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ROME, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — In what many see as an effort to normalize homosexuality in the Catholic Church, the Vatican has released a new book that reduces the “sin of Sodom” (Genesis 19:1–29) to “a lack of hospitality.” “The story about the city of Sodom … illustrates a sin that consists in the lack of hospitality, with hostility and violence towards the stranger, a behavior judged to be very serious and therefore deserving to be sanctioned with the utmost severity,” the new book asserts. Sources consulted by LifeSite described the book as “utter banality” and “obviously ridiculous.” One...

Cardinal Ladaria: Today’s Doctrinal Errors are “Not so Worrisome” The doctrinal errors in today’s Church are “not so worrisome” compared to an [alleged] “lack of a deeper reflection” regarding the “dialogue with the present time.” This, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told Argentinean bishops during their recent Ad-Limina visit (April 28-May 4). Archbishop Víctor Fernández, Pope Francis’ ghost-writer and kissing expert, revealed this in his online-reports about the Ad-Limina visit. Ladaria went on elaborating the question of a “hierarchy of truths" which "invites us to think about the different doctrines in...

Two More High-Ranking Papal Appointees Implicated in Alleged Misconduct Pope Francis has once again found him at the center of scandal after two of his most high-ranking appointees have been implicated in misconduct allegations. Monsignor Edgar Peña Parra, who has been tapped to take on the number two role at the Vatican Secretariat of State, has become the subject of a dossier compiled by laity in his home diocese which makes mention of possible homosexual behavior. Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has also failed to respond to a court summons in France...

Pope Francis is Stonewalling a Summons for his Head of the CDF to Stand Trial for Sex Abuse Cover-up: Massive Media Cover-up Pope Francis's Vatican is stonewalling a summons for his head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to stand trial for sex abuse cover-up. Imagine the media outcry if Pope John Paul II's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) perfect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later to be Pope Benedict XVI) had been summoned to stand trail for sex abuse cover-up and the Vatican had stonewalled the summons. It appears that Pope Francis's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine...

More on the Sacking of Cardinal Müller: The Staged Demolition of the CDF by Christopher A. Ferrara July 10, 2017 In addition to everything else that is going on in the midst of the epoch of the Bergoglian Tumult, we are witnessing the unfolding of a clearly planned process by which the ground around Pope Bergoglio is systematically being cleared of all serious opposition in the curial dicasteries to the “irreversible” reforms he intends to impose upon the Church in the short time he has left on this earth. The net result would be that the Vatican apparatus is effectively...

Pope Francis teams up with fellow liberal Jesuits to wreck the Church. Jorge Bergoglio is the first Jesuit to become pope and may end up the last Jesuit to be pope, in light of the havoc that he is wreaking upon the Church. But who knows? After all, he is stacking the college of cardinals with liberal appointees in the hope that they will elect a modernist clone in the next conclave. In any case, it was exceedingly reckless that the cardinals chose a Jesuit to lead the Church at the very moment that that religious order was at its...

Pope Francis Appoints a Universalist - All Men Will Be Saved - to Replace Müller as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The new head of the CDF, perhaps illustrating the possibility of hell To put things in simple common sense terms, everyone knows that the Catholic Church and the wider traditional Christian Church has always taught that there is a heaven and there is a hell. Ignoring the theological glosses - limbo and purgatory - Christian and Catholic teaching has been clear that upon death, some men will go to heaven, where they will dwell...

Last week brought a Vatican appointment that didn't exactly cut in the direction of what I call "affirmative orthodoxy," meaning Pope Benedict XVI's strong defense of the faith coupled with a gentle, positive style. Archbishop Raymond Burke, named as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, instead has a profile as something of a cultural warrior. This week Benedict XVI returned to form, with a nomination to a post arguably more consequential than Burke's. On Wednesday, the pope named Jesuit Fr. Luis Ladaria, a Spaniard, as secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Fait By all accounts, they don't come...