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Leo XIV’s meeting with Sarah Mullally fuels legal campaign against male-only priesthoodFrench legal scholars say Pope Leo’s audience with Sarah Mullally has revived efforts to have Catholic ordination rules struck down as unlawful sex discrimination under European law.French legal scholars pointed to Pope Leo XIV’s cordial reception of female Anglican “archbishop” Sarah Mullally in renewed efforts to have the Catholic Church’s male-only priesthood treated as unlawful sex discrimination.In an article published in the French newspaper La Croix on July 12, a group of French academics pushed to challenge the Catholic Church’s exclusion of women from Holy Orders, arguing that Pope...

Leo XIV has repudiated the authority of the Catholic Church: here’s howSynodality not only diminishes ecclesiastical authority but destroys it. On June 26, Leo XIV told an “extraordinary consistory” of cardinals that they “are called to be builders of Christ’s communion, a communion that takes shape in a synodal Church.” [1]The construction of the Synodal Church, which accompanies the building of a new society called variously the “city of God,” the “new Jerusalem,” and the “civilization of love,” was a central theme of his recent “encyclical letter” Magnifica Humanitas.Leo told the cardinals that during the consistory they would “explore Magnifica...

Pope Leo’s newspaper publishes article claiming ‘there is no devil,’ original sin in Book of GenesisL'Osservatore Romano published an article by theologian Marinella Perroni claiming Genesis contains no devil and no original sin, arguing that tradition exegesis ‘is reduced to sex.’A new essay in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano examining the Book of Genesis argues that the narrative does not deal primarily with the devil and original sin, in contrast with the traditional interpretation.On July 4, L’Osservatore Romano – the official newspaper of the Holy See – published an article by Italian theologian Marinella Perroni, according to whom in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. McElroy praises Vatican downplaying of homosexual sin during James Martin’s conferenceMcElroy failed to mention the Church's teaching on same-sex 'marriage' and accused the Church of 'frequently wounding' the so-called 'LGBT community.'WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert McElroy lauded Pope Leo XIV’s downplaying of sexual sin and the Synod on Synodality’s final report on “doctrinal, pastoral and ethical questions” which falsely suggested that homosexual relationships may not be sinful.The notoriously heterodox archbishop of Washington, D.C.’s remarks came during a homily at a Mass for Father James Martin’s pro-LGBT Outreach Conference at the Jesuit-run Georgetown University.During his June 20...