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These US Catholic Bishops Promise to ‘Disrupt’ Trump

March 4, 2017 breaking Comments Off on These US Catholic Bishops Promise to ‘Disrupt’ Trump

March 3, 2017 (Stream.org) – Imagine if your teenage son’s pastor had told him to apply “If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off,” by applying a buzzsaw to his own right wrist. You’d yank your son out of that group and start making some phone calls. That same sense of alarm and horror is what we should feel when we learn that influential Christians have interpreted our faith in some deeply misguided way which will do grave harm to them and others. A Cabal of Catholic Leftists Cardinal Peter Turkson and twenty-four American Catholic bishops have recently endorsed a political program that is dangerous, unbiblical, un-Catholic and uncharitable. In fact it is soaked in ideological rage, and…Continue Reading

Catholics must ‘resist’ Pope Francis’ alliance with pro-abortion United Nations: Catholic coalition

March 1, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Catholics must ‘resist’ Pope Francis’ alliance with pro-abortion United Nations: Catholic coalition

February 28, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Catholics must “resist” the Vatican’s increasing alliance with the United Nations under Pope Francis’ watch, insists a global coalition of pro-life and pro-family organizations in a new analysis. This alliance, they warn, is giving credence to the pro-abortion global population control agenda and is a direct threat to the family. This new alliance, unthinkable under the pontificates of Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, has led to what Voice of the Family (VotF) is calling an “immediate and serious threat posed to children

Francis urges priests to ‘welcome’ cohabitating couples in the ‘style of the Gospel’

February 28, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Francis urges priests to ‘welcome’ cohabitating couples in the ‘style of the Gospel’

ROME, February 27, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis urged parish priests participating in a Vatican-run course titled the “New Marriage Procedure” to “welcome” cohabitating couples living in fornication who “prefer to live together without getting married.” The pope did not ask priests to admonish such couples for living in grave sin nor did he ask them to work for their conversion and repentance. “At the same time, make yourselves close with the style of the Gospel itself, in the encounter and welcome of those young people that prefer

Martin Luther: True Reformer or Defender of Erroneous Conscience?

February 26, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Martin Luther: True Reformer or Defender of Erroneous Conscience?

The key issue in debating Luther’s legacy on conscience in the Catholic Church entails whether the teachings of the Church are subordinate to one’s own conscience or whether conscience is bound by the teaching of the Church. Two trials, two appeals to conscience. Trial 1: I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Trial 2: If the number of bishops and universities should be so material as your lordship seems to think, then I see little cause, my lord, why that should make any change in my conscience. For I have no doubt that, though not in this realm, but…Continue Reading

Why is there a resurgence of infidelity among Catholic leaders?

February 25, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Why is there a resurgence of infidelity among Catholic leaders?

Earlier this week, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus stressed the need to “discern” the meaning of Christ’s teachings rather than simply accept the way Catholic doctrine states these truths. This triggered an email from an obviously same-sex attracted reader who ecstatically thanked God that someone “besides the Pope” was finally willing to express the truth about the teachings of the Church: “They must be discerned!” The email was so wild that I thought it might be a joke. In response I asked if he were joking, and explained that no amount of “discernment” can change

The loss of this one key distinction is fueling much of the confusion around Amoris Laetitia

February 24, 2017 breaking Comments Off on The loss of this one key distinction is fueling much of the confusion around Amoris Laetitia

February 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A rather stark and sobering teaching of the Church is that everyone of adult age on the face of this good Earth, and that means all who can discern between good and evil (which occurs sometime soon after the dawn of reason), is either in a state of grace or in a state of mortal sin, which means that should we all die this instant by some cataclysmic disaster, each one of us would go either to hell or to heaven (most of us likely via purgatory).  This reality should give us pause. What this means is that we have either chosen ‘God’ as our final end (in whatever way we know Him), or we…Continue Reading

Virginia bishops lament veto of bill defunding Planned Parenthood

February 23, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Virginia bishops lament veto of bill defunding Planned Parenthood

Feb 22, 2017 – 04:35 pm .- The bishops of Virginia’s two dioceses on Tuesday decried Governor Terry McAuliffe’s veto of a bill which would have redirected state funding away from abortion providers and toward community health centers.

San Diego’s Catholic bishop urges citizens to be ‘disruptors’ and ‘rebuilders’ in Trump era

February 22, 2017 breaking Comments Off on San Diego’s Catholic bishop urges citizens to be ‘disruptors’ and ‘rebuilders’ in Trump era

Even before the White House announced stricter immigration policies Tuesday, there were signs of opposition. Addressing people “of all faiths and no faith,” San Diego’s Roman Catholic bishop on Saturday urged Americans to be “disruptors” and “rebuilders.” Donald Trump, Bishop Robert McElroy noted, had campaigned for the presidency as “the disruptor.” “Well now,” McElroy told almost 700 community organizers and social justice advocates meeting in Modesto on the weekend that “we must all

Washington D.C. Becomes 6th Place in the U.S. to Legalize Assisted Suicide

February 21, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Washington D.C. Becomes 6th Place in the U.S. to Legalize Assisted Suicide

A Washington, D.C. law allowing doctors to prescribe their patients lethal drugs to commit suicide went into effect Saturday after U.S. Congress failed to block the measure, the Washington Times reports. The district is the sixth area in the U.S. to legalize the deadly procedure, following Oregon, Washington state, Vermont, California and Colorado. The D.C. council passed the law at the end of 2016, despite wide-spread opposition from African Americans, people with disabilities, medical professionals, pro-lifers and religious groups. U.S. Congressional leaders did take initial steps to overturn the D.C. law, but their measures did not pass in time. Here’s more from the report: Under the federal Home Rule

Cardinal Burke urges massive U.S. crowd to defend faith amid Church confusion

February 18, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Burke urges massive U.S. crowd to defend faith amid Church confusion

LENEXA, Kansas, February 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The façade of Cardinal Raymond Burke as a boogeyman of tradition projected by his critics and the media was nowhere to be found last Friday when he gave his usual clear witness to the Catholic faith before an overflow crowd in the Kansas City area. Cardinal Burke delivered a stirring, clear message on defending the Catholic faith amid the current confusion in the Church that was embraced with resounding gratitude by more than 1,500 who flocked to St. James Catholic Academy. Many had come from various parts of Kansas