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Phil Lawler 5h @philipflawler I have little confidence in the judgment of Washington’s Cardinal McElroy. And although Msgr. Rossetti’s claim that UFOs “are, in fact, demons” strikes me as eccentric, I would not see it as a cause for ecclesiastical discipline. But if Rossetti has lost the cardinal’s confidence, I can’t say that I’m surprised. He lost my confidence 25 years ago. Msgr. Rossetti has always had an instinct for topics that command popular attention, especially the attention of people who are emotionally vulnerable. Today his Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal has an enormous audience of followers, who flock to his “online deliverance sessions.” But before he became a celebrity exorcist, he gained prominence for a different specialty: ministering to priests who were charged with (among other things) the sexual abuse of children. Msgr. Rossetti was the president of the St. Luke Institute, the most prominent of the institutions that treated (some would say “recycled” predatory priests). In that capacity, when the abuse scandal came to light, he advised the bishops: “We need to be careful that we don’t make anyone—whether it’s priests or gays—scapegoats.” While he emerged from the scandal with a reputation as an advocate for abuse victims, at St. Luke’s he had developed an understanding of abusers, and a belief that they are not all that different from the rest of us. While anxious to stop the “scapegoating” of homosexuals, he was ready to cast suspicion on others. An article published in Catholic World Report in 1997, several years before the scandal broke, told of his approach: He believes that most instances of pedophillia are never discovered, and this is especially true of pedophiliac acts committed by women. Rossetti is particularly suspicious of mothers, explaining that it is “easier for a mother in our society to disguise inappropriate conduct with youngsters as maternal acts of cleaning, grooming, and dressing.” Father Rossetti also stresses his belief that there is no connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. In his concluding essay, “Challenge of the People of God,” he reiterates his theory that most people have some degree of sexual attraction to children… He faults the Church for cultivating “a climate of repression and/or obsession.”

https://substack.com/@philipflawler/note/c-270721252 Phil Lawler   5h @philipflawler I have little confidence in the judgment of Washington’s Cardinal McElroy. And although Msgr. Rossetti’s claim that UFOs “are, in fact, demons” strikes me as eccentric, I would not see it as a cause for ecclesiastical discipline. But if Rossetti has lost the cardinal’s confidence, I can’t say that I’m surprised. He lost my confidence 25 years ago. Msgr. Rossetti has always had an instinct for topics that command popular attention, especially the attention of people who are emotionally vulnerable. Today his Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal has an enormous audience of followers, who flock to his “online deliverance sessions.” But before he became a celebrity exorcist, he gained prominence for a different specialty: ministering to priests who were charged with (among other things) the sexual abuse of children. Msgr. Rossetti was the president of the St. Luke Institute, the most prominent of ...
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Google AI Overview Historian Juan Miguel Zunzunegui characterizes friar Bartolomé de las Casas as a "narcissistic liar" whose writings exaggerated the realities of the Spanish conquest. He views Las Casas's legacy as the primary origin of the "Black Legend," which unfairly demonized the Spanish.Zunzunegui's Perspective on Las Casas and the Black LegendExaggeration and the Black Legend: Zunzunegui argues that Las Casas's Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias contained wildly exaggerated figures and distorted realities, claiming absurdly high death tolls where population figures didn't even support such numbers. He contends that this work served as the foundation of the anti-Spanish propaganda known as the Black Legend.Weaponization by European Rivals: According to Zunzunegui, leaders like William of Orange used, altered, and circulated Las Casas's texts during the Eighty Years' War to depict Spain as an uniquely cruel and barbaric empire.The Hispanic Roots of Mexico: Zunzunegui, who is known for his revisionist, hispanist approach to Mexican history, emphasizes that the narrative of a violent, invasive Spanish conquest overlooks the reality of extensive indigenous alliances, the vast cultural and structural foundations laid in the Americas, and the historical reality that modern Mexico is deeply rooted in its Hispanic heritage.For a deeper look into his critique of traditional history and his defense of the Hispanic legacy, you can explore Zunzunegui's discussions on the El Mundo Article on Zunzunegui or read his book Hernán Cortés: Encuentro y Conquista.

AI Overview +6 Mexican writer and historian Juan Miguel Zunzunegui characterizes friar Bartolomé de las Casas as a "narcissistic liar" whose writings exaggerated the realities of the Spanish conquest. He views Las Casas's legacy as the primary origin of the "Black Legend," which unfairly demonized the Spanish. [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] Zunzunegui's Perspective on Las Casas and the Black Legend Exaggeration and the Black Legend: Zunzunegui argues that Las Casas's Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias contained wildly exaggerated figures and distorted realities, claiming absurdly high death tolls where population figures didn't even support such numbers. He contends that this work served as the foundation of the anti-Spanish propaganda known as the Black Legend. [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] Weaponization by European Rivals: According to Zunzunegui, leaders like William of Orange used, altered, and circulated Las Casas's texts d...

Zunzunegui, the Mexican historian against the Black Legend: Mexican historian...is highly critical, even of Bartolomé de las Casas, the Dominican friar who denounced the excesses committed by the nation at the beginning of the American epic, whom he calls a "narcissistic liar."

https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2024/11/12/673249c2fc6c830e508b459e.html Zunzunegui, the Mexican historian against the Black Legend: "Spain was not an unfortunate country that had enslaved colonies: we were an empire" The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is highly critical of the false myths that still persist: "Spain is our father country and America, our mother country," he says. 81 comments Jorge Benítez (Text) Bernardo Díaz (Photography) Updated Tuesday, November 12, 2024 -  00:38 If Philip II had hired Juan Miguel Zunzunegui as press secretary, the Black Legend spread by England and the Netherlands against the Spanish Monarchy would have been quickly dispelled, and Spain would be more associated with a Christmas advertisement for El Almendro than with the Inquisition, the rape of Indigenous women, or the terror the Duke of Alba inspired in Flanders. This 49-year-old Mexican historian, who has thousands o...