In an October 31 video, Marguerite Stern, who has become a leading figure in the fight against LGBT indoctrination, extended her remorse to Catholics for running topless in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris following the resignation of Benedict XVI in 2013.
A Catholic woman who was fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine was awarded close to $13 million in damages after suing her former employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Lisa Domski, who worked at the insurance company for 38 years as an IT specialist, was awarded the massive payout after a federal jury in Detroit ruled in favor of her religious discrimination case. She argued that the company denied her request for an exemption from its 2021 COVID vaccine policy despite her insistence that it conflicted with her Catholic faith.
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“I congratulate President-elect Trump, as well as the national, state and local officials who campaigned to represent the people,” USCCB President Archbishop Broglio wrote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory while also calling on Catholics to pray for the incoming president and all public leaders.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon to President Trump on behalf of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, congratulating him on his victory in the 2024 election.
“I congratulate President-elect Trump, as well as the national, state and local officials who campaigned to represent the people,” Broglio wrote. “Now, we move from campaigning to governing. We rejoice in our ability to transition peacefully from one government to the next.”
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The US election has turned out to be not quite as close-run as the pundits and the pollsters predicted. The results are in, and they are decisive. In January Donald Trump will return to the White House as the next president; JD Vance, a Catholic convert, will be his vice president.
This is a momentous result, not least for Catholics and indeed for all who hold dear the protection of life in the womb. Kamala Harris’s only clear policy – there really were not many – was that she was pro-abortion in all circumstances, although this was usually expressed euphemistically in terms of her support for “women’s health” and “women’s reproductive rights”.
To paraphrase Ms Harris herself in her questioning of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, what other form of healthcare entails the destruction of another human being? What was also troubling was the plain suggestion that she would pack the Supreme Court in order to override the existing majority which did away with Roe v Wade and returned the abortion issue to individual US states. This would have been constitutionally wrong and disastrous for the protection of the unborn. Now this vexed issue will be decided in individual states, one way or another.
There are other matters where Ms Harris’s views ran counter to those of the Church, including her undiscriminating support for trans rights. Some Catholics also took offence at her failure to make an appearance at the annual Al Smith dinner in New York, which presidential candidates would normally be expected to attend, something for which Cardinal Timothy Dolan took her to task. This suggested a certain cowardice on her part, as well as the desire to establish a calculated distance from the Church – though she did send a friendly video message.
In the event, the Catholic vote, as predicted by the Pew Report, seems to have been mostly for Trump in roughly the proportion of the electorate as a whole. Catholics may indeed have voted on economic grounds, as they are perfectly entitled to do, but some will have been prompted to vote Republican by the distance between the Catholic take on moral issues and that of the Democrat nominee. Once, Catholics could have been assumed to be Democrat; it is healthy that they now feel free to vote for other parties as their consciences dictate.
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Voters defeated two radical pro-abortion amendments in Nebraska and South Dakota on election night. The defeats reversed a trend of pro-abortion ballot measures winning in red states.
(LifeSiteNews) — The pro-life movement gained several victories last night as radical pro-abortion constitutional amendments lost in both Nebraska and South Dakota.
These losses for the abortion agenda follow Florida’s defeat last night of a similarly radical pro-abortion amendment. These victories mitigate a series of losses for the pro-life movement, including in Ohio, Kansas, and, last night, Missouri.
South Dakota’s pro-abortion Amendment G lost by a large margin – 59.9% to 40.1% – according to the most recent data from the New York Times. South Dakota thus still prohibits essentially all abortions and is considered “most restrictive” by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. This means the state protects innocent human life in the womb. Abortion is prohibited except to “preserve the life of the pregnant female.”
The amendment would have allowed for almost all abortions, permitting for regulation only after the first trimester. However, 96% of abortions occur in the first trimester, according to the state’s 2022 data.
“The amendment establishes that during the first trimester a pregnant woman’s decision to obtain an abortion may not be regulated nor may regulations be imposed on the carrying out of an abortion,” reads the attorney general’s explanation.
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“However, as touching the net cast into the sea, and enclosing a great multitude of fishes, both bad and good, we may well understand that by the bad are meant Catholics of bad lives. For the sea is one thing whereby we may understand to be signified the world; and the net another, which seemeth to signify our faith, or the Communion of one Church. Between heretics and sinful Catholics there is this difference, that heretics believe a lie, and sinful Catholics believe the truth, but live not as they believe.”
(LifeSiteNews) — Renowned exorcist and theologian Father Chad Ripperger clarified that the pope cannot change the Mass in contradiction to Divine Positive Law, such as by changing the consecration in a way “that would invalidate it.”
Amid concerns that the Vatican could promulgate or allow further changes to the Mass after the Synod on Synodality, Ripperger recently discussed his book The Limits of Papal Authority Over the Liturgy with Dr. Robert Moynihan and Matt Gaspers of Inside the Vatican.
The exorcist first made the important distinction between power and authority, with power being the “ability to effect change,” whereas authority gives a person the right to determine something or enact change. “The only one who has absolute authority is God,” he pointed out.
In his book, Ripperger shared a quote fromthen-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) that expresses the limits of the pope’s authority over the liturgy, read aloud by Gaspers during September’s interview:
“The pope is not an absolute monarch whose will is law; rather, he is the guardian of the authentic Tradition and, thereby, the premier guarantor of obedience. He cannot do as he likes … His rule is not that of arbitrary power, but that of obedience in faith. That is why with respect to the Liturgy, he has the task of a gardener, not that of a technician who builds new machines and throws the old ones on the junk pile.”
The pope’s role is bound more specifically by the Divine Positive Law — that which is expressly revealed by God — and the natural law, Ripperger explained.
A key example of how the pope cannot change the liturgy is by changing the “words of the consecration” in a way “that would invalidate it,” said Ripperger, because this would violate the Divine Positive Law commanded by God when Christ said during the Last Supper, “Do this in commemoration of me.”
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He’s got to be kidding: the Broadway musical style Mass has already been tried in thousands of locations all over the works. And found wanting. Where has he been since 1968? The options for liturgical abuse have been just about exhausted at this point and nothing has worked to get young people in the pews Only dying boomers want a Mass in a sanctuary teeming with extraordinary “ministers” and lay lectors and women on albs, etc.
He is not believable. This is posturing and coping. They’ve simply run out of excuses for prolonging the Vatican II “experiment”…
Let us not forget:
“Dearly beloved brethren, we should keep well in our mind and thoughts that we are living here meanwhile as strangers and pilgrims. Let us hail that day which will see us each at home in one of the many mansions, which will see us delivered hence, and disentangled from the nets and snares of things temporal, and put us back into the Garden of Eden, and into the kingdom of heaven. Is there any in a far country but is quick to make his way to his Fatherland? Was ever any in haste to make his voyage homeward, but longed for a fair wind, that he might the sooner embrace his loved ones?
“We reckon Paradise to be our home; already we begin to have the Patriarchs for our kinsmen. Why should we not make haste and run, to see our home, and to greet our kinsfolk? There are a great many of those we love waiting for us there father, and mother, and brothers, and children, there in great company they await us, they who are sure now never to die any more, but not yet sure of us. O, when we come to see them and to embrace them, what gladness will it be both for us and for them! O, what will be the brightness of life in that heavenly kingdom where there is no more fear of death, but the certainty of living everlastingly! O, what consummated, O, what enduring happiness?
“There is the glorious company of the Apostles, there is the jubilant fellowship of the Prophets, there is the countless army of Martyrs crowned for victory in strife and in suffering. There triumph the virgins who by noble self-control have tamed the desires of the flesh and of the body. There are repaid with mercy the merciful, who by feeding and gifting the needy, have wrought righteousness, have kept the commandments of the Lord, and have exchanged heritages upon earth for treasures in heaven. Thitherward, dearly beloved brethren, let us eagerly run, with such as these soon to be, unto Christ soon to come, let us be fain.”
From the Book upon Death, written by the holy Martyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage.
At end
Marcin Mazur (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Suppose that the Democrats squeeze out a win in the presidential election in two weeks. And suppose that, shortly afterward, new revelations provide overwhelming evidence that it was rigged. Should Republicans simply shrug their shoulders and say, “Oh well, there’s nothing we can do at this point. We’ll just have to hope we can recapture the presidency in the next election”?
That would be an anemic and cowardly response to a massive fraud. A stolen election is no small thing. It’s a crime of epic proportions. And justice demands that the crime be rectified, even if that requires investigations, impeachments, and removal from office. To wait it out and hope for the best would be highly irresponsible. It would give the Democrats four more years to solidify their power, four more years of executive orders and congressional legislation designed to deprive ordinary citizens of their rights while expanding the reach of government. In addition, it would mean four more years of illegal immigration — ensuring Democrats of a permanent voting majority and resulting in the formation of a one-party state. In short, the “wait-it-out” strategy would result in the extinction of the Republican Party.
Yet, Catholics are currently faced with a similar scenario — and many seem to have opted for the “let’s-wait-it-out-and-hope-for-the-best” response.
Some claim that the election of Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy was invalid, either because the election was rigged or because former Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation was invalid. Others suggest that even if his election were valid, Bergoglio has lost the papacy due to numerous instances of public heresy and should therefore be removed.
Indeed, in an October 13 sermon,a well-known Italian priest, Fr. Giorgio Maria Faré, cited all three of these reasons (and a few more) why the “so-called Pope Francis” is not the true pope, and he called on Catholics to resist his heretical teachings. The sermon, which is in Italian, has since gone viral.
But even in the unlikely event that Pope Francis were somehow removed from the papacy, the probability is that the next pope would enforce and extend his heretical program and policies
It would seem that now is the time to identify, resist, and rectify, not to wait for some hazy date in the future only to discover that Francis’s “reforms” have become irreversible and the opportunity to change course has passed.
Why so? Because, as theologian and journalist Jules Gomes contends in a recent Stream article, Francis has, in effect, already rigged the next papal election by stacking the College of Cardinals with 20 new electors “who align with his agenda on LGBT rights, synodality, climate change, migrant issues and social justice to pave the way for a successor who will uphold his legacy.”
“Francis,” writes Gomes, “will have created 111 (nearly 80 percent) of the 140 electors,” thus exceeding the limit of 120 electors set by Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II.
Whether you call it “stacking” or “rigging,” Francis has quite clearly put his thumb on the scales of the next papal election.
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The comments from Alton, who is one of the leading Catholic members of the UK’s House of Lords, follow an article by Nina Shea published in the Hudson Institute last week entitled “Ten Persecuted Catholic Bishops in China”. Alton says seven of these bishops have been detained without due process, with some of them having been under continuous detention for years or decades, while others have been detained repeatedly since the Vatican reached its accord with the Communist regime in China. Alton calls them the “ten inconvenient bishops the Vatican wants us to forget”.
Quoting Shea’s article, Alton said the CCP has subjected the 10 bishops “to indefinite detention without due process, disappearances, open-ended security police investigations, banishments from their dioceses, or other impediments to their episcopal ministries including threats, surveillance, interrogation, and so-called re-education”.
The persecuted bishops have opposed the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), which requires its members to pledge independence from the Holy See and “conform Christian teaching to Chinese communist doctrine”, Alton says. “They do not accept the right of the Chinese Communist Party to tell them what to believe, think or what to say.”
Read the rest: https://catholicherald.co.uk/lord-alton-speaks-up-for-10-chinese-bishops-and-underground-church-persecuted-by-ccp/
(LifeSiteNews) — Marguerite Stern, a former radical feminist turned pro-family advocate, has apologized for running through Notre Dame Cathedral while topless in 2013 as part of a left-wing protest, revealing that her behavior destroyed part of herself.
In an October 31 video, Stern, who has now become a leading figure in the fight against LGBT indoctrination in France, extended her remorse to Catholics for running topless in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris following the resignation of Benedict XVI in 2013.
Read the rest: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ex-feminist-apologizes-for-2013-anti-catholic-protest-at-notre-dame-cathedral/