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Antichrists and Practical Heresies: Saint Augustine’s Warning Both the signs of the end and the signs of recognizing the antichrist have been left to us in the inspired texts with the purpose of warning us about the imminence of crucial historical events. Their purpose, however, is never to satisfy our human curiosity, but to urge us to repentance, to penance, to prayer – to a life of more intense and deep sanctity. From the numerous difficult and enigmatic passages contained within the sacred texts of the Bible, the most read are the prophecies concerning the end of the world. No...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich to celebrate Mass for pro-LGBT group that dissents from Church teachingThe Chicago cardinal has long been a supporter of homosexuals in the Church and has defied its teachings on offering Holy Communion to those living in illicit unions. Cardinal Blase Cupich will offer Mass on Sunday for a LGBT group called the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach (AGLO) for their “35th anniversary” within the Archdiocese of Chicago.The Mass will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Lakeview. AGLO was formed in 1988 by liberal Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. According to the group’s website, it...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Paul VI Promoted Communion on the TongueSaturday within the Octave of Corpus ChristiEditor’s note: as part of our campaign for the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus in June, we offer this article for our readers to share especially with their Catholic friends and family (as well as priests and bishops) who are concerned about Eucharistic revival, but may not be aware of this information. Warning: If you receive Communion in the hand, this article may make you feel uncomfortable. Trusting in your love for Our Eucharistic Lord, I invite you to read on.Jesus! my Lord, my God, my...

Chicago’s Dark ‘Saint’ — Bernardin!Not a faithful man worthy of venerationYour browser does not support the video tag. Special Report: Bernardin: Homosexual Predator Satanist Pakaluk, in his well-researched rebuttal, debunks Bernardin's seamless garment lecture. In the section titled "A Philosophy of Feelings," Pakaluk makes this poignant observation on Bernardin's seamless garment metaphor:From the start, the theory proved itself pedagogically unsound. A metaphor should make a teaching easier to understand, not easier to misunderstand, but the seamless garment metaphor was only confusing people. "If the garment is seamless," people wondered, "then the various issues that are linked are of equal importance...

Bill Barr Tears the Seamless Garment Executing child murderers does not make Bill Barr any less pro-life. Catholics, says Attorney General William Barr, “understand that only by transforming ourselves can we transform the world beyond ourselves.”Saccharine? Perhaps. But this remark from Barr’s now-infamous Notre Dame speech summarizes the faith of a man whose public Catholicism has for decades emphasized both sexual morality and personal charity. Discipline and virtue — words that read like dog whistles to modernists and other subversives in the Catholic hierarchy — are central to Barr’s faith. To Barr, Christ’s “yoke is easy” precisely because “taking...

Is Gay Activist DC Archbishop Gregory a "Homosexual" and "a Disgrace"? The Gateway Pundit called gay activist Archbishop Wilton Gregory "a disgrace" for being hypocritical: "Washington DC Archbishop Wilton Gregory released a statement on Tuesday lashing out at the President of the United States for visiting the John Paul II National Shrine." "Clueless Archbishop Gregory lectured President Trump on “defending the rights of all people even those with whom we might disagree” while at the same time attacking him for visiting a Catholic Shrine." "What a disgrace."  [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/disgusting-dc-archbishop-gregory-lashes-president-trump-visiting-john-paul-ii-shrine-lies-teargas-attacks-protesters/] Is Gregory not just "a disgrace" for being a hypocrite with President...

Cardinal Cupich warns against the Church entering partisan politics NEW YORK - One day after President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to address the March for Life, Cardinal Blase Cupich cautioned that “the Church’s job is not to discern which political, partisan or military force we should support in order for good to triumph,” but to see Christ as the “starting point” for the Church’s social ministry.“What is needed is an integrated and consistent approach, with the priority being our attention to what Christ is doing, saving us by bringing us together, bringing about the Kingdom of God...

Holes in the Seamless Garment Some issues are more important than others The image of Christ's seamless garment, the one made for him by his blessed Mother, has become an icon to modernists seeking to Protestantize the Catholic Church. For nearly 2,000 years, the Church taught that different moral actions had a different "weight," but now, bishops and priests who support sodomy and breaking U.S. law on immigration are claiming it's all the same thing — that they're all "life issues." The idea was developed in 1971 by Catholic pacifist Eileen Egan, who described it as a "consistent ethic of life." In 1983, suspected...

[Barf Alert] Pope urges bishops to teach discernment, including on political issues Pope Francis meets with U.S. bishops from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican Jan. 20, 2020. The bishops were making their "ad limina" visits to report on the status of their dioceses to the pope and Vatican officials. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) ROME - Sometimes the political choices people face can seem like a choice between supporting a “snake” or supporting a “dragon,” but Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops their job is to step back from partisan politics and...

FrancisChurch Strains at the Gnat and Swallows the Camel While Uncle Ted’s nephews still exercise power, the pope frets over “ecological” sins. Earlier this year, James Grein, the primary victim of Theodore McCarrick, reported that he had also been abused by Joseph Bernardin, the late cardinal of Chicago. Grein said the abuse took place in Wisconsin at Lake Geneva. As Grein was swimming, McCarrick pulled down his swimsuit and Bernardin groped him. The accusation received zero coverage in the mainstream media, which continues to treat the politically liberal Bernardin as a canonized figure. But officials at the United States Conference...

n the course of researching No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom, I learned that the late Chicago cardinal Joseph Bernardin helped pay for the education of Barack Obama in Saul Alinsky’s ruthless tactics. A forerunner to Pope Francis, Bernardin was a devious socialist who poured the faithful’s money into the pockets of the hard left. No Higher Power contained a copy of the check — a source excavated it from the archives of the archdiocese of Chicago and gave it to me — proving that Bernardin had financed Obama’s trip to a training seminar in California organized by...

In an August 3rd Chicago Tribune article, Archbishop Blaise Cupich of Chicago suggested that the widespread outrage ignited by the revelations that Planned Parenthood was selling body-parts extracted from aborted children represented an opportunity for Americans to reaffirm our commitment as a nation to a consistent ethic of life. While commerce in the remains of defenseless children is particularly repulsive, we should be no less appalled by the indifference toward the thousands of people who die daily for lack of decent medical care; who are denied rights by a broken immigration system and by racism; who suffer in hunger, joblessness...

Pope Francis is raising the spirit of the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, say some local and national Catholic church leaders, who see parallels between the two as the 17th anniversary of Bernardin’s death approaches.

The election of Pope Francis in March heralded a season of surprises for the Catholic Church, but perhaps none so unexpected – and unsettling for conservatives – as the re-emergence of the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin as a model for the American Catholic future.

(POSTED: 12/21/09) As he tangles with Democratic Party leaders over the direction of health care reform, particularly relating to abortion, Cardinal Francis George can sound an awful lot like a Republican. Whether he is or not is unclear. He won't talk about a partisan affiliation and, because he hasn't voted in a primary for more than a decade, there are no recent public records to provide a clue. But an analysis by ChicagoCatholicNews found a number of Democratic voters in the cardinal's own inner circle -- and among rank-and-file priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago -- despite the party's strong...

ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY STILL BASICALLY INTACT, SAY 2 U.S. BISHOPS Revised Proposal on Clergy Abuse Builds on Dallas Norms, They Contend WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 7, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The president of the U.S. bishops' conference contradicted widespread media reports alleging that the Holy See had rejected the policy suggested by the American bishops last June. "Contrary to many news reports," Bishop Wilton Gregory said in a statement, "the Holy See did not reject or even 'soften' this work. In fact, it [remains] the foundation for what will become particular law in the United States." In a letter dated Oct. 14 to Bishop...