Get out now before they drag you to Hell kicking and screaming with them!

Psalms 94:3-4 “LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?”

Ezekiel 22:26 “Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.”

Catholic Church Found to Have Spent Over $2 Million Lobbying To Block Child Sex Laws

In light of the growing pedophilia and sexual assault scandal rocking the Catholic Church, it is important to remember that not very long ago the organization was found paying off a lobbying firm to block bills related to sex crimes against children.

In 2015, the New York State Catholic Conference, contracted the lobbying groups, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, Patricia Lynch & Associates, Hank Sheinkopf, and Mark Behan Communications to block a bill called the Child Victims Act, which was aimed at making it easier for victims of child sex crimes to come out against their accusers. The bill also sought to extend the statute of limitations for sex crimes, since many victims are too afraid to speak out until too much time has passed to prosecute.

Between 2007 and 2015, the Catholic church in New York only spent more than 2.1 million dollars lobbying on various bills, mostly related to sex offenses. See more at The Free thought Project

Miami Beach Police catch Two Priests in Homosexual Sex in Parked Car!

MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) — Two Chicago-area priests were charged Monday with Lewd and Lascivious behavior and Indecent Exposure after being caught performing a sexual act inside a car parked on a Miami Beach street.

According to Miami Beach Police, 39-year-old Diego Berrio and 30-year-old Edwin GiraldoCortez were in the front seat of a car performing oral sex.

Police got a 911 call about a lewd and lascivious incident taking place in the 1300 block of Ocean Drive.

When officers arrived, the police report states, the two were performing sex acts on each other “in full view of the public passing by on Ocean Drive and the sidewalk.”

It was 3:20 in the afternoon. More at CBS Miami

Modern exodus: Catholicism has lost more of its faithful than any other religion in the U.S.

More Americans have left Catholicism behind than any other religion in the U.S., according to a new report.

About 13 percent of American adults are former Catholics – people who were raised in the faith but now say they have no religion, or converted to Protestantism or other beliefs, according to a survey by Pew Research Center.

At the other end of the spectrum, 2 percent of U.S. adults report converting to Catholicism.

Overall, there are 6.5 former Catholics for every convert to the religion in the U.S. – a far higher ratio of losses than any other religion in the country, researchers found.

‘It never connected with me,’ said Oakdale, New York resident Aria Dapree, of leaving Catholicism. ‘My mother actually taught religion in the house when I was young. It was weird stories. Jonah (and the whale), the Ark, all kinds of weird fantasy stories.’ More at The Daily Mail

A Church That Won’t Talk About Hell Stares Evil in the Face

All Catholics sin (some, like myself, are intimately familiar with the experience), and are taught as a matter of doctrine that anyone, Catholic or non-Catholic, who dies conscious of unrepentant mortal sin will be eternally lost in the age to come.

The Catholic Church (at least prior to 1965) has been acutely aware of perdition, damnation, and moral recompense. Can a Church that today has constituent congregations filled unapologetically with long communion and short confession lines adequately deal with a sex abuse crisis that challenges the moral foundations of Church authority?

The Catholic Church isn’t broken, insofar as it has yet to renege on its guarantee of perpetual existence, but it is wounded. And there are certainly those who delight in a wounded Church — there are those harbingers of atavistic grudges about the First Council of Ephesus’ censure of Nestorious (a censure he well deserved) and those whose lives are but a perpetual rebellion against the preferences of their middle-class parents.

It nevertheless demoralizes religions everywhere when the world’s largest Church fails so spectacularly to speak plainly about the behavior of its leaders. On matters of abuse and accountability, some in the modern Church have suffered from an utter impotence — their larger theological project of remaking Christ in the image of an amalgamated Elizabeth Warren and Mahatma Gandhi doesn’t include a chapter on moral rot. When a matter of grave evil like the abuse scandal hits, such clergy are left without an adequate theological vocabulary to speak about it.

The Jesus of the Bible, who spoke more often of Hell than Heaven, would scantly recognize the milquetoast sermons on “self-help,” religious pluralism and “peace” that dominate the modern homilist’s lexicon. In many parishes around the country, “fear of the Lord” is but a quaint relic of our unenlightened ancestors. It is little wonder, then, that some parishioners are dejectedly considering leaving the Church over the sex scandal — if, as Cardinal Blase Cupich said, “some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don’t actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in,” why not stick a “Coexist” sticker on the back of your car, berate national immigration policy, and forget the tedium of Sunday Mass and the Sacraments altogether? More at the Daily Wire

Nebraska Catholic diocese rocked by old abuse allegations

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – For more than a decade, a conservative Catholic diocese in Nebraska was the only church in the U.S. that refused to participate in annual reviews of sexual misconduct that were a key reform enacted in the wake of the 2002 Boston clergy abuse scandal.

As a new wave of abuse scandals rock the Roman Catholic church, critics say the Diocese of Lincoln is now paying the price for its unwillingness to change and lack of transparency.

Accusers have been coming forward in recent weeks with allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct by clergy in Nebraska, and the diocese is facing a potential criminal investigation and criticism that it mishandled abusive priests even as it should have been subjected to increased scrutiny after the Boston scandal.

From 2002 to 2015, leaders of the Lincoln diocese refused to participate in annual audits designed to uncover sex abuse allegations and gauge how well church officials were complying with child-protection policies. Church leaders called the audits a pointless endeavor that assumed wrongdoing by the diocese and its priests, but one of the bishops during that period knew of at least two allegations against priests, according to interviews and a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

“I think the closed nature of the diocese made this worse,” said Rachel Pokora, a member of the Catholic reformist group Call to Action. “Even if the audits never revealed anything – and I think they probably would have – it still shows an unwillingness to be open.”

The Nebraska attorney general’s office has spoken with at least two accusers and urged others to come forward about abuse in the diocese. Lincoln police are also investigating a priest accused of having an “emotionally inappropriate, non-sexual relationship” with a 19-year-old male altar server that involved alcohol in 2017, church officials said. More at TriState

Bishop Refuses to Resign, Allegedly Returned Priests Accused of Sexual Misconduct to Ministry

Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, New York, is refusing to step down in the wake of leaked documents from the chancery that suggest he mishandled allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct by priests he oversees in his diocese.

“My handling of recent claims from some of our parishioners concerning sexual misconduct with adults unquestionably has fallen short of the standard to which you hold us, and to which we hold ourselves,” Bishop Malone told Catholics of his diocese in a statement posted to the diocese’s website on August 26.

In rejecting the calls for his resignation, Malone said, “The shepherd does not desert the flock at a difficult time.”

As Catholic News Agency reports, several of the allegations involve “boundary violations or sexual misconduct against adults,” which are not addressed in the same way as those against children in the 2002 Charter for Protection of Children and Young People published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. More at Breitbart News

Is Homosexuality the Cause of Catholic Church Scandals?

As controversy and anger mount over the latest reports of Catholic Church clerical abuse and coverup, fingers of blame are pointing everywhere. Some say sexual abuse, child pornography, sadomasochism, etc. among clergymen have been an open secret for years and that church leaders, including the pope, have known — yet done nothing. The Pennsylvania grand jury report released in August supports that view; it is filled with damning documents obtained from church archives. Others are quick to defend the pope, citing his 2014 institution of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors as proof of his sincerity in tackling the problem of sexual abuse in the priesthood. Read more at the New American

FIVE sisters were sexually abused by the same US Catholic priest when one of them was just 18-months-old! 

Five sisters from Pennsylvania were all abused by the same Catholic priest in the early 1980s when one of them was just 18-months-old, in the latest shocking example of child sex crimes in the US branch of the church.

The Fortney sisters, Patty, Lara, Teresa and Carolyn, said Father Augustine Giella would regularly give them gifts before attacks, one of which took place on 13-year-old Patty while her other three sisters looked on.

‘He was constantly hugging me in front of them, kissing me in front of them, trying to put his tongue in your mouth,’ Patty Fortney-Julius told CBS News. Lara was then 10, Teresa in first grade, and Carolyn one. Another sister chose not to speak out. More at the Daily Mail

Latvian priest faces rape charge ahead of papal visit

RIGA (AFP) – A Latvian Catholic priest has been arrested on allegations he raped a mentally handicapped victim of human trafficking, police in the capital Riga said Wednesday ahead of a papal visit.

A second man was also arrested on suspicion of trafficking in the case, which has shocked the Baltic state as it prepares to receive Pope Francis from September 22.

“One of the suspects ‘delivered’ the defenceless victim for a fee, the church representative, who was the end buyer, paid the fee and then committed violent sexual crimes against the victim,” said Armands Lubarts, chief of a police task force on human trafficking and pimping. More at France 24

Leading U.S. Exorcist: Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal Is Demonic, Likely to Get Worse

In a recent interview, a world-renowned exorcist said the sex abuse scandal currently rocking the Catholic Church is demonic in nature and likely to get worse before it gets better. “We are in for a long storm,” said Father Gary Thomas, the exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, California.

Fr. Thomas’ training in Rome was the subject of the 2010 book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio. The book was made into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins in 2011.

“It’s only going to get worse,” Father Gary Thomas told the National Catholic Register’s Patti Armstrong. “But as bad as it is, it has to come out. It is unacceptable.” More at PJ Media

Robert Spencer: Disgraced Sex Abuser Cardinal McCarrick Lauds “Sense of Humanity” in “Holy Book” the Qur’an

CNSNews.com reported Friday that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who has been removed from the Cardinalate over credible evidence that he sexually abused an altar boy, “gave a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 2001, when he was the archbishop of Washington, in which he noted the ‘sense of humanity’ found in ‘all the holy books,’ including ‘the Koran.’”

Is it surprising that intellectual dishonesty would accompany moral corruption? Has McCarrick ever actually read the Qur’an? Almost certainly not. If he ever does, here is some of the “sense of humanity” he will encounter:

“And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out; persecution is worse than slaughter. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, kill them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is all-forgiving, all-compassionate. Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.” (Qur’an 2:191-193) Read more at the Geller Report

Vigano to Journalists: Investigate Vatican’s ‘Cache of Documents’ Showing Clerical Sexual Abuse

In an interview this week, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò challenged journalists to investigate what happened to the “cache of documents” Benedict XVI delivered to Pope Francis after his election. Some sexual abuse victims and journalists seem to have heeded the call, demanding the documents outside the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C.

Viganò is the author of an extraordinary 11-page letter that sent shockwaves throughout Christiandom this week.

In the letter, the former apostolic nuncio to the United States accused several senior prelates of covering up allegations of McCarrick’s sexual abuse for more than a decade. He also claimed Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict XVI on then-Cardinal McCarrick (which forbade him from traveling and speaking in public) and chose not only to repeal them, but to make McCarrick a “kingmaker” for appointments in the Curia and the United States. Viganò further claimed that the disgraced cardinal became the pope’s most trusted advisor in the Vatican for relations with the Obama administration. More at PJ Media