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[Catholic Caucus] Tagle, Parolin and now Prevost, all Bergoglians too tainted by their record to be PopePrevost does not deny accusations of cover-up and regrets that information from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has been publishedRome. Yesterday afternoon, while the eyes of the entire Church are focused on the upcoming conclave, InfoVaticana had an unexpected meeting with Cardinal Robert Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and widely considered one of the leading candidates to succeed Francis.The Cardinal criticized InfoVaticana for publishing the full report detailing the serious accusations of cover-up of sexual abuse during his time...

THE outpouring of grief following the death of Pope Francis was like a wall of noise, a practically uninterrupted blanket of praise, a seamless garment of tribute. Even his enemies fought to temper their public comments, undoubtedly conscious of the enduring Latin injunction de mortuis nil nisi bonum, that one must not speak ill of the dead. It was only in private conversations that one could truly gauge the true sentiments of rank-and-file Catholics. One devout woman, orthodox but very much in the mainstream of the Church, confided to me that when she heard of the death of Francis on...

We dive deep into the controversial case of Blessed Carlo Acutis and the troubling evolution of the Church's canonization process. Since Pope John Paul II removed the adversarial "devil's advocate" role, canonizations have exploded in number, with one priest lamenting, "We're becoming a factory here." Friends of Carlo share surprising revelations that cast doubt on the narrative around his extraordinary sanctity, raising uncomfortable questions about manufactured devotion versus authentic veneration.

Reply to Matt Gaspers: Public heresy gives certainty that Francis isn’t the popeIn this first article I will respond to the objections Gaspers poses to the more common opinion of theologians that all public heretics, including those whose sin is material, are severed from the Church.For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.— Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi, No. 22(LifeSiteNews) — In a recent article I called for charitable debate over the question of...

ROME — Jesuit Father James Martin has struck back at the “internet,” launching the disingenuous and counter-factual claim the Vatican “is not a walled city.” Father Martin, a gay rights activist, was responding to critics who have pointed out the obvious irony involved in Pope Francis’ harsh criticisms against U.S. immigration policy while the Vatican itself is the only walled sovereign territory in the world. The massive, 40-foot-high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by Pope Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846 AD. The original wall encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding...

In a shocking release from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ahead of the release of leftist Pope Francis’ autobiography, titled Life: My Story Through History, it was shown that the pope has reaffirmed his support for same-gender civil unions. Doing so, he wrote that “it is right” that such couples “who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else.”The Amazon description of Pope Francis’s autobiography states, “For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during...

Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate: An Open Letter to President Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. — ‘The Curse on America Comes from Within Brought Down by Deep State and Deep Church’Guest post by Byzantine Catholic PatriarchateThe American people elected you both, Mr. President and Mr. Secretary, to stop the process of self-destruction of America and humanity.Apparently, your first step will be to stop the senseless war in Ukraine.But the absurdity is that the curse on America comes from within. It is brought down not only by the Deep State but also by the Deep Church, which are in unity.ADVERTISEMENTThis truth was...

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House said. It was the first time during his four years in office that Biden awarded the medal "with distinction," it said. Biden, 82, leaves office on Jan. 20. To oversee the federal response to the fires in California, he canceled a trip to Rome this week, where he was due to meet Francis in person. A lifelong Catholic who has met the pope several times, Biden told reporters on Friday that he...

... In a podcast interview with US chat show host Joe Rogan, Mr Gibson explained his scepticism about reforms of the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s by saying: “We’ve got a pope that brought a South American idol into the church to worship.” He said a religious ceremony was performed in the presence of the idol which, he said, “constitutes an apostasy”. “It’s a falling away,” he explained at about half an hour into the two-hour interview. “The very nature of apostasy is that you have to be part of it to fall away from it. It’s an inside...

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, D.C., this week, a leader with a reputation for taking a progressive stance on hot-topic issues within the Catholic Church. The Vatican announced on Monday McElroy's appointment as the new archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to replace the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory. As McElroy has made headlines over the years with his views on abortion, LGBT rights and immigration, the following pages highlight four things to know about Cardinal McElroy. Supports communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians The election of Democratic President Joe...

ROME — Pope Francis has named progressive San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy — a vocal Trump-basher — as the next archbishop of Washington D.C. Shortly after Trump’s first-term inauguration in 2017, then-bishop McElroy urged an audience of social justice warriors to disrupt Trump’s efforts to fulfill his campaign promises. In a 20-minute address to the U.S. regional meeting of the World Meeting of Popular Movements, McElroy said that “President Trump was the candidate of disruption. He was the disrupter.”

Pope Francis has called out nuns with 'vinegar faces' and told them to avoid gossip in a bizarre tirade. The pope, 88, urged a group of Dominican nuns from the Union of St Catherine of Siena of the Missionaries to 'distance' themselves from tales. 'Gossip kills, gossip poisons. Please, no gossiping among you, none. And to ask this of a woman is heroic but, come on, let's move forward and no gossip', he said in one of his off-the-cuff speeches that are fast becoming part and parcel of his papacy. 'That's not something that helps to attract people. Vinegar is...

The Jews are not committing genocide against Muslims in Gaza, whose population grew almost 3% last year. Muslims, however, are committing mass murder via jihad against Christians in Africa. Yet the Pope cowers from defending his own flock. The number of Christians intentionally murdered, let alone tortured, raped, kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam far exceeds the number of Gazans killed unintentionally as Israel directs its fire at terrorists who hide behind civilians. Indeed, Israel is defending its population from the very same jihadist assaults faced by African Christians. Ahsan Raja Masih, a young Pakistani Christian, has been sentenced to...

ROME — Pope Francis called for a global ceasefire this weekend while again decrying Israel’s “cruelty” in dealing with Palestinians in Gaza. “Let us pray for a ceasefire on all war fronts, in Ukraine, the Holy Land, in all the Middle East and the entire world, at Christmas,” the pontiff said in his weekly Angelus address Sunday. “And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals… So much cruelty!”

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli wrote to the Pope to demand an explanation of the Pope's support for the Palestinian narrative. "It is a well-known fact that Jesus was born to a Jewish mother, lived as a Jew, and died as a Jew. It is also a well-known fact that the term “Jew” originates from Judah, the fourth son of Leah, from whom the Tribe of Judah descended.

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican says LGBTQ+ pilgrimage will return to Jubilee 2025 calendarROME – According to Vatican organizers of 2025 Jubilee Year, the on-again, off-again listing of a Sept. 6, 2025, pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ Catholics on the official calendar isn’t about attempting to squelch or censor anyone, but rather a bureaucratic matter of collecting the necessary information to register an event.When it was first discovered some time ago that a pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ Catholics sponsored by a group called La Tenda di Gionata, or “Jonathan’s Tent,” an Italian group that ministers to gay and lesbian Catholics, had been listed on the...

The Vatican has unveiled its 2024 Christmas display—which met with Pope Francis’s approval—and it deliberately advances the leftist/Muslim narrative that Jesus was a “Palestinian.” This is a historical rewrite of the worst kind and gives fuel to the worst people. History is not complicated: The Bible says—and nothing contradicts it—that around the early 17th century B.C., the Israelites settled in the Land of Canaan, which became the Nation of Israel. Around the year 1,000 B.C., King David defeated the Philistines, who were the Israelite’s ancient enemies. For the next slightly more than 400 years, whether as a single nation or...

Donald Trump to attend reopening of Notre Dame cathedral, Pope Francis to skipPresident Donald Trump has announced he will attend the grand reopening of Notre Dame de Paris this coming weekend, while Pope Francis has declined to attend. The iconic cathedral has been repaired after the devastating fire of April 2019.President Donald Trump has announced he will attend the grand reopening of Notre Dame de Paris this coming weekend, as the iconic and now repaired cathedral is formally opened after the devastating fire of April 2019.In a post on social media platforms December 3, Trump gave the unexpected announcement of...

[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] Pope Francis had new Latin Mass restrictions on his desk but didn’t sign document: reportA papal confidant has attested that, following a conversation he had with Pope Francis about the merits of the Latin Mass, the Pope decided not to issue a rumored document restricting it further.This article was originally published by PerMariam: Mater Dolorosa.VATICAN CITY (PerMariam) — A friend of Pope Francis’ has claimed that the Pope told him that a document – much rumored about during the summer – to implement new restrictions on the Latin Mass does exist, and Francis only did not sign it...

Most Catholics in all seven countries want the church to allow Catholics to use birth control. In most of the countries surveyed, majorities of Catholics also say the church should allow women to become priests.Opinion is more divided on whether the church should allow priests to get married. Views on whether the church should recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples vary among Catholics in the countries surveyed. Ten years ago, nearly all Catholics surveyed there (98%) expressed a favorable opinion of Francis, compared with 74% today.