Uprooting New Shoots in Paraguay, the Rude Diss, the St. Louis Proposal, and the Fault of Default.

By Frank Walker
Pewsitter
August 2, 2014

http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_178830.php


The clergy of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este have made a powerful defense of their suspended Bishop, Rogelio Livieres, and popular yet removed Vicar General ,Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity, who, despite being released by a review board in the U.S., was recommended to del Este by none other than Cardinal Ratzinger. As the facts and accusations continue to play out, it appears we may have an ideological persecution on our hands. After years of successfully rebuffing attacks from the liberal majority bishops in the region and building a faithful enclave with the backing of Rome, the ecclesial adversaries will finally have their day.

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Sandro Magister has a blockbuster expose out that reveals the extensive outreach and collaboration going on between the Pope and powerful Evangelicals in the U.S. and worldwide. It describes the actual time they’ve spent working together and contrasts this with the Pope's relative shut-out for certain cardinals, faithful nuns, bishops, townspeople, and key leaders at the Vatican Bank. Once again, Magister notes the democratic ‘synodal’ rhetoric and compares that to the autocratic rule, the rude excuse, and cruel snub.

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The SSPX outlet DICI has a lengthy discussion of the Pope’s “not feeling well” last-minute excuses and how frequently they are used. They also list the comments of health experts who are familiar with the Pope or some of his physical ailments, but as they discuss Antonio Mastino’s, “The Soap Opera of the Pope’s Health," they reveal a pattern.

“Time again, Cardinal Angelo Scola, his direct rival at the conclave, is the one who suffers the consequences of Bergoglio’s ‘mild indispositions’. Twice already last year, after he had obtained an audience with Francis, ‘at the last minute’ he had someone tell him that he had ‘a mild indisposition’. An indisposition that some people by now think concerns Scola.”

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The St. Louis Archdiocese has announced that, “Catholic Charities agencies have joined with a coalition of St. Louis City and County agencies and nonprofits to offer assistance to unaccompanied 'refugee' children who have been apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexican border.” They note the DHS Office of Refugee Resettlement is accepting proposals for as many as 60 resettlement centers across the country to provide temporary shelter and care. The archdiocese says, “Three residential care facilities are expected to collaborate in the project: Marygrove, a Catholic Charities federated agency in north St. Louis County; St. Vincent Home for Children in Normandy; and Great Circle, formerly Edgewood, in Webster Groves.”

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Argentina has defaulted on its national debt for the second time in twelve years. Although its clear the government has borrowed and spent far beyond their ability to pay, the country’s bishops have put the blame on ‘financial speculators,’ and hope the results of their greed don’t end up hurting the ‘people’ through unemployment.