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Could Cardinal Prevost be the first American pope?Seemingly out of nowhere, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is being discussed as a serious candidate in the upcoming conclave.Why this piece is important: Prevost is being seriously considered as a papal candidate—but questions surround his silence and his actions as Prefect for the Dicastery of Bishops. The big picture: Prevost has cooperated in advancing Francis’ agenda, facilitated the appointment of heterodox bishops throughout the world, and tacitly denied the traditional teaching on the episcopate. Flashpoint: He oversaw the deposition of the most conservative U.S. bishop (Strickland) and the appointment of a notorious liberal...

[Catholic Caucus] The New York Times: "Catholics Who Prefer Latin Mass Pin Hopes on a New Pope"Main excerpts below:Catholics Who Prefer Latin Mass Pin Hopes on a New Pope Ruth GrahamThe New York TimesMay 7, 2025 (page A12)About 140 people came to the Sweetest Heart of Mary church in Detroit for the Traditional Latin Mass at noon the Sunday after Easter. Incense and organ music wafted through the ornate sanctuary, built by Polish Catholics in the late 19th century. It was a beautiful sunny spring afternoon, and the lilacs by the rectory were in bloom.In the pews, however, the mood...

D.C. Cardinal Slams Trump’s Migration Reforms as ‘Crusade’“The pathway of crusade and mass deportation cannot be followed in conscience by those who call themselves disciples of Jesus Christ, and we must work to make sure that that does not happen,” Cardinal Robert McElroy said in a speech to the Jesuit Refugee Service organization in D.C.McElroy called for welcoming policies similar to those established by President Joe Biden’s border czar, Alejandro Mayorkas, saying:The first pathway — which Catholic social teaching would support — is to change our laws so that they have secure borders and dignity for the treatment of everyone...

[Catholic Caucus] Parolin Represents "Everything That Is Wrong""No, Parolin, you will not be Pope," writes Jaime Gurpegui on InfoVaticana.com (March 28).What Pietro Parolin signed with the socialist Sánchez regime in Spain regarding the Valle de los Caídos, together with the sell-out of the Catholic Church to the Chinese state, "disqualifies him for life from occupying the chair of Saint Peter".Therefore, Parolin will not be Pope: "Because Catholics with memories, those of us who do not swallow betrayal wrapped in diplomatic cellophane, will remind him relentlessly".A man who hands over living temples to the enemies of the faith, who collaborates with...

Washington’s new archbishop expresses concern about impact of policies on undocumented immigrants and federal workersIn an interview five days before he would be installed as the new archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy expressed concern about the personal impact of the Trump Administration’s controversial policies of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and the widespread firings of federal workers.When asked what his message would be to the immigrant community at this time, Cardinal McElroy said, “Sorrow. Love, embrace, compassion. Advocacy and solidarity. And all done in God’s name.”In the wide-ranging March 6 interview with the editors of the Catholic Standard...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland calls on Holy See to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Cardinal McElroy to DCAny bishop or cardinal who has enabled abuse, minimized its severity, or failed to act decisively to protect victims must be held accountable – not elevated to positions of greater authority.Editor’s note: The following is a statement from Bishop Joseph Strickland on the appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy to the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., first published on March 13, 2025, on Strickland’s Facebook page.As shepherds of Christ’s flock, bishops are called to be vigilant in safeguarding the integrity of the Church and the souls entrusted...

[Catholic Caucus] New DC Cardinal McElroy has long record of promoting LGBT ideology, downplaying abortionThe newly-installed archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, has strongly pushed for giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, repeatedly attacked Catholic doctrine on sexuality, promoted LGBT activists, and encouraged ‘ordination’ of women, among other things.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert McElroy was installed on Tuesday as the eighth archbishop of Washington, D.C., making him one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. Catholic Church. But the former San Diego bishop has made a reputation for himself as a particularly heterodox, controversial prelate. McElroy has...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Who Approved Communion for Nancy Pelosi Becomes New DC ArchbishopEarlier this year, Pope Francis selected liberal Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to succeed the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory as Archbishop of Washington. Gregory is the Catholic leader in the nation’s capital who would never take Biden to task for his aggression abortion promotion.McElroy is a liberal Catholic who has made headlines for supporting the administration of Holy Communion to Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, even though they are ardent abortion activists.He came under fire years ago for approving communion for radical pro-abortion Democrat Nancy Pelosi despite...

[Catholic Caucus] Welcome to Washington, Cardinal McElroy!Cardinal McElroy will be installed as the new Archbishop of Washington tomorrow, in the Basilica of the National Shrine.He is receiving some warm welcome:For the story on the unbelievable events leading to this, read this from Crux in 2018:Lay woman’s saga illustrates clerical sexual abuse of adults...Yet another example, only now coming to light, is the case of Rachel Mastrogiacomo, who, at age 24, was raped in Satanic cult-like fashion by a Catholic priest as he celebrated a private Mass for the two of them. And, she says, when she came forward to the...

Cardinal Cupich praises Muslim ‘brothers and sisters’ at annual ‘Iftar’ dinner for RamadanThe liberal Chicago cardinal has received intense criticism on social media for attending a 'Muslim-Catholic Iftar.'Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich is under fire for attending an annual Muslim-Catholic “Iftar” dinner.“Happy to be at the … Muslim-Catholic Iftar in Morton Grove tonight to break the daily fast observed by our Muslims brothers and sisters during Ramadan,” Cupich said on X yesterday.Cupich is one of the most liberal members of the clergy in the United States. He has attended multiple Iftar dinners in the past, dating to at least 2016. His...

Cardinal Gregory has long history promoting Dr. King’s dreamsCardinal Wilton Gregory gives the homily during the annual Mass sponsored by The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington honoring the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which was held Jan. 13, 2024 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Washington, D.C. (Catholic Standard file photo by Mihoko Owada)Then-Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s appointment as the seventh archbishop of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington was announced on April 4, 2019, which also happened to be the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Speaking to the...

Incoming DC archbishop McElroy says he has no plans to meet with Trump but spoke at length with BidenCardinal McElroy revealed that he ‘had a lengthy call with President Biden the other day,’ though the left-wing, heterodox prelate said that he is not currently planning to see President Trump after his installation as archbishop of Washington, D.C.Cardinal Robert McElroy has indicated that he has no plans to meet President Donald Trump after his installation as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C., next month, yet he recently had a “lengthy” conversation with former President Joe Biden. McElroy, currently the bishop of...

[Catholic Caucus] United States: Cardinal Cupich Supports Adoption by Same-Sex CouplesCardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, is definitely one of the most progressive and divisive figures in the American episcopate. He published an article on the Outreach website – a reference for LGBTQ Catholics according to their logo – in which he highlighted in a very positive way the possibility of same-sex couples adopting children.In this article, the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago first explains that the clergy – in which he places himself – must not “presume” people, to think that they know better than the faithful. And he gives...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago: Where Eucharistic Revival Goes to DieLayer upon layer of Eucharistic practice was constructed over the millennia as protection against the slightest attenuation of Catholic doctrine regarding the Eucharist. For over sixty years, it has been breached.For all its good intentions, the grand project of Eucharistic Revival is barely limping to its finish line. Applause is in order, for at least it noticed a precipitous loss of faith in the central mystery of Catholicism. But its cure was carefully wrapped in the naïve gauze that created the fatal lapse in the first place. Look at its official website:...

[Catholic Caucus] Portuguese Cardinal Defends His Decision to Take Part in Communist Party RallyA Portuguese cardinal who was elevated to the College of Cardinals last year caused controversy earlier this month when he attended a communist rally held by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the country’s oldest communist party and reputed to be one of the strongest in Western Europe. Cardinal Américo Aguiar, bishop of Setúbal diocese just outside Lisbon, defended his decision to take part in last weekend’s rally in Almada near Lisbon, saying he did so because the communists and socialists who attended it were close to the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Radcliffe: Church Can Learn “A Bit of Truth” From LGBTQ+ CatholicsCardinal Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., remarked on what he has learned from his lengthy pastoral career among LGBTQ+ Catholics. In an interview ahead of his creation as cardinal, The Dialog reported that when asked about how to square pastoral concerns with the church’s sexual ethics, Radcliffe replied:“When we meet people who are different from us, with whom we disagree, instead of dismissing them as always wrong, we have to be open to receive the bit of truth that they have from which we can learn.”Radcliffe, who was once...

[Catholic Caucus] Faggocardinal Cupich Embraces The Spirit Of SatanThis guy really is too much of a scoundrel. It is already bad enough that this little, miserable sissy undermines Catholicism at every step. It is a whole different problem when he suddenly invents new categories and definitions that have no place whatsoever in Church history.Receiving Holy Communion is not a cooperative act. The communicants aren’t playing baseball. They are not carrying a coffin. They receive individually, and they only receive because they have made an individual assessment on whether they are both worthy of receiving, and willing to do so.The idea...

[Catholic Caucus] Is Kneeling for Communion a Disruption?It is important to remind the faithful of their canonical right to receive Holy Communion while kneeling, regardless of the form of the Sacred Liturgy that they attend.His Eminence Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has recently written a letter in his archdiocesan publication discouraging the practice of kneeling for the reception of Holy Communion. Now, I state straightaway that I am not here to encourage anyone to be disrespectful to their ordinary, and it is not my place to theorize on motives. However, I wish to express my respectful disagreement and remind the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich discourages kneeling for Holy Communion, says standing is the ‘norm’Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich, has written a letter discouraging the laity from kneeling to receive the Eucharist, instead favoring standing, which he described as the ‘norm established by Holy See for the universal church.’Cardinal Blaise Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has all but forbidden Catholics from kneeling to receive the Blessed Sacrament. “[N]o one should engage in a gesture that calls attention to oneself or disrupts the flow of the procession [to and from Holy Communion],” he wrote. Cupich expressed this interdict – and other...

[Catholic Caucus] Polish Cardinal Now Open to Legal Protections for LGBTQ+ CouplesIn a move divergent from a history of intense LGBTQ-negative advocacy from Polish Catholic officials, Warsaw’s Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz has expressed openness to legal protections for same-gender couples in the country.In comments to Polsat News, Nycz stated that the church should show a “certain tolerance” for those seeking to enter same-gender partnerships through a civil contract, as long as these relationships were not equated with marriage.These comments come on the heels of a recent draft of a partnership law published by Polish Minister for Equality Katarzyna Kotula, which proposes...