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LGBT-friendly Irish bishop gives talk to dissident ‘Catholic’ group pushing for women priests‘We Are Church Ireland’ continue to call for the ordination of women priests, a heretical position at odds with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.(LifeSiteNews) — An Irish bishop who previously described a ban on same-sex marriage blessings as “hurtful” has told the dissident “We Are Church Ireland” group that the “door isn’t closed” on the question of married priests.“We Are Church Ireland” rejects magisterial teaching on the male-only priesthood, sodomy, abortion, divorce and the denial of Holy Communion to those in adulterous relationships.Bishop Paul Dempsey, the youngest...

Addressing Radical Leftists, Pope Francis Demands Global Tyranny to Enforce a Return to Medieval AusterityPope Francis offers his services as chaplain to our Oligarchy. Pilgrims at the Vatican display the pagan fertility goddess, Pachamama, which Pope Francis venerated during church services in Rome.In case anyone was still fooling himself on the subject, Pope Francis is not “apolitical,” not a figure who “transcends left and right.” In fact, I’m driven to ask if he is really a Christian leader of any kind. Having helped to edit one of his books and followed his statements for years, I don’t know what religious...

A Warning to the Carmelites of FairfieldLast month a couple of the nuns of the Fairfield Carmel were seen attending Mass at the FSSP apostolate, our parish in the ancient centre, Santissima Trinita dei Pellegrini. These are the sisters who have become famous throughout the Traditional Catholic world for their attempt to live the Teresian Discalced Carmelite life in the most authentic and faithful way possible.Puzzling as it may have been for strictly cloistered nuns to be out and about, it was cleared up a few days later with an article announcing that the Fairfield Carmelites are about to undergo...

[Catholic Caucus] Flashback: Francis is in SCHISM from ALL Valid Popes in History who Reject his Sacrilege of Communion for Adulterers Remember when Francis and his collaborators cry “SCHISM” it means they are AFRAID!What are they afraid of?They are AFRAID that it will finally get through the cowardly and apparently not too bright heads of the few faithful bishops that:Zero valid popes in the history of the Catholic Church have committed the sacrilege of instituting as the Vatican’s official teaching that unrepentant adulterous couples can profane the Holy of Holy Jesus Christ who is true God by having unrepentant sinners...

Swiss Guard calls Vatican vax mandate ‘scandalous, inhumane’ after being ousted over jab refusal'What we are experiencing has nothing human let alone Christian about it, and it is truly intolerable to see the holy Vatican City come to this point!'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A member of the Swiss Guard who lost his job after refusing an abortion-tainted COVID-19 injection penned an open letter to Vatican officials on October 8 slamming them over their anti-Catholic vaccine mandates. “How many of my dear colleagues have unfortunately succumbed to a medical treatment to which they did not give full consent, compelled by force,...

[Catholic Caucus] Declaration of Catholic Faith Against Francis’s SynodWe are Catholics who seek to honor God and save our souls by following our Catholic Faith, which we know was handed down by Jesus Christ to His disciples and faithfully transmitted through the ages despite the constant attacks of those who hate God and His Catholic Church. The Church has always responded to these attacks on its immutable teaching by defining the truths of the Faith to render them plainly clear to all men of good will and immune to legitimate misinterpretation.Despite these efforts to defend the Church, deceitful men have...

[Catholic Caucus] Schneider: Ideologist Francis Accuses Others of "Ideology," Wants "Another Faith"In Communism, news presented exclusively Communist ideology, Bishop Schneider told CrisisMagazine.com (October 8), while in this "so-called pandemic time," official news is "all the same from morning to evening, continuously brainwashing the people."Schneider reminds that in democratic societies, it's legitimate to doubt the official narrative while in Soviet times, dissenters were labelled “enemies of the people” and in Covid propaganda they are called “enemies of health” or “enemies of the neighbour.”“We are living in a society of lies, and this is communism — substantially, intrinsically a system of lies,”...

Saint Peter’s Square: Decadence Is SproutingFrancis’ Wednesday's audience was very brief, few greetings, very few people in the audience hall, Specola (InfoVatican.com, October 13) reports.Many chairs were removed, and still, the hall wasn’t full. Despite warm days in Rome, the audiences don’t take place in Saint Peter’s square where the absence of people would be too evident.The consequence:The noble paving stones of St Peter's Square are filling up with weeds as a "living image of decadence" (article image) - writes Specola.

Ethnic Diversity and the Latin MassIn a recent article in the Illinois Times, Massimo Faggioli, a theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia, is quoted as follows, of a specific Traditional Mass location:It’s not an accident that all of these Catholics at the old Mass are white, because one of the things that happened after Vatican II was an ‘inculturation’ of the liturgy. …The Latin Mass is white and European by its definition, because it’s a product of the Catholic Church of the 16th century. So, this is creating serious problems because it is never limited to the liturgy only,...

Violent Clashes Mar Pope’s Synodal KickoffFrancis trashes 'tradition,' calls for openness to the 'spirit of the age' VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis kicked off his much-talked-up 2021–2023 Synod on Synodality, attacking the tendency to adopt "old solutions" and calling for a "Church of listening," as violent clashes against Italy's medical tyranny erupted in Rome. Pope leads reflection on synodality in Vatican's synod hall Speaking on the synod's theme — "For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission" — on Saturday, the pontiff quoted liberal French theologian Fr. Yves Congar urging, "We must not make another Church, we must make...

Why Is God Missing in the Economy of Francesco?The Economy of Francesco is the name of an initiative of Pope Francis in which he invites “young economists, entrepreneurs and change-makers of the world” to address the world’s economic problems. The project seeks to be an explosive source of energy and new ideas for a tired world in need of change. The primary vehicle for communicating this message is a multilingual website of the same name that presents the results of “listening” to “peoples” and “hearts” to construct a better world. Occasional online events and videos also populate the site and...

By listening to Holy Spirit, synod can be process of healing, pope saysVATICAN CITY — A synod calls on everyone to become experts in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis said, formally opening the process leading up to the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2023.“Celebrating a synod means walking on the same road, together” just like Jesus did — encountering, listening and discerning with all who one meets, the pope said in his homily at the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Oct. 10.“Are we prepared for the adventure of this...

Cardinal who runs the Synod (“walking together”): “It is a grace that today Christendom is no more.”The man who runs the Synod (“walking together”), Mario Card. Grech.“It is a grace that today Christendom is no more. Because we felt we had arrived: the Church as a” perfect society “. And whoever is perfect doesn’t feel the need to seek, to improve, to convert, to set out on the path listening to the Spirit, wheras this is the Gospel.”“È una grazia, che oggi non ci sia più la cristianità. Perché ci sentivamo arrivati: la Chiesa come “società perfetta”. E chi è...

Resisting temptation: Synod process relies on faith, trustVATICAN CITY — From Australia’s Plenary Council, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane tweeted, “Our small group facilitator was for years a midwife, and she says the process is like giving birth: slow, painful, messy, but in the end fruitful and joyful.”The Australian council, which was holding its first assembly Oct. 3-10, is one example of large “synodal” processes taking place around the world.Just as that assembly was scheduled to close, Pope Francis was scheduled to launch the global process leading up to the meeting of the world Synod of Bishops in 2023.And the...

Bishop Schneider Explains The Deepest Crisis Of The Catholic Church TodayLink to video of Bishop Scheider

Nancy Pelosi discusses environment, migration, and human rights at VaticanVatican City, Oct 8, 2021 / 11:30 amHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) discussed the environment, migration, and human rights during a visit to the Vatican on Friday.The Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced the visit on Oct. 8 in a post on its Twitter account.It said: “We welcome Speaker Pelosi from the U.S. House of Representatives. We talked about caring for the environment, in the light of [Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical] Laudato si’, migration issues, human rights, health in times of pandemic, and the work of the Vatican COVID...

The incredibly obvious… the problem in the Church today is …. THE LATIN MASS!Link to short video of a Novus Order Mass: "the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite" per Jorge Bergoglio

Pope Francis: All Religious Traditions Must Resist ‘Temptation to Fundamentalism’Speaking on a stage together with Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu representatives, Pope Francis appealed for peace amid the world’s current conflicts.VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis asked leaders of world religions to resist “the temptation to fundamentalism” for the sake of peace at an interreligious gathering Thursday in front of the Colosseum.Peace “summons us to serve the truth and declare what is evil when it is evil, without fear or pretense, even and especially when it is committed by those who profess to follow the same creed as us,” the...

Opus Dei have an ‘indirect complicity with the destructive course’ of Pope Francis: psychologistIn the second part of LifeSite's interview with Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, he referred to 'symptoms of over-compliance to the homosexuality policy of this Pope' in Opus Dei, and called for Opus Dei to apologize for Bishop Bonnemain’s grievous misbehavior as a member of Opus Dei.'(LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, a Dutch psychologist and expert in questions of homosexuality, has given LifeSiteNews an interview, in which he discussed, in a first part, the errors about same-sex unions as promoted by the Swiss bishop Joseph...

Congressman Langevin responds to Bishop (Thomas) Tobin on abortion rights legislationPROVIDENCE — Democratic US Representative James R. Langevin this week responded to Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin’s criticism of his support for an abortion rights bill, saying he is guided by the Constitution.And while Bishop Tobin has castigated other Catholic politicians for supporting abortion rights, Langevin said Pope Francis has suggested that bishops and priests need to be “guides and shepherds” rather than “disciplinarians.”Last month, Langevin announced he had changed his stance on abortion rights and would back federal legislation that would enshrine a nationwide right to abortion.“Although I remain...