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Corrupt Chicago Archbishop To College Kids: Don’t Go To MassUniversity of Chicago students couldn’t attend Mass this weekend because church officials insisted it’s unsafe to worship when 0.6 percent of young people threatened more by flu contracts COVID-19.This was not the result of a directive from the secular UChicago administration. The decision came directly from the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich, who ordered the campus church to cancel Mass for students due to the campus COVID “outbreak.” Not only did the bishop cancel Mass for students on campus, but he instructed them not to attend anywhere else.Per Cupich’s...

Apostolic nuncio to Mexican bishops: ‘Look reality in the eye’MEXICO CITY (CNS) — The apostolic nuncio to Mexico urged the country’s bishops to “look reality in the eye” as the country’s non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious.Speaking April 12 at the opening of the Mexican bishops’ conference biannual gathering, Archbishop Franco Coppola also told the virtual audience to rethink their pastoral approaches as fewer people participate in parish life and don’t get married in the Church.“The decline in the Catholic population in this land of Guadalupe is extremely worrying,” Archbishop Coppola said. “We’re seeing now with ever...

Austria's Cardinal Schönborn: God will not deny same-sex couples a blessingRome — Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has expressed unhappiness with the Vatican's recent decree banning Catholic priests from blessing same-sex couples, in what appears to be the first example of a cardinal openly disagreeing with the measure.Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna and a theologian who has been praised often by Pope Francis, said in an interview published March 24 that he believes gay couples who ask God for a blessing "will not be denied.""The question of whether same-sex couples can be blessed belongs to the same category as the question...

Bergoglio's unleashed demons in full rage in St. Peter's Bas1lica As you gaze upon this abomination that took place in St. Peter's Basilica in October 2019, reflect for a moment on what has happened in the year and a half since. Think of the diabolical experimentation on bat viruses that leaked out from a laboratory in Wuhan whether accidentally or intentionally. Think of the deaths of people, the suffering and the economic toll on hundreds of millions because of the actionsof a Satanic regime whom the man in white in the above photograph, and his minions, laud. Remember, for...

Cupich Wrecking BallFleecing the flockAt a press conference protesting church closings, Julie Sawicki said, "The Catholic churches in the Chicagoland area do not belong to the archdiocese. They belong to humanity. They belong to us."Faithful Catholics in the archdiocese of Chicago are protesting the closure of their parishes. Parishioners at some 25 parishes have filed appeals to the Vatican to preserve their right to maintain their historical churches. Sawicki continues, "After talking with folks who are undergoing these church closures and church mergers, we realized that we all have to work together."Clergy in the hierarchy promote the ironically named "Renew...

[Catholic Caucus] Dublin Archbishop forbids priests from privately giving Holy Communion during current lockdownIn the interest of health and safety priests and parishes ought not to succumb to requests to distribute Holy Communion before or after Mass, in or outside churches,' Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, said in a recent statementDUBLIN, Ireland, March 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The new Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, has reinforced the government’s current ban on acts of worship, by even forbidding priests in his diocese from privately distributing Holy Communion to parishioners, unless as part of a funeral or wedding. In a statement released...

Biden and the Disunited Catholic FrontCracks in it keep growing. Joe Biden’s renegade Catholicism is nothing if not bold. It is a distressing and hubristic jumble, an admixture of everything from transgenderism to Marianism. At one moment, Biden is advocating for abortion and dissolving differences between the sexes; in the next moment, he is gushing about Our Lady of Guadalupe and his devotion to the rosary. The media, of course, loves this erratic style of non-threatening religiosity and has rewarded Biden with flattering coverage of his faith. “Not a ‘cardboard politician’: Biden’s faith forges bond with Mexico,” read a recent...

Australia’s senior cleric lauds report calling for Church governance by lay womenAustralia's bishops commissioned a task force, which included liberal theologian Massimo Faggioli among its international advisors, and the group produced a report called, 'The Light from the Southern Cross.' Faggioli believes the report should form the basis of a worldwide reform of the Church.AUSTRALIA, 4 March, 20201 (Famlily Life International) – An Australian document designed to undermine orthodox Catholicism may soon become the model for governance of the universal Church. The document is being hailed by head of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Mark Coleridge, and is being promulgated...

Media Event: Save Chicagoland’s Catholic ChurchesLay faithful cite 'money grab' by Cupich's archdioceseA March 3 press conference invites the faithful to engage with an effort to keep open Catholic parishes in or near Chicago despite efforts within the archdiocese to merge or close them.An activist group calling itself "Saving Our Catholic Churches" will gather with media and concerned Catholics at 11 a.m. CT in front of the shuttered All Saints-St. Anthony's church, 518 W. 28th Pl. in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. A press event explains the effort to save Chicago-area churches The group's effort is not to save the parishes from...

Report: Cardinal Gregory thought USCCB statement on Biden inauguration ‘ill-timed’The Archbishop of Washington thought the U.S. bishops’ statement for President Biden’s inauguration “ill-timed,” according to NBC’s “Today” co-host Al Roker on Monday. At the end of an interview segment with Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C. that aired Monday morning on NBC’s “Today,” Roker noted “areas of disagreement” between the Catholic Church and the new Biden administration, including on the issue of abortion.Roker cited the Jan. 20 statement of the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) on Biden’s inauguration, which had warned that some of Biden’s proposed policies would “advance moral evils.”...

All the Synods of Pope Francis. But There’s Not a One of Them That WorksFrancis is the most autocratic pope of the past century, the one most inclined to do and undo everything himself, yet he never stops calling for a synodal government of the Church. No matter that of the three great synods he has called up to now, two have resulted in a stalemate, on young people and on the Amazon, and another, on the family, was brazenly steered from the top down. He has decided to dedicate the next synod, scheduled for 2022, precisely to the question...

[Catholic Caucus] Statement of the FIUV on the Response of the French Bishops to the CDF Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce:Statement on the Report of the French Bishops’ Conference (CEF) on the Implementation of Summorum Pontificum The FIUV has become aware of a document, in the public domain, containing a summary of the responses made by French bishops to the questionnaire sent to them by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, on the subject of the implementation of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum. Although this document does not appear to have been intended for publication, its authenticity has not...

Scholar stumps Cardinal Cupich, asks if Pope’s ‘paradigm shift’ means ‘radical’ doctrinal change'I would like to ask why Pope Francis acts so mercilessly in insulting and eliminating doctrinal opponents,' the professor asked the Cardinal.CAMBRIDGE, England, February 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A respected Catholic historian and philosopher challenged Cardinal Blase Cupich during a lecture last week about Pope’ Francis so-called “revolution of mercy” that has caused what many are defending as a “paradigm shift” in Catholic practice.Professor John Rist, after listening to a February 9 lecture at Cambridge University in which Cardinal Cupich praised Pope Francis’ “paradigm shift” in Catholic practice,...

[Catholic Caucus] French bishops should examine their own attitude to traditional Catholics and the ancient MassThe traditional Catholic organization, Una Voce France, say that the bishops regard them as 'narrow-minded beings, without theology, without charity'February 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — As LifeSiteNews has reported, a document emanating from the French Bishops’ Conference has found its way into the public domain on the subject of the Traditional Mass or Extraordinary Form (EF). It describes itself as a summary of the responses made by individual bishops on the application of Summorum Pontificum, the 2007 Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI which made it...

[Catholic Caucus] More Aberrosexual Bishops Coming Up! Bergoglio Might Appoint Cupich to Congregation of Bishops Blase Cupich is the confidante who informs Pope Francis about the situation in the USA. As Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, he could soon choose the type of bishops desired by Francis. (Rome) Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Roman bishop-kon-gre-ga-ti-on , will be soon be replaced. The successor in the conversation is Cardinal Blase Cupich, the leader of the progressive bishops in the American Bishops' Conference. The French-Canadian Ouellet, a member of the Sulpician Order (PSS), is one of the few “Ratzingerians”...

Pope considers making Cdl. Cupich new prefect of Congregation for Bishops: reportIf appointed, Cupich would have the most power in the Church, second only to that of the Pope, over the appointment of bishops throughout the world.VATICAN CITY, February 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — On January 30, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago traveled to Rome to meet with the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops. Sources in Rome say that Pope Francis is considering promoting Cupich to the position of prefect of that congregation, replacing Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who is set to leave the post this year, the Catholic News Agency reported.The Holy...

Joe Biden, the pope and the looming schism in America's Catholic ChurchThere is much enthusiasm around the world for the 46th US president — and considerable interest in his faith. Joe Biden is a Catholic and a friend of Pope Francis. But he is also under pressure from fundamentalists. Joe Biden is a devout CatholicOn his inauguration day, Joe Biden's first stop was Catholic Mass. During his inauguration ceremony, it was a Jesuit priest who invoked God's blessing, and in his first address as president the 78-year-old led prayers for the more than 400,000 coronavirus dead in the US. And...

Video: Live with Bishop John Stowe on Building a Common FutureIn this conversation, NCR executive editor Heidi Schlumpf speaks with Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky about President-elect Joe Biden's first 100 days and the advice he offers Biden in our series Building a Common Future.Background reading:In his essay in our series, Bishop John Stowe writes that one area in which Joe Biden might begin to address the divide and promote the common good would be a genuine engagement in the issues of rural poverty.For this series, we asked Catholic politicians, activists and scholars to offer advice to President-elect Joe...

MAJOR EXPOSÉ: Rooms broken into, dossiers stolen, death threats, armed guards, assassinations... Fr. Charles Murr on Vatican intrigues surrounding Cardinals Baggio, Benelli, Villot, and Gagnon Rorate readers will be aware of the groundbreaking interview Kevin J. Symonds conducted with Fr. Murr for the October 2020 issue of Inside the Vatican, which was also published at Rorate on October 10. Interested readers may want to read that interview first in order to gain more understanding of context for the present one, again for Inside the Vatican. In the previous interview, Fr. Murr told us about his friendship with Mother Pascalina...

Cardinal Koch Doubts That Anglican Orders Are Null And VoidThe Vatican released on December 4 a handbook for bishops on ecumenism which claims that ecumenism is not an optional “but a duty and obligation.”Catholics are warned against a “polemical presentations of Christian history and theology” [read: offering historical and theological facts].At the handbook’s presentation, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, called for a “better interpretation” of the Catholic teaching that Anglican orders are “null and void”, claiming that this issue “needs to be studied.”"Null and void" refers to Leo XIII's bull Apostolicae Curae...