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| Pope Francis approves new document elevating ecumenism and synodality above papal primacy |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-14-2024, 08:16 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis approves new document elevating ecumenism and synodality above papal primacy
The new ‘study document’ from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity emphasizes an intimate link between papal primacy and synodality, advocating for decentralization, granting more authority at regional levels while enhancing ecumenism.
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Pope Francis is met by Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronimos II as he arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos at Mytilene airport on April 16, 2016, in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece
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Jun 13, 2024
This article was originally published by PerMariam: Mater Dolorosa.
VATICAN CITY (PerMariam - slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included) — The Vatican has unveiled a pivotal document on the papacy, which contains numerous calls to fundamentally alter the understanding of the practice of papal primacy and authority in order to aid ecumenism and synodality.
Titled “The Bishop of Rome. Primacy and Synodality in the Ecumenical Dialogues and in the Responses to the Encyclical Ut unum sint,” the text was launched via a press conference in Rome, June 13.
Billed as “the first document to summarize the entire ecumenical debate on the service of primacy in the Church since the Second Vatican Council,” the document is the fruit of almost four years of “truly ecumenical and synodal work.” The text presents the results of a process initiated by the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity (DPCU) in 2020, which saw the 25th anniversary of Ut Unum Sint.
The document, drawn up under the guidance of the DPCU, has received input from “Orthodox and Protestant theologians,” as well as the Roman Curia and the Synod of Bishops. As such, the text is a “study document”: not presenting a new line which the Vatican is set to adhere to – at least not yet – but giving a strong indication of probably future direction on the papacy which may soon emerge, partially from the Synod on Synodality.
As with many elements of the Catholic Church today, ecumenism is at the fore. The dicastery summarized that following Vatican II the “ecumenical dimension” of the papacy “has been an essential aspect of this ministry.”
Writing his preface to the 150-page document, DPCU prefect Cardinal Kurt Koch noted that:
Quote:It is our hope that it will promote not only the reception of the dialogues on this important topic [the papacy], but also stimulate further theological investigation and practical suggestions, ‘together, of course,’ for an exercise of the ministry of unity of the Bishop of Rome ‘recognized by all concerned’ (UUS 95).
Indeed, The Bishop of Rome appears to present the blueprint for a new understanding of the papacy and papal primacy in the 21st century, an era marked by a focus on ecumenism and “synodality.” As noted in the document itself:
Quote:The following pages offer a schematic presentation of
(1) the responses to Ut unum sint and documents of the theological dialogues devoted to the question of primacy;
(2) the main theological questions traditionally challenging papal primacy, and some significant advances in contemporary ecumenical reflection;
(3) some perspectives for a ministry of unity in a reunited Church; and
(4) practical suggestions or requests addressed to the Catholic Church.
This synthesis is based both on the responses to Ut unum sint and on the results of the official and unofficial dialogues concerning the ministry of unity at the universal level. It uses the terminology adopted by these documents, with its advantages and limitations.
Windswept House? Primacy or committees?
The document’s theological arguments and essays are followed by a summary along with “practical suggestions or requests addressed to the Catholic Church” regarding the future exercise of the office of the papacy. As with other elements of current ecclesial life, the text bears a peculiar resemblance to Malachi Martin’s Windswept House, in which the globalist and Masonic-aligned cardinals are attempting to force the “Slavic Pope” to resign by arguing that for him to do so would help the damaged unity of the Church, and improve relations between the (heterodox) bishops and the pope.
Though not aimed at forcing Pope Francis to resign – since he has approved of The Bishop of Rome and ordered its promulgation, the DCPU’s text appears aimed at changing the papacy generally, not at any pope in particular. The “principles for the exercise of primacy in the 21st century” present a change in understanding of the papacy which would be at the service of ecumenism and synodality, the text outlines.
Papal primacy, the DCPU’s text states, should be intimately linked with synodality – reflecting the current wave of thought sweeping through the Church at the instigation of Pope Francis. “A first general agreement is the mutual interdependency of primacy and synodality at each level of the Church, and the consequent requirement for a synodal exercise of primacy,” the DCPU’s text reads.
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Cdl. Kurt Koch. [Credit: Michael Haynes]
Another point agreed on by the numerous ecumenical bodies involved in writing the text is that the papacy should be understood in a new sense by opening the door to decentralization of power. In this light, a call is made for synodality to be effected by granting more power to the “regional” levels of the Catholic Church, and “a continuing ‘decentralization’ inspired by the model of the ancient patriarchal Churches.”
Moving on, the text then presents the “practical suggestions” from all the ecumenical dialogues and bodies involved, before adding a further couple of suggestions from the DCPU in particular.
Even before the concrete and “practical suggestions” are presented – giving the DCPU’s ecumenical assessment on how to increase ecumenical unity and synodality by changes to the papacy – the subtext is remarkably clear: in the modern “enlightened” age in which the Church now exists, and given the self-understanding of “synodality” which is now endemic, papal primacy should be quietly faded out.
First change: Primacy a historical fad?
First on the DCPU’s list of “practical suggestions” is a call for a “re-interpretation” of the teachings of Vatican I – the council which issued the dogmatic constitution Pastor Aeternus which outlines the primacy and infallibility of the pope, two ecumenical stumbling blocks. Pastor Aeternus reads:
Quote:We teach and declare that, according to the Gospel evidence, a primacy of jurisdiction over the whole Church of God was immediately and directly promised to the blessed apostle Peter and conferred on him by Christ the lord… Therefore whoever succeeds to the chair of Peter obtains by the institution of Christ Himself, the primacy of Peter over the whole Church.
These teachings appear to be in the crosshairs of the DCPU via The Bishop of Rome. They call for “a Catholic ‘re-reception,’ ‘re-interpretation,’ ‘official interpretation,’ ‘updated commentary’ or even ‘rewording’ of the teachings of Vatican I.” The document states that some of the contributors to its compilation have argued that Vatican I’s “teachings were deeply conditioned by their historical context, and suggest that the Catholic Church should look for new expressions and vocabulary faithful to the original intention but integrated into a communio ecclesiology and adapted to the current cultural and ecumenical context.”
“Deeply conditioned by the historical context,” should be interpreted as “no longer acceptable for the brave, modern world in which we now live.”
Second change: Stick to the diocese of Rome to ‘renew’ the papacy
Continuing the Windswept House theme, the DCPU presents its second suggestion for how to alter the papacy. Just as the scheming cardinals in Windswept House presented a forced papal resignation as a good thing for ecclesial unity, so also the DCPU presents a stripping of papal power as a means to “renew the image of the papacy.”
The DCPU issues a request for “a clearer distinction between the different responsibilities of the Bishop of Rome,” which would, it argues, aid his “ministry of unity.” This call includes the desire for how “other Western Churches might relate to the Bishop of Rome as primate while having a certain autonomy themselves” – arguably translated as “will the Pope please consider himself just the bishop of an important diocese, and allow other ‘primates’ to enjoy some equitable power like he does?”
Indeed, the DCPU goes so far as to make this very argument, removing the need for the customary interpretation of Vatican-style linguistics. “A greater accent on the exercise of the ministry of the Pope in his own particular Church, the diocese of Rome, would highlight the episcopal ministry he shares with his brother bishops, and renew the image of the papacy,” the DCPU recommends.
Third change: Ecumenism demands more synodality, including for the papacy
If it was not already clear that the two watchwords of the modern church are “ecumenism” and “synodality,” the DCPU makes such crystal clear in its third suggestion on how to reassess the papacy. The DCPU wrote that the theological dialogues involved in compiling the document had identified how “a growing synodality is required within the Catholic Church,” which would be evidenced by increasing the authority of bishops’ conferences. The text reads:
Quote:Putting an emphasis on the reciprocal relation between the Catholic Church’s synodal shaping ad intra and the credibility of her ecumenical commitment ad extra, they identified areas in which a growing synodality is required within the Catholic Church. They suggest in particular further reflection on the authority of national and regional Catholic bishops’ conferences, their relationship with the Synod of Bishops and with the Roman Curia.
At the universal level, they stress the need for a better involvement of the whole People of God in the synodal processes. In a spirit of the ‘exchange of gifts,’ procedures and institutions already existing in other Christian communions could serve as a source of inspiration.
Fourth change: More ecumenical meetings
Pope Francis has continued to champion the cause of ecumenical meetings between religious leaders throughout his papacy, increasingly linking it to the current Synod on Synodality. These encounters appear set to continue under the spirit of The Bishop of Rome, since the DCPU highlights them as its fourth recommended change.
“A last proposal is the promotion of ‘conciliar fellowship’ through regular meetings among Church leaders at a worldwide level in order to make visible and deepen the communion they already share,” the text reads. “In the same spirit, many dialogues have proposed different initiatives to promote synodality between Churches, especially at the level of bishops and primates, through regular consultations and common action and witness.”
Commentators have long expressed concerns about the effect of such ecumenical meetings (like holding joint Catholic-Anglican vespers in the Basilica of St. Paul’s outside the Walls in Rome) since they create the impression that the Catholic Church and the Pope are on an equal footing with all the multitude of religions customarily represented at such events.
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Pope Francis and Justin Welby at ecumenical Vespers, January 25, 2024. [Credit: Michael Haynes]
Speaking to this correspondent in Rome last year, Bishop Athanasius Schneider attested that modern ecumenism “undermines the truth that there is only one Church of God and this is the Catholic Church, the Church of Peter, united with the Holy See, the chair of Peter – the popes.”
While the Vatican heavily promotes interreligious actions, Schneider stated that “such gestures, or inter-religious meetings, are undermining these truths, and therefore these actions have to change.”
He added that Catholics must ensure that charity is always practiced with non-Catholics, but they must also inform non-Catholics “that they are unfortunately in an objective error, and that they are called by God to join the Holy Mother Church which is the Catholic Church, which is the will of God.”
Goodbye to the ‘universal Church’
Amongst the specific aims of the DCPU’s own direct recommendations, which conclude the text, is a peculiarly convoluted argument against understanding the Catholic Church as “universal.” “It seems particularly necessary to clarify the meaning of the expression ‘universal Church,’” the DCPU writes, employing another standard phrase, “clarify the meaning,” which is more correctly interpreted as “reject.”
The DCPU declared that “since the 19 century, the catholicity of the Church has often been understood as its worldwide dimension, in a ‘universalistic’ way.” This understanding, Cdl. Koch’s dicastery argues, “does not take sufficient account of the distinction between the Ecclesia universalis (the ‘universal Church’ in the geographical sense) and the Ecclesia universa (the ‘whole Church,’ the ‘entire Church’), the latter being the more traditional expression in the Catholic magisterium.”
By having “a merely geographical notion of the catholicity of the Church,” the DCPU wrote that a risk exists of “giving rise to a secular conception of a ‘universal primacy’ in a ‘universal Church,’ and consequently to a secular understanding of the extension and constraints of such a primacy.”
Instead, the DCPU urged a shift in the understanding of the universal Church and the power necessary to govern such a universal body. “Roman primacy should be understood not so much as a universal power in a universal Church (Ecclesia universalis), but as an authority in service to the communion between the Churches (communio Ecclesiarum), that is to the whole Church (Ecclesia universa).” That is to say, once the language is stripped away, the papacy should not seek to exercise its divine authority – the authority outlined in Pastor Aeternus – and instead work on using a restrained practice of power to foster ecumenical unity.
Conclusion
Tying all its many pages together, The Bishop of Rome concludes by urging the acceptance of the suggestions and recommendations made, in order to make a renewal – an unqualified renewal – of the “exercise of the ministry of the Bishop of Rome” and to further aid ecumenical unity.
“Building on the above principles and recommendations, which are fruits of common ecumenical reflection, it may be possible for the Catholic Church to renew the exercise of the ministry of the Bishop of Rome and to propose a model of communion based on ‘a service of love recognised by all concerned’ (UUS 95),” the text opines.
As is already widely documented, modern ecumenism has as its aim simple unity, not unity as outlined in the traditional teaching of the Church. For the papacy to become directly subordinated to the modern form of ecumenism would appear to be the next stage in a long process of ecumenical “walking together” – together, but away from truth.
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| Fatima and St. Margaret Mary’s visions of the Sacred Heart are providentially connected |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-10-2024, 10:23 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Fatima and St. Margaret Mary’s visions of the Sacred Heart are providentially connected
The visions of St. Margaret Mary and the apparitions at Fatima both warn about the devil, reveal a safeguard against the dangers of Hell, request complementary devotions, and involve requests for consecrations.
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St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and Jesus (left), Our Lady of Fatima
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Jun 8, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — On May 13, 1917, Our Lady famously appeared, for the first time, to three shepherd children at Fatima.
Exactly three years later – on May 13, 1920 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, a nun who received visions of Jesus and His Sacred Heart, was canonized a saint.
This providential alignment of dates carries a message: the visions of St. Margaret Mary and the apparitions at Fatima are related. How?
I. Firstly, both events begin with images of the Sacred or Immaculate Heart and proceed to mention the Devil or Hell.
On December 27, 1673, St. Margaret Mary saw Jesus’s “divine Heart as on a throne of flames, more brilliant than the sun and transparent as crystal.” According to the saint, Jesus made known his desire that the image of His Sacred Heart be exposed for veneration. But there was also a warning about Satan. As St. Margaret Mary explains: “This devotion was as a last effort of His love which wished to favor men in these last centuries… in order to withdraw them from the empire of Satan” (Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque).
At Fatima, 244 years later, there was a similar pattern of seeing a heavenly heart before receiving a warning. On June 13, 1917, the Fatima children saw the Blessed Virgin holding her Immaculate Heart encircled with thorns. A month later, the children beheld a terrifying vision of Hell. In Lucia’s words:
Quote:Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repulsive likeness to frightful and unknown animals, all black and transparent…
Here the repetition of hellish images of flames and fire contrasts with both the peaceful imagery of the Immaculate Heart and the holy flames of the Sacred Heart. Ultimately, for both the Fatima children and St. Margaret Mary, early visions of the Sacred or Immaculate Heart reveal a safeguard against the dangers of Satan and Hell.
II. Secondly, both events request special, complementary devotions.
In 1674 – possibly on the First Friday in June – St. Margaret Mary had her second revelation. With the Blessed Sacrament exposed, the nun received word from Jesus about the First Fridays devotion, in which souls receive Holy Communion and go to Confession on the First Friday of nine consecutive months. St. Margaret Mary’s third revelation – on June 16, 1675 – was closely related, featuring a vision of Jesus on the altar. “Behold,” He said, “this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing…In return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude” (The Life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque).
On June 13, 1917, 243 years later, Our Lady of Fatima said that to save souls, God wished to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. To prevent the punishments of “war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father,” the Blessed Virgin said she would come to request, among other things, “the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays.” In December 1925, the Blessed Virgin Mary returned to Lucia and called for completion of the First Saturdays devotion. As Our Lady told Lucia:
Quote:Look, my daughter, at my Heart surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive Holy Communion, pray the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me. (Pathway Under the Gaze of Mary)
In this way, Fatima presents itself as a kind of follow-up and complement to the Sacred Heart visions. With certain overlapping requirements (such as Confession), the devotions encourage souls to make reparation to both the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart if possible.
III. Thirdly, both events carry requests for consecrations.
On June 17, 1689, St. Margaret Mary received her last great revelation (Life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque). In her letters, she quoted Our Lord’s message for King Louis XIV regarding a consecration: “Make known to the eldest son of my sacred heart that…he will obtain his birth into grace and eternal glory by consecrating himself to My adorable Heart” (Letters of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque). Yet the consecration requests were not heeded. On June 17, 1789 – a hundred years to the day of the June 17, 1689 consecration request – Louis XVI had his power removed, later dying by the guillotine.
But the story does not end there. On June 13, 1929 – just four days shy of the 240th anniversary of the 1689 consecration request – Our Lady told Lucia of Fatima: “The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all the Bishops of the world, to make the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart.” “Later,” Lucia says Jesus told her: “If they do not wish to heed my request, as like the king of France [Louis XIV], they will repent, but it will be late. Russia will have already spread her errors throughout the world, provoking wars, and persecutions of the Church. The Holy Father will have much to suffer.” (Pathway Under the Gaze of Mary)
In other words, there is a parallel between Louis XIV’s failure to comply with Jesus’s consecration requests and the situation of the Church and world should a papal consecration of Russia come too late. Over 300 years later, the story of Jesus’s consecration requests to Louis XIV still lives on as a cautionary tale for the era of Fatima.
Ultimately, since St. Margaret Mary’s story is intricately related to the Fatima story, both events belong to our times. They belong, firstly, as revelations of the splendor of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts amid warnings about the Devil and Hell. Secondly, they belong as revelations of the power of the First Fridays and First Saturdays devotions. Thirdly, they speak to the ongoing importance of heeding consecration requests.
So let us try, if possible, to fulfill both the First Fridays and the First Saturdays devotions. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
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| WHO warns a NEW strain of bird flu as man in Mexico tests positive before dying from it |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-06-2024, 06:06 AM - Forum: Health
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World Health Organization warns a NEW strain of bird flu has jumped to humans with 'potential for high public health impact' - as man in Mexico, 59, tests positive before dying from it
READ MORE: FDA chief says agency is preparing for potential bird flu pandemic
Daily Mail | 5 June 2024
A new strain of bird flu has jumped to humans in an event that has 'potential for high public health impact', the World Health Organization has warned.
Officials say a 59-year-old man in Mexico died after battling a seven-day illness in which he suffered fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea and nausea.
Tests showed the man, who suffered multiple underlying conditions, was infected with a strain of bird flu called H5N2, marking the first time this type has ever been detected in humans.
Officials said any case of new bird flu strains spilling into humans risked an outbreak, but that in this case the risk was 'low' as there was no evidence of onward transmission.
The strain differs from the H5N1 bird flu that is currently tearing through dairy herds in the US and has already sickened three dairy farm workers.
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The 59-year-old man from Mexico died after contracting the bird flu strain H5N2, the first time this has been detected in humans (stock image)
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It differs from the H5N1 strain currently behind the outbreak among cattle in the US, with 82 herds having tested positive for the virus
The patient, from Mexico City, became unwell on April 17, but initially tried to treat his symptoms at home.
A week later, however, and after symptoms worsened, the patient went to hospital — but died later that same day from 'complications of his condition'.
PCR tests carried out on April 24 revealed he had been infected with a flu virus, and later it was confirmed that the patient had H5N2.
He was also reported to have been bedridden for three weeks before contracting the infection.
It was not clear where the patient caught the virus or whether they had spread it to others. He had no connection to farmland or poultry — which has been the case for the three patients infected with the original strain.
Officials said 17 people at the Mexico City hospital where he was treated and twelve neighbors — including seven who had signs of illness — all tested negative for the virus.
Blood tests are now being carried out to screen for antibodies against H5N2, which would indicate a previous infection.
Officials also noted that several flocks in the area had recently tested positive for H5N2, although it was not clear whether these were linked to the patient.
Dr William 'Bill' Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, said the case was concerning but that it was likely that increasing cases are being detected due to a rise in the number of tests.
'We are looking very hard for bird flu infections, as a consequence of H5N1, around the world,' he told DailyMail.com.
'We are also looking now in a much more sophisticated fashion than we were able to do even five to ten years ago.
'So, I think we will begin to find the odd infection that we hadn't anticipated but that probably was happening in the past but going unrecorded.'
He added that he was 'surprised' the infection had been detected in someone with no contact with poultry, suggesting the individual may have caught the disease from a close contact — although this will need to be confirmed with tests.
H5N2 was first detected in poultry in the 1990s, and has also been detected in other animals including pigs — which are known for infecting humans with their diseases.
This strain is not the type responsible for current widespread outbreaks across the animal population of the US.
It is H5N1, which has been detected in everything from foxes to raccoons, skunks, cows, seals and deer.
Last week, experts raised concerns after a third American tested positive for H5N1, and was found to have novel symptoms including a cough.
This means the virus may be able to spread easily to others via infected particles in the air.
In the other two H5N1 cases, the symptoms mostly affected the patients' eyes — including watery discharge and bleeding.
A total of 82 dairy herds have now tested positive for bird flu, with Idaho reporting the highest number.
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| Pope Francis again welcomes group of ‘transgender’ males, homosexuals at Vatican audience |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-06-2024, 05:35 AM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis again welcomes group of ‘transgender’ males, homosexuals at Vatican audience
Pope Francis met on Wednesday with a group of self-professed homosexuals and ‘transsexuals,’ led by pro-LGBT nun Geneviève Jeanningros, who make monthly trips to his weekly general audiences, where they are given seats of honor in the front row.
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Pope Francis meets with transgender activist group at weekly audience
LifeSiteNews
Jun 5, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks in original included below]) — Just days after reportedly complaining about too much “f–ggotry” in Catholic seminaries, Pope Francis welcomed gender-confused persons led by an LGBT activist nun at his weekly audience at the Vatican this week.
Vatican News reports that on Wednesday, June 5, pro-LGBT Sr. Geneviève Jeanningros led a contingent of self-professed homosexuals, “transsexuals,” and others from Torvaianica, a seaside town south-west of Rome infamous for its prostitution and drug trade.
READ: Pope Francis reportedly tells homosexual man thrown out of seminary: ‘Go forward with your vocation’
Francis met with the group “for a few minutes” and gave a rosary to a person identified as “Ada,” which he said was “a gift from the Pope,” before giving a blessing, the outlet related.
LifeSite’s Michael Haynes has reported that members of the group make monthly trips to Francis’ weekly general audiences, at which they are given seats of honor in the front row.
Wednesday’s meeting was not the first time Francis has welcomed the Torvaianica cohort, which counts the Blessed Immaculate Virgin Church as its home base.
In 2021 on Holy Saturday, Francis invited nearly 50 “transgender” members of the group to receive the COVID shot at the Vatican. Francis directed Vatican employees not to question them about their sex.
“Ask for their names, ask for anything they need, but do not ask them about their sex,” said the pope, according to Juan Carlos Cruz, an openly homosexual man and friend of Francis appointed by the pope to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
In November 2023, Francis welcomed the group and their parish priest, Father Andrea Conocchia, to a Vatican-hosted lunch for the poor and sat opposite a “transgender” former prostitute.
The 50-strong group included three men living as “women”: “Carla” Segovia and “Claudia” Vittoria Salas from Argentina, along with “Andrea” Paola Torres Lopez from Colombia. Salas was given a place directly opposite Pope Francis during the lunch.
According to a 2022 report on the transgender group in Torvaianica, Salas “transitioned” to appear like a 11-year-old girl. He is now 55.
Jeanningros, 81, was praised by Vatican News as being an “icon” among those who minister to so-called “LGBTQ+ communities.”
“We are all human people, you can’t have a closed judgment,” Jeanningros told the website, which related that she plans on bringing seven homosexuals to next week’s general audience.
Pro-LGBT Jesuit priest James Martin’s heterodox Outreach website published an article in January 2023 heaping praise on Jeanningros, who is French, as well. An article titled, “Pope Francis has met regularly with transgender Catholics [sic] at general audiences,” quoted her as saying “the Pope wants to meet everyone.”
READ: Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book
In contrast to Francis’ affirmation of the gender-confused group’s lifestyle, Catholic teaching on sexual and gender issues remains unchangeable. The Catechism states: “Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life.” (CCC 2333)
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1975 document, Persona Humana, likewise states: “There can be no true promotion of man’s dignity unless the essential order of his nature is respected.”
More recently, Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider, together with several other bishops, wrote in their 2019 “Declaration of Truths” that “gender reassignment” surgery is a “grave sin” and a “rebellion” against divine and natural law.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio’s goal is to normalize sodomy |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-05-2024, 01:26 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio’s goal is to normalize sodomy
'Bergoglio’s goal is to normalize sodomy and all sexual perversion (both among the laity and among the clergy), destroy the priesthood itself, and promote the synodal transition from the Mass to celebrations without a priest,' Viganò wrote on Tuesday.
Jun 5, 2024
(LifeSiteNews) — In a social media post Tuesday, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accused Pope Francis of wanting to “normalize sodomy,” “destroy” the priesthood and “promote the synodal transition from the Mass to celebrations without a priest.”
Responding to reports that Francis told a man who was dismissed from a seminary for being a practicing homosexual to “go forward with your vocation,” Viganò wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter:
Quote:Bergoglio’s goal is to normalize sodomy and all sexual perversion (both among the laity and among the Clergy), destroy the Priesthood itself, and promote the synodal transition from the Mass to celebrations without a priest.
His obsessive denunciations of clericalism embody his worst flaws. They make manifest his aversion to the heart of our Faith, for where there is no priest, there is no Mass, and without the Mass the infinite Graces of Christ’s Sacrifice are lacking. It is no accident that Bergoglio no longer celebrates Mass.
The foul words used about the presence of homosexuals in Seminaries are part of his Marxist and Hegelian (and Masonic) dialectics, where the chimera of the ‘new order’ comes from chaos, from permanent revolution.
They seek to permanently unhinge the Catholic Priesthood by perverting its ministers, thus opening the way for the ministry of the laity.
Continuing, Viganò addressed both the reports that Francis had encouraged a practicing homosexual to pursue the priesthood as well as the foreword Francis wrote for a recent dissident book by pro-LGBT Jesuit James Martin:
Quote:They seek to permanently unhinge the Catholic Priesthood by perverting its ministers, thus opening the way for the ministry of the laity. On the one hand he says, in an apathetic and vulgar key (thesis): ‘There is too much faggotry.’
On the other hand, at the same time he says in a letter to a homosexual man kicked out of the seminary (antithesis): ‘Go ahead with your vocation.’ And yet again by writing the preface to the Italian edition of LGBTQ+ activist James Martin’s booklet, with ‘biblical scholar’ Alberto Maggi ranting, ‘In the eyes of God no one is impure.’
Result: discrediting and delegitimizing the Papacy, the Church, and the Priesthood, in a synthesis that makes manifest the absolute mental and moral corruption of this usurper, accompanied by the complicit silence of the Hierarchy and the scandalization of the faithful.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Message to the Catholic Resistance in Poland |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-05-2024, 10:44 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò
RESISTITE FORTES
Message to the Catholic Resistance in Poland
May 31, 2024
[Emphasis mine]
Most Reverend Excellency, dear Monsignor Michal, Reverend priests and clerics, dear faithful: allow me first of all to thank you for inviting me to speak at your conference in defense of the Catholic Faith and to denounce the deviations of the modernist hierarchy. Your community in Poland constitutes the nucleus of the future revival of Catholicism in your beloved homeland.
Your faithfulness, and the even more courageous faithfulness of your Pastors, makes you privileged today: because with the eyes of Faith, and with the lessons of the history of your homeland, you are able to recognize that epochal battle underway between God and Satan, which will conclude at the end of time with the victory of Christ over the Antichrist, precisely at the moment when the reign of the son of iniquity will seem to be at its apogee. A battle with no quarter, which today in other nations is fought in an even more harsh and bloody manner, and which you have known from a more recent time, and in particular after the Bergoglian purges silenced the voices of Bishops who were not totally subservient to the tyranny of the Argentine Jesuit. In the meantime, government crises and political diktats of the European Union have brought emissaries of the World Economic Forum, the main architect of the globalist agenda, into your Parliament and assumed government roles. The reforms that they are already imposing on you are clearly aimed at destroying Poland by affecting its faith, its morals, its patriotism, its historical memory, and its identity.
Speaking of Poland without speaking of the Catholic Church is impossible. Poland is, among all the Slavic nations, the largest of Catholic faith. Since the Baptism of Miecislaus I, in 966, and along with him his entire Court – thanks to the prayers and testimony of Queen Dubrawka of Bohemia – Poland has been a Catholic nation and has remained so through the centuries, despite numerous wars where she found herself fighting against pagans, against Islamic idolaters, against Protestant heretics, and finally against the atheistic materialism of Bolshevik Communism. But in all those battles, the flame of Faith was never weakened, nor put at risk of going out as it has been in these last very unfortunate decades.
By the grace of God, the great celebrations for the Millenary of the Baptism of Poland in 1966 – which had already begun in 1957 with a preparatory Novena of fasting and penance in which all Polish Catholics joined – had the merit of overshadowing the sad events that in those years troubled the universal Church, as she became the victim of that modernist coup d’état that was the Second Vatican Council. The Sacrum Poloniæ Millennium led your grandfathers and fathers to accompany the empty frame of the icon of the Virgin of Częstochowa in procession throughout your homeland, in courageous Christian testimony in the face of the bans of the communist government. You had before your eyes the horrors of a tyrannical and anti-Christian regime, and centuries of memory of wars and those killed defending Poland from the Mohammedan invasion. Talking to you Polish Catholics about ecumenism, dialogue with heretics, and the secular nature of the State would have made you rise up with indignation against anyone who had tried to convince you to deny your Faith and your national identity, which is intrinsically Catholic. Yet today it is the leaders of the Church who are asking you to erase those thousand years of homeland history, in the name of an inclusiveness which in other nations is destroying their Christian identity and bringing back barbarism.
Few, in those years of revolution, understood what they had witnessed even in the civil sphere: the partition of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union which occurred in 1939 – when the Allies promised support which they then culpably did not want to guarantee – seemed to be repeated in the religious sphere thirty years later, when the modernist Hierarchy left you spiritually disarmed in the face of the increasingly ferocious assault of the two main enemies of the Church: Liberalism and Communism, both born from Freemasonry. It took away – took away from all of us – the Catholic Mass, and with it the entire treasure of spirituality and doctrine of the Apostolic Liturgy. In its place it offered you, like a piece of rancid bread thrown to someone who has been deprived of their place at the King’s table, a rite plagiarized by heretics and designed to please them, to the detriment of the adoration due to the Majesty of God. It took away the purity of Catholic doctrine, to give you the stones of the Council and the scorpions of the modernists. And today it asks you to recognize as our shared “Father” an apostate heresiarch who has infested the Roman Curia with his protégés or people he holds under blackmail. It asks you to maintain communion with the first destroyer of Catholic communion, threatening you that if you do not recognize his usurped authority and his heretical magisterium you would be separated from the Catholic Church, to which he clearly does not belong, but yet dares to claim to hold Christ’s sacred Authority over her.
You will have understood by now, dear faithful, that this is an attack that is not limited to an internal crisis within the Catholic Church, but that it involves all of humanity, the governments of nations, the leaders of supranational organizations, the great usurious families of high finance and with them the entire entourage of courtiers and servants, convinced that by serving the powerful they will be able to save themselves from the impending ruin. We are faced with a global coup d’état, in which a minority of traitors and corrupt people has managed to rise to the top of the institutions, dividing power between the deep state in the civil sphere and the deep church in the ecclesial sphere. Both obey the same satanic lobby, the same Masonic Lodges, the same characters devoted to Evil. And we have already seen the horrors that are slowly but surely becoming normal in your homeland for some time: Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland – all once Catholic nations – are hostage to subversives who abuse their power to knowingly harm their subjects.
Citizens find themselves considered enemies of the State, while believers are considered enemies of the Church; and those who accuse them flaunt their vices, their corruption, the mocking presumption of impunity, and the illusion of having already won. You have Ministers who impose the woke ideology and all the LGBTQ+ rubbish on you, who want to force you to accept abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, gender transition, ethnic substitution, sodomitic marriage, the destruction of agriculture and livestock farming, green madness, the poisoning of the air and waters with geoengineering, your impoverishment in the name of proxy wars and continuous emergencies, your transformation into slaves through total control and into chronically ill patients using gene serums and mock vaccines. But you also have a Hierarchy that is silent, as it has been silent in Italy, in France, in Ireland, in Spain, in Portugal, and wherever the infernal plan of the New World Order could be in some way hindered by the Faith and Morals of the people. And on the throne that once belonged to Blessed Pius IX there sits today – the abomination of desolation – the Argentine Jesuit, the salesman of BigPharma, the apostle of climate change, the worshiper of Pachamama, the advocate of the persecution of Chinese Catholics, the defender of pornographers and perverts, the promoter of the Islamic invasion business, the servant of the World Economic Forum, the operator of the synodal farce, the enemy of the Mass of Saint Pius V, the bankruptcy liquidator of the Church of Christ.
But in this obscene ostentation of everything that is the most alien to the Papacy that could be imagined; in this brazen offense against God, the Martyrs, and the Saints of the Church of all times; in this desolating proof of the fearfulness and vile obsequiousness of so many cardinals, bishops, and priests; and in the face of evidence that the conspiracy of the globalist Sanhedrin has subversive accomplices in both the State and in those who have infiltrated their way into the Catholic Hierarchy, the eyes of the people and of many priests are finally opening. The chasm that separates citizens from their rulers is the same as that which divides the faithful from their Pastors. The subjugation of the elite by those in authority is now so evident as to disconcert even the most moderate. For this reason it is essential that you understand the danger that looms over Poland, and that you make it understood by those who delude themselves into thinking that they can avoid what has already occurred elsewhere.
Persevere, dear brothers! Persevere; resistite fortes in fide! Because our approach to the end times requires heroic testimony but also reserves for us great consolations. Just as sheep recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd, so souls follow the Ministers of God who become docile instruments of Grace and who burn with the fire of Charity. If we are few now, our numbers will ever increase, and we will be able to create widespread communities in which to educate our children in a Christian way and pass on to them what will make them strong and determined. If today you are mocked, tomorrow they will honor you. If they marginalize you now, tomorrow they will come knocking on your door. But precisely because you have understood and will have to pass on to posterity that nucleus of resistance that will allow Poland to be reconstructed and reconverted tomorrow, you have the duty to live consistently with the Catholic Faith that you profess, being a model for others of what it is to be good Christians.
This, dearest brothers, is my most sincere hope for all of you. This must be your determination. This is the Grace that together we ask for from the Blessed Virgin Mary of Częstochowa, Queen of Poland.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
31 Maggio 2024
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| Fauci admitted to Congress that 6-foot social distancing ban during COVID ‘wasn’t based on data’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2024, 01:04 PM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Secular]
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Fauci admitted to Congress that 6-foot social distancing ban during COVID ‘wasn’t based on data’
Fauci said in testimony to Congress in January that the six-foot social distancing rule ‘sort of just appeared’ and ‘wasn’t based on data,’ adding he ‘was not aware of studies’ about it.
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Mon Jun 3, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — A new memo issued by the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sheds light on a revealing closed-door, 14-hour testimony given in January by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
On Friday, May 31, GOP Congressman Brad Wenstrup released transcripts from Fauci’s two-day remarks. At the time, Fauci had been asked to share his opinion on social distancing and other COVID measures, including masking for children.
LifeSite previously reported on some of Fauci’s testimony. The full transcripts, which can be read here and here, were released on Friday ahead of his scheduled appearance in Congress on Monday, June 3.
Fauci’s comments shockingly indicate he essentially had zero scientific evidence to support his recommendations.
“It sort of just appeared,” he said, when asked about where the six-foot social distancing ban came from. “I was not aware of studies” on that, he added. It was “an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data.”
READ: Japan’s most senior cancer doctor: COVID shots are ‘essentially murder’
Wenstrup’s memo further noted that Fauci “testified that he did not recall any supporting evidence for masking children.”
Dr. Fauci has repeatedly denied any blame whatsoever for the many controversial and even fatal policies enacted during the COVID pandemic. Fauci’s evasive remarks on the origins of the virus and public promotion of the shot while simultaneously vilifying alternative treatments have often resulted in him being grilled by GOP Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has repeatedly pressed him for answers during his many appearances on Capitol Hill.
Wenstrup’s memo further states that Fauci “unequivocally agreed with EVERY travel restriction issued by the Trump Administration at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic” but that “this testimony runs counter to the public narrative that the Trump Administration’s travel restrictions were xenophobic.”
Fauci also confirmed that it is not necessarily a “conspiracy theory” to think the virus emerged from a lab leak.
“Well, it’s a possibility. I think people have made conspiracy aspects from it,” he claimed. “And I think you have to separate the two when you keep an open mind, that it could be a lab leak or it could be a natural occurrence. I’ve mentioned in this committee that I believe the evidence that I’ve seen weighs my opinion towards one, which is a natural occurrence, but I still leave an open mind.”
Fauci dictated COVID policies for the federal government along with Dr. Deborah Birx, who recently admitted the jab may have injured “thousands” of people. Fauci stepped down as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December 2023.
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| Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-04-2024, 01:00 PM - Forum: Pope Francis
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Pope Francis writes preface to pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin’s latest book
Pope Francis wrote a preface to James Martin’s new book about the raising of Lazarus, which the heretical Jesuit priest has used to promote LGBT ideology and urge homosexuals to ‘come out’ and ‘embrace’ their disordered tendencies.
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Pope Francis and Father James Martin, S.J.
Vatican News/X
Jun 3, 2024
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included]) — The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ preface to a book by pro-LGBT Father James Martin, S.J., in which the pontiff makes a statement that may be interpreted to claim that one can maintain friendship with God while in mortal sin.
In September 2023, Martin’s book Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle was published, described as a “meditation on the Raising of Lazarus” and used by Martin to urge homosexuals to “come out” and “embrace” their homosexual tendencies. On Monday, Vatican News published Francis’ preface to Martin’s Italian version of the book, with the preface itself dated on March 11, 2024.
Francis opened the preface noting, “Father James Martin [is] the author of many other books that I know and appreciate,” among which are Building a Bridge, Martin’s notorious 2017 pro-LGBT book in which he attempts to normalize homosexuality and criticizes Catholic doctrine that homosexuality is “disordered.” The heretical Jesuit has elsewhere affirmed homosexual activity despite the Catholic Church’s teaching that such activity is mortally sinful.
READ: Cardinal Müller: Father James Martin’s LGBT propaganda is ‘heresy’
Francis continued, “Jesus didn’t just talk about eternal life; He gave it to us. He didn’t just say ‘I am the resurrection’; He also resurrected Lazarus, who’d been dead for three days.” He went on to incorrectly claim that the “divine” is never separated from the “human” in Christianity, writing: “Christian faith is the ever-present co-mingling of the eternal and the contingent, of heaven and earth, of the divine and the human—never one without the other.”
“All of us, then, are Lazarus,” wrote Francis, going on to reference Martin’s book: “Rooting himself firmly in the Ignatian tradition, Father Martin brings us directly into the story of this friend of Jesus. We’re His friends, too—’dead’ as we sometimes are on account of our sins, our failings and infidelities, the despondency that discourages us and crushes our spirits.”
Without quoting Martin or pointing to a specific passage in his book, Francis appears to suggest that one can be friends with God even while “dead” in mortal sin, while, on the contrary, the Church has always understood mortal sin to be a breaking of one’s friendship with God.
Francis has signaled his support of Martin in many ways despite the latter’s support of homosexuality, such as by appointing and re-appointing him as a Vatican Communications consultant and by meeting with Martin and praising his pro-LGBT initiatives.
Martin has previously proposed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church use the term “differently ordered” rather than “intrinsically disordered” in reference to sinful homosexual acts. He frequently makes scandalous statements regarding homosexuality that violate Catholic teaching on sexual morality. High-profile prelates and Catholic figures warn that Martin is leading people astray and putting souls at risk by encouraging homosexual activity and failing to call people to be chaste.
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