Bishop Vigano : Prevost delegitimizes the condemnation of those US bishops who have spoken out against Cupich’s behavior and furthers the scandal of the faithful,
Prevost uses specious arguments – such as the alleged immorality of the death penalty or the rejection of illegal immigrants by civil authorities – to obtain his desired result of downgrading abortion, with that ill-concealed embarrassment of someone forced, against his will, to repeat with half-hearted conviction a condemnation he does not claim is shared by the modern world, just like the intrinsic sinfulness of sodomy. Prevost shifts the attention to other issues. And it’s surprising that an Augustinian like Leo doesn’t realize that this attitude is typical of the worst modernist Jesuitism.
Not only that: by stating that these are “very complex issues,” Prevost delegitimizes the condemnation of those American bishops who have spoken out against Blase Cupich’s behavior and furthers the scandal of the faithful, who are led to believe that the death penalty and the rejection of illegal immigrants should be condemned just as much as the killing of an innocent creature in the womb.
Let’s be clear: abortion is a heinous crime that must always be condemned without equivocation. Anyone guilty of it – including those who promote the killing of innocents through unjust laws – commits a crime that cries out for vengeance in the sight of God. As a dead member of the Mystical Body, he or she no longer belongs to the Catholic Church and cannot be admitted to the Sacraments, much less receive awards from ecclesiastical authorities. The state, to be consistent with the purpose for which it exists, should prohibit and punish abortion, not declare it a “human right.”
Contrary to what Leo claims, there is nothing “complex” about any of this, except for his refusal to affirm the truth and his concern not to delegitimize Cupich, a powerful heir and disciple of Joseph Bernardin and Theodore McCarrick, along with other prelates still in office. The modernist strategy – based on “situational morality” – does not directly deny the doctrine, but “domesticates” it in the name of the evolution of dogmas and renders it inapplicable in practice, hollowing it out from within.
And it is no coincidence that this relativist approach, complicit in the moral dissolution of society, was formulated by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin himself. His pseudo-doctrine of the “seamless garment” places abortion within a single “ethic of life” that arbitrarily includes poverty, war, and the death penalty. This has given liberal “Catholic” politicians and the self-styled “adult Catholics” beloved by the woke Left, the pretext to call themselves “pro-life” while voting in favor of abortion (even up to the moment of birth), sodomitical unions, gender transition, and LGBT ideology.
Let us not forget that Bernardin – a model of Satanic perversion and corruption – along with McCarrick, is the root of the Bergoglian cadre of Wuerl-Gregory-Cupich-Farrell-Tobin-McElroy. I remember well how, during the ceremony of the imposition of the pallium, Cupich reiterated the doctrine of the “seamless garment,” which I contested in my speech as apostolic nuncio. In November 2023, then-Cardinal Prevost, in his speech when he received an honorary doctorate in Peru, praised Bernardin and Cupich precisely for this aberrant, false doctrine.
If the Roman Pontiffs had wanted to “avoid polarization” – as seems to be Leo’s primary concern – the Catholic Church would not have lasted beyond Saint Peter. It seems that Prevost intends to follow in Simon’s footsteps in the courtyard of the Praetorium, rather than to follow Peter’s in bearing witness to the faith. What will the conservatives who have been so enthusiastic about Leo’s election say?
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