"When a bishop of such rank calls sexual sin a “right” under papal blessing, the heresy becomes institutional. The rainbow cross carried through the church was not a plea for mercy but a banner of conquest. The revolution no longer asks permission from Rome; it celebrates Mass on her altars while the Vatican’s silence functions as the new imprimatur."
The Week Rome Laughed: De Niro’s Rosary, Mary Demoted, a Bishop Blesses Sodomy, and $760,000 of USCCB Cash to Abortion Allies
The Week Rome Laughed: De Niro’s Rosary, a Bishop Blesses Sodomy, and $760,000 of USCCB Cash to Abortion Allies
Celebrity photo-ops, doctrinal minimalism, episcopal scandal, socialist slush funds, an “Amazonian Rite,” and the slow euthanasia of rural parishes. Otherwise, a quiet week.
Robert De Niro got his Vatican moment. Smiles, small talk, the Sala del Tronetto, and a gift Rosary. Rome excels at this kind of theatre. The city crowns a Hollywood legend with the Lupa Capitolina, he drops a line about Rome as a living work of art, and the cameras purr. Meanwhile, the same house that can choreograph a flawless photo-op cannot manage to defend the most exalted Marian title in the tradition or keep Sunday Masses open in Iowa. The contrast is the point. A Church that performs impeccably for VIPs but blanches at confessing hard doctrine is a Church that knows how to look Catholic without the inconvenience of being Catholic.
The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer publicly rebuked the Vatican’s …