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Former Catholic chaplain to US House: A ‘good Catholic’ can support abortionFri Jan 7, 2022 - 11:51 am EST (LifeSiteNews) — According to a prominent Jesuit priest and former chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting a woman’s right to “choose” to kill her unborn child is a “Catholic value.”Defying 2,000 years of Church teaching, and the Catholic biblical view on the sanctity of human life, Fr. Pat Conroy SJ told the Washington Post in an interview that “a good Catholic” support a woman’s right to “choose” to commit an abortion.“It’s an American value that each one of us...

Same-sex Marriages. The Synod of Germany Holds Class in IndianapolisAll roads lead to Rome, not only from Cardinal Reinhard Marx's turbulent Germany, but also from the quiet and remote American state of Indiana.In Indianapolis, the capital, a school run by the Jesuits has appealed to the Holy See to be granted the right to disobey its archbishop, on a matter the “synodal way” afoot in Germany has mastered: homosexuality.It all started with the mock wedding celebrated in 2017 between Layton Payne-Elliott, a teacher at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School (left, photo by Kathleen Delaney for the newspaper "Indy Star"), and Joshua...

Biden attends Sunday Mass at ultra-liberal Jesuit-run churchHoly Trinity Parish, located near Georgetown University, displays a Black Lives Matter banner near its entrance.Jesuit-run, ultra-liberal Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C.WASHINGTON, D.C., January 25, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Joe Biden, the man who now occupies the White House, chose to attend Sunday Mass at Jesuit-run Holy Trinity Church, arguably the most effete liberal Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Washington.Mainstream media – normally appalled at the least hint of Christianity in the life of Washington politicians – were thrilled at the Biden clan’s Holy Trinity Mass attendance, ostensibly because the new President...

Jesuit Fr. Leo O'Donovan to deliver invocation at Biden inaugurationJesuit Fr. Leo O'Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.O'Donovan confirmed to NCR that Biden had personally called him and invited him to offer the prayer at the inauguration, which will mark the election of the nation's second Catholic president, and that he had accepted.O'Donovan is a longtime friend of the Biden family. In 2015, he presided at the funeral Mass for Biden's oldest son, Beau, after he died of brain cancer at the age of 46.Biden is known to...

At Jesuit agency event, Biden announces he will dramatically raise refugee capWeeks after the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was dropping to a historic low the cap on the maximum number of displaced people the U.S. decides to resettle in a federal fiscal year, President-elect Joe Biden said Nov. 12 he would be heading in a dramatically different direction.Addressing those gathered for a virtual event marking the 40th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service, Biden, in a prerecorded video, said his administration would raise the 15,000 cap set by the Trump administration for fiscal year 2021 to 125,000...

Jesuits to host pro-LGBT retreat featuring lesbian Episcopal ‘priest’ September 29, 2020 (Sons of St. Joseph) — From October 9–10, 2020, at their Jesuit Retreat Center located in Parma, Ohio, (Diocese of Cleveland) the Society of Jesus will host an LGBTQ retreat called “Emmaus 2020: A Time for Healing: Ourselves and the World.” According to the Center’s website: “EMMAUS 2020 is the twenty-first annual retreat for LGBTQ Christians at Jesuit Retreat Center.” The retreat will be facilitated by Sister Marian Durkin, C.S.A. — a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine; Durkin also serves on the Leadership Team of her religious...