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“Certainly, You would like to see in Benedict as a deacon of conservatism. You, who have known him, you said, in effect, he had a free spirit.” "He was an intelligent man. And the hard-line conservatives, in general, lack intelligence. So, he was more conservative but he was open.

Francis shocks Barcelona seminarians with sexual expletivesThe case of the Pope’s speech at the December 10 meeting with the Barcelona seminarians is snowballing. Instead of reading the prepared speech published on the Vatican website, Bergoglio allegedly spoke off the cuff, denying (again) the need for repentance in order to grant absolution. According to testimonies collected by Germinans Germinabit, he also used vulgar expressions. It necessitates urgent clarification from the Vatican Press Office.The first to break the news was the Catalan blog Germinans Germinabit, edited by a Barcelona lawyer, very attentive to the facts of the Church, especially the Catalan one,...

Via Church Militant. Seminarians from Barcelona say they were scandalized when Pope Francis reportedly used the f-word and other expletives at a papal audience in Rome. According to testimonies from the seminarians, Francis ranted against “f***ing careerists who f*** up the lives of others.” The pope criticized “those who climb to show their a**,” the Italian media outlet Daily Compass reported on Monday. The trainee priests were shocked when Francis also reportedly insisted that priests should never deny absolution to penitents in the confessional under any circumstances. Eyewitnesses describe how the pontiff, at the audience on Dec. 10, tossed his...

‘Catholicism is not proselytism,’ stated Pope Francis in a new interview, repeating his now-familiar comments on the subject of evangelization.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has once again condemned Catholic efforts of evangelization, stating that “Catholicism is not proselytism,” while adding he has “no explanation” for the drop in vocations in recent decades. The Pontiff made the comments in an interview he gave to Spanish language news outlet Mundo Negro back in mid-December, which was published on January 13. He made the statement while fielding a question about the Second Vatican Council, having been asked whether the Church’s “mission” had...

'Catastrophe': Late Cardinal George Pell blasts Pope Francis in secret memoA secret memo that called Pope Francis's papacy a "disaster" and a "catastrophe" was confirmed to have been written by the late Cardinal George Pell, who died on Tuesday. Pell, 81, who served as Francis's first finance minister from 2014 to 2017, wrote a memo that was published under the pseudonym "Demos” in the Vatican journalism blog Settimo Cielo that accused Francis of being silent on controversial topics in Catholicism, including communion for the divorced, female priests, and the German Catholic Church's approach toward the LGBT community. “Commentators of...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Don’t We Have a Place in the Church?’: Read Pope’s Response to Argentine Priest on Seminary’s ClosureEarlier this year an Argentine priest struggling to understand the Vatican’s controversial closure of one of the country’s top seminaries wrote to Pope Francis seeking answers.The priest, maintaining his fidelity and that of his brother priests to the Second Vatican Council, as well as their devotion to the sacraments, the spiritual life, and the sick, inquired whether a literal reading of Vatican II meant the presbyterate was overly rigid.“Is this rigidity bad? Is it ideology? Don't we have a place in the...

Portuguese president finds Vatican’s limits on heads of state at Pope Benedict’s funeral bafflingInviting only two countries to send official representatives reflected the Vatican's indifference toward the deceased pontiff.he president of Portugal voiced his displeasure last week at the Vatican’s restrictions on official delegations and heads of state that many countries in Europe and elsewhere were sending to the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI.The Vatican had officially invited delegations only from Italy and Germany and stated that any other delegations or heads of state would be attending in a private capacity. The Secretariat of State further asked such delegations to...

A group of Vatican conservatives apparently want to remove his woke, anti-capitalist successor Pope Francis in hopes of replacing him with one of their own. The backroom intrigue at the Vatican is heating up as religious Conservatives are plotting to overthrow Pope Francis, makes me think of Revelation 18, actually. This obviously is not the Church that Jesus started at the Cross, but as far as the ‘Whore of Babylon’ goes, it continues to be ‘right on the money’. (snip) FROM THE GATEWAY PUNDIT: The Daily Telegraph reported Sunday that Francis’s conservative adversaries in the Vatican have a “secret plan”...

[Catholic Caucus] How the Swiss Guards prevented the Desecration of Pope Benedict’s Body lying in state inside St. Peter’s BasilicaOne of the most common phrases heard on the ground in Rome and among “Churchy people” on all sides over the past decade since Pope Benedict’s failed attempted partial abdication has been, “THEY’RE WAITING FOR RATZINGER TO DIE.”As in, the infiltrators, the Bergoglians, the Sankt Gallen Mafia, the Freemasons, the sodomites, the Luciferians – however you choose to call them. It has been openly acknowledged by ALL SIDES that there was an unspoken RESTRAINT against any full-out attempt to utterly and...

Pope Francis now has made numerous comments directly contradicting the Catholic teaching about the permissibility of the death penalty.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has once again contradicted Catholic teaching regarding the permissibility of the death penalty, claiming that it is “always inadmissible since it attacks the inviolability and the dignity of the person.” The 86-year-old Pontiff made the claim in his annual meeting with the diplomatic corps of ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, otherwise known as his state of the world address. His lengthy speech was divided into sections, with his critique of the death penalty falling under...

It’s clear that some sort of shakeup to Rome’s diocesan governing apparatus had been coming, but both the specific form the Apostolic Constitution In Ecclesiarum communione took, and the optics created by its promulgation, are terrible.

Archbishop Gänswein has claimed that the late Pope Benedict XVI disapproved of Pope Francis' restrictions on the traditional Mass.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary has revealed that the late Pontiff only learned of Pope Francis’ attack on the traditional Mass by reading about it in the Vatican’s newspaper, and that Benedict thought the measures were a “mistake.” Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the former aide and secretary of the late Benedict XVI, has made the claim in his upcoming book Nothing but the Truth: My Life with Benedict XVI. Due to be published January 12, LifeSiteNews has obtained a...

[Catholic Caucus] Gerhard Ludwig Müller: "Pope Francis' clampdown on the Latin Mass was an imprudence"The following article by Domenico Agasso appeared in La Stampa on January 7, 2023. (link)VATICAN CITY. "Pope Francis' clampdown on the Latin Mass was an imprudence. I suggest to the Pontiff that he be more attentive to all sensibilities within the Church, even those furthest from his own." And he warns of a possible schism on the left in Germany, sounding a sharp "no" to the blessing of gay couples: "It is against the word of God."German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, 75, was a student of...

Pope Francis could be ousted in 'secret plan' by Vatican hardlinersVatican conservatives are waging a “secret plan” to put Pope Francis under such stress that he resigns, it has been claimed. The campaign against the Argentinian pontiff began just days after the death of his predecessor, Benedict XVI.Despite previously stating he will resign if his health deteriorates, it was thought highly unlikely that Francis would decide to step down while Benedict was still alive to avoid there being three Popes living in the Vatican – a situation without precedent that would have embarrassed the Catholic Church.But with Benedict’s death on...

We had the opportunity to read some previews of Mgr Georg Gänswein's book 'Nothing but the truth. My life at the side of Benedict XVI" coming out now from PIEMME Press. Basically it reconfirms what was anticipated in the interviews that have come out in recent days. To be read in full!

An Insider Tell-All Is About to Rip Pope Francis a New OnePope Emeritus Benedict XVI is dead. His right-hand man is about to come out swinging.Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had been dead for just two days when it was revealed that his personal secretary, a striking and influential cleric nicknamed “Gorgeous Georg” by the international press, was publishing a tell-all book that promised to avenge his former boss—and lambast the current pope.The news came as a shock in the world of Vatican observers. In part, that was because it arrived as the faithful were still, literally, mourning the pontiff at...

[Catholic Caucus] Rumours from Rome - an Apostolic Constitution from Francis to all but ban the traditonal Latin MassWhile you think you may enjoy a peaceful Epiphantide glowing in the light of Christmas the Bishop of Rome has other ideas. If my sources are correct, this is imminent, and be prepared for a Lent of suffering and sorrow. Gloria TV is reporting "rumours" from the German blog, Summorum Pontificum (summorum-pontificum.de) that Pope Francis is preparing to unleash a frontal attack on the traditional Latin Mass through the use of an Apostolic Constitution. Whether or not he has waited for Benedict...

[Catholic Caucus] "Francis does to Georg Gänswein what the Jesuits did to him in Buenos Aires": Pack up and leave by February 1Translated from InfoVaticana.The German weekly Die Zeit has published the news that the Pope wants the former personal secretary of Benedict XVI far away from the Vatican.According to German media, Archbishop Georg Gänswein has to move out of the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, Benedict XVI's retreat house, on February 1. According to Die Zeit, Father Georg was informed of the date of his expulsion from the Vatican residence on the same day as the funeral of the Pope Emeritus...

[Catholic Caucus] PopeWatch: The Pettiness and the Cruelty Are the Point

[Catholic Caucus] Gänswein After Visiting Synodality-Francis: “Now I Have To Be Quiet”Archbishop Georg Gänswein is "embittered" because of “malicious” interpretations of his book, taken out of the context, reports the propaganda outlet Corriere.it (January 10).Francis received Gänswein on January 9. After that, Gänswein told friends that he spoke with Francis about the book, adding that, “now I have to shut up.”