Vatican II Church Meltdown – Days 21-25

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Vatican II Church Meltdown – Days 21-25

Developments & Reactions

This post continues our coverage of the ongoing ecclesiastical Chernobyl unleashed by the accusations of the former Vatican nuncio to the United States, “Abp.” Carlo Viganò, which were first published on Aug. 25 and have the potential not only to bring an end to the Francis “pontificate” but even to throw the entire Vatican II Sect into unprecedented chaos:

Friday, Sep. 14, 2018 Developments

• In his homily for the day, Francis delivered Part 3 of his “Great Accuser” theme — video report here
• “Cardinal” Donald Wuerl’s homily for the opening of his “season of healing” in Washington, D.C.
• “Cardinal” Oscar Maradiaga has downplayed McCarrick’s sexual misconduct as being a “private” matter” and a “case of an administrative nature”
• Now in English: The Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quottidiano claims to know the names on the list of the “gay lobby” dossier Benedict XVI gave to Francis in 2013

Saturday, Sep. 15, 2018 Developments

• The Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, has “released a list of clergy who had assignments in Arkansas and against whom credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor were filed”
• A new report claims that “more than half of the Netherlands’ senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual assault of children between 1945 and 2010”

Sunday, Sep. 16, 2018 Developments

• “Abp.” William Lori’s homily on being appointed by Francis administrator of the diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia
• Francis removes “Fr.” Cristián Precht Bañados of Chile from the clerical state

Monday, Sep. 17, 2018 Developments

• After criminal probe launch by Attorney General Barbara Underwood, “Mgr.” Greg Mustaciuolo out as Vicar General
• Retired “Bp.” Andreas Laun of Salzburg, Austria, hopes Francis will respond to the Vigano Testimony because “silence would be a form of cover-up”
• “Abp.” Bernard Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, is perplexed because he has “good reasons to place my trust in both Pope Francis and Archbishop Viganò”
• The director of Courage, a Novus Ordo apostolate to help same-sex-attracted people leave chaste lives, has released a letter on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report
• A class action lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania seeks to require the state’s Novus Ordo dioceses “to release all records involving allegations of child sexual abuse in the last 70 years”

Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2018 Developments

• Henry Sire, Vatican insider and author of The Dictator Pope, announces that Vigano “has confided to his friends that he now has good reason to be in fear of his life”
• “Bp.” Barry Knestout of Richmond, Virginia, has stated that he will release the names of those credibly accused of abuse, for accountability’s sake
• The Great Accuser, Part 4: In weekday homily, Francis again portrays himself as unjustly persecuted by Satan — video report here
• Haunted by his past? Francis’ role in Argentina’s most infamous case of clerical sex abuse “is coming under renewed scrutiny”, the Associated Press reports

Reactions from select Blogs and Web Sites

• Writing for The Weekly Standard, Mary Eberstadt revisits ‘the elephant in the sacristy’
• Resignationist Louie Verrecchio argues that the moral rot in the Novus Ordo Sect is a consequence of its doctrinal junk
• Crux‘s John Allen points out three ‘take-aways on the latest twists in the clerical abuse saga’
• The Stream‘s John Zmirak has conducted an interview with journalist and author George Neumayr on ‘creepy cardinals and cover-ups’
• In a lengthy essay for The Weekly Standard, Jonathan Last explains how the Vatican II Sect ‘is breaking apart’
• A blogger asks if it is “reasonable to believe that when a person can ignore the murder of millions they can ignore the sexual abuse of thousands”: ‘Francis, the Abortionist, and McCarrick’

Related Stories

• Novus Ordo priest wins case against man who falsely accused him of sex abuse in the 1970s
• The Lepanto Institute‘s Michael Hichborn argues that “the smoke and mirrors being utilized by this papacy in relation to the homosexual crisis in the clergy only lends further credence to the concerns that Pope Francis has no real intention of preserving the integrity of the Faith, but only in furthering his own agenda”
• Crux‘s Inés San Martín writes that ‘if there were secret sanctions on McCarrick, it wouldn’t be a first’
• German Jesuit “Fr.” Hans Zollner says that “the pope is no longer untouchable”
• The web site Complicit Clergy has a YouTube channel with many informative videos here
• “Cardinal” Gerhard Ludwig Muller has responded to accusations that he tried to censor research on sex abuse cover-up in Germany
• Mega-Modernist Robert Mickens considers whether the sex abuse drama has ‘torpedoed Francis’ reform plan’
• Vaticanist Andrea Gagliarducci asks: ‘Pope Francis, is the Church crisis a clergy crisis?’
• Modernist theology professor Massimo Faggioli is concerned that a “growing number of conservative Catholics no longer accept the pope’s legitimacy”
• The Vatican has published a list of the members appointed for the upcoming October Synod on the youth, includes “Cardinals” Tobin and Cupich
• The current sex abuse crisis and the Soviet Communists’ strategy to destroy the Catholic Church from within
• A French Novus Ordo priest is criticizing his “bishop”, Sylvain Bataille, “for allowing Father Régis Peyrard, who abused him as a teen, to stay in the house where he himself is accommodated”

Prior Days’ Coverage

• Days 1-3 (Aug. 25-27)
• Day 4 (Aug. 28)
• Day 5 (Aug. 29)
• Day 6 (Aug. 30)
• Day 7 (Aug. 31)
• Day 8 (Sep. 1)
• Day 9 (Sep. 2)
• Day 10 (Sep. 3)
• Day 11 (Sep. 4)
• Day 12 (Sep. 5)
• Day 13 (Sep. 6)
• Day 14 (Sep. 7)
• Day 15 (Sep. 8)
• Day 16 (Sep. 9)
• Day 17 (Sep. 10)
• Day 18 (Sep. 11)
• Day 19 (Sep. 12)
• Day 20 (Sep. 13)

Colombian academic, politician, and TV personality Jose Galat, who has come out denouncing Francis as a heretic and false pope, has tackled the Vigano Testimony in one of his recent broadcasts:

The fallout from the Vigano Testimony is turning into Francis’ worst nightmare. It isn’t going away. Stay tuned.

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