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Pope Leo XIV Notes

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  1. The New Pope Must Purge the Church of the Lavender Mafia – Crisis Magazine – 5/6/25. SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) submitted to Cardinal Parolin a list of six of the papabile cardinals who have “either enabled or concealed sexual abuse committed by Catholic Clergy”: Péter Erdő from Hungary, Kevin Farrell from the United States, Victor Manuel Fernández from Argentina, Mario Grech from Malta, Robert Francis Prevost from the United States, and Luis Antonio Tagle from the Philippines.  Also troubling is that Prevost was the favorite candidate of Fr. James Martin.
  2. 5 worrying things you need to know about Leo XIV – LifeSite – 5/8/25.
    • Vocal critic of Trump immigration policy
    • Persecuted Bishop Strickland, appointed McElroy and other openly heterodox bishops in sees worldwide.
    • Banned Communion on tongue, reportedly promoted invalid confessions by phone
    • reposted a call for the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines to be “available for all” and a USCCB post that called getting vaccinated “an act of love.”
    • Support of synodality and the ‘synodal church’
  3. An honest assessment of Pope Leo XIV, his background, and his beliefs – LifeSite – 5/12/25. Reprinted with permission from Rorate Caeli.
  4. What the New Pope’s Name Means for His Mission – Jeffrey Tucker, 5/13/25. Pope Leo XIII: two highly significant actions:
    • “The Syllabus of Errors” of 1864, which condemned religious freedom in no uncertain terms, and
    • The calling of a Vatican Council that lasted from 1869 to 1870 where Papal Infallibility was defined.
    • Lord Acton wrote his famous phrase: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It is usually believed to pertain to the government, but the historical context is different. He was speaking of the absolute power of the Pope!
    • Pius IX’s demands were eventually rejected by the Bishops and only the fallback position came to be codified, which is that the Pope reserves the power over faith and morals when speaking Ex Cathedra.
  5. Where is Pope Francis? – The Catholic Thing – 5/26/25.  Sebastian Morello.
    • Pope Leo has recently asserted multiple times that Pope Francis is in Heaven.  This is deeply problematic.  Such statements cause the faithful to doubt the gravity of Francis’s public sins – idol-worship (Pachamama), the suppression of an ancient apostolic rite of the Church, syncretism and religious relativism, the protection and promotion of predators and deviants, the abuse of the Church’s law, the teaching of heresy, etc.
    • Pope Francis may not be a formal heretic, but it’s clear that he was heretical.
    • Many theologians have begun to question the infallibility of canonizations… The canonization of Paul VI happened for one reason only, and that was to send a message to the faithful that if they think Vatican II was a disaster then, well, tough luck, because “there’s no going back.”
    • It is almost unthinkable – if the tradition of the Church on matters of idolatry, abuse of law, corruption of holy offices, etc., is taken seriously – that Francis is now in Heaven.
  1. Pope Leo XIV Appoints A Heretic Monster To The Worst Possible Post In The Vatican – 5/28/25. John Paul II Institute was subverted under Pope Francis. That subversion continues.  Renzo Pegoraro is the new head of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL).
  2. Who is Msgr. Pegoraro, the digital globalist who now heads the Pontifical Academy for Life? – LifeSite – 5/30/25. Pegoraro’s appointment caused consternation – why had a man who sympathizes with the “right to die” been given power over the Church’s pro-life mission?
  3. A heartfelt plea to Pope Leo XIV to make the Pontifical Academy for Life Catholic again – LifeSite – 5/29/25
    • Under Pope Francis, the academy was radically restructured, Pegoraro was there:
      1. When 172 faithful members were dismissed in 2016
      2. When the pro-life pledge requirement was removed
      3. When new members were added who supported abortion, contraception, or even professed atheism…
    • In 2019, Paglia gutted the JP2 Institute by dismissing the president Monsignor Livio Melina and suspending all professors. He then hired new staff who advocated for moral positions contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, including the blessing of homosexual couples and the reception of the sacraments.
  1. Pope Leo XIV corrects the Francis record on cohabitation  – LifeSite– 6/2/25
  2. Monster Bishop Publicly Humiliates Altar Boys For Being Catholic – 6/14/25
  3. Bishop Strickland on Pope Leo’s appointment of the heterodox new Oregon bishop Thomas Hennen – 7/10/25. Follow up – 7/11/25.
  4. Pope Leo receives controversial Dominican nun in private audience – 9/2/25, The Catholic Herald
  5. Pope Leo Meets with James Martin – 9/2/25, OnePeterFive.
  6. Pope Leo Meets with Homo-Heretic James Martin – 9/1/25. Complicit Clergy / Associated Press. Pope Leo meets LGBTQ+ Catholic advocate and vows continuity with Pope Francis’ legacy of welcome – link
  7. Pope Leo names pro-LGBT ‘artist’ who hosted obscene exhibits to lead Vatican’s Academy for Fine Arts. 9/8/25, Lifesite News.
  8. Thousands of ‘LGBT Catholics’ process into St. Peter’s Basilica for Jubilee Year pilgrimage – 9/8/25, Lifesite News.
  9. Cardinal Zen condemns LGBT ‘pilgrimage’ in St. Peter’s Basilica: ‘Offense against God’ – LifeSiteNews, 10/8/25.
  10. Pope Leo: No more benefit of the doubt. 9/5/25, Lifesite News.
  11. Taylor Marshall speaks out on the Pope Leo and James Martin SJ meeting – LifeSiteNews, 9/4/25.
  12. Bishop Schneider: Vatican ‘LGBTQ pilgrimage’ an ‘abomination,’ Pope Leo must make ‘public reparation’ – 9/10/25, Lifesite News.
  13. Leo XIV publicly doubts Catholic teaching on sexual morality and the immutability of dogma – Lifesite News, 9/18/25. Leo’s idea that ‘attitudes’ must be changed before doctrine can sheds new light on the recent events in the Vatican.
  14. Leo XIV: “Altar servers, be attentive to God’s call.” So Why Female Altar Servers? – 1Pt5, 9/19/25.
    • The inclusion of women in altar service and the ministry of acolyte—now even regulated at the canonical level—is the primary cause of the vocational crisis…
    • Male psychology is more suited to the priesthood because, by nature, man tends toward exteriority, symbolic representation, and mediation, whereas woman is more oriented toward interiority, receptivity, and nurturing.
    • The priestly ministry, which consists in acting in persona Christi as a mediator between God and men, requires a disposition toward ritual separation and the governance of a community—dimensions that align with the male psychological structure, which is more inclined toward norms and the necessary distance to exercise authority…
    • When girls take on the role of altar servers, boys gradually withdraw—and with them, the possibility that the Holy Spirit might speak to their hearts beside the altar.
  15. International appeal urges Pope Leo to defend Catholic teaching on marriage – LifeSiteNews, 9/22/25. Catholic organizations are calling on Pope Leo to oppose pro-LGBT errors among Church leaders and rescind heterodox documents issued by Pope Francis.
  16. Vatican & USCCB SILENCE on Charlie Kirk assassination?! – LifeSiteNews, 9/19/25.
  17. Pope Leo’s ‘attitudes before doctrine’ claim sparks FIRESTORM – LifeSiteNews, 9/26/25.
  18. Pope Leo says support for death penalty is ‘not pro-life,’ defends awarding pro-abortion Durbin – LifeSiteNews, 10/1/25.
  19. Viganò: Honoring pro-abortion Sen. Durbin proves ‘seamless garment’ poison still infects Church – LifeSiteNews, 10/1/25. Prevost uses specious arguments – such as the alleged immorality of the death penalty or the rejection of illegal immigrants by civil authorities – to obtain his desired result of downgrading abortion…
  20. The Pope’s statement on the Durbin award: wrong, and irrelevant – Catholic Culture, 9/30/25.
    • The key question that American bishops are now asking is whether Cardinal Cupich can justify bestowing an honor on a pro-abortion politician. Pope Leo did not address that question.
    • By approving the Lifetime Achievement award for Durbin, Cardinal Cupich is saying not merely that Durbin can be supported in preference to a (supposedly) flawed Republican electoral opponent, but that Durbin should be held up as a model for Catholic political leadership. Even an honest advocate of the seamless garment approach should reject that outrageous claim.
  21. Pope Leo’s abortion remark sparks OUTRAGE – LifeSiteNews, 10/3/25.
  22. Pope Leo condemns climate change critics – BBC, 10/1/25.
  23. Poll: US priests still leaning conservative, think highly of Pope Leo, less so of bishops – Catholic Vote, 10/15/25.
  24. Pope Leo’s Unbelievably Scandalous Endorsement of a Monster Shakes Catholics – Anthony Stine, 10/16/25.
    1. Pope Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State. John Henry-Westin describes the group as handpicked by the Pope for their unwavering loyalty and alignment with the Pope’s vision.
    2. Pope Leo XIV praises Don Lorenzo Milani as a prophet. He was actually a despicable priest who openly fantasized about homosexual encounters with young boys.  Pope Francis considered this monster to be a “model for priests”.
  25. Pope Leo praises priest who fantasized about pedophilia – Fr. Don Lorenzo Milani – LifeSiteNews, 10/16/25.
  26. Pope Leo’s Vatican quadruples down on support for the green agenda – LifeSiteNews, 10/16/25. The Holy See submitted to the United Nations its planto curb greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent over the next decade.
  27. Pope Leo appoints pro-LGBT bishop who voted against denying Communion to Biden – LifeSiteNews, 10/29/25.
  28. The Accusations Against Pope Leo Just Got Worse – Return to Tradition, 10/30/25.
  29. Pope Leo XIV: “No one possesses the entire truth” – Vatican City, 10/26/25 (LaPresse).
  30. Did the Vatican Just Dishonor Mary? – Bud Macfarlane – 11/6/25. We are told to avoid the title “Co-Redemptrix” for Mary.
  31. Most Holy Theotokos, Save Us!” – on the New Vatican Document about Marian Titles. 1Pt5, 11/5/25.
  32. Pope Leo Accused Of Hiding The Evil Actions Of A Monster Priest – Return to Tradition, 11/7/25. Lute of Peru.
  33. Bishop Athanasius Schneider responds to the Vatican’s new doctrinal note on the Marian titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces” – Diane Montagna, 11/10/25. “The Saints, Doctors, and the Ordinary Magisterium of the Church could not have been mistaken.”
  34. Bishop Mutsaerts: There’s no good reason why we can’t call Mary ‘Co-Redemptrix’ – LifeSiteNews, 11/18/25. I see nothing unreasonable in the idea that Mary, in a manner totally subordinate and arising from grace, participated in the work of Christ.  If Cardinal Fernandez is afraid that people will put Mary on an equal footing with Christ, then the problem is not with Mary but with Fernandez.
  35. WATCH: USCCB ignores Bp. Strickland’s concerns about confirmation of homosexual ‘married’ ABC anchor – LifeSiteNews, 11/13/25. “On the day that disgraced Bp Strickland stood up at USCCB mtng to denounce @JamesMartinSJ for receiving into the Church a gay man in a relationship, Pope Leo warmly received a gay couple, smiling and nodding when they praised Fr Martin for his ministry,” Ivereigh wroteon X.
  36. Pope Leo XIV meets with ‘married’ homosexuals at Vatican – LifeSiteNews, 11/13/25.
  37. Pope Leo’s LGBT agenda: Vatican abandoning Christ? – LifeSiteNews, 11/13/25, 35-minute video. John-Henry Westen exposes how Pope Leo XIV is advancing Pope Francis’ progressive legacy, especially on LGBTQ inclusion. From high-profile meetings with activists like Fr. James Martin to appointments linked to homoerotic art, Westen warns that the Vatican is abandoning moral clarity. He contrasts this silence with past Church discipline, calling the shift a betrayal of truth. Framing the crisis as a spiritual battle, Westen urges Catholics to resist the false mercy being promoted as virtue.
  38. Bishop Schneider | ‘Confusion from Pope Francis’ blocked Charlie Kirk’s conversion – LifeSiteNews, 11/18/25.
  39. Pope Leo: Supporting human dignity does not mean ‘open borders’ – CatholicVote, 11/18/25.
  40. JD Vance responds to Pope Leo’s comments about immigration policy – The Christian Post, 11/22/25. Complicit Clergy Link
  41. Pope Leo’s CRISIS: LGBT Bishop Appointed and Vatican SCANDAL Unfolds – LifeSiteNews, 12/17/25. Theology of Liberation takes Marxism.
  42. Bishop Eleganti’s Final WARNING: The Silence on Doctrine Is a Lie – LifeSiteNews, 12/18/25.
  43. Murray: Cardinal Fernández ‘Should be Fired’ by Pope Leo Over ‘Pornographic’ Texts – 12/15/25, LifeSiteNews.
  44. LITTLE CHRISTMAS JOY FOR ABUSE VICTIMS; Pope Leo inspires little hope for justice. Gene Thomas Gomulka 12/28/25. The election of Pope Leo XIV has proven to be “business as usual” when it comes to the Pope protecting predator clergy and bishops who engage in abuse, underreport or cover up abuse, and even reprise against good priests and seminarians who report clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct in their seminaries and dioceses. While Prefect for the Dicastery for Bishops and as the Pope, Leo’s appointments of prelates like Robert McElroy, Ronald Hicks, Edward Weisenburger, James Checchio, and others who have documented records of mishandling sexual abuse within their dioceses have proven to be a great disappointment to abuse survivors and groups like the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).
  45. If This Guy is Catholic, I am the Grand Poo-bah of Scientology – 11/29/25, Andrew Dunn.
  46. Faithful in Chiclayo, Peru, Implore Pope Leo XIV to Reconsider Controversial “Mater Populi Fidelis” – Diane Montagna, 1/2/26

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  1. There is ample evidence from the fascinating world around us that God exists.
  2. There is ample evidence that Jesus really existed, that he died, was buried, and yet rose again. He is not merely a legend.
  3. Jesus claimed to be both God and Messiah. Either He is truly the Lord God, or a liar, or a lunatic.
  4. His mighty deeds, especially His resurrection, testify to the Truth of what He said and that He is God.
  5. The Bible was faithfully and accurately handed down to us over the centuries. We have thousands of biblical manuscripts scattered all over the world that are remarkably consistent.
  6. The Bible contains numerous prophesies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in the New Testament, especially in the person of Jesus. This is strong evidence that the Bible was indeed inspired by the Holy Spirit and is therefore an important guide for our lives.
  7. Jesus established the Catholic Church and promised His Holy Spirit would guide it to all Truth (Jn 14:26). I have confidence in this because I believe Jesus is God.
  8. The Catholic Church, under the guidance of His Holy Spirit, is the guardian of sacred Tradition (1 Tim 3:15), both oral and written (2 Thess 2:15). This Church determined what books were inspired and would comprise the Bible.
  9. The Bible is not always simple to interpret, but that’s why Jesus established the Catholic Church to guide us.
  10. I defer to the consistent teaching of the Catholic Church over time in matters of faith and morals because I trust the Holy Spirit’s guidance of the Church more than my own flawed judgements.

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Miscellaneous Religious Topics

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Cremation and the Catholic Church

  1. Catholic Burial and Cremation | Simply Catholic – unknown date. While the Church recognizes that cremation itself is not in direct opposition to Catholic teaching on the soul’s immortality or the hope of the resurrection of the dead, the practice happens today under a variety of pretenses that deny what the Church believes about death and resurrection of the dead.
  2. Cremation and Catholicism: What Are the Rules? – Christianity FAQ – 6/1/23 –Ashes are not to be scattered, divided, encased in jewelry, nor kept in private homes. Ashes must be laid to rest in a sacred place.
  3. Why did the Catholic rule on cremation change in 1963? – Catholic Philly – 2/11/22
  4. The Vatican softened its stance on what Catholics can do with a loved one’s ashes. But there are still rules – ABC News – 12/12/23
  5. Vatican: Small part of cremated ashes can be kept in personal place in certain cases | Catholic News Agency – 12/12/23
  6. Pope’s Doctrine Czar Stirs Controversy on Cremation (churchmilitant.com) – 12/13/23
  7. Water cremation not viable for Catholics, bishops say (aleteia.org) – 7/10/23
  8. Catholic priest: when ‘green’ funerals violate human dignity – CatholicVote org – 4/14/25. Certain “environmentally friendly” burials are unacceptable.
    • Woo noted that the Church has three reasons for insisting on proper burials: the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, respect for the human body as a temple of the Holy Spirit, and the practice of encouraging the living faithful to pray for the dead.
    • Both alkaline hydrolysis (“water cremations”) and human composting disrespect the human body. Both methods turn the human body into waste, which is then used as fertilizer.
  9. Four Shocking Biblical Truths About Cremation That Most Christians Don’t Know
    • The Bible does not directly address cremation.
    • Gen 3:19 you are dust and to dust you shall return.  Cremation is an acceptable way to accelerate the process of returning to dust, as long as it is done respectfully.  Catholic Church says: scattering or non-sacred storage of ashes is not respectful to the physical remains.
    • 2 Kings 23:6, 20 King Josiah. Demonstrates how fire is used as a symbol of both purification and desecration.
    • 1 Cor 15
    • 1 Cor 6:19-20 – the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit

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Afterlife; Near-Death Experiences; Hauntings

  1. Dead for 2 hours, man returns having seen ‘glorious white light’ (lifesitenews.com) – 11/9/22
  2. Near-Death Survivors Experience ‘Purposeful Life Review Without External Signs of Consciousness’: Study | The Epoch Times – 9/15/23
  3. Man died after car crash. Here’s what he saw (lifesitenews.com) – 3/14/24 – 77-minute video
    • May 30, 2017 head-on collision.  46-year-old man was trapped in car 2-1/2 hours.  ICU for 7 days; 7 operations.  Should not have survived. In agony for weeks, living second by second.
    • Loss of God worse than all the pain.
    • In a timeless place after being transported through a backwards tunnel
    • Infused knowledge of the World
    • God constantly holds our soul in His hand.
  1. Father Mark Beard’s Homily on Purgatory – “Heaven’s Hospital” – 1st Sunday of Advent, Year A 2022 – 11/27/22. 19-minute video.
  2. A Year Before Death, the Elderly Show These Signs | Bishop Baron Speaks – 5/21/25. Detachment, Emergence of peace & surrender, Surge of spiritual hunger, Reconciliation of relationships, Deep awareness that the time has come: give away jewelry, books, etc.
  3. All Souls Day: Get loved ones released from Purgatory. 15-minute video.
  4. 230-Year-Old Purgatory Haunting Reveals These 10 Spiritual Truths – 14-minute video.
  5. THESE Will Land you in the Deepest Parts of Purgatory – 20-minute video.
  6. 5 Horrific Punishments in Purgatory – America Needs Fatima, 11/2/25

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Aliens, Demons, UFOs

  1. The Rise of Witchcraft, Demons, and Sorcery in Our Modern Age (theepochtimes.com) – 7/29/23 – strong connection between the diabolical and leftist causes
  2. Demons and Angels – A Conversation with an Exorcist | The Lila Rose Podcast – YouTube – 8/17/23 – 88-minute video
  3. There are no aliens. – Daniel O’Connor’s Blog (dsdoconnor.com) – 3/6/2021 – not convincing
  4. UFO and alien deception: a diabolical preparation for the Antichrist (lifesitenews.com) – Late Sept. 2022 – not convincing
  5. Are UFOs and Aliens Real? What we can know (lifesitenews.com) – 6/12/23 – not convincing
  6. Would Aliens Need Jesus? | Pints with Aquinas Blog
  7. UFOs and Catholic Cosmology – The Lepanto Institute – 6/7/23
  8. ChatGPT: Catholic Exorcist warns of DEMONIC INFESTATION in AI – 2024
  9. Demonic Hybrids: Who Were the Giants of the Old Testament? – 7/3/25, Kennedy Hall. References Who are the Nephilim by Phil Campbell.
  10. Could AI be Demonic? – 7/10/25. The Deep with Erika Ahern. Question for ChatGPT: Are you a demon? Answer: Would you believe me if I said no?
  11. The Alien Deception: Aliens, Evolution & Demons? The Catholic Answer to UFO Hype – Fr. Ripperger, June, 2025.

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Visions, Supernatural

  1. Blood of Saint Januarius Liquifies Every Year on his Feast Day – CatholicVote org – 9/19/23
  2. Blood of St. Januarius miraculously liquefies for the fourth time this year – LifeSiteNews, 12/16/25
  3. October 2023 Warning – The Now Word (markmallett.com) – 10/7/23
  4. Big prediction: God’s ‘3 days of darkness’ in 2024? (lifesitenews.com) – 12/13/22
  5. Wrestling with Angels & Fighting Idolatry: A Vision of Blessed Ann Catherine Emmerich – YouTube
  6. Amid increased risk of nuclear annihilation, the message of Our Lady of Akita looms large – – lifesitenews.com – 10/13/22
  7. Blessed Anna Maria Taigi: Housewife, Mother and Saint (catholicexchange.com)
  8. America Needs Fatima – Incorruptible Anna Maria Taigi Predicts 3 Days of Darkness
  9. Meet the Texas Mission of Divine Mercy Nun Who Allegedly Received the Messages From Heaven (lifesitenews.com) – 4/17/24 – messages call Pope Francis a ‘Usurper’.
  10. Garabandal Prophecies

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Hell

  1. Does the Bible Say Whether There are People in Hell? – St. Paul Center (stpaulcenter.com) – 6/28/24
  2. What is hell like? Check out these visions received by Catholic saints | Catholic News Agency – 1/27/24
  3. Catholic Priest Warns Hell is Real and MANY Are Headed There! – 5/24/25
  4. Dare We Fear That Most Men Be Damned? – Crisis Magazine – 1/19/23
  5. What Is the Occupancy of Hell? – National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 1/16/24 – Ralph Martin (President of Renewal Ministries and the Director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit)
    • Dogma: a declaration of the Church concerning a truth revealed by God that is necessary for our salvation.
    • Heresy Universalism: most everyone will eventually end up in heaven.
    • Basing itself on sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition, the Catechism clearly teaches that anyone who dies unrepentant in mortal sin will go directly to hell (CCC 1033).
    • The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’ (CCC1035)
    • No one should be deemed ignorant of the natural law, that is, the common human perception that unjust killing, stealing, lying, cheating and committing adultery is wrong. All human beings have an obligation to seek the truth about God and can’t comfortably rest in their supposed ignorance (CCC 1791)
    • “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell” (Matthew 5:27-30).
    • Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (CCC 1036; see also 1734, 1428).
    • Ralph Martin: The reality is that hell exists, and the unmistakable thrust of Scripture and the traditional interpretation of such Scriptures by the Church’s greatest theologians is that it is very likely that many people go there.
    • Cardinal Avery Dulles, perhaps the leading American theologian of the 20th century, asserted in a 2003 essay for First Things that up until the middle of the 20th century, there was no significant challenge to the traditional two outcome views of the Catholic Church — and that the prevailing theological consensus interpretation of sacred Scripture was that more were lost than were saved.
    • In parable after parable, God revealed to us that there will be a final separation of the human race at the end of time. The weeds will be thrown into the fire and burned; the wheat brought into the barn (Matthew 13:36-43). The wise virgins will enter the wedding feast, while the foolish virgins won’t (25:1-13); the good fish will be kept and the bad thrown away (13:47-50); the sons of the devil will be excluded from the Kingdom, as the sons of God will enter (1 John 3:10); those who were sympathetic to Jesus and even ate and drank with him but who didn’t believe in him or obey him will be excluded from the Kingdom (Luke 13: 22-30); those who believed and obeyed will enter. Also John 3:36b: He who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.
    • And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life’” (CCC 1038; Mt 25:46).
    • If we hold the belief that hell is mostly empty, there is a natural tendency for humanity to pay more attention to “improving the world” than to focus on the bold proclamation that the name of Jesus is the only name that can save anyone (Acts 4:12). Or that people need to “save themselves from this wicked generation” (Acts 2:40), through repentance, faith and baptism. Or that in order to escape the wrath that is coming (1 Thessalonians 1:10), they need to join themselves to Jesus and the Church and obey his commands.
    • WATCH: What is the Occupancy Rate of Hell? (complicitclergy.com)
  6. How People Go to Hell (from a Priest to Bud Macfarlane Jr.) – 2/11/25
    • Then, almost casually, <the priest> told to me how people go to hell. Over the decades, having been called by relatives to the deathbeds of countless souls, he was still disturbed by how many of the dying refused to see him, or upon seeing him, refused the final sacraments—he described one recent harrowing story about a man who screamed and threw fits to prevent him from even entering the room on multiple visits.
    • Father told me that people end up in hell after countless small choices over many, many years. This was how Satan gradually ensnares a soul—through thousands of small sins flowing into serious sins until the person’s conscience was deadened. They live life without repentance, and so they die unwilling to offer it.
    • Sweeny observed that people become very comfortable through this almost imperceptible ratcheting-effect Satan uses to lure them into stubborn indifference.
    • I learned from that. People are not aware, after years of degrading their consciences, that they are on the path to eternal damnation—even all the way to their deathbeds. We must take this into account when reaching out to them.
    • I cannot quote him perfectly, but he told me, sorrow in his voice, “People die the way they live. If they do not pray, receive the sacraments, and ask for God’s mercy during their lives, they will be unlikely to do so at the hour of their death. If they love God in life, they will have the love of God at the end and experience a peaceful death.” He was deeply troubled by the prospect of anyone going to hell. I learned from his example. Saints care deeply about the eternal destination of everyone.

Euthanasia

  1. Paralyzed then drowned: Veteran exposes the terrifying method used to euthanize people in Canada – Lifesitenews.com – 5/29/24
  2. Brain Dead People May Not Be Dead–Here’s Why | The Epoch Times – 6/2/24
  3. ‘Brain death’ is a fallacy used to prop up the organ harvesting industry – LifeSite – 4/16/24. The concept of ‘brain death’ is factually baseless, but powerful medical organizations like the American Academy of Neurology are imposing it on America, threatening the lives of brain-injured people.
  4. Woman kept alive to deliver her baby proves ‘brain death’ is a legal fiction – LifeSite – 5/16/25
  5. S. Catholic Expert Rev. Gerald E. Murray Calls Archbishop Paglia to Recant His Support for Euthanasia – CatholicVote org – 4/25/23
  6. Recently revised ‘brain death’ guidelines are not backed by scientific evidence – Lifesitenews.com – 4/23/24 – Euthanasia
  7. Do Not Resuscitate – by Greta Crawford – 4/23/25 (subscription required). This article asserts that the huge financial incentive is clouding the decision making at hospitals.  Do Not Resuscitate orders enhance chances of death, and a big payday for hospitals.
    1. The DNR was pushed by doctors relentlessly during Covid and I have heard story after story as in the case with Kristi Schmadl’s mother, Joyce. She and her sister were contacted multiple times by her mother’s doctor and told to sign a DNR. They refused every time, but the doctor became irate and told them over the phone that if they did not sign a DNR they (the doctors) would put one on her, completely against the law. As you can see below, Kristi’s mom’s medical records clearly indicate the family wanted to transfer her mother to another hospital but the hospital already had plans to kill her with end of life care and a DNR.
    2. Hospitals make anywhere from $44K to $379K, depending on the State, from the government for each COVID patient.
  8. ‘Brain dead’ Georgia mother delivers 1-pound baby boy after 4 months on life support – LifeSite– 6/20/25. After being on life support for four months, a Georgia woman has delivered a one-pound baby boy.
  9. A Hospital Risk You MUST Know About NOW. Pam Popper, 6/24/25. Start at 2-1/2-minute point of this 14-minute video. She reviews the book: Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness by Joseph Fins.  Cautions against organ donation and hospitals aggressive policies pushing for organ donation.  “Donation after Circulatory Death” condition is where patients still have some brain function and could recover, though unlikely.
  10. HHS Probe Finds Issue With Organ Donations Being Authorized for Patients Showing Signs of Life – 7/22/25 – Epoch Times.
  11. Doctors asserted brain death, but then baby recovers – Life Legal – 7/29/25
  12. Hospitals are using ‘circulatory death’ to harvest organs of living people – LifeSiteNews, 10/16/25
  13. Here’s how organ harvesters get away with making patients ‘brain dead’ – LifeSiteNews, 7/14/2025.
  14. Why you should think twice about signing up to donate your organs – LifeSiteNews, 4/15/24.

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Organ Donation – the Dark Side

  1. Why I am not a registered Organ Donor: Lifesite News: I’m a doctor. Would I receive an organ transplant? – 5/24/23
    • “I recommend that no one be a registered organ or tissue donor.”
    • “Brain death” is a legal fiction, coined to facilitate organ donation from a living body.
    • Doctors begin harvest surgery within 75 seconds to 5 minutes after the heart stops beating. Every medical professional knows that people are routinely resuscitated after such a short period of cardiac arrest.
  2. Declared Brain Dead: The Dark Side of Organ Harvesting. 6/6/23 – Children’s Health Defense.  “Brain Death” is NOT DEAD. Dr. Paul Byrne interviewed by Stephanie Locricchio
  3. Brighteon – Hospitals in America Have Become Organ Harvesting Killing Fields – 9/16/21
  4. Hard to Believe | EpochTV (theepochtimes.com) – 1/15/24 – 55-minute documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world.
  5. 2023-Summer-LifeLine-low-res.pdf (lifelegaldefensefoundation.org) – Article ‘Dead Enough’ – pushing back on the idea of Brain Death.
  6. Brain Death and ORGAN HARVESTING: What You NEED to Know – 7/16/24 – LifeSite News
  7. Are You an Organ Donor? Beware – 1/20/25
  8. If you are an ORGAN DONOR, expect to have your organs harvested while you are STILL ALIVE – 7/24/25 – Brighteon.
  9. The Hidden Crisis in Organ Transplantation — Brain Death Diagnosis and Ethical Failures – Mercola.com, 9/12/25. The concept of “brain death,” introduced in 1968 to enable organ harvesting. Documented cases exist of “brain dead” patients who were conscious. 20.8% of patients had neurologic activity incompatible with procurement — yet transplant coordinators still pushed to proceed.

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Transhumanism

  1. What Should Catholics Think About Transhumanism? – Pints with Aquinas – 12/16/22
  2. Elon Musk says Neuralink brain implants will ‘augment human capabilities dramatically’ – LifeSite – 6/20/25

Christianity – Old Testament Prophesies Fulfilled

  1. 351 Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ
  2. 70 major Old Testament prophecies fulfilled by Jesus
  3. 47 Predictions of the Messiah Fulfilled in Jesus Christ

Miscellaneous

  1. The High Price of IVF: Defending Life at Every Stage – 11/27/24 – the hidden moral, ethical, and practical costs of this practice.
  2. Fr. Ripperger – Many Problems Today are Due to No Fear of the Lord (complicitclergy.com) – 4/16/24 – 73-minute video.
  3. God vs. Atheism: Which is More Rational? | PragerU – Peter Kreeft – 4/7/2014
  4. Archbishop Viganò suggests a cardinal has proof Francis’ election was corrupt and his ‘pontificate’ null – Lifesitenews.com – 8/14/23
  5. Blog – Women of Grace – womenofgrace.com – Catholic Therapist quits Mindfulness – 1/11/2018
    • As I explain in my book, A Catholic Guide to Mindfulness, the practice of mindfulness is derived from Buddhism and is specific to the seventh step in the Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path to enlightenment. Called Samma Sati, or Right Mindfulness, it means controlling thoughts by maintaining awareness and focus on the present moment. The way one is trained in mindfulness is through a variety of Buddhist meditation techniques such as Breathing Space Meditation, Movement Meditation, Body Scan Meditation, and Expanding Awareness Meditation, all of which involve intense focus on the self in the present moment.
    • 2009 study that found a long list of psychological and physical side effects of mindfulness meditation such as depersonalization, psychosis, feelings of anxiety, disorganized speech and insomnia, to name a few.
    • With mindfulness-based interventions, the aim is not to change your thoughts, but your global beliefs about thoughts – essentially, you’re expected to stop believing that your thoughts are necessarily true or important. This is where the Buddhist philosophy really kicks in: your thoughts are mere ‘mental events’ – just thoughts, nothing more – and they don’t necessarily warrant any action. All you’re aiming to do is be aware.” The Christian, on the other hand, is taught not to dismiss their thoughts as mere “mental events” but to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). In this way they “put on the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16) and make their thoughts holy and Christ-like.
  6. Mystery of Wizard Clip | Forward Boldly (churchmilitant.com) – 11/7/23 – It’s considered the most documented haunting in America — a terrifying 18th-century poltergeist that was cured only by a Catholic priest.
  7. Altar Serving is For Boys Because Saying Mass is a Man’s Job – The Catholic Gentleman – 9/20/23
  8. Sri Lankan cardinal bans female altar servers, citing damage to priestly vocations – 12/18/24.
  9. Every Catholic Dad Needs to Hear This – YouTube – 10/3/23
  10. What the Bible Teaches about Priesthood w/ Dr. John Bergsma – The Bible Timeline Show w/ Jeff Cavins – YouTube – 10/1/23
  11. Blood Clot Risk Rapidly Drops After Stopping Common Contraception: Study Finds | The Epoch Times – 11/10/23
  12. US depopulation plan hits new milestone | Frontline News – 12/24/23
  13. Top Catholic Group Calls for Biden’s Excommunication (complicitclergy.com) – 3/9/24
  14. WATCH: The Real Religion of the Left (complicitclergy.com) – 4/10/24
  15. Brandon-Biggs-eerily-accurate-prophecy-of-assassination-attempt-on-trump/– mid March 2024
  16. Survey of U.S. Catholic Laity on the Real Presence (surveymonkey.com)– 7/20/24
  17. Separation of Church and State is Sinful – 7/22/24 – Life Site News Opinion
  18. The Uncaused First Cause – YouTube
  19. Pope Francis, End Times prophecy, warning, miracle: Here’s how it all lines up (lifesitenews.com) – 6/11/24
  20. Falun Gong Founder Mr. Li Hongzhi Publishes ‘How Humankind Came To Be’ (theepochtimes.com) – 1/21/23
  21. Live Action and Planned Parenthood: A New Test Case for Lying – St. Paul Center (stpaulcenter.com) – Spring, 2012
  22. Your Parents Don’t Deserve This | PragerU – 11/13/23
  23. Everything you need to know about Catholic teaching on the Antichrist – Lifesitenews.com– 4/15/24
  24. Father Jim Blount Meets the Antichrist – YouTube
  25. Flame of Love – of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
  26. Shocking New Report Proves Most American Catholics Are Heretics – YouTube
  27. Homeschooling is necessary for the survival of the Catholic family (lifesitenews.com) – Mother Miriam 9/27/22
  28. Amid increased risk of nuclear annihilation, the message of Our Lady of Akita looms large – – lifesitenews.com – 10/13/22
  29. The Evils the Church Predicted (youtube.com) – 12/5/23
  30. This program has changed the lives of 100,000 Catholic men (oursundayvisitor.com) – Exodus 90 Start Exodus 90 today!
  31. The Key to Happiness Explained in Under 5 Minutes | The Afterlife Coach (churchmilitant.com) – 1/11/24
  32. One of the Best Arguments for Why God Is Necessary | PragerU – starting at around 5-minute mark.
  33. Archeology appears to confirm biblical account of Sodom’s destruction – Lifesitenews.com – 1/25/24
  34. What Is a Victim Soul? | Simply Catholic – 1/20/34
  35. The Beginning of Wisdom | PragerU – 2/12/24 – Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom (Pr. 9:10)
  36. Gen Z’s Gay Cultural Shift (churchmilitant.com) – 1/29/24
  37. Does God Exist? 4 New Arguments | PragerU – 2/17/14
  38. Justice for Cardinal Pell: The Truth About His Mysterious Passing is Coming – 7/4/24 – Anthony Stein.
  39. Catholic / Protestant Debate – Mr. Jimmy Akin and Dr. James White – Night 1 Sola Scriptura (youtube.com) – May, 2024
  40. Disputed Questions on Papal Infallibility – Part 5 – OnePeterFive – 11/18/22 – Part1– Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4
  41. Artificial wombs are becoming a reality and not just science fiction – – lifesitenews.com – 12/13/22
  42. Repentant ex-fortune teller and New Age practitioner asks God to help those she may have put in spiritual danger (aleteia.org) – 12/28/22
  43. A Radical Proposal for the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival – Crisis Magazine – 1/9/23
  44. Prophecy: Death of Benedict XVI means a ‘new era’ with a possible ‘conditional chastisement’ from God – Lifesitenews.com – 1/24/23
  45. What You Missed About the Fine-Tuning Argument | Catholic Answers – 1/16/23 – for the argument to be successful, we need to talk about fine-tuned constants in the laws of nature. The range of possible values for these constants is large and mostly life-prohibiting. The range for them being life-permitting is much, much smaller. Therefore, the fact that they are life-permitting is an example of fine-tuning.
  46. New documentary offers a path from porn addiction to freedom in Jesus Christ (lifesitenews.com) – 2/15/23
  47. CV Explainer: Dissent vs. Disagreement – CatholicVote org – 2/22/23
  48. Two Americas: Pro-Life vs. Pro-Abortion – TFP Student Action – 1/24/24
  49. ​​Pew Research publishes statistics of self-identifying Catholics’ stances on abortion, politics, Biden – CatholicVote org– 4/16/24
  50. Priest decries abortion, transgender mutilations, pornography, drag shows as ‘demonic insanity’ – Lifesitenews.com – 3/3/23
  51. The horrifying link between abortion and vaccine development – Lifesitenews.com – 9/5/24
  52. All Senate Democrats vote against bill to criminalize infanticide – 1/23/25. Senate Democrats once again voted against providing legal protections for babies who survive abortion, citing their commitment to protect ‘access’ to abortion.
  53. Part I. How Pope Pius XI defended the history of Genesis, special creation of St. Adam – LifeSite – 1/30/25.
    1. Part II. Pope Pius XI refuted Darwinism 100 years ago, but his lessons have not been learned – LifeSite. 1/31/25.
  54. Cardinal Dolan falsely likens Ash Wednesday to ‘Catholic Ramadan’ – 2/28/25
  55. There Is No Manliness Without Risk – 1/20/25
  56. Are Religion and Science in Conflict? — Science and God | PragerU – 12/20/22
  57. You Shall Not Covet… – by Bishop Joseph Strickland – 3/23/25
    1. Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, in 2016 suggested that divorced and remarried couples (who are in adulterous unions) could, in some cases, receive Holy Communion. This undermines Christ’s teaching that “whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery” (Luke 16:18). The failure to clearly uphold the sanctity of marriage encourages moral laxity.
    2. Fiducia Supplicans, a declaration issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) in 2023 indicated that the Vatican now approves blessings for same-sex couples, despite Catholic teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered (CCC 2357). This creates confusion about purity and chastity, blurring the lines between sin and virtue.
    3. Also, the sexual abuse crisis, which exploded into public view in the early 2000’s and again in 2018 with the McCarrick scandal, is a direct violation of the Ninth Commandment. Many clergy, instead of upholding purity, fell into grave sins of lust and preyed upon the innocent. Pope Francis refused to answer the accusations in the Vigano testimony, which alleged that he protected and promoted figures like McCarrick, despite knowing of his immoral behavior.
    4. Modernists in the Church often reduce Christianity to a political movement focused only on social justice, economics, and environmentalism. Pope Francis and many bishops talk constantly about poverty, migrants, and climate change, but rarely about sin, salvation, and eternal life. While Catholics must help the poor, the Church’s primary mission is the salvation of souls – not economic activism. The modernist Church encourages envy-based activism instead of personal virtue and detachment from wealth. True Christian poverty is voluntary detachment, not government-enforced redistribution.
    5. The Tenth Commandment warns us against desiring what belongs to others, whether through greed, envy, or resentment. Modernism twists Catholic teaching by promoting class warfare, financial corruption, and a materialistic focus instead of spiritual detachment.
  58. First indigenous nun at Canadian school contradicts anti-Catholic ‘mass grave’ narrative – LifeSite – 3/27/25
  59. If There Is No God, Murder Isn’t Wrong – 3/20/17
  60. How Ancient Is Communion in the Hand? | Catholic Answers Magazine – 5/16/25.
    • In the fourth century, St. Cyril of Jerusalem described the practice of Communion in the hand. However, his description is not consistent with how Communion in the hand is done today.
    • In the 1969 instruction Memoriale Domini, the Holy See offered the bishops of the world permission to distribute Communion in the hand, noting that: “[The traditional] method of distributing Holy Communion must be retained… not merely because it has many centuries of tradition behind it, but especially because it expresses the faithful’s reverence for the Eucharist.
    • a most unfortunate development has been attempts by priests and even some bishops to enforce uniformity in the manner of receiving Holy Communion by refusing it to those who wish to receive on the tongue, or by remonstrating with them afterward. Memoriale Domini forbids pressure on the faithful to confirm to the novel practice, as does a later instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum: “It is not licit to deny Holy Communion to any of Christ’s faithful solely on the grounds, for example, that the person wishes to receive the Eucharist kneeling or standing,” and “each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, at his choice”
  61. Charlotte bishop denounces Latin, altar rails, kneeling in leaked letter – LifeSite – 5/28/25
  62. The ‘New Israel’ is the Catholic Church, not the state of Israel: here’s why – LifeSite – 5/28/25. The Church Fathers, magisterial documents, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and the Scriptures themselves all reject modern attempts to frame the state of Israel as a fulfillment of biblical promises.
  63. What We Mean by ‘Fear of the Lord’ | Catholic Answers Magazine – 5/28/25
  64. Dear Gen Z Men, I Think You Should Hear This – Kennedy Hall, 5/31/25
  65. Are Canonizations Infallible After Vatican II? The Answer Might Surprise You. – 6/2/25
  66. Data Show Vatican II triggered Catholic Decline – Catholic Culture, 7/28/25. Conclusion of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): Vatican II, in 1962-1965, triggered a decline in worldwide Catholic attendance relative to that in other denominations.  See also Rorate Caeli article and Catholic Vote article, and this one: The Data Is In! Vatican II Devastated the Church.
    1. Using retrospective survey data from over 200,000 people across four decades, they reconstructed religious attendance rates going back to the 1920s in 66 countries. It is the most ambitious dataset on religious behavior ever created.
    2. “Vatican II, in 1962–1965, triggered a decline in worldwide Catholic attendance relative to that in other denominations….The Catholic relative attendance rate fell by four percentage points per decade between 1965 and 2015.”
    3. It’s not a fallacy when the event is temporally proximate, globally consistent, uniquely Catholic in its devastation, and empirically verified using control groups. That’s called a causal link.
  67. Dropping the Atomic Bomb Was Wrong. Period. Christopher Check, Catholic Answers 8/6/25.
    • A good end does not justify evil means. Romans 3:8: we cannot “do evil so that good may come.”
    • The pamphlet, “ Truman’s Degree,” is readily available online and well worth reading for, among other reasons, its careful treatment of the question, “Who is innocent in times of war?”
  68. The Nephilim Bible Mystery: Aliens? Angels? Something Else? – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World – 10/11/25
  69. Seven Mysteries About the Nephilim – Jimmy Akin, 11/18/25.
    • 1) Who are the “sons of God” in this passage?

      2) Who are the “daughters of men”?

      3) Why does God say that man’s “days shall be 120 years”?  This references the interval of time (grace period) remaining before the Flood.

      4) Who were the Nephilim?  They were unusually tall giants.

      5) What is the relationship joining the sons of God, the daughters of men, and the Nephilim?   The Nephilim were the children of the sons of God and the daughters of men.

      6) Why does the text say the Nephilim were on the earth “in those days, and also afterward”?  The Nephilim were on the earth both before and after the Flood because the sons of God and the daughters of men mated twice.  Numbers 13:33 says the spies Moses sends into the Promised Land report that there, “we saw the Nephilim.”

      7) Do these events have anything to do with the Great Flood which this passage introduces?  Yes.

      If the sons of God and the daughters of men mated both before and after the Flood, then they must have been around both before and after the Flood.

      That eliminates one of the possibilities for who they were. According to some authors, the “sons of God” represent the righteous line that came from Adam and Eve’s son Seth, whereas the “daughters of men” were the wicked line that came from their son Cain.

      This “Sethite/Cainite” interpretation is problematic because the language of the text does not suggest it. It is unsupported speculation to propose that the sons of God were descendants of Seth. Even worse, the phrase “the daughters of men” does not suggest the descendants of Cain.

      But Genesis 6:4’s statement that “the sons of God came in to the daughters of man” both before and after the Flood eliminates this possibility, because the line of Cain did not survive the Flood.

  70. Did Angels Mate with Human Women? – Jimmy Akin, Catholic Answers, 12/12/25.
    1. Because the line of Cain did not survive the Flood, the Sethite/Cainite interpretation for the Sons of God and Daughters of Men is incorrect.
    2. The phrase “sons of God” is never applied to rulers like kings. Elsewhere in the Bible it always refers to angelic beings, either angels or demons.
  71. End of Civilization is Already Here – Bud Macfarlane, 10/16/25. Lots of ominous demographic statistics.
  72. Edward Feser on Capital Punishment discussion between Fastiggi and Sonna – 10/10/25.
    • The Church always taught for 2,000 years that the death penalty is not intrinsically wrong. See book By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment.
    • It is true that Evangelium Vitae 9 says that “not even a murderer loses his personal dignity.” But the encyclical nowhere says that a murderer does not lose his right to life.
  73. The Theology of Death Penalty – 1PT5, 10/28/25.
  74. 10 Ways That ‘Democratic Socialism’ Conflicts with the Gospel – The Stream, 10/28/25.
  75. Suffering in Heaven – Life-Craft.org, 10/8/25. With classic insight into what it is to be human, St. Thomas Aquinas notes that in a sense there will be anguish in heaven. It is there as something remembered. “The saints in glory will remember the afflictions they endured,” yet “they will not experience them with anguish.”
  76. Ranking the Best and Worst Catholic Dioceses in America – Shameless Popery, 11/13/25. Link to Report
  77. Not Praying for Departed Souls in Purgatory: The Scandal of the Modern Catholic Funeral – Peter Kwasniewski – 11/13/25. Collapse in prayer for the dead is directly connected to the new rite of Mass.
  78. The Problem with Women Lectors and Acolytes – Sensus Fidelium, 2/9/21. Elimination of Minor Orders Porter, Lector, Exorcist, Acolyte and Subdeacon, replacing with ministries of Lector, Acolyte (Alter Server) and Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, paved the way for women to enter the sanctuary.
  79. The Collapse of the Catholic Population – Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition, 11/22/25.
  80. Bishop Schneider interview with Kennedy Hall on the NEW CATECHISM, CREDO – 11/20/25. Science and Evolution. Covid Lockdown tyranny, vaccine mandates. Link between vaccines and abortion & fetal parts industry.  Remote material cooperation argument is weak.  Religious Freedom document of Vatican II has errors.  All religions placed on same level.  OK to say adherence to a particular religion cannot be forced.  OK to tolerate false religions but those false religions have no right to spread their errors.  All religions do NOT lead to God.
  81. Patrick Madrid | Recent Scientific Discoveries that Point to the Existence of God | 2021 Defending the Faith Conference – 2021.
    1. Atheist mindset: deny everything this is not material.
    2. Near-death experiences. Scientific tools can measure these claims.  When soul separates from the body, the mind, soul, memories still exist after near-death coma.
    3. Big bang had to be observed by God to exist.
    4. Fine-tuning of the universe (The Privileged Planet). Steady state tectonics, Gravitational force constant, amount of water in the crust of the Earth, large moon with the right rotation period, proper concentration of sulfur, planetary mass to retain atmosphere, position in spiral arm of galaxy for less risk from supernovas, low eccentricity orbit, a few large Jupiter sized planets to protect Earth vs. comets. A near-circular orbit around galactic center to keep safe vs. dangerous parts of galaxy, just the right amount of heavy elements
    5. Book on DNA by Steven Meyer. Human Genome Project. DNA instructions pass vast amounts of information. 3 Billion bases; 20,000 genes on 23 pairs of chromosomes.
    6. Oldest photo in the world: 12/9/1531 – Eyes of Our Lady of Guadelupe image.
  82. The Lost Bride: How the Modern World Forgot the Feminine – Katherine Bennett, Catholic Unscripted, 10/31/25. This is why it is important, as Pope Benedict XVI said, for woman to be at the center of Christianity… The bride isfeminine, and the bridegroom is Without this there is no fertility, there is no life. Likewise, the Church IS feminine and must be feminine if she (we) is to receive all from God… When we try to create our own reality, dictate the rules, monkey around with nature, and elevate ourselves above God we become masculine, we embody the principle of masculinity. To put it another way, when we try to endow the material (mater) with our own meaning (order the chaos) we play God. This is not about whether boys are better than girls, or whether women can drive cars and read maps, it is about whether or not we – as Christians – are humble enough to receive what God gives us.
  83. Big Bang or Big Error? The Catholic Priest Who ‘Discovered’ the Big Bang May Not be so Reliable – Kennedy Hall, 11/29/25. Basically, the Priest was a modernist and believes the heresy that the Bible’s inerrancy is limited to religion and contains errors in Science and History. Kennedy’s research leads one to believe that the Priest really believed in an Eternal Universe, not one created out of nothing.
  84. Mystic Saint Reveals the “Fewness of the Saved” (and what We can do) – Uniquely Mary – 12/2/25.
  85. A Soul from Purgatory Reveals the Final Test at Our Moment of Death – Uniquely Mary – 4/18/25.
  86. 12- & 14-Year Olds seen in Purgatory for THIS Sobering Reason – Uniquely Mary – 8/6/25.
  87. Sixteen Bible Reading Rules – Catholic Answers
  88. Does the Soul Exist Outside the Brain? Insights from a Neurosurgeon | Dr. Michael Egnor – Epoch Times, 12/4/25. His experiments and research show that ‘reason and free will’ do not come from the brain.  Consciousness still exists in persons missing much of the brain.
    • Six things that DO come from the brain:
      1. Homeostasis – physiological regulation
      2. Arousal – staying awake
      3. Movement
      4. Perception
      5. Memory
      6. Emotion
    • Conjoined twins study – two sisters joined at the head. Brains connected; share some brain functions.  But they do NOT share reason and free will.  Separate personalities, separate souls.
    • Near Death Experiences. Carol Zaleski book: Otherworld Journeys.
    • Pam Reynolds had life-threatening aneurysm in brain. Surgery required stopping heart for 30 minutes to repair artery. She had an out-of-body experience during those 30 minutes and observed the surgery. There was no brain activity; heart was temporarily stopped.
    • NDE characteristics that materialists can’t explain:
      1. Clear, coherent, detailed descriptions of the experience.
      2. Accurate Out-of-body observations.
      3. Only dead persons encountered on the other side of “the tunnel”.
      4. Often transformative; lose fear of death.
  89. Are Laypeople supposed to raise their hands or hold hands during the ‘Our Father’? – NO. Catholic Answers, 12/8/25.
  90. The Deceptiveness of Medjugorje – Theresa Nixon, 12/15/25.
  91. When Science Becomes Science Fiction | Stunned by Scripture Ep. 13 – John Bergsma, 12/22/25. Did life really originate from a spark of electricity in a pool of organic material? NOT possible when you look at the science.
  92. After the Fall: The Failure of the Masters and the Human Condition – 1P5, 12/24/25. How Were Adam and Eve in Paradise? The Vision of Saint Hildegard of Bingen.
  93. A Modern Take on Christ’s Birth Date – Jimmy Akin et al. 12/25/25. The Jupiter-Venus conjunction of June 17, 2 B.C. was the brightest such conjunction in human history.

The Master’s Program with Dennis Prager – PragerU

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American Bishops Fund Anti-Catholic Organizations

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American Bishops Fund Anti-Catholic Organizations (12+ articles)

They have funded blatantly leftist, pro-abortion, pro-LBGT, and anti-Catholic organizations for years, a via the CCHD (Catholic Campaign for Human Development) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS).

  1. Catholic Bishops Fund Pro-Abortion Doulas for Third Consecutive Year, Despite 2020 Warning – The Lepanto Institute – 5/2/22
  2. Catholic Bishops’ Agency Admits to Deceptive Funding Scheme and grant fraud within the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) – 3/18/21 – Church Militant
  3. CCHD goes silent after its funding for pro-LGBT, pro-abortion orgs was exposed – lifesitenews.com – 7/24/23
  4. Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) Grantee Collects Pornographic LGBTQ Books for Minors at Youth Center – The Lepanto Institute – 10/31/23
  5. Catholic Church Funds LGBT PORN Books For Kids! (rumble.com) – 11/17/23 – 1st 12 minutes of video. President of the Lepanto Institute Michael Hichborn talks about the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) and how it’s funding organizations that want to get LGBTQ porn books into the hands of children.
  6. US bishops’ campaign gave money to pro-LGBT group that prays to demons – Lifesitenews.com – 11/27/23 – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) funds Planting Justice, an organization that openly engaged in demon worship, has an ongoing agenda to promote sexual perversion.  The CCHD’s claim that “Catholics can be confident that the [CCHD] does not fund organizations that violate the moral or social teaching of the Church” is completely false!
  7. US bishops do not end Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) despite years of funding anti-Catholic groups – Lifesitenews.com – 6/18/24
  8. USCCB finally announces cuts to CCHD that gave money to left-wing causes – 7/1/24
  9. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Programs Present 5 Expressions of Grave Evildoing (pop.org) – 3/19/24
    • literature that targets children and adolescents promotes masturbation.
    • publicly endorses, refers to, and financially supports organizations that actively and very publicly promote direct abortion, contraception, and masturbation.
    • close working relationship with organizations that promote evil, posing substantial risk of grave scandal
    • undermines the credibility of the Church’s witness to the Gospel in Africa
    • misrepresentation of CRS as a Catholic organization to garner donations from the faithful Catholics at Mass
  10. Steven Mosher Dismantles Catholic Relief Services (CRS) – complicitclergy.com – 4/5/24
  11. Behind closed doors, overwhelming support for the bishops’ anti-poverty program CCHD | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org) – 6/14/24
  12. The Bishops, the Poor, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) | Jayd Henricks | First Things – 6/24/24
  13. US bishops’ charity arm CCHD gave funding to pro-LGBT, anti-police group backed by Tim Walz – 10/30/24
  14. Catholic Relief Services (CRS): A History of Lies and Cover-Ups Pt. 1 – The Lepanto Institute – 3/26/25. Part 2 – 4/28/35.
  15. US bishops have given over $355k to pro-abortion group since 2019: report – Michael Hichborn/LifeSiteNews, 11/13/25. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development sent $355K in donations to the Ostara Initiative, whose leaders openly back abortion, transgender ideology, and pagan symbolism.
  16. Catholic group demands USCCB stop funding LGBT groups pushing abortion, trans surgeries – 11/13/25
  17. US bishops’ conference under scrutiny after report links Church funds to pro-abortion, LGBT groups – The Catholic Herald – 11/8/25
  18. CCHD Funding Anti-Catholic Organization Right Under the Nose of Archbishop Hebda – Lepanto Institute / Complicit Clergy – 11/13/25. “Once again, large amounts of Catholic funds are seen going to agencies diametrically opposed to Catholic moral and social teaching,” said Hichborn.

 

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  1. Matt Walsh ‘What is a Woman’ documentary
  2. Rolling Stone’s hit piece on Matt Walsh only proves the success of ‘What is a Woman?’ – (lifesitenews.com) – 7/6/23 – The mainstream media in the United States has been bending over backwards to avoid covering the international pushback to the transgender agenda. An honest look at what Walsh is doing would note that health professionals in the U.K., Sweden, Norway, and Finland (among others) are on his side.
  3. What Is a Woman Changed My Life: Interview With Paula Scanlan – YouTube – 6/27/23
  4. “What Is a Man?” A Look at The Neuroscience (youtube.com) – 1/12/24 – Dr. Greg Bottaro of the Catholic Psych Institute joins Mary on the EDIFY Podcast to unpack the neuroscience behind the “masculine genius” and how it relates to male and female complementarity.
  5. Meet Chloe Cole, the 18-year-old leading the fight to protect children from transgender surgeries | Catholic News Agency – 9/24/22
  6. Chloe Cole: Transition Surgery Was the Biggest Mistake of My Life | PragerU – 6/13/23 – Transgender
  7. Polls show Americans are overwhelmingly turning against radical transgender ideology – Lifesitenews.com – 6/12/23
  8. ‘Small’ concessions to transgenderism are slowly reshaping our entire culture – lifesitenews.com – 7/21/22
  9. The Truth About Gender Clinics: Whistleblower Jamie Reed | EpochTV (theepochtimes.com) – 1/20/24 – 48-minute video
  10. ‘Small’ concessions to transgenderism are slowly reshaping our entire culture – lifesitenews.com – 7/21/22
  11. Fauci’s $478,188 Experiment to Turn Monkeys Transgender — and Other Ways the Government Wastes Your Money (childrenshealthdefense.org) – 6/23/22
  12. The Transgender Threat – YouTube – 5/10/22
  13. Priest decries abortion, transgender mutilations, pornography, drag shows as ‘demonic insanity’ – Lifesitenews.com – 3/3/23
  14. MERRIAM-WEBSTER CHANGES DEFINITION OF “FEMALE” (rumble.com) – 7/20/22
  15. Merriam-Webster dictionary updates definition of ‘female’ to include ‘gender identity’ – lifesitenews.com – 7/20/22
  16. Leftist Woman Asks Ben Shapiro If He’s Transphobic – YouTube – 10/5/18
  17. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Refuses to Define Word ‘Woman’ (theepochtimes.com)– 3/23/22
  18. Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities (theepochtimes.com) – 6/19/23
  19. Amazing Comeback to Men in Women’s Sports – YouTube – Riley Gaines – 6/22/23
  20. Sen. Hawley Shows Picture of Riley Gaines Being Assaulted by Protesters, Stunned by Her Story of Being Held for ‘Ransom’ (theepochtimes.com) – 6/26/23
  21. Drag queens parade around New York City chanting, ‘We’re coming for your children’ – Lifesitenews.com – 6/27/23
  22. Virginia school board official sworn in on child pornography books | Frontline News – 12/24/23
  1. Philadelphia School Board President Takes Oath of Office with Hand on Sexually Explicit LGBTQ Books – CatholicVote org – 12/7/23
  2. Dad Ruthlessly Fact-Checks Woke School Board – YouTube – 7/3/23 – Transgender
  3. CDC Endorses ‘Trans’ Women ‘Chestfeeding’ Infants – CatholicVote org – 7/6/23 – Transgender
  4. New UN report suggests LGBT ideology should take precedence over religious freedom – (lifesitenews.com) – 7/6/23
  5. Biden health secretary vows to strip Medicaid funding from providers who refuse transgender surgeries – (lifesitenews.com) – 7/6/23
  6. Pro-LGBT Thug Threatens to Kill School Board Chief Over Parental Rights (dailysignal.com) – 7/25/23
  7. Florida House Democrats Attempt to Prevent Rep. Cammack From Playing Video of Expert Interview on Gender Surgery, Stage Walkout (theepochtimes.com) – 7/25/23
  8. Detransitioner: “Please, Let Me Be Your Final Warning” – YouTube – 7/27/23
  9. ‘It’s Not Possible to Change Your Sex’: Rep. Hageman Drops Truth Bomb as Detransitioner Begs to Serve as ‘Final Warning’ (theepochtimes.com) – 7/28/23
  10. (48) Congressman Exposes the “Queer Surgeon” – YouTube – 7/30/23 – Transgender ‘Queer Surgeon’
  11. 2% of American Adults Claim LGBTQ Identities – CatholicVote org – 8/7/23 – Gen Z nearly 20%!
  12. The Rise of Antihumanism by Matthew B. Crawford | Articles | First Things – August 2023.
  13. Sex Is Binary | PragerU – 9/18/23
  14. IN-DEPTH: Woman Says Her Daughter Was Sex Trafficked After School Hid Gender Transition | The Epoch Times – 8/31/23
  15. DETRANS: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care | PragerU – 10/25/23 – 21 minutes.
  16. Media Outrage over DETRANS | PragerU
  17. The Truth about Gender-Affirming Care | PragerU – 12/19/22
  18. The Sexualization of Children | PragerU – 6/27/22
  19. Doctor says Biden admin is persecuting him for exposing transgender child mutilation in Texas – Lifesitenews.com – 1/11/24
  20. S. Gender Dysphoria Cases Skyrocketed From 2018 to 2022 – CatholicVote org – 1/11/24
  21. How Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum push transhumanism – Lifesitenews.com – 1/16/24
  22. American Academy of Pediatrics article calls banning trans ‘care’ for kids ‘medical neglect,’ ‘emotional abuse’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/12/24
  23. Catholic Convert Says Same-Sex Attracted People Need to Hear ‘The Hard Truth’ – CatholicVote org – 1/17/24 – “You have rejected the Bible, and you have rejected Christianity, and thus you have rejected the truth,” he continued. “No person who rejects the truth can thrive.”
  24. Hilarious video underscores how easy it could be to debunk transgender propaganda – Lifesitenews.com – 2/5/24
  25. ‘Transgender’ male basketball player on girls’ team injures 3 players, causing opponent to forfeit – Lifesitenews.com – 2/21/24
  26. INFOGRAPHIC: Mapping the quiet rise of homo-Marxist power within US conservatism (lifesitenews.com) – 2/29/24
  27. How the collapse of ‘cultural Christianity’ led to the dominance of LGBT ideology – Lifesitenews.com – 2/28/24 – Jonathon Van Maren also explores statistics related to the American case, noting that only 11 percent of Christians have read the entire Bible at least once, that 40 percent of Americans believe the Bible is “ambiguous on abortion,” that 34 percent say abortion is “morally acceptable,” and 34 percent likewise reject the biblical definition of marriage. Catholics, meanwhile, are the American Christians most in favorof redefining marriage.
  28. The transgender movement has rendered our national institutions incompetent and untrustworthy – Lifesitenews.com – 3/4/24 – Jonathon Van Maren – nothing has done more to undermine faith in institutions more than the rise of the gender movement – because the acceptance of this ideology has made so many once prestigious establishments appear so ridiculous to normal, common sense people who have never asked themselves what their gender might be.
  29. Catholic Senator Had Wanted Million-Dollar Earmark for LGBTQ Group Hosting Monthly ‘Kink’ Party – CatholicVote org – 3/5/24
  30. Leaked Files Expose Global Transgender Health Association for ‘Widespread Medical Malpractice on Children and Vulnerable Adults’ – CatholicVote org – 3/5/24 – Leaked internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) this week revealed members’ shocking disregard of medical ethics and the detrimental long-term effects of the hormone therapies and surgical interventions they recommend for children.
  31. Wisconsin teacher sues school that fired him for not using preferred pronouns – CatholicVote org – 8/9/24
  32. The Trans Kids Medical Scandal – 8/26/24 – Prager U
  33. Vermont Department of Health tells people not to use terms ‘daughter’ or ‘son’ – Lifesitenews.com – 8/29/24
  34. Why Girls Become Boys | PragerU – 3/29/21
  35. Michigan middle school ‘socially transitioned’ girl for months without telling parents – 9/24/24
  36. Prager U: These countries have stopped medical treatment of teens whose bodies are 100% healthy: Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland.
  37. California is working hard to make life easier for child sex abusers – lifesitenews.com – 12/1/22
  38. It’s come to this: School girls labeled ‘transphobic’ for opposing boys in their locker rooms – Lifesitenews.com – 9/4/24
  39. California takes custody of and attempts to ‘transition’ Christian widow’s child – CatholicVote org – 9/10/24
  40. What is Driving Gender Ideology in Schools – 5/21/24 – Govt money promoting LGBT ideology.  Govt > Grant Money > Hospital > LGBT Center > Schools
  41. The transgender movement will never give up: here’s why – 10/17/24. Despite increasing opposition, there are a lot of people who have already transitioned their own children and they can’t think about the possibility they were wrong..
  42. Parents outraged after ‘sex-ed’ program leader uses pedo-friendly language in school presentation – 10/24/24. “Minor Attracted Persons” is a phrase preferred by pedophiles, who believe that “MAP” is a destigmatizing term that assists in legitimizing their “identity” and promotes social acceptance of their sexual attractions.
  43. The LGBT movement never had any intention of promoting a ‘live and let live’ culture – 12/19/24.  That was never the goal; it was just the pitch, carefully curated for public consumption. The truth is that the LGBT movement sought – and seeks – cultural dominance.
  44. Preventable Tragedies: Why De-transitioners Are Suing Doctors – 10/14/24
  45. Heterodox Bishop Stowe praises Francis, says he ‘inspired’ him on LGBT issues – LifeSite – 4/30/25
  46. HHS report raises major concerns over risks of ‘gender-affirming care’ – CatholicVote org – 5/1/25. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a sweeping 400-page report Thursday warning of serious long-term risks associated with subjecting children to so-called “gender-affirming care,” including infertility and psychological harm.
  47. Why support for same-sex marriage is declining | Catholic Culture – 5/31/25
  48. 10 Years after Obergefell: Truth, consequences & Catholic courage – 6/12/25. the Obergefell decision redefined marriage in America.  LaBarbera lays out the cultural and spiritual fallout, from the normalization of gay parenting to the rise of transgender ideology and the marginalization of Christian truth. He exposes the hidden history of early LGBT activism, including disturbing links to pro-pederasty groups like NAMBLA, and challenges Christians to face hard truths the world wants erased. With clarity and conviction, he and Westen urge Catholics to speak with courage and love in a culture that now brands truth as hate.
  49. Doctors Goldfarb and Nazarian: The Evidence Is Clear—Youth Gender Transitions Are a Medical Mistake – Prager U, 67-minute video. 7/30/25
  50. Science agrees with the Catholic Church: Homosexuality is disordered – 9/5/25, Lifesite News.  Sodomy is unnatural and severely damaging to the body.
  51. Commentators on the transgender mass shooting in Minneapolis, 8/28/25.
    • Matt Walsh called out the “trans violence epidemic”: “When you affirm the perverse fantasies of sick and delusional people … you are creating precisely this kind of catastrophe.”
    • Michael Knowles reiterated that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”
    • Mike Cernovich stated, “Society tried compassion and indulged the trans stuff. It was a mistake.”
    • Charlie Kirk asserted that “If you are crazy enough to want to hormonally and surgically ‘change your sex’ … You are too crazy to own a firearm.
    • CNN’s John Miller downplayed the transgender shooter’s hatred of Christians, Jews, and Trump, claiming there “won’t” be a clear motive and casting it as someone “in pain.” Other CNN voices echoed this, stressing sympathy for the trans community while brushing off anti-Christian hatred.
      • Upward News BIAS Spotter – How Left & Right outlets frame the school shooting
      ·        (Left)  Calls for gun control: NBC News captured immediate demands for stricter gun laws from political figures and victims’ families. The family of a Minnesota lawmaker killed in June stated, “We hope this tragedy spurs elected officials to take action towards common-sense measures on access to high-powered weapons.” NBC News
      ·        (Left)  Violence across Minneapolis: Axios placed the school shooting within a broader surge of violence, noting it “came at the end of a deadly 24 hours in Minneapolis, as police responded to three separate fatal shootings.” Axios
      ·        (Right)  Student heroism: RedState shared a fifth grader’s harrowing account: “My friend Victor, like saved me, though, because he laid on top of me, but he got hit.” The student described the confusion and bravery as bullets tore through the church windows. RedState
      ·        (Right)  Mayor defending trans community: The Daily Wire covered Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s comments defending the transgender community in the aftermath of the shooting, quoting him saying, “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity.” The Daily Wire
  52. Trans-identifying teacher suspended after posting threatening pro-LGBT gun-themed image – LifeSiteNews, 11/11/25.  A gender-confused high school teacher has been suspended after posting an image of a rainbow-colored gun pointed at someone’s head with the caption “put the pronouns back in the email.”
  53. First openly ‘transgender’ lawmaker in US history found guilty of child abuse – LifeSiteNews, 11/10/25.
  54. Trans-identifying TSA officers sue for right to frisk opposite-sex travelers – LifeSiteNews, 11/12/25. The lawsuit is yet more evidence that transgender activists wish to transition all of society to align with their identity claims – regardless of what everyone else must endure in consequence.

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American Bishops Fail to Make Meaningful Sexual Abuse Reforms

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  1. US bishops punt resolution encouraging Holy See to release McCarrick documents (catholicnewsagency.com)
  2. The sexual harassment of seminarians continues – Former Cleveland sems allege sexual coercion, inadequate response (pillarcatholic.com)
  3. Nebraska AG Finds 258 Victims Abused by 57 Catholic Clergy – Complicit Clergy – 11/5/21
  4. The Elephant in the Room the Bishops Refuse to Address – Homosexuality in the Clergy – Complicit Clergy – 10/31/21
  5. RORATE CÆLI: The Catholic Cash Cow (rorate-caeli.blogspot.com) – 11/8/23
    • In 2018, Newsweek reported that the Catholic Church nationally had paid out over $4 Billion in settlements.  That is a 5-year-old number, and it is still staggering.  By comparison, The Catholic Church has paid out four times more than the USA school districts combined.  There are less than 30,000 Catholic priests in the USA and over 3.8 million teachers in our schools.  These are disparate numbers of an epic proportion.
    • Catholic priests are about half as likely to molest children as their Protestant clergy counterparts. They are around one third as likely to molest children as a male family member or friend.
  6. Albany, NY Catholic church settles Child Victims’ Act suit (nypost.com) – 7/7/22 – Some 400 other alleged sexual abuse victims have cases pending against the Albany Diocese
  7. Former Baltimore priest sentenced to prison for sexual abuse of a minor (aleteia.org) – 5/12/22
  8. WATCH: Dozens of Northern CA Priests Facing Child Sex Abuse Claims for the First Time – Complicit Clergy – 6/24/22 – 7 minute video
  9. Corrupt Cardinal, Corrupt Pontificate – OnePeterFive – 7/18/22 – MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY. Catholic Hierarchy is not accountable to anyone.
  10. The Dallas Charter Needs a Redo After 20 Years| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 7/19/22
  11. McCarrick case drags on a year after his arraignment in Massachusetts | Crux (cruxnow.com) – 9/9/22
  12. Roman Catholic diocese in northern New York announces bankruptcy filing amid sexual abuse lawsuits – ABC News (go.com) – 7/17/23
  13. Questions Abound in the Wake of Msgr. Burrill’s Return to Active Ministry| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 7/1/22 – In appointing him to a parish, Bishop William Callahan of La Crosse, Wisconsin, disclosed little about the priest’s alleged use of the Grindr ‘hook-up’ app, what treatment he might have received or what safeguards have been put into place.
  14. Archdiocese Challenges Child Abuse Victims Act – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics – 1/13/24 – Cardinal Wilton Gregory – Now, the current Archbishop of Washington, Wilton Gregory, who was identifiedby the late clerical sex abuse expert Richard Sipe as a homosexual, is adding his name to the roster alongside Wuerl’s and McCarrick’s, seeking to protect the Archdiocese’s pocketbook instead of its children.
  15. LISTEN: Cardinal Gregory, Are You an Active Homosexual? (complicitclergy.com) – 1/9/24
  16. Diocese of Fresno to File for Bankruptcy Amid Sex Abuse Claims, Bishop Says| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 5/29/24
  17. Sex Abuse Questions the Bishops Still Won’t Answer (complicitclergy.com) – 6/20/24
  18. Jaw-Dropping Vatican Financial and Sexual Corruption EXPOSED – Steven Brady investigates Corrupt Bishops sexual abuse scandal – 7/11/24
    • John-Henry Westen and Steven Brady discuss corruption and scandals in the Vatican and with clergy – including homosexuality and financial corruption.
    • In 2000, Brady exposed the “Saint Sebastian’s Angels” website, on which priests and bishops were sharing homosexual messages and images and spreading distortions of Catholic sexual ethics.
    • Brady also discusses the money laundering links with the Vatican, as well as threats issued to businessmen who have revealed it.
    • He shines a light on the complicity of bishops in covering up abuses and misconduct – particularly with Cardinal McCarrick, who was publicly denounced by now-excommunicated whistle-blower Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò – when they knew about and overlooked McCarrick’s crimes for a long time.
    • He praises the late Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) for his efforts to address these issues, despite facing resistance from various quarters.
  19. Victims feel ‘betrayed’ as Vatican investigation of Rupnik hits one year with no answers – 10/27/24
  20. WATCH: Did Archbishop Casey Try To Cover-Up Priest Porn Scandal? – Christine Niles – 7/16/25
  21. Priest, convicted of child pornography, re-integrated into the Vatican Curia – 7/12/25
  22. Cardinal McElroy asks Vatican to laicize whistleblower priest claiming DC sex abuse cover-up – 9/3/25, Lifesite News.
  23. Report Shows R.I. Diocese Mishandled Sexual Abuse by Clergy. ‘The scale is stunning…the church’s lack of appreciation for the harm that was caused is troubling. It’s almost like the institution felt protected from societal norms in how they reacted.’ – Boston Globe, 10/16/25.
  24. New York Archdiocese says it’s setting up a $300M fund for sexual abuse victims – Associated Press, 12/8/25. Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the archdiocese would pay for the fund by reducing its budget and selling off assets.

 

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Pope Francis Homosexual Couples Blessing Fallout

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Fiducia Supplicans – Blessings for Homosexual Unions – 12/18/23

  1. Pope Francis publishes norms for clergy to ‘bless’ homosexual unions (lifesitenews.com) – 12/18/23 – Fiducia Supplicans
  2. Pope Opens Possibility of Blessing ‘Same-Sex Couples,’ Those in ‘Irregular Situations’ – CatholicVote org – 12/18/23
  3. Bishop Strickland urges bishops to say ‘no’ to Francis’ ‘blessings’ of homosexual couples – Lifesitenews.com – 12/18/23
  4. Archbishop Peta, Bishop Schneider ban ‘blessings’ of homosexual couples in Kazakhstan archdiocese – Lifesitenews.com – 12/19/23 – CLIP: Bishop Schneider on blessing ‘same-sex unions’ (lifesitenews.com) – 12/19/23
  5. Former homosexual: Pope Francis is inviting humanity to join Satan in mocking Christ and His Church – Lifesitenews.com – 12/19/23
  6. Homosexual Blessings: Austrian bishop says priests CAN’T refuse & Malawi bishops say NO WAY (lifesitenews.com) – 12/19/23
  7. Most American bishops are going along with Pope Francis’ ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples – Lifesitenews.com – 12/19/23
  8. CLIP: Bishop Schneider on Pope Francis’ papacy (lifesitenews.com) – 12/20/23
  9. Bishop Schneider: Blessing of same-sex unions is ‘an abomination’ (lifesitenews.com) – 12/20/23
  10. Prominent canon lawyer Gerald Murray excoriates new Vatican doc endorsing ‘blessings’ of gay couples – Lifesitenews.com – 12/20/23
  11. Two Commentaries by Two Prominent Priests on Fiducia Supplicans (complicitclergy.com) – 12/30/23 – Raymond J. De Souza, Fr. Gerald E. Murray: A disordered sexual relationship brought into being by self-indulgent shameless acts is not bless-able. FS is a scandal and a disaster for claiming it is.
  12. Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio’s ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples show he is a ‘servant of Satan’ – Lifesitenews.com – 12/21/23
  13. Blessing Same-Sex Couples: a CA Roundtable | Catholic Answers Magazine – 12/21/23 – Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF)
    1. Trent Horn – Given the practical difficulty involved in the wide variety of ministers giving and individuals seeking these “spontaneous blessings,” I would not have released the document—or at I least I would have included the reminder from the 2021 DDF ruling, still in force, that God “does not and cannot bless sin.”
    2. Karlo Broussard – the DDF is safe doctrinally but has failed (gravely?) in exercising pastoral prudence. The damage has been done. Confusion is setting in. Let’s implore God that he will bring order out of disorder and peace out of chaos.
    3. Cy Kellett – At every talk I give, I meet people who are at their wits‘ end with Francis and people who are at their wits‘ end with those who oppose Francis. Everybody seems on edge. This isn’t helping… Fiducia Supplicans, in my view, is basically correct in its approach to blessings—if what it’s saying is that Pope Francis wants people to receive the blessings of the Church without priests actually blessing sinful unions.
    4. Todd Aglialoro – Fiducia Supplicans suggests that it is not their false claim to legitimate conjugal union or the sinful sexual acts that accompany it, but rather “all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships”. This strikes me as, at best, an unrealistic view.  I fear that the result of this document will be to present confusion and scandal to the world… to dishearten and impede the efforts of faithful clerical and lay ministers currently resisting the tide of sexual libertinism…
    5. Joe Heschmeyer – So what has the DDF now added to the conversation? The idea that in certain contexts, a priest might give an informal blessing to a “same-sex couple.” It’s not true, therefore (as some have said), that the DDF is okaying the blessing of same-sex “unions.” But it’s also not true (as others have claimed) that this is nothing new, since it’s just about blessing same-sex-attracted individuals. It’s not about individuals or unions, but a third thing, seemingly in between the two: a “couple.”
    6. Tom Nash – nowhere does FS acknowledge and affirm chaste living, as do faithful apostolates that minister to persons with same-sex attraction. Consequently, whatever good intention he may have, a cleric who attempts to bless the relationship of a same-sex couple will do them a grave disservice.
    7. Christopher Check – within hours of the Dicastery’s publication of Fiducia Supplicans, media all over the globe reported that the Catholic Church had reversed its teaching of 2021 that homosexual couples and “irregular” heterosexual couples cannot be blessed. The Catechism tells us that “scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. why would Rome cause scandal? Did the DDF not know what consequences FS would produce? One telltale sign: the word repent is noticeably absent from the document.
  14. Cardinal Müller tells Pope Francis: Blessing homosexual couples is ‘impossible’ and ‘blasphemy’  – Lifesitenews.com – 12/21//23
  15. Altier on Obedience of Faith – We Cannot and Will Not Bless Sin (complicitclergy.com) – 12/26/23
  16. On the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions | Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope (motherofisraelshope.org) – 12/28/23
  17. Bishops can opt diocese out of same-sex ‘blessings,’ Vatican says – Washington Times – 12/28/23
  18. 2023: The Fiducia Fiasco, Synodality, Fr Rupnik, and more (youtube.com) – 12/29/23 – The Catholic Thing, Gerald Murray, Diane Montagna, Fr. Rupni, and Cardinal Becciu.
  19. Kirby – I Will Not Be Blessing Couples in Irregular Unions (complicitclergy.com) – 12/31/23. These ‘pastoral’ blessings do not require repentance and the desire to change like all other church blessings. These same-sex couples are in a state of sin. Conditions: no vestments, no formal prayers, not in civil union ceremony, must be spontaneous, not part of sacred liturgy. God & the Church cannot bless states of sin.
  20. ‘Same-Sex’ Blessings Doc Sparks Sustained Global Pushback: The Bishops and Dioceses Saying ‘No’ – CatholicVote org – 1/1/24
  21. Franciscan University professor calls for Pope Francis to resign following homosexual ‘blessings’ text – Lifesitenews.com – 1/2/24
  22. The Remnant Newspaper – Fiducia Supplicans rollout… What are faithful Catholics to make of THIS? – 1/3/24
  23. ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ 2.0| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 1/4/24
  24. The Hidden Agenda Behind Same-Sex Blessings (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/24
  25. Lawler and Arroryo Discuss the Confusion Surrounding Fiducia Supplicans (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/24 – 21 minute video.
  26. LGBT ‘Catholic’ groups celebrate Fiducia Supplicans as an endorsement of homosexual relationships – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
  27. Golden Opportunities Missed – The Catholic Thing – 1/5/24 – David Carlin
    1. The first thing we have to note is that most Americans who have heard of FS – whether Catholics or Protestants or non-Christians, and whether they be pro-SR or anti-SR – perceive FS as a significant victory for the LGBTQ+ movement, a movement which, as I see it, has as one of its aims to undermine and destroy the Christian ideal of sexual morality, hence Christianity itself.
    2. Most people see FS as the Catholic Church giving ground to the LGBTQ+ gang.  They see FS as a sign that Catholicism, like liberal Protestantism, will eventually remove homosexual practice from its list of serious sins.  Defenders of FS can tell people, all they want, that they are mistaken to see things that way; all the same, that’s how they see it.
    3. Second, the American Catholic bishops are once again offered a golden opportunity to put themselves at the head of the SR counter-revolution.  But to do this, they will have to do something that is almost a psychological impossibility for a Catholic bishop: they will have to make a public declaration of their disagreement with the pope.
  28. Catholic priest wearing rainbow stole gives ‘blessing’ to women civilly ‘married’ for 22 years – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
  29. Cardinal Müller: Global rejection of Fiducia Supplicans should give Vatican ‘food for thought’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
  30. Bishop Strickland: Pope Francis using ‘sleight of hand’ to undermine Catholic teaching – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
  31. ‘Lies, Compromise, and Confusion’: Cardinal Sarah Blasts Fiducia Supplicans – CatholicVote org – 1/8/24
  32. Scandalous book on orgasms surfaces from Cardinal Fernández – Lifesitenews.com – 1/8/24
  33. Archbishop Viganò: Swiss guards should arrest Bergoglio and Fernandez, expel them from the Vatican – Lifesitenews.com – 1/8/24 – ‘The Swiss Guards have sworn to defend the See of Peter, not the one who is systematically demolishing it. Let them therefore be faithful to their oath and arrest these heretical perverts!’
  34. ‘Evil & destructive’ — Bishop Strickland REACTS to Chris Christie’s LGBT stance citing Pope Francis (lifesitenews.com) – 1/9/24
  35. Cardinals vs Cardinals on the Vatican’s heretical blessing of homosexual couples (lifesitenews.com) – 1/9/24
  36. Cardinal Sarah accuses Pope Francis of HERESY over G*Y Blessings? (youtube.com) – 1/10/24
  37. Vatican official says St. Peter’s Basilica will bless homosexual ‘couples’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/11/24
  38. ‘No Blessing for Homosexual Couples in the African Churches,’ African Bishops Conferences Announce – CatholicVote org – 1/11/24
  39. POWERFUL: Bishops REJECT Pope Francis’ latest document about blessing same-sex ‘couples’ (lifesitenews.com) – 1/11/24
  40. Murray condemns Fiducia Supplicans: ‘Pope Francis has not upheld the Catholic faith’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/12/24 – ‘There are heretical teachings contained in Fiducia Supplicans’.
  41. Pope Francis Knew His Doctrine Chief was an Erotic Author – OnePeterFive – 1/13/24
  42. Bishop Strickland calls on Pope Francis to ‘rethink’ Fiducia Supplicans – Lifesitenews.com – 1/14/24
  43. Bishop Schneider strongly condemns Fiducia Supplicans: ‘We should never accept such deception’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/15/24
  44. Pope Francis accuses those rejecting Fiducia Supplicans of reaching ‘ugly conclusions’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/15/24
  45. Marking One Month of ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: Opposition Shows No Signs of Abating| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 1/18/24
  46. Cardinal Zen warns of ‘error’ in Fiducia Supplicans, calls for Cdl. Fernández to resign – Lifesitenews.com – 1/23/24
  47. JPII Academy Calls on Pope to Fire Doctrinal Chief (churchmilitant.com) – 1/24/24
  48. Pope Francis Says He Expects ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ to be Gradually Accepted Worldwide – CatholicVote org – 1/29/24
  49. Crisis Magazine Opinion: Filial Appeal to All Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church – 2/2/24
  50. Cardinal Müller: Fiducia Supplicans ‘leads to heresy,’ Catholics cannot accept it – Lifesitenews.com – 2/16/24
  51. Cardinal Müller calls Pope Francis’ homosexual ‘blessings’ an attack on marriage – Lifesitenews.com – 3/26/24
  52. Priest defends Fr. Jesusmary for rebuking Francis, criticizes Pope for smearing Benedict XVI – Lifesitenews.com – 4/19/24
  53. Pope Francis’ 60 Minutes interview is a classic exercise in Modernist deception – Lifesitenews.com – 5/20/24
  54. Pope Francis says God loves homosexuals ‘as they are’ in new memoir – 1/14/25. Pope Francis defended the controversial 2023 text Fiducia Supplicans and appeared to suggest that there is no need for conversion away from the homosexual lifestyle.

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American Bishops Disappoint

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American Bishops Disappoint

180+ articles. Note: Catholic Leadership Critique Rationale

Below is a list of articles that demonstrate why I am disappointed with the leadership of the American Bishops.

  1. They have failed to make any meaningful sexual abuse reforms (18+ articles)
  2. They have failed to discipline Pro-Abortion Catholic politicians (12+ articles)
  3. They often fail to defend the Faith and Faithful Priests (30+ articles)
  4. Their Dismal Response to COVID (20+ articles)
  5. They promote illegal immigration, thereby supporting human trafficking, while turning a mostly blind eye toward abortion. (60+ articles).
  6. They have funded blatantly leftist, pro-abortion, pro-LBGT, and anti-Catholic organizations for years, especially via the CCHD (Catholic Campaign for Human Development) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). (12+ articles)

General Failures of the US Bishops

  1. The Archdiocese of Chicago under Cdl. Cupich is in complete disarray – lifesitenews.com– 2/23/22
  2. The City of Big Shoulders — and Liturgical Confusion: Chicago Faithful Flummoxed by Inconsistent Liturgy Policy| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 6/27/22
  3. Why the USCCB should be disbanded: $200M cost, less than zero benefits: (Church Militant, 11/23/21)
  4. The Sorry Situation of Catholic Schools | Mark Bauerlein | First Things – 5/9/22
  5. US priests are ‘flourishing’ – but they don’t trust their bishops (pillarcatholic.com) – 10/19/22
  6. Cupich Fires Catholic School Principal Over Mask Mandate – Complicit Clergy– 2/18/22
  7. Queen of Martyrs principal ousted by Cupich over mask compliance – Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)– 2/16/22
  8. Pontifical Academy for Life Members’ Support for Assisted Suicide Draws Criticism (ncregister.com)– 2/21/22
  9. Say what? Cardinal with strong Pope Francis ties says Catholic LGBTQ stance is wrong | Faith | frontiersman.com– 2/23/22
  10. Kids aren’t protected from LGBT ideology just because they attend Catholic schools – lifesitenews.com– 2/15/22
  11. Joe Biden is the ‘product’ of weak bishops who don’t defend Church teaching: Catholic activist – lifesitenews.com
  12. Bishop Callahan of La Crosse cancelled Fr. James Altman but protects Mnsr. Burrill who was caught using a gay hookup app on his phone – 3/1/22 – Church Militant
  13. Largest ever survey of US Catholics shows faithful want an end to Communion in the hand – 10/15/24. Real Presence Coalition (RPC) released the results of its massive July 2024 survey seeking to identify causes of a lack of faith in the Eucharist among many self-professed Catholics in the United States.

Miscellaneous Items

  1. Washington bill endorsed by Catholic bishops could force priests to break Seal of Confession – Lifesitenews.com – 2/19/24
  2. American bishops disappointed by Supreme Court’s climate regulation ruling | Catholic News Agency – 7/1/22 – Following Pope Francis, they would rather back Climate Change politics rather than focus on saving souls.
  3. RORATE CÆLI: Segregation is restored in the Diocese of Arlington (rorate-caeli.blogspot.com) – July 2022 – Suppression of the TLM
  4. Viganò: LifeSiteNews fights back against the errors and lies of the Deep State – LifeSite – 8/23/22 – also the Deep Church.
  5. Brave priest exposes heretical “Shadow Church,” Ready to die (lifesitenews.com) – 1/31/23
  6. Catholic filmmakers release second part of Latin Mass documentary, reveal origins of the New Mass – lifesitenews.com – 6/2/22
  7. USCCB in Baltimore; all Bishops wearing masks (Church Militant) – 11/17/21
  8. The State of Evil in the World – Courageous Clergy – Fr. Ripperger – 1/5/23
  9. The Homily by Fr. Kirby That Should Be Viewed by Every Bishop Worldwide (complicitclergy.com) – 3/26/24
  10. Archbishop Viganò Excoriates Wisconsin Bishop Incorporating Shaman Ritual into Chrism Mass (complicitclergy.com) – 3/23/24
  11. The Case of Bishop Stowe – Catholic World Report – 6/8/24
  12. The Silence of the Bishops in Response to the Persecution of Cardinal Zen (complicitclergy.com) – 9/23/22
  13. Bishop John Stowe Receives New Ways Ministry Award Offering Message of Resilience – 11/18/24. NOTE: New Ways Ministry has previously been denounced by both the U.S. bishops’ conference and the Vatican’s doctrinal office for causing confusion on sexual morality among the Catholic faithful.
  14. Bishop Stowe blesses 3 women in ceremony recognizing lay ministry roles – 12/16/24.
  15. US bishops should promote Eucharistic reverence instead of spending millions on big events – 1/21/25. The US bishops launching a multi-year, multi-million-dollar campaign based upon a dubious survey does not instill confidence among the laity.
  16. Joe Biden ‘conferred’ membership of the Freemasons in South Carolina – 1/25/25
  17. US bishops’ dependence on government funding is putting their integrity at stake – LifeSite – 2/14/25
  18. Where are the Bishops’ Priorities? – 2/28/25
  19. Heresy in High Places – Ralph Martin – 2/27/25. Ralph Martin asks how someone can be appointed Archbishop of Washington, DC, after expressing views contrary to the Catholic faith?
  20. Charlotte bishop denounces Latin, altar rails, kneeling in leaked letter – LifeSite – 5/28/25
  21. Charlotte Latin Mass ban is ‘heartless,’ ‘ideological,’ Peter Kwasniewski tells Raymond Arroyo – LifeSite – 5/30/25
  22. Bishops cannot force female altar servers on priests: 2001 Vatican document – LifeSite – 5/30/25. The emergence of female altar servers after the Second Vatican Council was a novelty seemingly impossible to suppress, and, in 1994, Pope John Paul II officially permitted their activities. However, bishops remained free to restrict altar service, previously fulfilled by seminarians in minor orders, to men and boys.
  23. Study confirms Latin Mass, Communion on tongue linked to stronger faith in Eucharist – LifeSiteNews, 9/27/25.
  24. Charlotte bishop says new Latin Mass chapel is not meant to fit everyone who wants to attend – LifeSiteNews, 9/29/25.
  25. Brooklyn bishop restricts Latin Mass to just two sites – LifeSiteNews, 10/1/25.
  26. Diocese of Austin shuts down planned Latin Mass for students at Texas A&M University – LifeSiteNews, 9/27/25
  27. Poll: US priests still leaning conservative, think highly of Pope Leo, less so of bishops – Catholic Vote, 10/15/25.
  28. Charlotte bishop bans all altar rails for receiving Communion starting the first Sunday of Advent – LifeSiteNews, 11/10/25. Father John Putnam, the pastor of St. Mark Catholic Church, said: Everyone “retains the right to kneel to receive the Eucharist,” citing the USCCB.
  29. New bishop of Austin directs priests to remove kneelers for Communion: ‘Wicked and cruel’ – LifeSiteNews, 11/14/25. Misko cited three reasons as the basis for the decision, including the fact that the “norm” is to receive Holy Communion standing in the U.S., as determined by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
  30. Charlotte bishop officially bans altar rails for Communion as of January 16 – LifeSiteNews, 12/18/25. Clergy, catechists, and teachers have been instructed by Bishop Martin to teach that kneeling is not ‘better’ than standing for Holy Communion.
  31. US Bishops Exposed Taking Money to Destroy America – Anthony Stine – 12/1/25. A new independent report shows that the US Bishops are part of a larger NGO program that profits from bringing dangerous individuals into the United States.
  32. A Beginners Guide to the Problems of the Novus Ordo Missae (Part I) – Radical Fidelity, 12/9/25
    1. Obscuring of the Sacrificial Nature of the Mass
    2. Diminution of the Ministerial Priesthood. Instead of mediator, the priest is presider, in dialogue with the people.
    3. Weakening of Eucharistic Reverence and the Real Presence
    4. Ecumenical Dilution and Protestant Sensitivity
    5. The Loss of Sacred Language and Priestly Expression
    6. Excessive Optionality and Liturgical Fragmentation
    7. Simplification and the Loss of Ritual Density
  33. A Beginners Guide to the Problems of the Novus Ordo Missae (Part II) – Radical Fidelity, 12/11/25.
  34. A Beginners Guide to the Problems of the Novus Ordo Missae (Part III) – Radical Fidelity, 12/12/25.

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American Bishops Failed to Discipline Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians

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American Bishops Failed to Discipline Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians (15+ articles)

  1. A few are now speaking up, but they waited until AFTER the election, to their shame
  2. Canon 915: Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
  3. For the past 45 years, the bishops’ reluctance to enforce canon 915 has allowed grave scandal and contributed to the Culture of Death. We still await most American bishops to do the right thing.
  4. Cardinal Burke: USCCB Must Correct the Scandal of Catholic Politicians Who Promote Abortion – Complicit Clergy
  5. US Bishops Vote Betrays Body and Blood of Jesus – Complicit Clergy (11/17/21) quoting story at National Review
  6. Phil Lawler: Bishops’ Eucharistic Document “Worse Than Nothing” – Complicit Clergy (11/18/21) quoting EWTN story.
  7. Arizona Bishops Attempt to Cancel Pro-Life, Pro-Family Catholics (lifesitenews.com) – 11/2/22
  8. Cordileone should’ve banned Pelosi from Communion ten years earlier (lifesitenews.com) – 5/26/22
  9. DC archdiocese implies it will allow Nancy Pelosi to receive Holy Communion – lifesitenews.com – 5/24/22
  10. Joe Biden is the ‘product’ of weak bishops who don’t defend Church teaching: Catholic activist – lifesitenews.com
  11. US bishops’ pro-life chair condemns Biden’s abortion executive order, mum on denying him Communion – lifesitenews.com – 7/11/22
  12. Our Catholic President and the Most Pressing Moral Issue of Our Time – Word on Fire – 8/5/22
  13. PETITION: US bishops must excommunicate Biden after his shameful pro-abortion State of the Union address – Lifesitenews.com – 3/8/24
  14. ‘Scandalous’: Catholics React to Biden’s State of the Union – CatholicVote org – 3/8/24
  15. EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Müller joins calls for US bishops to excommunicate Biden – Lifesitenews.com – 3/28/24
  16. US bishops are lying when they say abortion is their ‘preeminent priority’ – 1/27/25. The average budget for the US bishops’ pro-life office is just around $2 million, compared to $134 million in 2023 for ‘migration and refugee services.’ Even worse, the USCCB is giving parishioners’ money to pro-abortion groups through its Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services.
  17. Cardinal Cupich responds to criticism over Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to give pro-abortion senator an award – Catholic Vote, 9/22/25.
    • “At the heart of the consistent ethic of life is the recognition that Catholic teaching on life and dignity cannot be reduced to a single issue, even an issue as important as abortion,” Cardinal Cupich said. “The annual celebration of immigrants, Keep Hope Alive, will recognize all the critically important contributions Senator Durbin has taken to advance Catholic social teaching in the areas of immigration, the care of the poor, Laudato Si’, and world peace.”
    • Cardinal Cupich concluded: “The recognition of his defense of immigrants at this moment, when they are subjected to terror and harm, is not something to be regretted, but a reflection that the Lord stands profoundly with both immigrants who are in danger and those who work to protect them.”
  18. Bishop Paprocki doubles down on public rebuke of Cardinal Cupich for honoring pro-abortion senator – Catholic Vote, 9/23/25.
  19. Bishop Paprocki condemns Cupich’s ‘absurd’ award for pro-abortion Sen. Durbin in new essay – LifeSiteNews, 9/24/25
  20. Nebraska Bishop Conley denounces Cupich’s plan to honor pro-abortion senator: ‘I was shocked and bewildered’ – LifeSiteNews, 9/24/25. Bishop Conley has joined San Fransisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki, and former Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland in speaking out against the decision.

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American Bishops Often Fail to Defend the Faith and Faithful Priests

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American Bishops Often Fail to Defend the Faith and Faithful Priests (40+ articles)

They have failed to defend the perennial teachings of the Faith, reprimand liberal priests who promote sin and heresy, nor defend faithful priests.

  1. James Martin Set to Speak to School Children on Welcoming Homosexuality in Cardinal Dolan’s Archdiocese – Complicit Clergy
  2. Cardinal Gregory praises, celebrates Mass for Fr. James Martin’s heterodox LGBT event – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) – 8/5/24
  3. Cardinal Dolan endorses Fr. James Martin’s new LGBT activism group – lifesitenews.com – 7/19/22
  4. The US Bishops Promote a Protégé to the Rapist Theodore McCarrick – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics – 11/26/22
  5. Kids aren’t protected from LGBT ideology just because they attend Catholic schools – lifesitenews.com– 2/15/22
  6. Viganò calls on bishops to defend marriage, oppose the errors of Amoris Laetitia – Lifesitenews.com – 9/1/22
  7. California bishop blasts Cardinal-elect McElroy for thinking abortion ‘not wrong enough’ to discuss – Lifesitenews.com – 6/15/22
  8. Joe Biden is the ‘product’ of weak bishops who don’t defend Church teaching: Catholic activist – lifesitenews.com
  9. Chicago Archdiocese: We don’t oppose pornographic “children’s books” in public libraries | Chicago City Wire – 6/26/22 – they even slammed Catholic Vote, an orthodox Catholic lay organization
  10. Catholic bishops drop opposition to lesbian becoming a foster parent – Baptist News Global – 6/27/22
  11. Cardinal Dolan praises priest who presided at ‘trans’ funeral in New York cathedral – Lifesitenews.com – 2/19/24
  12. Louisiana bishops conference endorses emergency contraception in cases of rape – lifesitenews.com – 7/19/22
  13. Gregory restricts Latin Mass, bans traditional sacraments in ‘vindictive, heartless’ decree – lifesitenews.com – 7/22/22
  14. 84 Catholic dioceses partner with student evaluation firm pushing drag queen books, LGBT ideology – Lifesitenews.com – 1/18/23
  15. These are the Bishops you need to be warned about (lifesitenews.com) – 8/9/23 – Pope Francis, Cardinal Cupich, Cardinal Gregory, Cardinal Tobin, Bishop John Stowe
  16. REPORT: Catholic Relief Services, Government Funding, and Contraception – The Lepanto Institute – 3/6/24
  17. USCCB-backed law could force religious employers to protect employee abortions, contraception – Lifesitenews.com – 8/9/23
  18. Illinois bishops forbid promotion of petition seeking parental consent for minors’ abortions, ‘sex changes’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/11/24
  19. IN-DEPTH: Abortion, Transgender Services, Communion, and the ‘Transition’ of Catholic Church Leadership | The Epoch Times – 8/21/23
  20. Heretical AUSCP is not sanctioned.
  21. Bishop Strickland calls out US bishops for allowing ‘blasphemy’ and ‘heresy’ to go unanswered – Lifesitenews.com – 4/24/24
  22. Wake Up Call: Democrats Have Declared A Spiritual Civil War On America (Part 1) (conservativehq.com) – 2/4/24
  23. Bishop Stowe to receive award from heretical New Ways Ministry for ‘LGBTQ+ efforts’ – 9/20/24
  24. San Diego Diocese Bans Homeschooling Catholic Families from using Facilities – 9/26/24 – Cardinal McElroy of San Diego objects to Catholic families teaching Catholicism to their children on diocesan property.
  25. Viganò uses AI to show how Communion in the hand destroys belief in the Real Presence – 10/31/24. When he asked ChatGPT how a pope could undermine belief in the Real Presence of the Eucharist, the AI gave answers nearly identical to the Modernist reforms implemented after Vatican II.
  26. James Martin Does Teach Heresy: A Response to Trent Horn – 4/4/2022 – OnePeterFive. Fr. Martin does in fact teach heresy, making him at least a material heretic.[2]
  27. Catholic high school in Charlotte removes kneeler from chapel due to Bishop Martin – 9/9/25, Lifesite News. Christ the King Catholic High School is also adding a projector screen at Masses and student extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion at the direction of anti-traditional Bishop Michael Martin.
  28. North Carolina bishop bans use of altar rails at diocesan high schools – 9/9/25, CatholicVote.
  29. USCCB partners with heretical priest group AUSCP despite obscenity at meeting – Lifesite News, 9/15/25. The AUSCP has a long history of promoting ideologies in contradiction to Catholic teaching on sexual morality, the sacraments, ‘women’s ordination,’ and the nature of the priesthood. This article examines the facts: the AUSCP’s promotion of doctrinal dissent, the bishops’ silent or not-so-silent participation, and the institutional failure to draw clear moral lines. It also reveals the deeper cost of collaboration with an organization that no longer hides its anti-Catholic agenda.
  30. TONE DEAF: USSCB Publishes Islamophobia Document SAME DAY that 64 Catholics Murdered in Islamist Attack in DR Congo. Complicit Clergy, 9/18/25.
  31. WATCH: USCCB ignores Bp. Strickland’s concerns about confirmation of homosexual ‘married’ ABC anchor – LifeSiteNews, 11/13/25. “On the day that disgraced Bp Strickland stood up at USCCB mtng to denounce @JamesMartinSJ for receiving into the Church a gay man in a relationship, Pope Leo warmly received a gay couple, smiling and nodding when they praised Fr Martin for his ministry,” Ivereigh wroteon X.
  32. Why They Are Taking Away Your Traditional Latin Mass – Peter Kwasniewski, 11/20/25. The reason the Church’s leaders persecute the most faithful Catholics is that, broadly speaking, the leadership of the Catholic Church on earth at this time is dominated by a network of active homosexuals and theological modernists.  This explains:
    • the constant flow of evidence documented from the early 2000s about clerical sex abuse, its connection to homosexuality, and its elaborate coverup.
    • the complicity that came to light in the McCarrick network (which, by the way, is still humming along).
    • how a somodite like Jeffrey Burrill could become the general secretary of the USCCB, despite being caught using the gay hookup app Grindr, and why he is now a pastor of a parish (!) and “in good standing” and with access to children, while priests of impeccable zeal and orthodoxy have been cancelled.
    • why the notorious serial abuser and blasphemer Marko Rupnik is stillin active ministry, despite well-substantiated allegations.
    • why Fr. James Martin gets away with confirming openly gay ABC anchor Gio Benitez, whose “husband” Tommy DiDario acted as sponsor — and why, when Bishop Strickland addressed the November USCCB meeting to say this “needs to be addressed,” he was met with silenceand the meeting proceeded on as if nothing had happened.
  33. Cardinal Müller criticizes bishops banning Latin Mass, says they should focus on ‘salvation of souls’ – LifeSiteNews, 11/19/25.
  34. Roman Hierarchy Should Discipline NYC Church For Confirming Unrepentant Gay TV Anchor – The Federalist – 12/1/25. Cardinal Dolan Fails to Discipline NYC Church For Confirming Unrepentant Gay TV Anchor In His Archdiocese.
  35. Homosexual Clergy Destroy Heterosexual Vocations – John Eighteen Thirty-Seven, 11/30/25. Past and present crisis goes unaddressed by the media. This article is very hard to believe; it’s hard to imagine things could be this bad.
  36. Altar Rails in the Charlotte Diocese – Catholic Answers – 1/23/25.

Faithful Bishops and Priests are persecuted or cancelled and not defended.

  1. Bishop Callahan of La Crosse cancelled Fr. James Altman but protects Mnsr. Burrill who was caught using a gay hookup app on his phone – 3/1/22 – Church Militant
  2. Four Years Later the Lies Continue – 9/10/22 – Church Militant. Paul John Kalchik went into hiding after burning an LGBTQ Flag at his parish (Resurrection Parish) in Chicago and Cardinal Cupich attempted to banish him. The Chicago Police Department threatened to forcibly remove him from the parish. This threat was substantiated at the time by the parish’s vicar, Bp. Mark Bartosic.
  3. ‘Monsignor GRIDR’ Gets New Parish, Fr. Altman Remains Sidelined – Complicit Clergy – 6/12/22
  4. Another local Catholic priest Fr. Edward Meeks draws national criticism, this time for anti-vaccine remarks | Baltimore Brew – 11/30/21
  5. Priest canceled by Bishop for speaking out against the Church’s homosexual cabal – lifesitenews.com – 8/21/23
  6. S. Bishops Are Cowards (complicitclergy.com) – 11/16/23 – none of them defend Bishop Strickland.
  7. The Silence of the Bishops in Response to the Persecution of Cardinal Zen (complicitclergy.com) – 9/23/22
  8. Hilarious statement from the Archdiocese of Chicago about the suppression of the Institute of Christ the King | Fr. Z’s Blog (wdtprs.com) – 8/4/22 – TLM prohibited.
  9. Archbishop Viganò: Biden Must be Excommunicated after ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ Declaration (complicitclergy.com) – 4/2/24
  10. Biden the Apostate – Crisis Magazine – 4/4/24
  11. Bishop Strickland, Archbishop Cordileone defend Harrison Butker amid onslaught of media attacks – Lifesitenews.com – 5/17/24
  12. HOME ALONE IN THE PRIESTHOOD – JohnEighteenThirtySeven, 12/14/25. Unaddressed reasons young priests are leaving. Unfortunately, most heterosexual priests today receive very little support from their bishops who in over 80 percent of the cases are homosexuals. (!?)

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