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[Catholic Caucus] Apostolic Visitation Against Bishop, One Month After He Rejected Altar Girls Francis will slam San Luis Diocese, Argentina, with his "mercy."On December 5, San Luis Bishop Pedro Daniel Martínez, 63, was informed that Francis ordered an Apostolic Visitation to his diocese from December 10 to 13 (announcement below). It will be carried out by Maldonado-Punta del Este Bishop Milton Luis Tróccolli Cebedio, 55, Uruguay.In July 2014, as a Montevideo auxiliary bishop, Tróccolli was closely involved in the Apostolic Visitation in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, which ended with the removal of the excellent Bishop Rogelio Livieres in September 2014.Martínez...

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-abortion Joe Biden: ‘The Holy Father…gives me Communion’ November 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-abortion former Vice President and 2020 Democratic hopeful Joe Biden has commented on a priest recently upholding Catholic teaching by denying him Holy Communion, saying, “It’s not a position that I’ve found anywhere else, including from the Holy Father, who gives me Communion.” The Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is the literal body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ and therefore may only be received by practicing Catholics in a state of grace. Additionally, Canon 915 of the Catholic Code of Canon...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuits defend Honduran priest whose radio station runs pro-abort views MONTREAL, August 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Jesuits are defending a popular member of their order in Honduras after a Canadian bishops’ investigation found his radio station and foundation publish pro-abortion views.   Fr. Ismael Moreno, known as “Padre Melo” and renowned for his advocacy for impoverished people in his country despite death threats, is the director of the Fundacion ERIC (l'Équipe de réflexion, d’information et de communication) and Radio Progreso in Honduras. Both organizations are among 52 groups in the developing world the Canadian Catholic Organization...

‘Totalitarian’: Cdl. Burke criticizes Vatican-backed universities’ ban on prof who accused pope of heresy June 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke stated that leaders within the Catholic Church appear to be falling into a “kind of totalitarian mentality” with regard to their treatment of Professor John Rist, one of the original 19 signatories of the Open Letter to Bishops accusing Pope Francis of heresy, who was barred from Pontifical Universities without explanation in the wake of signing the Open Letter.  “We seem in the Church to fall into a kind of totalitarian mentality, where people are simply exercising authority...

Critics do a disservice to Open Letter on Pope Francis’ heresies by ignoring its core arguments May 31, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In the wake of the issuance of the “Open letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church” regarding Pope Francis’ alleged guilt of heresy, critics of the letter have been eager to exploit the very real flaws in the document while evading or even distorting its many valid points. Their attempts to dismiss the letter without addressing the legitimate concerns it raises do a disservice to the Catholic faithful, who have a right to expect more of the class...

Sunday, May 19, 2019 [Catholic Caucus] “The Time of Mercy is Over” St. Padre Pio on the field of mercy and justice. The tension between mercy and justice is in the Church's current focus because of Pope Francis' emphasis on mercy. St. Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) also commented on this field of tension in a letter: "Once, when our last hour has passed and our hearts have stopped beating, then everything will come to an end for us, the time to gain graces, as well as the time to forfeit graces. Just as death will find us, so will our...

[Catholic Caucus] No Love Without Law by Ed Faust “For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” – John, 1:17The disintegration of intellect in our time inclines us towards false absolutes. The truth can be many faceted; discrimination and discipline are often required to discern it as correctly and completely as our limitations allow. But many of us want everything to be simple, easy and immediate. So, the truth is often bludgeoned by the large club of lazy thinking.In repeated statements, Pope Francis has established what amounts to a diametrical opposition between law and...

Vatican theologian: Pope contradicts his ‘mercy’ saying it’s better to be ‘atheist’ than hypocrite ROME, January 10, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A prominent theologian has challenged Pope Francis’s recent off-the-cuff remarks implying it’s better to be an atheist than a Christian who hates, saying the Pope sometimes “slips into a contradictory vision” and “schizophrenia that clashes with the very idea of mercy” he seeks to promote. In a Jan. 4 interview with the Italian daily Quotidiano di Foggia, Monsignor Nicola Bux, a theologian consultor to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, said “certain statements, if they fall on weak or unaware groups, are dangerous and have detrimental...

Dec 19 When Mercy and Justice Got Divorced: The Inauthentic Franciscan Magisterium of Off-the-Cuff Comments Pope Francis is at it again. One of his favorite pastimes seems to be taking potshots at anyone who diverges from the “gospel according to Bergoglio,” be that young people who love the Traditional Mass, Cardinals Burke or Sarah, or Archbishop Vigano. This time, it was not traditionalist or conservative-leaning clergy or laity of our time but all of his predecessors for centuries.In a meeting with the International Commission against the Death Penalty, on December 17, Francis cast aside his prepared speech and instead decided to...

Pope Francis: Former popes ignored mercy in using ‘inhuman’ death penalty ROME, December 17, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis today said that popes “in centuries past” ignored “the primacy of mercy over justice” in using the death penalty, which he called an “inhuman and form of punishment” that is now “always inadmissible.”  The Pope’s remarks came in a Dec. 17 address to a delegation from the International Commission against the Death Penalty. During the private audience, the Pope set aside his prepared address and spoke to the delegation in unscripted remarks. After the meeting, the Vatican released the prepared address to reporters, noting that it had...

‘Dictator Pope’ author expelled from Order of Malta Henry Sire has been expelled for his strong criticisms of Pope Francis, but plans to appeal The historian Henry Sire has been expelled from the Order of Malta after writing a book which heavily criticised Pope Francis.Sire was suspended in March, when the Order set up a disciplinary commission. His book, entitled The Dictator Pope, criticised Francis’s interventions in religious orders, and said the Pope had introduced doctrinal ambiguity, following the programme of the “St Gallen mafia” who brought about his election. Sire also claimed the Vatican was increasingly dominated by corrupt...

“May Thy continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend Thy Church” Tissot, The Raising of the Son of the Widow of Naim Sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Rev. Canon Aaron B. Huberfeld Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest May Thy continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend Thy Church. It is always a joy to speak to you after the General Chapter of the Institute, when we priests have been filled with valuable counsels and words of encouragement from our superiors as we begin another year of priestly ministry. Those words could not be more timely, as...

Cardinal Brandmüller Criticises Communion on the Hand, Mercy Ideology “It is evident that receiving Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling expresses the faith in Christ's real presence better than Communion in the hand while standing”, according to Cardinal Walter Brandmüller. Talking to LaFedeQuotidiana.it (July 22), Brandmüller, one of the two living Dubia cardinals, further criticises Pope Francis' mercy ideology, “Mercy is only true if it does not contradict but is in harmony with the other Christian virtues: prudence, temperance, fortitude.”

The bishop of the diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska is restoring full communion in the Catholic Church for five women who will remain members of the heretical group Call to Action Nebraska (CTA) — a move causing concern among faithful Catholics.According to media reports, Bp. James Conley is offering the five women the lifting of their excommunications on an individual basis. Conley, two diocesan officials and the five CTA Nebraska women are reported to have been in talks at the chancery regarding since September 2016."Bishop Conley just desires all Catholics to be in union, so he wants to make that possible for as many people as possible," commented Fr. Nicholas Kipper, spokesman...

BLOCKED by the New catholic Red Guards. How about you? Posted on 4 January 2018 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf In the last couple of days I’ve discovered that I’ve been blocked on Twitter by Fr. Thomas Rosica (@FatherRosica) and by Massimo “Beans” Faggioli (@massimofaggioli).I am not sure why I clicked on a tweet reference to Rosica, since I can’t remember the last time I purposely looked at his feed. I don’t recall ever tweeting to or about him or retweeting. Hence, I don’t know when I was blocked or why.But, I think we all know why.I also am not sure...

A Canadian Catholic banned from her parish for more than a year will now be given full access to the sacraments. Gwen Gumieny has been forbidden by her parish priest to set foot in St. Augustine of Canterbury Church in Brandon, Manitoba — located just across the street from her apartment — since mid-2016. According to Gumieny and several parishioners, the ban was based on malicious rumors, coupled by "persecution" from her pastor, Fr. Michael Savarimuthu. Multiple calls and letters to the archdiocese over a year and a half went largely unanswered, with one chancery staff member, Laura Cumming, even threatening to sue Gumieny...

Then Francis warns, “I am a good Christian, I go to Mass on Sunday, I do works of mercy, I recite prayers, I educate my children well”: this is very well. But the question I ask you is, “you do all this, but have you entered the mystery of Jesus Christ? That, that you can’t control...”. The Pontiff exhorts us to ask, “Saint Paul, a true witness, someone who has met Jesus Christ and allowed himself to be met by Him and entered into the mystery of Jesus Christ: let us pray to him, to Paul, to give us the...

Who knew? Pope can forbid foreigner from visiting Rome Ever since the Porta Pia fell, in 1870, and Rome became the capital of a newly united Italy, no Pope has ever again claimed the right to forbid anyone from coming to Rome. The city is not owned by the Pope, after all, and the temporal power of the papacy has, since 1929, been reduced to the very small limits of Vatican City and a few additional buildings in the region. Alas, that was before Caudillismo had reached the City! If only John Paul II and Benedict XVI had known about...

A mainstay of Internet humor for years, subtitled parodies of the 2004 World War II film drama Downfall have featured a ranting Adolf Hitler touching on every topic du jour under the sun. Today, 1P5 contributor John Zmirak offers his own version — a glimpse into what might be going on behind the scenes today at the Casa Santa Marta. It’s been a long week. This was a well-earned laugh.