Catholic Church

The Church of Everyone

Why so many Catholics are leaving.

Pope Francis recently called for a “Church open to everyone.” Nothing new here. The Church has always been open to everyone—including sinners. The Church has always acknowledged that it is “a Church of sinners.”

But when Francis says “open to everyone” he seems to have something else in mind. Traditionally, when Catholics spoke of a “Church of sinners” it was understood to mean repentant sinners: people who were sorry for their sins and were trying their best to sin no more.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

The U.S. Bishops’ Celebration of Illegal Immigration

What is holy about encouraging people to break just laws?

For decades, the U.S. Catholic bishops have operated like open-borders activists, hectoring Republican politicians for not supporting illegal immigration. Before the sexual abuse scandal erupted in the Church, the bishops were insufferable on this subject. After the scandal, some of them toned down their moralizing in recognition that they had lost any credibility as experts on “justice.” But now they’re back to the cocky clericalism of the 1980s, squandering their authority on a prudential political matter clearly beyond it. They routinely portray support for illegal immigration as “Catholic teaching.” But it isn’t. The Church has never officially taught that it is “unjust” for a country’s leaders to enforce immigration laws.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Catholic Church

The Pope Abandons Cardinal Zen

As Hong Kong puts the bishop on trial, Francis still offers no support.

It was a Saturday morning in July 1997, one week after Hong Kong was handed back to China. Cardinal Joseph Zen was waiting inside the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, all smiles. He was there to baptize his friend and the founder of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai. I was there as Jimmy’s godfather.

We were a happy little band that day. But today, 25 years later, Jimmy has been imprisoned. And 90-year old Cardinal Zen, who was arrested in May by national-security police, is about to be put on trial.

h/t YG

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, Hong Kong

How the Catholic Church Became a Defender of Islam

Not a good look Frankie.

And misled Christians in the process.

In the late 1930s Catholic historian Hillaire Belloc wrote:

It [Islam] is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past…

It seemed an unlikely prediction. At the time, the Islamic world was practically moribund. A comeback did not seem to be in the cards. Yet, Belloc was proved right. Within four decades, Islam was once again a power to be reckoned with.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists

Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy

For a Church that was always regarded as “unchangeable,” the impossible has happened.

There seems little doubt that the Roman Catholic Church in 2022 is on a mission to destroy itself.

For a Church that was always regarded as “unchangeable,” the impossible happened.

The Second Vatican Council, thought to bring a new Pentecost to the Church, did the opposite. It emptied convents, seminaries and monasteries. It changed the liturgy in a radical way so as to make the Mass unrecognizable from what it had been for centuries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church

Anti-Catholic Hate Crimes Surged 260% in 2021 – Probably due to Trudeau’s encouragement of Church Burning

Hate crime reports in Canada surged during COVID-19 pandemic: StatCan

Hate crimes reported by police are on the rise in Canada amid the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns and other virus-related measures disrupted everyday life.

A new report released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday showed that 3,360 hate crimes were reported by police last year, representing a 27 per cent increase compared with 2020 and a 72 per cent jump over the span of two years.

You have to love how the surge wasn’t even mentioned by Trudeau’s lackey press. I have no doubt it was in large part due to Trudeau’s tacit approval.

How many prosecutions have their been? Over 50 churches burned at last count.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Catholic Church, hate crimes

Pope should’ve acknowledged genocide during Canada visit, Indigenous leaders say

A member of the National Indian Residential School Circle of Survivors says it’s good Pope Francis acknowledged that what happened in the schools amounted to genocide, but that he should have said it before he left Canada.

Ken Young, who is the former Manitoba regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations, says he believes the Pope failed to make the acknowledgment during his Canadian visit last week because Canadian Catholic officials failed to brief him properly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Catholic Church

The Pope said he’s sorry. So what’s next for reconciliation?

The Pope’s visit to Canada and apology for the role of many church members in Canada’s residential school system has sparked intense discussion over the extent of that apology, its impact for Indigenous peoples and the question: what should be the next priority in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action?

An apology from the Pope was call 58 by the TRC. But many felt what was actually said this week didn’t go far enough, and one of those people is Murray Sinclair, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Catholic Church

Why Pope Francis may be hesitant to rescind the already abrogated Doctrine of Discovery

Pope Francis’s apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Indigenous residential schools in Canada has raised questions about whether he would formally rescind the church’s Doctrine of Discovery.

The doctrine, dating back to the 15th century, included a series of edicts known as papal bulls, that were later used to justify colonizing Indigenous lands.

But any hesitation by the Pope to renounce it may stem from the Vatican’s view that the church has already done away with and replaced those edicts, some observers suggest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Catholic Church

Trudeau government says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough

QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress.

The official government reaction came as Francis arrived in Quebec City for meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon at her Quebec residence, the hilltop Citadelle fortress, on the second leg of Francis’ week-long visit to Canada.

The government’s criticisms echo those of some survivors and concern Francis’ omission of any reference to the sexual abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the schools, as well as his original reluctance to name the Catholic Church as an institution bearing responsibility.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Catholic Church

Jesuit diaries reveal the love Indigenous Canadian tribes had for the missionaries and Catholicism

In contrast to the insistence of some Christians today that certain pagan superstitions ought to be accepted in the name of inculturation — such as the “smudging” ceremony of “purification” practiced by native tribes in North America, in which the Pope will take part — the first indigenous converts to Christianity in Canada not only embraced the Catholic Faith wholeheartedly, abandoning all superstitions, but they esteemed the Jesuit missionaries so much that they entreated them to remain with their tribes when the missionaries were considering a return to safety in the French settlements.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Canada, Catholic Church, history, History - distortion of

Vatican tells its money men: you’re banned from investing in guns and porn

The Vatican will not invest in pornography or weapons under a new ethical investment policy that is part of Pope Francis’ efforts to clean up the Catholic Church following a series of scandals.

While there is no suggestion the Vatican currently has money in porn or other unholy industries, the new rules are an attempt to establish tougher principles and oversight in Vatican finances, where management has been chaotic and amateurish.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, WTF?

Pope to Appoint Women to Advise Selection of Bishops

Are the laity the future of ecclesiastical administration?

Pope Francis said in an interview with Reuters on July 2 that he would appoint two women to the committee to elect bishops in the Dicastery for Bishops. The announcement comes in the wake of the promulgation of a new administrative constitution, which allows any baptized Catholic to head departments within the Vatican. Previously, the committee was composed solely of clergy, including priests, bishops, and cardinals.

Hope it’s not Pelosi.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church