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“From some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.”
“You Can’t be Catholic and an αnтι-ѕємιтє”
“So, to answer the question is Barron an active ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ? Well, we really don’t know and affirming this would make us sin. The fact, based on the evidence presented here, is that Barron does enjoy having younger, muscular, tattooed white men around him always and he pays them unusually high salaries that look like bribes to keep them around. We find this disturbing and very questionable to say the least.”
-“Time Magazine Vatican correspondent Robert Blair Kaiser recounted yet another story of Pope John and his sensitivity to Jєωs. The story was told to Kaiser by Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John’s private secretary. ‘A young Jєωιѕн lad made the acquaintance of Giuseppe Roncalli when he was the Cardinal-Archbishop of Venice. The young man wanted to become a Catholic, but Roncalli kept putting him off. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘you’re a Jєω. Be a good Jєω. Becoming a Catholic will kill your parents.’’’-“In September 1959, Pope John addressed liturgical points that he viewed as contributing to negative feelings about Jєωs. A Catholic ritual of baptism contained the following formula of abjuration: ‘Abhor Jєωιѕн unbelief (in Christ) and reject the Hebrew error (that the Messiah has not yet come).’ The Pope ordered that those words be purged from the Baptismal prayer.”-“It may have been the force of habit, or perhaps it was forgetfulness, but in April 1963, the bishop who celebrated the Good Friday liturgy in Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica recited the old text, ‘pro perfidies Judaeis.’ Pope John quietly halted the service and had the celebrant start from the beginning of the intercessory prayers.”-“Israel responded with genuine enthusiasm to the elevation of John to the Throne of St. Peter… The coronation ceremony was attended by Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Sasson, who was appointed for the occasion to be ‘Special Delegate of the Government of Israel.’”-“He also emphasized his good relations with Israeli diplomats, and expressed the hope that relations between the Vatican and Israel would soon be improved.”-“In a discussion with Maurice Fisher, a member of the Israeli diplomatic corps, Pope John expressed his sentiments clearly. ‘If I were permitted to listen to my heart, I would recognize the State of Israel here and now.’ On March 27, 1963, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, both leaders in the dialogue between Catholics and Jєωs, met with Cardinal Bea in Boston. They were joined by Cardinal Willebrands and Father Schmidt, two close associates in the budding ecuмenical movement. Bea was very cautious and expressed the hope that the meeting with the group would remain confidential lest the ‘bitter enemies of the Jєωs in Rome’ use it against their efforts. Bea stunned his guests by asking a question; what would they think it the Vatican recognized the State of Israel? The surprised Rabbis responded that Jєωs all around the world would be thrilled at such a move. The death of John three months later was to put that hope on hold for another 30 years. Vatican recognition was finally granted in 1993.”
“Jєωs and Christians agree that a pivotal moment in the history of the Church and the Jєωs occurred on June 12, 1960, when Jules Isaac met Pope John XXIII… In the middle of the war, he began research into the origins of anti-Semitism and understood that Hitler’s pogrom was the culmination of a long history of Christians hating Jєωs… In the pages of his master work, Isaacs compared line by line the actual texts of the Gospels with widely established and accepted Catholic and Protestant commentaries. It was his goal to prove that distortions were responsible for laying the foundation of centuries for the hate, vituperation and intolerance that had plagued relations between Catholics and Jєωs through the centuries. More than that, he wanted those interpretative texts to be permanently removed and corrected texts to be used in the process of teaching and understanding the New Testament… He had met with Cardinals Tisserant, Ottaviani and Bea. Isaac carefully prepared a memorandum to be presented to Pope John. He suggested that a commission be established to study the relations between the Church and the Jєωιѕн people.”[28]
“So far as the Jєωs in particular were concerned, John’s thinking was influenced by an interview with Jules Isaac (on June 13 of the same year) at which Isaac submitted a long dossier to him on Jєωιѕн-Christian relations and, among other things, petitioned him to set up a special secretariat to deal with those relations. Partly as a result of this interview, John determined that, if not a secretariat, the Church should find some other concrete institutional means by which Jєωs and Roman Catholics could enter into relations of mutual knowledge and esteem, that the Council should issue a statement on Jєωs and Judaism, and that Jєωιѕн observers should be invited to assist at the Council sessions. By November, however, several modifications had been imposed on these plans by circuмstances. The conservative element in the Vatican—which dominates the Curia—would not hear of a special secretariat for Judaism; they saw it as the thin end of a wedge opening the door to an alien mentality and ultimately to diplomatic recognition of Israel. John therefore decided that the best course would be to assign the responsibility for drawing up a docuмent on Jєωιѕн-Christian relations to Bea’s new secretariat.”[29]
“AJC’s emissary, the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, subsequently had an audience with Pope John XXIII, and was frequently summoned by Cardinal Augustin Bea for consultations during the Second Vatican Council. On behalf of AJC, Rabbi Heschel prepared several background memoranda essential to the drafting of the revolutionary new docuмent on Catholic-Jєωιѕн relations.”[30]
“We are conscious today that many, many centuries of blindness have cloaked our eyes so that we can no longer either see the beauty of Thy Chosen People nor Recognize in their faces the features of our privileged brethren. We realize that the Mark of Cain stands upon our foreheads. Across the centuries our brother Abel has lain in the blood which we drew or shed the tears we caused by forgetting Thy Love. Forgive us for the curse we falsely attached to their name as Jєωs. Forgive us for Crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh, for we knew not what we did…”
“That was where Hirschmann came to rely on Roncalli. In a series of exchanges that summer, the War Refugee Board—working alongside the Jєωιѕн Agency, a network of underground agents tied to the Jєωιѕн authorities in Palestine—made arrangements to transfer packets of immigration certificates to Roncalli, who then forwarded them via church networks to Jєωιѕн communities in Hungary.”[34]
“He had been abroad for a very long time, with little inside knowledge of the workings of Rome and the networks of power that would allow him to become a major voice of reform among the princes of the church. It was therefore a stunning surprise when, upon the death of the pope in 1958, his fellow cardinals raised him even higher. He soon took the name John XXIII.”
“The segregation of the conclave is yet more necessary; with modern means, with modern technology, without an absolute segregation it would not be possible to save an election from the pressure of external powers. Today the superpowers (and the lesser ones alike) have too great an interest in having on their side, through condescendence or weakness, the highest moral authority in the world. And they would do all that they are so very good at doing. The pressures to overturn the substance of the law of the conclave could be driven by the will to obtain precisely this result.”[39]
“After 1967, the previous moment of profound political abandonment, the American Jєωιѕн community began to entertain thoughts of its own radical reinvention. A coterie of disillusioned intellectuals, clustered around a handful of small-circulation journals and think tanks, turned sharply rightward, creating the neoconservative movement. Among activists, the energy that had once been directed toward Freedom Rides was plowed into the cause of Soviet Jєωry, which became a defining political obsession of many ѕуηαgσgυєs in the 1970s and ’80s.”[45]
“The night Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, I watched the returns in the company of a group of intellectuals who were so jubilant at the news of the mounting landslide that a passing stranger might have taken them for professional Republican Party workers or perhaps for fervent ideological conservatives.In fact, however, most of them were registered Democrats…Why then, less than four years later, were so many of them cheering for Ronald Reagan?… The label that has come to be attached to the people I am talking about – and I myself am definitely one of them – is “neoconservative”… The second point on which there is little disagreement is that the influence of the neo-conservatives contributed to the election of Ronald Reagan.”[47]
“I am not much of a believer, but I find it hard not to suspect some providential hand at play when the white smoke went up at the Vatican 27 years ago and the Polish cardinal was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Precisely at the moment that the West most desperately needed it, we were sent a champion…And yet precisely at the time of this free-world retreat and disarray, a miracle happens. The Catholic Church, breaking nearly 500 years of tradition, puts itself in the hands of an obscure non-Italian — a Pole who, deeply understanding the East European predicament, rose to become, along with Roosevelt, Churchill and Reagan, one of the great liberators of the 20th century…It is no accident that Solidarity, the leading edge of the East European revolution, was born just a year after the pope’s first visit. Deploying a brilliantly subtle diplomacy that never openly challenged the Soviet system but nurtured and justified every oppositional trend, often within the bosom of the local church, John Paul II became the pivotal figure of the people power revolutions of Eastern Europe.”[48]
“When the position of archbishop of Washington D.C., opened up, the then-archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O’Connor, warned the Vatican in an Oct. 28, 1999 letter that naming McCarrick there would be a mistake, the findings said.By that time, the allegations against McCarrick included: a 1994 letter by one priest to the Metuchen, N.J., bishop providing eyewitness testimony of McCarrick and other seminarians engaging in sɛҳuąƖ acts during a fishing trip, and the priest’s own claims that McCarrick tried to fondle him. It also included anonymous letters sent to various U.S. cardinals that “accused McCarrick of pedophilia with seminarians as well as claims that McCarrick slept with young men in his official residence as well as seminarians at his beach house. O’Connor cited that information and said the risk of scandal would be too great if McCarrick were moved to Washington.John Paul tasked the Vatican ambassador to the U.S. to investigate. His report confirmed McCarrick bedded seminarians but didn’t find “certainty” that he had engaged in sɛҳuąƖ misconduct. The findings didn’t explain what McCarrick and the seminarians were doing in bed together. Instead, they faulted the bishops who were asked to provide information to the ambassador, saying “three of the four bishops provided inaccurate and incomplete information.”The doubts, however, were enough to persuade John Paul to drop McCarrick as a candidate. That would have sealed his fate, but McCarrick made a last-ditch appeal that appears to have changed John Paul’s mind. The U.S. prelate sent a handwritten note via John Paul’s private secretary, then-Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, on Aug. 6, 2000, swearing he “never had sɛҳuąƖ relations with any person male or female, young or old, cleric or lay.”It struck a chord with the Polish pope, who had first-hand experience of priests being unfairly discredited by false accusations under communist rule, and he named McCarrick to the post.”[61]
“In a 1971 letter to a priest convicted of oral rape of girls, Wojtyla describes the abuse as a ‘crime’ yet reinstates him to parish work – where he abuses again. In another case Wojtyla wrote a personal letter of recommendation for an abusing priest – a personal friend – for a new post in Austria, making no mention of his criminal record.”[68]
“There were bumps in the road during this papacy – the rewriting of the old Good Friday prayer for Jєωs making it more problematic for Jєωs, starting negotiations with the anti-Semitic group the Society of St. Pius X, and moving World War II Pope Pius XII one step closer to sainthood while the Secret Vatican Archives are still under wraps.”[74]
“The main reason to be disturbed by the return of this Vatican-sanctioned prayer is that it threatens to undermine the conceptual underpinnings of so much that has happened over 40 years – Pope John Paul II’s eloquently expressed statement that Judaism is “the elder brother” of Christianity; that it has a legitimacy and validity of its own; that it has an unbroken covenant with God. It is this conceptual breakthrough – one that has provided the framework for all the specific, positive steps to emerge – that is now being challenged.”[75]
“Under Ratzinger’s watch as cardinal and pope, the Vatican authorized fast-track administrative procedures to defrock egregious abusers. Changes to church law allowed the statute of limitations on sex abuse to be waived on a case-by-case basis; raised the age of consent to 18; and expanded the norms protecting minors to also cover “vulnerable adults.” The changes had an immediate impact: Between 2004 and 2014 — Benedict’s eight-year papacy plus a year on either end — the Vatican received about 3400 cases, defrocked 848 priests and sanctioned another 2572 to lesser penalties, according to the only Vatican statistics ever publicly released. Nearly half of the defrockings occurred during the final two years of Benedict’s papacy.”[82]
“In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI ordered an investigation into a leak of sensitive docuмents, and reportedly discovered a network of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs in the Vatican, that were setting up sex parties and being blackmailed from the outside. This network included high prelates. The Atlantic summarizes the report:“The Vatican has a Velvet Mafia — and the Velvet Mafia is being blackmailed. The dossier alleges that a gαy lobby exists within the Church, and has some sort of control on the careers of those in the Vatican. The dossier also alleges that this group isn’t as covert as it thinks — and got blackmailed by people on the outside. ”The Vatican did not deny the report, and there was later another leak of private comments from Pope Francis, confirming the report to be true. The Atlantic article also relays how “in 2010, Ghinedu Ehiem, a Nigerian clergyman who was part of one of the Vatican’s prestigious choirs, was dismissed after police wiretaps found him negotiating for male prostitutes.””
However, just because Vatican II did not produce the effect hoped for by Paul VI, doesn’t mean it did not produce the change that someone else intended.
...I don't believe for a second that Montini...and a couple of others were somehow well-intentioned...Montini did not hope for some good effects. He was a conspirator...
https://crc-internet.org/further-information/liber-accusationis/in-paulum-sextum.html
While it's a great expose otherwise, I don't believe for a second that Montini, Ratzinger, and a couple of others were somehow well-intentioned.Montini did not hope for some good effects. He was a conspirator. And Ratizinger's freeing up of the Tridentine Mass was (as admitted later by Ganswein) and attempt to neutralize and reabsorb the SSPX. All the V2 papal claimants were in on it.