Interesting:
Pope Francis’ former treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, praised President Donald Trump’s “splendid” Supreme Court appointments and defense of Christian values but questioned his effort to sow doubt in the integrity of the U.S. presidential election.
“It’s no small thing to weaken trust in great public institutions,” Pell told reporters Wednesday in launching his book, “Prison Journal,” about the 404 days he spent in solitary confinement before his sexual abuse conviction was overturned by Australia’s High Court.
In the book, Pell muses on his court case and current events in the Catholic Church and around the world, and at one point says Trump is unfortunately “a bit of a barbarian, but in some important ways, he is ‘our’ (Christian) barbarian.”
Go here to read the rest. Pell also believes that money from the Vatican was sent to Australia to help initiate the prosecution against him:
Pell again suggested there was evidence — but not proof — that his prosecution was related to his work trying to reform the Vatican’s murky finances. Pell ran into stiff resistance from the Vatican’s Italian old guard during the three years he tried to impose international financial transparency, budgeting and accounting standards on the Holy See bureaucracy.
He repeated unsubstantiated and unsourced Italian media reports suggesting that money was sent from the Vatican to Australia to influence his prosecution. There is no indication an active investigation is under way in either Australia or the Vatican.
“I myself am quite confident that money did go from Rome to Australia about that time, but I’ve got no proof about where that finished up,” he said. “Another image I’ve used is there’s smoke, but we don’t have proof of fire. But I come from a bushfire country, and sometimes the entire state is covered with smoke.”
Clovis was a chieftain of the Franks in the late fifth and early sixth centuries. He laid the framework for Frankish domination of Gaul and is the Father of France. A pagan, he was converted to the Faith primarily through the prayers and loving example of his Catholic wife Clotilde. In the battle of Tolbiac where the Alemanni were defeating his Franks, he cried out to the God of Clotilde that he would convert if victory was granted to him. He won and began instruction in the Faith under Saint Remigius Bishop of Reims. The Saint told Clovis when he was baptized on Christmas Day 496: Bow thy head, O Sicambrian, adore what thou hast burned and burn what thou hast adored!
While instructing Clovis in the Faith, Saint Remigius read the passion of Our Lord to Clovis. Clovis was deeply moved and finally got up, hefted his battle-axe, his franciscus, and shouted, O, if only my brave Franks and I had been there we would have avenged the insults to our God!
Yes, in a very real sense, Trump is our Clovis. God uses both barbarians and the cultured. Sometimes He prefers the barbarians because at least the barbarians know what they are – imperfect mortal men. Not so the prideful cultured.
The franciscus was a throwing weapon, more tomahawk than battle-ax. The Franks would line up facing the Roman legions and toss them all at once, often to terrifying effect, since they could spin-bounce along the ground, sometimes bounding over the first line of soldiers to kill men behind them. Later on they were a favored tool of ambush and assassination.
“It’s no small thing to weaken trust in great public institutions,”
That admonition is too late by twenty years and directed at the wrong people.
Here’s how they destroyed confidence public institutions:
Fraudulent Electors
China Media Blackouts of Biden Crime/Graft Syndicate
Obama Judges – Rigged Hearings
Quashed audits/investigations
Fraudulent Ballots
Crooked Election Workers
Crooked Election Officials
Rigged Venezuela Vote Changing Software
Fraudulent ‘mail-in’ Ballot Drop Boxes – funded by China and Zuckerberg
Fraudulent Ballots – millions of them
Fraudulent Biden
Vice Fraudulent Harris
There were many calculated moves against Pell – they are his claims against Church, Vic police, Vic prosecutors and the Vic Premiere which would be difficult to prove. They gaslight him to make the public believe otherwise. In the same way Trump has been unable to prove the fraud. Trumps opponents are also gaslighting him. The Victorian police and judicial system are corrupt. They were advertising in the papers for random people to come forward, if they had been abused in the past by Catholic clergy. Advertising! Pell’s assistant who happens to be my SIL uncle came back from his Rome stint unnerved because he had his car set alight in Rome one day whilst he was living there as an employee for Pell.
They were advertising in the papers for random people to come forward, if they had been abused in the past by Catholic clergy.
I saw that! Unbelievable and there is little I have not seen in 38 years at the bar.
I’ve seen lawyers’ ads on local US TV that do the same thing, both victims of the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts.
True Pinky but never by a government here to my knowledge.
Ah, I didn’t get that from the comment.
Does not President Trump epitomize Pope Francis’ theme of “make a mess,” not in the service of chaos, but in the service of upending an unjust order? Is this not the sort of mess the Lord Himself makes by throwing down tyrants and raising up the lowly? Does the Lord not fill the hungry with good things and send the rich away empty?
Don- The level of calculation by the government was something else. Apologies Pinky- the courts, the police and the State Premier (equivalent to the US State Governors) were all in cahoots. And even after Pell’s conviction was quashed by the High Court the Victorian Premiere (equivalent to a State Governor) said:
“I make no comment about today’s High Court decision.”
But then continued to make his comment loud and clear:
‘But I have a message for every single victim and survivor of child sex abuse: I see you. I hear you. I believe you.’
Pell was found NOT guilty by the Highest Court in the land and the Victorian Premier goes onto TV and has complete disrespect for the High Courts decision with his words.
The whole thing was obvious and deliberate, with an underlying motive. Just like what’s happening with the US election. However God sees all- and He is a Good and Just God.