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Where Are the Bishops Who Will Defend Faithful Priests?

August 10, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Where Are the Bishops Who Will Defend Faithful Priests?

It is hard to communicate to people the life of a priest. The inexpressible joys that we experience every day are so difficult to express, as is the privilege of journeying with people through the dark valleys in their lives with hope that we can be the shepherd who brings them comfort. In light of the current ecclesial climate, I would like to share my story—not so much my biography, though elements of it are mentioned in several places. I would like people to know where my heart is. It is tired, and it is broken—I can physically feel pain in my chest. While I know there is

Argentina’s Senate rejects bill to legalise abortion

August 9, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Argentina’s Senate rejects bill to legalise abortion

Argentina’s Senate has rejected a bill to legalise elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The issue has divided the homeland of Pope Francis. Politicians debated for more than 15 hours and voted on Thursday with 31 in favour to 38 against. Crowds of supporters and opponents of the measure braved the heavy rain to watch the debate on large screens set up o

AN OPEN LETTER FROM YOUNG CATHOLICS

August 8, 2018 breaking Comments Off on AN OPEN LETTER FROM YOUNG CATHOLICS

Archbishop McCarrick’s predatory career would not have been possible without the culpable silence or active complicity of men at the highest levels of the Church. Revelations of his abuse have therefore gravely damaged the credibility of the whole Catholic hierarchy. Here a group of young Catholics speaks with one voice about the need for a cleansing fire. Their statement is non-partisan, assuming nothing but the eternal validity of the Church’s teaching. They call for an independent investigation of who knew what and when, a new intolerance of clerical abuse and sexual sin, and public acts of penance by Catholic bishops. They promise to work and suffer for the Chu

Communist Chinese Officials Bulldoze Catholic Church in Surprise Raid

August 6, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Communist Chinese Officials Bulldoze Catholic Church in Surprise Raid

Chinese government agents have demolished a Catholic church in Jinan province, bulldozing it to the ground, despite a government permit to operate legally. Some 40 law enforcement officials and government workers stormed Liangwang Catholic Church on the morning of July 17, according to a report published Saturday. The communist authorities who arrived with no prior warning searched the three women who had been acting as caretakers to the church—Gao Rongli, Zhang Siling and Li Xiangmei—smashing their cell phones and forcibly removing them from the premises. Another 30 men arrived later in the day with bulldozers, razing the building to the ground, and demolishing the altar and church furnishings. Officials

Indiana Bishop Calls for Public Inquiry of Catholic Leaders

August 5, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Indiana Bishop Calls for Public Inquiry of Catholic Leaders

Bishop Timothy Doherty, who presides over the diocese of Lafayette, Indiana, is calling for a public inquiry on all Catholic bishops in the wake of the Cardinal Theodore McCarrick scandal. Doherty is the chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Child and Youth Protection Committee. He wrote in an op-ed appearing in the Aug. 5 edition of the Lafayette diocesan newspaper “The Catholic Moment” that “general prayers and apologies are necessary, but not sufficient.” McCarrick, the former cardinal and retired archb

Pope’s change to Catechism contradicts natural law and the deposit of Faith

August 2, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Pope’s change to Catechism contradicts natural law and the deposit of Faith

August 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In the boldest and most reckless move to date in a pontificate that was already out of control and sowing confusion on a massive scale, the Vatican has announced Pope Francis’s substitution, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, of a new doctrine on capital punishment. Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium of the Church for 2,000 years have upheld the intrinsic legitimacy of the death penalty for grave crimes against the common good of Church or State. There had never been any doubt in the minds of anyone on this subject. It was not a point of contention in the Schism between East and West, or in the Reformation and Counter-

Priest: McCarrick’s treason is ‘damnable abomination,’ but bishops’ silence is even worse

August 1, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Priest: McCarrick’s treason is ‘damnable abomination,’ but bishops’ silence is even worse

GREENVILLE, South Carolina, July 31, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A U.S. parish priest was planning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae on the weekend by preaching on the great encyclical, but then the scandal of ex-Cardinal McCarrick made him change his plan. So instead Fr. Jay Scott Newman gave a must-hear homily blasting priests and bishops who have rejected Humanae Vitae, both by teaching false doctrine and through their own “evil conduct.” “The treason of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is a damnable abomination,” he said, “but while McCarrick’s sins are appalling, they are merely the crimes of one man…. Worse … is the systemic corruption of pr

Chilean cardinal to answer to civil prosecutor on suspicions of clerical sex-abuse cover-up

July 30, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Chilean cardinal to answer to civil prosecutor on suspicions of clerical sex-abuse cover-up

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A Chilean cardinal has been ordered to give an account of himself and his handling of clerical sexual abuse to a secular authority. Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, Archbishop of Santiago and former head of the Episcopal Conference of Chile, will meet with prosecutor Emiliano Arias in Rancagua, the diocese in which disgraced Fr. Oscar Muñoz is said to have abused one of his alleged seven victims. The meeting, to be held on August 2

Pope orders Cardinal McCarrick confined to undisclosed location, accepts resignation

July 28, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Pope orders Cardinal McCarrick confined to undisclosed location, accepts resignation

ROME, July 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McMarrick from the College of Cardinals, and has ordered that he remain confined to a yet to be disclosed location until he faces canonical trial. A short statement issued this morning by the Vatican reads: Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (U.S.A.), presented his resignation as a member of the College

Our own bishops are leading an apostasy, but we must remain steadfast

July 27, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Our own bishops are leading an apostasy, but we must remain steadfast

July 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The heart of the current apostasy unfolding in the Catholic Church may be stated thus: the Bride of Christ has forsaken her Bridegroom for another lover, the World. Of course, the Bride of Christ in her perfection, the Church Triumphant in heaven, can never be unfaithful, nor can the souls already saved but in need of purification, the Church Suffering in purgatory. We are speaking of the Church Militant on earth—and not, obviously, all Catholics, but far too many, especially in the hierarchy. We can see this in an unrelenting flood of bad news that hovers around bishops and cardinals. We see the abandonment of Christ for the World in the sex abuse scandal surrounding…Continue Reading