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[Catholic Caucus] Head of Austrian Bishops’ Conference says priests cannot say ‘no’ to blessing homosexual couples anymoreArchbishop Franz Lackner said that priests 'can no longer say no' to a request for a 'blessing' of a homosexual couple despite the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful relationships.The head of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Franz Lackner, has said that priests “can no longer say no” to a request for a “blessing” of a homosexual couple after the publication of the Vatican’s controversial Declaration Fiducia supplicans. Lackner expressed his “joy” over the publication of the document that allows the...

Normalizing Sodomy: The True Legacy of FrancisA few days ago, the head of the former Holy Office, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, went out of his way to let the world know that single mothers who repent and confess their sins should be allowed to receive Holy Communion. NEWSFLASH to Cardinal Victor: The Catholic Church has never said otherwise. I was educated in Catholic schools from the first grade all the way though Catholic university, and I never heard any priest, sister, or lay professor even suggest that an unwed mother was to be considered excommunicated and therefore cut off from...

BREAKING: Pope Francis publishes norms for clergy to ‘bless’ homosexual couplesPope Francis’ new document allows clergy to bless any homosexual couple, in contradiction to the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful relationships.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández have issued a text allowing “blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex” in contradiction to the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful relationships.The Declaration “Fiducia Supplicans,” issued without warning on December 18, the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith’s new prefect, Cardinal Victor...

Ghana bishops defend anti-sodomy laws in response to criticism by Vatican’s WEF liaisonThe bishops published their communique two weeks after Cardinal Peter Turkson, who is from Ghana, condemned the country’s anti-sodomy laws in a BBC interview.The Catholic Bishops Conference of Ghana issued a document defending the country’s anti-sodomy laws, contradicting a statement made by Cardinal Peter Turkson.In a communique titled “The Catholic Church and the State on Homosexuality,” the bishops of Ghana wrote that “the State is within its right to criminalize the acts of homosexuals in the interest of the nation.”The document defends the right of a state to...

[Catholic Caucus] FRANCIS KNOWS BEST: Blessing Gay Unions is Already a Done DealIn this episode of The Remnant Underground, Michael Matt takes a look at the ramifications of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s conclusion that the FBI views pro-life, pro-family traditional Catholics as “possible domestic terrorists.” Here’s the bigger problem: Pope Francis is carrying water for the FBI. How so? Watch and see. Plus, to bless gay unions or not to bless gay unions. That is the question. Trouble is, Pope Francis has already done it. Michael takes a deep dive into the film, “Francesco” – the documentary that rips the...

[Catholic Caucus] Synodal Witchcraft"In Africa, we understand marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and anything short of that is witchcraft.”This statement, made by Cameroonian Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya at a recent meeting of the Synod on Synodality, was largely ignored by the media; but its significance cannot be overestimated.Doubtless out of consideration for his host, the archbishop did not want to say, "In Africa, any so-called marriage between two men or two women would be considered witchcraft"—but that is obviously what he meant. In Cameroon, homosexuality is popularly associated with witchcraft, and transgenders can be arrested...

[Catholic Caucus] Milwaukee response to clergy complaint raises questionsWhile Pope Francis has urged diocesan bishops to take more seriously the canonical discipline of clerics, the outgoing chairman of the U.S. bishops’ canonical affairs committee has not taken steps to address canonically reports of public cohabitation by a senior-ranking official in his archdiocese. A spokesperson for Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee told The Pillar that the archdiocese has “spoken with” judicial vicar Fr. Mark Payne, who hired as a parish schoolteacher last year a layperson with whom he had maintained a public romantic relationship, and with whom he has shared a...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cdl. Müller says Synod was ‘steered’ to push acceptance of LGBT issues, female deacons'So, these topics that were highlighted at the German synod also came up again and again in international preliminary discussions,' Cardinal Müller said.Editor’s note: LifeSiteNews journalists Maike Hickson and Andreas Wailzer conducted the interview with Cardinal Gerhard Müller in German and translated his words into English. (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that it seemed like the Synod on Synodality was designed by some of its promotors to go in a “certain direction,” namely, the acceptance of the female diaconate and LGBT issues....

Silence in the Face of the Homosexual Infestation of the ClergyAs long as active clergy homosexual activity persists, the Church will continue to fracture and split, where eventually it will all but collapse and disappear.I saw the full-moon-sized face and squinted. I stared at his image for several seconds. Yes; it was him. In the closing frame of Bishop Joseph Strickland’s 2018 USCCB plenary assembly testimony and rebuke to bishops for their concealment of homosexual predator Theodore McCarrick sat a clergy member below the dais, facing the sea of bishops. He is seen below the dais as Bishop Strickland returns...

An interview with John Gravino, author of "Confronting the Pope of Suspicion"Members and friends of the Roman Catholic Church around the world have watched with alarm as Pope Francis has used the recent Vatican “Synod” to promote radical changes in Catholic teaching and practice. For instance, “transgender” people and those in same-sex “marriages” are now eligible to serve as godparents at baptism; that is, as the sponsors and models of Christian living to new Christians. The Stream‘s John Zmirak interviewed an expert on Pope Francis, Catholic philosopher John Gravino, to find out what’s going on. Could you briefly explain what...

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[Catholic Caucus] Father James Martin addresses Toronto Catholic school board on ‘2SLGBTQ+ students’Through his LGBT activism, Martin is further distancing TCDSB students from God’s love and from their identity as children of God.TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin, SJ, addressed Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) staff and faculty on so-called “2SLGBTQ+ students.” On November 14, the LGBT activist priest spoke with principals, teachers, and chaplains over Zoom at the TCDSD Pastoral Day of Care to lecture them on how to be “welcoming” to students who identify as “2SLGBTQ+.” “@TCDSB welcomes principals, teachers and chaplains to the Pastoral Day...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Welcomes “Transgender” People as Godparents“An historic step forward.” That’s how Jimmy “Bridge to Hell” Martin praised it. Pope Francis has committed yet another “heresy of practice.”What just happened?In a document issued only in Italian (since no one in Rome seems to know the Roman language any more), two kinds of persons are put forth and “welcomed” and given roles in the Church without a clear and firm purpose of amendment. The bottom line is that this exposes children to the transgender tyranny that has already been invading our public libraries in the United States.Now this tyranny...

<p>Pope Francis' latest document comes despite the fact that the Catholic Church teaches that deliberate bodily mutilation and homosexual acts are gravely sinful, and that those requesting baptism for children must intend to raise the children in the Catholic faith.</p>

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop authorizes same-sex blessingsBishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann wrote to diocesan priests, deacons and lay pastoral workers saying that the blessings – which he also extended to remarried couples – could take place in churches in the Diocese of Speyer. “The ceremony must differ from a church wedding ceremony in terms of words and signs and should explicitly reinforce the love, commitment, and mutual responsibility in the couple’s relationship as an act of blessing.”

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’ ‘synodal process’ is opening the gates of unrestrained heterodoxyMore heterodox members of the synod have granted a plethora of interviews in which they have repeated their calls for pro-LGBT actions on the part of the Church and the implementation of female deacons.Following the conclusion of the October 2023 session of the Synod on Synodality, the dominant emerging theme is one of implicit papal approbation of heterodox members pushing for a revolution in Church teaching. The Synod on Synodality concluded its first month-long session at the end of October, with participants set to return to the Vatican...

On the morning of 7 October 2023, the militant Palestinian group Hamas orchestrated a multi-pronged assault against Israel from the Gaza Strip. Their fighters breached the heavily fortified border and murdered more than 1,400 Israeli civilians, including young children. Here in the West, the political discourse surrounding these brutal events and the war that has come in their wake has been coloured by a misguided transposition of Western identity politics onto the Middle East, which collapses all nuance and reduces a complex situation into a simple binary of oppressor versus oppressed. Leftists in English-speaking nations tend to see Palestinians (including...

[Catholic Caucus] El Tucho: Puppet from HellBefore Christ’s second coming.... The persecution [of the Church] will unveil the “mystery of iniquity”in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth.- Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 675-676 "To achieve world government, it is necessaryto remove from the minds of men,... religious dogmas.- BROCK CHISHOLM, First Director General of the WHO On 1 July, Francis announced that 60-year-old Archbishop Víctor "Tucho" Fernández of La Plata, the notorious "kissing expert" and key contributor to heretical gems like Amoris Laetitia...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’ favorite pro-LGBT nun says he is ‘laying the groundwork’ for changing teaching on homosexuality'I am confident that the sexual teaching of the church will change,' dissident Sr. Jeannine Gramick predicted with great optimism.Sr. Jeannine Gramick of New Ways MinistryATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– A prominent pro-LGBT nun, previously censured by the Vatican but rehabilitated by Pope Francis, has declared the Pope is “laying the groundwork for change” in the Catholic Church’s prohibition of homosexuality. In an interview with Father James Martin S.J.’s pro-LGBT website “Outreach,” Sister Jeannine Gramick outlined her assessment of Pope Francis’ gradual attack and...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop asks priests to ‘bless’ homosexual unions, citing Pope Francis and Synodal WayBishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann of Speyer encouraged pastors to conduct ‘blessings’ of homosexual and other sinful relationships and said that no one ‘has to fear sanctions’ for doing so in his diocese.SPEYER, Germany (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann of the Diocese of Speyer, Germany, has called on priests in his diocese to grant “blessing ceremonies” for homosexual unions as well as adulterous and sinful relationships outside of marriage.In a November 2 letter to the clergy and staff of the diocese, the bishop invoked the German Synodal...