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[Catholic Caucus] Accountability from the Vatican needed after Cardinal Fernández’s recently unearthed bookCardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández is back in the news - again for the wrong reasons. Simply put, the prelate’s recently unearthed book, titled “¿Por qué no termino de sanarme?” (“Why can’t I finish healing myself?”) and published in 2002, as reported by Vatican news correspondent Michael Haynes, has ignited grave concerns and serious questions.This newly “discovered” book seems to perpetuate all-too-familiar patterns already detectable in Fernández’s erstwhile contentious writings regarding sexuality and mysticism. I shall spare readers from the highly graphic (in fact, I would consider even pornographic)...

Leading Mariologists Publish Scathing Critique of Vatican Note on Mary’s TitlesIn a lengthy response, the International Marian Association Theological Commission highlights what it sees as significant errors and omissions in the Vatican’s controversial doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis.One of the Catholic Church’s foremost associations of Mariologists has issued a strongly critical response to Mater Populi Fidelis, a recently published Vatican doctrinal note that has been criticized for its diminution of some long-established devotional Marian titles.In a 23-page document published Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the International Marian Association Theological Commission (IMATC) points to various elements of Mater...

Fr. Heimerl: Of course the Blessed Mother is ‘Co-Redemptrix’The pious tradition of the Church has always known this and always understood it correctly. Is the Blessed Virgin Mary “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of Grace”? Of course she is, I would say, because it was only through Mary’s “Fiat” that the only redemption through her Son became possible, and it was only through her that God gave us the fullness of grace in Jesus Christ.The pious tradition of the Church has always known this and always understood it correctly. No one would seriously have thought of “deifying” Mary or denying Christ’s unique...

[Catholic Caucus] Quis ut Virgo? - Who is like unto Mary? -- Reflections on the Document of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, by Roberto de MatteiOn October 16, 1793, what was perhaps the most disgusting crime of the French Revolution took place: the execution of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, after a sham trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Plinio Correa de Oliveira wrote of Marie Antoinette: "There are certain souls who are only great when the winds of misfortune blow upon them. Marie Antoinette, who was futile as a princess and unforgivably frivolous in her life...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Fernández contradicts God’s Word with his sacrilegious support for homosexual ‘blessings’Fernández has made clear that he would approve ‘blessing’ sin, contrary to the Revelation of God given in Scripture, revealed in natural law – a sacrilege against the Lord’s good creation.Archbishop Fernández greets Pope Francis in 2019The new prefect for the Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Víctor Cardinal Fernández made recent comments that in their ambiguity certainly signal approval of “blessings” for same-sex unions. It is not an exaggeration to say that many in the Church, including several bishops, Synod on Synodality...

Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, chosen by Pope Francis to head a powerful Vatican office, admits he made mistakes in the way he handled the 2019 case of a priest accused of child sex abuse, which still brings him criticism for allegedly protecting the cleric.

In May 2022, Mary Trump tweeted, “Hundreds of voter subversion laws are only a governor’s signature away from going into effect. Please join the Democracy Defense Fund in supporting these gubernatorial candidates who are committed to protecting our #VotingRights.”Mary Trump, the former president’s niece, has become an anti-Trump figure specializing in deranged rhetoric like calling him “mass murderer criminal Donald Trump”. DDF is a PAC that is intervening in races across the country, including in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Ohio.The Democracy Defense Fund, a nationwide PAC, was supposedly created by Mary Trump, who has no apparent background or ability to create...