[Catholic Caucus] Argentina: An [Anonymous] Bishop Has the Courage to Tell the Truth

Just as Argentina was the world champion of hyperinflation (5000% in 1989), today it suffers from hyperinflation of bishops, especially auxiliary bishops, writes La Cigüeña De La Torre on InfoVaticana.com (27 December).

"In La Plata, for example, there are five seminarians and four bishops".

La Cigüeña De La Torre quotes an Argentinean bishop "who, of course, requested anonymity so that his head would not roll":

"If the Argentine Church today does not have the slightest influence in public life, it is because it has been systematically emptied of faith [and brains] in recent decades - and especially since 2013."

According to this bishop, the Argentinean Church suffers the consequences of the 'theology of the people', the Peronist version of the 'theology of liberation', of 'Jesuitism', and of its current subordination to globalism [= Western propaganda and homosexual ideology]".

As a result, today the Argentinean Church is not a Church that is going out [to the people], but a Church "on the run".

"The seminaries are empty, the religious life is in agony, the number of clergy leaving their ministry is alarming... And most of the bishops are living on the moon... Moreover, they are convinced that all this is due to a lack of openness to the world".

They don't want to see "that today, especially among young people, there is a return to the sources".

Young people are fed up with "progressivism" and prefer to return to Catholicism.

The Argentinean prelate gave the example of "a bishop in the semi-desert of Patagonia, with an extreme shortage of priests, who refused to bring missionaries from the Institute of the Incarnate Word to his diocese. I would rather close parishes than bring in these reactionaries," he exclaimed.

In other words, he would rather die than be Catholic.

According to the anonymous bishop, among Francis' recent appointments of bishops, especially auxiliary bishops, "more than one would not pass an elementary theology exam".

Quote: "They had very poor seminaries and, moreover, they are not distinguished by intelligence, ability, human qualities or missionary fervour. Obviously, they were chosen for their shortcomings, which make them easy to dominate".

The fact that, in some dioceses, so many young priests are leaving their ministry is not surprising: "With a poor formation in the seminaries, empty of faith and of a transcendent vision, careless of their own bishops and thrown headlong into 'social work', it is inevitable that at the first serious trials they will end up deserting".

For the Bishop, this is the result of leaving the "table of the Eucharist" for the tables of the soup kitchens: "They go from being the servants of Christ to being the servants of the neighbourhood, working for the mere winds of politics."

Asked how all this could be reversed, the bishop said: "The next Pope, who will not be Argentine, would have to ask all the bishops in the country to resign.

He would have to analyse each case on a case-by-case basis and "keep in office those bishops who have the courage and are ready for reconstruction".

"He should also close all the seminaries temporarily, review the curricula of the theological faculties and, in the meantime, train future priests in an orthodox structure, faithful to the teachings of the past".

He would have to create something like a national interdiocesan seminary, where improvisation and the destruction of the faith would be stopped: "There is no other way. For great evils, great remedies".

Of course, none of this will ever happen...