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  • Cardinal McElroy: Pope's climate vision not getting enough attention from US bishops

    03/12/2024 1:17:57 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 14 replies
    National Catholic Reporter ^ | March 12, 2024 | Joshua J. McElwee
    Cardinal McElroy: Pope's climate vision not getting enough attention from US bishopsPope Francis' call for the world to address the coming consequences of global climate change has not garnered enough attention at the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference, said a leading American cardinal.In an exclusive interview with National Catholic Reporter in late February, San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy said the pope's environmental vision "has not gotten the attention of the conference that it should get, and that the pope is calling us to get.""It has not been institutionalized in the conference in the same way that other major initiatives and priorities...
  • Antichrists and Practical Heresies: Saint Augustine’s Warning

    03/03/2024 1:09:24 PM PST · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | March 1, 2024 | Robert Lazu Kmita
    Antichrists and Practical Heresies: Saint Augustine’s Warning Both the signs of the end and the signs of recognizing the antichrist have been left to us in the inspired texts with the purpose of warning us about the imminence of crucial historical events. Their purpose, however, is never to satisfy our human curiosity, but to urge us to repentance, to penance, to prayer – to a life of more intense and deep sanctity. From the numerous difficult and enigmatic passages contained within the sacred texts of the Bible, the most read are the prophecies concerning the end of the world. No...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Two Treatments for the Same Spiritual Maladies: The Catholic Church Offers a Cure, the Synodal Church Offers Euthanasia

    03/01/2024 10:40:47 AM PST · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | February 29, 2024 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] Two Treatments for the Same Spiritual Maladies: The Catholic Church Offers a Cure, the Synodal Church Offers Euthanasia“If you perchance have any bad habit, endeavor to break from it speedily, now that God calls you. And as long as your conscience smites you, rejoice; for it is a sign that God has not yet abandoned you. But amend, give up sin at once; for if not, the wound will become gangrenous, and you will be lost.” (p. 79)Much like other Catholic spiritual works dedicated to Lenten reflections, St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Meditations and Readings for Every Day of Lent...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Exclusive: Cardinals Cupich, McElroy say 'impossible to go back' to synods without lay voters

    10/31/2023 6:27:01 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    National Catholic Reporter ^ | October 31, 2023 | Joshua J. McElwee
    [Catholic Caucus] Exclusive: Cardinals Cupich, McElroy say 'impossible to go back' to synods without lay voters Two U.S. cardinals said one of the immediate results of Pope Francis' major summit on the future of the Catholic Church is that it should now be "impossible" to return to an era where lay men and women are not given both a voice and vote in major Vatican meetings. "It would seem to me impossible to go back now," said San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy on Oct. 29. "It would be wrenching to go back if you just had bishops there or just...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT Cdls. McElroy, Tobin challenge formalization of US bishops’ decree against trans surgeries

    06/24/2023 8:37:06 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 23, 2023 | Louis Knuffke
    [Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT Cdls. McElroy, Tobin challenge formalization of US bishops’ decree against trans he USCCB had declared in a March directive that transgender procedures 'do not respect the fundamental order of the human person as an intrinsic unity of body and soul, with a body that is sexually differentiated.'Cardinals Joseph Tobin (L) and Robert McElroy (R)BALTIMORE (LifeSiteNews) — Two prominent pro-LGBT American cardinals are attempting to stall a formal revision to the U.S. bishop’s directives to Catholic hospitals and healthcare institutions that would ban “transgender” mutilation of the human body and chemical castration through puberty blockers and hormone infusions....
  • [Catholic Caucus] USCCB Tackles Gender Affirming Care: Satan wins again

    06/17/2023 5:31:24 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    aka Catholic ^ | June 12, 2023 | Louie Verrecchio
    [Catholic Caucus] USCCB Tackles Gender Affirming Care: Satan wins againAt its annual Spring Assembly to be held this week in Orlando, FL (June 14-16, 2023), the hirelings that comprise the USCCB will vote on whether or not to amend the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services” to include commentary aimed at regulating Catholic institutions’ participation in what godless leftists call “gender affirming care.” Specifically, the bishops will proffer a voice vote, yea or nay, on a “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” a 5,000 word text that could easily be...
  • San Diego Diocese Plans to File for Bankruptcy

    05/15/2023 6:45:21 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    Church Militant ^ | May 15, 2023 | Martina Moyski
    San Diego Diocese Plans to File for BankruptcyWill be third California diocese to do so this yearSAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - The diocese of San Diego is set to file for bankruptcy later this year under a siege of new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy.Cdl. Robert McElroy Over 400 people say they were sexually abused by clerics in past decades in the Southern California diocese. As a result, the diocese plans to file for bankruptcy protection by November. This comes in the wake of the state's Assembly Bill 218, which reopened a three-year window for filing claims of sexual abuse....
  • Cardinal McElroy bans EWTN from San Diego diocese media

    05/09/2023 6:18:47 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 20 replies
    California Catholic Daily ^ | March 27, 2023 | California Catholic Daily
    Cardinal McElroy bans EWTN from San Diego diocese mediaSan Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy sharply criticized the Eternal Word Television Network, the conservative Catholic U.S. media conglomerate, in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published on March 24.Vida Nueva asked McElroy about the decision of newly installed Bishop Fernando Prado of San Sebastián, Spain, to ban diocesan television from carrying content produced by EWTN. Prado wrote that he made the decision “trying to support the communion of the diocese with the Successor of Peter.”“I would not have EWTN on diocesan media either,” McElroy responded.“EWTN worries me because it represents a...
  • Scandalous Pride Mass at St. John the Evangelist Parish in San Diego

    05/05/2023 10:02:47 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    [Catholic Caucus] Scandalous Pride Mass at St. John the Evangelist Parish in San Diego Saint John the Evangelist, a parish in San Diego’s homosexual Hillcrest neighborhood notorious for its promotion of pro-sodomy initiatives, advertises a 5:00 PM Sunday Mass hosted by the church’s LGBTQ Ministry. The parish also offers an LGBTQ monthly social/potluck, LGBTQ prayer and support group, and other activities, and has marched in San Diego’s “gay pride” parade.Since learning about the Sunday “LGBTQ liturgy celebration,” the faithful have been showing up every Sunday at 4:30 PM to pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy in reparation for...
  • [Catholic Caucus] SCANDALOUS PRIDE MASS AT ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH IN SAN DIEGO

    04/28/2023 6:17:47 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Stumbling Block ^ | April 28, 2023 | Frank Walker
    [Catholic Caucus] SCANDALOUS PRIDE MASS AT ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH IN SAN DIEGOSaint John the Evangelist, a parish in San Diego’s homosexual Hillcrest neighborhood notorious for its promotion of pro-sodomy initiatives, advertises a 5:00 PM Sunday Mass hosted by the church’s LGBTQ Ministry. The parish also offers an LGBTQ monthly social/potluck, LGBTQ prayer and support group, and other activities, and has marched in San Diego’s “gay pride” parade.Since learning about the Sunday “LGBTQ liturgy celebration,” the faithful have been showing up every Sunday at 4:30 PM to pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy in reparation for this...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Lexington diocese hires gay married man as director of the Office of Worship

    04/14/2023 7:31:11 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    Church Militant ^ | April 13, 2023 | William Mahoney
    [Catholic Caucus] Lexington diocese hires gay married man as director of the Office of WorshipLexington's Bp. John Stowe — an adamant supporter of sodomy — recently named Aaron Bianco the diocese's new director of the Office of Worship.Faithful Catholics from the diocese are alarmed.In 2018, Bianco resigned from his position as pastoral associate at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (SJE) in San Diego — a church with a so-called LGBTQ ministry, which, according to its web page, has a "weekly vibrant liturgical celebration for the LGBBT community and their allies."In an email regarding his resignation, Bianco wrote:As most of...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Finding Courage to Fight as Francis and His Sycophants Embrace Demonic Insanity

    03/30/2023 8:40:25 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | March 28, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] Finding Courage to Fight as Francis and His Sycophants Embrace Demonic Insanity“Wait for the Lord, do manfully; and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord. The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear?” (Introit, Tuesday in Passion Week)A recent National Catholic Reporter article detailed Cardinal Robert McElroy’s sharp criticism of Eternal Word Television Network for its content opposing Francis and other enemies of the Church. The entire story of the heretical Cardinal attempting to claim a moral and theological high ground to punish EWTN is demonically surreal, but the real...
  • Cardinal McElroy criticizes EWTN, says San Diego Diocese won't publish content

    03/25/2023 9:07:54 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    National Catholic Reporter ^ | March 24, 2023 | Aleja Hertzler-McCain
    Cardinal McElroy criticizes EWTN, says San Diego Diocese won't publish contentSan Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy sharply criticized the Eternal Word Television Network, the conservative Catholic U.S. media conglomerate, in an interview with Spanish magazine Vida Nueva published on March 24. Vida Nueva asked McElroy about the decision of newly installed Bishop Fernando Prado of San Sebastián, Spain, to ban diocesan television from carrying content produced by EWTN. Prado wrote that he made the decision "trying to support the communion of the diocese with the Successor of Peter.""I would not have EWTN on diocesan media either," McElroy responded."EWTN worries me because...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Bp. Schneider: Bishops who push ‘heresy’ know Pope Francis won’t punish them

    03/07/2023 6:16:51 PM PST · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 7, 2023 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] Bp. Schneider: Bishops who push ‘heresy’ know Pope Francis won’t punish themCdl. McElroy's free reign to promote heterodox statements is 'a manifestation of the deep crisis in which the Holy See is now,' said Bishop Schneider.Bishop Athanasius Schneider has hit back at recent heretical statements made by San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy, saying that prelates who “speak heresy” do so knowing they will not face punishment from Pope Francis. The auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, made the comments in light of Cardinal McElroy’s two recently published articles in America magazine. McElroy attacked Catholic doctrine on the gravity of...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cdl. McElroy doubles down on heresy, pushes Communion for ‘sexually active’ homosexuals, adulterers

    03/05/2023 3:04:17 PM PST · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 3, 2023 | Raymond Wolfe
    [Catholic Caucus] Cdl. McElroy doubles down on heresy, pushes Communion for ‘sexually active’ homosexuals, adulterersMcElroy ramped up his attacks on Catholic teaching in a new, error-loaded essay for America magazine.Following explosive backlash from fellow bishops and accusations of heresy, Cardinal Robert McElroy doubled down on his call to give the Eucharist to “sexually active” people in objective mortal sin and escalated his attacks on Catholic sexual ethics.In a new, error-loaded essay for America magazine on Thursday, the embattled San Diego cardinal and favorite of Pope Francis once again argued that the Church should allow divorced and remarried couples and “L.G.B.T....
  • Report from a Rome in Deep Crisis: "Terror, Disgust, Espionage: Everybody Hates Francis."

    03/02/2023 7:38:44 PM PST · by ebb tide · 25 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | February 27, 2023 | Caminante Wanderer
    Report from a Rome in Deep Crisis: "Terror, Disgust, Espionage: Everybody Hates Francis."[REPORT FROM ROME:] ROMAN MELANCHOLYIt is one thing to be told, and another to see it. I have been saddened by this truth in the last few days. Some Roman friends often tell me secrets, or not so much [secret], of what goes on inside the Vatican walls and [Spanish blogger] Specola also gives us this kind of news daily, of which he knows a lot. But another thing is to personally verify the facts and confirm the conclusion that we all know: Pope Francis is not loved...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Arkansas cops rule suicide in death of Clinton aide linked to Jeffrey Epstein - who was found shot and tied to a tree with an electrical cord around his neck - despite no sign of weapon

    02/22/2023 8:08:14 AM PST · by DFG
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/22/2023 | Daniel Bates
    The grisly scene where a top Bill Clinton adviser was found hanged from a tree with a gunshot wound to his chest has finally been revealed nine months after he died. But the sheriff's report into Mark Middleton's mysterious death raises more questions than answers as it rules he died by suicide – despite no sign of the weapon that killed him. Middleton, 59, was found dead last May at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, an hour west of Little Rock. Release of the report was held up after members of his family petitioned a judge. They were worried...
  • Archbishop: “McElroy Is Contrary To Catholic Faith”

    02/16/2023 10:13:22 AM PST · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | Gloria TV
    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] Cardinal McElroy Calls Anti-LGBTQ+ Spirit a “Demonic Mystery” in Call for Inclusion

    02/14/2023 5:11:37 PM PST · by ebb tide · 13 replies
    New Ways Ministry ^ | February 14, 2023 | Robert Shine (he/him),
    [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy Calls Anti-LGBTQ+ Spirit a “Demonic Mystery” in Call for InclusionThe church needs to embark on a journey of radical inclusion, wrote a top U.S. church leader in a new essay that suggests the “profound and visceral animus” towards LGBTQ+ people in the church is a “demonic mystery of the human soul.”Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego wrote his essay in America as a reflection on the challenges facing Catholics today, particularly in view of the global synodal process underway. “Many of these challenges,” McElroy suggests, result from “structures and cultures of exclusion that alienate all too...
  • [Catholic Caucus] U.S. Cardinal Calls for Removal of “Intrinsically Disordered” from Catechism

    02/14/2023 3:09:20 PM PST · by ebb tide · 10 replies
    New Ways Ministry ^ | February 13, 2023 | Robert Shine (he/him)
    [Catholic Caucus] U.S. Cardinal Calls for Removal of “Intrinsically Disordered” from CatechismA U.S. cardinal has called for the language of “intrinsically disordered” to be removed from the Catechism. His comment followed the publication of an article in which he sought a better, wider welcome for LGBTQ+ people in the church.*Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego made his comments about church teaching on homosexuality during an interview with the podcast Jesuitical, which is produced by America Media. Asked how he would approach the question of LGBTQ+ inclusion, specifically when the language used is considered harmful by many people, the cardinal responded:“I’ve...