The John-Henry Westen Show - June 01, 2022


Pope names pro-LGBT Cardinal Blase Cupich to Vatican liturgy office


Summary

Archbishop Blaise Cupich has been appointed to the Vatican s Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments. This is the same Cardinal who is famous for wanting to give communion to pro-abortion politicians and homosexual couples.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Breaking news from Rome this morning. Pope Francis has named Chicago Cardinal Blaise
00:00:04.420 Cupich to the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
00:00:09.080 This is the same homosexuality-promoting Cupich, the same one famous for wanting to give communion
00:00:15.860 to pro-abortion politicians and homosexual couples. The Congregation of Divine Worship,
00:00:20.900 by the way, is in charge of liturgy in the Church, which means the Mass, or the Eucharist,
00:00:26.440 known as the source and summit of the Church. You know, Satan obviously knows where to strike.
00:00:33.300 I want you to check out the full coverage at LifeSite News by journalist Michael Haynes, but
00:00:37.520 here are a few of the highlights, or in this case you might say the lowlights.
00:00:42.280 But this is the John Henry Weston Show, so stay tuned.
00:00:56.440 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:01:06.340 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
00:01:12.420 So, the disaster of the Francis papacy seems to have taken on a new turn this week,
00:01:18.240 with the quick succession of scandalous appointments.
00:01:21.260 First, we saw the elevation of San Diego Bishop Robert McIlroy, appointed to the College of Cardinals.
00:01:28.720 And just today, we see Pope Francis appointing Blaise Cupich, among others,
00:01:32.780 to the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
00:01:36.940 So, usually, in the midst of Francis' scandals, there would have been some kind of orthodox-sounding story,
00:01:43.880 so as to soften the blow of the scandalous appointments.
00:01:47.080 But now, it seems there is a no-holds-barred approach.
00:01:51.940 Some people have suggested that perhaps Pope Francis is dying,
00:01:54.840 and wants to get in, you know, all of the activity that he wants in.
00:01:59.100 But we don't know about that.
00:02:00.760 However, to understand the gravity of the appointments,
00:02:04.160 let's focus on the liturgical approach of Cardinal Cupich.
00:02:07.780 First of all, remember that he has been doing whatever he could to restrict the traditional Latin Mass.
00:02:14.460 But, moreover, here, watch this.
00:02:17.220 This is Cupich presiding over a Mass in what looks like a high school gymnasium,
00:02:21.960 where, at the beginning of the Mass, people stand as the dragon comes out.
00:02:26.580 Yes, you heard me correct.
00:02:27.440 It's a dragon that comes out and is blessed by Cupich.
00:02:31.240 No, I'm actually not kidding.
00:02:32.420 Watch it for yourself.
00:02:33.000 I'm actually not kidding.
00:03:03.000 Good fortune upon your head, miraculous light glittering to your eyes,
00:03:25.740 your ears, capturing sounds from all directions.
00:03:33.240 May the most favorable auspices, big fortune, and great profit be to you
00:03:40.500 throughout the whole year, from the beginning all the way to the end.
00:03:49.780 And if that's not enough, watch this Mass, where Archbishop Cupich presiding at it,
00:04:09.840 right at the point, actually, after consecration, where the priests and the deacon sometimes,
00:04:15.200 but the priest or deacon or both lift up the body and blood of Jesus in the chalice and the sacred host
00:04:21.760 and offer Jesus to the Eternal Father.
00:04:24.440 The priest usually says there, through him, with him, in him, and so on.
00:04:28.320 It's probably the focal point of the Mass.
00:04:31.960 And in this video, you're going to see there's a few ladies who do a kind of swaying dance
00:04:38.060 in front of the altar with incense sticks.
00:04:40.280 It's called a smudging ceremony that takes place right in the middle of the Mass.
00:04:44.640 Watch this for yourself.
00:04:45.520 Okay, so I'm sure you've been scandalized already,
00:05:07.700 but let me give you a few more of the appointments and their significance from the LifeSite coverage.
00:05:13.300 So, Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagli, prefect of the Congregation of Evangelization of Peoples,
00:05:20.260 hailed as a possible future pope and known for his promotion of the LGBT ideology,
00:05:25.760 is also appointed to the congregation.
00:05:28.980 Also, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the prefect of the Dicastery for Laity and Family and Life,
00:05:35.420 who is also opposed to the Vatican's ban on same-sex blessings and the current papal Carmelengo,
00:05:41.480 he's appointed to the congregation as well.
00:05:44.340 Farrell, by the way, was a close colleague of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
00:05:49.160 Also, there's Cardinal Lopez Romero, who is the Archbishop of Rabat in Morocco
00:05:54.780 and a member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue,
00:05:58.980 who was praised by dissident Jesuit Father Thomas Rees
00:06:03.380 for his ecumenical dialogue with the Muslims in Morocco.
00:06:07.300 And there's also Cardinal Mario Gretsch,
00:06:10.420 the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops,
00:06:13.020 responsible for the Synod on Synodality,
00:06:15.880 who's praised, by the way, the German synodal way.
00:06:20.180 These are all new appointments as well.
00:06:22.840 But even beyond the cardinals who are appointed,
00:06:25.920 there's bishops appointed to the Congregation for Divine Worship,
00:06:29.760 who are also of concerns.
00:06:31.860 One of those I know personally,
00:06:34.380 and he is Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Bishop Douglas Crosby.
00:06:39.040 Bishop Crosby backed a move to fly the gay pride parade flag at Catholic schools.
00:06:46.020 He actually muzzled the priest of his diocese from speaking out in opposition to it.
00:06:51.360 He went so far as to remove one priest from the diocese
00:06:54.960 who spoke out against the gay pride flags flying at Catholic schools.
00:07:00.760 Bishop Crosby forced parishioners to wear masks in church
00:07:04.720 and ordered his priests to deny the faithful Holy Communion
00:07:09.220 if they would not wear masks in church.
00:07:12.820 He also warned his priests, who refused the vaccine,
00:07:16.800 that he would restrict their ministries.
00:07:19.140 And while he forbade a speaker in his diocese speaking against graphic sex education in schools,
00:07:27.060 Bishop Crosby ignored the pleas of the faithful Catholics
00:07:31.100 to ban two former priests, one actually a bishop,
00:07:35.540 from speaking at a Catholic college in his diocese on issues promoting homosexuality.
00:07:41.900 This is unbelievable.
00:07:44.720 This is Bishop Douglas Crosby.
00:07:46.680 And yet, despite all of that,
00:07:50.040 he's been appointed to the Congregation for Divine Worship.
00:07:52.980 Again, go to LifeSite News,
00:07:55.180 check out the full story from our journalist Michael Haynes,
00:07:59.380 which we had up earlier today.
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