Wearing the white garments of the pope does not entitle anyone to lying, not even to 'white lies', but this pope cheerfully seeks to get away with open-faced lies...How long will he get away with it?
And Bergoglio tells the bald-faced lie
that he only read of the DUBIA in the newspapers
[Is it just senile forgetfulness, or willful denial of something so thoroughly
and repeatedly reported in the media all these past 639 days and counting?]
by Maike Hickson
June 20, 2018
Today, on 20 June, Reuters published a new interview with Pope Francis. Although the interview is making headlines because of the Pope’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, it also contains another controversial assertion:
the pope surprisingly now claims that he only heard about the Dubia (concerning his document Amoris Laetitia) “from the newspapers”
Reuters reported:
The pope also commented on internal criticism of his papacy by conservatives, led by American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke.
In 2016, Burke and three other cardinals issued a rare public challenge to Francis over some of his teachings in a major document on the family, accusing him of sowing disorientation and confusion on important moral issues.
Francis said he had heard about the cardinals’ letter criticizing him “from the newspapers … a way of doing things that is, let’s say, not ecclesial, but we all make mistakes”.
He borrowed the analogy of a late Italian cardinal who likened the Church to a flowing river, with room for different views. “We have to be respectful and tolerant, and if someone is in the river, let’s move forward,” he said.
He thus implies that the Dubia cardinals did not follow the correct ecclesial procedures and violated the law of courtesy toward the pope by making their text public without first sending it to him privately.
We also contacted Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the four Dubia cardinals, asking him for comment. The cardinal responded in writing and said the following:
The Dubia were first published after – I think it was two months – after the Pope did not even confirm their reception. It is very clear that we wrote directly to the Pope and at the same time to the Congregation for the Faith. What is unclear here?
Vatican journalist Edward Pentin tweeted earlier today, also contesting the pope’s account, saying
“he received the dubia two months before the cardinals went public and instructed [Cardinal] Mueller not to respond. Memory lapse perhaps.” Pentin was referring to Cardinal Gerhard Müller – then-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) - who was copy-furnished by the four cardinals with their DUBIA letter to the pope.
OnePeterFive has reached out to Cardinal Müller's secretary, asking him for a comment on this new papal claim, but has not received a response as of this writing.
Let us recapitulate the events leading up to the publication of the Dubia in 2016:
First, on 19 September 2016, the four Dubia cardinals (together with two prelates who preferred to remain unknown and in the background) wrote a letter to Pope Francis which contained the five Dubia – questions of doubt – concerning his Post-Synodal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. They waited for two months and did not receive any official response to their letter – neither from Pope Francis nor from the CDF, to whom they had also sent a copy.
Then, on 14 November 2016, the four Dubia cardinals – Carlo Caffarra, Raymond Burke, Walter Brandmüller, and Joachim Meisner – made their letter to Pope Francis public, hoping thereby to foster a discourse about the matter of Amoris Laetitia. As Pentin had then reported:
As the Pope decided not to respond to the dubia, the four signatories said they read “his sovereign decision as an invitation to continue the reflection and the discussion, calmly and with respect,” and therefore have decided to inform “the entire people of God about our initiative and offering all of the documentation.”
In December of 2016, Cardinal Müller said in an interview that since the CDF [can only] speak “with the authority of the pope”, it therefore could not “participate in the controversial dispute.” As Deacon Nick Donnelly commented at EWTN in response to this story, “Though Cardinal Müller doesn’t come out and say it, his interview with Kathpress strongly implies that Pope Francis has told him that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith must not reply to the four cardinals’ dubia on Amoris Laetitia.”
Pentin’s tweet today appears to confirm this interpretation of the cardinal’s statements.
The burden is now on the Vatican to correct the pope’s statement. Failure to do so would damage the good name of the then-four Dubia cardinals – two of whom have since died – implicating them in a failure to follow correct ecclesial procedures.
What has been clear since the Dubia were first issued was the caution with which the four approached the matter. Their uprightness, their moral character, their love for the Church and the Pope, all indicate that they would never have taken action outside the established ecclesial procedures for addressing such matters.
OnePeterFive reached out to the Vatican Press Office for comment, but we have received no response at this time.
Meanwhile, this shocker from the Vatican by way of the Archbishop of New York about one of Bergoglio's Grand Electors in the 2013 Conclave:
‘The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at the direction of Pope Francis, has instructed Cardinal McCarrick [85] that he is no longer to exercise publicly his priestly ministry’
June 20, 2018
Here is the full statement of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, published on the website of the Archdiocese of New York:
The Archdiocese of New York, along with every other diocese in the country, has long encouraged those who as minors suffered sexual abuse by a priest to come forward with such reports.
As he himself announced earlier this morning, a report has come to the archdiocese alleging abuse from almost forty-five years ago by the now retired Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who, at the time of the reported offense was a priest here in the Archdiocese of New York. This was the first such report of a violation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People ever made against him of which the archdiocese was aware.
Carefully following the process detailed by the Charter of the American bishops, this allegation was turned over to law enforcement officials, and was then thoroughly investigated by an independent forensic agency. Cardinal McCarrick was advised of the charge, and, while maintaining his innocence, fully cooperated in the investigation. The Holy See was alerted as well, and encouraged us to continue the process.
Again according to our public protocol, the results of the investigation were then given to the Archdiocesan Review Board, a seasoned group of professionals including jurists, law enforcement experts, parents, psychologists, a priest, and a religious sister.
The review board found the allegations credible and substantiated.
The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at the direction of Pope Francis, has instructed Cardinal McCarrick that he is no longer to exercise publicly his priestly ministry.
Cardinal McCarrick, while maintaining his innocence, has accepted the decision.
This archdiocese, while saddened and shocked, asks prayers for all involved, and renews its apology to all victims abused by priests. We also thank the victim for courage in coming forward and participating in our Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program, as we hope this can bring a sense of resolution and fairness.
McCarrick has received the same penalty meted out earlier to serial abusers Marcial Maciel and Fernando Karadima by the CDF, except that he has not been publicly enjoined to spend the rest of his days in prayer and penitence. One is curious to know the details of the single case of abuse that the New York Archdiocese's review board found to be credible and substantiated. Was the cardinal given the chance to confront his accuser? Equally interesting would be to know the names of those who make up the review board.
I hold no brief for McCarrick, but in fairness to him, this seems to be the one and only time he has ever been linked, directly or indirectly, to a sex abuse case. It is interesting how seemingly quick - and quite coldly - the Vatican Secretary of State himself announced the Vatican's decision on McCarrick, considering all the time it took for Bergoglio to disavow his adamantine stand that Mons. Barros was simply 'innocent' of any and all accusations against him!
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 21/06/2018 02:50]