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Pope Francis Liberal Appointments

Leave a Comment / Religion / 04/13/2024

Pope Francis’ appointments are consistently liberal, pro-abortion, and pro-LBGT.

(30+ articles)

  1. John Horvat, vice president of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, told LifeSiteNews that, “it is apocalyptically scandalous and a great shame that the highest authority on earth, the Vicar of Christ, publicly endorses homosexual civil unions. It is indicative of our sinful times and why Our Lady warned us of a great chastisement in Fatima.”
  2. Pope Francis’ American cardinals are pro-LGBT revolutionaries with a radical agenda for the Church – lifesitenews.com– 10/21/22
  3. Pope Francis adds Hollerich and four other cardinals to his council of advisers | Catholic News Agency – 3/7/23
  4. Pope Francis defends appointing pro-abortion atheist to Pontifical Academy for Life – lifesitenews.com– 11/7/22
  5. Pope Francis announces new cardinals, including bishop who backed Communion for pro-abortion politicians – lifesitenews.com– 5/30/22
    • The Pope skipped over higher ranking prelates in the U.S. in appointing Bishop Robert McElroy to the College of Cardinals, despite the bishop’s record of support for giving Communion to both pro-abortion Catholic politicians as well as the divorced and ‘remarried.’
  6. Bishop Robert McElroy: What to know about the soon to be American cardinal | Catholic News Agency – 5/29/22
    • McElroy has strongly asserted his views that the Eucharist ought not be denied to politicians who support the legalization of abortion. In addition, he has often criticized what he sees as the elevation of abortion as a priority over other social concerns, such as the death penalty and care for migrants and the environment.
  7. California bishop blasts Cardinal-elect McElroy for thinking abortion ‘not wrong enough’ to discuss – lifesitenews.com– 6/15/22
  8. What the McElroy Appointment Says About the Church’s Commitment to Sex Abuse Victims (crisismagazine.com) – 6/13/22 – It wasn’t long into my study of the sex abuse crisis in the Church that I realized that many or even most bishops customarily respond to a report about abuse (1) by feeling sorry for themselves that they have another mess on their hands; (2) by feeling sorry for the priest whose priesthood may be ruined; and (3) by trying to figure out how to get the victim to remain silent and go away. There is rarely, if ever, any true concern shown for the victim; sometimes counseling is offered but more often as a way to appease than to help the victim.
  9. McElroy doubles down on heresy, pushes Communion for ‘sexually active’ homosexuals, adulterers – lifesitenews.com – 3/3/23
  10. Pope Francis appoints pro-LGBT bishop to replace faithful Phoenix prelate – lifesitenews.com – 6/10/22 – another example of how Pope Francis promptly accepts the resignation of a 75-year-old orthodox bishop and replaces him with “one of “America’s top 10 homosexuality-promoting Catholic bishops”. Dolan’s replacement of Olmsted as bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix is one of many appointments made by Francis in recent weeks that have been criticizedas being intentionally anti-Catholic.
  11. New Phoenix bishop celebrated LGBT Mass featuring homosexual drag queen activist – lifesitenews.com – 6/22/22
  12. Pope invites notorious pro-LGBT priest to lead key Synod retreat for bishops – lifesitenews.com – 1/23/23
  13. Appoints population control activist Jeffrey Sachs to Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (lifesitenews.com)– 10/25/21
  14. Pope Francis and the Vatican appear determined to undermine the Church’s ban on contraception – lifesitenews.com – 9/22/22
  15. Church and contraception: Experts expose errors in Pontifical Academy for Life book | Catholic News Agency – 9/27/22
  16. With the Fernandez appointment, the Pope repudiates his predecessor | Catholic Culture – 7/18/23
  17. Pope Francis’ latest controversial appointments have finally revealed his true colors – Lifesitenews.com – 7/19/23
  18. Special Report: The Devil in Rome (churchmilitant.com) – 8/22/22 – Cardinal Robert McElroy
  19. Vatican Conference to Again Feature Abortion, Population Control Advocates (churchmilitant.com) – 10/27/17 – Vatican health conference features advocates of abortion, LGBT, population control
  20. April 2021 summary by Lifesite News of previous 30 days: https://youtu.be/gqNR1m3V2ac – Pope Francis has placed a scandalous painting behind his desk which was featured in the Vatican newspaper; calls for new world order; global governance; rejects Mary’s title of Co-redemptrix, refused to correct top cardinals in the Vatican calling for blessing homosexual unions; appoint openly homosexual man Juan Carlos Cruz to the commission for the protection of minors.

Assigned Abp. Paglia to dismantle the Pontifical Academy for Life and the John Paul II Institute, removing all conservative pro-life professors.  Multiple articles:

  1. Pope appoints pro-abortion World Economic Forum speaker to Pontifical Academy for Life – lifesitenews.com– 10/17/22
  2. Back to the Sixties? Pontifical Academy for Life Pushes for Departure from Doctrine on Contraceptive Sex| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 7/13/22
  3. Professor: With new president, JPII Institute should be renamed ‘Amoris Laetitia Institute’
  4. S. Catholic Expert Rev. Gerald E. Murray Calls Archbishop Paglia to Recant His Support for Euthanasia – CatholicVote org – 4/25/23
  5. John-Henry Westen: The state of the Church Today – YouTube
  6. Next head of Pope’s marriage and family institute is pro-contraception
  7. New head of JPII marriage institute suggests Church must change its definition of family (lifesitenews.com)– 9/23/21
  8. Bishop Strickland calls out Vatican institute for wanting to ‘redefine’ the family unit – (lifesitenews.com)– 10/5/21
  9. Another Pontifical Academy for Life member criticizes overturning Roe v. Wade | Catholic News Agency – 10/21/22
  10. Pontifical Academy for Life adds member who has voiced support for contraception, abortion – lifesitenews.com– 10/26/22
  11. Pope Francis is fulfilling a long-planned agenda to alter the Church’s teaching on life – lifesitenews.com – 7/27/22
  12. Pope Francis on the Church’s ban of birth control: Morality is ‘always on a path of development’ – lifesitenews.com– 8/1/22 – Pope Francis’ comments appear to lend further credence to speculation that he might soon issue an encyclical overturning the Church’s ban on contraception.
  13. The Pontifical Academy for Life has abandoned its purpose under Pope Francis – lifesitenews.com– 10/27/22
  14. Pontifical Academy for Life Members’ Support for Assisted Suicide Draws Criticism (ncregister.com)– 2/21/22

Pope Francis

Leave a Comment / Religion / 04/13/2024

Pope Francis and the Vatican

(For those uncomfortable with criticizing the Catholic Church hierarchy, see Catholic Leadership Critique Rationale)

Before getting into the critique of Pope Francis and the Vatican, here are 13 Good Things Pope Francis Has Done – OnePeterFive – 1/19/24

Here are the primary reasons why I believe Pope Francis has lost all moral credibility with serious Catholics like myself:

  1. Sexual abuse coverups (15+ articles)
  2. Scandals and Lack of Accountability (15+ articles) including Pachamama idolatry
  3. Liberal Appointments (30+ articles)
  4. Support for pro-abortion politics (15+ articles)
  5. Suppression of Catholic conservatives and Tradition; ignores Dubia (20+ articles)
  6. Acceptance of Homosexuality (60+ articles)
  7. Heretical Statements and Actions (40+ articles)
  8. Synod on Synodality (9 articles)
  9. Promoter of Globalism and One World Government (30+ articles)
  10. Promoter of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates (25+ articles)

Additional notable items:

  1. Pope rips EWTN ‘work of the devil’ | News Headlines | Catholic Culture (9/21/21) – He clearly does not believe a Pope should ever be criticized. But he has no problem ripping into those whose viewpoint differs from his.
    • Evidently linking such criticism to support for the Tridentine liturgy, the Pope went on to speak of “the decision to stop the automatism of the ancient rite.” He said that when young priests seek permission to celebrate the Latin Mass, it is “a phenomenon that indicates we are going backward.”
    • Earlier in the exchange, Pope Francis had spoken out against a tendency to “look back to the past: to seek security.” He said: “This is the evil of this moment—namely, to seek the path in rigidity and clericalism, which are two perversions.”
    • The Pope vs. EWTN: too hot to handle? | Catholic Culture (9/22/21)
  2. Consistory Reveals Francis’ Motives & Ambitions (marklambert.blogspot.com) – 5/29/22
  3. Pope Francis condemns ‘serious sin’ of ‘proselytism’ but has ‘no explanation’ for vocations crisis – lifesitenews.com – 1/16/23
  4. Lightning Strikes St. Peter Statue on Pope Francis’ Birthday 12/17/23, Internet Lights Up – CatholicVote org – 1/1/24 – The lightning struck the statue, despite there being lightning rods some 30-40 feet above it.
  5. Illegal Immigrant Caravans and Criminal Catholics (townhall.com)– Michelle Malkin
    • Pope Francis donated $500,000 nine months ago from his Peter’s Pence fund to assist illegal immigrant caravan participants. The subsidies cover “27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations” for “housing, food and basic necessities,” as well as “migrant” assistance programs “run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas,” according to the Catholic News Service.
    • Make no mistake: These are not desperate people suddenly seeking refuge from violence and harm. They are low-wage workers, pew-fillers and future ethnic-bloc voters being exploited by Big Business, the Vatican and the Democrat Party.
  6. Francis affirms ‘transgender’ group in papal audience (lifesitenews.com) – 6/30/22 – :26 minutes into the 43-minute video
  7. Cardinal Müller responds to Pope Francis’ dubia on ‘transsexual’ godparents, baptisms – Lifesitenews.com – 11/9/23
  8. Say what? Cardinal with strong Pope Francis ties says Catholic LGBTQ stance is wrong | Faith | frontiersman.com– 2/23/22
  9. 2020 REMATCH: The Pope, the WHO, and the Next Lockdown – YouTube – 1/14/24 – 48-minute video – In this episode of The Underground, Michael Matt takes a look at the new documentary, “The Fall of Minneapolis,” which argues that the death of George Floyd was exploited by the radical Left to eradicate law and order, to defund the police, and to leave America’s streets and courtrooms in chaos. So why did Pope Francis describe those “peaceful protestors” as “good Samaritans”?
  10. What are the conditions for being a validly elected pope? – Lifesitenews.com – 1/16/24
  11. Murray tells Raymond Arroyo ‘women deacons’ would be ‘serious moment of heresy’ – Lifesitenews.com – 2/16/24
  12. Jordan Peterson SLAMS Pope Francis’ preoccupation with climate change, ‘worshipping Gaia’ (lifesitenews.com) – 2/27/24 – instead of the salvation of souls.
  13. Anonymous cardinal publishes rebuke of Pope Francis, lays out what next pope should focus on – Lifesitenews.com – 2/29/24