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In an age of “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose which church doctrines they will adhere to and which they will ignore, an age where we have a Pope Francis, who would have us pray for the oceans and invites Amazonian “priests” and their fertility gods into the Vatican, it was refreshing to see a Catholic priest speak truth to power and tell a craven Catholic politician that abortion-on-demand is a moral evil opposed by the Catholic Church and to approve of it means you are unworthy of receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion. You cannot be personally opposed to...

Happy Halloween BTW...

USCCB has 'nothing in the works' on Biden and CommunionRecent reports that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops may at their spring general assembly press pro-abortion Catholic politicians not to receive Communion are unfounded, and at best ignorant of ecclesial structure, a source close to the conference has told CNA.A source close to the USCCB told CNA April 29 that they believe such reports from the AP and the Washington Post are either “just totally ignorant of the Church's structure,” or meant “to pressure the bishops into silence” regarding the Equality Act.The Equality Act would amend federal civil rights law...

Pope Francis to Speak at President Biden’s Climate SummitVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will join dozens of world leaders tomorrow when he speaks at President Joe Biden’s two-day online climate summit that is aimed at cutting global emissions and galvanizing “climate ambition.”The Pope is scheduled to address the meeting via video link sometime during the second session of the “Leaders Summit on Climate,” which will take place in the morning. According to the summit’s website, that session will focus on “Investing in Climate Solutions,” although the precise topic of the Pope’s talk has not yet been announced.Discussions during the...

The Biden-Bergoglio BorderWho could forget when Papa Bergoglio opined on the vile nature of border walls! t’s an opportune time to assess the judgment and discernment of the pontiff now that America has open borders. After 3 months of the Biden Administration, it’s open season on the border—the Biden-Bergoglio Border. Joe Biden granted Pope Bergoglio’s wish of a borderless southern U.S. border. The bloody imprimatur of Jorge Bergoglio is dripping all over the Rio Grande River.Pope Francis maliciously weighed in on the 2016 Presidential election hoping to sway American Catholic votes away from Donald Trump. Was he following orders from...

Why Muslim Politicians Vote For Gay MarriageWhile Islam has receded from the public mind, Islamic ambitions remain intact. President Biden is poised to facilitate those objectives by reviving the Iran nuclear deal.By Maureen Mullarkey By Maureen MullarkeyMarch 22, 2021The chaos of the 2020 election and its aftermath deflected national attention from the standing threat of political Islam. Fanning amnesia is the hallucinogenic drumbeat from Christian churches—Vatican in the lead—about “the religion of peace.”But while Islam has receded from the public mind, Islamic ambitions remain intact. President Biden is poised to facilitate those objectives by reviving the Iran nuclear deal.Pope Francis’...

How the Vatican tried to suppress criticism of the new presidentCardinal Blase Cupich, the ambitious left-wing archbishop of Chicago, must have imagined that Joe Biden's inauguration last week would be a moment to savour. He and a small number of his liberal colleagues, known as 'the Biden bishops', have been working tremendously hard to make sure that, once their candidate was elected, any mention of his radical support for abortion would be sotto voce and preferably inaudible. They thought they'd succeeded. But then things went spectacularly wrong. The president of the US bishops' conference, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles,...

Pope Francis uses stronger words against violence at US Capitol than violence caused by Black Lives MatterJanuary 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis stated in a recent interview that he was “very astonished” about recent scenes of political-driven conflict in the United States given the country is “such a disciplined people, a democracy, no?”The Pope, in an interview with Fabio Marchese Ragona of the Italian news program Tg5 — broadcast in Italy on Sunday evening — said that it is a “reality” that even in the “most advanced societies, there is always something wrong, something about people who take a...

Solemn Dedication of Biden Catholic High SchoolApril 15, 2021Anywhere, USA — President Harris will speak at the dedication of Joseph R. Biden Catholic High School on May 1, according to a statement by the Catholic Archdiocese of Anywhere and the high school’s board of trustees.“We are deeply honored that the president will speak at this ceremony as her first public appearance after the thirty days of national mourning following the untimely passing of our beloved Catholic leader, President Biden,” the statement said.Biden Catholic is the new name of the institution formerly known as St. Peter Damian High School. On February...

Biden says California AG who tried to force pro-life centers to promote abortion would be his HHS chiefDemocrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to force pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion. He ultimately lost.December 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In the latest indication of a possible Biden administration’s hard-left direction, former Vice President Joe Biden has tapped California’s extremely pro-abortion Democrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his Secretary of Health and Human Services, should he take control of the White House.Via his buildbackbetter.gov “transition” website, Biden announced Becerra’s selection...

Pope Francis sides with Biden saying society must 'build back better' In a gesture of support for Joe Biden, Pope Francis yesterday quoted words that are central to Biden’s plan to remake America in the wake of the COVID-19 “pandemic”, when he tweeted:"To help our society to ‘build back better’, inclusion of the vulnerable must also entail efforts to promote their active participation.” Biden last week launched his BuildBackBetter.gov website listing his radical priorities including forced mask-wearing, climate change, and the creation of a “national police oversight commission” (scrutinizing police), which Francis in his tweet is backing. The pope...

Pope Francis Echoes Biden He repeats the call to “build back better.”The anticipated political alliance between Pope Francis and Joe Biden is already beginning to form. The pope recently tweeted out that society needs to “build back better,” which is one of Biden’s signature phrases.Both Biden and Pope Francis gravitate to the jargony rhetoric of the United Nations. In a recent New York Times op-ed, the pope sounded almost like a parody of a globalist ideologue, calling for a COVID-inspired reset: “We cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the crisis. We...

Mr. Biden and the Matter of ScandalReaders may recall that during the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry led the Democratic ticket. As a Catholic, Kerry held certain policy views that conflicted with the moral beliefs of his Church. This led to internal tensions among U.S. bishops about how to handle the matter of Holy Communion for Catholic public officials who publicly and persistently diverge from Catholic teaching on issues like abortion. At the time, Washington’s then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, along with Pittsburgh’s Bishop Donald Wuerl, had very different views from my own regarding how to proceed. I believed then, and...

Former Philly archbishop: Biden ‘not in full communion with the Catholic Church’'By his actions during the course of his public life, Mr. Biden has demonstrated that he is not in full communion with the Catholic Church,' wrote Archbishop Charles Chaput.December 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has demonstrated through his support of legal abortion and same-sex unions that he is “not in full communion with the Catholic Church,” former Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput wrote Friday, contrary to the claims of some American Catholic leaders who have continued to recognize the presumptive future president as a Catholic in...

Vatican Says Biden Presidency Can Play ‘Key Role’ in Paris Climate DealROME — The Vatican suggested Thursday a Biden presidency might inject new life into the stagnant Paris Climate Accord after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in 2017.The Vatican COVID-19 Commission announced Thursday that it is organizing a webinar next week in preparation for a December 12 global climate summit to be co-hosted by the United Nations and the UK to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement.In its preparatory document, the Vatican team lamented the lack of initiative and commitment around the Paris climate...

Francis Makes Official Use of Joe "Abortion" Biden Campaign SloganJust... unbelievable. No comment. (Only that it doesn't matter if it's used for something else, it's closely linked with the Biden campaign and should not be used by a Pope.) Labels: Biden's Francis By New Catholic at 12/03/2020 07:47:00 PM

Pope Francis book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skepticsROME — Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and media organizations that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown.In "Let Us Dream," Francis also criticizes populist politicians who whip up rallies in ways reminiscent of the 1930s, and the hypocrisy of "rigid" conservative Catholics who support them. But he also criticizes the forceful downing of historic statues during protests for racial equality this year as a misguided...

The Second Catholic President Gets Congratulated by the First Atheist Pope Needed: A Shiny New Gospel Which brings me to Pope Francis. He’s the first pope, really, to think that the Catholic church would be stronger if it embraced Diversity in its doctrines and moral teachings. Perhaps the first Christian ever to read St. Paul’s warning about a “new Gospel” and draw from it: Yes! That’s what we need. A shiny new gospel all our own. It would be Pharisaical to insist on Jesus’ actual words. Instead we must take the principles we derive from stray Gospel passages, and teach...

Pope Plays Anti-Trump Card, Blesses Biden Vatican, Italian bishops' media join papal puffery of 'president elect' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis, who snubbed Donald Trump by refusing to congratulate him after his 2016 victory, has phoned Joe Biden to offer "congratulations and blessings" despite the fiercely contested election results.    Biden officiates at same-sex "marriages" The Holy See Press Office confirmed the pontiff's Thursday morning conversation with Biden, which, it said, "followed the congratulations of the U.S. bishops to Biden" as the "second Catholic president of the country after John F. Kennedy." Biden thanked Francis "for extending blessings and congratulations...

Pope Francis extends ‘blessings and congratulations’ to pro-abortion Joe Biden Election results have not yet been certified, although the media on Saturday projected Biden to win. VATICAN CITY, November 12, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis and pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden talked on the phone this morning, with the Holy Father extending “extending blessings and congratulations” to Biden. The media had called the presidential race for Joe Biden last Saturday, while election results are not yet officially certified. In a short press statement released on the Biden-Harris transition website, Biden “thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and...