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[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Kräutler Also Knows That in the Amazon They Practice Infanticide. But He Does Not Want It To Be Punished The previous post from Settimo Cielo on infanticide in the Amazon and on those who defend it in the Church struck a tremendous chord.But there’s something else. It is not true that prominent figures of the synod in progress are unaware of the existence of this practice among some tribes.Such sensational ignorance could in fact attach to Peruvian cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimenez, archbishop of Huancayo, Jesuit, vice-president of the pan-Amazonian ecclesial network and co-president of the synod,...

Pastor lingers in limbo after disputed 2016 accusation of exploiting heiress Oct 9, 2019 by Peter Feuerherd SANIBEL ISLAND, FLORIDA — Her friends recall Marion Knott McIntyre as the type of woman who was quick to pick up the tab after Sunday post-Mass breakfast, and would spontaneously offer gifts, sometimes monetary, to people she felt had need. She rarely took no for an answer. Support the news you care about. Join NCR Forward for $5 a month. That legacy – Knott McIntryre died a childless widow in December 2017 at 86 years old – has long been in dispute. Was...

The Catholic Church is heading toward an “internal papal schism” whereby Pope Francis effectively leads two opposing factions, Capuchin theologian Father Thomas Weinandy has warned. These are divided, he said, into one loyal to the papacy yet critical of this pontificate, and the other supportive of him due to his tolerance of ambiguous teaching and pastoral practice. “This is the real schism,” observed Father Weinandy, a former chief of staff for the U.S. bishops' doctrinal committee, in a commentary published today in The Catholic Thing. It is a situation “ever growing in intensity,” he added. A member of the Vatican’s...

Baby Ella's termination, the catalyst for the rulingBELFAST, Northern Ireland (ChurchMilitant.com) - Northern Ireland's High Court of Justice ruled Thursday that the region's current law that prohibits abortion in most cases is a human rights violation. In 2013, Sarah Ewart sought to abort her child, Ella, after doctors told her the child would not survive outside the womb. Ewart went to London to terminate her child after she was denied an abortion in Northern Ireland, since Northern Irish law only permits abortion for the life of the mother or to prevent permanent physical or mental damage. Ewart joined her abortion...

[Catholic Caucus] Abp Viganò: Bishops who obey ‘dictatorship of public opinion’ to win applause ‘prostitute’ their souls [Editor’s note: The following statement, by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, was first published in Italian on Duc in altum. Here below is the official English translation.] We have seen all the news broadcasts about the new cardinals who have visited the pope emeritus, led by Pope Francis. The images of the two popes together with the new cardinals, purposely wanted and widely circulated, have once again a mystifying instrumental function: to show the complete harmony and continuity of the magisterium of the two popes....

[Catholic Caucus] Francis-appointed bishop urges Catholics not to oppose violent feminists who attack churches, defends feminists October 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The archbishop of La Plata, Argentina, appointed by Pope Francis in 2018, is urging his flock not to counter-protest or defend local churches from a group of violent, pro-abortion feminists that attack Catholic churches every year during their national annual meeting. In an article recently published by the Argentinean newspaper La Nación, Archbishop Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández told his flock not to do anything that could be interpreted as “resistance” to the tens of thousands of feminists who...

Krakow archbishop rouses Poles to consider debt owed to national heroes, saintsKRAKOW, Poland (ChurchMilitant.com) - Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Kraków issued a pastoral letter on Sept. 28 warning of major threats to Polish — and international — freedom emanating from the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. The archbishop addressed his "Beloved Archdiocesans" in the letter entitled Totus Tuus ("Totally yours"), urging them to resist "the radical rejection of God" and LGBT propaganda. He explained the "integrated approach" of totalitarianism; that when it rejects God, it makes a new vision of man, one that presents man as a caricature of himself...

[Catholic Caucus] Opening Amazon synod, Francis warns against being 'smothered by ashes' defending status quo Vatican City — Opening a monthlong gathering of Catholic bishops expected to consider controversial issues such as the ordaining of married priests on a regional basis, Pope Francis Oct. 6 warned the 185 prelates taking part against being "smothered by the ashes of fear and concern" in defense of the church's status quo. In a homily for the opening Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon region, which will continue through Oct. 27, the pontiff said that while Catholic prelates are called to...

The Pope’s Pitiful Reign of Error The upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod is shaping up to be a disaster of historic proportions I picked up a copy of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper which reads less like a Catholic periodical than a back issue of the Nation. The sheer BS and left-wing propaganda of its contents are stunning: “Climate Change is a Challenge for Society as a Whole” (that was its front-pager); “The Theology of the Noun” (called the “Holy Father’s extemporaneous discourse,” which is too impenetrably flaky to even summarize); “The Green Alphabet of Pope Francis”; “Protect Forests to Ensure...

[Catholic Caucus] Guest Op-Ed: When bishops knew how to respond to a pope suspected of heresy In his recent letter to the College of Cardinals Cardinal Brandmüller wrote that all cardinals must consider how they will react to ‘any heretical statements or decisions of the [Amazonian] synod.’ In the past, it wouldn’t have been necessary to ask this question because the bishops of the Western Church had a reputation for robustly reacting against heresy.  A case in point is how the bishops reacted to the mere suspicion that Pope Vigilius (537-555 AD) was sympathetic towards the Monophysite heresy that sought...

Kyle Harper’s From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (Harvard, 2013) is an impressively learned and important book. Still a youngish man (which means younger than me), Harper is already a professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. As an expert in the history of the late Roman world, Harper explores in this volume how the Christian sexual ethic, so despised and seemingly inconsequential in the first century, came to be codified in law by the sixth century. Harper does not take sides in this...

[Catholic Caucus] Abp Viganò warns against silence of ‘reckless pastors’ who fear losing ‘human favor’ ROME, October 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has today issued a statement warning all pastors of the Church not to “hide in silence” but to speak out against the “wolves” and “worldly powers” that are threatening Christ’s flock. The “fraternal correction,” written on the Oct. 6 memorial of St. Bruno, founder of the Carthusian Order, comes on the opening day of the Amazonian Synod, being held at the Vatican Oct. 6-27. Taking a page from the “Pastoral Rule” of St. Gregory the...

An experienced Christian doctor who was forced out of his job working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after refusing to use transgender pronouns has lost his Employment Tribunal case. The tribunal ruled that his belief in the Biblical view of what it is to be male and female was ‘incompatible with human dignity.’The judgment will have serious ramifications for Christian professionals and indeed all medical professionals, as the judgment dictates the language that professionals must use in the workplace. The judgment is also contrary to scientific reality and is likely to undermine freedom of speech in the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Ghost of Viganò The papal nuncio-turned-whistleblower is casting a long shadow over Rome It's little wonder Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò is in hiding for fear of his life. In the run-up to the Amazon Synod, the former Vatican U.S. ambassador-turned-whistleblower is casting a long shadow over Rome, as his extensive accusations about the darkness within these walls continues to be proven true. Just recently, the pope requested the indictment of Fr. Gabriele Martinelli, accused of sexually assaulting seminarians at the Pope Pius X Pre-Seminary, which trains the pope's altar boys. The request came after years of inaction...

[Catholic Caucus] From the Amazon To Germany and Its “Anti-Roman Complex.” The Lesson of Cardinal Brandmüller It is no mystery that behind and beyond the synod for the Amazon, now at the gates, another “synodal path” is looming that is much more one of rupture, that of Germany.So greatly of rupture that the archbishop of Cologne, Cardiinal Rainer Maria Woelki, has not ruled it out that it could lead to a “schism” within the Church of Germany itself, with the birth of a “national German Church” with strong autonomy from Rome.In effect, if one looks at its history, the Church...

FULL TITLE: Catholic Hospital Faces Lawsuit After Firing Employee Who Planned to Kill Patient in Assisted Suicide A Catholic hospital in Colorado is facing a legal challenge after firing an employee who planned to kill a patient by assisted suicide. Centura Health, a Catholic healthcare network based in Colorado has been challenged by court action after dismissing employee, Doctor Barbara Morris, who wanted to prescribe lethal drugs to a 64-year old patient, Neil Mahoney, in order to end his life. Morris was fired on the 26th of August 2019, after she asked a state court to declare that Centura Health’s...

[Catholic Caucus] Rome Roundtable: Catholic Experts Sound Alarm Over Current Papacy Panelists touch on controversial themes of Amazon Synod ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - On the eve of the Amazon Synod, 10 Catholic lay leaders warned of the revolutionary designs against the Catholic faith, many of them rooted in the current pontificate. Hosted by the international pro-life group Voice of the Family, the roundtable, titled "Our Church — Reformed or Deformed?" took place Oct. 4 at the Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio, and featured a number of Catholic luminaries, including John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews, author Dr. Taylor Marshall, Italian Vaticanistas Roberto de Mattei and Marco Tosatti,...

Student government refuses to condemnLast Thursday, an unauthorized sign with the words, “There is Queer Blood on Homophobic Hands,” was placed outside DeBartolo Hall and widely shared accross social media. The sign contained many articles from the Irish Rover and the Observer which reflect Catholic doctrine regarding human sexuality, implying that the authors of these were responsible for the deaths of “queer” people nationwide. Most shockingly, the sign’s message was painted in blood red, and the names of the articles’ writers were all circled in blood-red paint, drawing hostile attention to individual members of the Notre Dame community. Among the...

[Catholic Caucus] Doubling Down Amazon Synod organizers touch on hot-button issues in first press conference Ecology, indigenous spirituality, roles of women, environmentalism — all were brought up at today's Holy See press conference on the eve of the Amazon Synod.  Brazilian Cdl. Claudio Hummes, personally chosen by Pope Francis to lead the synod, summed up the controversial aspects, saying the Church "must listen to the cry of the earth and that of the poor." Among those voices, he says, are those of Amazonian women, leaders in their communities, who wish to have a more institutionalized role in the Church — code language for women's ordination.  On...

[Catholic Caucus] Pre-Synod Report: Invalid Conclave or Heresy? Questions are being asked There are whispers and quiet chatter all over Rome just days before the controversial Amazon Synod kicks off that the conclave which elected Pope Francis might have been invalid; a very close second to the talk of an invalid conclave is that Francis may have committed heresy. Some of the things that Pope Francis says, as well as what he does and the people he appoints, are triggering near panic with some, and at the very least great concern with many others. For example, earlier this week, Pope Francis named Bp. Mario Grech...