Our Catholic church leaders in crisis

Toward the end of August, a former top-ranking Vatican official came up with an 11-page exposé with shocking allegations about Pope Francis, literally accusing him of covering up horrific abuses by disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick and urged Pope Francis to resign as Pope. Retired Ambassador made this letter to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano who accused senior Vatican officials of knowing as early as the Year 2000 that Cardinal McCarrick regularly invited seminarians into his bed in a beach house in the United States. Call this an offshoot of the Weinstein scandal in Hollywood!

This letter by Arch. Vigano has become viral in many archdioceses all over the world with certain bishops questioning other bishops. Because of this crisis within the Church, I asked Dr. Rene Bullecer for a no holds barred interview with him on this topic on my TV Show. Mind you, what is happening inside the Catholic Church hierarchy is a very hot topic that was already prophesied by past Saints and in the past apparitions by the Blessed Virgin Mary… that bishops will be against bishops.

These three apparitions are the last Marian apparitions on Fatima more than a 101 years ago where some 70,000 people witnessed it in Portugal especially when the Miracle of the Dancing Sun made believers even of unbelievers. Basically these Marian messages were also given to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa of Akita, Japan where 45 years ago our Lady said, “If men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge; such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son.”

Call me lucky that before I had my kidney transplant, I was able to visit Akita with my family where I had beautiful photos with the wooden Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary that shed tears of Blood. Basically the message of our Lady in Akita was, “The Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. Work of the devil will infiltrate the Church. Our Lady of Akita Statue patterned after the Lady of All Nations wherein the Blessed Virgin stands in front of the Cross, thus implying that she is Co-Redemptrix as in Amsterdam.” Those three apparitions give us an idea of the things that seem to be happening within the church at this time.

Since it is an 11-page letter, I will only quote important points that Arch. Vigano wrote about especially when he said, “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, a conspiracy of silence not so dissimilar from the one that prevails in the mafia. “Whatever you have said in the dark ... shall be proclaimed from the housetops” (Lk. 12:3).”

There’s a lot more that Arch. Vigano wrote in his letter and I’m glad that Pope Francis met with America’ top Roman Catholic prelates last Thursday and that an investigation was already underway about what Arch. Vigano wrote about. Actually there was a terrible misinformation brought forth by those who want Pope Francis to resign. They are bishops and top-ranking church officials who tend to agree that homosexuality within the church was acceptable. But while the Catholic Church does not condemn homosexuality, it is totally wrong for Church leaders to support homosexuality amongst the clergy especially in this Year of the Clergy and Consecrated life. Homosexuality has no role within the clergy.

That the US Catholic Church has paid $3 billion is something totally wrong because the crime committed was a personal crime and was never sanctioned by the Catholic Church. No, Dr. Bullecer and I do not agree with the resignation of Pope Francis, but it is high time that the Catholic Church should distance itself from the homosexual behaviors of priests or bishops.

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