The following comes from a Jan. 13 story on LifeSiteNews.com.
In Pope Francis first ‘State of the World’ address, given annually to the ambassadors to the Vatican, the pope said “it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day.”
Speaking Sunday to some 180 foreign diplomats, Pope Francis began by saying that peace is “threatened by every denial of human dignity, firstly the lack of access to adequate nutrition.” In the midst of great hunger, food is often wasted in “the throwaway culture,” he said.
“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as ‘unnecessary’,” said the Holy Father.
“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as ‘unnecessary’,” added the Holy Father. “For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”
In his address to the diplomatic corps last year, Pope Benedict XVI called on the world’s governments to promote peace based on “the protection of human beings and their fundamental rights. “Foremost” among which, he said, is “respect for human life at every stage.” In 2008, Benedict used the annual address to warn the governments of the world against attacking the family based on the marriage of “one man and one woman.”
Pope John Paul II used the State of the World address to highlight attacks on children in the womb. In 2002, Pope John Paul compiled a list of eight “great challenges lying before us.” Topping the list were “the defence of the sacredness of human life in all circumstances, especially in relation to the challenges posed by genetic manipulation” and “the promotion of the family, the basic unit of society.”
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It took him 8 months to mention the evil of abortion? Oh never mind he is busy calling Traditionalists names and destroying The Franciscans of The Immaculate and their love of the TLM.
Now come on Janek what makes you think it took him 8 months? What makes you think he didn’t say anything from the get go? Please be just in your comments. Just because you didn’t read up on it here, does not mean that our Pope did not address those issues a lot earlier.
Lord have mercy, there is so much confusion and hurt. It is heart breaking. Many are so quick to hang our Pope publicly without really knowing the facts.
Abeca, no Pope has attacked traditional Catholics like this one has,,,, may his reign be short
Canisius how? When? Please make sure you have your facts right. One thing is assuming and one is thing is the truth. Don’t just go by things you read, check the sources and write directly to the Pope to get answers. That is probably the best to hopefully stop this non-sense of people getting misinformation about our Pope. I respect your concerns because you are a good gentleman but lets get to the truth before it becomes hysteria.
Abeca,
Have you examined his appointments lately?
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
CARDINAL BERGOGLIO IN 2005 HOMILY:
This child who is on the way is a bother to the family. “Oh no, for what? I have no idea. Let’s discard him and return him to the sender.”
That is what the culture of death preaches to us…
Jesus didn’t come to bring death, but rather, the death of hatred, the death of fighting, the death of calumny, that is, killing with the tongue. Jesus did not come to bring death, the death that He suffered for defending life. Jesus came to bring life and to bring the abundant life, and he sends us out, carrying that life, but he tells us: “Care for it!” Because there are people who have what we are hearing about today, who aren’t involved in the Gospel: the culture of death. That is, life interests them insofar as it is useful, insofar as it has some kind of utility and if not, it doesn’t interest them. And throughout the world, this weed has been planted, of the culture of death.
Jesus came to bring division….
“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.”
Luke 12:51
That is how we will know right and wrong.
Thank you for posting this story on the Holy Father’s address to the Vatican Diplomats. The Pope’s promotion of the faith by asserting the Church’s teachings on the dignity of all human life and social justice desires our thoughtful and prayerful reflection.
Yes I agree Bob.
Although previous comments made by the Holy Father left most of us stunned and concerned, thankfully he found it time to reiterate effectively the precepts of Catholic moral teachings.
That’s good, in fact wonderful, but the question remains as to why his previous remarks about abortion and homosexuality were uttered. Perhaps it takes a while to learn to speak with precision when one is thrust into the limelight with no formal training for the role.
Parents everywhere know how frequently questions are presented that have several possible answers, and the trick is to choose quickly the best one and express oneself as well as possible so as to be both understood and effective.
“We do not need a voice that is right when everyone else is right. We need a voice that is right when everyone else is wrong. ”
Fulton Sheen
Best example of papal hypocrisy? Last Thursday at the Vatican, to coincide with the Vatican well-staged rebuff at the UN, Pope Francis was preaching about the “shame of the church” concerning pedophile priests — but at the same time he was glorifying (worst criminal) Cardinal Mahony right by his side at a public papal Mass.
“It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! There is no redemption for the fallen angels. Those great spirits headed by Lucifer, endowed with an intelligence compared with which ours is but that of a child, saw the consequences of each of their decisions just as clearly as we see that two and two make four. It is because they knew what they were doing that they were excluded from the hearing of that cry that went forth from the Cross. It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
(The Seven Last words by Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
“Knowledge and wisdom sometimes may accompany one another, though not necessarily so. The gates of wisdom open only to the knock of reverence, to the bended knee, the humble and prostrate heart. Knowledge can walk with sophistication, egotism, boastfulness, pride, self-inflation. As Cowper put it: “Knowledge is proud that has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.” The two, however, can become one by grace, but in order that knowledge may become wisdom, the soul must be rooted in God.”
(Knowledge and Wisdom) Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Archbishop Fulton Sheen said these things, and they are facts that truly reflect of our times. God have mercy on us all and may our Pope learn more from Archbishop Sheen. Lets ask for his intercession.
“1. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
2. Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth.
3. Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them.
4. There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing.”
~~Archbishop Fulton Sheen
As far as Judging Goes – I like the Judgment of Pope Emeritus Benedict in this regard, it is long overdue
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Pope defrocked 400 priests in 2 years
Associated Press 01/17/2014 VATICAN CITY—In his last two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for raping and molesting children, more than twice as many as the two years that preceded a 2010…
https://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_24934878/apnewsbreak-pope-defrocks-400-priests-2-years?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com#comment-1206589563
I would like to know how many if any priests were defrocked for the same reasons under JP2 the great?? I do know that hundreds of Catholic schools and churches were closed under his pontificate.
Still the greatest number of child abuse by far happens in the pubic school system in the USA, and the media does not report those abuses, since no priests are involved.
Those whose lives are inextricably intertwined with the institutional Catholic Church have naturally reacted in a defensive manner. This is certainly understandable. The initial reaction to the revelations followed a classic pattern: denial, minimization, blame shifting, and more denial. The over-riding tendency was to look for causality outside of the ecclesiastical world. The secular culture and media, obsession with materialism, sexual revolution, rejection of the Church’s moral teaching and lack of fidelity to vows and commandments were the commonly heard, hard-wired opinions as to the why of it all. No one in the hierarchy wanted to look within and certainly no one wanted outsiders looking at the inner workings of the Church’s governing system or its clerical culture. Yet that is where the answers are and they are no longer that well hidden. There seems to be an obsession with preserving the hierarchy’s credibility and teaching authority by means of more secrecy, denial and authoritarian tactics when in fact total openness and honesty would much better serve the beleaguered institution.
Pope Francis: strong words against abortion
“Each one of us is invited to recognize in the fragile human being the face of the Lord, who, in his human flesh, experienced the indifference and loneliness to which we often condemn the poorest, either in the developing nations, or in the developed societies. Each child who is unborn, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who, even before he was born, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world. And also each old person and – I spoke of the child, let us also speak of the elderly, another point! And each old person, even if infirm or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the “culture of waste” proposes! They cannot be discarded!”
Pope Francis, Meeting with Catholic Gynecologists (Italian), September 20, 2013
The Vatican’s ambassador to the UN, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, was likely sweating bullets under the pointed scrutiny of the Geneva committee this week. The annual reports from the Church revealed the 384 priests had left, voluntarily or otherwise, in 2011 and 2012. The information came from the “Activity of the Holy See,” what is essentially a Vatican yearbook, showing 125 priests were defrocked for sexual abused allegations from children in 2011 and 135 were “dispensed,” meaning they voluntarily resigned. Basically,t they got off scot-free for sexual abuse of children. In 2012, 57 priests were removed and 67 resigned from the priesthood.
They got off “scot-free, Tom? These identified, suspect priests weren’t prosecuted by their respective civil authorities? You imagine these men as Vatican citizens, to be lined up against a wall of St. Peter’s square?
Brian, wake up and smell the stench of child abuse in the church. These Priests crimes against children are still in the area they abused or were returned to their home country. What all this means is that the Vatican wants them gone. These priests should be in jail as child abuse is a felony in most parts of the world. The Hierarchy covered up for these priests and moved them so they could abuse more children. The former Pope defrocked them to get rid of a liability that could put a lot of the hierarchy in jail. This is just the tip of the iceberg on this. Just wait and watch, this will be worse than anyone could have imagined. These priests are still abusing children and the Vatican somehow believes they are not responsible. How evil is that. They lied and covered up their abuse as well as enabled them to abuse children all over the world. Where is the outrage from “The People Of God.”
Civil Law
Priests found guilty of child abuse should be in jail.
So should any Diocese Bishop who aided and abetted them.
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Doctrine of the Faith
CCC: “1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
– by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
– by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
– by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
– by protecting evil-doers.”
He should also boot out of the monasteries all the “gay” monks and Brothers, who contaminate a myriad of religious communities…the gays seem to “cluster” in these places, looking for other “queen’s” to hook up with…I know firsthand, I was a former religious who was hit on by a brother, who was also a religious superior, this man is pure unadulterated “filth”, and I’m being charitable…and he is still a religious, who acts like nothing ever happened…he dragged his toe up my leg during lunch, and in a snakelike manner flicked his tongue at me, in a very suggestive and demonic way…shocking, positively shocking…
Did you leave because you didn’t think gays like yourself should be in a monastery? or did you leave because of other faults?
no…i left because I’m straight, and was repulsed with the idea of being an object of sexual desire for a religious brother, who took a vow of chastity, and was a flaming homosexual…by the by, I was also hit on by a screwy japanese sister, who actually tried to seduce me…I should have reported her to her superiors, after I spurned her…lot of good that would have done…
I know a Religious priest who exposed the evil in the parish he was assigned to. In thanks for his efforts, the Order put him in Limbo!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
The Vatican sponsored a symposium in April, 2003 on sexual abuse. The event featured eight people whom the Vatican had decided are experts on the issue. Four were Germans, three Canadians and a lone American named Dr. Martin Kafka. According to news reports the papers were published in a volume entitled “Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Scientific and Legal Perspectives” which was sent to all the bishops and to some reporters in February, 2004. A search of the Vatican, USCCB and Canadian Bishops’ web sites, the libraries at Catholic University of America and Georgetown University as well as four book search web sites revealed nothing. The Vatican web site doesn’t even mention the symposium and there seems to be no evidence anywhere of the existence of the book. None of the participants, including the lone American, were familiar to those most closely involved with clergy abuse. The reports said little about the content of the talks except that the connection between homosexuality and child abuse was discussed and that it was agreed that it is not the cause. The Vatican’s commitment to scholarship is seriously questionable since nothing resembling even mediocre scholarship has emerged from the Holy See.
Gee that took long enough
In response to anonymous…i’m not gay, happily married in fact…I’m glad I left religious life…it’s disgusting and revolting to be the object of a “gay” superiors desire, especially when you are straight…this man is like so many other degenerates who haunt these monastic communities…the vow of chastity means nothing to these slime…and most feel that being “gay” should be a prerequisite before entering a religious community…i can only imagine how many vocations were lost/ruined due to these types of loathsome individual’s, who are living a scandalous, shameful lie…which is also gravely sinful…many of these men never visit the confessional…they are a blight within the church… it is pernicious and evil
the curator your are not the only one reporting such things. God have mercy.. God bless you for remaining faithful.
Right you are Michael…these priest’s should have been defrocked years ago…in fact they never should have been ordained, or even allowed in to the sacred seed-plot of the seminary, where holy men are taught and later ordained into the most sacred office on Earth…”the ministerial Priesthood”…
My Lord and God taught us “the truth shall set you free”! Why is Pope Francis now elevating and promoting some of the worse perpetrators of, if not cooperating with, perpetrators into higher positions in the Church. Something is NOT right here, and wishful thinking will not make it right!
“Actions speak louder than words”!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher