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August 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Leaked emails through WikiLeaks reveal that billionaire globalist George Soros - one of Hilary Clinton's top donors - paid $650,000 to influence Pope Francis’ September 2015 visit to the USA with a view to "shift[ing] national paradigms and priorities in the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign." The funds were allocated in April 2015 and the report on their effectiveness suggests that successful achievements included, “Buy-in of individual bishops to more publicly voice support of economic and racial justice messages in order to begin to create a critical mass of bishops who are aligned with...

The Iowa Catholic Conference is urging the state’s Catholics to consider voting this November to convene a constitutional convention, as a means of eventually banning gay marriage here. Every 10 years the General Election ballot allows Iowans to vote to set up a convention to consider changes in the state constitution. Iowa Catholic Conference spokesman Tom Chapman says it can be a way to advance a constitutional amendment which would declare “traditional” unions between a man and a woman as the only legally recognized marriages in Iowa. “The main reason is we really haven’t been able to have a debate...

*A Bishop breaks his word; a Vicar General let it be disavowed -- monstrous. * Confiteor at the old Mass (kreuz.net) German Website 'summorum-pontificum.de' published a report by Oskar Rauch under the title, "three years of Summorum Pontificum". 'Summorum Pontificum' is a Motu Propio by Pope Benedict XVI., with which he rehabilitated the old Mass. Rauch has been working in the 42,000-soul city of Weiden -- 35 miles west of the Czech border -- for the implementation of the Motu Propio.

*A Bishop breaks his word; a Vicar General  let it be disavowed -- monstrous. * Confiteor at  the old Mass (kreuz.net) German Website 'summorum-pontificum.de' published a report by Oskar Rauch under the title, "three years of Summorum Pontificum". 'Summorum Pontificum' is a Motu Propio by Pope Benedict XVI., with which he rehabilitated the old Mass.  

Detroit, Jan. 26 (CWNews.com) - Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a Detroit auxiliary and an outspoken proponent of liberal causes, has hinted that he may refuse to submit his resignation, as required by Church law, when he reaches his 75th birthday. Bishop Gumbleton, who turns 75 today (January 26), told the Toledo Blade that he was reluctant to submit his resignation. He complained that the Vatican response to resignations is "so arbitrary-- some of them they ignore, but if you are the least bit progressive, they accept it immediately."