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New tales for the Clerical Bestiary
Translated from
November 11, 2017
The problem with compiling thisClerical Bestiary is that there are too many ‘current events’ hooks [mostly crooks] during the week to report to the readers of this blog.
HOSTILITY TO BENEDICT XVI?
We start with a tweet from Rorate caeli which notes and criticizes a comment from the Twitter site Pope_News which featured a photograph of Benedict XVade publicI with Mons. Rudolf Voderholzerof Regensburg with the text: “Benedict receives Bishop Voderholzer and a delegation from Regensburg on Monday, Nov. 6. For someone ‘hidden from the world’, there are lots of photo-ops”. [I think the tweeter meant ‘too many photos made public’, because it is not as if B16 were hunting down photo-ops (opportunities)! It was meant to be snide, of course. As if B16 could censor what his visitors wish to do with the photos they take at Mater Ecclesiae. ]
To which Rorate caeli tweeted the comment: “This odium for Pope Benedict on the past of an account called ‘PopeNews’ is truly bizarre. There’s no need to deride Benedict XVI to protect Francis.”
[Twitter, like texting, is forcibly hastening the death of grammar, spelling and logic, not to mention common civility. Both tweets cited above are logic-deficient. The Rorate tweet, because deriding Benedict in this case was not at all meant ‘to protect Francis’ – but simply to deride Benedict. How does deriding Benedict protect Francis in any way?]
FERRARA’S NEW BISHOP REPRIMANDS PARISH PRIEST
FOR HOSTING A MEETING OF ‘POPOLO DELLA FAMIGLIA
This has to do with Mons. Perego, new bishop of Ferrara, and the movement called Il Popolo della Famiglia (PdF). As the name indicates, their cause is the family, which should be among the themes taken to heart by the Church. [But in a serious non-misleading way, though, not using ‘family’ to justify two synods intended to relax sacramental discipline regarding matrimony, penance and communion.] Or, at least, that’s how it used to be.
A parish priet in the diocese had hosted a meeting in his parish with representatives of the Popolo. Which earned him a formal and official decree of reproval from Bishop Perego.
[It’s hard to read the decree because I am unable to enhance any enlargement of the 3-inch photo available, but the priest is cited for having “disobeyed the general decree issued by Perego last October 9 prohibiting the use of any church property for political ends”.]
The Popolo did not remain quiet. Here is part of their reaction: “Perego wishes to be a bishop-pilot who indulges in politics and considers the Popolo della Famiglia as a political adversary that must be denied freedom of expression. ‘Welcoming’ is Perego’s most beloved word, but for everyone except the PdF. He certainly does not like our group, and seems obsessed by his need to ‘de-negrisize’ his diocese [rid all traces of his predecessor bishop, Mons Luigi Negri, perhaps the staunchest of the few ‘conservative’ bishops of Italy].
"Unlike Mons. Negri, Perego wishes to ingratiate himself with the political party that dominates his diocese: he has explicitly championed the ius soli proposal and has put pressure on members of the Italian Parliament to approve it into law soon, just as in his nine years leading the foundation called Migrantes, he was always propagandizing for indiscriminate immigration and his distorted idea of ‘welcoming’.
"As sons of the Church, we are ready to fight for our right to have space to act in the public sphere, and to defend the courageous priests who welcome us because they believe that our cause offers witness to the truth, even if that truth is inconvenient to many.”
PdF founder and president Marino Adinolfi said “it is not right to close the doors to us – for years, we have spoken in parish halls throughout Italy – whereas churches themselves are made available for the likes of Renzi [former prime minister and head of the Partita Democrata) and Emma Bonino [veteran political Valkyrie for the left and her Italian Radical Party], who supported the Cirinna law [which allowed same-sex marriage in Italy] and the law facilitating euthanasia.”
Indeed, we have seen photos of Renzi campaigning in church, of Bonino, patroness of abortions, pushing her radical causes inside churches, and recently, of Italian Senate President Grasso making a book presentation inside a Church. And there’s Laura Boldrini, head of the Chamber of Deputies, at a social event inside a Church.
Should we expect a series of decrees against parish priests who allowed such secular use of churches [which are consecrated spaces not intended for secular use]? But no, the church blasphemers all happen to have the right political affiliation [namely radically, Bergoglically left].
CUPICH CALLS ON CATHOLICS
TO GIVE UP THEIR DEAREST BELIEFS?
In the United States, the Archbishop of Chicago, Blaise Cupich, is a most generous contributor to our Bestuary.
As you see in his tweet below, speaking to the Catholic Theological Union in the USA, he called on them that to exercise ‘discernment’, a term dear to the pope, means we should be ready “to abandon our dearest-held convictions of faith”. The tweeter who passed this on commented.
Cupich again, this time criticized by Ignatius insight, for the statement he issued after the Texas church massacre last Sunday.
As the statement is too hard to read on an un-enhanced blow-up, I took a screenshot of the statement from the Chicago diocesan site and super-imposed it on the tweet’s own screenshot.
What does Cupich write about instead? Gun control, state control over mentally ill persons, and other things that are certainly relevant. To a politician, not to a man of the Church.
Bad news comes in threes. The same Cupich two days ago had lavish praise for James Martin, SJ, leading paladin for LGBT causes, and the controversial author of a controversial book. “He is really one of the principal evangelizers in the Church today, if not the principal evangelizer,” said Cupich of Martin in an address at the University of Chicago, “especially of young people”.
Martin openly demands that the Church change its teaching on homosexuality and homosexual acts. And Cupich says, “I appreciate what he is doing. I think he has a wonderful message, and I appreciate the way he brings his message to others”.
ITALIAN WRITER DISINVITED TO A CHURCH-SPONSORED DEBATE
BECAUSE HE IS CRITICAL OF CHURCH 'POLICIES'
Back in Italy, a Catholic writer from Maruggio, Pierfranco Bruni, laments that he was cancelled out of a debate – for which posters had already been made – in the presence of the Vatican’s new prefect for communications, Mons. Dario Vigano, because he has been critical of present Church policies.
Left, original poster includes the name of Pierfranco Bruni; the replacement poster does not.
The local paper, La Voce di Maruggio, carried Bruni’s protest, from which we cite the ff:
“The church of Bergoglio purges in the name of lying, of feigning false dialog. An act of the Inquisition took place yesterday, Oct. 27, in Grottaglie, in the presence of Mons. Vigano. The sponsors of the discussion [the Padri Minimi, or Order of Minims founded by St Francis di Paola in the 15th century, of Grottaglie] were apparently ordered not to use me as moderator as originally planned. It seems the order came directly from the Vatican. Why? Simply because my positions are not in line with Bergoglian relativism. And so a face-to-face between me and Vigano was not welcome. It appears that a free voice is a nuisance. That is why I was not in Grottaglie on Oct. 27. The posters announcing the event were even replaced, although all the news reports announcing it carried my name.”
THE POWERS-THAT-BE AT FACEBOOK
DO NOT LIKE THE ROSARY
In Sussidiario.net we read a story that in other times would be incredible. Namely, why is a priest who uses Facebook to lead in praying the rosary repeatedly blocked on Facebook? For no reason, Facebook blocked the profile of don Mirco Bianchi, who has attracted a boom of ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ with his initiative leading the praying of the rosary at noon and at midnight, even as he has been protested by many anti-clericals and Islamic extremists. [So they have now adopted theidiotic Bergoglian view that praying the rosary as the Poles did last October 8 is somehow anti-Islam???]
But the 43-year-old parish priest of Villamarina-Gatteo Mare in the province of Forli-Cesena, east central Italy, says he cannot lead the prayers online anymore because Facebook has cancelled his ‘sharing’ privileges. “A million hits in a very short time – and now I cannot share.”
On criticism that he should do his praying in church, he says, «My mission on Facebook has two reasons. First of all, it has become one of the major channels for world communication, especially for those of the dominant thought today that is anti-Catholic.” He says he spends enough time with his church and parish duties and at the confessional, but what is wrong with spreading prayer?”
CARDINAL ARINZE AND HIS WISDOM
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