Edit: it has more to do with the German Church being a spiritual, welfare arm of the Bundesland.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Richest Church in the World Pays Abuse Victims 5,000 Euros
Edit: it has more to do with the German Church being a spiritual, welfare arm of the Bundesland.
Monday, March 4, 2019
Bishop Huonder of Chur to Keep Contact With SSPX for The Vatican as He Retires
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Pastor Shortage in Protestant Church in Germany
Edit: if they only allowed them to marry and have normal lives, the Evangelical Church in Germany wouldn’t be having these problems. They really need to get with the times.
As mainline Protestant churches struggle with membership losses across denominations, Butler is looking for ways to infuse some of what has made evangelicalism thrive into a more progressive form of Protestantism, two forms of Christianity usually seen at odds with one another.
How New Can Something Be Which is Only Fifty Years Distant From Us
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Newspaper: Italian Bishops Write Letter to Victims of Abuse
Rome (kath.net/KAP) Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, has written a letter to Italian victims of abuse, according to a media report. This was reported by the newspaper "Il Messaggero" on its website. Accordingly, the Episcopal Conference announces that it will cooperate with the Italian judiciary. At their meeting in May, the bishops said they wanted to "fully cooperate with civil authorities," the newspaper quoted from the letter to Francesco Zanardi, founder of the Italian victims' association "Rete l'abuso".
The bishops wanted to avoid "any forms of concealment, whether by the victims or their families, or by ecclesiastical authorities." Action must be determined by "respect for the truth, justice and the well-being of the child, as well as people in charge of protection." These should come first. The Episcopal Conference also wants to order that in the commissions of the dioceses for dealing with cases of abuse victims should also be represented, it says to other contents of the letter.
Zanardi had been disappointed after the four-day Catholic anti-abuse summit in the Vatican. The victims would have expected something different at the end of the global meeting - "at least the announcement of the expulsion of several bishops," he told the Italian daily La Repubblica.
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Friday, March 1, 2019
USCCB: Catholic Representatives Should Not Present Themselves for Holy Communion
KANSAS, February 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, who chairs the American bishops’ Committee on Pro-life activities, has requested that Catholic politicians who support abortion should “not present themselves to receive Holy Communion.”
Speaking about recent efforts to "perpetuate and expand abortion in state laws" — such as New York’s Reproductive Health Act, which was signed in January by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Catholic — Archbishop Naumann wrote in a Feb. 19 piece republished on the USCCB website that such legislation has “illuminated the deplorable actions of some Catholic public officials and advocates.” Noting that these efforts will result in the killing of many more unborn children, the archbishop said that advocacy of “intrinsically evil acts, like abortion” is seriously immoral.
“While we can object to the actions of these public officials, we are not able to judge their souls. At the same time, we know there will be a Judgment Day,” he said.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
California Lawmakers Considering a Law to Regulate Catholic Seal of the Confessional
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Cardinal Coccopalmerio on Homosexuality, Gender Theory and Women’s Fashion
Pope’s Official Mouthpiece Fired From Post Over Plagiarism
Monday, February 25, 2019
Traditional Monastic Community Seeks Canon Lawyer to Establish Community in Rome
Woman Who Accused Bergoglio Found Dead — Foul Play Suspected
A vehicle, cocaine, a fanny pack and a telephone were seized from the room. It was discovered that at least three more people were with the actress, who were captured by security cameras while fleeing the place, before police arrived. In the video recording you see them throwing a package into a ditch. It is suspected it contained some type of narcotics.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Document Involving Bishop’s Crimes Implicates Francis
The last page of the document containing five signatures.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Was McCarrick a Communist Agent?
"The Communists have been incredibly successful in infiltrating the church. McCarrick was one of her men. "
"Liberation theology had been carried to Latin America by KGB agents to undermine the Catholic Church through the Jesuit Order."
"McCarrick would have been the ideal candidate for Soviet recruitment: a fatherless young man with homosexual inclinations and no particular ambition in life. It was a perfect match for the pattern, especially the homosexual dynamic, which made it easy to control it by blackmail. "
"If McCarrick was actually recruited as a Soviet agent to undermine the Church, he fulfilled his clients' wishes perfectly."
"He rose quickly and spread moral, doctrinal and spiritual confusion on every level, inflicting injuries - not just his victims among the seminarians and other young men."
"He has been instrumental in propagating social justice that has dominated the life of the Church in the United States for decades - a movement that hides behind a language of charity, but regularly reveals its left-wing policies and its links with socialist organizations of which many are offshoots of Saul Alinsky. "
Bild: Vatican.va/Justice4Poland/Youtube/Church Militant (Screenshots)
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Bergoglio Appoints Evil McCarrick Creature to Camerlengo
Vatican Reluctantly Suspends Uncle Ted
Edit: defrocked doesn’t really mean much. I’d expect they’re suspending him a divinis, and so it’s a wonder, since that’s usually reserved for intransigents who believe that sodomy is a grave sin, like the late Bishop Rogelio Plan , who was shut out of his episcopal residence without warning and basically thrown on the street by the Gang of Mercy. He didn’t get a cushy retirement home in Kansas a reasonable drive from a large metropolitan area and a few blocks from a Catholic grade school like Uncle Ted.
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.
McCarrick, 88, is the highest-ranking churchman to be laicized, as the process is called. It means he can no longer celebrate Mass or other sacraments, wear clerical vestments or be addressed by any religious title.
The scandal swirling around him was particularly damning to the church's reputation in the eyes of the faithful because it apparently was an open secret that he slept with adult seminarians. Francis removed McCarrick as a cardinal in July after a U.S. church investigation determined that an allegation he fondled a teenage altar boy in the 1970s was credible.
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Monday, February 11, 2019
Brazilian Intelligence Service Warns Amazon Synod Will Be Abused by “Leftist Clergy”
"The upper echelon is to fight the action for the 'left clergy'".
Friday, February 8, 2019
Cardinal Müller:"I did not like the praise of the Freemasons for the Pope"
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Vatican Issues a Clarification in Statement About Women Religious
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Pope Throws Spotlight on Traditional Female Contemplative Order
For the purposes of this exercise, he's singled out a traditional contemplative female order was suppressed by Benedict XVI. He excused his predecessor, as if to say, surely he did nothing wrong. He was a strong leader.
We'd already covered this, here, here, and the superior's comment here
One of the commenters said they went on to form a new Society, Sisters of the Morning Star, which was founded in 2014 and has 250 members worldwide.
Photo from article by Marian T. Horvath....
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Francis Signs Unprecedented Document With Sunni Imam
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Catholic Priests in China Feel Betrayed by the Vatican -- Facial Recognition Tracks Chinese People on New Year's
Underground priests feel "betrayed" by the Vatican
"I'm afraid there are many priests throughout China who are going through this now: they were faithful and defended the Catholic faith, but suddenly they were betrayed by Rome. They can not rape their consciences and even less can they act against their faith. "
Picture: AsiaNews