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A Catholic diocese in New Jersey is canceling a talk offered by Fr. James Martin, S.J., best known for his attempts to normalize homosexuality. The celebrity Jesuit had been scheduled to offer a Lenten reflection on February 15, at Our Lady of Lourdes parish in the diocese of Metuchen. The diocese announced Martin's speaking engagement this month in its newspaper, The Catholic Spirit. The communications director for the diocese of Metuchen, Erin Friedlander, confirmed with Church Militant on Friday that the parish "is no longer hosting the planned talk." According to the inside source, the invitation had originated in the...

Change the Catechism. If its doctrine does not coincide with the new desired orthodoxy concerning homosexuality, it will be better to adopt the solution of Alexander the Great, who with one stroke of his sword decided to untangle the Gordian knot in his own way: by cutting it in two.In the same way, in order to accept and definitively clear the way for homo-erotic practice, it is necessary to address the fundamentals, and from there everything will be easier. Now that an attitude of laxity and acceptance of homosexuality as a natural variant of human sexuality is becoming increasingly common,...

Pope Francis called “discernment” the special charism of the Jesuits while meeting Jesuits in Chile. According to an article of Father Jonathan Marín Cano SJ on jesuitas.co (January 19) Francis said that "discernment" was "especially" needed in the field of morality - as if discernment were not the basic tool of every science. He went on identifying "discernment" as the centre of his controversial document Amoris Laetitia. The problem: Francis uses the term “discernment” not in its original meaning ("the ability to judge well") but as an euphemism for “situation ethics” which is condemned by the Church because it allows...

In a January 16, 2018 “Commentary” for “The National Catholic Reporter,” Creighton University Professor Todd A. Salzman, chair of the Department of Theology at Creighton, and Michael G. Lawler, professor emeritus, disagreed with the decision by certain US Bishops to possibly deny a Catholic funeral for someone who died while in a same-sex “married” relationship. They single out Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield for specific criticism. From of a “Decree” issued by Paprocki, Salzman and Lawler are especially troubled with the following directive: Unless they have given some signs of repentance before their death, deceased persons who...

Catholic Georgetown University is offering LGBT-only, on-campus housing, claiming it advances its "Jesuit values." As one of the nation's oldest and most prominent Catholic universities, Georgetown is continuing to flaunt Catholic Church teaching on human sexuality by allowing LGBT-only living facilities for students for the 2018–19 school year. The website, Campus Reform, obtained emails with details on the new Crossroads: Gender and Sexuality Living Learning Community (LLC) facility open only to people who claim the LGBT identity. Free clip from CHURCH MILITANT Premium WATCH MORE LIKE THIS   Todd Olson, vice president of Student Affairs, claims the new dorm space will uphold...

“What are you, a deacon?” the man asks from his bed. We are about 20 minutes into a pastoral visit. His parish deacon has been visiting regularly since he got sick. Now I have entered this man’s life as a hospice chaplain, and he does not quite know what to make of me.It is not the first time I have been asked the question. Sometimes they ask if I am a priest or a sister or if they should call me “Reverend.” Their questions bring a smile to my face, but they also take me back to a time...

 In a recent interview, James Martin, S.J., clearly implied (by repeating gay-advocacy talking-points) that language in “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” directly contributes to the high level of teen suicides among LGBT young people. [Interviewer] Well the people who’ve seen your book or know something about you are complaining that you want to rewrite some of the Catechism to differently ordered, can you speak about that. [Martin] Yeah, well part of the Catechism says that homosexual people are objectively disordered; their actions are objectively disordered and they themselves are intrinsically disordered. And so basically what I’m saying in the book is you...

More on Opinion Subscribe to Opinion Pope Francis, left, embraces Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI before opening the Holy Door to mark the opening of the Catholic Holy Year, or Jubilee, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on Dec. 8, 2015. Photo courtesy of Osservatore Romano/Handout via Reuters (RNS) — Conservative Catholic dissidents, who have been attacking Pope Francis, showed their true colors recently by attacking retired Pope Benedict, calling his writings “subversive” and “modernist.” That’s right, they think Benedict is a heretic.In his new book, “Al Cuore di Ratzinger, Al Cuore del Mondo,” the Italian philosopher Enrico Maria Radaelli...

@import url("chrome://global/skin/aboutReaderContent.css"); Pope Francis greets a girl as he arrives to at a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities in Kkottongnae, South Korea, Aug. 16. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)  Jorge Bergoglio needed just a few minutes to radically reorient the Catholic Church. In the days leading up to a conclave, cardinals deliver addresses designed to help their brothers discern where the Spirit is calling the church. Some go longer, some shorter. In his 2013 pre-conclave intervention, Cardinal Bergoglio did not waste his time.“In Revelation,” the soon-to-be-pope explained, “Jesus says that he is at the door and knocks.” The idea, he...

Another Christmas, another chance to attack Jesus Christ, and His One True Church. This year, tragically, the culprit happens to be a radical liberal Catholic priest.Last week, Father Kevin O’Brien, dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, recorded a video with the pro-sodomite, pro-abortion, Marxist propaganda website Mic.com in which he proudly declared that there is no such thing as a "War On Christmas", and that the idea of said "war" is just a "distraction".Right... I guess the following are just "distractions": Sodomite Nativity ScenesCatholic Christmas-Themed Billboard Pulled From Metro StationAtheists Threaten to Sue Ohio Town for Nativity SceneChristmas-Free...

Pro-homosexual priest and Vatican adviser Fr. James Martin tweeted an immodest mockery of Our Lady of Guadalupe earlier this week that Mexican Catholics are calling “highly offensive” and “blasphemous.”  The Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America Magazine tweeted three images based on the supernatural image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that were created by a feminist who “questioned this common icon of the ideal woman.”  One of the images tweeted by Fr. Martin depicts a woman with a hiked up skirt that reveals her thighs. She brandishes a serpent in her right hand. LifeSiteNews has pixelated the depiction.  “Mira! Look...

Love Saxa stands it ground It is rare to find students at modern American colleges that are fiercely committed to the traditional view of marriage as a lifelong institution involving one man and one woman.One such group of students exists at Georgetown University–a Catholic institution. Yet it was recently subjected to a barrage of criticism and activist efforts that very nearly cost it its official status as a university organization, and it continues to be targeted by opponents.This fall, Love Saxa, a student group committed to the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, was accused of being a “hate group” because it did...

A Remnant Halloween Special: The Praxis of Evil: Pope Francis, Fr. James Martin, and Liberation Theology Featured Written by  Dr. Jesse Russell, Ph.D. | Remnant Columnist Over the past year, Fr. James “spooky” Martin SJ has gone from the author of feel good Catholic bedside books for “take it easy” American Baby Boomer Catholics such as The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and My Life with the Saints as well as the occasional visitor on the Colbert Report (where he infamously gave the “hail satan” 1970s style rock concert devil horns to introduce the aging members of Metallica), to the...

How Much Longer Must We Tolerate This Wayward Priest? by Christopher A. Ferrara October 26, 2017 Father James Martin, SJ and his “Gay Church” juggernaut are on a roll, and anyone, even a bishop, who gets in his way must be crushed. Emboldened by the support of “gay”-friendly bishops and even cardinals, virtually all installed by Pope Francis, Martin dares to attack publicly a non-Francis bishop, Robert C. Morlino (consecrated by John Paul II in 1999) because his diocese of Madison, Wisconsin has published guidelines on avoiding scandal in the conduct of funerals for deceased involved in “gay marriage” or other...

Father James Martin the notorious homosexualist is commending an excommunicated priest who revealed he was also a homosexual while married to an ex-nun. Gregory Baum died on October 18 at 94 years old. America Magazine — the liberal-progressive magazine published by the Jesuits and of which Martin is editor at large — published an article, extolling Baum's alleged contributions to the Church's ecumenical relations with the Jews but mentioned little of the issue that brought him into the limelight. Not only was Baum a priest and adviser during the Second Vatican Council in Rome in the 1960's, but he also...

n the preface to a book that presents eight of his interviews, just out in bookstores, Francis has lifted the veil on a couple of rather interestig things. At a certain point the pope writes:“Sometimes in my interviewers I have noted - even in those who say they are very far from the faith - great intelligence and erudition. And even, in some cases, the capacity to let themselves be touched by the ‘touch’ of Pascal. This moves me, and I treasure it greatly.”The first is in reality more a confirmation than a revelation. It is his affectionate esteem for...

Pontifical Gregorian University Hosts Series of Talks to Take New Look at Humanae Vitae Organizers say the aim is to take a new and broad look at the encyclical “in the context of a time of change” and because difficulties have become “more complex.” Edward Pentin The Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome is hosting a series of talks from October until May aimed at considering the “transformations, needs and hopes” of the family 50 years after Humanae Vitae.

Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego wrote a column about James Martin SJ that said Martin’s critics are a cancer on the Church, that criticism of his work is driven by homophobia, a distortion of Catholic moral theology, and is an attack on Pope Francis. This shameful column was applauded by a chorus including Elizabeth Scalia, the editor of one of the largest Catholic websites in the country, Austen Ivereigh, founder of Catholic Voices, Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University, among others.James Martin himself has taken to calling his critics the “Catholic alt-right,” a phrase he likes very much and has...

Francis spoke about ‘Amoris Laetitia’ in Colombia. Was it because the “Filial Correction” was weighing on his mind? Francis meeting with his fellow revolutionary Jesuits in Colombia. While in Colombia during his travels, Francis stopped the city of Cartagena de Indias, the capital of the region of Bolívar, on 10 September 2017.  After meeting the crowds of laity there, “he went into the inner courtyard where he met privately with representatives of the community of the Society of Jesus made up of 65 religious.”  A brief Question & Answer session transpired between Francis and the assembled Jesuits.  Even though none...

Jesuit Fr. James Martin, well-known for his attempts to normalize homosexuality in the Church, claims ex-gays lead a less "integrated life" than current gays. In an August 29 interview with Brandon Ambrosino, a gay man engaged to his male partner, Martin said: I know just for the record that a lot of the people who are critiquing me online are self-professed ... former gays. So it's a lot of former gay people. And I would say that there's a lot of conflict going on. So it's sad because what happens is their own junk inside gets focused outwards on people who...