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Vatican Reaffirms Teaching on Salvation

March 2, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Vatican Reaffirms Teaching on Salvation

Editors Note: The Wanderer will have more coverage on this next week. (Source Vatican Website) CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH Letter Placuit Deo To the Bishops of the Catholic Church On Certain Aspects of Christian Salvation I. Introduction 1. “In His goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal Himself and to make known to us the hidden purpose of His will (cf. Eph 1:9) by which through Christ, the Word made flesh, man might in the Holy Spirit have access to the Father and come to share in the divine nature (cf. Eph 2:18; 2 Pt 1:4). The deepest truth about God and the salvation of man shines out for our sake in Christ, who is both the mediator…Continue Reading

Cardinal Müller criticizes German bishops’ plan opening Communion to Protestant spouses

March 1, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Müller criticizes German bishops’ plan opening Communion to Protestant spouses

February 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Gerhard Müller is opposing the German bishops’ decision to open Communion to the Protestant spouses of Catholics in some cases. In a new interview to be published Thursday in the Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says the German bishops are misusing canon law to support their decision. The German bishops’ website Katholisch.de i

Bishop Doerfler: “Every follower of Jesus has a role to play in evangelization”

February 27, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Bishop Doerfler: “Every follower of Jesus has a role to play in evangelization”

Bishop John Doerfler, 53, is the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Marquette. He grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, about 30 miles south of Green Bay. He was active in youth ministry as a teen, and entered seminary as a college freshman. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Green Bay in 1991. He served as a parish priest for four years before earning a licentiate in canon law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He also earned a licentiate and doctorate in sacred theology from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family. He held a variety of positions in Green Bay, inclu

Appeals court: Homosexuality is a protected class like race and sex

February 27, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Appeals court: Homosexuality is a protected class like race and sex

NEW YORK, February 26, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a law prohibiting discrimination based on one’s sex also applies to “sexual orientation.” The case, Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc., was over whether homosexuality is a protected class under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it is, going against the Trump administration’s plain reading of the law. “We see no principled basis for recognizing a violation of Title VII for associational discrimination based on race but not on sex,” Chi

FEATURE: Card. Parolin to Zenit: Enough Indifference Toward Those Suffering for Their Faith!

February 26, 2018 breaking Comments Off on FEATURE: Card. Parolin to Zenit: Enough Indifference Toward Those Suffering for Their Faith!

“There are millions of people in the world who are suffering for their faith, and we pretend as though it were nothing,” the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, denounced to Zenit on Saturday, February 24, in front of the Colosseum illuminated in red. Even if historians cannot definitively say whether the most famous monument had Christians martyred there, the effect of those mighty walls all dyed red, the color of the blood of the martyrs, yesterday and today, was evocative. “A very touching event, because it moved us with situati

Vatican advisor: Church teaching under Pope Francis facing ‘subtle, but well-defined, attack’

February 25, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Vatican advisor: Church teaching under Pope Francis facing ‘subtle, but well-defined, attack’

SYDNEY, Australia, February 23, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis’ “ambiguous” teaching is not only causing “division” and “disorder” within the Catholic Church, but it is threatening to obscure the “defining ecclesial marks” of the Church, namely that she is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, said the former doctrine chief for the U.S. bishops in a lecture. Catholic priest and theologian Fr. Thomas Weinandy, a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, said that a crisis has been unleashed upon the Church which consists in the four marks of the Church coming under “subtle, but well-defined, attack.” He spoke this week

Catholic Bishop Denies Communion to Pro-Abortion Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin: “Until He Repents of His Sin”

February 23, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Catholic Bishop Denies Communion to Pro-Abortion Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin: “Until He Repents of His Sin”

Pro-life Catholics who wish Catholic Church leaders would step up and deny communion to leading politicians who support abortion are getting good news today. One Catholic bishop is denying communion to pro-abortion Democrat Dick Durbin, a top Democrat in the Senate who has long supported and promoted abortion. Durbin joined other Democrats to block a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois says Durbin is “cooperating in evil” and persisting in “manifest grave sin” because of his abortion

CDL. MÜLLER: TALK OF ‘PARADIGM SHIFT’ A LAPSE INTO MODERNISM

February 22, 2018 breaking Comments Off on CDL. MÜLLER: TALK OF ‘PARADIGM SHIFT’ A LAPSE INTO MODERNISM

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Vatican’s former doctrine chief is warning against re-interpretation of Church doctrine. In a First Things article Tuesday, Cdl. Gerhard Müller slammed recent talk of a “paradigm shift” in relation to Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the pastoral care of families. The former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Müller observed that “In commenting … some interpreters advance positions contrary to the constant teaching of the Catholic Church, by effectively denying that adultery is always a grave objective sin.” “They seek to justify their claims by insisting that through the ages t

State senator rebuffs Planned Parenthood activists: ‘Abortion is murder’

February 21, 2018 breaking Comments Off on State senator rebuffs Planned Parenthood activists: ‘Abortion is murder’

BOISE, Idaho, February 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Mainstream media is slinging mud at a pro-life Republican state senator in Idaho after he was filmed in a heated exchange with a dozen or so pro-abortion college students affiliated with Planned Parenthood, telling them that abortion is “murder.” When State Sen. Dan Foreman (R) canceled a meeting with University of Idaho students on Monday, the Planned Parenthood

Catholics urged to affirm ‘liberating truth’ of Humanae Vitae

February 20, 2018 breaking Comments Off on Catholics urged to affirm ‘liberating truth’ of Humanae Vitae

The document ‘defended the integrity of married love and warned us against the danger of reducing sexuality to a source of pleasure alone’ The “liberating truth” of Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae” is as relevant today 50 years after its promulgation, and maybe even more so, said Archbishop of Denver Samuel Aquila in his new pastoral letter, “The Splendor of Love.” “The 50th anniversary of ‘Humanae Vitae’ is an occasio