“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
But to date, Cardinal Maradiaga has not responded publicly to the allegations regarding his archdiocesan seminary.
Edward Pentin
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Nearly 50 seminarians in Honduras have protested against what they say is a widespread and entrenched pattern of homosexual practice in Tegucigalpa’s major seminary.
In a letter written to the seminary’s formators that was subsequently circulated in June to the country’s Catholic bishops, the seminarians asserted “irrefutable evidence” exists that a homosexual network pervades the institution and is being protected by its rector.
“Heterosexual seminarians are scandalized and really depressed,” one of the seminarians who drafted the letter told the Register.
Auxiliary Bishop Juan José Pineda of Tegucigalpa shakes hands with Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya (R) inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 24, 2009. (REUTERS/Edgard Garrido )
Former Seminarians Allege Grave Sexual Misconduct by Honduran Bishop Pineda
The testimonies, submitted by former Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa seminarians to a Vatican investigation, reinforce existing concerns about the archdiocesan auxiliary bishop’s conduct.
Edward Pentin
VATICAN CITY — The Register has obtained the text of two testimonies, submitted by former seminarians to a Vatican investigator, detailing allegations of serious sexual misconduct by Auxiliary Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The content of the testimonies, along with previously known allegations of sexual misconduct by the bishop and additional information provided to the Register by sources within Honduras, has reinforced widespread existing concerns about the conduct of Bishop Pineda.
These concerns are heightened by the fact that Bishop Pineda has been in charge of the archdiocese since early January, while its archbishop, top papal adviser Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, undergoes chemotherapy treatment in Houston, Texas, for prostate cancer.
Bergoglio friend and confidant Oscar Maradiaga has been implicated in financial fraud. The corruption and investigation of the Bishop of Rome's advisor began in December. Now, it is revealed of a direct case where friends of Maradiaga were taken in by him and Vatican officials, including Bergoglio, have done nothing.
"Deceived and betrayed, they stole everything." The charges against the Pope's right arm
The wife of the former head of the Vatican Diplomatic Corps speaks. "The cardinal Oscar Maradiaga, our brotherly friend for 40 years, in 2012 has pushed us to invest our money with a London financier who then disappeared into thin air. I spoke with Francesco and Parolin, but the investigation of the Holy See has been firm for a year.
BY EMILIANO FITTIPALDI
“You wrote well. Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga, the right-hand man of Pope Francis, has deceived us. In 2012, he pushed me and my husband to invest a lot of money into a London investment fund, managed by a Muslim friend, Youssry Henien, who then disappeared into nothing with our money. I told everything to Pope Francis, even before his apostolic visitor who conducted an investigation in Honduras. But a year has passed, and neither I nor other victims have obtained justice. It's a shame. My husband and I have welcomed our Maradiaga home for 40 years, and he has repaid this way ".
Martha Alegria Reichmann shows her photos and her daughters together with the high cardinal. "He betrayed us, he destroyed us," he repeats as if he were still incredulous of what happened. Everyone in the Vatican knows it. Martha is, in fact, the wife of former powerful Dean of the Vatican Diplomatic Corps Alejandro Valladares, for 22 years ambassador of Honduras to the Holy See. A good friend of Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, who made a moving funeral eulogy at the end of 2013.
'Espresso contacted the Reichmann after hearing that the Pope had opened an inquiry into the diocese of Tegucigalpa, the episcopal seat of Cardinal Maradiaga. Not just any cardinal, but a prelate very close to Bergoglio, who became his principal advisor following his election to the Petrine throne. Coordinator of the C9, the group of nine cardinals advising the pontiff in the management of the universal church and in the reform of the curia, in May 2017 he and his auxiliary bishop Juan Pineda were accused of serious events by a series of Honduran witnesses, who handed over sworn depositions to Pedro Casaretto, the Argentine bishop sent by Francesco to investigate a diocese that has been for too long a chat.
The report for almost a year is in the hands of the pontiff, who for now has not made any decision about it. The people listened to are fifty, and among them is the widow Valladares.
"I hesitated to have you interviewed by me because I hoped until the end that justice was done without raising a public scandal. 40 years of fraternal friendship bound me to Cardinal Maradiaga. We shared beautiful and ugly things, but trust in them has always been blind. And vice-versa. When he returned to our home after the last conclave he told what had happened. He even told us that he had convinced Bergoglio to accept the investiture because initially the Pope would have said he was not in perfect health, he was worried about having only one lung. Intimacy was absolute. He told my husband and me that we were his family. He knows very well that my husband spent a lot of money in the Vatican in 2001 to help him become a cardinal. At the time Maradiaga certainly had many merits, as he explained to Casaretto almost a year ago ("I was in Tegucigalpa, the apostolic visitor called fifty witnesses to present our denunciations against Pineda." The statements were made before a crucifix and with one hand over the Bible " ), Reichmann confirms that the story begins in 2012,when the cardinal suggests to her and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps to make an investment with a London company, Leman Wealth Management. "He was a guest at our house in Rome, as always when he came to the Vatican from Honduras. One evening he was the one who put Leman's speech in the middle, suddenly. My husband and I had never heard the name of the company or that of its owner, such as Henien. Maradiaga assured us that this financial was serious, and made investments in Switzerland, Germany and other European countries. He stressed that the investment allowed high interest rates and that he was more than sure, adding that he too had invested the money of the diocese of Tegucigalpa. "
Maradiaga, when a month ago the Espresso published the investigation on money (about 35 thousand euro a month) received from the Catholic university owned by the diocese, not only said that the sums went to the diocese that turned them to the neediest (in official budget found then by who writes, however, there is no trace of the sums of the university). But he also strongly denied that the archbishopric ever authorized "these types of investments", even denying that he knew Henien's society. In short, it does not accept any accusation of "fraudulent intermediation".
The widow shakes her head. "My husband was very skeptical about the operation. He was persuaded by the insistence of the cardinal, who told us he had done the necessary checks, and that everything was clean and safe. It was Maradiaga who gave us the contacts of Mr. Henien. " The two friends of the cardinal decide to try, they know the London financier and entrust all their savings. The amount is specified in the documents held by the Espresso. After a year, however, when the ambassador is dead, the widow and her daughters realize that something is wrong. There is nothing on the accounts where Henien had said he had put the savings of a lifetime. The financier is untraceable. The Leman Wealth Management results from the data of the London Chamber of Commerce, closed in November 2012.
"We realized we were cheated. We did investigations and found that this financier was already finished in the past in similar situations. I tried to contact Maradiaga but was denied for months and months. I went to the Tegucigalpa cathedral when he celebrated mass, and I managed to exchange a few words. He told me that he was an injured party like us, that he too had lost money from the diocese, but he asked me for discretion. I told him that I had already entrusted the case to an Italian law firm based in London but that the costs of the case were very high. He offered to help us and gave us the money to start legal procedures. On that same occasion, he ordered me never to say that it was he himself who introduced us to Henien. "
The widow of the ambassador knows that his accusations are heavy. "I saw that after your first investigation he said there would be a plot against the Pope. But it's ridiculous to think that my daughters and my daughters, friends of the cardinal, have always been able to lie and invent a story like this by harming a person to whom we gave everything. The Holy Father, whom I met last November, ordered an investigation into Pineda. A man whom Maradiaga has been protecting for years. I was also contacted because five years ago I denounced Pineda for theft, also he betrayed my husband when he was in agony and did not have the means to defend himself. I told Casaretto that my complaint was hidden for years, Maradiaga - whom I still considered a beacon - had strongly insisted that I not present it.
In fact, in Casaretto's report, there are some reports of priests and former highly detailed and very serious seminarians on the behaviour of the prelate whom Maradiaga referred to as his auxiliary. "His victims now live in fear, because they have reported Pineda and see that nothing has happened. They understood that Pineda is protected by Oscar, and it seems clear to me that Maradiaga is protected by the Pope ".
From the Vatican, despite the attempts made, no one has so far wanted to comment on the accusations of Martha, nor those of the other witnesses against Pineda and the cardinal. Casaretto's dossier ended first in the Congregation of Bishops, then in Francesco's drawer. "I asked for an audience with the Pope and I was received by him on November 21st. He told me he was aware of all my history and that he had already given directions to the secretariat of state to solve everything. " Martha hopes to get back the lost money from Henien, perhaps with an intervention by the man who had put them in touch. "It's been three months, I spoke with Parolin and his secretaries, who proposed me a few days ago a solver meeting with Maradiaga in the Vatican. I was hoping a lot. But after a long wait, the meeting is skipped. Is it possible that a cardinal ignores the Pope's wishes? I have heard that he refers to me as mad and that I will never succeed in regaining what I have lost. Maybe. But I'm tired of being teased, and I decided to tell all the pain that caused me. I am the first victim to take this step, but I know that others will follow my example. "
The widow closes her purse and gets up. We do not know if he has the necessary evidence to convince the Pope of the truthfulness of his accusations against his right-hand man and his most loyal ones. But he certainly does not look like a madman, nor a dangerous conspirator belonging to some conservative faction that wants to hit Francis's reforms. "I hope the Pope will help me. He greeted me with words of comfort, promising that I would have justice. He told me how he was a father full of love. "
Oscar "Cardinal" Maradiaga, one of Bergoglio's fiercest supporters who once called Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke a "poor man" saying his thoughts "don't merit further comment" and again said, that Cardinal Burke was a "disappointed man, in that he wanted power and lost it" is now in for his own major disappointment and on the verge of lusting that power he has so relished and lusted after.
The pompous, arrogant thug masquerading as a Cardinal is Chairman of Bishop of Rome Bergoglio's "Council of Cardinals" and has been receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars/euros from the Catholic University of Tegucigalpa. Maradiaga, who preaches about the poor and downtrodden has proven to be just one more corrupt, hypocritical and heretical henchmen of the Bergoglio mafia.
The filth and rot of this papacy are being exposed. Bergoglio brought this on himself, it is only a matter of time until he is trapped in his own web of deceit and corruption.
God will not be mocked. And we His people will not sit idly by any longer with these filthy rats on board the ship.
What kind of man is this Cardinal Oscar Rodriquez Maradiaga? Who would sit so pompously as he has in this photograph? What arrogance. What hubris. What clericalism. What defiance of all humility and service. We have written before of this Cardinal, this close collaborator of Pope Francis. How much pain it is to endure when we see these priests, these bishops and cardinals spew such as what you will read below. Was there ever in the history of the Church, any Cardinal who spoke thus about another brother Cardinal? Particularly one so known for his humility and peace? As reported on Crux. this is what Maradiaga has said about Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke:
He was
among four cardinals who submitted a set of questions, called dubia, to
Francis, seeking to dispel what they described as “grave disorientation and
great confusion” created by the document.
In the new
interview, Maradiaga comes out swinging.
“That
cardinal who sustains this,” Maradiaga said, referring to the criticism of
Amoris, “is a disappointed man, in that he wanted power and lost it. He thought
he was the maximum authority in the United States.
“He’s not
the magisterium,” Maradiaga said, referring to the authority to issue official
teaching. “The Holy Father is the magisterium, and he’s the one who teaches the
whole Church. This other [person] speaks only his own thoughts, which don’t
merit further comment.
“They are
the words,” Maradiaga said, “of a poor man.”
Maradiaga
also criticized conservative schools of thought in Catholicism, of which Burke
is often seen as a symbol.
“These
currents of the Catholic right are persons who seek power and not the truth,
and the truth is one,” he said. “If they claim to find some ‘heresy’ in the
words of Francis, they’re making a big mistake, because they’re thinking only
like men and not as the Lord wants.
“What sense
does it have to publish writings against the pope, which don’t damage him but
ordinary people? What does a right-wing closed on certain points accomplish?
Nothing!
“Ordinary
people are with the pope, this is completely clear,” Maradiaga said. “I see
that everywhere.
“Those who
are proud, arrogant, who believe they have a superior intellect … poor people!
Pride is also a form of poverty,” he said.
“The
greatest problem, however, is the disorientation that’s created among people
when they read affirmations of bishops and cardinals against the Holy Father,”
he said.
Maradiaga
called his fellow cardinals to loyalty.
“I think
that one of the qualities we cardinals [should have] is loyalty,” he said.
“Even if we don’t all think the same way, we still have to be loyal to Peter.”
Whoever
doesn’t offer that loyalty, he said, “is just seeking attention.”
He writes of those who are "proud, arrogant, who believe they have a superior intellect." Who is this man but proud, arrogant, gnostic, who believes that the "poor (pathetic) people," have no ability to discern the truth from a lie, right from wrong, a sheep from a wolf? He calls his fellow cardinals to "loyalty." Loyalty? If loyalty to the Bishop of Rome means disloyalty to Jesus Christ and what has come before then this writer will have no loyalty to that Bishop of Rome in matters where he is wrong. "Loyal to Peter," says Maradiaga. No, not if it means being disloyal to Christ! He speaks of obeying a "magisterium," but ignores "collegiality." Is this Cardinal opposed to Vatican II? His words are full of lies and slander. It is certainly not Our Lord Jesus in possession of this man's heart. To say what he has said, he can only have handed it over already to the evil one himself. Father Z has suggested rosaries for Maradiaga. Perhaps and exorcism might also be in line.
In confirmation that when you lie down with camels one gets fleas, Pope Francis can no longer hide from those with whom he has surrounded himself. From an Archbishop with a book on kissing to a Monsignor caught in a homosexual liaison to Cardinals showing up at secret conferences such as Marx and now Maradiaga, Jorge Bergoglio is surrounded by men who are not serving Our Lord and His Church and faithful.
LifeSiteNews is reporting that Maradiaga, close papal advisor will head a conference attacking the Church's moral teaching on marriage and sodomy, a moral teaching that comes from Our Lord Jesus Christ!
In what is being called a "Shadow Synod," this is the second conference following up on the secret Rome gathering in May attended by Cardinal Marx of Germany which included some of the most hostile opponents in the Church to perennial Catholic teaching on marriage and the family and human sexuality.
I wrote yesterday and state it again, the time has come for Catholics to wake-up and rise-up against these evil men who have found themselves in power and influence over the faith. As hard as it is for me and other Catholics to come to grips with it we cannot hide from the fact any longer that Jorge Bergoglio, the Bishop or Rome himself has presided over this putrid swamp of corruption, modernism, deceit and betrayal of the faith by prelates with an agenda that is contrary to the Gospel.
If Pope Francis is true to his calling then he will stop this charade and end the scandal that the faithful are enduring. If he does not, then history will not be kind to him.
For two and a half-years now, we have been through a roller-coaster with this Pope. Has buyers remorse set in yet for the Cardinals that went-along to get-along with the election of this man of whose election the Master of the Grand Lodge of Italy stated, "nothing will be the same again?"
When Freemasons praise the Pope, do we have a problem?
Really Eminence, you are hardly qualified to pronounce in this area. The danger with the upcoming encyclical on the environment which is now delayed because the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will not approve it is that it is potentially beyond the qualification of the Pope to pronounce upon. If the encyclical talks of being good steward of the earth and ending our Western habit of being wasteful of the earth's resources that is one thing; but if it backs unproven theory that is quite another. What happens if this Pope decides that global warming or climate change pronouncements from him are binding on all Catholics and the "science" is prove wrong? Man is commanded by God to "subdue the earth." He has given us the minds to develop technology to solve our problems. It is not the place of the Church to become lobbyists for environfacists. It is a scandal and it is doing the work of the AntiChrist. This Cardinal from a country where gangs of bandits rape and pillage the people daily. Perhaps Maradiaga should spend more time in the peripheries of Honduras with the scent of the suffering sheep than lecturing me on this junk science and bowing down to his Freemasonic United Nations Worshipful Masters. What god does this man serve?
“The ideology surrounding environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their profits,” said Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga.
Given my post post below on "Russia's Errors" we can see how far communism's tentacles have reached from these wolves dressed as shepherds who fail to preach Christ and instead preach a god of freemasonry, envirofascism and globalism. Watch it friends. This environmental scam on the part of the powers at the Vatican with the blessing so far of Pope Bergoglio is nothing more than an attempt to deflect our attention away from the real fight coming this October. Can we trust any of these men?
