Just as people are talking about how the media and the White House staff for years hid President Joe Biden’s cognitive problems from the public, so too are we now learning how, according to child advocate attorney, Elizabeth Yore, “For a dozen miserable years, they all kept their mouths shut about Bergoglio….They breathed not a word about the man who subjected the Church to 12 years of brutal tyranny, blatant material heresy, vindictive psychotherapy, and rampant predator protection….all while on psychotropic drugs even before he became pope.”
Hoping that the cardinals did not choose a candidate they thought would amount to nothing more than a Francis II, Catholics are now debating what kind of pope, Leo XIV, may turn out to be. It is still be too early to know how he will handle the ongoing sex abuse crisis that his predecessor botched; how accommodating he will be with those who are inspired by and participate in the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM); or what he will do to bring back the millions of Catholics who have left the Faith for a variety of reasons.
One group of individuals who are particularly anxious to know how he will deal with problems involving the clergy are cancelled priests, bishops, and seminarians. Neither laicized nor excommunicated like Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò who confronted Pope Francis for covering up abuse and preying on Jesuit novices, canceled clerics were often removed from ministry for speaking out against sexual predation and homosexual misconduct. Even former Tyler Bishop Joseph Strickland who addressed this problem at the November 2018 USCCB meeting, and Arecibo Bishop Fernández Torres who opposed transgender ideology and refused to send his seminarians to a gay-infested interdiocesan seminary, are wondering if they may be restored to ministry.
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