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What is going on with the pope's men?
I use 'men' here as part of the idiomatic phrase 'the pope's men', each of whom may self-identify
with the 'gender' they think fits them best. The saying "whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" came to me when I read Marco Tosatti's late blogpost yesterday about
Bergoglio hagiographer Austin Ivereigh's blasphemous response to a Venezuelan man's tweet.

Apparently, Carlos Sanz who tweets as arimatea73 reacted to a comment from Ivereigh
about the NY Times article quoting a gay priest as saying homosexual clerics feel
'caged' in the Church:

To which Sanz made this comment:

A perfectly straightforward opinion from a Catholic who obviously still holds orthodox beliefs.

But why on earth would Ivereigh have responded like this?

What was he thinking (!), what did he think he was doing, and why did he even have to react to a
statement that by its very nature cannot - and should not - be refuted!

Maybe he thought he would one-up Frederic Martel and his 560-page sodomite indulgence with a one-
liner questioning the sexuality of Jesus himself? What Christian in his right mind would even think,
much less articulate, the challenge Ivereigh so gratuitously made?

An earnest reader answered Ivereigh's challenge this way:

Marco Tosatti's comment:

Austen Ivereigh is certainly Papa Bergoglio's most active and ubiquitous hagiographer in the English-speaking world. Let us say he is an English-speaking Andrea Tornielli, even if he may not have the trust the latter enjoys at Casa Santa Marta. So a tweet like this from him is certainly significant. Especially if we out it together with other elements.
- A summit meeting is about to open at the Vatican on clerical sex abuses, 80% of which were committed against men and boys.
- Meawnhile, the word 'homosexual' and its various lexical forms have been carefully avoided by the Vatican.
- The reigning pontiff has managed never to say the word in all of 2018, despite the explosion last year of scandals traceable to homosexual priests in Chile, Honduras, the USA (McCarrick and other stories), Belgium, Germany and elsewhere.
- Clericalism. Power. Human nature. All used to keep from having to say the taboo word.
- To which we may add the starring presence of Jesuit Fr. James Mretin at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin [at the special invitation, one should add, of Cardinal Kevin Farrell, now also the Papal Chamberlain, who ran the Dublin show and had Martin address a session for homosexual couples at a Catholic World Meeting of Families! The same Martin for whose book in advocacy of LGBTQ Catholics Farrell, already in his current position as Prefect of the SuperDicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, wrote the Preface. How indicative is that! All with the beaming approval of the laissez-faire Pope.]
- The lightning career rise of Farrell himself and the similar ascent of Cardinal Cupich in papal favor and ecclesiastical privilege. The same Cupich who drove one of his parish priests to escape and hide for his life after being rebuked for having burned an LGBT banner found in a closet of his predecessor who had died attached to a sex machine. [You can't invent these bizarreries!]

With all this, we could easily suspect that an operation is under way to legitimize sexual behaviors that the Church has always condemned. But if now one of the pope's men insinuates that even Jesus had homosexual tendencies, then everything would become that much easier for the slaves of Sodom, wouldn't you say?

Sorry I was unable to finish this post earlier. I was going on, as I do now, to the next Bergogliac who is more than touched by hubristic
madness - Fr.Thomas Rosica, who infamously proclaimed that his lord and master could say and do as he pleases because he is above
Scripture
and Tradition, and was recently demonstrated by LifeSite News and Matthew Schmitz to be a habitual and seriously pathologic plagiarist.
If a man could be as brazen in his obviously unhinged papolatry - whom the gods would destroy they first make mad - then habitual plagiarism
demonstrates a serious pathology of inherent dishonesty. Here are LifeSite's articles on Rosica's shamelessly shameful plagiarisms.

In heavily-plagiarized speech,
Vatican spokesman accuses
Archbishop Viganò of ‘lies’
by Dorothy Cummings McLean

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A Vatican consultant and frequent English-language spokesman for the Vatican accused Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò of “lies” in a lecture in which he passed off other writers’ words as his own.

At a February 8 lecture at Cambridge University, Fr. Thomas Rosica, executive director of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, suggested Archbishop Viganò was a liar. Rosica described the Vatican whistle-blowers' witness as a “diabolical masterpiece.”

Authors whom Fr. Rosica plagiarized in that speech - often word-for-word and at significant length - include Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, Gregory K. Hillis, Fr. Thomas Reese, Cardinal Walter Kasper, and Fr. James Martin.

View a comparison of Fr. Rosica's original speech with the plagiarized passages
https://www.lifesitenews.com/images/local/Rosica_plagiarism_3_small.pdf
[The side-by-side comparisons are stunning in the almost verbatim lifting that Rosica practises! The comparisons run to four PDF pages.]

Fr. Rosica's biography on the Salt and Light website says he holds "advanced degrees in Theology and Sacred Scripture from Regis College in the Toronto School of Theology [1985], the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome [1991] and the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem [1994]." From 2011-2015, he served as President of Assumption University in Windsor, Ontario.

He holds honorary doctorates from Gannon University, Niagara University, St. Mark’s College at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and Toronto's Regis College.

In his 2018 testimony, Archbishop Viganò revealed that disgraced Archbishop Theodore McCarrick had been protected by high-ranking Church authorities, including Pope Francis himself.

Describing the current events in the Church as a “perfect storm”, Rosica said:

Some of you in the room may be too young to remember a book and related movie entitled The Perfect Storm –an expression … which describes when several weather patterns meet at the same time, clash and produce violent and horrible damage. The Catholic Church that we love and strive to serve is in the midst ... of a perfect, diabolical storm. Not just the Church in Great Britain, the USA, but also around the globe: Chile, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada and God alone knows how many more countries to come!

The appalling, shameful life of a Cardinal of the Church, the shocking 900-page plus report of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury that related unspeakable depravities of priests against young and vulnerable persons; a former Vatican Nuncio’s vicious accusations against the Church’s highest authorities that is nothing but a full-frontal attack of half-truths and lies against the Vicar of Christ and Successor of Peter.

“A series that has been rightfully called a ‘diabolical masterpiece’ of Archbishop Viganò,” he added to the prepared speech in his recorded presentation.

Bishop Robert Barron had originally used the phrase “diabolical masterpiece” last summer to describe the clerical sexual abuse scandal, not Archbishop Viganò’s testimony. The phrase was subsequently picked up by Cardinal Edwin O’Brien. In his speech, Rosica reproduced - with some adjustments - a section of the Cardinal’s September 8, 2018 letter to the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher about “the perfect storm” without attribution.

Cardinal O’Brien’s original passage read:

Many of you recall the book and movie The Perfect Storm – when several weather patterns meet at once – they clash and create terrible damage.

Our Catholic Church is in the midst of a perfect storm – a perfect demonic storm: Chile, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, the United States – and how many more to come?! The revolting, profoundly shameful double life of a Cardinal of the Church. The almost pornographic 900-page report of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury –unspeakable depravities of priests against the young and vulnerable. A former Vatican Nuncio’s accusations against the Church’s highest authorities.

It has been called ‘A DIABOLICAL MASTERPIECE’!

Cardinal O’Brien was mentioned in Archbishop Viganó’s testimony as a member of a “homosexual current” in the Roman Catholic Church. The harsh language in Rosica's speech about he “former Vatican Nuncio,” however, seems to be Rosica’s own addition.

Near the beginning of his lecture, Father Rosica reproduced a passage - word for word - from an essay by Gregory K. Hillis, a professor of Theology at Bellarmine University, without attribution. The passage, originally published by Hillis on 16 March 2016, read: [uote]While the Church can offer a broad theological vision that focuses on the interconnectedness of all things, it cannot pretend to have all the answers to specific concrete questions. In these circumstances, ‘honest debate’ must be encouraged that respects divergent views. This means that the church itself should be included in the dialogue, but it also means that voices currently not in the debate need to be included.

Rosica also borrowed extensively, without attribution and usually word-for-word, from an essay by Fr Thomas Reese published in the National Catholic Register in 2017. He also mined Cardinal Walter Kasper’s work, again without attribution, and slightly adapted paragraphs from an article by Fr. James Martin, S.J. titled “The Witch Hunt for Gay Priests.” Once again, Rosica failed to give credit to the author.

LifeSiteNews reached out to Fr. Rosica via Salt+Light TV for comment but did not receive a response.

Professor John Rist, who was present at the talk, told LifeSiteNews via email that Rosica’s lecture was “a very rhetorical affair” and that he challenged the priest’s ecclesiology in the subsequent question session.

“You have spoken much of unity and dialogue within the Church while also directing slanderous comments at Archbishop Viganò,” Rist recalled saying to Rosica.

Rist then quoted Father Rosica’s notorious remark regarding his belief that, with Pope Francis as its earthly head, the Catholic Church is now “openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture.”

Rosica defended himself by saying that the passage was taken out of context, the scholar recalled.

The professor then asked Rosica if Pope Francis himself were not responsible for the “now near total rift” among Catholics.

“If your description of the state of the Church is accurate, must one not conclude that the present pope, so far from carrying out his primary duty of unifying believers, has more than any other single individual contributed to the now near total rift between liberal and traditional Catholics which is putting the faith of thousands of Catholics at risk?” Rist said he asked.

In response, Rosica said only that the distinction between “liberal” and “traditional” did not go back to the time of Jesus, Rist told LifeSiteNews.

Rosica was the guest of the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund’s College in Cambridge University. His gave his lecture, “Catholicity: Crises and Opportunities,” to an audience of about 30 people.

Father Rosica is known for speaking harshly of orthodox Catholics, whom he accused years ago of forming a “Catholic Taliban.” He roughly admonished Catholic pro-lifers in print when they objected to the ostentatious funeral given for pro-abortion Senator Ted Kennedy by Boston's Catholic hierarchy.

Rosica is also known for his pro-homosexual sympathies. He has defended LGBT activist Fr. James Martin, rejected the Catechism’s description of the homosexual inclination as “objectively disordered,” and said the phrase “intrinsically disordered” is “harsh.” Rosica was a longtime admirer of the late Gregory Baum, a homosexual dissident former priest whom he interviewed on Salt and Light in 2012.

The advertisement for the Von Hügel lecture described Rosica as a “renown[ed] author, speaker, commentator and lecturer in Sacred Scripture at Canadian Universities” as well as “the Vatican’s English language media attaché at the last five Synods of Bishops as well as assistant to the Director of the Holy See Press Office during the Papal Transition of 2013.”

McLean had a follow-up article on Feb. 18:

Vatican media expert Fr. Rosica
under fire after he’s caught
plagiarizing repeatedly
by Dorothy Cummings McLean

TORONTO, February 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Over the weekend, Catholic academics and media figures responded to revelations that Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica, C.S.B. plagiarized parts of a speech he gave at Cambridge University this month.

In the February 8 speech, in which Fr. Rosica described Archbishop Viganò as a liar and his testimonies as a “diabolical masterpiece,” the famous priest took passages nearly word-for-word from Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, theologian Gregory K. Hillis, Fr. Thomas Reese, Cardinal Walter Kasper, and Fr. James Martin.

Further investigations by both LifeSiteNews and other journalists, notably Matthew Schmitz of First Things magazine, have revealed that the Basilian Father has passed off as his own the work of other writers on numerous occasions.

Responding to the original LifeSiteNews story on Twitter, Schmitz reported that Rosica had copied notes, without attribution, from the New American Bible Revised Edition (NABR) in his February 11 blogpost for Salt + Light Television. Rosica is the longtime CEO of the Canadian Catholic media organization.

Schmitz also noted that Rosica’s keynote address to the National Workshop for Christian Unity in Silver Spring, Maryland on April 18, 2018 was “heavily plagiarized” from Cardinal Walter Kasper.

The First Things editor then tweeted that Rosica’s “widely discussed article ‘The Ignatian Qualities of the Petrine Ministry of Pope Francis’” plagiarizes both Wikipedia and an interview by Sean Salai SJ with author Chris Lowney published on August 4, 2016 in America magazine.

[Again, both Lifesite News and Schmitz provide stunning proofs of Rosica's shameless dishonesty. But this seems to be a hallmark of Jorge Bergoglio and his most maniacal followers.]

Schmitz also discovered that in an August 20, 2018 post for Salt and Light, Fr. Rosica took twelve paragraphs from a 2013 article in the National Catholic Register by Fr. Roger Landry. Fr. Rosica tweeted out his article yesterday.

To date Rosica’s earliest known use of work without attribution was his famous declaration, delivered at a 2014 lecture, about doctrine. Instantly notorious, the passage was later discovered to be the work of Dr. Richard Gaillardetz, in a September 25, 2013 article for the National Catholic Reporter.

On February 16, Villanova Theology professor Gregory Hillis responded to Rosica’s use of his own work by tweeting, “Rosica appears to have stolen an entire paragraph from me and stolen a bunch from others as well. Bad form.”

Schmitz's detailed tweets on Rosica with more illustrations of his plagiarism side-by-side with his sources may be found here:
twitter.com/matthewschmitz

Damian Thompson, editor of the UK’s Catholic Herald, tweeted: “Rosica faces credible accusations of plagiarism ― and also caught defaming Vigano in the most wicked way.”

Journalist and recent Catholic convert Sohrab Ahmari underscored how serious plagiarism is.“Will @Father Rosica give some answer to these charges?” he asked over Twitter. “In secular settings plagiarism on this scale is taken very seriously, and I would hope the fact that he works in Catholic media doesn’t shield him from scrutiny and accountability.”

Rosica, a 1980 graduate of St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, is also on its board. The academic integrity policy of the College begins as follows:

All students, regardless of level or school, are responsible for following the St. John Fisher College Academic Integrity Policy in addition to any other individual school’s or program’s academic expectations and/or professional standards. Every student is expected to demonstrate academic integrity in all academic pursuits at all times. If a student suspects that another student has violated the Academic Integrity Policy, he or she should contact the instructor for that course and provide support for that suspicion. Any finding of responsibility and associated sanctions for a violation of the Academic Integrity Policy is retained per the College records policy.

Repeated violations of the “Academic Integrity Policy” can lead to the expulsion of the student from St. John Fisher College. One form of violation is plagiarism.

The College defines as plagiarism as “Representing another person’s work as one’s own, or attempting ‘to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source’” or “the use of an idea, phrase, or other materials from a written or spoken source without acknowledgment” or “submitting work that was procured through sale or trade”.

What would John Paul II say of the man who first gained prominence by being the spokesman for his last World Youth Day attendance n Toronto? Besides owing a public apology to the persons he plagiarized and to the general public for his repeated actions to con them, Rosica ought to resign - and/or the Vatican ought to fire him - from any position he now holds at the Vatican. There is absolutely no excuse or justification for his public dishonesty. How can the Vatican continue to have a spokesman who is so tarred by his own pen, so to speak?/B]

I do not recall that the Bergoglio Vatican ever issued any demurral at all after Rosica published his remarks about Bergoglio being above Scripture and Tradition. That's even more shameless than Rosica's offenses.

[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 20/02/2019 06:49]