In an exceptionally rare move, the Vatican has protested the Chinese Communist Party’s appointment of a bishop to a diocese not recognized by Rome. On Saturday, The Holy See Press Office published a statement that noted with “surprise and regret” the news that Bp. John Peng Weizhao was installed on Nov. 24 as auxiliary bishop of … Read more
Two new members appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy for Life — Dr. Roberto Dell’Oro and Professor Sheila Dinotshe Tlou — have been outed as pro-abortion zealots. Francis’ latest pro-abort appointees attack the pro-life reversal of Roe v. Wade and blame Africa’s poverty and high rate of female mortality on the lack of … Read more
Cardinal George Pell is warning of catastrophic consequences for the Catholic Church if Pope Francis does not correct “serious heresies” being promoted by the German Synodal Way. “The synodal process has begun disastrously in Germany,” the Australian prelate laments, “and matters will become worse unless we soon have effective papal corrections on, for instance, Christian … Read more
Brazil’s top cardinal, who is currently visiting Pope Francis, is covering for a sodomite priest who coerced a 17-year-old boy into sexual slavery, Church Militant has learned. Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, archbishop of São Paulo, is refusing to comply with a court order that compels him to disclose documents of the archdiocese’s canonical proceedings against … Read more
A potential papal successor, who has also been accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old intern, rebuffed a clergy rape victim while he was archbishop of Quebec. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who has been a possible papal candidate in recent conclaves, refused to accept responsibility for a priest in the archdiocese of Quebec who raped his 17-year-old … Read more
Pope Francis’ second-in-command, Cdl. Pietro Parolin, personally intervened to bar Cdl. Raymond Burke from entering Vatican offices over Burke’s conscientious objection to the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccine. Sources at the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints told Church Militant that Burke, a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was recently stopped at … Read more
The book, God Fearing Souls, reported that the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus was a hotbed of homosexual seminarians in the 1990s under then rector Blase Cupich. The bishop-elect of Columbus, Ohio, has challenged the admission of men with homosexual tendencies into seminaries, vigorously defending Pope Benedict XVI’s ban on ordaining gays as priests. Father … Read more
Evangelical pastors and academics are warning prime minister Justin Trudeau of God’s wrath even as faithful Catholics lament the capitulation of Canada’s bishops to the nation’s tyrannical regime. On Sunday, archbishop of Gatineau Paul-André Durocher slammed Vatican whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò for supporting the truckers’ peaceful protests. “I don’t know who wrote Mgr. Viganò’s … Read more
Pope Francis is giving his blessing to an ecumenical and interreligious theme park that promotes the major world religions as equally valid pathways to an encounter with the divine. The Parque del Encuentro (Park of Encounter) has a Catholic church, Protestant chapel, Buddhist temple, synagogue and mosque all built in a “symbolic fraternal embrace” around a Pachamama … Read more
Pope Francis is rehabilitating a highly controversial, divisive and heterodox Slovakian archbishop who was sacked by Pope Benedict XVI after an apostolic visitation in 2012. Faithful clerics in Slovakia fear that the rehabilitation could include the offer of a cardinalate to the disgraced Róbert Bezák, former archbishop of Trnava, who is reported to have been at … Read more