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[Catholic Caucus] Father Belda, key figure in Zanchetta affair, is Pope’s delegate to Pope Francis Memorial FoundationDesde la Fe, published by the Archdiocese of Mexico City, has announced the November 1 launch of the Pope Francis Memorial app under the auspices of the archdiocese and an eponymous foundation.Father Javier Belda Iniesta, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta’s canonical advocate, is the pontifical delegate to the foundation; he discussed the app’s launch at a press conference.The app, according to the archdiocese, is “a global initiative that seeks to preserve the memory of the deceased and support the vulnerable elderly.” Users of the app can...

[Catholic Caucus] Italian priest could be excommunicated after claiming Francis is not the popeItalian priest Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré faces excommunication and expulsion from the Carmelites if he refuses to retract his statement that Pope Francis is not the ‘legitimate pope,’ claiming instead that Benedict XVI’s resignation was invalid.Prominent Italian Carmelite priest Father Giorgio Maria Faré, OCD, who recently declared in a viral sermon that Francis is not the Pope, has been given an October 30 deadline by his superior to retract the claim or face excommunication.In a letter dated October 17, Father Renato Dell’acqua, the commissioner of the OCD’s...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican orders suppression of the Latin Mass at California diocese’s cathedralThe letter directing the cessation of the Latin Mass at the Cathedral of St. Eugene in Santa Rosa, California, was handed down by the Secretary of Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.The Vatican suppressed the Traditional Latin Mass at the cathedral in Santa Rosa, California, leaving parishioners to seek a new location for the Mass of the Ages.Bishop Robert Vasa of the Diocese of Santa Rosa confirmed Wednesday to LifeSiteNews that the Vatican directed that the TLM be discontinued at the Cathedral of St. Eugene. According to...

[Catholic Caucus] Liberal Irish archbishop will reportedly help conduct apostolic visitation of FSSPArchbishop Diarmuid Martin is one of two clergy tapped to carry out the Vatican's recently announced apostolic visitation of the FSSP. He has issued a number of public statements that indicate he has a less than orthodox understanding of Church teaching.Vatican journalist Diane Montagna is reporting that Ireland’s Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, and France’s Archbishop Emeritus of Tours, Bernard-Nicolas Aubertin, have been tapped to carry out the Vatican’s recently announced apostolic visitation of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP).Founded in 1988 for priests who want...

[Catholic Caucus/Anglican] BREAKING: Cardinal Zen warns Synod aims ‘to overthrow’ Church’s hierarchy for ‘a democratic system’'Obviously, the purpose of this conference was to overthrow the hierarchical class of the church and implement a democratic system,' wrote Cardinal Joseph Zen about the Synod on Synodality.Cardinal Joseph Zen has issued a strong warning about the Synod on Synodality and the persistent division resulting from Fiducia Supplicans, saying the “future of the Church” is “uncertain” unless issues are resolved.“I feel most anxious about how this so-called ‘synodality’ of the Synod of Bishops can be concluded smoothly,” began Zen, the emeritus bishop of Hong...

Pope Francis popularity plummets in the U.S. and 6 Latin American countriesPope Francis Faces Shifting Sentiment Across Latin America and the U.S. in 2024(ZENIT News / Roma, 10.13.2024).- A decade after his election as Pope Francis, once a highly popular figure across Latin America, is now seeing a decline in his favorability among the public in the region, according to a recent 2024 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. The poll, which gathered data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, highlights both waning support and growing criticism of the Argentine-born pontiff. ... A Significant Decline in ArgentinaThe...

Francis Takes Revenge on the (True) AfricansFrancis has often expressed his alleged "love for the peripheries", writes Carlos Esteban on InfoVaticana.com (10 October).But this love does not include the peripheries of black Africa, perhaps because the continent has rejected Francis' homosexual manifesto "Fidicia supplicans".For Esteban, it is a "striking anomaly" that Cameroon, with 4 million Catholics, a quarter of the population, has more than 1,200 priests and as many seminarians in formation, but not a single prelate in the College of Cardinals.Nor does fertile Benin, with its three million Catholics, almost eight hundred priests and more than a thousand nuns.Not...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Tobin says synodality implements Pope Francis’ ‘program’ for the ChurchWith ‘Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’,’ Pope Francis has ‘distilled wisdom’ from previous synods, opined Cardinal Joseph Tobin at a Holy See press briefing today.Newark’s Cardinal Joseph Tobin has linked some of Pope Francis’ more controversial texts, such as Amoris Laetitia, to the Synod, saying that synodality is a key part of Francis’ “program” which makes the Church “live and act” differently.With “Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis has “distilled wisdom” from previous synods, opined Cardinal Tobin at a Holy See press briefing today.Tobin drew...

[Catholic Caucus] Can Papal Primacy and a Synodal Church actually coexist?As the second week of the Synod on Synodality continues, an article published in La Civiltà Cattolica on 8 October has revealed more of Pope Francis’s vision of the role of synodality in the Catholic Church today. It also highlights some of the inherent tensions between the use of synods and the power of the papacy in modern Catholicism.The article recounts the Pope’s meeting on 28 September with 150 of his fellow Jesuits in Brussels, during his recent visit to Belgium, when Francis discussed how Eastern Christians have not lost...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Pope Francis announces 21 new cardinalsPope Francis' new cardinals will give him an incredibly strong majority amongst those who will vote in the next conclave, and include the notably pro-LGBT Fr Timothy Radcliffe.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has announced a December 8 consistory where he will create 21 new cardinals from all around the globe, though none from the U.S.A. Synod on Synodality preacher and LGBT advocate Father Timothy Radcliffe is amongst the new cardinal voters.Ending his Sunday Angelus October 6, Pope Francis made a surprise announcement regarding the creation of new cardinals. In a consistory...

Apostolic Visitation of FSSP Augurs Ill for the Latin MassThe Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) released a statement on Sept. 27 announcing that it had recently been informed by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life of the “opening of an apostolic visitation of the Fraternity.” According to the statement, the Prefect of the Dicastery, Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, emphasized to the FSSP Superior General John Berg and his assistants during a meeting in Rome that the visit “does not originate in any problems of the Fraternity,” but is instead intended to enable...

[Catholic Caucus] St. Louis parishioners appeal Latin Mass cancellation, parish closure to Vatican’s highest courtA co-founder of Save Rome of the West argues that both Traditionis Custodes and its application in fact contradict the spirit of canon law by disregarding the salvation of souls.Parishioners in the Archdiocese of St. Louis appealed to the Vatican’s highest court of canon law to stop the archbishop’s closure of a parish church with a thriving Latin Mass community.St. Barnabas in O’Fallon, Missouri, on the outskirts of metropolitan St. Louis, was a flourishing parish that exclusively offered the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) when it was...

[Catholic Caucus] FULL STORY: Here’s why Bishop Strickland was canceledOn this episode of The John Henry Westen Show, Deacon Keith Fournier joins me to discuss his time working with Bishop Joseph Strickland in the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, what led to Strickland’s removal, the controversy surrounding canceled clergy, and more. I asked Deacon Keith about his time working with Bishop Strickland in the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and what he experienced working with him. Deacon Keith recalled how he had been working as a dean of an online Catholic school and in ministry when someone sent him Strickland’s Constitution on...

Francis to Muslims, "Inherited Religious Rites Must be Protected"On Thursday, Francis visited the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, to meet with representatives of dozens of false religions.He was received by the Grand Imam, Nasaruddin Umar.In the mosque, Francis and Umar listened to passages from the Koran sung by a young woman and the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke read by a priest.Then, Francis and Umar signed another joint declaration on "fraternity," entitled: Fostering Religious Harmony for the Sake of Humanity. The interreligious scribble is at least below 400 words long. It pledges to defend "human...

[Catholic Caucus] The New TLM Suppression: Crisis Averted?Remember when everybody was sure that there was a new Latin Mass suppression coming down the pike from The Dictator Pope and his mercy for the margins?That came from a credible rumour published by our friends at Rorate back on June 17th. While that was brewing, Viganò got the axe from the Vatican, and a different report denied any existence of a new TLM suppression.Meanwhile, the “Agatha Christie Petition 2.0” was released, along with a second petition by the same authors for the faithful to sign. A third petition was also put out...

[Catholic Caucus] Amsterdam bishop says young Catholics are going back to ‘roots of the faith,’ want traditional liturgyYoung Catholics who embrace tradition ‘are appearing out of nowhere’ in the Netherlands and ‘going in the opposite direction’ of the older, liberal generation, Dutch Bishop Johannes Hendriks said. ‘The Holy Spirit is at work.’Dutch Bishop Johannes Hendriks said that young Catholics are going back to the roots of the faith, including more traditional liturgies.In an interview with the German newspaper Die Tagespost, the bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam described the dynamic of Catholics in the Netherlands. While many of the older generation are still...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Eleganti: Pope Francis promotes ‘synodality’ while acting ‘authoritarian’‘Although Pope Francis has written Synodality on his banner, he has a very authoritarian leadership style,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti noted, criticizing the Vatican synod for being determined by a small group of officials rather than the Holy Spirit.Pope Francis with Cdl. Grech at the Synod on Synodality Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti has said that the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality is determined by “ready-made agendas” and criticized Pope Francis for his hypocrisy.In an interview with the Swiss news outlet kath.ch, he posited that “ready-made agendas will determine the synodal process and...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Aguer: Young people are showing the world the importance of Catholic traditionIn the old and worn-out corners where the post-conciliar syndrome has reigned, multitudes of young people are joyfully discovering the Tradition of always and are embracing it as the authentic reality of a Church that is flourishing to bear fruit in contemporary society.Vulgar thinking assures us that tradition is constituted by the chain of traditions led by the old, and that the young are attracted by novelties, by the invention of new artifices.But the reality of the life of the Church and of the breach that...

[Catholic Caucus] Trad Carmelite Nuns Need Your Help!Above: a community of Carmelites at prayerEditor’s note: as we can see with the traditional Benedictines of Mary, female religious vocations are exploding… if they are traditional. Please donate today to help these sisters whose prayers will move mountains in our time. They are in great need of the assistance of the faithful!Our Lady Co-Redemptrix Carmelite MonasteryA Carmelite community is starting a traditional Catholic Carmelite monastery in High Springs, Florida. The community, Our Lady Co-Redemptrix Carmelite Monastery, is being founded by Sister Loretta-Maria of the Blessed Trinity and the Rosary, a Carmelite nun...

Roche and Viola (Dicastery for Divine Worship) Forbid Latin Mass in Helsinki Cathedral (Finland) - celebrated (for the moment) in another Church Finland. A land lost by the Church to Lutheranism.In that beautiful and peaceful land, those who are Catholic are a tiny minority, but very conscious of their rights and filled with conviction regarding their Faith. Some of them are, like so many of us, attached to the Traditional Latin Mass -- which was, of course, the Mass of Finland before the Reformation.One would think the Vatican would be happy to have such faithful Catholics in a land of...