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[Catholic Caucus] False Prophets & False ShepherdsPreface and Precis: This is a sermon warning against false prophets. The Gospel of this TLM Mass (Matthew 7:15-21) is, inexplicably, not to be found on any Sunday or Solemnity in the Novus Ordo Mass. This sermon also offers a supplementary context and commentary: Our Lord’s admonition against corrupt leadership “matures” into warnings against the ultimate false prophet (2 Cor 11:14), the antichrist (1 John 2:22, 4:3; 2 John 1:7). All humans are sinners, having character flaws or “cracks” in desperate need of divine repair, even as our society invariably needs “course correction” based...

[Catholic Caucus] Why Don’t We? LGBTQ+ Catholics Prepare for Their Jubilee PilgrimageToday’s post is from guest contributor Elisa Belotti who is a freelance journalist based in Italy. She covers human rights and marginalized communities, with a particular focus on the impact of religion on society.2025 is a Jubilee Year, a major Catholic event held every 25 years that brings people from all over the world to Rome to pray, pass through the holy doors of selected churches, and take part in other spiritual activities to renew their faith. And this year, LGBTQ+ Catholics want to be an organized part of...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo XIV Faces an Early Challenge: How to Deal With Pope Francis’ Restrictions on the Latin MassA significant early challenge for Pope Leo XIV will be how he chooses to handle the restrictions that Pope Francis placed on the traditional Latin Mass (TLM). Since Pope Francis issued his apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of Tradition) in July 2021, the freedom to celebrate the pre-1970 Mass has been curtailed — severely in some cases — with the long-term aim of allowing only the new Mass. Cardinals, bishops, priests and many of the laity, including some who do not...

[Catholic Caucus] What do Jesuits believe today? Their woke parish websites provide cluesA sampling of the websites of the 66 Jesuit parishes in the United States reveals distinctive priorities, visible in both large metropolises and smaller cities with Jesuit colleges.Pope Francis’ recent comments suggesting faith in Christ is just one of many paths to God have underscored his heterodoxy and opened him up once again to charges of heresy.Such accusations have been piling up since the first Jesuit pontiff seized the helm of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013. But what does the Society of Jesus teach and believe at...

[Catholic Caucus] MARCH 13, 2013 - MARCH 13, 2024: ELEVEN INTERMINABLE YEARS OF HORROR"So he came with the king's mandate, bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast." 2 Maccabees 4:25***Bad news. We knew from the instant of the announcement of the name of the elected cardinal in the 2013 Conclave that we were in for very, very bad news. For some bizarre reason, the inexplicable decision of Benedict XVI to resign the papacy (a resignation he thought he could somehow manage by having his chosen...

[Catholic Caucus] How this dissident Jesuit theologian is the key to understanding Pope FrancisFr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955(Tradition and Sanity) — In his homily in Mongolia on Sunday, September 3, Pope Francis decided to quote Father Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) at some length:The Mass is itself a way of giving thanks: ‘Eucharistía.’ To celebrate Mass in this land brought to my mind the prayer that the Jesuit Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offered to God exactly a hundred years ago, in the desert of Ordos, not far from here. He prayed: ‘My God, I prostrate myself before your presence...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Expert in the Fight Against Abuse: Vatican Dicastery Must Respond Regarding Father RupnikFather Hans Zollner, a Jesuit priest and an expert in the fight against abuse, said the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “must respond” to questions surrounding the case of Father Marko Rupnik, a member of the Society of Jesus accused of abuse.Father Zollner is one of the leading experts in the field of safeguarding from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He is a member of the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors since its creation in 2014 and is the...

"Bergoglio is not a Peronist" - Gloria.tv-Interview with José Arturo Quarracino*, Buenos Aires*José Arturo Quarracino, born in Buenos Aires in 1953, is a relative of Buenos Aires Cardinal Antonio Quarracino (+1998). José Arturo is a philosophy graduate (University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature), teacher and freelance translator. He is involved in Argentinean political life and the pro-life movement, interested in history, religion, theology, and politics, and participates through articles and political activities in the resistance against what Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó calls the global health coup d'état. He is married and had three children. His son died...

Priest’s Book Tells Sad Tale of Jesuits’ Abortion Complicity in the USCOMMENTARY: The late Jesuit Father Paul Mankowski knew how badly some of his brother priests and his superiors had betrayed the Society of Jesus.Need a prominent cleric to give cover to Catholic politicians who vote to preserve and expand abortion access? For more than 50 years, the Jesuits have had a man at the ready. It is a grave scandal in one of the Church’s most venerable orders.Jesuit Father Pat Conroy, who served as chaplain of the House of Representatives from May 2011 to January 2021, gave an...

[Catholic Caucus] Why don’t the U.S. bishops defend Pope Francis from American media attacks?In a Q&A session with Jesuits in Slovakia, Pope Francis revealed that after his colon surgery this summer, some prelates wanted him to die. He also issued a thinly veiled criticism of EWTN, saying the Catholic network’s attacks on him are “the work of the devil.”America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell wrote about the pope’s comments and reported that Pope Francis had previously confronted an EWTN reporter about the network’s attacks on him. On this episode of the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, Gerry joins host Colleen Dulle to...

Viganò: Deep State has now teamed up with Deep Church to overthrow Trump, usher in New World Order The Deep State is now moving with Deep Church to transform the Catholic Church into the ‘spiritual arm’ of the New World Order, the Archbishop said. “Corruptio optimi pessima.”: Saint Gregory the Great September 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Seeking to find any coherence of the recent action of the Society of Jesus with the original intentions of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is an arduous if not impossible task, to the point that in hindsight one considers the reconstitution of the Order in 1814 after...

Is It a Sin to Be White? “To fight racism, Catholics must hunger for justice like we do for the Eucharist.” This was the headline of a joint editorial piece published on America, the Jesuit magazine, upon the aftermath of a week’s worth of mob protest, extensive looting, and the disintegration of public law and order. In just a few words, the struggle for justice—whether in the form of peaceful protest displayed by the late Martin Luther King, Jr., or the uncontrolled mob chaos and property destruction taking place in every major city across America—became morally just, despite the former...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Martyrs, Old and New Last week in Rome there was a full-on all-stops-pulled celebration of the Jesuits, organized by the Jesuits. Both Pope Francis and Father Arturo Sosa, the superior general, took part. It was a clarifying moment for those who might wonder at the various curiosities offered by the Society of Jesus in these past years under the first Jesuit pope. Consider Father Sosa himself, who apparently denies two key doctrines of the faith: the historical accuracy of the gospels and the personal existence of the devil. There is Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà...

[Catholic Caucus] Viganò: ‘Christ is Absent’ From Amazon Synod Working Document Warns Instrumentum Laboris reflects 'post-Christian Catholic theology' ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is sounding alarm over the upcoming Amazon Synod. Speaking to Dr. Robert Moynihan, founder and editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican, Abp. Viganò said earlier this week that the Instrumentum Laboris — the synod's working document — is an alarming sign that post-Christian ideology is gathering strength inside the Church. "Where is the Christian message here?" he asked. "In fact, the figure of Christ is absent. The Synod working document testifies to the emergence of a post-Christian Catholic theology,...