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Cardinal Schonborn says Synod’s contentious parts are yet to come

October 10, 2015 World News Comments Off on Cardinal Schonborn says Synod’s contentious parts are yet to come

ROME, October 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) –Thursday, October 8, saw a surprise for the Synod of Bishops on the Family, when the Synod Secretariat announced that the only German-speaking discussion group among the 13 discussion groups (circuli minores) is not, as was expected, to be led by the head of the Congregration for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller. Instead, it was Austrian Cardinal, Christoph Schönborn, who was elected by the other Synod fathers of the group to become their moderator. Archbishop Heiner Koch, Berlin, was elected to be the relator of the group.

Leading African cardinal critiques Vatican spokesman Fr. Rosica

October 9, 2015 World News Comments Off on Leading African cardinal critiques Vatican spokesman Fr. Rosica

ROME, October 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, a leading cardinal on the organizing committee for the Synod on the Family, issued a pointed critique on Twitter of a controversial report on the Synod by the Vatican’s English-language spokesman, Fr. Thomas Rosica, in which the priest emphasized that the Church should “embrace reality” in dealing with sinful situations. Rosica’s summary of Synod fathers’ addresses at Tuesday’s press briefing was criticized for its emphasis on liberal proposals and the strong language he used to describe them. The remarks fuelled ongoing concerns from last year’s Synod about the manipulation of the message by the Vatican press office and the Synod’s organizing body.

Archbishop Chaput: Synod’s working text risks ‘compromise’ with sin

October 9, 2015 World News Comments Off on Archbishop Chaput: Synod’s working text risks ‘compromise’ with sin

ROME, October 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) — Fresh off of the World Meeting of Families, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput gave a strong intervention at the Vatican’s family synod this week, warning that the meeting’s working text risks “compromise” with sin. The working text, known as the Instrumentum Laboris, was written by the Synod’s organizing body following last year’s Extraordinary Synod and forms the basis of the Synod’s work. As a result, it is highly influential on the final outcome of the meeting. The bulk of the three weeks is devoted to discussing this text line-by-line in small groups, divided by language.

Canadian Catholic Schools Defy Archbishop on Transgender Policy

October 8, 2015 World News Comments Off on Canadian Catholic Schools Defy Archbishop on Transgender Policy

DMONTON, Alberta, Canada, October 8, 2015 (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Catholic school district in Canada is planning to approve a transgender policy contrary to its archbishop’s guidelines. The Edmonton Catholic school district in Alberta wants to push through a radical transgender policy that would allow boys who identify as girls to use the girls’ washroom, among other things. It also rejects language from the archdiocese that “‘gender transitioning’ is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.” The draft policy was created after a mother lodged a human rights complaint earlier this year against one of the district’s Catholic schools for not allowing her seven-year-old boy to go to school dressed as a girl and use the girls’ bathroom. The school…Continue Reading

Synod Showdown Report—October 5, 2015

October 5, 2015 World News Comments Off on Synod Showdown Report—October 5, 2015

We’re just out of the first press briefing of the Synod 2015, and things have pretty much picked up where they ended last year. The lead story, if you want to say there’s a lead to this, was a question that was popped to our friend Abp. Bruno Forte (remember him from last year with the “gifts and qualities” homosexuals have to present to the Church). This time, somebody asked him the point-blank question: “Any change in Holy Communion for Catholics who are divorced and civilly remarried?” He gave a very interesting answer. “The Synod will not lead to any changes in doctrine, but it will lead to something. The Synod has to say something.” And he added then quickly,…Continue Reading

Gov. Brown signs controversial assisted-suicide bill

October 5, 2015 World News Comments Off on Gov. Brown signs controversial assisted-suicide bill

Caught between conflicting moral arguments, Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminary student, signed a measure Monday allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who want to hasten their deaths. Brown appeared to struggle in deciding whether to approve the bill, whose opponents included the Catholic Church. “In the end, I was left to reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death,” Brown wrote in a signing message. “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded

Someone is Lying About the Pope’s Meeting with Kim Davis

October 5, 2015 World News Comments Off on Someone is Lying About the Pope’s Meeting with Kim Davis

Papal spokesman Father Thomas Rosica flatly denies Kim Davis met privately with Pope Francis when he visited Washington, D.C. which stands in flat contradiction to Davis’s claims. In Roscia’s telling Davis was part of a large number of people as part of “the farewell greeting as the Pope was leaving the Nunciature in Washington” prior to his departure for New York City. Rosica said the Vatican ambassador to the United States, “…invited a number of guests, his own choice, to greet the Pope, very brief greetings, and in the Pope’s characteristic kindness and hospitality he shook people’s hands and gave them Rosaries. In terms of why this person was invited, you’d have to ask the Nuncio.”

Top Universities Defend Research Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies

October 5, 2015 World News Comments Off on Top Universities Defend Research Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies

Some of America’s top universities have signed a letter urging states not to support legislation that would ban the sale of aborted babies for research. The letter comes after ten videos surfaced exposing Planned Parenthood’s organ harvesting business, along with documents linking some colleges to their abhorrent practices. The Association of American Medical Colleges initiated the letter and so far more than three-dozen research universities have signed it, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the University of Chicago and the Medical College of Wisconsin. As LifeNews previously reported, In the last three months information has surfaced about publicly funded universities, such as Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota negotiating with organ harvesting companies to purchase the…Continue Reading

Catholic Hospitals Sued For Refusing Emergency Care To Pregnant Women

October 4, 2015 World News Comments Off on Catholic Hospitals Sued For Refusing Emergency Care To Pregnant Women

The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday announced that it is suing Trinity Health Corporation, which operates 80 hospitals nationwide, for refusing to provide pregnant women suffering from life-threatening emergency complications with abortions. Trinity Health hospitals have “repeatedly and systematically failed to provide women suffering pregnancy complications with the emergency care” required under federal law, according to the suit. Like all other Catholic hospitals in the U.S., Trinity Health must abide by a set of Ethical and Religious Directives, or ERDs, set by

Too Scared to Pray? ISIL Cancels Prayers for Fear of Russian Airstrikes

October 4, 2015 World News Comments Off on Too Scared to Pray? ISIL Cancels Prayers for Fear of Russian Airstrikes

The Islamic State terror group cancelled Friday prayers in the Syrian city of Raqqa and emptied mosques there out of fear of further Russian airstrikes, according to activists and city residents. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 12 Islamic State militants were killed Thursday in Russia’s first airstrikes carried out in the group’s de facto capital in Syria. “Last night, Russian strikes on the western edges of Raqqa city, and near the Tabqa military airport, killed 12 IS jihadists,” Abdel Rahman, head of the observatory, told AFP.