VATICAN—In wide ranging exclusive interview with @cnnportugal, Pope Francis addresses Sex Abuse crisis:
“ZERO TOLERANCE. A priest cannot continue to be a priest if he is an abuser”.
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Pope Francis created a position in the Vatican for his personal friend, Bishop Oscar Zanchetta, after credible allegations of sexual abuse and harassment from seminarians (adult men) became public.
WATCH: Exorcist Fr Chad Ripperger on Crisis Manipulation, Disinformation & Accountability. (THREAD) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
I have now been a journalist in Italy, for three years.
Fr Chad Ripperger’s statements on the Principles of Integrity and Evidence are absolutely essential in this age of crisis manipulation and disinformation.
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I have consistently posted on journalistic ethics—often receiving personal attacks in return.
If you’ve followed my work, you’ve no doubt seen me call to account journalists—ESPECIALLY Catholic journalists—who have repeatedly reported unsubstantiated rumours as “news”.
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It seems there are challenges to pushing ideologies as news.
This is healthy for debate, but hard to counter if censored.
Historical facts should be pretty clear on the assertions made.
One of the documents cited states Dr Malone was the “first author on a 1989 paper demonstrating how RNA could be delivered into cells using lipids, which are basically tiny globules of fat”.