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[Catholic Caucus] Examining the role of Vatican's liturgy secretary in developing the ‘Mayan rite’ Bishop Macías participated with the bishops in Mexico as they formulated the Mayan Rite which was later approved by RomeOn October 10, Leo XIV appointed Bishop Aurelio García Macías as the new secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship. His promotion came following the move of former secretary Archbishop Viola to the role of Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica. Ordained in 1992 for the Archdiocese of Valladolid, Macías joined the Dicastery for Divine Worship (DDW) in 2015. He was called to the DDW by Cardinal Robert...

Synod canon law proposals could make Catholic Church ‘Protestant community’ Canonists warn that proposed canon law reforms from the Synod on Synodality to transfer governing power to laypeople would ‘undermine the nature of the Church.’ Leading canonists have warned proposals to reform Canon Law promoted by the Synod on Synodality would undermine Catholic doctrine and the Second Vatican Council.On October 12, leading canon lawyers warned in a report published by the National Catholic Register that proposed reforms to the Code of Canon Law, emerging from the Synod on Synodality, could undermine the Church’s divine constitution. The proposals would introduce a...

Abp. Broglio ‘obliges’ Catholics not to participate in execution of Fort Hood shooter The Archbishop for the Military Services USA falsely suggested the execution of Nidal Hasan is similar to a 'procured abortion.'Reverend Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services USA, has issued a statement calling on Catholics in the U.S. Armed Forces to not participate in the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan for his 2009 shooting spree that killed more than a dozen people in 2009 at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas.Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who reached the rank of Major, came to oppose...

[Catholic Caucus] Amoris Laetitia summit speaker falsely claims divorce, ‘remarriage’ is a ‘vocation’Rather than call for the repentance of those living in grave sin, Professor Julie Rubio lamented their ‘marginalization.’A theologian on Monday lamented the exclusion of those living in adultery from Holy Communion in an address delivered at Pope Leo XIV’s Amoris Laetitia summit.Professor Julie Hanlon Rubio on Monday delivered a talk titled “In the difficulties of life: accompanying and supporting — Walking with families in complex situations,” during the Vatican summit marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, which claimed the divorced and remarried may receive Holy Communion...

[Catholic Caucus] “We Demand the Latin Mass”: CIC 2026 Statement to the Vatican “Give Us Back the Mass of Our Fathers!” Michael Matt delivers the extraordinary closing statement of the 2026 Catholic Identity Conference—a direct appeal to Pope Leo XIV, a warning against the continued suppression of Tradition, and a declaration that faithful Catholics will not be silenced or driven from the Church. The message is clear: Restore the Latin Mass—or face the resistance of Catholics determined to defend the Faith.Your Holiness:We address our Holy Father as loyal sons of Holy Mother Church, “with burning concern” for the souls of...

[Catholic Caucus] Should sinners conform to the Church’s moral ideal - or should the Church move closer to them? Should sinners conform to the Church’s moral ideal - or should the Church move closer to them? Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David of the Philippines addressed the Vatican’s 10th-anniversary Amoris Laetitia meeting on October 12 in a video presentation. He said the exhortation encouraged pastors “to discern concrete situations rather than begin with classifications, to accompany gradual growth, and to trust that grace can already be at work even in lives and relationships marked by weakness and incompleteness.” And: “Not simply to...

<[Catholic Caucus] Inclusion of adulterers and “persons identifying as LGBTQ” called for at the current Vatican meeting on Amoris Laetitia. Inclusion of adulterers and “persons identifying as LGBTQ” called for at the current Vatican meeting on Amoris Laetitia.American Catholic moral theologian Prof. Julie Hanlon Rubio addressed the Vatican’s meeting marking the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia on October 12.Rubio recounted the case of an elderly woman with dementia who refused Communion because her husband had previously been married. The woman, she said, remembered that “she was not worthy to receive the Body of Christ.” Rubio presented the story as evidence...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Ferrão defends controversial Amoris Laetitia remarks on changing family structures Ambiguous remarks by the Cardinal of Goa likely to further confuse the faithful, much like original Amoris Laetitia documentCardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão has defended his Amoris Laetitia speech suggesting that the Church must discern how it should change in response to evolving family structures, after questioning over the speech in which he referred to “changing understandings of gender.”The President of the Conference of Bishops of India made the remarks at Pope Leo XIV’s meeting marking ten years since the publication of Amoris Laetitia on 8 October....

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV promotes Bishop García Macías, who fought the traditional Mass but promoted the Mayan liturgy in Mexico. Leo XIV promotes Bishop García Macías, who fought the traditional Mass but promoted the Mayan liturgy in Mexico.Today, Pope Leo XIV appointed Spanish Bishop Aurelio García Macías, 61, as Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship. He is succeeding Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, who has been appointed Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica.García Macías is former rector of the seminary of Valladolid. A career man, with a gentle and courteous manner, like Monsignor Viola, he too was formed liturgically at Sant’Anselmo.In...

[Catholic Caucus] The Spirit of Modernism: How God Is Purifying His Church St. Pius X called Modernism the “synthesis of all heresies,” but the real danger may be the spirit that drives Catholics to reject antiquity and pursue novelty. From Benedict XV and Pius XII to Karl Rahner, James Hitchcock, and Michael Davies, the warnings are remarkably consistent. Could the crisis in the Church itself be part of God’s providential cure?In his Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith, Bishop Athanasius Schneider provided the following question and answer:“75. In our day, what is the most insidious enemy of the Church’s constant...

Charles Murr on one of Spain's most-watched podcasts: "John Paul I died two hours after trying to remove Baggio" In the United States, for months now Catholic priests have been appearing on the country’s major podcasts—those that draw millions of viewers far removed from the Church and accustomed to uncut conversations lasting three or four hours. The exorcist Chad Ripperger has been on former soldier Shawn Ryan’s show twice, in March and in July, to discuss possessions, the Antichrist, and the diabolical attack on the family. In September, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, devoted two...

Is the Synod Redefining Papal Infallibility?A proposed revision to Canon 749 raises a fundamental question: who determines the truth of Catholic doctrine? Gaetano Masciullo examines the Synod’s vision of infallibility, the expansion of lay authority, and what these changes could mean for the Church’s teaching office and Sacred Tradition.Today in the Vatican it is possible to identify a plurality of centers of power, operating within a complex dialectic between strategic convergence and internal tensions. Bergoglio acted as several sovereigns and emperors of the past did, that is, he concentrated power in his own hands during his lifetime, even going beyond...

“The hostile takeover within the Catholic Church!” (Bishop Schneider CIC 2026 Keynote) Bishop Schneider gave a powerful kenote address at the CIC 2026. He called out the hostile take-over of the Church going all the way up the ranks, yet encourages true Catholics not to fall into anger, bitterness or despondency. “Christ will overcome His enemies who managed to occupy influential positions within the Church," he states. Indeed, we believe and hope in Christ’s victory over the hostile takeover within the Church. Watch and read his address below!“Christ’s victory over the hostile takeover within the Church”In His sermon to the...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Schneider says Amoris Laetitia is ‘against divine law’, must be ‘explicitly correctedAs the Pope gathers prelates to the Vatican to discuss Amoris Laetitia, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has expressed his concerns that the text is a practical “denial of the divine truth of the indissolubility of marriage” and an attack on the “ineffable sanctity of the Holy Eucharist”. The prominent prelate, auxiliary of Astana in Kazakhstan, gave a wide-ranging interview to the Catholic Herald recently, discussing issues such as the Society of Saint Pius X, the traditional Mass, Amoris Laetitia (AL), the recent document commemorating Nostra Aetate...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal notes “changing understandings of gender,” says Church must discern how to change. At Leo XIV's meeting marking ten years of Amoris Laetitia on October 8, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão delivered a speech on the challenges facing families in Asia. He is the President of the Conference of Bishops of India.Discussing changes in the “identity, nature and composition of the family,” the cardinal observed that “new forms of partnership and cohabitation are emerging, amid changing understandings of gender and relationships in urban settings.”Reflecting on what the Church has learned from its pastoral work, Ferrão declared: “Pastoral work is...

[Catholic Caucus] At Leo’s Amoris Laetitia Jubilee, Christ Is Described as “Flirting” With the Woman at the Well — Meanwhile, Leo Cements Sacrilegious Communion as Catholic There are many ways to open a Vatican gathering on marriage.One could begin with Cana.One could begin with Christ’s words on the indissolubility of marriage: “What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”One could read St. Paul on the union of husband and wife as an image of Christ and His Church. One could remind bishops that Our Lord restored marriage to its original dignity after fallen man had distorted it.Or,...

[Catholic Caucus] The Deceptive Tactics of the Silent Revolution Engulfing the Church - by Bishop Robert Mutsaerts The Deceptive Tactics of the Silent RevolutionBy Bishop Robert MutsaertsAux. Bishop of the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsThe Catholic Church has experienced, over two thousand years, virtually everything that can befall an institution: bad popes, corrupt bishops, heresies, schisms, revolutions, persecutions, decadent monasteries, dissolute clergy, and theologians so determined to be original that ultimately only they themselves understood what they meant.And yet the Church endures. Not because Catholics have always been wise — that would be a rather audacious historical hypothesis. The Church survived...

The Catholic Response to a (Synodal) Church in Crisis | Bishop Mutsaerts CIC 2026 In an address that received the longest standing ovation in Catholic Identity Conference history, Bishop Rob Mutsaerts of the Netherlands challenges the modern obsession with constant reform, asks whether the Synodal project has actually produced the fruits it promised, warns against confusing mercy with affirmation, defends the sacred character of the liturgy, and explains why young Catholics are often searching for precisely what the Church has been tempted to abandon: truth, sacrifice, reverence, doctrine, confession, beauty, and a supernatural faith. Below are both the transcript and...

[Catholic Caucus] From Familiaris consortio to Amoris laetitia and the pending response to the dubia?Rome begins this Wednesday to take stock of the ten years of Amoris laetitia. From October 7 to 14, nearly 250 bishops, including presidents of Episcopal Conferences and heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches, will join families and experts in a meeting convened by Leo XIV to examine the application of Francis’s exhortation and the current challenges of matrimonial and family pastoral care.The gathering comes a decade after one of the most debated documents of the previous pontificate. Amoris laetitia, published in April 2016 following the...

[Catholic Caucus] In the Synodal Church Every Month is Pride Month From Fiducia supplicans to Pride pilgrimages in St. Peter’s Basilica, by their fruits you shall know them.And their fruits are antichrist.As June unfolds and the secular world celebrates Pride Month, Catholics are reminded that for a long time the post-conciliar, synodal Church has not only accommodated the LGBT movement but is actively participating in its advancement.The evidence is not confined to isolated incidents or fringe personalities like ”Fr” Jimmy Martin, but across Germany, Italy, and the United States, clergy, religious, and diocesan structures are increasingly flaunting and celebrating the...