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Abp. Hebda Discourages Priests From Voting in Presidential Primary Theologian: Should tell priests to oppose 'Party of Death' MINNEAPOLIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - The head of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese is requesting that his clerics refrain from voting in the presidential primary on Tuesday. Archbishop Bernard Hebda is urging priests and deacons of the archdiocese not to vote in Minnesota's "closed" primary on Super Tuesday, stating privacy concerns. "Minnesota's presidential primary is a 'closed' party nominating primary, meaning it is open only to people who align with the party," said Hebda in a e-mail to his clerics. "One has to attest that one agrees with...

[Catholic Caucus] Austrian diocese confirms that Catholic priest held liturgy celebrating lesbian union A widely circulated photo from the lesbian ceremony over which Fr. Michael Kopp presided WOLFSBURG, Austria, November 13, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― An Austrian diocese has confirmed that an Austrian priest presided over a church service for two women in a civil union. A series of photographs of Fr. Michael Kopp with two women in wedding clothes in a Catholic church in Austria have been making the rounds on social media since last week. A spokesman from the Diocese of Graz-Seckau has confirmed that Kopp indeed held...

Homoerotic Vespers to First Mass in Germany Father Fabian Ploneczka of the diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, celebrated on Sunday his first mass in Augsburg. According to kath.net (July 17), the preceding vespers on Saturday was a “homoerotic event”. The vespers’ topic was “Eroticism of Faith”. A man dressed only in skin-coloured shorts danced in a lascivious way through the church. Father Thomas Steiger spoke in a homily about the gracefulness of a man’s body.

Gianfranco Formenton, a priest in Umbria, has long preached against racism. Gianfranco Formenton, a priest in Italy’s central Umbria region who has long preached against racism and in support of migrants, knows what it is like to clash with Matteo Salvini, the recently installed interior minister and leader of the far-right League party. In response to the party’s xenophobic rhetoric in 2015 – the year more than a million migrants arrived in Europe and 150,000 landed on Italy’s southern shores – he put a sign up on the door of his church in San Martino di Trignano, a hamlet of...

Priest Goes to Get Gaymarried in Canaries — Bishop: “He hasn’t asked to leave the priesthood” According to Matteo Matzuzzi, the Bishop of Verona, Giuseppe Zenti who was assigned in 2007, in Italy, has said the following about his priest who ran off to the Canaries to get sodomarried.  He writes,  Veronese priest goes to the Canaries and gets married with his friend. The bishop: "He is still a priest, he has not asked to leave the priesthood. One of my predecessors had prevented his ordination, but he went to be ordained in Rieti.”

Priests' social justice concerns shape assembly, resolutions Jul 2, 2018 by Dan Morris-Young People 20180628_090736 crop 1000 x 665.jpg Priests gather for morning prayer June 28 during the assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (NCR photo/Dan Morris-Young) Albuquerque, N.M. — More than 200 participants at the annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) June 25-28 here heard calls for the church to focus on young Catholics, embrace the pastoral theology of Pope Francis, and affirm the Second Vatican Council's theological spadework. During two business sessions, the attendees — the vast...

Priests are pleading with their bishops to end doctrinal chaos. Worldwide confusion over marriage and the sacraments has moved 15 priests from America and Europe to sign a plea April 22 titled A Pastoral Appeal to the Bishops for an Apostolic Reaffirmation of the Gospel. The appeal is now backed by more than 80 priests and one cardinal, Raymond Burke, former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. In a May 3 interview, Cdl. Burke said he hopes bishops respond to the priests' appeal.  "The growing confusion and the resulting division in the Church is causing a tremendous suffering, most of all for priests," Cdl. Burke...

Father James Martin is saying that chastity is not required of homosexuals. In a video posted on YouTube on September 20, the Jesuit claims the Church's teaching on chastity is not binding on the consciences of the faithful because it has not been "received" by the people. It's a denial of the infallible teaching authority of the Catholic Church in matters of both faith and morals. He also said in a post on Facebook, "Things can always improve. And the Holy Spirit knows what She's doing" (emphasis added). "For a teaching to be really authoritative," he said, "it is expected...