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The 2024 Form 990 for the Jesus Calling Foundation is now available and shows that the foundation contributed over a million dollars from book royalties to the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in a single year. In 2024, the same year that the PCA Committee on Discipleship Ministries (CDM) was tasked to “assess the book’s appropriateness for Christians” and “provide recommendations (if needed) for remedial materials, advisory statements, or General Assembly actions concerning Jesus Calling, the PCA received $1,080,000 from the Jesus Calling Foundation. The CDM’s 2025 follow-up report stated that “neither CDM nor its staff recommend Jesus Calling” but...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Jesus may have heard words of wisdom from his mother Mary, but she did not help him save the world from damnation, the Vatican said on Tuesday.In a new decree approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office instructed the world's 1.4 billion Catholics not to refer to Mary as the "co-redeemer" of the world.Jesus alone saved the world, said the new instruction, settling an internal debate that had befuddled senior Church figures for decades, and even sparked rare open disagreement among recent popes."It would not be appropriate to use the title 'co-redemptrix',"...

Op-Ed: Mary, the Co-Redemptrix and Mater Populi FidelisThe document Mater Populi Fidelis of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, specifically in numbers 17 and 18 gives a undeservedly over-simplified overview of this important doctrine of the Catholic Faith. The fact that Our Lady cooperated in the work of the Redemption, at least mediately, is a de fide teaching. To doubt it would incur theological censure.For a clear and comprehensive overview of the main lines of this teaching and its historical development, I refer the reader to J. A. de Aldama, S.J., “De Corredemptione,” in Sacrae Theologiae Summa,...

Vatican document on Mary’s cooperation in salvation expected to address title ‘Co-Redemptrix’The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced that it will present a new doctrinal note “referring to Mary’s cooperation in the work of salvation.”The document is titled Mater Populi Fidelis (“Mother of the Faithful People”), with the Italian subtitle Nota dottrinale su alcuni titoli mariani riferiti alla cooperazione di Maria all’opera della salvezza. It will be unveiled from 11.00 to 12.30 in the morning at the Jesuit General Curia, with free entry and a reception to follow. The Vatican Press Office will release the full...

From Constantine’s Cross to the Evil Eye: Rome’s Festival of False GodsAt Constantine’s Arch, Leo XIV lit a candle beside leaders of every creed; at the Vatican, screens glowed with the image of a woman holding the “evil eye.” The symbolism wrote its own commentary. The Cross that once conquered pagan Rome has been replaced by a talisman meant to ward off misfortune; a fitting emblem for a Church now terrified of proclaiming the exclusive truth of Christ.What began as a “Meeting for Peace” beneath the Arch of Constantine ended as a weeklong festival of pluralism, a Nostra Aetate jubilee...

Cardinal for Inter-Religion: Hindus Believe in God - Moslems Do Not Condone Violence"We all believe in God." This lie was told by Cardinal George Koovakad, the 52-year-old prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, in an interview with the Substack.com account The Pillar on 22 October.Cardinal Koovakad is Indian and is aware that Hindus worship animal-like idols and that Islam denies the true God, Jesus Christ. He joined the Vatican's clique network ('diplomatic service') in 2006. In 2020, he joined the Secretariat of State, where he was promoted by Francis.India's political authorities were extremely grateful for Francis’ decision to make...

Press Release of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, 23.10.2025Press release of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogueand the Commission for Religious Relations with JudaismWalking Together in Hope:60th Anniversary of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra AetateTo celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration Nostra Aetate on the Church’s relations with non-Christian religions, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism are organizing a special event called, Walking Together in Hope, which will take place on 28 October 2025, from 18.30 to 20.00, in the Paul VI...

Few would dispute Jenkins’ role in reshaping the faith-based film landscape. Since “The Chosen,”... premiered in 2017, the series has drawn billions of views, been translated into over 100 languages and inspired a wave of new Christian productions like “House of David” and the forthcoming Fox show “The Faithful.” Despite its global success, Jenkins said the journey has been anything but easy. He shared how, from the moment that "The Chosen" launched eight years ago, “everything in my family, whether it’s medical crises that we’re facing today … started, more in the last several years than the previous 20 years...

I watched the clip—again and again—Steven Furtick laughing, giving some guy a piggyback ride in what he calls a church. The people around him cheering, clapping, filming on their phones like the presence of God is some novelty sideshow act. Honestly, this stuff just makes me sick. It should grieve us when what is meant to be holy is dragged through the mud and turned into a circus. There was a time when men trembled to enter the sanctuary and especially when one took the pulpit. When the thought of the Most High, holy and righteous God stirred awe and...

[Catholic Caucus] New Georgetown University president: ‘I reject the Church’s teachings on homosexuality’‘Every Catholic educator should vigorously oppose what this man embraced,’ Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Society told LifeSite. ‘Jesus told Peter to feed His sheep, but Georgetown is leading lambs to the slaughter.’The incoming president of Georgetown University has said he repudiates the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality. He also appeared to criticize the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.The nominally Catholic, Jesuit university in Washington, D.C., recently announced its selection of Eduardo Peñalver as its new president, to start next year. Peñalver is currently the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller: Synod on Synodality an ‘attempt to transform’ Church into ‘secular, worldly institution’The German prelate warned in a preface to 'The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church' about the dangers of the synodal process, which he said is similar to the one in Germany. In a foreword to The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church, a new book by Father Enoch on the Synod on Synodality in Rome, Cardinal Gerhard Müller issues a strong critique of this process that has been taking place now for several years. Having participated in both the 2023 and 2024 synods, he...

Church teaching may develop, but that does not mean it can changeThe content of dogma and the core of doctrine are immutable. God does not deceive, and the truth is not relative. In very recent weeks, a controversy has erupted in Catholic discussions following remarks attributed to Pope Leo XIV in an interview with Crux Now (also reported by LifeSiteNews). According to these reports, Pope Leo said:“People want the Church doctrine to change, want attitudes to change. I think we have to change attitudes before we ever change doctrine.”He also added that he finds it “highly unlikely, certainly in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Open Letter to Leo XIV on Amoris LaetitiaHis Holiness Pope Leo XIV22 July 202500120 VATICAN CITYEuropeI address to you this heartfelt petition regarding an urgent and practically unprecedented problem that Your Holiness has inherited from the previous pontificate. It is one which I and many other Catholics believe lies at the very heart of the mission entrusted to you by Our Lord as the Successor of Blessed Peter: that of guarding and teaching the uncorrupted doctrine of Christ that was “once and all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).1. I refer to the fact that Chapter VIII of...

When I was a college freshman studying broadcast journalism in 1978, I watched a show on PBS that made me contemplate something that I’d never thought about before: What would I do if one day the government took control of the media, rewarding those who spread the leaders’ propaganda and silencing dissenting voices?

We had fun that with our two backgrounds having these theological discussions you know he showed me some of the biblical basis of adventism you know things like saying well do you think there's wisdom in do not commit adultery and do not steal I'd say yeah, he's like then how about the Sabbath it's in the same list do you think there's still some wisdom in that? you know this kind of thing or showing me where Jesus anticipates the Sabbath will continue after he's gone, and I'm like there is logic to this, there is a Bible basis...

Does anyone know how old the Free Republic software is? Doesn't appear to have been updated in at least the 20 years that I've been here. It would be nice to have hyperlinks and better interfaces and a better search function. Not just text and photo files in line. It looks like Craigslist looked about 25 years ago. Anybody with software experience have any thoughts on this?

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit university in Chile hosts ‘pride prayer’ event, blesses LGBT rainbow flagCiting Pope Francis and Fiducia Supplicans, Jesuit priest Father Rodrigo Garcia, who heads the university's student ministry, said he did not view the ceremony as controversial. Alberto Hurtado University, a Chilean Jesuit institution, recently held a “pride prayer” ceremony in which students of “diverse sexual orientations,” along with a pride flag, received a blessing.The event, said to be the first of its kind at any university in Chile, was just one of the many scheduled on campus for the university’s “Pride Week” planned this June, and has...

Pope Francis’s Sharp Left Turn Toward HeresyJorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th successor of St. Peter and the head of 1.4 billion Catholics on March 13, 2013. His pontifical persona as Pope Francis, taken in honor of St. Francis of Assisi — the patron saint of ecology and animals — warmed the hearts of both Catholics and Protestant,s and even non-Christians.But Francis’s honeymoon with faithful Catholics lasted just four months. While flying back from an apostolic visit to Brazil on July 29, 2013, a reporter asked him if there was a “gay lobby” in the Vatican.Francis’s reply was shocking: “If...

Jesus is the central figure of Christianity, but he is also a very important personage in Islam. While both religions assign him great respect and importance, their teachings differ in some important ways. What are these differences? In particular, what do Muslims believe about the crucifixion of Jesus? Why Jesus features in Islam First of all, let us consider why Jesus is an important figure in Islam. Islam is one of the three main Abrahamic religions. The other two are Judaism and Christianity. All three of them view Abraham as an important figure in their early history. In the first...

Sister Dottie Almoney is the new Directing Deaconess of the Deaconess Community of the ELCA. Before this, however, she spent more than two decades on staff at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, working in various capacities and, most recently as the Director of Education & Outreach. Preaching her final sermon at St. Peters, she took her church to task for their wayward ways, blasting them for being a bunch of backstabbing gossipers who were seemingly complaining about her progressive theology. Notably, she tells congregants that if they are so uncomfortable with the ELCA and their views on social policies, it is...