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Now Italian Church Is Drowning in Immorality Five years into Francis’ pontificate, a tsunami of perversion is hitting the Italian Church. The most recent example: a gay propaganda event on November 18 for which Bishop Antonio Napolioni of Cremona is responsible. It takes place at the monumental Our Lady of Fonte di Caravaggio church, the most important Marian shrine in northern Italy, and is called a “dialogue” between local dioceses and “LGBT Catholics”. The leaflet shows homosexuals holding hands. But Napolioni has his faithful against him: over 300 signed a letter pointing out that there cannot be any pastoral collaboration...

Run, don’t walk, to read it.  Summary view of the 2018 Synod (“walking together”) At the UK’s (and soon to be also USA’s) best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, you must… I repeat MUST… read George Weigel’s biting postscript on the 2018 Synod (“walking together”).  HERE  Weigel’s is the first of several postscript “letters” posted together.Weigel is as scathing as he is comprehensive in his synodal retrospective.  He effectively and rightly flays the hide from the managers of this edition of “walking together”.  For example, Weigel exposes how a discussion of “synodality” was smuggled into the final document.  He observes that...

Over the past five years, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as Pope Francis, has perfected the modus operandi by which he proposes to remake the Church according to his liking.  Recall, in that regard, the stunning admission of Father Thomas Rosica, English-language attaché of the Vatican Press Office, that with Francis we now have a Church “openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture…” And this absolute dictator, Rosica further declares (or better: exults) “breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants” because he is “free from disordered attachments.”   Disordered...

Archbishop: Sex abuser priests should be excommunicated October 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, OMI of Johannesburg, South Africa says Church law should be changed so that priests who commit sexual abuse are automatically excommunicated. As the South African daily news website Times Select reported yesterday, Archbishop Tlhagale says that under the current Code of Canon Law, a priest who assists with an abortion or gets married is automatically punished by the Church with excommunication, but a priest who commits sexual abuse is not. In his eyes, this needs to be corrected and changed. The African archbishop said...

An ex-gay contestant on the Maltese version of the musical reality series "X Factor" has drawn backlash after he declared on the show that homosexual "love" is "sin" and that he left the lifestyle after he found Christ. Matthew Grech, a singer and vocal coach, appeared on "X Factor Malta" Sunday night. In a video interview segment that played before his performance, Grech declared: "I used to lead a homosexual lifestyle, and then I found God. For a long time, I stopped following my passions to follow Jesus. There can be love between two men and two women, yes —...

But on to another large question about both the text and the event. The late introduction of “synodality,” a topic barely discussed by the bishops themselves over three weeks, seems to reflect the intention of Pope Francis to make the whole Church “synodal.” He emphasized that theme in the midst of the 2015 Synod on the Family, and was visibly frustrated and angry at the end of that Synod when the deliberations and voting of the participating bishops did not give him the outcome he desired. This time, the process was far more tightly managed. Two bishops named by the...

But he also highlights what he sees as weaknesses, including a “disappointing” diffidence about the Church’s moral teaching, an unwillingness to provide translations, and that almost all of the synod fathers felt “shut down” from speaking after they had given their interventions (speeches). Overall, he has concerns with the forum in its current form: “In this synod, we were writing doctrine, as it were, on the run,” he says. “This is not the way to make doctrine.”

Narcissistic prayer composed by LGBT activist Fr. James Martin sent to Catholics in mass mailing October 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – America magazine has sent out a mass mailing containing a prayer composed by its “editor-at large,” LGBT activist Fr. James Martin, which captures so well the narcissistic pseudo-spirituality that sadly is plaguing so many among Catholic clergy today. The prayer, taken from Martin’s homosexualist book “Building a Bridge,” reads like one that could have been composed by the Saturday Night Live Character, “Stuart Smalley,” who famously stared at a mirror and said to himself, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough,...

A year ago tomorrow I made public a letter that I wrote to Pope Francis expressing my deep concern about the “chronic confusion” in the Church and the way that his “seemingly intentional lack of clarity risks sinning against the Holy Spirit.” In the immediate aftermath of the letter’s publication, I received over 300 emails and over 40 letters (most from the United States, but a fair number from many countries around the world) – all of which, except two, were positive.Moreover, over the course of the past year I received another 100 or so emails and even Christmas cards from...

New Charges of Homosexuality in the Church. But the Pope Is Silent, and Blames “Clericalism” At the closing of the synod on Saturday, October 27, Jorge Mario Bergoglio once again identified the “Great Accuser,” Satan, as the ultimate author of the accusations unleashed against him, the pope, in order to strike out in reality against “Mother Church”:“This is why it is time to defend the Mother. […] Because the Accuser in attacking us is attacking the Mother, but the Mother is not to be touched.”With this Francis justified yet again his silence in the face of the accusation - publicly...

President Trump, in the stirring rallies he has been holding across the country to show voters the tremendous progress we have all made under Republican leadership and the dangers we face from the Democratic Party, has called this an election of common sense. And he names this as his reason for embracing the policies he has been advancing. There appear to me five immediate ways that common sense would lead us to vote Republican in the midterms of 2018. 5. You don’t kill babies. The arena of my own fulltime advocacy is that of calling for the protection of children...

Just when we thought we’d seen it all, a Boston Archdiocesan parish led by a “gay-friendly’ pastor has done something worse than we could have imagined. The “gay-friendly” pastor at St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill — welcomed by Cardinal O’Malley to the parish in 2016 despite his published history of leading a “gay-friendly” parish in New York City — has a full-page propaganda letter in their parish bulletin touting the parish administrator’s story as a transgender person and urging parishioners to vote “Yes” on the upcoming “Bathroom Bill” ballot question. A “Yes” means the existing law stands that...

The number of abortions in Russia has dropped by nearly 2/3 since the beginning of the century, according to statistics presented by Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, reports Interfax-Religion. In 2000, there were 2,138,000 recorded abortions in Russia, and in 2017—779,999. “That’s a very serious decline—63.5%,” Golikova noted. Moreover, the number of Russians who condemn abortion has tripled in 20 years, from 12 to 35%. There is still a long way to go, however. It was previously announced in January 2017 that the number of abortions had been halved in Russia in the span of four years, with a 13%...

The 10 Commandments of Pope Francis 1. I am the Lord Francis, successor of Jesus Christ (in the words of the prophet Napier, the Vatican News, and others). Thou shalt obey me. And that includes thee, Viganò, wherever thou art hiding. And no graven images unless they actually look like me! 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord Francis in vain. In particular any blog that saith "Look what this clown hath done now" shall be refused the new "APPROVED CATHOLIC BLOG" award, and so people will take it less seriously than Salt and Light, America,...

Liberal Censorship: Synod asks Vatican to create "Vatican Certification" of Acceptable Websites The most astonishing demand of the "Synod Fathers" who approved their final document without actually reading it is in paragraph #146: Well, well, well... We know what those "certification systems of Catholic sites" mean: a new form of censorship. The old censorship, which was excellent in intent, tried to protect Catholics from books promoting heresy and immorality. But this was when many in the Vatican itself were not themselves promoting heresy and living in utter immorality.  You can just imagine that a man in the shape of...

Former Nuncio Talks About “Rumours” Surrounding McCarrick in 1990s Cardinal Cacciavillan, Nuncio to the US in the 1990s, reports rumors of McCarrick's sexual misconduct in 1994. (Washington) Another former Nuncio in the United States announced that in 1994 he heard rumors of sexual misconduct by Theodore McCarrick. However, that was still very vague then. Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan is now 93 years old. In 1990, the former Vatican diplomat began his service as a Pro Nuncio in the United States, where he would remain until 1998. Yesterday, he told the Catholic News Service, the press agency of the American Bishops'...

I’ve been, as much as possible ignoring the Synod’s (“walking together”) document.  First, I’ve wanted a pleasant day.  Was the Synod really about producing a document?   Or was it about creating smokescreens and providing cover for the placement of poison pills and landmines?25000 words.The document, with the voting tallies for the paragraphs, is HERE in Italian only.   Gosh, I’ll bet that was helpful for the non-Italians.   Let’s rush through voting on paragraph after paragraph – there are, after all, only 167 – how long could that take?  what could go wrong? – in a language that not everyone...

Beach house sequel: Father Boniface Ramsey details his efforts to report 'Uncle Ted' McCarrick he complex story of scandals linked to the life and sins of ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick rolls on — with the most interesting material being reporting in various forms of Catholic media. In mainstream newsrooms, most of the coverage continues to focus on clergy abuse with children and teens.As always, “seminaries” is the key search term to use, if you want to research news about the “system” looming over the scandal as a whole — which includes the sexual abuse of children (pedophilia), teens (ephebophilia) and adults...

October 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – We want orthodoxy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and bishops who act like successors of the apostles rather than politicians, a group of young Catholics said in a message released to the world’s bishops today. In a video debuted just two days after the release of the Youth Synod’s final document, young Catholics who attended a LifeSiteNews and Voice of the Family conference in Rome earlier this month implored bishops to proclaim the Church’s teaching without compromise and let the Church influence the world rather than the world influence the Church. The 18- to 29-year-olds asked...

SANTA FE- A Catholic church in Santa Fe is causing a stir by raising a banner that calls for people to vote for pro-life candidates. "I do think this issue is that big,” Father Larry Brito said. Father Brito said he knows not everyone will support the “Vote Pro-Life” banner on the front of St. Anne Parish in Santa Fe. "If we feel passionate about this, we believe this, then we need to speak up. Even if somebody doesn't agree with us. We still have the obligation to speak up,” Brito said. However, neighbors who live across the street from...