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Pope Francis Caught Lying About Catholic Church Sexual Abuse By Priests In Chile, Covered It Up

Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up.

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Geoffrey Grider

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Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter’s author and members of Francis’ own sex- abuse commission have told The Associated Press.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope Francis came in to “clean up” the Catholic Church, promising “zero tolerance” for priests who sexually abused thier followers. But sadly, this has not been the case. In the most explosive revelations to date, Pope Francis has been caught lying about widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Chile, and about the letter hand-delivered to him written by Juan Carlos Cruz exposing it all.

The fact that Pope Francis received the eight-page letter, obtained by the AP, challenges his insistence that he has “zero tolerance” for sex abuse and cover-ups. It also calls into question his stated empathy with abuse survivors, compounding the most serious crisis of his five-year papacy.

“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:5,6 (KJV)

The scandal exploded last month when Francis’ trip to South America was marred by protests over his vigorous defense of Bishop Juan Barros, who is accused by victims of covering up the abuse by the Rev. Fernando Karadima. During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as “slander,” seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima’s crimes.

On the plane home, confronted by an AP reporter, the pope said: “You, in all good will, tell me that there are victims, but I haven’t seen any, because they haven’t come forward.”

But members of the pope’s Commission for the Protection of Minors say that in April 2015, they sent a delegation to Rome specifically to hand-deliver a letter to the pope about Barros. The letter from Juan Carlos Cruz detailed the abuse, kissing and fondling he says he suffered at Karadima’s hands, which he said Barros and others witnessed and ignored.

Four members of the commission met with Francis’ top abuse adviser, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, explained their objections to Francis’ recent appointment of Barros as a bishop in southern Chile, and gave him the letter to deliver to Francis.

“When we gave him (O’Malley) the letter for the pope, he assured us he would give it to the pope and speak of the concerns,” then-commission member Marie Collins told the AP. “And at a later date, he assured us that that had been done.”

Cruz, who now lives and works in Philadelphia, heard the same later that year.

“Cardinal O’Malley called me after the pope’s visit here in Philadelphia and he told me, among other things, that he had given the letter to the pope — in his hands,” he said in an interview at his home Sunday.

Neither the Vatican nor O’Malley responded to multiple requests for comment.

While the 2015 summit of Francis’ commission was known and publicized at the time, the contents of Cruz’s letter — and a photograph of Collins handing it to O’Malley — were not disclosed by members. Cruz provided the letter, and Collins provided the photo, after reading an AP story that reported Francis had claimed to have never heard from any Karadima victims about Barros’ behavior.

The Barros affair first caused shockwaves in January 2015 when Francis appointed him bishop of Osorno, Chile, over the objections of the leadership of Chile’s bishops’ conference and many local priests and laity. They accepted as credible the testimony against Karadima, a prominent Chilean cleric who was sanctioned by the Vatican in 2011 for abusing minors. Barros was a Karadima protege, and according to Cruz and other victims, he witnessed the abuse and did nothing.

“Holy Father, I write you this letter because I’m tired of fighting, of crying and suffering,” Cruz wrote in Francis’ native Spanish. “Our story is well known and there’s no need to repeat it, except to tell you of the horror of having lived this abuse and how I wanted to kill myself.”

Cruz and other survivors had for years denounced the cover-up of Karadima’s crimes, but were dismissed as liars by the Chilean church hierarchy and the Vatican’s own ambassador in Santiago, who refused their repeated requests to meet before and after Barros was appointed.

After Francis’ comments backing the Chilean hierarchy caused such an outcry in Chile, he was forced last week to do an about-face: The Vatican announced it was sending in its most respected sex-crimes investigator to take testimony from Cruz and others about Barros.

In the letter to the pope, Cruz begs for Francis to listen to him and make good on his pledge of “zero tolerance.”

“Holy Father, it’s bad enough that we suffered such tremendous pain and anguish from the sexual and psychological abuse, but the terrible mistreatment we received from our pastors is almost worse,” he wrote.

Cruz goes on to detail in explicit terms the homo-eroticized nature of the circle of priests and young boys around Karadima, the charismatic preacher whose El Bosque community in the well-to-do Santiago neighborhood of Providencia produced dozens of priestly vocations and five bishops, including Barros.

He described how Karadima would kiss Barros and fondle his genitals, and do the same with younger priests and teens, and how young priests and seminarians would fight to sit next to Karadima at the table to receive his affections.

“More difficult and tough was when we were in Karadima’s room and Juan Barros — if he wasn’t kissing Karadima — would watch when Karadima would touch us — the minors — and make us kiss him, saying: ‘Put your mouth near mine and stick out your tongue.’ He would stick his out and kiss us with his tongue,” Cruz told the pope. “Juan Barros was a witness to all this innumerable times, not just with me but with others as well.”

“Juan Barros covered up everything that I have told you,” he added.

Barros has repeatedly denied witnessing any abuse or covering it up. “I never knew anything about, nor ever imagined, the serious abuses which that priest committed against the victims,” he told the AP recently. “I have never approved of nor participated in such serious, dishonest acts, and I have never been convicted by any tribunal of such things.”

For the Osorno faithful who have opposed Barros as their bishop, the issue isn’t so much a legal matter requiring proof or evidence, as Barros was a young priest at the time and not in a position of authority over Karadima. It’s more that if Barros didn’t “see” what was happening around him and doesn’t find it problematic for a priest to kiss and fondle young boys, he shouldn’t be in charge of a diocese where he is responsible for detecting inappropriate sexual behavior, reporting it to police and protecting children from pedophiles like his mentor.

Cruz had arrived at Karadima’s community in 1980 as a vulnerable teenager, distraught after the recent death of his father. He has said Karadima told him he would be like a spiritual father to him, but instead sexually abused him.

Based on testimony from Cruz and other former members of the parish, the Vatican in 2011 removed Karadima from ministry and sentenced him to a lifetime of “penance and prayer” for his crimes. Now 87, he lives in a home for elderly priests in Santiago; he hasn’t commented on the scandal and the home has declined to accept calls or visits from the news media.

The victims also testified to Chilean prosecutors, who opened an investigation into Karadima after they went public with their accusations in 2010. Chilean prosecutors had to drop charges because too much time had passed, but the judge running the case stressed that it wasn’t for lack of proof.

While the victims’ testimony was deemed credible by both Vatican and Chilean prosecutors, the local church hierarchy clearly didn’t believe them, which might have influenced Francis’ view. Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz has acknowledged he didn’t believe the victims initially and shelved an investigation. He was forced to reopen it after the victims went public.

He is now one of the Argentine pope’s key cardinal advisers.

By the time he finally got his letter into the pope’s hands in 2015, Cruz had already sent versions to many other people, and had tried for months to get an appointment with the Vatican ambassador. The embassy’s Dec. 15, 2014, email to Cruz — a month before Barros was appointed — was short and to the point:

“The apostolic nunciature has received the message you emailed Dec. 7 to the apostolic nuncio,” it read, “and at the same time communicates that your request has been met with an unfavorable response.”

One could argue that Francis didn’t pay attention to Cruz’s letter, since he receives thousands of letters every day from faithful around the world. He can’t possibly read them all, much less remember the contents years later. He might have been tired and confused after a weeklong trip to South America when he told an airborne press conference that victims never came forward to accuse Barros of cover-up.

But this was not an ordinary letter, nor were the circumstances under which it arrived in the Vatican.

Francis had named O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, to head his Commission for the Protection of Minors based on his credibility in having helped clean up the mess in Boston after the U.S. sex abuse scandal exploded there in 2002. The commission gathered outside experts to advise the church on protecting children from pedophiles and educating church personnel about preventing abuse and cover-ups.

The four commission members who were on a special subcommittee dedicated to survivors had flown to Rome specifically to speak with O’Malley about the Barros appointment and to deliver Cruz’s letter. A press release issued after the April 12, 2015, meeting read: “Cardinal O’Malley agreed to present the concerns of the subcommittee to the Holy Father.”

Commission member Catherine Bonnet, a French child psychiatrist who took the photo of Collins handing the letter to O’Malley, said the commission members had decided to descend on Rome specifically when O’Malley and other members of the pope’s group of nine cardinal advisers were meeting, so that O’Malley could put it directly into the pope’s hands.

“Cardinal O’Malley promised us when Marie gave to him the letter of Juan Carlos that he will give to Pope Francis,” she said.

O’Malley’s spokesman in Boston referred requests for comment to the Vatican. Neither the Vatican press office, nor officials at the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, responded to calls and emails seeking comment.

But O’Malley’s remarkable response to Francis’ defense of Barros and to his dismissal of the victims while he was in Chile, is perhaps now better understood.

In a rare rebuke of a pope by a cardinal, O’Malley issued a statement Jan. 20 in which he said the pope’s words were “a source of great pain for survivors of sexual abuse,” and that such expressions had the effect of abandoning victims and relegating them to “discredited exile.”

A day later, Francis apologized for having demanded “proof” of wrongdoing by Barros, saying he meant merely that he wanted to see “evidence.” But he continued to describe the accusations against Barros as “calumny” and insisted he had never heard from any victims.

Even when told in his airborne press conference Jan. 21 that Karadima’s victims had indeed placed Barros at the scene of Karadima’s abuse, Francis said: “No one has come forward. They haven’t provided any evidence for a judgment. This is all a bit vague. It’s something that can’t be accepted.”

He stood by Barros, saying: “I’m certain he’s innocent,” even while saying that he considered the testimony of victims to be “evidence” in a cover-up investigation.

“If anyone can give me evidence, I’ll be the first to listen,” he said.

Cruz said he felt like he had been slapped when he heard those words. “I was upset,” he said, “and at the same time I couldn’t believe that someone so high up like the pope himself could lie about this.” source

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Peter Thiel’s Secret End Times Society ‘Dialog’ Expose By Hackers As New World Order Creation Mechanism Powered By Palantir

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From Secret Meetings To AI War Rooms Planning WWIII, Peter Thiel’s Dialog And Palantir Show The Beast System Taking Shape In Real Time

The Peter Thiel ‘Dialog’ story becomes much darker when you connect it to Palantir, because this isn’t merely a secretive billionaire discussion club where elites gather to talk about World War III, battlefield technologies, nuclear power, money, happiness, and cult-building. Thiel is the co-founder of Palantir, one of the most powerful data-fusion, military-AI, surveillance, and government-contracting companies in the world. So when his private network is reportedly discussing the future of war and society, we are not dealing with idle talk. We are looking at the same ecosystem where elite ideas become operational systems — where the powerful do not merely debate the future, they build the software, surveillance tools, battlefield platforms, and artificial intelligence machinery that governments and militaries increasingly depend on. This is the Beast System and the New World Order rolled into one.

“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Revelation 17:17 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, Dialog is the private unseen table where the fate of nations are decided, and Palantir is the control grid to make it happen. One is where the ruling class talks about managing civilization; the other is where the data is gathered, fused, analyzed, and weaponized. This is exactly how the Beast System comes into view: not as one sudden event, but as the slow merger of money, military power, artificial intelligence, surveillance, politics, and private influence into one seamless machine. The Bible says the final system will touch all people, all classes, and all commerce, and that is precisely the direction the world is moving. Today we pull back the curtain, not with conspiracy theory, but with the proven superstructure that is Dialog, revealed by hackers, and just who the guests at this crazy end times table really are.

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NTEB RADIO BIBLE STUDY: A Verse-By-Verse Study In The Gospel Of John, Part 1

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THE BIBLE BELIEVERS SUNDAY SERVICE: A Willing Heart, Burdened And Surrendered

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June 28, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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On this Sunday Service, God is looking for believers with a willing heart, burdened and surrendered, that will pick up their cross daily and follow Him

The Lord is not looking for cold religion, empty profession, or outward performance from people whose hearts are far from Him. He is looking for a believer with a willing heart, a heart that says, “Lord, here am I, use me.” In Exodus 35, the Tabernacle was not built by pressure tactics or forced giving, but by men and women whose hearts were stirred and made willing before the LORD. That is still the pattern today. The believer who has been saved by the shed blood of Jesus Christ ought to have a heart that is ready to serve, ready to give, ready to labour, ready to pray, ready to witness, and ready to stand in the gap while there is still time. A willing heart does not wait to be begged, bribed, or entertained into obedience. It hears the voice of God through the word of God and responds, “What wilt thou have me to do?”

“Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,” Exodus 35:5 (KJB)

But a willing heart must become a burdened heart and a surrendered heart, or it will never go the distance. A burdened heart looks at the lost and sees souls on their way to Hell without the gospel, and it refuses to be comfortable while sinners perish. A surrendered heart looks inward and says, “Lord, deal with my sin, my pride, my flesh, my worldliness, and anything that keeps me from being meet for the Master’s use.” This is where real Bible Christianity lives — not in slogans, not in sentiment, not in Sunday-morning religion, but in a heart yielded to God, burdened for souls, and willing to fight against the world, the flesh, and the Devil until the Lord gives the victory. The harvest is still white, the gospel is still powerful, the King James Bible is still the preserved word of God, and Jesus Christ is still saving sinners. What God is looking for now is a vessel with a willing heart to serve, a burdened heart to seek the lost, and a surrendered heart to yield completely to Him. This is my message on today’s Sunday Service.

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SUNDAY SERVICE STUDY NOTES: A Willing Heart, Burdened And Surrendered

A Willing Heart, Burdened And Surrendered

I. A Willing Heart Says, “Lord, I Am Ready To Serve”

“Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,” Exodus 35:5 (KJB)

Before the gold, silver, and brass ever showed up, there first had to be a people whose hearts were willing before the LORD. The tabernacle was not built by force, pressure, guilt, or manipulation. It was built by people who had a heart to give, a heart to serve, and a heart to be part of what God was doing. How’s your heart today?

“Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.” Exodus 36:1 (KJB)

“And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.” Exodus 35:21 (KJB)

Bible passages talking about The Tabernacle:

This is one of the largest themes in the Bible, so it must be very important to God. God wanted willing hearts to do this work, not robots.

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” Isaiah 6:8 (KJB)

Exodus 25–31, 35–40 — 13 chapters
Leviticus 1–10, 16 — 11 chapters
Numbers 1–4, 7–10 — 8 chapters
Joshua 18 — 1 chapter
1 Samuel 1–4 — 4 chapters
1 Kings 8 / 2 Chronicles 5 — 2 chapters
Hebrews 8–10 — 3 chapters

Application

The believer with a willing heart does not have to be begged to serve the Lord. He does not have to be chased down, guilted into obedience, or constantly stirred up by emotional appeals. When the heart is right, the feet move, the hands labor, the mouth speaks, and the wallet opens.

A willing heart says, “Lord, I am available. Use my time, use my talent, use my testimony, use my treasure, and use whatever is left of my life for Thy glory.”

Key Point

A willing heart is the difference between religious duty and spiritual desire for intimacy with God. God is not a Calvinist, he will not force you to serve Him, even after He saves you. But you’ll spend a long time needlessly fighting the conviction He will give you if you aren’t willing.

II. A Burdened Heart Says, “Lord, I Want To See The Lost Saved”

A willing heart serves, but a burdened heart weeps. A burdened heart looks at a lost and dying world and sees what God sees: souls without Christ, sinners without hope, and men and women headed for Hell unless someone brings them the gospel. (Bibles Behind Bars!)

Paul had doctrine, but he also had tears. He was not some cold theologian stacking up truth with no compassion. He had a burning burden for his own people to be saved. If you’ve been called to the ministry but don’t have a burden like this, you should make sure you’ve actually been called of God. Without such a burden, ministry is an exhausting and grueling slog. With a God-sent burden, it’s the most exciting work on the planet.

“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” Romans 10:1 (KJB)

“I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.” Romans 9:1-2 (KJB)

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself looked on the multitudes with compassion.

“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.” Matthew 9:36 (KJB)

Application

The believer needs more than correct doctrine and a King James Bible; he needs a broken heart. He needs to see the lost not as arguments to win, but as souls to reach. A burdened heart prays, witnesses, gives, supports missions, sends Bibles, preaches the gospel, and refuses to become comfortable while sinners perish. Someone asked me one time why do you go street preaching? The answer is astonishingly simple: because Hell is real and people go there. No other reason than that to street preach, wins souls and do personal work.

A burdened heart says, “Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours. Let me care about souls more than comfort, more than convenience, more than reputation, and more than self.”

Key Point

A burdened heart turns Bible truth into gospel action.

III. A Surrendered Heart Says, “Lord, I Am Willing To Lay It Down”

God likes to do things in threes:

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life
The Christian fights against the world, the flesh and the Devil
Peter denied the Lord 3 times
Jesus is a Prophet, Priest and King
The Tabernacle was divided into the outer court, the Holy Place and the most Holy Place
Jonan was 3 days and 3 nights in the whale’s belly
Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose again (Paul’s gospel)
The Godhead exists in 3 parts 1 John 5:7
Man is a tripartite being (body, soul and spirit)

A willing heart serves the Lord, and a burdened heart seeks the lost, but a surrendered heart takes God’s side against sin. It is one thing to say, “Lord, use me,” and another thing to say, “Lord, cleanse me.” The believer cannot serve the Lord rightly while making peace with the world, the flesh, and the Devil. D.L. Moody said “There is one more thing to consider. I have to overcome the world, or the world is going to overcome me. I have to conquer sin in me and get it under my feet, or it is going to conquer me.” That’s good, practical preaching you can live by.

“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” Romans 6:13 (KJB)

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7 (KJB)

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1 (KJB)

Application

The surrendered heart is not sinless perfection, but honest submission. It is the believer coming before God and saying, “Lord, deal with my pride, my bitterness, my temper, my lust, my worldliness, my laziness, my fear, my rebellion, and anything else that keeps me from walking with You.”

“Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” Romans 7:13 (KJB)

This is where real victory begins. Not with pretending there is no battle, but by yielding to God and refusing to yield to sin.

Key Point

A surrendered heart does not negotiate with sin; it yields to God until the victory comes. At AA meetings they say you must conduct a “fearless and searching moral inventory” if you want to stay sober, and the same thing can be said of the believer who wants to be clean before God. Keep short accounts with the Lord.

IV. These Three Hearts Work Together

Truth

These are not three separate Christian lives. They are three parts of the same surrendered believer.

A willing heart says, “Lord, I will serve.”
A burdened heart says, “Lord, I will witness.”
A surrendered heart says, “Lord, I will obey.”

When these three are present, God has a vessel He can use.

“But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” 2 Timothy 2:20-21 (KJB)

Application

Many believers want to be used, but they don’t want to be purged. Many want fruit, but they do not want surrender. Many want blessing, but they do not want separation. But the vessel fit for the Master’s use is the believer who is willing, burdened, and surrendered.

God is not looking for perfect people. He is looking for yielded people.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” John 15:1-5 (KJB)

Closing Challenge

The question is not whether the Lord has work to be done. The harvest is still ready, the gospel is still powerful, the Bible is still true, Hell is still hot, the Lord Jesus Christ is still saving sinners, and the trumpet is still about to sound.

The question is: what kind of heart do you have?

Do you have a willing heart to serve?
Do you have a burdened heart for the lost?
Do you have a surrendered heart to forsake sin and fight the good fight?

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” Isaiah 6:8 (KJB)

That is the heart God can use in these last days: not a forced heart, not a cold heart, not a divided heart, but a willing heart, a burdened heart, and a surrendered heart before the Lord Jesus Christ.

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