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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke makes veiled condemnation of blessing homosexual ‘couples’Cardinal Raymond Burke declared that we 'affront the Lord' when we 'try to ask blessing for something that’s sinful,' such as homosexual relationships, in a recent interview. He did not mention Pope Francis or Cardinal Fernández by name.Cardinal Raymond Burke gave a veiled condemnation of blessings for homosexual couples in a Wednesday interview.“We affront the Lord, we show profound lack of respect for Our Lord in love for Him if in some way we try to ask blessing for something that’s sinful,” he told Father Ambrose Criste of St. Michael’s...

[Catholic Caucus] The Problem of Blessing Same-Sex Couples and Its Consequences for the Doctrine and Life of the Catholic ChurchThe Document Fiducia Supplicans, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 18, 2023, and approved by Pope Francis, regarding the possibility of granting “simple,” “spontaneous,” “short,” and “non-liturgical” blessings to couples cohabitating in adultery or in same-sex relationships, deeply and detrimentally affects the Catholic Church as a whole, as well as local Catholic communities. 1. The true meaning of blessing.The authorization to “bless” same-sex or adulterous unions does not express an authentically “pastoral” care, because such...

[Catholic Caucus] URGENT - Growing Rumors of a “Final Solution” for the Traditional Latin Mass - TLM("Unconditional Tradition": parade against restrictions to the TLM,in Quimper, Brittany, France, on Sunday, June 16, 2024)Dear readers,Once again, as at least twice in the past (before the crackdown on the Franciscans of the Immaculate, and in the twelve months leading up to Traditionis Custodes), Rorate Caeli is sad to be the first bearer of grave, heavy, and persistent rumors coming from the circles close to Cardinal Roche and to the liturgical warriors close to Casa Santa Marta in Rome.An attempt is being made to...

[Catholic Caucus] Burke: There Is no Such Thing as 'Non-Liturgical Blessings'Cardinal Raymond Burke has rejected the idea of so-called "non-liturgical" blessings as claimed in Francis' homosexual manifesto 'Fiducia supplicans'.Speaking to Father Ambrose Criste O.Praem. of St Michael's Abbey in Orange County, California, on 13 June, the Cardinal explained that blessings are linked to the sacraments. When a priest gives a blessing, it is intimately connected to the sacred liturgy: "It certainly cannot be said to be non-liturgical."Furthermore, when someone brings an object to be blessed, it must be fit to receive a blessing and cannot be something that is alien...

[Catholic Caucus] The Pope must not give credence to the radical abortion agenda of President Biden The Pope’s address to the G7 summit in Italy on the subject of Artificial Intelligence was a necessary and thoughtful contribution to the implications of a technology that is transforming the very idea of what it is to be human. If only the same could be said of his private meeting with the US president, Joe Biden. The image of the meeting on Friday, with the president touching foreheads with the Pope in what looked like an affectionate embrace, has had a global resonance....

[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...

Pope to Meet President Biden, Other Leaders at G7 in PugliaVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis is scheduled to sit down with U.S. President Joe Biden and eight other heads of state in a series of private bilateral meetings during the Group of Seven (G7) summit being held in southern Italy June 13-15, according to a scheduled published by the Vatican Secretariat of State.The pope will also address government leaders and representatives of European and international organizations during an “outreach” discussion on artificial intelligence June 14, and he will meet privately with the head of the International Monetary Fund.The pope...

Francis Wants an Ecumenical Recognition of a "Papacy Without Content"The two Cardinals Koch and Grech presented on June 13 a 150-page paper on how to "reshape" the papacy.It is called "The Bishop of Rome" and was signed by Francis. The text gives a historical and descriptive synthesis of developments and opinions on the papacy.Koch hopes for a "new understanding" of the papacy that could be "recognised by all concerned" which includes countless schismatic and heretical groups.The Pope should only be accepted by the many Christian sects as an "honorary head", including some kind of "primacy of proclamation and witness".Under the...

Pope Francis tells prominent pro-abortion comedians that their jokes ‘make God smile’On Friday morning, Pope Francis received around 100 comedians from 15 countries for a private audience, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Whoopi Goldberg, telling them that their jokes 'make God smile.'Pope Francis has met with prominent comedians, including pro-abortion Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jimmy Fallon, and told them that their jokes “make God smile.”On Friday morning, Francis received around 100 comedians from 15 countries for a private audience, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O’Brien, and Chris Rock. Heterodox Father James Martin, who was formerly...

Pope Francis approves new document elevating ecumenism and synodality above papal primacyThe new ‘study document’ from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity emphasizes an intimate link between papal primacy and synodality, advocating for decentralization, granting more authority at regional levels while enhancing ecumenism.This article was originally published by PerMariam: Mater Dolorosa.VATICAN CITY (PerMariam) — The Vatican has unveiled a pivotal document on the papacy, which contains numerous calls to fundamentally alter the understanding of the practice of papal primacy and authority in order to aid ecumenism and synodality.Titled “The Bishop of Rome. Primacy and Synodality in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Papa Frociesco "Knows Many Good Holy Homosexual Seminarians and Priests”Francis received homosexual activist James Martin, a fellow Jesuit, at Casa Santa Marta on 12 June for an hour-long meeting.Afterwards, the homosexual activist wrote on Twitter.com: "With his permission to share this, the Holy Father said he has known many good, holy and celibate seminarians and priests with homosexual tendencies."According to Martin, Francis also "confirmed" his homosexual activism and "showed his openness and love" for those who practice homosexual sin without repentance.

[Catholic Caucus] The Patient Who Refuses to Die and the Quixotic Intellectuals who Defend the Liturgy of AgesThe Evangelist Matthew relates that after the death of the Savior Christ, those who had orchestrated his execution had one major concern: to obtain the guard of the tomb where Joseph of Arimathea had placed Jesus’ body. Before Pilate, they explained that they feared lest the “heresies” of the one killed spread even more, in the event that his disciples stole his body (Matthew 27:63-64). Pilate granted them the requested soldiers. The tomb was sealed and placed under Roman guard.Why did I summarize...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditiones Custodes Claims another ScalpA long-standing Latin Mass held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne has been canceled by the Vatican under the provisions of Traditiones Custodes. The mid-week Mass began at the Cathedral fourteen years ago and has continued since then, ceasing only during the COVID lockdowns which saw most Masses across the city suspended. The Cathedral Mass is hosted by the diocesan Latin Mass parish, which has thankfully remained unaffected by Traditiones Custodes thus far.The Wednesday afternoon Latin Mass draws up to fifty attendees, with more attending the beautiful sung Masses. Attendees are relatively young: the...

[Catholic Caucus] German church tax is funding a ‘Marxist’ religion of heretics and schismaticsCatholic priest Fr. Joachim Heimerl argued that the bishops in Germany 'cling to the church tax like the devil to a poor soul. After all, the tax system has made the Church in Germany incredibly rich but equally faithless and decadent.'Anyone who is baptized and confirmed and who professes the faith of the Church is Catholic. In Germany, as is so often the case, things are quite different. Here, you are only Catholic through the church tax, at least if you are a taxpayer.This tax is by...

[Catholic Caucus] Comedian Roberto Benigni tells children there is no hell or purgatory at Vatican World Children’s DayPope Francis was present when the comic made blasphemous jokes that defied divine revelation and Catholic teaching.Famous Italian comedian Roberto Benigni told young children gathered in Rome last month for the Vatican’s first World Children’s Day that there is no hell or purgatory, contrary to divine revelation and explicit Catholic teaching.Speaking to thousands of children in St. Peter’s Square in the presence of Pope Francis on Sunday, May 26, Benigni – who is perhaps most known for his World War II movie, Life...

[Catholic Caucus] Don Pietro Leone: Is Pope Francis Pope, and If Not, What Then?[Rorate editor - Just to be clear: Rorate's editoral position is that Francis is indeed the Pope -- his election was obviously valid, as Don Pietro Leone explains below - and a new one will be elected by an upcoming conclave. NC]Don Pietro Leone, who has contributed many articles for Rorate Caeli for more than 13 years, offers our readers the following essay on the much discussed and delicate matter of the validity of Pope Benedict's demission and the validity of Pope Francis' election. His primary motive...

The Synodal Church is Shaping Up to be Protestantism in Union with a Bishop of Rome In his 1928 encyclical on religious unity, Mortalium Animos, Pope Pius XI wrote that Christian unity can only be achieved through the process of non-Catholics returning to the “one true Church”:“[T]he union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain,...

[Catholic Caucus] Dutch Bishop: Fiducia Supplicans Too Much ‘in Tune With Zeitgeist’A Dutch bishop has described the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans declaration, which permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples, as an attempt to “make peace with a secular society.”However, Auxiliary Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands warned: “Peace at the expense of morality and truth” is a “most merciless peace imaginable.” “God loves everyone. He loves all sinners, but he hates your sins. He fervently hopes that you will return to him, just as he hoped for the prodigal son’s return. He wants nothing more than...

[Catholic Caucus] 1500+ Catholics call on University of Notre Dame to rescind award given to pro-abortion Joe BidenOver 1500 Catholics with ties to the University of Notre Dame are urging the institution to withdraw the 2016 Laetare Medal it awarded to then-Vice President Joe Biden considering his relentless promotion of abortion in direct violation of Church teaching.Over 1500 Catholics are calling on Notre Dame University to rescind the Laetare Medal given to U.S. President Joe Biden in 2016 considering his fervent support for abortion in direct violation of Church teaching. Currently, over fifteen hundred alumni and friends of Notre Dame...

[Catholic Caucus] Five things you should know about devotion to the Sacred Heart of JesusDevotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus goes back to the 11th century, but it wasn’t until hundreds of years later, in 1856, that Pope Pius IX made the feast of the Sacred Heart into a universal celebration.The world's largest Sacred Heart of Jesus flag being raised in Walton, Kentucky(Everyday For Life Canada) — This Friday, June 7, we will celebrate the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. First, here are five facts about the feast day from Catholic Digest:1. The devotion to the...