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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo names bishop who addressed integrating homosexuality with religious vocation Pope Leo XIV appointed Italian Bishop Michele Di Tolve, who made a presentation last year on a book advocating the integration of homosexual orientation into living a religious vocation.Pope Leo XIV appointed a new bishop the head the Diocese of Chioggia who last year presented on a book addressing the integration of homosexual orientation into living one’s religious vocation.Serving as titular bishop of Oria, auxiliary of Rome, and rector of the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, Bishop Michele Di Tolve was named to his new office on Wednesday...

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins has said officials at the Catholic Gonzaga University shut down her attempts to dialogue with a group of pro-abortion “reproductive justice” advocates that gathered to protest her visit to the campus. “I was banned from tabling. The administration prevented students from coming inside to ask questions. ‘Catholic’ student protestors demanded the Church bend to abortion,” Hawkins said. “This indoctrination is happening on college campuses across America, including at ‘Catholic’ schools. Let’s be clear: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion. The backlash I faced here is in direct contradiction to the Church.”...

Earlier this week, as I sat in a waiting room and scrolled on my phone, the algorithm attacked. There on my screen was an ad from the so-called Catholics for Free Choice asking me to purchase a training class on how to spot “fake clinics.” They were referencing pregnancy resource centers. And for a fee, they were willing to teach me how to hunt them down. Clearly, Catholics for Choice (CFC) has a new target, and for once, it’s not the bishops. They are now targeting the women sitting in a waiting room with a positive test and no idea...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo promotes synodality bishop who has ‘courage to make a different church’ Pope Leo XIV appointed a Bolivian bishop who has said Communion for active homosexuals and women’s ordination to the diaconate remain open questions amid the synodality process.Pope Leo XIV appointed a synodality enthusiast who accepts as “open questions” the possibilities of Holy Communion for unrepented active homosexuals and the “ordination” of women to the diaconate.The Vatican announcement was issued Monday that Bishop Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, C.P. was named Military Ordinary for Bolivia, ending four years in which the Passionist prelate had governed the same...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV has named the homosexual activist Michael Saporito, 64, Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey Leo XIV has named the homosexual activist Michael Saporito, 64, Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey (September 15).Monsignor Saporito, 64, is currently auxiliary bishop of Newark.Institutional Connection to McCarrickA native of Newark, Saporito entered the McCarrick seminary in 1987. In 1992, Archbishop Theodore McCarrick ordained Saporito to the priesthood.In 1999, homosexual McCarrick elevated the young Rev Saporito as assistant director of vocations.Founded Homosexual Ministry in ParishDuring Saporito’s tenure as pastor of St. Joseph Church in Maplewood (2004–2011), the parish employed an openly homosexual man...

Walk into certain churches today and you may encounter something that would be almost unrecognizable to Christians who worshiped in the same denominations only a generation ago.Rainbow flags surround the sanctuary. Pastors preach in Pride-colored vestments. Worship services feature queer hymns and transgender themes. Glitter replaces traditional ashes. Rainbow bread appears at Communion. Special ceremonies celebrate transgender name changes, while Pride Month brings its own sermons, liturgies and church celebrations.These aren't simply changes in decoration or attempts to make visitors feel welcome. Taken together, they reveal how deeply LGBTQ+ ideology has worked its way into the worship and theology of...

[Catholic Caucus] 10 Italian bishops attend national conference on LGBT ‘pastoral ministry’ The meeting presented initiatives already operating in several Italian dioceses.Italy’s Catholic bishops gathered to discuss the integration of LGBT-identifying people and their families into ordinary diocesan life.On September 4, nearly 200 pastoral workers and around 10 bishops gathered at the General Curia of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Rome for Italy’s first national conference dedicated to “pastoral ministry with homosexual and transgender people.”The meeting, titled “Good Practices in Pastoral Ministry with Homosexual and Transgender People,” presented initiatives already operating in several Italian dioceses, while also examining the...

[Catholic Caucus] Kraków was John Paul II’s diocese. Now a trans activist helps plan its future 'I am changing the Church from inside,' said the trans activist, a formerly married father of one. Pope John Paul II’s Polish diocese is embracing gender ideology, even going so far as to welcome a gender-confused “trans” activist into its synodal process.The Archdiocese of Krakow released its Report of Synodal Work, marking the conclusion of the first stage of the Second Pastoral Synod. Both were influenced by 54-year-old trans activist Maria Minakowska (born Marek Jerzy Minakowski). The document proposes creating pastoral “safe havens” for...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority: in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. <And this is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us. We know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him - I John 5: 14-15 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. - Ephesians 5:11Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for...

Bishop Schneider: Synodality is a ‘code word to undermine Catholic doctrine’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider pointed out that the word ‘synodality’ is purposely ambiguous and is used in a 'cunning' attempt to promote moral relativism within the Church.Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned that “synodality” is a “cunning code word used to undermine Catholic doctrine.”In an interview published Thursday with AdVaticanum that discussed Our Lady’s title of Co-Redemptrix, the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass, and interreligious contact, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan gave his view on the meaning of “synodality.” Schneider suggested that the meaning of “synodality” has deliberately been kept...

Spanning throughout the U.S. and within the midst of the country's medical education and residency programs, a silent ideological cleansing is occurring. For centuries, the Hippocratic Oath has existed as medicine's north star of morality, an unwavering promise to preserve human life. Today, that honored commitment has become a career-ending liability. Taking on the guise of standardized bioethics, accreditation boards and residency matching programs have begun systematically filtering out doctors who don't fit the mold -- largely those who are Christian due to their pro-life tendencies -- all before they take their first step into an operating room. What once...

Pro-abortion feminist, “queer,” and “trans” activists stormed London’s famed Westminster Cathedral during a Mass at the start of a pro-life rally and March for Life. Fifteen Catholic bishops were reported to be concelebrating the pro-life Mass. The obnoxious interlopers positioned themselves in front of the sanctuary and unfurled a large banner that read: “Pro-life? That’s a lie! You don’t care if people die!” all the while shouting that same refrain. “This morning, members of the Feminist Strike Coalition disrupted an anti-abortion service at Westminster Cathedral hosting the far right group March for Life,” wrote “The Dyke Project” on Instagram following...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV’s Appointed President of the ‘Academy for Life’ Opens the Door to Euthanasia Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claims that Catholics could morally assent to a law permitting assisted suicide in Italy.Speaking to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.it on September 6, he said: “From the Catholic side, it is a matter of assessing whether we will be faced with an ‘imperfect law’, to which it would nevertheless be moral to give one’s assent, in view of the fact that more permissive and libertarian laws could otherwise quickly be approved in Parliament, laws...

The F-word has transitioned from culturally taboo to commonplace in modern American discourse across workplaces, entertainment, and casual conversation.The normalization of vulgar language reflects broader cultural shifts away from traditional standards of decency and respect.Christians are called to elevate their speech as a reflection of faith, choosing words that honor God and build up others.There was a time in America when certain words were simply not spoken in polite company. The boundaries were clear, the standards understood. That world seems increasingly distant.The F-word, once relegated to the margins of acceptable discourse, has become ubiquitous. It saturates our entertainment, punctuates workplace...

The Episcopal Church has apparently reached another historic milestone, although perhaps not one Christians should be celebrating. All Saints' Cathedral in Milwaukee recently installed the Very Rev. Micah Cronin as its new dean, believed to be the first transgender-identifying dean in the history of the Episcopal Church. Cronin is a biological woman who identifies as a man and is married to another biological woman who identifies as transgender and serves as a pastor at an LGBT-affirming Lutheran campus ministry. If that description sounds confusing, perhaps that is precisely the point Christians should be considering. This is no longer simply a...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Sarah and the Crisis in Bioethics Cardinal Robert Sarah’s address this summer to the European Parliament identifies a foundational problem in contemporary bioethical discourse: the widening gap between language and reality. Words that once conveyed stable meanings – “healthcare,” “rights,” “dignity” – are increasingly deployed with ideological elasticity.Sarah warns this linguistic instability constitutes a “crisis of the logos or of reason,” a breakdown in the relationship between words and the realities they signify. Language ceases to correspond to reality; reason loses its footing, and moral judgment becomes vulnerable to sentiment, ideology or political coercion.Sarah’s thesis rests on...

[Catholic Caucus] Florida AG, Catholic conference spar over vaccine exemptions The Catholic conference says the state cannot require it to offer religious exemptions to vaccines.The state of Florida and the bishops of Florida are embroiled in a heated debate over vaccine policies in the state’s Catholic schools.The state government is expanding religious exemptions to required childhood vaccines, and the attorney general has demanded that Florida’s Catholic schools comply in order to maintain eligibility for state scholarships and vouchers.But the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops says the state is violating its freedom of religion by attempting to dictate its application of...

[Catholic Caucus] Ahead of ‘Amoris’ meeting, plans uncertain Some leaders are uncertain what to expect at an October meetingJust one month ahead of a global meeting of bishops in the Vatican on Amoris laetitia, some episcopal leaders have told The Pillar that they have not received information about what to expect or how to prepare, and are eager to learn the pope’s plans for the scope and approach to the discussion.The Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life published in July the thematic framework for an October meeting on Amoris laetitia, involving the leadership of bishops’ conferences from around the...

[Catholic Caucus] Italian cardinal writes foreword for pro-transgender book Cardinal Domenico Battaglia previously allowed an LGBT activist to address congregants during a ‘Te Deum Mass’ at the Naples cathedral. Pope Francis-appointed Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples has written the forward for a pro-LGBT book on “transgender people.” Battaglia’s forward was translated by Elisa Belotti for New Ways Ministry, an LGBTQ+ activist group promoting the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism within the Catholic Church. Battaglia’s words are carefully chosen, leaning towards the acceptance of transgenderism while failing to mention the Church’s explicit teaching on the subject. He wrote that we find...

Growing up in rural Western New York, the Very Rev. Micah Cronin couldn’t have imagined his present role as dean of the Episcopal cathedral in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in more conservative churches, and as a young adult, “I did not feel that I fit there,” he said, because they were not fully accepting of him as a transgender man. At the same time, Cronin’s faith was as central to his identity as his gender, and he told himself, “I don’t think it’s feasible to me to not be Christian.” Then at age 19, he began attending worship services...