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Pope meets Canadian cardinals month after indigenous school scandal

WION Web Team New Delhi Published: Jun 05, 2021, 04:10 PM(IST

Pope Francis met both Canadian cardinals based in Vatican on Saturday as Canada reels from discovery of remains of 215 children at a former school for indigenous students run by the Church.

The pope met Cardinal Michael Czerny and Cardinal Marx Ouellet. The Vatican mentioned the meetings in its daily announcement of papal appointments.

Cardinal Ouellet meets the pope on Saturday every week in his capacity as head of the Vatican department. The department oversees bishops.

Cardinal Czerny the Vatican's expert on migrants and refugees, does not have a regular weekly meeting with the pope. He is a Czech-born Canadian national whose family emigrated to Montreal when he was two years old.

Vatican has not made details of discussion during the meeting public.

Many Canadians have called on the pope to make a formal apology for the Catholic Church's role in the residential schools, which operated between 1831 and 1996 and were run by a number of Christian denominations on behalf of the government.

Francis, who was elected pope in 2013, has already apologised for the Church's role in colonialism in the Americas but he has mostly chosen to make such apologies while visiting countries. No papal visit to Canada is scheduled.

Visiting Bolivia in 2015, Francis apologised for the "many grave sins were committed against the native people of America in the name of God".

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday the Catholic Church must take responsibility for its role in running many of the schools.

The residential school system forcibly separated about 150,000 children from their homes. Many were subjected to abuse, rape and malnutrition in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called "cultural genocide".

Run by the government and various Christian Churches, their stated aim was to assimilate indigenous children.

https://www.wionews.com/world/pope-meets-canadian-cardinals-month-after-indigenous-school-scandal-389648

Tucker Carlson says that'Pope'Fauci used COVID lockdowns to distract from Wuhan lab leak coverup, but doctor hits back saying attacks since release of smoking gun emails are 'nonsense'

Tucker Carlson on Friday night used his show to accuse Fauci and other public health officials of a cover-up

He said they imposed 'medical martial law' to reduce scrutiny of their actions - like funding the Wuhan lab

Carlson pointed out that Fauci's emails, published this week, appeared to show discrepancy in his views

The Fox News host insisted Fauci had deliberately misled the public and imposed strict and unnecessary rules

Fauci on Friday night told MSNBC that the tsunami of attacks on him were 'nonsense'

He has repeatedly defended funding the research work of the Wuhan lab, insisting it was vital

Fauci also said that some of his emails were ripe for taking out of context and twisting

On Friday the White House gave Fauci, Biden's chief medical advisor, their full and unequivocal support

By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 23:56 EDT, 4 June 2021 | UPDATED: 03:31 EDT, 5 June 2021

Tucker Carlson has accused Dr Anthony Fauci and other public health officials of lying about the severity of the COVID pandemic and ushering in 'medical martial law' to distract from their support of the Wuhan laboratory - where Carlson said the pandemic begun.

Fauci, the nation's top public health expert and Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, on Friday night shrugged off a week of attacks from Carlson and other conservative critics, who blame him both for excessive lockdowns and for funding the lab from where they believe the outbreak escaped, in Wuhan, China.

Fauci told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC that the attacks were 'a terrible, not-happy type of a distraction, but it's all nonsense.'

Carlson, however, continued with his onslaught, and accused Fauci on Friday night of orchestrating a cover-up to distract from his decision to fund the Wuhan lab.

'It's now clear in the earliest days of the pandemic public health officials in Washington were panicked,' Carlson said.

'Officials in Washington were terrified for themselves. They were afraid of being exposed.

'They had used American tax dollars to fund reckless experiments in China that in the end likely created COVID-19.

'If that fact were to become public it would be over. They would be shamed, and ridiculed - possibly even indicted. Their professional lives would be done.

'So they immediately set to work hiding it on a cover-up.'

Carlson argued that Fauci's emails - released this week to BuzzFeed, The Washington Post and anti-vax advocates Informed Consent Action Network - showed that he was deliberately misleading the public.

'Last winter a group of well-known scientists publicly dismissed the lab leak theory in a letter to The Lancet as absurd and categorically untrue,' Carlson said.

'And yet at the same time they wrote emails to each other conceding the virus did look engineered by human hands in a lab. 'Meanwhile, Tony Fauci worked on censorship.'

He accused Fauci of dismissing any suggestion of the 'lab leak' theory in order to cover up the fact that he had authorized payment of $826,000, over six years, to support their research into coronaviruses.

'Fauci made certain that the self-appointed fact checkers who control the flow of information in this country shut down anyone who dared challenge the official story which again we now know was a lie,' said Carlson.

Carlson, who mockingly calls the veteran health expert 'Saint Fauci' or 'Lord Fauci' or 'Pope Fauci', questioned the mortality rate, and asked whether it was bad enough to warrant lockdowns.

Huge article - much moar here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9654213/Tucker-says-Pope-Faucis-lockdowns-mask-mandates-distract-Wuhan-lab-leak-coverup.html

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx offers resignation to Pope Francis over sexual abuse 'catastrophe'

Posted Yesterday at 4:51pm

The archdiocese of Munich and Freising, where Mr Marx serves as archbishop, published his resignation letter to the Pope online, in multiple languages, and the cardinal said Pope Francis had given him permission to make it public.

"It is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by church officials over the past decades," the 67-year-old Mr Marx wrote in the letter.

But he also issued a challenge of sorts for his fellow bishops to use the opportunity of the scandal to save the church and reform it.

There was no immediate comment from the Vatican, where Mr Marx sits on powerful financial and political bodies.

A Vatican spokesman said that information about resignations is announced in a daily bulletin, and Friday's edition did not mention Mr Marx.

The German cardinal noted that Pope Francis had told him to "keep performing my service as bishop until his decision is made".

Mr Marx, who led the German Bishops' Conference from 2014 until 2020, wrote that investigations during the past decade showed there had been "a lot of personal failures and administrative mistakes but also institutional or 'systemic' failure".

In 2018, a church-commissioned report concluded that at least 3,677 people were abused by clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014.

More than half of the victims were 13 or younger when the abuse took place, and nearly a third of them were altar boys, according to the report.

Earlier this year, another report came out about the church officials' handling of alleged sexual abuse in the country's western Cologne diocese.

The archbishop of Hamburg, a former Cologne church official who was faulted in that report, offered his resignation to the Pope and was granted a "time out" of unspecified length.

Mr Marx himself has not been implicated in any of the investigative reports to date, but he said all members of the hierarchy shared blame for the failures.

A report is expected this summer about the handling of sexual abuse cases in Mr Marx's archdiocese, German news agency dpa reported.

'The wrong person is leaving'

In his letter to the Pope, Mr Marx said that his offer to resign could be seen as "a personal signal for a new beginning, for a new awakening of the Church, not only in Germany".

"I would like to show that not the ministry is in the foreground but the mission of the Gospel," he added.

Mr Marx's offer to resign was an extraordinary gesture and laid bare the credibility crisis that the sexual abuse scandal created in Germany, as it has in other countries.

To try to recover that credibility, Mr Marx has spearheaded a process of reform and debate with the powerful German laity to address the structural problems that contributed to abuse being allowed to fester unchecked for decades.

But the so-called "Synodal Path" has sparked fierce resistance inside Germany and out, primarily from conservative bishops and priests opposed to opening any debate on issues such as priestly celibacy, women's role in the church and homosexuality.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/reinhard-marx-offers-resignation-to-pope-francis/100192916

Pope Francis and President Biden may meet on June 15

CNA Jun 05, 2021

VATICAN: According to sources in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, the first meeting between Pope Francis and US President Joe Biden might take place on June 15.

President Biden might travel to Rome for a meeting with Pope Francis before immediately flying to Geneva for his scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16, according to the source. Although the meeting has not been confirmed, another source from the Vatican Secretary of State said that the meeting “is likely to occur.”

President Biden is currently scheduled to be in Europe for the NATO summit, which will take place in Brussels on June 14. According to a June 3 White House statement, he is scheduled to participate in the US-EU summit on June 15, and will meet with leaders of Belgium.

Several days after Biden’s election to the presidency, Biden and Pope Francis had a phone conversation. The circumstances of the call were unique, as popes generally do not communicate directly with the president-elect but rather send official greetings once new presidents are installed.

If confirmed, the meeting – technically speaking, a papal audience – will occur while Biden has yet to appoint a new ambassador to the Holy See.

President Biden is scheduled to travel to Europe in June to participate in several international summits in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Switzerland.

He will meet with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on June 10 before attending the G7 summit and meeting leaders of major industrialised nations. He and his wife are scheduled to meet with Queen Elizabeth II on June 13.

On June 14, Biden is scheduled to participate in the NATO summit in Brussels, and meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Later in the week, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will gather virtually for their spring plenary session from June 16-18; at the meeting, the bishops are expected to deliberate and vote on the process of drafting a document regarding Eucharistic coherence.

A proposed outline for the document includes a section on “Eucharistic consistency,” described as, “The nature of eucharistic communion and the problem of serious sin.”

The topic of Communion for Catholic politicians who support permissive laws on evils such as abortion and euthanasia has grown more salient since Biden’s election to the presidency; he is only the second Catholic US president, and supports taxpayer-funded abortion.

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and other bishops recently sought to delay the discussion on Eucharistic coherence, but the president of the US Bishops’ Conference, Arch-bishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, has said the discussion will proceed as planned.––CNA

https://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/pope-francis-and-president-biden-may-meet-on-june-15/59904/4

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Like it and made a PG 13 version for the masses.

BTW - jpg jpeg might not make it through the archival process. Anons were warned about this a year or so ago. So the use of PNG file images is highly recommended.