It is now time to consider, Communism’s role in the Church’s massive, massive crisis. “Cardinal Jamie Ortega is being blakmailed for homosexuality,” April 30, 2012) “[A]n agent who worked for intelligence was the cardinal’s husband,” said Roberto Ortega “All religions are penetrated (by the State Security) including the Catholic Church and its highest authority, the cardinal.”
Reuters reported the close relationship of Ortega to the Communist regime and Francis: “Ortega, 78, enjoys unrivaled access among religious leaders to Cuban President Raul Castro and he has long been an ally of Argentine-born Pope Francis since their years together in the Latin American Bishops’ Council.” (Reuters, “Cuba’s controversial cardinal takes center stage in pope’s visit,” September 8, 2015)
In an LifeSiteNews article reviewing the gay activist Frederic Martel’s book “In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy” it was revealed that the book spoke of “‘rumors” of Cardinal Ortega’s homosexuality. The article said when Pope Benedict XVI visited Francis’s longtime ally Ortega’s Cuba: “Benedict was so overwhelmed by the moral “filth [“sexual debauchery among the clergy” and paedophilia of Ortega’s Cuban Church]”… that he wept. Martel claims… [and] start[ed] considering his abdication.” (LifeSiteNews, “New book suggests Benedict’s trip to Cuba was German Pope’s last straw before abdication,” February 19, 2019)” http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/02/waa-pope-franciss-close-latin-american.html