Pena Palace, Sintra
About 80 Catholic bishops, and some cardinals, gathered in a luxury hotel in Sintra, in a secret meeting organized by a US institute that has connections to Republicans, and is critical of Pope Francis.
The meeting took place at Penha Longa Resort in Sintra, and was attended by 80 Catholic bishops and cardinals from around the world, as the digital newspaper that covers questions related to religion.
This “secret meeting” was organized and funded by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Freedom) “Very critical of the ideas of“namely by the positions it considers to be a threat to the “traditional family”, the publication holds.
There is Elements of the US Republican Partyinvolved in this institute that paid trips and accommodation at the luxury hotel, where an individual room for four nights can cost 1000 euros.
The meeting took place between January 14 and 18 this year.
US Institute organizes seminars to “educate” religious leaders
The Acton Institute supports free market policies framed within the Judeo-Christian Moralityorganizing seminars for educate religious leaders From various countries, business executives, entrepreneurs, university professors and researchers.
In addition to stay and travel, the Institute also organized a Fatima For the bishops and cardinals who attended the meeting in Sintra.
The meeting has taken place in recent years, in the same hotel in the Portuguese city, as “A kind of ritual”also supports the seven margins.
This year, there was as “Special” guest the bishop rolling Alvarezfrom Nicaragua, who was detained and was expelled from the country by Daniel Ortega regime.
The bishop spoke of the persecution that he was a victim by the authoritarian government and approached the persecution of the Catholic Church in several latitudes.
Alvarez told how he was “21 days stuck in ‘inferninho’ ”“Totally naked”, “sleepless”, with “screams”, “cold food, without salt”, “raw fish” and a “suffocating heat”.
“He sang to God and Our Lady. I thought about death. He asked that if he was going to die, that would serve in purgatory, ”he said, as he cites seven banks, based on testimonies of those who were at the meeting.
