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Beatification of Evil: Nazi-Marxist on His Way To “Beatification”Julio Loredo has again warned against “beatifying” Olinda and Recife Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara (+1999).• 1931: At his ordination, Câmara wears the uniform of the notorious Green Shirt militia under his cassock.• 1934: Câmara is a member of the Supreme Council of Plinio Salgado's Ação Integralista Brasileira (AIB), a pro-national socialist group.• 1936: Câmara becomes Salgado's personal secretary and then national secretary of the AIB. He takes a leading role in rallies and paramilitary marches similar to the German Nazi marches.• 1946: Rio de Janeiro Archbishop wants to make Câmara an auxiliary...

[Catholic Caucus] Father Master. The Founder of the Apostolic Movement of Schönstatt Abused His Nuns Today’s bombshell news is that the German priest Josef Kentenich, founder of the apostolic movement of Schönstatt, who died at the age of 83 in 1968 and whose cause for beatification is underway, in the 1950’s was found guilty by the Holy See of the sexual abuse of nuns belonging to his movement.The news comes to us along with its details, in the letter below, from the scholar who discovered it, Alexandra von Teuffenbach, former professor of theology and Church history at the Pontifical Lateran...

Jesuits Against Focolarini. The Beatification of Chiara Lubich in Doubt Ever since the head of the Vatican congregation for the causes of saints has been Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, a focolarino from way back,  the opinion has been growing that the beatification of Chiara Lubich, who was the founder of the Focolare movement and its head until her death in 2008, will soon become a reality.Or maybe not. Because the opponents of her beatification are not to be underestimated. And they have in the Society of Jesus, the same one to which Pope Francis belongs, their leading personalities, among them...

Why We Need Not (and Should Not) Call Paul VI ‘Saint’ Many who have studied the life and pontificate of Pope Paul VI are convinced that he was far from exemplary in his conduct as pastor; that he not only did not possess heroic virtue, but lacked certain key virtues; that his promulgation of a titanic liturgical reform was incompatible with his papal office of handing on that which he had received; that he offers us a portrait of failed governance and tradition betrayed. In short, for us, it is impossible to accept that a pope such as this could ever be...

New from The Remnant Underground…Down in the catacombs, Michael Matt looks as the life and legacy of one of the worst popes in history—the man Pope Francis now intends to canonize in October. Does papal infallibility seriously come into this farce? Please! At this point, claiming the Holy Ghost has anything even to do with such an obvious political stunt—aimed at canonizing the revolution of Vatican II—borders on the blasphemous. Plus, Francis is reportedly set to stab Chinese Catholics in the back in favor of Communist puppet bishops. Everybody okay with that? Has the Vatican lost its mind completely?