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[Catholic Caucus] Joe Hosts a HereticPresident Biden hosted a cadre of heretics at his St. Patrick's Day party, including Fr. James Martin.Joe Biden is a heretic who eats and drinks his own spiritual death every time he unworthily takes Communion, which is all the time. So, it is unsurprising Old Joe hosted another well-known heretic, Fr. James Martin, S.J., at the White House last Sunday for St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, and here was Old Joe allowing them to slither into the White House. Joe Biden is a heretic who eats and drinks his...

[Catholic Caucus] "I've gotten used to being hated," says defender of LGBT Catholics James MartinAmerican Jesuit priest James Martin is one of world's leading advocates for welcoming homosexuals in the Church and offering blessings for same-sex couples.Inside one of the many skyscrapers in the center of Manhattan, James Martin heads to his office at America, the Jesuit magazine where he is an editor. Martin's workspace is filled with objects that evoke his personal journey as a Jesuit priest who has worked with gang members in Boston as well as refugees in Kenya.Next to his computer, there's a photo of him...

‘Deeply Honored’: Jesuit Priests Praise Biden After Brunch at White HouseA pair of controversial liberal priests visited President Joe Biden’s White House Sunday as part of an event billed as a “St. Patrick’s Day Brunch with Catholic Leaders.”Frs. James Martin and Thomas Reese, SJ, were among the brunch’s attendees. Three days earlier, Biden running mate Vice President Kamala Harris became the highest-ranking incumbent official in American history to visit an abortion facility, where she praised Planned Parenthood and attacked the work of pro-life elected officials.Addressing Martin, Reese, and the other attendees on Sunday, Biden said:The Catholic Church has always stepped...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Jesuits Appoint Director for LGBT ActivismJohn Zmirak and I have been warning you for years. . . . New Executive Director at OutreachThe implementation phase of the LGBT synod is accelerating rapidly. The LGBT media ministry, Outreach, which was founded by Fr. James Martin, has just announced the appointment of its first executive director. His name is Michael O’Loughlin, a former reporter for the Boston Globe and the Jesuit magazine, America. Based on his comments to the media, it is obvious that his new job is to organize a national movement of LGBT enforcement at all Catholic...

[Catholic Caucus] "Spontaneous Blessing" Hoax: Two Homosexuals [Pseudo] Blessed At EucharistDuring a Eucharist at the Jesuit parish of the Holy Family in Mexico City on 28 January, Redemptorist Father Patrick Keyes blessed two homosexual concubines, reports AciPrensa.com.He justified his blasphemy with Francis' propaganda piece Sodoma supplicans. At the end of the 7pm Eucharist, two homosexuals came to the side of the Novus Ordo table to receive the [pseudo] blessing.What was supposed to be "spontaneous" according to Francis was announced during the "parish announcements" by the pastor of the church, Father Gonzalo Rosas, a Jesuit.It was only after the scandal broke...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Fr. James Martin addresses Irish bishops in private meeting at Marian ShrineA trusted source in Ireland told LifeSiteNews that the meeting included discussions on how to implement the blessing of homosexual 'couples' and even the desire to implement homosexual 'marriage.'The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has been addressed today by heterodox Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin in the Marian Shrine of Knock, Co. Mayo, where Our Lady appeared to villagers in 1879. The conference had not made any statement on the matter at the time of publication, nor responded to requests for comment from LifeSiteNews, but it is...

Pope Francis Is the Pope He Was Waiting ForThe Church under Pope Francis has become infiltrated by the strange ideological connotations found among communist-sympathizing Liberation Theologians.In my book Status Envy: The Politics of Catholic Higher Education, there is a chapter titled “A Pope Away from a Perfect Life for the Jesuits.” The chapter documents in depressing detail the ways in which the Jesuits began to wage war with the pope following Vatican II. It describes how the 28 Jesuit campuses became the battlefields for a protracted war between the Jesuits and Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. From...

The Great BetrayalIn the past few weeks we have received a great blessing: the demonstration that for a large section of the Catholic Church around the world Pope Francis has gone too far. All the indications until now were that there was no limit to the capacity of the faithful to accept this Pope’s paltering with Catholic truth; but we now see that the limit was there, and that with Fiducia Supplicans it has been overstepped. All the same, against this benefit there is a much greater evil: the state of the Church that made Francis think that he could...

[Catholic Caucus] James Martin, fellow Synod Jesuit claim ‘same-sex relationships’ are ‘integral’ to the ChurchMartin carefully avoided the Church’s condemnation of homosexuality activity and the homosexual inclination in his latest scandalous article, joined by a prominent Jesuit from Africa.(LifeSiteNews) — Notorious LGBT activist Father James Martin, S.J., has joined with a fellow prominent Jesuit and Synod on Synodality member to claim that “we cannot deny the reality of same-sex relationships as integral to the meaning of the church as the People of God.”“Both heterosexual and homosexual people embody the truth of their dignity as imago Dei in their sexuality,” Martin...

On this date in 1594, Catholic militant Jean Châtel was dismembered for the near-assassination of King Henri IV. Just two days before his public butchery, the 19-year-old clothier’s son (English Wikipedia entry | French) had milled about in a crowd awaiting the Huguenot* king’s return from Picardy. As Henri entered the Hotel de Bouchage and bent over to accept the obeisance of two courtiers, Châtel sprang out of the crowd and daggered him. The blade cut Henri’s lip — a glancing blow just a few degrees distant from a history-altering one. Châtel would cite Jesuitical inspiration, and when his instructors’...

[Catholic Caucus] Papal priorities? Traditional vestments cause ‘scandal’ while Rupnik returns to ministryPope Francis has accused young priests who wear traditional priestly garments of “clericalism”.Addressing hundreds of synodal participants in the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican, the Pontiff stated that it was a “scandal” to “go to ecclesiastical tailors in Rome [and] see… young priests trying on cassocks and hats or albs and surplices with lace.”“Clericalism is a whip, it is a scourge, it is a form of worldliness that soils and damages the face of the Lord’s bride; and enslaves God’s faithful holy people,” he added.The Holy...

[Catholic Caucus] Disgraced Fr. Marko Rupnik incardinated into Slovenian diocese despite history of abuseThe former Jesuit, Fr. Marko Rupnik, has found a new home in a diocese in his homeland of Slovenia, meaning that his priestly ministry will continue unabated despite allegations of serial abuse.KOPER, Slovenia (LifeSiteNews) — The disgraced ex-Jesuit priest, Father Marko Rupnik has been incardinated into a diocese in his native Slovenia after he was expelled from the Jesuits during the summer. After reports circulated earlier Wednesday morning, confirmation from the Diocese of Koper was sent to katolische.de, stating that Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik “has been incardinated...

[Catholic Caucus] New Response in the Same-Sex Blessing ControversyBack on September 30th, a few days before the new Dubia were released, Cardinal Tucho Fernández gave an interview to LifeSite News about Same-sex blessings which has now been published. But before we get to that, I want to go back to the 2021 document approved by the Holy Father which was meant to put to rest this dubium with the following clarity:TO THE QUESTION PROPOSED:Does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex?RESPONSE:Negative.The explanation goes into the fact that “Blessings belong to...

SALTILLO, Mexico – Gabby and Ana are in love. So are Marco Antonio and Juan Carlos. Under a sweeping new law allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions, they are planning to turn their love into a legal commitment. Legislators in the dusty northern border state of Coahuila have stunned Mexico by giving same-sex couples property and inheritance rights long reserved for married heterosexuals. It is a first for this predominantly Roman Catholic country, a measure so swift and so bold that it surprised even the gay community. All of a sudden, gay rights are on the national agenda. Since...

[Catholic Caucus] Discipline of Sister Who Led Community Co-Founded by Father Rupnik Raises QuestionsA religious sister who co-founded a community with the ex-Jesuit and accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik three decades ago was quietly removed in June from the governance of the community, banned from contacting current or former sisters for three years, and ordered to make monthly pilgrimages to pray for Father Rupnik’s victims.Sister Ivanka Hosta, the superior general of the Loyola Community since 1994, is staying in a monastery in Braga, in northern Portugal, following the conclusion of an investigation into her leadership of the religious community by...

[Catholic Caucus] Rupnik centre gets ‘clean bill of health’ from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunicationROME – Despite being expelled in July from his Jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed Slovenian artist Father Marko Rupnik’s base of operations in Rome has drawn a clean bill of health from the pope’s diocese, which praised his Centro Aletti for fostering “a healthy community life free of particular critical issues”.A Sept. 18 note from the Diocese of Rome also said its review had identified “gravely anomalous procedures” behind a May 2020 decree of excommunication against Rupnik...

[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] Fr. James Martin says Christ raising Lazarus from dead is ‘invitation’ for ‘LGBTQ people’ to ‘come out’‘Coming out’ is ‘especially important for LGBTQ people,’ since it means to accept ‘the way that God made you,’ the heterodox Jesuit blasphemously said.In his recently published book, Father James Martin, SJ, has argued that Christ’s command for Lazarus to “come out” of the tomb is an “invitation” for individuals who identify as “LGBTQ” to “‘come out’ into the sunlight of God’s love.”Published by HarperCollins on September 5, Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greater Miracle is the latest book offering from...

Pope Francis Calls on Nations to ‘End the Era of Fossil Fuel’Pope Francis has doubled down in his personal war on fossil fuels while condemning “extreme practices” such as fracking.It is time world leaders to “listen to science and institute a rapid and equitable transition to end the era of fossil fuel,” the pontiff urges in his message for the Feast of Creation, to be celebrated on September 1.It is “absurd to permit the continued exploration and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures,” he insists. “Let us raise our voices to halt this injustice towards the poor and towards our children,...

[Catholic Caucus] Papal Adviser Father Antonio Spadaro Accused of ‘Heretical Blasphemy’One of Pope Francis’ closest advisers, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, has been accused of “heretical blasphemy” after portraying the Lord as a flawed human being in need of conversion from “nationalism” and “rigidity.”Writing in Il Fatto Quotidiano Aug. 20, a highly secular left-wing Italian daily, Father Spadaro reflected on the Gospel story of the faith of a Canaanite woman and concluded that Jesus was healed and freed “from the rigidity of the theological, political and cultural elements dominant in his time.”The story, from the Gospel of Matthew (15:21-28), concerns that...