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After several months of intense activity by the factions opposed to the novelties of Chapter VII of Amoris laetitia – minority but hyperactive – or strong attempts to conceal them, the war seems to have come to a standstill. We must now pause to recognize what Francis left us concretely as an irreversible novelty.

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[Catholic Caucus] Gay Church Worker Who Resigned After Hate Crimes Speaks at Vatican ConferenceA gay church worker who resigned due to right wing hate crimes recently addressed a Vatican conference on the relationship between Amoris Laetitia and LGBTQ people.Aaron Bianco gave his talk at a conference organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life and the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 2018, Bianco resigned from his position as pastoral associate at a southern California parish after enduring repeated hate crimes, including death threats, slashed tires, and anti-gay graffiti on the church. He since became a theology professor at the...

Padre Pio Versus Amoris Laetitia ChurchPadre Pio Versus Amoris Laetitia ChurchLea Padovani was a famous and beautiful Italian film actress. Born in 1920 – the same year as John Paul II – she appeared in 60 films between 1945 and 1990. Padovani was in love with a married man she was living with. The actress was abroad on film-making business when she learned that her illegitimate partner had been diagnosed with an extremely serious malignant tumour. He was given only six months to live. Padovani bagan to despair. She took the man to many doctors, even abroad, but the terrible...

Demanding the Impossible: Traditionis custodes and Vernacular ReadingsAmong its many, many unjust prescriptions, Traditionis custodes says that the readings at the usus antiquior are now to be “proclaimed in the vernacular language, using translations of the Sacred Scripture approved for liturgical use by the respective Episcopal Conferences” (n. 3, § 3). Quite aside from what this actually means in practice (e.g., would chanting the lections in Latin, then reading them in the vernacular before the homily suffice?), it is clear that this demand has, like the rest of the document, been drafted by someone totally unfamiliar with the traditional Latin...

[Catholic Caucus] The “Special Year” of St. Joseph is Like the Phoenix. Where It May Be No One KnowsToday, March 19, is the feast of St. Joseph, a saint of whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been so fond since his youth that he still keeps at home, in Santa Marta, a statuette of him asleep, “under which,” he has said, “I place little slips with my problems or difficulties, so that he can dream about them at night and tell me what to do” (see photo).It cannot therefore be ruled out that the pope’s bold decision four days ago to...

A Time to Change…Again (1) On December 2, 2020, Pope Francis published a book entitled Let Us Dream (Simon and Schuster) with the subtitle: A Path to a Better Future.The book is the result of his interviews with British journalist Austen Ivereigh, who is also his biographer (The Great Reformer – Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope).Praise of Synodality Against PolarizationContinuing from the encyclicals Laudato si’ (2015) and Fratelli tutti (2020), the book is presented as the Pope’s response to the crisis of the modern world as revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic.It is an opportunity to come...

[Catholic Caucus] Italian Priest Writes Theological Spoof: How Satan Could Have Used Amoris Laetitia to Convince Eve to Sin Don Alfredo M. Morselli, an Italian theologian and parish priest, has kindly sent to Catholic Family News a spoof (or piece of satire) he has written, imaging how the infernal Serpent would argue with Eve in the Garden of Eden if he were to use the specious arguments found in Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation “On Love in the Family” – for example the denial of the existence of absolute truths and intrinsically evil acts. Morselli even goes...

[Catholic Caucus] Holy Communion for Cohabitors? FRESNO, Calif. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Despite requests from a Knights of Columbus Council, a pastor in California is not retracting his offer of the Holy Eucharist to "couples that are not usually able to receive Communion" according to Church teaching. Fr. John Fluetsch In a letter copied to the bishop, Knights of Columbus Council 2384 asked Fr. John Fluetsch to publish a formal retraction for posting a scandalous entry in the June 21 parish bulletin of St. Patrick's in Merced, California — an entry in which the pastor offered Holy Communion to the "civilly divorced and...

Backlash to Italian Bishops Two bishops in northern Italy trumpet Holy Communion for adulterers BELLUNO, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - Two Italian bishops are under fire after pushing for Holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried — unions considered adulterous according to Catholic teaching. In a Nov. 22 pastoral letter, Bp. Renato Marangoni of the Belluno-Feltre diocese in northern Italy wrote apologetically to those who have left their sacramental marriage and found a new civil spouse or partner, describing such situations as "experiences of union." He said to divorcees who have entered new relationships, "There is a first word I wish to confide to you:...

[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...

When rumors come true, integrity be damned In a recent interview with the Tablet, Cardinal Kevin Farrell gloated over the fact that his boss’ love letter to Satan, otherwise known as Amoris Laetitia, has been “overwhelmingly well received” throughout the Catholic world.And why shouldn’t he gloat? The Apostolic Exhortation (so-called), which is among the most blasphemous and openly heretical texts ever issued bearing a papal seal, is no longer being publicly contested. In fact, it never really was; at least not in the manner that it should have been.It wasn’t all that long ago when it was simply rumored that the punchline...

And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good… (Romans 8:28) One may feel compelled to ask if “all things” includes even such abominations as Amoris Laetitia. The answer, of course, is yes, and while the way in which this terrible affront to Our Lord and His Church will ultimately be used by God unto good remains to be seen, we can leverage it as such even now. How so? As Divine Providence would have it, the Gospel reading for the Second Sunday after Easter in the Traditional Latin Mass included the following: I...