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Cardinal Censured for ‘Criminal Conspiracy’Top judge accuses prelate of conniving to 'fabricate' DNA paternity test MUMBAI, India (ChurchMilitant.com) - A veteran high court judge is charging a leading cardinal with "criminal conspiracy" for attempting "to procure a fabricated and false" DNA paternity test certificate for "illegal purposes." Justice Michael F. Saldanha wrote to India's apostolic nuncio, Abp. Leopoldo Girelli, on Monday stating Bombay's cardinal-archbishop, Oswald Gracias, is guilty of a "serious criminal offense, punishable with 10 years rigorous imprisonment." Phone LeakCiting Church Militant's exposé of a leaked phone call between Cdl. Gracias and Mysore's scandal-plagued bishop K. A. William, the...

Disturbing new details have emerged regarding Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga’s potential mishandling of a crisis involving widespread homosexual activity at the major seminary in his archdiocese. Cardinal Maradiaga is an influential confidant of Pope Francis and a member of the C9 Group of cardinals advising him on Church and curial reform. On August 4, respected Vatican journalist Edward Pentin, of the National Catholic Register, tweeted an update on the seminary crisis in Honduras, saying: “Latest word from Honduras: All homosexual seminarians have been sent away except those in Tegucigalpa archdiocese who joke they have a very strong and powerful ‘patron saint’: ++...

Polemicising against "blind rigorism" Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx de facto asked to abolish Catholic sexual ethics. Talking to the German Herder-Korrespondenz (January) Marx claimed that it is wrong to say „from the outside" that somebody lives in a state of mortal sin. Marx was referring to homosexual fornication. At the same time he defended “situation ethics”, a heresy condemned by the Church because it allows a perpetrator to blame his crimes on some "situation". For Marx, more important than the Gospel or the teaching of the Church is "respect for a free decision". This means that the last task...

The Decadent Face of the Church in Germany by Christopher A. Ferrara March 30, 2017 You are looking at Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the extremely well-fed, luxuriously housed, chauffer-driven, endlessly subversive Modernist who heads the German Bishops’ Conference while presiding over his sector of Europe’s silent apostasy as the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich. Marx, a member of Pope Bergoglio’s worse-than-useless Council of Cardinal Advisers, represents what is left of the Catholic Church in most of Germany. He presides over a spiritually rotting husk of an archdiocese that has exactly one new candidate for the priesthood this year. And who knows...