Homily by Father Juan Carlos Gavancho - did this get him removed?

A Brave Anti-Corruption Sermon

By ROD DREHER • September 3, 2018, 3:48 PM

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Father Juan Carlos Gavancho, removed from parish for stunning anti-corruption homily (From his video ‘Basta’)

On Sunday, August 26, the day after the Vigano testimony was published, a young Catholic priest named Juan Carlos Gavancho preached a bold homily in the Santa Barbara, California, parish where he was assistant pastor. He preached about scandal, and standing up for the faith. You can hear the entire homily here, on his Facebook page.  It’s 20 minutes long, but the most intense part starts shortly after the 10-minute mark. I have transcribed it below.

Here is a link to the same homily in Spanish. 

The reaction to this sermon was swift. Father Gavancho was told to get his things and vacate the rectory. [UPDATE: I’m hearing that the homily is not why he was kicked out of the parish; I’m trying to find out more. — RD] His name was taken off the parish website.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-sermon-that-cost-a-brave-priest-his-job/

Comment from Father Z blog.

racjax says:

3 September 2018 at 5:17 PM

Thank you, Father Z, for posting this. I was brought up to date on this situation only this morning by a parishioner of Our Lady of Sorrows. To elaborate, Fr. Gavancho was thrown out of the rectory by the pastor at 7:30 in the evening this past Tuesday and not allowed to even take all his possessions nor told why. He ended up in a hotel that night. Unfortunately for the pastor and two of his minions, a parishioner was looking for Fr. Gavancho for a pre-scheduled meeting when they entered the rectory and witnessed the expulsion. So there is a witness. The pastor has only been ordained for a few years and is more preoccupied with the décor of “his” church and is arrogant. The line from the archdiocese is that this occurred because Fr. Gavancho was rude to some people.

Excerpt:

The evil has found in the Church a hold. And it is natural for people to believe that there is nothing else to do in the Catholic Church. Maybe many are thinking of leaving the Church. After the terrible experience of 2002, with the abuses, many people left the Church. Now, another opportunity, many people are going to leave. I hope they don’t do, I tell them that they need to stay, that this is the Church of Christ. But if they do, believe me, I understand. Because it is very bad what we have allowed to take place in the Catholic Church in the world. Because this is not only America. In the world! Everywhere! Chile. Ireland. Australia. Everywhere.

If you are Catholic, and you love the Catholic Church, you cannot just say, “Well, let’s pray, let’s offer a couple of rosaries, and we’ll see what happens.” You cannot do that. You have to pray, but pray for truth. You need to pray so God can act. He has begun to act. Who may think that yesterday, that a former Vatican ambassador from the Holy See to the United States was going to write 10, 11 pages letter saying this — asking for the resignation of a pope?! Who may think that? If you had told me that yesterday morning, I wouldn’t have believed you. But that’s what happened.

So, what are we doing now? Where are we going from here? First of all, we must understand one thing. This Church, the Catholic Church, is the Church of Christ. It is the Bride of Christ. St. Paul is right when he said in the letter to the Ephesians, “He has cleansed the Church with His Cross, with His blood.” She is beautiful. We have betrayed her. This is not an abusive church. This is a holy church that has fallen into the hands of abusive, evil men, who are trying to destroy the Church from within, since they couldn’t do it from the outside throughout the centuries.

But you must be aware that Christ is in charge of the church. He is in charge. Sometimes on days like this, we may not see him. We may not feel him. And we may cry out like we did at the beginning of the mass, “Please, Lord, help us! Have mercy on us!” But he’s in charge, and he will bring justice. He’s already begun to do that. These things I have told you are just the beginning. Just the beginning. Many bad things are going to happen, and we need to be glad, because nothing is better than the truth. To know what is happening, even though it may be ugly, it may be painful, to know it is very good. So, Christ is in charge.

Second, pray. Do sacrifices. Pray the rosary. Come closer to the Lord. Ask the Lord to be part of his flock. Because you will see many wearing cassocks like this, or chasubles like this, many preaching from the pulpits. They are traitors. So you need to have something that in the Catholic Church is called discernment: the capacity to know where is God and where is not. Regardless of it seems like God is here or it seems like God is there. No, no — now you need real discernment, because the Devil has clothed his children with shepherd’s clothing, to make it more difficult to recognize him.

You need to pray for discernment, to pray for the Church, to pray for you, for your children. To pray for your priests, especially for so many bishops who are good, still, and priests who are good, faithful. Who have suffered greatly all these decades, and all these years, being moved from one parish to another because they were preaching the truth, and the pastor or the bishop didn’t like that, so they moved to another place, and another place, living a life of great suffering — they are there. And it’s not fun. It is difficult. You cry a lot, because you feel lonely. Forgotten. Despised. Only because you wanted to be faithful to Christ, but your speech, and your homilies didn’t fit with the ideas of these people who wanted to destroy the Church, and who wanted you to say nice things to the people. Don’t make waves. Just go along with everything. Don’t make people nervous. Just, you know, speak about general things, so people are not aware of what’s going on.

So my dear brothers and sisters, then we must act, which is part of a process of conversion. You must act. Bishop Fulton Sheen, one of the greatest bishops that America has ever had … said that: “Do not look for change in bishops and priests.” Do not. He was talking to you. The change in the Church … will come through you laity. When you don’t give up, and tell your pastor and your priest and your bishop: “Tell us the truth! Stop being just nice, and smiling to us, and preach the Gospel to us! We want to live a holy life, not the life that the world lives. Tell us the truth, and we will help you to sustain the Church with our money and other things. But you, you need to do your mission, you need to do your job, which is helping us to get to heaven. To be saved. To give us the Sacrament, to love Jesus, and not just to be politically correct. That’s not the Gospel.

But that’s the temptation that you laity have fallen into. … Speak out! Do you want the Gospel? Do you want Christ? Do you want heaven? Do you want the truth? Or do you just want what we find everywhere in the world, which is what we really want to hear, what is pleasing to our ears. Demand change in the Church. It’s not going to be enough, just adding a couple of policies to this taking care of the children. It’s not going to be enough just to see three, four, or five cardinals resigning, and ten bishops resigning — it’s not going to be enough. We need to see real change. We need to go back to be faithful to Christ, to Our Lord Christ, not the world. We are here to change the world, not the world to change us. We are the light of the world; we are not equal with the world. We have Christ. We have the truth. The world is helpless. The prince of the world is the Evil One, and we are hear to fight against him.

Now, what I’m saying might sound very hard for you, and I have to say I’m sorry, but I had to say it. Because I’m sick and tired of seeing my mother the Church being insulted and portrayed as an institution of criminals. Because it’s not. It’s my mother, it’s your mother! The one who gave you eternal life through baptism, who gave you the courage through confirmation, who gives you the Eucharist every Sunday you come. She’s our mother, and we need to help her in these dreadful times. So my dear brothers and sisters again, I have to say this because I am priest of Christ. Many people don’t say that, and I was afraid to say something like that. There are more things I want to say, but I don’t say it because I want to be here next week.

[Applause]

But I need to say this, and I ask the Lord’s pardon, because I’m a coward too. Sometimes I don’t say what I should say, because sometimes I’m more concerned about my position. Pray for me too so I may be a saint. But suffering is hard, it’s tough, you don’t want to suffer. Pray, my fellow Catholics, in these dreadful times. Demand from your leaders the truth — only then everything will be fine. With Jesus! Not with cardinals, not with popes. These are human beings. Some are wonderful, some are bad. Only with Christ. Only by doing his will. Only by staying next to him faithfully, everything will be fine. And I tell you this: everything will be fine. The Church of Christ cannot be destroyed through anybody, not for the Devil. They will not destroy the Church, but they will take some members of the Church away — yes, that he can do. And we pray that none of us will be one of them. So my dear brothers and sisters, may the Lord help us in these dreadful times to have courage. I have my hope in God, and in you, the laity. You will save the Church.

Bergoglio didn't know who Kim Davis "really was," But he sure knew who Emma Bonino was!

According to this Tweet by Tom Rosica, Antonio Spadaro has said that "Francis didn't know who Kim Davis "really" was."

How tragic that these supposed men of Christ have so degraded the public image of Kim Davis, who while not a Catholic, confesses Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour. 

Yes, let's throw Kim Davis under the bus.

Well, Jorge Mario Bergoglio sure knows who Emma Bonino is. If he didn't then it was up to Spadaro to "protect the pope" from meeting with such people giving scandal to the faithful and encouraging them in their evil. 

Spadaro is a hypocrite, a real Pharisee and clericalist.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an evil man. He is not the "Holy Father." He is an enemy of Our Lord Jesus Christ and an enemy of you and me. 

The war on Viganò has entered a new stage and the Catholic and secular media are defending child rapists

The Vatican's war to discredit and denigrate Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has gone into overdrive.

It is as far from Our Lord Jesus Christ as you can get.

Each one of them, Bergoglio, Spadaro, Rosica who brags that the Vatican has "begun a pushback," Paglia, Martin and their lay sycophants Faggioli, Ivereigh - all of them will be held accountable before God for the coverup and the way they have treated Viganò.

The secular and Catholic media have joined in the smear campaign. People such as Cindy Wooten, Sean Michael Winters, and others (name them in the combox and I will add here), have all lost their souls. They are not journalists, they are not looking for the truth. They are sycophants and by their actions, they are equally guilty in the cover-up.

They have turned this away from the truth, away from the victims.

What happened to the truth?

Viganò has "sold himself for 30 pieces of silver" but McCarrick is a "tragic figure."

A tragic figure? The man is a sodomite, a pervert, a predator, a Judas priest. He is not a tragic figure

Pope Francis is a monster. He called out the rabid dogs on the aeroplane journey from Ireland. Don't you see it? Bergoglio cards not about you or me. He cares not about the victims. He has protected sodomites from the first of his pontificate. He is evil, a fraud, a filthy child pervert protector. He brought Danneels into his inner circle, promoted an active sodomite, Battista Ricca, kissed the hands of those promoting sodomy, brought back priests who were rapists, and cursed victims of clerical abuse.

How can these men not be beating their backs with whips and wearing hair-shirts over this calamity? These monsters have seized control of the Bride of Christ, they have set up a false religion and a perversion in the place of truth. These are not men of faith.

Where are the rest of the bishops and cardinals who know the truth? Will none who know come out and defend Viganò? Will none tell what they know? Are they all sodomites? Are they all blackmailed?

But as we heard in yesterday's Epistle for the XVth Sunday after Pentecost, "God is not mocked."

All of these will fall, There defence shows that they are actually in panic mode. They know that they have been found out. They will get mean, they will get violent and stop at nothing, but they will make mistakes. 

These men are devils, every one of them. 

They will not win. 

Personal Secretary to Pope Francis accused of Homosexuality and Pedophilia

Gloria TV is reporting:

It appears to be a scam.

https://gloria.tv/article/d7EDr74UJuAN4eS96dm3WMqhf 

Bergoglian sycophant Antonio Spadaro, S.J. issues his own testimony

Heh, heh, what these guys don't get is blocking one on Twitter or Facebook really doesn't work.

I am glad to know that I am amongst the "wrong people" according to Tom Rosica. Where is mercy?

Meanwhile

Oh well Bill, that makes it all okay then.

The Viganò Testimony - Viganò reveals what really happened when Pope Francis met privately with Kim Davis

Breaking overnight are new comments by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews.  Viganò defends himself from previous actions by certain Church official which hurt his reputation and, if true, were outright lies. This is all in reference to the meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, the American woman jailed for conscientious objection over the demand to perform a civil, so-called "marriage" between two men. Most are familiar with the story.

Briefly on this matter, during Pope Bergoglio's visit to Washington, he met with Kim Davis at the Nunciature. Carlo Maria Viganò was the Papal Nuncio at the time and had arranged the meeting. After the Pope was back in Rome, a media firestorm erupted in the secular media and pushed by the usual suspects, Thomas J. Rosica, CSB (who, if you are not aware, threatened to sue this writer, here, and the full history, here), and Antonio Spadaro, S.J. Very quickly, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was thrown under the bus and made to bear the shame of the media uproar.

Over the last seven days, the secular media and the broader Catholic media have made Carlo Maria Viganò the villain. Certain decisions that had been taken by him in his role as Nuncio, or public comments made in an official capacity as Nuncio have been used to discredit him. These range from an investigation into a former Archbishop in Minneapolis an apparent homosexual and accusations against him and a speech given in which "Uncle" Ted McCarrick was present. 

Whether Viganò acted correctly or incorrectly in his professional role is not the issue. He may have been wrong then, he may not have been. It is not Viganò's credibility that these minions should be examining, it is the report if the Testimony and the accusations contained within it. Yet, these media sycophants summoned to duty by Bergoglio on the flight back from Ireland would rather go after the messenger than determine the veracity of the message. There is a reason that President Donald J. Trump calls them the "fake news media" and he is right. The similarities between this and the lack of truth reported in the matters of Hillary Clinton, Russian dossiers and corruption are not lost on this writer.

These evil people would rather deflect than investigate the abuse and rape of thousands of boys and young men at the hands of sadistic, satanic homosexuals. Can the tin-foiled hat crowd be correct that there is a global paedophile/ebophile ring that is so powerful, so deeply entrenched that it controls through threats and blackmail everything from government to Hollywood to the Church? Homosexuality is the new god to these filthy scoundrels. 

Every priest who is a sodomite. Every bishop, cardinal or even this Pope must be outed. If you were abused and are a layman or woman or a priest, now is the time to come forward. 

Expose it all. 

Name them!

Now, let us get to the current matter with Kim Davis whom we have written about previously and Viganò in an exclusive from LifeSiteNews.

As you read Viganò's letter in response to words by Juan Carlos Cruz alleging what the Pope said to him as reported in the New York Times certain things come to mind?

• Why would the Pope even raise the matter of Kim Davis with Juan Carlos Cruz; what would have been its possible relevance and if so, why would he state that he "fired that Nuncio?"
• If he didn't state it to Cruz, then Cruz is lying, but why? It is absurd to think that Cruz, who by the way is a homosexual no doubt due to the clerical grooming, would make up such a storyline if the Pope hadn't said it, it is simply nonsensical to believe he would make it up.
• The behaviour of Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the meeting in Rome with Viganò combined with the previous behaviour as articulated in The Testimony on how Viganò was questioned by Bergoglio on what McCarrick was "like" or if Wuerl were "good or bad," shows that Bergoglio is a psychopath. 

Someone is lying.

It doesn't seem to me to be Cruz or Viganò

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-vigano-reveals-what-really-happened-when-pope-francis-met-private

Here below is the official English text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s statement on Pope Francis private meeting with Kim Davis and what really happened. The English text may also be accessed in pdf form here, while a pdf of the Italian original may be read here. Emphasis not added.

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Pope Francis met privately with Kim Davis: here is what really happened
by
His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganò
Titular Archbishop of di Ulpiana
Apostolic Nuncio

On August 28, 2018, the New York Times reported part of a conversation that Juan Carlos Cruz, the most well known Chilean sexual abuse victim of Father Karadima and Bishop Barros, allegedly had with Pope Francis. Inexplicably, in his conversation with Cruz, the Pope is said to have spoken about his meeting with Kim Davis during his visit to Washington on September 24, 2015, and to have said that he knew nothing about the case before the meeting.

Faced with the Pope’s reported statement, I feel obliged to recount the events as they really unfolded.

At the end of the dinner, at the Nunciature in Washington, on the evening of September 23, 2015, I told the Pope that I needed him to grant me a half hour, because I wished to bring to his attention, and possible approval, a delicate and easily achievable initiative; that is, to meet personally and in a completely confidential way, out of the media spotlight, with Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, the first American citizen condemned and imprisoned for one week for having exercised her right to conscientious objection.

At the beginning of our meeting, on the evening of September 23, I gave the Pope a one-page memo summarizing the Davis case (here attached in Italian and English). The Pope immediately appeared in favor of such an initiative, but added that the meeting would have political implications, and said, “I don’t understand these things, so it would be good for you to hear Cardinal Parolin’s opinion.”

It was already 9:30 in the evening, so I went in person with two of the counselors of the Nunciature (an Italian and a Lithuanian) to the hotel not far away, where the Pope’s entourage was being hosted. Since I had called ahead to give advance notice of my arrival, His Excellency Archbishop Angelo Becciu (Substitute of the Secretary of State) and His Excellency Archbishop Paul Gallagher (Secretary for Relations with States, and Head of the Political Section of the Secretariat of State) were waiting for me in the hotel lobby. They immediately notified me that Cardinal Parolin had already retired to his room, and they did not consider it appropriate to disturb him, since they could easily make him aware of our meeting the following morning.

We then met in a small lounge of the hotel. As I said, there were five of us. I gave them the same memo that I had given to the Pope, setting forth its content and explaining the reason for my visit, which had been requested by the Pope. After considering the case, Archbishop Becciu was immediately in favor of the Pope receiving Davis privately before he left Washington for New York.

Archbishop Gallagher, while showing support for the idea given the importance of defending the right to conscientious objection, said that it was appropriate to verify from the point of view of common law whether there were any reasons that would render the meeting inadvisable; namely, whether the legal proceedings brought against Davis were concluded or were still open. I therefore had him speak by telephone with the canonist for the Nunciature, who before becoming a priest had been a judge in the American military courts and a professor of canon law. After the conversation with the canonist to clarify matters — he said there were no procedural obstacles — Bishop Gallagher gave an unconditionally favorable opinion that the Pope should receive Davis.

The following morning, after the Mass that the Pope concelebrated with us in the Nunciature, I informed the Pope of the positive opinion of his two principal collaborators, who had then told Cardinal Parolin about our meeting. The Pope then gave his consent, and I organized to have Davis come to the Nunciature without anyone noticing, by having her sit in a separate room. Everything was made much easier by the fact that Davis was already in Washington, where she was invited to receive a Cost of Discipleship Award from the Family Research Council.

Before the meeting took place, I alerted the photographer from L’Osservatore Romano that he should not release the photographs of the meeting without the permission of his superiors. He of course observed the orders, but took many photographs, which have never been published, and are currently kept in the photographic archive of L’Osservatore Romano. I also had Davis promise me in advance that she would not give any news to the media until after the Pope’s return to Rome, at the end of his pastoral visit to the USA. Davis faithfully kept her promise.

Early in the afternoon of September 24, before leaving for New York City, the Pope entered as planned into the sitting room where Davis and her husband were waiting for him. He embraced her affectionately, thanked her for her courage, and invited her to persevere. Davis was very moved and started crying. She was then taken back to her hotel in a car driven by a pontifical gendarme, accompanied by an American Monsignor and staff member of the Nunciature.

Once the Pope returned to Rome from Philadelphia after the World Meeting with the Families, the news of his meeting with Davis broke out in the media. An avalanche of phone calls, faxes and emails arrived at the Nunciature in Washington and the Vatican Press Office, many with insults and protests, but also many in favor of the Pope’s meeting with Davis. In an article of September 30, 2015, the New York Timesreported that “Vatican officials initially would not confirm that the meeting occurred, finally doing so on Wednesday afternoon, while refusing to discuss any details.” The Vatican Press Office then issued a statement — without their superiors in the Secretariat of State ever consulting me — stating that the Pope had never received Davis in a private audience, and that at most he may have greeted her among many other people before departing for New York. Father Rosica and Father Lombardi increased added to the lies, and were quoted as follows in the October 2, 2015 editionof the New York Times: “But the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Vatican spokesman, said on Friday that the office of Archbishop Viganò had extended the invitation to Ms. Davis and that the Pope was probably not briefed about her case. And the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the chief Vatican spokesman, depicted the meeting as one meet-and-greet among many.” This is the transparency of the Holy See under Pope Francis!

The next morning, at about 6:00 a.m. in Washington — I remember it well because I had just entered the chapel at the Nunciature — I received a frantic telephone call from Cardinal Parolin, who told me “You must come immediately to Rome because the Pope is furious with you!” I left as soon as possible and was received by the Pope at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, around 7 o’clock in the evening on October 9, at the conclusion of one of the afternoon sessions of the Second Synod on the Family.

The Pope received me for almost an hour, and was very affectionate and paternal. He immediately apologized to me for troubling me with coming to Rome, and he lavished continuous praise on me for the way I had organized his visit to the USA, and for the incredible reception he received in America. He never expected such a welcome.

To my great surprise, during this long meeting, the Pope did not mention even once the audience with Davis!

As soon as my audience with the Pope was over, I immediately phoned Cardinal Parolin, and said to him, “The Pope was so good with me. Not a word of reproach, only praise for the success of his visit to the USA.” At which point Cardinal Parolin replied, “It’s not possible, because with me he was furious about you.”

This is a summary of the events.

As mentioned at the beginning, on August 28, 2018, the New York Times reported an interview with Juan Carlos Cruz, in which Cruz reported that during his meeting with the Pope, in April 2018, the Pope told him about the Davis case. According to Cruz, the Pope said: “I did not know who the woman was and he [Msgr. Viganò] snuck her in to say hello to me — and of course they made a whole publicity out of it. And I was horrified and I fired that Nuncio.”

One of them is lying: either Cruz or the Pope? What is certain is that the Pope knew very well who Davis was, and he and his close collaborators had approved the private audience. Journalists can always check, by asking the prelates Becciu, Gallagher and Parolin, as well as the Pope himself.

It is clear, however, that Pope Francis wanted to conceal the private audience with the first American citizen condemned and imprisoned for conscientious objection.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò
Titular Archbishop di Ulpiana
Apostolic Nuncio
August 30, 2018
Feast of Saint Jeanne Jugan and Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster

Official translation by Diane Montagna 

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Bergoglio's media sycophants are right on target

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/francis-and-the-journalists

Pope Francis gave Vatican apartment to gay priest later caught in cocaine-fuelled orgy

The gay Monsignor, Cocaine Capozzi was given his apartment by Bergoglio. My Roman sources tell me that the cocaine-fueled sodomite orgy actually took place in Holy Week.

My sources further advise that Capozzi is back in his abode.

Will the "highly placed Vatican source" please come out of the shadows and go on the record?

ROME, Italy, August 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis gave a Vatican apartment to a priest who was later caught hosting a drug-fueled homosexual orgy in that same apartment despite being warned about the priest’s grave problems, a highly placed Vatican source told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview. 

It was Francis himself, the source said, who made sure that a homosexual secretary of his friend Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio would obtain a privileged apartment in the Vatican. 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-pope-knowingly-gave-vatican-apartment-to-gay-priest-later-caught-i

Blase Cupich - If you don't like Pope Francis, you're a racist

At 1:08 of the video at this link, Blase Cupich says, "Quite frankly, they also don't like him because he is a Latino."

Stupid moronic idiot.

His blood is Italian.

And racism has nothing to do with the issues of Pope Francis!

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cardinal-cupich-pope-bigger-agenda_Chicago-491855581.html

To Blase Cupich, clarity and truth on child molesting perverts is a "rabbit hole" - the "environment and migrants" are more important

In a stunning and shocking comment, Blase Cupich, the Bergoglian Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago who owes, according to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, his appointment to the Chicago See to the disgraced homosexual predator Theodor McCarrick, has said that Pope Francis has more important things to do than address the Testimony of Viganò. "We're not going down a rabbit hole on this," said Cupich.

Cupich is a disgrace. 

He needs to resign.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cupich-dismisses-vigano-claims-as-a-rabbit-hole-76667

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cardinal-cupich-pope-bigger-agenda_Chicago-491855581.html

The Viganò Testimony - Archbishop denies he undertook a "cover-up" at the same time as the Irish media engaged in one!

The media sycophants of Pope Francis, secular and Catholic have been targetting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, --  just what we expected. One issue that has been dragged up, is the accusation that as Papal Nuncio, Viganò, did not prosecute a case in Minnesota under former Archbishop Neinstadt, who himself has been accused of having an active "gay" lifestyle.

I did not know much about this case, or about the former Archbishop's dalliances. What I do recall, is he seemed to come into the Archdiocese and began to take a broom to liturgical abuse and dissenters.

Carl E. Olson of Catholic World Report has an interview with Viganò who denies the accusation.

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/08/27/archbishop-vigano-responds-to-criticisms-of-handling-of-2014-nienstedt-investigation/

also

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vigano-issues-new-statement-documents-to-clear-his-name-of-false-charges

“I never told anyone that Greene Espel should stop the inquiry, and I never ordered any document to be destroyed. Any statement to the contrary is false. However, I did instruct one of the auxiliary bishops, Auxiliary Bishop Lee A. Piché, to remove from the computer and the archdiocesan archives the letter falsely asserting that I had suggested the investigation be halted. I insisted on this not only to protect my name, but also that of the Nunciature and the Holy Father who would be unnecessarily harmed by having a false statement used against the Church.”

If Viganò covered something then, he was wrong, though he may have been ordered to so or it may have been a failing on his part, - if, it is true. If he did, it really does not matter. What matters is what he has stated in his Testimony and that the Pope himself has refused to answer it.

The news is no coming so very fast. Now, we have a report that the Irish media was instructed to hide the report from the people!

Who did this?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/irish-media-purposely-withheld-reporting-on-vigano-testimony-during-po

The Viganò Testimony - Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, “Viganò said the truth. That’s all,”

I have confirmed the above comment with the recipient, M. Louis Paul Arnaud on Facebook as being genuine. I am grateful to M. Arnaud for granting me permission to publish it here so that the world may come to know the depth of the evil and the danger to those who speak out. The whole conversation below is confirmed as genuine and is translated from the original French.

Louis Paul Arnaud

Is what he says true? His accusations against the Pope are very serious.

Jean François Lantheaume

All say the whole truth. I am a witness. The nuncio Vigano is the most honest Prelate that I know in the Vatican

Julien Fafart

That’s terrible, pray, the storm will be terrible

Jean François Lantheaume

Worse than you think Juju. Ready yourself…

Charly Blainville

You’re not reassuring us, dear Father!

Jean François Lantheaume

My goal is not to reassure you, but to tell the truth! Bishops are neither unscathed nor untouchable: they are all just as much sinners as are others !!! let it be said once and for all… they do not enjoy papal infallibility…! But of course as soon as one tries to tell the truth, you have your head cut off, or you “have a bad spirit”…. it’s been over twenty years since I said what I had to say…. now believe what you want, but I can tell you as being the direct witness that Vigano is telling the truth: I was the direct witness! these may be the last lines I write… if I am found chopped up by a chainsaw and my body sunk in concrete, the police and the hacks will say that we have to consider the hypothesis of suicide !!!

 

“Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, then first Counsellor of the Nunciature in Washington and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim after the unexpected death of Nuncio Sambi in Baltimore, told me when I arrived in Washington —  and he is ready to testify to it —  about a stormy conversation, lasting over an hour, that Nuncio Sambi had with Cardinal McCarrick whom he had summoned to the  Nunciature. Monsignor Lantheaume told me that ‘the Nuncio’s voice could be heard all the way out in the corridor.’”

CNA contacted Msgr. Lantheaume and requested an interview with him to discuss the account attributed to him by Archbishop Viganò. Lantheaume, who has now left the Vatican diplomatic corps and serves in priestly ministry in France, declined to give an interview and said he had no intentions of speaking further on the matter.

“Viganò said the truth. That’s all,” he wrote to CNA. 

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/former-nunciature-official-vigano-said-the-truth-38319

Who was Uncle Teddy McCarrick's friend and what was the role of Freemasonry in the election of Jorge Bergoglio?

Originally published on April 28, 2016, it is good to see that this information has finally come to light by more prominent writers. 

Given the explosive Testimony of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, this self-incrimination by McCarrick reveals as much about Pope Francis and what was owe"dd to McCarrick for "talking him up."

According to Viganò, without McCarrick, there would be no Bishop McElroy, or no Cardinals Tobin, Farrell or Cupich.

Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, former Archbishop of Washington during a talk at Villanova University gave the following recollection of a conversation with an "influential" Roman during the period before the Conclave which elected Jorge Bergoglio as Bishop of Rome.

18:20 Just before we went into the general conversations when everybody can talk, a very interesting and influential Italian gentleman came to ask if he could come and see me, so I said “sure.”

He came to see me at the Seminary, at the American College where I was staying; and we sat down. He is a very brilliant man, a very influential man in Rome and we talked about a number of things. He had a favour to ask me when I get back to the United States, but then he asked,

“What about Bergoglio?”

I was surprised at the question, I said, “what about him.”

He said, “Does he have a chance?”

I said, “I don’t think so, because no one has mentioned his name, he hasn’t been in anybody’s mind, I don’t think it’s on anybody’s mind to vote for him.”

He said, “He could do it you know.”

I said, “What could he do?”

He said, “He could reform the Church, if we gave him five years, he could put us back on target. “

“Well, he’s 76.”

“Yeah, in five years, if he had five years. The Lord working through Bergoglio in five years could make the Church over again.”

I said, “That’s an interesting thing.”

“I know you’re his friend.”

“Well, I hope I’m his friend.”

He said, “Talk him up.”

That was the first that I heard from people that Bergoglio would be a possibility in this election.

(...)

I hope that the new, that the one who is elected Pope, will be someone who, if he is not himself a Latin American, would at least have a very strong interest in Latin America”. “Was that part of it? Who knows?  What is it my friend said? “Push Bergoglio”?  Did he say it to a lot of people? I don’t know.”

Consider this then.

Gustavo Raffi, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy

"With the election of Pope Francis nothing will ever be the same again. With Pope Francis, nothing will be more as it was before. It is a clear choice of fraternity for a Church of dialogue, which is not contaminated by the logic and temptations of temporal power"

“A man of the poor far away from the Curia. Fraternity and the desire to dialogue were his first concrete words. Perhaps nothing in the Church will be as it was before. Our hope is that the pontificate of Francis, the Pope who 'comes from the end of the world' can mark the return to the Church-Word instead of the Church-Institution, promoting an open dialogue with the contemporary world, with believers and non-believers, following the springtime of Vatican II."

"The Jesuit who is close to the least ones of history," Raffi continues, "has the great opportunity to show the world the face of a Church that must recover the announcement of a new humanity, not the weight of an institution that closes itself off in defense of its own privileges. Bergoglio knows real life and will remember the lesson of one of his favorite theologians, Romano Guardini, for whom the truth of love cannot be stopped.

"The simple cross he wore on his white cassock," concludes the Grand Master of Palazzo Giustiniani, "lets us hope that a Church of the people will re-discover its capacity to dialogue with all men of good will and with Freemasonry, which, as the experience of Latin America teaches us, works for the good and progress of humanity, as shown by Bolivar, Allende and José Martí, to name only a few. This is the 'white smoke' that we expect from the Church of our times."  

Pope Francis on "dialogue"

"Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue!" This, he said, is the only way for individuals, families and societies to grow. He said fraternal relations between people and cooperation in building a more just society are not some vague utopia but the fruit of a concerted effort on the part of all, in service of the common good.

http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-my-advice-is-always-dialogue-dialogue

Pope to U.S. bishops: be shepherds in unity and dialogue

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/09/23/pope_to_us_bishops_be_shepherds_in_unity_and_dialogue/1174163

Pope at Mass: Those who do not dialogue disobey God

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/04/16/pope_at_mass_those_who_do_not_dialogue_disobey_god/1137174

Pope's general prayer intention for November is for dialogue

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/10/31/popes_general_prayer_intention_for_november_is_for_dialogue/1183565

Pope  Francis calls for solidarity and dialogue

http://americamagazine.org/issue/pope-francis-calls-solidarity-and-dialogue

Pope Francis Congressional Address: A Dialogue with Four Faces of America (13 times)

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-address-to-us-congress/

Pope Francis to Japanese students: 'Dialogue is what brings peace'

http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/pope-francis-japanese-students-dialogue-what-brings-peace

The whole video can be seen here.

Bergoglio responds to Viganò, sort of.

"Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean 'No.' Anything more is from the evil one" (Mt. 5:37) 

The Bishop of Rome, who, according to Archbishop Carlo Viganò, knew about the sodomite predator pervert Theodore McCarrick and covered it up has made statements on the aeroplane flight back to Rome.

“I read the statement this morning, and I must tell you sincerely that, I must say this, to you and all those who are interested: Read the statement carefully and make your own judgment, I will not say a single word on this.” 

He continued that he believes in the “journalistic capacity to draw your own conclusions,” calling it an “act of faith.” “When some time passes and you have drawn your conclusions, I may speak. But I would like your professional maturity to do the work for you. It will be good for you,” he told members of the press.

Pathetic.

He does not comprehend the depth of anger of the faithful over this decades-long scandal. He is so blinded by his own publicity that he would sooner take the Church down. Viganò has no reason to lie. He is retired and has always had a solid reputation. 

Father Carlos Martin has written the following on Facebook.

I just spent the last two hours on the phone with a friend in the Vatican Curia. He said that the news of Archbishop Viganò has hit the Curia like an atomic bomb. Two things are universally noted regarding Viganò: 1) He is highly respected as a professional, and 2) His Curial positions gave him clear access to the damning information he reported. In other words, he is not a hack, and he is not relying on rumor. This makes his report absolutely worthy of belief.

Viganò always had a reputation for being a combatant of internal Vatican corruption. In fact, during the Vatican leaks scandal, whistle-blowing reports that he authored were among the main documents that were leaked. This was an attempt by the persons he outed to pre-empt the report’s impact and suck the energy out of the attempt to investigate their claims. Naturally, the subsequent energy went into investigating the Vatileaks situation in general, and Viganò was exiled as Nuncio to the United States for being a trouble maker who produced “erroneous assessments” (words from a joint statement issued by Cardinal-President Emeritus Giovanni Lajolo, President Giuseppe Bertello, Secretary-General Giuseppe Sciacca and former Vice Secretary-General Giorgio Corbellini on behalf of the Governatorate of the Vatican). To put this kind of demotion in perspective, as Delegate for Pontifical Representations—a position from which he was THEN PROMOTED to Secretary General of the Governatorate— Viganò was in charge of all the Apostolic Nunciatures in the world. Thus, when garbage was reported to the Holy See on a bishop or Cardinal—like it was with McCarrick of Washington, DC—Viganò was the first to know about it, because his desk is where the information landed. For him to be demoted as the Nuncio to the USA, from having been promoted to as the Vatican’s number 3 administrator behind the pope, was severe, to say the least. In other words, Viganò is not a hack, but a highly respected individual who had been regularly promoted for doing his job well.

In the words of the Curial official I spoke with this afternoon, what Viganò has reported “makes the Borgia popes look like saints.” The feeling in the Curia right now is that the response of Viganò’s enemies will to try to discredit him personally, both because of the impeccability of Viganò’s character and the impossibility of his having interpreted the facts incorrectly. Their only hope will be to try to take energy away from the perversion and corruption that he uncovered. They will likely state that he is a bitter man who is seeking personal aggrandizement after having been exiled from Rome. When this occurs, don’t buy into it. Viganò is retired. He has nothing personally to gain from this.

Friends, my advice to you is to write your bishop and demand that he request a COMPLETE AND FULL INVESTIGATION into the allegations brought forward by Archbishop Viganò. We are at a watershed moment in the life of the Church. If we don’t protect her from the wolves that have crawled into her and dwell inside her, we then have only ourselves to blame when more sheep are eaten alive, and the Church loses even more credibility in the eyes of the world. Archbishop Viganò’s report is a call to all the sons and daughters of the Church to personally intervene for her own health and safety.

Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Joseph Strickland (Bishop of Tyler, Texas) have already issued statements today calling for the same. Add your authority to theirs. Write your bishop today.  

What a real Pope would do