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Italian church weddings face catastrophic collapse after COVID pandemicROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican is rejecting a government proposal to subsidize weddings in Catholic churches, even though only 1 out of 4 Italians is now opting for a church wedding. On Sunday, Abp. Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, spurned the offer of a tax bonus of up to 20,000 euros to be used for the expenses of couples who marry in the churches of Italy — a country that currently has one of the lowest marriage rates in the world. "For the Church, marriage is a sacrament,...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Plops Another Synod Stinker Upon The Church As many of you know, the pope and cabal initiated a "Synod on Synodality". That is no joke. They are literally talking about talking. Not only that, but they've decided to extend the gabfest for who knows how long. We know from past synods what the real deal is. The New World Order wonks - and that includes Francis - have an agenda that will be realized through this. They are merely putting on this charade to give the appearance that they really care about input from real Catholics....

The fallout from the EWTN interview with Cardinal Gerhard Mueller continues. That interview sent shockwaves through the hierarchy with the hierarchy scrambling to accuse the American cable news network of fomenting schism. ...

Francis Shelfs "Poverty" Ideology, Opens Luxury MallA luxury shopping centre called Vatican Mall with 57 shops will open in November near St Peter's Basilica. The three entrances are on Via della Conciliazione, Piazza di Porta Cavalleggeri and Via Urbano VIII, 16c, including a parking lot for tourist buses.The building belongs to the Vatican. It is noticeable that Francis has been putting his ideology of a "poor church for the poor" on hold for some time.EFE.com (7 October) explains the convoluted ownership of the property. The Vatican building is managed by the Italian company Terminal Vaticano, which leases it to the...

Cuban priest Jose Conrado Rodríguez Alegre sent an open letter to Pope Francis in which he reprimanded him for his silence in the face of outrage by various totalitarian regimes.Especially Cuba. According to the Catholic parish priest of the San Francisco de Paula Church, in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, “We know very well that when the Holy See does not explicitly and firmly defend the victims, totalitarian governments feel free to take action against their victims.” “I must admit that it has become more difficult for me to honestly affirm that ‘The Pope often surprises me, but he never lets me...

BIDEN, BARRON & BERGOGLIO: Rockin’ the Post-Catholic WorldDo you remember when Catholic bishops and priests were leading the charge in the culture war against ‘sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll’ last century? What happened? To paraphrase another hippy crooner, Pete Seeger, “where have all the Catholics gone?” Last week, Bishop Robert Barron proudly announced on Facebook that he’d made a pilgrimage to the boyhood home of iconic folk rocker, Bob Dylan.Apart from offering further proof that the Catholic Church has surrendered in the Culture War, what’s the takeaway? To answer that question, Michael Matt points to President Joe ‘The Catholic’...

Pope Francis has been steadfast in his opposition to the war in Ukraine, decrying the violence that it has wrought on innocent civilians. At the same time, the pope suggested there was blame for the war to go around beyond Russia and Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, an Italian newspaper published an interview with Francis where he declined to state what he believed was Putin’s exact motivations for launching the war against Ukraine on Feb. 24. However, the pope suggested that the West could bear some responsibility for what he says may have been its provocation of Putin. "Maybe it was...

As Biden and Bergoglio Accelerate Towards Hell, We Must Go BackwardsAnyone who prayed that Joe Biden’s September 1, 2022 speech to the nation would make it abundantly clear that the United States president is serving Satan would not have been disappointed: those with eyes to see readily noticed the demonic background, which was at times rendered mild in comparison with the demonically insane anger animating the ordinarily lifeless Mr. Biden. And indeed many of us have prayed that something would open the eyes of so many souls who have thus far managed to miss the stunningly obvious fact that Biden...

[Catholic Caucus] Coincidences? I think not.I recently wrote:I am convinced that one of the reasons certain bishops and priests seem determined to suppress the TLM and isolate, marginalize the people who want it is because the TLM unsettles, disturbs, annoys, irritates, needles, vexes clerics involved in one of the sins that cries to heaven.[…]The first thing you would have to do is change the way people worship. Change how they pray, and over time over time you change what they believe. In the Vetus Ordo the changers perceive an obstacle to changing the Church’s doctrines, especially in the sphere of...

[Catholic Caucus] Is this the end of Pope Francis?For well over a year, a nasty rumour has been floating through the Vatican that Pope Francis is terminally ill with cancer. I was told it was true by an Italian prelate in an apartment just a stone’s throw from the hostel where the 85-year-old pontiff is now pushed around in a wheelchair. A diplomatic source discussed it ruefully over an espresso in the Borgo Pio. A well-connected American traditionalist Catholic texted that it was “definitely true!” — the exclamation mark suggesting that he wasn’t too distressed.Then, on Sunday morning, the Associated...

[Catholic Caucus] “Many ‘on the one hands’ and ‘on the other’ around a Francis resignation” — Michael Charlier on the end of a pontificate In Catholic media, but also to some extent in the secular press, there was a lot of speculation at Pentecost about a possible resignation of Pope Francis before the end of this August. The trigger—in addition to pictures of Francis in a wheelchair—was the announcement of a trip to L’Aquila immediately after the consistory planned for Aug. 27, at which Francis plans to explain his curia reform to the cardinals. L’Aquila is the site of...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop John M. Quinn of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, and named as his successor Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles. A press conference will be available via live stream at 11 a.m. central time, June 2, at www.dowr.org . His installation Mass has been set for Friday, July 29. Bishop Barron, 62, is a Chicago native who has been a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop since 2015. He also is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Bishop Quinn, who has headed the Diocese of Winona-Rochester for 13 years, is 76 years old....

The Pope called for more gun control in the United States after the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, and a Cardinal in Chicago agreed. Pope Francis spoke about the shooting from St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during his weekly general audience. "I am praying for the children and adults who were killed, and for their families. It is time to say enough to the indiscriminate trafficking of arms," Francis said Wednesday. "Let us all make a commitment, so that tragedies like this cannot happen again," he added. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago,...

Russian Orthodox Church: Pope Francis’ Comments About Talks With Patriarch Kirill ‘Regrettable’The Russian Orthodox Church on Wednesday described Pope Francis’ recent comments about his discussion of the Ukraine war with Patriarch Kirill as ‘regrettable.’The Russian Orthodox Church on Wednesday described Pope Francis’ recent comments about his discussion of the Ukraine war with Patriarch Kirill as “regrettable.”The Moscow Patriarchate’s external relations department said in a May 4 statement that the Pope’s words were “unlikely to contribute to the establishment of a constructive dialogue” between the Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox Church. The Pope and the patriarch of Moscow and all...

New Ways Ministry, a far-left, dissident LGBT group, has leaked to the press two letters written to them by Pope Francis. In the letters, Francis thanks the organization for their 'neighborly work' and praises its dissident founder, Sr. Jeannine Gramick, as a "valiant woman." New Ways Ministry was officially barred from calling itself a Catholic ministry and from working with homosexuals in 1999 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was serving as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. ...

What Does He Have on the Cardinals? "I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, `He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.` " - John 13:18 Judas Iscariot at the Left as the Apostles Argue about Who Will Betray JesusDoes Pope Francis have the same relationship with the broad sweep of Papal Electors, as he has with those whose secrets he has and whom he keeps closest to him? IRONY OF JESUIT "CHAPTER OF FAULTS" It is widely reported that Francis keeps closest...

Big news about sacred tradition and Traditionis Custodes emerged over the weekend. ...

The Vatican’s seven-year plan to widen the reach of Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment is just what the church needs in a time of global climate change in the mind of Father Emmet Farrell, a retired priest living in San Diego. “The church is very serious about what we need to do to address climate change,” Father Farrell, volunteer director of the Creation Care Ministry of the Diocese of San Diego, said of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform that launched Nov. 14. The pope introduced the initiative in a video May 25, asking the world to join a...

[Russian Orthodox] Bishop Says Joe Biden “Cant’ Call Himself a Catholic” Because He Promotes AbortionsJoe Biden should stop calling himself a Catholic if he continues to “violate Christian morality” by promoting abortions, a Russian Orthodox bishop said this week.Breitbart reports Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, who chairs the Department of External Church Relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, responded to journalists’ questions about abortion and the United States president after Biden visited Pope Francis at the Vatican last week.The U.S. president “cannot call himself a Catholic and at the same time violate and call for violation of the fundamental norms of Christian...

The Lepanto Institute released a new video report, exposing the celebration and promotion of militant communists in a Vatican event initiated by Pope Francis. The report focuses on the organizations and speakers that were celebrated in a video produced by the Vatican for the fourth annual World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM). According to the WMPM website, the purpose of the meeting "is to create an 'encounter' between Church leadership and grassroots organizations working to address the 'economy of exclusion and inequality' by working for structural changes that promote social, economic and racial justice." But many of the organizations participating...