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Catholic Caucus] German bishops slammed for naming priest involved in homosexual scandal to abuse victims boardThe German Bishops’ Conference is facing backlash for promoting heterodox Fr. Wolfgang Rothe, an LGBT activist linked to a major homosexual seminary scandal, with multiple bishops reportedly criticizing the appointment.The German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) has faced massive criticism for naming a heterodox priest, who has been accused of having a homosexual relationship with a seminarian, to its advisory board for sexual abuse victims.A recently published exposé by the German magazine Cicero revealed that Fr. Wolfgang Rothe’s appointment to the DBK’s advisory board for sexual abuse...

[Catholic Caucus] Key aide of Pope Francis and Cdl Fernández leaves VaticanFather Daniel Pellizzon has been an overlooked, but important, figure under the last pontificate. Now that era is over.In a notable move, Pope Leo XIV has sent one of Pope Francis’ and Cardinal Fernández’s key aides back to Argentina, raising some speculation about the position of Fernández himself. Father Daniel Pellizzon, of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, is returning to Argentina to become parish priest of the church of San Cayetano de Belgrano near the center of the city of Buenos Aires itself.News of the move, though not announced...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican ends probe into priest accused of ‘physical and psychological abuse’ at youth campsThe Vatican closed the canonical case against Fr. Valentino Salvoldi after declining to waive the statute of limitations, mirroring the earlier dismissal of the civil case.The Vatican has closed the canonical case against an Italian missionary priest accused by more than 20 people of sexual and psychological abuse.In 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith confirmed that it would not lift the statute of limitations in the case of Father Valentino Salvoldi, an 80‑year‑old priest from the Diocese of Bergamo, accused by at...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo’s silence on the LGBT agenda is fueling sexual revolution in the ChurchPope Leo XIV’s public affirmations of marriage contrast with private audiences and appointments that embolden advocates of changing Church teaching on sexual morality.Editor’s note: In Part 5 of his essay, Father Enoch relates more recent developments regarding the promotion of the homosexual agenda within the Church and concludes his essay. Click here for Part 1, here for Part 2, here for Part 3, and here for Part 4.To purchase his book The Trojan Horse, click here.(LifeSiteNews) — On this same issue of homosexuality as presented...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Approves Beatification Process for Bishop who Allowed Indigenous Youths to Touch his Private PartsHis diary celebrates “blessed nudism,” recounts sleeping naked beside adolescents, and normalizes sexualized touching as “natural curiosity” — yet Leo still advances his cause.Venerable by decree, scandal by his own penOn 22 May 2025, Leo XIV authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree recognizing the “offering of life” of Alejandro Labaka Ugarte, Capuchin, Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico, killed in Ecuador in 1987. That authorization is exactly what moves a cause forward in the Church’s official machinery, placing the...

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT Malta archbishop writes essay for Fr. James Martin’s groupAbp. Scicluna, who has previously contradicted Catholic teaching on same-sex civil unions, failed to mention the Church’s rejection of homosexuality and transgenderism in his essay. Father James Martin, S.J., proudly shared a pro-LGBT reflection from Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna.“All of us at @OutrchCatholic are honored to have Archbishop Charles Scicluna, the Archbishop of Malta, write this beautiful meditation for us, which offers insights not only for [so-called] LGBTQ Catholics, but all believers,” Martin wrote on X.Scicluna’s essay on Martin’s pro-LGBT group’s website states that “God is present, loving and...

[Catholic Caucus] Dozens of Catholics hold Rosary rally to protest Fr. James Martin talkDespite arctic wind chills, around 35 Catholics rallied against Fr. James Martin’s talk at Epiphany of Our Lord Church on Friday and denounced his notorious pro-LGBT errors.PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — Over two dozen Catholics showed up in extremely cold and windy weather to prayerfully protest a talk given by the heterodox Father James Martin, S.J., on Saturday at his native parish, Epiphany of Our Lord Church, on his new book.On February 7, as arctic wind chills made the temperature feel like -20 degrees, about 35 faithful...

[Catholic Caucus] God’s Inclusive Love Respects Homosexuals – Archbishop SciclunaGod dwells within every human life and this idea can offer consolation and direction to homosexual Catholics, writes pro-homosexual Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna on the pro-homosexual Outreach.faith (February 3) His text employes psychological categories and rhetoric such as “feelings”, “wounds”, “weaknesses”, “fear”, “self-punishment”, “self-doubt”, “dependence”, “healing”, and so on. As if there were no sin, Monsignor Scicluna claims that “our stories, relationships, questions and identities are never beyond God’s loving gaze”. He believes that “our lived experiences—including our questions, wounds and hopes—are not obstacles to God, but places of encounter”. “Many...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin tells Stephen Colbert that Pope Leo plans to continue Francis’ LGBT agendaFr. James Martin said that 'the message I got from (Leo) was that he’s continuing Pope Francis’ mission and message of welcome and inclusion and he wants that to be broadcast.' During an appearance on left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert’s late night talk show Tuesday, celebrity priest James Martin revealed that Pope Leo told him he plans to continue Pope Francis’ LGBT agenda.After explaining that during an audience with Leo last year where “initially we talked about ministry to LGBT Catholics,” Martin said that “the...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican doctrinal chief warns against condemnations, urges humility in the ChurchCardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned Tuesday about a culture of “ex cathedra” condemnations online and called for greater humility in the Church to avoid repeating “the same deception that led to the excesses of the Inquisition.”“Today on any blog, anyone — even without having studied much theology — expresses an opinion and condemns as if speaking ex cathedra,” the cardinal said as he opened the dicastery’s plenary assembly, being held Jan. 27–29 at the Vatican with more...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuits in Britain respond to Senior Catholic chaplain at Oxford removedThe Jesuits in Britain have confirmed that Fr Damian Howard SJ has stepped down from ministry following a safeguarding investigation into a complaint of professional misconduct, with an independent review now under way. Fr Damian stands accused of “inappropriate behaviour” with a student. In a statement, the order told the Catholic Herald that: “We take every complaint extremely seriously and respond with care and diligence. When this complaint was received, the safeguarding team of Jesuits in Britain carried out an investigation. Based on their conclusions, immediate action was...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Pope Leo appoints pro-LGBT archbishop as secretary for Dicastery for ClergyArchbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli's pro-LGBT views were recounted in a description of his response to the same-sex 'marriage' of a Catholic scout leader.Pope Leo XIV has appointed a controversial and homosexualist archbishop to a prominent role in the Vatican.Archbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli of Gorizia was named today as the new Secretary for the Dicastery for Clergy.Raedelli and his pro-LGBT views were mentioned in a 2020 book by Luciano Moia, a senior journalist for the Italian Bishops’ Conference’s daily newspaper Avvenire. In his book, Moia argues...

[Catholic Caucus] EXPLOSIVE: Bishop Hicks’ Vicar General Reportedly Attends Chancellor’s Gay ‘Wedding’IntroductionIn December, we reported that Bishop Hicks’ diocesan chancellor, Robert Salvato, was ‘married’ to another man. Salvato was appointed Chancellor by Hicks in 2021. As Chancellor, Salvato was responsible for advising Hicks on issues related to canon law and recording ecclesiastical acts, decrees and dispensations issued by the bishop.As if the diocesan Chancellor getting ‘married’ to his boyfriend was not enough of a scandal, we now have reports that Fr. Richard Smith, the Vicar General for the diocese of Joliet, attended the ‘ceremony.’ An eyewitness has told us that...

[Catholic Caucus] Why won’t the Vatican clarify Catholic doctrine on homosexuality, women’s ordination?Bishop Marian Eleganti joins me on this episode of The John Henry Westen Show, filmed at this year's Rome Life Forum.Bishop Marian Eleganti joins me on this episode of The John Henry Westen Show, filmed at this year’s Rome Life Forum. We discussed doctrinal ambiguity and confusion in the early months of Pope Leo’s pontificate on key issues such as same-sex “marriage,” women’s ordination, and more. I began the episode by noting that some of the most controversial bishop appointments made by Pope Leo have been those who...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Promotes US Bishop - Fan of 🌈 James Martin and Fiducia SupplicansPope Leo XIV appointed Father Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez as the bishop of Palm Beach, Florida.Born January 15, 1974, in the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez became a Salesian of Don Bosco and was ordained a priest on July 3, 2004. He is currently the parish priest at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Queens, in the Diocese of Brooklyn.Monsignor Rodriguez became a U.S. citizen in 2018. He has regularly been revealing his thoughts on Twitter since 2014.Staunch Loyalist of Wonderful FrancisHe is a priest “who loves...

[Catholic Caucus] Italian diocese tries to normalize homosexual, divorced and ‘remarried’ relationshipsA Catholic diocese in Italy has released a pamphlet of various 'Christian testimonies' that included two homosexual couples and one civilly remarried couple. A Catholic diocese in Italy has released a pamphlet of various “Christian testimonies” that included two homosexual couples and one civilly remarried couple.On December 4, the Family Pastoral Service of the Diocese of Chiavari, Italy, directed by Father Marco Torre, published the pamphlet “There Is No Greater Love.” It includes autobiographical testimonies presented as “exemplary,” without additional doctrinal notes or commentary. There were no official statements...

[Catholic Caucus] Lesbians ‘dressed as brides’ receive ‘blessing’ in Argentine cathedral, priest reports‘Heartbreaking. This Pastor is a wolf in sheep's clothing,’ one Catholic laywoman remarked.A priest in the Cathedral of San Isidro in Argentina blessed two lesbian women dressed as brides, a traditional missionary priest reported.“In the chapel where the Tabernacle is, at 6.15 pm, there was a blessing of two lesbian women dressed as brides,” Father Joao Silveira shared on Twitter. “I told the priest: ‘One thing is accompaniment, but we can’t consent to sin, much less bless it.’ He replied, ‘It’s pastoral,’” Fr. Silveira said. He did not...

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT German bishop says the Catholic Church does not ‘stand for an abstract truth’In a recent homily, Bishop Peter Kohlgraf rejected claims he is ‘not Catholic’ while arguing the faith should embrace the ‘opinion of others’ and move beyond ‘abstract truth.’German Bishop Peter Kohlgraf has responded to an allegation that he and other German bishops are “not Catholic” in light of their support for ideologies which oppose traditional Church teachings, and implied that the Catholic faith is not about truth.The bishop of Mainz delivered a homily on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, arguing that being Catholic must...

[Catholic Caucus] German Catholic bishops’ new document on ‘sexual diversity’ in schools signals deep spiritual crisisAccording to Catholic sociologist Gabriele Kuby, the school document is only the latest manifestation of the 2019–2023 German Synodal PathIn a hard-hitting interview with Dr. Thomas Ward, President of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family (JAHLF), renowned German Catholic sociologist and author Gabriele Kuby denounced the German bishops’ conference’s recent document endorsing the “diversity of sexual identities” in Catholic schools. In the interview, published in the latest issue of The Academy Review, Kuby called the document the latest and most...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Has Bequeathed Money to Pro-Homosexual Dominican SisterPope Francis, who died in April 2025, set aside funds in his will for a humanitarian project run by Dominican sister Lucía Caram, she said in remarks reported by Spanish media. According to Sister Caram, the funds were explicitly intended to support medical care in war-affected areas of Ukraine, in particular the purchase of ambulances. The exact amount designated in the pope’s will has not been disclosed.Sister Caram said that Francis had expressed support for her work on several occasions: “I never imagined it would come in this form.”Born in...