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| Msgr. Vito Pinto |
In The
Book of Destiny, Father Herman B. Kramer writes:
“The apostolic democracy founded by Our Lord may have given
way to an absolute monarchy, in which the episcopate rules with oriental
despotism. The priests may be reduced to a state of servility and fawning
sycophancy. The rule by reason, justice and love may have been supplanted by
the absolute will of the bishop, whose every act and word are to be accepted
without question, without recourse to fact, truth or justice. Conscience may
have lost its right to guide the actions of the priests and may stand ignored
or condemned. Diplomacy, expediency and other trickery may be upheld as the
greatest virtues.” (Quoted by Father Nicholas Gruner in The Fatima
Crusader, Sumner 2001, p. 51).
Every day
we continue to see the reality of these words not only in the case of despotic
bishops but simply in all other areas as well: In our days, many priests,
bishops, cardinals, and the “pope” himself, have—in their various domains of
leadership—become real despots, more terrible—many in fact demonic—than those
in the secular world!
In case you still don’t know the “terrible crime” of the Four
Cardinals, see, before reading the article below: On the Open Letter to Francis by the Four Cardinals
Top Vatican judge doubles
down against four Cardinals: ‘They gave the Pope a slap in the face’
by Jan Bentz
The head of the Vatican’s highest
appeals court has doubled down on his criticism of the four Cardinals calling
for clarification of Amoris Laetitia, telling another news agency
that their act amounted to a "slap in the face."
Msgr. Vito Pinto had called the dubia a
“very serious scandal” only days ago, in
comments reported by Spanish news agency Religión Confidencial.
Religión Confidencial had
originally reported Pinto as also saying that dubia “could lead” the pope to
remove the four from the College of Cardinals, but the news agency subsequently retracted and said their tape
showed he had said, in fact, that he didn’t believe the pope would do such a thing.
Now the Monsignor doubles his
attack on the four Cardinals in an interview published by katholisch.de,
the German bishops’ website.
By publishing their letter, “they
gave the Pope a slap in the face,” said Msgr. Pinto. “The Pope can receive
counsel from his Cardinals, that is something else than forcing a counsel upon
him.”
In their letter four Cardinals asked Pope Francis five
short questions which call for “yes or no” answers to clarify ambiguities in Amoris
Laetitia. After nearly two months of the Pope’s refusing to respond, the
Cardinals publicly released their letter with an explanatory note giving the
faithful the opportunity to see their grave concerns touching directly on the
integrity of the Catholic faith.
Msgr. Pinto remarked that the four
Cardinals have no authority to have done this. “They are no institution that is
qualified for anything,” he said. One of the signatories of the dubia is
Cardinal Raymond Burke who served as Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal
of the Apostolic Signatura from 2008 to 2014. The Apostolic Signatura is the
highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church, apart from the Pope himself.
Pinto went on to say that the
Cardinals have to “support” the Pope for the “gift of unity” and not “hinder
him” in it. “On what do they base themselves? That they are four Cardinals?
That is not enough. Please. Of course they can write their questions, but to
urge him to answer and to publish the thing, that is a scandal.”
Pinto began to single out the
four, as if they were lone warriors in the face of a vast majority: “The
absolute majority of the first synod and a two-thirds majority in the second,
in which the members of the bishops’ conferences were present, have exactly approved
these theses that now the four Cardinals contest.”
Regarding his threats to remove
the four from the Cardinalate, he replied: “I am not the type to threaten. To
write something like this was journalistic freedom and not respectable. To
think that Francis would remove their cardinalate – no. I do not believe that
he will do that. […] In itself, as Pope, he could do such a thing. The way I
know Francis, he will not do it.”
Pinto called Cardinal Raymond
Burke “crazy,” responding to Burke’s announcement that there will be a “formal
correction” regarding the content in question of Amoris Laetitia.
“This is crazy. There is no College of Cardinals that could hold the Pope
accountable. The task of the Cardinals is to help the Pope in the exercise of
his office and not to impede him or to give him instructions. The fact is,
Francis is not only in full accordance with the teaching, but also with all of
his predecessors in the 20thcentury, and that was a Golden Age with
excellent Popes, starting with Pius X.”
He was especially annoyed with
Meisner’s support of the letter: “I am shocked, especially about the gesture of
Meisner. […] Meisner a great supreme shepherd! That he would go this far, I
would have not expected. He was very close to John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
[…] And Burke – we have worked together. […] Now I would ask him: ‘Eminence,
why have you done this?’”
Pinto’s council for the Pope is
simple: “Officially this action has no value. The Church needs unity not walls,
says the Pope. He will not take the Cardinalate away from the four. We know how
Francis is. He believes that men can convert. I know that he prays for them.”
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