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Update: Vatican Refused June 15 Meeting, Morning Mass No Longer on the AgendaThe President's entourage had originally requested for President Biden to attend Mass with the Pope early in the morning, but the proposal was nixed by the Vatican Pope Francis and Joe Biden at the White House on September 23, 2015. (photo: David Lienemann / Public domain) Vatican June 15, 2021 Editor's Note: According to Vatican sources June 15, there is no meeting currently scheduled between Pope Francis and President Joe Biden. The story has been amended in light of this breaking news.VATICAN CITY — President Joe Biden's...

Omens of a terminal crisis / The intentional ambiguities of Francis and Vatican IIIFrom The WandererWe have known for decades that the Church is in crisis. However, in recent years and, above all, in the past few months, in my opinion we are witnessing the manifestation of omens that indicate the imminence of the final outcome. The crisis is terminal, that is, irreversible. There is no way to turn back. Without a direct divine intervention, the Catholic Church will disappear in the next decade, transformed into a religious multinational, disfigured in its original character and transformed into a furious persecutor...

Is Pope Francis Distancing Himself from CDF Same-Sex Blessing Clarification? Unlikely, Say CommentatorsThe document has prompted an outcry from those in the Church who wish to see a change in teaching, mostly in the German-speaking world.VATICAN CITY — Did Pope Francis actually give his assent to the responsum saying “No” to the blessing of same-sex unions? Or, in the wake of criticism of the Holy Father reaffirming Church teaching, are personalities close to him, as well as curial cardinals, bishops and others trying to cast doubt on his approval to further their agenda? This question is being asked in...

[Catholic Caucus] Peruvian bishop: Pope sees Amazon region, new ‘Amazon Ecclesial Conference’ as ‘testing ground’ (VC II Barf Alert) Upon the explicit request of Pope Francis, this new structure is not called an Episcopal Conference. July 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – While people have been distracted by the current coronacrisis or other, election-related or Black Lives Matter-related topics, Pope Francis has quietly continued to work with the Amazon bishops to implement the ideas as set forth during the October 2019 Amazon Synod. As the Peruvian Bishop David Martinez de Aguirre Guinea of Puerto Maldonado – Vice-President of the newly established Amazon...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican doctrine office never saw Amazon Synod draft that ‘opens door’ to married priests What is Pope Francis’ strategy? What twist will he keep for us at the last moment?' ROME, February 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – New details have emerged regarding a draft text of Pope Francis’s widely anticipated summary document on the Amazon Synod that is said to “open the door” to abolishing priestly celibacy in the Latin Church.   According to Italian historian Roberto de Mattei, multiple sources have confirmed that neither the Vatican Secretary of State nor the Congregation for the Doctrine of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Confirms: Women already in diaconate formation In yesterday’s Amazon Synod briefing, Vatican News reported on a presentation given by Bishop Wilmar Santin, O.CARM., of Itaituba, Brazil, in which he recounted a conversation with His Hereticalness:The Pope said he [Santin] should start with what the Church already allows: the permanent diaconate.Acording to the Vatican News report:They developed a plan with an Italian priest who had worked in the indigenous missions in Amazonia all his life. The first step involved creating Ministers of the Eucharist, then ministries that Deacons perform in order to move toward being ordained as Deacons.NB:...

[Catholic Caucus] Women Deacons: A Papal Cover-up? In prior columns I have referred to Pope Francis’ commission on “female deacons” as semi-secret.  That is because, although we know of its existence, its findings have been kept under wraps.   It appears that now we know why.As LifeSiteNews reported back in March, an advocate of female deacons, the German progressivist theologian Professor Peter Hünermann, admitted that “according to members of the German bishops’ doctrinal commission who spoke to him, the report of the Vatican commission on female deacons found that ‘there is no historical evidence that in the patristics women were ordained as deacons.’”LifeSite...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis' race against the clock The 82-year-old pope looks increasingly like a man rushing to complete a mission It (Evangelii gaudium) is a rejection of a whole array of non-essential elements that have helped create over many centuries a Church culture and structures that are often more rooted in clerical power and control than the words and example of Jesus Christ.The document and the vision of Church that it embodies have not been universally embraced by the holy People of God. The ordained men – notably priests and bishops – would seem to be, proportionate to...

Pope Francis' stealth reform of the Roman Catholic Church shows no sign of slowing down — and may even be accelerating. Stealth is key here. If the pope had declared earlier this month that henceforth the Roman Catholic Church would authoritatively teach that homosexuals should be happy being gay, that God made them homosexual, and that God himself (along with the pope) loves them just the way they are, it would have been a massive story in the history of Catholicism — and one that quite likely would have precipitated a major schism, with conservative bishops and priests (mainly in...