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I have been asked to sign the Filial Correction, I signed the letter of the 45 academics and pastors last year, and almost immediately found Cardinal Nichols' tanks parked on my lawn to inform me of his displeasure, which was quite mild unlike other lay signatories, who were sacked from their jobs in Catholic institutions for their pains, Dr. Josef Seifertis being the most high profile. I admit it, I am afraid to sign and I know other priests who share my fear. Many of those who might have signed have in the last four years have a certain fear about...

“The Great Firewall of China,” says Wikipedia, “is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People’s Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in the Internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic.”

A few dozen Catholics have publicly accused Pope Francis of committing heresy, claiming in a 25-page letter issued Sept. 24 that the pontiff’s 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia contradicts previous church teaching. The signatories also claim that Francis has been swayed by “false understandings of divine revelation” and has shown an “unprecedented sympathy” for Martin Luther, the German priest and theologian whose criticisms of the Catholic church in 1517 launched the Protestant reformation. But several prominent theologians and scholars said the accusations are marked by hypocrisy and represent a marginal fringe view among academics. They noted that the 62 signatories...

Tosatti - The two responses to the ‘Correction’: Belittle, label, marginalize and the Pope’s unacceptable silence Marco Tosatti Stilum Curiae September 25, 2017 Primum, denigrate. Saddle the adversary with a label, which will in any case place him in difficulty regarding public opinion as well as put him on the defensive. It is a rhetoric device as old as the world itself and with which the Church is well-acquainted. Thus, faced with an undoubtedly exceptional and exceptionally agonizing event, such as Correctio filialis, signed – at the present moment  - by 62 personalities in the Catholic world, both laity and...

These good and faithful figures have been courageous in making their views – and their names – public. It’s unfortunate that – as with the dubia presented to the pope by four cardinals – there’s little to no chance he will respond. Because these questions cannot be avoided forever. And there’s an even deeper problem, of which the seven false teachings are examples, that’s beginning to characterize wide swaths of the Church.We’re witnessing a period in which the Church is trying to have Faith without the full benefits of Reason. This is odd, in a way, because it’s usually thought...

Around 11:30 (Italian time) of September 25 RaiNews24 reported that the webpage correctiofilialis.org cannot be accessed by computers inside the Vatican. The webpage contains the September 24 manifesto of 62 scholars which accuses Pope Francis of heresy.

“Most Holy Father, With profound grief, but moved by fidelity to our Lord Jesus Christ, by love for the Church and for the papacy, and by filial devotion toward yourself, we are compelled to address a correction to Your Holiness on account of the propagation of heresies effected by the apostolic exhortation ‘Amoris Laetiti’ and by other words, deeds and omissions of Your Holiness.”So begins the letter that 40 Catholic scholars from all over the world sent to Pope Francis last August 11 and are making public today, Sunday September 24, on the site www.correctiofilialis.orgThe 40 signers have in the...

GOD BLESS THE ORIGINATORS AND THE SIGNERS OF THE CORRECTIONPosted on September 24, 2017 by abyssum  I extend my congratulations and gratitude to the originators of the Correction and I wish to have my name added to the list of those individuals who agree with the content of the Correction and want to be identified with it.   Sincerely and in gratitude,   The Most Reverend Rene Henry Gracida, D.D. Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Corpus Christi   from: Rene Henry Gracida <rhg1923@gmail.com> to: info@correctiofilialis.org bcc: The Most Reverend Rene Henry Gracida <rhg1923@gmail.com> date: Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:26 AM subject: I WISH...

On September 12, 2017, I spoke to 600 middle school students at Eubanks Intermediary School of the Carroll Independent School District in honor of Constitution Day. Since Southlake, Texas is my community it was a special occasion for me. The kids had fun, and all of the teachers and administration were very excited after the speech, and grateful. Social media photos and posts abounded from the school. The morning before the speech, September 11, 600 of the same folders arrived for the students for the speech the next day. At no time did anyone, six months prior in March, four...

President Donald Trump tweeted: “The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me. They don’t even call to verify the facts of a story. A Fake News Joke!” That was on Wednesday. The very next day, the New York Times printed a major correction of a major mistake. Except, the correction itself was incorrect. The publication nicknamed “the paper of record” sought to correct a critical error that has been commonly accepted as gospel truth and repeated incessantly by both the major media and Democrats since January. {..snip..}

CNN has corrected a Tuesday report after the release of former FBI Director James Comey's opening statement for his Thursday testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee contradicted the reports' sources. The CNN report said Comey was expected to dispute President Trump's claims that Comey said he was not under investigation on multiple occasions. The report, titled “Comey expected to refute Trump," was based on unnamed sources and said Comey's conversations with the president "were much more nuanced," and that Trump drew the wrong conclusion. 

Why The Correction Should Happen May 24 Posted by Mundabor Giant, not dwarf. I read around other blogs comments which ask what would be the use of the correction, seen that Francis will not change his mind or his policy afterwards. This is tantamount to asking what good it was to condemn Luther's heresies, seen that Luther did not change his mind or policy afterwards. Truth must be defended irrespective of immediate consequences. It must be defended to encourage the faithful of this generation, and to serve as a witness to faithful of all generations to come. In the present times,...

"Even reading from his trusty teleprompter, President Barack Obama made a huge error in his Sunday night address to the nation on terror. The White House had to send a "corrected" transcript. Actually, it doesn't correct the record to indicate what the Teleprompter in Chief actually said. It corrects the record to indicate what he should have said. He indicated that Tashfeen Malik, the wife of her co-terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, came to this country under a visa waiver. Actually she arrived under a K-1 fiancee visa. As a Pakistani citizen, she wasn't eligible for a 90-day visa waiver."

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Tuesday, with Dow futures briefly falling more than 400 points, following some weaker-than-expected Chinese data. Two sets of key Chinese data disappointed traders on Tuesday. The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) edged down to 49.7 in August from 50 in July, while the final Caixin/Markit manufacturing PMI came in at 47.3 in August, the lowest reading since March 2009. Even more worrying, China's services sector , which has been one of the lone bright spots in the sputtering economy, also showed signs of cooling, a similar business survey...

Stocks slumped world-wide this week, with U.S. and European markets off more than 5% and the Shanghai Composite Index losing more than 11%. Oil prices also skidded, dropping more than 6%. Traders feared that slowing growth in China, the devaluation of the Chinese currency and the overhang of too much debt could stifle global economic recovery. Here are five things you should know about how not to react. 1 Don't fixate on the news. The more often you update yourself on the market’s fluctuations, the more volatile and risky it will appear to you — even though short, sharp declines...

The stock market just suffered its biggest selloff in a year and a half, as the S&P 500 turned red for the year and the Dow dived 358 points to show a nearly 5% drop for 2015. In the wake of Thursday’s rout, here are five things that market watchers are tracking as they think aloud about what’s next. 1. Calls for that much-anticipated correction get louder: “Get ready” because a “correction is coming,” warns David Greenberg, president of Schaeffer Greenberg Advisors, in a CNBC commentary piece late Thursday. He argues the market is “tired and there are a lot...

The world's most valuable public company saw its stock price drop for a fifth straight day on Tuesday Apple shares are down 14 percent since closing at a record $133 in February That loss breaks down to $113.4billion in paper wealth iPhone sales were not as good as some analysts predicted, and the lukewarm forecast for the current period is causing the drop World's most valuable public company saw its stock price drop for a fifth straight day on Tuesday, falling as much as $5.19 or 4.4 percent, to $113.25 as investors fretted over China's economy and whether Apple can...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- While it's hard to predict the markets, when it comes to the month of May, one thing is for certain: You'll hear someone say, at least once, "sell in May and go away." The cliché, which suggests that smart investors should sell off their portfolios in May and only re-enter the market in the fall, has long been part of Wall Street culture, but where does it come from? The saying dates back to old England, when the stock brokers would go on summer vacation in May and not return until September. The original saying was,...

Monsignor Charles Pope writes, "The gospel from Sunday (John 15:1-8) presents us with an important meditation on the difference between love and kindness. Perhaps some further reflections from this gospel are in order today. There is an unfortunate tendency in our times to reduce love to kindness. Kindness is an aspect of love, but so is rebuke. It is an immature notion of love that reduces it merely to affirming, or that refers to proper correction as a form of “hate.” We saw in yesterday’s gospel that proper care involves the Lord “pruning” us so that we bear more fruit....

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In stories April 7 and 8 about the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Walter Scott was honorably discharged from the Coast Guard. Scott was granted a lesser discharge, known as a general discharge under honorable conditions, because of a drug-related incident.