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Roman Catholic Cardinal Wilton Gregory took a swipe at President Biden's faith on Sunday, calling him a "cafeteria Catholic" for picking and choosing parts of the faith while "ignoring or even contradicting" other aspects of his adherence. Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, was asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" whether he believes Biden's long-touted Catholic roots will resonate with American Catholics in the upcoming 2024 election. "I would say that he's very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts," Gregory...

[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] Washington Cardinal Cancels Pro-Life Youth Rally and EucharistHomosexualist Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory has cancelled the annual inter-diocesan youth rally and Eucharist for Life. This Eucharist has been presided over before every March for Life for over 25 years.Gregory hides behind a "consultation process" with other dioceses that wanted to focus on "local work" and "direct their efforts to the March for Life in their state."Tyler Bishop Joseph Strickland wrote on Twitter.com (November 15) that he “must protest” this cancelation: “We have an extremely anti-life President and we cancel our national voice? Yes to state efforts but we desperately...

[Catholic Caucus] THE FRANCIS LAW: Cardinals Gregory, Cupich Implement Ban on Latin MassDespite all their talk about "listening" and the "Synodal Way," Francis and his fellow revolutionaries steadfastly REFUSE to listen to the hundreds of thousand of Catholics worldwide who choose to worship God at the Latin Mass -- the Mass of St. Faustina, St. José Sánchez del Río, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Padre Pio. In the middle of a worldwide pandemic, why is the Church of Pope Francis persecuting faithful Catholics whose only crime is an earnest desire to have access to the Mass of their fathers, the Latin...

President Biden said he received ashes from the cardinal for Ash Wednesday and they prayed together for the people of Ukraine. “I was with the cardinal this morning. He came over and he gave me ashes. We both prayed for that, for the people of Ukraine,” Biden told reporters, with ashes noticeably on his forehead.

The archbishop of Washington, DC, Cardinal Wilton Gregory says Americans must welcome, protect, and share the United States with illegal aliens while urging Congress to pass amnesty. During a press conference this week, coordinated by the pro-mass migration group American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), Gregory urged members of Congress to pass an amnesty for the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. “Catholic social teaching upholds the principle that every person has the right to live in his or her own homeland in security and dignity,” Gregory said. “However, when loss of work forces migration, we...

Holy Trinity Parish is a bastion of fringe liberal Catholicism in an archdiocese whose leaders have exhibited complicit behavior regarding homosexuality, transgenderism, and abortion.WASHINGTON, June 30, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The parish council at historic Holy Trinity Catholic Church, the Jesuit-run parish where President Joe Biden normally attends Sunday Mass, has issued a statement declaring that their church “will not deny the Eucharist to persons presenting themselves to receive it.” The parish declaration is clearly a response to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) stated intention to draft a formal statement on the Eucharist addressing Church teaching on worthiness to...

Bishops press Gomez to halt Communion debateA group of more than 60 bishops has written to Archbishop Jose Gomez this month, pressing for the U.S. bishops’ conference leadership to suspend discussion of the subject of Eucharistic coherence ahead of the USCCB’s June meeting, despite a recent letter from the Vatican’s doctrinal office counseling the bishops to continue discussing the matter. Discussion on the topic was scheduled in March through the ordinary USCCB procedure for setting meeting agendas.Archbishop Jose Gomez, Cardinal Base Cupich, Cardinal Wilton GregoryShareThe letter was signed by several U.S. cardinals, including Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, Cardinal Blase...

Racism becomes focus of Catholic conference in WashingtonAfter he returned from Rome where Pope Francis elevated him to the College of Cardinals, children at Catholic schools in the Washington Archdiocese drew pictures of Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory wearing his new red hat.The nation's first African American cardinal smiled as he related how, at the bottom of one little girl's painting of him, she wrote, "Congratulations, Cardinal Gregory! You look like me, and I like that!"The cardinal told the story on March 20 in a question-and-answer session that followed his keynote at Nativity Church in Burke for a conference on how...

The Archdiocese of Washington has seen fit to set aside millions of dollars for a man known for wasting egregious sums and for perpetuating sexual abuse.Most Catholics would probably agree that a priest caught lying to the public and who was an instrumental figure in the sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church probably shouldn’t be receiving millions of dollars a year in church donations. But that’s what is happening in the Archdiocese of Washington.Investigative journalists at The Pillar revealed that the archdiocese set aside more than $2 million in donations from the Catholic faithful to retired and disgraced Cardinal...

Joe Biden’s Catholic Priest Defends Giving Him Communion: It’s “an Encounter With God”Father Kevin Gillespie believes the Catholic Church should not deny communion to President Joe Biden even though he persists in advocating for the killing of unborn babies in abortions.ADVERTISEMENTGillespie is a Jesuit priest at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, where the president attends Mass regularly. The Atlantic reports the church is associated with liberal politics and politicians; it has a Black Lives Matter banner hanging outside, and its priests often speak about social justice issues.In an interview with the news outlet, Gillespie weighed in on the...

Report: Cardinal Gregory thought USCCB statement on Biden inauguration ‘ill-timed’The Archbishop of Washington thought the U.S. bishops’ statement for President Biden’s inauguration “ill-timed,” according to NBC’s “Today” co-host Al Roker on Monday. At the end of an interview segment with Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C. that aired Monday morning on NBC’s “Today,” Roker noted “areas of disagreement” between the Catholic Church and the new Biden administration, including on the issue of abortion.Roker cited the Jan. 20 statement of the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) on Biden’s inauguration, which had warned that some of Biden’s proposed policies would “advance moral evils.”...

Washington cardinal urges nation to remember Black heroes on MLK DayOn this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington wants Americans to recognize the determination, perseverance and contributions of African Americans throughout United States history in spite of the obstacles they faced. NEW YORK — On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington wants Americans to recognize the determination, perseverance and contributions of African Americans throughout United States history in spite of the obstacles they faced.“African American heroes and heroines have an important lesson to offer all Americans because they exhibit a determination...

‘We need the Lord to cast out demon of division in our nation,’ cardinal saysWASHINGTON (CNS) — Celebrating a livestreamed Mass for the community of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington Jan. 13, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory noted how sometimes the readings of the day “fit our lives so perfectly.”They “somehow almost mystically describe where we are at this moment,” he said.Washington’s archbishop then pointed out how that day’s Gospel reading, Mark 1: 29-39, which described Jesus curing Peter’s mother-in-law of a fever and later casting out evil spirits, could be connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the Jan....

DC cardinal says he’ll give Communion to pro-abort Biden. Pope assigns him to life and family dicasteryIn the process of creating the new dicastery, the Pope devised new statutes by which the dicastery would function, further revising them in 2018. The dicastery promotes 'responsible procreation.'December 19, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Historically anti-life and left-wing Wilton D. Cardinal Gregory, Archbishop of Washington, has again been appointed to the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life by Pope Francis. The Pope has assigned a further nine of the cardinals he created at a recent consistory to various positions within the Roman Curia.The D.C....

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, D.C., affirmed he will not deny giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion former Vice President Joe Biden, saying he hopes for a “conversational relationship.” Speaking to America Magazine, Gregory, who is currently in Rome to be made a cardinal on Saturday, expressed his support for Biden’s wish to receive Holy Communion, despite being an ardent supporter of abortion. Referring to his relationship with Biden, the archbishop said, “I hope it’s a real dialogue, because I think that’s the mantra of Pope Francis — that we should be a...

LifeSite delivers over 42k signatures to Abp. Gregory, asking him to apologize to Trump WASHINGTON, D.C., November 2, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSiteNews has delivered our petition to Archbishop Wilton Gregory, which asks him to apologize to President Donald Trump and the Knights of Columbus for the harsh and divisive remarks which he made about the president’s planned visit to the Shrine of Pope St. John Paul II in early June. Recall the Archbishop’s caustic remarks about the president’s visit: I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion...

The State of Oregon now requires everyone entering a business over the age of five to wear a mask-muzzle with no exceptions...Businesses have been told to call police if people enter a business without a muzzle covering their faces... In Miami-Dade County, Florida a coronavirus curfew imposed again... New Jersey Democrat Governor Phil Murphy signing an executive order this weekend extending the: "public health emergency"... Italy ordering more closures and restricted hours over a rise in coronavirus cases... Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announcing a nationwide 'state of alarm' which will impose curfews on all of Spain excluding the Canary...

Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory was among 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday and will become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. Gregory was picked by Francis to lead the prestigious diocese in the U.S. capital last year. He served three times as the head of the U.S. Conference of Bishops. The newly elected cardinal was part of a select group of Catholic leaders that criticized President Donald Trump for staging a picture in front of St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House, amid protests about the death of George Floyd....

[Barf Alert] Washington archbishop says ‘conversion’ needed to fight racism SOUTH BEND, Indiana — American bishops must do more to uphold the legacy set by religious leaders during the civil rights movement, Archbishop Wilton Gregory said in a talk last week. The Archbishop of Washington called for bishops to facilitate more interactions between Catholics of different races while addressing a group of students, staff, and alumni from the University of Notre Dame, as part of the lecture series “Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary,” sponsored by the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights.During his remarks about race relations within the U.S. Church,...