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[Catholic Caucus] British MP says bishop opposes priest’s decision to deny him Communion over assisted suicide voteChris Coghlan claims Bishop Richard Moth disavowed Fr. Ian Vane's decision to bar him from Holy Communion after he voted for the 'Terminally Ill Adults' Bill to legalize assisted suicide.A British MP who was denied Holy Communion for voting to legalize assisted suicide says his bishop does not support the decision, and has suggested the priest acted without his backing.Liberal Democrat Chris Coghlan, who represents Dorking and Horley, told The Pillar that Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton informed him “it is not...

[Catholic Caucus] 90% of German Bishops Deny Catholic Sexual Moral TeachingOn 1 July, German Catholic author Gabriele Kuby told Edward Pentin's Substack.com-account that almost 90% of German bishops support a distorted sexual education that involves teaching children that homosexual acts and gender ideology are normal and acceptable.Two German bishops have recently indicated their support for such indoctrination in Catholic schools.On 20 June, Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz said that biblical statements about homosexuality should not be read as timeless truths, although morality is timeless.Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers of Dresden-Meissen recently called for a "new" way of thinking concerning the sexual morality...

[Catholic Caucus] Controversial Synod study groups delay reporting on findings by 6 monthsAll ten groups had been due to issue their reports by the end of June, but due to the death of Pope Francis and the ensuing conclave they have had a six-month extension.The study groups which emerged from the Synod on Synodality are now set to issue their findings at the end of the year, rather than at the end of June.Following a meeting with Pope Leo XIV last Thursday, officials at the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops have delayed a key development from the multi-year...

Fr. James Martin compares LGBT books for children to Jesus’ parablesThe Jesuit priest was responding to the Supreme Court's decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which sided with parents who have religious objections to explicit material in schools.Heterodox Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin compared kids reading LGBT books to Jesus sharing parables in a recent X post and in an essay at his website, Outreach. Martin did so while arguing against the rights of parents to prohibit their children from reading books in school that promote same-sex “marriage” and other content contrary to the Gospel.Martin was reacting to the Supreme Court’s...

A priest has refused Holy Communion to Liberal Democrat MP Chris Coghlan over his vote in favour of the UK’s assisted suicide bill on 20 June. Coghlan, who represents Dorking and Horley in Surrey, was then named from the pulpit during Mass two days later, as the country moved a step closer to legalising state assisted death. Coghlan called the priest’s actions “outrageous” and has lodged a complaint with Bishop Richard Moth, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, over what he described as an attempt to coerce an elected lawmaker’s vote. However, Bishop Moth has been a vocal opponent of the...

The Irish Rover, a student-run Catholic newspaper at the University of Notre Dame, has won a major legal victory after the Indiana Supreme Court declined to hear a defamation case brought by Professor Tamara Kay. The court’s June 18 decision ends a multi-year legal effort by Kay to challenge the paper’s reporting on her pro-abortion activism — leaving intact lower court rulings that found the Rover’s coverage was accurate and protected under Indiana law, the Irish Rover reported. Kay sued the newspaper in 2023 over two articles she claimed were defamatory. The first, published in the fall of 2022, cited...

The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) is releasing a new book that compiles Catholic arguments for and against embryo adoption to provide moral theologians and other faithful with a comprehensive academic resource on the issue. Trent Horn of Catholic Answers and Kent Lasnoski, an associate professor of theology at Wyoming Catholic College, edited the new publication, Human Embryo Adoption, vol. 2: Catholic Arguments For and Against. “By gathering the best arguments from a variety of approaches on both sides of the debate, Human Embryo Adoption presents the positions, arguments, and replies as they currently stand and as they are poised...

[Catholic Caucus] Rip Down the Pride FlagTwenty years ago few could have imagined that the last stronghold of truth, the Catholic Church, would have fallen to the LGBT lie of "Love is Love."Many years ago, I decided to attend daily Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Each morning on my way to Mass, I would drive past a house that flew the flag representing pride in all the different sexual identities that fell under the LGBTQ (this was pre-IA+ times) banner. I didn’t take much notice of it at the time,...

[Catholic Caucus] Heterodox German bishop calls for change to traditional Church teaching on genderThe Catechism of the Catholic Church recognizes that '[e]veryone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.'Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers of the Diocese of Dresden-Meissen has recently challenged traditional Church doctrine by questioning its stance on “gender identity.”In a recent interview covered by Katholisch.de, taken from the new issue of the “Herder Thema” series, titled “Visibly Recognized: Diversity of Sexual Identities,” Timmerevers claimed that new philosophies must be considered in the development of Church doctrine.“This requires a new way of thinking, which is expressed in Church...

This magnificent prayer was delivered at the opening session of the 54th Annual National Right to Life Conference in Overland Park, Kansas Father, we come to You today with a deep sense of gratitude. We are grateful for your love, and we are grateful for the salvation that you have provided in Christ. We are grateful because we know that everything is from you and through you and to you. And every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights in whom there is no shifting shadow. We praise you for the opportunity to gather – we...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit university in Chile hosts ‘pride prayer’ event, blesses LGBT rainbow flagCiting Pope Francis and Fiducia Supplicans, Jesuit priest Father Rodrigo Garcia, who heads the university's student ministry, said he did not view the ceremony as controversial. Alberto Hurtado University, a Chilean Jesuit institution, recently held a “pride prayer” ceremony in which students of “diverse sexual orientations,” along with a pride flag, received a blessing.The event, said to be the first of its kind at any university in Chile, was just one of the many scheduled on campus for the university’s “Pride Week” planned this June, and has...

[Catholic Caucus] Heterodox Jesuit parish publishes blasphemous image of Trinity as female with LGBT ‘pride’ flagThe bulletin for St. Joseph and St. Therese churches in Seattle featured a mockery of Andrei Rublev's 15th-century Holy Trinity icon depicting three women sitting by a 'pride' flag.A Jesuit-run Catholic parish marked Holy Trinity Sunday by publishing a blasphemous icon depicting the Blessed Trinity as women that included an LGBT “Pride” flag.The first page of the parish bulletin for St. Joseph and St. Therese churches, dated June 15, Holy Trinity Sunday, featured a mockery of Andrei Rublev’s 15th-century Holy Trinity icon depicting three women...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A left-wing activist group known for putting its political opponents on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan advised Justice Department prosecutors at a “hate crimes symposium,” newly unveiled documents show. America First Legal obtained the documents via a Freedom of Information Act request and provided them first to The Daily Signal. “All Americans should be shocked, appalled, and terrified that the Biden Justice Department was taking advice from a hate-filled, morally bankrupt organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Ian Prior, senior counselor at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in...

New York bishop laments LGBT flag ripped from church while allowing blasphemous ‘pride’ MassBishop Douglas Lucia of Syracuse has permitted a ‘pride’ Mass featuring a ‘transgender’ female Episcopalian as the homilist even as he condemned the tearing down of an LGBT flag at the same church.The bishop of Syracuse, New York, decried the removal of an LGBTQ “pride” flag from a parish in his diocese as “unfortunate.”Over the night of June 6–7, an unidentified Catholic man ripped down a “pride” flag from All Saints Catholic Church in Syracuse, the parish website revealed.During a subsequent, blasphemous “pride” Mass at the church,...

Um ... what? Has Focus on the Family, the ministry started with the explicit goal of protecting the basic unit of civilization from liberal drift, caught the woke mind virus?

The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay artifact from the 6th century BCE, associated with Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. It is considered one of the most significant inscriptions from the ancient Near East and is often regarded as a declaration of enlightened rule. The language is Akkadian. The script is Cuneiform. Akkadian was the diplomatic and administrative language of the region, even though Cyrus himself was Persian. The use of Akkadian ensured the text would be understood across Babylon and other parts of Mesopotamia. The Cyrus Cylinder was created after Cyrus’s conquest of Babylon in 539...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic man rips down, burns ‘pride’ flag from heterodox New York parishAn anonymous man, who says he is a recent Catholic convert, stole and burned a ‘pride’ flag from heretical, pro-LGBT All Saints Catholic Church in Syracuse, New York.An anonymous man has stolen and burned a “pride” flag that was flown outside an openly heterodox, pro-LGBT Catholic parish in Syracuse, New York.Over the night of June 6-7, a Catholic man, whose identity remains unknown, ripped down a “pride” flag from All Saints Catholic Church in Syracuse, New York, according to the parish website.“As noted at our masses last...

Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun destroys LGBT-themed exhibition in ParliamentVideo footage shows Catholic politician Grzegorz Braun tearing down pro-LGBT materials in the Polish Parliament building, after which he was banned from the Sejm by the Speaker.Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Grzegorz Braun has destroyed a pro-LGBT exhibition in the Polish Parliament.In a video that went viral online, Braun is seen removing pro-LGBT display boards from their stands and bending them in half by stepping on them.The exhibition was displayed on Wednesday in the Sejm, Poland’s lower House of Parliament.Szymon Holownia, the Speaker of the Sejm, announced on X that...

[Catholic Caucus] German archdiocese issues sex ed guidelines encouraging homosexuality, transgenderism in childrenThe Archdiocese of Hamburg in Germany has published new guidelines for sexual education promoting homosexuality and transgenderism.“With a new conceptual framework for sex education in Catholic schools, the Archdiocese of Hamburg is sending a clear signal in favor of contemporary, value-oriented, and scientifically sound sex education,” the archdiocese wrote in its press release.The guidelines, entitled “Male, female, diverse: Concept framework for sex education at Catholic schools in the archdiocese of Hamburg,” will be binding for all Catholic schools in the diocese.However, the document blatantly contradicts Catholic teaching on...

As federal immigration enforcement sweeps through areas of Southern California — spurring protests in downtown Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Bernardino and Pasadena — clergy leaders and community members across diverse religious traditions are turning to their faith in times of fear and uncertainty.