By David Martin —— Bio and Archives September 10, 2018
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“If this is rightly to be considered a serious moral responsibility for every believer, how much graver is it for the Church’s supreme pastor, who in the case of McCarrick not only did not oppose the evil but associated himself with the evils of one he knew to be deeply corrupt. He followed the advice of someone he knew well to be a pervert, thus multiplying exponentially with his supreme authority the evil done by McCarrick. And how many other evil pastors is Francis still continuing to prop up in their active destruction of the Church! “Francis is abdicating the mandate which Christ gave to Peter to confirm the brethren. Indeed, by his action he has divided them, led them into error, and encouraged the wolves to continue to tear apart the sheep of Christ’s flock. “In this extreme dramatic moment for the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero-tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.”Cardinal Viganò indeed is to be praised for his honesty and his love for Christ’s flock, which has compelled him to come to its defense so selflessly. The truth, beauty, and heroic candor of his statement is simply unprecedented. The cardinal courageously asserts:
“Bishops and priests, abusing their authority, have committed horrendous crimes to the detriment of their faithful, minors, innocent victims, and young men eager to offer their lives to the Church, or by their silence have not prevented that such crimes continue to be perpetrated. “To restore the beauty of holiness to the face of the Bride of Christ, which is terribly disfigured by so many abominable crimes, and if we truly want to free the Church from the fetid swamp into which she has fallen, we must have the courage to tear down the culture of secrecy and publicly confess the truths we have kept hidden. We must tear down the conspiracy of silence with which bishops and priests have protected themselves at the expense of their faithful, a conspiracy of silence that in the eyes of the world risks making the Church look like a sect.”And so, we see that it is Cardinal Viganò who intervened to stop the spread of evil, yet we don't see Francis praising Viganò for this, nor do we see the Church at large praising Viganò despite the many diocesan banners and tracts that are put out today which call upon Catholics to "protect our Catholic youth." On the contrary, we see Vatican liberals crying out that Viganò is guilty of “pope bashing,” when it is the liberal Vatican bureaucracy that bashes the pope by encouraging his subversion and his wayward path. True love for the papacy commands that we correct the present papacy and place it back on its pedestal as loyal conservative Catholics have sought to do. Unfortunately, some see Francis as a "persecuted martyr" who is being calumniated by those who disrespect the authority of the Church, when it is Francis who is persecuting the Church by his collusion with the enemies of the Church, i.e. the homosexuals, the globalists. The Vatican today has become a # bureaucracy, courtesy of Francis. Viganò rather shows true love for the pope and Church, as evidenced in the closing words of his testimony:
“It is in moments of great trial that the Lord’s grace is revealed in abundance and makes His boundless mercy available to all; but it is granted only to those who are truly repentant and sincerely propose to amend their lives. This is a favorable time for the Church to confess her sins, to convert, and to do penance. "Let us all pray for the Church and for the Pope, let us remember how many times he has asked us to pray for him!"God indeed has raised up Cardinal Viganò at this dismal hour to spearhead a consolidated effort to start cleaning house and throwing out more of this # corruption. It is a spiritual call to arms which says, will the real Catholic please step forward. Vigano's action may very well go down in the annals of Church history to be “The Viganò Intervention.” Let us pray that Catholics everywhere will stand behind this intervention so that a thorough house cleaning may ensue, not only with regards to sexual-abuse but to the general quagmire of error into which the Church has descended, so that the Church can gloriously emerge in a true renewal wherein the light of Apostolic Tradition can shine forth anew for mankind.
* It seems that what we may be looking at in the final analysis is the battle of the popes, Benedict vs. Francis, since it was Benedict who initiated this investigative commission that would eventually lead to the public disclosure of Francis' cover-up.
David Martin is the former moderator for St. Michaels Radio which is the one radio program of our time specializing in Catholic prophecy. He has also authored numerous articles on the Church and the Papacy which have appeared on various blogs and websites.
David presently resides in Los Angeles, California where for thirty years he has coordinated a Catholic ministry. He is a daily communicant in his parish church and strongly supports Benedict XVI’s aspiration to see the Traditional Latin Mass returned to every Catholic parish of the world.