Within the Church, there exists a method for concluding procedures concerning the abuse of minors that bypasses a verdict, does not declare facts, does not hear the victim, and leaves no public trace.
Beijing has chosen a new Catholic bishop who promoted Communist ideology, participated in Maoist political “re-education,” and dismissed reports of persecution against Catholics in his own diocese. Rome approved him anyway. The consecration of Paul Liu Honggang, argues Gaetano Masciullo, is a shocking example of what the Sino-Vatican agreement has produced: The Communist regime chooses, and Rome goes along with it.
There is a passage in Book Gamma of the Metaphysics that one always rereads with a smile that is not particularly charitable. Aristotle, weary of those who denied the principle of non-contradiction, decreed that there could be no discussion with them: whoever maintains that something can be and not be at the same time and in the same sense, he says, resembles a plant. Not a fool, nor even a sophist: a vegetable. One likes to think that twenty centuries of theology took this warning seriously. God does not contradict Himself, the truth does not contradict itself, and a Church guided by the Spirit cannot teach on Monday the opposite of what it solemnly and universally taught until Sunday evening. All this, of course, was before 2 August 2018.
We receive and publish below the Communication to journalists from the Director of the Press Office Matteo Bruni.
The generally well-informed blog "Missa in Latino" provides further details on the Rupnik case (he stated today that proceedings were going very well for him), and we cannot help but worry about a potential miscarriage of justice among cronies; however, the public reaction itself exerts pressure to ensure the matter is seen through to the end.
Former religious sisters accused him of psychological manipulation, spiritual abuse, and sexual exploitation carried out under the guise of mystical theology and spiritual direction.