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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis ‘secret decrees’ undermined defendants’ rights in Cdl. Becciu trial, lawyers sayDefense attorneys told Vatican judges that unpublished papal decrees unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and violated Cdl. Angelo Becciu’s fundamental rights under Vatican law.Defense lawyers have told the Vatican appeals tribunal that “secret decrees” issued by Pope Francis unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and undermined the fundamental rights of defendants in Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s trial.On Tuesday, during the resumption of the appeals phase of the Vatican’s so-called trial of the century, defense attorneys for Becciu and eight co-defendants argued before the Vatican City State Tribunal that four confidential...

Will bishops defend Church teaching on LGBT now that Pope Francis has undermined it?On December 8, the National Catholic Reporter revealed that Pope Francis wrote letters of support to a pro-LGBT group. Thu Dec 9, 2021 - 2:22 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Breaking news from Rome as Pope Francis has written praises of the heretical homosexuality-promoting New Ways Ministry, a group which was condemned by the Vatican under Pope St. John Paul II. On December 8, the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) revealed that Pope Francis wrote two letters to the group’s executive director, Francis DeBernardo, on May 3 and June...

[Catholic Caucus] Step By Step Toward Married Priests. An Update As is known, Pope Francis was completely silent on the ordination of married priests when he drew the conclusions of the synod of the Amazon. But he certainly did not silence the proponents of  the innovation.Who on the contrary are becoming ever more impatient and talkative. Proof of this comes from one of their leading theologians, a consultant at the synod to a good number of Brazilian bishops, who in an interview with Mauro Castagnaro in the latest issue of the magazine "Il Regno" lists in minute detail all the...

Cardinal: Pope’s Amazon exhortation defectively quotes canon law, undermining the priesthood Footnote 136 of Querida Amazonia quotes canon law in a defective way, according to Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes. February 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, a retired curial cardinal living in Rome, has written an analysis of the new concept of the priesthood as discussed by Pope Francis in his February 12 post-synodal exhortation on the Amazon region, Querida Amazonia. Cordes detects in the document a footnote which quotes canon law in a defective way and rejects the idea of separating the priesthood from its governing...