Urban V’s icy decree, and a big news week…
Well. There’s a lot to talk about today, isn’t there? Let’s start with Blessed Pope Urban V, whose memorial we celebrate, and who led the Church as pope just a decade before the great “Western Schism” of the 13th and 14th century. Born Guillaume de Grimoard, he was a Benedictine monk who became a brilliant […]
Homosexual Blessings: Austrian bishop says priests CAN’T refuse & Malawi bishops say NO WAY
Reactions from bishops all over the world to Pope Francis’s norms for blessing homosexual couples are pouring in. While some bishops have forbidden such blessings, altogether others have gone as far as to say that they’re priests are not allowed to refuse such blessings. HELP US FIGHT THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND SPREAD […]
The Pope and the Black Hole
In a by now familiar sequence of events, the Vatican released a document on Monday which caused instant confusion. “Pope says Roman Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples,” the headlines announced. Optimistic Catholic apologists said the media had misunderstood the document, which permitted no such thing. Pessimistic Catholic apologists said the headlines were, alas, correct, […]
U.S. dioceses respond to Vatican declaration on same-sex couple blessings
Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, and Cardinal Blase Cupich. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA and Diocese of Crookston Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Several American Catholic dioceses have already issued statements on how they intend to implement new Vatican guidelines that permit nonliturgical pastoral blessings of homosexual couples, but it’s […]
Pope Francis Did Not Just Authorize Priests to Bless Same-Sex Unions
Riccardo Luca Pope Francis blesses a married couple at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, November 15, 2023. COMMENTARY: Anyone who claims that the Fiducia Supplicans authorizes blessings of same-sex unions has not read the declaration or is intentionally misinterpreting it.
U.S. Dioceses Respond to Vatican Declaration on Same-Sex Couple Blessings
Credit: Daniel Ibañez Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, and Cardinal Blase Cupich. “The document still prohibits any sort of liturgical blessing of homosexual couples because such a blessing would ‘offer a form of moral legitimacy to a union that presumes to be a marriage or to an extra-marital sexual practice’.”
Cardinal Pironio, a man of mission, youth and a miraculous healing, is beatified in Luján, Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — Cardinal Eduardo Pironio has been beatified in his native Argentina, where he was remembered as “the prophet of hope,” who worked to implement the Second Vatican Council in Latin America and became known as “the cardinal of young people.” He was also remembered as a prelate whose life and pastoral […]
Homosexual Blessings: Austrian bishop says priests CAN’T refuse & Malawi bishops say NO WAY
Reactions from bishops all over the world to Pope Francis’s norms for blessing homosexual couples are pouring in. While some bishops have forbidden such blessings, altogether others have gone as far as to say that they’re priests are not allowed to refuse such blessings. HELP US FIGHT THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND SPREAD […]
Further Traditional Latin Mass and sacraments crackdown in Diocese of Charlotte reportedly imminent
PDF Button Charlotte Latin Mass Community Responds By Brian Mershon, M.A., Sacred Theology, B.S., News-Editorial Journalism Informed sources claim that further restrictions of the number of parishes offering the Traditional Latin Mass in the Diocese of Charlotte are imminent. There are currently six diocesan parishes that offer the Traditional Latin Mass every Sunday, and the […]
Most American bishops are going along with Pope Francis’ ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples
The majority of prelates so far have sought to defend and downplay Pope Francis’ new declaration approving ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples despite the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful relationships.