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  • Pope Francis Signs Declaration Affirming ‘Global Climate Crisis

    12/06/2023 7:27:05 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/06/2023 | Thomas D Williams PHD
    ROME — Pope Francis has signed an interfaith statement asserting that humanity faces a “global climate crisis” that demands phasing out fossil fuels. The Abu Dhabi Interfaith Statement for COP28 manifests the signers’ “shared concern for the escalating climate impacts that imperil our cherished planet, as well as our common commitment to jointly address this global crisis.”
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Pope Cannot Depose Bishops Without Grave Cause

    11/29/2023 8:06:25 AM PST · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | November 28, 2023 | Antonio Francés, PhD
    [Catholic Caucus] The Pope Cannot Depose Bishops Without Grave CauseEditor’s note: in light of the recent news that the Holy Father, after deposing Bishop Strickland, now allegedly intends to move against Cardinal Burke (again), we present this study in conjunction with Fr. Murray’s recent analysis of the Strickland case. Father Gerald Murray has excellently analyzed the canonical side of Bp. Strickland’s removal. He has demonstrated that the guarantee of due process has been violated. Canon 196 and other related canons were masterfully explained. I myself published a different article that I wrote before having read Father Murray’s analysis. I saw...
  • Pope Francis kicks conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke out of his Vatican apartment and strips him of his salary after he criticized pontiff's pro-LGBT stance

    11/29/2023 8:42:45 AM PST · by DFG · 47 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/29/2023 | STEPHEN LEPORE
    Pope Francis has kicked conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke out of his Vatican apartment and stripped him of his salary after he criticized the pontiff's pro-LGBT stance. Francis has decided to punish Burke by revoking his right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against an American prelate this month, according to two sources. It is understood Francis told a meeting of the heads of Vatican offices last week that he was moving against Burke because he was a source of 'disunity' in the church, said one of the participants at the November 20...
  • Welcome to Muck Island

    11/21/2023 2:47:03 PM PST · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | November 21, 2023 | Msgr. Richard C. Antall
    Welcome to Muck IslandThe sacking of Bishop Strickland brings to mind the sad plot of Brian Moore’s novella "Catholics".I watched the EWTN interview of Bishop Strickland last night and had nightmares while I slept. The bishop, articulate and, to my mind, innocent of all irony, recounted what had happened in his process of deposition and professed his recognition of the pope’s authority and his obedience to his removal from office. The sincerity of the man’s confusion about why he was singled out was piercing. Many sources have hinted at “administrative” reasons without any real evidence. The fact that the protocol...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Synodal Way Won Me Over

    11/06/2023 8:12:16 AM PST · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | November 6, 2023 | Dan Millette
    [Catholic Caucus] The Synodal Way Won Me OverI have not written on matters of faith in a long time. “Why?” I’m sure no one has asked. I will inflict an answer upon you regardless. It’s simple. I’ve been undergoing a spiritual transformation. I have received a re-catechization and am now awakened. No longer burdened by traditional ideologies, I am forever changed, and it is my wish to pass on this possibility to all. Whoopee? you might say. To which I reply, Whoopi!That is correct. I have been forever improved and perfected by the Vatican’s synodal way. It has been a...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Attempts to Rig the Next Papal Election

    11/06/2023 8:19:23 AM PST · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | November 6, 2023 | T.S. Flanders
    [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Attempts to Rig the Next Papal ElectionOne of the lies of Liberalism and Marxism is a prideful faith in man’s power of central planning. The idea that if we just create a system, a huge bureaucracy, we can pull all the strings to make that planned utopia come about. His Holiness, “the Dictator Pope” and his Vatican regime of Iconoclasm have been attempting to make Cardinal Martini’s dream a reality with all their central planning to bring about the reign of the “[Anti-]Church of Synodal Synodality.”Or whatever.They think if they just set up everything just right,...
  • All Christians, Not Just Catholics, Should Be Worried About Pope Francis’ Synod

    10/10/2023 2:14:49 PM PDT · by NKP_Vet · 16 replies
    https://thefederalist.com ^ | Oct 9, 2023 | John Daniel Davidson
    “There’s an unfortunate tendency among Catholics and Protestants alike to relish the misfortunes of the other. When some evangelical megachurch pastor ham-fistedly embraces the LGBT agenda, Catholics will quip that it was inevitable thanks to the Reformation. When Pope Francis appears to undermine orthodox Christian teaching in a garbled answer to some interviewer’s question, Protestants will snark about the “commie pope. Just last week, for example, a short (and admittedly disturbing) video clip of Pope Francis surrounded by scantily-clad circus performers made the rounds on social media, triggering predictable Protestant jeers like, “Never too late to join the Reformation!” But...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pope’s envoy rejects claims of a ‘great divide’ between Francis and the US

    10/01/2023 6:23:50 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    Crux ^ | September 30, 2023 | Elise Ann Allen
    [Catholic Caucus] Pope’s envoy rejects claims of a ‘great divide’ between Francis and the USROME – Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, Pope Francis’s envoy to the United States and one of his new red hat recipients, has rejected perceptions of a “great divide” between the Argentine pontiff and the Church in the United States.Speaking to Crux during a Sept. 29 press point in Rome, Pierre said he would not describe the situation between the pope and the US Church as “a great divide, it’s not a great divide. I think it’s more correct to say that we live in a society which...
  • Pope Francis, Sexual Revolutionary

    09/11/2023 7:41:59 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 8 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | September 11, 2023 | James Bogle
    Pope Francis, Sexual RevolutionaryPope Francis? A sexual revolutionary? Surely not?We know he’s not good but isn’t that going a bit far?Well, judge for yourselves.A very revolutionary change, sneaked in by Pope Francis during the Covid-19 lockdown, was his Apostolic Letter Spiritus Domini of 10 January 2021, universally changing canon law for the whole Church regarding the so-called “lay institutes” of Acolyte and Lector that Paul VI first introduced (in his Ministeria quaedam of January 1973) to replace “First Tonsure,” the minor clerical Orders of Porter, Lector, Exorcist and Acolyte and the major Order of Sub-deacon.The lay institutes were just that...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Lies of Synodality

    09/11/2023 5:13:33 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | September 11, 2023 | Eric Sammons
    [Catholic Caucus] The Lies of SynodalityTwo recent news stories expose the lies that make up “synodality,” that vaunted effort of Church leaders that has been called the “modus vivendi et operandi of the Church.” Before we get to the lies, let’s first review what the Vatican claims “synodality” is: Synodality denotes the particular style that qualifies the life and mission of the Church, expressing her nature as the People of God journeying together and gathering in assembly, summoned by the Lord Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Gospel. Synodality ought to be expressed in the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pope conceals working of his rigged Synod from the world

    09/08/2023 8:03:34 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | September 7, 2023 | CathCon
    [Catholic Caucus] Pope conceals working of his rigged Synod from the worldGKP calls on Vatican to be open to media at world synod"What concerns everyone should also be discussed and debated transparently for everyone." The Society of Catholic Publicists calls on the Vatican not to exclude the media from the deliberations of the World Synod in October.The German Society of Catholic Publicists (GKP) is calling on the Vatican to make the deliberations of the World Synod in Rome in October open to the media. "What concerns everyone should also be discussed and debated transparently for everyone," explained GKP President Joachim...
  • Christ, Divine Judge & Just Destroyer: True vs. False Mercy

    09/07/2023 7:52:55 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | September 6, 2023 | Fr. X
    Christ, Divine Judge & Just Destroyer: True vs. False Mercy Introduction by M. Matt: Left on its own, Tradition will reconquer the entire Catholic world. I am pleased to present the following sermon as Exhibit A. This sermon was presented by a diocesan priest whom I had never met but recently encountered while on the road. The reality is that, no matter where I travel, I encounter priests and congregations of faithful who are keeping the "old faith" regardless of what is happening in Rome. What follows is a sermon on the doctrine of mercy that may be the best...
  • [Catholic Caucus] How to Be a Catholic in the Synodality Era

    09/05/2023 12:25:13 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | September 5, 2023 | Raymond Kowalski
    [Catholic Caucus] How to Be a Catholic in the Synodality EraA Voice from the PewsWe know now that the culmination of the Francis Papacy will occur in October of this year (regardless of whether he is still around to see it). That is when the Synod on Synodality will take place. This has been building for nearly 11 years.Back when the working document for the Synod was released, Father Gerald Murray, writing for The Catholic Thing on June 24, 2023, predicted the outcome:a make-believe, delusional religion of self-worship in which God is relegated to the role of the Divine Affirmer...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Now That Francis Has Created Congar’s “Different Church,” Can We Stop Calling it Catholic?

    09/04/2023 4:41:48 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 8 replies
    The Remant Newspaper ^ | September 4, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] Now That Francis Has Created Congar’s “Different Church,” Can We Stop Calling it Catholic?“Like the child who takes a perverse pleasure in destroying, it seems that Congar had no greater joy in life than that of witnessing the dilapidation of the treasure of the Church and the destruction of the unity of the Mystical Body of Christ.” (Fr. Dominique Bourmaud, One Hundred Years of Modernism) When Francis reconvenes the Synod on Synodality in Rome on October 4, 2023, the world will see how much progress he has made in completing the plans for “a different church” he announced...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis: Cardinal Burke, faithful worried about the Synod are not defending ‘true Catholic doctrine’

    09/04/2023 5:48:51 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | September 4, 2023 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis: Cardinal Burke, faithful worried about the Synod are not defending ‘true Catholic doctrine’The Pope appeared to suggest that critics of the Synod are defending ‘a doctrine like distilled water, tastes like nothing and is not the true Catholic doctrine.’ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis fielded a number of questions on his return flight from Mongolia, downplaying ideas of the Synod’s meetings being open, and responding to a recently published book warning of the Synod’s dangers. Flying back to Rome September 4, after his trip to Mongolia and the nation’s 1,500 Catholics, Pope Francis spoke...
  • Pope Whines About American Catholics Rejecting Anal

    08/31/2023 11:06:14 AM PDT · by davikkm · 51 replies
    The Church’s morals didn’t change until Vatican II in the 1960s. Before that, you had nearly two thousand years of consistency. If you speak to neo-Catholics now, they will tell you that there was a great revelation in the 20th century, and they realized that morality is constantly in flux, and that basically, all the fundamental premises of the historic Church are wrong. The Pope has gone from promoting gay anal to now actively attacking the people pushing back on it. He must be feeling he’s in a good position, to move from encouraging gay sex to actively organizing anyone...
  • Professor Rist: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Century

    07/28/2023 7:41:15 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    Edward Pentin.co ^ | July 24, 2023 | Edward Pentin
    Professor Rist: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Centuryhe recent suspension of an Italian priest for writing a scholarly critique of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia was a foolish and “wholly unjust” decision but one that underlines the depth of a crisis in the Church that could be worse than the Arian controversy, Professor John Rist has said.Regarded as one of the Church’s finest living scholars of ancient philosophy, classics, and early Christian philosophy and theology, Rist believes the suspension in April of Father Tullio Rotondo would never have...
  • Pope pays homage to Maoist who supported abortion

    05/08/2023 11:11:13 AM PDT · by Gillibrand1 · 10 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 8/5/2023 | CG
    I regard him (Bergoglio) as an example of light thinking, a mixture of opportunism and foolish overvaluation of his own person. Nothing to be surprised about, were it not for his unhealthy and unscrupulous passion for office and power. God knows how many were his twists and turns and stoops to get to where he is today and how many were the trappings he donned to achieve his goals. However, there is one predominant feature in his career: his flirtation with leftism in all its variants
  • Freemasons appeal to Pope for support after bishop repeats Church’s condemnation

    04/22/2023 7:33:53 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 39 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | February 15, 2023 | Michael Haynes
    Freemasons appeal to Pope for support after bishop repeats Church’s condemnationArchbishop Bruno Forte re-issued the Vatican's 1983 condemnation of Freemasonry, which prompted local Masons to appeal to the Pope.CHIETI, Italy (LifeSiteNews) — Italian Freemasons have said they will appeal to Pope Francis for support, after the local Catholic bishop re-iterated the Catholic Church’s condemnation on Freemasonry in light of renewed Masonic activity in the area.Local Freemasons in the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto in eastern Italy have declared that they will seek “rapid and active intervention” from Pope Francis, after Archbishop Bruno Forte reminded the archdiocese of the Catholic Church’s strict ban...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Serious Catholics Refuse to Donate to Francis’ Vatikenstein — now it’s going broke.

    03/06/2023 4:00:16 PM PST · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | March 6, 2023 | New Catholic
    [Catholic Caucus] Serious Catholics Refuse to Donate to Francis’ Vatikenstein — now it’s going broke.They want to annihilate Traditional Catholics, they persecute conservative bishops, they alienate serious priests, nuns, and seminarians, they ridicule Catholic morality, they name abortionists and perverts to official positions —they shouldn’t be shocked the faithful are fed up. No wonder Francis' monstrous Vatikenstein is going broke. From The Pillar:The Secretariat for the Economy, which requested the new rental policy, has yet to release financial results for 2022, or a projection for 2023, but sources close to the department have privately suggested the Holy See’s 3.3 million...