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[Catholic Caucus] Father James Martin performs another ‘blessing’ for two ‘married’ menIn a thread posted on X, formerly Twitter, Martin described how he recently blessed a friend and his 'husband' as a couple following the instructions given in the controversial Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans. “The two have been together for 20 years and live nearby,” Martin wrote. “We met at a Shake Shack, sat outdoors and had fun reminiscing, catching up, and talking about the church, since all four of us are Catholic. At one point, Eugene said, ‘Why not give Gus and James a blessing?’” “It was exactly the...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Jesuits Appoint Director for LGBT ActivismJohn Zmirak and I have been warning you for years. . . . New Executive Director at OutreachThe implementation phase of the LGBT synod is accelerating rapidly. The LGBT media ministry, Outreach, which was founded by Fr. James Martin, has just announced the appointment of its first executive director. His name is Michael O’Loughlin, a former reporter for the Boston Globe and the Jesuit magazine, America. Based on his comments to the media, it is obvious that his new job is to organize a national movement of LGBT enforcement at all Catholic...

[Catholic Caucus] "Spontaneous Blessing" Hoax: Two Homosexuals [Pseudo] Blessed At EucharistDuring a Eucharist at the Jesuit parish of the Holy Family in Mexico City on 28 January, Redemptorist Father Patrick Keyes blessed two homosexual concubines, reports AciPrensa.com.He justified his blasphemy with Francis' propaganda piece Sodoma supplicans. At the end of the 7pm Eucharist, two homosexuals came to the side of the Novus Ordo table to receive the [pseudo] blessing.What was supposed to be "spontaneous" according to Francis was announced during the "parish announcements" by the pastor of the church, Father Gonzalo Rosas, a Jesuit.It was only after the scandal broke...

Fr. James Martin promotes Protestant pastor who falsely claims Bible doesn’t condemn sodomyContrary to Brendan Robertson’s view, which Martin called ‘superb,’ the Catholic Church teaches that sodomy is intrinsically evil and always sinful and that Scripture condemns it.Fr. James Martin’s pro-LGBT activist group “Outreach” has posted an interview with a Protestant pastor who wrongly claimed the Bible does not condemn homosexual acts. In the interview, Martin, the editor of Outreach, asked Protestant pro-LGBT pastor Brandan Robertson what his response is “when an LGBT person [sic] or a family member or anybody says ‘doesn’t the Bible condemn homosexuality?’” READ: Cdl. Müller:...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Priests, scholars ask Church leaders to request the Pope withdraw Fiducia Supplicans'Never in the history of the Catholic Church has a document of the Roman Magisterium experienced such a strong rejection’ as Fiducia Supplicans.Today, the feast of Candlemas, some 90 clergymen, scholars, and authors are publishing a new statement that joins the chorus of those Catholic voices opposed to the papally approved Fiducia Supplicans, a document permitting blessings of homosexual couples and other couples in irregular unions. The signatories address the bishops and cardinals of the Catholic Church, asking them to forbid such blessings in their respective...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Fr. James Martin addresses Irish bishops in private meeting at Marian ShrineA trusted source in Ireland told LifeSiteNews that the meeting included discussions on how to implement the blessing of homosexual 'couples' and even the desire to implement homosexual 'marriage.'The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has been addressed today by heterodox Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin in the Marian Shrine of Knock, Co. Mayo, where Our Lady appeared to villagers in 1879. The conference had not made any statement on the matter at the time of publication, nor responded to requests for comment from LifeSiteNews, but it is...

Pagans Worship SexPagans worship sex and the body. Christians worship God. Alone. The pornographic cult, which has seized power in Rome, and which centers around the sexual act and the body as it relates to coition, is forbidden as sinful for Christians.Are the agents of disorder and subversion in the Vatican attempting to substitute the idolatry of a sex cult for the true faith? Worship of the body and the sexual function apart from marriage and procreation is pagan. Pagans are closed in on nature apart from Revelation. Pagan cults are deprived of the supernatural, imprisoned within the “eternal return”...

Leading Vatican theologian says Fiducia Supplicans is not part of the ‘authentic Magisterium’'Pope Francis should cancel Fiducia Supplicans and replace the prefect with a man of ‘sure, sound and pure doctrine,’ to use the Apostle’s words to Titus,” said Fr. Nicola Bux.The respected Vatican theologian Fr. Nicola Bux has said that Fiducia Supplicans (FS) “does not belong to the authentic Magisterium” and called on the document’s author, Cardinal Victor Fernandez, to resign. Monsignor Bux, a former consultant to the Congregation (now Dicastery) of the Doctrine of Faith and friend and collaborator of the late Pope Benedict XVI, made his comments...

Müller: Francis’ Church More Divided Than EverFrancis' homosexual propaganda piece "Sodoma Supplicans" is a "failed project" and needs to be rewritten in a clear, Catholic way, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told Raymond Arroyo, EWTN.com (25 January video, below).Christ and his cross are the ways of salvation and "not just a good will" or "the Freemasons who talk about brotherhood."There is no salvation "without commitment, without conversion, without changing one's life and without imitating Jesus Christ", he stated.The Cardinal observes that the Church is "more divided than ever" because of the text Sodoma Supplicans and that the African bishops will be leading...

[Catholic Caucus] JPII Academy Calls on Pope to Dismiss Cardinal FernándezEditor’s Note: The following statement was issued by members of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family, an organization founded in 2017 by former members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (see here for background). The statement is signed by Dr. Thomas Ward, President of the Academy, although additional signatories are listed here. CFN is pleased to help circulate this important statement and concurs wholeheartedly that Pope Francis should immediately remove Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who is unfit “to fulfil the role of defender of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Head of Italian bishops’ conference welcomes papal document permitting blessing same-sex ‘unions’Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, has endorsed Pope Francis' controversial declaration allowing blessings for homosexual 'couples.'Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, has welcomed Pope Francis’ declaration opening up blessings for homosexual “couples.”In a statement to the winter session of the conference’s Permanent Episcopal Council on Monday, Zuppi stated that he has “accepted the Declaration of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, Fiducia Supplicans,” penned by the dicastery’s Prefect Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández and authorized by Pope Francis on...

[Catholic Caucus] Papal confidant Cardinal Maradiaga defends Fiducia Supplicans'This statement is not heresy, but a pastoral explanation of the character of the blessings, which were limited in the liturgical field,' asserted Cardinal Maradiaga in his praise of Fiducia Supplicans.TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (LifeSiteNews) –– One of Pope Francis’ closest aides, Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, has publicly supported Fiducia Supplicans and its blessings for homosexual “couples” as being “not heretical.”In a brief discussion held with local Honduran clergy and reported on by Religion Digital, Maradiaga gave his public support to the December 18 text Fiducia Supplicans, authored by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández...

[Catholic Caucus] The Wrath of God and the Death Penalty: On Blessings and PrudenceWhile sexual immorality no longer requires the civil punishment of death, such natural-moral-law violations still bring spiritual death to the souls of those who willingly engage in it.St. Paul’s discussion in Romans 1 on “the wrath of God” is best understood through the lens of Acts 15. Such an exegesis sheds light on the natural moral law and reveals the need to avoid blessing sin. “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal says debate about blessings is normal part of Church lifeCardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said the debate surrounding the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s declaration on the possibility of blessing gay couples shows that deeper reflection is still needed.At the same time, he said, the reaction is a normal and healthy part of the Catholic Church learning how to take Gospel values and apply them to new situations.Speaking to reporters who were attending his speech on the Holy See and peacemaking Jan. 12 at Rome’s Academy of the Lincei, the cardinal was asked...

[Catholic Caucus] Marking One Month of ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: Opposition Shows No Signs of AbatingCriticism of the document that authorized the blessing of same-sex couples is seen as unprecedented by some Church historians. One month after the Vatican released Fiducia Supplicans allowing the blessing of same-sex couples, the backlash the document triggered shows no signs of diminishing.The criticism has been so pointed and widespread, in fact, some historians say that never before has a papal document provoked such opposition and confusion, leaving many observers to wonder how the fallout can be resolved.“The existence of a sharp contrast between bishops and cardinals...

[Catholic Caucus] The Good News About Fiducia SupplicansFiducia Supplicans does, as Cardinal Fernández and Pope Francis hoped it would, provide clarity; it just isn’t the clarity they wanted.Well, the title alone is enough to make you read the article. Now that the dust has surged on Fiducia Supplicans, we should look at the good news about it. It does, as Cardinal Fernández and Pope Francis hoped it would, provide clarity; it just isn’t the clarity they wanted. It doesn’t clarify what the Vatican previously said on the matter. (You don’t need to clarify “No.”) But it has clarified what many...

[Catholic Caucus] Let’s Call Out Dirty Old Men AgainOne cannot speak against the acts that used to be called deviant and perverse because those very acts are being mainstreamed and normalized by all the powers that be.I don’t know about you, but I miss the days when we could freely identify and call out dirty old men. When, without reprisal, we could recognize and denounce sexual deviance and not have to pretend that sexual perversion was normal or good. Today? All discernment on the issue of sexual perversion has been dulled and even forbidden. One cannot speak against the acts...

[Catholic Caucus] Dutch bishop blasts ‘cowardly’ Fiducia Supplicans, urges scandalized Catholics not to leave Church‘This pontificate will naturally come to an end,’ writes Bishop Rob Mutsaerts. ‘Should you obey him? No. Stay in the Church!’Fiducia Supplicans – the controversial Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith – is above all a cowardly document. It refuses to name homosexual practices as intrinsically evil. It is now clear that Fiducia Supplicans is not about an expansion of the meaning of blessings, but of a deliberate modification of what is sin. Objections from numerous bishops – indeed, bishops’ conferences –...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis accuses those rejecting Fiducia Supplicans of reaching ‘ugly conclusions’Catholic bishops around the world have voiced concerns with Fiducia Supplicans. Opposition to the document has been so wide ranging that now the entire continent of Africa will not implement the practice of such blessings.Pope Francis has come to the defense of Fiducia Supplicans and its proposal for blessings of same-sex couples, saying people have jumped to “ugly conclusions” about the document because they do not understand it.“Sometimes decisions are not accepted. In most cases, decisions are not accepted because one does not know things,” said Pope Francis,...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis' Fernández miscalculation?Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has had a difficult first four months as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF).Taking over the role in September, the pope’s pick for the doctrinal department started by being effectively sidelined from half of the dicastery’s remit, after the pope excused him — some would say excluded him — from playing any part in its handling of clerical sexual abuse cases.Since then, Fernández has had to weather repeated questions about his suitability for the role in the light of his previous writings, and overseen the highly...