His mendacity knows no bounds:
The White House said Sunday that Washington’s archbishop was invited to attend an event with President Donald Trump several days before it took place, amid media reports that the archbishop did not learn of the event until the night before it took place.
White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told CNA June 7 that “Archbishop Gregory received an invitation to the President’s event at the St. John Paul II Shrine the week prior to the President’s visit. He declined due to other commitments.”
Correspondence between Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s office and the White House indicates the same.
In correspondence dated May 30th and obtained by CNA, Gregory’s office declined “the kind invitation to attend the event celebrating International Religious Freedom on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at the Saint John Paul II Shrine.“
The correspondence further stated that the archbishop had “a prior commitment on his schedule at Catholic University and unfortunately must decline,” and added that Gregory had personally conveyed his regrets at being unable to attend when he spoke to a member of the White House staff directly on the evening of Friday, May 29.
Crux reported June 7 that Gregory had not been told of the visit until June 1, when it was publicly announced by the White House.
Go here to read the rest. Archbishop Gregory is a deeply evil man who lied in order to inflame race hatred and violence in this country to further his political and private ends. Next to him President Trump, a man frequently of dubious character, looks like a combination of John the Baptist and Abraham Lincoln. The cabal currently running the Church must have a very deep hatred for the Faith.
He is perfect successor to McCarrack and Wuerl.
He is using his position for political purposes alone. I find him exceptionally offensive by the ordering of the priests of his diocese to participate in a political protest, coinciding with a protest calling for Trumps removal from office, and requiring the priests to wear their cassocks as if representing the Faithful of the Catholic Church.
As I’ve stated before, he’s trying to get a red hat by NOT acting Catholic.
I stole it for my reviving blog–good work, Don.
Appreciate it Dale. What a wonderful year 2020 is. I have enjoyed nothing as much since my last kidney stone.
“Deeply evil man” is perhaps not the most apposite characterization.
In my experience, NGO apparatchiks aren’t people of good character, but their bad character has a certain lower bound. Telling lies to save face according to the standards and practices of a rancid culture is what they do. You see that in higher education all the time. In re the Church, see Fr. Paul Mankowski’s “Tames in Clerical Culture”. We’ve known for 16 years that Wilton Gregory is a standard issue church-o-crat who will be business-as-usual wherever he goes. Wueurl’s cut from the same cloth. More salient about McCarrick is his sexual deviance and exploitation of people in his charge.
Trump’s alleged “dubious” character is actually a virtue, not in the philosophical or theological sense, but in the the deadly battle with ideological nihilism.
What did the archbishop say that was a lie? The CNA article says the following: “Crux reported June 7 that Gregory had not been told of the visit until June 1, when it was publicly announced by the White House.” The only Crux citation I could find was in John Allen’s analysis piece, which stated, “It’s been widely reported, and Crux has independently confirmed, that Gregory was not informed of the visit until Tuesday night when the White House issued a statement announcing it.” No source cited, certainly not Gregory. Maybe Gregory made a statement somewhere, but I haven’t found it.
“Deeply evil man” Quite possibly.
1. Archbishop Gregory’s Roommate by George Nuemyr in the Sunday Visitor
“Auxiliary Bishop Mario Dorsonville was one of McCarrick’s protectors.” for full article see https://spectator.org/archbishop- gregorys-roommate/
2. Archbishop Vigano to the priests and laity of Archdiocese of Washington DC:
Grace and Peace are always with you, in Jesus Christ, our only Lord. Although I am no longer among you in Washington D.C. as Apostolic Nuncio, I feel particularly united to all of you in this time of so grave moral and physical trials with which you are afflicted, and I wish to send you the sentiments of my deepest affection in Christ.
Unfortunately, the Catholic Church is led by many false pastors. Over the past twenty years, your [Archdiocese] of Washington, in particular and now for the third time, has been and continues to be deeply afflicted and wounded by false shepherds whose way of life is full of lies, deceits, lust and corruption. Wherever they have been, they were a cause of serious scandal for various local Churches, for your entire country and for the whole Church.
Do not follow them, as they lead you to perdition. They are mercenaries. They teach and practice falsehoods and corruption!
Follow with perseverance the teachings and examples of the holy pastors and priests who are among you.
Mary, Mother of the Church, Mother of Mercy, pray and intercede for us with your Son Jesus Christ, so that He may have mercy on all us sinners.
I bless you with all my heart.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
June 3rd, 2020
What did the archbishop say that was a lie?
In his statement at the head of the post he pretended the visit by the President was done without consulting him, and he was outraged. He is a transparent liar and fraud.
Pinky, did you read the link to the Catholic News Agency in the above post? Archbishop Gregory received the invitation to the St Pope JP II Center ceremony and regretted because of a prior commitment at CU.
One statement in the CNA article is false. The front of the White House is directly across the street from Lafayette Sq. AG Barr, not the White House staff, made the decision to move the perimeter of Lafayette Sq. Monday night. The Park Police had also made that decision independently when they saw all the violence in Lafayette Square which included historic St. John’s Church set ablaze. Three times the protestors were given warnings to clear the square. Some moved away. Others stayed put and began to hurl objects at the Park Police. When that happens a protest becomes a riot and the police used chemical agents to clear the crowd from the park.
Where in his statement did he pretend he hadn’t heard about it?
He knew about it Pinky before hand, and excused his absence. The statement acts as if this was a spur of the moment thing that he had just heard about. An intent to mislead is worse than a forthright honest lie.
“In correspondence dated May 30th and obtained by CNA, Gregory’s officedeclined ‘the kind invitation to attend the event celebrating International Religious Freedom on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at the Saint John Paul II Shrine'”
So Gregory had to know about it before the June 1st public announcement, unless his staff is acting independently. The name people who keep things from their boss like invites from the President of the United States is “unemployed,” by the way.
Oh. And if somebody and Gregory’s staff lied to Crux about Gregory not learning of the event until June 1st, making your boss look mendacious is another good way to wind up unemployed.
From the article, “The correspondence added that the archbishop had “a prior commitment on his schedule at Catholic University and unfortunately must decline,” and said that Gregory had PERSONALLY conveyed his regrets at being unable to attend WHEN HE SPOKE TO a member of the White House staff directly on the evening of Friday, May 29.”
So he had to have had received the invitation before he declined it on May 29th. So his indignation and public fit about “just finding out about it” three or four days later is a lie.
Recipes For Disaster.
Watch the media/democrat sponsored arsons, lootings, riots and 100,000+ calumnies that every white man is a scapegoat.
Psalm 35: 20-21, “For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land… “
He received an invitation. That’s how he knew about it.
Any time a cleric objects to a pro-abortion politician, there’s a lightning-fast response from the left and from atheists (but I repeat myself) shrieking about separation of church and state, and threatening churches’ tax-exempt status. Interesting how we’re not hearing any of that over Archbishop Gregory’s current intrusion into politics…
And yes, the man is a mendacious clerical hack for a great number of reasons.
“White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told CNA …”
Judd Deere, a self-proclaimed homosexual, attacking a Catholic prelate.
Unfortunately the AB reads (and re-reads) too many of his own press clippings and thinks he is standard by which the Church measures race relations. Also unfortunate is that he appears to share several personal qualities with that would be resident of Washington, Joe Biden.