Free Republic

"Jesus has no credibility" says Cardinal Farrell "Jesus is not the best person to advise people on marriage," explained Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. "He has no credibility, He never lived the experience; He may be the Son of God, but to go from there to putting His Power into practice every day - He doesn't have that experience." Some will find Cardinal Farrell's words controversial, although it is unlikely that Pope Francis will take any notice of them, let alone correct them. Cardinal Farrell (70) was appointed by Francis, along with Cardinal...

Cardinal Farrell Last week, the Catholic twitter verse was chattering about Bishop Thomas Tobin’s embarrassing, but appropriate questionto Cardinal Kevin Farrell.Bishop Thomas Tobin of Rhode Island, (not to be confused with Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark), called out Cardinal Kevin Farrell for his gratuitous comments that priests have no credibility when it comes to instructing couples on marriage. Bishop Tobin tweeted a pertinent question to Cardinal Farrell, who is the head of the Vatican Dicastery on Laity, Family and Life. ‘We’re from the Vatican, and we’re here for the kids.’ (Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell at meeting in preparation for...

DUBLIN, Ireland, July 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A “better, faithful alternative” to the World Meeting of Families will offer Catholics an opportunity to celebrate and share Christ’s vision for marriage and family life based on actual magisterial Church teachings. “A Conference of Catholic Families,” presented by the Lumen Fidei Institute, will be held August 22-23 in Dublin, Ireland, where the Vatican’s World Meeting of Families is taking place. Conference organizers felt compelled to coordinate the conference, which will feature speakers who are uncompromising on Catholic doctrine, after witnessing the flagrant LGBT push associated with the Vatican’s meeting which will include a...

For years, Paul Likoudis, our late and beloved colleague at The Wanderer, chronicled the role of homosexuality in the crimes committed by clerics. Long before The Boston Globe published its “exposé” in early 2002, Paul reported on one instance after another of abuse and cover-up in chanceries nationwide. For his yeoman efforts, he was ridiculed, hectored, threatened, bullied, and, above all, studiously ignored whenever possible by one guilty bishop after another. When The Globe’s series appeared in January 2002, the bishops could no longer persist in their obstinate denial. But they immediately insisted that they had the problem under control....

On Wednesday night FBN host Lou Dobbs reported that the FBI sent five top agents over to the White House this week to alter the House Intel FISA memo. This was after the House Intelligence Committee voted on Monday to release the classified FISA memo that exposes FISA abuse by the Obama FBI and Department of Justice.   Lou Dobbs told his audience: Our chief correspondent at the White House, John Roberts, telling us that the new version of the memorandum has been altered in some ways by the White House review. Five professional members of the FBI were...

The World Meeting of Families in August in Dublin, Ireland, will focus on the "entirety" of controversial document Amoris Laetitia according to Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life. Talking to The Tablet (January 25), Farrell claimed that hotly debated points such as allowing adulterers to receive Holy Communion were only “contentious in the eyes of a few.” The Gospel says about the few, "Small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Mt 7,14). According to his own words Farrell seems to believe...

I just sent this to another FReeper on private mail.________________I need your help ..... or the help of any others who can help. I just saw what I consider the most important interview on Lou Dobbs tonight. I saw it during its second showing of the night a few minutes ago. I feel that everyone who cares about this country AND about President Trump must see this interview. I have done a quick search so far and had no luck so far finding it. I will keep searching for another hour or so, then search again around 2:30 a.m. EST....

A high-ranking Vatican cardinal suggested that the upcoming 2018 Synod of Bishops on youth will be a vehicle of "change" to the Catholic Church under the Francis pontificate.  Cardinal Kevin Farrell, appointed by Pope Francis to head the Vatican's life and family dicastery, told young people during a televised youth forum that aired Sunday that the Pope wants to hear the voice of young people to bring about change in the Church.  RELATED: Francis-appointed Cardinals back Jesuit’s pro-LGBT book “We really need to let our voice be heard, if not, life will go on as before. And that is not the...

1 – Then-Indianapolis Abp. Tobin rejected Governor Pence’s authority (in CCC 2241.2) to "make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions” and had Catholic Charities settle the Syrian refugee family. Gov. Pence told media he “disagreed with the Church”--but wasn’t it actually Tobin who “disagreed with the Church”? 2 – Now-Cardinal Farrell’s Dallas Catholic Charities housed Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Ohio terrorist, when he first came to the U.S., even though Governor Abbott opposed the settlement of refugees until they were fully vetted.

Newly designated Cardinal, Bishop Kevin Farrell, an American and head of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life has given an interview to the French publication, La Croix published also at the National "Catholic" Reporter. Bishop Kevin J. Farrell - Official Photograph (Courtesy of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas).jpg "Honestly, I do not see how and why some bishops seem to think they have to interpret this document, "said in an interview to the National Catholic Reporter to be published on Thursday, November 17, the one to whom Pope Francis entrusted the pastoral family." "I believe that the document Amoris...

Cardinal-designate Kevin J. Farrell believes the U.S. bishops as a whole should have discussed pastoral guidelines for implementing Pope Francis' exhortation on the family before individual bishops began issuing guidelines for their own dioceses. Implementing the pope's exhortation, "Amoris Laetitia," he said, "has to be done in communion with our bishops. I think that it would have been wiser to wait for the gathering of the conference of bishops where all the bishops of the United States or all the bishops of a country would sit down and discuss these things." A conference-wide discussion, he told Catholic News Service Nov....

The Catholic prelate Pope Francis recently appointed both as a cardinal and the head of the Vatican's new centralized office for laypeople says he considers the pontiff's apostolic exhortation on family life inspired by the Holy Spirit and plans to make it his department's guiding document. Speaking in an NCR interview Thursday, Cardinal-designate Kevin Farrell said he has a hard time understanding why some bishops have reacted negatively to Amoris Laetitia ("The Joy of Love.") "I honestly don't see what and why some bishops seem to think that they have to interpret this document," said Farrell, the head of the...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell Tuesday introduced an ordinance that would require firearms dealers to videotape all gun and ammunition sales and share ammunition sales data with police. The ordinance would require gun stores to keep all videos made of gun and ammunition sales for at least a year, and all records of ammunition sales for up to five years, according to Farrell.

The Center for Medical Progress, the prolife group exposing Planned Parenthood’s participation in the trafficking of human organs from aborted babies, released a fifth video yesterday. The fifth video focuses on discussions with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Director of Research Melissa Farrell. Over lunch and back at Planned Parenthood’s Gulf Coast offices, Farrell discusses her work procuring human fetal organs and other specimens and helps the journalists posing as human fetal organ purchasers look at the organs that could have been procured from an 18-week-old aborted human fetus. That portion of the video shows technicians sifting through a casserole dish...

This morning, Sgt. Shawn Farrell will arrive in the Hudson Valley and be formally escorted to his home in Accord. Farrell died April 28 when forces attacked his unit with small arms fire in Nejrab District, Kapisa province, in Afghanistan. He graduated in 2008 from Rondout Valley High School and was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light) in Fort Drum, New York. His body is set to arrive at Stewart International Airport around 10 a.m. Then, his family, members of the United States Military, members of the Accord and Kripplebush...

Bringing to an end a quest that began a year ago, the Red Sox hired John Farrell to be their new manager, signing their former pitching coach to a multi-year deal. The Sox, who first attempted to hire Farrell in October of 2011 only to be rebuffed by the Toronto Blue Jays' demand for pitcher Clay Buchholz. After a drawn-out interview process, the Sox hired Bobby Valentine, whom they fired the day after the 2012 season following a 69-73 season, the worst record for a Red Sox team since 1965. Farrell, 51, managed the Toronto Blue for the last two...

Though a consistently good show, few conservatives mistook M.A.S.H for anything but pinko propaganda. Last week long-time M.A.S.H star Mike Farrell (Capt. B.J. Hunnicut) took the last few baby-steps and started spouting outright Communist propaganda. In a letter to President Obama, Farrell officially partners with Castro’s KGB-trained DGI urging the release of five of their agents and officers who were convicted in 2001 of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. and conspiracy to murder Americans. The Supreme Court has twice upheld the convictions of these Communist terrorists and accessories to murder. In 1933, Stalin’s propaganda chief, Willi Munzenberg, re-monikered...

Good news, Americans are "downbeat about today. Upbeat about tomorrow," says the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll. "Americans feel battered by hard times, record home foreclosures, stubbornly high unemployment rates and war." And yes, we are "fed up with Washington and convinced more than 3 to 1 that the nation is heading in the wrong direction," yet there's "confidence that there will be better times ahead, that the classic American dream endures and hasn't been extinguished. It's not even at its low ebb." Why? Because we're in denial!

According to reports from Afghanistan, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell and his driver/interpreter have been kidnapped while attempting to cover the story of the NATO airstrike on the two Taliban-hijacked tankers in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The local Afghan press is reporting on Farrell's kidnapping; however, the international press and the wires services have been silent on this issue. Multiple sources in Afghanistan tell me that The New York Times is attempting to suppress the reporting on Farrell's kidnapping. Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/2009/09/nyt_reporter_kidnapped_in_kund.php#ixzz0QO1gsSUt

Tami Farrell, the newly crowned beauty queen who is replacing the ousted Carrie Prejean as Miss California, apparently holds the same view as her predecessor, Carrie Prejean, that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Farrell, who is Christian, on his show today: "[Prejean] went out and said that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you share that view?" Farrell responded in the affirmative with a simple, "Uh huh." "You do, OK," said Cavuto. Farrell quickly added: "I don't think that I have the right or anybody has...