FRANCE ISSUES DIGITAL CLERGY ID TO FIGHT ABUSER PRIESTS

Victims mock new plan as Catholic bishops' 'top three most stupid ideas'

PARIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - Clerics in France are being issued electronic identity cards that can be scanned to check if the priest has been charged with sexual abuse or stripped of his clerical status.

Bishops, priests and deacons will be required to produce the wallet-sized plastic swipe cards on public demand to ascertain they are not potential sex abusers, a move that clerical sex abuse victims have derided as a public relations stunt.

A QR code embedded in the card will use a traffic light system to indicate the cleric's eligibility to celebrate the sacraments: green if the priest has no restrictions, orange if the cleric is barred from being with children and red if the cleric is banned from ministry.

Bishop Alexandre Joly, spokesperson for the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF) told a press conference on Wednesday that the ID card would modernize the celebret — an ecclesiastically authorized document certifying that the holder is a validly ordained priest.

The celebret traces its origin to the Council of Trent (1545–1563), which ruled that "no foreign cleric may, without a commendatory letter from his own Ordinary, be admitted by a bishop to celebrate the Divine Mysteries."

By 1917, the celebret had become institutionalized as the priest's identity card and was used at the time to fight clerical sex abuse, particularly abuse perpetrated by priests in the confessional.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/france-digital-id-to-fight-sex-abuse

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHURCH MILITANT’S YOUTUBE VIDEO & SUSPENSION

Michael Voris joins Joe Enders to discuss Church Militant's YouTube strike and one-week suspension. YouTube's in league with the Devil! Watch the banned video: The Devil in Hollywood.

https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/rtop-the-truth-about-church-militants-youtube-video-and-suspension

$8.8 Billion Updated Expansion Plan for Washington DC’s Union Station Unveiled

The Federal Railroad Administration has just released a revised version of a proposal for expanding and modernizing Washington D.C.’s Union Station, the nation’s second-busiest rail hub.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) this week released a revised concept for the redevelopment of Washington D.C.’s historic Union Station, which was first completed more than a century ago, in 1908. The proposed multi-billion-dollar expansion of the U.S. capital city’s historic multi-modal transit hub would represent its first major infrastructure improvement project since the 1990s.

As the lead federal agency on the project, the FRA released a nearly 300-page Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) late Friday, revealing the impact of the newly updated Preferred Alternative (Alternative F), and moving the requisite federal environmental studies and review processes closer to completion.

If approved, the Washington Union Station Expansion Project (WUSEP) would represent a massive undertaking that wouldn’t reach completion for close to two decades. Construction costs alone are estimated to come in at around $8.8 billion, and that’s not even including the assessment, approval and design phases, which alone are anticipated to take several years.

Ultimately, the proposed modernization project would see what is currently the country’s second-busiest intercity rail hub extensively transformed by the year 2040. Infrastructural enhancements would involve the addition of 30-foot-wide passenger platforms, a new train hall, updated concourses lined with retail outlets and eateries, and an integrated bus terminal, among other improvements. However, the station’s 115-year-old main hall, which was designated a historic landmark in 1964, would be preserved in its entirety.

https://www.travelpulse.com/News/Car-Rail/8-8-Billion-Updated-Expansion-Plan-for-Washington-DC-s-Union-Station-Unveiled

>$8.8b is a funny-looking number…