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PopeWatch: Lies

The Vatican continues to stonewall in regard to the Pope’s knowledge about Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta.  Edward Pentin at the National Catholic Register provides the damning details:

The Vatican has reiterated an earlier statement in which it said it did not know until fall 2018 about sexual abuse and other misconduct allegedly perpetrated by an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis, who was appointed to a Vatican post in 2017 after resigning from his Argentinian diocese.

In a short communiqué issued Jan. 22, Holy See spokesman Alessandro Gisotti criticized “some misleading reconstructions” about the case of Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, adding that he “resolutely” repeated what he had said in a statement issued Jan. 4.

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But a further question has emerged concerning reports that the Pope sent Bishop Zanchetta to Jesuit Father German Arana in 2017. Francis has sent at least three bishops with psychiatric problems to Father Arana, who is based in Madrid, for counseling.

They include Chilean Bishop Juan Barros, who resigned last year as bishop of the Diocese of Osorno following accusations of covering up for notorious abuser Father Fernando Karadima, and Honduran Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, who resigned last year as auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa following allegations of sexually abusing seminarians and financial misconduct.

Father Arana is the Pope’s “psychologist and Jesuit adviser,” an informed source told the Register. “He sends to him all those who have problems, especially with homosexuality.”

The source believed it was therefore “obvious” that the Pope, and/or the Vatican, knew about Bishop Zanchetta’s alleged abuse in 2017, contrary to what the Vatican said.

Father Arana did not respond to a Register inquiry asking if he counseled Bishop Zanchetta on any problem related to sexuality.

The Register also asked Gisotti if the Vatican had ordered Bishop Zanchetta to receive counseling from Father Arana and if any kind of sexual issue was involved in that decision.

Gisotti replied Jan. 15 that he had “no more to add” to what he had already said.

Go here to read the rest.  With the current powers that be at the Vatican, it is always prudent to assume they are lying until proof is provided otherwise.

 

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Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Monday, January 28, AD 2019 4:47am

I suppose “no accusations of sexual abuse against him” has to be carefully construed.

Frank
Frank
Monday, January 28, AD 2019 7:07am

The notion of referring sexual abusers for “counseling” is the same failed response the bishops have employed in the past. It’s a red herring designed to avoid admitting the truth and doing what needs to be done. It seems increasingly clear that a gang of amoral criminals has gained control of the Holy See. Maybe this happened a long time ago.

Dale Price
Dale Price
Monday, January 28, AD 2019 7:31am

This hallmark of this misbegotten pontificate is falsehood in all its forms: direct lying, omission and technical truth designed to mislead.

This addiction to lies and propaganda resembles nothing so much as the Marxist regimes the Bergoglians never criticise.

Mary De Voe
Monday, January 28, AD 2019 7:39am

If Pope Francis considers sodomy a “gift that keeps giving”, then sexual abuse of minor children is not a crime but a gift. Most rapists are megalomaniacs who consider the crime of rape a giving of a great gift. (defined by themselves, of course)
Love is desiring the good of the other. In rape the good of the other is not a consideration.

CAM
CAM
Monday, January 28, AD 2019 6:25pm

“obscene nude selfless” if the alleged pictures make it to the internet no amount of psycho counseling is going to help Bishop Zanchetta and Francis’ false timeline.

CAM
CAM
Monday, January 28, AD 2019 6:27pm

Selfies – autocorrect.

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