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  • [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider likens Pope Francis’ support of homosexual ‘blessings’ to emperor without clothes

    03/18/2024 5:52:22 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Emily Mangiaracina
    [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider likens Pope Francis’ support of homosexual ‘blessings’ to emperor without clothesThe faithful bishop accused the Vatican of using ‘mental gymnastics’ that are ‘an insult to our reason' in its promotion of blessings for gay couples.Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, has exhorted Catholics to call out Pope Francis for his support of homosexual couple “blessings,” just like a child called out an emperor for being “naked” in Hans Christian Anderson’s folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”In a Thursday interview with podcaster Father Daniel Maria Klimek, Bishop Schneider commented on the widespread condemnation of Fiducia Supplicans by prelates...
  • Following the Unfaithful

    03/18/2024 3:49:13 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | March 18, 2024 | Eric Sammons
    Following the UnfaithfulIn an effort to be more "welcoming," many Church leaders are looking to fallen-away Catholics to lead the way.A well-known tactic in political circles is to release a “survey” that supports a predetermined conclusion. For example, a Republican PAC might send out a survey to its base asking “Do you think Joe Biden is right about the 2nd amendment?” Or the Democrats might ask if Trump is the next Hitler. Then the results will be touted as proof of massive support for the forgone conclusion. This doesn’t just happen in political circles, though, as is clear from a...
  • Biden hosts papal nuncio Christophe Pierre, Fr. James Martin at White House St. Patrick’s Day brunch

    03/18/2024 3:33:26 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 12 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Claire Chretien
    Biden hosts papal nuncio Christophe Pierre, Fr. James Martin at White House St. Patrick’s Day brunchPapal nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre, homosexual Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and left-wing Jesuit Fathers James Martin and Thomas Reese joined President Joe Biden at the White House yesterday for a St. Patrick’s Day brunch.Pierre, who as papal nuncio is the pope’s ambassador to the U.S., delivered an invocation and led grace before the meal.“We gather on St. Patrick’s Day to pay tribute to the Catholic leadership in this country, especially the fields of charity and social engagement. And so, we give thanks to God...
  • Vatican Revolution: yes to euthanasia and artificial insemination

    03/18/2024 10:59:13 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 19 replies
    Daily Compass ^ | March 18, 2024 | Tommaso Scandroglio
    Vatican Revolution: yes to euthanasia and artificial inseminationThe ban on euthanasia causes worse harm than good; green light to homologous fertilisation: these are the resounding statements contained in the book La gioia della vita (The Joy of Life), a joint reflection of the theologians of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Pav). And even the Bible can be corrected. It’s an unapologetic declaration of heresy.La gioia della vita (The Joy of Life) is a text, published last month, and "the fruit of the common reflection of a qualified group of theologians who met on the initiative of the Pontifical Academy for...
  • [Catholic Caucus] My Catholic Life! Public Sinners - Monday, March 18, 2024 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    03/18/2024 9:02:54 AM PDT · by fidelis · 4 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | March 18, 2024 | My Catholic Life
    Daily Readings from the USCCB“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7This is a powerful line spoken by Jesus. The judgmental and condemning Pharisees brought a woman to Jesus who had apparently been caught “in the very act of committing adultery.” Was she a sinner? Yes, indeed she was. But this story is not so much about whether or not she was a sinner. It was about the attitude Jesus had toward sinners as compared to that held by the self-righteous, judgmental and condemning Pharisees. First of all,...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 18-March-2024

    03/18/2024 3:59:42 AM PDT · by annalex · 14 replies
    18 March 2024 Monday of the 5th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Doctor) St. Cyril Of Jerusalem in Jamison, PA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: B(II).First readingDaniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62 ©Susannah and the eldersIn Babylon there lived a man named Joakim. He had married Susanna daughter of Hilkiah, a woman of great beauty; and she was God-fearing, because her parents were worthy people and had instructed their daughter in the Law of Moses. Joakim was a very rich man, and had a garden attached to his house; the Jews would often visit him since...
  • Sunday Mass Sermon- Drinking The Blood Of Christ

    03/17/2024 5:41:43 PM PDT · by MurphsLaw
    Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 03.17.24 | Bishop Robert Barron
    Todays sermon, while rather shockingly titled... explores OT Covenantal theology.. summed up in Jeremiah's prophesy. To even begin to understand this nature of the Sacrificial Blood throughout Scripture... includes following this Sermon perspective completely. 14 min. YouTube video clip below: Drinking The Blood Of Christ
  • St. Patrick Was Beloved by Many — But Not by His Bishops

    03/17/2024 5:33:57 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 21 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | March 17, 2004 | Patti Maguire Armstrong
    St. Patrick Was Beloved by Many — But Not by His BishopsIn Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day has traditionally been a religious occasion beginning with Mass. Shops and businesses (excepting restaurants and pubs) were all shut down on that day. During the 1990s however, the Irish government began to take advantage of the opportunity to bring in tourism. Cities and towns throughout Ireland now host parades, sporting events, parades, concerts, fireworks and theater productions on St. Patrick’s Day.Even those without a drop of Irish blood can celebrate St. Patrick with gusto. After all, he was not Irish either. He was born...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 17-March-2024

    03/17/2024 10:55:45 AM PDT · by annalex · 17 replies
    17 March 2024 5th Sunday of Lent Saint Patrick Cathedral, Downtown Fort Worth, TexasReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: B(II).First readingJeremiah 31:31-34 ©I will write my Law in their heartsSee, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel (and the House of Judah), but not a covenant like the one I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant of mine, so I had to show...
  • [Catholic Caucus] My Catholic Life! Suffering Transformed by Glory - Sunday, March 17, 2024 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    03/17/2024 8:43:41 AM PDT · by fidelis · 6 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | March 17, 2024 | My Catholic Life
    Daily Readings from the USCCB“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” John 12:27–28Our Lord’s human soul was “troubled.” Other translations state that His soul was in agony. After expressing His interior suffering, Jesus identified the human temptation caused by this suffering: to flee from His “hour.” Of course Jesus dismisses this temptation as a way of teaching us a lesson from...
  • ASIA/PAKISTAN - On the anniversary of his death, the diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the young Akah Bashir has concluded {Catholic martyr prevented Muslim suicide bomber}

    03/16/2024 12:30:43 PM PDT · by Cronos · 2 replies
    Fides.org ^ | 15 March 2024
    Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The sacrifice of Akash Bashir is an example that is bearing fruit in the Church in Pakistan: it ended with a solemn mass of thanksgiving celebrated this morning, March 15, in the Cathedral of Lahore filled with over 500 faithful the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Akash Bashir, the young 20-year-old Pakistani who sacrificed himself on March 15, 2015 in Lahore to stop a terrorist who wanted to carry out a massacre at the Church of St. John in the Youhanabad district of Lahore. "I will die, but I won't let you into the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Sacred Page: The New Covenant: The Fifth Sunday of Lent

    03/16/2024 11:33:33 AM PDT · by fidelis · 4 replies
    The Sacred Page Blog ^ | March 17, 2018 | Dr. John Bergsma
    In this Lent of Year B, we are taking a survey through the Old Testament of the great covenant moments. We have seen the Noahic covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the covenant failure of Israel resulting in exile, and now finally, on this fifth week, we witness the promise of the New Covenant through the voice of the prophet Jeremiah. In the Gospel, Jesus speaks in ominous terms about the coming suffering that will be necessary for him to undergo in order to establish that New Covenant. 1. The First Reading is Jeremiah 31:31-34: The days are coming,...
  • [Catholic Caucus] New Synod documents reveal discussion themes for study groups formed by Pope Francis

    03/16/2024 11:17:12 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 14, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] New Synod documents reveal discussion themes for study groups formed by Pope FrancisA new document from Synod on Synodality leaders outlined study groups to explore key synod themes.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Leaders of the Synod on Synodality have published two new texts, highlighting Pope Francis’ plans to implement a more permanent effect of the multi-year synod by the format of study groups for key synod themes.At a press conference today, a panel of speakers comprised of the Synod on Synodality’s leading members presented two lengthy documents, showing the results of the General Secretariat of the Synod’s recent workings...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Wonderful Diversity: OFM Provincial Proclaims His "Homosexuality"

    03/16/2024 10:23:58 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | March 15, 2024 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] Wonderful Diversity: OFM Provincial Proclaims His "Homosexuality"Father Markus Fuhrmann, OFM, head of the 200-member German Franciscan Province, has told urbi et orbi that he is a "homosexual".He explained his confession to Katholisch.de (12 March) by saying that "I had to change something for the sake of my own honesty". Katholisch.de is run by the German bishops.Already in January 2022, Fuhrmann took part in 'OutInChurch', a homosexual propaganda campaign by about 120 employees of the "Catholic" Church in Germany, which employs about 650,000 people (including 'Caritas').Five months later, when the provincial chapter had to elect a new provincial, Fuhrmann...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 16-March-2024

    03/16/2024 8:17:36 AM PDT · by annalex · 14 replies
    16 March 2024 Saturday of the 4th week of Lent San José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero chapel, Villa Cura Brochero, Córdoba, ArgentinaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: B(II).First readingJeremiah 11:18-20 ©'Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be quickly forgotten'The Lord revealed it to me; I was warned. O Lord, that was when you opened my eyes to their scheming. I for my part was like a trustful lamb being led to the slaughter-house, not knowing the schemes they were plotting against me, ‘Let us destroy the tree in its strength,...
  • [Catholic Caucus] My Catholic Life! Attacks From the evil one - Saturday, March 16, 2024 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    03/16/2024 6:33:28 AM PDT · by fidelis · 4 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | March 16, 2024 | My Catholic Life
    Daily Readings from the USCCBThe guards answered, “Never before has anyone spoken like this man.” So the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd, which does not know the law, is accursed.” John 7:46–49Hopefully the Pharisees mentioned above went through a deep interior conversion before they died. If they did not, then their day of particular judgment would have been shocking and frightening to them. The greatest act of love ever known was God becoming one of us, being conceived by the Holy Spirit in...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Archbishop statement on The Mission of Divine Mercy

    03/15/2024 8:24:23 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Archdiocese of San Antonia ^ | March 15, 2024 | Archbishop Gustafa Garcia Siller
    [Catholic Caucus] Archbishop statement on The Mission of Divine Mercy
  • How Napoleon Ended The Terror Of The Spanish Inquisition | Files of the Inquisition | Real History

    03/15/2024 7:32:56 PM PDT · by Texan4Life · 33 replies
    Real History Channel ^ | 15 March 2024 | Real History Channel
    In his conquest of Europe Napoleon encounters and abolishes the Inquisition and its ongoing atrocities in France, Spain and northern Italy. But with Napoleon's fall from power the Inquisition returns with vengeance. Despite causing substantial public relations damage to the Catholic Church in the modern era it is not substantially curtained until the Church is conquered by the newly unified nation of Italy.
  • [Catholic Caucus] My Catholic Life! The New Moses - Friday, March 15, 2024 - Catholic Caucus/Devotional

    03/15/2024 10:39:48 AM PDT · by fidelis · 4 replies
    My Catholic Life (YouTube) ^ | March 15, 2024 | My Catholic Life
    Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus moved about within Galilee; he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. John 7:1–2; 10The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was one of three great feasts during which the people made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem to commemorate God’s saving action in their lives. This particular feast was to commemorate the 40 years that the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Austrian priest and papal critic: ‘Let’s remain Catholic and hold on to the traditional faith’

    03/15/2024 9:07:41 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 14, 2024 | Maike Hickson
    [Catholic Caucus] Austrian priest and papal critic: ‘Let’s remain Catholic and hold on to the traditional faith’'Let's remain Catholic and hold on to the traditional faith. That is the right way. We don't need to pay attention to anything else; it doesn't come from God,' said Austrian priest Fr. Joachim Heimerl.(LifeSiteNews) — In recent weeks, LifeSiteNews has published a number of commentaries about the crisis in the Church and Pope Francis’ reform agenda by Father Joachim Heimerl, a priest incardinated in the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria.Being unable to exercise his priestly ministry due to health problems, Father Heimerl has been...