Under cover of COVID, the Vatican is going haywire
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In only one month, there has been so much insanity coming out of the Vatican that I needed to give you an update to summarize everything all in one spot so that you can see the speed at which things are happening.
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Many people wrote me aghast at my last video, noting the scandal that the Pope had a painting
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placed behind his desk with Christ in the nude ministering to Judas, and that the painting
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was featured on the cover of the Vatican newspaper and its first three pages dedicated to the
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In the last month, we've seen Pope Francis call for a new world order, and more recently
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We've seen top cardinals and bishops in the Church demand that the Church bless homosexual
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sexual unions, and Pope Francis refuse to correct them.
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We've seen the Pope reject the title of Our Lady as co-redemptrix, which has been used for
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centuries by previous Popes, and we've seen the Pope appoint an openly homosexual man to
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the Pope's Commission for the Protection of Minors, and more.
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Yes, indeed, under the cover of COVID, things have gone absolutely wild in the Vatican.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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In only one month, there has been so much insanity coming out of the Vatican that I needed to give
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you an update to summarize everything all in one spot, so that you can see the speed at which
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You know, philosophers say that things speed up near the end, and well, if the end is nowhere
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in sight, the speed and depth of the depravity coming out of the Vatican today is just unbelievable.
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We just learned last week that the Vatican is hosting a health conference with Anthony
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Fauci, with vaccine developers, Mormon elders, pro-abortion Chelsea Clinton, population control
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advocate Jane Goodall, a New Age activist, a prominent UK Muslim scholar, and a pro-abortion
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Check out the report by LifeSite's Michael Haynes for full details on the Vatican's 5th
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The conference is entitled, Exploring the Mind, Body, and Soul, How Innovation and Novel
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Delivery Systems Improve Human Health, and is due to take place May 6th through 8th.
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In mid-March, we heard the Pope call for a, quote, new world order, and say that wasting
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the COVID crisis would be worse than the pandemic.
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It's Vatican News that published an excerpt of the Pope's book-length interview, which
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is entitled, God and the World to Come, which was in bookstores in Italy on March 15th.
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Speaking to the Italian journalist Domenico Agasso, with language actually eerie, similar
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to globalist Klaus Schwab, the Pope called for, and I quote, a new world order, end quote,
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and he also said that the COVID crisis should not be wasted, saying, and I quote,
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let us all keep in mind that there is something worse than this crisis, the drama of wasting
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We cannot emerge from a crisis the same as before.
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We can come out better or we come out worse, end quote.
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The Pope even linked the theological aspect of salvation to the promotion of a new world
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order in line with globalist policies, suggesting that the salvation, that salvation was dependent
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He said, quote, we can no longer blithely accept inequalities and disruptions to the environment.
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The path to humanity's salvation passes through the creation of a new model of development,
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which unquestionably focuses on coexistence among peoples in harmony with creation, end quote.
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The Pope continued that theme this month in a letter to the World Bank and International
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Monetary Fund for their April 5th to 11th meeting.
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Pope Francis called for, quote, global governance, end quote, in light of the COVID-19.
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He said he was actually strongly advocating for universal vaccines and bemoaning the ecological
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debt, which is owed to, as he said, nature itself.
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The letter was delivered via Cardinal Peter Turkson, who's the prefect for the Holy See's
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dicastery for promoting integral human development.
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On March 12th, Pope Francis forbade the celebration of private masses in St. Peter's Basilica in
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Five cardinals condemned this novel measure, including Cardinals Raymond Burke, Gerhard Müller,
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Walter Brandt Müller, Robert Serra, and Joseph Zen.
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Also in mid-March, Pope Francis ordered a canonical investigation into the Congregation for Divine
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Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, which is largely seen by Vatican insiders as payback
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for the orthodoxy of Cardinal Robert Serra, who was retired by Pope Francis in February of
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On March 24th, Pope Francis rejected the Marian title of co-redemptrix, which has been believed
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and taught in the Church for centuries and used by previous popes and saints.
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Nevertheless, Pope Francis denounced the teaching, saying that there are no co-redeemers with
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The mother who covers everyone under her mantle.
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As a mother, Jesus entrusted us to her as a mother, not as a goddess, not as a co-redemptrix.
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Also on March 24th, Pope Francis appointed one Carlos Cruz, an openly homosexual man, to the
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Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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Cruz is himself a victim of clerical sexual abuse and was the one who Pope Francis called
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to come to the Vatican in 2018 for a private meeting, where Cruz reported after the meeting
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After the meeting, Cruz made public that Francis told him, and I quote,
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God made you like that and he loves you like that.
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Cruz also revealed that Pope Francis told him that Archbishop Vigano was fired from his post
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as nuncio to the United States for having arranged the meeting of Pope Francis with Kim Davis,
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the pro-family hero who was an elected county clerk who went to jail rather than having her
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name go on marriage certificates for homosexual couples.
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Speaking to the media after his appointment by the Pope to the Vatican Commission on Abuse
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of Minors, Cruz took the opportunity to condemn that new Vatican statement opposing the blessing
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He said that the Vatican officials who issued the new statement, quote,
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are completely in a world of their own away from people and trying to defend the indefensible.
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Cruz called for a change in the leadership of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith,
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saying it was undermining efforts by Pope Francis to create a more inclusive church.
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Which actually brings me to the big item I'd like to focus on in this show,
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and that is the aftermath of that March 15th document from the Vatican,
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forbidding clergy from blessing homosexual unions.
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Pope Francis' closest collaborators let it be known that the Pope was unhappy with the statement,
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and he seemed to suggest as much in public statements after the document's release.
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And even Cardinal Burke, when he was asked publicly on EWTN if that could be true,
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that the Pope was distancing himself from the Vatican's statement,
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the Cardinal actually said it was not unreasonable.
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America magazine, the Jesuit magazine, reported this week
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that the Pope may be distancing himself from that CDF statement.
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where he said many people, often without saying so,
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implicitly would like to see Jesus, to meet him, to know him.
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It means sowing seeds of love, not with fleeting words,
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but through concrete, simple, and courageous examples.
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Not with theoretical condemnations, but with gestures of love.
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Then the Lord, with his grace, makes us bear fruit,
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even when the soil is dry due to misunderstandings, difficulty, or persecution,
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Your Eminence, does this seem like the Pope attempting to distance himself
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from that statement issued by his own doctrinal office,
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or is this wishful thinking on the part of progressive Catholics?
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Well, it's a very difficult statement to interpret with accuracy,
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but I don't think it's unreasonable to say that he's making a statement like that,
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especially referring to moralism and to the definition,
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a juridical definition with regard to a relationship.
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I don't think it's far-fetched to think that it has something to do
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with the declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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who Pope Francis claimed to be one of the greatest theologians in the Church,
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came out slamming the Vatican document as, and I quote,
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And Schaumborn also said that homosexual blessings would not be refused.
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Schaumborn, who leads the Church in Austria, said, and I quote,
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and he added that it's, of course, by a homosexual couple,
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and that they're seeking a blessing from God for a life path,
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then such a blessing will not be refused, end quote.
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because the leftists in the Church see that this is their opportunity.
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The Pope's evidently uncomfortable with the document from the Vatican
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that it's the same Pope who came out in support of same-sex unions,
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a Church which says we can't bless same-sex unions is equally obliged to ask how we might include same-sex couples.
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he actually chairs the German Bishop Conference.
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suggesting that the teaching will not be followed by the Church in Germany.
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This gives the impression that the theological debate,
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which is currently being debated in various parts of the Universal Church,
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is to be ended as quickly as possible, end quote.
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Beitzig added that this is not possible at all, quote,
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because the discussion is intense and with good arguments in many places,
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and the theological inquiries about pastoral practice today
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cannot simply be put out of the way with one word of power, end quote.
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Belgian Bishop Johan Bonny said that he felt, quote,
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I want to apologize to all for whom this is painful and incomprehensible.
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The Belgian bishops, as a group, reacted with a statement
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that they will continue to follow Pope Francis' controversial encyclical Amoris Laetitia
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when it comes to homosexuals in the Catholic Church.
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Now get this, the youngest Catholic bishop in Ireland,
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Bishop Paul Dempsey of Aconry, I think is the name of the diocese,
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hurtful response from the Church to people with same-sex orientation,
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that appeared on the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference website.
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Dempsey, who was appointed Bishop of Anchory in January 2020 by Pope Francis,
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called the language used by the Vatican a problem,
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the deeper problem arises in the sphere of language.
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At best, it is experienced as cold and distant,
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and at worst, hurtful and offensive, end quote.
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And it's not only coming from cardinals and bishops.
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Priests, too, have expressed themselves as opposed to the Church's constant teaching on homosexuality.
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The German newspaper Deutsche Welle reported that about 60 German priests
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signed a letter stating that they will defy the congregation's teaching
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in view of the refusal of the congregation of the doctrine of faith to bless homosexual partnerships,
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we will continue to accompany people who enter into a binding partnership
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We do not refuse a blessing ceremony, end quote.
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In a similar initiative in Austria, a group of about 350 priests organized by Pastor Helmut Schuller
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stated in what they called a call to disobedience, too,
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that they will continue to bless same-sex couples, end quote.
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Not to be outdone, some priests in America took to their pulpits to denounce the Vatican document,
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Clergy from America's first order of Catholic priests, known as the Paulists,
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openly criticized in their homilies the Vatican's decree that the Church cannot bless homosexual couples.
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The news actually came to life sight from a great convert from homosexuality, Joseph Schumbra,
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who compiled videos of priests from the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle
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in parishes in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles,
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openly lambasting the congregation of the doctrine of faith.
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Here are some of the highlights, or should I say lowlights, from those videos.
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And if the CDF foolishly thought that just saying no would be the end of the issue,
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I have been blessed by so many couples, married and unmarried, straight and gay and lesbian and all in between,
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who have blessed me in my life by their witness, by their self-giving, and by who they are.
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God loves his LGBTQ kids as much as any other kids.
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Just don't bring home your loved one to me or Mother Church.
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It seemed to be what Pope Francis was saying this week.
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And to say as a church that those who are not able to be in a heterosexual sacramental marriage
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we know after a year of lockdowns with COVID-19,
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that isn't an answer that's going to work either.
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And if you're hoping or thinking that Pope Francis will have to deal with it or correct it or bring clarity,
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Two cardinals already approached the Pope to correct the head of the German Bishop's Conference on the very same question.
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Edward Penton, one of the best Vatican reporters in the world,
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reported that Jesuit Cardinal Louis Ladaria, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith,
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and Cardinal Kurt Koch, the Swiss president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity,
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requested that Bishop Georg Beitzig, the chairman of the German Bishop's Conference,
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Remember, Beitzig directly challenged several core teachings regarding not only the blessing of same-sex unions,
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but also women's ordination to the priesthood and Holy Communion for Protestants.
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A source told National Catholic Register that Santa Marta said no to the request from the Cardinal asking for Beitzig's correction.
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Santa Marta, of course, is the Pope's residence,
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and therefore the word was Pope Francis said no.
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At least Cardinal Raymond Burke was ready to speak out against one of these bishops spouting heresy.
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Cardinal Burke called out Bishop Bonney for his rejection of the Vatican's refusal to allow for same-sex,
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The bishop, if he's pained by what's declared by the Congregation of the Doctrine and the Faith,
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then he must examine himself with regard to his own coherence with the Catholic faith,
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and if he is not holding to the Catholic faith, then he should renounce his office,
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as to be relieved of his office as diocesan bishop,
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