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COVID-19, global warming and diminishing Catholic guiltWould that the pope could declare vaccine skeptics and climate-change deniers heretics and put their books, articles, Facebook pages and tweets on the Index of Forbidden Books.(RNS) — COVID-19 and global warming are enough to make me long for the days of clerical power and Catholic guilt. In those good/bad old days, the church’s hierarchy was able to issue thunderous edicts and most Catholics would follow its directions like sheep. If the laity did not, they would feel guilty and fear going to hell.The church used to have the power to make and break...

Dissident priest Fr. James Martin wants you to celebrate LGBT ‘pride month’It’s especially important for churches to celebrate ‘pride,’ the Jesuit said.June 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Fr. James Martin, S.J., the most outspoken force within U.S. Catholicism for the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism within the Church, wants you to know that he thinks all Catholics should celebrate “pride month.”In a video tweet posted on the second day of this year’s so-dubbed “pride month,” Martin claimed that it’s “a celebration of the human dignity of a group of people who have been for so long treated like dirt.” The Jesuit...

Fr. Martin Cites Boris Johnson’s Catholic Wedding to Push Same-Sex BlessingsCV NEWS FEED // Rev. James Martin, SJ, cited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wedding in the Catholic Church to suggest “same-sex couples” should receive the same “mercy and compassion.”Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds, with whom he has a child, at the Westminster Cathedral over the weekend.The Catholic Cathedral told media that the couple are both “parishioners” there, leading to speculation that Johnson, who was baptized Catholic but confirmed in the Church of England, has returned to the Catholic Church.Johnson and Symonds’ son was recently baptized Catholic.“#BorisJohnson, a twice-divorced...

Prominent Jesuit calls for young people to be banned from traditional Mass ‘Children and young people should not be allowed to attend such Masses,’ the dissident priest demanded.April 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The dissident former editor of Jesuit-run America Magazine, Fr. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., has launched a scathing attack on traditional Catholics and the traditional Mass, declaring that the form of the Mass which was the norm before the Second Vatican Council should “disappear,” and that children should be banned from attending it.Fr. Reese’s April 13 piece appeared at Religion News Service, and was entitled “The future of Catholic...