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Bishop explains why he prayed with Catholics rallying outside US bishops’ meeting

November 20, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Bishop explains why he prayed with Catholics rallying outside US bishops’ meeting

BALTIMORE, Maryland, November 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Why did one prelate among some 200-plus bishops at last week’s US Bishops’ meeting venture across the Baltimore Inner Harbor walking bridge to where hundreds of Catholics were rallying, upset over the Church’s sex abuse scandal? “Well, very simply, because some of my flock asked me to,” Tyler, Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview. Members of his east Texas dioces

San Fran Archbishop to Fellow Bishops: Can’t Ignore Homosexual Link to Clergy Sex Abuse

November 17, 2018 breaking Comments Off on San Fran Archbishop to Fellow Bishops: Can’t Ignore Homosexual Link to Clergy Sex Abuse

BALTIMORE (ChurchMilitant.com) – The San Francisco archbishop brought up to his brother bishops a recent report correlating the number of abused boys with the number of homosexuals in the priesthood, telling them, “Some of this might be hard for us to hear and receive.” On Nov. 13, the second day of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) general assembly in Baltimore, San Francisco’s Abp. Salvatore

Ohio House votes to ban nearly all abortions with heartbeat bill

November 16, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Ohio House votes to ban nearly all abortions with heartbeat bill

COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Ohio House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass legislation that would ban the vast majority of abortions upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. House Bill 258 would ban committing an abortion on any preborn baby with a detectable heartbeat, except in cases of a “subst

Pope Francis has broken with previous popes, causing ‘heresies, schisms’: Vatican theologian

November 16, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis has broken with previous popes, causing ‘heresies, schisms’: Vatican theologian

November 15, 2018 (edwardpentin.co.uk) –In a forceful interview with Italian Vaticanist Aldo Maria Valli, Msgr. Nicola Bux has warned that the current pontificate is issuing statements that are generating “heresies, schisms, and controversies of various kinds” and that the Holy Father should issue a profession of faith to restore unity in the Church. In the interview, published Oct. 13 but overlooked due to the Youth Synod taking place in Rome last month, the theologian consul

US bishop challenges brother bishops for allowing pro-LGBT priest to speak in dioceses

November 15, 2018 breaking Comments Off on US bishop challenges brother bishops for allowing pro-LGBT priest to speak in dioceses

BALTIMORE, Maryland, November 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland forthrightly articulated Church teaching on the immorality of homosexual acts to the U.S. Bishops’ Conference Tuesday. He questioned whether his brother bishops believed this “doctrine of the Church or not,” and if they did, why some of them have allowed certain clergy to speak in their dioceses with a pro-homosexual message. “Brothers, I think part of the fraterna

Abp. Viganò urges U.S. bishops to confront sex abuse as ‘courageous shepherds’

November 13, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Abp. Viganò urges U.S. bishops to confront sex abuse as ‘courageous shepherds’

ROME, November 13, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò today has issued a brief note to the U.S. Bishops, urging them to confront sex abuse as “courageous shepherds” rather than “frightened sheep.” The U.S. Bishops are currently in Baltimore at their much-anticipated fall annual meeting at which they were expected to vote on concrete proposals to hold bishops accountable for their failures after the reve

Pope Francis . . . “First, there is the immense and ongoing crisis of climate change and the nuclear menace”

November 12, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis . . . “First, there is the immense and ongoing crisis of climate change and the nuclear menace”

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Consistory Hall Monday, 12 November 2018 [Multimedia]   Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to meet the full complement of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. I offer cordial welcome to the new Members and I am grateful to the former President, Professor Werner Arber for his gracious words of introduction, while I pray that Professor Joachim von Braun may be restored to full health. I also thank the distinguished speakers for the valued contribution that they have made to this meeting. The scientific world, which in the past tended to assert its independence and self-sufficiency, and to show a certain distrust vis-à-vis…Continue Reading

Vatican orders U.S. bishops to halt plans for vote on sex-abuse reforms

November 12, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Vatican orders U.S. bishops to halt plans for vote on sex-abuse reforms

BALTIMORE – The first gathering of the nation’s Catholic bishops since a summer wave of anger and recrimination over clergy sex abuse in the American church opened Monday with a stunning announcement: The prelates would not vote on a series of new accountability measures – and it was the Vatican who ordered them to hold off.

Our Veterans Fought and Died For Our Freedom, Not for Abortion

November 11, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Our Veterans Fought and Died For Our Freedom, Not for Abortion

(Reprinted from 2013) In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, thirty men from the small town of Bedford, Virginia, huddled close together in landing craft churning through the dark waters of the English Channel on a mission unlike any other the world had ever known. Their destination: a strip of sand known as Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. Most of the thoughts running through the minds of these young men are lost to eternity. Surely there was no lack of thought of loved ones back home—wives, mothers, sweethearts and friends— loved ones who were

US bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development continues to fund pro-abortion, pro-LGBT groups

November 10, 2018 breaking Comments Off on US bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development continues to fund pro-abortion, pro-LGBT groups

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 8, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Grants from the U.S. Bishops’ domestic anti-poverty arm are again benefitting groups associated with support for abortion and open homosexuality, new reports from the Lepanto Institute say. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) encourages Catholics to support its Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which it says helps those on the margins. Yet in the last several years, roughly half a million dollars, much of which comes from Catholics in the pews, has gone to two organizationsinvolved in promoting abortion and homosexuality and oth