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Storyline When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.—Open Road

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis fails to mention the unborn at pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Clinton Foundation conference‘Please, let us act on climate change before it is too late,’ Pope Francis said at the conference, which promoted abortion and LGBT ideology.NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) — In a video link speech given to Bill Clinton at the pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Clinton Global Initiative conference, Pope Francis highlighted a “culture of dialogue” and “listening,” but refrained from mentioning the sanctity of life of the unborn.Pope Francis delivered the opening keynote conversation with former U.S. President Bill Clinton on September 18 to commence the two-day Clinton Global...

[Catholic Caucus] Rupnik centre gets ‘clean bill of health’ from Diocese of Rome with doubts raised over excommunicationROME – Despite being expelled in July from his Jesuit order over charges of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse, famed Slovenian artist Father Marko Rupnik’s base of operations in Rome has drawn a clean bill of health from the pope’s diocese, which praised his Centro Aletti for fostering “a healthy community life free of particular critical issues”.A Sept. 18 note from the Diocese of Rome also said its review had identified “gravely anomalous procedures” behind a May 2020 decree of excommunication against Rupnik...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: Rupnik report shows ‘heretics’ and ‘perverts’ enjoy ‘total impunity’ under BergoglioBy now it is clear that the Bergoglian court does not serve the Church of Christ, but has embedded itself in it like a tumor to usurp its authority and destroy it from within.Editor’s note: The following is a commentary from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, first posted on X/Twitter, about the Diocese of Rome’s recent statement regarding Father Rupnik and his Aletti Center.(LifeSiteNews) — The declarations of the Vicariate of Rome on the Aletti Centre (the company that produces Father Marko Rupnik’s expensive and horrendous mosaics)...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: We must be constantly vigilant in guarding the deposit of faithThe faithful cleric stressed that in an age of lies, it is vital that each of us speak the Truth of Jesus Christ, the only one who keeps us from despair.TYLER, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland challenged Catholics to “constant vigilance” in prayer and guarding the deposit of faith while encouraging them to stay joyful during a recent conference in his home diocese.During this year’s “Defending Our Faith Catholic Conference” in Tyler, Texas, Bishop Strickland stressed that because we are living in a time of...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod 2023: What Has Pope Francis Said About Synodality?Here are some things Pope Francis has said about synodality during his papacy.The Synod on Synodality is set to launch the first of two assemblies on Oct. 4.The global meetings in Rome are the culmination of two years of preparation, and during that time, much has been said about synodality, including by the pope.In some of his more recent comments on synodality, Pope Francis said, “speaking of a ‘Synod on Synodality’ may seem something abstruse, self-referential, excessively technical, of little interest to the general public,” but it is “something truly...

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[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò urges Bishop Strickland to exercise his episcopate ‘to the point of heroism’‘Our Lord will judge us, not those who abuse their power to destroy the Church and persecute Her good Pastors,’ Archbishop Viganò said in an X post about Bishop Strickland. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò took to social media on Thursday to encourage Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, to continue his “heroic” ministry despite reports that the latter will soon be asked to resign from his position by Pope Francis.“Eleven years ago, on this very day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I had...

[Catholic Caucus] At this Point of the Spiritual Battle, All Compromises with Francis Have Evil ResultsAs argued in a July 2022 article from The Remnant, the fact that Traditional Catholics disagree on whether or not Francis is actually the pope should not preclude us from agreeing upon an accurate diagnosis of what he represents to the Church today:“Bergoglio is the anti-Catholic man permitted by God to wield power over the Mystical Body of Christ as the reputed pope, in service of Satan and the globalists, to advance the crisis in the Church through a calculated process of destruction which causes...

[Catholic Caucus] Questioning Pope Francis’ Evolving Doctrine and Morals Is Neither Ideology nor Backwardness, but Standing Firm in the FaithIn recent weeks, Pope Francis has repeated that critics of the new developments he is introducing into the Church are victims of “ideology.” In his view, this is because they refuse to embody Catholic doctrine into the vicissitudes of the daily lives of the baptized and their fellow countrymen.In his controversial conversation with Portuguese Jesuits on the World Youth Day sidelines, the pope attacked the supposed backwardness (indietrismo) of the American hierarchy and laity: “The view of Church doctrine as monolithic...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller Interviewed: "False prophets claim they will turn the Church into an Aid Organization for the 2030 Agenda." The final phase of the Synod of Synodality is approaching and will begin this October. Among the 400 participants (cardinals, bishops, lay people and religious) will be the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller. Since the Vatican has announced that journalists will only have access to the information that they themselves provide, we wanted to talk to the German cardinal about this upcoming ecclesial event that has a large part of...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller on Synod: ‘This is the great hour of manipulation’ On Tuesday Cardinal Müller gave a frank interview to Spanish Catholic news website InfoVaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concern about multiple aspects of the upcoming Synod Assembly on synodality and the current state of the Church. The interview was done in writing as the Cardinal is in Poland, and followed the announcement by the Vatican that at the upcoming Synod Assembly, journalists will only have access to the information that they themselves provide.According to a report by Loup Besmond of La Croix, Pope Francis...

More than two years into the greatest talking shop in the history of Christianity, some oddly undermining things are now being said — and by the greatest proponents of the synodal process themselves.Consider just three voices — the Holy Father himself, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Jesuit Father James Martin. The latter two were appointed by Pope Francis as voting members of the synod. Cardinal Cupich was not elected as a member by his brother bishops in the United States.The Holy FatherLast month, Pope Francis acknowledged that the entire synodal process strikes many as exactly the kind of ecclesial...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis, Fatima, and GarabandalPope Francis says don’t worry about sin. Our Lady says otherwise.Catholics are confused and divided over Pope Francis. For years he has been introducing novel changes into the Church that seem to conflict not only with traditional practices but also with established Church teaching. An increasing number of Catholics have come to the conclusion that Francis (along with others in the hierarchy) is in the process of creating an alternate Church—one which is meant to eventually replace the true Church. Defenders of Francis say that he is only trying to reform the Church—to renovate an...

To mention abortion and infanticide in the same breath is a provocation. A majority of voters in Britain and America regard abortion as permissible in some circumstances, whereas very few are willing to say the same of infanticide (with some notable exceptions, as we will see). But this distinction has not been made by all peoples at all times...In 1939 T. S. Eliot gave a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge in which he described a fork in the road. Western Civilization might continue along the Christian path, he predicted, or it might adopt “modern paganism.” Eliot, a...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican appoints heterodox, pro-LGBT bishop to investigate sexual abuse cases in SwitzerlandArchbishop Carlo Maria Viganò criticized the Vatican over its appointment of Bishop Joseph Bonnemain, who is known for his pro-LGBT positions, to investigate sexual abuse cases and alleged cover-ups by clerics in Switzerland.The Vatican has appointed pro-LGBT Bishop Joseph Maria Bonnemain to investigate the sexual abuse cases and their alleged cover-up by clerics in Switzerland. Earlier this year, the former vicar general of Lausanne, Geneva, and Fribourg, Father Nicolas Betticher, brought forth accusations against several Swiss bishops, the local newspaper Blick reported. One unnamed active member of...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland reaffirms that unrepentant homosexuals, adulterers cannot receiveBishop Strickland warned in a new letter that the Church cannot offer Communion to people who persist in grave sin, including homosexuality, adultery, contraception, other sexual impurity, abortion, and living as the opposite sex.TYLER, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, issued a new pastoral letter today, September 12, 2023. Below is the full text.My Dear Sons and Daughters in Christ:I write to you today to discuss more fully the second basic truth that I spoke of in my first pastoral letter issued on August 22, 2023: “The...

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[Catholic Caucus] Exclusive: Archbishop Fernandez Warns Against Bishops Who Think They Can Judge ‘Doctrine of the Holy Father’The Vatican’s new doctrinal chief also discusses his openness to same-sex Church blessings, shares his thoughts on the German Synodal Way, and explains his approach to safeguarding doctrine.The incoming prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has warned that bishops — both “progressive” and those from “traditionalist groups” — who think they have a “special gift of the Holy Spirit to judge the doctrine of the Holy Father” are on a road to “heresy” and “schism.”Speaking in response to a...

[Catholic Caucus] How Francis’s Synod Exploits the Errors of Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium to Redefine the ChurchThe Synod on Synodality’s Instrumentum Laboris includes a list of abbreviations for the sixteen documents cited in its text: two from John Paul II, two from the General Secretariat of the Synod, five from Francis, and seven from Vatican II. As we have come to expect, this list does not include any documents promulgated before Vatican II. Most of the Vatican II references in Instrumentum Laboris come from the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium. One of the documents from the Synod on...