Demonic Catholic News Alert for October 27, 2018

Why Was The Papal Audience Hall Building At The Vatican Constructed In The Shape Of A Giant Reptile?

The Pope’s Audience Hall building at the Vatican was designed to look exactly like a giant reptile inside and out. When the pope addresses an audience there the effect is that he is speaking from the mouth of a giant reptile. Why on earth would he want to do that? Read more here

Pope Francis wears ‘rainbow’ cross during Youth Synod

VATICAN CITY, Italy, October 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis’ Vatican invited another public relations debacle Wednesday when photos came out in Vatican News of the Pope wearing what many thought to be a “Pride” cross decorated in the colors of the rainbow. 

The rainbow cross promptly garnered reaction on social media as a nudge-and-a-wink endorsement of the LGBT movement.

There exists an explanation for a non- LGBT origin of the rainbow cross, and its colors don’t precisely resemble those of the gay “pride” rainbows used by the LGBT movement.

Young people from Panama and some Latin American Synod fathers presented the multi-colored cross for World Youth Day 2019 to Francis, according to a tweet in Italian from the Holy See’s Vatican News service. Other bishops in the photos with Francis are wearing the rainbow cross as well.

“The Holy Father greeted them with joy and blessed them,” the tweet stated.

Film About Catholic Church Pedophilia Sets Box-Office Record in Poland

(Bloomberg) — A Polish feature film about the abuses by clergy of the Roman Catholic church is setting attendance records at the country’s box office.

‘Kler’ — named after the Polish word for clergy — attracted over 935,000 viewers last weekend, the country’s best opening three days in 30 years, according to the Association of Polish Filmmakers. The movie, which explores the themes of child abuse, romantic liaisons, corruption, greed and alcoholism by clerics, has been harshly criticized by Poland’s conservative government with close links to the church. Read more here

Pope Francis Signs Deal With Communist Government, Claims “Sign From God” Led to Agreement That is Placing Christians At Risk

Pope Francis recently stated that a “sign from God” is partially behind the newly inked agreement between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Government.

The Communist government, as of late, has amped up persecution of Christians; further, in some instances, authorities have detained believers indefinitely, burned Crosses, demolished Churches, and imprisoned pastors.

The result of the deal would allow for certain Bishops to be recognized by both the Catholic Church and the Communist Government.

The deal comes at a time when both organizations are under intense scrutiny; the Catholic Church for rampant sexual abuses, and the Chinese government for its intense persecution of Christians.

Many organizations are upset with the deal and criticized its signatory just last week;

“CSW is deeply concerned about the timing of this provisional agreement between the Chinese government and the Vatican,” CSW’s East Asia Team Leader Benedict Rogers said in a statement. Read more here

Confidence in Pope Francis Down Sharply in U.S.

By a two-to-one margin, American Catholics now give Francis negative marks for his handling of the sex abuse scandal

As allegations and investigations of sex abuse in the Catholic Church become more widespread, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that confidence in the way Pope Francis is handling the crisis has plummeted among U.S. Catholics. Just three-in-ten Catholic adults say Francis is doing an “excellent” or a “good” job addressing the issue, which is down 24 points since 2015 and 14 points from when Pew Research Center last asked the question in January of this year.

While seven-in-ten American Catholics say their overall opinion of Pope Francis is favorable, six-in-ten now say he is doing an “only fair” or “poor” job handling the sex abuse scandal, including 36% who say his efforts on this front have been poor. This is nearly double the share who said he was doing a poor job at the beginning of this year, and triple the share who said this in 2015. Read more here

Pew: Catholicism Suffers Highest Net Losses Due to Religious Switching

ROME — The Catholic Church has experienced greater net losses due to religious conversion than any other religion in the U.S., the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.

While there are some 51 million Catholic adults in the U.S. — just over one-fifth of the total adult population — a remarkable 13 percent of all U.S. adults are former Catholics who now identify as Protestants, religious “nones,” or some other religion.

From 2007 to 2014, the portion of the population identifying as Catholic dropped from 24 percent to just 21 percent.

In the United States there are significantly more converts out of the Catholic faith than into it, Pew found. Roughly 2 percent of American adults are converts to Catholicism, having been raised in another religious tradition.

Pew recently reported that confidence in Pope Francis has hit an all-time low, in the face of his refusal to answer allegations that he rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Fewer than a third of U.S. adult Catholics (30 percent) say Francis is doing an “excellent” or a “good” job addressing the sex abuse crisis, Pew revealed, a drop of 24 points since 2015 and 14 points from when the Research Center last asked the question in January 2018. Read more here

Thirteen states now investigating alleged sexual abuse linked to Catholic church

WASHINGTON — Florida’s attorney general said Thursday she is launching an investigation of potential sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, making Florida at least the 13th state with an ongoing statewide probe of the church.

“Any priest that would exploit a position of power and trust to abuse a child is a disgrace to the church and a threat to society,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement.

The Attorney General’s Office will coordinate its probe with local prosecutors and review records from all seven of Florida’s Catholic dioceses. It is also launching a tip line for victims. Read more here

Catholic Archbishop Names Pope Francis As Geopolitical Mastermind With ‘Back Channel Operatives’ In Vatican Intrigue

On August 25, a former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, released an explosive, 11-page report in which he laid out a series of allegations against a number of high-ranking prelates, including Pope Francis.

The Catholic Church is being ripped apart from the outside by the massive pedophile priest sex abuse scandal that has recently produced over a thousand new victims. But it is being ripped apart from the inside by one man, Pope Francis, detailed in an astonishing report from a high-ranking Vatican insider. And that is a whole different matter entirely.

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:1-5 (KJV)

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò a few weeks ago released a shocking report that shows Pope Francis angling for political power on the world stage, and using any means necessary to obtain it even if that meant using known Catholic pedophile and serial abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to accomplish his goals.

Pope Francis has remained silent throughout all this as he seeks to retain control of the Vatican corporation like any other besieged CEO would do, but his base is crumbling and his grip on power grows more precarious by the day. Revelation 17 and 18 shows the Vatican in all its prophesied ignominious anti-glory, ruling on the political stage as Francis is so desperately trying to fulfill. Babylon may indeed be falling, at least as far as Pope Francis is concerned. Read more and see video here

Vatican takes off gloves, accuses papal critic of ‘calumny, defamation’

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A top Vatican official on Sunday issued a scathing open letter accusing an archbishop who launched an unprecedented attack on Pope Francis of mounting a “political frame job devoid of real foundation”.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet said in the detailed, three-page letter that calls by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for the pope to resign because he had allegedly covered up sexual misconduct by a senior American churchman were “calumny and defamation”. Read more here

Massive amounts of data seized in raids delays arraignment of Houston-area priest accused of child molestation

A Houston area priest accused of molesting two teens will not be arraigned until 2019 due to a deluge of documents the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office seized last month as evidence.

Manuel La Rosa-Lopez appeared in a Montgomery County courtroom Tuesday morning clean shaven and without his clerical collar before learning the case would be pushed back to Jan. 10.

Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said the hearing was postponed due to the large volume of information and documents seized by law enforcement officials in at least three raids at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe, the Shalom Center in Splendora and the St. John Fisher Church in Richmond.

“We executed several search warrants in a very short amount of time,” Ligon said. “Law enforcement is still going through all that data making sure what we have retrieved is turned over to the defense at the appropriate time. There is literally massive amounts of data we are still pouring through.”

A document filed Tuesday briefly details the reason behind La Rosa-Lopez’s delayed court appearance: “Lots of discovery.” Read more here

Pope Francis: Beware of ‘Well-Mannered Demons’ 

Yea, the ones in the Vatican and all the other Synoguges of Satan under the umbrella!!

The devil’s mission is always to destroy, Pope Francis said Friday, but his worst assaults are not frontal attacks, but subtle, “well-mannered” persuasion.

In his homily at Mass in the Santa Marta residence Friday morning, the pope said that Satan is most dangerous when he presents himself as a friend who only wants to help us.

The pope was reflecting on the Gospel passage of the day Jesus speaks of a devil who has been cast out and later returns with seven other demons “more wicked than itself,” who set up residence in a person’s soul.

“Many times when Jesus drives out demons, they try to ruin the person, to do harm, even physically,” the pope said, because the devil never wants to leave.

“When he cannot destroy face to face — because there is a force of God that defends the person — the devil is smarter than a fox, he is astute, and seeks the way to regain possession of that house, of that soul, of that person,” he said.

When the demons enter and take up residence there, the condition of that man becomes worse than before, Francis noted, because before he was a possessed man — the demon was there and did not leave him alone — but now “he continues to be a possessed man, but without realizing it.”

“When the devil cannot impose himself by force, when he cannot destroy a person through clear vices, when he cannot destroy a people with wars and persecutions, he thinks up another strategy and, dear brothers and sisters, it is the strategy that he uses with all of us,” Francis said.

In the Gospels, Jesus often casts out demons, Francis noted. These demons “were his true enemies and our enemies,” he said, and the real struggle is the original combat “between God and the ancient serpent, between Jesus and the devil.” Read the rest here

Vatican ambassador who accused the Pope of helping to cover up sex scandal blames abuse on the ‘scourge of homosexuality’

The Vatican ambassador who accused Pope Francis of rehabilitating a disgraced ex-American cardinal is doubling down on his attack, claiming that the ‘scourge of homosexuality’ in the priesthood is responsible for sex abuse and that the Vatican is being hypocritical in refusing to acknowledge it.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano issued a third installment Friday in the war of words over the cover-up of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. 

He was responding to a Vatican cardinal who had rebuked him and accused him of mounting a ‘blasphemous’ political hit job against Francis with his claims. Read more here

Young Catholics urge Vatican to issue inclusive LGBT message

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops are entering their final week of debate over hot-button issues facing young Catholics, including how the church should welcome gays and respond to the clerical sex abuse scandal that has discredited many in the church hierarchy.

The monthlong synod of bishops ends next Saturday with the adoption by the 260-plus cardinals, bishops and priests of a final document and approval of a separate, shorter letter to the world’s Catholic youth.

Some of the youth delegates to the meeting have insisted that the final document express an inclusive message to make LGBT Catholics feel welcome in a church that has often shunned them.

The Vatican took a step in that direction by making a reference to “ LGBT” for the first time in its preparatory document heading into the meeting.

But some bishops have balked at the notion, including Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, who insisted in his speech that “there is no such thing as an ‘LGBTQ Catholic’ or a ‘ transgender Catholic’ or a ‘heterosexual Catholic,’ as if our sexual appetites defined who we are.” Read more here 

Jesuit Magazine Defends Ordaining Gay Men to the Priesthood

The Jesuit-run America magazine has weighed in on the debate regarding homosexuality and the Catholic priesthood, insisting that ordaining gay men does not increase the risk of clerical sex abuse.

In his October 22 article, titled “No, homosexuality is not a risk factor for the sexual abuse of children,” Thomas G. Plante contends that the idea that “banning homosexual men from the priesthood could prevent future victimization of children in the church” is “simply not true.”

In its official teaching, the Catholic Church says it “cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called ‘gay culture.’”

The recent focus on homosexual men in the priesthood was fueled by revelations last summer of serial homosexual abuse of priests and seminarians by U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, as well as the report by a Pennsylvania grand jury on clerical sex abuse manifesting a conspicuous predominance of male victims by Catholic priests.

This Pennsylvania report echoed findings by a comprehensive investigation into clergy sex abuse resulting in the 2004 John Jay report, which found that over 80 percent of abuse was committed against male victims.

In its 2011 follow-up report, the John Jay College Research Team found that homosexual behavior in the seminary “was significantly related to the increased likelihood of a male child victim.”

The debate over homosexuality in the priesthood was further exacerbated in September by a sexual abuse commission report from Germany showing more than 3,500 cases of “mostly male minors” who were victims of clerical sex abuse between 1946 and 2014.

The commission, which was funded by the German Bishops’ Conference, stated that “3,677 mostly male minors” had been victims of sexual abuse by 1,670 members of the clergy.

An 11-page report from Vatican whistleblower Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released on August 25 alleged that an extensive “homosexual network” among bishops and priests was the root cause of the sex abuse crisis as well as cover-ups by bishops. Read more here