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Pope Leo doubles down on Vatican rejection of ‘Co-Redemptrix’At a time of apostasy, impurity, and confusion, the faithful do not need a diminished Mother.On Thursday morning, Pope Leo XIV publicly praised a Vatican document that has already sparked one of the most serious Marian controversies in decades.Addressing the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pope commended the doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis, issued under the extremely controversial Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, infamous for his books on kissing and orgasms.Leo praised the Fernández document, saying it “encourages popular Marian devotion, deepening its biblical and theological foundations, and at the...

[Catholic Caucus] How the Church CHANGED overnight: controversy of Vatican IIFr. Charles Murr opens up about the spiritual and institutional unraveling that followed the Second Vatican Council, recalling how ambiguity, failed leadership, and compromises with modern ideologies destabilized the Church from within. He argues the true crisis came not from the Council’s texts but from their misinterpretation and misuse by poorly formed clergy. The aftermath of Humanae Vitae, he says, marked a collapse in episcopal authority, as public dissent went unpunished and relativism infiltrated moral theology. Liturgical experimentation and the loss of sacred discipline further unmoored Catholics from tradition. Fr....

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo XIV appoints bishop who rejects Catholic teaching on sexualityFr. Cyril Villareal has proposed a ‘new way’ of evaluating marriage and sexuality, departing from natural law principles reaffirmed in Humanae Vitae and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Cyril Buhayan Villareal as the new bishop of Kalibo in the Philippines, drawing renewed attention to unorthodox theological positions he defended in an academic thesis on marriage and sexuality.On January 24, Pope Leo XIV appointed Villareal as bishop of the Diocese of Kalibo, located in the central Philippines. The decision has drawn attention over...

Is the Francis era continuing in Leo’s interreligious appointments?Pope Leo XIV has appointed 19 new consultors to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, a move that broadly confirms the trajectory of nominations established under Pope Francis.The Holy See announced the appointments on Monday, naming clerics, religious sisters, and lay academics from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas to advise the dicastery in its work.The consultors come from a wide range of theological, cultural, and institutional backgrounds and include figures already prominent in synodal processes, interreligious initiatives, and Catholic social movements.Among those appointed is Emilce Cuda, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for...

Vatican official praises Lutheran text as model for Christian unity ahead of 2030 commemorationThe 'Confessio Augustana,' written by the Protestant theologian Philip Melanchthon and presented in 1530 to Emperor Charles V, is one of the founding texts of Lutheranism.Statue of Martin LutherShutterstockThe secretary of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity has said one of the founding texts of Lutheranism offers a model for rediscovering common ground among Christians ahead of a planned ecumenical commemoration in 2030.On January 22, Archbishop Flavio Pace made the remarks in an interview with Vatican News published on the occasion of the Week of...

Leo XIV Appoints 19 Consultors – Pachamama Worshipper, Yoga Lover and Abu-Dhabi ActivistPope Leo XIV appointed today 19 people as consultors of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The names are completely in line with Francis’ appointments. Examples:Emilce Cuda (Pontifical Commission for Latin America)In 2022, she criticized the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade (legal abortion in the USA), warning that many Catholics “confuse defense of life with defense of ideological positions.” She stressed that human dignity goes beyond abortion and euthanasia to include “‘in-between’ issues.” (NcrOnline.org)Mónica Santamarina (World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations)She advocates expanded roles for women in...

[Catholic Caucus] Sunset Boulevard and Vatican IIOnce upon a time, Hollywood used to produce movies. Real movies, that is. They were like serious novels but on celluloid. They were movies that explored the depths of the human condition, with its soaring peaks and dreadful valleys. It was a time when formidable creativity was placed at the service of truth and beauty. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Hollywood was the closest thing modernity had to Quattrocento Florence. No longer. Today’s Hollywood is more a landfill for Woke ideology and degenerate carnality. This billion-dollar industry is insulated...

[Catholic Caucus] Schism fears arise as Catholic Church in Germany aims to put laity on ‘same level’ as bishops'This Synodal Conference will have decision-making power and be able to introduce changes to doctrine by majority vote,' reported Italian journalist Nico Spuntoni.As Pope Leo XIV meets with his Apostolic Nuncio for Germany, Monsignor Nikola Eterovic, on Saturday, the very real possibility of schism with the Catholic Church in Germany looms.“It’s alleged the German Church wants to put the German laity on the same level as the bishops and also let them control the cash,” according to a report in the Italian...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholics in Leo’s former diocese urge him to reverse ‘scandalous’ rejection of Co-Redemptrix titleMore than 100 Catholics in Peru wrote to Pope Leo denouncing a ‘harmful’ and ‘truly scandalous’ Vatican document that attacks Our Lady’s titles of ‘Co-Redemptrix’ and ‘Mediatrix of All Graces.’Catholics in Pope Leo XIV’s former diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, are petitioning him to “reconsider” what they condemn as a “truly scandalous” and “harmful” document issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) that opposes the Marian titles of “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces.”The petition includes the signatures of more than...

Rome’s Failure to Correct Germany’s Bishops has Emboldened Their Pro-LGBT AgendaAs the country’s bishops issue a new document encouraging diversity of sexual identities in Catholic schools, German Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby explains the full extent of the crisis.A recently published document from the German bishops encouraging Catholic school pupils to self-identify according to their “sexual identity” is the latest significant departure of the bishops’ conference from the Church’s teaching, re-igniting talk of a possible new, German-born schism.The “orientation aid,” published on Oct. 30, states that Catholic schools should consider “diversity of sexual identities is a fact,” effectively normalizing any pupil...

[Catholic Caucus] Dear Pope Leo and Fernandez, Mary is Not the ProblemThe Virgin Mary is Co‑redemptrix, for no other creature was so intimately associated with the Passion of the Son. The liturgy says it, Tradition says it, the faith of the Christian people has said it for centuries. A Note, which in a year will already be forgotten, will not change what is eternal.On October 4, 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith promulgated the Mater Populi Fidelis Note. As the title indicates, it is a doctrinal Note and concerns “certain Marian titles referring to Mary’s cooperation in...

[Catholic Caucus] Synodal Apostasy About to Claim its Next VictimNow the spirit of synodality, Satan’s shadow version of the Holy Ghost, seems to be on the verge of ruining another former Catholic country.It is safe to say that through the process of synodality, the German Catholic Church finds itself in full-blown apostasy and tottering on the brink of schism.If not schism from the Post-Conciliar “Church”, then from the One Christ founded.And now the spirit of synodality, Satan’s shadow version of the Holy Ghost, seems to be on the verge of ruining another former Catholic country.On October 25, 2025, the Third...

Appreciating the Hidden Consolations of Traditional Catholicism as the Crisis ContinuesIf we look at all of those who call themselves Catholic, it is clear that Traditional Catholics are the only ones persecuted by Rome for trying to seriously practice the Catholic religion. Thanks be to God that we are persecuted today for keeping the Faith! If the Modernists and Liberals trying to destroy the Church considered us their allies, we would surely be on the path to hell.One of the most astounding situations in the world today is the reality that the Vatican accepts and encourages essentially every widespread set...

The strange death of ProtestantismThat broad body of Christian belief and practice known to the world as Protestantism originated in Catholic Western Europe in the 16th century, mostly the fruit of the highly original, expansive mind of Martin Luther, and then of the rather narrower and derivative mind of John Calvin. The pivotal doctrine of Protestantism was encapsulated in the easy and elegant slogan: justification by faith alone.In a Catholic culture in which the passion and death of Jesus on the cross were at the very heart of religious sensibility, Luther's message that Jesus's sacrifice was so overwhelmingly sufficient that...

[Catholic Caucus] Head of German Bishops demands rainbow flag be hung in German ParliamentRainbow flag at the Bundestag? Julia Klöckner counters Bätzing's criticismBishop Georg Bätzing had said he would have liked to see the rainbow flag at the Bundestag. The President of the Bundestag poses a counter-question.President of the Bundestag Julia Klöckner (CDU) rejects Bishop Georg Bätzing's criticism of the handling of the rainbow flag in the Bundestag. "The bishop's regret is astonishingly selective. Did the Vatican or did all bishoprics raise a rainbow flag on Pride Day?" she asks in the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit."Bätzing, the chairman of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo XIV says synodality is key to unity in newly released interviewPope Leo XIV has spoken at length about the role of synodality in the life of the Church in a newly released interview published by Crux on 14 September.The remarks on synodality form part of a forthcoming biography, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, written by Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen and to be published in Spanish by Penguin Peru on 18 September. English and Portuguese editions will follow in 2026.In the video excerpts, Pope Leo is shown seated against a wall...

[Catholic Caucus] US Bishops’ Conference Partnering with Heretical Association of PriestsThe heretical Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) announced earlier this year that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCBP) approached the Association, asking it to host a virtual consultation on the USCCB’s Laity Document. Public materials describe the event as a joint effort between AUSCP and the USCCB, presenting it as a continuation of synodal engagement.The AUSCP has a long history of promoting views in direct conflict with immutable Catholic teachings regarding the ordination of women, human sexual morality, the sacraments and the nature of the priesthood.In the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Bätzing says Pope Leo is ‘accompanying the Church in Germany with trust’ after meetingGerman Bp. Georg Bätzing, known for pushing female ordination and same-sex ‘blessings,’ commented that the Pope has ‘trust’ in the German church following talks.Bishop Georg Bätzing has said that Pope Leo XIV “accompanies the Church in Germany with trust” after his first private audience with the Roman Pontiff.On September 4, Leo received Bätzing, the head of the German bishops’ conference, in a private audience for the first time since becoming Pope.The Holy See did not comment on the meeting, but Bätzing released the following...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo receives controversial Dominican nun in private audienceOn 28 August, Pope Leo XIV received Sister Lucía Caram, an Argentine-born Dominican nun who has lived in Spain for nearly three decades. The encounter was not included in the day’s official bulletin of papal audiences issued by the Holy See Press Office, which listed other appointments but omitted the meeting with Sister Caram.Sister Caram, who resides in the Convent of Santa Clara de Manresa in Barcelona, is well known in Spain as a television personality and social commentator. She has promoted interreligious dialogue and humanitarian initiatives, including aid convoys...

[Catholic Caucus] How the Sinful Pride of the Vatican II Revolution Has Wrecked Souls and Societies If we think seriously about what it means for the Catholic Church, which is the Mystical Body of Christ, to suffer a crisis of internal infidelities rather than external attacks, we can conclude that we are facing something almost unparalleled in salvation history. If we can measure the magnitude of the fall by the spiritual dignity of the ones falling and the degree of the harms caused, the post-Vatican II crisis is arguably worse than any in history except those caused by the fall...