. . .locked, as he was, in the post-war struggle with communism, Fulton Sheen’s prophecies about the end time are somewhat dated, but his underlying vision is strong & sobering. . .
. . .for keen insight into some of the malevolent forces at work in the Church right now, an unexpected source is a fascinating book by Father Charles Theodore Murr, titled, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina. Published in May 2017, for the centenary of Fatima, it is one of the most interesting yet underreported Catholic books of recent years. . .
. . .an eagle-eyed reader observes that retired Bishop Paul Bootkoski of Metuchen said on August 28 that he reported on McCarrick to the Apostolic Nuncio in 2005. . .
. . .Bootkoski released this to rebut Archbishop Vigano’s allegation that he covered up for McCarrick, who was a predecessor in Metuchen, and for whom he was once personal secretary. Here is a photo of the official release. . .
. . .after lying & hiding the truth about the private meeting of Pope Francis & Kim Davis in 2015, Vatican officials now admit Pope Francis & his high-ranking officials knew who Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis was & approved a private meeting with her during his 2015 visit to the United States. Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., former director of the Holy See Press Office, has now “recalled that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò had spoken the night before the Davis meeting with Pope Francis & his collaborators & obtained their consensus”. . .
. . .some people say that to focus on the homosexual nature of the crimes is unjust to the girls & women who were victims, & that in any case it is not to the point. 4 out of 5 of the victims in the whole scandal were male, & most of them were not little children, but adolescent boys & young men. It may well be that a disproportionate number of homosexual men entered the seminary in order to hide their desires from themselves or from others, & that therefore we should not interpret that ratio too severely. But the social stigma cuts in both directions. If it raised the number of homosexual men who became priests, it also undoubtedly lowered the number of men who would ever admit to having engaged in homosexual relations. If a boy is even half as likely as a girl to report that he has been molested by a man—almost always not by force but by enticement & invitation into indecency, so-called “grooming”—then the ratio is more like 8 males to 1 female, rather than the 4 to 1 ratio whereof we have hard evidence, & 4 to 1 is already staggering. Perhaps it was 10 to 1, or 12. We don’t know. . .
. . .Pope Francis’ response to Archbishop Vigano’s testimony has, so far, been a sad silence which echoes his silence over the questions about marriage formally presented by some of his cardinals. . .
. . .if this lack of leadership continues we may see the development of a lame duck papacy. . .
. . .the following Kath.net interview with Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti, O.S.B., about the revelations by Archbishop Viganò, the Pope’s silence, & the homosexual network in the Catholic Church was conducted by Roland Noe & published on the Kath.net site yesterday. Bishop Eleganti is Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland. . .
. . .despite the high probability Benedict did impose sanctions against McCarrick, it appears the attitude was to ignore his willingness to flout them. . .
