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Pope describes Trump’s planned deportations of immigrants as a ‘disgrace’Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.” The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders by the incoming president, who will be inaugurated Monday. “If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things,” Francis said during the Sunday...

[Catholic Caucus] Why Is the Vatican Using a Photo of Pilgrims Who the Vatican Hates?Francis' Vatican wants to destroy the Chartres pilgrimage, the largest Catholic youth pilgrimage in the world, but a photograph of it is used hundreds of times on the Vatican's official Jubilee website.As early as January 2020, during a plenary session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Secretary of State Pietro Parolin expressed his alarm at the fact that some 13,000 young people had registered for the Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres.Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, then Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, said...

Paris Blasphemy: What Took the Vatican So Long to Respond?COMMENTARY: The Vatican’s brief Aug. 3 statement in the wake of the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremonies culminated a disjointed seven days.It was a very strange week for Vatican communications. The week after the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremonies ought to have been comparatively easy for Vatican communications to handle. When there is a global denunciation of anti-Christian blasphemy, it ought to be simple for the Vatican to add its voice. But instead, the Holy Father kept silent for eight days, and only released a tepid statement on a Saturday evening in the...

Pope urges the prideful not to judgePope Francis continued his series of catechesis on virtues and vices by discussing the sin of pridePope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus' moral commandments to "never judge."The sin of pride "ruins human relationships" and is an evil that "poisons the feeling of fraternity that instead should unite humanity," the pope wrote in the catechesis for his general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 6.Still recovering from illness, Pope Francis told visitors an aide would read his talk because he could not read well due to a cold. The pope...

Does Pope Francis Have a Double Standard for Africa?For years, sub-Saharan Africans—in Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, and numerous other nations—have been victims of sustained persecution and frequent massacres. And for years, Pope Francis has, on numerous occasions, chastised Europeans for their “indifference” to Africans. Is he concerned about the African Christians who are being slaughtered on a daily basis by Muslims in the name of Allah? Er, no. Francis has been relatively silent about their plight. One gets the impression that he is—what’s the word?—“indifferent” to their fate. On the other hand, he seems deeply concerned about the fate of...

Pope pledges 'zero tolerance' for sexual abuseThe Catholic Church must show "zero tolerance" to sexual assault by members of the clergy, Pope Francis said in excerpts of an interview with a Portuguese television channel broadcast Sunday."It's very clear. It's zero tolerance," he told TVI/CNN Portugal in an interview, extracts of which were published on the channel's website."A priest cannot continue being a priest if he is an aggressor. He cannot because he is either sick, or a criminal," he said.

How Bergoglio "Obeyed" Summorum Pontificum: Female READERS in Traditional Latin MassFrancis fought the Roman Mass already as Buenos Aires Archbishop after Benedict XVI published his 2007 Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.He allowed a Roman Mass in the Sacred Heart chapel in Flores, central Buenos Aires. The Archdiocese has - theoretically - 3 Million Catholics. A group including many young people attended this Mass for about three years until Bergoglio suspended it in June 2010.This and other refusals to allow the Roman Mass were documented by Pagina-Catolica.Blogspot.com.Priests willing to celebrate the Roman Mass ran against Bergoglio's secret provision that the Roman Liturgy...