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[Catholic Caucus] Synod on Synodality: The Mother of All ConfusionThe Vatican prepared for the Synod on Synodality by "listening to everyone,” especially to those “who are at the existential peripheries,” Cardinal Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod, told LaVie.fr (September 11).In reality, the Vatican is desperate to be with the mainstream, not with the “peripheries.”Grech has a nihilistic concept of the Synod, “We don't need to agree on words, we just need to meet.” The Synod will not “confront opinions and points of view,” Grech explains, but is a “dialogue” to share “what we feel” the Holy Spirit is...

God’s Law meant to bring freedom, not lifelong ‘servitude,’ pope saysVATICAN CITY (CNS) — The purpose of the Law in Christian life is not to forcibly subjugate others, but to teach men and women the way to obtain true freedom in Christ, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience. The “function of the Law is certainly positive but limited in time,” the pope said Aug. 18 to those gathered in the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican. “It cannot extend its duration too far, because it is linked to the maturation of individuals and their choice of freedom,”...

Richmond, Va., Jan 17, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia will no longer hold a bishops's consecration at a Catholic parish in Williamsburg, after an internet petition objecting to the event drew national attention. “It is with great sadness that I have received a letter from Bishop-Elect Susan Haynes stating that, due to the controversy of the proposed use of St. Bede Catholic Church for her consecration of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, she has decided to find another location for the ceremony to take place,” Bishop Barry Knestout of the Catholic Richmond diocese...

Pope Enlists Atheist to Hose Down Media Firestorm Leftist Eugenio Scalfari dedicates three pages to defending Francis ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis has used his latest interview with his atheist journalist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, to de-escalate media furor over the book on priestly celibacy published by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cdl. Robert Sarah. The case of Benedict apparently coming out against Francis' possible ordination of married priests in the Amazon and other outlying regions is closed, the pontiff tells Scalfari, founder of La Repubblica, in a three-page interview. Francis insists that the pope emeritus has demonstrated "fraternal" solidarity with him and has not allied himself with Cdl....

Pope Francis Unveils Globalist New World Religion at Summit with United Nations Leader The Pope wants globalism to replace traditional religion. Published 4 days ago on Dec 26, 2019 By Shane Trejo Pope Francis’ war on traditional Catholicism has been ramping up recently, and he castigated Catholics who believe in tradition and refuse to warp Biblical scripture to appease a godless world for creating a “minefield of misunderstanding and hatred.” “Rigidity and imbalance fuel one another in a vicious circle,” he said. “And these days, the temptation to rigidity has become so apparent.” “Tradition is not static, it’s dynamic,” Francis...

Around 11:30 (Italian time) of September 25 RaiNews24 reported that the webpage correctiofilialis.org cannot be accessed by computers inside the Vatican. The webpage contains the September 24 manifesto of 62 scholars which accuses Pope Francis of heresy.

We have already posted a comprehensive article on the growing number of critiques against the Instrumentum Laboris that will guide this month's Synod of Bishops on the family. Impossible to excuse or explain away: How the heterodoxy of the Instrumentum Laboris for the Synod of 2015 has been exposed. In addition to our own extended critique published on June 25 and critiques from Raymond Cardinal Burke, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Roberto de Mattei, LifeSite News and Voice of the Family, our report also includes First Things' open letter to the Pope against the threat posed to Humanae Vitae by the Instrumentum...

Living on the Dark Side of the Cartesian Divide – A Reflection on the Gnosticism of our Times By: Msgr. Charles PopeThere is a line in the first letter of John, read this week at Mass, that is of critical importance to many difficulties we see today with heresy, unbelief, and moral decay. The line says:Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in...

Joel Osteen was in the Nation’s Capital last night. The popular pastor of Houston’s Lakewood Church threw out the first pitch at a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the visiting Houston Astros. Osteen, who boasts the nation’s largest congregation, running more than 43,000 worshippers through his megachurch every weekend, will return to D.C. at the end of the April when he holds his fourth annual “Night of Hope” at National’s Park. Not since evangelist Billy Graham has an American pastor so regularly filled arenas and stadia throughout the country. Osteen finds the ballpark an ideal backdrop for a...

FROMBORK, Poland – Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. His burial in a tomb in the cathedral where he once served as a church canon and doctor indicates how far the church has come in making peace with the scientist whose revolutionary theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun helped usher in the modern scientific age. Copernicus, who lived from 1473 to 1543, died as a...

MEDIA ADVISORY, Feb. 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- ELCA leader and Pastor Barry Hoerz is no stranger to twisting arms to get his way. While he was a member of the Weyauwega School Board in Wisconsin, he sued his colleagues over a disagreement and resigned his elected office. Hoerz serves the dwindling Saint John Lutheran Church in Weyauwega, with an average attendance of about 100. He wrote a letter to the editor of the Appleton Post-Crescent- part of a broad ELCA letter-writing strategy to shape public opinion about congregations leaving the group. The headline was "Homosexuals Are Now Part of LCMC...

The largest Lutheran church in the country decided last summer to welcome gay pastors to the pulpit and two local churches are learning what that decision means for their congregations. The decision came during the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) held in Minneapolis in August. The Assembly voted to direct changes to ministry policies that would allow gays and lesbians to serve as clergy and professional lay workers as long as they were in, “publicly accountable, lifelong, monogomous, same-gender relationships.” The decision to call a gay pastor will be left to individual congregations. The vote...

The ABC's screening and treatment of The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Since when has ANY documentary on the ABC received such an extensive promotion and thoroughgoing coverage? A special Tony Jones interview – recorded in London; a live studio panel discussion; endless advertising; news radio etc etc. Advertisement All this would be funny except that the effect of Swindle is serious. Deadly so. The aim of the program and its lackeys is to create doubt, any doubt, about climate change. Because even a little amount of doubt helps persuade the public...

The Catholic ArchDiocese in Boston is bringing charges of Heresy against John Kerry.