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Have They No Shame?
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 The
Vatican’s obsession with Father Nicholas Gruner has taken on almost insane
proportions.
Only one day
after the terrorist attack on America — only one day—the
Vatican bureaucrats who have been hounding Father Gruner for years thought it
would be the perfect time to inform the whole world through the Vatican Press
Office that no one should attend a peace conference in Rome sponsored by
Father Gruner’s apostolate because the conference “does not enjoy the
approval of legitimate ecclesiastical authority”.
Of course, no
“ecclesiastical approval” for conferences of clergy and laity is
necessary under Church law. The Code of Canon Law promulgated by Pope John Paul
II (Canons 212, 215, 278, 299) recognizes the natural right of the faithful to
meet and discuss issues of concern in the Church today without any
“approval”whatsoever. (Indeed, the Vatican does nothing to interfere
with innumerable conferences conducted by advocates of women’s ordination
and uncountable other heresies, even though the participants in these
conferences are abusing their natural right and causing grave harm to the
Church). One might as well say that the apostolate’s Rome conference has
not been approved by the American Medical Association. So what? But the Vatican
apparatus is not about to reveal the whole truth in its half-true announcement.
The
“Declaration” also states that Father Gruner has been
“suspended” by the Bishop of Avellino. Suspended for what? The
only pretext ever given for the “suspension” is that Father Gruner
must return to Avellino, Italy (where he as ordained in 1976) or be suspended.
Why? Because he “failed” to find another bishop to incardinate him.
But here again the “Declaration” conceals the whole truth: Three
successive friendly bishops have offered incardination to Father Gruner with
permission to continue his apostolate, but all three incardinations have been
blocked (or declared “non-existent”) by the same Vatican
bureaucrats who now announce the resulting “suspension”. In other
words, Father Gruner is deemed “suspended” for failing to carry out
an order his accusers themselves prevented him from carrying out. Would
the same Vatican bureaucrats inflict this kind of torture on Hans Kung, who
remains a priest in good standing?
So, the
Vatican’s priorities in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in world
history are these: 1) telegram of condolences to victims; 2) attacking Father
Gruner, and 3) a very, very distant third, defending the Church from her real
enemies — concerning which the ever-vigilant Congregation for the Clergy
does little or nothing.
This, then, is
where we stand, thirty-five years after the “springtime” of Vatican
II began: The Consecration of Russia — not the world, not “youth in
search of meaning,” not “the unemployed,” but RUSSIA —
remains undone. The world is convulsed by wars, terrorism and the holocaust of
abortion in every nation, as it becomes clearer by the hour that we are heading
for an apocalypse. The Islamic fundamentalists whom Vatican diplomats now call
“our Muslim brothers” hate us and wish to kill us all in accordance
with the dictates of their Koran. The Church herself is gravely wounded by
heresy and scandal in dioceses throughout the world, where she has lost all
credibility because of the corruption of her human members.
Yet in the midst
of all this death, chaos, heresy and scandal, now reaching their respective
apogees, the Vatican considers it imperative — right now! — to
condemn to the whole world one lone priest from Canada, who has honored his
vows and kept the faith.
Why? Why?
It can only be the Message of Fatima. This, it seems, alarms them more than the
current condition of the Church and the world. And yet the condition of the
Church and the world would surely change radically for the better if Father
Gruner’s persecutors would simply do what Our Lady requested at Fatima:
“If My requests are granted, many souls will be saved and there will be
peace.”
Have they no
shame?
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