Francis Eliminates more Conservative Curial Cardinals

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(Vatican) Pope Francis is preparing for the renovation of the Vatican “foreign ministry”. The former “foreign minister” of the Holy See, the French Curial Archbishop Dominique Mamberti will probably  be dismissed. While the overall reform of the Roman Curia is still written in the stars, Pope Francis is making more heads of Benedict XVI’s  Curia roll. A few days ago  the Curial Cardinal Prefect Cañizares, then the secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, was hit. Another of his Prefects, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, had to vacate his seat a year ago.

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Rosary Pelagians or Not?

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(Seoul) Who are the Catholics,  whom Pope Francis has suspected of heresy, as he refers to them as “Pelagians”? Or has his opinion changed dramatically and transformed the charge of heresy  into  papal gratitude? Secretum meum mihi drew a comparison between the “contradictory” attitudes of the Pope to the same thing.

… “The Holy Father was grateful for these sacrifices?” asks blog Secretum meum mihi , “the Pope has so fundamentally changed his mind within one year, that for which he was “worried” about 14 months ago that he condemned it as a heresy, is now thanking?  Are these Korean religious unlike those at the time when the Pope was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who brought him as a gift a spiritual bouquet of rosaries?

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Cardinal Schönborn: There Will Be “Signs and Wonders” from Francis

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(Vienna) Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn is “convinced” that if Pope Francis maintains his “pace” that there would be “changes”. This was reported by the Rheinische Post in its Tuesday edition. There will be more “signs and wonders” by the current pope.

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Was Karl Rahner a Freemason?

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Father Paolo Maria Siano of the Order of Franciscans of the Immaculate and excellent connoisseur of Freemasonry addresses the question as to whether the well-known Jesuit and theologian of the 20th century was a Freemason.  “Freemasons not, but Masonic minded”

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Will There Be a Visitation at Melk After Apostate Drewermann’s Retreat?

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Pope Francis appears to be settling, according to the opinion of some Latin American observers, old scores with bishops. Specifically, this means the “reassignment”, “retirement” or “visitation”. According to Sitio Andino, the bishop of the Argentine diocese of Puerto Iguazú now suggests that y Zarate-Campana is being “targeted the Pope”. “Not very merciful,” said the Catholic blogger Francisco de la Cigoña of the papal operation. “There are other bishops who are much worse without anyone intervening,”  says the church historian. “Will you take action against them too? Then I would not mind. Or is it only those who are not well aquatinted with Cardinal Bergoglio? Is this mercy or revenge?

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Syncretism Watch: Islamic Religious Service in a Salzburg Catholic Church

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[Note: this is but one example of the syncretism of the coming One World Religion]

(Salzburg) on Sunday, 20 July, in the context of the Salzburg Festival, there is a  profanation of the famous Collegiate Church scheduled on the program.
One focus of the festival, the “Spiritual Ouverture” is in 2014 under the slogan “Christianity and Islam.”  On Sunday, the appearance of the Sufi [somewhat like an Islamic “priest”] is to start at 9 O’clock of the Islamic Order of al-Gazoulia (al-Dschazuliya al-Husayniya al-Schadhiliya) from Cairo provided, who will perform  for the “his rites and ceremonies for the first time in a public space with us in the Collegiate Church,”  as the outgoing Festival Director Alexander Pereira thrilled to the Kleine Zeitung.

Here is their new “altar”

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Vatican website removes sodomite photo

The German language Vatican radio website removes the sodomite photo. Details at Eponymous Flower.

The original report is here.

Another Investigation where the Traditional Mass Flourishes

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(Rome / Asuncion) Pope Francis has ordered an Apostolic Visitation of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay. The Diocese of Alto Paraná on the border of Brazil and Argentina is one of the most traditional and has an above average number of priestly and religious vocations. Why the Pope has ruled for the visitation of a comparatively thriving diocese, while in the capital Asuncion, the Archbishop is a nuisance, the news about aberrosexuality is all over town?

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Dozens of French Clergy Say: I Have Already “Married” Divorced and Homosexuals

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(Rome) 75 French priests and deacons say they are prepare to ecclesiastically marry divorced [persons]. No, even aberrosexual pairs. In the clergy there are liturgical trapeze artists. They purport they are entitled to Christ, the Church and the Sacraments, finally even human happiness itself. “Behind this hide the same methods, which are applied to hand communion,” says Riposte Catholique. Will Pope Francis react as Paul VI?

This will be the type of ‘church’ established after the October 2014 Synod.

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Francis is causing, and not for the first time, a headache with his statements

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Yes or No? Pope Francis is Causing Headaches.

(Rome) Should we condemn someone, evaluate or judge someone? Yes or No? Pope Francis is causing, and not for the first time, a headache with his statements. Some papal statements appear even contradictory for the inexperienced observer.

Sometimes a statement saying the exact opposite of another or at least gives the impression of internal inconsistency or ambiguity.The problem is not small, because the Vatican is silent on which to provide instead of a clarifying and explanatory interpretation. At the recent “headache” that Pope Francis prepares, draws the Vatican expert Sandro Magister’s attention..

Judgments: Yes or No?

Sandro Magister

In less than two days Pope Francis uttered a first harrowing condemnation, which became the headline on the front pages of all the newspapers, and then the whole his morning sermons in Santa Marta was used to exhort the Christians to never judge and condemn anyone, but always to be only a defender and advocate for others.

The judgment,, better the condemnation, he pronounced on June 21 against the Calabrian mafia `ndrangheta. His words were: “If you’re not worshiping the Lord God worship, you become a worshiper of evil, as there are those who live by bad reputations and violence … The `Ndrangheta’s worship of evil and contempt for the common good. This evil is to fight to remove, you must tell him no … Those who go in their lives this way of evil, as the Mafiosi, are not in communion with God! They are excommunicated “

The chroniclers reported that the 200,000 in attendance broke out at this point in a rousing applause. A round of applause, followed by an even bigger worldwide applause from the media.

But the fact is that Pope Francis is laughably giving equally general consent whenever he says not to make judgments, from that memorable “Who am I to judge?”, which is probably the most widely cited and acclaimed worldwide message of this pontificate.

This leads to a headache. Francis is a Pope, who judges, evaluates, acquits, demands, apprehends. At the same time he preaches incessantly, that one should never judge, neither accuse nor condemn.
Whoever judges is “always wrong,” he said in his sermon on 23 June in Santa Marta. He errs, the Pope continued, “because he puts himself in the place of God, who is the only judge.” He claimed “the authority to judge everything: people, life, everything.” And “Judging with the ability,” he said he has also to have the ability to “condemn”.

With the excommunication of the Mafiosi, two days earlier, everything sounded quite different. Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio and favorite of Pope Francis who was made the Secretary of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, translated the words of the Pope: “The excommunication means that the mafia life is locked from the Church. You have chosen evil over a system of life. And when that happens, you’re out of the community. You can not receive the sacraments, not baptism or sponsor confirmation, can not belong to a patronage committee, nothing. It’s not your community. And it does not matter that you have the image of the Mother of God or a family altar or the Bible in the rat hole where you hide: that means absolutely nothing.”

Do not judge, no way! However, there is a caveat: If the affected mafioso is hiding in a “rat hole”, which is a sign that he is volatile and has been condemned by earthly justice, while if he is not convicted, it is not so easy for the Church to condemn him.

Even harder it is, the condemnations of the Pope against the mafiosi to bring “corrupt” and all the others over which he imposes the judgment every day with uninterrupted calls, never to judge anyone. These statements astonish the more so since they come from a successor of Peter, to whom the keys were entrusted to bind and to loose and everything he binds on earth and triggers will be bound and loosed in heaven. A supremacy which he holds over the whole Church.

To be precise, Pope Francis added on June 23 in Santa Marta that “the only one who judges is God and those to whom God gives the power to do it.” But he did not say who they are, which is why the rate went down. The mystery continues.