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The abuse allegations against Cardinal McCarrick confirm what many have suspected for a long time, Pia de Solenni, the chancellor of Orange diocese wrote in the Orange County Catholic. Quote, "The Church has been uncomfortably silent on matters of sexuality, family, and marriage because some in her leadership do not live these teachings themselves." Bingo!
Wandering Priests
The Bishops of Côte d’Ivoire, Western Africa, have a problem with priests whom they send to France to study or to help out in parishes because the refuse to return to their dioceses when they are called back by their bishops. In a May declaration the bishops complained about these wandering clerics. The phenomenon regards especially secluded dioceses. In one case, seven out of thirty priests have travelled to Europe and do not want to come back. Often, the priests claim that they cannot return to Africa for health reasons. Pope Francis is a strong proponent of mass-emigration from Africa.
Money from Gays to Fight Gay Ideology
Barnum is a French wholesale seller of beverrages which delivered the beverrages for the Paris Gay Games in August. But Emmanuel de Préval, the boss of Barnum, vowed to donate the earnings to the Manif pour Tous. The Manif pour tous is a movement which is fighting gay pseudo-marriage. "It posed a real moral problem for us to work for sectarians", de Préval wrote on Twitter. A fourth of the cost for the Gay Games was paid by the French State.
A Proud Catholic
Mateo Kovacic, a player of the National Croatian soccer team which came in second in this year’s soccer world championship, is proud of being a Catholic. Kovacic is married to a woman he met in his parish and who at the time was singing in the church choir. Below the jersey of his team, Kovacic wears a jersey with a picture of Christ. At the end of the 2018 World Cup finals, Kovacic appeared in front of Vladimir Putin, an Orthodox Christian, and Emmanuel Macron, an atheist, with a parish banner on his back depicting St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus.