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Pope Francis names pro-LGBT Cdl. Hollerich to select group of advisorsHollerich has described as 'false' the Church’s denouncement of homosexual acts as sinful, which comes on top of his openness to 'ordaining' women to the sacred priesthood and opening Holy Orders to married men.Pope Francis has announced the new roster of cardinals comprising his select Council of Cardinals, including the prominently pro-LGBT Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich amongst the number.In a March 7 press release, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had restructured his famous advisory group of nine cardinals, known as the Council of Cardinals and also, for a time,...

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] A church called to love perfectlyAmong the many points of convergence between the late Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis is their emphasis on the power of grace, which is God’s love for his people. From different perspectives, both popes insist that this love is totally unconditional, mysterious, transformative and gratuitous. Pope Francis warns against the cold and hard gnostic logic that attempts to domesticate the mystery of God’s grace or even the mystery of our lives by pretending to have all the answers: “When somebody has an answer for every question, it is a sign that they...

Archbishop: “McElroy Is Contrary To Catholic Faith”The Church is a divided house, retired Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput told CatholicNewsAgency.com (February 10).Regarding San Diego homosexualist Robert McElroy, the archbishop noted that "unfortunately many of his convictions are wrong and contrary to the faith of the Church."Chaput explained that he is surprised and many good people are confused and scandalised, that McElroy hasn’t been publicly corrected by the [decadent] Holy See.

[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. McElroy invokes synodal ‘process’ to push LGBT agenda during university address'It is clear that the church in the US must transform its outreach to LGBT+ persons if it seeks to be a truly welcoming presence in the world,' Cardinal Robert McElroy said.SAN DIEGO (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego has again invoked the “process of renewal” of the Synod on Synodality to justify greater inclusion in the Catholic Church of those who live homosexual lifestyles. Speaking on January 28 at the closing plenary session of a two-day conference titled “Re-Imagining the World: Saint Francis and Pope Francis,”...

[Catholic Caucus] McElroy: Communion for ideological sinners in denial?I’ve waited a few days to comment, but Cardinal Robert McElroy’s observations on “radical inclusion” for LGBT people and women in the Church is so full of Catholic misunderstanding that it is difficult to credit it to a bishop (see Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for LGBT people, women, and others in the Church). For example, McElroy says that the question of ordaining women to the priesthood “will be one of the most difficult questions confronting the international synods in 2023 and 2024”. If a question that has already been definitively settled...

[Catholic Caucus] The Great Catholic Migration ContinuedI was a senior in high school: fully engrossed in extracurricular activities at my public school and ready to start on my college journey. I was also strong in my faith, but not particularly interested in attending the youth group at our current church or doing anything besides going to Sunday Mass. My family was the same way: very devout, but very private.Early one Sunday morning, my mother packed us all in the car and announced, “We’re going to a church in Rockford this Sunday.” As myself and my brothers were used to going...

Vatican Awaits Developments as It Investigates Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga and Honduras’ Catholic UniversityQuestions have been raised about the attempt to transfer ownership of the university from the local Church to a foundation headed by the rector, ahead of the cardinal’s impending retirement.VATICAN CITY — A Vatican investigation into one of Pope Francis’ closest aides and the rector of the Catholic University of Honduras over alleged mismanagement of the university’s finances and personnel has currently stalled as the Vatican awaits more information, the Register has learned. The Pope ordered the investigation last year after repeated complaints were made against Cardinal...

Three Cardinals: Francis' Church Degenerates into a Pagan SpectacleThree secularised cardinals took part in a Mayan cult in Panama City on 5 October, invoking a "mother-father god", Pachamama/Gaia, and a sun god.The Bishops' Conference of Panama broadcast the show live (video and screenshots below). The three Francis Cardinals present were:Arizmendi Esquivel, 82, cardinal since 2020, Mexico.José Luis Lacunza, 78, Cardinal since 2015, PanamaÁlvaro Leonel Ramazzini, 75, cardinal since 2019, GuatemalaThe pagan gathering rallied around Popol Vuh, the Mayan holy book.

Pope Francis’ American cardinals are pro-LGBT revolutionaries with a radical agenda for the ChurchOn Communion, conscience, homosexuality, and the family, the Pope's ultra-liberal American cardinals want nothing less than revolution. (L-R) Cardinals Joseph Tobin, Kevin Farrell, and Blase Cupich(LifeSiteNews) – In his quests to stack the College of Cardinals, reshape the U.S. episcopate, and usher in “a different Church,” Pope Francis has promoted a slate of radical American cardinals with a shared vision that would all but destroy the Catholic Church as we know it.With his recent elevation of San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy, Pope Francis has now appointed half...

Al Capone makes a statement on the Chicago massacre Cardinal Al Capone of the Chicago Outfit has issued a statement concerning the suppression of the North Side Institute on Febuary 14th (the St Valentine's Day Mass-acre). Cardinal Capone tries to look inconspicuous. "On February 14th, seven members of the North Side Community communicated to the archdiocese that they had decided to stop breathing and instead bleed to death through certain holes in their bodies. It was their choice to do so." "They were not killed. We did not shoot them. They chose to discontinue altogether." "The community had the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Death of a ParishSaint Francis de Sales in Benedict, MarylandAs of September 21st Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington who prefer the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) will be herded like prisoners of war into three officially designated camps, like native Americans onto a federal reservation. This while Pope Francis parades through Canada on an official apology tour for the Church’s role in doing the very same thing to the children of indigenous peoples in the residential schools.One of these is a crime and the other a necessity for the spiritual good of those who just don’t...

Cardinal Censured for ‘Criminal Conspiracy’Top judge accuses prelate of conniving to 'fabricate' DNA paternity test MUMBAI, India (ChurchMilitant.com) - A veteran high court judge is charging a leading cardinal with "criminal conspiracy" for attempting "to procure a fabricated and false" DNA paternity test certificate for "illegal purposes." Justice Michael F. Saldanha wrote to India's apostolic nuncio, Abp. Leopoldo Girelli, on Monday stating Bombay's cardinal-archbishop, Oswald Gracias, is guilty of a "serious criminal offense, punishable with 10 years rigorous imprisonment." Phone LeakCiting Church Militant's exposé of a leaked phone call between Cdl. Gracias and Mysore's scandal-plagued bishop K. A. William, the...

[Catholic Caucus] THE FRANCIS LAW: Cardinals Gregory, Cupich Implement Ban on Latin MassDespite all their talk about "listening" and the "Synodal Way," Francis and his fellow revolutionaries steadfastly REFUSE to listen to the hundreds of thousand of Catholics worldwide who choose to worship God at the Latin Mass -- the Mass of St. Faustina, St. José Sánchez del Río, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Padre Pio. In the middle of a worldwide pandemic, why is the Church of Pope Francis persecuting faithful Catholics whose only crime is an earnest desire to have access to the Mass of their fathers, the Latin...

[Catholic Caucus] Persecution in DC: One Young Catholic’s Journey in the Faith, and His (Now Eliminated) Parish Mass I attended my first Tridentine Mass at the age of thirteen (I am now twenty). My new, young pastor convinced me to come, challenging me to kneel on marble for an hour (I had to prove my physical strength—he certainly understood the psyche of the teenage boy). This experience ignited a love affair with Christ and the liturgy that revolutionized my entire life—in the faith and otherwise.I would say I had never been pious before this moment, but that would be...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gregory issues decree to implement Pope Francis’ Traditionis CustodesNorms take effect September 21, 2022WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cardinal Wilton Gregory today released a decree with the Liturgical Norms for the implementation in The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington of Traditionis Custodes, an apostolic letter issued moto proprio (“on his own impulse”) by Pope Francis in July 2021. Traditionis Custodes, which means “Guardians of the Tradition,” contains a set of norms for the celebration of what is popularly known as the Traditional Latin Mass.The decree from Cardinal Gregory states that, effective September 21, 2022, three non-parochial churches are designated...

D.C. 'Traditionis custodes' plan to publish FridayThe Archdiocese of Washington will publish Friday its implementation plan for Traditionis custodes, a set of 2021 papal restrictions on the use of liturgical books that precede the Second Vatican Council.The plan will restrict use of the preconciliar liturgy texts at Sunday Mass to three locations in the archdiocese and call for “pastoral outreach” toward Catholics with an attachment to the older form of the liturgy, often called the “Extraordinary Form” or the “usus antiquior.” “In the time I have served as Archbishop of Washington, I have discovered that the majority of the faithful...

Pope speaks on U.S. gun violence, abortion debate, retirement rumorsThe pope spoke about U.S. President Joe Biden's support of abortion, about gun violence in the United States and about his tentative post-retirement plans -- if the time comes. (CNS photo/courtesy Televisa Univision) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — U.S. President Joe Biden should consult with his bishop or parish priest about his stance on abortion, Pope Francis said, adding that the primary concern of bishops should be pastoral care.In an interview that aired in the United States July 11 on Univision, the Spanish-language network, the pope was asked his opinion about President...

[Catholic Caucus] US Bishop-Backed Priest Association Honors LGBT ChampionsThe Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) is once again holding its Annual Assembly, this time in Baltimore, MD, June 20-23. We’ve reported on a number of past AUSCP events and issued reports on AUSCP rhetoric concerning women’s ordination to the priesthood and AUSCP’s membership in an international network of dissident organizations.This year, it appears the AUSCP is back at it again. According to an AUSCP press release, it is bestowing its 2022 St. John XXIII Award to two champions of the homosexualist movement, Sr Jeannine Gramick and Fr. Joe Muth.This isn’t...