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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Sarah: Rejection of traditional liturgy, morals are forms of ‘practical atheism’ in the ChurchThe prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments also linked the rejection of the Latin Mass with Europe's defection from Christianity.Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome, linked the attempted suppression and rejection of the Traditional Latin Mass within the Church to the rejection of traditional Catholic morals and Europe’s wider defection from Christianity in what he called “practical atheism.” The comments on the attempt...

ROME — The Vatican’s equivalent of foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said Tuesday that Pope Francis will “definitely go to Ukraine,” possibly as early as this summer. Archbishop Gallagher said the pontiff will visit Kiev, perhaps following his July 24-30 trip to Canada. “It will be a question of seeing how Pope Francis feels after his trip to Canada, let’s see,” the prelate said at the Rome presentation of the upcoming August meeting of the Communion and Liberation movement in the northern Italian city of Rimini. “I cannot say at the moment” whether Francis will go to Moscow, the archbishop...

Top Economist Mocks Utopian ‘Fratelli Tutti’'Poveri Tutti' conference: 'Pope wants us all to be paupers'ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A distinguished Italian economist is deriding Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti as "not at all inspired by the thought of St. Francis of Assisi, but rather by the satirical novel Utopia by St. Thomas More."Fratelli tutti has been widely criticized for its left-wing ideology "But St. Thomas More, writing Utopia, was joking, he was not serious," quips Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, a contributor to Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate and former president of the Vatican Bank.Speaking in Rome Wednesday at a...

Dubbed 'super confessors', for one year only they can absolve sins usually only pardoned by the pope himself. And on Wednesday over 1,000 of these "missionaries of mercy", handpicked by Pope Francis, were sent forth to win back the hearts of those who have left the Catholic Church and open the door to repentant sinners across the world. There are certain evils the Vatican ranks above other sins, from attempting to assassinate the pope to defiling the Eucharist -- the rite of consuming consecrated bread and wine in Church -- by spitting it out or using it in a...

Donald J. Trump has a message for Pope Francis ahead of the pope’s trip to pray with migrants along the Mexican border: You don’t get it. The pope is planning to go to the Rio Grande next week while on a visit to Mexico. He plans to offer prayer and show solidarity with suffering refugees. Mr. Trump does not approve. In an interview with the Fox Business Network on Thursday, the Republican presidential candidate, who has proposed building a wall along the United States’s southern border, suggested that Francis was serving as a pawn of the Mexican government. “I think...