ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO THINK THIS POPE MAY STILL BE SALVAGEABLE!
What is the back story to this latest Bergoglian travesty? Who is the Nuncio to the Netherlands who would have had to vet any nomination for
a papal honor before passing it on to the Vatican? Or was he simply bypassed? Perhaps the pope did not know what he was doing? But he had
to sign the formal certificate of conferment that goes with the medal and the other award accouterments! Unless he simply signs away anything
placed before him without examining the document – or the Vatican uses a robot papal-signer . Maybe the name did not mean anything to him,
so he just happily signed another token of esteem for a European minister…
Doing my best here to try to explain this episode as merely a case of careless oversight. But given Bergoglio's repeated public praises and
embraces for the mother of Italy's abortion law, Emma Bonino, does he deserve the benefit of the doubt for this honor to Plouner?
And do you think the Vatican will withdraw the honor if there is enough outrage shown about it? Little outrage was raised in the mainstream
media - in which I now include almost all the major Catholic media – about the Bergoglio-Bonino bromance, and when he was asked once about
it, considering Bonino's appalling record as an abortionist herself, he replied, ]"But you must look at the totality of what she is doing!"
(As if expressing concern for immigrants trying to enter Europe illegally made up for just one of the innocent lives Bonino took! In effect,
Bergoglio was saying that it is far more important to care about immigrants than to be concerned in any way about abortion –
even as he continues to pay lip service against abortion when convenient or unavoidable for him,because he is still, after all, pope.
But few have been outraged enough to call him out as condemnable for this in a way that is even worse perhaps than he is condemnable for
the atrocities in AL! And now, this. It, too, shall pass uncondemned? ANATHEMA SIT!
[Having hailed Emma Bonino (who boasts
she did 10,000 bicycle pump abortions)
as one of Italy's contemporary greats]
Pope confers Order of St Gregory
on leading Dutch abortionist
by Michael Hichborn
January 12, 2018
Reports began surfacing on Twitter today that Lilianne Ploumen, former Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in the Netherlands, was honored by Pope Francis with the title of Commander in the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great.
The Lepanto Institute was able to confirm from a December 22, 2017 Dutch radio broadcast that Ploumen indeed received the honor. In a brief video clip promoting the broadcast, Ploumen displays the medal while saying that she received it from the Pope.
Here is the video:
Here is a crude translation of the exchange:
BNR – And this is the umpteenth prize that Lilianne Ploumen won in 2017 …
Ploumen – Yes, it is a high distinction from the Vatican; from the pope.
BNR – From the pope.
Ploumen – Beautiful.
BNR – Yes.
Ploumen – It is Commander in the Order of St. Gregory.
BNR – And that despite that you are pro-abortion.
Ploumen – Yes, you can check.
The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great , one of five knighthood orers in the Chruch, was established in September 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI. Membership in the Order is conferred on lay men and women (not necessarily Catholic) for their “personal service to the Holy See and to the Roman Catholic Church, through their unusual labors, their support of the Holy See, and their excellent examples set forth in their communities and their countries.”
[Let's see how Ploumen meets those criteria:]
To say that Lilianne Ploumen is “pro-abortion” is an extreme understatement and doesn’t even come close to the scandalous reality of her activism.
In January of last year, after US President Donald Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, Ploumen launched a new NGO called 'She Decides 'to provide mass amounts of funds to organizations that would no longer receive funds from the US government. The Mexico City Policy automatically denies US funding for international organizations which perform or promote abortion.
Referring to the Mexico City Policy as a “Global Gag Rule,” Ploumen stated that the intention of She Decides was to continue support for existing programs being run by organizations such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International. She said, “These are successful and effective programs: direct support, distributing condoms, making sure women are accompanied at the birth, and making sure abortion is safe if they have no other choice.” By July of 2017, Ploumen’s program had raised over $300 million.
In October of 2017, Ploumen wrote an article for the Financial Times, in which she emphatically stated, “America’s regressive policies on abortion are a calamity for girls’ and women’s rights that the rest of the world must counter.”
Ironically, just a few days ago, Ploumen was awarded the Machiavelli Prize “for her campaign for the safe abortion fund SheDecides.” The article on the award indicates that “The Machiavelli prize is awarded to a person or organization which the jury considers has excelled in public communication. In particular, the jury praised the speed at which SheDecides was set up and went global.”
It is worth noting that from 2004-2007, Ploumen was the Director of Programs and on the Board of Directors for CORDAID, the Dutch Catholic aid relief agency that was caught funding Planned Parenthood and dispensing contraception.
But Ploumen’s anti-Catholic activity isn’t restricted to abortion. In September of 2017, Ploumen participated in the United Nations LGBTI Core Group. As the first speaker at the event, Ploumen noted that“LGBTI rights are human rights.” In her opening remarks, she said, “We cannot be complacent. [Today] in more than 70 countries homosexuality is still criminalized…stigma against LGBT people continue all over the world.”
In 2014, Ploumen ended foreign aid to the country of Uganda for passing a bill banning sodomy and same-sex “marriage.”
In February of 2010, Ploumen called on LGBT activists to descend upon and disrupt Mass at St. John the Baptist Cathedral, wearing pink triangles with the words “Jesus excludes no one.” The reason? She and other pro-LGBT activists were protesting the Church’s moral teaching regarding homosexuality.
It remains to be seen what service Lilianne Ploumen has provided for the Catholic Church or the Holy See
[see paragraph above - perhaps the Vatican considered that a service!], given her staunch support for homosexuality, abortion and contraception. Given that the one thing that Lilianne Ploumen is known for in the past year is the establishment of a fund that provides hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations that commit abortion and dispense contraception, it is difficult, if not impossible, to separate her recent pontifical honor from this grievous and scandalous act.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 13/01/2018 20:01]