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  • Pope Francis Refers to the Flood of Noah as a 'Mythical Tale' and says God will send Judgement on Earth not for Sin but Because of Climate Change

    03/02/2021 10:21:10 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 269 replies
    nteb ^ | 3/1/21 | Geoffrey Grider
    Pope Francis has a curious understanding of the bible, according to him it’s a real book that contains stories that may or not be ‘mythical’, like the flood of Noah. He seems to be quite unsure of the veracity of the Genesis account, so he quotes secular experts who agree it’s mythical . I am guessing he does this so as to not offend the atheists. “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the...
  • Pope Francis says to vote for lesser of two evils, and we know abortion is the real evil

    10/22/2024 4:57:16 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 26 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | October 22, 2024 | Steve Mosher
    Pope Francis says to vote for lesser of two evils, and we know abortion is the real evilThe pontiff insisted abortion and deportation are equally evil, but the lesser evil principle requires voting against the candidate who would do the most harm.(Population Research Institute) — I have long regarded this papacy as a kind of penance.From its sacrifice of the Underground Church in China to its suppression of the Latin Mass, from its dalliance with Masonry to its relentless sermonizing about climate change and our collective sins, it has at times seemed to be nothing more than a collection of...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Catholic Charities of East Washington celebrates pro-LGBT ‘Coming Out Day’

    10/13/2024 1:29:29 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | October 12, 2024 | Stephen Kokx
    [Catholic Caucus] Catholic Charities of East Washington celebrates pro-LGBT ‘Coming Out Day’Flying in the face of Church teaching, the group wrote, 'National Coming Out Day is a day for celebration and support. Share your stories, encouragement, and messages of allyship. Let's create a welcoming space for all.'Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington has encouraged its social media followers to celebrate the pro-LGBT “National Coming Out Day” despite clear Church teaching on the immorality of homosexual behavior. On Friday, the group scandalously called on its Facebook followers to “come out” and publicly tell the world about their sexual orientation.Friday was the Feast...
  • Popes can err slightly but cannot profess formal heresy

    10/11/2024 6:39:56 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 28 replies
    The Daily Knight ^ | October 11, 2024 | David Martin
    Popes can err slightly but cannot profess formal heresyAn error held by some Catholics is that a pope cannot err, yet the Church has never taught such a thing. A pope indeed cannot profess or declare magisterial something that is a manifest error, but a pope can make slight, inadvertent mistakes or allow slight errors to creep into his speech. After all, popes are only human, they’re not infallible.For instance, Pope Paul VI initially declared Vatican II to be the work of God, which he believed in the innocence of his heart, but he later recanted this by saying...
  • Pope Francis, Globalist Superhero

    10/09/2024 6:04:45 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 12 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | Oct 9, 2024 | Thom Nickels
    Old Papal Sourpuss – aka Pope Francis – strikes again. This time he fired off comments while traveling in the papal plane from Asia to Rome. Air travel, apparently, inspires this pontiff to unleash confusing and ambiguous statements that have many Catholics and others scratching their heads. At 10,000 feet he weighed in on Americans’ upcoming choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. He categorized both candidates as “against life” and urged Catholic voters to choose the “lesser of two evils.” “One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils?...
  • Letters: Pope wrong to equate killing of unborn to treatment of migrants

    10/07/2024 10:52:47 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 29 replies
    New Orleans Times-Picayune ^ | October 7, 2024 | Michael Folse
    Letters: Pope wrong to equate killing of unborn to treatment of migrantsThis letter is in response to the Sept. 14 article "Pope slams both Harris, Trump as 'against life.'" The article gives this quote from Pope Francis: "Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants, or be it the one who kills babies."In no way are these two actions equivalent in their disregard for human life. Abortion, nearly a million each year in the U.S. alone, destroys the entire lifetimes for unborn children who, for the most part, would have been people like you and me,...
  • Pope Francis to Make Gay Rights Advocate a Cardinal

    10/07/2024 7:01:46 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/07/2024
    ROME — Pope Francis has announced his intention to make 21 new cardinals on December 8, among whom is the pro-LGBT Dominican friar Timothy Radcliffe. In 2023, the pontiff chose the woke friar to open the Vatican Synod on Synodality, who began his words by confessing, “I am old, white, a Westerner, and a man! I don’t know which is worse.” “All of these aspects of my identity limit my understanding, so I ask for your forgiveness for the inadequacy of my words.” said Father Radcliffe, a leader of the Church’s progressive wing for decades, who was largely sidelined during...
  • Pope Francis says tax billionaires, stop sports betting in fiery economics speech

    09/21/2024 4:21:13 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 72 replies
    America Magazine ^ | September 20, 2024 | Gerard O'Connell
    Pope Francis says tax billionaires, stop sports betting in fiery economics speechPope Francis encouraged the leaders of the popular movements to stand up to “the dehumanization” that is spreading in today’s world and to fight against injustice wherever it rears its ugly head in a passionate talk on social justice this morning, Sept. 20. “It is often precisely the wealthiest who oppose the realization of social justice or integral ecology out of sheer greed,” he said.The pope traveled from the Vatican to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in the Palazzo San Calisto in Trastevere to give this talk....
  • Francis: Sedevacantism is a Way to Arrive at God

    09/15/2024 5:11:19 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 39 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | September 15, 2024 | Robert Morrison
    Francis: Sedevacantism is a Way to Arrive at God Some Traditional Catholics, including sedevacantists, believe that Francis believes in and practices a new religion separate and distinct from the Catholicism they themselves practice. As sedevacantist bishop, Bp. Donald Sanborn has stated:The sedevacantist position is the only Catholic position in response to the Modernist takeover of Catholic institutions. It squarely declares that Vatican II and its reforms are a substantial change of the Catholic religion. It is a whole new religion which has replaced the Catholic religion in all buildings which were once Catholic.n addition, the late great Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre...
  • Pope Francis Weighs In on Trump-Harris Race with Damning Words That May Give Voters a Lot to Think About

    09/14/2024 6:36:54 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 57 replies
    Western Journal ^ | September 13, 2024 | Joe Saunders
    Pope Francis Weighs In on Trump-Harris Race with Damning Words That May Give Voters a Lot to Think AboutPope Francis, center, didn't support either former President Donald Trump, left, or Vice President Kamala Harris, but he threw out a challenge for votersIn more than a decade since taking over as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has left little doubt about his preferences in American politicsEven in the face of the Democratic Party’s unflinching dogma promoting abortion — a procedure Catholic theology considers equivalent to murder — he has made his distaste for conservatives clear.But in cautiously weighing in...
  • Pope Francis scolds Trump and Harris, instructs American voters on election choice: Pick ‘the lesser evil’

    09/13/2024 1:02:53 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    NY POST ^ | 09/13/2024 | Reuters
    Pope Francis on Friday criticized both former U.S. President Donald Trump over his plan to deport millions of immigrants and Vice President Kamala Harris over her stance supporting abortion rights. Asked about the U.S. presidential election on his flight back to Rome from Singapore, the pope said not welcoming migrants is a “grave” sin, and likened having an abortion to an “assassination.” He said U.S. Catholics would have to “choose the lesser evil” when they vote in November, without elaborating. Francis was speaking in a press conference with journalists after a demanding 12-day tour across Southeast Asia and Oceania. Although...
  • Francis Prays to Some Kind of Allah, Omits Trinity and Sign of the Cross

    09/04/2024 1:23:43 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 27 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | September 4, 2024 | Gloria TV
    Francis Prays to Some Kind of Allah, Omits Trinity and Sign of the CrossFrancis arrived in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on September 3 to begin his 11-day swing through Asia and Oceania.Looking fit and energetic after the 13-hour flight, he joked and laughed.The trip is expected to be the longest and most challenging international trip of his pontificate, his 45th.On Wednesday, Francis received an enthusiastic welcome at Jakarta's cathedral and spoke to bishops, priests and religious.He then met with the Scholas Occurrentes movement and planted a tree. In his final "blessing", he pointed out that the students present represent...
  • Pope Francis Consecrates September to ‘the Cry of the Earth’

    09/01/2024 6:20:13 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/01/2024 | Thomas D Williams PHD
    ROME — Pope Francis has consecrated his monthly prayer intention to “the cry of the earth” this September, urging Christians to feel the earth’s “pain.” “If we took the planet’s temperature, it will tell us that the Earth has a fever,” the pontiff contends. “And it is sick, just like anyone who’s sick.” But are we listening to this pain?” he asks. “Do we hear the pain of the millions of victims of environmental catastrophes?” he continues. “The ones suffering most from the consequences of these disasters are the poor, those who are forced to leave their homes because of...
  • Pope Francis says deliberately opposing migration ‘is a grave sin’

    08/28/2024 7:11:01 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 116 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 28, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    Pope Francis says deliberately opposing migration ‘is a grave sin’Pope Francis condemned efforts to regulate immigration, stating that those who “systemically” work to “repel migrants” are committing a “grave sin.”Leaving aside his series of catechetical addresses, Pope Francis today used his Wednesday audience to address the topic of immigration. “I would like to pause with you to think about the people who – even at this moment – are crossing seas and deserts to reach a land where they can live in peace and safety,” he opened.‘A grave sin’Using the themes of “seas and deserts,” Francis stated that both seas...
  • Not Happy: Pope Francis Decries ‘Wave of Populism’ in Europe

    08/25/2024 6:06:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 72 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/25/2024 | Thomas D Williams PHD
    ROME — Europe is experiencing a crisis evidenced by a “wave of populism” that threatens European universality, Pope Francis warned Saturday. In a message to participants in the European Alpbach Forum, an Austrian nonprofit foundation advocating a strong and democratic Europe, the pontiff said that Europe is “experiencing a time of crisis,” a time “in which various populist movements are enjoying great popularity.” In Europe, “as a result of this ‘wave’ of populism, some ideals have vanished and some principles, with regard to behavior towards the weaker members of society, have been sidelined,” he added.
  • Ex Opus Dei priest to Pope Francis: I should not be suspended for correcting your errors

    08/23/2024 7:55:58 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 26 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 23, 2024 | Father Jesusmary Missigbètò
    Ex Opus Dei priest to Pope Francis: I should not be suspended for correcting your errorsCriticism is not a canonical infraction; there is no canon in the Code of Canon Law that forbids criticism of the Roman Pontiff. In fact, you yourself told the Italian bishops on 21 May 2018: 'It’s not a sin to criticize the Pope, one can do it.'The following is an open letter from Father Janvier Gbénou, also known as Father Jesusmary Missigbètò, to Pope Francis asking for his priestly faculties to be restored to him. Fr. Gbénou has publicly corrected the Pontiff’s theological errors, and...
  • God’s Tradition and Men’s Traditions: A Reply to Protestant Critics

    08/20/2024 7:56:12 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 54 replies
    Remnant Newspaper ^ | August 16, 2024 | Robert Lazu Kmita
    God’s Tradition and Men’s Traditions: A Reply to Protestant CriticsIn the context of a forum where my first article, dedicated to Hugo Klapproth’s[i] argument against the “sola scriptura” doctrine, was discussed, I encountered––as expected––one of the most frequently cited biblical quotes that Protestant believers use to reject the Tradition upheld by Catholics. While there are several such passages in the New Testament, the first of them, and likely the most frequently quoted, appears in the 15th chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew. Due to its significance, I will quote it in full: “Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Glaringly Obvious Signs that the Spirit Guiding Francis’s Synod is NOT Holy

    07/05/2024 4:40:35 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | July 5, 2024 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] Glaringly Obvious Signs that the Spirit Guiding Francis’s Synod is NOT HolyAs we can grasp from the considerations that follow, the Synod on Synodality is perhaps the most vile offense against God taking place in the world today because its leaders suggest that the Holy Ghost is guiding the Synod, whereas it is obvious that the guiding spirit is Satan.“In a synodal style, decisions are made through discernment, based on a consensus that flows from the common obedience to the Spirit.” (Synod on Synodality Preparatory Document)Not many Catholics appear to care much about the ongoing Synod on Synodality,...
  • Vatican excommunicates ex-ambassador to U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, declares him guilty of schism

    07/05/2024 9:07:14 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 43 replies
    A firebrand conservative who became one of Pope Francis' most ardent critics has been excommunicated by the Vatican.Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who once served as the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S., was found guilty of schism. The Vatican's doctrine office imposed the penalty after a meeting of its members on Thursday, a press statement said Friday.The office cited Viganò's "refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the church subject to him and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council," as its reasoning for the ruling. (snip)...
  • [Catholic Caucus] A University Student Reflects on His Discovery of and Love for the TLM

    06/25/2024 6:50:43 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | June 25, 2024 | Peter Kwasniewski
    [Catholic Caucus] A University Student Reflects on His Discovery of and Love for the TLMSubmitted to Rorate by a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville who has just completed his Masters degree.Over the past week there has been abundant speculation and commentary on the possibility of yet another Vatican ban on the Traditional Latin Mass, or the Mass of the Ages. This should come as no surprise. The fides qua of these faithful devotees to the TLM are primarily at odds with what has come from the Vatican in recent years.[1] Rumors of another act against the TLM, while not...