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Gay Unions: Pachamama Slayer Grills Pope Banner in St. Peter's Square asks Francis for clarification VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Austrian Catholic Alexander Tschugguel took Vatican police by surprise Saturday afternoon as the "Pachamama slayer" unfurled a massive banner in St. Peter's Square asking Pope Francis for "clarity on same-sex unions." Alexander Tschugguel holds a banner in St. Peter's Square Tschugguel led a band of faithful Catholics from Castel Sant'Angelo — where the Catholic convert had dumped five Pachamama idols into the Tiber River during the Amazon Synod — to the Vatican in protest against the pontiff's repudiation of Catholic teaching. As...

Bishop Schneider calls faithful to pray for Pope Francis to ‘convert’ 'Every true Catholic, every true Catholic priest, every true Catholic bishop must with deep sorrow and a weeping heart regret and protest...' October 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic Faith in the voice of the Magisterium of all times, the sense of the faith of the faithful (sensus fidelium) as well as common sense clearly reject any civil union of two persons of the same sex, a union which has the aim that these persons seek sexual pleasure from each other. Even if persons living in such unions should not...

BREAKING: Catholic youth outside Vatican ask Pope to clarify gay civil union remarks Pachamama dunker Alexander Tschugguel asked the Pope to explain his comments on homosexuality. VATICAN CITY, October 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Just a few hours ago, a group of young Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, asking Pope Francis “for clarity on same-sex unions.” In a documentary released earlier this week, the Holy Father had expressed his support for homosexual civil unions. Led by Alexander Tschugguel, known as the Pachamama dunker, the young people of Austria’s St. Boniface Institute gathered in St. Peter’s Square today with a...

(New Zealand) Bishops endorse civil unions stand by Pope Francis Pope Francis was widely quoted this week supporting same-sex civil unions –– which have been available in Aotearoa New Zealand since 26 April 2005. This is a comment on the pope's statement by Bishop Patrick Dunn, Bishop of Auckland and President of the NZ Catholic Bishops’ Conference: “I endorse the reported comments of Pope Francis. I know that he is anxious for LGBTQ people to know that they are valued members of the family of the Church as they are of their own families. We want their happiness, and for...

Gay Unions: Vatican Orders Media Blackout Pope Francis' full statements on homosexual partnerships censored VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican has imposed a media blackout after fresh revelations that the pope's approval of gay civil unions in a 2019 interview was censored, only to re-emerge unauthorized in the new Francesco film.Vatican communications prefect Ruffini with Afineevsky "With reference to the [current media] crisis triggered off by Russian director Evgeny Afineevsky's film Francesco, for now we are not going out with ANY news, neither [on] radio nor [on the] web," ordered Massimiliano Menichetti, head of Vatican Radio and Vatican News, in an email. "Also, nothing about...

Prelates Censure Pontiff on Gay Civil Unions Argentine archbishop: Francis' words have been accurately translated VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Leading prelates are reprimanding Pope Francis for his "scandalous" endorsement of homosexual civil unions, asking the pontiff to retract his approval "for the sake of the salvation of his immortal soul."Pope Francis greeting gay film director Evgeny Afineevsky "Every true Catholic, every true Catholic priest, every true Catholic bishop must with deep sorrow and a weeping heart regret and protest against the unheard fact, that Pope Francis ... uttered in the documentary film Francesco ... his support for civil same-sex unions," Bp. Athanasius Schneider...

"You Are Welcome": Francis Makes Phone Call to Homosexual With Three Surrogacy Children The Roman homosexual Andrea Rubera sent in 2015 a letter to Francis, and Francis called him on the phone.Rubera and his homosex-partner in sin raise three children produced by a paid surrogate woman in Canada.Despite wilfully denying three children a mother, Rubera asked Francis for a “Catholic education" for them.The story is featured in the documentary “Francesco” produced by the homosexual filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky. Rubera is the spokesman of Cammini di speranza, a group of "Catholic" homosexuals.Francis asked Rubera on the phone if the surrogate children had...

ROME — In a documentary that premiered Wednesday in Rome, Pope Francis called for the passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples, departing from the position of the Vatican’s doctrinal office and the pope’s predecessors on the issue. The remarks came amid a portion of the documentary that reflected on pastoral care for those who identify as LGBT. “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it,” Pope Francis said in the film, of...

Analysis: Two Years After McCarrick Investigation Began, Report Not Yet in Sight As we approach two years since the investigation into the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., many Catholics are waiting for the report to be released. DENVER, Colo. — On October 6, 2018, the Holy See announced a review of its files and archives pertaining to Theodore McCarrick, the former Archbishop of Washington, D.C, who is now laicized and living in disgrace, a known sexual abuser who has offered no public words of repentance. Since the Vatican’s investigation began: —The longest government shutdown in U.S. history began and...

Good Hen, Bad Egg? Even a good hen can lay a bad egg. Crisis Magazine, an outlet often featuring solid content, ran a piece the other day that baffled many: Declan Leary’s Yes, Biden Is Catholic. That’s the Problem (here). One of Leary’s central points is that Joe Biden represents the “typical product of the Catholic Church in our nation and our time,” and that this is a shame and a tremendous problem in need of correction. To this, we are inclined to agree. As the author rightly points out, reading any recent US survey stats should be enough...

Jesuits to host pro-LGBT retreat featuring lesbian Episcopal ‘priest’ September 29, 2020 (Sons of St. Joseph) — From October 9–10, 2020, at their Jesuit Retreat Center located in Parma, Ohio, (Diocese of Cleveland) the Society of Jesus will host an LGBTQ retreat called “Emmaus 2020: A Time for Healing: Ourselves and the World.” According to the Center’s website: “EMMAUS 2020 is the twenty-first annual retreat for LGBTQ Christians at Jesuit Retreat Center.” The retreat will be facilitated by Sister Marian Durkin, C.S.A. — a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine; Durkin also serves on the Leadership Team of her religious...

‘Some of you will go to jail’: Catholic lay group investigates corruption in US hierarchy  'To those bishops and priests leading a double life, characterized by deplorable immorality, corruption and cowardice, our advice is to repent or step down now. We are coming for you' PETERSBURG, Illinois, September 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic lay group famous for exposing a predatory homosexual bishop and a pornographic online chatroom for homosexual priests two decades ago is initiating a wide-ranging investigation into clerical sexual abuse and possible corruption and coverups by American bishops. Roman Catholic Faithful (RCF) announced its “Operation Transparency” earlier...

Child Abuse: Francis’ Transvestite Sister Endorses “Trans Children” The Argentine Carmelite Sister Monica Astorga Cremona, a transvestite activist, believes that children may live as transvestites. During a 2016 campaign, she held up a text which says: “Childhood trans without violence or discrimination - Join us!“ A photo of this was published in November 2017 by Hermán Rossi, a local politician, on FaceBook.com. Francis praised Astorga in August for her connivence with transvestite male prostitutes. Astorga started in 2006 in Neuquen Province, Argentina. Cardinal Bergoglio visited the place in 2009 and approved it. She cooperates with the organisation “Vidas Escondidas” (Hidden...

Pope Francis tells parents who affirm their children as LGBT: ‘God loves your children as they are’ Pope Francis has repeatedly delivered mixed signals, often seeming to significantly depart from Church teaching regarding the pastoring of individuals afflicted with homosexuality and transgenderism Pope Francis meets with Mara Grassi, vice-president of the Tenda di Gionata, Association of LGBT Christians and their parents, Sept. 17, 2020, Rome. VATICAN CITY, September 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has again implicitly affirmed the notion that God purposefully makes people same-sex attracted and gender dysphoric, telling a group of Italian parents who affirm their children...

Pro-Gay Francis: “Church Loves Practicing Homosexuals" The Church does “not exclude” [practicing] homosexuals, Francis said at the end of his September 16 General Audience while meeting forty members of Tenda di Gionata, an organisation of pro-homosex parents of homosexual children.Italian media reported that Francis lied at them by claiming that “the Church loves your children as they are because they are children of God."The group gave Francis the book Fortunate Fathers about homosexuals who attack the Church, and a gay-propaganda T-Shirt with the slogan, “In love there is no fear” (1 John 4,18). Francis smiled when receiving the shirt.However: In...

[Catholic Caucus] No More Hero Popes: New Allegations That Benedict XVI Failed to Properly Address High-Ranking Vatican Abuser Growing up during the pontificate of John Paul II, it was easy to fall in love with the figure of the pope. His warm, sincere smile, his grandfatherly presence, his constant words of encouragement, and his admonitions to create a culture of life were all extremely attractive to a young, conservative Catholic like me.My pastor, a kind, elderly man (may he rest in peace) who incorporated great reverence into his Masses at an otherwise run-of-the-mill post-conciliar parish, sent me to World Youth...

Diocese asks parishes to promote Catholic LGBT Ministry in parish bulletins Pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin applauded the announcement in the Kentucky diocese led by pro-LGBT Bishop John Stowe. LEXINGTON, Kentucky, September 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic diocese has asked parishes to place an ad for an LGBT Ministry in their weekly bulletins: The request, made by the Office for Peace and Justice in the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, was applauded by pro-LGBT Jesuit priest James Martin on Twitter. “Good news from Lexington, Ky,” Martin declared. “Diocese asks parishes to promote Catholic LGBT Ministry in weekly parish bulletins.” And good...

German diocese releases videos of employees demanding Church accept homosexuality, female priests ‘I am gay, catholic, married to my husband since 2004 and have been working for the Catholic Church since 1996,’ one man boasted in the video. Rainer Teuber says he is 'gay, catholic, married to my husband since 2004 and have been working for the Catholic Church since 1996.' ESSEN, Germany, September 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The German Diocese of Essen launched an attack on Catholic teaching, releasing four short videos featuring employees and volunteers of the diocese demanding to change what the Church has taught since the...

German bishops propose redefining ‘fertility’ to include same-sex couples The 'synodal path's' working document to be voted on next month proposes that 'even same-sex couples and other couples who cannot give birth to a new life have the potential for a fertile life.' BONN, Germany, August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The working document of the German bishops’ “synodal path” to be voted on next month proposes to redefine marriage as only one among many other ways “to live love and sexuality.” An earlier working document, released last year, had made similar claims but was never put to a vote. In...

Same-sex marriage no longer called 'gravely evil' in revised Bay Area Catholic handbook — ++Cordileone Caves Again [SF Examiner] In the latest revision of a proposed handbook for Bay Area Catholic school teachers, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone no longer calls same-sex marriage “gravely evil.” The change also removed the description for masturbation and in vitro fertilization, and it comes after months of negotiations to provide a new contract and handbook for teachers of the four high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. But some in the school communities feel that those who do not align with certain Catholic teachings might still...