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[Barf Alert] San Diego Bishop: Climate Change Death Toll ‘Larger’ Than Abortion Bp. Robert McElroy seeking to influence Catholic vote SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Abortion and climate change were compared several times in a recent speech by San Diego Bp. Robert McElroy, who insisted Catholics must not be single-issue voters. Playing his part to influence the Catholic vote in the upcoming California presidential primaries, McElroy claimed both abortion and climate change are "core life issues" — while alleging the latter ends more human beings' lives.  Abortion kills "more than 750,000 unborn children" but "the long-term death toll from unchecked climate change is...

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...

Hating on Sheen The Church of Nice lashes out. f you ever wanted to see just how "not nice" the Church of Nice can be, the case of it lashing out at Ven. Abp. Fulton Sheen is a prime example.  Late Tuesday, news broke that the beatification of the famed preacher-bishop was suddenly stopped dead in its tracks because of "the request of a few members of the Bishop's Conference who have asked for further consideration."  First, there is a great mystery surrounding the identity of the "bishops." Church Militant can report, from archdiocesan sources from Chicago, that Cdl. Blase Cupich is one of those bishops....

[Catholic Caucus] Faithful Shepherds Bishop of the Week: Cardinal Blase Cupich August 16, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Blase Cupich is this week’s Bishop of the Week for Faithful Shepherds, a website launched by LifeSiteNews in August 2018 that encourages bishops to remain faithful to Christ by enabling laity to email, send personalized postcards, or call their bishops to urge them to uphold the Church’s perennial teachings. Cardinal Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago since 2014, has been one of the most high-profile American bishops in recent years. From his close relationship with Pope Francis to his recent remarks in favor of allowing Communion for pro-abortion...

[Catholic Caucus] AUSCP and its Episcopal Guardians Over two years ago, we started exposing the work of the heretical Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP).  Links to some of these reports are as follows: AUSCP Seeks to Redefine the Catholic Priesthood and HeirarchyAUSCP Officially Called for Women’s Ordination to the PriesthoodAUSCP Gives Venue to Condemned LGBT OrganizationsAUSCP’s Plan for Ordained Women and Priestless parishesAUSCP’s Idea for Priestly Formation and Info on Conference speakersAUSCP’s Desire to Obtain Funding from Unsuspecting, Pew-sitting CatholicsAUSCP’s Membership in an International Network of Heretical OrganizationsAUSCP’s Alliance with Heretical, Pro-Sodomy OrganizationsAUSCP’s Keynote Address from Notorious Priest,...

[Catholic Caucus] Cupich Not Impressed by Survey Results Calling Him ‘the Worst’ Dismisses findings before delivering keynote address to dissident group ST. LOUIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - Even though St. Louis' Catholic laity were out in force protesting Church scandal at the annual convention of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP), Cardinal Blase Cupich was not aware that a recent survey found him to be the nation's worst bishop; and when asked for his reaction to the survey results, he said he does not care about what goes on in the "blogosphere." Prior to his keynote address to the organization on Wednesday, June 26, Cupich...

Dissident priest group backed by prominent bishops demands Catholic priestesses June 25, 2019 (Lepanto Institute) — The Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP), which claims a priestly membership of just over 1,300 priests, issued a white paper on May 8, 2019, titled "AUSCP Declaration on the Status of Women." This white paper calls for the priestly ordination of women and utilizes condemned Modernist reasoning to reach its conclusions. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, AUSCP members will be asked to affirm this declaration at the ongoing AUSCP 2019 Assembly in St. Louis. The Lepanto Institute has written extensively on the...

[Catholic Caucus] Poll: Cupich ‘Worst’ Bishop in the US Survey results include many disparaging comments CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A recent survey ranks Cardinal Blase Cupich the worst bishop in the United States.  On Tuesday, Complicit Clergy published the results of a survey on the trustworthiness and orthodoxy of individual U.S. bishops. Participants were invited to rate their bishops with one ("Mostly Distrust") to five ("Completely Trust") stars for trustworthiness and one to five stars for orthodoxy (adherence to the teachings of the Catholic Church) with an option to comment. Cupich was ranked the worst bishop in the country and received 67...

[Catholic Caucus] Canon law expert: Cdl Cupich ‘unconvincing’ allowing pro-abort lawmakers communion June 14, 2019 (In the Light of the Law) — No one thought Chicago's Blase Cdl. Cupich would follow Springfield's Bp. Thomas Paprocki's example in calling upon Catholic state legislators, who had supported Illinois' express attack on the basic rights of pre-born babies, to refrain from holy Communion until they repented of their evil deed (Canon 916), further directing that his ministers withhold holy Communion from two specific legislators based on their protracted and public support of such measures (Canon 915), so no one was surprised when Cupich...

[Catholic Caucus] Like McCarrick, Cupich OKs Holy Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians  Cupich: 'Counterproductive to impose sanctions' Cardinal Blase Cupich is defending giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians. In response to Bp. Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, who recently barred pro-abortion legislators from receiving the Eucharist, the Chicago cardinal is taking the opposite position. "I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don't change anybody's minds," said Cupich in comments published by Catholic News Agency on June 14, ignoring the clear mandate of canon 915. Some have called Cupich's position "apostasy." In a decree dated June 2, Paprocki declared:  In accord with canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law ... Illinois...

[Catholic Caucus] Exclusive Interview: Fr. Paul John Kalchik Fugitive Chicago priest speaks from hiding Michael Voris sits down with Fr. Paul John Kalchik, his first on-camera interview since September, after he was forced out of his parish on orders of Cdl. Blase Cupich for burning a sacrilegious banner that once hung over the High Altar of Resurrection Parish.    One day after lesbian mayor Lori Lightfoot called for "swift action" against the priest for disposing of the blasphemous LGBT banner — which depicted rainbow pride colors intertwined with the Cross — Cupich sent two chancery men to threaten and bully...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich defends giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians BALTIMORE, June 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago defended giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, saying, “I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don’t change anybody’s minds.” Cardinal Cupich expressed his position in the wake of Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois barring pro-abortion legislators from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion. Citing canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law, Bishop Paprocki ruled last week that state legislators working to pass Illinois’s new abortion bill may not present themselves for communion in his diocese...

<p>CHICAGO, Illinois, May 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The parish bulletin of Holy Name Cathedral in the Chicago archdiocese advertised that a group of parishioners is getting together to watch the pornographic film Rocketman.</p> <p>Father Greg Sakowicz serves as rector of the cathedral, which is the see of Cardinal Blase Cupich. The bulletin of the parish he serves lists a number of different activities involving parishioners, including a Shabbat service at a Chicago synagogue, a book group, “Centering Prayer,” and an “Afternoon Movie Group.”</p>

Cardinal Blase Cupich’s Consistent Inconsistencies Farrakhan speech earns written rebuke, burning rainbow flag with cross results in dismissal Sponsoring a speech given last week by notorious Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan resulted in a stern rebuke from Cdl. Blase Cupich to Fr. Michael Pfleger, pastor of Chicago's St. Sabina Church. The punishment is relatively light compared to the dismissal Cupich delivered to Fr. Paul Kalchik last September for quietly burning a gay pride flag that also featured a cross. Farrakhan has been a lightning rod for negative publicity for decades, most significantly for his viciously anti-Semitic comments. It is these expressions...

Chicago’s Next Mayor Accused Catholic Priest of ‘Hate’ Lesbian Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot wrote to Cdl. Cupich slamming Fr. Paul Kalchik CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Church Militant has learned that Chicago's next mayor, a non-Catholic lesbian, wrote a letter complaining to Cdl. Blase Cupich about the burning of a blasphemous rainbow flag. Less than 24 hours after the complaint, Cdl. Cupich removed Fr. Paul Kalchik as pastor of his Catholic parish. Father Paul Kalchik was pastor of Resurrection parish in the archdiocese of Chicago. A previous pastor, Fr. Daniel Montalbano, was a known homosexual who was found dead in the rectory while attached to a masturbation machine...

[Catholic Caucus] The future of Catholicism in America CHICAGO (RNS) — “We’re not a church with a mission, we’re a mission with a church,” Cardinal Blase Cupich told the folks who showed up at Loyola University of Chicago last Thursday evening to hear their archbiship talk with a couple of academics and a journalist about the future of Catholicism in America.It was a subtle and clever remark, not least because “mission” as a religious term originates with the Jesuits, who were sent (Lat. missi) to the ends of the Earth “for the greater glory of God and the salvation of...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich’s Selective Justice? From an April 6 letter, written by Cardinal Blase Cupich, posted at the Archdiocese of Chicago’s website: Dear Parishioners of San José Luis Sánchez del Río,Last August, I informed you of the accusation against your pastor, Fr. Gary Graf, and that, in keeping with our procedures, he was asked to step aside from his pastoral duties until a thorough investigation and process could be completed. He has fully cooperated with civil authorities and the Archdiocese of Chicago during these months, even letting you know that you should have confidence in the procedures the archdiocese...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago’s Homomafia Chicago in the 1920s — think Al Capone, gangsters in dapper suits, illegal gambling, bootleg liquor and Tommy guns. It turns out that in nearly 100 years, not much has changed in the Windy City except the new gangsters wear priests' collars and homosexuality and sex abuse are the currency and trade of this homomafia with Cdl. Blase Cupich as their don. He's becoming a central figure in the American Church despite the warnings of Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò, who maintains his appointment as archbishop of Chicago was personally orchestrated by homosexual-abuser Theodore McCarrick. He rightly earned scorn for...

Roman Catholic Faithful energized Catholics at its conference in Spokane, WashingtonA Catholic watchdog group is expanding its investigation of Cdl. Blase Cupich to the diocese of Spokane, Washington, where the Chicago cardinal was bishop from 2010 to 2014. Speaking to Spokane Catholics Saturday, President Stephen Brady of Roman Catholic Faithful slammed Cupich for promoting homosexuality. Brady said Cupich is worse than any criminal. Also speaking Saturday was RCF attorney James Bendell, who reminded attendees that, as bishop of Spokane, Cupich sheltered nearly two dozen predator priests at Cardinal Bea House near the campus of Gonzaga University. When the news broke...

How I Met the Bishops’ Deep State Blase Cupich key member of 'Lavender Underground' for 40 years During the Reagan administration, I served as staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere. I spent most of my time dealing with Latin American policy, especially the Communist subversion going on in Central America. Visitors came by my office to lobby all the time, among them representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). One of them was a Franciscan friar who is now the cardinal-archbishop of Boston, Sean O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap.  Other "Catholic" groups, lay and religious, came by as well, predominantly on the Left. Some of them were professional agitators. That was...