Weinandy: Francis Even Worse Than Bad Popes of the Past
In the past, bad popes were tainted with fornication, simony, nepotism and greed, but the current crisis is worse because Francis is attacking Catholic doctrine, Capuchin Father Thomas Weinandy, told LaVerita.info (25 January):
"His predecessors may have practiced fornication, but they never claimed that fornication was good. Now, however, Francis seems to be attacking the very moral teaching of the Church, especially in matters of sexuality".
Francis is "undermining the teaching of the Church", and "instead of strengthening unity in the Church, he is creating division".
He never accepts criticism but blames others, even though it is his ideology, not the ideology of others, that has created the current problems.
Weinandy notes that Francis' "Sodoma Supplicans" is not in line with Church teaching because homosexual acts are intrinsically evil.
Everything that comes out of the Vatican, whether from Francis or Tucho, is full of "…

Civil War in the Church: Vatican Attacks Cardinal Müller's Person
The semi-official Vatican outlet Il Sismografo has launched a brutal attack on Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller. Müller had proposed that the Pope creates a group of cardinals in order to engage in a dialogue with his many theological critics.
The Vatican journalist and director of Il Sismografo, Luis Badilla, called this on September 27 a "crazy proposal" adding sarcastically, "We can only pray [for Müller]." The whole article is a nasty personal attack on the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
It can be excluded that the article appeared without Pope Francis' agreement.
Picture: © Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA, #newsNocycpktfr

Bishop Attacks A Straw Man
Radical Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo, Malta, published a pastoral letter on "hope" using it to hammer those who criticise his controversial permission for adulterers to receive Holy Communion,
“Unfortunately, there exist prophets of doom, who in their religious zeal, are more prone to focus on the defect rather than the much good there is in man; they get stuck in considering the mistake rather than appreciating the efforts, however small but sincere, that a person tries to make to rise up on his feet; they are more interested in defending the letter of the law than the person.”
This kind of argument is called a "straw man". It gives the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while in reality it refutes an argument that was never presented.
Such a logical fallacy is used when defeating an "enemy" is valued higher than critical thinking or understanding of an argument.
Picture: Mario Grech, 2007, #newsKgwbpdxrkd

Interesting Things About the Knights Of Columbus.
On June 5th the Italian vaticanista Sandro Magister published an article about the media activities of the Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic service organization based in New Haven, Connecticut. The Knights provide charitable services, promote Catholic education and Catholic public policy positions, and defend Catholicism in various nations.
Magister writes, that the Knights dispense 100,000 dollars for the very liberal “Vatican Insider”, the religious information site that is most closely connected to Pope Francis. Its coordinator is Andrea Tornielli, a friend of Jorge Mario Bergoglio since long before he was elected to the papacy and still his frequent visitor.
“Vatican Insider” is a creature of the Turin-based anticlerical newspaper "La Stampa”. It defends whatever Pope Francis does and says. Magister writes that "Vatican Insider" has been kept alive through the annual support of the Knights from 2014 on. According to …

Cardinal Schönborn Reviles Saint Pius V as an "Anti-Semite”
There were anti-Semites in the Catholic Church “including the canonized Pope Pius V (1504-1572)”, Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said on Friday during a discussion with Protestant bishop Michael Bünker in church Sankt Leopold in Vienna, "kathpress.at" reports.
According to "kathpress.at" Schönborn said: "On the Catholic side, too, there were great antisemites and persecutors of the Jews, including the canonized Pope Pius V."
Talking about the alleged dark side of the Church makes more cautious when judging Islam, Schönborn added. According to him Catholics “live in a glass house” and “shouldn’t throw stones”.
Picture: Pius V., #newsUghdbewcoy

Gloria.TV News on the 15th of May 2017
A Jew: In a May 4th video, American Rabbi Mayer Schiller stated that it is important for mankind as a whole that the Church takes everything that was said in Fatima seriously. Schiller is a Hasidic rabbi based in Monsey, New York.
A Fearful Church: The failure to consecrate Russian symbolizes for Rabbi Schiller - quote - "an impotent, weak Church, unwilling to wage war, unwilling to teach a mankind that has deserted God." He adds: "It is a fearful Church."
A Scandal: According to Rabbi Schiller, Fatima presents a scandal to the Conciliar Church because it takes faith and morals very seriously. Quote: "The Conciliar Church infected as it is with relativism, subjectivism and religious pluralism, would like to put Fatima away somewhere."
An Embarrassment: According to Schiller, Pope Francis, "fears that the consecration of Russia would give too much credence to traditionalist forces in the Church," and: "It would be an embarrassment to him, among his …