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Pope Leo Praises Lutherans: Has Rome Abandoned Trent? Pope Leo XIV has praised the landmark Catholic-Lutheran agreement on justification. While the document's claims about faith, grace, and the Council of Trent raise serious questions about Rome's ecumenical project, the contrast with its treatment of the SSPX is impossible to ignore.In his October 1, 2026 address to the Delegation of the World Lutheran Federation, Leo XIV praised a 1999 joint declaration of the Lutheran World Foundation and the Catholic Church regarding justification:“I am pleased that the Lutheran-Catholic relations have matured both spiritually and theologically over the decades. The international dialogue, now...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Schneider says Amoris Laetitia is ‘against divine law’, must be ‘explicitly correctedAs the Pope gathers prelates to the Vatican to discuss Amoris Laetitia, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has expressed his concerns that the text is a practical “denial of the divine truth of the indissolubility of marriage” and an attack on the “ineffable sanctity of the Holy Eucharist”. The prominent prelate, auxiliary of Astana in Kazakhstan, gave a wide-ranging interview to the Catholic Herald recently, discussing issues such as the Society of Saint Pius X, the traditional Mass, Amoris Laetitia (AL), the recent document commemorating Nostra Aetate...

Election of Leo XIV was the next step in the ‘St. Gallen revolution’ Anyone wishing to gain a clearer understanding of the attacks on the true faith in our time need only look at the telling statements of the St. Gallen Mafia.Anyone wishing to gain a clearer understanding of the attacks on the true faith in our time need only look at the telling statements in which the agitators have revealed their plans. We are referring to the originally secret St. Gallen Group, an association of cardinals and bishops who described themselves as a “mafia.”[1] Its leading figure was Cardinal...

[Catholic Caucus] The Deceptive Tactics of the Silent Revolution Engulfing the Church - by Bishop Robert Mutsaerts The Deceptive Tactics of the Silent RevolutionBy Bishop Robert MutsaertsAux. Bishop of the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsThe Catholic Church has experienced, over two thousand years, virtually everything that can befall an institution: bad popes, corrupt bishops, heresies, schisms, revolutions, persecutions, decadent monasteries, dissolute clergy, and theologians so determined to be original that ultimately only they themselves understood what they meant.And yet the Church endures. Not because Catholics have always been wise — that would be a rather audacious historical hypothesis. The Church survived...