Three Articles in One - No Better Time To Join the Church of Rome

 Pope Francis and the equally corrupt Cardinal Wuerl.
Read this about Wuerl's man Rossi.
Cardinal McCarrick and big money.

Pope Francis accepts resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, appoints him interim DC leader

Vatican City, Oct 12, 2018 / 04:01 am (CNA).- Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Washington’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Friday, while asking the cardinal to continue leading the Archdiocese of Washington on an interim basis until a permanent successor is appointed.

In a letter to Wuerl obtained by CNA Oct. 12, Pope Francis told the cardinal: “Your renunciation is a sign of your availability and docility to the Spirit who continues to act in his Church.”

“In accepting your resignation, I ask you to remain as Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese until the appointment of your successor.”

Wuerl, 77, originally submitted his resignation on Nov. 12, 2015, when he turned 75 years old, as required by canon law.

The pope said Friday that he had also received a Sept. 21 request from Wuerl that his resignation be accepted.

“This request rests on two pillars that have marked and continue to mark your ministry: to seek in all things the greater glory of God and to procure the good of the people entrusted to your care,” Pope Francis wrote.

In the Oct. 12 letter accepting Wuerl’s resignation, Francis defended the cardinal from the widespread criticism he has faced in recent months.

“You have sufficient elements to ‘justify’ your actions and distinguish between what it means to cover up crimes or not to deal with problems, and to commit some mistakes.”

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GJ - The partially copied and two linked articles give an indication of the corruption and degradation of the Church of Rome. I doubt whether it was any worse during Luther's time or the eras in-between. 

Some contend that the pope's seat is in fact vacant (Wiki). 

The term has been adopted in Sedevacantism, an extreme^[11][12][13] strand of the Catholic traditionalist movement. Sedevacantists believe that all popes since the Second Vatican Council have been heretics, and that therefore the see of Rome is vacant.

No Better Time To Join the Church of Rome

The faithful Lutheran laity and clergy should consider why LCMS-WELS have so much in common with Rome - and in so many ways. The three churches are quite full of themselves and teach Universalism - UOJ.

WELS clergy are not as intoxicated with Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy as the LCMS seminary graduates are. But Rome, Missouri, and the Wisconsin Sect have a great love for Fuller Seminary gimmicks. 

So we have LCMS guys longing to join Rome or to play priest in their sect. UOJ is the great harmonizer - low-church and high-church. Let not faith get in the way.

They make up for their Universalism, they think, with persnickety, fussy attention to all the externals. "Oh, Lair, that incense is hideous. Where did you buy it? Ikea?"

 Luther explained how peacocks are so pretty and vain but make a raucous sound when they open their mouths. They are sad because their foundation - their doctrine - is so ugly.

From Your Self-Appointed Lutheran Vatican Observer - McCarrick's Successor as Cardinal

 Cardinal McCarrick is being protected because he is a "son of the Church."

Why Cardinal Wuerl Placed Me on the Basilica’s Most Wanted List

• GEORGE NEUMAYR

Cardinal Donald Wuerl followed the notorious McCarrick. The system produces protectors of that system. For examples, see WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC (sic).

Read the complete article at the American Spectator website here.

But let’s get to the specific reason why Wuerl would resort to such crass clericalism: I am gradually smoking out his corruption, breaking a series of stories that have caused his face to turn as red as his robes.

Those stories include: that he lives in a palatial, multi-million-dollar penthouse on Embassy Row; that he employed a “personal chef” who would spend twelve hours a day at his opulent pad (according to an informed source in the neighborhood) and park his flashy White Mercedes not in the employee parking lot but in the cardinal’s personal garage (the archdiocese declined to state his employment status to me; I was told he mysteriously disappeared after my reporting on his putative culinary services for the razor-thin Wuerl); that Wuerl is sheltering his child rapist-predecessor, Theodore McCarrick, at a $2.3 million, archdiocesan-owned mansion on the edge of American University Law School, just blocks from a children’s academy (McCarrick’s assigned babysitter is Mario Dorisonville, one of Wuerl’s auxiliary bishops); that Wuerl is using tens of thousands of dollars of the faithful’s money to provide McCarrick with 24/7 protection; that Wuerl has hired Barack Obama’s disgraced director of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, to oversee his security; that Wuerl, according to a chancery-connected source, is furtively building a costly retirement pad for himself at John Paul II Seminary (Wuerl was so upset about this disclosure that he had three police cars and a security goon search for me on the seminary grounds one night, according to a well-placed source).

But perhaps the story I broke about which he feels the most sensitive regards his protection of a priest I will call Fr. Hot Tub: Emmanuel Betasso, a Discalced Carmelite holding retreats and providing “spiritual” counseling in Wuerl’s archdiocese who was arrested in 2011 for groping an 18-year-old male in Wisconsin.

 Google Cardinal Pell of Australia.
More cardinals are easy to find on searches.

Scooping Christian News Cardinal Burke Demands Roman Catholic Purge

 Even more is revealed about Pope Francis and others covering up abuse in this long letter.

BREAKING: Cardinal Burke responds to former US nuncio’s explosive letter about Pope Francis

https://www.lifesitenews.com//news/cardinal-burke-responds-to-former-us-nuncios-explosive-letter-about-pope-fr#When:18:11:00Z

“The corruption and filth which have entered into the life of the Church must be purified at their roots,” said Vatican Cardinal Raymond Burke in response to a LifeSite request for comment on the release of Archbishop Carlo Viganò’s testimony. The 11-page letter issued by the former papal representative in the United States released to LifeSiteNews and a few other outlets is filled with revelations of scandals within the hierarchy.

“The declarations made by a prelate of the authority of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò must be totally taken to heart by those responsible in the Church,” said Burke. “Each declaration must be subject to investigation, according to the Church’s time-tried procedural law.”

Read the full text of Archbishop Viganò's explosive letter here.

In addition to the main charges that Pope Francis knew of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s abuse and nevertheless lifted sanctions that Pope Benedict had secretly imposed on McCarrick, some of the other explosive declarations include:

• Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State under Pope Benedict XVI, “notoriously favored promoting homosexuals into positions of responsibility.”
• Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the current Secretary of State and thought to be the top contender to replace Francis, “was also complicit in covering up the misdeeds of McCarrick.”
• Cardinal Parolin ordered the reservation of the Diocese of San Diego for the notoriously left-wing Bishop Robert McElroy
• Pope Francis warned Viganò as nuncio that he did not want bishops in the United States like Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput: “They must not be right-wing like the Archbishop of Philadelphia,” he quotes the Pope as telling him.

“After the truth of each declaration has been established, then the appropriate sanctions must be applied both for the healing of the horrible wounds inflicted upon the Church and her members, and for the reparation of the grave scandal caused,” says Cardinal Burke.

Cardinal Burke called on “all good Catholics” to “insist upon knowing the truth” and added that they “must pray and sacrifice for the Church at this tumultous time.”

A purification, he said, “Such purification can only take place with the full and uncompromised respect for the truth.”

 More about Cardinal McCarrick can be found here.

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