"We all hate each other. But we hate ourselves more." - USCCB Elect a New President
So the USCCB have appointed their new president
The US Bishops have manufactured a real mess for themselves with factions refusing to uphold Church teaching on the reception of the Blessed Sacrament backed by Pope Francis who appears to all intentions to be supporting the pro-abortion administration in the White House. The issue has played itself out as far as possible until bishops clearly state those who deliberately perform/enable abortion ALWAYS sin gravely—not only doctors who perform & parents/SOs who pay, BUT ALSO politicians AND VOTERS who deliberately choose for pro-abort legislation.
There's little chance of this being sorted under the new President of the US Bishops who is expected to maintain the status quo as Michael Voris points out here:
Meanwhile. the liberal/progressives are apoplectic with the appointment of someone they see as "Anti Francis"?!! The Fish Wrap's objections mainly seem to revolve around the new President's rejection of homosexuality. They seem really upset:
And will go along in lockstep with the bishop gang. Where is his immediate denunciation of pro abort Catholics and Holy Communion. Where is his public rebuke of brother bishops violating Canon 915. Face reality. https://t.co/TSfJLA1hTJ
— Michael Voris (@Michael_Voris) November 16, 2022
Meanwhile. the liberal/progressives are apoplectic with the appointment of someone they see as "Anti Francis"?!! The Fish Wrap's objections mainly seem to revolve around the new President's rejection of homosexuality. They seem really upset:
"It is difficult to overstate what a repudiation of Pope Francis the selection of Broglio to lead the conference is. He is the one bishop in the United States with long-standing tensions with the pope"The repudiation of homosexuality also got Tablet correspondent Christopher Lamb's goat and was the very first thing that came to his mind with the news:
Surely these remarks by Archbishop Timothy Broglio, one of those running to be either president or vice-president of the US bishops’ conference, are likely to raise concerns about his candidacy?
— Christopher Lamb (@ctrlamb) October 7, 2022
➡️article: https://t.co/cmc6L0q9qC pic.twitter.com/hHdgirCjT3
I mean he isn't hiding his agenda much really there is he?
Meanwhile, as I've already mentioned, faithful Catholics are similarly unimpressed although for different reasons. I wanted to hear from whistleblower priest Gene Gomulka on Broglio and he has shared his initial reaction to the election as follows:
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
U.S. BISHOPS ELECT PRELATES WITH HISTORY OF ABUSE COVER-UPS
BALTIMORE, November 16, 2022 Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) was elected yesterday president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) along with Baltimore Archbishop William Lori who was elected vice president. The fact that they were elected to these prestigious positions despite their history of underreporting and covering up sexual abuse speaks volumes about the callous attitude of U.S. bishops toward clerical abuse victims.
Prior to the election, every U.S. bishop was made aware of Broglio’s abuse cover-up record in an article entitled “USCCB to Vote on Corrupt Candidate Next Week.” The article provided proof of Broglio’s abuse cover-ups while pointing out that, based on research undertaken by BishopAccountability.org, it appears that the AMS “underreported and covered up more abuse than any diocese in the U.S.”
Archbishop Broglio covered up for Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, his predecessor at the AMS, who was also Lori’s predecessor in the Baltimore Archdiocese. It was O’Brien, while Archbishop for the Military Services, who reported only two abuse cases in the 52-year period of the John Jay Study. Given the fact that there were more than 1,000 Catholic chaplains serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Veterans Administration (VA) during some of the years between 1950 and 2002, it is estimated that there were not 2, but more than 500 military dependents and service personnel who were sexually abused during that reporting period.
Just as Broglio covered up for O’Brien who underreported and covered up abuse in the AMS, so too did Lori cover up for both O’Brien and Cardinal William Keeler who preceded him in Baltimore. Lori not only has refused to look into the case of a seminarian who alleges being drugged and sexually assaulted by a Baltimore pastor during Keeler’s time in office, but he also covered up the alleged sexual harassment of one of his own seminarian’s by a deacon and seminary rector.
Mainstream and Catholic media sources like Catholic News Agency (CNA) and Catholic News Agency (CNS), along with publications like America magazine, that reported on the USCCB election results all seem to have avoided mention of abuse cover ups by Broglio and Lori as they did in the case of Cardinal Robert McElroy who covered up the rape of Rachel Mastrogiacomo and the abuse of some 12 seminarians and priests who were reported to him by the late Richard Sipe.
Abuse victims, some of whom are driven to abuse drugs; become alcoholics; or even commit suicide; are devastated when they learn how Church leaders like Broglio, Lori, McElroy and others are promoted or rewarded despite their documented cover up of abuse.
Thirty-seven years after the U.S. Bishops and the Vatican buried Dominican Father Thomas Doyle’s prophetic 1985 co-authored sexual abuse report which could have spared tens of thousands of clerical sex abuse victims and saved the Church billions of dollars, the bishops, with the help of complicit media sources, continue to underreport and cover up abuse. Scandalized by the ongoing abuse crisis, it should not come as a surprise today that only 73 million out of 112 million of Americans baptized in the Catholic Church now self-identify as “Catholics” making former Catholics – at around 40 million - the second largest denomination in the U.S. In light of the results of the recent USCCB election, one can anticipate that number will continue to rise.
Please direct all media inquiries to Gene Thomas Gomulka at 619-203-8911 or abuseinvestigations@aol.com
So more of the same.
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
U.S. BISHOPS ELECT PRELATES WITH HISTORY OF ABUSE COVER-UPS
BALTIMORE, November 16, 2022 Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) was elected yesterday president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) along with Baltimore Archbishop William Lori who was elected vice president. The fact that they were elected to these prestigious positions despite their history of underreporting and covering up sexual abuse speaks volumes about the callous attitude of U.S. bishops toward clerical abuse victims.
Prior to the election, every U.S. bishop was made aware of Broglio’s abuse cover-up record in an article entitled “USCCB to Vote on Corrupt Candidate Next Week.” The article provided proof of Broglio’s abuse cover-ups while pointing out that, based on research undertaken by BishopAccountability.org, it appears that the AMS “underreported and covered up more abuse than any diocese in the U.S.”
Archbishop Broglio covered up for Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, his predecessor at the AMS, who was also Lori’s predecessor in the Baltimore Archdiocese. It was O’Brien, while Archbishop for the Military Services, who reported only two abuse cases in the 52-year period of the John Jay Study. Given the fact that there were more than 1,000 Catholic chaplains serving in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Veterans Administration (VA) during some of the years between 1950 and 2002, it is estimated that there were not 2, but more than 500 military dependents and service personnel who were sexually abused during that reporting period.
Just as Broglio covered up for O’Brien who underreported and covered up abuse in the AMS, so too did Lori cover up for both O’Brien and Cardinal William Keeler who preceded him in Baltimore. Lori not only has refused to look into the case of a seminarian who alleges being drugged and sexually assaulted by a Baltimore pastor during Keeler’s time in office, but he also covered up the alleged sexual harassment of one of his own seminarian’s by a deacon and seminary rector.
Mainstream and Catholic media sources like Catholic News Agency (CNA) and Catholic News Agency (CNS), along with publications like America magazine, that reported on the USCCB election results all seem to have avoided mention of abuse cover ups by Broglio and Lori as they did in the case of Cardinal Robert McElroy who covered up the rape of Rachel Mastrogiacomo and the abuse of some 12 seminarians and priests who were reported to him by the late Richard Sipe.
Abuse victims, some of whom are driven to abuse drugs; become alcoholics; or even commit suicide; are devastated when they learn how Church leaders like Broglio, Lori, McElroy and others are promoted or rewarded despite their documented cover up of abuse.
Thirty-seven years after the U.S. Bishops and the Vatican buried Dominican Father Thomas Doyle’s prophetic 1985 co-authored sexual abuse report which could have spared tens of thousands of clerical sex abuse victims and saved the Church billions of dollars, the bishops, with the help of complicit media sources, continue to underreport and cover up abuse. Scandalized by the ongoing abuse crisis, it should not come as a surprise today that only 73 million out of 112 million of Americans baptized in the Catholic Church now self-identify as “Catholics” making former Catholics – at around 40 million - the second largest denomination in the U.S. In light of the results of the recent USCCB election, one can anticipate that number will continue to rise.
Please direct all media inquiries to Gene Thomas Gomulka at 619-203-8911 or abuseinvestigations@aol.com
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