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Pope's former mouthpiece, Father Spadaro wants to rewrite the Bible on genderSynodality becomes the practice of the ChurchFather Antonio Spadaro: "Today the Church is a place of great differences, and we are talking about a community that crosses spatial and cultural barriers"A section of the Synod concluded a few days ago (which will end next year), a stage that was important for the Universal Church. Let's take stock with Father Antonio Spadaro, Jesuit and elected Undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education, former Director of the magazine "Civiltà Cattolica".The final document talks about changes to the Code of...

[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...

[Catholic Caucus] Senior Jesuit priest and close friend of Pope Francis accuses Jesus of being ‘stymied and callous’Fr. Spadaro SJ has long been known as a close advisor to the Pope, lending further weight to the scandal of his words which have been described as 'blasphemy.'Pope Francis with Fr. Spadaro on board the papal planeA close papal confidant and editor of an influential Jesuit publication has published a Gospel commentary described as “blasphemous” due to its description of Jesus Christ as “stymied and callous.”In a commentary published August 20 in Italy’s secular and left-wing paper il Fatto Quotidiano, Father Antonio...

[Barf Alert] Spadaro defends Pope Francis on China In a seven-page interview entitled This Pontificate is a time for sowing and not for reaping in the August issue of the German theological monthly Herder Korrespondenz,the editor in chief of the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, Fr Antonio Spadaro SJ, discussed Pope Francis’ style of governance and the Vatican’s policy on China. “The place where Francis makes his decisions is not at his desk but in his chapel at morning prayer,” he told his interviewer. Francis did not have a detailed reform plan but proceeded by listening and meditating. “If he sees that, after...

During a lively segment of EWTN's "The World Over" last week,  “Papal Posse” members Robert Royal and Father Gerald Murray weighed in on three segments from papal adviser Father Antonio Spadaro’s lecture at Georgetown University. They also commented on the Bishop Barros scandal and Cardinal Cupich’s planned New Momentum series of conferences. Spadaro’s lecture was entitled “Pope Francis’ Global Vision and his work for a more just and peaceful world.” Following the program, Spadaro had retweeted a message demanding an interdict on Arroyo, the host of “The World Over.” Spadaro clearly agreed with the tweet’s severe criticism of the show...

Papal confidante Father Antonio Spadaro retweeted a call for EWTN to be severely censured “until they get rid of Raymond Arroyo.” The call for an “interdict” to be imposed on the Catholic media empire started by Mother Angelica came from Anthony Annett, Assistant to the Director at the International Monetary Fund’s Communications Department. An interdict is essentially one step short of excommunication. It bans a person or people from accessing most Church Sacraments. “A person who uses physical force against the Roman Pontiff incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; if he is a cleric, another penalty,...

“Don't look for hate in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.”  ~Rod Serling Hissy fits are so unattractive, especially in men. Why haven’t they wised up at the Papal Court of Bergoglio?  They surely must know that gossiping and trash talking resembles.... What did Pope Francis call it? Oh, yeah, Coprophagia. Warning: Don’t google the definition during mealtime. That’s all you need to know about Pope Francis and his pornographic vocabulary. What manner of man, albeit the Vicar of Christ, utters such a vile and perverse obscenity?...

On Supplication for your Enemies In the papal office are gathered the Pope, Fr Antonio Spadaro S.J his communications confidant and Fr Arturo Sosa Abasca S.J, head of the Jesuits worldwide. There, at a time when they are under a considerable storm of fierce criticism, with only the praise of Catholic dissidents and the admiration of secular activists for consolation, four years into the pontificate of Pope Francis, the three gather in order to make supplication for their enemies and by invocation ask for guidance for themselves and the Church. Pope Francis: Brethren, I have convened this meeting of supplication...

A week after the appearance of the Spadaro-Figueroa rant against American conservatives, I am still shaking my head with disbelief, wondering how a semi-official Vatican journal could have published such a harshly partisan and grossly misinformed analysis of American politics. I am not alone. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia was characteristically polite but firm in his critique, describing the already infamous Civilta Cattolica essay as “an exercise in dumbing down and inadequately presenting the nature of Catholic/evangelical cooperation on religious freedom and other key issues.” Archbishop Chaput—who has been a prime mover in Catholic-Evangelical cooperation, and thus implicitly a target...

With a harsh denunciation of American conservatism, published in the semi-official Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica, the Vatican has plunged headlong into a partisan debate in a society that it clearly does not understand, potentially alienating (or should I say, further alienating) the Americans most inclined to favor the influence of the Church. Why? Why this bitter attack on the natural allies of traditional Catholic teachings? Is it because the most influential figures at the Vatican today actually want to move away from those traditional teachings, and form a new alliance with modernity? The authors of the essay claim to embrace...

Jesuit Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civilta Cattolica and close confidant of Pope Francis, was quick to Tweet today (see below) the latest insult to the Sacrament of Marriage: “The welcoming of those young people who prefer to live together without getting married…” Now it would seem that Rome is extending de facto recognition of cohabitation as simply a matter of preference (sin’s such an ugly word after all) and by no means something requiring (immediate) correction. Apparently fornication doesn’t quite carry the stigma or baggage that it once did. Consider the words of St. Paul, that rigid apostle...

Some make the mistake, often intentionally, that Islam means "peace." It does not. It means submission. The same false religion that spawns such submission is now dominant in our the Church of Christ under the Peronist thug now sitting in the Chair of Peter. Aided and abetted by his mathematically and theologically deficient Jesuitical sycophant. Antonio Spadaro, who is so tough, he blocks people on Twitter, these three amigos, which include the official interpreter of Amoris Laetitia, Cardinal Schönborn, are ramping up the demand that Catholics submit to their pathetical and filthy heresies. Submission. They want you to believe that...

We are hearing more complaints of division. Why, goes the lament, is the Church divided? Why can we not simply “put our differences aside”? Simply, because two logically opposed things can’t both be true. This week, we have been offered two interviews that very helpfully delineate the main divisions in the Church today and the reason the Church is now divided into two utterly, implacably opposed camps, currently struggling for ascendancy. These, of course, are the same two sides that have been engaged for fifty years in a protracted Cold Civil War that has, with the publication of Amoris Laetitia,...

Father Antonio Spadaro, the Italian Jesuit who has been identified as “the Pope’s mouthpiece,” frequently uses his Twitter account(s) to belittle all those who have questions about Amoris Laetitia. But this gem from yesterday might have a boomerang effect: >>Theology is no #Mathematics. 2 + 2 in #Theology can make 5. Because it has to do with #God and real #life of #people…<< This is wrong, and wrong in revealing ways. Is Spadaro suggesting that when we speak about “real life,” the rules of scientific logic don’t apply? Imagine how you would feel if someone said: “You can talk all...

"Why hasn’t the pope responded to the cardinals?" >>The pope doesn’t give binary answers to abstract questions. But that does’t mean he hasn’t responded. His response is to approve and to encourage positive pastoral practices. A clear and obvious example was his response to the Buenos Aires area bishops, when he encouraged them and confirmed that their reading of Amoris Laetitia was correct.<< >>In other words, the pope responds by encouraging, and indeed loves to respond to the sincere questions put to him by pastors. The ones who really understand Catholic doctrine are the pastors, because doctrine does not exist...

As predicted by this blog, the dubia questions raised by the Four Cardinals regarding the permission of accepting Adulterers to Holy Communion has been soundly rejected by the Roman Authorities. Antonio Spadaro., S.J., the Ghost Writer of Francis', and the de facto "pope" of Rome has rejected out of hand and dismissed the Four Cardinals. In this, I am not surprised, indeed, I predicted it. In no way is Francis and his manipulator, Spadaro in any way inconvenienced.

165 Pets Taken From Calif. Ex-Mayor's Home RIALTO, Calif. - Responding to neighbor complaints about a home's stench, authorities removed 135 dogs and 30 cats from a urine- and feces-soaked home where a rotting Great Dane was found earlier in a malfunctioning freezer. Charlotte Spadaro, a former mayor of Beverly Hills, had been rescuing animals for three years and kept them at her South Acacia Avenue home. Authorities monitoring the residence since discovering the Great Dane in January finally got a search warrant to remove the animals Thursday. "I think the city is out to have them massacred," Spadaro said....