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LifeSiteNews.com reported on November 16, 2010:
In a surprise vote that was described as a “seismic shift” by one prominent Catholic commentator, the strongly pro-life Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York today beat out controversial sitting Vice President Bishop Gerald Kicanas to become the next president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Archbishop Dolan’s election is only the second time in history that the U.S. Bishops broke from their tradition of elevating the sitting vice president of the conference. Bishop Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona had been expected to take the role, but was the subject of criticism in the lead-up to the election over his connection to a Chicago priest convicted of child molestation, as well as his liberal reputation on issues such as abortion and homosexuality.
Archbishop Dolan won on the third round of ballots with 128 votes to Bishop Kicanas’ 111. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver came in at third in each round.
“No one runs for this office. As bishops, we’re concerned with what’s going on in our own dioceses,” said Archbishop Dolan, according to the National Catholic Register. “No one seeks this office. My brother bishops elected me.”
Archbishop Dolan has a solid reputation as an outspoken pro-life leader. He has insisted that Catholics should never honor anyone taking a pro-abortion position, and he was a strong opponent of Notre Dame's decision to honour President Obama at their 2009 commencement. This fall, he joined the bishops of New York in calling on Catholics to make the right to life their primary concern at the ballot box.
Numerous Catholic commentators had warned that Bishop Kicanas, on the other hand, is made in the mold of his mentor Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who is known for his support of liberal movements in the Church. This week, Bishop Kicanas won an endorsement from the Rainbow Sash Movement, a militant ‘Catholic’ homosexualist group.
For vice president of the conference, the bishops chose Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky. He received 147 votes to Archbishop Chaput’s 91.
Archbishop Kurtz has led the bishops’ effort to defend true marriage, and has called that battle “one of the premier social justice issues of our time.”
He warned at the bishops’ meeting yesterday that if the courts are allowed to overturn Proposition 8 – which established true marriage in California – the impact will be “akin to Roe v. Wade.” “In a sense, today is like 1970 for marriage,” he told the bishops, according to Catholic News Agency. “If, in 1970, you knew that Roe v. Wade were coming in two or three years, what would you have done differently?”
Archbishop Dolan replaces outgoing president Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who led the bishops’ fight to prevent public funding of abortion in the federal health care legislation. Both Archbishops Dolan and Kurtz will serve for the next three years.
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, congratulated the pair, saying “they have been unequivocal in their defense of the unborn, which for our ministry is the primary focus. They have welcomed and encouraged the work of Priests for Life, and for that we are grateful.”
On Archbishop Dolan’s election, Rocco Palmo, the well known Catholic commentator and writer of the Whispers in the Loggia blog, said: “Overturning a half-century of tradition for the bench, the result represents a seismic shift for the leadership of the nation's largest religious body, and a mandate for a continuance of the outspoken, high-profile leadership shown by Cardinal Francis George over his game-changing tenure at the conference's helm.”
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10101804.html
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10022615.html
"My child, they converse of the secret that I gave at Fatima. It is a simple explanation. It could not be fully revealed because of the drastic nature of My message. How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter into My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, May 13, 1978
"I gave Lucy the Revelation as a temporary secret—as I revealed [the Third Secret] to you on two occasions. Make a concerted effort to bring its entirety to Our children on earth. The hierarchy have not listened to My counsel—thirty-two years lost in indecision and fear of exposure. The Faith is shattered for many." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 29, 1992
Our Lady of the Roses Bayside message:
These messages came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.
THE GREAT APOSTASY
"Do not accept the fallacy that any man upon earth and mankind are gods. There
is but one God. And no man shall set himself above his Master. O My children,
cannot you recognize the signs of your times? The great apostasy is upon you!" -
Our Lady, December 7, 1976
USING RANK TO DESTROY
"Those who have the highest places in My Son's Church are now using their rank
to destroy the truth. You cannot build on the carnal nature of mankind, the
fallen nature of mankind.
"You must now, My children, read the direction given you by Saint John. He
was given the prophecy of your times. You are in those days, My children, the
days of apostasy." - Our Lady, October 6, 1975
THE SWORD
"Mankind shall feel a sword upon his world. The Eternal Father has endured your
apostasy, your arrogance, your heresy much too long! As an errant and ungrateful
generation given to sin and abominations of the flesh, you shall be forced to
your knees by trial." - St. Michael, July 15, 1975
SISTER LUCY
"I wish at this time, My children, to repeat again the need to write, to speak,
to meet with the Holy Father in Rome, and plead with him to have Lucy come
forward and tell the Third Secret word for word, as I give to you each evening
on My appearances upon the grounds of Bayside, and Flushing Meadows." - Our
Lady, June 18, 1986
SCORNED, DISCARDED, HIDDEN
"Many years have gone by, My children, since I tried to warn you at Fatima.
My message was scorned then by many, discarded and hidden from the world, but My
message now cannot be discarded or kept hidden, for you have reached now a point
in your life, My children, your lifetime upon your earth, when your days are now
being counted." - Our Lady, February 10, 1977
FATIMA
"My child, how many warnings have I sent upon the world, and yet they go
unheeded.
"I wish that you make known, or refresh the memory of My children with My visit
to the land of Fatima." - Our Lady, April 13, 1974
"My child, they converse of the secret that I gave at Fatima. It is a simple
explanation. It could not be fully revealed because of the drastic nature of My
message. How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms
of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter
into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978
"YOU DID NOT LISTEN"
"My Mother came to you at Fatima warning that unless man stopped his path to
perdition, Russia would spread her errors throughout your world causing misery,
sufferings, and death and enslavement. My children, you did not listen and act
upon Her counsel then, just as many now do not listen and act upon Her counsel.
It is a part of human nature to exercise too free a will to reject. And this, I
say, falls also onto My pastors who are scattering My sheep in My House." - Our
Lady, May 27, 1978
CAST ASIDE
"My warnings at Fatima were cast aside as they are being cast aside now, My
children. It is a failing of human nature, My child, that that which does not
give pleasure to the carnal nature of man is not accepted. Man shall blind
himself to the truth, as he does not wish to face the truth. And those who seek
to bring him the truth are cast aside and do much penance, My child." - Our
Lady, September 13, 1975
THE FIGHT FOR POWER
IN THE YEAR 1972
"Satan, Lucifer in human form, entered into Rome in the year 1972. He cut off
the rule, the role of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI. Lucifer has controlled Rome
and continues this control now.
"And I tell you now, My children, unless you pray and make My counsel known
to all of the ruling fathers of the Eternal City of Rome, My Son's Church, His
House, will be forced into the catacombs. A great struggle lies ahead for
mankind. The eventual outcome is for good of all, for this trial in My Son's
Church will be a true proving ground for all the faithful. Many latter-day
saints shall rise out of the tribulation." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978
HIGHEST REALMS OF
THE HIERARCHY
"My
child, they converse of the secret that I gave at Fatima. It is a simple
explanation. It could not be fully revealed because of the drastic nature of My
message. How I warned and warned that satan would enter into the highest realms
of the hierarchy in Rome. The Third Secret, My child, is that satan would enter
into My Son's Church." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978
Directives
D50 - The Impostor Pope PDF
D79 - Restore My Church PDF
D127 - Vatican II PDF
D129 - Third Secret Explained: Part 1 - 666 in Rome PDF
D130 - Third Secret Explained: Part 2 - Satan entered the Church in 1972 PDF
D131 - Third Secret Explained: Part 3 - Satan entered the highest realms of the hierarchy PDF
D132 - Third Secret Explained: Part 4 - There shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, as satan has set himself in their midst. PDF
D161-The Great Apostasy PDF
Evidence for the REAL Third Secret of Fatima:
Witness to the impostor pope: an Immaculate Heart of Mary nun sees Pope Paul VI and impostor pope within minutes of each other
WitnessToTheImpostorPope.htm
Warnings from Beyond: A Swiss exorcism reveals existence of an impostor to Pope Paul VI
WarningsFromBeyond2of3.htm
Cardinal Oddi on the REAL Third Secret of Fatima: "The Blessed Virgin was alerting us against the apostasy in the Church"
ThirdSecretCardinalOddi.htm
Fr. Alonso, official achivist of Fatima: The REAL Third Secret of Fatima warned of apostasy in the Church
ThirdSecretFatherAlonso.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: Fr. Malachi Martin affirms that satanism has been practiced in the Vatican
MalachiMartin.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: The "deception of the century"
impostor.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: The murder of Pope John Paul I
PopeJohnPaulI.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: "Satan would enter into the highest realms of the hierarchy"
highestrealms.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: Communist agents have infiltrated into the Catholic hierarchy to destroy from within
infiltrators.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: World's most famous exorcist has said, "legions of demons that have installed themselves in the Vatican"
exorcism1.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: Man who shot Pope John Paul II says, "Without the help of some priests and cardinals I could not have done it"
CardinalsHelpedMehmetAliAgca.htmEvidence of the REAL Third Secret: Jacinta told Mother Godinho the Third Secret, but...
StTheresa3rdSecret.htm
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