I know Msgr. Anthony Figueiredo very well as he was the director of the North American Seminary in Rome Sabbatical Program. I took my three month sabbatical there beginning in September of 2013. Msgr. Figueiredo was very kind to me, very knowledgeable about things and a nice guy. He is trustworthy:
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So this guy worked for Mr McCarrick for all those years and never smelled a fish?
The report was supposed to be released what....like in the beginning of the year? They laicized McCarrick already so they must have dotted the i's and crossed the t's right?
Also no report is going to be complete without the testimony of Archbishop Vigano anyway so hopefully they included that.
Speaking of which, how amazing is it that President Trump is publicly acknowledging Catholics like Archbishop Vigano and Dr. Taylor Marshall. We went from eight years of a pro abortion president who lied about religious liberty for Catholics to a pro life president who supports religious liberty policies.
I'm surprised Father that you have not mentioned the President's tweet to Dr. Marshall acknowledging a war on Christianity.
How they meant to interview Vigano when he’s gone AWOL?
This is for those who cannot handle the truth, but whom I hope will find God's grace and convert:
On distinctively Catholic issues, the “Catholic” Joe Biden is batting zero. From abortion to gay marriage to embryonic stem cell research, Biden stands against Church teaching. Were he elected, he would resume the war on Catholics and Christians Barack Obama waged for eight years. Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton put a pause on that assault and gave Catholics some breathing room. Given all of this, one would think the Catholic episcopate might refrain from sniping at Trump. But they haven’t. Democrats first, bishops like Wilton Gregory have sought to undermine Trump at this most crucial moment in the culture war. During the riots, Trump tried to reassert religion over anarchy by visiting churches and shrines. Gregory condemned that gesture and blasted the John Paul II shrine for hosting Trump for a religious freedom event.
It has fallen to the laity to make the obvious case for Trump over Biden. Take the recent book A Catholic Vote for Trump by Jesse Romero and John McCullough. They make the case the bishops won’t. “No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist,” said Pope Pius XI. Romero and McCullough argue that no one can be a sincere Catholic and a true Democrat:
As Catholics, we should look to our Church’s authentic teachings to guide us and instruct us, especially when difficult moral questions arise. The election of 2020, however, does not present a difficult moral question. No true Catholic, in good conscience, should be able to vote for one of the Democrat candidates, all of whom support virtually, if not absolutely, unlimited abortion, the marginalization of religious freedom in the name of a misguided view of equality, and the craziness of the trans-right movement….Had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, Catholic life in this country would have been circumscribed. Happily, she did not. Sadly, it seems that for the foreseeable future, if any Democrat attains the highest political office in the land, as their party is currently constituted, Catholic life and freedom will be circumscribed in the name of diversity and a twisted kind of “tolerance.”
Maybe Viganò received the same threat on his life that Benedict received a year before he “resigned”.
V for Victory.
A church and anti-church residing in the same sacramental body.
Father McDonald when are you doing cathedral TLM next. Attendance last two weeks look bigger then 10 AM mass from video I’ve seen.
johnny c,
Notice how some of our "liberal" posters here won't come here and defend the indefensible?
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