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  • Another Italian priest Excommunicated for Saying Francis is not Pope

    01/31/2025 9:45:45 AM PST · by marshmallow · 36 replies
    The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 1/31/25 | Simon Caldwell
    An Italian priest has been excommunicated after he said publicly that he believed Pope Francis is an “antipope”. Fr Natale Santonocito, 61, parish priest of San Cesarea Church, south east of Rome, was investigated after posting several online videos in which he says that Francis has never been pope. “The Pope is not the Pope,” he says in one of them. “He never was.” The priest, who was ordained in 2023, has been removed from active ministry in the Diocese of Tivoli and Palestrina and automatically excommunicated. He took to YouTube on Wednesday to issue a valedictory statement. “I have...
  • Woke Pope Francis Confirms His Support for Gay Marriage

    01/27/2025 8:39:53 AM PST · by SoConPubbie · 59 replies
    The American Tribune ^ | January 27, 2025 | Will Tanner
    In a shocking release from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ahead of the release of leftist Pope Francis’ autobiography, titled Life: My Story Through History, it was shown that the pope has reaffirmed his support for same-gender civil unions. Doing so, he wrote that “it is right” that such couples “who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else.”The Amazon description of Pope Francis’s autobiography states, “For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during...
  • Biden awards Pope Francis medal of freedom, highest US civilian honor

    01/11/2025 4:19:52 PM PST · by dynachrome · 99 replies
    Reuters ^ | 1-11-25 | Andrea Shalal
    U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House said. It was the first time during his four years in office that Biden awarded the medal "with distinction," it said. Biden, 82, leaves office on Jan. 20. To oversee the federal response to the fires in California, he canceled a trip to Rome this week, where he was due to meet Francis in person. A lifelong Catholic who has met the pope several times, Biden told reporters on Friday that he...
  • So Israel has been delivering aid to Gaza all along and the U.N. hasn't distributed it

    01/02/2025 8:37:33 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 42 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 01/02/2024 | Monica Showalter
    For weeks, we've been hearing news reports and public statements about starving babies in Gaza. 60 Minutes did a long, breathy, segment this past weekend, interviewing clean and showered Gazans supposedly on the edge of death, speaking in perfect English, with no questions asked about whether they danced on Oct. 7. The pope made a lot of furious appeals for Gaza, too, always speaking of the children and throwing a few darts at Israel, which is trying to defend itself from monstrous terrorists, and not the terrorists who have embedded themselves behind the civilians in these misery zones. The UNRWA,...
  • Vatican to open sacred portals starting Christmas Eve to save Catholics from eternal damnation

    12/25/2024 5:52:14 PM PST · by blueplum · 163 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 24 Dec 2024 | STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    The Vatican is set to open five sacred portals starting on Christmas Eve for the first time in 25 years. The opening of the Holy Doors marks the beginning of the 2025 Jubilee which is a year of forgiveness, reconciliation and renewed focus on the spiritual life.... At the start of Christmas Eve Mass, Pope Francis will push open the Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica, which will stay open throughout the year to allow the estimated 32 million pilgrims projected to visit Rome to pass through.... The process of opening the four basilica doors involves removing the brick wall...
  • Pope Francis Alleges ‘Machine-Gunning’ of Children in Gaza: ‘So Much Cruelty!’

    12/24/2024 8:05:25 AM PST · by Beowulf9 · 64 replies
    https://www.breitbart.com ^ | Dec 24 2024 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
    ROME — Pope Francis called for a global ceasefire this weekend while again decrying Israel’s “cruelty” in dealing with Palestinians in Gaza. “Let us pray for a ceasefire on all war fronts, in Ukraine, the Holy Land, in all the Middle East and the entire world, at Christmas,” the pontiff said in his weekly Angelus address Sunday. “And with sorrow I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty; of the children machine-gunned, the bombing of schools and hospitals… So much cruelty!”
  • Pope Francis Declares French Martyrs of Compiègne Saints Via Equipollent Canonization

    12/19/2024 11:57:09 AM PST · by Beowulf9 · 28 replies
    https://www.ncregister.com/ ^ | Dec 18 2024 | Courtney Mares/CNA
    Pope Francis has officially declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, as saints through the rare procedure of “equipollent canonization.” Mother Teresa of Saint Augustine and her 15 companions, who were guillotined in Paris as they sang hymns of praise, can immediately be venerated worldwide as saints in the Catholic Church.
  • 9 Day Novena for the Conversion of Pope Francis [Prayer]

    12/08/2024 1:42:58 PM PST · by ebb tide · 22 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | December 8, 2024
    9 Day Novena for the Conversion of Pope Francis [Prayer]Steubenville, Ohio. A special 9-day Novena for the Conversion of Pope Francis will begin on December 8, 2024, and will run through December 17, 2024 (the birthday of Pope Francis), starting at 8:00 PM EST every night.This prayer initiative, which invites Catholics worldwide to unite in prayer, is focused on securing the grace of conversion for Pope Francis. Our Lord said to Peter in Luke 22:32 “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.”Our prayer is focused on the prayer...
  • Pope Francis Proclaims Special Jubilee for LGBTQ+ Community

    12/07/2024 2:46:43 PM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 77 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 7 Dec 2024 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS
    ROME — Pope Francis has proclaimed a special jubilee pilgrimage for gays and all LGBTQ+ people, Italian media announced this weekend. For the first time, a specific Jubilee event will be dedicated to Catholic homosexuals and LGBT people, noted the Italian daily, Il Messaggero, despite the Catholic Church considering homosexual acts to be intrinsically disordered. On September 5, Catholic members of the LGBTQI+ community will be hosted by the Jesuit Church of the Gesù, in central Rome, for a vigil service. The Jubilee 2025 initiative is sponsored by Jonathan’s Tent, an Italian pro-LGBTQ organization founded in 2018 by Catholic priest...
  • Zelensky Presents Oil Painting of War Crimes to Pope on ‘Victory Plan’ Tour

    10/11/2024 5:58:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/11/2024 | Breitbart London
    VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis met Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on Friday, the latest step on the Ukrainian president’s European tour to win support for his proposed “victory plan” aimed at ending the war with Russia. The pope and the Ukrainian leader held private talks for 35 minutes. After their private meeting at the Sala della Biblioteca and the presentation of the Ukrainian delegation, Francis gave Zelenskyy a bronze plaque depicting a flower and an inscription reading: “Peace is a fragile flower.” In turn, Zelenskyy gifted the pontiff with an oil painting portraying “The massacre of Bucha. The...
  • Pope Francis, Globalist Superhero

    10/09/2024 6:04:45 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 12 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | Oct 9, 2024 | Thom Nickels
    Old Papal Sourpuss – aka Pope Francis – strikes again. This time he fired off comments while traveling in the papal plane from Asia to Rome. Air travel, apparently, inspires this pontiff to unleash confusing and ambiguous statements that have many Catholics and others scratching their heads. At 10,000 feet he weighed in on Americans’ upcoming choice between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. He categorized both candidates as “against life” and urged Catholic voters to choose the “lesser of two evils.” “One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils?...
  • ‘Is the Pope a Catholic?’ The rhetorical question that’s losing axiomatic power

    09/22/2024 7:38:52 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 24 replies
    Catholic Herald ^ | September 20, 2024 | Gavin Ashenden
    ‘Is the Pope a Catholic?’ The rhetorical question that’s losing axiomatic power(Pope Francis kisses the hand of the Grand Imam of Istiqlal Mosque Nasaruddin Umar after an interreligious meeting with religious leaders at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta on September 5, 2024.) “Is the Pope a Catholic?” is old and well-used rhetorical repartee. It doesn’t require and answer. Or it didn’t until recently.After Pope’s Francis recent remarks about inter-religious dialogue in Singapore, theologians and laity are questioning whether what he said was authentically Catholic.As so often, when the Pope shoots from the hip, he causes either excitement or chaos depending...
  • After Reading Headlines, Pope Sentences Babylon Bee Writers To 7 Trillion Years In Purgatory

    09/18/2024 9:31:55 AM PDT · by dayglored · 11 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | Sep 17, 2024 | Babylon Bee
    VATICAN CITY — After a morning of reading headlines from The Babylon Bee, the 266th pope of the Catholic Church sentenced all the paper's writers to seven trillion years in purgatory. "Iam nimis faggotatis apud Babylon Bee est,"(**) said Pope Francis during routine purgatory sentencing. According to experts, seven trillion years in purgatory would make Bee writers the absolute last ones to get into Heaven, even after Muhammad. "That seems like a lot," said Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann. "Is that a lot?" Managing Editor Joel Berry broke the news to his family following the chilling pronouncement. "But you still go...
  • Pope against Hamas and Israel: I do not think they are taking steps to make peace

    09/14/2024 10:03:18 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 35 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 14/9/24
    Pope Francis on Friday decried the deaths of children in Israeli military strikes in Gaza while expressing doubt that Israel and Hamas are seeking an end to the war between them, Reuters reported. "I am sorry to have to say this," the pope told journalists during a flight back to Rome from Singapore. "But I do not think that they are taking steps to make peace." He added that he speaks on the phone with members of a Catholic parish in Gaza "every day" and "they tell me ugly things, difficult things". "Please, when you see the bodies of killed...
  • BREAKING: Pope Francis: ‘Every religion is a way to arrive at God’

    09/13/2024 8:42:50 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 145 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | September 13, 2024 | Michael Haynes
    BREAKING: Pope Francis: ‘Every religion is a way to arrive at God’Pope Francis told young people in Singapore that being ‘Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian’ are just ‘different paths,’ as ‘every religion is a way’ to God.Pope Francis today told young people of different faiths that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.”Addressing an inter-religious meeting of young people in Singapore just before departing for his return flight to Rome, Pope Francis turned to one of the central themes of his pontificate – inter-religious dialogue.“One of the things that struck me about all of you here is your ability...
  • God’s Tradition and Men’s Traditions: A Reply to Protestant Critics

    08/20/2024 7:56:12 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 54 replies
    Remnant Newspaper ^ | August 16, 2024 | Robert Lazu Kmita
    God’s Tradition and Men’s Traditions: A Reply to Protestant CriticsIn the context of a forum where my first article, dedicated to Hugo Klapproth’s[i] argument against the “sola scriptura” doctrine, was discussed, I encountered––as expected––one of the most frequently cited biblical quotes that Protestant believers use to reject the Tradition upheld by Catholics. While there are several such passages in the New Testament, the first of them, and likely the most frequently quoted, appears in the 15th chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew. Due to its significance, I will quote it in full: “Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes...
  • Pope Francis: Christians, Jews, Muslims ‘Worship the One God’

    06/28/2024 8:17:47 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 6-28-24 | Thomas D. Williams
    ROME — Pope Francis asserted this week Christians, Jews and Muslims, all worship the one God and are “brothers and sisters.” “Jesus taught us to welcome one another as brothers and sisters,” the pontiff told a delegation from the Bologna Mosque in northern Italy. “And this is true first of all for us, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, who worship the One God.” Members of all three faiths refer to Abraham as “our father in faith,” he said, “albeit in different ways.” “In today’s world, our witness of fraternity is indispensable and very precious,” he added. Sincere and respectful dialogue between...
  • Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis at G7 Summit to discuss foreign policy, climate change

    06/17/2024 8:09:33 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 17 replies
    EWTN ^ | June 14, 2024 | Tyler Arnold
    Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis at G7 Summit to discuss foreign policy, climate changePresident Joe Biden privately met with Pope Francis early Friday evening in Apulia, Italy, at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit to discuss foreign policy and climate change.Francis is the first pope to address the G7 summit, which is an annual meeting of government leaders from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy. The European Union also participates but is not an official member.
  • Pope Francis to meet prominent comedians in the Vatican

    06/08/2024 6:33:20 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 19 replies
    Vatican News ^ | 6-8-24 | Deborah Castellano Lubov
    Pope Francis will meet with famous comedians in the Vatican on Friday, 14 June, the Holy See Press Office announced on Saturday. The audience, jointly organized by the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education and Dicastery for Communication, with more than 100 entertainers will take place in the Apostolic Palace at 8:30 a.m., and is intended to "establish a link" between the Catholic Church and such artists, the press release noted. Promoting joy, peace, and hope The upcoming meeting, it noted, aims to "celebrate the beauty of human diversity ... [and] promote a message of peace, love and solidarity". It...
  • Contrasting Views on Climate Change [semi-satire]

    05/22/2024 10:31:38 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 3 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 19 May 2024 | John Semmens
    On the one hand, William McGuire, an Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London, says "the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate. It looked like the coronavirus pandemic might do the trick, but its lethality was way over hyped by the World Health Organization. Maybe a breakthrough in ongoing gain-of-function bioweapons research can boost the death toll from the next pandemic to the 90% fatality rate that is...