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A RORATE Guide: The Who's Who of Bad Options in the ConclaveRorate has chosen to provide a list that is useful for identifying those who may not be the best choices available for the Cardinal Electors in the 2025 Conclave -- for doctrinal or moral reasons, or simply for reasons of administrative ineptitude.After 12 years of doctrinal disaster, moral ambiguity, and administrative authoritarianism and chaos, the Church deserves unity and peace.This is our guide of problematic Cardinals: if you hear one of the names below after the Habemus Papam... it could be a sign of trouble in the years ahead:...

LGBT group praises cardinal for inclusion in Holy Thursday liturgy: ‘Historic The new cardinal of Naples will wash the feet of a prominent LGBT activist during Maundy Thursday liturgy this year, in a move hailed as support for the LGBT lifestyle by activists.The new cardinal of Naples will wash the feet of a prominent LGBT activist during Maundy Thursday liturgy this year, in a move hailed as support for the LGBT lifestyle by activists.As highlighted by Messa in Latino, the newly minted cardinal of Naples, Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, will include a prominent LGBT activist in the Maundy Thursday Mandatum ceremony...

[Catholic Caucus] Ralph Martin emphasizes danger of heretical cardinals taking part in the next papal conclaveDr. Ralph Martin pointed to Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s warning of the ‘unseemly prospect’ of a cardinal, ‘excommunicated latae sententiae due to heresy, voting in a papal conclave.’Author and seminary professor Dr. Ralph Martin highlighted in a recent video the danger of the participation of heretical cardinals — like Robert McElroy — in the next papal conclave. Last week, Dr. Martin pointed to an article by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, in which the orthodox bishop called out the heresy of certain prelates and warned...

[Catholic Caucus] The true enemies of the Church are bad CatholicsOn the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the anniversary of her first apparition to Saint Bernadette, I offer this reprise from our kind benefactor NC:It is a well-known account. Sister Marie Bernarde (Bernadette) Soubirous is in the convent of the Sisters of Charity in Nevers, it is 1870, war is raging throughout northern France as the Prussian-led German armies march towards Paris. The first printed version of the account,* published while she was still living, is the following. A visitor came to Bernadette at that time and made her...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich calls for more ‘listening’ and ‘dialogue’ with ‘LGBT Catholics’The Chicago archbishop wrote in Fr. James Martin’s heterodox Outreach publication that the faithful should 'put aside preconceptions' about their LGBT brethren.Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago wrote a column earlier this month for Fr. James Martin’s heterodox Outreach publication urging the faithful to “listen” to “LGBTQ Catholics.”In the article, Cupich called for Catholics to “put aside preconceptions” about their LGBT brethren and instead engage in more “dialogue” and “listening” with them. The cardinal, who is the archbishop of Chicago, has long held pro-LGBT and other stances at odds...

[Catholic Caucus] Sexual abuse victim slams Pope Francis for appointing McElroy to DC archdiocese: ‘He spat in my face’Rachel Mastrogiacomo said Pope Francis ‘spat right in my face’ by promoting Cardinal Robert McElroy to the Archdiocese of Washington three months after she sent him a letter detailing McElroy’s protection of a now-laicized ex-priest who subjected her to satanic abuse.A survivor of satanic sexual abuse whose abuser was left in active ministry by Cardinal Robert McElroy for more than a year after confessing guilt slammed Pope Francis’ appointment of the controversial San Diego cardinal to the Archdiocese of Washington.“Roman Catholics in...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis-appointed cardinal of Naples gives platform to LGBT activist during MassCardinal Domenico Battaglia allowed an LGBT activist to promote homosexual and transgender propaganda to the faithful during Mass at the Naples cathedral just weeks after Battaglia was created a cardinal by Pope Francis.Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples, who was recently created a cardinal by Pope Francis, gave a platform to an LGBT activist during a liturgical celebration. On December 31, Battaglia celebrated a “Te Deum Mass” at the Naples cathedral, during which he allowed LGBT activist Cristiano Cimmino from Naples’ LGBT group “i Ken” to address the faithful....

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich: Put aside preconceptions and listen to LGBTQ peopleHis master speaksThe synodal approach to church life that Pope Francis is encouraging has greatly assisted me. It has forced me to rethink how I serve in the church and how I minister to those I serve. Perhaps the most important insight I have gained is that church leaders should be wary about presuming too much about people. We do better when we listen to others before we speak or make judgments about them. Given our years of education and preparation in the seminary and the deference that people...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago: Blase Cupich Wants Homosexual AdoptionHomosexual activist Blase J. Cupich, Cardinal of Chicago, a close friend of homosexual activist Robert McElroy, now Cardinal of Washington, has published an article on the website of homosexual activist James Martin, a Jesuit.In the article, Blase J. Cupich calls for "putting aside our preconceived ideas and really listening" in order to approach "people in a variety of life situations" [e.g. paedophiles, racists, abortionists, green politicians,...].Playing on emotions, the homosexual activist speaks of 'many encounters' he has had over the years with activists who promote homosexual sins.According to Cupich, these people '[rightly] feel...

[Catholic Caucus] McElroy New Bishop of Washington: Latest Move to Fracture US Church?The recent appointment of Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy as Metropolitan Archbishop of Washington, announced by Pope Francis, has raised numerous concerns and sparked a lively debate within the Catholic world. The decision to transfer McElroy from the Diocese of San Diego, California, to lead one of the most important episcopal sees in the United States is, to say the least, problematic for multiple reasons, both pastoral and doctrinal.During his episcopate in San Diego, McElroy adopted positions that have drawn criticism even from more moderate Catholics. A notable example...

[Catholic Caucus] The Wicked Witch of the West comes to Washington: McElroy is Francis's and McCarrick's Final Middle Finger to AmericaThe Washington Post had confirmed it last night, and the Vatican Bollettino published it this morning: the bishop of San Diego, McCarrick alum and Cupich-named Cardinal, Robert McElroy will be the new Archbishop of Washington. It seems quite appropriate that the news comes as the District of Columbia is covered by the largest winter storm in a decade. Snow and ice blow from the west, as chilly winds bring the ultimate McCarrick insider to the capital of the United States.McElroy...

[Catholic Caucus] Will an outgoing Gregory keep an incoming promise?More than eight years ago, when Donald Trump was still a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, he stood before voters and made a promise. “I will always tell you the truth,” Trump said in August 2016, at a rally in battleground North Carolina.America is sharply divided on whether Trump has since come even close to keeping that promise. But he will be sworn in next month for a second term of office, and is likely to promise anew a commitment to truth and transparency.While political Washington prepares for that change...

[Catholic Caucus] New 🌈 Cardinal: "Francis Implements Revolution By All Means"Pope Francis is carrying out a "revolution" in the Church "by all means", Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco, 62, of Algiers, Algeria, told Katholisch.de (December 30). He is a homosexual activist, former lawyer, marathon runner, and newly appointed cardinal.He joined the Dominicans under then-Superior General Timothy Radcliffe, also a homosexual activist and newly appointed cardinal.Cardinal Vesco expressed "admiration" for Cardinal Radcliffe, and called him a personal "friend": "When Timothy came to Algeria, we traveled all over the south together, talking a lot and experiencing very impressive moments."The two share "the same vision"...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. Gerald Murray slams Pope Francis’ making pro-LGBT Timothy Radcliffe a cardinalFr. Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo this week that Pope Francis’ naming of pro-LGBT Dominican priest Fr. Timothy Radcliffe to the cardinalate is causing him 'great anguish.' EWTN contributor Fr. Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo this week that Pope Francis’ naming of pro-LGBT Dominican priest Fr. Timothy Radcliffe to the cardinalate is causing him “great anguish.”“The faithful are being misled when they see people promote homosexuality, promoted in the Church,” Murray, a priest of the Diocese of New York, remarked. “Cardinal Radcliffe is a particularly offensive defender...

EXCLUSIVE: New cardinal says banning divorced, ‘re-married’ from Communion an ‘enormous injustice’Denying Holy Communion to some people who are divorced and ‘re-married’ is a ‘huge, enormous injustice,’ Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algiers told LifeSite.The new cardinal of Algiers has welcomed Amoris Laetitia’s openness for the divorced and “re-married” to receive Holy Communion, saying that for him adultery is only “when you have two people in your life at the same time.”In 2015, Bishop Jean-Paul Vesco, OP of the Diocese of Oran in North Africa made waves in the Catholic Church for his harsh criticism of the Church’s teaching regarding divorced...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Radcliffe defends controversial 2013 text on homosexual actsSpeaking to LifeSite's Vatican correspondent at the sidelines of the consistory, Cardinal Radcliffe defended his controversial 2013 text in which he likened same-sex activity to Christ's gift of self in the Holy Eucharist.Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe OP sought to clarify and defend one of his most controversial writings on homosexuality, in which he likened same-sex activity to Christ’s self-gift, and added that the Church needs to have a more general principle of “welcome” for LGBT people.Speaking in an interview with LifeSiteNews on the day before he was created cardinal December...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal-elect Pablo David wants to rehabilitate Judas — and share the Eucharist with everyone, no matter whatAt the ordination of the new Bishop of Cubao, Cardinal-elect Pablo David—scheduled to receive the red hat in just a few days, on December 7—was the homilist. The homily implied that the Holy Eucharist should be given to anyone, even to grave sinners, and that Jesus gave the Eucharist to Judas as a sign of forgiveness. He posted this homily online, where it quickly attracted “likes” and shares. Here are the relevant excerpts:Episcopal Ordination and Canonical Possession of Bishop Elias L. Ayuban,...

The College of DEI HiresWith Marxist precision, the once noble College of Cardinals has been reduced to a disparate group of barely-qualified bishops chosen primarily for their contribution to the Pope's diversity targets.One of the most demoralising aspects of this pontificate is neither the heresies nor the double-standards, although those are of course significantly depressing. Rather, it is witnessing the general lowering of standards - the attempts to remove all that is noble and sacred and seeing them replaced with all that is banal and subjective - which really takes its toll.Consider the cringe-factor of 'Laudato 'Si - The Musical'...

[Catholic Caucus] Amazon cardinal ‘lays hands’ to confer ‘ministry’ on women going to ‘celebrate a sacrament’Brazil’s Cardinal Ulrich Steiner told a press conference that he ‘lays hands’ on women who will baptize people in the Amazon region, asserting that 'in our reality, women exercise the deacon's ministries.’Calling for a female diaconate, Cardinal Ulrich Steiner, from Brazil’s Amazon region, has revealed that he “lays hands” on women who he has commissioned to baptize since they are going to “celebrate a sacrament.”Addressing a press conference in Fatima, Portugal, over the weekend, Steiner renewed his prior calls for a female diaconate.“In our reality,...

Francis Takes Revenge on the (True) AfricansFrancis has often expressed his alleged "love for the peripheries", writes Carlos Esteban on InfoVaticana.com (10 October).But this love does not include the peripheries of black Africa, perhaps because the continent has rejected Francis' homosexual manifesto "Fidicia supplicans".For Esteban, it is a "striking anomaly" that Cameroon, with 4 million Catholics, a quarter of the population, has more than 1,200 priests and as many seminarians in formation, but not a single prelate in the College of Cardinals.Nor does fertile Benin, with its three million Catholics, almost eight hundred priests and more than a thousand nuns.Not...