How ecclesiastical ambition enables monstrous cruelty and evil

N.B. The kind of men who are promoted up the ladder are the compliant, submissive sort who long ago learned to keep quiet for the sake of personal advancement. It’s a case of a slowly dying conscience. Or one suddenly strangulated upon  the delectable appearance of an opportunity. These are the sort who for personal survival keep quiet while others are fed to the insatiable beast of rage and pride with a gluttonous appetite for victims.

On silence about the papal tyrant

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." ~Charles Peguy

ELIZABETH YORE

MAY 12

 

Now we learn. For a dozen long miserable years, they all kept their mouths shut about Bergoglio. They all covered up the chaotic madness of this man, yet whispering and gossiping and cowering in the halls of Casa Santa Marta about the man in white.

They breathed not a word about the man, who subjected the Catholic Church to 12 years of brutal tyranny, blatant material heresy, vindictive psychopathy, and rampant predator protection. Only now, the truth emerges from his collaborators that Bergoglio is safely and securely entombed. Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief, as the whispers from the curia, the college of cardinals, and even, Bishop Georg Ganswein, the Pope’s Head of Household, who remarked obliquely about Bergoglio:

“Now a new phase opens. I sense some widespread relief. The season of arbitrariness is over. We can begin to rely on a papacy that can guarantee stability and rely on existing structures, without overturning and upsetting them.”

Why didn’t you stand up for stability, Bishop Ganswein? Why did you sit by and let him overturn structures? Why did you remain silent when Bergoglio upset systems and people?

Why?

There’s more revelations about Bergoglio coming to light.

Vatican insiders now disclose he was on psychotropic drugs even before he became Pope to stabilize his mood and his obvious penchant for irrational outbursts. Is that the steady hand you want guiding the barque of Peter? Is this the kind of man who should lead 1.4 billion Catholics? Rather, he appears to be the perfect choice of the conniving St. Gallen Mafia.

Now we learn that Bishop Robert Prevost (Pope Leo XIV), the successor to Bergoglio, had several tense uncomfortable encounters with Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires:

“Yesterday marked 10 years since Pope Francis’ election. I knew Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires,” the new Pope says in a video, speaking in Spanish. “As the Augustinian General, I’d met him several times. When he was elected, I told some brothers, ‘Great, thank God I’ll never be bishop.’ I won’t say why, but not all meetings with Cardinal Bergoglio were mutually agreeable.”

So, they all knew that Bergoglio, the madhatter from Buenos Aires, reigned by terror and irrationality. Yet, all of them-every last one of them, kept stone cold silent while they watched the Catholic Church melt down under his withering hot temper and heated heretical rhetoric.

Face it, Bergoglio was a cruel wackjob.

Deep censorship existed in the religious and secular media outlets about the widespread unpopularity and instability of Jorge Bergoglio. Those of us who criticized his bizarre actions and troubling statements were branded as fringe outcasts, unmerciful and uncharitable malcontents. Some were even excommunicated-daring to speak the truth about the reality of Bergoglio.

The gig is up. The Vatican and its inhabitants cannot be trusted. They are accomplices and forgers to the Bergoglian lies. It’s called the sin of omission.

We will not forget.

https://www.yorechildren.com/blog/2025/5/12/on-silence-about-the-papal-tyrant

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Asian cardinal asks for prayers to discern what kind of pope the Church needs

Cardinal William Goh speaks during an interview with EWTN News on April 19, 2024, in Singapore. | Credit: Sean Boyce/EWTN News

BY NICOLÁS DE CÁRDENAS

ACI Prensa, 2025-05-01

In a pastoral letter published by the Archdiocese of Singapore, Cardinal William Goh called on the faithful to pray for the cardinals involved in electing the successor to St. Peter.

Goh first noted that the members of the College of Cardinals are holding general congregations “to hear the views and assessment” of the current situation and “what the Church needs to do after Pope Francis.”

“Hence, it is urgent and important that you all pray for us so that we can discern what kind of pope the Church needs in this present day, because every pope brings with him his own charisms,” the prelate emphasized.

The cardinal asked for prayers “that we will choose the right candidate to be the successor of St. Peter to lead the Church in this complex world.”

Specifically, the cardinal encouraged the organization of “novenas, rosary, and divine mercy devotions to pray fervently, unceasingly, for the cardinals to be guided by the Holy Spirit to elect a good, holy, compassionate, wise, and strong pope.”

A pontiff who, he added, “will not only be a shepherd after the heart of Christ but also courageous in defending the deposit of faith handed down to the Church through the ages.”

https://www.ewtnvatican.com/articles/asian-cardinal-asks-for-prayers-to-discern-what-kind-of-pope-the-church-needs-5197

The Mother Whose Catholic Faith Inspired the Future Pope

 Mildred Prevost, a mother of three who sought a graduate degree, held her religious devotion at the center of her life.

Mildred Prevost with her sons outside Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.Credit...via John Joseph Prevost

By Julie Bosman

Reporting from Chicago

May 11, 2025

Her friends called her Millie. The future pope called her Ma.

Mildred Prevost, whose youngest son, Robert, would one day take the name Pope Leo XIV, cut her own extraordinary path of ambition, talent and religious devotion through her hometown of Chicago.

Born Mildred Agnes Martinez, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1947 and attended graduate school at DePaul University, an academic path that was unusual for women at that time. She waited until she was in her mid-30s, Cook County records show, to marry Louis Prevost, who was eight years her junior. Mrs. Prevost was in her late 30s and early 40s when she had children, three boys born in a span of just over four years.

An enthusiastic performer, a regular in costumed skits and plays at school fund-raisers, and an accomplished singer, Mrs. Prevost once recorded her own rendition of “Ave Maria,” a hymn of considerable difficulty for an amateur.

“That was her trademark song,” her oldest son, who was also named Louis, said in an interview on Saturday. “She would belt it out.”

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/mildred-prevost-robert-pope-leo-xiv-mother.html

Cardinal: “People are always careful to speak well of the past, but they do not have the courage to say that we need to change course”

 

The Cardinals Settle Scores with Pope Francis

Few cardinals attend the Novendiali, the cycle of Eucharists for the soul of Pope Francis, writes SilereNonPossum.com (30 April).

On 30 April, about ninety cardinals were present, less than half of the 180 who had registered in the morning to take part in the General Congregations in the Synod Hall.

Some cardinals did not hide their concern. SilereNonPossum.it quotes one of them:

"There are those cardinals who give interviews and talk about a short conclave, a long conclave... In reality, we are not sure of anything, because when the doors close, the time for pretence will be over".

And: "People are always careful to speak well of the past, but they do not have the courage to say that we need to change course, that we need to return to respect for people, for the law, for the rules. We need to start appointing people we trust, without fuelling the climate of mistrust that has led us to this impasse".

Asked what has changed since the election of Francis, the cardinal replies:

"Nothing positive has changed; we are in a worse situation. Twelve years of constant invectives about clericalism, corruption, the latest car model, that the Church stinks, trials, gossip, faggotry...."

"If in 2013 people had the impression that the Curia had internal factions and problems that didn't work and even gave rise to scandals, today this idea has intensified. Francis has not wiped out corruption, he has simply replaced people, but now there are people who are more corrupt than before".

And: "What has changed is that they are not hated by the press, so they manage to keep many things from coming out, but these things are there, and some cases have emerged and are emerging in all their tragedy, even now with the issue of corruption in the Vatican Gendarmerie and in the Office of the Promoter. How many times have we said that something must be done about these situations?

The new Pope will have to ignore media pressure, the cardinal continued: "The press will act in the petty way that is now well known and will begin to attack whenever the new Pope deviates from the decisions of Francis."

But this is "a choice of survival", the cardinal explains: "If we want to survive and continue the Church of Christ, we must act without conditioning. Otherwise it will be difficult to see a bright future".

Happy Mother’s Day

 

To all our holy, and classy, Catholic Moms today, a blessed Mother’s Day!

New Study Shows Massive Harms from Abortion Pills

 By Rebecca Oas, Ph.D. | May 1, 2025

WASHINGTON D.C., May 2 (C-Fam) New data reveals that women suffer serious adverse effects following chemical abortions, at least 22 times more frequently than what is claimed on the label for the abortion drug mifepristone.

A new publication by Jamie Bryan Hall and Ryan T. Anderson of the Ethics and Public Policy Center examines a database of U.S. insurance claims from 2017 to 2023 that includes over 865,000 cases where abortion pills were prescribed.  Almost eleven percent of women experienced serious complications including infections and severe bleeding after taking mifepristone.  The authors called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reevaluate the drug’s safety and potentially reconsider its approval.

“This is based on real world data,” said Anderson in an interview about the report. “This isn’t based on idealized clinical studies where the drug is administered perfectly.  This is how it’s really administered in the real world.”

According to the drug’s label, clinical trials found that serious complications only happened in 0.5 percent of cases. That figure has been widely used by abortion activists to argue for easier access to the drug, including by telemedicine.

During the Obama and Biden administrations, many of the safeguards that had existed to protect women, such as requiring an in-person consultation with a doctor prior to obtaining mifepristone, were rolled back.

The actual complications from mifepristone may even be worse than the study reports.  Because of a Supreme Court ruling in 2022 returning abortion to the states, some women seeking abortions where it is illegal have turned to clandestine methods of obtaining the drugs, such as buying them from overseas sellers.  Women who obtained mifepristone without a prescription and from providers operating without FDA oversight are not included in this dataset.  Furthermore, sellers of illegal abortion drugs often counsel women to conceal having taken them if they need medical care in case of complications.

Also absent from the insurance claims data are cases that end in the woman’s death, which the report’s authors intend to address in a forthcoming publication.

The implications of this study extend beyond the U.S. context.  Since 2019, Mifepristone has been included in the World Health Organization’s “core” essential medicines list of “the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for priority conditions.”  The 2019 update to the list also removed a previous stipulation that the abortion pill required “close medical supervision.”  In justifying this change, the WHO’s report cited the same incomplete and misleading clinical trial data: severe complications in less than half a percent of cases.

The new U.S.-based study by Hall and Anderson included women experiencing severe complications in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, where hospitals, clinics, and expert providers are relatively plentiful.  This is not the case in many poorer, developing countries where women suffer much higher rates of death in pregnancy and childbirth, often due to the same causes: bleeding and infections.

In response to recent challenges to the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, abortion proponents like the Guttmacher Institute have argued that the drug “has been deemed critical to public health by WHO and other global health experts and that has been approved for use in countries around the world.”  By the same token, a reevaluation of the dangers of mifepristone undertaken by the FDA could impact its acceptability in other countries where women are currently suffering underestimated complications. 

Source: C-Fam 

https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/new-study-shows-massive-harms-from-abortion-pills/

Pope Leo XIV, Augustinian superior

 

 

A girl in Nevada leads her class in the Pledge of Allegiance with her hand on a Bible. Isadora Kosofsky for The New York Times

Faith in schools

	By Adam Liptak I cover the Supreme Court.

In just the last month, the Supreme Court has heard three important religion cases, culminating in yesterday’s argument over a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma. Judging from the justices’ questioning, the side pressing religious-freedom claims seemed likely to prevail in all three.

That would extend a remarkable winning streak for religion at the Supreme Court.

Since 2012, the pro-religion side has won all but one of 16 First Amendment cases about the government’s relationship with faith. (The exception: The court rejected a challenge to the first Trump administration’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.)

The court has been especially active in cases involving religious education. It said if the government was helping private schools, it couldn’t exclude religious ones. It exempted religious schools from anti-discrimination laws. In one pending case, the justices seemed poised to let parents with religious objections withdraw their children during discussions of gay and transgender themes. Yesterday they seemed likely to let a Catholic organization start a charter school in Oklahoma — which would make it the first religious school to get state charter funds.

A 2021 study of religion rulings since Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court in 2005 found that the Roberts court ruled in favor of religious people and groups over 83 percent of the time, compared with about 50 percent of the time for other courts since 1953. “In most of these cases, the winning religion was a mainstream Christian organization, whereas in the past pro-religion outcomes more frequently favored minority or marginal religious organizations,” the study’s authors — Lee Epstein, of Washington University in St. Louis, and Eric Posner, of the University of Chicago — wrote.

If the court rules in favor of religious claims in all three of the pending cases, that figure will rise to 88 percent.

A movement

	By Sarah Mervosh I cover education.

Regardless of what the justices decide about yesterday’s Oklahoma case, state money is already helping faith bloom in American education.

The main vehicle is via school vouchers, which have proliferated in Republican-led states.

Vouchers allow you to use taxpayer money — funds the government would have spent on a public school — to pay for your kid’s private school (or home-school supplies). More than half of states have such programs, and more than one million students use them, double the number in 2019.

The Supreme Court blessed vouchers for religious schools in a 2002 case, but their use took off after the pandemic as more states embraced them widely. In states like Florida, where vouchers have expanded to be available to all students, some religious schools now receive nearly all of their funding from state dollars, said Doug Tuthill, who helps manage Florida’s program.

States are looking for other ways to expand religion in public schools, too. Oklahoma wants to put Bibles in its classrooms. Louisiana is in a legal battle to get the Ten Commandments in every classroom. Texas is considering a similar move.

State lawmakers pushing to expand religion in public schools sometimes cite the Supreme Court rulings that my colleague Adam mentions above, such as a 2022 decision siding with a football coach who prayed at the 50-yard line after games. “There is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state’ in our Constitution, and recent Supreme Court decisions by President Trump’s appointees reaffirmed this,” said a lawmaker in Texas, who put forth a bill proposing prayer in schools.

Source: NY Times