{"id":187,"date":"2025-04-29T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/such-a-wonderful-pope\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:13:23","slug":"such-a-wonderful-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/such-a-wonderful-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Such a Wonderful Pope!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativewoman.co.uk\/francis-the-pope-who-exasperated-good-catholics\/\">Simon Caldwell<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbowman.substack.com\/\">Jim Bowman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">He [Pope Francis] used his authority to protect sinister friends from justice, such as Father Marko Rupnik, a fellow Jesuit who was accused of the serial rape of more than a dozen nuns, sometimes in quasi-satanic rituals. Rupnik was excommunicated <em>latae sententiae<\/em>&#0160;(automatically) after he granted absolution in the confessional to a woman with whom he was having sex. This was an offence of such enormity under the&#0160;Code of Canon Law&#0160;that only the Pope could lift the sentence. Rupnik was rehabilitated and to this day is a priest in good standing who is living in a convent (where else?). It is good to have friends in high places.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This&#0160; is hard to believe. Can you corroborate the above from your sources, Vito?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>De mortuis nil nisi bonum<\/em> has an expiration date, and in the case of some it comes up quick.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Caldwell via Jim Bowman: He [Pope Francis] used his authority to protect sinister friends from justice, such as Father Marko Rupnik, a fellow Jesuit who was accused of the serial rape of more than a dozen nuns, sometimes in quasi-satanic rituals. Rupnik was excommunicated latae sententiae&#0160;(automatically) after he granted absolution in the confessional to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/such-a-wonderful-pope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Such a Wonderful Pope!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}