Free Republic

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT Nun to Lead Holy Week Address in SpainAngel Javier Pérez Pueyo, Bishop of Barbastro, Spain, has announced that Sister María Luisa Berzosa González, a homosexual activist, will deliver the Pregón de la Semana Santa of Barbastro during Holy Week 2025.The Pregón de la Semana Santa is a public speech in many Spanish-speaking regions that officially opens the Holy Week celebrations.Angel Javier Pérez Pueyo became famous for starting a pointless fight over the Opus Dei sanctuary of Torreciudad, located in his diocese.Berzosa González is a nun from the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus, who hides in lay...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Aguer: Religious sisters are not meant to lead Vatican officesContrary to what Pope Francis may believe, nuns were not made to be bureaucrats or civil servants. A proper appreciation of nuns consists in helping them live their own vocation: humble, silent, indispensable work among the poor, the sick, the elderly.Pope Francis has discovered that machismo and misogyny reign in his Roman Curia, and therefore that the nuns who work there – many at all levels – are not properly appreciated. He believes that in order to elevate them, they must be turned into civil servants. In this...

[Catholic Caucus] Left-wing nun downplays evil of abortion during virtual ‘Catholics for Harris’ eventSister Simone Campbell made light of the Church’s teachings while backing the Democrat candidate, saying 'Our Catholic faith doesn't require the outlaw of abortion … it’s about protecting life at all stages. We must trust people's conscience' while apparently equating issues like housing and immigration with killing a pre-born child. Dissident Catholics, including heterodox Sister Simone Campbell, made light of the Church’s teachings on the evil of abortion during the inaugural “Catholics for Harris” virtual meeting this week in order to cast Kamala Harris, who has avoided...

[Catholic Caucus] President of Italian Nuns Lives in "Fluid World""The question of gender is an issue that is particularly close to my heart", Sister Micaela Monetti, the new president of the secularised and disintegrating Union of Major Superiors of Italy told the monthly magazine of L'Osservatore Romano. For her, there is an increasingly “fluid world” and “we must accept Francis' invitation to listen before judging and pigeonholing.” The oligarchs are proud of Monetti, but they won't send her any vocations.

Sr. Jeannine Gramick to L.A. Dodgers: “I Support Your Honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”Earlier this week, Bondings 2.0 reported on a controversy involving the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to invite, disinvite, and then re-invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to receive a service award at the team’s Pride Night in June. The incident began following anti-LGBTQ+ Catholics’ criticism of the Dodgers’ decision to honor the charitable group known for their drag depictions of Catholic sisters. You can read a full report about the controversy here.The following is a letter from Sr. Jeannine Gramick, SL, co-founder of New Ways Ministry,...

Nuns Push TransgenderismCall for full inclusion of 'gender-expansive individuals'Thousands of U.S. nuns are deviating from Catholic teaching on transgenderism by rebuking recent statements from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.A coalition led by dozens of women religious groups and allies issued a public letter expressing solidarity with the so-called "transgender community." The statement was issued on March 31, timed to coincide with the International Day of Transgender Visibility.The statement titled "In Solidarity: Vowed Catholic Religious Honor Trans Day of Visibility" proclaimed that "[a]s members of the body of Christ, we cannot be whole without the full inclusion of transgender, nonbinary,...