Last week Pope Francis shut down the meeting in Baltimore of the US Catholic Bishops by sending them a message at the beginning of their conclave that they were not to vote on any action concerning abuse by the clergy, Bishops, and Cardinals in the American RCC.
So we learned what we always suspected that a Pope has total control over everything in the RCC. The US Bishops were left to call for more US socialism and to enjoy their fancy hotel and fine dining. They left town quietly and the eight hundred people assembled across the canal from the conclave were left in the cold open-air pavilion to listen to their own speeches and pray as the police security guarding the Bishops kept them at arm's length.
Although fifteen states have investigations and there are two federal investigations, some of this abuse was years ago and the statute of limitations may prevent prosecutions.
So Pope Francis triumphed. He postponed the discussion until February and then in Rome at the Vatican. Meanwhile he berates the West for poverty but the West has more welfare than they can afford. It is his fascist Argentina and the rest of leftist Latin America where the worst poverty is in the world--countries that are so Catholic that they do not allow Protestant missionaries. And then there is the vast area of the world under the thumb of Islam where there is little or no welfare and then there are the socialist/communist states where poverty is all but incurable because of the very socialism that Pope Francis advocates almost daily.
To add insult to injury, the Pope chose Cardinal Cupich of Chicago to preside over the next event. A close friend of Pope Francis and also the retired exiled to Kansas Cardinal McCarrick, one wonders if the people seeking redress of grievance will travel to Rome for a repeat of what happened in Baltimore? And now it seems likely the strange Cardinal Cupich will be the next Archbishop of Washington DC. The Vatican ain't ready for reform.
So we learned what we always suspected that a Pope has total control over everything in the RCC. The US Bishops were left to call for more US socialism and to enjoy their fancy hotel and fine dining. They left town quietly and the eight hundred people assembled across the canal from the conclave were left in the cold open-air pavilion to listen to their own speeches and pray as the police security guarding the Bishops kept them at arm's length.
Although fifteen states have investigations and there are two federal investigations, some of this abuse was years ago and the statute of limitations may prevent prosecutions.
So Pope Francis triumphed. He postponed the discussion until February and then in Rome at the Vatican. Meanwhile he berates the West for poverty but the West has more welfare than they can afford. It is his fascist Argentina and the rest of leftist Latin America where the worst poverty is in the world--countries that are so Catholic that they do not allow Protestant missionaries. And then there is the vast area of the world under the thumb of Islam where there is little or no welfare and then there are the socialist/communist states where poverty is all but incurable because of the very socialism that Pope Francis advocates almost daily.
To add insult to injury, the Pope chose Cardinal Cupich of Chicago to preside over the next event. A close friend of Pope Francis and also the retired exiled to Kansas Cardinal McCarrick, one wonders if the people seeking redress of grievance will travel to Rome for a repeat of what happened in Baltimore? And now it seems likely the strange Cardinal Cupich will be the next Archbishop of Washington DC. The Vatican ain't ready for reform.
