Headlines and Article blurbs about the Sex Abuse Summit

Where is Cardinal O'Malley?  Phil Lawler weighs in the Vatican Meeting Programmed for Failure.

Conspicuously missing from the program is any major address by Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the chairman of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. It was shocking that Cardinal O’Malley was not included in the preparatory commission for the event; it is still more astonishing that he is not listed among the featured speakers.

Cardinals Burke, Brandmüller challenge bishops to speak out, defend faith

Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller insist that Church leaders must address not only the protection of young people from abuse, but a “much greater crisis” in the Church. They point to homosexual influence that “has been spread within the Church, promoted by organized networks and protected by a climate of complicity and a conspiracy of silence.”

Pope's 21 "Reflection Points" on the crisis say not one word about homosexuality! 

Several of the suggestions are on the theme of seminary formation of priests and the proper penalties for priests or religious who commit abuse. [but completely ignore the necessity to screen out homosexuals from the priesthood #16, #17, #18]

Stay tuned.....

Archbishop Carlo Vigano's Message to the Bishops on the Feast of St. Peter Damian

Editor's Comment: Archbishop Carlo Vigano sent the message below to the bishops gathering for the sex abuse summit on February 21st. It was the summit's opening day and also the feast of St. Peter Damian, the great warrior against the depraved practices of homosexual clergy in the Middle Ages. 

I'm posting this on the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. These two feasts back to back emphasize the responsibility of Pope Francis to exercise authority over the crisis in the Church which is, in fact, a homosexual crisis. Ignoring that fact endangers the credibility of the hierarchy and illustrates a lack of transparency that puts to the lie all the fine words coming from the Vatican about their intent to resolve the crisis.

These feasts also coincide with new details coming out about Cardinal McCarrick and his "missing years" when he was apparently being groomed by the Communist party to become a Church insider attacking the faith. If you've read Bella Dodd's School of Darkness, you know full well that a Communist strategy was to plant agents in Catholic seminaries to undermine and corrupt the Church and destroy her authority to be a powerful witness in the world. And how effectively they did it! 

Guest Post: Clerical Sex Abuse and Suicide: The Toxic Legacy -- Part 2: Suicide of Predators

Rev. Alfred Bietighofer killed
himself in 2002 during treatment
at the infamous St. Luke Institute
in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Sex Abuse Victims and Clerical Suicide —

A Study of the Toxic Legacy of Clerical Molestation  

By Randy Engel

Read the first part of this article here.

The Suicide of Clerical Sexual Predators

Following close on the heels of the suicide of victims of clerical sex abuse, is the tragedy of Catholic priests and religious (male and female) involved in homosexuality and pederasty who take their own lives. The rising tide of suicide among clerics, especially those involved in the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults has become a serious problem not only for the Catholic Church in America, but also abroad including Ireland, Australia. Belgium and Poland.  

Guest Post -- Clerical Sex Abuse and Suicide: The Toxic Legacy -- Part I: Suicide of Victims

14-year-old Brian Teeman, sex abuse
victim of Msgr. Thomas O'Brien
shot himself in November 1983. Will
the bishops at the summit address
the relationship between clergy abuse
and suicide during their summit?

The Catholic Inquisitor

February 2019 

Sex Abuse Victims and Clerical Suicide —

A Study of the Toxic Legacy of Clerical Molestation  

By Randy Engel

Introduction

On February 21-24, 2019, Pope Francis will convene an international  “summit” on clerical sexual abuse and the protection of minors (and vulnerable adults) in the Church in the New Synod Hall in Rome. The meeting will focus on three particular areas — responsibility, accountability and transparency. It will include plenary sessions, working groups, moments of common prayer and listening to testimonies, a penitential liturgy and a final Eucharistic celebration. The plenary sessions with be directed by the Italian Jesuit, Father Federico Lombardi, former Director of the Vatican Press Office from 2006 to 2010. 

The Program for the Sex Abuse Summit Explains It All For You...

...and it's no wonder the pope said to lower your expectations!

As you read the program for the sex summit at the end of the post, note the 3 hour lunch breaks. Must be hard to find food in Rome! And then they come back for a 45 minute presentation and...what next?...a 20 minute coffee break! Guess they need time to walk around after that big lunch so they don't fall asleep listening to the riveting talks by folks like Cardinal Marx, a one-man Church wrecking ball. Really, folks, all indications are that this is one more game that pretends to be addressing an issue while sweeping the real problem under the rug. And it begins with Cupich, a major organizer of this smoke-blowing summit.



One Mad Mom is hot over this ridiculous event and really pegs it when she writes: