The Pope’s right hand man in the US:
In light of that, it is not clear why the relevant diocesan bishop in Deer Park — in that case, Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Washington — signed off on the 2011 sale of the former parish church to the Masonic lodge, nor why the college of consultors and diocesan financial council went along with the plan.
Perhaps there were few offers on the property. Perhaps, in a town with just a few thousand people, selling the former parish church to the Masons seemed like a neighborly thing to do. Or perhaps the Church’s opposition to Freemasonry seemed like an antiquated, old-fashioned idea.
But few canon lawyers would dispute that renovating a former church into a Masonic hall, when Masonic membership remains forbidden to Catholics, constitutes a “sordid use” of the building.
Maybe the idea seemed more ambiguous in 2011. But lest there remain any doubt, 2013 guidance from the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy explained that it would be better to demolish a former church than to sell it “for use inconsistent with its dignity.”
Go here to read the rest.
He doesn’t believe. There, does that answer the question of why would he?
Have I got this right? St. Peter’s in Rome should be demolished rather than let it be used for any more “sordid uses” with Jorge Bergoglio as M.C. ? Guy, Texas
It is interesting that Cupich readily give permission for the sale of the St. Mary’s property to a Masonic group, while at the same time the US bishops have adopted a general policy to insert language preventing the sale of closed Catholic churches to the SSPX or other allegedly schismatic groups. The most well-known “war” of this type occurred in 2014 in Pittsburgh diocese when the closed St. James Church in the West End of Pittsburgh mistakenly omitted language in the sale of the 1853 church to an art dealer, who after some time, sold the church to the SSPX. Time and again, the SSPX tried to buy a closed Catholic church in Pittsburgh diocese, but the diocese would block the sale each time, though allowing closed Catholic churches to become brew pubs, meeting halls and even Protestant churches in one case.
I am not a particular fan of the SSPX, but the hypocrisy is pretty stunning. Especially given the checkered history of the Pittsburgh diocese.
… it would be better to demolish a former church than to sell it “for use inconsistent with its dignity.”
“There’s some come here for to see me hung
And some to buy my fiddle
But before that I do part with her
I’ll break her through the middle
He took his fiddle in both of his hands
And he broke it o’er a stone
Saying ‘There’s no other hand shall play on thee
When I am dead and gone’ ”
— From “MacPherson’s Lament”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soVgmPvY-DE
Freemasons.
The furuncle on the Earth.
Risorgimento Freemasonry, aware of the historical failures faced by all those who wanted to attack the Church and Catholicism head on, set out to conquer the pope and the Catholic hierarchy. Viglione writes, “In short, it was a question of ideologically corrupting the young priests, because one day some of them would become bishops, and then, one day, among those bishops, one of them would end up becoming pope! And the pope can do everything in the Church, even provoke its destruction, according to their plans.”
I stumbled upon this article from Church Militant.
Cupich reminds me of a Benedict Arnold.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/the-masonic-plan-to-replace-catholicism-with-a-different-religion
In the centralized totalitarian governmental structure of contemporary Catholicism, the bishop is the reason. He doesn’t have to explain or account for his actions–unless his seminary is too full or he isn’t collegial enough with his colleagues. But selling a church to the Masons? Pish-tosh, old shoe–who cares about that?
Honestly, though, this is on JPII and Benedict. They appointed and moved him up the chain, respectively. In the absence of any noteworthy intellectual, pastoral or spiritual talents, here he is.
He sold it and the money went where? Dodgy as.
Cupich = Benedict Arnold is true. Though Cupich has always been a traitor, while Benedict Arnold ended up as one. He’s a disgrace overall and to Croatian-Americans of which I’m one.