
Peter’s
Francis’

Pence
Penance
None.
Not a Single
Cent!
“I will not
say one single word about this.”
(Francis’s astoundingly evasive
— and implicative — response, when asked
if Archbishop Carlo Viganò’s statements were true in
a publicly disclosed
11 page document accusing Francis of knowledge of
the rampant homosexual priest-bishop-cardinal scandal
including his own hiding of a predator homosexual
priest from civil authorities.)
Well, clearly
he will not. But we will!
When the time comes for the next
Peter’s Pence Collection, in light of Francis’s
arrogance and complicity, allow us to have our say in the matter
and recommend the following:
Do not put in ONE Single Penny!
Send Francis — together with the debauched and nefarious
bishops who are in complicity with him — a message they cannot ignore!
They WILL take note! Guaranteed!
Money talks! Especially
to the tune of the $70, 000,000 to “Peter’s Pence” — from
the United States alone!
(that was in 2012: the last date
in which we could find any
data at all— and even that source is unreliable);
it
speaks especially forcefully
in bishop’s chanceries throughout
the world — to say nothing of the consistently questionable Vatican
Bank.
Withhold
any Contribution to “Peter’s Pence”!
Unlike
regular collections that support the local parish and diocese (and “other
causes” — such as the former 2.2 million dollar 6,000 square foot
personal residence of liberal Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory
in 2014); their airline tickets, hotel expenses, all meals paid,
chauffeurs, office and secretarial staff, medical and health benefits,
etc., — unlike these “perks”, “Peter’s Pence” goes directly to Rome
and Francis himself decides where the money — your
money — from Peter’s Pence goes! Given his track record for supporting
secular, social, environmental, aboriginal, and other questionable causes,
this definitely gives us pause for thought.
The
sanctimonious drivel that it supports countless projects for “the poor
and the marginalized” is a meme worthy of Madison Avenue advertising.
We don’t know where it goes! According to Italian writer Gianluigi
Nuzzi in his
Merchants in the Temple, “we know how much money has been
collected from the faithful but not how it is spent. Absolute secrecy
is maintained around this detail.”
Let us, then, put
the entire matter into perspective: Francis has proven himself intractable
to questioning. He has obstinately refused to answer questions during
his pontificate, and remains stubbornly silent in the
face of overwhelming evidence, whether it is:
-
five simple questions submitted by Cardinals in a humble
Dubia or simple questions — never answered, or
in an act of contempt, even so much as
acknowledge
-
or the documented accusations of Archbishop Carlo Viganò,
to which he audaciously replied, “I
will not say one single word about this.”
-
or the
Filial Correction
published by
250 lay
scholars and Catholic clergy addressed to the bishops of the
world accusing Francis of 7 specific heresies — which, too, went
unacknowledged and unanswered.
-
or the
Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women which, too,
was
ignored despite having 47,000 signatures of professors, religious,
laywomen, mothers, wives, etc. who legitimately assert that they
“have a right to know. We have a right to your answers.”
-
or
Father Weinandy’s
— former chief of staff for the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Doctrine
— who was asked by the U.S. bishops to resign from
the International Theological Commission for his letter criticizing
Pope Francis — personal letter to Francis criticizing
the current pontificate for fostering “chronic confusion” in an
open letter to Pope Francis and who stated that the “four
defining ecclesial marks” — One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic
Church — are presently in peril and that the threat that
is most dangerous comes from within the Church episcopacy, including
at its apex, Francis himself.
Francis is obstinate,
contemptuous, insolent, disdainful and autocratic
In other words,
he cares absolutely nothing about what you think or who you
are. He’s the pope and he knows that,
“no one judges the pope” — an authentically Catholic doctrine.
He answers to no one!
Is this
to say that it is Catholic Doctrine that a pope should remain obstinately
(and audaciously) silent when asked a question? Of course not! Common
courtesy dictates otherwise. Is a pope above common
courtesy?
The Plaguing Question:
“Why?” — if there is nothing incriminating, why not respond?
It is,
essentially a juvenile or immature response that effectively states:
“I don’t have to answer you because, if I do, I know
that I will be in trouble. If I say nothing you can’t make me, and
I won’t get into any trouble! In virtue of my position as pope I
have no obligation to be forthright, polite, decent, honest, and not
deceptive — and you can’t say a word about it because canon law
states that “no one judges the pope”, and because I am above
judgment by anyone, and canonically unimpeachable, I can do as I
please and you can go fly!”
Absurd? Put it in a Larger Context:
Billions
of dollars have been spent to cover up, pay-off — or in the
realm of civil law (to which abused victims had to appeal because
of the failure and refusal of bishops to act to protect them within
their authority in the Faith) in legal and court fees, to settle
thousands of credible and factual accusations concerning the
perverse actions of predatory homosexual cardinals, bishops, and priests
— in the United States alone!
Consider this:
More
than three billion dollars
($3,000,000,000)
— that’s right: nine zeros after the 3
is not a “typo”) of your money in the Collection Basket has
gone to litigation and victim compensation.
Let
us put that into perspective: that figure equals 37,500,000 (thirty
seven million, five-hundred-thousand) average lifetimes, or 8
million, 219 thousand ,178 years in geological history, which would
put us in the Miocene Era when apes first appeared during the
age of the prehistoric primates — and before man…
Numbers of that magnitude
should stagger us:
-
1 million dollars end to end = 97 miles of
dollars end to end
-
x 1000 makes one billion or 97,000 miles
of dollars end to end
-
x 3 (billion) = 97,000,000 (97 million) miles of dollars
end to end, or more than the distance from the earth to the sun
(92,955,887 miles).
You
have given that much money in the basket — to be given to
lawyers, courts, and victims of homosexual predatory priest-bishop-cardinal
abuse — not to “the poor and the marginalized”
On top
of this … we are now asked by
Francis to contribute even more money to “Peter’s Pence”
as well — which has ZERO accountability
in spending your money — every single year?
And
that is in America alone …
Well
… Francis — sorry; not this year!
__________________________
Read:
Archbishop Viganò’s Letter
to Pope Francis
Read: Open-Letter-to-the-Bishops-of-the-Catholic-Church-2019
Read:
Letter-to-Pope-Francis-from-Catholic-Women-30-Aug-2019
Read:
Father Weinandy’s Letter to Francis
Also see:
http://bishopaccountability.org/
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/ma-boston/archives/PatternAndPractice/
Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal

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