Catholic World Report.
Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency: This was the threefold watchword.
Christopher R. Altieri.
“Five years ago, the Pontiff railed against “abominable crimes that must be erased from the face of the earth…” His record since has been abysmal and even scandalous.”
“Pope Francis has refused to defrock a confessed child molester or even remove him from the College of Cardinals.
Pope Francis has protected a favorite Argentinian prelate he himself raised to the episcopate and threatened those who sought justice from the Church.
Pope Francis has presided over the appalling miscarriage of justice that has allowed a powerful celebrity artist-cleric not only to escape punishment for the abuse of as many as forty-one victims over three decades but even to remain in ministry as an extern priest resident in Rome.
Pope Francis has done more…
More recently, Pope Francis has praised others–those who would be known as guardians and sentinels of the truth–for their perceived reticence in the face of appalling misdeeds.
He has paid lip service to impartial justice while he promoted an unready and thoroughly compromised favorite to high office, discouraging that hapless fellow from taking the interest in the administration of justice that his very office demands.
Were Pope Francis’s every other act of governance redolent with Solomonic wisdom, these alone–one may adduce many others– would be sufficient to measure his conduct of the Church’s government and find it sorely wanting… Read it all.
+ Rupnik victims, advocates decry failures of Vatican justice
+ The Guardian: Pope Francis accused of opposing reforms to tackle clerical sexual abuse
We, his critics, drawing strength from
Catholic Tradition, have never ceased
praying for the Pope, but he doesn’t seem to
recognize true friendship. So we keep
trying and cannot stop. Will he hear us?
We must not seek the applause of the
world, only it’s conversion