U.S. bishop: ‘Welcoming’ is good, ‘but not at the expense of the truth’ | News | LifeSite : 'via Blog this'

3 CNN staffers resign over retracted Scaramucci-Russia story - POLITICO : 'via Blog this'

Pope Francis disagrees with teaching gender identity in schools, having called this  a "war against marriage." On a return flight to Rome at the end of a three-day trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan, the Pope recounted a meeting with a French father whose young son wanted to be a girl after reading about it in a textbook. "This is against nature," he said. "It is one thing when someone has this tendency ... and it is another matter to teach this in school." "To change the mentality -- I call this ideological colonization," the Pope said. Well, we are approaching the tip of the iceberg, so says Claire Cretien : Bathrooms are just the beginning: a scary look into the trans movement’s end goals   Transgenderism May 6, 2016 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The battle over men accessing women’s bathrooms and vice versa has little do with bathrooms or even transgenderism, a well-known LGBT activist admitted last week.  It has everything to do ...

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Nancy Pelosi says homosexuality is ‘consistent’ with Catholicism. Are Church leaders taking her lead?   Anthony Kennedy  ,  Catholic  ,  Hillary Clinton  ,  Homosexuality  ,  James Martin  ,  Joe Biden  , John Dolan  ,  John Stowe  ,  Joseph Tobin  ,  Justin Trudeau  ,  Magisterium  ,  Nancy Pelosi  ,  Patrick Conroy  ,  Pope Francis  ,  Robert Mcelroy  ,  Same-Sex Attraction WARNING: This article begins with a graphic clinical statement because all Catholics need to know the truth and not remain oblivious to it. June 22, 2017  (LifeSiteNews)  — When a man and a woman make love, the miracles of conception and birth are possible. When two men attempt the same, the most glorious result possible is an anal discharge of semen mixed with fecal matter.    Despite the striking contrast, high-profile Catholics in ...

Bishop Robert Barron, in his June 13   article   titled "Looking at Luther With Fresh Eyes," describes Martin Luther as "a mystic of grace, someone who had fallen completely in love." Fr. describes Luther as the "undisputed father of the Reformation" and as "cantankerous, pious, very funny, shockingly anti-Semitic, deeply insightful and utterly exasperating." While admiring of Luther, Fr. adds: "I disagree with lots and lots of his ideas," without clarifications. Barron summarizes: "For at the core of Luther's life and theology was an overwhelming experience of grace. After years of trying in vain to please God through heroic moral and spiritual effort, Luther realized that, despite his unworthiness, he was loved by a God who had died to save him," adding, "Luther was an ecstatic, and the religious movement he launched [Protestantism] was 'a love affair.'" Was Dr. Luther in love with God...

Let this be a response to Building a Bridge....  New Book’s “Sexual Reality” Bursts LGBT Catholic Bubble - Crisis Magazine : 'via Blog this'

James J. Martin,   S.J.   is a  Jesuit  priest, a writer, and  editor-at-large  of the Jesuit magazine  America .  He grew up in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and now lives in the America House Jesuit Community in midtown Manhattan.   On April 12, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Martin and EWTN leader Michael Warsaw as consultants to the Vatican's  Secretariat for Communications .  He has recently published a suspect book,  Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity.   Fr. is very popular with Catholics who are ignorant of the fundamentals of the Catholic faith. Here are some comments on Building a Bridge ; Olga Falto  ·  Universidad de Puerto Rico Thanks to Fr. James Martin for another great book ! Your books are all amazing to me ! Blessings for you ! Like  ·  Reply  ·  Jun 8, 2017...

Archbishop Chaput: ‘We’re in a Struggle for Souls. Our Adversary Is the Devil.’ | ncregister.com : 'via Blog this'

Today one disputatious topic among Catholics is the liturgy. As Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was known as an proponent of the “reform of the reform”—a program that avoids liturgical disruption in favor of organic development, slowly bringing the liturgy back into continuity with its historic form. His nemesis in the debate, Cardinal Walter Kasper used the disruption that followed Vatican II to argue for further changes in Catholic life: “Our people are well aware of the flexibility of laws and regulations; they have experienced a great deal of it over the past decades. They lived through changes that no one anticipated or even thought possible.” Kasper was upset that Ratzinger did not see things his way: “Regrettably, Cardinal Ratzinger has approached the problem of the relationship between the universal church and local churches from a purely abstract and theoretical point of view, without taking into account concrete pastoral situations and experiences.” Ratzinge...

I always enjoyed reading Fr. Neuhaus' writing in First Things, especially the Public Square offerings. Here is an enlightening reflection for the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue.... How I Became the Catholic I Was by Richard John Neuhaus | Articles | First Things : 'via Blog this'