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  • 𝑺𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 - 𝑺𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒅𝙖𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 by Cardinal Mario Grech

    03/27/2024 5:01:44 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    Facebook ^ | March 26, 2024 | Cardinal Mario Grech
    𝑺𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 - 𝑺𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒅𝙖𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 by Cardinal Mario Grech𝑺𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 - 𝑺𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒅𝙖𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚by Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the SynodSpecial theological exchange - Berne, 19th March, 2024Thank you for the following two questions you have put to me:Synodality and doctrineThe synodal process is a learning path for the Roman Catholic Church to incorporate the insights of all its members as it seeks and experiments with ways forward into an as yet unknown future. However, official church regulations on doctrine, law and practice leave little room for manoeuvre in many respects. Moreover, in Catholic mentalities, innovation...
  • [Catholic Caucus] African priest: ‘Pope Francis is a new Judas’ for betraying Christ’s teachings

    03/27/2024 2:52:34 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 8 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | Father Jesusmary Missigbètò
    [Catholic Caucus] African priest: ‘Pope Francis is a new Judas’ for betraying Christ’s teachings‘Francis is playing the role of Judas by sacrificing the traditional truths that the Church received from Jesus,’ Father Jesusmary Missigbètò writes.(LifeSiteNews) — The following is an open letter by Father Jesusmary Missigbètò. His previous writings can be viewed here.OPEN LETTER ‘MARIA SUPPLICANS’concerning the truth about Pope Francis and his moral and doctrinal errors Part 5; 24 March 2024; Palm Sunday Dear faithful Catholics throughout the world,Today the Church enters the special time of Holy Week. At the end of this time, the victory of the Risen...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Leading Italian bishop, Vatican newspaper pay tribute to ‘Via Crucis of a Gay Boy’

    03/27/2024 2:27:03 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 8 replies
    Catholic Culture ^ | March 26, 2024 | Catholic World News
    [Catholic Caucus] Leading Italian bishop, Vatican newspaper pay tribute to ‘Via Crucis of a Gay Boy’The Vatican newspaper has published Bishop Francesco Savino’s preface to Via Crucis di un ragazzo gay [Via Crucis of a Gay Boy], a new book by Luigi Testa, an Italian law professor.Appointed a bishop in 2015, Bishop Savino has been the vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference since 2022. Father Sergio Massironi, an official of the Dicastery for the Promoting Integral Human Development, contributed an afterword to the book.In conjunction with Bishop Savino’s preface—which focused more on the prelate’s own reflections than on the...
  • AMERICA Prayer Vigil March 27, 2024 ~PRAYER~

    03/26/2024 11:58:09 PM PDT · by Norski · 17 replies
    FreeRepublic ^ | March 27th, 2024 | FreeRepublic Intercessors
    Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Grech sets out vision for ‘rainbow’ synodal Church

    03/26/2024 6:19:32 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    The Pillar ^ | March 25, 2024 | The Pillar
    [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Grech sets out vision for ‘rainbow’ synodal ChurchThe Secretary General of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops used an interview with a Swiss newspaper last week to lay out a vision for the Church, which addressed several contentious issues, including women’s ordination, same-sex blessings, and division among the world’s bishops. Cardinal Mario Grech. Image via Archdiocese of ManilaIn the March 21 interview Cardinal Mario Grech described that he believes synodality can help the Church move from “uniformity of thought” to “unity in difference,” while reshaping the exercise of authority within global Catholicism.As the chief organizer of the global...
  • [Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller calls Pope Francis’ homosexual ‘blessings’ an attack on marriage

    03/26/2024 1:29:55 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 26, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller calls Pope Francis’ homosexual ‘blessings’ an attack on marriage‘Unfortunately we have a lot of bishops with a wrong understanding’ and who ‘have no theology of the Catholic theology,’ Cardinal Müller said.In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Cardinal Gerhard Müller critiqued the Synod on Synodality for its “concession to feminist ideas,” and stated that Fiducia Supplicans is “a propaganda trick” to win support from the LGBT movement.“Behind Fiducia Supplicans there is nothing to do with the pastoral [care] for these persons of so-called same-sex attraction, but it is only a propaganda trick to show ‘we are...
  • Assessing ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: The First 100 Days

    03/26/2024 10:07:54 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | March 26, 2024 | Edward Pentin
    Assessing ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: The First 100 DaysMarch 27 marks 100 days since the Vatican published Fiducia Supplicans, an instruction on blessings of persons in irregular unions. And while the controversy it stirred in the Church in the West has somewhat abated, opposition to the document and how it was implemented continues apace.Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, who drafted a pan-African bishops’ statement in January rejecting “blessings for same-sex couples in the African Churches,” has not relented in his criticisms, going so far as to say in a March 17 interview that the continent saw...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Church must rethink its 'anachronistic' sexual ethic: priest

    03/24/2024 1:22:18 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 17 replies
    Union of Catholic Asian News ^ | March 23, 2024 | Justin McLellan, OSV News
    [Catholic Caucus] Church must rethink its 'anachronistic' sexual ethic: priestRonaldo Zacharias, a moral theologian, feels Catholic theology not helping people integrate sexuality into their personhood Father Ronaldo Zacharias (left) is pictured with Pope Francis while attending the International Congress of Moral Theology from May 13-14, 2022, at the VaticanThe Catholic Church's "established, dogmatic models of the theological approach to sexuality have become anachronistic," a moral theologian told a conference on sexuality and culture at the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome.Developing a new theological ethics of sexuality is "a task for the entire church...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Joe Hosts a Heretic

    03/22/2024 5:33:07 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | March 22, 2024 | Austin Ruse
    [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] Austria: Bishop Promotes a "God of Diversities"

    03/22/2024 7:54:49 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | March 21, 2024 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] Austria: Bishop Promotes a "God of Diversities"Homosexual activist Wilhelm Krautwaschl, 61, aka Bishop of Graz-Seckau, Austria, is promoting a prayer to a hitherto unknown idol which he calls "god of diversity" and who created "not only man or woman - no", reports Kath.net.During Lent, his diocesan bureaucrats sent propaganda texts by email or WhatsApp.On 7 March, the text was entitled "Under the Rainbow", written by a certain Marlies Prettenthaler-Heckel, a "theologian" paid as a "consultant" for the diocesan pastoral office. Her text is as follows:"God of diversity / You make everything so beautifulThere is not only blue or...
  • [Catholic Caucus] A German Bishop: Words and Deeds Can Contradict Each Other

    03/22/2024 7:42:35 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | March 21, 2024 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] A German Bishop: Words and Deeds Can Contradict Each OtherHomosexual [pseudo] blessings are the beginning of a further "development of doctrine", Monsignor Helmut Dieser, the Bishop of Aachen, Germany, told Katholisch.de (19 March).The term "development of doctrine" is often used by heretics to mean "betrayal of the faith."Monsignor Dieser says that with the text 'Fiducia Supplicans', Francis has made it clear "that action does not have to reflect doctrine one-to-one". He overlooks the fact that this is the definition of hypocrisy.For him, 'Fiducia Supplicans' indicates "indirectly" that the doctrine has a potential for "further development" [he means: disintegration]....
  • [Catholic Caucus] "I've gotten used to being hated," says defender of LGBT Catholics James Martin

    03/21/2024 3:24:52 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 19 replies
    La Croix ^ | March 20, 2024 | Alexis Buisson
    [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...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Open Letter to Archbishop of Atlanta on the LGBTQ Scandal at Immaculate Conception Shrine

    03/21/2024 1:41:21 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | March 21, 2024 | Press Release
    [Catholic Caucus] Open Letter to Archbishop of Atlanta on the LGBTQ Scandal at Immaculate Conception Shrine NAMEADDRESS14 March 2024The Most Rev. Gregory Hartmayer (archbishop@archatl.com)Archdiocese of Atlanta2401 Lake Park Dr SESmyrna, GA 30080Your Excellency, I ask you to stop the scandal being given by personnel at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Atlanta (cf. can. 212 §2-3). Two men are being given positions of prominence who claim to be women and are being addressed by incorrect names/pronouns. At Holy Mass, the only persons who are supposed to be serving at the altar are those who are known for their good...
  • [Catholic Caucus] African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’

    03/21/2024 8:49:34 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Catholic News Agency ^ | March 20, 2024 | Jude Atemanke
    [Catholic Caucus] African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting the blessing of same-sex couples and couples in other “irregular situations,” was perceived as “cultural colonization” in Africa, the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) said.In a March 17 interview with the French-language Catholic television channel KTO, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo deplored the lack of “synodality” in the release of the DDF document that has evoked mixed reactions and deep division among Catholic bishops across the world since its...
  • Have You No Decency, Holy Father?

    03/21/2024 7:26:46 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 43 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | March 20, 2024 | Eric Sammons
    Have You No Decency, Holy Father?Ideology is not the same thing as religion. Most religions, even though often wrong about many things, seek to better the person practicing it; they have similar moral codes, which typically include kindness to those less fortunate and decency toward others. Ideology, on the other hand, cares little for individual persons and focuses completely on the goals of The Cause. Things like kindness and decency are jettisoned in pursuit of those goals. Think of the difference between a Quaker and a Communist: which would you rather have as a neighbor? I bring this up because...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Harrison Butker calls out Cardinal Dolan’s silence on ‘transgender funeral’: Someone should be ‘fired’

    03/20/2024 11:44:22 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 19, 2024 | Andreas Wailzer
    [Catholic Caucus] Harrison Butker calls out Cardinal Dolan’s silence on ‘transgender funeral’: Someone should be ‘fired’Harrison Butker said he was invited to go on Cardinal Dolan’s show but told Dolan he would not ‘unless something is addressed with what happened at St. Patrick's Cathedral.’NFL kicker and Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker has criticized Cardinal Timothy Dolan for his handling of the scandalous “transgender funeral” held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral.In a recent interview with EWTN journalist Montse Alvarado, Butker was asked about the letter he had reportedly sent to Dolan to express his anger at the sacrilegious display in the iconic...
  • [Catholic Caucus] More Absurdities: Ex-Synod Will Invent "Non-Sacramental" Deaconesses Just Like the "Non-Liturgical" Blessings

    03/19/2024 1:04:16 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | March 19, 2024 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] More Absurdities: Ex-Synod Will Invent "Non-Sacramental" Deaconesses Just Like the "Non-Liturgical" BlessingsLaNuovaBq.it (16 March) reports that the script for Francis' ex-synod on the smokescreen of "synodality" is already written. The main points.- Francis' synodal study groups will report to the plenary of the ex-synod in October and continue their work thereafter until June 2025, making the ex-synod a kind of "permanent process" [or, in Marxist terms: permanent revolution].- Synodality as a supposed "walking together" gives priority to "walking", that is, to doing rather than thinking [which is the Marxist principle of practice before theory, leading to blind doing...
  • The Synodal Church’s Mission of Unifying Around the Lowest Common Denominator to Serve the Globalists

    03/19/2024 11:27:24 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | March 15, 2024 | Robert Morrison
    The Synodal Church’s Mission of Unifying Around the Lowest Common Denominator to Serve the GlobalistsWe can see the refined contours of the Synodal Church through four themes considered in the new Synodal document: the need to adapt to the modern world and globalist objectives; proclaiming Christianity of the lowest common denominator; unity in diversity of religious beliefs; and a new relationship with the Bishop of Rome.On March 14, 2024, the General Secretariat of the Synod released a new document with its reflections on “How to be a synodal Church on mission,” adding further evidence that the “Synodal Church” is not...
  • ‘Deeply Honored’: Jesuit Priests Praise Biden After Brunch at White House

    03/19/2024 9:41:34 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 28 replies
    Catholic Vote ^ | March 18, 2024 | CV News Feed
    ‘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] Bishop Schneider likens Pope Francis’ support of homosexual ‘blessings’ to emperor without clothes

    03/18/2024 5:52:22 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Emily Mangiaracina
    [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider likens Pope Francis’ support of homosexual ‘blessings’ to emperor without clothesThe faithful bishop accused the Vatican of using ‘mental gymnastics’ that are ‘an insult to our reason' in its promotion of blessings for gay couples.Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, has exhorted Catholics to call out Pope Francis for his support of homosexual couple “blessings,” just like a child called out an emperor for being “naked” in Hans Christian Anderson’s folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”In a Thursday interview with podcaster Father Daniel Maria Klimek, Bishop Schneider commented on the widespread condemnation of Fiducia Supplicans by prelates...