The Bergoglian Anti-Papacy by Ann Barnhardt

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio came out on the loggia that evening I sat watching on my computer screen. I did not know the name, I had never heard of him, but as I watched, a deep sense of foreboding came over me, I wanted to vomit, I had chills. There was a reason.

Ann Barnhardt lays out the whole problem with Joseph Ratzinger's resignation in a logical and methodical way. 

Is she right? 

Discuss.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2018/11/21/new-barnhardt-video-presentation-the-bergoglian-antipapacy/

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro and acknowledgments

01:42 Why make this video?

03:25 If anything in this presentation is illogical, irrational or detached from reality, let me know

05:03 THE False Premise: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not now and never has been the Pope.

06:48 WHY isn’t Bergoglio the Pope?  What happened?

08:16 The principle of Reversion to the Status Quo

11:37 Canon 188 – the text of the law

16:09 The plain sense of the law is the last line of defense against tyranny

18:04 SUBSTANTIAL ERROR: the key criterion

19:51 Pope Benedict XVI in his own words: “Always and forever…I remain in the enclosure of St. Peter.”

23:24 Essential precision: Pope Benedict’s mind is NOT the arbiter of reality, nor does his substantial error change the ontological reality of his status as Pope.

25:47 We know from logic that a Pope can commit substantial error in the context of an attempted resignation and still retain his office

27:18 Archbishop Georg Ganswein’s approved remarks from 20 May ARSH 2016 in his address at the Gregorianum in Rome

35:02 There cannot be a “Pope Emeritus”.  Either a man occupied the Petrine See, or he does not.

36:37 Yes, Popes absolutely CAN resign.  The issue here is the VALIDITY of the attempted partial resignation in February ARSH 2013

37:44 +Ganswein. Who is this omnipresent guy that is playing both sides?

38:35 STUPID TROPE ALERT: “But both Pope Benedict and +Ganswein are sub-verbal and don’t understand the words they are saying!”

40:10 The most intelligent people (and angels) make the biggest mistakes

41:13 The second invalidating criterion: FEAR

43:00 Just vs. Unjust Fear

45:28 Never underestimate the viciousness and violence of the sodomite.

46:32 Satanism is real and its global nexus today is inside the Vatican

48:41 Archbishop Viganò is in hiding for fear of his life.

49:03 The Southern Italian Mafia: longtime mercenaries of the Freemasons and sodomites

50:26 Fear of blackmail by the sodomite mafia using PAID false witnesses

53:05 “Pray for me, that I may not FLEE for FEAR of the WOLVES.”

54:22 STUPID TROPE ALERT: “The fact that Pope Benedict resigned is proof that he wasn’t coerced!”

55:57 MASSIVE BODY OF VISUAL EVIDENCE, the conscious retention of visible signs of the Papacy by Pope Benedict XVI after 28 February ARSH 2013

01:02:50 Prophecies: Apostasy from the Top

01:05:17 Pope Benedict XVI, worst Pope ever, notorious for quitting.  The 300 page dossier on the sodomite/satanist infiltration of the Church, delivered to him on 11 December ARSH 2012

01:07:15 Pope Benedict’s warped metaphysics of “meaning”, not “being”

01:08:26 Pope Celestine V in the mind of Pope Benedict XVI

01:09:12 Pope Benedict’s mind is NOT the source nor arbiter of reality.  He needs to be told this, not asked.

01:09:54 VALID YET ILLICIT – an essential precision

01:11:11 What anyone WANTS is not germane to the question. Binary objective reality.

01:13:35 Charity should immediately cause us to ask, “Holy Father, what did they do to you?”

01:14:55 What if Pope Benedict VALIDLY resigned tomorrow? It would confirm that the February ARSH 2013 attempt was invalid

01:16:58 STUPID TROPE ALERT “We can’t know who the Pope really is, and it doesn’t matter anyway!”

01:18:09 Why won’t people even discuss this? EFFEMICACY and SLOTH

01:25:20 The Sedevacantism Red Herring

01:30:00 “But what if Pope Benedict dies…?” Binary Objective Reality.

01:31:58 “What is Bergoglio dies or goes away somehow?” Any “conclave” called while Pope Benedict is still alive and occupies the See will be invalid, just as the March ARSH 2013 conclave was invalid

01:33:27 We MUST get thi 100% right.  Half-right won’t cut it. The Parable of the seven demons.

01:35:00 Jorge Bergoglio

01:36:33 Electioneering of ARSH 2013 “conclave” is completely irrelevant because THERE WAS NO CONCALVE IN ARSH 2013.  The only relevance the faux-concalve of ARSH 2013 served was to expose the corruption and criminality in the College of Cardinals and Curia

01:38:43 Jorge Bergoglio: arch-heretic.  Informative but not germane to Bergoglio’s status as antipope. Only a confirming corollary.

01:40:35 STUPID TROPE ALERT “There have been heretic Popes before!”

01:44:17 Ann misspeaks – John the XXII, not John XXIII

01:44:34 Bellarmine and Suarez believed that the Petrine Promise precluded a heretic or man who had lost the Catholic faith to be the Pope.

01:46:27 Having faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ and His promises is being viciously attacked on a daily basis by “conservative” and even “Trad Catholic” “thought leaders” as “papolatry”.  The only way to hold the false premise that Bergoglio is the Pope is to ruthlessly attack the Papacy, and thus the Virtue of Faith itself.

01:48:20 Papolatry has NOTHING to do with the global cult of Bergoglio.  It is 100% ideological tribalism driven by the fact that Antipope Bergoglio RATIFIED PEOPLE IN THEIR SINS AND APOSTASY

01:52:07 Attributes and characteristics of the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist

01:53:30 MORE visible confirmations that Bergoglio is not now and never has been the Pope

01:57:07 STUPID TROPE ALERT: “Papal Infallibility only applies to those things the Pope says that are true!”

01:58:05 It is precisely the AUTHENTIC authority of the Papacy that will be needed to fix this mess – and everyday “conservative” and “Trad” Catholic “thought leaders” attack the Papacy in order to continue to hold their false premise that Bergoglio is the Pope.

02:00:10 The concept of “Popular Acceptance”is NOT in play because the See was never vacant in ARSH 2013.  The Mob/Vox Populi can not change ontological reality.

02:03:15 STUPID TROPE ALERT: “We believe that Novus Ordoism is a completely different religion to whose authority we MUST SUBMIT!”

02:04:42 The mystery of how “even the Elect would be deceived…” We are living it. Right now. The Elect are being deceived.

02:09:32 The greatest act of violence against the Papacy is to call a man who is not Peter, “Peter”.

02:10:12 Antipope Bergoglio has ZERO AUTHORITY.  What will you do, Father, is Antipope Bergoglio tries to abrogate the Mass of the Ages?

02:12:21 What to do? Speak up. Man up. Defend Pope Benedict! Fast and pray – Matthew 17:20 Initiative

02:13:45 Deepen your relationship with Jesus Christ. “Jesus, I know that you love me.”

02:14:57 Conclusion. Please mirror, copy and spread this video. Closing prayer.

The abuse at St. Michael's College School, "Starts at the top!"

Kyle Fraser is a 21-year-old former student at St. Michael's College School. He is interviewed by the Toronto Star (no friend of Catholicism). Fraser left the school after Grade 10, he was continually verbally abused, though he does not state if this was from students, lay staff or priests. Fraser states that the problem, "starts at the top."

Fraser is correct. The reporters call the issue, "toxic masculinity."

While the behaviour and culture are "toxic" it is certainly not proper "masculinity." Men protect, men lead, men champion truth, men govern with "goodness, discipline and knowledge," something this school and the Basilian Congregation long ago forgot, They exchanged their motto for money, power and sexual perversion.

The President, Principal and Board are a disgrace and should resign. Some should face lawsuits and prosecution.

I can personally testify that my own experience with Basilan priests at the age of 13 was one of physical brutality, verbal abuse and public humiliation. Let me assure you that the scars of abuse victims are carried all their lives. Prayer, therapy and support can assist in coping and moving forward but the marks last forever. I will take mine to my grave. The effects of the abuse and assault on this boy at SMCS, around the same age as I was, will be with him all his life. He needs to accept that and not try to bury it, as I did. He must seek resolution in prayer, therapy, family and true masculinity. I still bear the scars and the effects. The boy and his family must hold SMCS and its leadership, including the Board, accountable. It took this writer forty years to seek justice from that filthy congregation of brutes, abusers and perverts. How little did I know then that a few years later, another Basilian would come at me again? Thomas J. Rosica has sent me over a dozen emails of insult, rudeness, degradation and judgement. He attempted to sue me into poverty because he feared the truth. Thomas J. Rosica learned well in Rochester from those Baslians who were familiar to him there. His pattern of behaviour to me is indicative of the long-standing problem of that Congregation. It has continued at SMCS today. 

In both cases, from 1969 and 2015, I took on these wretched Basilian abusers and thugs and triumphed. 

The problem at SMCS indeed, "starts at the top." It starts with a rotten Congregation of priests who long ago exchanged Jesus Christ for the world of money, greed, power, perversion and sodomy.

They gave that boy a broomstick up the rectum. I was lucky, I escaped their filthy clutches before that could happen to me. 

Yes, the problem started at the top.


Basilians
https://www.theinquiry.ca/wordpress/rc-scandal/basilians/

Ontario jury sets record punitive award against Catholic Church over priest’s abuse
ttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-jury-sets-record-punitive-award-against-catholic-church-over/

Victim of abuse by Sudbury priest awarded $2.5M
https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/victim-of-abuse-by-sudbury-priest-awarded-25m-907564

Toronto man sexually abused 50 years ago by predatory priest awarded $2.6M

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2018/04/27/toronto-man-sexually-abused-50-years-ago-by-predatory-priest-awarded-26m.html

Basilian priest charged with abusing Ottawa student in 1972

https://www.catholicregister.org/item/8573-basilian-priest-charged-with-abusing-ottawa-student-in-1972

Former student alleges repeated abuse by Calgary priest, high school teacher

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/former-head-altar-boy-alleges-repeated-abuse-by-calgary-priest-high-school-teacher

Victims of disgraced Windsor priest launch new $3M lawsuits against Catholic Church

http://www.windsorstar.com/life/victims+disgraced+windsor+priest+launch+lawsuits+against+catholic+church/5831271/story.html

Elderly sex offender priest to be released from prison on Thanksgiving

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/william-marshall-released-from-prison-thanksgiving

St. Mike’s sex abuse victim sues priest

https://culteducation.com/group/874-clergy-abuse/4077-st-mikersquos-sex-abuse-victim-sues-priest.html

The Shame of Toronto's Basilian St. Michael's College School

SMCS had the video at the bottom of this article taken down. Thanks to Barona who downloaded it and then uploaded it again.

UPDATED, 11/21/2018 18:00hrs.

It is confirmed in media today that the Principal of St. Michael's College School knew about the assault on a student but did not report it to police. Greg Reeves reports that he did not call police because the boy's mother had not yet been informed.

It was Reeves' solemn duty to call the police, regardless. Meanwhile, alumni are calling for resignations and an end to the "bullying mentality" endemic in the institution. No reform is possible without the complete exposure of the Congregation of St. Basil.

The Board today, which includes a prominent Toronto lawyer Nina Perfetto of Fogler Rubinoff and businessman Nick Di Donato of Liberty Entertainment issued a statement today giving full support to the President and Principal of the College. The Board members themselves have lost all credibility with what they have said today:

A Statement from the SMCS Board of Directors - November 21

Toronto, November 21, 2018 – The Board of Directors of St. Michael’s College School issued a statement today surrounding the horrific events that recently took place at the School. Board Chair Michael Forsayeth said, “We are deeply saddened by the recent incidents that have taken place at our beloved school. They are offensive to everything we stand for and to the values we strive to instill in our students. Throughout this difficult time, our first priority remains on the victims and the safety and well-being of the entire student body, faculty, and staff.
"As a Board, we are united in our support of the School’s leadership. Both President Fr. Jefferson Thompson, CSB and Principal Greg Reeves were hired because of their dedication and care for students throughout their careers. That remains the primary focus, and they continue to have the full support of the Board for how this situation is being handled. They are both men of the highest integrity and continue to have our trust to lead us forward. Witnessing the standing ovation at last night’s alumni meeting, many of whom are current and past parents, I believe that Fr. Thompson and Mr. Reeves have their overwhelming support. As a school community, we want to ensure that these incidents do not happen again.”

The law is quite clear. Those in authority over minors are legally obligated to report cases of suspected abuse to the police or child family services under Ontario statutes. Were these so-called, Catholic leaders more concerned about the reputation of the school than the physical and spiritual welfare of a boy in its charge?

The law was not followed! 

Every Catholic in Toronto should be justifiably outraged over this failure and betrayal. This is nothing new for this school or the Congregation of St. Basil who have paid out millions of dollars in damages for those abused under its care.

This writer knows first hand from a half-century ago, the brutality of priests of the Basilian Congregation. The history shows that the culture of abuse and bullying in Basilian schools is endemic and irreformable.

UPDATED, 3:00 P.M. EST

TORONTO POLICE CHARGE SIX STUDENTS IN ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PORNOGRAPHY DISTRIBUTION WHICH INCLUDED THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A BOY WITH A BROOMSTICK.

SEXUAL ASSAULT
GANG SEXUAL ASSAULT
SEXUAL ASSAULT WITH A WEAPON

THE FIRST QUESTION WAS, "SHOULD THE VIDEO HAVE BEEN REPORTED ON MONDAY" TO WHICH THE INSPECTOR REPLIED, "YES."

WHY DID THIS CATHOLIC INSTITUTION NOT REPORT THE CRIME?

Joe Warmington and the chronology of events.

"Since 1852, St. Michael's College School has been educating and forming young men in goodness, discipline, and knowledge for lives of leadership and service. We are Canada's only Catholic, Basilian, faith-based independent school, educating young men from Grades 7 to 12 in a university-preparatory programme, and forming them with a foundation for life." 

Catholic Education, St Mike's style

https://www.stmichaelscollegeschool.com/about-us/mission-statement

St. Michael's College in Toronto is facing another grave scandal. This latest involves alleged criminal activity including sexual assault, perversion and child pornography on the part of a group of students. It is alleged that the school reacted slowly to the situation and did not contact police.

Teach me Goodness, Discipline and Knowlege!

Over the last half-century. the Basilian Congregation which owns and operates St. Michael's College has paid out millions of dollars in damages to the damaged souls who suffered under the infestation of homosexual perverts into that once august religious congregation for years of sexual abuse and rape by sodomite priests. Parents pay $20,000 for their boys to attend this school. Much of it is documented here: History of Basilian and St. Michael's College sexual perversion and abuse at Sylvia's Site.

The parents at St. Mike's shouted "bugger off" to the media. Indeed! Get the buggers off!

A long history of sexualised violence. St. Michael's College School Has Long History Of Sexualized Violence: Alumnus

The alleged crimes were not reported to Toronto Police Toronto private school didn't report alleged sexual assault to police: cops

The latest news can be linked here:  CURRENT NEWS! 

The pictures here were captured by Barona from a student video linked at the end of this article.

Boys will be boys, eh?

The spokesman for the Basilians is Father Thomas J. Rosica who said, " We are deeply saddened by the events that have come to light over the past days, ... Our primary concern in all of this situation is the protection of students, young people and vulnerable persons." The Board of Directors has an interesting member, a certain "pro-bono" lawyer. http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2015/02/this-blogger-being-threatened-with.html. Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness was a student there and has his views at the following links.

http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.com/2018/11/st-michaels-college-school-tale-of.html

http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.com/2018/11/st-michaels-college-school-crisis.html

http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.com/2018/11/st-michaels-college-school-do-parents.html

The Dear Leader of the Church of Bergoglio

You scream, I scream, We all scream for Ice Cream

The Church in America is about to be struck down thanks to Bergoglio

Diplomatic immuity arguments in court have been previously used in the United States by lawyers acting for the Vatican in lawsuits over sexual rape and sodomy by priests and bishops. The lawyers agruged that dioceses were all independent and did not take "corporate" orders.

That argument is now dead.

The filthy Bergoglio's actions in cahoots with homosexualists Cupich and Wuerl will backfire.

Rome's direct involvement will lead to the collapse of the structural church in America.

This is what you get when you disobey Our Lady of America and Fatima!

She's cleaning house!

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2018/11/15/pope-francis-undermines-vatican-diplomatic-immunity-with-usccb-intervention/

"It's Not Francis's Church. It's Jesus Christ's Church." McCarrick Victim James Grein Gives Powerful Testimony

"It's Not Francis's Church. It's Jesus Christ's Church." McCarrick Victim James Grein Gives Powerful Testimony

Italian bishops do Bergoglio's bidding and bolwderdize the Novus Ordo and demand an end to Summorum Pontificum!

The Italian bishops, eight years after the English speaking world finally adopted the 2002 Roman Missal and the correct translation, have issued their incorrect translation.

Bowing to Bergoglio's dictates, the Italian bishops have changed the words of the The Lord's Prayer to "do not abandon us to temptation." It is completely wrong. As Gregory DiPippo at New Liturgical Movement writes;

The Greek verb in question “eisenenkēis” does not mean “abandon.” It is a form of a highly irregular verb [1] “eispherō – to bring in, lead-in, carry in, introduce.” No dictionary lists “abandon” or any synonym thereof as a translation. It is as if Christians have not been praying “lead us not into temptation” in countless languages for over 19 centuries, as if no one has ever bothered to consider what these words mean, and comment on them. It is impossible to believe that pastors with the cure of souls in Italy (or anywhere else) are suddenly besieged by anguished parishioners, tormented at the thought that the Eternal Father might be leading them into temptation. But even if that were the case, is it really an improvement to suggest that God cannot lead us into temptation, but can abandon us in it?

Further, they have not translated "bonae voluntatis" correctly in the Gloria.  The current Italian, “pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà – peace on earth to men of good will” is to be replaced by “pace in terra agli uomini, amati dal Signore – peace on earth to men, loved by the Lord.”

They have refused to translate the actual Latin "pro multis" as "for many" and will continue to use "per tutti," or, for all, in direct defiance of Pope Benedict XVI.

If that is not enough, they have stated that Benedict XVI had no right to issue Summorum Pontificum, that it was illegal and that the Missal of John XXIII, an alleged Saint, was actually abrogated by another alleged Saint, Giovanni Montini.

Make no mistake that this is on the order of the dictator, Peronist on the Seat of Peter. It is a shot over the bow to the traditional orders, the ICRSS, FSSP, etcetera, and the many, many diocesan priests and communities. 

If Bergoglio and his filthy minions want war, they've got it.

This is not 1965 or 1968 and I am not my mother and father.

Other reading.

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2018/11/ask-father-could-latin-be-suppressed-wherein-fr-z-rants/

https://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2018/11/16/hatred-of-the-ancient-liturgy-always-means-hatred-of-the-ancient-faith-and-love-of-homoheresy/

https://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2018/11/16/the-purge-goes-all-in-italian-bishops-meeting-the-ancient-mass-should-be-repealed-pope-ratzinger-made-a-mistake/

Monsignor Bux: Pope Francis Must Urgently Issue Profession of Faith

http://edwardpentin.co.uk/monsignor-bux-pope-francis-must-urgently-issue-profession-of-faith/

The Vatican theologian says unless the Pope reaffirms Church teaching on morals, the faith and the sacraments, ‘the apostasy will deepen and the de facto schism will widen.’ 

In a forceful interview with Italian Vaticanist Aldo Maria Valli, Msgr. Nicola Bux has warned that the current pontificate is issuing statements that are generating “heresies, schisms, and controversies of various kinds” and that the Holy Father should issue a profession of faith to restore unity in the Church.

In the interview, published Oct. 13 but overlooked due to the Youth Synod taking place in Rome last month, the theologian consultor to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints said “heretical statements” on marriage, the moral life and reception of the sacraments are now “at the center of a vast debate which is becoming more and more passionate by the day.”

Read the rest at:

http://edwardpentin.co.uk/monsignor-bux-pope-francis-must-urgently-issue-profession-of-faith/

Tom Rosica: "Remove the beam in your own eye, How can you live with yourself. How can you celebrate Mass?"

It seems that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has some legal problems. Crux is reporting that a court in Milan has ordered him to make a financial settlement to his brother. When Viganò issued his Testimony, something learned about him was that he came from an old and wealthy aristocratic Italian family. This has enabled him to not rely on the Church for his retirement and given him the ability to protect himself from those who would seek to do him harm at this time.

Whether he acted inappropriately or not is not of any importance in the debate over McCarrick or those who supported his advancement and the advancement of others in the Church like him. He has rightly called out the homosexualist mafia in the Church and its destructiveness. 

Yet, there are those who continue to try to discredit him because of what he has written but fail to address what he has written. This, in itself, is a testimony that what he has said is true. 

Tom Rosica mocks the Viganò family writing, "What a beautiful Christian family."

One should be very careful about casting stones when one lives in a glass house because every family has its tragedies.

http://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rochester/crime-safety/2018/02/01/william-rosica-sentenced-irondequoit-police-officer-stalking-ex-girlfriend

https://13wham.com/news/local/former-irondequoit-cop-sentenced-to-5-years-for-stalking-ex-girlfriend

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/02/01/william-rosica-cyberstalking-irondequoit-police/1066926001/



Tom Rosica asks the Archbishop on Twitter, "How can you celebrate Mass."

After dozens of mocking emails to me and an attempt to sue me and my family into poverty through a vexatious and frivolous lawsuit, I can ask the same question.

"Tom, how can you celebrate Mass?"

You can suspend Vox Cantoris from Twitter, but you can't suspend "Me" from Twitter

Vox Cantoris has been suspended from Twitter. It took place not long after I called @pontifex a liar over his heretical and blasphemous comment that the Holy Spirit brings confusion. I suggested that he read the Pentecost Sequence, Veni, Sancte Spiritus. Then again, I tweeted to him over his continued cover-ups of homosexual perverts in the clergy asked @pontifex if he was, therefore, a "homosexual."

But neither Twitter nor any who do their bidding can ban "me" from Twitter. While the nearly 4,000 followers are gone and cannot follow me there, they can surely still find me here - at least until Blogger shuts all of us down.

I have been blocked by many on Twitter. Tom Rosica, Austen Ivereigh, Antonio Spadaro, Rocco Palmo, Cardinal Napier and many more too numerous and silly to count. I consider it, as with the Twitter suspension, a badge of honour. 

What these clericalists and their minions can't seem to comprehend is that it is quite easy to have one or even multiple Twitter accounts under multiple email addresses. How else can we keep monitoring what they do?

I am not going away. 

The attempt to stop me has happened before, attempted lawsuits, nasty emails, interference with my work as a Cantor, ostracising me in my Archdiocese, slandering me with the former President of Una Voce, Leo Darroch and then his joining it to defame me to the whole Governing Council of FIUV and even attempts to attack my income and my employment.

They have lost everytime they have come at me and they will continue to lose.

They have their reward.

I have mine.

Vox Cantoris Suspended from Twitter

within the last few hours, I have been suspended from Twitter.

Did someone get upset because I called Bergoglio a liar? 

So, the same morning that I don't make it to Rosica's list of approved Catholics, I get suspended from Twitter.

I proudly wear this as a badge of honour!

Please Tweet this out.

#EgoSumVoxCantoris

BREAKING: VOX CANTORIS DOES NOT MAKE IT ON TOMMY ROSICA'S "TRUSTED SOURCES FOR CATHOLIC NEWS"

Whatever little action on perverts by American bishops has been deep-sixed by Bergoglio and his minions

NATION |  NOV. 12, 2018

Vatican Cancels US Bishops’ Vote on Sex-Abuse Reform Measures

The instruction to delay consideration of a new ‘Code of Conduct’ for bishops, creation of a lay-led investigative body came directly from the Holy See, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo told USCCB meeting.

Ed Condon/CNA

BALTIMORE — Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, has told the American bishops that they will not vote on two key proposals that had been expected to form the basis for the Church’s response to the sexual-abuse crisis.

The news came at the beginning of the U.S. bishops’ conference fall general assembly, meeting in Baltimore Nov. 12-14.

The instruction to delay consideration of a new “Code of Conduct” for bishops and the creation of a lay-led body to investigate bishops accused of misconduct came directly from the Holy See, Cardinal DiNardo told a visibly surprised conference hall.

Cardinal DiNardo said that the Holy See insisted that consideration of the new measures be delayed until the conclusion of a special meeting called by Pope Francis for February. That meeting, which will include the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences, will address the global sex-abuse crisis.

Apologizing for the last-minute change to the conference’s schedule, he said he had only been told of the decision by Rome late yesterday.

Ahead of the bishops’ meeting, two documents had been circulated: a draft “Standards of Conduct” for bishops and a proposal to create a new special investigative commission to handle accusations made against bishops.

These proposals had been considered to be the bishops’ best chance to produce a substantive result during the meeting and signal to the American faithful that they were taking firm action in the face of a series of scandals that have rocked the Church in the United States over recent months.

Speaking before the conference session had even been called to order, Cardinal DiNardo told the bishops he was clearly “disappointed” with Rome’s decision. The cardinal said that, despite the unexpected intervention by Rome, he was hopeful that the Vatican meeting would prove fruitful and that its deliberations would help improve the American bishops’ eventual measures.

While Cardinal DiNardo was still speaking, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago intervened from the floor, expressing his support for the Pope. 

“It is clear the Holy See is taking the abuse crisis seriously,” Cardinal Cupich said.

At the same time, he suggested that the work that had gone into preparing the two proposals should not go to waste.

Cardinal Cupich suggested that if the conference could not take a binding vote, they should instead continue with their discussions and conclude with resolution ballots on the two measures. This, he said, would help best equip Cardinal DiNardo to present the thoughts of the American bishops during the February meeting, where he will represent the U.S. bishops’ conference.

“We need to be very clear with [Cardinal DiNardo] where we stand and be clear with our people where we stand,” Cardinal Cupich said.

While acknowledging that the February meeting was important, he noted that responding to the abuse crisis “is something we cannot delay — there is an urgency here.”

Cardinal Cupich went on to propose moving forward the American bishops’ next meeting, currently scheduled for June 2019. Instead, he suggested, the bishops should reconvene in March in order to act as soon as possible after the February session in Rome.

Ed Condon is the Washington editor for Catholic News Agency.

The pointless was that did not end all wars

On this day, let us remember the 20,000,000 fallen and those who suffered for the rest of their lives. Looking back through the lens of history Canadians rose to fight, still in a colonial mindset, spent blood and treasure on this European debacle of death and destruction. Looking at Europe today and the lack of will of Europeans to fight for the culture and faith, it was all in vain. Those at the time, of course, did not see it this way. It was for King and Country and it was necessary for the preservation of Europe from a united Germany's onslaught.

The fools of France and England punished Germany so badly that another and worse war, and ironically, a just war on the part of the Allies, would be fought only two decades later. The bloodshed we see in the Middle East today is a result of the dreadful Sykes-Picot which carved up the wretched Ottoman Turkish empire and imposed artificial borders and puppet monarchs on the ancient peoples.

Looking at Europe now, the Europeans did not deserve the deaths of tens of thousands of Canadians and Americans who died in trenches of war and disease only to now behold a Europe no longer able to find the will to survive. 

God have mercy on those who died. 

May His justice be served on those who caused it.