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Kudos from everyone here at The Laity for the brave souls who took five “Pachamama” statues from a Roman Catholic church of Santa Maria in Transpontina and threw them off the edge of Ponte Sant’Angelo into the Tiber.  This is a kind of “liberation theology” we can get behind.

“The YouTube video shows an unidentified man removing the statues from the church before placing them on the edge of the Ponte Sant’Angelo and pushing them into the river below. The description indicates that the events took place on the morning of Monday, October 21.”

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As noted in The National Catholic Register, on the same day Pope Francis broke his eight-month silence on the issue by proclaiming that he had no knowledge of McCarrick’s proclivities or of the restrictions placed on McCarrick by Pope St. John Paul II, McCarrick’s former secretary published excerpts of numerous correspondence showing that many in the Vatican had actual or constructive knowledge of both. Including Wuerl.  By McCarrick’s own hand.

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“While Pope Francis has ignited some confusion amongst the laity with his public pronouncements on homosexuality (“Who am I to judge?”, which was his off-the-cuff response to a question about his advancement of a priest with known homosexual proclivities), he has on other occasions spoken against homosexuality in the priesthood, at least in a general way.”