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Following the UnfaithfulIn an effort to be more "welcoming," many Church leaders are looking to fallen-away Catholics to lead the way.A well-known tactic in political circles is to release a “survey” that supports a predetermined conclusion. For example, a Republican PAC might send out a survey to its base asking “Do you think Joe Biden is right about the 2nd amendment?” Or the Democrats might ask if Trump is the next Hitler. Then the results will be touted as proof of massive support for the forgone conclusion. This doesn’t just happen in political circles, though, as is clear from a...

Biden hosts papal nuncio Christophe Pierre, Fr. James Martin at White House St. Patrick’s Day brunchPapal nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre, homosexual Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, and left-wing Jesuit Fathers James Martin and Thomas Reese joined President Joe Biden at the White House yesterday for a St. Patrick’s Day brunch.Pierre, who as papal nuncio is the pope’s ambassador to the U.S., delivered an invocation and led grace before the meal.“We gather on St. Patrick’s Day to pay tribute to the Catholic leadership in this country, especially the fields of charity and social engagement. And so, we give thanks to God...

Vatican Revolution: yes to euthanasia and artificial inseminationThe ban on euthanasia causes worse harm than good; green light to homologous fertilisation: these are the resounding statements contained in the book La gioia della vita (The Joy of Life), a joint reflection of the theologians of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Pav). And even the Bible can be corrected. It’s an unapologetic declaration of heresy.La gioia della vita (The Joy of Life) is a text, published last month, and "the fruit of the common reflection of a qualified group of theologians who met on the initiative of the Pontifical Academy for...

[Catholic Caucus] Wonderful Diversity: OFM Provincial Proclaims His "Homosexuality"Father Markus Fuhrmann, OFM, head of the 200-member German Franciscan Province, has told urbi et orbi that he is a "homosexual".He explained his confession to Katholisch.de (12 March) by saying that "I had to change something for the sake of my own honesty". Katholisch.de is run by the German bishops.Already in January 2022, Fuhrmann took part in 'OutInChurch', a homosexual propaganda campaign by about 120 employees of the "Catholic" Church in Germany, which employs about 650,000 people (including 'Caritas').Five months later, when the provincial chapter had to elect a new provincial, Fuhrmann...

[Catholic Caucus] Not only “blessings”: Now Francis voices approval of the need of “legal recognition” of same-sex “unions”In yet another set of declarations, included in his “autobiography” to be published in a few days by HarperCollins.From the excerpt made available by Italian daily “Corriere della Sera”:"It is right that these people who are living the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else. Jesus often went out to meet people who lived on the margins, and that's what the Church should do today with people from the LGBTQ+ community, who within the Church are often marginalized: make them...

Statement of the Holy Synod of Antioch Balamand, 14 March 2024 The Holy Antiochian Synod, presided by His Beatitude Patriarch JOHN X (Yazigi), held its eighteenth extraordinary session in Balamand from March 13 to March 14, 2024, in the presence of Their Eminences: Elias (Archdiocese of Beirut and dependencies); Elias (Archdiocese of Tyre, Sidon and dependencies); Saba (Archdiocese of New York and All North America); Silouan (Archdiocese of Byblos, Botrys and dependencies); Basilios (Archdiocese of Akkar and dependencies); Ephrem (Archdiocese of Tripoli, Koura and dependencies); Ignatius (Archdiocese of France, Western and Southern Europe); Isaac (Archdiocese of Germany and Central Europe);...

The Coptic Orthodox Church has reportedly suspended its dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over the Catholic Church's decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples. Coptic leadership held a Holy Synod last week in Wadi El-Natrun, Egypt. The church hierarchy recommended various issues, including recognizing assorted monasteries, adding mental health topics to marital counseling and praying for unity within the Orthodox Church.Coptic Orthodox spokesman Father Moussa Ibrahim explained in a video that "the most notable" action from the annual Holy Synod was "to suspend theological dialogue with the Catholic Church after its change of position on the issue of...

[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] The Anti-Ecumenism of Pope FrancisFiducia Supplicans causes the Coptic Orthodox to suspend their ecumenical dialogue with Rome, citing the declaration's change to the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality.So much for the “big brotherhood” Pope Francis invited Catholics to share during his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica (unless there is another Big Brother that Pope Francis bends the knee to). If the white flag is a form of courage—as Francis said, urging Ukraine to surrender to Russia and earning himself some blistering criticism—Francis has been brave regarding the social justice ideologies of the day. But...

[Catholic Caucus] Puerto Rico bishop removed by Pope Francis: Bishops must reject Fiducia Supplicans or risk God’s wrathBishop Daniel Fernández Torres denounced Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans for causing ‘scandal and great suffering’ to many Catholics and violating Church teaching, and stressed that bishops ‘must’ rebuke the document.ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (LifeSiteNews) — A Puerto Rican bishop deposed from his diocese by Pope Francis after opposing COVID “vaccine” mandates strongly denounced Fiducia Supplicans and warned that bishops who fail to speak out against it risk incurring God’s wrath.Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who led the Diocese of Arecibo from 2010 until his sudden...

[Catholic Caucus] US bishops attend secretive pro-transgender conference organized by heretical New Ways MinistryMore than a dozen prelates, including heterodox Kentucky Bishop John Stowe, joined the New Ways Ministry event, though the bishop who oversaw the USCCB’s condemnation of transgender surgeries wasn’t invited.More than a dozen Catholic bishops met recently for a closed door pro-transgender conference at Jesuit-run St. Louis University, organized by the heretical, pro-LGBT New Ways Ministry.The move comes as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is working on formalizing a universal policy in line with the doctrinal note published by the doctrinal committee of the bishops’...

[Catholic Caucus] Disgraced homosexual priest attends Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag ‘ordination’ in GermanyFather Wolfgang Rothe, a former seminary vice-rector who resigned in disgrace after a homosexual and child pornography scandal, has become notorious for his LGBT activism, though Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the Vatican have refused to punish him.Fr. Wolfgang RotheA scandal-plagued homosexual priest known for his LGBT activism has promoted the anti-Catholic hate group “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Father Wolfgang Rothe thanked the drag queen group for inviting him to a sacrilegious mock “ordination” of a man in drag who calls himself...

[Catholic Caucus] Theologian rebukes Vatican News’ defense of Fiducia Supplicans: ‘Non-liturgical’ blessings don’t existVatican News editor Andrea Tornielli’s defense of homosexual ‘blessings’ ‘is deceptive and constitutes a shameless falsification, perhaps with the intention of pleasing the court,’ Monsignor Nicola Bux wrote.The prominent Vatican theologian Monsignor Nicola Bux has rejected a recent defense of Fiducia Supplicans made by the Vatican’s official news portal, saying there is no such thing as a non-liturgical blessing.“There is no such thing as a blessing that is not liturgical, when it is made by an ordained minister, who exercises the munus sanctificandi with and in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Austrian priest: Pope Francis is responsible for widespread ‘dismay, heresy, and division’ in the ChurchPope Francis’ approval of homosexual ‘blessings’ is a ‘turning point’ that shows how the Jesuit pontiff has ‘left the teachings of the Church’ and caused a ‘swath of devastation that cannot be overlooked,’ Fr. Joachim Heimerl writes.This essay by Fr. Joachim Heimerl was originally written in German. It has been translated and published with the permission of Fr. Heimerl.(LifeSiteNews) — When Pope Francis said that Christ expects “synodality” from the Church of today, I wondered how the pope knew this. Has he received a...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Blessing’ homosexual couples ‘flings the door open’ to the demonic, exorcist’s assistant warnsKyle Clement, assistant to exorcist priest Fr. Ripperger, warned that the ‘real danger’ in blessing homosexual ‘couples’ is that ‘it affirms the soul' in mortal sin, 'this becomes a millstone moment for the priest.’Fr. James Martin gives a same-sex blessing in New York, the day after Fiducia Supplicans was published. In a multi-part interview with LifeSiteNews, Kyle Clement, assistant to well-known exorcist Father Chad Ripperger, both of whom have long experience in exorcism and deliverance ministry, explained the way in which Freemasonry is rooted in Satanism,...

[Catholic Caucus] Filial Appeal asking Pope Francis to withdraw Fiducia Supplicans tops 500 namesTogether with the initial 90 signatories, the document now lists around 150 clergymen – one bishop, several monsignors, dozens of priests and deacons – as well as hundreds of scholars from all over the world, totaling 500.The team who organized the filial appeal to cardinals and bishops of the world asking them to forbid blessings of irregular and homosexual “couples” in their dioceses and to request Pope Francis rescind the Vatican document allowing for such blessings (see full text below) is presenting today the final list of...

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[Catholic Caucus] Russian Catholic bishops reject blessing same-sex couples as ‘unacceptable’Emphasizing the traditional view of marriage as between a man and a woman, the Catholic Bishops of Russia declared their duty to defend the family as the union of one man and one woman, the foundation of society. The Conference on Catholic Bishops of Russia has released a statement condemning the blessing of “same-sex couples” as instructed in the Vatican’s December Declaration Fiducia Supplicans as “unacceptable.”In a Friday statement, the nation’s senior prelates lamented the “misunderstandings that have arisen” as a result of Pope Francis’ document Fiducia Supplicans. As a...

Today I received a letter from a good friend who just lost a loved one. Let me predicate all this by stating my friend knows that her loved one is with our Lord, because my friend's loved one was a follower of Christ Jesus like herself. All who put their faith in Jesus know the promise that to be absent from the body means we are Present with our Lord. (2Corinthians 5:-10) I do understand her mourning, because she misses her loved one dearly. For those confronted with the loss of a loved one, I often times use the following...

[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...

Former Boyzone star Shane Lynch has accused popstar Taylor Swift of engaging in demonic practices and satanic rituals during her sold-out shows and warned of the damaging effects such music has on children. “I think when you’re looking at a lot of the artists out there, a lot of their stage shows are satanic rituals live in front of 20,000 people without them realizing and recognizing,” Lynch recently told Ireland’s Sunday World. “You’ll see a lot of hoods up and masks on and fire ceremonies. Even down to Taylor Swift — one of the biggest artists in the world —...