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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
When confronted with the chance to issue a moral challenge to some of the country’s most powerful politicians recently, one of the nation’s most influential Catholic figures failed.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Catholic archbishop of Chicago, gave the invocation at the Democrats’ national convention Aug. 19 while one of Planned Parenthood’s mobile clinics provided free abortions less than two miles from the convention site, Chicago’s United Center.
Yet Cupich said nothing.
Conservative Catholics expressed outrage.
“Cardinal Cupich missed a clear opportunity last night to condemn their vile, murderous policies and, in effect, betrayed the vibrant pro-life community that he once aligned himself with in our state, said Mary Kate Zander, executive director of Illinois Right to Life.”
“(N)owhere in his invocation did Cardinal Cupich offer the slightest challenge to the perverse ideology that ruled the Democratic convention,” said Phil Lawler, editor of the website Catholic Culture.
But Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former papal nuncio to the United States, provided the most stunning — and accurate — explanation. Cupich’s silence reflects “the blood pact between the globalist deep state and the Bergoglian deep church,” Vigano wrote on Twitter/X.
As one of Pope Francis’ ideological lackeys, Cupich vigorously supports the pope’s agenda of deemphasizing abortion in favor of environmental sustainability, unlimited immigration and economic redistribution. Francis’ positions demonstrate the Vatican’s support for the United Nations’ Agenda 2030, which reflects the Holy See’s commitment for six decades to globalist, materialist utopianism, as Front Page Magazine often reported.
Two episodes in the past five years illustrate Cupich’s role. In 2019, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was discussing a supplement to their voting guide, Cupich tried introducing an amendment to oppose another insisting that abortion remain “our preeminent priority because it directly attacks life itself.”
Cupich wanted to include a paragraph from one of Francis’ apostolic exhortations, which warned Catholics about behaving as if “the only thing that counts is one particular ethical issue or cause that they themselves defend,” it stated. The cardinal added that Francis wants to ensure “that we do not make one issue that a political party or group puts forward (preeminent) to the point where we’re going to ignore all the rest of them,” he said.
The bishops became divided on how to phrase the proposed amendment, with Cupich insisting they include the paragraph verbatim. Eventually, the bishops voted against it.
Some bishops “noted that Cupich has a regular habit of calling for greater use of the pope’s texts in conference documents,” reported Catholic News Agency. “One bishop called this habit ‘obsequious.’ ”
Two years later, Cupich simply ignored his fellow bishops.
In the wake of Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration, the cardinal criticized the USCCB’s public opposition to Biden’s support for abortion.
“For the nation’s bishops, the continued injustice of abortion remains the ‘preeminent priority,’ ” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, the USCCB’s president, wrote in a statement issued on Inauguration Day. “Abortion is a direct attack on life that also wounds the woman and undermines the family.”
“Rather than impose further expansions of abortion and contraception, as he has promised, I am hopeful that the new President and his administration will work with the Church and others of good will … to address the complicated cultural and economic factors that are driving abortion and discouraging families.”
Cupich called Gomez’s statement “ill-considered,” he said. “Aside from the fact that there is seemingly no precedent for doing so, the statement, critical of President Biden, came as a surprise to many bishops, who received it just hours before it was released.”
The Jesuit magazine America called the cardinal’s response “a rare public rebuke…from one of its members.”
Cupich’s behavior reflects Francis’ own priorities. Despite his rhetoric, which included equating abortion to “hiring a hitman,” the pope’s actions demonstrate his willingness to sacrifice the church’s historic opposition to his geopolitical agenda, as Front Page Magazine reported.
The worst example came in 2021. Cardinal Luis Ladaria, the Vatican’s head of doctrine at the time, basically asked American bishops to ignore canon law and allow elected officials who support abortion to receive communion. Those officials include two of Francis’ favorites: Biden and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker.
“It would be misleading,” Ladaria wrote, “to give the impression that abortion and euthanasia alone constitute the only grave matters of Catholic moral and social teaching that demand the fullest level of accountability on the part of Catholics.”
Ladaria even used the term “pro-choice” to describe abortion advocates.
In 2017, Francis honored Emma Bonino for her work with African refugees. Bonino, a left-wing activist who served in the Italian and European parliaments, performed illegal abortions in Italy and supported legalizing abortion. Yet the pope ranked her “among the greats of today’s Italy.”
Last year, the Vatican offered a tepid response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade through L’Osservatore Romano, its official newspaper.
“The protection and defense of human life is not an issue that cannot remain confined to the exercise of individual rights but instead is a matter of broad social significance,” the editorial read. “It is a question of developing political choices that promote conditions of existence in favor of life without falling into a priori ideological positions. This also means ensuring adequate sexual education, guaranteeing health care accessible to all and preparing legislative measures to protect the family and motherhood, overcoming existing inequalities … .” (Emphasis added.)
Francis’ Twitter account at the time not only failed to mention the Supreme Court’s decision. It made no mention of abortion at all.
Perhaps Francis chose not to embarrass one of his closest advisors: Columbia Economics Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who wrote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In his book, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Sachs called abortion is “a lower-cost option” to prevent the birth of “unwanted children.”
Why would Francis make such a man an advisor? Because five decades before he became pope in 2013, the Vatican embraced globalist, materialist utopianism at the Second Vatican Council, as Front Page Magazine reported.
Three papal encyclicals — John XXIII’s Pacem in Terris (1963), Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio (1967) and Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate (2009) — reinforced each other with increasing detail. John called for “a public authority with power” to ensure “the means necessary for the proper development of life, particularly food, clothing, shelter, medical care, rest, and, finally, the necessary social services,” he wrote. Such an organization, Paul added, ultimately would create “a new juridical order.”
Benedict took those concepts to their logical extents, as Front Page reported. He advocated creating an authority “with teeth” that would “manage the global economy … to bring about integral and timely disarmament, food security and peace, to guarantee the protection of the environment and to regulate migration,” he wrote. If the UN could not undertake such responsibilities, Benedict argued, a new organization must replace it.
Benedict’s “true world political authority,” he wrote, would use its comprehensive power “to ensure compliance from all parties,” thereby eliminating the nation-state. The agency’s ultimate goal, he added, would be to govern a “directed” global economy that would “open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale,” he wrote.
Benedict’s goals match the UN’s Agenda 2030.
In 2015 at the United Nations, Francis called Agenda 2030 “an important sign of hope.” Four years later at a Vatican conference, the pope described the plan as “a great step forward for global dialogue, marking a vitally ‘new and universal solidarity,’ “ he said while quoting from Laudato Si, his encyclical on the environment.
So what does all this have to do with abortion?
Agenda 2030 lists “Gender Equality” as one of the goals. But the UN’s definition contradicts historic Catholic teaching on abortion and birth control. The six targets for meeting that goal include securing “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.” That means “adolescent girls and young women aged 15-19” should “make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care.”
Not for nothing does Sachs, the author of those sustainability goals and a papal advisor, support abortion.
Not for nothing did Cupich fail to address the issue at the Democrats’ convention. With the Vatican willing to destroy its own moral credibility for the sake of a utopian globalist agenda he supports, why would he?
And weak sheep listen to these pedophile freaks, give them money. Pitiful
The satanic catholic fake church brainwashes the C’lics to believe…
If they give money… they will earn their salvation into heaven…
Which is the grounds for the Protestant Revolution… that people don’t earn their way into Heaven… it is given to them through Grace through Believing.
The only way a person can become a Christian is…
Believing Christ Jesus is the Son of God who was Crucified for their sins… and accepting Him as their Savior.
To deny Christ Jesus as the Son of God… is an Antichrist.
1John 2:22… “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”
Actually, this is what you’re referring to: the sale of indulgences, which supposedly freed people from Purgatory. This was what originally motivated Luther; the rest is history.
Not quite exactly… the satanic catholic fake church teaches…
Purgatory is a prison for those who didn’t perform enough good deeds/Indulgences on earth when they were alive…
These so called good deeds, whether paid for earned… are to keep people from Purgatory…
If they were found short… at the fake Purgatory Judgement Throne… they are sent to Purgatory Prison to serve their sentence…
Of course… no one knows how sentencing is done… how many good deeds anyone must perform… or… which good deeds are more valuable than others…
The point is… people can NOT earn their way into Heaven.
No, they cannot earn their way into heaven but your soul must be purified or clean from sin before entering the gates of heaven and that’s what purgatory is for.
RJ…
Performing good deeds and Indulgences doesn’t cleanse the soul so a person can pass Purgatory…
Because… there is no such thing as Purgatory…
There is only one way a person can be cleansed of their sins… and that’s to believe Christ Jesus is the Son of God and accept Him as their Savior.
You didn’t read my comment, again you are assuming, I said, “no you cannot buy your way into heaven”, your soul must pure and no indulgences will get a person into heaven.
Gof wont allow for Traitors who do the work of Satan which in the Church of Christ
Having been involved in Christian ministry since a difficult adult conversion 54 years ago, I can assure readers that the older and bigger any religious organization is, the more nepotistic, cumbersome, and often corrupt it becomes..
Catholic or Protestant makes no difference as human nature doesn’t change by religious affiliation. In fact, a real conversion may take a person out of established religion, not into it.
Not sure what “religion” you were in… or how much studying you’ve done with the Holy Scriptures…
But your comment here is way off the wall… sounds like you’d rather deter people from religion and Church…
The Holy Bible talks about Pure Religion… and says… not to forsake the gathering of the Church…
Also… if you were anything of a Preacher… you would know what a ‘Babe on the Milk’ is… and how people need to hear God’s Holy Word…
Read James 1:26-27 to discover what “Pure Religion” really means. It has *nothing* to do with “going to church,” at least as Americans define and practice it.
No one said anything of the sort…
I was mentioning 2 different scriptures… proving religion and church are NOT bad things…
John Kenneth Galbraith the very liberal and agnostic economist was asked, just before he died, what was the most astonishing thing that happened in his lifetime. He said, “The self-destruction of the Catholic Church.”
With the current Pope and the Cardinal mentioned in the article, we can’t really regard the Catholic Church as Christian anymore. Catholics who still have a conscience should rescind their membership. There are plenty of alternatives for sincere Christians.
The satanic catholic fake church was never ‘Christian’… it was devised out of deception from the get-go… 300+ years after the Crucifixion…
The satanic 2nd Vatican Council cemented their satanism… by pronouncing and confessing the fake god allah as their god.
I agree with your post. I grew up Catholic, and remember thinking how the Pharisees and the Catholic Church were similar. Have you ever looked up the timeline for the Catholic Church to see when they adopted such things like the Immaculate Conception or the Ascension? I was an obedient, good Catholic, but when I left the church, I looked all this up, and I was shocked to read about this. I doubt very many Catholics know much about where and when all their church’s pagan practices came from.
Whether Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox, the frauds and blasphemers among the hierarchs are everywhere!
They always have been. This is why regular quiet time with your God is so important.
Greenfield and Raymond are great. Seeing your article on Vatican/Cupich agenda, I found that while confirming my biases, it got ahead of the old skis :
The hyperlinked CNA article in your sentence below does not support the conclusion that you drew
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Two episodes in the past five years illustrate Cupich’s role. In 2019, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was discussing a supplement to their voting guide, Cupich tried introducing an amendment to oppose another insisting that abortion remain “our preeminent priority because it directly attacks life itself.”
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The CNA article linked in the text above :
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/42825/analysis-the-usccb-abortion-debate-and-what-came-after
I really don’t care how a person prays, or not, there’s enough room in eternity for all of us. The Catholic Church as well as all Christian institutions stood on a transcendent morality which natural law ethic became an obstacle to progress to Western bourgeoisie oligarchs, whose Western atheistic totalitarianism demanded that the secular foundations of their wealth, power and political control structure remain intact. Ethics and culture became consumed by identity politics where every criticism was interpreted along the lines of class, ethnicity, race and gender orientation. The church became the state as traditional Christian fundamental beliefs and doctrines were scrubbed antiseptically clean to accommodate new secular developments in the natural and social sciences. The grand expose` of “The Church of What’s Happening Now ” and its feel-good (comic book) bumper sticker religion and New Age Gospel.
Lastly, the concept of Purgatory actually predates Christianity. Orthodox Jews also believed in a final purification of the soul, “The Mourner’s Kaddish” is a prayer said for the purification of a loved one’s soul for a duration of 11 months after that person’s death.
Why is it that the Marxist Democrat Leadership lines up so well with the Catholic Church? It is because they are as corrupt and confused as the Church itself is. Catholicism has lost its direction and its calling to the world to be the salt and light.