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Open Letter to Francis: Why Are You Destroying the Religion of the Saints? Dear Francis,We write to you as fellow sinners, in great need of God’s mercy. In various ways — especially through your Synod on Synodality and persistent opposition to proselytism — you have asked Catholics to have respect for all baptized Christians and their particular religious beliefs. This openness to the religious beliefs of others encourages us to explain our religion to you.We are Catholics who believe the same truths, and retain the same religious devotions, that all Catholics enjoyed prior to Vatican II. We often call ourselves...

Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published Friday. The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of over 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent of Spain's adult population of around 39 million people said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children. The percentage rises to 1.13 percent -- or over 400,000 people -- when including abuse by lay members, Spain's national ombudsman Angel Gabilondo told a news conference called to...

What is the synod underway in Rome actually about? Over and again, official Vatican sources are telling us many things. That it is not about theology, nor about doctrinal matters, nor about LGBTQ+, the ordination of women and the issue of celibacy. Neither is it, they add, about seeking to undermine or replace the hierarchical nature of the church or democratize the decision-making process. No, it would seem to be dealing with the question of what synodality is. After all, this is a synod on synodality. Nobody seems to know what that is, and so the Pope has figured that...

[Catholic Caucus] New Response in the Same-Sex Blessing ControversyBack on September 30th, a few days before the new Dubia were released, Cardinal Tucho Fernández gave an interview to LifeSite News about Same-sex blessings which has now been published. But before we get to that, I want to go back to the 2021 document approved by the Holy Father which was meant to put to rest this dubium with the following clarity:TO THE QUESTION PROPOSED:Does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex?RESPONSE:Negative.The explanation goes into the fact that “Blessings belong to...

Pope Francis set to attend UN ‘climate change’ conference in Dubai: reportsPope Francis has called for the upcoming COP28 conference to promote ‘binding forms of energy transition’ that are ‘obligatory and readily monitored.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Multiple “senior Vatican sources” have attested that Pope Francis is due to attend the COP28 climate conference, media reports have stated, after he highlighted the conference as a potentially “historic event.” Published first in the French-language version of its website, La Croix reported that Pope Francis intends to attend the COP28 “climate change” conference due to be held in Dubai at the end of...

Pope Francis may attend COP 28 in DubaiThe Pope has reportedly expressed his desire to attend the United Nations climate conference, but the trip has yet to be confirmed.Pope Francis could take part in the international climate conference to be held in Dubai from November 30 to December 12, Reuters reported on October 19, 2023. There he will voice his call to halt the climate catastrophe, a call he recently renewed in the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum, published at the beginning of October. No final decision yetFrancis wants to go to Dubai, the Pope’s secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin...

Whoopi Goldberg meets with Pope Francis, champions his acceptance of homosexualityWhile the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church on human sexuality remain both unchanged and unchangeable, Francis has indeed undermined or obfuscated these truths through what many see as ambiguous or outright heretical statements.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-abortion American actress and activist Whoopi Goldberg met with Pope Francis Thursday, the former taking the time to thank the latter for his “message” surrounding so-called climate change, and his stance on homosexual acts and Communion for the divorced and “remarried.”In an interview published Thursday by Vatican News, Goldberg talked about her meeting...

[Catholic Caucus] Maltese Parish Launches Masses for Same-Sex Couples<MARSA, Malta (ChurchMilitant.com) - Feeling emboldened by Pope Francis' response to questions from five cardinals on same-sex blessings, a parish in Malta is launching Masses for homosexual and heterosexual couples. Maria Regina Church in Marsa, Malta A poster published by the parish of Maria Regina in Marsa, a city in south Malta, announced that beginning Oct. 15, it would begin monthly Eucharistic services for "couples" every third Sunday of the month at 11 a.m. On Oct. 3, parish priest Fr. Anthony Fitzpatrick announced the Masses for "couples," a day after the Vatican's...

When I was growing up and attending Catholic schools, I was taught that the pope is infallible. But then I read Pope Francis’ updated encyclical letter last week, and now I can only conclude that at least this pope is fallible. In fact, the declaration is so filled with anti-Christian fallacies that one has to wonder whether we have a pope that is actually Catholic. Pope Francis was full of doom and gloom as he warned that the Earth is “collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point” because of climate change. He takes a metaphorical ruler and whacks the...

EUGENICS WAS USED BY HITLER TO ELIMINATE THE WEAK AND THE UNDESIRABLE RACES AND TO PROMOTE THE ARIAN RACE. Margaret Sanger worked with Hitler and then founded Planned Parenthood in the USA to diminish the population by promoting artificial birth control and abortion. It is interesting that even though the blacks or African Americans in the USA comprise only about 12% of the population, 40% of the abortions are done on black women who are targeted with many abortion clinics by Planned Parenthood in black neighborhoods. With the technology today, eugenics is now called TRANSHUMANISM, in which the rich super...

I always seek to help any person I meet to get to heaven, trying to adapt my words to each person. Recently I found myself in a car with my car mechanic who does not frequent the Church, the Sacraments or prayer, as do the great majority of Italians today. I said to him: “Giampaolo, when your children were small, did you give them advice and guidance for their good or for their harm?” Giampaolo responded: “For their good”. (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold,...

Sacred Scripture Alone Disproves the Bible Alone theory!Scripture Alone Disproves "Scripture Alone" From Genesis to the book of the Apocalypse, Scripture never says that Scripture is the sole infallible authority for God's Word. Scripture also mandates the use of tradition. This fact alone disproves sola Scriptura. Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:15 - those that preached the Gospel to all creation but did not write the Gospel were not less obedient to Jesus, or their teachings less important. Matt. 28:20 - "observe ALL I have commanded," but, as we see in John 20:30; 21:25, not ALL Jesus taught is in Scripture. So...

Bible Only is dumb ANSWERS TO 25 QUESTIONS ON THEHISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENTWHICH COMPLETELY REFUTE THE "BIBLE ONLY" THEORYONEDid Our Lord write any part of the New Testament or command His Apostles to do so? Our Lord Himself never wrote a line, nor is there any record that He ordered his Apostles to write; He did command them to teach and to preach. Also He to Whom all power was given in Heaven and on earth (Matt. 28-18) promised to give them the Holy Spirit (John 14-26) and to be with them Himself till the end of the world...

Pope Francis urges Buddhists, Muslims, and Shamans to promote their religions during event in MongoliaSpeaking to Buddhist, Shinto, Shaman, Jewish, Muslim, and assorted Christian religious leaders, Pope Francis praised the assembled religions for being the continuation of 'ancient schools of wisdom.'Speaking as part of an ecumenical gathering during his trip to Mongolia, Pope Francis quoted from Buddhist texts while arguing that “every religious institution” has “the right to freely express what it is and what it believes.”He urged gathered non-Catholic religious leaders to promote their own religions, saying, “May it be so for us, as committed followers of our respective...

The Church’s morals didn’t change until Vatican II in the 1960s. Before that, you had nearly two thousand years of consistency. If you speak to neo-Catholics now, they will tell you that there was a great revelation in the 20th century, and they realized that morality is constantly in flux, and that basically, all the fundamental premises of the historic Church are wrong. The Pope has gone from promoting gay anal to now actively attacking the people pushing back on it. He must be feeling he’s in a good position, to move from encouraging gay sex to actively organizing anyone...

‘The world risks suffocating to death,’ Vatican newspaper warnsAugust 25, 2023» Continue to this story on L'Osservatore Romano (Italian) CWN Editor's Note: With the headline “Il polmone in affanno” [The lung in breathlessness], the Vatican newspaper warned on August 24, in its most prominent front-page article, that “the world risks suffocating to death” as “the Amazon rainforest absorbs ever less carbon because of deforestation and climate change.” The unsigned Vatican newspaper article cited data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research that were published in an article in Nature.The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis praises another pro-LGBT Catholic group in ‘warm and encouraging’ letterAn Australian 'LGBTIQA+ Catholic' group has become the latest pro-LGBT group to receive a letter from Pope Francis praising them for their work.Acceptance Perth logoPERTH, Australia (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has written another letter of support to a pro-LGBT Catholic group, which he sent via a dissident nun with a history of being silenced by the Vatican for her heterodox advocacy.Based in Australia, the Acceptance group is a “a fully inclusive and affirming group comprising of LGBTIQA+ Catholics, their families, and their friends.” With centers in Perth,...

10-Point Biblical Refutation of Sola ScripturaThe Bible teaches that a “three-legged stool” (Bible, Church and Tradition) is necessary to arrive at the truth.1. It's Not Taught in the BibleScripture certainly is a “standard of truth”, but not in a sense that rules out the binding authority of authentic apostolic tradition and the Church. Catholics agree with Protestants that Scripture is materially sufficient: i.e., every true doctrine can be found in the Bible, if only implicitly and indirectly by deduction. But no biblical passage teaches that Scripture is the sole rule of faith for the Christian (formal sufficiency). Nor can sola...

"We Don't Want to Convert Young People to Christ or the Catholic Church": Francis's New Cardinal Denies The Great Commission"Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Known as "the Great Commission," spreading the Gospel and making converts is a basic duty of all Christians, as set forth by Our Lord in sacred scripture. At the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis reiterated this call in his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.But the results of the Church's evangelization efforts during Francis's pontificate have been disappointing,...

OMG: Hidden Camera Catches Catholic College Prioritizing Transgender Student, Promising Shared Accommodation With Biological Girls.The O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) has released footage from a citizen journalist showing the Housing Director at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota promising “top of the list” treatment for a fake transgender student invented for the purposes of the media sting.In footage release Wednesday evening, director Zoe Chang can be seen pledging multiple preferential accomodations for a transgender student, including but not limited to:Sharing a room or floor with biologically female students;Obtaining first place on a list for their own room, due to their...