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[Catholic Caucus] African archbishop: Opposition to homosexuality is not ‘cultural’ but about fidelity to Christ‘Africa was not defending a cultural idea. Africa was defending the teaching that the Church has had for 2,000 years,’ Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Cameroon said about opposition to homosexual ‘blessings.’In an apparent rebuke of Pope Francis, the president of the Cameroon Episcopal Conference reiterated that African clerical resistance to “female deacons” and LGBT ideology is not based on the continent’s conservative cultural outlook but rather on “fidelity to what Christ taught.” “Africa was not defending a cultural idea. Africa was defending the teaching that...

[Catholic Caucus] Pontifical Academy Against Life: Member Calls for Justifying Homosexual Sins"It is necessary to develop a new [= immoral] approach to homosexuality and contraception," Don Maurizio Chiodi, a priest of the Italian Diocese of Bergamo and member of the Pontifical Academy Against Life since 2017, told Katholisch.de (2 August).Chiodi has already made similar comments in 2019, and has since been known as the Italian James Martin in reference to the notorious homosexual activist. Francis appointed Chiodi, an immoral theologian, among the seven members of the Synod's study group on 'controversial doctrinal, pastoral and ethical issues'.His way into moral decadence...

[Catholic Caucus] Chaldean Cardinal Rejects "Blessing" of Homosexual CouplesThe Chaldean Church, the Catholics in Iraq, rejects Francis’ homosexual pamphlet 'Traditionis custodes' and the [pseudo] blessing of homosexual couples.Their synod passed a resolution last week, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I. Sako announced on ChaldeanPatriarchate.com (July 22):"The Chaldean Church in Iraq and throughout the world does not consider same-sex unions to be marriage, as it considers marriage between a man and a woman to be the legally valid marriage for the establishment of a family. It refuses to bless same-sex unions in order to preserve the sanctity of marriage, which is one of...

Bishop Schneider: Modernism condemned by Pius X ‘has been realized in all its devastating consequences’'To fight against heresy is a truly noble and selfless act, an expression of an authentic love for one’s neighbor,' Bishop Schneider told LifeSiteNews.Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, kindly granted LifeSite an interview about his new book, Flee from Heresy: A Catholic Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors (Sophia Institute Press), whose publication date is today.In this new interview (please see full text below), the prelate discusses the atmosphere of heresy and relativism in our Church today. “There reigns a ruthless relativism,”...

[Catholic Caucus] I am accused of not following the “Hermenentics of continuity” when criticizing the “Fiducia supplicans”!?I must confess that I have often wasted my time following the program “Reason and Theology” of Michael Lofton, this big man with a little beard (who would do well to hide his tattoo when he speaks like a theologian), I have been driven by curiosity to hear the hilarious non sense he says. This time, however, I saw that he was criticizing me. With great seriousness, he is scandalized that I, who insist so much on the hermeneutics of continuity, now dare to...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke makes veiled condemnation of blessing homosexual ‘couples’Cardinal Raymond Burke declared that we 'affront the Lord' when we 'try to ask blessing for something that’s sinful,' such as homosexual relationships, in a recent interview. He did not mention Pope Francis or Cardinal Fernández by name.Cardinal Raymond Burke gave a veiled condemnation of blessings for homosexual couples in a Wednesday interview.“We affront the Lord, we show profound lack of respect for Our Lord in love for Him if in some way we try to ask blessing for something that’s sinful,” he told Father Ambrose Criste of St. Michael’s...

[Catholic Caucus] The Problem of Blessing Same-Sex Couples and Its Consequences for the Doctrine and Life of the Catholic ChurchThe Document Fiducia Supplicans, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 18, 2023, and approved by Pope Francis, regarding the possibility of granting “simple,” “spontaneous,” “short,” and “non-liturgical” blessings to couples cohabitating in adultery or in same-sex relationships, deeply and detrimentally affects the Catholic Church as a whole, as well as local Catholic communities. 1. The true meaning of blessing.The authorization to “bless” same-sex or adulterous unions does not express an authentically “pastoral” care, because such...

[Catholic Caucus] Burke: There Is no Such Thing as 'Non-Liturgical Blessings'Cardinal Raymond Burke has rejected the idea of so-called "non-liturgical" blessings as claimed in Francis' homosexual manifesto 'Fiducia supplicans'.Speaking to Father Ambrose Criste O.Praem. of St Michael's Abbey in Orange County, California, on 13 June, the Cardinal explained that blessings are linked to the sacraments. When a priest gives a blessing, it is intimately connected to the sacred liturgy: "It certainly cannot be said to be non-liturgical."Furthermore, when someone brings an object to be blessed, it must be fit to receive a blessing and cannot be something that is alien...

[Catholic Caucus] Dutch Bishop: Fiducia Supplicans Too Much ‘in Tune With Zeitgeist’A Dutch bishop has described the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans declaration, which permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples, as an attempt to “make peace with a secular society.”However, Auxiliary Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands warned: “Peace at the expense of morality and truth” is a “most merciless peace imaginable.” “God loves everyone. He loves all sinners, but he hates your sins. He fervently hopes that you will return to him, just as he hoped for the prodigal son’s return. He wants nothing more than...

[Catholic Caucus] Fiducia Supplicans: Another Homosex-Blasphemy in a Church"Triggered by Francis' homosexual propaganda piece 'Fiducia supplicans', a homosexual [pseudo] blessing was staged in the Nuestra Señora de Belén Church in Miajadas, Diocese of Plasencia, Spain.One of the two homosexual concubines admitted on a social network that their complicity in sin was hardened and had lasted for 30 years."We were very happy to be able to do it in the Church, to be the first homosexual couple of many to come," he announced.It seems that the initiative for the sacrilege came from Don Enrique Gómez Rodríguez, the parish priest, as can...

[Catholic Caucus] African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting the blessing of same-sex couples and couples in other “irregular situations,” was perceived as “cultural colonization” in Africa, the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) said.In a March 17 interview with the French-language Catholic television channel KTO, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo deplored the lack of “synodality” in the release of the DDF document that has evoked mixed reactions and deep division among Catholic bishops across the world since its...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: Cdl Fernández’s defense of Fiducia Supplicans shows his ‘manifest heresy’Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Archbishop Viganò roundly condemned Cdl. Fernández's defense of same-sex blessings as 'usurping the sacred authority of the Pastors of the Church of Christ in order to destroy Her.'Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has stated that Cardinal Fernández’s press release defending Fiducia Supplicans is part of an attempt to “cause a schism” and to “demolish it [the Church] from within,” accusing the cardinal of “manifest heresy.”“{A}ny document bearing Tucho’s signature can be considered devoid of any value, due to the manifest heresy of Tucho himself and...

[Catholic Caucus] "This document damages the communion of the Church, for such blessings directly and seriously contradict Divine Revelation": Strongest and clearest episcopal reaction yet from +Rafael Escudero López-BreaPastoral Message of the Bishop Prelate of Moyobamba on the Declaration Fiducia Supplicans, Published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 18, 2023.Dear priests, consecrated religious, and lay faithful:Grace and Peace for the Nativity of the Lord!Faced with the unprecedented bewilderment provoked by the Declaration Fiducia supplicans in the clergy and many faithful of this Prelature and in so many places in the Catholic world, I have taken...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholic priest wearing rainbow stole gives ‘blessing’ to women civilly ‘married’ for 22 yearsThe Saint Paul Catholic Church in Kentucky posted a picture of the 'blessing' on their official Facebook page. The text accompanying the photo said that the 'blessing' was 'offered according to the guidelines in Fiducia Supplicans.'LEXINGTON, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic church in Lexington, Kentucky, hosted a “blessing” of a same-sex couple that had been civilly “married” for 22 years, citing the Vatican’s heterodox declaration Fiducia Supplicans. The Saint Paul Catholic Church parish posted a picture of the “blessing” on their official Facebook page, showing...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Clarifies the Clarification of Blessing “Same-Sex Couples”Tucho locutus est (again)No. Yes. Maybe?The first time Tucho “Heal Me with Your Mouth” Fernández made the Roman Pontiff contradict himself, he added his own “Roma locuta est”:Thus, beyond the guidance provided above, no further responses should be expected about possible ways to regulate details or practicalities regarding blessings of this type.As if the definitive nature of that statement wasn’t enough, he thought it necessary to clarify the clarification (again).Yet again, a member Pope Francis’s inner circle, the late Cardinal Pell has been proved right:Commentators of every school, if for different...

[Catholic Caucus] Fiducia supplicans: Between a rock and a hard placeThe reported influx of requests for papal blessings on parchment sheets for same-sex couples puts Pope Francis is a very difficult position.Two developments—both entirely foreseeable, one so easily avoidable as to be in essence an unforced error—are making the already improbable management of the Fiducia supplicans fiasco almost entirely impossible.The first is the reported influx of requests for papal blessings on parchment sheets for same-sex couples. Italy’s Il Messaggero newspaper had the story over the weekend.On paper, it oughtn’t be too difficult to turn them down. Fiducia supplicans, after all,...