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[Catholic Caucus] Pope faces abuse scandals, lays out template for Catholicism in a secular milieuROME – In a country still reeling from a deep clerical sexual abuse crisis, Pope Francis on Saturday bitterly acknowledged that such abuse “generates atrocious suffering and wounds,” vowing that the path of reform includes learning from survivors.The realities of abuse, the pontiff said, can even “undermine the path of faith.”“There is a need for a great deal of mercy, to keep us from hardening our hearts before the suffering of victims, so that we can help them feel our closeness and offer all the help...

[Catholic Caucus] A Profession of Faith in a Time of ApostacyProfession of Faith in Jesus Christ and His Church as the only path to God and to eternal salvationWe unshakably believe and profess what the ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Church has continuously and infallibly taught since the time of the Apostles, namely,That faith in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God and only Savior of mankind, is the only religion willed by God.After the institution of the new and everlasting Covenant in Jesus Christ, no one may be saved by adherence to the teachings and practices of non-Christian...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider: Synod’s confession event a ‘tool’ to push ‘new agenda’ and ‘doctrines’Regarding the 'sins against synodality' to be confessed, such as 'using doctrine as stones to be hurled,' the faithful bishop said there are 'no such sins in divine revelation.'Bishop Athanasius Schneider accused a Vatican Synod on Synodality event as being “a tool to promote a new agenda in the synod to establish new doctrines which are contrary to the divine revelation, or undermine divine revelation.”The Astana auxiliary’s forthright comments came during a recent interview on Raymond Arroyo’s World Over, during which Arroyo questioned Schneider about an...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis meets with four ‘transgender’ men who attended Fr. James Martin’s LGBT conferenceOne gender-confused man told how it was confirmed that Pope Francis ‘received the email with our bios,’ which meant he ‘was aware of whom he would be meeting: a group of four transgender women [sic] from the U.S.’Pope Francis met with four gender-confused men who present as “women,” in one of many such pre-approved meetings with so-called “transgender” individuals.One of the men, who now goes by “Christine Zuba,” wrote about the encounter in a piece for the so-called “LGBTQ Catholic resource” and activist group Outreach,...

[Catholic Caucus] Prof. de Mattei's defence of Francis' legitimacy fails—here's whyOn 25th September 2024, Voice of the Family published an article by the historian Professor Roberto de Mattei, entitled “On the problem of the heretical pope.”This article defends Francis’ claim to the papacy, which de Mattei argues continues to be legitimate in spite of the three heretical comments made recently about false religions.1For reasons discussed elsewhere, these comments arguably constitute apostasy.In my opinion, writing in defence of Francis’ claim at this point is a serious misuse of time and energy. Nonetheless, in this piece, we shall analyse de Mattei’s article...

Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis has contradicted ‘the entire Gospel’Speaking to Raymond Arroyo, Bishop Athanasius Schneider firmly critiqued and rejected Pope Francis' claim that 'every religion is a way to arrive at God.'Bishop Athanasius Schneider has stated that Pope Francis has contradicted “the entire Gospel” with the claim that all religions are a way to God.Speaking with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo on The World Over, Kazakhstan’s Bishop Athanasius Schneider responded to the controversial comment made by Pope Francis on his recent trip to Singapore.“Every religion is a way to arrive at God,” the Pope said. “There are different languages to arrive at...

The Left Is Right: Clericalism Is the Problemp/c Remnant MagazineThe leftists who hijacked the hierarchy since the 1960s (and especially since 2013) state that the main problem in the Catholic Church today is “clericalism.” They condemn anything maintained by traditional Catholics that still delineates between the clerical state and the lay state. For example, they believe even something as innocent as the cassock must be deemed a sign of arrogance and “rigorism.” Like Marxists have always done, their thrust is to blur the lines between Holy Orders and marriage… so as to destroy both sacraments.But it is precisely the leftists...

[Catholic/Anglican Caucus] Francis-appointed Synod adviser appears to defend homosexual ‘desire’ in Vatican newspaperIn an article published in L’osservatore Romano, Fr. Timothy Radcliffe claimed that homosexuals ‘rightly desire to express their affection,’ though the Church teaches that homosexual activity is mortally sinful and homosexual desires are ‘objectively disordered.’Father Timothy Radcliffe, OP, whom Pope Francis named a spiritual assistant for the October session of the Synod on Synodality, penned an article for the Vatican newspaper in which he appears to defend homosexual “desire” and claims that homosexual individuals “rightly desire to express their affection” in contradiction to Catholic teaching.“I am convinced of...

Sky News Australia slams Pope Francis’ remark that ‘every religion is a path to God’Sky News host James Macpherson asked, 'How can men rediscover truth and reality when even the pope seems to have given up on believing in God?' Sky News Australia issued a scathing critique of Pope Francis’ claim in Singapore that “every religion is a way to arrive at God,” denouncing this as an attempt at “inclusion based on denial of the truth.”“Is the pope Catholic? All of a sudden that’s not a rhetorical question,” Sky News host James Macpherson noted. He highlighted Francis’ suggestion that “no...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Francis: '[B]e guided by the divine inspiration present in every faith'Francis triples-down on his statements about all religions being paths to reach God.Editors’ NotesOn 17th September, Francis “tripled-down” on his statement about all religions being “a path to arrive at God.” The text only appears to have been released today. The key text is:We need to keep meeting, to weave bonds of fraternity and to allow ourselves to be guided by the divine inspiration present in every faith, in order to join in “imagining peace” among all peoples. We need such “occasions to speak with one another...

Pope Francis corrects the ‘popesplainers’ and Cardinal Burke speaks of the end timesOn this week’s episode of Faith & Reason, John Henry-Westen, Father Charles Murr, and Frank Wright discuss Pope Francis’ recent comments about all religions leading to God, popesplainers trying to explain away the heresy, and more.On this week’s episode of Faith & Reason, John Henry-Westen, Father Charles Murr, and Frank Wright discuss Pope Francis’ recent comments about all religions leading to God, popesplainers trying to explain away the heresy before being corrected by the Pope himself, the Synod on Synodality including a ceremony confessing “sins” against migrants and...

Pope Francis’ “All Religions” Discourse Was An Attack On Christ’s DivinityPope Francis’ recent comments during an interreligious meeting with young people at Catholic Junior College in Singapore regarding the smorgasbord of different “paths to reach God” – “[s]ome Sikh, some Muslim, some Hindu, some Christian” – encapsulate the poisonous ideology that has permeated the Catholic Church over the past several decades. It has seeped into the pulpits, seminaries, and classrooms, corrupting the Church Militant. Whether as converts or cradle Catholics, many of us were infused, at some point, with this pernicious, any-road-up-the-mountain toxin.It is certainly not the first time Francis...

‘Is the Pope a Catholic?’ The rhetorical question that’s losing axiomatic power(Pope Francis kisses the hand of the Grand Imam of Istiqlal Mosque Nasaruddin Umar after an interreligious meeting with religious leaders at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on September 5, 2024.) “Is the Pope a Catholic?” is old and well-used rhetorical repartee. It doesn’t require and answer. Or it didn’t until recently.After Pope’s Francis recent remarks about inter-religious dialogue in Singapore, theologians and laity are questioning whether what he said was authentically Catholic.As so often, when the Pope shoots from the hip, he causes either excitement or chaos depending...

[Catholic Caucus] Müller Refutes Francis: "Lack of Synodality and Church Doctrine Are Not Sins"Cardinal Gerhard Müller commented on September 21 on the announced "penitential liturgy" with Francis in the midst of the October ex-synod.He criticizes that new, man-made sins are being invented.Francis' list includes an alleged "sin" of using doctrine as a stumbling block and a "sin against synodality", that is, the lack of listening and communion.For Cardinal Müller, this "catalogue of alleged sins" against the doctrine of the Church, misused as a weapon, or "sins" against synodality ("whatever one may understand by it") reads like a checklist of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. Murray: Pope’s claim that ‘every religion’ is a way to God contradicts ‘Christ Himself’The priest and canon lawyer said that 'the impression given to people is that Catholicism is not serious anymore about converting everybody, but in fact that’s the central mission.'Renowned canon lawyer Father Gerald Murray denounced Pope Francis’ claim that “every religion is a way to arrive at God” as “contradictory to what Christ himself said.”“Jesus Christ said, ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,’ and the Church teaches that there is only salvation in Christ,” Fr. Murray said during an appearance on...

Fr. Heimerl: Pope Francis marks the fulfillment of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich’s ‘dark church’ prophecyEditor’s note: The following essay is the first in a two-part series on the prophecies of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, the ‘synodal church,’ and Pope Francis. Part two can be found HERE.(LifeSiteNews) — Two hundred years ago, the German mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich died in Dülmen, Westphalia. The stigmatized nun saw not only the life of Jesus in her visions, but also the future of the Church. Shortly before her death, she said: “There will be an after-church.”During Emmerich’s time, such a thing was hardly imaginable,...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: Pope Francis’ comments on all religions being paths to God are ‘heresy’I have often expressed my deep concern regarding heresy and the atmosphere of apostasy as it emanates from the Vatican, but I must now ask: ‘Where is the outcry of the shepherds? Where is the courage and conviction to defend our faith?’Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,“We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee, because by Thy Holy Cross, Thou hast redeemed the world.” This familiar prayer offered as part of the Stations of the Cross is familiar to Catholics, and well it should...

“Christ is no longer to be spoken about—and can no longer be spoken about”: New essay by Vigilius on Pope Francis in Southeast Asia Rorate welcomes once again the crystal-clear and profound contribution of Vigilius, pen-name of a German theologian. The original text may be found here; the following translation has been approved by the author.Pope Francis in the “Tunnel of Friendship”VigiliusPope Francis was completely in his element during his trip to Southeast Asia. This is because he was once again able to engage eagerly in “interreligious dialogue”. If you read the Pope’s now published speeches, this dialogue enjoys an...

Rev. Emily Bowen-Marler is one of the devils leading Brentwood Christian Church, a “progressive, open and affirming congregation synogogue of satan in the heart of the Ozarks that is committed to building community, justice and love.” During her June ’23 sermon, she asked: “I wonder how Jesus might have told parables in our time. Who are the maligned in our society threatening to bring change that those in power are resisting? How would Jesus flip their understanding of the kingdom of God on its head in a way that unsettles them and empowers the ones they malign? She has a...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Aguer: Pope Francis’ Asia tour was a ‘heterodox caricature’ of an apostolic journeyI have intentionally presented Pope Francis' journey as a tour, not a missionary trip. It is scandalous for this show of force and money to promote 'interreligious dialogue and care for the Earth in the face of climate change.'I have been following Pope Francis’ 12-day tour of Asia and Oceania in La Prensa. It is admirable that the Pontiff should take on such a demanding task at almost 88 years of age. It does seem as if the entire Vatican was in tow, with doctors,...