It'd be a dangerous thing to be in the company of a bunch of lying crooks when you're not a lying crook yourself. It would make them uncomfortable. Especially if you kept sticking your honest nose into things that stink to high heaven...and the goodness knows the Vatican stinks to the highest heaven with cover ups and lies. Top to bottom: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-new...vatican-claims-about-accused-argentine-bishop
'…. and he fell among thieves who stripped him and robbed him (of his good name). Let's hope for a good Samaritan in this case too.
I would rather work with the Sicilain Mafia than the current crowd in the Vatican. The Mafia seem to me a far better cleass of people.
You and me both! I’m feeling that Cardinal Pell needs our prayers tonight. If he is innocent, this is horrible...especially since so many guilty ones are running free.
Christ’s peace be with us, faithful remnant! Yes! Let’s form a powerful intercessory prayer chain to surround the persecuted innocent ones and the abuse victims of the depraved ones with God’s and Mother Mary’s protection, consolation, healing, strength, divine grace, courage and perseverance. I feel the Holy Spirit urging us to help them carry their crosses by offering our daily rosaries, Divine Mercy chaplets, Masses, Prayer of Consecration to the Divine Will (downloadable on the bookofheaven website), adoration hours, daily work, own sufferings and trials, and sacrifices on their behalf. May they endure, be rescued, and be vindicated. May God's justice triumph over flawed human justice. May God illuminate all consciences and stir all to sincere repentance. May we all persevere and keep the true faith until the end of our days. Jesus, we surrender ourselves to You. Take care of everything. Fiat Voluntas Tua!
Poor Cardinal Pell. Prayers. But at least the Vatican is standing behind him...I think so anyway. I hope they don;t beat him up or kill hi in there, inmates are not so kind to those sentenced for this kind of stuff. I think they are lining him up for a huge sentence. I would say this cross will either be the making or unmaking of him. He will either wind up a saint or a corpse. God has his reasons.
I'm praying for Cardinal Pell, he reminds me of apostles who were incarcerated. God Bless him. The church can be so corrupt.
I am trying to imagine the background to this situation (assuming the Cardinal to be innocent). The Pope appointed this man to oversee the Vatican finances knowing him to be an honest man. Not long after the Pope's appointments of several expert laypeople overseeing/investigating/auditing Vatican finances, several of them resigned suddenly and without explanation. We can probably assume that 'all was not well' and those matters noted and reported were not being acknowledged/deal with in a proper/timely manner to the satisfaction of those lay appointees (they would certainly have signed confidentiality agreements before appointment and so were in no position to speak about any concerns). Being the man in charge, the Cardinal would have been the first to know of anything improper being reported and so would certainly have become aware of some/many strange transactions and the names of those involved. If all this surmise is correct (and I believe that it is), the Pope would have had two choices: get rid of those involved in the 'dodgy' transactions and 'call the cops' or get rid of the Cardinal. If it came to such a choice and the person making the decision elected the latter course then we have to wonder what information the culprits had on those in the very highest offices which might have made them choose to use their unlimited funds to destroy the Cardinal rather than purify the Vatican of its thieves. They must be very confident that the Cardinal will 'do his time' without 'spilling the beans' and relying on the fact that he will be true to the Papal oath not to disclose Vatican business. Thus an honest man is bound to his oath and its effects are to protect liars and thieves. Apart from unjust conviction, knowing or suspecting how the unjust allegations might have arisen could drive a sane man mad no matter how good he might be.
I Agree with you. Many things are planned ahead of time it seems. I feel in my heart that Cardinal Pell is innocent. It definitely has smelled like a set up from the beginning to me. False accusations are an easy way to get rid of good priests and cardinals today. Many people will lie for money in this world so it isnt so difficult to find cooperating parties. It seems the bad guys get covered for and the good guys are being silenced. Just my spin on it. We must pray for Cardinal Pell!!-
OH BOY, keep purging your Church!! Keep us safe heavenly Mother, Queen of Peace! Holy Spirit, bring us discernment when we need to back away, taking a break from any and all media.
I just read on a priest twitter page that in 1996, Cardinal Pell refused Communion to a gay group. The homosexual lobby has been gunning for him ever since. (This is close to an exact quote. I’m unable to link at this time.) From Fr. Kevin M Cusick’s page.
Lent is my step back time. I am fasting from media during Lent. Hope I can keep it up. I plan to catch up on everything every Sunday but during the week I intend to read "God's news".
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-new...-prosecution-what-it-is-religious-persecution Calling Cardinal Pell’s Prosecution What It Is: Religious Persecution COMMENTARY: Now that the suppression order has been lifted, we are free to state what has been evident for several years now. Father Raymond J. de Souza ...The Supposed Facts of the Case It is important for Catholics to know the specifics of the case, not just summary statements that it was “weak.” It was impossible. The prosecution charged that Cardinal Pell, instead of greeting people after Mass, as was his custom, immediately left everyone in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and went unaccompanied to the sacristy. Arriving alone in the sacristy, he found two choirboys who had somehow left the procession of the other five dozen choirboys and were swigging altar wine. Having caught them in the act, he then quickly decided to sexually assault them — “oral penetration,” to be unpleasantly precise. This he accomplished immediately after Mass, with the sacristy door open, despite having all his vestments on and with the reasonable expectation that the sacristan, the master of ceremonies, the servers or concelebrants might come in and out or even pass by the open door, as would be customary after Mass. Meanwhile, there were dozens and dozens of people in the cathedral, praying or milling about. The whole affair took place within six minutes, after which the boys went off to choir practice and never spoke about it to anyone for 20 years, not even to each other. Indeed, one of the boys, who died of a heroin overdose in 2014, explicitly told his mother before he died that he had never been sexually abused. The supposed facts are virtually impossible to complete. Ask any priest of a normal-sized parish — let alone a cathedral — if it would be possible to rape choirboys in the sacristy immediately after Mass. Sixty seconds — let alone six minutes — would not pass without someone, or several people, coming in and out, or at least passing by the open door. Ask any priest if he is customarily alone in the sacristy immediately after Mass, while there are still people in the church and the sanctuary has not yet been cleared. Furthermore — again, with apologies for being graphic — it is not possible to perform the alleged penetration when fully vested for Mass. Again, ask any priest — let alone an archbishop, who is more heavily vested — about the awkwardness of having to visit the bathroom, if necessary, after vesting. It requires divesting, at least in part, or engaging in an awkward handling of the various vestments, which makes using the washroom difficult, to say nothing of a sexual assault. The complainant said that Cardinal Pell had just moved his vestments aside, an impossibility, given that the alb has no such openings. What Cardinal Pell was accused of doing is simply impossible, even if he had somehow been mad enough to attempt it. Moreover, any man who attempts raping boys in a public place with people about is the kind of reckless offender about whom there would be a long history of such behavior. There is, of course, no such history. The Corruption of the Police It is not astonishing that a jury of 12 ordinary citizens might be convinced, contrary to evidence and common sense, that Cardinal Pell was guilty. After all, dozens and dozens of highly trained and experienced police officers and prosecutors decided that the former archbishop of Sydney was guilty even before any charges were brought whatsoever. Such is the Australian hatred for the Catholic Church in general and George Pell in particular. In 2013, the Victoria police launched “Operation Tethering” to investigate Cardinal Pell, even though there had been no complaints against him. There followed a four-year campaign to find people willing to allege sexual abuse, a campaign that included the Victoria police taking out newspaper ads asking for complaints about sexual abuse at the Melbourne cathedral — before there had been any. The police had their man and just needed a victim. With Australia going through the agony of a royal commission investigation into sexual abuse — with the Catholic Church garnering the lion’s share of the attention — it was only a matter of time before someone could be found to say something, or remember something, or, if necessary, fabricate it altogether. That, after all those efforts, the Victoria police could only pull together such a flimsy case is itself a powerful indication that Cardinal Pell is not a sexual abuser ... Even more astonishing, the jury convicted Cardinal Pell of assaulting the second boy, even though he had denied to his own family ever being molested. The second supposed victim died in 2014. He never made a complaint, was never interviewed by the police and was never examined in court. Absent the public hatred for Cardinal Pell, such a case would never have even been brought to court. But just as the police had their man before they had any allegations or evidence, the prosecutors knew that they had a good chance of getting a jury that was so determined to get Cardinal Pell that they only had to give them a chance ... last year in Australia, where Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide was convicted of covering up a sexual-abuse case. He was convicted, and though he did not want to resign before his appeal was heard, pressure from the Vatican, his brother bishops and the Australian prime minister forced him out. Only months later, he was acquitted on appeal, with the appellate court judge ruling that the jury who convicted him was likely swayed by the public fury at the Catholic Church. It happened again."
