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Protestant leader denounces Pope Francis-endorsed, pro-homosexual biblical commentaryThe Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century boasts a forward by Pope Francis and received a nihil obstat and imprimatur from Cardinal Blase Cupich’s Archdiocese of Chicago despite contradicting Catholic teaching on homosexuality.The newest version of the pro-homosexual third edition of The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, which includes a forward by Pope Francis, has drawn the condemnation and mockery of Protestant voices, who have highlighted the “woke” agenda of so-called “Catholic” academic biblical scholarship. Arguing that the scriptural texts condemning sodomy do not apply to today’s “modern concept of...

Cdl. Cupich pushes climate agenda, fails to mention Jesus at Parliament of the World’s ReligionsNeglecting to mention the name of Jesus Christ even once, Cardinal Blase Cupich took his time on stage at the scandalous gathering to promote radical environmentalism and what appeared to be religious indifferentism.Liberal Chicago Cardinal Blasé Cupich urged attendees at this year’s Parliament of the World’s Religions to be more mindful of forming their consciences, but not in accordance with the truths of the Catholic faith. “To be properly formed, a conscience needs to be sensitized, to be aware of others and of all creation,” Cupich...

Cardinal Cupich to appear at ecumenical conference coordinated by Wiccan priestessThe Parliament of the World’s Religions conference, first held in 1893, was condemned by Pope Leo XIII in 1895, at which time he also forbade Catholics from attending any of the organization's future events.Left-wing Cardinal Blasé Cupich is set to appear at a scandalous ecumenical event in Chicago this week. The conference is coordinated by a Wiccan priestess and features more than 6,000 representatives of various forms of pagan and non-Catholic sects. The 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions is being held at McCormack Place convention center from Tuesday, August...

[Catholic Caucus] Cupich on German processes, same-sex blessings, role of womenCardinal Blase Cupich recently expressed confidence in the intentions behind the German Synodal Way while warning of divisions and praising the pontificate of Pope Francis as “historic” in a carefully-worded interview with German diocesan media. Described by Cologne’s Domradio on June 27 “as a leading voice of the progressive Church in the U.S.A.,” the archbishop of Chicago also spoke about the blessing of same-sex unions as well as the pontificate of Pope Francis.Asked about the controversial German Synodal Way, the 73-year-old cardinal acknowledged that he had no direct firsthand insight...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich calls German bishops ‘good shepherds’ who ‘act in the spirit of the Church’The German bishops 'are faithful to the Holy Father,' said Cardinal Cupich, who also said he has 'great hopes for the synodal process of the universal Church.'Cardinal Blase Cupich has called the German bishops “good shepherds” who “act in the spirit of the Church” when asked about the heretical Synodal Way. In a recent interview with the German Catholic outlet domradio.de, Cupich was asked about the German Syondal Way and said that he knows “a number of German bishops,” and that he believes they...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich to celebrate Mass for pro-LGBT group that dissents from Church teachingThe Chicago cardinal has long been a supporter of homosexuals in the Church and has defied its teachings on offering Holy Communion to those living in illicit unions. Cardinal Blase Cupich will offer Mass on Sunday for a LGBT group called the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach (AGLO) for their “35th anniversary” within the Archdiocese of Chicago.The Mass will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Lakeview. AGLO was formed in 1988 by liberal Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. According to the group’s website, it...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich Set To Lead Mass For LGBTQ+ Catholics This WeekendThe Mass, organized by LGBTQ+ Catholic group AGLO Chicago, will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.Cardinal Blase Cupich will lead Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church this weekend to celebrate an LGBTQ Catholic group's 35th anniversary.LAKEVIEW — The Archbishop of Chicago is scheduled to lead Sunday Mass in Lakeview this weekend to help an LGBTQ+ Catholic group celebrate 35 years of service. The Mass, organized by LGBTQ+ Catholic group AGLO Chicago, will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church,...

In Letter to Cupich, Socialist Chicago Politician Sides with Latin Mass CatholicsCV NEWS FEED // emocratic Chicago Alderman Jeanette Taylor sent a letter to Cardinal Blase Cupich in which she advocated for the resumption of the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at the Shrine of Christ the King, which the Cardinal helped halt last August. Taylor has served as a member of the Chicago City Council since 2019, representing the 20th Ward on the city’s South Side, which includes the Woodlawn neighborhood that houses the Shrine. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and was a supporter of...

A Real Threat: Rocky Horror Cupich ShowThe Maundy Thursday Eucharist at notorious St Sabina Parish in Chicago Archdiocese was a kind of Protestant service with some "words of consecration".Being Novus Ordo, the performance had no altar but a banquet table around which sat twelve men and women dressed as vice presidents of the banquet - as if a banquet needed a president.It included choreographed dances, purple lighting effects, disco ball strobe lights, brutal noise with crashing cymbals and yelling and tinkly piano music.During the show, Father Michael Pfleger celebrated his own person.Chicago's Cardinal Cupich who supposedly cares about Catholic doctrine...

[Catholic Caucus] Eucharistic pilgrimage expected to 'restrict' adoration in Chicago archdioceseThe Archdiocese of Chicago is expected to restrict the exposition of the Eucharist during a national Eucharistic pilgrimage that will traverse the Chicago region next year, ahead of the Eucharistic Congress scheduled for next July. The anticipated restriction comes amid differences of emphasis and approach among U.S. bishops over the Church’s Eucharistic revival process, now underway, and the $14 million Eucharistic Congress planned for 2024 — especially over the revival’s emphasis on adoration of the Eucharist. While Cardinal Blase Cupich has argued that an emphasis on adoration could distract from...

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] Father Anthony Bus disciplined for inciting hatredAfter asking to say Mass facing altarA well-known Chicago priest has been sternly reprimanded by Cardinal Blase Cupich after he wrote a letter to the prelate criticizing the decision to prohibit saying Mass facing east and noting how faithful Catholics are “cruelly demoralized” by persecution from Church authorities.Father Anthony Buś, C.R, of Chicago’s St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, has been seemingly ordered into a 10-day private retreat after earning the rebuke of Cupich who suggested the priest was publicly inciting “animosities or hatred against the Apostolic See or an ordinary,” due to his...

Cdl. Cupich reinstates Sunday Mass obligation in Chicago more than a year after other diocesesCHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) – The Archdiocese of Chicago has announced through an internal email that the faithful will soon be obliged to attend Sunday masses again under pain of mortal sin. The email was sent to every priest of the Archdiocese by Vicar General Bishop Robert Casey. Casey stated that the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, which was lifted with a general dispensation for all the faithful in the opening stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be reinstated as of the First Sunday of Advent later this...

Cupich criticises Texas governor in migrants statement The Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, has issued a strong statement of support for migrants and refugees who had been bussed to his city by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, with no provision made for their transfer or reception. In a rare move, Cupich criticised Abbott by name for his handling of the situation.“Wednesday night, Chicago received two busloads of migrants, including asylum seekers, sent from Texas on buses chartered by Governor Gregory Abbott. For weeks, the Texas governor has been sending migrant women, men, and children – including infants – to...

[Catholic Caucus] “Abuse of power and murder of souls”: Article by Michael Charlier Exactly one month ago, as of August 1, Blase Cupich of Chicago banned the priests of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in his archdiocese from publicly celebrating Holy Mass and administering the sacraments according to the rite of the Roman Church, which has been handed down for well over 1,000 years. The institute, established in October 2008 by Pope Benedict with the mandate to maintain this same traditional liturgy, was so bold as to refuse the declaration of the non-existence of this liturgy...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago: the Saga of a Cancelled ParishEditor’s note: the month of August has now passed since the cancellation of the Chicago ICKSP shrine by Cardinal Cupich, while the deadline looms for more cancellations in DC and Arlington in the month of Our Lady of Sorrows. On this month’s First Friday, we offer this retelling of the Shrine’s saga, to prepare the hearts of the faithful to endure yet more for their Roman Catholic birthright. Less than seven years after the faithful parishioners of the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, run by the Institute of Christ the...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò Responds to Cdl. Cupich’s Alleged Shutdown of ICK in ChicagoEditor’s Note: Beginning last week, rumors have been spreading that Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, has decided to shut down the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago, where the Institute’s U.S. provincial headquarters is located. Last week Friday (July 15), Fr. John Zuhlsdorf reported on his popular blog (without naming any sources):Cupich of Chicago has told the members of the Institute of Christ the King in Chicago, that he is effectively shutting them down as of 1 August. This will...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: ‘Crisis of ecclesiastical Authority…is undeniable’Indeed, every baptized person has the right to attend Holy Mass and to be administered the Sacraments in the form that Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum acknowledged may never be abrogated.(LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Blase Cupich, with the bureaucratic authoritarianism that distinguishes the officials of the Bergoglian church, has ordered the Canons of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest who carry out their ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago to suspend all public functions in the ancient rite beginning at the end of the month of July, revoking the faculties...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich strongly rumored to be planning to remove community of Latin Mass priests from ChicagoA prominent Chicago Catholic has gone on record to address the story that has created so much concern in the past few days. (LifeSiteNews) — A prominent Chicago Catholic has told LifeSiteNews that, in a further move to destroy the traditional rite in his diocese, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, has instructed the traditional Institute of Christ the King to close down all public Masses by the end of July of this year. He will remove their other faculties by August...

[Catholic Caucus] ACTION ITEM: Prayer to avert a serious act of persecution – UPDATEDIt seems that, again, there are those who cannot keep things to themselves. I had hoped to build a prayerful barrage regarding this really bad news, in the hope that, perhaps, there were still some chances that, behind the scenes, things could be worked out in a better way without the public eye on everything, thus to allow the Archdiocese to “save face” and not have to “dig in”.You might respond that, given the Archdiocese in question, that was an act of the greatest optimism, even naivete.I...