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ROME – A former Vatican envoy to the United States who has publicly called for Pope Francis’s resignation and who was excommunicated earlier this summer has said his life is in danger and voiced belief that the sanction against him is invalid.
Speaking to veteran Vatican journalist Franca Giansoldati with Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said he has been candid about his whereabouts because “After the release of my memoir on the McCarrick case in August 2018 a contact of mine from the United States warned me that my life was in danger.”
“This is why I do not reside in a fixed place. I don’t want to end up like Cardinal Pell, nor like my predecessor in Washington, the nuncio Pietro Sambi,” he said, referring to the late Archbishop Pietro Sambi, who served as Vatican envoy to the U.S. from 2005 until his death in 2011.
originally posted by: nugget1
Can any Catholics tell me why they still support this religion?
In 2022, Viganò broke with his previous support of Trump, and issued a lengthy statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in which he recognized Moscow as the “Third Rome,” and described the sees of Rome and Constantinople as “deserted and silent,” and “hostage to apostates.”
The archbishop hailed Russia as having “an epochal role in the restoration of Christian civilization, contributing to bringing the world a period of peace from which the Church too will rise again purified and renewed in her ministers.”
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originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: nugget1
Can any Catholics tell me why they still support this religion?
Because the deposit of faith is true even though the people who run it are corrupt.
The corruption of Judas didn't mean that what the apostles taught was wrong.
It means that Judas was ... and what the apostles taught was still true.
Don't mind me; I just hate the hypocritical double standards and corruption of all organized religions. They all seem to have watered down what the Bible says to cult level.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: nugget1
Can any Catholics tell me why they still support this religion?
Because the deposit of faith is true even though the people who run it are corrupt.
The corruption of Judas didn't mean that what the apostles taught was wrong.
It means that Judas was ... and what the apostles taught was still true.
originally posted by: SecretKnowledge2
a reply to: FlyersFan
The pope is and was the biggest pedophile enabler on the planet. He know that innocent children's lives were being destroyed, yet all he did was move these priests to a different diocese.
Allowing pedophile priests to continue ruining childrens childhoods and turning a blind eye to the most horrific of crimes by priests doesn't even begin to compare with The corruption of Judas.
Thats a horrible analogy to use when it comes to the hundreds of thousands of poor innocent children being raped by priests and the pope knew about it. Did nothing.
Judas turning his back on Jesus doesn't even start to compare to what those priests did.
The catholic religion is a cover up for the biggest pedophile group the World has ever seen.
I totally agree in asking how in the name of little children can people still support this vile religion.
I must say I am appalled.
Although the Catholic Church has political intrigue, murder and corruption in centuries past.
And still the Church survives somehow.
originally posted by: nugget1
So....either Chatholics don't believe they are worshiping in a corrupt religion, all these many peodiphile priest exposures 'cleaned' the trash out of the Catholic church or they just don't care that they pry in the devils house.
Which one is it? Year after year after year it's been the same old story for decades and yet the Religion of Peodiphile Protection is still the largest Christian organization. Do people not care that they're worshiping in a house built on corruption and evil?
I don't get it. Can any Catholics tell me why they still support this religion?
It is the predators who take advantage of the easy targets and those that protect them that are the problem, not the fundamental principles of churching, coaching or scouting.
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: Halfswede
It is the predators who take advantage of the easy targets and those that protect them that are the problem, not the fundamental principles of churching, coaching or scouting.
There will ALWAYS be child predators among us until the punishment fits the crime and becomes a greater deterrent than the pleasure of the crime itself for them.
Cutting off their whanger and letting them bleed to death seems appropriate.
However, all of those places are what's knows as "easy prey" organizations. They are infiltrated by LGBT predators who are into kids because they are organizations filled with vulnerable, trusting kids and very unilateral positions of authority.
originally posted by: Degradation33
End the celibacy mandate. Let clergy have relationships.
originally posted by: Degradation33
but I feel it explains the ungodly number of child abusing clergy.
If you were to read the biblical stories objectively, you can see that the warning about that Antichrist was a warning about Paul and his mutation of Jesus' teachings,