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[Catholic Caucus] Hidden Origins of Traditionis Custodes: Grillo and Francis’s Self-AbrogationThe Forgotten Francis DecreesOn the twenty-second of February, 2020. The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter.Quo magis.Cum sanctissima.Documents of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, released with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff Francis, approval that had been granted in an audience of 5 December, 2019.These spring decrees are not nearly as well-known as such papal mandates as Traditionis Custodes from the summer of 2021. In fact, they might well merit to be called the Forgotten Decrees of Francis.Quo magis provides a selection of optional texts of...

[Catholic Caucus] Grading Francis and Ourselves on the Good Samaritan StandardAs Michael Matt described in a recent Remnant TV video, Francis has now decided that even Our Lord’s Good Samaritan parable can be distorted to advance the globalist agenda:“Do you know what comes to mind now when, together with popular movements, I think of the Good Samaritan? Do you know what comes to mind? The protests over the death of George Floyd. It is clear that this type of reaction against social, racial or macho injustice can be manipulated or exploited by political machinations or whatever, but the main thing...

VATICAN PRO-ABORTS: Francis Owned by New World OrderIn this first episode of the new show, The Remnant Underground, Michael Matt discusses the ramifications of Pope Francis promoting population control guru, Jeffrey Sachs, as a permanent member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Aside from being militantly pro-contraception, Sachs is also co-author of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which promote abortion worldwide. So, here’s the question: How pro-life can Francis possibly be, when he has no problem partnering with pro-abort population controllers? Next up, Francis says the whole world must get vaccinated and the “peaceful protesters” who burned down...

Bishop Shao Zhumin Seized by Chinese AuthoritiesThe Underground Bishop was Taken Away for “Vacation”10/27/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on October 25, the authorities in China’s Wenzhou seized Bishop Shao Zhumin ahead of the month of the dead. He was officially detained to go on a forced “vacation,” a measure employed by the government to “educate” dissidents and religious clergy who fail to submit to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s control. According to Asia News, sources on the ground relay that the bishop was officially taken away a few days before November, where...

Addressing Radical Leftists, Pope Francis Demands Global Tyranny to Enforce a Return to Medieval AusterityPope Francis offers his services as chaplain to our Oligarchy. Pilgrims at the Vatican display the pagan fertility goddess, Pachamama, which Pope Francis venerated during church services in Rome.In case anyone was still fooling himself on the subject, Pope Francis is not “apolitical,” not a figure who “transcends left and right.” In fact, I’m driven to ask if he is really a Christian leader of any kind. Having helped to edit one of his books and followed his statements for years, I don’t know what religious...

Vatican: The Art of Stroking the Red Dragon Across the Scales The meeting organized between Pope Francis and 22 leading religious leaders, who came to Rome to discuss ecology a few days before the opening of COP26, once again demonstrated how much the provisional agreement between the Holy See and China remains at the heart of the present pontificate.Tienzin Gyatzo, the 14th Dalai Lama, was not among the 22 religious leaders gathered at the invitation of the host of St. Martha’s house to talk about ecology, a few days before the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26),...

This Morning: Francis Celebrates Regime-Compatible Inter-ReligionFrancis met in the morning of October 4 at the Vatican with the controversial Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew, the Anglican Primate Justin Welby, and other representatives of false religions, in anticipation of the November 12 UN Climate Change Conference.Even the pro-Francis IlSismografo noted that the Dalai Lama, the leader of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, was missing.Why? Because for several years Francis has been bowing to the Chinese ban that prevents the Dalai Lama’s presence at inter-religion summits.It’s true that Francis prefers climate religion to Catholicism, but even more important for him is opportunism.

Vaccine Propaganda: Francis Plays the Dancing Bear of the OligarchsFrancis sent a May 8 video-message to “Vax Live: The Concert To Reunite The World,” an event to propagate "equitable global vaccine distribution."The initiative is organised by oligarchs like Bill and Melinda Gates, and the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, a former Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman. The chairs of the campaign are Prince Harry, a former serviceman, and Meghan Markle who has a degree in "theater and international studies." Among the performers are former sex symbol Jennifer Lopez, the actor Ben Affleck of whom Lopez was one of his many floozies,...

Phony Synodality. It’s Just Francis In Charge, His Own WayThat Pope Francis exercises “absolute and unbridled power, arbitrary in the truest sense of the word,” is what now emerges both from an inventory of his acts as monarch of the little Vatican state - as in the previous post from Settimo Cielo - and from a political analysis of his exercise of power, as in the editorial by the historian Ernesto Galli della Loggia in the “Corriere della Sera” of last December 20.But in addition to the head of state there is also and above all Francis the pastor. Who...

Pope Francis calls on ‘everyone’ to take COVID vaccine: ‘it must be done’The Pope said he himself would be taking the vaccine and that it is 'ethically' acceptable that everyone else take it as well.anuary 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In an interview scheduled to air Sunday night with the Italian television station Canale 5, Pope Francis has opined that “everyone” must take the COVID-19 vaccine. “I believe that, ethically, everyone should take the vaccine,” he said, according to a transcript released in advance of the airing of the interview. The Pope added that he would be taking the vaccine himself...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis belittles as ‘adolescent’ priests who defied COVID lockdowns to give faithful sacraments VATICAN CITY, June 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has indicated that he was not impressed with priests who violated coronavirus lockdown rules to minister to the laity.  In a speech he delivered Saturday to primarily bishops, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers from the Italian region of Lombardy, Pope Francis contrasted priests who violated the ban on public worship with priests who ministered to their flock in “creative” ways, like buying their shopping.  “The pastoral zeal and creative solicitude of priests helped people...

Honored Chinese Cardinal's Beatification Delayed 03/17/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – The beatification process of Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei has stalled, with the Vatican stating China-Vatican diplomatic sensitivity as the cause of the delay. Cardinal Kung is viewed as an icon of papal loyalty for spending 30 years in a Chinese jail for refusing to disown the church. The 20-year anniversary of his death recently passed on March 12.The Vatican has not yet started the Cardinal’s beatification process. Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, commented saying, “pushing for Cardinal Kung’s beatification is a waste of time, and...