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Cardinal to Harvard students: You need to be courageous

March 16, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal to Harvard students: You need to be courageous

Rome, Italy, Mar 16, 2017 / 02:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- This week Cardinal George Pell sat down with some 20 students from Harvard visiting Rome, with the goal of challenging them to both set firm ideals and to work hard to achieve them – something the Church can help with by providing a basic framework for moral leadership. In a March 14 interview with CNA ahead of his speech, Cardinal Pell said the main point he would make to the students is “that they need a cause. They need a set of principles that they accept and follow and that they will be prepared to make sacrifices for.”

Pope Francis: ‘We have to think about’ married priests in Catholic Church

March 15, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis: ‘We have to think about’ married priests in Catholic Church

ROME, March 14, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis says he is willing to consider married priests in the Catholic Church in some cases as a response to the Church’s priest shortage crisis. In an first interview conducted in German, the pope referenced the option of ordaining the viri probati, which means “proven” or “tested” men, or in this context married men who have proven virtuous or faithful. While he dismissed the idea of voluntary celibacy in the priesthood, he was open to the option of a married priesthood, as is allowed for

U.S. Bishops indicate to Sec of State Tillerson Global Warming is their top foreign-policy priority

March 14, 2017 breaking Comments Off on U.S. Bishops indicate to Sec of State Tillerson Global Warming is their top foreign-policy priority

Following is the text from a revealing March 2nd podcast by Chris Manion of the Population Research Institute. (See Wanderer Radio- right hand column- to listen) March 13, 2017 (Population Research Institute) – Shortly after Rex Tillerson was confirmed as Secretary of State, senior officials of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services wrote him an impassioned plea. It was their way of introducing themselves to the foreign policy community of the new administration, so the Secretary undoubtedly considered their letter to be a statement describing the highest foreign-policy priorities of

Diversity Is Not a Cult—But What is It?

March 12, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Diversity Is Not a Cult—But What is It?

Chesterton had it right: the man who ceases to believe in God does not then believe in nothing. He will believe in anything, and shower upon that object the devotion that is due only to the divine. A couple of months ago I was savaged on my campus on account of a title supplied by one of my editors: “My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult.” I don’t know that Providence College has succumbed, but the next day somebody had written on the blackboard of my class, “Diversity is not a cult!” Well, of course it isn’t. The sentence “diversity is a cult

The full list of Catholic bishops and cardinals ‘for and against’ the dubia

March 10, 2017 breaking Comments Off on The full list of Catholic bishops and cardinals ‘for and against’ the dubia

Cardinals who signed the dubia Cardinal Walter Brandmüller Cardinal Raymond Burke Cardinal Carlo Caffarra Cardinal Joachim Meisner READ: Who are these four cardinals who wrote the ‘dubia’ to the Pope? Bishops and cardinals who support the dubia Archbishop Luigi Negri: March 06, 2017 – “Amoris Laetitia needs clarification, unfortunately, the current leader of the Church still remains silent. […] I think that the Holy Father should respond.” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput: March 03, 2017 – John Allen: “

Cardinal Wuerl goes off

March 9, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Wuerl goes off

A very small number of people, whose voices have been amplified by some of the Catholic media, have challenged the integrity of Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. Thus does Cardinal Donald Wuerl begin an essay defending the papal document—and, far more pointedly, attacking its critics. Let’s take a look. Right from the outset, Cardinal Wuerl belittles those who disagree with him, claiming that they constitute “a very small number of people.” That is inaccurate, of course; many thousands of people have been disconcerted by Amoris Laetitia. But even if it were true, wouldn’t a good shepherd show more concern for the few who were troubled? I suspect that the number

New Papal Interview Addresses Cardinal Burke, Married Priests

March 8, 2017 breaking Comments Off on New Papal Interview Addresses Cardinal Burke, Married Priests

Today, 8 March, the German newspaper Die Zeit published an interview with Pope Francis which was conducted at the end of February at the pope’s residence Casa Santa Marta in Rome. In this somewhat lengthy interview, the pope speaks about two important topics which are both timely and of special interest. First, he speaks directly about Cardinal Raymond L. Burke and the pope’s own decision to intervene into the affairs of the Order of Malta, and also why Cardinal Burke was subsequently sent to Guam. In one section of the interview, Pope Fra

Italian archbishop: Pope Benedict retired due to ‘tremendous pressure’

March 8, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Italian archbishop: Pope Benedict retired due to ‘tremendous pressure’

March 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – An Italian archbishop close to Pope Benedict XVI says the former pope decided to resign as a result of “tremendous pressure.” Archbishop Luigi Negri who says he has visited Pope Benedict “several times” since his resignation in 2013, is the only Italian bishop to have ever participated in the annual pro-life march in Rome. Negri resigned as archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio in February after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75. In an article published Monday by news outlet Rimini 2.0, Archbishop Negri said that while he has little knowledge of the inner workings of the Curia, “I am certain that the truth will emerge one day showing grave liability both inside

Supremes close door on Obama’s redefinition of ‘sex’

March 7, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Supremes close door on Obama’s redefinition of ‘sex’

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday closed the door on an Obama administration objective to redefine the term “sex” in federal law to include whatever gender a person may feel like on a particular day. Barack Obama issued an order last year to public schools presuming that when Congress adopted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, its members intended to allow boys who “identify” as girls into girls’ restrooms and showers, and vice versa. In the case, a girl, Gavin Grimm, insisted on using the boys’ restrooms in the Gloucester school district in Virginia based

This Disastrous Papacy

March 6, 2017 breaking Comments Off on This Disastrous Papacy

Something snapped last Friday, when Pope Francis used the day’s Gospel reading as one more opportunity to promote his own view on divorce and remarriage. Condemning hypocrisy and the “logic of casuistry,” the Pontiff said that Jesus rejects the approach of legal scholars. True enough. But in his rebuke to the Pharisees, what does Jesus say about marriage? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” …and… Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits