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A crowd of students recently protesting the LGBT agenda in a Quebec school tore down and trampled a rainbow “pride” flag. Last week, a group of teenagers from the Chêne-Bleu Secondary School in Pincourt, Quebec cheered as one of their fellow students tore down a flag representing the LGBT agenda, supporting the act of defiance by trampling the flag once it was no longer flying. A 51-second video clip circulated by Neomedia shows a crowd of over a hundred students protesting on the lower level of the school while their classmate tore the flag off a pole from a balcony...

Parents are in uproar after a recording was released on social media revealing a teacher telling pupils that they would be ‘dealt with severely’ if they dared to reject LGBT teaching.The incident took place at Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy in south London with the recording subsequently going viral on social media.The school has also recently militantly embarked on several LGBT promoting events which has included Pride flags and badges as a means of showing allegiance to the LGBT cause.Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, concerned parents have raised a formal complaint saying that the approach of the teacher and the...

[Catholic Caucus] Disconcerting quotations from Bishop Heiner WilmerThe bishop of Hildesheim, Germany, who may still be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently published a letter stating that “it has become clear that we need significant changes in sexual morality in the Catholic Church.”Shortly before Christmas 2022, it seemed likely that Dr. Heiner Wilmer, SCJ, bishop of Hildesheim and a prominent proponent of the German “Synodal Way,” would be named prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in succession to Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, SJ. Bishop Wilmer’s statements on a number of...

Responding to critics of his January article on “radical inclusion“ for “LGBT people, women, and others in the Catholic Church,” Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego characterized “the moral tradition in the church that all sexual sins are grave matter” as a 17th-century innovation that is “jarringly inconsistent with the larger universe of Catholic moral teaching.” “For most of the history of the church, various gradations of objective wrong in the evaluation of sexual sins were present in the life of the church,” Cardinal McElroy wrote in an article published on March 2 in the Jesuit periodical America. “But in...

Cardinal Cupich: Critics of Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions should listen to JPII“There is nothing new under the sun.”That Scripture verse from the Book of Ecclesiastes (1:19) comes to mind as I reflect on the agitation expressed by some in the church and the media over the Holy Father’s motu proprio “Traditionis Custodes” and the recent confirmation given in the “Rescriptum ex Audientia”released by Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.Let us remember that in those Roman documents, the successor of Peter, who is the guarantor of unity in the church, called...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy Calls Anti-LGBTQ+ Spirit a “Demonic Mystery” in Call for InclusionThe church needs to embark on a journey of radical inclusion, wrote a top U.S. church leader in a new essay that suggests the “profound and visceral animus” towards LGBTQ+ people in the church is a “demonic mystery of the human soul.”Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego wrote his essay in America as a reflection on the challenges facing Catholics today, particularly in view of the global synodal process underway. “Many of these challenges,” McElroy suggests, result from “structures and cultures of exclusion that alienate all too...

A substitute teacher at the King Middle School in Portland was removed from the classroom last week and banned from teaching at the school after parents discovered the sub had shared inappropriate sexualized TikTok videos with students.“On Thursday I was made aware of concerns that students were accessing videos late Wednesday on TikTok,” King Middle School Principal Caitlin LeClair said in an email to parents Friday.“As a result of our investigation the employee will not return to King,” said LeClair.The teacher in question was a substitute teacher named Lydia Lamere.The teacher has also gone by Chris Lamere, Lydia Moon, Clodagh...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy Has A Problem with the Sixth CommandmentSan Diego homosexualist Robert McElroy thinks that it is a "16th century notion" that all sexual sins are mortal sins. Christ, the Gospels and the Apostles date even from the first century, not to mention the Old Testament.Responding to criticism of his call for “radical inclusion” [that excludes Catholics] in AmericaMagazine.org (February 3), McElroy contradicted Church’ teaching by saying that “I don’t think that’s a good part of the Catholic moral tradition” [that sexual mortal sins are called sexual mortal sins].At least, he admits that “there is sinfulness in all...

An openly gay advisor to the Vatican says he's not surprised by Pope Francis' declaration that "being homosexual isn't a crime." Juan Carlos Cruz, an internationally known Chilean advocate and survivor of clerical sexual abuse, told NPR the pope's remarks made for an "incredible day." In his first interview since the death of former Pope Benedict XVI, Francis told the Associated Press that laws criminalizing homosexuality are "unjust" and that Catholic bishops should apply "tenderness" and help ease discrimination by welcoming LGBTQ people into the church. On Tuesday, Cruz told Morning Edition's Leila Fadel that anti-sodomy laws in dozens of...

Poorly informed Pope criticised German church claims Bishop Bishop Wiesemann of Speyer: "Pope perhaps not well informed"The German inner-church reform movement "Synodal Path" wants to modernise the Catholic Church. Again and again, criticism comes from the Vatican. Now the Bishop of Speyer has spoken out.Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann of Speyer has rejected criticism from the Vatican against the reform process in the Catholic Church. "I believe that the Pope is perhaps not well informed there in the end," Wiesemann said in Speyer on Monday. The so-called Synodal Way was "not a story of a few". "Our process is not elitist....

The Church of England’s Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, responded to pressure to answer whether homosexuality and same-sex marriage are sinful by saying the CofE's new stance on the issue is that it's OK, as long as couples are in "committed, stable, faithful relationships," adding that same-sex married couples will be "welcomed fully into the life of the Church, on their terms."This comes on the heels of the denomination’s recent decision not to officiate same-sex marriages but to offer blessings for same-sex couples in civil partnerships within its churches.BBC Radio Four’s William Crawley asked the archbishop whether the CofE’s recent...

The dissident, pro-LGBT priest was responding to a Catholic League tweet that called a marriage other than between one man and one woman 'legal fiction.'(LifeSiteNews) — Notoriously dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin claimed in online comments that a man in a same-sex union is “married.” Writing on Twitter about Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former presidential candidate who is now the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and in a same-sex union, Martin said, “Pete Buttigieg is married.” Buttigieg, an Anglican who was baptized Catholic and attended Catholic schools, came out as “gay” in 2015...

Chai Cheng's case is one of the latest chapters in the frustrated struggle of China's LGBTQ community to obtain legal protection against discrimination Last week, it was made public that a Shenzhen court in March 2022 dismissed a high-profile discrimination suit brought by a gay flight attendant, Chai Cheng, against his former employer, China Southern Airlines, the world's largest air carrier and a powerful state-owned company. Chai's case is one of the latest-and most dramatic-chapters in the frustrated struggle of China's LGBTQ community to obtain legal protection against discrimination. Chai's private life was thrust into the national spotlight in October...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Father James Martin Says Gay Marriage Is MarriageROME — Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such.Responding to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who proposed that Pete Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage to his partner Chasten is not a true marriage but rather a “legal fiction,” Father Martin countered that “Pete Buttigieg is married.”

“Certainly, You would like to see in Benedict as a deacon of conservatism. You, who have known him, you said, in effect, he had a free spirit.” "He was an intelligent man. And the hard-line conservatives, in general, lack intelligence. So, he was more conservative but he was open.

As we've all learned this week, multiple news reports allege that President Biden's personal attorneys discovered Obama administration-era classified materials among his belongings at a private office, where they undoubtedly do not belong. The items were handed over to the National Archives shortly after they were allegedly uncovered in a closet during the process of packing up the space. Biden's Attorney General has referred the matter to the US Attorney in Chicago for additional scrutiny, as this episode very much appears to involve improper handling of classified information and potential unlawful conduct. "The review is considered a preliminary step, and...

Fr. James Martin has now been received a number of times by Pope Francis, as the pro-LGBT priest’s support from the Vatican continues unabated.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – After meeting privately with Father James Martin S.J. on Thursday, Pope Francis described the pro-LGBT Jesuit as a “man who has values, a communicator who also knows how to teach you the way of communication with God. Pope Francis met with Martin on November 10, in a private meeting which lasted 45 minutes, during which time the pair covered topics including “the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties, of LGBTQ Catholics.” The...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop: Homosexual ‘attraction’ and ‘lovemaking’ not an ‘aberration’'We cannot give homosexual people the answer that their feelings are unnatural and that they must therefore live celibate lives. As a Church, we have to answer these questions in a new way,' said Bishop Helmut Dieser.(LifeSiteNews) — A German bishop has declared that sexual diversity is “willed by God and does not violate the Creator’s will,” and that “homosexual lovemaking” is not an aberration but a “variant of human sexuality.” Helmut Dieser, the bishop of the diocese of Aachen and the head of the Forum for Sexuality and Partnership...

Cardinal Hollerich appeared to describe homosexuality as a 'fruit of creation' and admitted that there are a disproportionate number of homosexuals in Church institutions.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general of the Synod on Synodality, has called for a “change of cultural paradigm” regarding the Church’s condemnation of homosexual activity and said that there is a “higher” percentage of homosexuals in “Church institutions” than in civil society. Hollerich made his comments in a lengthy interview given to L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s daily newspaper. Speaking extensively about the Synod on Synodality, Hollerich first praised Pope Francis for being...

It was announced on Monday, October 10, that the late Queen had approved the appointment of The Very Rev. Dr. David Monteith, Dean of Leicester, as Dean of Canterbury. Dr Monteith is in a same-sex civil partnership with David Hamilton, a counselling therapist working in palliative and bereavement care. Will this not perplex and shock millions of faithful Anglicans across the globe? The cathedral is claimed by the Church of England Establishment to be the mother church of the Anglican Communion, an iconic landmark founded in 597 AD. It is a World Heritage Site unlike any other, having seen some...