial acts.
Marco Tosatti: What are those other interests, in your opinion?
Abp. Viganò: They want to focus attention on the abuse of minors, moving it away from the clear and dutiful condemnation of the homosexual behaviors which are often the cause of these abuses. For Bergoglio and his entourage sodomy is not a sin that cries out for vengeance in the presence of God, as the Catechism teaches. Bergoglio’s words on this topic – and even more the actions and words of those who surround him – unfortunately confirm that an operation of legitimization of homosexuality is currently underway, and that prelates and theologians are carrying this discussion forward who have manifested without equivocation that they are unfaithful to Catholic teaching.
Cardinal Tobin himself – whose embarrassing messages on his cell phone speak for themselves (14) – has clearly stated that he does not agree with the condemnation of sodomy present in the Catechism, refusing to define homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered.” (15) And these statements follow Cardinal Tobin’s support for the book Building a Bridge by Father James Martin, S.J., that has the same content. Thus we find a cardinal who is a friend of McCarrick lined up in favor of the LGBT movements and the Jesuit whom Bergoglio appointed as a Consultor of the Secretariat for Communications of the Holy See, even inviting him to speak at the World Encounter of Families in Dublin in 2018 and receiving him in audience. (16)
Cardinal Cupich has expressed himself many times in favor of homosexuals, and during the Synod on Youth – to which he was sent to participate by direct appointment of the Pope without having been elected to represent the American bishops – the controversial theme of homosexual relations was inserted into the Instrumentum Laboris even though no group of young people had requested it. I recall, en passant, that Cupich was imposed on the See of Chicago by Bergoglio, against the opinion of the Nunciature.
The interests are therefore clearly those of the “gay lobby” that has infiltrated into the Church and that is literally terrified that good pastors will shed light on the influence that it exercises in the Secretariat of State, in the Congregations of the Roman Curia, in the Dioceses, and over the entire Church. The obscene, even sacrilegious homoerotic fresco that Archbishop Paglia commissioned for the cathedral of Terni (17) is an arrogant ideological manifesto that no Authority has ever censured or deplored; the excessive financial affairs of the Substitute of the Secretariat of State Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra (18) – tied to Cardinal Maradiaga (involved in the scandal of homosexual abuse by his auxiliary bishop, Juan José Pineda, without there being news of any ecclesiastical initiative against him) – and the very grave accusations de Sexto that weigh on him (19) and that I have amply denounced, (20) have not in any way interrupted his cursus honorum in the Vatican; the same holds for Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, (21) whom Bergoglio has promoted and, while a criminal trial is still pending, has recently reappointed as Assessor of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. (22) After the order to bring all the current accounts of the dioceses and religious congregations of the world to APSA, Zanchetta finds himself managing the finances of the Church (being able to boast in his own curriculum of having the authoritative diploma of an electrician) and being at the same time easily the object of internal and external blackmail. (23) And let’s not forget the work of Archbishop Ilson de Jesus Montanari, Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops, Secretary of the Sacred College and vice-Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, in the name of and on behalf of those who elevated him to the highest ranks of the Roman Curia as a reward for his fidelity.
I believe it is essential to clarify once and for all the close link between sodomy and pedophilia, which is also confirmed by the statistics themselves: a link that the Vatican summit scrupulously kept silent about in order not to offend the current mentality that is widespread even among many prelates. But it would be hypocritical and culpable to condemn pedophilia in the wake of current civil legislation without equally condemning sodomy, which today’s aligned thought does not consider to be criminally relevant but which the Church identifies among the sins that cry out for vengeance in the presence of God.
But there is also another interest, of a political nature, that should not be underestimated…
Marco Tosatti: What are you referring to?
Abp. Viganò: I am speaking of the political role of McCarrick, which the latest article by Church Militant also mentions: “It was McCarrick who worked out the Vatican-China accord, a mission given to him personally by Pope Francis. Francis unshackled him from Benedict-imposed restrictions just weeks after becoming pope — a fact confirmed by Abp. Viganò. Likewise, sources in China […] show that McCarrick may have been instrumental in working out the ongoing secret payments of billions of dollars from the Chinese communists to Francis’ Vatican. If that's true (and it looks plausible given McCarrick’s communist ties and friendliness with Beijing) that could go a long way in explaining why the report remains sitting on the pope's desk, unpublished.”
Just in the last few days the news has been divulged on Christian Today according to which “China has ordered Christian villagers to renounce their faith and worship the nation’s Communist Party leaders instead.” (24) In the face of this persecution of Christians – and of those Catholics faithful to the Holy See – by the communist dictatorship, the silence of Santa Marta is literally deafening, as it was a few days ago when at his Angelus message Bergoglio omitted the appeal on behalf of Hong Kong that had been given to the press. (25) The secret agreement made between the Holy See and Beijing that has been denounced publicly by Cardinal Zen, demonstrates the subjection of the Bergoglian church to the diktats of the communist dictatorship, handing over the local Hierarchy into the hands of its persecutors and keeping silent on the human rights violations perpetrated by the regime.
I recall that in the spring of 2014 I wrote to the Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin, asking him if the provisions taken by Benedict XVI towards McCarrick were still valid or not, following an article that appeared in the Washington Times which reported about his trip to the Central African Republic on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. (26) Cardinal Parolin never responded, but the news that is coming out in recent days seems to clarify these aspects too. The freedom of movement given to McCarrick was also known, (27) and he himself wrote in 2012: “I was in Doha last week and go to Ireland… and following that… I begin one of my longest trips – Beirut, Jordan, Egypt, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Hong Kong… before I start again in the Holy Land and Belarus.” (28) And in 2014: “I leave for China on Thursday the 27th… I am sure that [Secretary of State] Cardinal Parolin would see me since he is involved with my China trip.” (29)
Among other things, the cooperation of the Society of Jesus in the diplomatic moves of the Vatican with the dictatorship of Beijing – beginning with the special Chinese edition of Civiltà Cattolica – confirms the willingness of the Holy See to give an endorsement to China, just as suspicions materialize about its responsibility for the spread of the Covid virus in order to destabilize the international geo-political balance. The role of Antonio Spadaro and other Jesuits – all frequent visitors to Villanova University – is emblematic and demonstrates the red thread that links doctrinal progressivism to moral perversion and political corruption. On the other hand, these three elements – heresy, sodomy, and corruption – are so recurrent that they are almost a trademark of the deep state and of the deep church.
Speaking of the deep state, it is not surprising that the World Health Organization has made itself complicit in this operation of social engineering in order to please China, nor that President Trump has decided to withdraw the funding that has benefited it to date. What surprises and scandalizes is rather the complicit silence of the Vatican, faced with a sort of coup d'état that makes the Bergoglian church the spiritual arm of the World Government, under the aegis of communist tyranny and with the complicity of globalist parties. Italy, with its unelected government and the majority in a most serious political crisis, seems to be following the agenda and does not seem to want to review its positions towards Beijing: the constant threats of a return to the Covid emergency and to a lockdown are clearly instrumental in maintaining a power which in the presence of democratically convened elections would demonstrate its inconsistency. What is certain is that a slightly more incisive and less-aligned opposition to the mainstream narrative could be seen positively by both the electorate and the international partners of Italy.
Marco Tosatti: Let’s return to the question of the clergy scandals. On February 19, 2019, two days before the beginning of the summit presided over by Cardinal Cupich, an Open Letter was published by Cardinals Raymond Burke and Walter Brandmüller to the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences: “Before the drift in process, it seems that the difficulty is reduced to that of the abuse of minors…which is, however, only part of a much greater crisis…. Sexual abuse is blamed on clericalism. But the first and primary fault of the clergy does not rest in the abuse of power but in having gone away from the truth of the Gospel… In the face of this situation, Cardinals and Bishops are silent. Will you also be silent?… Today, [our] dubia have not only not had any response [from the Holy Father] but are part of a more general crisis of the Faith. Therefore, we encourage you to raise your voice to safeguard and proclaim the integrity of the doctrine of the Church.” (30) What result came from this appeal of the eminent Prelates?
Abp. C.M. Viganò: Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller, like other Prelates, have done nothing but laudably reaffirm Catholic doctrine: the unheard of thing is that they are the ones who are considered “strange” in the ecclesial structure, while a voice is given to those personalities who for their acquaintances, their endorsements of the LGBT agenda, and in some cases even for the shadows that hang over their conduct ought to be removed from the Church and severely censured.
In April 2019, Benedict XVI published a strong intervention in Klerusblatt, which was then reprinted in Italy by Corriere della Sera (31) and was fiercely censored by Marco Politi at Il Fatto Quotidiano. (32) This article was in reality intended for the summit in Rome through the Secretariat of State, but it was boycotted, confirming the intervention of the “lavender mafia” to impede the Holy Father from making his position on the subject known to the Bishops.
Marco Tosatti: Can you remind us of what this intervention of Benedict XVI consisted of?
Abp. Viganò: The focal point of the article of Ratzinger that infuriated the supporters of Bergoglio was precisely that it pointed out the connection between homosexuality and pedophilia and also between the relaxing of morality following the Council and the spreading of the plague of abuse.
Obstinately closing his eyes in the face of the evidence, the progressive Marco Politi wrote: “What does the abandonment by the Church of an ethic based on natural law have to do with pedophilia? What do changes in Catholic moral theology have to do with it, what do gay cliques in seminaries have to do with it, what do porn films have to do with it, what does the relativization of values and moral judgment have to do with it?” (33) And yet it is evident that where the formation of candidates for the priesthood and religious life cancel discipline and the interior life, vices and sins multiply that degenerate even into the most grave crimes against minors, and not only that.
The cause of this change resides precisely in the “spirit of the Council,” which Benedict XVI wanted only to mention but which did not fail to be immediately grasped by those who saw the superdogma that was being questioned: “Truly grotesque [sic] is the attempt by the ex-pontiff to attach to the “conciliar” spirit the position of extreme guarantism of ecclesiastical processes, aimed at the protection of the accused to the bitter end “to the point of practically excluding the condemnation of the guilty,” the essay says. Thus would it be the fault of the advocates of the Council, said more plainly the fault of the reformers, if the network of cover-up artists and pettifoggers, which in any case tried and still tries to impede the trial and condemnation of clerical predators, was revealed to have always been so overbearing and powerful?” (34)
Marco Tosatti: Do you think that Marco Politi is right?
Abp. Viganò: I believe that the answer to this rhetorical question of the vaticanist Politi can be indisputably affirmative: there is a very strict relationship between the doctrinal crisis of the Church and the immorality of the clergy, that scandalously reaches up to the highest levels of the hierarchy. But it is also apparent that this crisis is being used by the ultra-progressive wing not only to impose a false morality together with a false doctrine, but also to irremediably discredit the Holy Church and the Papacy before the faithful and the world, through the action of its own leaders.
Marco Tosatti: Don’t you think that in the end the Report that everyone is waiting for will be published?
Abp. Viganò: If it is possible to shed light on this affair, this will happen despite the Vatican: the interests at stake are enormous and directly affect the very top of the Church, and not only for questions of a doctrinal, moral, or canonical nature, but also for political and diplomatic aspects that have seen the Holy See become the object of a coup d'état with the complicity of those who should have defended it in its sovereignty and independence. What did not succeed during the pontificate of Benedict XVI was brought to fruition after his resignation. How can we hope that the one who is indebted for his own election to McCarrick – who was one of the main proponents of the secret agreement with China – will be able to clarify a series of events that involve him personally, demonstrating the connivances with the Chinese dictatorship against Catholics faithful to the Holy See and perhaps also the responsibility of that regime for the resignation of Pope Benedict? How can we imagine that the murky events of Saint Gallen will become clear, when it was there that the conspirators organized the election of Bergoglio? And how can we believe that the Church will purify herself of the corruption and vice of her clerics and prelates, when they are the ones who have taken power and who are promoted to the highest levels in a web of complicity between heretics, perverts, and traitors?
The one who ought to investigate the scandals is heavily involved in the appointment, promotion, and protection of those who are guilty: Bergoglio has surrounded himself with compromised and thus blackmailed personalities, whom he has no qualms about getting rid of as soon as they risk compromising him in his media image.
Let’s not forget that the legitimization of homosexuality is part of the agenda of the New World Order – to which the Bergoglian church adheres openly and unconditionally – not only for its destabilizing value in the social body, but also because sodomy is the principal instrument with which the Enemy intends to destroy the Catholic priesthood, corrupting the souls of the Ministers of God.
For this reason, at least as far as what seems possible, the entire truth about McCarrick will never officially come to light.
Marco Tosatti: How can we respond to this corruption?
Abp. Viganò: Today what cannot be deferred is a joint action of those who are good – those who in my Open Letter to President Trump I defined Biblically as “the sons of Light” – in order to bring to light the complicities and crimes of those who make war on the Good so as to establish the New World Order. In this operation of truth and transparency, the role of the United States may be decisive, above all when those who should and could contribute from the Vatican practice a code of silence. As the Lord said, “I tell you that if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out.” (35)
But there is a more important aspect, of a spiritual nature. We must understand that the ecclesial crisis was caused by having wanted to remove the crown from the Church’s King, Our Lord: He must return to reign not only in our hearts and families but also in civil society and most of all in the Church. Oportet illum regnare. And along with the King of Kings, Our Lady must also reign, the Queen and Mother of the Church, which has culpably disobeyed her by not consecrating Russia to Her Immaculate Heart. This is my most sincere wish, to which I ask all people of good will to unite themselves.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
22 July 2020
Saint Mary Magdalene
Official translation by Giuseppe Pellegrino
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https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-mccarrick-bombshell https://www.vatican.va/resources/index_it.htm https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2019-02/holy-see-mccarrick-dismissed-from-clerical-state-for-abuse.html https://essayforthefaithful.com/ Crimes to which are added others that have recently been documented: cf. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/lawsuit-claims-ex-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-headed-abusive-sex-ring-names-alleged-procurer-63583 https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2019/february/documents/papa-francesco_20190221_incontro-protezioneminori-apertura.html Cf. ad esempio https://www.ilpost.it/2019/02/25/incontro-abusi-sessuali-vaticano/ https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2018/august/documents/papa-francesco_20180826_irlanda-voloritorno.html https://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_card-cupich-protezioneminori_20190222_en.html https://www.lastampa.it/vatican-insider/it/2018/11/13/news/le-ragioni-del-rinvio-del-voto-sulle-norme-anti-abusi-negli-usa-1.34060080 https://youtu.be/b3iaBLqt8vg https://international.la-croix.com/news/the-limits-of-a-pontificate-part-i/12170 https://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_card-marx-protezioneminori_20190223_en.html https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/tobin-tarmac-tweet-raises-eyebrows https://www.today.com/video/how-cardinal-joseph-tobin-found-his-calling-in-the-catholic-church-1496688707952 https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/09/30/190930a.html https://lanuovabq.it/it/e-paglia-ando-in-cielo-con-trans-e-gay https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/06/07/news/vaticano_il_verbale_di_mos_carlino_pena_parra_mi_disse_come_procedere_su_torzi_-258667074/ https://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/2018/10/12/news/le-condotte-immorali-del-nuovo-braccio-destro-del-papa-spunta-un-dossier-che-fa-tremare-il-vaticano-1.327763 https://www.marcotosatti.com/2019/08/01/accuse-di-vigano-a-pena-parra-conferme-da-maracaibo-vigano-accuses-pena-parra-confirmations-from-maracaibo/ https://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2017/12/28/vaticano-senza-pace-soldi-sesso-e-presepe-lgbt/ https://www.korazym.org/44412/lo-strano-caso-del-presunto-abusatore-zanchetta-riapparso-e-il-processo-promesso-dal-papa-a-carico-del-suo-amico/ https://www.korazym.org/44391/saga-60sa-inchiesta-della-magistratura-vaticana-per-scandalo-finanziario-in-segreteria-di-stato-riflettore-sulle-normative-vaticane-vigenti/ https://www.christiantoday.com/article/china-tells-christians-renounce-faith-in-jesus-worship-president-xi-jinping/135221.htm https://www.lanuovabq.it/it/hong-kong-la-santa-sede-si-inchina-al-regime-cinese; https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/italia/23616123/papa-francesco-socci-hong-kong-cina-angelus-passaggio-sparito.html McCarrick, in his correspondence with his secretary Msgr. Figuereido, qualified himself as “an adjunct member of the foreign service.”; cf.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cardinal-theodore-edgar-mccarrick-vatican-restrictions-anthony-figueiredo-letters-report-2019-05-28/ According to Catholic News Agency: “In a 2009 visit to China, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi conveyed McCarrick’s greetings to Bishop Aloysius Jin of Shanghai, a priest who was a leading Chinese Jesuit, then spent decades in prison on charges of aiding counterrevolution before his release in 1982. He was ordained an auxiliary bishop without Vatican approval in 1985, though he received Vatican recognition in 2005. The bishop said he and Cardinal McCarrick had exchanged visits “beginning when the latter was Bishop of Newark (sic).” Pelosi said she would convey the bishop’s greetings back to Cardinals McCarrick and William Keeler, then an Archbishop emeritus of Baltimore».; Cf.https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/despite-mccarrick-abuse-claims-state-department-leaves-questions-unanswered-70448 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cardinal-theodore-edgar-mccarrick-vatican-restrictions-anthony-figueiredo-letters-report-2019-05-28/ Ibid. https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinals-burke-brandmueller-abuse-crisis-symptom-of-turning-away-from-trut https://www.corriere.it/cronache/19_aprile_11/papa-ratzinger-chiesa-scandalo-abusi-sessuali-3847450a-5b9f-11e9-ba57-a3df5eacbd16.shtml; cf https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/04/10/full-text-of-benedict-xvi-the-church-and-the-scandal-of-sexual-abuse/ https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/04/12/pedofilia-qualcosa-non-torna-nel-contromanifesto-di-papa-ratzinger/5104990/ Ibid. Ibid. Lk 19: 39
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lifesitenews--2020-07-24--Washington Post settles lawsuit from pro-life teen Nick Sandmann

July 24 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The left-wing Washington Post has settled a defamation suit against the paper over its misleading and inflammatory coverage of a group of pro-life Catholic teenagers who attended the 2019 March for Life in Washington , D.C .
Immediately after last year ’ s March , the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky harassing Native American activist Nathan Phillips outside the Lincoln Memorial .
But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beat a drum inches from Sandmann ’ s face , while the boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group .
As additional video came to light , many journalists and public figures quickly deleted their snap condemnations of the students .
Some , however , either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologize for their initial claims , leading to various lawsuits on behalf of the boys , including a $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behalf of Sandmann , who turned 18 today .
Sandmann and his attorney Lin Wood announced Friday morning that the Post has settled for an as-yet-undisclosed sum : In January , Sandmann ’ s attorneys settled a similar lawsuit against CNN .
Litigation remains pending against Gannett , ABC , CBS , The New York Times , Rolling Stone , and NBCUniversal .
An unrelated series of suits by a different legal team , on behalf of eight other , unnamed Covington students , targets Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Deb Haaland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the New York Times ’ Maggie Haberman , ABC News ’ s Matthew Dowd , ex-CNN personalities Kathy Griffin and Reza Aslan , Kentucky entrepreneur Adam Edelen , Princeton University ’ s Kevin Kruse , left-wing activist Shaun King , Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery , and former Rewire editor-in-chief Jodi Jacobson .
Sandmann ’ s victory over the Washington Post follows a successful appeal last year of U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman ’ s decision to toss the suit on the grounds that the paper corrected its initial reporting with an editor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attorneys responded that the note was little more than damage control , and ultimately insufficient .
“ If [ the press ] can get away with this against a 16-year-old boy , then we ’ re all at risk .
There has to be change , ” Wood argued .

July 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The left-wing Washington Post has settled a defamation suit against the paper over its misleading and inflammatory coverage of a group of pro-life Catholic teenagers who attended the 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Immediately after last year’s March, the press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky harassing Native American activist Nathan Phillips outside the Lincoln Memorial. But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from Sandmann’s face, while the boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group.
As additional video came to light, many journalists and public figures quickly deleted their snap condemnations of the students. Some, however, either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologize for their initial claims, leading to various lawsuits on behalf of the boys, including a $250 million suit against the Post on behalf of Sandmann, who turned 18 today.
Sandmann and his attorney Lin Wood announced Friday morning that the Post has settled for an as-yet-undisclosed sum:
Happy Birthday, @N1ckSandmann. More presents to be delivered to you this next year. You deserve justice. We ALL deserve justice. By this time next year, justice will be ours.#FightBack https://t.co/flBMhCC1cX — Lin Wood (@LLinWood) July 24, 2020
We have settled with WAPO and CNN. The fight isn’t over. 2 down. 6 to go. Don’t hold your breath @jack. — Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) July 24, 2020
In January, Sandmann’s attorneys settled a similar lawsuit against CNN. Litigation remains pending against Gannett, ABC, CBS, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and NBCUniversal.
An unrelated series of suits by a different legal team, on behalf of eight other, unnamed Covington students, targets Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Deb Haaland, CNN’s Ana Navarro, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, ABC News’s Matthew Dowd, ex-CNN personalities Kathy Griffin and Reza Aslan, Kentucky entrepreneur Adam Edelen, Princeton University’s Kevin Kruse, left-wing activist Shaun King, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery, and former Rewire editor-in-chief Jodi Jacobson.
Sandmann’s victory over the Washington Post follows a successful appeal last year of U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman’s decision to toss the suit on the grounds that the paper corrected its initial reporting with an editor’s note. Sandmann’s attorneys responded that the note was little more than damage control, and ultimately insufficient.
“If [the press] can get away with this against a 16-year-old boy, then we’re all at risk. There has to be change,” Wood argued.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-24--Parents are the primary sources of grace for their children

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lifesitenews--2020-07-28--Pro baseball player refuses to take a knee to acknowledge BLM, kneels only to ‘God’

July 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — A Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player has cited his Christian faith as the reason he stood alone among a sea of kneeling players during a moment of silence designed to show support for the Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) movement to kick off baseball season last week .
Sam Coonrod , pitcher for the MLB San Francisco Giants , said he meant “ no ill will ” for refusing to take a knee in the league-approved BLM-inspired moment of silence but said that as a Christian , he believes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I don ’ t think I ’ m better than anybody .
I ’ m just a Christian .
I believe I can ’ t kneel before anything but God , Jesus Christ .
I chose not to kneel .
I feel if I did kneel I ’ d be a hypocrite .
I don ’ t want to be a hypocrite , ” Coonrod was quoted as saying to reporters in a San Francisco Chronicle report .
MLB kicked off its season last week , although in a shortened form due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the coronavirus crisis .
Before the Giants/Los Angeles Dodgers game Thursday , a league-approved voice narration featuring actor Morgan Freeman was played on loudspeakers .
Twenty-seven-year-old Coonrod was the only player not to kneel during the ceremony , which saw players hold a black ribbon in support of BLM .
Coonrod was shown holding the ribbon despite not kneeling .
MLB posted on its Twitter account a video showing players listening to Freeman ’ s narration .
The link included some of the text Freeman can be heard saying .
“ Today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ together as brothers , as equals , all with the same goal : to level the playing field .
To change the injustices .
Equality is not just a word .
It ’ s our right !
Today we stand as men from 25 nations on 6 continents .
Today , we are one , ” says Freeman in the MLB video .
In speaking with reporters after Thursday ’ s game , Coonrod said that as a Christian , he simply could not “ get on board ” with a “ couple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the BLM movement .
“ I can ’ t get on board on a couple of things I ’ ve read about Black Lives Matter , how they lean toward Marxism and said some negative things about the nuclear family , ” Coonrod was quoted as saying in the Chronicle report .
Despite claiming to be for inequality , the leftist BLM movement has a pro-abortion , pro-homosexual , and anti-family agenda .
In its online manifesto titled “ What We Believe , ” BLM speaks against the nuclear family , which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerns about the movement .
“ We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘ villages ’ that collectively care for one another , especially our children , to the degree that mothers , parents , and children are comfortable , ” says the BLM manifesto .
In recent years , professional sports in the U.S. and indeed worldwide have increasingly become politicized , with many athletes in the National Football League , the National Basketball Association , and MLB refusing to stand during the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voice narration was also played before the start of a game between the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees in Washington , D.C. last Thursday .
All players were seen kneeling .
It was at this game that the White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci gave the opening pitch .
Fauci was later chided for being photographed for not wearing a mask at the game .
He was seen sitting with his wife and a “ close friend ” and later said that at that moment , he had his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ water .
Although Freeman ’ s narration does not mention BLM directly , at the Nationals/Yankees game in D.C. , the letters “ BLM ” can be seen written on the playing field at the back of the mound .
Also , during the warm-up in the same game , some players wore t-shirts with the wording “ Black Lives Matter.
” While everyone except Coonrod knelt for the BLM ceremony at Thursday ’ s Giants/Dodgers game , few players knelt for the playing of the U.S. national anthem .
Coonrod was criticized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knee , with one writer , Monte Poole , saying that although he agrees that Coonrod had the right to do what he did , his appeal to his Christianity was questionable .
“ When did real Christianity opt out of humanity ?
Give a pass to injustice and inequality ?
Decide that it ’ s disrespectful to offer support , if not shelter , to those in need ?
Does Coonrod not realize that pastors of all faiths are joining crowds around the world fighting for these very ideals ?
” asked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Giants manager Gabe Kapler , who supports BLM , said last week that he supports Coonrod in expressing his beliefs .
“ I support him expressing himself and sharing his beliefs .
I support all of our players sharing their thoughts , ” Kapler was quoted as saying in a Chronicle report last Friday .
A recent survey by YouGov and the Cato Institute concluded that many conservatives , along with those in the center and even moderate liberals , are afraid to speak their minds .
BLM has in recent weeks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both corporate and mainstream media acceptance .
Many prominent U.S. tech companies such as Apple , Google , and Microsoft , along with countless others , have directly endorsed BLM , or have issued statements about “ systemic racism ” in the U.S .

July 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Major League Baseball (MLB) player has cited his Christian faith as the reason he stood alone among a sea of kneeling players during a moment of silence designed to show support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to kick off baseball season last week.
Sam Coonrod, pitcher for the MLB San Francisco Giants, said he meant “no ill will” for refusing to take a knee in the league-approved BLM-inspired moment of silence but said that as a Christian, he believes he should kneel only to God.
“I don’t think I’m better than anybody. I’m just a Christian. I believe I can’t kneel before anything but God, Jesus Christ. I chose not to kneel. I feel if I did kneel I’d be a hypocrite. I don’t want to be a hypocrite,” Coonrod was quoted as saying to reporters in a San Francisco Chronicle report.
MLB kicked off its season last week, although in a shortened form due to a delay in its start because of the coronavirus crisis.
Before the Giants/Los Angeles Dodgers game Thursday, a league-approved voice narration featuring actor Morgan Freeman was played on loudspeakers.
Twenty-seven-year-old Coonrod was the only player not to kneel during the ceremony, which saw players hold a black ribbon in support of BLM. Coonrod was shown holding the ribbon despite not kneeling.
MLB posted on its Twitter account a video showing players listening to Freeman’s narration. The link included some of the text Freeman can be heard saying.
“Today, and every day, we come together as brothers, as equals, all with the same goal: to level the playing field. To change the injustices. Equality is not just a word. It’s our right! Today we stand as men from 25 nations on 6 continents. Today, we are one,” says Freeman in the MLB video.
In speaking with reporters after Thursday’s game, Coonrod said that as a Christian, he simply could not “get on board” with a “couple of things” he had read about the BLM movement.
“I can’t get on board on a couple of things I’ve read about Black Lives Matter, how they lean toward Marxism and said some negative things about the nuclear family,” Coonrod was quoted as saying in the Chronicle report.
Despite claiming to be for inequality, the leftist BLM movement has a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, and anti-family agenda. In its online manifesto titled “What We Believe,” BLM speaks against the nuclear family, which is what Coonrod noted as one of his concerns about the movement.
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“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” says the BLM manifesto.
In recent years, professional sports in the U.S. and indeed worldwide have increasingly become politicized, with many athletes in the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and MLB refusing to stand during the U.S. national anthem.
Freeman’s voice narration was also played before the start of a game between the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees in Washington, D.C. last Thursday. All players were seen kneeling.
It was at this game that the White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci gave the opening pitch. Fauci was later chided for being photographed for not wearing a mask at the game. He was seen sitting with his wife and a “close friend” and later said that at that moment, he had his mask off to take a drink of water.
Although Freeman’s narration does not mention BLM directly, at the Nationals/Yankees game in D.C., the letters “BLM” can be seen written on the playing field at the back of the mound.
Also, during the warm-up in the same game, some players wore t-shirts with the wording “Black Lives Matter.”
While everyone except Coonrod knelt for the BLM ceremony at Thursday’s Giants/Dodgers game, few players knelt for the playing of the U.S. national anthem.
Coonrod was criticized by some sportswriters for not taking a knee, with one writer, Monte Poole, saying that although he agrees that Coonrod had the right to do what he did, his appeal to his Christianity was questionable.
“When did real Christianity opt out of humanity? Give a pass to injustice and inequality? Decide that it’s disrespectful to offer support, if not shelter, to those in need? Does Coonrod not realize that pastors of all faiths are joining crowds around the world fighting for these very ideals?” asked Poole.
Despite criticism from the press, Giants manager Gabe Kapler, who supports BLM, said last week that he supports Coonrod in expressing his beliefs.
“I support him expressing himself and sharing his beliefs. I support all of our players sharing their thoughts,” Kapler was quoted as saying in a Chronicle report last Friday.
A recent survey by YouGov and the Cato Institute concluded that many conservatives, along with those in the center and even moderate liberals, are afraid to speak their minds.
BLM has in recent weeks gained steam to a high level of both corporate and mainstream media acceptance. Many prominent U.S. tech companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft, along with countless others, have directly endorsed BLM, or have issued statements about “systemic racism” in the U.S.
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lifesitenews--2020-07-28--California churches refuse to shut down in face of local leaders threatening to cut power

SUN VALLEY , California , July 27 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The elders of Grace Community Church have no intention of submitting to California ’ s demands that they shut down worship services , even if authorities shut off their power in retaliation .
The Bible commands Christian churches to remain open regardless of the dictates of secular leaders , church leadership argued in an open letter posted to Grace ’ s website : “ Scripture does mandate careful , conscientious obedience to all governing authority , including kings , governors , employers , and their agents ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not attempt to assert ecclesiastical authority or issue orders that forbid our obedience to God ’ s law.
” But “ God has not granted civic rulers authority over the doctrine , practice , or polity of the church , ” declared Pastor John MacArthur and the rest of the church elders .
And “ when any government official issues orders regulating worship ( such as bans on singing , caps on attendance , or prohibitions against gatherings and services ) , he steps outside the legitimate bounds of his God-ordained authority as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authority that God expressly grants only to the Lord Jesus Christ as sovereign over His Kingdom .
“ Therefore , in response to the recent state order requiring churches in California to limit or suspend all meetings indefinitely , we , the pastors and elders of Grace Community Church , respectfully inform our civic leaders that they have exceeded their legitimate jurisdiction , and faithfulness to Christ prohibits us from observing the restrictions they want to impose on our corporate worship services , ” the letter declared .
“ When officials restrict church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempt to impose a restriction that in principle makes it impossible for the saints to gather as the church , ” the statement continued .
“ When officials prohibit singing in worship services , they attempt to impose a restriction that in principle makes it impossible for the people of God to obey the commands of Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 .
When officials mandate distancing , they attempt to impose a restriction that in principle makes it impossible to experience the close communion between believers that is commanded in Romans 16:16 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and 1 Thessalonians 5:26 .
In all those spheres , we must submit to our Lord.
” The declaration comes in response to California Democrat Gov .
Gavin Newsom banning indoor religious services in 29 counties representing 80 percent of the state ’ s population , in the name of containing the spread of COVID-19 .
Other churches to defy the order include Cornerstone Church of Fresno , Destiny Christian Church of Rocklin , and Harvest Rock Church of Pasadena .
Some churches have switched to outdoor services .
Over the weekend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Grace to You ministry , said that local officials have threatened to cut off power to churches that remain open in violation of Newsom ’ s order .
Earlier this year , Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Eric Garcetti threatened to do just that to any “ irresponsible and selfish ” private entity that defied shutdown orders .
California churches are still forced to choose between exercising their faith and obeying the law in large part because last month a 5-4 Supreme Court majority , led by Chief Justice John Roberts , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Places of worship must ... limit attendance to 25 percent of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees , whichever is lower.
” “ California ’ s 25 percent occupancy cap on religious worship services indisputably discriminates against religion , and such discrimination violates the First Amendment , ” Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued in a dissenting opinion to the case , noting that “ factories , offices , supermarkets , restaurants , retail stores , pharmacies , shopping malls , pet grooming shops , bookstores , florists , hair salons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the same cap .

Public worship will continue, the pastors said, because 'God has not granted civic rules authority over the doctrine, practice, or polity of the church.'
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SUN VALLEY, California, July 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The elders of Grace Community Church have no intention of submitting to California’s demands that they shut down worship services, even if authorities shut off their power in retaliation.
The Bible commands Christian churches to remain open regardless of the dictates of secular leaders, church leadership argued in an open letter posted to Grace’s website: “Scripture does mandate careful, conscientious obedience to all governing authority, including kings, governors, employers, and their agents” as long as “government authorities do not attempt to assert ecclesiastical authority or issue orders that forbid our obedience to God’s law.”
But “God has not granted civic rulers authority over the doctrine, practice, or polity of the church,” declared Pastor John MacArthur and the rest of the church elders. And “when any government official issues orders regulating worship (such as bans on singing, caps on attendance, or prohibitions against gatherings and services), he steps outside the legitimate bounds of his God-ordained authority as a civic official and arrogates to himself authority that God expressly grants only to the Lord Jesus Christ as sovereign over His Kingdom.
“Therefore, in response to the recent state order requiring churches in California to limit or suspend all meetings indefinitely, we, the pastors and elders of Grace Community Church, respectfully inform our civic leaders that they have exceeded their legitimate jurisdiction, and faithfulness to Christ prohibits us from observing the restrictions they want to impose on our corporate worship services,” the letter declared.
“When officials restrict church attendance to a certain number, they attempt to impose a restriction that in principle makes it impossible for the saints to gather as the church,” the statement continued. “When officials prohibit singing in worship services, they attempt to impose a restriction that in principle makes it impossible for the people of God to obey the commands of Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16. When officials mandate distancing, they attempt to impose a restriction that in principle makes it impossible to experience the close communion between believers that is commanded in Romans 16:16, 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, and 1 Thessalonians 5:26. In all those spheres, we must submit to our Lord.”
The declaration comes in response to California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom banning indoor religious services in 29 counties representing 80 percent of the state’s population, in the name of containing the spread of COVID-19. Other churches to defy the order include Cornerstone Church of Fresno, Destiny Christian Church of Rocklin, and Harvest Rock Church of Pasadena. Some churches have switched to outdoor services.
Over the weekend Phil Johnson, executive director of MacArthur’s Grace to You ministry, said that local officials have threatened to cut off power to churches that remain open in violation of Newsom’s order. Earlier this year, Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Eric Garcetti threatened to do just that to any “irresponsible and selfish” private entity that defied shutdown orders.
To be clear: they haven’t threatened GCC specifically. That’s what the mayor says he’ll do to any church that meets. — Phil Johnson (@Phil_Johnson_) July 26, 2020
California churches are still forced to choose between exercising their faith and obeying the law in large part because last month a 5-4 Supreme Court majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld the state’s requirement that “Places of worship must … limit attendance to 25 percent of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees, whichever is lower.”
“California’s 25 percent occupancy cap on religious worship services indisputably discriminates against religion, and such discrimination violates the First Amendment,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued in a dissenting opinion to the case, noting that “factories, offices, supermarkets, restaurants, retail stores, pharmacies, shopping malls, pet grooming shops, bookstores, florists, hair salons, and cannabis dispensaries” were not subject to the same cap.
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