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[Catholic Caucus] The Vatican’s Supervisor of Religious Life Declares: Pope Francis Wants Married Priests Pictured above [center] is Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. This photograph of a “Prince of the Church” speaks louder than a thousand words on the shambles to which religious life in the Church has been reduced since Vatican II.At any rate, as LifeSiteNews reports, Braz has just admitted — is anyone really surprised? — that “it was Pope Francis who directed that bishops at the upcoming Amazon Synod discuss ordaining married men...

[Catholic Caucus] Amazon Synod is a ploy for ‘radical re-structuring’ of Church: Dubia cardinal July 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Walter Brandmüller – one of the two remaining dubia cardinals – published today in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a critique of Professor Hubert Wolf's public and strong attempt at undermining priestly celibacy.  Professor Wolf is a German church historian and one of the participants of the private and unannounced pre-Amazon Synod June 26 meeting in Rome which called for female deacons and for married priests. Shortly after this meeting, he gave an interview on July 18, in which he claims...

[Catholic Caucus] Announcing the ROUNDTABLE at the eve of the Pan-Amazon Synod ROUNDTABLE: Our Church – reformed or deformed? Voice of the Family will be hosting a roundtable discussion to address critical questions for the Church and for the family at the eve of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, to be held in October 2019 in Rome. WHAT IS AT STAKE AT THE UPCOMING SYNOD OF BISHOPS? Voice of the Family was formed to assist bishops to uphold the Church’s teaching on the family at the synods on the family (2014-2015). During the course of the two family...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider, Church Leaders Slam Amazon Synod as ‘Ideological’ Tool Calls for institution of eucharistic adoration 'in all of Amazonia' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Bishop Athanasius Schneider has joined a growing chorus of Catholic voices troubled over the upcoming Amazon Synod in Rome. In an essay for Austrian website kath.net on Wednesday, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan slammed proponents of a married Amazonian clergy as tricksters attempting to deny the peoples of the South American interior "the ability to sacrifice priests to the Church from their midst." Turning to the Spirit of the World "For two thousand years, all peoples,...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican religious life chief: Pope wants priestly celibacy questioned at Amazon Synod ASUNCION, Paraguay, July 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, said it was Pope Francis who directed that bishops at the upcoming Amazon Synod discuss ordaining married men to the priesthood.  In a July 10 interview with Paraguay’s ABC Color daily, Cardinal Braz referred to the drop in priestly vocations in Europe and elsewhere, despite growth in Africa and Asia. Regarding the disparity, he said it was Pope Francis...

Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis has ‘strict duty’ to reaffirm priestly celibacy at Amazon Synod July 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, has stated that Pope Francis has a "strict duty, as given to him by God" to uphold the "apostolic inheritance of priestly celibacy" at the upcoming Amazon Synod and to pass on this inheritance "to his own successor and to the next generation." "He may not support in the slightest way – by silence or by an ambiguous conduct – the obviously Gnostic and naturalistic contents of parts of the Instrumentum...

Theologian: Amazon Synod attempting to ‘demolish’ the Church from within ROME, July 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Another respected theologian is sounding the alarm on the upcoming Amazon Synod, saying it is an attempt to “create another church” by “demolishing” the true Church from within. Monsignor Nicola Bux, a theologian and former consulter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith during Benedict XVI’s pontificate, said in a recent interview that “what we are facing is an the attempt to genetically modify the Church.”  Asked why he believes the working document [Instrumentum laboris] for the upcoming synod has been so...

Benedictine theologian calls Amazon Synod working doc ‘biodegradable Christianity’ in searing new critique ROME, July 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A Benedictine theologian has joined the chorus of voices criticizing the working document of the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, calling it “biodegradable Christianity.” In an analysis published by Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli on July 2, Dom Giulio Meiattini, a monk of the abbey of Madonna della Scala in the southern Italian province of Bari, said the Instrumentum laboris proposes and contains nothing less than a “reversal” of the “very idea of Church and Christian faith.” “The Person of Christ and His Gospel disappear; they...

STOP THE SHAMAZON SYNOD He came in like a wrecking ball... The Amazon Synod is widely being recognized, among serious people, for the patronizing, liberal sanctification of indigenous religions that it is. Brussels and the Vatican are using the Amazon region as the laboratory for religious experimentation which promises to alter and deface the Bride of Christ beyond recognition. Germany's pro-LGBT Bishop Franz-Josef Overback stated proudly: [The Synod] will bring the Church to a point of no return," after which "nothing will be as it was." Just so! In fact, the Shamazon Synod is nothing less than the Vatican's formal...

The Final Skirmish of the Final Battle? Finally, a Prince of the Church has had the courage to denounce the Instrumentum Laboris (IL) for the upcoming “Pan-Amazon Synod” for what it is: “heretical” and “an attack on the foundations of the Faith.”  The threat goes far beyond even the obvious conspiracy to use the supposed scarcity of priests in the vast but sparely populated tropical forests of the region as a pretext to introduce both married priests and some sort of female “deacon” into the life of the Church.In an interview published by LifeSiteNews, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the...

The ‘Amazon Synod’: The Latest Outrage for Faithful Catholics Like most Catholics and many Christians, I’ve found the phenomenon of Pope Francis deeply puzzling. His reign has been weird from the very outset. First, Pope Benedict resigns for murky reasons, not long after getting a phone-book-size report on gay shenanigans inside the Vatican. That report never sees the light of day. The night Pope Benedict resigns — the first papal abdication in more than 500 years — St. Peter’s gets struck by lightning.Then the cardinals elect a man most of them don’t know. An obscure bishop from Argentina disliked by...

AMAZON SYNOD: Vatican Racism on Full Display This time we’re really in for it. The Amazon Synod is primed to change the Church in such a way that it can never be changed back.LifeSite’s Rome correspondent, Diane Montagna, recently conducted an interview with a Peruvian expert in liberation theology, Julio Loredo, who revealed the scheme behind the Amazon Synod; a “scheme” aimed at “revamping” the Church according to the “most radical versions of liberation theology”:LifeSite: What in your view should those in the media, and Catholic clergy and faithful more broadly, know about the upcoming meeting? Where should we focus...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinals, bishops who back women’s ordination secretly meet near Rome to prepare for Amazon synod June 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A group of cardinals and bishops who are involved with the preparation of the Amazon synod and who back the abolishment of priestly celibacy and other progressivist positions contrary to perennial Catholic teaching are quietly meeting together near Rome in preparation for the upcoming synod, a well-placed source revealed to LifeSiteNews today. Main participants at this meeting include cardinals Lorenzo Baldisseri, Claudio Hummes, Walter Kasper, Christoph Schönborn, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, and Bishop Erwin Kräutler. Also present are Professor...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican’s Amazon Synod to discuss allowing married priests, letting bishops ‘adapt’ Mass ROME, June 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican today released the working document for the Special Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, being held in Rome Oct. 6-27.  The 64-page document, which will form the basis of discussion at the upcoming Synod, suggests that local bishops’ conferences “adapt the Eucharistic rite to their cultures,” that the Church consider ordaining married “elders” to the priesthood, and that Synod fathers identify the “official ministry that can be conferred on women,” given their prominent role in Amazonian culture. The...

[Catholic Caucus] Working Document Published, Amazonian Synod Will Abolish Celibacy The Vatican published οn June 17 the Instrumentum laboris, the working paper, for the Bishops’ Synod for the Amazonian region (October 6-27). The paper calls for the possibility of priestly ordination of an abstract group of "elders, preferably indigenous” who are "respected" and have an “established and stable family” [in keeping with Amoris Laetitia?]. It adds that instead of leaving "the communities" without the Eucharist, "the criteria of selection and preparation of the ministers authorized to celebrate it should be changed.” About female ministries, the document writes in an unclear...

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT German bishop: ‘Nothing will be the same’ in Church after Amazon Synod ESSEN, Germany, May 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-homosexual German bishop has predicted that sweeping changes to the Catholic Church regarding sexual morality, the male priesthood, and priestly celibacy will follow the next Vatican-run meeting of bishops planned for later this year. According to Katholische.de, the official website of the German Catholic Bishops, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, the ordinary of Germany’s Essen diocese, told reporters that the October Synod in Rome will lead to a “break” in the Church and that “nothing will be the same...

I’ve been, as much as possible ignoring the Synod’s (“walking together”) document.  First, I’ve wanted a pleasant day.  Was the Synod really about producing a document?   Or was it about creating smokescreens and providing cover for the placement of poison pills and landmines?25000 words.The document, with the voting tallies for the paragraphs, is HERE in Italian only.   Gosh, I’ll bet that was helpful for the non-Italians.   Let’s rush through voting on paragraph after paragraph – there are, after all, only 167 – how long could that take?  what could go wrong? – in a language that not everyone...

VIDEO: Analysis of #Synod2018 by Prof. Royal and Fr. Murray Posted on 26 October 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf Outstanding analysis from Prof. Royal and Fr. Murray on the eve of the conclusion of this Synod (“walking together”). Link to video: VIDEO: Analysis of #Synod2018 by Prof. Royal and Fr. Murray

Is the Synod on Youth and Blah, Blah, Blah Inching Back from the Abyss? With him in charge, it’s not likely. Fatima Perspectives #1245 As this column appears, Sandro Magister is reporting that, unlike the Phony Synod on “The Family” whose outcome “was already decided even before it was celebrated,” including “‘Amoris Laetitia,’ with which Francis gave the go-ahead to communion for the divorced and remarried,” the manipulators of the Synod on Youth and Blah, Blah, Blah may come up empty in their plan to introduce the devastating term “LGBT Catholics” into ecclesial discourse.According to Magister, the current synodal dog-and-pony...

ROME, October 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — A two-fold effort is underway to smuggle the “LGBT” acronym and ideology into the final document for the Vatican Youth Synod, LifeSite has learned. Informed sources close to the synod have told LifeSite that the draft of the final document has resurrected and enshrined the much-disparaged working document (Instrumentum laboris), which contains the loaded acronym “LGBT.” Paragraph 197 of the Instrumentum laboris reads: Some LGBT youths, through various contributions that were received by the General Secretariat of the Synod, wish to “benefit from greater closeness” and experience greater care by the Church, while some BC ask...