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Two Priests Imprisoned: A Strange Story from Pope Francis’s Buenos Aires Days
The question of Fr. Jorge Bergoglio’s relations with the Argentine military regime, which was in power from 1976 to 1983, was treated in 2005 by the journalist Horacio Verbitsky, who accused Bergoglio of deliberately betraying two of his priests, Fathers …
Catholic Relief Services is a Major Funder of Contraception-Lobbyists
NOTE: The following information was provided to Catholic Relief Services in person in April, 2018. After three months of discussion on the matter, the Lepanto Institute was told that while Lepanto is convinced that CRS should withdraw from InterAction, CRS …
Scandal-Plagued Honduran Bishop Has Resignation Accepted, But His Superior Still Has a Job
In today’s Holy See Bolletino, it has been announced that the pope has finally accepted the resignation of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa in Honduras, Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, CMF. In April of 2018, National Catholic Register Rome Correspondent …
In Austria, Official Websites under Cdl. Schönborn Undermining Humanae Vitae
The official website of the Austrian bishops under Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s watch, as well as his own diocesan website, has published a series of articles in light of the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae …
The Cult of Change and Christian Changelessness
The modern age glamorizes constant change. It romanticizes variety, development, progress, newness. It exalts evolution as a paradigm of knowledge and of all reality. Those who hold tightly to perennial wisdom and permanent truths, traditional morals, inherited culture, artistic monuments, …
A Reflection From the Trenches
When I stopped to think about it, I realized I don’t know a lot about World War I. I mean, I know I’ve studied it some, at least in school. I know that understanding it is the launching point for …
Veteran Catholic Journalist: All Bishops Involved in Sex Abuse Scandal Must Resign
Christopher Manion, a veteran journalist and political analyst, makes the striking call that all U.S. bishops should resign who knew about the ongoing abuse crisis within the U.S. hierarchy for years and yet did not intervene. He also now reveals …
Dialogue or Disassociation: What to Do with Heretics and Public Sinners in the Church
The watchword of the day is “dialogue.” Invoked by Church leaders like an Eastern mystical mantra, dialogue is the solution to every problem. Pro-abortion politicians claiming to be good Catholics? We need dialogue. Priests promoting same-sex relationships? We need dialogue. …
Pope Praises Cardinal Who Now Admits Remarried Divorcees to Communion
Manuel Clemente, the Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal published on 12 July a letter sent to him by Pope Francis in which the Pope praises him for publishing pastoral guidelines permitting some “remarried” divorcees to receive Holy Communion. After his 2016 letter …
I Am Not One of the “Greatest Catholics of All Time”
A friend passed along to me one of the more recent frenzied Facebook posts of a former Catholic apologist who will not be named. (His signature writing style will make it clear enough for those who are aware.) He’s not …
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