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McCarrick Report: Pope Hero, Viganò Villain Francis' dossier fails to name key abuse victim James Grein VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The McCarrick report is portraying Pope Francis as the hero who immediately dismissed the homopredator prelate on receiving credible complaints while painting whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò as the villain, whose reports of complaints to the pope regarding Theodore McCarrick are disputed.Viganò slams the McCarrick report for trying to discredit him The long-awaited 450-page document, which fails to mention the name of earliest named victim James Grein, was published by the Vatican Secretariat of State Tuesday afternoon, two hours after the...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘The Vatican fiction continues’: Abp. Viganò issues first response to McCarrick report 'Unlike many characters involved in this story, I do not have any reason to fear that the truth will contradict my denunciations, nor am I in any way blackmailable.' November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Below is the first reaction of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to the McCarrick report. Today the official Report of the Holy See regarding the McCarrick case has been made public. Before I express myself on its merit, I will take time to analyze its content. However, I cannot fail to note the surreal...

Vatican Scandal: Exposed Pope Shuffles Deck Francis moves money matters to new department VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis has transferred responsibility for funds and real estate assets managed by the Secretariat of State to another department on the same day it was revealed that the scandal-ridden London property deal was made "with the approval of the Holy Father."Venezuelan homosexual Abp. Edgar Peña Parra The Vatican Press Office announced the transfer to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) Thursday, as Italian newspaper La Stampa reported that the pope had also endorsed hiring Italian middleman Gianluigi Torzi for...

Francis Promotes Civil Unions for Homosexuals: The Secretary of State Confirms A note, sent to all the nuncios by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, confirms the remarks about civil unions between homosexuals made by Pope Francis in the documentary “Francesco.” It thereby confirms the serious opposition of the reigning Pope to his two immediate predecessors. And through them, to enduring Catholic doctrine. The note sent to the nuncios by the Secretary of State was posted by Mgr. Franco Coppola, nuncio in Mexico, on his Facebook account. Contacted by the cath.ch agency, the nuncio confirmed that this...

Fr. James Martin says not placing foster kids with gay couples is ‘homophobia’ The dissident priest suggested that religious liberty is used ‘as a cover for homophobia.’ Fr. James Martin, S.J. sports double 'devil horns' to introduce Metallica on the Colbert Report, Sept. 24, 2013. November 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Fr. James Martin SJ reacted to a major U.S. Supreme Court religious liberty case pitting so-called homosexual rights against a Catholic adoption agency’s conscience rights, siding with LGBT activsts and a host of far-left organizations.  When court observers yesterday suggested that a majority of the nine justices had signaled they would...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican set for November release of long-awaited McCarrick report. Will it be honest? Whether the upcoming report will reveal the full truth remains to be seen November 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Reuters reports today that, according to its own sources within the Vatican, the long-awaited McCarrick report on the history of Theodore McCarrick's misbehavior and the high-ranking cover-up or tolerance of it will be published before the Fall Meeting of the USCCB, November 15-19. LifeSite was told the same by several sources. According to Reuters, this report is to be published ahead of the USCCB meeting and is...

Viganò reveals details – including names – about homosexual lobby in the Vatican The enemy has succeeded in penetrating the interior of both the State and the Church, in order to rise to the very top, building a network of complicity and connivance that binds all of its members by means of blackmail, having chosen them precisely because of their corruptibility. November 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In my recent essay for the Catholic Identity Conference in Pittsburgh, I spoke of the eclipse that is obscuring the Church of Christ, superimposing over it an anti-church of heretics, corrupt men, and fornicators....

Afineevsky About Francis: “We Are Friends” The preparations for the film Francesco started three years ago, the producer Eleonora Granata told Cinecittà News. She wanted to stress Francis’ usual characteristics: social commitment, sensibility for “the poor,” environmentalism, and his fight “against the infamies perpetrated by capitalism.” It was Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, the ex-Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, “who gave us true access to the Vatican.” Granata admits that she hoped that Francis’ statement about homosex partnerships would cause a media uproar, “It is so important to all of us who worked on the film that the message was...

Insidious Rumours: Neo-Cardinal Had A Gay Relationship With A Priest? Neo-Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the Neo-Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has turned Albano Diocese into the Italian capital of the "Catholic-gay movement," Riccardo Cacioli writes on LaNuovaBq.it (October 29).Albano hosts an annual “Forum of Italian LGBT Christians” promoting the acceptance of active homosexuality in the Church.Semeraro wrote the preface to Possible Love a homosex-book by the homosex-activist Aristide Fumagalli, who coincidentally is a priest.After Francis’ endorsement of homosex civil unions, Semeraro supported them as well. He did so already in January 2016.John Paul II made Semeraro first...

THURSDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 13:31-35 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen who longs to gather her chicks under her wing. As the theologian N.T. Wright points out, this is much more than a sentimental image. It refers to the gesture of a hen when fire is sweeping through the barn. In order to protect her chicks, she will sacrifice herself, gathering them under her wing and using her own body as a shield. On the cross, Jesus used, as it were, his own sacrificed body as a shield, taking the...

Bp. Barron hit with massive backlash after praising pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin ‘Fr. Martin is a winsome guide to all those who want to deepen their friendship with the Lord,’ Barron wrote. Los Angeles auxiliary bishop Robert Barron chaired the revision of the U.S. Bishops’ teaching on the death penalty in Baltimore, Md., June 2019. October 31, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop for Los Angeles and founder of the popular “Word on Fire” ministry, experienced a tsunami of criticism after praising pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin in an endorsement for the Jesuit’s new book about prayer.   “Delighted...

Francis Interview: “My Instinct and the Holy Spirit Guide Me” He did nothing else but to continue the work of Benedict XVI, Francis said in a hagiographic interview with AdnKronos.com (October 30). Benedict is for Francis “a father and a brother” and “holiness in person,” Francis visits him often, “There are no problems between us.” He disclaims reports claiming that the two had been fighting over the same tomb. For Francis, corruption is an old problem in the Church, “but the vast majority of the Church persues the right path.” He believes that the Lord called him to do what...

“Brothers All,” Including “Families” of the Same Sex. The Pontificate of Francis Under the Analyst’s Lens > Italiano > English> Español> Français> All the articles of Settimo Cielo in English*(s.m.) The benedictory words of Pope Francis for homosexual “families,” in the recent film named after him, and his encyclical “Fratelli tutti” on universal brotherhood, with only 4 timid paragraphs out of 287 dedicated to “Christian identity,” have prompted Professor Pietro De Marco to make a comprehensive critical evaluation of the current pontificate.On the genesis and effects of the pope’s words from the film, Settimo Cielo has offered this detailed reconstruction:>...

October 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – On Sunday, Pope Francis announced he is elevating Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, to the rank of cardinal. The announcement came just ten days ahead of the U.S. presidential election and the day before the U.S. Senate vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Pope Francis, who cited election proximity when denying a meeting to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in September, also took veiled shots at Trump in a new documentary in which he was featured. That documentary, Francesco, was released on October 22. Gregory, arguably one...

October 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) -- Catholics have long extended the benefit of the doubt to Pope Francis when he frequently veers off the path of orthodoxy. With his latest statement regarding same-sex civil unions, there are no benefits in entertaining doubts. Many Catholics sense something is terribly wrong. “What we have to create is a civil union law,” says the pope in the documentary, “Francesco,” just released at a premiere in Rome. “That way, they are legally covered.” Francis’s declaration that homosexual couples need the legal protection of civil unions to protect their “right to a family” leaves no doubt...

October 27, 2020 (The Catholic Thing) — I expect that various cardinals and bishops will make public statements for and against this new teaching. Cardinal Burke has already issued a powerful reply that may be read by clicking here. Divisions, already in existence over other hotly-contested questions, will grow wider. No “bridge-building” will result from this latest misstep. Those who accept the Church’s perennial teaching on homosexuality will be accused of being anti-Catholic enemies of the pope. But can that be true?

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A gay couple favored by a phone call from Pope Francis and featured in the documentary Francesco are not only "married" but also hired a lesbian surrogate to have three children, Church Militant has learned. Image The gay couple and their children Andrea Rubera and Dario De Gregorio, who are credited with convincing the pope that "homosexuals have the right to have a family," were "married" in Canada in 2009 and had three children in Canada through lesbian surrogate mother Kerilyn. Rubera appears in gay filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky's documentary Francesco presented at the Rome Film Festival last...

Pope Francis Signaling Support for Joe Biden? Gay civil unions breeding Church disunion VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis' support for homosexual civil unions is dividing American clerics, leading one to conclude the comments are a dog whistle to influence support for Biden.Cdl. Raymond Burke In a documentary titled Francesco released on Wednesday, the pope said, "Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family."  "Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it," he added, repeating a position he has held since before becoming pope....

ASK FATHER: Recent comments about same-sex unions… a “slap in the face” of those trying to leave homosexual lifestyle? Posted on 24 October 2020 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf From a reader in a comment…QUAERITUR: When “going to the periphery” crosses the line is when the exception becomes the rule of law. What about COURAGE ministry, isn’t this a slap in the face of those trying to enact 12 step program to leave homosexual lifestyle? Yes, it is a slap in the face.It is a slap in the face of every faithful Catholic priest who has tried to preach about human...

A Permissive Pope for a Permissive Age Whatever he is up to, it is not saving souls. Jorge Bergoglio’s pontificate beyond parody continues apace. The latest papal farce revolves around his reiteration of support for homosexual civil unions. In a new documentary, Pope Francis says that homosexuals “have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it. What we have to have is a civil union law — that way they are legally covered. I supported that.” Previous popes hated the sin and loved the sinner. Pope Francis shrugs at the sin and...