Bishop Schneider urges Pope Francis to ‘retract’ texts undermining the faith

 With Pope Francis having now left the hospital, the Kazakhstan bishop said that he must make every effort to 'rectify some confusions and some ambiguities which were made in his pontificate and which he himself made.'

Bishop Schneider on A Catholic Take, March 24, 2025YouTube

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VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider has urged Catholics to pray for Pope Francis that he might “retract” certain documents and statements which have “undermined the clarity” of the faith.

With Pope Francis having recently returned to the Vatican on Sunday after spending 38 days in the Gemelli hospital for bilateral pneumonia, many of his close supporters have welcomed what they say will be a new stage of his pontificate.

More. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-schneider-urges-pope-francis-to-retract-texts-undermining-the-faith/

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March 31, 2025 at 11:03 am

Top aide says Pope is resting, not receiving guests or holding meetings 

Elise Ann Allen/ Crux

March 31, 2025 at 11:03 am

Top aide says Pope is resting, not receiving guests or holding meetings 

Elise Ann Allen/ Crux

March 31, 2025 at 11:03 am

Top aide says Pope is resting, not receiving guests or holding meetings 

Elise Ann Allen/ Crux

March 31, 2025 at 11:03 am

Top aide says Pope is resting, not receiving guests or holding meetings 

Elise Ann Allen/ Crux

March 31, 2025 at 11:03 am

ROME – Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has said Pope Francis continues to rest after his return from the hospital, and is not receiving anyone or holding meetings or audiences of any kind.

He also said that no definitive plans for Holy Week and Easter have yet been decided, but expects that cardinals could be tapped to preside over liturgical celebrations in the pope’s place.

Speaking to journalists on the margins of a recent event in Sacrofano, Parolin said that after his March 23 return from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, the pope “rests, he doesn’t see anyone, and, to my knowledge, he does not have audiences and he does not receive people.” 

“What is important is that he finds time to recover, little by little,” Parolin said. Pope Francis spent 38 days in the hospital, after being admitted Feb. 14 for treatment of a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia.

The doctor leading his medical team at Gemelli Hospital, surgeon Sergio Alfieri, in a recent interview with an Italian newspaper called the pope’s recovery “miraculous,” saying the pontiff had two close brushes with death during his hospital stay and credited his recovery in part to prayer.

More: https://thecatholicherald.com/top-aide-says-pope-continues-to-rest-and-is-not-receiving-guests-or-holding-meetings/

Bishop Schneider Says Next Pope Must Reaffirm Doctrine on Marriage, Sexuality, Male Clergy

March 20, 2025 

Tags Conclave from LifeSite News by Andreas Wailzer

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said that the next pope must clarify Church doctrine on marriage, sexuality, and the solely male priesthood to combat confusion on these dogmatic issues within the Church.

In an interview conducted in German with LifeSiteNews journalist Andreas Wailzer, Bishop Schneider explained what he believes are the main issues the next pope should address.

The bishop from Kazakhstan said that the pope’s main task is “to strengthen the brethren in the faith.”

“This is a divine mandate, one of the first tasks of a pope, and he must carry it out with clarity, not ambiguity,” he stated, stressing that the pope must unambiguously declare the doctrine in “those aspects that have caused the most confusion in recent decades and above all in our time.”

One of these key issues is “the relativism of faith,” i.e., “that supposedly dogmas and faith evolve according to the scheme of Hegel, i.e., evolutionism, which is completely against the Spirit of Christ and the Gospel and the 2000-year tradition of the Church.”

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Venerable Fulton Sheen on the Anti-Christ

 

“The antichrist will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian. He will talk peace, prosperity and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves…

He will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will but the stars responsible for sins. He will explain guilt away psychologically as inhibited eroticism, make men shrink in shame if their fellowmen say they are not broadminded and liberal. He will be so broadminded as to identify tolerance with indifference, right with wrong, truth and error. He will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution. He will foster science but only to have armament makers use one marvel of science to destroy another. He will foster more divorces under the disguise that another partner is ‘vital’. He will increase love for love and decrease love for person. He will invoke religion to destroy religion. He will even speak of Christ and say that he was the greatest man who ever lived. His mission he will say will be to liberate men from the servitudes of superstition and Fascism, which he will never define.”

The predictable happened: bishops and cardinals called same sex marital simulation “marriage” and the laity believed them

I begged a cardinal and university processor to stop labeling sodomy as marriage. They made clear my opinion didn’t matter - I don’t habit letters after my name. Here we are.

Majority of US Catholics now support same-sex ‘marriage’ and abortion, Pew research finds

Pew found that 70% of Catholics now say they back same-sex ‘marriage’ and 59% favor abortion in most cases, exposing a collapse in Catholic moral formation and belief.

(Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace) — The U.S. Catholic Church stands at a crossroads, marked by an aging flock, a growing immigrant presence, and a devastating erosion of faith and morals.

The Pew Religious Landscape Study (RLS) for Catholics from 2007, 2014, and 2023-24 offers a sobering glimpse into this crisis for traditional Catholics rooted in the Magisterium’s truths: for every 100 Catholics entering, 800 Catholics leave, prayer is declining, belief in God is plummeting, and a super majority supports issues deemed morally evil by the Church – demographically propped up by immigrants yet spiritually adrift

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/majority-of-us-catholics-now-support-same-sex-marriage-and-abortion-pew-research-finds/

Catholics Are Rapidly Losing Ground

 A new survey shows that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. As bad as that is, the news is actually worse when we look more closely at the numbers. Radical changes are needed.

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  Eric Sammons

  Last week the Pew Research Center released a new surveyon religion in America; their first major study of this type since 2014. Upon the survey’s publication, I could almost hear a collective groan from Catholics, since we’ve come to approach such polls with a sense of dread. The question isn’t, “Will it be bad?” The question is, “How bad will it be?” 

  I won’t bury the lede: it’s bad. Really bad. 

  Only 19% of Americans self-identify as Catholic, down from 24% in 2007. This is a 20% decrease. By comparison, Protestants decreased by 21%, while religious “nones” increased by 81% and Muslims increased by an astounding 200% (although they still make up a small percentage of the overall population—only 1.2%). Even though the Pew Survey headline suggests that the decline in Christianity in this country may have “leveled off,” it’s clear the overall direction is downward.

  More: https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/catholics-are-rapidly-losing-ground

The Miracle of the Everyday

Every blade of grass,

every leaf on every tree,

every creature great and small,

reveals God’s splendor, one and all.

Laetare!

- KMC

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

24th Tract on John
The miracles which our Lord Jesus Christ did were the very works of God, and they enlighten the mind of man by mean of things which are seen, that he may know more of God. God is Himself of such a Substance as eye cannot see, and the miracles, by the which He ruleth the whole world continually, and satisfieth the need of everything that He hath made, are by use become so common, that scarce any will vouchsafe to see that there are wonderful and amazing works of God in every grain of seed of grass. According to His mercy He kept some works to be done in their due season, but out of the common course and order of nature, that men might see them and be astonished, not because they are greater, but because they are rarer than those which they lightly esteem, since they see them day by day.

Or it is a greater miracle to govern the whole universe, than to satisfy five thousand men with five loaves of bread; and yet no man marvelleth at it. At the feeding of the five thousand, men marvel, not because it is a greater miracle than the other, but because it is rarer. For Who is He Who now feedeth the whole world, but He Who, from a little grain that is sown, maketh the fulness of the harvest? God worketh in both cases in one and the same manner. He Who of the sowing maketh to come the harvest, is He Who of the five barley loaves in His Hands made bread to feed five thousand men; for Christ's are the Hands which are able to do both the one and the other. He Who multiplieth the grains of corn multiplied the loaves, only not by committing them to the earth whereof He is the Maker.
℣. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.