“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
From La Plata to Rome.Francis rewarded Tucho Fernandez, a cover-up of pedophiles, with a central position in the Vatican
To confirm that his papacy is an accumulation of pure gestures, Bergoglio puts a bishop of his confidence as Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith (the old Inquisition), the position occupied, among others, by Ratzinger before becoming pope. As archbishop of La Plata, Fernández was noted for disparaging victims and covering up for abusers.
Eduardo Lorenzo with Tucho Fernández in the parish of Gonnet where he abused several minors
The Italy correspondent for the conservative Argentine daily La Nación on Saturday called it a "bombshell news" and an "unexpected designation." It probably is for those who align themselves with the most reactionary, ultra-medieval and most obscurantist sectors (in short, they all are) of the Roman curia. But considering the moves made by Jorge "Francisco" Bergoglio in recent years, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
The news in question is that the Vatican has just published in its Official Gazette that the archbishop of La Plata Víctor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández was elected by the new pope "prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith", as reported in the bulletin of the so-called Holy See. Fernández would take office in September, replacing Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer.
The Dicastery is the direct successor of the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisitioncreated in 1542 by Paul III and whose legacy for humanity was to have watered part of the world with blood with its hunts for "witches", torture and humiliation of "heretics" and other bloodthirsty methods to control the wayward population with the "apostolic and Roman Catholic doctrine". Among some of its milestones, the Inquisition tried and condemned Galileo Galilei for his heretical theories.
Although modern inquisitors no longer send their executioners to extirpate satanic confessions under torture or burn women in bonfires mounted in public squares (that today is done more civilly by States and their governments) it is still the "ministry" of the Vatican that controls, censors and sanctions everything related to the "values" of official Catholicism. This includes the systematic plan to cover up thousands and thousands of rapes of children and adolescents in schools, institutes and parishes around the world.
Precisely, Tucho Fernández is a specialist, among other things, in guaranteeing this systematic cover-up while issuing communiqués and blocking homilies in which, as Bergoglio commands, the abuses committed by his cassocks employees are culpably condemned. The few who manage to break the silence of the ecclesiastical walls and jump to public opinion, of course.Very valuable task
The Official Vatican Bulletin publishes a letter that Francis sends to Tucho. There he says that he entrusts to him a "very valuable" task, such as "guarding the teaching that springs from faith to 'give a reason for our hope, but not as enemies who point and condemn.'" As if to "clarify," the pope acknowledges that the Dicastery "in other times came to use immoral methods" and that "these were times when, rather than promoting theological knowledge, possible doctrinal errors were pursued. What I expect from you is certainly something very different," he tells his handler.
Curiously, the Roman monarch makes explicit the intention of freeing the new prefect from having to take charge of "attending" to the complaints of sexual abuse that arrive in Rome. "Given that for disciplinary matters – especially related to the abuse of minors – a specific Section has recently been created with very competent professionals, I ask you as Prefect to dedicate your personal commitment more directly to the main purpose of the Dicastery, which is to 'keep the faith'", he orders.
Strictly speaking, this new "section" of which he speaks is an office dedicated to receiving the handful of "officialized" complaints against bishops, priests and nuns that dioceses around the world consider that the Vatican should "investigate" and "give sentence." But it is an office that answers directly to the Dicastery that Fernández will lead shortly. Pure story.
Moving tiles
The pope's move seems to be in line with others in recent years in which the Argentine supreme pontiff was placing in key places in the Vatican men of his confidence who, in addition, adhere to his "theology of the people" (doctrinal aspect that, appealing to populist topics, aesthetically distances itself from the most ultraconservative sectors of the Church). Aware that his health declines with the passage of time, the so-called "Peronist pope" is already planning his succession by filling St. Peter's Square with an addicted civil servant.
The most emblematic case is that of the former bishop of Oran, Salta, Gustavo Zanchetta, Bergoglio's extremely trusted man. Between December 2018, when allegations against him of two abused seminarians (the victims could have been many more) and March 2022, when he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison; the merciful pope sought to "save" Zanchetta by placing him in charge of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
Better known as the Vatican's "real estate," the office handles more than five thousand properties worldwide with an estimated value of $3 billion. Finally, Zanchetta had to return to Argentina to undergo the trial. Of course, today he enjoys a house arrest that is denied to any Christian for much less serious crimes.
So far it is unknown if Tucho Fernández directly abused minors, seminarians or students of the Argentine Catholic University when he was its rector. What is known is that in recent years he was responsible for covering up any stray sheep that was denounced for these crimes, doubly aggravated because they were representatives of a religious cult (with the level of vulnerability of the victim that this implies).
From left to right and top to bottom: Spinelli, Granuzzo, Corradi, Corbacho, Primati, Giménez, Di Virgilio, Marchioni, Lorenzo, Yanuzzi and Sidders
In a special report published by La Izquierda Diario last December (carried out together with Pulso Noticias), eleven of the cases reported so far in La Plata are detailed and in which, in various ways, "Tucho" played a clear role of covering up his priests. A cover-up that goes hand in hand with dehumanization and contempt for victims and survivors.
The cases are those of the former chaplain general of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary ServiceEduardo Lorenzo (committed suicide in December 2019 in a Caritas headquarters minutes after being arrested), the creator of the Miles Christi congregation Roberto Yanuzzi (the only one excommunicated by the pope, although for his doctrinal differences and not for his abuses), Héctor Giménez (denounced but unpunished), Rubén Marchioni (publicly denounced but not judicially), Maximiliano Di Virgilio (the family of his victim withdrew a criminal complaint), the former chaplain of the Gendarmerie in Misiones Raúl Sidders (with an absurd house arrest and close to an oral trial) and five former capos of the Provolo Institute of La Plata (Nicola Corradi, Horacio Corbacho, Giuseppe Spinelli, Giovanni Granuzzo and Eliseo Primati).
Along with Fernández, in almost all these cases the auxiliary bishop of La Plata, Alberto Bochatey, a servant formed by the ultra-reactionary Héctor Aguer, predecessor of "Tucho", played a central role in the cover-up plans. Although there are no known allegations about him and despite the "enmity" between Bergoglio and Aguer, in 2017 the pope appointed Bochatey "apostolic commissioner" to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at the headquarters of the Provolo Institute in Mendoza. Obviously he did not investigate anything and much less collaborated in the judicial case that ended up condemning Corradi and Corbacho to almost fifty years in prison.
Alberto Bochatey
"Tucho" and Bochatey, among other aberrations, organized the "homage mass" (and body present) to the suicide Lorenzo in the same parish of Gonnet in which the priest, for years, abused teenagers whom he corrupted and extorted to satisfy his desires for oppression.
Nothing less could be expected from the pope himself. In addition to having been an accomplice of several crimes of the last civic-military-ecclesiastical dictatorship (when he already had a high position in the Argentine Curia), in his country he has spent years protecting criminals of the stature of Julio Grassi, Zanchetta, Justo Illaraz, Agustín Rosa Torino and dozens of priests and bishops with canonical investigations that only gave impunity. With the exception of the mafioso Yanuzzi, not even the few priests convicted criminally were expelled from the Church.
Another characteristic of Víctor Fernández is his vocation to "mediate" in social conflicts, when they threaten the political power of the day. For example, in 2018 he came to the aid of the then governorMaría Eugenia Vidal when hundreds of workers left from the entrances of the Río Santiago de Ensenada Shipyard to occupy the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy in La Plata in repudiation of the adjustment and delivery plans of the company by the management of Cambiemos. To this end, the archbishop devised a demobilizing maneuver together with part of the union leadership of the region that endorsed (by action or omission) Vidal's plans.
Now, after five years "cleaning" (based on liturgical cosmetics and silences bought at a good price) the archdiocese of La Plata of the ultraconservative remnants that Aguer had left, "Tucho" has to transfer part of his experience to the Vatican.
Of course, to occupy a position that intellectuals such as Joseph Ratzinger once held, Fernández does not lack a curriculum. He will become prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith after having been dean of the Faculty of Theology of Buenos Aires, president of the Argentine Society of Theology and of the Commission of Faith and Culture of the Argentine Episcopate. And before assuming the Archbishopric of La Plata, he was rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. What is said is a true picture for all the needs and urgencies that the Vatican has in its particular Bergoglian stage.
While the Bishop of Rome is the Head of State of the Vatican City State, the perverted William Jefferson Clinton is a private citizen and no longer a Head of State. There was no obligation for Bergoglio to meet him. So, was he bringing him into the Church? Preaching him of the salvation of Jesus Christ through the Catholic Church? They exchanged gifts, so this was clearly set up.
Who do we have here? Why, it's Alexander Soros. When that self-hating Jew, globalist Marxist George Soros is dead and dust we will have his progeny to tell us all what to do and to run our politicians.
The
kiss me with your mouth Argentine theologian Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández
is the new prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Pope is unwell.
Not much more can be said about this travesty.
Keep your mind and heart on Jesus. The rest is a clown show.
“The
pope goes slow because he wants to be sure that the changes have a deep
impact. The slow pace is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the changes.
He knows there are those hoping that the next pope will turn everything back
around. If you go slowly it’s more difficult to turn things back. . . You have
to realize that he is aiming at reform that is irreversible. If one day he
should intuit that he’s running out of time and doesn’t have enough time to do
what the Spirit is asking him, you can be sure he will speed up.” –Tucho
Fernandez
And thus, Bergoglio's time is very, very short and this filthy degenerate will be around after him.
Two years ago with the attack on the Church in Canada due to the reports of alleged graves of children in residential schools, a much-respected pastor at Merciful Redeemer parish in Mississauga spoke out and made the statement that not all things in the residential schools were bad, some good came from them. CITY 24, always an amateur and bombastically Marxist media outlet in Toronto, and others crucified the good monsignor. CITY and CBC are continuing their anti-Catholic hate. For the record, the Indigenous residential schools in Canada were Canadian government policy that, like the lockdown of Mass, the Church mistakenly went along with in exchange for mammon. The pastor was forced to leave the parish, he and it had been threatened with violence, and Thomas "No Mass For You" Collins and his sidekick, Neil MacCarthy threw the Monsignor under the media bus whilst pinching incense to Ba'al rather than defend him and the truth. Some good, maybe much good came out of the residential schools in spite of the policy of the Government of Canada.
Throwing Toronto priests under the media bus is not new for Neil and the gang of apparatchiks in the chancery. It happened a few years earlier when a Toronto archdiocesan priest at St. Leo the Great in Brooklin, Ontario, northeast of Oshawa, had the nerve to mention certain sins to school children using the fairly typical "examination of conscience" pamphlet with which most of us are familiar not dissimilar to that found at this link. The actions of the communications bureaucrats at the chancery office were deplorable, literally condemning the priest to the media because some TwitYourInstaFace Karens ran to the CBC that Father was talking about sin to children.
These same officials told priests a few years earlier not to discuss the issue of gay-straight alliances in Catholic schools; that they were "handling it." I was told by more than one priest that they were ordered by Neil MacCarthy not to preach on it from the pulpit. Imagine that, a communication director-- a layman ordering priests. Oh, Tom and Neil handled it all right. Badly. They trusted a government headed by a lesbian Premier who threw her cuck husband into the basement so she could bring her new babe into the family home. Good move.
Now to the latest.
At St. Gertrude's parish in Oshawa, east of Toronto, the pastor allowed the distribution of a flyer condemning the attack on families and children by the Marxist alphabet mob. The mob has taken over the movement so far beyond the rights of same-sex attracted people to not be harassed or discriminated against that even many of them are questioning it.
Is it any wonder the chancery spokesman, Neil MacCarthy, is the butt of jokes and held in such disdain by the diocesan priests and so few of them trust the bishops?
“While the insert in question was not created
by the parish, the pastor had allowed for it to be distributed. We have reached
out to the pastor and he highly regrets permitting this to be circulated and is
preparing to apologize unequivocally to the congregation at all Masses on
Sunday. Please know that the Archdiocese was not made aware of this material in
advance, had not given permission for it to be created, printed or distributed
as it is clearly unacceptable and offensive and has no place in the church
bulletin or elsewhere for that matter.”
The Archdiocesan officials and presumably Archbishop Francis Leo, as in the case above, threw the pastor under the bus loaded with anti-Catholic bigots and forced the Pastor to grovel as the chaceryrats held his feet to the fire.
“I recognize that much of the content was
inappropriate and offensive and caused hurt and distress starting in our own
parish family and reverberating out into the wider community. I should not have
allowed it to have been circulated. I sincerely apologize for my actions.”
It's reasonable to question the prudence of the pastor in allowing an outside flyer to be distributed at the church. I've seen the flyer and it will not be posted here. It reveals private contact information. While one can sympathize with the writer, they did Father no favour. This is not how you fight back, illogical rants are not the way. One lowers themselves to the level of the cultural Marxists and becomes the antagonist themselves. The literal online hatred and bile being spewed at the Church should have been foreseen. No priest needs this, no parish. That being said, it is disgraceful that he was hung out to dry, publicly by the Chancery proving that pastors are nothing more than branch managers. A few weeks ago, St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and others promoted a talk by Thomas Rosica using the alphabet moniker? How prudent was that? Lowering people to an alphabet label is not Catholic!
Rather than wade into the public debate on the legitimate fears of most Catholics and particularly, parents about their children and the attack on their faith and morals, a teaching moment was wasted as the new Archbishop is seen as just another weak and ineffective shepherd refusing to be a defender of faith and culture.
The question we all have is this; Does the new Archbishop, Francis Leo, sanction this public flogging of his priests or is this just another case of the chanceryrats pushing back on him and letting him know who the real boss is.
Well Archbishop Leo, what say you?
Did you approve of this?
Was this Neil acting on his own once again?
Do you wonder, Your Grace, why you can finish the sentences at the Tuesday priest visits?
Douglas Crosby, OMI, was appointed Bishop of Hamilton in the Metropolitan See of Toronto in 2010. Over 35 years ago, he was pastor of St. Joseph's Ottawa on the campus of the University of Ottawa. The parish has long been a hot-bed of liberal dissent against the Faith. It was from this parish that the outrage was led to remove the fledgling Oratory of St. Philip Neri at St. Brigid's. A demonic scandal for the faithful. I know, I was there.
Not long after he arrived in Hamilton he brought two OMI priests in from Labrador where he had been bishop. They were appointed as "co-pastors" of St. Lawrence and St. Patrick in Hamilton. This is what they were in Labrador. Contacts in Labrador at the time provided some information on what to expect.
Is it not bad enough that we have the assault from corporations and media and governments. Here it is from our own priests. Jarek Pachocki has made it clear what he is and what he thinks of us.
He will tremble in fear one day before the LORD whom he was to serve.
It's not the first time that Pope Francis took a phone call during a general audience in a display of rudeness, narcissism, and personalism. I mean, what could be so important? Well, James Martin, of course. Must have been more plotting on the sodomic church of Bergoglio Well, if the man has any self-awareness, let this be a lesson for him not to be so rude to his guests. But I doubt it.
"Unlike
everyone else who witnessed the Holy Father taking a phone call in the middle
of a General Audience in St. Peter’s Square the other day, I was not the least
bit surprised. And why should I be, since I was the one who made the call?
No
sooner had I dialed the number than I was put immediately through to the pope,
who seemed quite delighted to hear from me. For about five seconds, that is, no
doubt thinking I was the Reverend James Martin, whom I had instructed the
switchboard operator at the Vatican to inform the pope was on the other line.
And
until things fell apart, which happened fairly quickly, I was hoping for a
productive exchange. Once he realized he’d been snookered, however, he abruptly
hung up, leaving me to imagine the number of heads likely to roll on the floor
of the Vatican switchboard."
I wonder what happened to the switchboard operator?
Every once in a while, I blow it. I have been corrected and offer apologies to anyone who read this article or came to it before I corrected it.
This screen shot from the archdiocesan web page was sent to me late last night. The sender did not notice and nor did I that this was form last year, 2022. The Chancery staff responsible for Communications removed this year's advertisement by Manresa and this old one.
I thank Neil MacCarthy for bringing clarity to this and the error to my attention and I apologize for the error.
It is too bad that Thomas Collins saw no issue with this but that is history.
The Archdiocese of Toronto has a Courage Apostolate which is below.
Thank you for your understanding. I had not yet had my covefe.
As noted below, I was sent the notice of this as it appeared then at archtoronto.org. After contacting Neil MacCarthy, Director of Communications, seeing the problem, had it removed and I confirmed it. He did the right thing. Alas, it appears it was not stopped from going to parishes and being printed in bulletins. Well, Neil? What do you have to say for yourself and the deception? Was I duped? Were you? Was ++Francis Leo? Or, all you all culpable and at least we know where we stand?
Not a good start!
Reports from readers that it has appeared in numerous church bulletins including that of the former Chaplain for the Extraordinary Form Mass.
Readers in Toronto, send links of the parishes where it has been published.
The bulletin for this Sunday in Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral features a post promoting the Rosica lecture to take place at the Jesuit Manresa retreat centre. In itself, there is nothing wrong with a session for parents of those suffering from same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria. The point is, the labelling by using the alphabet moniker. The Church does not label people by their sin. People have dignity as men and women, there are no others. This is the point of the post below.
Last week, a Toronto priest sent me a notice of this, it was on his diocesan update and a web page at archtoronto.org. Seeing it, I wrote to Archdiocesan Director of Public Relations Neil MacCarthy and questioned whether this was the new breeze of Archbishop Francis Leo or a "chancery rat." Neil confirmed it was a "rat" and that Archbishop Leo was not aware and the post was removed. Now, we find that in Archbishop Leo's own Cathedral's bulletin, the alphabet mafia has won.
As I wrote to Neil, is it not bad enough for Catholics on a daily basis to be assaulted by this demonic symbol, be it the alphabet labels ever expanding or the abominable abuse of God's rainbow? Can we not even find peace away from it in the Temple of God?
Is this in the bulletin because a secretary chose to do it?
Was it the Rector's decision?
If not, does the Rector know, does he proof read the bulletin?
Does Archbishop Leo know? Did he sanction it?
The Vigil Novus Ordo Mass for Ascension Thursday transferred to Sunday on Saturday night is in just over an hour. Will they pull the bulletin?
As for Tom Rosica, if the litigious bully and serial plagiarist wishes to leave the bedpans of Presentation House he can be assured this blogger will be writing.
If Archbishop Francis Leo was not aware of this and did not approve, then he knows even more now where he must act quickly to assert his authority. If he did approve or does not act, then we know a little bit more of our new Shepherd and what it means.
The "rehabilitation" of the litigious slap-suit ecclesial bully (full disclosure, against this blogger.) and serial plagiarist Thomas J. Rosica continues. In Advent 2021, he delivered a reflection at a church in Toronto and later in the Diocese of Hamilton. One talk is upcoming in the Diocese of Peterborough. The Jesuits of Canada intended to have Rosica host an online conference, "Discerning and Re-Imagining the Church." After this blog wrote it up and passed and this writer registered to attend as well as some other publicity, it was mysteriously canceled.
It was this blogger who first provided the information that Rosica was a plagiarist. Following the global outing of the disgraced plagiarist, Rosica spent time at Southdown Institute and later was sent by his Basilian order to chaplaincy work at Presentation House in Toronto, a retirement home for aged religious. Plagiarism is theft.
The Jesuits continue in aiding Rosica's rehabilitation with this seminar at their retreat centre in Pickering, just east of Toronto.
There has been much written that the Church and Christians should not refer to those suffering from same-sex attraction by this secular label. "God made them male and female," and He stated it was "an abomination" for those of the same sex to "lay together." St. Paul was emphatic on this.
Some parishes in Toronto, specifically St. Clare of Assist in Woodbridge under Monsignor John Borean, have promoted this in their bulletins.
Father Rosica needs to look after those under his spiritual care.at Presentation House. That does not include the Catholic laity.
[Francis:]
I wouldn’t know how to answer that theoretically, but I certainly know that the
Council is still being applied. It takes a century for a Council to be
assimilated, they say. And I know the resistance to its decrees is terrible.
There is incredible support for restorationism, what I call “indietrismo”
(backwardness), as the Letter to the Hebrews (10:39) says: “But we do not
belong to those who shrink back.” The flow of history and grace goes from the
roots upward like the sap of a tree that bears fruit. But without this flow you
remain a mummy. Going backwards does not preserve life, ever. You must change,
as St. Vincent of Lérins wrote in his Commonitory when he remarked that even
the dogma of the Christian religion progresses, consolidating over the years,
developing with time, deepening with age. But this is a change from the bottom
up. The danger today is indietrismo, (backwardness) the reaction against the modern. It is a
nostalgic disease. This is why I decided that now the permission to celebrate
according to the Roman Missal of 1962 is mandatory for all newly consecrated
priests. After all the necessary consultations, I decided this because I saw
that the good pastoral measures put in place by John Paul II and Benedict XVI
were being used in an ideological way, to go backward. It was necessary to stop
this indietrismo, which was not in the pastoral vision of my predecessors.
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VATICAN CITY - In a surprise announcement this morning, the Director of the Vatican Press office announced that Pope Francis will celebrate a Pontifical Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Easter Sunday morning. It will be in reparation for the worship of the Amazonian idol and the betrayal of the real Catholics in Communist China and the worldwide closure of churches, suspension of the public Mass, and the withholding of the Sacraments due to the Chinese Communist Party Virus; the German Synodal "Way" and in repentance for the attack on the traditional Mass in Traditionis Custodes and its follow up rescripts. Francis is making a full recovery from his recent cardiomyopathy and is reportedly, "joyously overwhelmed" by the preparations.
The Holy Father has been studyinginsecretothe Traditional liturgy and has been so moved by it and decided to revoke Tradtionis Custodes. He will do this during the Homily in a solemn pronouncement enacting the points of Summorum Pontificum as an Apostolic Constitution. The Pope was ordained in 1969 right after the implementation of the Novus Ordo Missae by Pope Paul VI. Although he is familiar with the ancient Mass of his youth and years in seminary he has never celebrated it as a priest. Sources would neither confirm nor deny reports that the Society of St. Pius X has been quietly working behind the scenes with the Pontiff on the liturgical fine points.
Pope planning to sing and genuflect!
When asked about singing the Mass, our sources indicated, "Well he is a Jesuit after all, but Pope Francis will chant quietly inrecto tono those parts of the Mass particular to him as the Holy Father has some difficulty with singing. Questions have also arisen about the fact that there are so many genuflections in the traditional liturgy and the Pope only bows in the Ordinary Form at the Consecration. Sources indicate that the Pope "will do his best" and receive assistance from now Bishop Marini who will reprise his role as Papal Master of Ceremonies.
Papal Court re-established!
The Pope will enter St. Peter's Basilica carried on the sede gestatoria not used since the short pontificate of Pope John Paul I, suspected of being murdered by the wolves Pope Benedict XVI warned about. As for papal vesture, Monsignor Guido Marini verified that "the Pope will be properly dressed." This will include the fanon, buskins, and gloves as shown in this photo of Pope Paul VI. In fact, he will wear these exact vestments as shown including the mitre as these were used by Pope Paul VI the last Pontiff to celebrate the most solemn and ancient liturgy of the Latin Rite in St. Peter's Basilica. It was also announced that the papal court has been reconstituted today in the Motu Proprio "Quis ego sum iudex nimis?" by Pope Francis and the procession will include the ostrich feathered flabellum not seen in over a half-century. In an effort to dissuade fears amongst PETLNFB --People for the Ethical Treatment of Large Non-Flying Birds, sources said that in "harmony with the encyclical on the environment, Laudato si, no ostriches were harmed in the accumulation of feathers." Sources could not confirm if the Holy Father would wear the Papal Tiera.
Father Tom Rosica, CSB integral to this development
It has also been revealed that Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB, formerly of Salt + Light Television, Canada's Catholic Channel of No Hope has been invited back to handle the worldwide broadcast. Sources indicate that between cleaning bedpans for retired Basilians at Presentation House, the once discredited and now rehabilitated plagiarist has been secretly studying the traditional rites and has been consulting with experts at theToronto Traditional Mass Society and the Society of St. Pius X on the finer points of the liturgy. Father Rosica is studiously preparing to celebrate the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and the Ego Sum Vox Cantoris Schola Cantorum is expected to provide the Gregorian chant.
Countering speculation that this story is too far-fetched to be true, a new fresco has been unveiled outside the entrance to the Chapel of the Hotel Santa Marta where the Pope says Mass daily to commemorate the event which should answer any doubts as to the veracity of this announcement.
Tomorrow morning at Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral, His Grace, Francis Leo will be installed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto. Archbishop Leo will be 52 in June and is the youngest bishop since Michael Power. The task ahead for Archbishop Leo is enormous. The Archdiocese of Toronto since Philip Pocock through Gerald Emmet Carter, Aloysius Ambrozic, and Thomas Collins has been a veritable "deep church." There have been cover-ups and pay-offs. A recently-deceased former Vicar-General and Monsignor fathered children whilst, in his position unbeknownst to the faithful, a scandal covered. Seminary professors and "liturgists" at St. Augustine's Seminary engaged in rampant sodomy covered up, much of it criminal and covered up through pay-offs and non-disclosures and explained away by rectors many of whom knew it was happening. Liturgy is in a state of anarchy in many places or simply, banality, catechesis is non-existent, schools are in apostasy, our hospitals engaging in narcotic "harm reduction" and the distribution of condoms and worse. For these last two, we have taken from Caesar and now dance to his tune. We saw the cancellation of Mass at the demands of "virtuous" public health officials and government in exchange for what amounted to wampum. We have seen under Cardinal Archbishop Collins a list of isolated and demoralized priests who have no support and no spiritual father, who have been insulted and ostracized over medical choice, and many of whom have been in one way or another, canceled. Young people want nothing to do with their parishes and have abandoned the faith. Parishes are generally in decline except for still intact new immigrant communities and even then, the new generations are not well staying. Faith is evaporating before our eyes and when we look around us we see an indictment on every Metropolitan Ordinary in Toronto since the Pocock. Collins has been no better and has presided over the near collapse. This is the reality. The Emporer has no clothes. Thomas Collins betrayed one and all when he shut down our churches and refused to stand up to the diktats of government. The last two weeks of posts are a reminder of the failure of this man against those toadies who praise and exalt him.
I am honoured to have been provided, from an Anonymous source, this monograph on the current state of affairs and the task ahead.
Truth
suffers but it does not die
(St. Teresa of Avila)
March 25, 2023 will mark the
beginning of a new chapter in the history of the Archdiocese of Toronto. The
new Archbishop, Francis (Frank) Leo will be installed and will undertake the
spiritual guidance and care of the clergy and faithful of this portion of the
Lord’s vineyard.
Undoubtedly, by now, His Grace
will have been briefed by the representatives of the various Offices of the archdiocesan
curia, and by the outgoing Archbishop, Thomas Cardinal Collins. If the
Cardinal’s recent and surreal interview with the The Pillar is any indication of what Archbishop Leo has been told
about the state of affairs as they pertain to the pastoral obligations and work
of the archdiocese, the new Ordinary is in for a very rude awakening. In
fairness, His Grace is coming from the Montreal; hardly a bastion of orthodoxy
and fervour; and Toronto has yet to experience the church closures and the
clustering of parishes that have occurred in Quebec. Nevertheless, in all
fairness, so that he might undertake his task honestly and realistically he
deserves to receive a truthful assessment of the state of things and not a
narrative fashioned by the ideology and delusions of those who together with
Cardinal Collins have shaped the life of this archdiocese for decades.
The new Archbishop takes
possession of a metropolitan see that may be aptly described as a desolate city. This sad state of things
is not particular to Toronto. It is undeniable that the Church is in decline
throughout the world; and over these many years of crisis and collapse not a
few have undertaken to chronicle the litany of betrayal of the faith and of the
faithful, institutions of learning most especially, and of health care
facilities. Our once distinctively Catholic institutions, largely staffed by
dedicated religious men and women and dedicated laity are mere shells, no
longer animated by a Catholic ethos. The Church in Toronto has experienced all
of this and more. What makes this decline particularly tragic in the archdiocese
of Toronto is its effect not only on its suffragan dioceses but also the
propagation of ineffective and destructive pastoral theology throughout the
country and beyond through the city’s once Catholic university colleges and the
archdiocesan seminary. As the largest English speaking see in the country,
Toronto is not without influence, good or bad; and the desertification that has
occurred in Toronto reflects a general trend everywhere, especially in the
years of the current pontificate.
The new Archbishop must
understand that there are figures in the archdiocese who hold positions of
pastoral authority and influence and who have done so since the arrival of
Gerald Emmet Carter as Archbishop in 1978. For over forty-five years, these clerics
have occupied influential posts entrusted to them during the tenure of
Archbishop Philip Pocock. During these many years they have been able to
establish a deep church that through
their younger acolytes and accomplices establishes policies and determines
governance of institutions and institutes both under the direct control of the archdiocese,
such as the seminary, and other institutions, particularly the sizable school
boards and other institutes of learning. The claim that the governance of
school boards is a matter of publicly elected trustees is a glaring dereliction
of duty. Why are anti-Catholic trustees not censured? Who teaches the religion
courses to young teachers for certification? Usually, former clerics who are
ideologically in league with the deep
church. In the confusion experienced everywhere by the post-conciliar
reforms hastily and often indiscriminately imposed, the faithful of the
archdiocese have been subjected to the tyranny of novelty and rebellion. For
the average Catholic, this tyranny was felt most acutely in the breakdown of
authentic catechesis and in the liturgical anarchy that scandalized the
faithful and destroyed sacred art and architecture. Suffice it to say that the
toleration of liturgical abuses which famously began in Toronto at the Newman
Centre has never ended. Archbishop Pocock’s refusal to exercise episcopal
oversight at the university chaplaincy and to correct liturgical abuses there
and his tacit approval of dissent and disregard for canon law and liturgical
rubrics everywhere else opened the floodgates and the rest as they say, is
history. As a result, still today, anything is tolerated except liturgical
sobriety and orthodox teaching. Tout le
monde fait ça.
The many years since the
devolution of Catholicism began in earnest in the 1970’s enable
us now to see that these efforts were directed at the destruction and
eradication of so-called Tridentine Catholicism. In the years spanning the
post-conciliar years and the tenure of Gerald Emmet Cardinal Carter (1978-1990), at
least as it concerns parish life, everything depended on whether the clergy of
the parish were guided by what we now refer to as the hermeneutic of rupture or
the hermeneutic of continuity. Some parishes were noted for their liturgical
anarchy and the seminary, whose student body was decimated in a matter of a few
years, became a hotbed of immorality, heterodoxy and liturgical anarchy. These
problems have not been effectively resolved. Few were the priests who understood
that this rupture with Tradition was and is a recipe for destruction and
eventual loss of faith. One cannot fail to mention with admiration and
reverence the faithful and courageous witness of Msgr. Vincent Foy, a canceled
priest before the term was ever coined, who at one time was even forbidden to
live within the boundaries of Archdiocese by one of its Ordinaries. Providentially,
he outlived his detractors and persecutors.
Intolerance for anything
remotely traditional and anyone intellectually convinced of the value and
necessity of Tradition resulted in the banishment of so-called traditional
priests to the peripheries of the archdiocese. Again, this is not particular to
Toronto, and it reflects a widespread phenomenon that has caused anguish for priests
and laity alike. It would seem that almost everywhere episcopal intolerance for
orthodox priests has now developed the force of custom in the Church. For a
time, during the pontificate of Pope Benedict when it seemed that traditional
practices were again in vogue, the careerists among the clergy sported lace and
put out a few extra candlesticks but all this has disappeared with the new
pontificate. These are the clerical stars who boast of their travels and
hobbies on their Facebook pages. The rest of the clergy are on the whole badly
educated and fearful of the heavy handed hierarchy, and the entitled though
ignorant laity. Moral guidance is seldom if ever given from the pulpit, for
fear of being delated to the regional bishop or the ordinary.
All manner of abuses are
tolerated by appeals and affirmations of ‘being pastoral’, but few of the
clergy truly understand that a pastoral approach to anything implies the good
of souls. Precious little of what passes for work in the archdiocese has
anything to do with the salvation of souls which is the supreme law of the
Church. “Social ministries”, an undefined category, occupies the apparatchiks
in the offices of the pastoral centre and make work projects with no
discernible results distract the parish clergy and volunteers. An excellent
example of such sterile incompetence is the youth office, usually headed by an
immature, young cleric whose sartorial penchant for running shoes and jeans
assures appointment to this post. A whole industry has developed around this
“ministry”. The end result of this interminable war against the Traditional
Faith are empty parishes, an empty seminary, the disappearance of religious
communities, and schools that are scandalously at odds with Catholic moral
teaching. Much more could be said about the sad state of affairs but the
evidence of decay and inertia is in plain view for everyone to see and to
experience. Yet, the deep church still
has a stranglehold on what is left of the Church in Toronto.
By any metric, nothing is better
in the archdiocese of Toronto than it was in 2007 when Cardinal Collins took
over the reins of command. A renovated Cathedral means nothing and its use as a
venue to eulogize politicians responsible for the holocaust of abortion in our
nation is a scandal. At the root of the collapse of the Church in Toronto and
elsewhere is the pernicious heresy of modernism whose denial of objective truth
has resulted in the dictatorship of relativism and the failure in governance
and oversight on the part of a modernist hierarchy. Perhaps the most glaring
example of decay is the scandalous silence of the hierarchy in the face of a
school curriculum that corrupts the minds and souls of our children, the most
morally vulnerable among us. To expect teachers who face loss of employment to
defend Catholic moral truth is a dereliction of duty on the part of the
shepherds. Failure to support brave teachers, parents and priests who challenge
the immoral policies of the school boards and administrators is also
scandalous. The corruption of innocence cries out to heaven. The deliverance of
our children from the evils of transgender ideology and sexual perversions
boldly promoted in separate schools is the most
pressing of the many tasks that the Archbishop must undertake.
The reluctance and refusal to
enunciate and to defend Church teaching as it pertains to faith and life and
most especially the moral law has resulted in the present desultory state of
affairs: a predominantly ignorant laity now mostly indifferent to the Faith, educators
who boldly flaunt their heretical and immoral beliefs, a balkanized
presbyterate dominated by a liberally minded group of representative clergy,
and a hierarchy more faithful to government directives than to Catholic truth. The
so-called pandemic with its parish closures, its assault on the sacred liturgy
and surrender to the arbitrary dictates of health authorities has only
expedited the decline of the Church. What is left, where it has not been made
to scatter and disappear is a remnant Church, marginalized and dispossessed but
fervent in faith and in charity.
The new Archbishop faces a very
challenging task. His relative youth as he undertakes his tenure is a blessing
and a rare opportunity to carry out and firmly establish meaningful reforms. If
he has the courage and foresight to break with the disastrous policies of his
predecessors and the laissez faire
attitude of his immediate predecessor, he will dismantle the deep church and govern and guide his
flock to holiness of life and eternal salvation. If he doesn’t, then he will
preside over the dismantling of the façade that hides decay and rubble and the
Church in Toronto will definitely be catacombal. The wealth of the archdiocese
of Toronto has enabled its functionaries to avoid the public scandals that have
in some cases resulted in financial insolvency in other dioceses; but worldly
wealth no matter how abundant is never greater than truth, the daughter of
time.
May the prayers and protection
of Our Lady to whom Archbishop Leo appears to have a devotion assist him. May
the prayers and witness of St. Thomas Becket, St. Charles Borromeo and our own
Bishop Michael Power strengthen him. Ad
multos annos!
