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Toronto cardinal rebukes Catholic school board members for barring Catechism reading

November 21, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Toronto cardinal rebukes Catholic school board members for barring Catechism reading

CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2020 / 04:48 pm MT (CNA).- Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto has rebuked members of the local Catholic school board for refusing to allow a passage of the Catechism of the Catholic Church pertaining to ministry to people with same-sex attraction to be read during a recent meeting. “That a Catholic should be criticized, and effectively be prevented by Catholic Trustees from reading from the Catholic Catechism at a meeting of a Catholic School Board is reprehensible,” Collins wrote in a Nov. 17 letter to board chair Joseph Martino. “The Catholic faith must guide all who are engaged in Catholic education— including students, teachers, administrators, and trustees— or that education ceases to be Catholic.” Jose Luis Dizon,…Continue Reading

Archbishop Gomez: Biden will ‘support policies’ against ‘fundamental’ Catholic values

November 19, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Archbishop Gomez: Biden will ‘support policies’ against ‘fundamental’ Catholic values

CNA Staff, Nov 17, 2020 / 01:40 pm MT (CNA).- The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference has announced the creation of a bishops’ working group to prepare for a Biden presidency. Archbishop Jose Gomez told bishops Tuesday that a future President Biden, as a Catholic, would present unique challenges for the Church in the United States, especially regarding Biden policy positions at odds with Catholic doctrine. “For only the second time, we are anticipating a transition to a president who professes the Catholic faith. This presents certain opportunities but also certain challenges,” Gomez said at the close of the USCCB

Roman Catholic diocese seeks Supreme Court emergency relief over Cuomo coronavirus restrictions

November 14, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Roman Catholic diocese seeks Supreme Court emergency relief over Cuomo coronavirus restrictions

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is turning to the Supreme Court over coronavirus restrictions that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed that include limits on how many congregants can gather for religious services. The emergency court filing, submitted Thursday, compares the prohibitions houses of worship face with the relative freedom afforded to many businesses under an order that Cuomo issued in October, in which he designated color-coded zones with varying degrees of limitations.

Pope Francis congratulates Biden on election victory in phone call

November 13, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis congratulates Biden on election victory in phone call

CNA Staff, Nov 12, 2020 / 11:35 am MT (CNA).- Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Thursday, his office has announced. The Catholic, former vice president, and presumptive next president was congratulated on his electoral victory by the pope on the morning of Nov. 12. “President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning with His Holiness Pope Francis. The president-elect thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation, and the common bonds of humanity around the world,” said a release from the Biden-Harris transition team.  “The president-elect expressed his desire to work together on the basis of shared belief in the dignity and equ

The McCarrick Report Is Published: Four “Scapegoats”?

November 12, 2020 breaking Comments Off on The McCarrick Report Is Published: Four “Scapegoats”?

  Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.     And harder to script.     What we confront today is a long-awaited “McCarrick Report” which was expected to bring clarity and so healing to the scandal of the former American cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, who betrayed the trust the Church placed in him by abusing many young men — including his own seminarians, who depended entirely on him for their ecclesial futures! — and a boy he himself baptized.     But the Report issued by the Vatican today, November 10, after two years of careful investigations, does not bring that clarity, and that healing.     Rather, it leaves us still in the ecclesial swamp of cover-up, evasion, and scapegoating of others.     Four men are given the principal blame

McCarrick Report: Vatican details McCarrick’s career and decades of sexual misconduct

November 10, 2020 breaking Comments Off on McCarrick Report: Vatican details McCarrick’s career and decades of sexual misconduct

Vatican City, Nov 10, 2020 / 06:01 am MT (CNA).- The Vatican’s Secretariat of State published Tuesday a report on Theodore McCarrick, saying that the Holy See had received inaccurate information about McCarrick from three New Jersey bishops before McCarrick’s 2001 appointment as archbishop of Washington. The false information presented by those bishops might have been instrumental in assuring McCarrick’s appointment as Archbishop of Washington, the report said. Allegations about McCarrick had been sent by Cardinal John O’Connor, then the archbishop of New York to apostolic nuncio Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo in a letter on Oct. 28, 1999. That letter was subsequently shared with John Paul II, the report states.

Archbishop Viganò slams US Bishops conference for claiming Biden is second ‘Catholic’ President

November 8, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Archbishop Viganò slams US Bishops conference for claiming Biden is second ‘Catholic’ President

The world in which we find ourselves living is, to use an expression from the Gospel, “in se divisum” (Mt 12:25). This division, it seems to me, consists of a split between reality and fiction: objective reality on one side, and the fiction of the media on the other. This certainly applies to the pandemic, which has been used as a tool of social engineering that is instrumental to the Great Reset, but it applies even more to the surreal American political situation, in which the evidence of a colossal e

US Catholic bishops congratulate Biden as president-elect

November 8, 2020 breaking Comments Off on US Catholic bishops congratulate Biden as president-elect

CNA Staff, Nov 7, 2020 / 05:23 pm MT (CNA).- Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on Saturday congratulated president-elect Joe Biden, and called for dialogue and compromise for the common good. “We recognize that Joseph R. Biden, Jr., has received enough votes to be elected the 46th President of the United States,” Archbishop Gomez said Nov. 7. “We congratulate Mr. Biden and acknowledge that he joins the late President John F. Kennedy as the second United States president to profess the Catholic faith.” The statement issued by the USCCB thanked God “for the blessings of liberty” and stated that “now is the time for our leaders to come together in a…Continue Reading

Vatican set for November release of long-awaited McCarrick report. Will it be honest?

November 5, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Vatican set for November release of long-awaited McCarrick report. Will it be honest?

November 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Reuters reports today that, according to its own sources within the Vatican, the long-awaited McCarrick report on the history of Theodore McCarrick’s misbehavior and the high-ranking cover-up or tolerance of it will be published before the Fall Meeting of the USCCB, November 15-19. LifeSite was told the same by several sources. According to Reuters, this report is to be published ahead of the USCCB meeting and is the result of Pope Francis’ order of “a thorough study of all documents in Holy See offices concerning McCarrick in 2018.” Catholic theologian and book author Dr. Taylor Marshall is also listing November 11 as the publication date for the report. The four U.S. dioceses where he served – New…Continue Reading

Trump campaign demands a recount in Wisconsin

November 4, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Trump campaign demands a recount in Wisconsin

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — One day after the election, the Trump 2020 campaign has requested a recount of the ballots cast in the state of Wisconsin. Minutes ago, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien stated that there had been irregularities reported in “several Wisconsin counties.” “Despite ridiculous public polling used as a voter suppression tactic, Wisconsin has been a razor thin race as we always knew it would be,” Stepien said. “There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results.”