When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Sunday, November 18, 2018
GAGGING ON CATHOLIC HYPOCRISY? - CARDINAL JOSEPH TOBIN AND HIS BOY-TOY IN RESIDENCE
Was a sexy Italian actor living with the man who would be Washington's new cardinal?
I wanted to ask Tobin about a story I broke in October: that an Italian actor, Francesco Castiglione, was living in his rectory, which had caused murmuring among concerned Catholics in his archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. Some of those concerned Catholics had called me, suspecting that Castiglione was the real recipient of Tobin’s infamous accidental tweet from last February in which he declared to someone unknown, “Nighty-Night Baby, I love you.” An embarrassed Tobin had explained away the Twitter misfire as a late-night message to one of his sisters.
My slippery walk to the Marriott proved productive. I lurked about the Marriott lobby for a few minutes, then looked up and saw Tobin emerge from the elevator and saunter over to the check-out desk. Here was my chance. I waited for him to complete his business, then introduced myself and asked him about Francesco Castiglione.
Was Castiglione living at the rectory until I reported it? Tobin responded that, yes, Castiglione was living at his rectory “temporarily.” I asked him why. He said that Castiglione was taking “language classes” at Seton Hall. Asked why he would provide temporary housing to a random Seton Hall student, Tobin couldn’t offer an explanation.
Here's the guy's IMDB page which by its photos is even more suggestive. Update: Or well, it was. The photos seem to have been taken down a few minutes ago. Here is a Google screengrab mostly of what had been there:
Which makes one wonder about the propriety of the whole picture - a big distinguished archbishop and cardinal, living it up with a young sexy Italian actor in the same house. Never mind the gay aspect, isn't Tobin supposed to be celebate? That love-tweet to the man is rather hard to believe was a misfire to his sister, given the living situation.
And this matters because Tobin is widely believed to be the next guy to take the cardinal's job in Washington, which has already been in a world of sexual scandal. It's the place that housed Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who's been credibly accused of molesting the seminarians and later, children, and who was summarily removed to keep the long arm of the law away. Then it housed Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who was accused of covering up for McCarrick and who was forced to resign for it. Now Tobin in next? Here is what Neumayr tweeted earlier:
I hope you are sitting down. According to a source close to the DC chancery, "there is a 75-80 percent chance Tobin" will succeed Wuerl in 3 weeks. The chancery is "preparing" for Tobin, he says. I asked this source: Could raising hell stop it? He thought it worth a shot.
Seems there really is a lavender mafia, one covering up for another, and in succession, with business as usual going on as it always has. There seems to be a lot going on that has yet to be reported still - in the comments sections of Neumayr's tweets, parishioners report that Tobin's first acts as cardinal in New Jersey were to put on gay-friendly cathedral events, which might reveal more about what he's about.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cardinal Tobin to TAS: Yes, the Italian actor Francesco Castiglione Lived at My Rectory <a href="https://t.co/HnCzm07FnD">https://t.co/HnCzm07FnD</a> <a href="https://t.co/opfh7Vt3iM">pic.twitter.com/opfh7Vt3iM</a></p>— 1Timothy3:15 (@DouayRheims) <a href="https://twitter.com/DouayRheims/status/1063175211409915904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
Any question as to why there seems to be coverup racket plaguing the Catholic Church? Tobin denies he's going to be the next Washington cardinal, but nobody really knows. Now there is this.
U.S. Bishops Say Trump Proclamation on Caravan Migrants Is Illegal
President Trump’s recent proclamation addressing the mostly Central American migrants marching toward the U.S. border contravenes U.S. laws on immigration, declared a statement posted on the U.S. bishops website Wednesday.
“On November 9, 2018, President Trump issued a proclamation barring people arriving to the U.S./Mexico border from receiving U.S. asylum unless they request it at a U.S. port of entry, a direct contradiction of existing U.S. asylum law (see here),” reads the statement on the Bishops’ website, signed by Bishop Joe Vásquez, Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, along with officials from Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and Catholic Relief Services.
The bishops express their “deep concern” over the proclamation, arguing that the migrant caravan is composed of children and adults “fleeing violence” in their home countries.
“While our teaching acknowledges the right of each nation to regulate its borders, we find this action deeply concerning,” the statement reads. “It will restrict and slow access to protection for hundreds of children and families fleeing violence in Central America, potentially leaving them in unsafe conditions in Mexico or in indefinite detention situations at the U.S./Mexico border.”
The Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Geronimo Gutierrez, has warned that the migrant caravan is not just a peaceful group of people fleeing a bad situation.
“We have been trying to avoid, at all costs, violence in the border,” Gutierrez told Steve Inskeep of NPR. “Unfortunately, some of the people in the caravan have been very violent against authority, even though that they have offered the possibility of entering in compliance with immigration law and refugee status.”
In their statement, the bishops insist that seeking asylum is no crime and migrants have a right to refuge.
“We reiterate that it is not a crime to seek asylum and this right to seek refuge is codified in our laws and in our values,” it reads. “We urge the Administration to seek other solutions that will strengthen the integrity of the existing immigration system, while assuring access to protection for vulnerable children and families.”
“The Catholic Church will continue to serve, accompany and assist all those who flee persecution, regardless of where they seek such protection and where they are from,” the statement concludes.
In his proclamation, President Trump expressed concern that an influx of “large groups of aliens arriving at once through the southern border would add tremendous strain to an already taxed system, especially if they avoid orderly processing by unlawfully crossing the southern border.”
“Failing to take immediate action to stem the mass migration the United States is currently experiencing and anticipating would only encourage additional mass unlawful migration and further overwhelming of the system,” he said.
NOW A WORD FROM THE IDIOT POPE:
yeah, don't talk about pedophile priests!
Pope Francis Warns: People Who Gossip Are ‘Terrorists’
Pope Francis said Wednesday that those who spread gossip are terrorists whose words are grenades that destroy other people’s reputations.
“Gossipers are killers,” the pope told the 20,000 pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly audience. “They kill others because the tongue kills like a knife. Be careful!”
“A gossiper is a terrorist, because with his tongue he throws a bomb and then walks away, but that tossed bomb destroys the good name of others. Do not forget: to gossip is to kill,” he said.
In his remarks, the pope was reflecting on the eighth commandment of the Decalogue: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
What does it mean to tell the truth? The pontiff asked. “Does it mean being honest? Or being precise? In reality, this is not enough, because one can be sincerely mistaken, or one can be precise in detail but not grasp the meaning of the whole.”
Being truthful goes beyond just being factual, Francis suggested, and becomes a way of life.
“Sometimes we justify ourselves by saying, ‘But I said what I felt!’ Yes, but you have absolutized your point of view,” he said. “Or, ‘I just told the truth!’ Maybe, but you have revealed some personal or confidential facts. How often gossip destroys communion because it is inappropriate or lacking in sensitivity!”
“Where there are lies there is no love, there can be no love,” he said. “And when we talk about communication between people we mean not only words, but also gestures, attitudes, even silence and omissions. A person speaks with everything he is and does. We are all in communication, always.”
“We all live by communicating and we are constantly poised between truth and falsehood,” he said.
When questioned by Pontius Pilate during his passion, Jesus says: “For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth,” Francis noted.
“Truth finds its full realization in the very person of Jesus,” he continued, “in his way of living and dying, fruit of his relationship with the Father.”
The pope also encouraged his listeners to examine their consciences, to see whether they live in the truth.
“Let us ask ourselves: as Christians, to what truth do our works, words, and choices attest? Everyone can ask himself: Am I a witness to the truth, or am I more or less a liar disguised as truthful?” he said.
“Truth is not so much pronounced with discourses,” he said, “it is a way of existing, a way of life and is seen in every single act. This man is a true man, that woman is a true woman: you can see it.”
“Not bearing false witness means living as a child of God,” Francis concluded, “who never, ever denies himself and never tells lies.
Pope Francis Reins in U.S. Bishops’ Measures Against Sex Abuse
Pope Francis has temporarily suspended efforts by the United States bishops to address the issue of clerical sex abuse, ordering them to wait until he can meet with them in February together with the presidents of other national bishops’ conferences from around the world.
The U.S. bishops are currently gathered in Baltimore, Maryland, for their annual fall meeting, which was to focus on dealing with the sex abuse crisis. During the opening session of the meeting Monday morning, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the president of the bishops’ conference (USCCB), informed the assembly that he had been contacted by the Holy See on Sunday afternoon with instructions not to move forward with a vote on several concrete measures to respond to the abuse crisis.
On announcing the news, Cardinal DiNardo expressed his “disappointment” with the decision. Since last August, DiNardo has been insisting that the Vatican initiate a formal investigation into the case of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial homosexual abuse, a request that was ultimately denied after DiNardo traveled to Rome to present his petition to Pope Francis.
“At the insistence of the Holy See, we will not be voting on the two action items in our docket regarding the abuse crisis,” DiNardo said Monday.
“We are not, ourselves, happy about this,” DiNardo said during a press conference. “We have been working hard to get to the action stage, and we’ll do it, but we have to get past this bump in the road.”
The measures proposed by the USCCB included a code of conduct for bishops, the creation of a lay commission to address the abuse issue and the McCarrick case, a third-party hotline to report bishops accused of abuse or mishandling of abuse cases, and “protocols for bishops resigned or removed because of abuse.”
Pope Francis had initially suggested that the bishops suspend their fall meeting altogether, replacing it with a weeklong silent prayer retreat. The bishops opted to continue forward with the meeting, including days reserved for prayer as well.
In explaining the pope’s decision, the Vatican ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, said that Francis is concerned about “communion,” wanting the whole Church to move together rather than having national bishops’ conferences make their own policies.
Oddly, Pope Francis has often spoken of the need for decentralization, encouraging local churches to take more initiative in addressing pastoral issues because, in many areas of church life, one size does not fit all. In dealing with clerical sex abuse, however, this is apparently not the case.
When asked about this apparent contradiction, Cardinal DiNardo said it was “quizzical.”
In August, a former Vatican nuncio to the United States accused a number of high-ranking prelates — including the pope himself — of culpable mishandling of the McCarrick case, declaring that Francis had known about McCarrick’s crimes and sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict XVI and yet reinstated him to a position of influence in the Vatican.
The pope has refused to confirm or deny the allegations made in the report, including the question of when he learned of McCarrick’s history of abuse.
Pope Francis went on to call out the former nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, comparing him to Satan. Days later, the pope said that pastors accused of misconduct are like Jesus on Good Friday, who responded with silence to the accusations laid against him.
Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, called the last-minute order from the Vatican “truly incredible.”
“What we see here is the Vatican again trying to suppress even modest progress by the U.S. bishops,” said Doyle. “We’re seeing where the problem lies, which is with the Vatican.”
“The outcome of this meeting, at best, was going to be tepid and ineffectual, but now it’s actually going to be completely without substance,” she said.
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Cardinal Zen: Vatican 'Does Not Support' Faithful Catholics in China, Rome is Helping Communist Party
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong and long-time China observer, said "the Holy See does not support" the faithful and long-suffering members of the underground Catholic Church in China and is actually helping the Communist Party to further persecute the faithful in that despotic regime.
The underground Catholic church has existed in Communist China since 1950. In 1957, the regime created the Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA), a Communist-run "church" designed to draw Catholics into its control and squeeze out those Catholics loyal to the Pope and the Faith. Despite the decades of persecution, the Holy See signed an agreement with the CPA in September, allowing the Communists to nominate bishops for the church there -- the Pope has a veto -- and force unity between the underground church and the CPA.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong. (YouTube)
However, this is not working smoothly because the faithful bishops and laity are still being persecuted by Communist authorities and the clerics in the CPA are required to support practices that are contrary to fundamental church teaching, such as contraception, abortion, sterilization, and divorce.
Cardinal Zen flew to Rome on Oct. 29 and gave Pope Francis a seven-page letter outlining his concerns about the situation in China, reported the Union of Catholic Asian News (ucanews.com).
Government Communist thugs are forcing the underground priests and laity "to become open, to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, and to obtain a priest's certificate," said Cardinal Zen. They are citing the Sino-Vatican deal as the authority to enforce their measures but the entire document has not been revealed to the public.
"Some priests have escaped, and some have disappeared because they do not know what to do and are annoyed," said Cardinal Zen. "The agreement is undisclosed, and they do not know if what officials say is true or not."
An underground Catholic Church in China. (YouTube)
Zen further said there is new persecution occuring and the Holy See "was helping the Chinese Communist Party suppress the underground community," reported ucanews.
In his letter to the Pope, Cardinal Zen detailed how Communist officials are taking money from the underground priests, harassing their family members, putting some of them in prison and apparently killing some Catholics to put pressure on the community as a whole.
Yet "the Holy See does not support them [the underground church] and regards them as trouble, referring to them causing trouble and not supporting unity," said Cardinal Zen. "This is what makes them most painful."
As previously reported, Chinese police kidnapped Bishop Shao Zhumin on Nov. 9 and sent him to a camp for interrogation and indoctrination. Bishop Shao is a leader in the underground church and has repeatedly refused to join the Communist-run CPA. He has been kidnapped by the police at least 5 times over the last two years and held for so-called indoctrination.
By Michael W. Chapman | November 14, 2018 | 12:26 PM EST
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