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Black Pentecostal leader urges pope to withdraw same-sex blessing documentWith some African bishops expressing concerns about the Vatican’s new same-sex blessing declaration, one prominent black Pentecostal leader is voicing his “solidarity” with African Catholics and urging Pope Francis to withdraw the guidelines. The Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III, who is the founder and director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies and a minister for the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ, wrote an open letter to Pope Francis to “condemn your decision to bless homosexual [couples]” and say that “your black Pentecostal brothers in the United...

[Catholic Caucus] Belgian Cardinal and Bishops Approve Liturgy for “Same-Sex Unions” Archbishop Léonard, of Brussels-Mechlin, was one of the most conservative voices of the Church in Europe. That was enough for the petty, vengeful, small little man currently occupying the throne of Peter to not only not make him a Cardinal, but accept his retirement (unusually for a major Archbishop) as soon as he reached 75. For his place, Francis named an extremist liberal, a disciple of one of the greatest perverts ever to occupy a European see (Danneels), Jozef de Kesel. And, of course, Francis created him Cardinal...

[Catholic Caucus] New cardinal doubles down on dissent from Church teaching on homosexual civil unionsBrazilian Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M., insists that homosexual civil unions are merely a matter of financial security, not a question of moral theology, and that Catholic moral teaching cannot be imposed on non-believers.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — New Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M., has again defended civil unions for homosexuals, claiming the question is merely a matter of financial security, not a question of moral theology, and that Christians cannot impose their morality on non-Christians.The comments from the secretary general of the National Confederation of Bishops...