Late Journalist George Neumayr Warned: ‘The Clock On Catholic Civilization Is Nearing Midnight’

Late last week, George NeumayrThe third highest-profile Catholic to be killed in the same week was Neumayr, a journalist, author and senior editor at the American Spectator. Neumayr died suddenly on Thursday, January 19, from malaria he contracted in the Ivory Coast in west Africa. He was there to conduct research for a forthcoming project about the Catholic Church in Africa.

The year began on a dismal note, with Pope Benedict XVI’s death on Dec. 31. Two weeks later, Cardinal George Pell of Australia, a conservative Catholic, died unexpectedly in Rome following a routine hip operation. But if the loss of Benedict after a decade of frailty and seclusion was deeply upsetting, and if Pell’s sudden death, days after he Authored a stern rebuke of the Vatican’s neo-Marxist interpretation of faith and morals, was dismaying, Neumayr’s premature demise was distinctly unsettling.

All three — pope, cardinal, and journalist — have bequeathed a message of urgency, nay emergency, regarding the perilous road the church is treading, a warning that should not be buried with them.

Neumayr, who died on Friday, January 20, was reported to have died. Neumayr was in Africa. Since Dec. 26, visiting different parishes around Abidjan. He Not noted They were also conspicuously unattended and/or neglected, which is evidence of both decolonization in the post-Vatican II church and its decline.

Neumayr never disclosed publicly that he had contracted Malaria. He mentioned that he had been diagnosed with malaria on Sunday, January 15. “violently ill” The day before, he had suffered from a form of food poisoning. However, he confirmed that he was feeling much better. His last Known Communication appears to have occurred at around 6:30 a.m. Ivorian time on Tuesday, January 17. On Wednesday, his colleagues were worried when they uncharacteristically hadn’t heard from him; on Thursday, he was dead.

Neumayr appeared to be genuinely intoxicated over the past weeks. Be concerned His life and bantered Back and forth Chat with another Twitter user to discuss getting Whack. Neumayr was shocked when his phone got snatched by a passing motorcyclist on the streets in Abidjan. Jokes that he’d almost cried out: “Are you with the USCCB?” meaning the United States Conference of Catholic  Bishops.

Neumayr clearly meant this in jest. Because of his relentless pursuit of the corrupt and compromised, Neumayr was not a favorite among U.S. Bishops. He was always willing to take on the dirty work and name names. He retired in 2018. revealed The place where serial sex abuser and pedophile Theodore McCarrick, disgraced former cardinal, was apparently hiding following his fall from grace. It was located in a luxurious mansion owned by the Archdiocese of Washington and where also auxiliary Bishop Mario Dorsonville was supposed to have lived. Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Bruenig visited the Archdiocese of Washington several times to seek answers. Notified To her editor. McCarrick was then hurriedly expelled to safer quarters in a faraway location. Kansas friary.

Neumayr, Bishop Barry Knestout from the Diocese Richmond, Virginia was having a rough year.

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