The Peruvian abuse case involving the priest Eleuterio Vásquez, known as Padre Lute, has taken an unexpected turn. Pope Leo XIV has granted him laicisation, effectively closing the case without a canonical trial. The case centers on the three sisters Quispe Díaz who accuse “Lute” of sexually abusing them when they were children (between ages 9 and 13). According to reporting, Lute acknowledged the acts as “sins” but claims they do not constitute crimes because there was no penetration. Sudden Notification Today, InfoVaticana.com reported that the sisters had been summoned in person because the cleric handling the case had important news for them. Expecting a letter from Pope Leo XIV — perhaps an apology and clear steps towards justice — they instead received a folded sheet informing them that Leo XIV had granted Lute laicisation 'as a grace', thereby closing the canonical process. In September, the sisters explicitly asked that no dispensation be granted until a proper investigation …More
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The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano publishes a monthly supplement titled Women-Church-World. The November issue is dedicated to the theme 'Daughters of Mother Earth' and features an image of Pachamama on the cover. A November 15 interview presents Sister Adele Howard of the Sisters of Mercy from Australia. The introduction repeatedly uses the expression “Mother Earth”, describing the planet as a nurturing reality and claiming that “in the Earth there is the breath of the Creator God”. Humans “have within us the keys to connect with our mother.” Sister Howard states that “through nature, God fills us with vital energy.” Indigenous people are presented as models because they “perceive the sacredness of the Earth” and are "great masters." After spending forty years among indigenous people, Sister Howard says that she can now "feel the whispers of Creation, its tears, which are the same as those of the poor". She recounts meeting an Aboriginal elder at a waterhole who told her …More
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But now let’s move on to what is most important — to faith. Because everything depends on it. The entire system, the entire reality in which we live, is based on one fundamental step: the destruction of Christian consciousness. The destruction of the foundations of morality that for centuries shaped man and society. Because it is precisely truth that this system fears the most. Truth is its enemy — and therefore it must destroy it. Practically all so-called defenders of the Catholic faith today act exactly as the system wants. They proceed according to its line of reasoning, often without even realizing it — though I doubt that the most famous preachers do this unconsciously. After all, the same “fight” has been going on for decades — since the time of the Second Vatican Council — and yet everything is constantly heading in one direction. The steamroller of modernism moves on, crushing everything in its path. Catholic faith in its essence practically no longer exists.
A day late and a dollar short, Strickland. You should have stood boldly and courageously while you were there before your brother Bishops and spoke these words with power and conviction instead of cowering and squeaking like a frightened mouse.
Key phrase from comments: "The Grey nuns and the Oblate fathers did not teach in residential schools to abuse and kill the Indigenous children. It’s a huge political myth being used for profits and control."