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Pope Francis’ ecumenical Abrahamic Family House project contradicts the teachings of JesusThe price of entry into the Abrahamic House is to de-emphasize the central elements of the Christian faith. The proposed Abrahamic Family House, to be built in Abu Dhabi. From left to right: the mosque, the church, and the synagogue.The Abrahamic Family House is scheduled to open in Abu Dhabi in 2022. It will consist of three main buildings — a mosque, a church, and a synagogue. A project of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF), the Abrahamic Family House was inspired by the 2019 Document on Human...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest Pressured Seminarians Into Swimming NakedThree former seminarians claim that Cleveland Diocese failed to respond, after Father James Cosgrove, a parish priest, allegedly pressured them to take naked swims, reports PillarCatholic.com (October 22).The three reported in December 2019 to the diocese but Cosgrove kept having access to seminarians including a key to the seminary until recently. Last November, Cosgrove took a paid medical leave of absence because of depression and anxiety. This October, he resigned from ministry.One seminarian, Nick Grismer, claims that he pressured him in June/July 2019 into skinny-dipping at the seminary’s swimming pool and at a...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop calls out Vatican institute for wanting to ‘redefine’ the family unitStrickland clarified that a false sense of mercy is leading priests to be overly 'pastoral' and causing them to not uphold Church doctrine.Tue Oct 5, 2021 - 4:38 pm EDTTue Oct 5, 2021 - 4:44 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland is pushing back against comments made by the new head of the conservative-turned-liberal Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Matrimonial and Family Science.Weeks after taking up his post as the new president, Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne made a remarkable statement in an interview with La...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’ plans will ‘destroy’ contemplative life: Franciscan friarThe chaplain insists that it is not only the traditional Latin Mass Carmelite nuns who are on the radar: contemplative life in the entire Church is at stake.Mon Oct 4, 2021 - 12:20 pm EDTMon Oct 4, 2021 - 1:23 pm EDT FAIRFIELD, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — A plan by Pope Francis ‘to overhaul’ the communities of cloistered nuns is threatening their way of life.LifeSite has published today an interview with Father Maximilian Mary Dean, a former Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate and the chaplain to the discalced Carmelite nuns of...

How Mother Angelica’s nuns suffered loss, decay from fight against traditionAt one point reduced to 8 nuns, the monastery of Poor Clares begun by the foundress of EWTN now quotes pro-LGBT Timothy Radcliffe on its website.FAIRFIELD, Pennsylvania (LifeSiteNews) — Even nuns in a monastery founded by EWTN’s Mother Angelica have suffered from an insensitive “Apostolic Visitation,” a Vatican-approved investigation.In a newly published interview conducted by LifeSite’s Jim Hale, hermit Father Maximilian Mary Dean retells the history of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Hanceville, Alabama. Their monastery, founded by Mother Angelica, who also began Catholic TV channel EWTN, received...

Concerned German Catholics Publish Reform Initiative Opposing Controversial Synodal PathThe group of German lay faithful contend that the Synodal Path, which has ignored repeated corrections from the Vatican, is promoting disunity and paving the way for schism. VATICAN CITY — As the second high-level meeting of the German Church’s Synodal Path opened in Frankfurt on Thursday, a group of German lay faithful published their own manifesto of reform that criticizes the multi-year process for promoting disunity, falling short of conditions for genuine reform, and paving the way for schism.Called “Neuer Anfang” (New Beginning — A Manifesto for Reform), the...

[Catholic Caucus] Fairfield PA Carmelites undergoing “difficult and stressful trial”… prayers urgently requestedIt started yesterday with eight hours of “depositions.” It continued today, never mind the Third Commandment. It will continue through Tuesday. You see, these nuns have two big problems: 1. They’re Trads, 2. Their vocations are booming.I offered my Rosary for them today; please unite yourself to that or offer some prayers of your own, please.From their press release last week:“This coming weekend, we ask that you pray in a special way for our Nuns. More than ever before, they are in need of your love and your...