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August 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In the following lecture delivered at the Conference of Catholic Families in Dublin yesterday, Vatican journalist Edward Pentin explains how opponents of Church teaching used the synods on the family to advance their own agenda, and how the upcoming Synod on Youth risks undergoing the same fate. Pentin compares Amoris Laetitia with Pope Pius XI’s famous encyclical Casti Connubii and analyzes some of their differences. Pentin is the author of The Rigging of a Vatican Synod? An Investigation into Alleged Manipulation at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family.   Have Synods Become Vehicles for Legitimizing Heterodoxy?...

A new video has just been released in which Pope Francis very clearly expresses his belief that all of the major religions are different paths to the same God. He says that while people from various global faiths may be "seeking God or meeting God in different ways" that it is important to keep in mind that "we are all children of God". This is the most recent example that shows that the Pope has completely abandoned any notion that a relationship with God is available only through Jesus Christ. As he has done throughout his papacy, he continues to...

One of the Pope's closest advisors will be taking part in a conference whose aim is to undermine Church teaching on marriage. LifeSiteNews is reporting that Cdl. Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, charged with reform of the Curia and head of the Pope's "Gang of Nine," is slated to speak at a Rome conference that will promote a more liberal understanding of marriage and the family. Organized by the International Academy for Marital Spirituality (INTAMS), a Belgian Catholic group that welcomes ecumenical dialogue, the conference will be held September 10–12, and will include voices advocating change in the Church. Cardinal Maradiaga is...

...Contending for the faith can be a grueling job, considering all the variations offered to us. 1. What is a proper definition of faith? 2. How can it be applied to our lives? A sound understanding of faith may take some patience and thoughtful understanding today as we tackle just a few of the many differences between a healthy faith and the kind that leads to a very troubled praxeology**. [....] This “optimism” in one’s faith rather than a God Centered faith is really an old heresy that started with the early influence of Gnosticism on the Desert Fathers. [....]...

Once again, the Catholic world has been rocked by yet more allegations of sexual impropriety by Legionnaires of Christ founder, the late Fr. Marcial Maciel. It seems the now-disgraced founder-cum-pervert fathered more children than previously suspected; the latest claimants to his paternity purport to have evidence that the late Pope John Paul II knew of Maciel's sexual dilettantes, and turned a blind eye to them. (If true, it would confirm the prior journalistic scholarship of author Jason Berry.) The allegations highlight what for all too many Catholics is the elephant-in-the-room when discussing the ills which beset the modern Church: the...

"March of the Sexual Majority" to rock Moscow on Wednesday Jun 5, 2007, 16:31 GMT Moscow - A week and a half after gay activists were attacked by nationalists across from Moscow's City Hall, a group of rock acts were preparing to play a gala concert in support of heterosexuality. The March of the Sexual Majority, organized by the lead singer of a Russian rock group called Neschastny Sluchai (Unfortunate Incident), is to include acts ranging from the popular band B-2 to actor Gosha Kutsenko. Hyped by an ad campaign of posters featuring two gingerbread cookie-shaped figures - the woman...

Four years after organizing amid a tempest of sexual abuse scandals, the Catholic reform group Voice of the Faithful is still going strong. Its newly elected president, Mary Pat Fox, said Monday that VOTF will continue to make clerical and lay responsibility the cornerstone of its work within the Catholic Church. Her comments came at a meeting of Winchester Voice of the Faithful, one of VOTF’s most active chapters, which meets weekly at St. Eulalia’s Church in Winchester. VOTF formed during the nadir of the sexual abuse scandals of 2002, with the intention of dealing head-on with the corruption that...

Why is it that institutions and organizations of all kinds regularly drift from the right to the left, from orthodoxy to heterodoxy, from faithfulness to unfaithfulness, from discipline to permissiveness? The pattern is unmistakable. You see it in schools, in churches, in the media, in families, in politics, and therefore quite naturally in societies at large. To say it is a pattern is not to deny that it ever happens the other way around. In my own lifetime, I've watched colleges and even whole denominations take stock of their liberal drift and then head back to their roots. But that...

On Sept. 5, the Rev. David Moyer, 52, rector of Church of the Good Shepherd in the Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont, was deposed — or defrocked — by the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Bennison Jr. for not allowing Bishop Bennison to visit the parish, as is his right under canon law. Meanwhile, Mr. Moyer's assistant, the Rev. Garrin Dickinson, had his license to officiate in the Diocese of Pennsylvania withdrawn, which left the church down two clergymen. However, both men are staying put because a group of bishops, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, committed the unprecedented action of siding with...