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[Catholic Caucus] Catholic walks out of Mass as priest compares Trump to Satan at DC churchCV NEWS FEED // A Catholic man left Sunday Mass for the first time in his life after a priest in Georgetown, a wealthy neighborhood in Washington, DC, used his homily to make a political comparison between President Donald Trump and Satan.Ganley’s post quickly gained traction, drawing over a million views and reigniting debates about politics in the pulpit. Ganley emphasized that while he respects Jesuits and their intellectual contributions, partisan rhetoric from the altar crosses a line.“Honestly, I’m fine with leftie Jesuits,” he wrote....

[Catholic Caucus] Is Fr. Rupnik, accused of sexual abuse, now staying in a convent with nuns outside Rome?A convent in Montefiolo, once home to Benedictine nuns, appears to have been taken over by ex-Jesuits, including accused abuser Fr. Marko Rupnik. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, a known Rupnik ally, has built a private residence there as secrecy and scandal grow.CASPERIA, Italy (Daily Compass) — The convent of Montefiolo, in Sabina, where the Pope’s former Vicar for Rome has built a luxurious apartment, will become the new headquarters of the former Jesuits of the Aletti Centre. With the relative expulsion of the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Case of Marko Rupnik: An Artist’s PerspectiveDipping my fingers into the holy water font, I immediately notice large, wide-eyed figures swirling around me in bright luminescence. I freeze, trying to stabilize myself. Eerily reminiscent of childhood bouts with hypoglycemia, my surroundings are distorted as if I were in a circus. The features of the people around me seem exaggerated and the ground unstable beneath my feet. As I cross myself, my thoughts race, “This is a Rupnik chapel. I didn’t realize this would be a Rupnik chapel. I wasn’t prepared for this.”As I walk into the chapel,...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: Pope Francis’ attacks on Trump are ‘confusing and frustrating to faithful Catholics’'Pope Francis’s reluctance to address grave moral issues raises legitimate concerns about whether financial and political interests outweigh doctrinal fidelity on the part of the Vatican,' writes Bishop Strickland.On February 10, 2025, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the bishops of the United States expressing strong criticism of the Trump administration’s deportation policies and directly challenging Vice President J.D. Vance’s theological justification for these actions. However, Pope Francis remained relatively silent during the last administration to President Biden’s clear and repeated advocacy for abortion, gender...

Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped! JRS Ireland is the group that was providing the tents for migrant tent city in Dublin. They assist migrants entering Ireland and they work on their behalf when they get here. This is a massive development. I love DOGE ... Why were American tax payers paying for that in the 1st place ... the elites have used USAID to launder the our tax money back...

[Catholic Caucus] Father James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the JesuitsFather James Martin, Society of Jesus, is at it again.Martin, the Jesuit priest who has spent his entire life advocating for left-wing causes, is all over social media preaching that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees and therefore, good Christians should oppose President Trump’s efforts to stop illegal immigration into the United States.What Father Martin does not wrestle with is the concept of evil. Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, murdered a young woman named Laken Riley during a 20-minute struggle. Ibarra was convicted on a total...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Catholic’ Franciscan magazine promotes dissident Fr. James Martin, pro-LGBT writingsSt. Anthony Messenger has published content advising parents to ‘accompany’ their children in their homosexuality, as well as content defending the grotesque Paris pre-Olympics ‘Last Supper.’A “Catholic” magazine published by Franciscan Media is promoting heterodox LGBT content, including writing from the notoriously pro-LGBT Father James Martin, SJ.St. Anthony Messenger, which publishes both in print and online, promoted content from Fr. Martin advising parents to “accompany” their children in their homosexuality as well as content defending the indecent, infamous 2024 pre-Olympics drag queen scene that was eventually confirmed to be...

A Pillar of Salt for Our AgeAlthough Father Marko Rupnik’s According to the Spirit sheds little light on Pope Francis’s spiritual theology, it is both valuable and concerning as the written testament of a controversial priest whose influence has been significant in the life of the universal Church.Pope Francis greets then-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik during a private audience at the Vatican in this Jan. 3, 2022, file photo. Rupnik, whose mosaics decorate chapels in the Vatican, all over Europe, in the United States and Australia, is under restricted ministry after being accused of abusing adult nuns in Slovenia.In 1975, Father...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Is Still a Very Public Rupnik FanDuring his address to the Roman Curia for the exchange of Christmas greetings on 21 December, Francis briefly left the text of his speech to refer to a painting by Father Marko Rupnik that he has in his studio.He had already referred to it on two other occasions, notably in 2023 when he recorded a short video message for the XVI Mariological Congress "The Mariology of Pope Francis" in Aparecida, Brazil.On 21 December, Francis said: "There is a picture that I have in my study that represents precisely the Synkatabasis...

[Catholic Caucus] Gay pilgrims to have special day during jubileePope Francis has approved a pilgrimage specifically for LGBT individuals as part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, according to Italian journalist Franca Giansoldati in Il Messaggero. Scheduled for Sept. 6, this event has been added to the official Jubilee calendar.The pilgrimage will take place at the Church of the Gesù, a historic Baroque Jesuit church in Rome known for its ornate design and as the resting place of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, and St. Francis Xavier, Il Messaggero reported. Participants will begin with a prayer vigil Sept....

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis approves LGBT ‘pilgrimage’ for 2025 Jubilee: reportPope Francis has approved an LGBT-specific pilgrimage during the 2025 Jubilee year, an Italian Vaticanist reported, continuing his policy of openness to LGBT individuals. Giansoldati wrote that “a special moment of spirituality has been included in the official calendar of the Holy Year on Sept. 6, and the historic Baroque church of the Gesù has become the promoter of welcoming Lgbt+ pilgrims, their parents, workers and all those who gravitate to these rainbow associations.”The beautiful and famously lavishly decorated church of the Gesù is the mother church of the Jesuit...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit-run America Magazine op-ed blames ‘misogyny’ for Trump winning Catholic voteThe heterodox Jesuit-run America Magazine published an op-ed earlier this month that blamed 'misogyny' for Catholics voting overwhelming for Trump, going as far as accusing St. Thomas Aquinas and Church teaching as being in error.The heterodox Jesuit-run America Magazine published an op-ed earlier this month that blamed 'misogyny' for Catholics voting overwhelming for Trump, going as far as accusing St. Thomas Aquinas and Church teaching as being in error. Absent female authority in the church, and given this theological throughline, it is not surprising that female authority is...

[Catholic Caucus] Georgetown University Holds Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil; And More NewsMembers of the Georgetown University community at a vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance in 2024The following are some items that may be of interest:1. The Georgetown University community held a vigil to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance in late November, which honors the trans and gender non-conforming people lost to violence in the past year, reported The Hoya, the student newspaper of the Catholic school in Washington, DC. The vigil, which was sponsored by student group GU Pride, was held by candlelight with the names of victims...

[Catholic Caucus] From Doomsday 1959 to Dire Straits 2024When most Catholics hear of revelations, they are understandably skeptical. After all, they say, do we not already have the teaching of Christ, the inspired word of God in the Scriptures, and the dogmatic teaching of the Church? What need do we have of revelations? They are, of course, right. But what happens when the teaching of Christ that may still be alive in the mind goes dead in the heart, as did the love of God when Jansenism was rife in the Church? Christ Himself appeared to St. Margaret Mary—not to...

[Catholic Caucus] American Jesuits have betrayed the faith for woke political activismThe Jesuit focus on politics over Catholicism has never been stronger. The Synod on Synodality is the obvious example. Other evidence is plentiful at Jesuits.org.The late Malachi Martin pulled no punches in his nonfiction masterwork, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church.The 1987 book detailed the five-century-old religious order’s “abandonment of basic Roman Catholic teaching, the replacement of it with sociopolitical solutions, and the inevitably consequent abandonment of the prime Jesuit vocation to be ‘Pope’s Men.’”Martin’s “war between the papacy and the...

[Catholic Caucus] Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in RomeFather Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Society of Jesus in Rome, expressed his support for the “LGBTQ Catholics” event held recently at the general house of the Society of Jesus in the Eternal City.Within the context of the Synod on Synodality, the Jesuits hosted an event Oct. 8 in which a group of LGBTQ-identifying people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queer) shared their testimonies and requested greater participation in the ecclesial community.Verschueren expressed to ACI Prensa, CNA’s...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope says Church must ‘confront forms of paganism’ in secularismIn his meeting with his brother Jesuits in Belgium, Pope Francis call secularization a “complex phenomenon” and noted sometimes the Church must “confront forms of paganism.”Speaking to 150 Jesuits in Brussels on Sep. 28, the pontiff answered a question from a member living in Amsterdam, one of the most secularized cities in the world.In his reply, Francis noted he didn’t mean a paganism like the one in the ancient world.“We do not need a statue of a pagan god to talk about paganism: The very environment, the air we...

[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] Pope faces abuse scandals, lays out template for Catholicism in a secular milieuROME – In a country still reeling from a deep clerical sexual abuse crisis, Pope Francis on Saturday bitterly acknowledged that such abuse “generates atrocious suffering and wounds,” vowing that the path of reform includes learning from survivors.The realities of abuse, the pontiff said, can even “undermine the path of faith.”“There is a need for a great deal of mercy, to keep us from hardening our hearts before the suffering of victims, so that we can help them feel our closeness and offer all the help...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Quotes Cardinal Commenting on His Election as Pope: "This Will Be A Disaster!"Francis had several meetings with Jesuits during his recent trip to Asia. LaCiviltaCattolica.com has published a transcript of what was said. Main points.During a meeting with 200 Jesuits at the nunciature in Jakarta on 24 September:- I want the Jesuits to make noise. The Spirit leads to 'uproar', not to let everything stand still".- I celebrate the Eucharist, of course."- "Never hide behind 'it's always been done this way' - carry on as we are used to. That is not good."At a second meeting with...