The John-Henry Westen Show - December 29, 2022


Pope Francis EXPOSED - Part 2： Italian Abortionist Praised by Francis & Praise for Pro-LGBT Cardinal


Summary

One of the most unbelievable things that Pope Francis ever did in the beginning of his pontificate, when nobody really knew much about him, was to praise Italy's leading abortionist. It was so unbelievable, people wondered if it was just a passing comment. But nope, that same person, Emma Bonino, went on to speak at Catholic churches.


Transcript

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00:02:02.680 One of the most unbelievable things that Pope Francis ever did in the beginning of his pontificate,
00:02:07.920 when nobody really knew too much about him,
00:02:09.920 was to praise Italy's leading abortionist.
00:02:13.660 It was so unbelievable when it was first made in a newspaper,
00:02:17.160 people wondered if it was a passing comment, he must have lost his mind or something.
00:02:20.140 But nope, then it happened, and it happened again and again.
00:02:23.860 So much so that that same person, abortionist Emma Bonino, went to speak at Catholic churches.
00:02:29.260 But you know what? You need to remember this in detail.
00:02:31.900 So we've got that for you.
00:02:32.740 Also, do you know that Pope Francis was praising, boosting, even had on the balcony with him
00:02:40.080 the most controversial cardinal in the Catholic Church today?
00:02:42.980 And there's a lot of controversial cardinals.
00:02:45.520 But how about one who not only is promoting abortion, or at least excusing it,
00:02:51.760 not only is wearing the LGBT sash and all that goes with,
00:02:56.460 but actually even evil in terms of the world, caught on tape covering up sexual abuse.
00:03:01.140 No, that couldn't be real.
00:03:02.380 Well, it is.
00:03:03.640 This is the John Henry Weston Show.
00:03:05.040 Stay tuned.
00:03:05.460 So let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:03:15.680 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:03:19.680 Amen.
00:03:21.220 So on this show, I'm going to provide you a couple of glimpses at the past
00:03:26.820 when we amassed evidence of what Pope Francis was doing
00:03:30.360 with regard to one of the most controversial things he's ever done.
00:03:33.520 That's praising an abortionist.
00:03:35.780 Not just any old abortionist, but I'll let you hear it from when it was.
00:03:40.420 Take a listen.
00:03:40.880 On February 8th, 2016, one of Italy's most prominent dailies, Corriera della Sera,
00:03:51.040 published an interview with Pope Francis in which he praised Italy's leading abortion proponent,
00:03:57.200 Emma Bonino, as one of the nation's forgotten greats,
00:04:02.260 comparing her to great historical figures such as Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schumann.
00:04:07.080 More than that, the Pope has met with Bonino on several occasions,
00:04:12.160 and her close association with the Pope has even led her to speaking at several Catholic churches in Italy,
00:04:18.660 all the while being the chief promoter of abortion in the country.
00:04:23.620 Here is the poster of her presentation in 2017 at one Catholic church,
00:04:28.820 and the video of her talk there where pro-life protesters in the audience were thrown out of the church.
00:04:34.780 And here is the video of her still promoting abortion in 2018.
00:04:42.320 In order to understand the gravity of all this,
00:04:45.020 you'd have to imagine the Pope called Hillary Clinton one of America's forgotten greats.
00:04:50.420 But that would only work if Hillary started out as an illegal abortionist herself.
00:04:55.180 That's why the pro-life movement in Italy was stunned and horrified at the Pope's remarks.
00:05:02.900 Responding to the Pope's praise of Bonino, pro-life leaders in Italy expressed disbelief.
00:05:08.180 And I quote,
00:05:08.640 commented Monsignor Ignacio Barrero, who then was the head of the Rome office of Human Life International.
00:05:22.880 As I've said before, pro-life and pro-family leaders would be rejoicing
00:05:28.120 if the Holy Father was meeting with abortionists and promoters of abortion,
00:05:32.940 if it was clear that he was calling them to repentance.
00:05:36.780 Without that, we are left with grave confusion.
00:05:42.260 Suggestions that the Pope did not know about Bonino's controversial stances
00:05:46.140 are dismissed by Italians since she was famously arrested for illegal abortions
00:05:50.860 and then became a politician who led the fight for the legalization of abortion in the nation.
00:05:56.440 Beyond that, Pope Francis has been acquainted with Bonino and her radical party leadership
00:06:02.220 for years and been openly criticized for his warm relations with them.
00:06:07.540 In her capacity as Italian foreign minister, Bonino, along with President Giorgio Napolitano
00:06:13.320 and his key ministers, was granted an audience with the Pope on June 8, 2013.
00:06:19.080 In April 2014, Bonino called Pope Francis to help end the hunger strike of radical party leader Marco Panella.
00:06:28.280 The Pope made the call and promised to join Panella in his bid to better conditions in Italian prisons.
00:06:34.880 In May 2015, Vatican Insider reported that Pope Francis personally invited Bonino to an audience in the Paul VI Hall.
00:06:43.680 Bonino had herself an illegal abortion as a young woman and then co-founded and worked with the Information Center on Sterilization and Abortion,
00:06:56.260 which boasts over 10,000 abortions.
00:06:59.560 There are famous photos of Bonino herself performing illegal abortions using a homemade device operated by a bicycle pump.
00:07:07.600 Arrested for then-illegal activity, she spent a few days in jail and was acquitted and entered politics.
00:07:16.620 And as a politician, she championed abortion, euthanasia, homosexual marriage, legalization of recreational drugs,
00:07:24.700 graphic sex education, and more.
00:07:26.500 She's great friends with international abortion pusher and globalist George Soros,
00:07:32.520 who actually, as you'll see in this video, gave her an award for women's rights.
00:07:37.600 Pope Francis admires Bonino's work with immigration.
00:07:41.420 However, as Christian politicians increasingly struggled to remain true to pro-life and pro-family stances in public office,
00:07:48.700 and endure much criticism, it was harmful for the Pope to openly praise, without clear and necessary qualifications, a politician such as Bonino.
00:07:59.260 It undermines the sacrifices many pro-life politicians have made,
00:08:03.960 and may even bring them to question the need to remain solid in their voting patterns.
00:08:08.800 It also undermines decades of heroic efforts by Italian pro-life leaders
00:08:13.860 who had actively opposed Bonino's anti-life and anti-family actions.
00:08:18.900 The U.S. bishops highlight the problem that all this causes in their 2004 document called Catholics in Political Life.
00:08:26.740 And I quote from it, it says,
00:08:28.680 Our obligation as bishops, at this time, is to teach clearly.
00:08:33.360 End quote.
00:08:33.820 They said later in the document that they must warn and counsel politicians that by supporting abortion,
00:08:39.860 they are cooperating in evil.
00:08:41.120 Moreover, they said that persistently pro-abortion politicians should not be honoured by the Catholic community and by Catholic institutions.
00:08:49.780 The bishops' document directed that such politicians, and I quote,
00:08:53.800 should not be given awards, honours, or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.
00:09:00.160 End quote.
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00:09:33.020 And now, back to the video.
00:09:37.380 And if that's not bad enough, check this out.
00:09:40.500 This is about Cardinal Godfrey Daniels.
00:09:44.560 Cardinal Daniels, who wrote the book on how he helped to elect Pope Francis with the St. Gallen Mafia.
00:09:51.840 That same most controversial Cardinal who was caught on tape, caught on tape, covering up sexual abuse.
00:10:00.860 Not just any sexual abuse.
00:10:03.000 Listen to this.
00:10:03.760 Pope Francis' relationship with a Cardinal caught on tape, covering up sexual abuse.
00:10:12.140 While some have suggested that pointing out errors of the Pope, even when the faith is endangered, is not permissible,
00:10:17.940 The former Cardinal heading up the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, told us, and I quote,
00:10:25.860 The primacy of the Pope is being undermined by the sycophants and careerists at the papal court,
00:10:32.660 and not by those who counsel the Pope in a manner competent and responsible.
00:10:39.460 Cardinal Godfrey Daniels died on March 14th this year.
00:10:43.380 However, we pray earnestly that God may have mercy on his soul, and in truth, he needs those prayers very much.
00:10:52.980 The Cardinal should have been one of the most controversial prelates in the Catholic Church,
00:10:58.260 especially in our times, because he was caught on tape in 2010 telling a victim of pedophile sexual abuse by a bishop friend of his
00:11:06.740 not to go public with the abuse.
00:11:09.140 But Cardinal Daniels was in the limelight with Pope Francis.
00:11:14.520 At his death, Pope Francis sent a telegram commenting on Cardinal Daniels saying these words,
00:11:20.800 and I quote,
00:11:21.740 This zealous pastor served the Church with dedication, not only in his diocese, but also at the national level
00:11:29.520 as president of the Conference of Bishops of Belgium, while being a member of various Roman dicasteries.
00:11:35.400 Attentive to the challenges of the contemporary Church, Cardinal Daniels also took an active role
00:11:42.160 in various synods of bishops, including those of 2014 and 2015, on the family.
00:11:48.380 End quote.
00:11:50.060 Those words of the Pope are very difficult to reconcile with Cardinal Daniels,
00:11:55.620 since he opposed the Church's teaching on homosexuality.
00:11:59.160 You can see him here, dressed in a so-called rainbow stole.
00:12:02.860 In May 2013, the Cardinal expressed his support for homosexual unions to Dutch-language newspaper
00:12:09.460 De Tide.
00:12:11.040 He said, and I quote,
00:12:12.520 I think it's a positive development that states are free to open up civil marriage for gays if they want.
00:12:18.580 End quote.
00:12:19.640 The French-language newspaper Le Coe also quoted the Cardinal, saying that the French people should,
00:12:25.240 I quote,
00:12:25.680 obey the law and not, quote,
00:12:27.820 oppose gay marriage.
00:12:29.100 But despite this reputation, as you can see in this video footage, Cardinal Daniels was one of the few Cardinals
00:12:37.500 Pope Francis chose to come out on the balcony with him at his election to the pontificate.
00:12:43.140 Cardinal Daniels was one of the personal appointees of Pope Francis to the First and Second Synods on the Family in 2014 and 2015.
00:12:51.020 Also in 2015, two Belgian politicians reported to the media that Cardinal Daniels tried to persuade King Bedouin to sign the 1990 abortion bill into law.
00:13:03.220 And apart from Cardinal Daniels' dissent on Catholic teaching on life and family,
00:13:09.100 his notorious reputation as a pedophile bishop protector should give anyone, even non-Catholics, pause.
00:13:15.840 Let me quote to you from the Reuters journalist who went through those horrible, secretly taped sessions
00:13:23.580 between Cardinal Daniels and the sexual abuse victim who was abused by a bishop friend of the Cardinal
00:13:29.280 from the time he was five until he was 18 years old.
00:13:34.300 Reuters journalist Tom Hennigan reported, and I quote,
00:13:37.420 In the published transcripts of that meeting, the unnamed victim, now 42, told Daniels he could no longer keep quiet
00:13:46.100 about how his uncle, Bishop Roger Vangelwee, sexually abused him between the ages of five and 18.
00:13:52.660 He says Vangelwee could not remain in office, and the case must be reported to the church hierarchy,
00:13:58.660 but he doesn't know how to do this.
00:14:01.040 What do you really want?
00:14:03.080 asks Daniels, cutting the victim off by saying he already knows the story and doesn't need to hear it again.
00:14:09.140 When the man says, I give you the responsibility, I can't decide.
00:14:13.580 You should do what you think should be done, because I don't know how this whole system works.
00:14:18.960 Do you want this to be made public? the Cardinal asks.
00:14:22.180 I leave that to you, the victim responds.
00:14:24.720 Then, Daniels begins his effort to convince him to keep the lid on the problem.
00:14:30.820 The bishop will step down next year, so actually it would be better for you to wait, says Cardinal Daniels.
00:14:37.380 No, I can't agree that he takes his leave in glory.
00:14:40.900 I can't do that, the victim replies.
00:14:43.820 At one point, Daniels ducks and weaves, trying to fend off the victim's pleas
00:14:48.340 to inform the church hierarchy about Vangelwee's misdeeds.
00:14:51.540 At another point, Daniels suggests that the victim admit his guilt and ask for forgiveness.
00:14:58.040 Who do I have to ask forgiveness from? the surprised man asks.
00:15:02.640 When Daniels suggests that the victim may be trying to blackmail the church,
00:15:06.720 the man pleads with him to take up his case, saying there has to be someone in the church
00:15:11.820 who can handle it because he cannot bring himself to expose his uncle on his own.
00:15:16.680 We were forced to get married by him. Our children were baptized by him.
00:15:22.040 How can I explain this to them, he asked.
00:15:24.760 Yesterday, I said to my oldest son, look, this is what happened to me.
00:15:28.400 They must know what has happened.
00:15:31.020 How, indeed, could Pope Francis be associated so closely with Cardinal Daniels?
00:15:37.300 Believe it or not, Daniels was one of the cardinals who conspired to elect Pope Francis,
00:15:42.080 a truth that comes out in Daniels' own authorized biography.
00:15:47.000 He even did a TV show promoting the book where he explained that he was part of this group
00:15:52.260 called the St. Gallen Mafia, or Mafia, as they called themselves,
00:15:57.400 which fought against Cardinal Ratzinger and worked for Cardinal Bergoglio's election
00:16:01.820 even in the 2005 conclave.
00:16:04.060 But that is another story.
00:16:10.620 Remember our motto at LifeSite?
00:16:12.820 It's caritas in veritate, the truth in love.
00:16:15.840 And so it's actually out of love for Pope Francis that we want to call him to enunciate the truth
00:16:20.900 and correct the errors that he has taught, which have harmed the faithful.
00:16:25.320 I know, these are mind-blowing things.
00:16:31.180 But you know what?
00:16:32.140 We know and always will know that the Catholic Church is the one true church,
00:16:38.060 and there is nowhere else to go.
00:16:39.980 So that's why at LifeSite News, we do what we always do every single day.
00:16:44.340 We pray for the conversion of Pope Francis.
00:16:48.400 For LifeSite News, I'm John Henry Weston, and may God bless you.
00:16:51.260 Thank you, and God bless you.
00:17:21.260 For LifeSite News, I'm John Henry Weston.