More Calls For the Pope to Resign

Call for Investigation of Pope Francis

The Lavender Mafia May Come Under Siege

Katherine Rodriguez
Breitbart News

A growing number of American Catholics are calling for an investigation into the allegations that Pope Francis ignored Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s record of sexually abusing priests, seminarians, and laypeople, including minors. Some Catholics are even calling for the pope to resign.

The calls from Catholic bishops, organizations, and media outlets for Pope Francis to be investigated and/or resign have come after the former Vatican ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, released an 11-page affidavit Saturday alleging that Pope Francis turned a blind eye to McCarrick’s behavior.

Viganò’s affidavit specifically claimed that Pope Francis lifted Pope Benedict’s “canonical sanctions” on the disgraced cardinal imposed between 2009-2010 that forbade him from interacting with the public in an official capacity, and Viganò alleged Francis did this despite knowing of the serious allegations against McCarrick.

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), released a statement Sunday calling for an impartial investigation into the allegations against Pope Francis.  “The recent letter of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò brings particular focus and urgency to this examination,” Cardinal DiNardo wrote in a statement posted Sunday on the USCCB website.

Time To Clean House

The Lavender Mafia

The Reformation began, we are told, when a single soul wrote Ninety-Five Theses and strode through Wittenberg's streets to nail them to the door of the Castle Church.  The issue up for debate was the evil trade in "indulgences" which (amongst other evils) seduced the poor into thinking they could "buy" divine indulgences for the sins of loved ones who had died.  

Martin Luther had lit a fuse.  The explosion changed the history of the West, possibly forever. 

We may be witnessing something like that momentous event in the Roman Catholic Church right now.  Don't know.  Too soon to tell.  Lutheresque voices from within the fold are being raised.  Here is an example of just such a voice writing in The Federalist.

Paul Rahe is a scholar--a historian and philosopher of political ideology\ies.  We have read some of his writings with great interest and pleasure over the years.  He has decided that he must needs nail some theses to the Castle Church addressing the current crisis of gross immorality within the Roman Catholic fold.

The complete article can be read at The Federalist.  We reproduce Rahe's end observations and conclusions.