Francis in the Dock by Archbishop Carlo María Viganò. By Fr. Gordon J. MacRae
Described as “an atomic bomb dropped on the Roman Curia,” a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States accused Pope Francis of covering up some Cardinal sins. I was just sitting on my bunk in my …More
Described as “an atomic bomb dropped on the Roman Curia,” a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States accused Pope Francis of covering up some Cardinal sins.
I was just sitting on my bunk in my prison cell on Sunday night, August 26, after a tiring day on multiple fronts. I went through the day without a single message on the GTL tablet I was holding. It was unusual, the calm before the storm.
I spent a few minutes at night playing one of its solitaire games that I can never seem to win. Several minutes later I exited the game to find a surprise. In that brief ten minutes, 19 messages had come into my GTL inbox. Before the night was over, there were nine more.
The summer of Catholic scandal had just detonated its third and most explosive bomb, and several readers sent me alerts and commentary. Archbishop Carlo María Viganò (pro. “vee-ga-NO”), a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, published an 11-page letter on two Catholic websites.
The published letter charged that Pope …More
I was just sitting on my bunk in my prison cell on Sunday night, August 26, after a tiring day on multiple fronts. I went through the day without a single message on the GTL tablet I was holding. It was unusual, the calm before the storm.
I spent a few minutes at night playing one of its solitaire games that I can never seem to win. Several minutes later I exited the game to find a surprise. In that brief ten minutes, 19 messages had come into my GTL inbox. Before the night was over, there were nine more.
The summer of Catholic scandal had just detonated its third and most explosive bomb, and several readers sent me alerts and commentary. Archbishop Carlo María Viganò (pro. “vee-ga-NO”), a former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, published an 11-page letter on two Catholic websites.
The published letter charged that Pope …More
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I never said--nor implied--that I thought Fr MacRae was guilty.
Btw, not-yet-Cardinal Dulles used to come to dinner now and then where I lived in Rome. He also lectured once in our class on Ecclesiology. The last I saw him was in Kansas City.
As you probably already know, he is buried
at the Shrine of the North American martyrs in Auriesville. Unfortunately, the Jesuits no longer are there.More
I never said--nor implied--that I thought Fr MacRae was guilty.
Btw, not-yet-Cardinal Dulles used to come to dinner now and then where I lived in Rome. He also lectured once in our class on Ecclesiology. The last I saw him was in Kansas City.
As you probably already know, he is buried
at the Shrine of the North American martyrs in Auriesville. Unfortunately, the Jesuits no longer are there.
Btw, not-yet-Cardinal Dulles used to come to dinner now and then where I lived in Rome. He also lectured once in our class on Ecclesiology. The last I saw him was in Kansas City.
As you probably already know, he is buried
at the Shrine of the North American martyrs in Auriesville. Unfortunately, the Jesuits no longer are there.
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Back in December 2008, before His Eminence Cardinal Avery Dulles died, he wrote to Father MacRae in prison: "Some day your story and that of your fellow sufferers will come to light and will be instrumental in a reform. Your writing, which is clear, eloquent, and spiritually sound, will be a monument to your trials." I find the evidence for that right here in this fine article. Father MacRae writes …More
Back in December 2008, before His Eminence Cardinal Avery Dulles died, he wrote to Father MacRae in prison: "Some day your story and that of your fellow sufferers will come to light and will be instrumental in a reform. Your writing, which is clear, eloquent, and spiritually sound, will be a monument to your trials." I find the evidence for that right here in this fine article. Father MacRae writes the bold truth with no political bent, and not even a hint of bitterness in his articulate voice. There is Truth here and it is very much needed.