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| Het is goed mogelijk, dat Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, net zoals Bergoglio, een agent is van het Britse regime |
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (Reading, 24 augustus 1932 – Londen, 1 september 2017) was een Brits geestelijke en kardinaal van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
Murphy-O'Connor werd geboren in een gezin van vijf kinderen. Twee van zijn broers werden eveneens priester. Na zijn middelbare school bezocht hij het Engels College in Rome en studeerde vervolgens aan het Gregorianum theologie en wijsbegeerte. Hij werd op 28 oktober 1956 priester gewijd. Vervolgens werkte hij in Portsmouth en Fareham. In 1966 werd hij secretaris en kapelaan van de bisschop van Portsmouth. In 1971 werd hij rector van het Engels College in Rome.
Op 17 november 1977 werd Murphy-O'Connor benoemd tot bisschop van Arundel and Brighton. Zijn bisschopswijding vond plaats op 21 december 1977. Hij hield zich in de tijd die hierop volgde intensief bezig met de oecumene, vooral als voorzitter van de internationale commissie voor de dialoog tussen de Anglicaanse Kerk en de Katholieke Kerk. Het leverde hem onder andere een eredoctoraat van Lambeth op, op voordracht van de aartsbisschop van Canterbury.
Op 22 maart 2000 benoemde paus Johannes Paulus II Murphy-O'Connor tot aartsbisschop van Westminster en tot primaat van Engeland en Wales.
Murphy-O'Connor werd tijdens het consistorie van 21 februari 2001 kardinaal gecreëerd. Hij kreeg de rang van kardinaal-priester. Zijn titelkerk werd de Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Hij nam deel aan het conclaaf van 2005.
Als aartsbisschop van Westminster zette Murphy-O'Connor zich in voor het eerbiedigen van sacramenten als de biecht, die steeds minder in acht genomen leken te worden.
Murphy-O'Connor ging op 3 april 2009 met emeritaat.
Cardinal believed to have led the effort to elect Pope Francis dies
LONDON, September 1, 2017 (LifeSiteNews): Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor of England has died of cancer.
Murphy-O’Connor, 85, was the Archbishop of Westminster, and therefore England’s leading Catholic churchman, from 2000 until 2009. Born in England of Irish parents in 1932, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1956 and to the episcopate in 1977. Pope Saint John Paul II named him a Cardinal in 2001.
The Cardinal was also one of the group of clerics dubbed the St. Gallen “mafia” by Cardinal Godfried Daneels. Its goal was to radically reform the Church to make it “much more modern.”
The informal group came into existence sometime around 1996. Besides Murphy-O’Connor, members included Cardinals da Cruz Policarpo, Martini, Danneels, Silvestrini, Husar, Kasper, and Lehmann. These prelates thought they could have a “significant impact” on future papal elections if each of them used their network of contacts, according to Danneels’ authorized biography co-written by Jürgen Mettepenningen and Karim Schelkens.
The group allegedly lost its impetus in 2006 after failing to have their preferred candidate elected in the 2005 conclave. While the group has been accused of being involved in a plot that led to the resignation of Pope Benedict, these claims have been denied by former bishop of St. Gallen, Ivo Fürer.
But while Bishop Fürer stated that the St. Gallen group did not officially meet after 2006, and therefore could not have been involved in a plot to force Benedict XVI to resign, this does not mean that the group was inactive.
According to Austen Ivereigh, Francis’ biographer and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor’s former assistant, days prior to the March 12 conclave in Rome, Murphy-O’Connor was tasked by the St. Gallen “mafia” with informing Bergoglio of a plan to get him elected. Murphy-O’Connor was an old friend of Bergoglio.
As Ivereigh described in his 2014 book on Pope Francis, Murphy-O’Connor was also tasked with lobbying for Bergoglio among his North American counterparts as well as acting as a link for those from Commonwealth countries.
“They first secured Bergoglio’s assent,” wrote Ivereigh. “Asked if he was willing, he said that he believed that at this time of crisis for the Church no cardinal could refuse if asked. Murphy-O’Connor knowingly warned him to 'be careful,’ and that it was his turn now, and was told 'capisco’ – 'I understand.’”
“Then they got to work, touring the cardinals’ dinners to promote their man, arguing that his age – 76 – should no longer be considered an obstacle, given that popes could resign. Having understood from 2005 the dynamics of a conclave, they knew that votes travelled to those who made a strong showing out of the gate,” he wrote.
Because he was over the age of 80, Murphy-O'Connor was not able to vote in the Conclave, but was present at the pre-Conclave gatherings. On March 2, an anonymous cardinal who was not able to vote in the conclave told Italian news service La Stampa that, “Four years of Bergoglio would be enough to change things.” Murphy-O'Connor was later named making the same comment in a July 2013 piece that appeared in the Independent.
The English Diocese of Westminster was restored to the Roman Catholic Church in 1850, just over twenty years after the Catholic Emancipation Act. Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor was the tenth post-Reformation Archbishop of Westminster and the first not to die in office. His successor is Vincent Cardinal Nichols.
Bron: LifeSiteNews
Link:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-st.-gallen-group-cardinal-dies
Andere links:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/st.-gallen-group-not-a-lobby-group-say-authors
http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2610-the-gall-of-the-st-gallen-mafia
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/swiss-bishops-confirm-existence-of-cardinal-danneels-mafia-against-benedict
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-themes-of-the-synod-the-themes-of-the-sankt-gallen-mafia-club
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11248263/English-cardinal-Cormac-Murphy-OConnor-lobbied-for-Pope.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2013/03/02/italia/cronache/tentazione-sudamericana-per-il-primo-papa-extraeuropeo-XvX5JzVJsZR6Sf99SmPAQJ/pagina.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/pope-francis-puts-people-first-and-dogma-second-is-this-really-the-new-face-of-catholicism-8740242.html
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