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Australian bishop welcomed to new diocese with pagan ‘smudging’ ritualOn July 11, Bishop Kenneth Howell participated in the indigenous pagan ceremony before the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Toowoomba, Queensland.TOOWOOMBA, Australia (LifeSiteNews) — An Australian bishop was welcomed into his new diocese with a pagan “smoking” or “smudging” ceremony performed at the steps of his cathedral. It was intended to “purify” him and the sacred place of “negative energies.” On July 11, Bishop Kenneth Howell participated in the indigenous pagan ceremony before the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The ceremony was conducted by Janine Mayer of the...

Kerry meets Pope, says he may attend UN climate summitROME – After meeting Pope Francis Monday, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry told journalists that he hoped the pontiff would attend a UN climate summit this fall and said care for the planet is a Christian responsibility.This marked the third meeting between Pope Francis and Kerry, the former United States Secretary of State under President Barak Obama and current Presidential Envoy for Climate under President Joe Biden. Kerry was also the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004.A Catholic, Kerry spoke with a small group of journalists, including Crux,...

Pope Francis calls for an ‘end’ to ‘the era of fossil fuel’ in Prayer for Creation message‘It is absurd to permit the continued exploration and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures,’ the Pope said.Pope Francis has called for world leaders to implement an “end” to the “era of fossil fuel,” in his message released for the ecumenical Season of Creation taking place later this year.“Let us heed our call to stand with the victims of environmental and climate injustice, and to put an end to the senseless war against creation,” Pope Francis said in his message for the World Day of...

Pachamama Good, Christ Bad. Or: Tough Guys, Clowns, And CowardsAn Italian Priest has been suspended a divinis for having dared to publish a 1300-Pages mammoth book about Francis’ heresies, with particular reference to Amoris Laetitia. Don Tullio Rotondo, the courageous and, actually, Catholic priest, has been suspended by his own bishop. This means that this was not, say, the CDF suspending Father for being heretical, something which would have been extremely fun to watch. It is, instead, his own pastor suspending him for being Catholic. I wonder how many, certainly, heretical books have been published by religious in the Sixties...

Vatican goes dark for Earth Hour, symbolizing membership in ‘church of environmentalism’Where the Gospel says, 'let your light shine before men,' the post-conciliar church responds, 'only if doesn’t harm the environment.' On Sunday, March 26, St. Peter’s Basilica went dark for Earth Hour. Somewhere, Pachamama is smiling. Earth Hour began in 2007 in Australia when more than 2.2 million souls denied themselves electricity for a whopping 1/24th of the day to express their shared concern for “climate change.” Immediately thereafter, they returned to their normal (sinful?) energy consumption rates. The Vatican has participated in this quasi-pagan act of mortification every...

Vatican newspaper: Climate change report is ‘cry of alarm for the future of the planet’L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, devoted its most prominent front-page article on March 21 to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s remarks on the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s synthesis report.Without greater limits on greenhouse gas emissions, “the sustained rise in temperatures will cause an exponential increase in the number of extreme climatic events like floods, droughts, and storms,” the Vatican newspaper’s unsigned article warned. “And these consequences will hit low-income countries hardest.”

Pope Francis launches ‘ecological conversion’ training center at papal summer residenceThe new center will operate out of Castel Gandolfo and will provide a training ground to promote the ‘convictions, new attitudes and lifestyles’ necessary for ‘ecological conversion.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has launched an education center in the traditional Papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo to promote the “ecological conversion” which he called for in Laudato Si. Pope Francis’ new initiative was announced in a press release from the governorate of the Vatican City State on February 2, which hailed the launch of the “Borgo Laudato Si” project. In...

Pope tells Cambodian Buddhists: rebuilding with the poor respecting creationA Cambodian delegation is received in audience at the Vatican together with the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh and the president of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The pope calls for an "ecological conversion" that safeguards both the environment and our brothers and sisters. The pontiff praises “metta”, a Buddhist practice of respecting every living thing preached by the Buddha that is similar to the call in Genesis to till and keep the earth.

[Catholic Caucus] Neither Mother nor Goddess. Even Gregorian Chant Is Against the New Idolatry of the Earth> Italiano > English> Español> Français > All the articles of Settimo Cielo in EnglishIf you want to receive (or go back to receiving) a notification for every new article, click HERE and subscribe to the Newsletter from Settimo Cielo!*(sm) All the more so in this season of Advent, the great liturgy of the Catholic Church is literally at the antipodes of the rampant new religion of nature, with the earth as mother goddess.Let the heavens “rain down the Just One” and the earth...

[Catholic Caucus] In historic first, Pope Francis approves an ‘ecclesial conference’ with lay people instead of a bishops-only leadership body“We are living a ‘kairos,’ a propitious time of God in the history of the church,” Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, S.J., told America in an exclusive interview in Rome on Sept. 6 in which he revealed for the first time that Pope Francis has approved the statute of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), giving it formal recognition in the church.Cardinal Barreto, 78, the archbishop of Huancayo in the Central Andes mountains of Peru, was elected president of the Amazon...

Pope Francis Ushers In Radical Environmentalism Under The Guise Of ‘Catholic Teaching’Pope Francis’ militant environmentalism comes couched in the devotional language of his 2015 encyclical “Laudato Sí.” What he calls “the Gospel of Creation” is a politicized assault on fossil fuels, industrial development, economic freedom, and private property. It is the Great Reset in cope and chasuble.A Vatican campaign intent on social, political, and economic transformation arrives this year in two stages. The first appeared in May. The second starts today, Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and lasts until Oct. 4, the feast...

Humanity has ‘moral obligation’ to fight climate change, pope saysVATICAN CITY — The care of the environment and the fight against climate change is not a lofty goal for humanity but a moral imperative, Pope Francis said.The worsening climate crisis can no longer be ignored, and it is up to all human beings, who were entrusted by God as “stewards of his gift of his creation,” to act, the pope said in a message July 13 to participants at a Vatican conference on climate change.“Care for our common home, even apart from considerations of the effects of climate change, is...

Vatican joins Paris Climate Agreement despite inclusion of abortion, population control agendasVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican announced today that it has formally joined the Paris Climate Agreement, known for its underlying abortion and population control agenda. A statement issued by the Holy See Press Office said that Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Permanent Observer to the U.N., on June 6 deposited before the Secretary-General of the United Nations the Holy See’s Instrument of Accession, the formal document by which the Vatican joined the Paris Climate Agreement. “The Holy See,” the statement reads, “in the name and on behalf of Vatican...

Pope calls for fraternity ‘among ourselves and with creation’Pope Francis on Saturday praised participants in an international conference on protecting biodiversity, saying their commitment “strengthens the urgent and responsible dialogue on the future of the planet.”The Holy Father said the theme of the conference – “Nature in Mind: A New Culture of Nature for the Protection of Biodiversity” – calls to mind the wonder of St Bonaventure, who “invites us to discover the Transcendent through the beauty of nature.”God, human beings, and creationThe Pope went on to say that as we can see God in nature, so human beings are...

Pope Francis restructures major Vatican office tasked with defending the faithThe curial reform of the Vatican's doctrinal department comes as observers suggest Pope Francis may appoint pro-LGBT clerics to lead the CDF in the upcoming months. VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis today announced a re-ordering of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), splitting the doctrinal and disciplinary elements into two separate parts amid rumors that he is altering the Congregation to become more LGBT friendly.As predicted by MessainLatino, the motu proprio Fidem servare, released February 14 and signed by Pope Francis February 11, divides the CDF...

Happy Francis Was Adviser For Pachamama ParkSantiago del Estero, Argentina, inaugurated on October 20 an inter-religious Parque del Encuentro (Park of Encounter).It includes buildings representing Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism. A five-sided "Obelisk of Human Fraternity" climaxes the structure. According to Urgente24.com, Francis was an adviser to the project.According to Telam.com.ar, Pachamama is recognised with an amphitheatre which represents "the South American cult of the Pachamama" and is "built with stone terraces, an expression of the fertility of Mother Earth."For the inauguration, Francis wrote that the news of this venture made him "happy" because "in the midst of so...

Gloom and Doom Francis Threatens With God's Judgment“Time is running out; this occasion must not be wasted, lest we have to face God’s judgement for our failure to be faithful stewards of the world he has entrusted to our care,” Francis wrote in an October 9 Letter to the Glasgow climate conference COP26.Francis expressed his regret at being unable to attend the Conference in Scotland. The preservation of "God’s creation" is for Francis in his selective worldview one of the great moral issues of our time. He doesn't understand that the secularisation of faith and morals which he promotes, is...

Francis Pronounces Judgment on HimselfFrancis’ words at his July 18 Angelus sounded like a parody when confronted with his merciless Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, published two days earlier, through which he attempts to “forbid” the Roman Rite.“Jesus tenderly extends an invitation,” Francis said, while personally he doesn’t rely on “tenderness” but on tyranny and cruelty to the point that his tenure can be called the Stalin era of the Catholic Church.Francis evoked “compassion” adding that “God's style is closeness, compassion and tenderness.” Every time, he repeats these buzzwords, he puts a mirror in front of himself which reflects not “compassion”...

Dear Friends: Don’t be discouraged. God is in charge of everything, and this would not be happening if He did not allow it. This has all happened before. I know, I remember, I lived through it. This is a chastisement, yes, but it does not alter what we are called to do: We must know, love, and serve God, and resist those who do not. Francis has no power to change that. There is no mystery here. . . no surprise. We know exactly what this is. It's all about the crumbling facade of Vatican II, shuttered churches, empty seminaries,...

First reactions to “Traditionis custodes”Today, 16 July, is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. During the Amazonian Synod (“walking together”), it was at her church in Rome, near the Vatican, that the shrine to to the demon Pachamama was set up.Today, 16 July, is the anniversary of the Great Schism in 1054, when a Bull of Excommunication (not a Pachamama bowl) was lain on the altar of Hagia Sophia.Today, 16 July, the Manhattan Project for the first time successfully detonated a nuclear weapon. Today is the anniversary of the first nuke in 1945.In each of those cases, it...