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[Catholic Caucus] Vatican communications head slammed for downplaying Rupnik case: ‘We’re not talking about abuse of minors’‘Who am I to judge?’ said the Vatican’s Paolo Ruffini about Fr. Marko Rupnik, who has been accused of abusing dozens of people and committing blasphemous sexual abuse against religious sisters.The embattled pro–LGBT prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, shockingly downplayed last week the sexual abuse scandals of disgraced former Jesuit priest Father Marko Rupnik. Ruffini spoke at the annual Catholic Media Conference, held from June 18-21 in Atlanta, Georgia. In his keynote address, he urged attendees to change “the...

War Will Continue Until The EndDaniel 9:26 After the sixty-two sevens, the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the holy. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.Matthew 24:37 Again Yeshua said to his disciples: As in the days of Noah so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.…Genesis 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before ELoHIM, and...

An estimated 350 people gathered together on Monday to commemorate and celebrate the overturning of Roe v Wade exactly two years ago, enjoying an afternoon of free food, singing, fellowship, and speeches while nearby counterprotesters raged from the side. The Life Day Block Party in Moscow, Idaho, was organized by RedBalloon and Bohnet Music Academy, two local businesses with connections to Doug Wilson’s Christ Church. With a tagline of “Goodbye Roe,” the event recalls an answer to prayer fifty years in the making, when on May 2, 2022, Politico published a leaked draft of the Supreme Court majority decision in...

[Catholic Caucus] Banning the TLM (Again): Latest DevelopmentsCredible rumors shared by Rorate Caeli about a renewed crackdown on the Roman Rite, coinciding with the third anniversary of Traditionis Custodes, have prompted an interesting debate on what sort of trick the Vatican may have up its sleeve and how, in turn, individual dioceses and Traditional Latin Mass communities will play their hand. In its letter published last week, Rorate cautioned readers that the ideologues responsible for Traditionis Custodes are “frustrated with its apparently slow results” and are now seeking a new ban that would be as “wide, final, and irreversible as...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider hopes Pope Francis won’t excommunicate Abp. Viganò: ‘It would be imprudent’While criticizing Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and his theological positions, Bishop Athanasius Schneider maintained in comments to Religion News Service on Monday that Pope Francis would “increase divisions” in the Church if he were to excommunicate the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.“I think the pope would be wise and prudent if he were to not excommunicate Archbishop Viganò,” Schneider remarked in the interview while also asserting that Viganò “is in error, because he is voicing a new theory of the probably invalid theory of...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Document Further Restricting TLM said to Exist, Backed by Cardinal Parolin A Remnant Exclusive VATICAN CITY, June 25, 2024 — Having made several inquiries regarding recent reports, I have been informed by reliable sources that a new Vatican document more restrictive than Traditionis Custodes does indeed exist, is backed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and has been presented to Pope Francis. Well-informed sources have confirmed that the new document, if published, would prohibit all priests other than those belonging to approved ex-Ecclesia Dei institutes from offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the...

A group of secular legal organizations is suing Louisiana to stop a law passed this month that would make it the only state requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a legal complaint on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana on behalf of a religiously diverse group of individuals with minor children enrolled in Louisiana public schools. The defendants include Christian, Jewish, Unitarian and nonreligious parents."There is no longstanding tradition of permanently...

[Catholic Caucus] "He who keeps silent is to be taken as consenting…”The miscarriage of justice in the case of Marko Rupnik—the appalling farce it has been from the start—is sadly not an aberration under Pope Francis. The Rupnik Affair has indelibly stained this pontificate.“Who am I to judge the Rupnik stories?”Pope Francis’s Communicator-in-Chief, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, asked that rhetorical question on Friday in an Atlanta, GA hotel ballroom, in front of journalists, one of whom—Colleen Dulle of America Magazine, it happens—had asked him to explain his dicastery’s rationale for continuing to use reproductions of artwork by a disgraced priest who...

There’s a significant gap in the involvement of Protestant churches with local pregnancy resource centers, despite heightened attention on such centers following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two years ago. A survey by Lifeway Research reveals that only 31% of Protestant churchgoers have observed any congregational support for these centers since the ruling. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization allowed states to enact laws regulating abortion, spotlighting the role of local pregnancy centers in providing support for women with unintended pregnancies. Despite this, the majority of...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis: Better No Priest than a Priest of the Roman RiteFrancis, the Pope of "mercy", is still blocking priestly ordinations for the Missionnaires de la Miséricorde Divine in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France.One Missionaries of Divine Mercy has been awaiting for more than two years to be ordained a deacon and four deacons have been awaiting their priestly ordination for one year.According to Father Jean-Raphaël Dubrule, the superior, this waiting is no longer linked to the situation in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, where ordinations have resumed, but to the fact that the community celebrates the Roman rite, as...

Hillary Clinton attacked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on his Christian faith in a recent interview, calling the conservative justice “scary” and “a fanatic” for his religious views. The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee made the remarks in April during a podcast interview with Democracy Docket’s Marc Elias. A clip from that discussion resurfaced on social media over the weekend. “You know, I was in the Senate when both John Roberts and Alito were nominated to the court by George W. Bush. Therefore, I had a chance, as you rightly say, to interview both of them,”...

[Catholic Caucus] The Faithful React to Dark Rumors about the TLMFred Simon was born before Vatican II. He still remembers the ornate gothic paintings in the German parish where he attended Mass with his father and grandfather. Then, one day, the entire interior was whitewashed and a new altar was placed in the middle of the sanctuary. It was the beginning of Simon’s exile from the TLM. Years later, after a priest invited him to see a TLM, Simon found his way back to the Mass of the Ages. He was “awed by the reverence and holiness” he witnessed on...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican communications prefect: Removing Rupnik art ‘not the Christian response’The prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication told a group of Catholic journalists Friday that removing artwork by disgraced religious artist and alleged serial sexual abuser Fr. Marko Rupnik is “not the Christian response.” Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, speaks at a synod on synodality briefing at the Vatican on Oct. 14, 2023. Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel.“I don’t think we have to throw stones, thinking it is the way of healing someone,” said Paolo Ruffini, according to video footage of his remarks...

The Gospel Coalition (TGC) is notorious for its center-left-leaning views on everything from spiritual to cultural to political issues while masquerading its social agenda as “gospel issues” to maintain a veneer of spiritual authority. In its relentless quest for relevance, TGC consistently promotes worldliness over the inconvenient truths of Scripture. One of its most “culturally aware” contributors, Brett McCracken, in his latest article on “Inside Out 2” perfectly illustrates TGC’s misplaced priorities. Rather than grappling with the substantive and controversial biblical issues of our time, McCracken and his brand at TGC are preoccupied with dissecting the latest Hollywood productions. Of...

With Pride Month well underway, now is a fitting time to talk to our fellow Christians about their association with the YMCA. Some of you may have nothing more than a gym membership, while some may even have the misfortune of attending church in a Y (yes there are churches), but no matter your yoking comfort level, make no mistake: you’re supporting an organization that professes Christianity but is operating contrary to your core Christian beliefs. Is the above a hyperbolic overstatement bordering on slander? Well I’m glad you asked! Did you know the YMCA marches in various pride parades...

In the Covenant School Shooting of 2023, a transvestite woman, Audrey Hale, murdered 6 people at a Christian private school before being put down by law enforcement. In recent weeks many details have emerged about Audrey Hale’s motivations, including swaths of her manifesto being leaked by various media outlets. The Southern Baptist Convention, helmed by the liberal Brent Leatherwood, has fought tooth and nail to prevent the manifesto’s public release. So far the manifesto has confirmed the strong connection between pornography and transgenderism while also expressing anti-Christian motivations. The investigation is still ongoing, and the Tennessee Star reported a bombshell...

As I was doing my morning reading, I was pointed to this article at Religion News Service (RNS) praising and celebrating the abomination of drag performances in churches, particularly, in the pulpit. This abomination is a clear indication of the modern professing Church’s utter degeneration. I know they say that there is nothing new under the sun, but this sure seems like a new invention. I can’t think of a time in history when the professing Church was so celebratory of sexual immorality. Perhaps, though, this is exactly what Paul was addressing in 1 Corinthians 5 when he addresses sexual...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Viganò confirms he will not attend Vatican ‘schism’ trial'I therefore wish to make it clear that I did not go to the Vatican yesterday, and that I have no intention of going to the Holy Office on June 28, and that I have not delivered any statement or document in my defense to the Dicastery, whose authority I do not recognize,' Viganò wrote.The following is a statement sent exclusively to LifeSiteNews by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Friday, June 21, 2024.(LifeSiteNews) — The reports spread by certain media outlets, stating that I presented myself yesterday, Thursday,...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Parolin says infamous Vatican-China deal will be renewed at end of 2024Cardinal Pietro Parolin has announced that the Vatican will renew its heavily criticized secret deal with Communist China at the end of this year.During a presentation of the book Cardinal Celso Costantini and China – Constructor of a “bridge” between the East and West on Thursday at Rome’s Pontifical Urban University, Parolin told journalists, “With China, we are dialoguing as we have been for some time.”READ: Cardinal Zen torches the Vatican and his critics over China deal“We are trying to find the best procedures also for...

[Catholic Caucus] Sermon for the “Final” Mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne – 19th June, 2024 - The Prophetic Words of Cardinal Pell in 1992Feast of Sts. Gervase & ProtaseIf you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory, and power of God, and that which is His Spirit, rests upon you.In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.May it please Your Grace. Very Rev’d Monsignor, the Dean, Dear Fathers, dear brethren, Tonight my mind goes back to Saturday, 13th June,...