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Who Are the Bishops Fighting for Pro-Abortion Politicians? A Closer Look...

"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil. Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church. Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy. Many prayers are needed, for many are on, now, the road to perdition and taking many others with them." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

"There will be many mitres in hell. Many priests are on the road to damnation; with them they take others. For this, the lowest pit of the abyss will be eternity! Those entrusted in My Son's House will be held accountable for the fall of young souls. Your rank will be no guarantee of your entrance into the Kingdom. You have betrayed My Son. How dare you sell His House! You have sold My Son's House for the profit of your temporary lifetime!" - Our Lady, July 25, 1972

LifeSiteNews.ccom reported on June 15, 2021:

by Raymond Wolfe

The U.S. bishops will vote this week on whether to begin to formally address giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians and other pro-abortion Catholics in America — but not without pushback.

The vote comes as prelates across the country raise renewed concerns about “Eucharistic coherence” following the inauguration of dissident President Joe Biden, the self-stylized “second Catholic president” of the United States. The long-overdue move to address the scandal of churchgoers who advance mass murder of the unborn nevertheless will occur against the opposition of more than 60 bishops who lobbied the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) last month.

In a letter dated May 13, 68 prelates told USCCB president Archbishop José H. Gomez that any vote should “be postponed until the full body of bishops is able to meet in person.” They cited a recent letter from the Vatican that has been taken as an attempt to tamp down on discussion about the Eucharist and fretted over the “high standard of consensus among ourselves.”

The May 13 letter, obtained by The Pillar, features heads of a few dozen of America’s roughly 200 dioceses. Upon examination, it appears to be a project of a handful of prominent, pro-LGBT, often abuser-connected bishops. Nearly half of the signatures come from just eight liberal prelates and their auxiliaries, for instance.

Principal authors of the memo include Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, on whose letterhead it was sent, and Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, according to The Pillar. At least one reported signer, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, has said that he was added without his knowledge, and at least two others have withdrawn their signature, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.

The signatories have several commonalities, from attacks on faithful priests to the dissident promotion of homosexuality and downplaying of abortion, as well as closeness to Pope Francis, Fr. James Martin, and disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Here’s a closer look at the key players working to protect abortion promoters from accountability.

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago

Perhaps America’s most scandalous prelate, Blase Cupich has been uniquely implicated in the clerical sex abuse crisis, while espousing dissidence on core Church teaching for years. For example, Cupich

• waited weeks to remove a seminary rector caught with child pornography, giving him time to discard evidence

• knew about homosexual predators at a seminary in his diocese and did not report them

• with other Illinois bishops, withheld names of at least 500 accused priests

• supports Communion and Catholic funerals for unrepentant homosexuals

• permits Communion for illicitly remarried Catholics

• has said that people who identify as “LGBT” “should be called the way that they want to be called”

• removed a Chicago priest after he burned a homosexual “pride” flag

• gave the keynote address at the 2019 annual conference of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP), a group that supports female ordination and homosexuality

• instructed priests not to pray outside abortion clinics

• locked Catholics out of church on Good Friday in protest of the traditional Mass

• slammed the USCCB in January for rebuking Joe Biden’s rebellion on life, gender, and sexuality

All of eight of Cupich’s auxiliary bishops signed the May 13 letter to Archbishop Gomez that Cupich helped orchestrate. Five were appointed by Pope Francis.

Francis also named both Cardinal Cupich and a major ally, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, to the Congregation for Bishops, which helps select new bishops. The two prelates, both of whom were elevated to the cardinalate by the Argentinian pontiff, met with Cardinal Luis Ladaria, head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican in April. Days later, Ladaria sent his letter to the USCCB appearing to urge a halt of this week’s vote on Eucharistic policy.

Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey

Cardinal Tobin, archbishop of Newark and former superior general of the Redemptorist Fathers, is a natural partner of Cupich, having

• expressed support for “women cardinals”

• allowed LGBT “Pride Mass” in his diocese

• welcomed “LGBT pilgrimage” as one of his first acts in Newark

• hired an avowed homosexual activist as his “senior associate for operations”

• housed an Italian actor in his rectory, around the time that he infamously tweeted a romantic text by accident

• resists Catholic teaching about homosexuality, calling it “unfortunate”

• endorsed the possibility of voting for Joe Biden “in good conscience”

All four of Tobin’s auxiliary bishops, most of them again named by Pope Francis, were signatories to the May letter.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C.

Another scandal-plagued cardinal of Francis, Wilton Gregory has a background checkered with sex abuse connections and years of pro-homosexual advocacy.

Cardinal Gregory has been particularly close to serial sexual abuser Theodore McCarrick, a defrocked predecessor of Gregory in Washington. As head of the USCCB in 2004, Gregory, along with McCarrick, suppressed a Vatican memo stating that pro-abortion politicians should be denied Communion. And in 2002, Gregory authorized the Dallas Charter policy, written with McCarrick, that did not include sanctions for abuser bishops. Among other issues, Gregory

• was held in contempt of court for not releasing records of a priest accused of sex abuse and later held back other priests’ names

• reinstated a priest after a homosexual affair

• allowed a different priest, his “spiritual guide” for abuse victims, to march in LGBT “pride” parades and attend homosexual clubs

• hosted retreats of a dissident, pro-LGBT group and celebrated mass for them

• signaled support for giving Communion to unlawfully remarried Catholics

• was keynote speaker at the 2017 conference of the AUSCP

• has downplayed the sanctity of life and rebuked pro-life policies on several occasions

Cardinals Cupich, Gregory, and Tobin all have endorsed the activism of Fr. James Martin, a dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit priest who promotes homosexual acts and same-sex “marriage,” and has publicly blasphemed against the Holy Spirit. As with Cupich and Tobin, both of Gregory’s auxiliary bishops, including USCCB migration committee chairman Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, signed the May 13 letter to Archbishop Gomez.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston

Though less immediately scandalous than the aforementioned cardinals, Boston’s Cardinal O’Malley has been a consistent compromiser on pro-life issues. O’Malley supports giving Communion to abortion promoters and has rejected calls to ban pro-abortion politicians from receiving the Blessed Sacrament since at least 2004.

Cardinal O’Malley is also yet another prelate entangled in clerical abuse scandals. He remained close to Theodore McCarrick long after the Vatican pushed McCarrick into semi-retirement amid abuse rumors. Three months after O’Malley’s office received a letter from a priest detailing accusations against McCarrick in 2015, O’Malley fundraised with the prolific sexual predator and joined him on a trip to Cuba that he blogged about. O’Malley has not directly denied knowing of allegations against McCarrick at that time.

Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe

Long before adding his name to the May 13 letter, Archbishop John Wester, a dedicated homosexualist with close ties to the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests, previously had come to the defense of pro-abortion public figures. In 2016, he rebuked a New Mexico priest who encouraged parishioners not to vote for political candidates who support abortion. Abortion is one of “many considerations that must be weighed” when considering “the sanctity of life,” Wester said.

Suppression of outspoken, orthodox priests is a recurring theme among signatories of the May 13 letter. Like Archbishop Wester, Archbishop Andrew Bellisario of Juneau-Anchorage, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, Bishop Timothy Doherty of Lafayette, Indiana, and Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis have recently penalized priests who have gone against them, often in support of Catholic teaching.

In 2019, Bellisario punished a priest who denied Communion to pro-abortion Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), transferring him to a distant church. San Antonio’s Garcia-Siller, former auxiliary bishop of Chicago, has attacked multiple faithful priests and forced a group of traditional nuns out of his diocese. Bishop Doherty of Lafayette last year suspended a priest who criticized the pro-LGBT, Marxist Black Lives Matter organization. And in St. Louis, Archbishop Rozanski made a priest leave his parish after he beautified his church and celebrated Mass without adhering to certain COVID-19 protocols.

Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle, another signatory, also takes a more stringent approach to Catholics who dissent from COVID guidelines than those who ignore key Church teaching. Etienne threatened to ban public masses in a rural parish after some communicants refused to wear masks, including for health reasons. He flouted Vatican guidelines last year as well, purporting to bar reception of Communion in his diocese for Catholics who choose to kneel.

Shamelessly pro-LGBT Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego similarly has cracked down on at least one faithful priest who forcefully condemned abortion and left-wing policies. An avid supporter of Joe Biden, McElroy unsurprisingly added his name to the letter to Archbishop Gomez. The Jesuit bishop and appointee of Pope Francis has criticized prelates who deny Communion to pro-abortion lawmakers, and among other things

• supports Catholic burial for unrepentant homosexuals

• seeks to change Church teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered”

• celebrates LGBT-themed Mass events

• promoted an active homosexual to “pastoral associate” in his diocese, who then pushed a pro-LGBT group condemned by the Holy See while given McElroy’s support

• gave the keynote address at the 2018 AUSCP conference in Wester’s Santa Fe

• downplayed the gravity of abortion on numerous occasions, claiming that the specious,

contested theory of “climate change” could be a higher priority

Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, a frequent collaborator with Archbishop McElroy, has a comparable record. Stowe has issued “pride” “prayer cards,” explicitly permitted dissident pro-LGBT messaging in his diocese, and backed top homosexualist “Catholic groups.”

Along with Bishop Stowe, Bishop McElroy, Archbishop Wester, and Cardinal Tobin, five other bishops who signed the May 13 letter to Archbishop Gomez about Eucharist policy have joined a recent statement drafted by LGBT activists. The letter, aimed at young people, tells homosexual and transgender individuals that “God is on your side,” with no mention of the gravely sinful nature or destructive health consequences of LGBT lifestyles.

Signatories of that statement include: Bishop McElroy’s auxiliary Bishop John Dolan, Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Tucson, Arizona, Bishop Steven Biegler of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson, Mississippi, and Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Other noteworthy prelates who endorsed a pause on discussions of Eucharistic coherence include bishops at the center of Pennsylvania’s sexual abuse crisis. Bishop Frank Caggiano, the chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the charity arm of the USCCB that promotes contraception and pro-abortion organizations, is an additional signatory.

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MANY HAVE BECOME JUDASES
“My children and My child, in past counsel to you I hastened with great urgency to warn you that My Son shall be recrucified by His own. In the Holy City of Rome many Red Hats have now become the Judases in the hierarchy. As men of the cross they have now won for themselves the title of ‘evil men of the cross.’ Many have entered My Son’s House, His Church, upon earth to do harm. I warned you, O pastors, bishops, cardinals, that you have been infiltrated. Your actions now have brought a reverberation from about the world, and it has been in wake of a coming cataclysm and tribulation to mankind.” - Our Lady, September 13, 1978

CARDINALS OVERSTEPPED THEIR BOUNDARIES
“You will inform Our bishops that intellectual pride has been their downfall. You will inform the Red Hats that they have overstepped the boundaries. They are like rodents burrowing into the structure of My Son's House. Many mitres shall fall into hell.” - Our Lady, July 15, 1972

MANY HAVE BECOME JUDASES
“My children and My child, in past counsel to you I hastened with great urgency to warn you that My Son shall be recrucified by His own. In the Holy City of Rome many Red Hats have now become the Judases in the hierarchy. As men of the cross they have now won for themselves the title of ‘evil men of the cross.’ Many have entered My Son’s House, His Church, upon earth to do harm. I warned you, O pastors, bishops, cardinals, that you have been infiltrated. Your actions now have brought a reverberation from about the world, and it has been in wake of a coming cataclysm and tribulation to mankind.” - Our Lady, September 13, 1978

MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN
"My children, I cannot impress you more with the urgency of going faster forward in the time that is left, forward to save your brothers and sisters. I ask you to approach My priesthood. Bishops and cardinals must now accept all of the Message from Heaven, even though it will bring about controversy among them. For it will be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal. For all that is rotten will fall and must not be retained.” - Jesus, November 20, 1978

SECRET SOCIETIES
"It is through My voice-boxes throughout the world that We must send this warning of caution to all of Our cardinals and bishops. The Father will not tolerate their entering into secret societies! The discipline and rules set down by My Son and those He chose to write the Book of life and love must be adhered to. We direct, in the name of the Trinity, that you bishops and cardinals of the world must use your full powers as hierarchy to excommunicate and defrock all who seek to dethrone My Son and destroy the Faith!” - Our Lady, August 21, 1974

EXCOMMUNICATE
"The Eternal City of Rome must now take action by those in rule, the cardinals and the bishops, to restore this city to the light. Those who seek to build a church of man must be removed by the power of excommunication given to those who rule as representatives in My houses, churches upon your earth.” - Jesus, December 31, 1975

ENTERING THE HIGHEST PLACES OF THE CHURCH
"As I warned you in the past and you did not listen, unless you prayed more, did more penance, sacrifice, communism would go throughout your world, ravishing nations, destroying your Faith, entering into the highest places of My Son's House. Can you deny what is happening now in your world? Remove the blindness from your eyes and look!" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1977

SATAN HAS DONE HIS WORK OF FOLLY WELL
"Satan has done his work of folly well. Yes, satan has gone into the highest positions in My House, but he will not triumph. In the final count the victory will be with Us, for he will only proceed as My Father deems." - Jesus, August 15, 1971

MANY HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES TO SATAN
"Do not be misled by the outer clothing of man, for there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, wearing the apparel of rank. Know that many have given themselves to satan.
"Pray, pray much for those who wear the highest mitres, for they, too, have set themselves onto the road to hell. Your prayers and your acts of sacrifice and those who hear My voice, pray much for the Red Hats that have gone onto the wide road." - Our Lady, October 2, 1974

“WHY DID YOU NOT GIVE MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD AS I GAVE IT TO YOU?”
"I cry to you, My children, that immorality is the gauge, the measuring point for the fall of a nation. Your country, My children, the United States, has fallen to satan. The great eagle has been plucked by sin. Corruption has entered into the highest places of your government and in My Son's Church. I say unto you, and I say this with counsel from high, the Lord high God in Heaven, the Father of all creation, that as you sow so shall you reap!
"My children, why did you avoid giving My counsel to the world? O you of little faith in the high places of My Son's House, His Church, why did you not give My message to the world as I gave it to you? Pride and arrogance! That is why, My children." - Our Lady, December 31, 1977

“DO NOT DESERT MY CHURCH”
"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil. Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church. Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy. Many prayers are needed, for many are on now the road to perdition and taking many others with them.
"My children, do not cast aside your sacramentals. They are your armor in the days ahead. Do not desert My Church. Do not judge it by the man who has stood there in ignorance or in pride and changed it until it will almost be unrecognizable. I am still with you, My children. Do not leave. You must stay and fight. In this manner, My children, shall the sheep be separated from the goats. It is a form of cleansing." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

SATAN AND HIS AGENTS HAVE ENTERED IN FULL BATTLE
"We ask you from Heaven not to leave, not to create a schism from your main body in Rome. You must remain within My Son's Church and pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Satan and his agents have entered in full battle upon My Son's Church. Satan has entered into the highest ranks within My Son's Church and the world. He will manipulate powers, provincials, until he brings about a great chastisement, because man will not listen and mend his ways.” - Our Lady, February 10, 1977

1972
"Satan, Lucifer in human form, entered into Rome in the year 1972. He cut off the rule, the role of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978

INDECISION, FEAR OF EXPOSURE
"I gave Lucy the Revelation as a temporary secret—as I revealed [the Third Secret] to you on two occasions. Make a concerted effort to bring its entirety to Our children on earth. The hierarchy have not listened to My counsel—thirty-two years lost in indecision and fear of exposure. The Faith is shattered for many." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 29, 1992

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D36 - Bishops (Part 1) PDF
D37 - Bishops (Part 2) PDF
D38 - Priests (Part 1) PDF
D39 - Priests (Part 2) PDF
D40 - Infiltrators PDF
D190 - Cardinals, Part 1 PDF
D191 - Cardinals, Part 2 PDF
D192 - Cardinals, Part 3 PDF
D337 - Hierarchy Infiltrated PDF
D579 - Clergy Misleading the Faithful PDF
D580 - False Prophets, Part 1 PDF
D581 - False Prophets, Part 2 PDF
D582 - Leaders Lax and Corrupt PDF
D583 - Churches will Close PDF

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