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Uptodate "To Do" List for Pope Leo XIV
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Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV:
About a year ago, I proposed a "to do" list, which I would like to revisit:
- Pope Francis' treaty with Communist China effectively abandoned faithful Catholics. What are you doing for Jimmy Lai and other victims? Please speak in depth with Cardinal Zen and find your voice!
- Pope Francis appeared to ignore the plight of the incredibly devout Nigerian Catholics being slaughtered by Islamists. American President Donald Trump has received little credit for his efforts to improve the situation.
- Pope Francis promoted grossly unqualified and heterodox Jesuits like James Martin and Tucho Fernandez. Former Jesuit Marko Rupnik has been allowed to continue as a priest despite voluminous sexual allegations against nuns! These men should have their priestly faculties suspended.
- I have long been a reader of the annual addresses from the Holy Father to the Roman Rota. Both St Pope JP II & Pope B 16 seemed increasingly fearful of incorrect declarations of nullity. Yet, Pope Francis changed course and expedited processes. From your own address of January to the Rota, I am unclear as to which of your predecessors you will most closely follow. So much more needs to be done to help all marriages!
- Pope Francis suppressed the Latin Mass & seemed to try to sneekily equate gay couples with Holy Matrimony! Doing that would be an extreme example of a clericalism, which fails to appreciate the holiness of the Sacrament of Marriage!
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Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
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