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COVID vaccine-related death estimates suggest millions could have died from the shotsU.S. citizens: Demand Congress investigate soaring excess death rates(Courageous Discourse) — Since the global roll-out of the COVID-19 injections in late 2020, substantial data has surfaced linking them to a catastrophic number of deaths. Below is a working list of some of the strongest evidence to date:Rancourt et al: estimated 17 million COVID-19 vaccine deaths worldwide by September 2023.Mostert et al: estimated 1 million excess deaths likely attributed to COVID-19 vaccination/lockdowns among 47 countries of the Western World from 2020 to 2022.Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS): 37,966reported COVID-19...

Vatican’s top diplomat says Trump won’t change Pope’s line on ChinaROME – While congratulating Donald Trump and wishing him “much wisdom” in his second term, the Vatican’s top diplomat also bluntly declared Thursday that a controversial deal with China on the appointment of bishops will continue “regardless of reactions that may come from America” during a new Trump administration.Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, spoke to reporters on the sidelines of an event at Rome’s Jesuit-run Gregorian University on artificial intelligence and international humanitarian law.Asked about tensions that arose between the White House and the Vatican over...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland slams Synod on Synodality: ‘I reject’ it, ‘it’s not Catholic’During LifeSite's election coverage, Bishop Strickland said, 'There are threats on the horizon. This Synod on Synodality, I reject, because it's not Catholic. Many voices have already said this is not the Catholic Church.'Bishop Joseph Strickland has issued a stinging rebuke of the Synod on Synodality while calling on Catholics to oppose those who follow in the footsteps of Judas Iscariot. “There are threats on the horizon. This Synod on Synodality, I reject, because it’s not Catholic. Many voices have already said this is not the Catholic...

[Catholic Caucus] Bergoglio Prostrates Himself to the Builders of Evil. By Danilo QuintoThe author is a former and repented high-placed activist of the immoral and inhuman Italian Partito Radicale which works for the de-Christianisation of Italy. On 5 November Bergoglio paid a visit to Emma Bonino, a former leader of that party. Bergoglio called Bonino a ‘great Italian’ (sic) and example of ‘liberty and resilience’ (sic).I too frequented that terrace in Trastevere, in the centre of Rome.Those were the years when strategies were being imagined and constructed to consolidate the results of the divorce and abortion laws, which destroyed the...

[Catholic Caucus] Why Was the Synod So Silent on the Traditional Latin Mass?One of the persistent criticisms of the final assembly of the Synod on Synodality has been that, despite its frequent emphasis on listening and dialogue, several relevant and important voices went unheard.In his final assessment of the synod, George Weigel identified some of these voices as happily married couples, Catholic educators resisting today’s “woke” culture, and healthcare professionals living a culture of life. But another group conspicuous by its absence were those faithful who value the traditional liturgy and apostolic tradition — a small but flourishing group both...

[Catholic Caucus] Leading African cardinal claims Catholics are ‘morally obligated to support’ Synod decisionsCardinal Cristóbal Romero made a stunning statement that a consensus decision by the Synod is 'morally' binding on those who oppose it.RABAT, Morocco (LifeSiteNews) — The president of the Northern African bishops’ conference welcomed the Synod on Synodality’s conclusions as a “prophetic sign” for the world, adding that opponents of its decisions are “morally obligated to support” them.“Synodality is a prophetic sign that can enlighten the world because it is not just about bringing democracy to the Church, as many have stated, but it goes much further,”...

Prominent Catholic theologian: Francis may no longer be regarded as legitimate due to heresyWe are now in a position to answer the question: Is Francis a public and notorious heretic through notoriety of fact? If so, does that mean he is not the pope? At least since the Synod of the Family in 2014, much concern has been expressed about words and actions of Francis that do not seem compatible with the Catholic faith. These words and actions have been exhaustively examined and discussed. This process of examination and discussion has been taken as far as it can usefully go....

Exit polls show Trump won Catholic vote by ‘massive margin’ of 15 pointsCatholicVote.org president Brian Burch said the poll numbers indicating Donald Trump’s large win among American Catholics are ‘shocking.’Catholics supported Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. presidential election by a “massive margin” of 15 points — the largest in decades — according to exit polls.A Washington Post exit poll found that Trump outperformed Kamala Harris among American Catholics by 56 percent to 41 percent. An NBC exit poll similarly showed that Catholics voted for the president by a 15-point margin in 10 key swing states, with Trump receiving 56...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Eleganti: Synod-backed decentralization of Church teaching would end its ‘catholicity’The word 'catholic' means universal — thus, the 'regionalization of teaching and discipline' would indeed undermine the universality of the Church.Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti warned that the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality’s hoped-for decentralization of Catholic “teaching and discipline” would “be the end of the catholicity of the Church.”In a recent piece published on Eleganti’s website, he highlighted the fact that, as Pope Francis and the Synod’s leading clerics have signaled many times, one of the desired outcomes of the Synod is a “cultural regionalization of teaching and discipline”...

[Catholic Caucus] A Masonic Echo in Dignitas Infinita?The Declaration Dignitas Infinita "on human dignity," issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández on April 2, 2024, and approved by the Holy Father ex audientia (thus, without an explicit signature), presents itself as a document examining human dignity. This document would fall under the so-called authentic magisterium of Pope Francis, meaning it constitutes teaching that, although not engaging infallibility with a definitive act, still requires, according to the Code of Canon Law, "a religious submission of the intellect and will" (CIC 752). This...

[Catholic Caucus] Why does Pope Francis want Fr. James Martin, Rupnik colleague in the Vatican communications office?The Vatican communications office includes one of the foremost LGBT advocates in the Church and a close collaborator of one of the most scandal-plagued priests in Rome.Fr Martin (far right) and Govekar (3rd from right) at the Dicastery for Communication, plenary assembly 2024.With the Vatican in dire need of well-directed communications as the Holy See attempts to promote the Synod and the 2025 Jubilee, the inclusion of Father James Martin, SJ and a close ally of scandal plagued Father Marko Rupnik in the Vatican’s...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Pope Francis makes personal visit to notorious abortionist Emma BoninoPope Francis has often praised Emma Bonino as one of the nation’s 'forgotten greats,' despite her prolific abortion activism and her claim to have performed abortions herself.Pope Francis made a private visit to notorious Italian abortionist Emma Bonino today after she was recently discharged from hospital following breathing problems.Late Tuesday morning, Pope Francis made an unannounced visit to Bonino at her residence in Rome. Francis had left the Vatican to be present at the Pontifical Gregorian University for a series of public meetings with the university community earlier...

[Catholic Caucus] Extraordinary ministers wear Kamala Harris shirts while distributing Holy Communion at DC A parish pastor in Washington reportedly invited parishioners to come to Mass in their 'election apparel.'Eucharistic ministers wear pro-Kamala Harris shirts at a Washington, D.C. parishA parish in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. permitted its extraordinary ministers to wear Kamala Harris campaign T-shirts while distributing Holy Communion at a Sunday Mass immediately preceding Election Day. The Eucharistic Ministers, as well as some lay people attending the Mass who also wore pro-Kamala shirts and hats, apparently were responding to their pastors’ invitation issued the previous week: “Next...

[Catholic Caucus] On The Indefectibility of the Catholic Church in this CrisisPerhaps the only reason that a true Catholic with a good will and a functioning intellect would fear coming to the same conclusion on the papacy as Archbishop Viganó did would be the indefectibility of the Catholic Church. Fr. John Hardon SJ explains that indefectibility essentially promises that the Catholic Church “will always remain the institution of salvation, founded by Christ. This affirms that the Church is essentially unchangeable in her teaching, her constitution, and her liturgy. It does not exclude modifications that do not affect her substance, nor...

[Catholic Caucus] Swiss Bishop: All of Francis' Synods Failed - "We Are Going Round in Circles"Ideological activists like Timothy Radcliffe are looking for every semantic loophole in the final document of the ex-synod in order to continue with their homosexual and feminist agendas, Swiss Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti comments in his blog on 2 November."The synodal harvest of the previous synods is meagre," he writes. The Youth Synod (2018) literally fizzled out. The huge amount of preparatory work was useless, as was the post-synodal letter: "I never heard or read anything about it again."The Amazon Synod (2019) was a disappointment,...

[Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Fatima vision and the widespread apostasy we see todayWhen explaining what his 1954 vision of Fatima’s miracle of the sun meant, Pope Pius XII replied with one word: apostasy.On a recent episode of Faith & Reason, Fr. Charles Murr told John-Henry Westen about Pope Pius XII’s vision of Fatima’s miracle of the sun. As Fr. Murr recounted, Pius XII had the vision while walking in the Vatican gardens in 1954. When asked what it meant, the pope replied with one word: apostasy. Pope Pius XII was not the only high-ranking cleric to use the word “apostasy”...

After Fifty Years, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s “1974 Declaration” Is More Vital Than EverAlmost fifty years ago, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wrote his famous “1974 Declaration,” a brief defense of the immutable Catholic Faith which was so powerful that the liberals in Rome realized they must immediately attack the archbishop. In his Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre, Michael Davies described the difference between how orthodox Catholics and Rome’s anti-Catholics saw the 1974 Declaration: “It is difficult to see how any orthodox Catholic could possibly disagree with Mgr. Lefebvre concerning this. It is all the more significant, therefore, that the Commission of Cardinals subsequently...

Catholic Numbers Tank GloballyBefore Vatican II, numbers of Catholics across the globe were exploding. Consider just a few stats regarding American Catholics as listed in the Index of Leading Catholic Indicators:In 1930, the USA had 27,000 priests, but by 1965 that number nearly doubled, bringing the total number of American priests to 58,000.In 1930, the United States had 20,203,702 Catholics. By 1965, that number had sky-rocketed to 45,640,619. This means Catholics were not just reproducing, but making many converts.By 1965, American priests, nuns and lay people had built the world’s largest conglomerate of hospitals, universities, high schools, grade schools and...

[Catholic Caucus] Otherworldly Visitors: The Museum of PurgatoryDuring one of her long vigils, on the night of Thursday, November 1 to 2, 1731, the sensation of warmth suddenly intensified. For that autumn period, this was unusual even in that part of Umbria in Italy. Slightly intrigued, but rather prepared for who knows what new temptations from the powers of darkness, Clara continued her prayer with even more fervor. Towards midnight, as her confessor at that time, Fr. Isidoro Gazata of the Blessed Crucifix, later recounted, she received an unexpected visit. A soul from Purgatory...Although it has never encouraged tales of...

[Catholic Caucus] Women Deacons, ‘Sexuality’ and More: Here’s How the Synod Final Document Changed From the DraftAmendments, or other avenues for affecting what was included in the text, still made significant difference in the 2024 text on a number of topics, including sexuality and the selection of bishops.When the final document of the Synod on Synodality’s was confirmed on Oct. 26, it emphasized that the possibility of women deacons remains unsettled.“The question of women’s access to diaconal ministry remains open,” reads the document, which was expressly approved by Pope Francis after each of its 155 paragraphs were affirmed by 355...