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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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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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Transgender School Shooter Audrey Hale Was Only Doing What Groups Like The ‘Trans Day Of Vengeance’ Movement Had Been Encouraging Her To Do

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March 28, 2023

Geoffrey Grider

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Audrey Hale was a faithful soldier in the Transgender Army, and a bellwether of what you can expect to see in the coming days.

What happened yesterday at the Covenant School was a premeditated, cold-blood, and rationally thought out plan hatched by transgender killer Audrey Hale. She murdered three kids and three adults before police neutralized her forward movement. Why would she do this? One big reason might be because Tennessee had proposed House Bill 9, a bill banning many drag performances from taking place on any public property in the state, as well as in any location where people under 18 could be present. House Bill 1 bans children under the age of 18 from being chemically and surgically mutilated. Both bills were passed into law on February 23rd of this year. Stirred on by transgender militant groups, Audrey Hale was seething with anger, she wanted to make someone pay, and that’s when she decided to ‘lock and load’.

“(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction,)” Philippians 3:18,19a (KJB)

If you are going to understand the spirit behind the transgender madness that has risen over America, you need to understand that it comes from the pit of Hell. The transgender movement is a radical, militaristic uprising, and they will force their agenda on you even if they have to murder you to do it. Back in 2019, NTEB warned you with an article entitled ‘Under The Banner Of The Rainbow Battle Flag, God Is Judging A Godless America By Allowing The LGBTQ+P For Pedophile Army To Take Control’, and that article has turned out to be a little more than slightly prophetic.

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Some on social media have suggested that America needs to immediately remove all these special concessions made to the lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders, and that would have been a great idea ten years ago, even 5 years ago. But now? Now that would be akin to locking the barn door after the horses have run out. First they asked for tolerance, when they got that, it was acceptance. When they got that, it became equality, and now? Now they want dominance, they want control, they want you and me to be under their control. Don’t give me any jazz about Audrey Hale having an ’emotional disorder’, this was cold-blooded murder to further the transgender manifesto. America’s promotion of the transgender agenda is nothing less than giving birth to Frankenstein’s monster, and you remember how that worked out for Frankenstein, don’t you?

This weekend in Washington DC, a ‘trans day of vengeance’ will be held, and just coincidentally it is sponsored by Marxist Socialists. Their site says “We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We aren’t going anywhere” needs to be echoed loudly. We are calling for Trans Day of Vengeance, instead of Trans Day of Visibility, because ‘visibility’ alone is no longer enough.” Audrey Hale was a faithful soldier in the transgender army, and her plan to execute people she felt symbolically represented the opposition, the Christians at Covenant School, was enacted and carried out.

Until you understand that the entirety of this LGBTQIA+ and transgender madness that exists in our day in nothing less than a complete and total sociological takeover of humanity, you won’t understand it at all. To what end is all this being done? To prepare the world to receive the coming kingdom of Antichrist, which at this point, is right around the corner.

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Is Transgender Shooter Audrey Hale The Start Of A Trans Gun Violence Movement, And Will The Democrat-Run Legacy State Media Even Report On It?

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The Covenant Christian School shooter in Nashville has been identified as transgender Audrey Hale who may be connected with the upcoming Trans Day Of Vengeance at the Supreme Court

The Democrats don’t know what to do right now. On one hand, a school shooting as tragic as the one that happened today at the Covenant Christian School In Nashville would seem like a perfect opportunity for them to pontificate again on the evils of the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution. But on the other hand, the shooter today was Far Left Liberal Democrat Audrey Hale, who also happened to be a transgender ‘woman’. What’s that line from ‘The Godfather’ about “don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family“? Oh yeah, man, that’s what’s up.

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” Genesis 6:11 (KJB)

Radical Leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA and the LGBTQIA+ Movement love violence and use it as their preferred means of conflict resolution. On our Podcast last week we told you about a group called ‘Rainbow Reload’, and you guessed it, they are a network of radical transgender gun groups that also go by the name ‘Pink Pistols’. So given the Left’s well-document love of violence to solve their social issues, you have to ask yourself is transgender shooter Audrey Hale a one-off nutjob, or the first soldier in the battalion willing to die for the cause? It’s just a hunch, but I am guessing this story, as horrific as it is, will be out of the rotation before Wednesday. If you’re looking for the truth, you won’t find it on the 6 O’clock News. Ever hear of the ‘Trans Day Of Vengeance’?

On April 1 in Washington DC, they are preparing for something called the ‘Trans Day Of Vengeance’ which, given what happened today in Nashville, might just be a really bad thing. As we have always said, that 6-color Pride banner is actually a rainbow battle flag, and they are indeed marching to war. Is Audrey Hale the first of many transgenders who are ready to enact their violent agenda against us? You tell me.

Police: Suspect in Christian School Shooting Identified as Transgender

FROM BREITBART NEWS: Police believe Hale was a former student at the Christian school. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department chief John Drake indicated at a press conference that Hale “does identify as transgender.”

Three students and three adults were shot and killed during the attack, Breitbart News reported. Hale was confronted and killed by law enforcement.

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During live coverage on FOX News Chief Drake said Hale was armed with three firearms, at least two of which were legally obtained. The Christian school did not have armed resource officers on campus when the attack occurred, FOX News’ John Roberts indicated. READ MORE

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Transgender Shooter Audrey Hale Shoots And Kills 6, Including 3 Children, At The The Covenant Christian School Located in Nashville Tennessee

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Seven people are dead — including three children — at The Covenant Christian School in Nashville on Monday morning after a shooting inside the building from transgender female shooter Audrey Hale.

In a surprise twist, this latest school shooting involved a female shooter, and it took place at the The Covenant School, a Christian education facility located in Nashville Tennessee. Their web site says that they have “Impactful teaching methods and programs, daily all-school chapel, and school-wide service-learning are the backdrop for the real work — helping children become who God intends them to be.” What could possibly be the reason for 28-year old transgender shooter Audrey Hale to enter in there and start shooting teachers and kids? It’s a spirit.

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Matthew 24:12 (KJB)

On the Podcast today, we talked all about the chaos and confusion abounding within our global society right now, something that we say has been brought on by a rising spirit. I was not aware of this horrific school shooting at air time, but it fits in perfectly with what we discussed on the Podcast. We live in strange and scary times, with events happening I never thought I would live to see. Wickedness and evil on a scale that boggles the imagination, and it grows worse on a daily basis. The world isn’t asking for it and doesn’t want it, but our job for those of us who are saved is to be a witness of the Lord Jesus Christ in these last days before the Rapture of the Church. Please pray for all the victims at The Covenant School, the need is great.

Seven dead: three children killed plus the shooter dead at The Covenant School on Monday

FROM NASHVILLE CHANNEL 5: The shooting happened at 10:13 a.m. The shooting didn’t happen in a classroom. “Three pediatric patients were transported to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, all having suffered gunshot wounds. All three were pronounced dead after arrival,” officials said.

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“Officers went to the gunfire. When they got to the second floor and saw the shooter, a female. There was a five-member unit that was on the second floor at the time,” MNPD spokesperson Don Aaron said. “We know at this point that this shooter is a female. Her identification isn’t confirmed. She had two assault rifles and a handgun. She entered the school through a side entrance and went from the first school to the second floor. By 10:27 a.m., the shooter was dead.”

The shooter has been identified as Nashville woman, who is 28. Two MNPD officers who entered the building and went to the sounds of gunfire engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her.

Five others were wounded: three children and two adults. There were no MNPD personnel assigned to that building at any time.

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“We have mental health professionals at the reunification site,” NFD spokesperson Kendra Looney said. “There is a hotline for parents to call that is being set up.”

The Red Cross has reacted and set up at the reunification center as well.

“At DA Glenn Funk’s request, TBI will operate in an assist capacity in the investigation of the shooting at The Covenant School in Green Hills. Metro Nashville Police Department will handle the release of information and updates moving forward,” TBI officials said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of The Covenant School shooting and the broader community impacted by this profound tragedy.”

MNPD said several schools in Green Hills area were placed on lockout out of an abundance of caution due to police activity in the area, and those families have been notified. We are working with first responders to provide any support we can. READ MORE

Shooter was transgender woman Audrey Hale

Nashville Covenant School shooting: 3 students, 3 adults killed by female suspect, police say

Three children and three adults were gunned down on Monday by a female shooting suspect at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, according to officials.