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Pope Francis’s Sharp Left Turn Toward HeresyJorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th successor of St. Peter and the head of 1.4 billion Catholics on March 13, 2013. His pontifical persona as Pope Francis, taken in honor of St. Francis of Assisi — the patron saint of ecology and animals — warmed the hearts of both Catholics and Protestant,s and even non-Christians.But Francis’s honeymoon with faithful Catholics lasted just four months. While flying back from an apostolic visit to Brazil on July 29, 2013, a reporter asked him if there was a “gay lobby” in the Vatican.Francis’s reply was shocking: “If...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller says the Church ‘is not in the world to justify sin’In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews about the crisis in the Church, Cardinal Gerhard Müller warned that the Church's doctrine is being viewed as separate to 'pastoral' practices, and called for a 'reform' of 'deepening the faith.'“The Church is not in the world to justify sin or a life far away from Jesus Christ,” said Cardinal Müller.Speaking to this correspondent in Rome during a recent, wide-ranging interview, Müller gave extensive commentary on the rampant confusion in the Catholic Church, the need for a “reform” as...

Pope Francis’s Letter to American Catholics: A Misguided Polemic Against Freedom and StrengthPope Francis, as usual, tries to cloak Globalism in the mantle of the Magesterium, most recently taking aim at the Trump Administration's border policies.In an open letter to American Catholics dated 11 February 2025, Pope Francis directly challenges the Trump Administration’s desire – and by extension the desire of many conservative leaders in Europe – to impose a rule of law and sanctity of national borders. The Pope states: “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable...

US bishops’ dependence on government funding is putting their integrity at stakeWith government money flowing into the USCCB coffers to the tune of billions of dollars over the last number of years, the question naturally arises: who is really pulling the strings in the Catholic Church in America?Corpus Christ for Unity and Peace’s (CUP) investigation will unveil a systemic issue stemming from inadequate financial oversight, raising the question of who truly governs the Catholic Church in America: the bishops or the government.At the pinnacle is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which has amassed billions of dollars from the...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’ public heresy means he isn’t a member of the Catholic Church: Dr. Edmund MazzaIn conclusion, against the position of Matt Gaspers (and others) it seems it simply must be the case that a public material heretic Pope loses office before any declaratory action on the part of the Church.Matt Gaspers and I have previously—and charitably—debated the likelihood that Francis was ever a valid Pope due to Benedict’s innovation of becoming Pope Emeritus. It is in the same fraternal spirit that I take up the challenge again.Virtually no one disputes that Pope Francis is at least a...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller: ‘A Church that no longer believes in Jesus the Christ’ is no longer His ChurchThe German cardinal criticized “relativism in doctrine” and told his audience that bishops of the Catholic Church “who betray their divine mission in order to avoid being accused of proselytism or of being rigorists for defending Christian morality have forgotten the meaning and reason of their existence.”These comments follow upon the Synod on Synodality, recently completed in Rome, with further commissions continuing to discuss matters such as female ordination and the Church’s moral teachings.Cardinal Müller makes it clear that we are dealing...

Is the Synod Undermining the Unity of the Church?In this final phase of the so-called Synod on Synodality, 368 synodal “fathers and mothers” (yes, really!) participated, of whom 272 were bishops and 96 were non-bishops, gathering around round tables in the Paul VI Hall (a bit cringe, to be honest). According to Pope Francis and the Vatican Press Office, the Final Document is to be regarded as having the value of authentic magisterium.On October 26, 2024, the Final Document of the Second Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, held from October 2 to October...

[Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Fatima vision and the widespread apostasy we see todayWhen explaining what his 1954 vision of Fatima’s miracle of the sun meant, Pope Pius XII replied with one word: apostasy.On a recent episode of Faith & Reason, Fr. Charles Murr told John-Henry Westen about Pope Pius XII’s vision of Fatima’s miracle of the sun. As Fr. Murr recounted, Pius XII had the vision while walking in the Vatican gardens in 1954. When asked what it meant, the pope replied with one word: apostasy. Pope Pius XII was not the only high-ranking cleric to use the word “apostasy”...

ROME — Pope Francis has signed an interfaith statement asserting that humanity faces a “global climate crisis” that demands phasing out fossil fuels. The Abu Dhabi Interfaith Statement for COP28 manifests the signers’ “shared concern for the escalating climate impacts that imperil our cherished planet, as well as our common commitment to jointly address this global crisis.”

[Catholic Caucus] The Pope Cannot Depose Bishops Without Grave CauseEditor’s note: in light of the recent news that the Holy Father, after deposing Bishop Strickland, now allegedly intends to move against Cardinal Burke (again), we present this study in conjunction with Fr. Murray’s recent analysis of the Strickland case. Father Gerald Murray has excellently analyzed the canonical side of Bp. Strickland’s removal. He has demonstrated that the guarantee of due process has been violated. Canon 196 and other related canons were masterfully explained. I myself published a different article that I wrote before having read Father Murray’s analysis. I saw...

Pope Francis has kicked conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke out of his Vatican apartment and stripped him of his salary after he criticized the pontiff's pro-LGBT stance. Francis has decided to punish Burke by revoking his right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against an American prelate this month, according to two sources. It is understood Francis told a meeting of the heads of Vatican offices last week that he was moving against Burke because he was a source of 'disunity' in the church, said one of the participants at the November 20...

Welcome to Muck IslandThe sacking of Bishop Strickland brings to mind the sad plot of Brian Moore’s novella "Catholics".I watched the EWTN interview of Bishop Strickland last night and had nightmares while I slept. The bishop, articulate and, to my mind, innocent of all irony, recounted what had happened in his process of deposition and professed his recognition of the pope’s authority and his obedience to his removal from office. The sincerity of the man’s confusion about why he was singled out was piercing. Many sources have hinted at “administrative” reasons without any real evidence. The fact that the protocol...

[Catholic Caucus] The Synodal Way Won Me OverI have not written on matters of faith in a long time. “Why?” I’m sure no one has asked. I will inflict an answer upon you regardless. It’s simple. I’ve been undergoing a spiritual transformation. I have received a re-catechization and am now awakened. No longer burdened by traditional ideologies, I am forever changed, and it is my wish to pass on this possibility to all. Whoopee? you might say. To which I reply, Whoopi!That is correct. I have been forever improved and perfected by the Vatican’s synodal way. It has been a...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Attempts to Rig the Next Papal ElectionOne of the lies of Liberalism and Marxism is a prideful faith in man’s power of central planning. The idea that if we just create a system, a huge bureaucracy, we can pull all the strings to make that planned utopia come about. His Holiness, “the Dictator Pope” and his Vatican regime of Iconoclasm have been attempting to make Cardinal Martini’s dream a reality with all their central planning to bring about the reign of the “[Anti-]Church of Synodal Synodality.”Or whatever.They think if they just set up everything just right,...

“There’s an unfortunate tendency among Catholics and Protestants alike to relish the misfortunes of the other. When some evangelical megachurch pastor ham-fistedly embraces the LGBT agenda, Catholics will quip that it was inevitable thanks to the Reformation. When Pope Francis appears to undermine orthodox Christian teaching in a garbled answer to some interviewer’s question, Protestants will snark about the “commie pope. Just last week, for example, a short (and admittedly disturbing) video clip of Pope Francis surrounded by scantily-clad circus performers made the rounds on social media, triggering predictable Protestant jeers like, “Never too late to join the Reformation!” But...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s envoy rejects claims of a ‘great divide’ between Francis and the USROME – Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, Pope Francis’s envoy to the United States and one of his new red hat recipients, has rejected perceptions of a “great divide” between the Argentine pontiff and the Church in the United States.Speaking to Crux during a Sept. 29 press point in Rome, Pierre said he would not describe the situation between the pope and the US Church as “a great divide, it’s not a great divide. I think it’s more correct to say that we live in a society which...

Pope Francis, Sexual RevolutionaryPope Francis? A sexual revolutionary? Surely not?We know he’s not good but isn’t that going a bit far?Well, judge for yourselves.A very revolutionary change, sneaked in by Pope Francis during the Covid-19 lockdown, was his Apostolic Letter Spiritus Domini of 10 January 2021, universally changing canon law for the whole Church regarding the so-called “lay institutes” of Acolyte and Lector that Paul VI first introduced (in his Ministeria quaedam of January 1973) to replace “First Tonsure,” the minor clerical Orders of Porter, Lector, Exorcist and Acolyte and the major Order of Sub-deacon.The lay institutes were just that...

[Catholic Caucus] The Lies of SynodalityTwo recent news stories expose the lies that make up “synodality,” that vaunted effort of Church leaders that has been called the “modus vivendi et operandi of the Church.” Before we get to the lies, let’s first review what the Vatican claims “synodality” is: Synodality denotes the particular style that qualifies the life and mission of the Church, expressing her nature as the People of God journeying together and gathering in assembly, summoned by the Lord Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Gospel. Synodality ought to be expressed in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope conceals working of his rigged Synod from the worldGKP calls on Vatican to be open to media at world synod"What concerns everyone should also be discussed and debated transparently for everyone." The Society of Catholic Publicists calls on the Vatican not to exclude the media from the deliberations of the World Synod in October.The German Society of Catholic Publicists (GKP) is calling on the Vatican to make the deliberations of the World Synod in Rome in October open to the media. "What concerns everyone should also be discussed and debated transparently for everyone," explained GKP President Joachim...

Christ, Divine Judge & Just Destroyer: True vs. False Mercy Introduction by M. Matt: Left on its own, Tradition will reconquer the entire Catholic world. I am pleased to present the following sermon as Exhibit A. This sermon was presented by a diocesan priest whom I had never met but recently encountered while on the road. The reality is that, no matter where I travel, I encounter priests and congregations of faithful who are keeping the "old faith" regardless of what is happening in Rome. What follows is a sermon on the doctrine of mercy that may be the best...