Abuso de poder en el círculo interno del Papa Francisco ... y otros

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Pope Francis’ inner circle is abusing its power, writes Ed Condon in the Catholic Herald. According to him, contempt for the rule of law and proper procedure in the curia is palpable when dealing with some Vatican departments. Condon remembers the infamous case when Cardinal Beniamino Stella, the ultraliberal Prefect for the Congregation for Clergy, issued an unjust decree and had it signed by Francis in order to make an appeal against it impossible.

Condon reports another, recent case in which someone appealed before a Vatican department and received a phone call from a cardinal who told him to drop the appeal against a curial abuse of power. The cardinal gave the following reason, “If [the person being appealed] didn’t have the power to do what he wants, I can get the Pope to give it to him.” For Condon, the implication is clear – quote, “Access to the Pope is a serious commodity in Rome, and those few who have it are able and willing to take advantage of it.”

This picture shows a Filipino citizen by the name of Luis Antonio Tagle who happens to be a Cardinal and the archbishop of Manila, meeting with the American citizen Michael J. Byrnes who happens to be the Coadjutor Archbishop of Agaña, Guam. The third person is also suspected to be a priest or bishop. Canon 284 of the Code of Canon Law asks priests to wear “suitable ecclesiastical garb”. It is wrong that bishops believe that they are above the law.

Cover Up: The Boston Globe who keeps accusing the Church of allegedly covering up abuses, is now doing the same. The newspaper has admitted to sexual abuse among their collaborators but refuses to name the predators. Catholic League’s Bill Donohue comments: “The Globe refuses to hold itself to the same standard it insists that the Catholic Church must respect.” And, “We need Hollywood to do a ‘Spotlight’ film on the corruption within the Boston Globe. But that is not likely to happen: studio moguls, actors, and entertainers—most of whom feel about the Catholic Church the way the Globe does—are too embroiled in sexual abuse scandals of their own.”

Actualidad: Artículos de interés 21 diciembre 2017

¿El Papa es un monarca absoluto? (1) (Infocaótica) 

¿El Papa es un monarca absoluto? (2) (Infocaótica)

¿El Papa es un monarca absoluto? (y 3) (Infocaótica)

Un Nuevo y Explosivo Libro de Lectura Obligatoria (Sagrada Tradición)

Para los comunistas de China, la Navidad es "Opio para el Espíritu" (Katholisches)

Bergoglio puso a abad pro LGBT en Montevergine (Religión la voz libre)

PENSAMIENTO MODERNO Y CRISTIANO (Nuova Italia; Francesco Lamendola)

Entrevista: Jim Caviezel regresa a la Biblia en 'Pablo, apóstol de Cristo' (National Catholic Register)

Arzobispo: 'Apoyamos' al sacerdote que salió como 'homosexual' en la homilía dominical (Life Site News)

Entonces, los libros de colorear católicos para adultos son una cosa ... (The Catholic World Report)

Uno más: sacerdote homosexual de Milwaukee sale del clóset (Secretum Meum Mihi)

35000 euros al mes para el cardenal: nuevo escándalo en el Vaticano (Secretum Meum Mihi)

“El verdadero creyente provoca un odio furioso en el falso creyente”. Ernest Hello (El oriente en llamas)

RESUMEN ECUMENICO (Capitan Ryder, de Iota Unum)

Hanukkah (celebración) judía celebrada en el Vaticano (Novus Ordo Watch)

Selección por José Martí

El papa Francisco, la eutanasia y la exégesis de la "Civiltà Cattolica" (Sandro Magister)

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Padre Carlo Casalone, jesuita de primer nivel

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El 14 de diciembre, el mismo día que el Parlamento italiano aprobó una nueva ley sobre el testamento biológico que actúa como antecámara para la eutanasia, "La Civiltà Cattolica" – la revista de los jesuitas de Roma, cuyos borradores son examinados por el Papa antes de ser publicada – ha salido con un importante artículo dedicado precisamente a las “novedades” introducidas por Francisco sobre cómo “vivir el morir”, novedad saludada favorablemente como un “viraje” pro-eutanasia, por la opinión pública laica:

> Vivere il morire con umanità e solidarietà

La ley ha sido aprobada por un amplio margen de parlamentarios, incluidos un buen número de católicos. Uno de estos, Mario Marazziti, hombre relevante de la Comunidad de San Egidio y presidente de la Comisión para los Asuntos Sociales de la Cámara de Diputados, comentó la aprobación con juicios total y exclusivamente positivos, a través de las pantallas de TV 2000, el canal televisivo que es propiedad de la Conferencia Episcopal Italiana.

Naturalmente, no han faltado críticas y resistencias a esta ley, por parte de restringidos sectores de la Iglesia y del mundo político, tanto antes como después de su aprobación. Ha causado sensación la “objeción de conciencia” que el célebre hospital católico del Cottolengo opuso en Turín a la aplicación de la ley para sus enfermos, con el inmediato apoyo del arzobispo de la ciudad, Cesare Nosiglia. También otros obispos han elevado su protesta, y corren voces que en enero la Conferencia Episcopal Italiana hará otro tanto en forma más coral.

Pero se advierte que desde la sede de Pedro no ha salido una sola palabra de crítica. En la tarde del 14 de diciembre, a pocas horas de la aprobación de la ley, "L'Osservatore Romano" ha informado de ella con pocas líneas asépticas, puramente descriptivas. Y luego nada más.

No sólo eso. Entre los partidarios laicos de la ley hay quien atribuyó el éxito precisamente al mensaje que el papa Francisco dirigió a mitad de noviembre – su ultimo pronunciamiento en la materia – a los participantes en un congreso en el Vaticano, organizado por la World Medical Association, sobre el tema "Questioni di fine-vita".

Y es precisamente este discurso de Francisco el que "La Civiltà Cattolica" ha relanzado el día mismo de la aprobación de la ley, reforzando, en consecuencia, la idea que esa ley había tenido el camino libre precisamente a partir de este discurso del Papa.

El autor del comentario es un jesuita de primer nivel, Carlo Casalone (en la foto), de 61 años, graduado en medicina y después con estudios de filosofía y teología, provincial de la Compañía de Jesús en Italia, desde el 2008 al 2014, docente en la Pontificia Facultad de Teología de Italia meridional, especialista en bioética.

En su mensaje al congreso de la World Medical Association, Francisco citó directamente un lejano discurso de Pío XII, para mostrar la continuidad del magisterio de la Iglesia en materia de eutanasia.

Pero el padre Casalone subraya inmediatamente "cómo el papa Francisco lleva a cabo precisiones y subrayados innovadores".

En efecto, desde Pío XII hasta hoy – hace notar –, han cambiado mucho las formas de morir. Hoy, "junto a la vida se alarga también la convivencia con la enfermedad. El peligro está en concentrarse en las funciones vitales a prolongar, persiguiendo objetivos parciales y perdiendo de vista el bien integral de la persona".

Está el peligro del llamado "encarnizamiento terapéutico", que el padre Casalone preferiría llamar "exceso" u "obstinación" clínica, que está constituido por el uso de "terapias desproporcionadas", juzgadas de este modo tanto por el médico como, sobre todo, por el enfermo.

El Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica, en el parágrafo 2278 – recuerda el jesuita –, dice que la interrupción de estas terapias desproporcionadas "puede ser legítima". Lo mismo afirma la encíclica "Evangelium vitae" de Juan Pablo II.

Pero he aquí la novedad que el padre Casalone pone en evidencia. Para el papa Francisco, la suspensión de estos cuidados desproporcionados no es ya solamente facultativa, sino que es "necesaria", "obligatoria".

Una vez ponderadas con cuidado, en efecto, todas las "circunstancias” y el "contexto", es decir, tanto " los recursos interiores" del enfermo como "los valores concurrentes respecto a la salud y a las relaciones familiares y sociales", entonces "se llega a un imperativo concreto final" que – escribe el padre Casalone – se vincula "con el patrimonio común y constante de la tradición moral católica sobre el valor (que obliga) del juicio de la conciencia".

En la conclusión del artículo, el jesuita pone además en evidencia ese pasaje del discurso papal que ha recogido los mayores entusiasmos entre los partidarios de la ley aprobada por el Parlamento italiano. Es el pasaje en el que "el papa Francisco reserva un pensamiento a la mediación necesaria que en las sociedades democráticas se requiere para llegar a posiciones compartidas, también en el plano normativo, para promover el bien común. Esto significa, por una parte, reconocer las diferencias legítimas, y por otra no erosionar el núcleo de valores que garantiza la convivencia en sociedad, basándose en un recíproco reconocimiento como iguales de todos los que pertenecen a ella".

Entrevistado por el diario líder de la opinión laica italiana, "la Repubblica", pocas horas después de la aprobación de la ley, el cardenal Camillo Ruini definió como "una interpretación forzada" entender las palabras de Francisco como "consentimiento" a una ley "que abre las puertas a la eutanasia, aunque sin nombrarla".

Pero la exégesis que ha hecho "La Civiltà Cattolica" y, sobre todo, los tiempos y el contexto de su publicación dan rienda suelta a los partidarios laicos de la eutanasia ... que -efectivamente- compiten en el agradecimiento, a su modo, al papa Francisco.

Sandro Magister

Pastor protestante: "El papa Francisco niega la realidad" ... y otras noticias de Gloria TV

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Sin fin ... (Michael Voris)

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TRANSCRIPT

You probably never heard of Fr. Gregory Greiten, pastor of St. Bernadette parish in the archdiocese of Milwaukee that is, perhaps, until this past week, when the 52-year-old priest published an article in the dissident rag known as the National Catholic Reporter. Greiten goes through the usual presentation of so many men who struggled through the confusion and anxieties of realizing that for some psychological reason, they had to face the reality that they were sexually attracted to other men.

This reality of males who self-identify as "gay" has plagued the priesthood in the United States for going on 50 years now. As an aside, the flamboyant homosexualist Fr. James Martin nearly had to be hospitalized for apoplexy — so fast was he retweeting fellow priest Greiten's story of coming out. Of course, he was. Funny though, Fr. Martin himself still refuses to come out or acknowledge if he could come out, blaming his superiors for his not being able to freely discuss his own sexuality but back to Greiten or rather the larger implications.

He was ordained for Milwaukee back in 1992 when homosexual Abp. Rembert Weakland was shuffling around gay priests who had raped altar boys and was himself having an affair with a college student to whom he paid nearly $500,000 in blackmail money from the archdiocesan coffers. Back then, all the gay stuff — overwhelmingly prevalent as it was — had to be kept very hush-hush, even among the bishops. We spoke with at least one bishop privately who told us every bishop back then knew Weakland was homosexual, as well as acting on it.

No way could an archbishop be carrying on an active gay affair and word not get out among the clergy, which it did, of course. Suffice to say, no one in the hierarchy, many of them homosexual or homosexualist themselves, was the least bit surprised at the outing of Weakland. That he had raided archdiocesan funds to the tune of $450,000 to cover it up — that caught some a little off guard but just some and just a little.

Too bad for Weakland that he hadn't been carrying on these days where gay activity and the embracing of all things sodomy is now warmly embraced by so many bishops and priests. Heck, being sexually aroused by other men is even openly spoken of as being a gift from God — that He made you that way and the rest of the Church is just going to have to get over themselves.

God's love embraces everything and everyone, even sin. How positively medieval for those few remaining hold-out Catholics to believe in chastity. Absurd! My gosh, it's the 21st century! C'mon, get with it. If you don't think that's the attitude sweeping through the ranks of America's bishops these days, think again.

Here was the official response from Greiten's archbishop, Jerome Listecki, who occupies the same office that Weakland once did: "We support Fr. Greiten in his own personal journey and telling his story of coming to understand and live with his sexual orientation. ... As the Church teaches, those with same-sex attraction must be treated with understanding and compassion." Yes, too bad for Weakland, he only missed by about 20 years or so.

The wholesale sellout to the gay agenda among so many Catholic clergy, including bishops, can only mean one thing — the same thing that Greiten pointed to in his coming-out article — that anywhere from a quarter to over half of all Catholic priests in the United States, including bishops, are gay. Boy, they hate all this being talked about, but that's the reality, and it's too bad for them. They have allowed this rot to completely overcome the Church — something Church Militant has been pointing to and being hammered for saying for years now.

Bishops, the few straight ones of you who are left, listen very carefully: Men who are sexually attracted to other men are not capable of being fathers. They see the entire world through their pain, as understandable as that pain may be. But that does not excuse the reality that they should not be priests. And committed Catholics really need to hit pause and realize the tidal wave of sodomy and/or all the associated ills that accompany it that have swamped the Church. It is being led —led — by males whose primary interest is not the salvation of souls but the working out of their own psychological disturbances dressed up as being somehow spiritual.

These bishops and pastors are spiritualizing their own pain of being raped or molested as boys, emotionally abandoned by negligent fathers, rejected by their male peers in childhood, and they will stop at nothing until you affirm them in their pain and tell them that they are worth something, that they are not worthless and that they can have sex with other men as a means to escape that pain. That is the whole game going on.

The reality of this situation which bishops understand very well is why Listecki could respond the way he did. It's why Detroit Abp. Allen Vigneron, who is very familiar with the homosexual mafia in Detroit, has never lifted a finger to put a stop to the world's longest-running gay Mass, right in the heart of his own diocese. It's why Cdl. Timothy Dolan continues to turn a blind eye and even lie about the homosexual clique that runs his archdiocese.

It's why no bishop ever says anything about Lexington, Kentucky, Bp. John Stowe warmly embracing the whole gay agenda. It's why Cdl. Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and Chicago Cdl. Blase Cupich can be so in your face about supporting all things gay. For James Martin to tweet that Fr. Greiten is a pioneer is laughable. You know darn good and well that every priest and official at the chancery already knew about Greiten being gay.

Heck, he even met with Abp. Listecki beforehand. Why didn't the archbishop forbid him under obedience from coming out? The idea that these males are somehow heroic is beyond absurd. How can it be courageous to come out to a group of peers and superiors about being gay when most of them are gay?

The smart money is on seeing a lot more of this come out because sadly there's a lot more of them to come out. They've worked 50 years to normalize this in the Church. They've succeeded. And for all you folks out there who accuse Church Militant of being negative and exaggerating the situation, told you so.

Now, are you still going to waste energy killing the messenger or are you going to join in the fight?

Michael Voris