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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinals block appointment of Heiner Wilmer as Prefect of the DDF(Translation of German article by Giuseppe Nardi at Katholisches.info.)It seemed that everything was already fixed: Shortly before Christmas, the appointment of a new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) was expected. But then everything turned out differently - at least for the time being.Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, the prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith who was still in office, had received his mandate in an unexpected way in the summer of 2017. Until then,...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis to appoint heterodox German bishop as Church’s doctrine chief: reportsSources confirm the 'real possibility' that Bishop Heiner Wilmer, a supporter of the German Synodal Path, will become the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.The Italian blog Messa in latino, which is just now in the international media for having accurately reported on a scandal inside the Vatican, revealed yesterday that Pope Francis has chosen Bishop Heiner Wilmer as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. LifeSite has been able to confirm this report with its own...

[Catholic Caucus] A Christmas Surprise? - Francis to name Über-Modernist German Bishop as Prefect for Doctrine of the Faith Bishop Heiner Wilmer, of Hildesheim, GermanyThe German Hierarchy, with its revolutionary “Synodal Path”, is leading the charge to destroy Catholic unity.What better way to encourage this than for the pope to elevate one of their bishops to the most prominent doctrinal position of the Church? And this might happen very soon, according to the highest sources of our friends at Italian traditional blog Messa in Latino:News - a Christmas present: new modernist Prefect at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the...

Celebration of the Latin Mass now career-ending The Under-Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith becomes a parish priest in the mountains of the Diocese of Parma. An leading office holder has to resign immediately after a hint from the Apostolic Nunciature in the USA. Purges take place again at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome.

Cardinal Cupich Contradicts Vatican on Vaccine MandatesCV NEWS FEED // Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago stated this week that there is “no basis in Catholic moral teaching for rejecting vaccine mandates on religious grounds,” and instructed priests under his authority to turn down parishioners who ask them to sign exemptions.In a letter to priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cupich wrote that pastors should “politely decline” requests that they sign exemptions, “and explain that doing so would mean that you would be endorsing something that is not in keeping with Catholic teaching,” according to the Catholic News Agency.“Parishioners surely can...

Yesterday, America reported that Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria, S.J., head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had sent a letter to be shared with every bishop in the United States, warning that a proposed discussion over a national policy about pro-choice politicians receiving Communion could “become a source of discord rather than unity.” Cardinal Ladaria said that only after an “extensive and serene” two-stage dialogue, first among the bishops themselves and then with pro-choice politicians, should formal discussion of such a policy begin. In other words, the C.D.F. just pulled the brake on the possibility that the...

When I was a precocious sophomore in high school, I once barged into the office of the Capuchin priest who was in charge of our religion curriculum to inform him that I had serious intellectual reservations about the Catholic faith, and I found the answers being supplied in class unsatisfying. Father Mike Scully looked at me for a moment with what, looking back, I now recognize as a bemused smirk, and then wheeled his chair across his office and produced a thick book off his shelf: On Being a Christian by Hans Küng. “Go read this,” Scully told me, “then...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Attacks Latin Mass In Letter To all BishopsArchbishop Arthur Roche, the anti-Catholic Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, who has been sidelining now retired Cardinal Sarah, has launched an attack on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).UnaVoceScotland.org (February 21) published the English translation of a February 19, 2020 essay written by Roche which was forwarded to all bishops.The essay makes the unlikely claim that the New Mass is an "authentic development" of the Roman Rite, and calls its implementation an "ecclesiastical duty" - although nobody follows the Novus Ordo which is only used as an excuse for...

[Catholic Caucus] Proposed new apostolic constitution reorders Vatican's offices Reform draft downgrades the doctrinal office, stresses that Curia is at service of bishops and pope Vatican City — The draft of Pope Francis' document to reorganize the Vatican's sprawling bureaucracy significantly reorients the mission of the Catholic Church's central command, emphasizing that officials must no longer consider themselves a "superior authority" but servants of the pope and the world's bishops. The text of the proposed new apostolic constitution, obtained by NCR, also notably reorders the precedence of the Vatican's offices, downgrading the once all-powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of...

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN GCU Women's Conference Keynote Speaker Conference SpeakersCall and e-mail the College and let your voices be heard: Sr. Rosemary Jeffries  rjeffries@georgian.edu Deborah Gilleran  dgilleran@georgian.edu Sr. Rosemary, President, (732) 987-2252  and Deborah Gilleran (732) 987-2266 and express your  concern, outrage and dismay that Georgian Court is hosting Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund on Friday, March 20th, 2009.  CongressionalScorecard Georgian Court is holding a "Women's Leadership Conference", and Edelman is the keynote speaker. Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund's agenda is  PRO-ABORTION.  See: http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10069   and  http://www.pregnantpause.org/people/cdf.htm It is the responsibility of a Catholic...

I have a post about this on my blog I hope to update when more information comes in on this. I'm asking you all to let me know if you know anything about this, because I couldn't find much other than bloggers talking about it, but it all started with a blog called "The Politicker" at the New York Observer's site, only it wasn't sourced. I would expect them to be responsible enough to have checked this before running with it though, and it's nothing "unbelievable" anyway. The long and the short is the Belafonte (who just called Bush the...

The Clinton Foundation will get new leadership in the form of longtime Clinton ally and former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala as it continues to face ongoing questions about its foreign fundraising practices, former President Bill Clinton announced in Coral Gables, Florida on Friday. The news of Shalala’s new role comes as the foundation has caused all-but-certain 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton some political trouble in the final weeks before her expected campaign roll-out. Republicans have latched onto reports that the foundation resumed accepting money from foreign governments after Clinton left the State Department in 2013 — a...

Copy sent to Vatican criminal prosecutor for further investigationVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Vatican watchdog is claiming in a new book there has been homosexual abuse of underage seminarians at a Vatican-run minor seminary. Gianluigi Nuzzi, an Italian journalist who was a big part of the 2015 "VatiLeaks II" scandal, has released a new book titled Original Sin. He alleges there has been homosexual sex abuse in the Vatican's St. Pius X pre-seminary for middle and high schoolers, and includes a letter from a gay ex-seminarian who claims that his roommate, who was underage at the time, was being visited...

Rome — Irish Redemptorist Fr. Tony Flannery has been prohibited from publicly celebrating Mass for nearly six years. The Vatican's doctrinal congregation suspended him from ministry in February 2012 after he refused to revise some views he had expressed in a religious magazine run by his order. In mid-January, Flannery turned 70. He announced he would violate his suspension for the first time in order to celebrate a public Mass of thanksgiving for those who had offered him support through the last few years. The priest, a popular writer, retreat giver and former pastor, gave the decision a lot of...

Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, has not even taken over the job as head of the CDF when Polish journalist, Jacek Palasinki informs us that "dark clouds hung" over the Archbishop due to his involvement in the covering up of pedophile priest, Giovanni Trotta. An Italian language report on the diabolical Trotta may be read here.  Italian authorities did not know the full story behind "Don Gianni" Trotta, and therefore the civil authorities never were informed that a child molester was loose in society. Ladaria and former CDF chief, Cardinal William Levada covered-up this horrifying fact.  Simply put, these two men...

Pope Francis Appoints a Universalist - All Men Will Be Saved - to Replace Müller as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The new head of the CDF, perhaps illustrating the possibility of hell To put things in simple common sense terms, everyone knows that the Catholic Church and the wider traditional Christian Church has always taught that there is a heaven and there is a hell. Ignoring the theological glosses - limbo and purgatory - Christian and Catholic teaching has been clear that upon death, some men will go to heaven, where they will dwell...

Rumors of Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s impending departure as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are nothing new. But last week, a new story hit the radar, largely-unnoticed in the English-speaking world. The Argentinian newspaper Clarín ran a report saying that Pope Francis planned to take advantage of the looming July 2 deadline on Müller’s five-year mandate to send him on his way. Without Müller to stand in the way, Clarín reported, “the path of renewal of the last phase of the pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio, who in December will turn 81, would be open.” Today, new reports confirming the Clarín story — without any additional...

To the recent reports from other sources that Cardinal Müller has already offered his resignation from CDF, Rorate can now add, from its own very well-placed sources, that there is a plan at the highest levels to replace Müller as Prefect of CDF with no less than the Asian "Pope Francis", the man seen by many as Francis' dauphin, Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle. Müller, appointed Prefect in July 2012, has been effectively marginalized in the past years over the Family Synods and most importantly over Amoris Laetitia. Questions about his future in the Roman Curia have been persistent through the...

t seems another prelate has abandoned his post. In an interview on January 8, Gerhard Cardinal Mueller, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, rejected making any correction of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia, effectively joining some of his fellow German cardinals in a slight to Cardinal Burke and his three colleagues. The very title of the congregation which this cardinal heads implies the importance of the office and its crucial role — especially as it relates to the current situation with the four cardinals and the dubia. Cardinal Mueller’s words in this interview are a critical blow...

Vanquished Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is empowering — and also repelling — women by going makeup-free for her first speech since conceding the presidential election to Donald Trump. Some fans of the former secretary of state cheered her decision to forgo her beauty prep at the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, DC, Wednesday night.