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‘They are sending us missionaries of evil’: Clerics lament Western homosexual push in Africa

Catholic archbishops are calling attention to the recruitment of young men into homosexual porn for money as NGO-led LGBT indoctrination becomes widespread across Africa. African Catholic archbishops are sounding the alarm over Western efforts to indoctrinate Africans into homosexual lifestyles in what one prelate describes as a new kind of proselytism – one of “evil.” …

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The Ten Commandments in Post-Christian America

In post-Christian America, not all beliefs are considered equal. ‘Pride’ flags are allowed in schools but not the Ten Commandments. What sin hath Louisiana committed in mandating the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school? According to the plaintiff in the newly minted suit Roake v. Brumley, Louisiana is harming children by making them think …

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Ghana’s Bishops Urge Passage of Anti-LGBTQ+ Law, Endorse Conversion Therapy

At a time when many church leaders, including Pope Francis, have decried laws that criminalize LGBTQ+ people, bishops in Ghana persist in their support for such a new law, and even advocate forced conversion therapy. In late February, Ghanian legislators unanimously passed a law, the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Act, making even support …

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Archbishop Aguer: Fiducia Supplicans has been repudiated in places where the Church is flourishing

The declaration Fiducia Supplicans and the reactions it has engendered allow us to observe a division of continental dimensions pulsating through the Church: In Europe, approval; in Africa and Asia, repudiation. This is therefore not something marginal, or which has to do with “ideological groups,” as the Pontiff asserts. Read more…

Hundreds more priests, scholars ask Church leaders to request Pope Francis withdraw Fiducia Supplicans

‘Never in the history of the Catholic Church has a document of the Roman Magisterium experienced such a strong rejection’ as Fiducia Supplicans. UPDATE: Since the publication of this filial appeal on February 2, one bishop, more than 100 priests, and at least 500 Catholic scholars from all over the world have added their signatures. …

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Dutch bishop blasts ‘cowardly’ Fiducia Supplicans, urges scandalized Catholics not to leave Church

Fiducia Supplicans – the controversial Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith – is above all a cowardly document. It refuses to name homosexual practices as intrinsically evil. It is now clear that Fiducia Supplicans is not about an expansion of the meaning of blessings, but of a deliberate modification of what …

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Peruvian bishop bans same-sex ‘blessings,’ says Fiducia Supplicans ‘harms the communion of the Church’

A Peruvian bishop rejected a recent papally approved document, saying it “harms the communion of the Church” and forbidding his priests to bless irregular or same-sex unions. Bishop Rafael Escudero Lopez-Brea, 61, the ordinary of the Peruvian diocese of Mayobamba, published yesterday a letter to his priests, religious, and laypeople to offer guidance “in the …

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Hundreds of Spanish Catholics gather to pray Rosary, defying police ban on prayer rallies

Hundreds of Catholics have taken to the streets to pray the Rosary amid protests against the socialist government of Spain. Some of the Rosary rallies have been banned by the police, in what organizers have decried as “tyranny.” Since November 12, faithful Catholics have taken to the streets every evening to pray the Rosary on …

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American Nationwide survey shows orthodox Catholic priests are rapidly replacing ‘progressive’ clergy

Amidst a crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass, confusion on established Church teachings on sexuality, and liturgical abuses, good news has emerged for faithful American Catholics and the future of the Catholic Church. A new study from Catholic University of America found that most new priests, those ordained after 2020, consider themselves “conservative” or “orthodox,” …

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