Trudeau’s troubling response amid violent ‘anti-church crime wave’ in Canada

Canada is currently in the midst of an anti-Catholic arson spree that’s led to the destruction of at least seven churches.

Making matters worse, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau keeps downplaying the arson just like U.S. Democrats had downplayed the Black Lives Matter riots of last year.

Speaking on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” late Wednesday, Rebel News founder Ezra Levant warned that what’s happening is reminiscent of Kristallnacht.

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As houses of worship burn across Canada, radio host calls to ‘burn the churches’

The gruesome discovery of nearly 1,000 unmarked graves at the sites of former boarding schools for indigenous children in Canada has triggered a slew of church burnings across the country, and the flames may have been fanned by the comments of a popular radio host.

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Cardinal among 10 indicted by Vatican for financial crimes

VATICAN CITY, July 3 (Reuters) – A prominent Italian cardinal was among 10 people sent to trial in the Vatican on Saturday charged with financial crimes including embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, extortion and abuse of office.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, formerly a senior official in the Vatican administration, as well as two top officials at the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Unit will go on trial on July 27 over a multi-million euro scandal involving the Vatican’s purchase of a building in one of London’s smartest districts.

The trial will inevitably bring a swirl of media interest to the tiny city-state surrounded by Rome, and appears to underscore Pope Francis’ determination to cure the rot in Vatican finances, even if it involves messy public hearings.

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Vatican Foreign Minister to Epoch Times: Church Has No Positive Contribution to Make in Hong Kong

Vatican Foreign Minister to Epoch Times: Church Has No Positive Contribution to Make in Hong Kong

… Since the renewal of the Sino-Vatican Deal last October, Pope Francis—who has been extremely outspoken on other human rights and ecological crises—has been silent on China and Hong Kong. The Chinese Communist Party’s brutality and human rights violations, both in mainland China and in Hong Kong, have caused world leaders—such as former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo—to call for the Vatican to end its “preliminary” deal with China.

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Catholic Oblates Pledge to Publish Residential School Records in BC and Sask

The Catholic religious order that operated residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, where hundreds of nameless graves have been found, says it will reveal all the historical documents in its possession.

The Missionary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate operated 48 schools, including the Marieval Indian Residential School at Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan and the Kamloops Indian Residential School in BC.

“We deeply regret our involvement in residential schools and the damage they have caused to indigenous peoples and communities,” said a statement.

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Vatican urges Italy to stop proposed anti-homophobia law

The Vatican has made an unprecedented intervention urging the Italian government to change a proposed law that would criminalise homophobia over concerns it will infringe upon the Catholic church’s “freedom of thought”.

A letter delivered by the British archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary of relations with states, said parts of the legislation violated a treaty made between Italy and the Catholic church in the 1920s that secured the freedoms and rights of the church, Corriere della Sera reported.

I bet the Pope knows nothing.

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Priest warns parents against sending kids to Ontario Catholic schools that fly gay ‘Pride’ flag

A Catholic priest in Ontario is warning parents that Catholic school boards that voted to fly the pro-homosexual “Pride” flag at schools next month have become a danger to their children, and that they should consider alternative methods of education, such as private Catholic schools and homeschooling.

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The Vatican Defends Biden on Communion – Et tu, Brute?

This pontificate is rightly seen as a repudiation of the restorationist priorities of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer than on the matter of long-neglected canon law. Discussions about it had intensified under those two previous pontificates. It appeared, for example, that the Church, after many years of laxity, was on the cusp of finally applying canon law to pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Pope Benedict XVI, who was on record favoring a denial of Communion to them, spoke of the “pseudo-pastoral” claims made by progressive churchmen that had rendered canon law impotent. In retrospect, those comments read like a warning about his successor’s pontificate, which has been defined by that pseudo-pastoralism.

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Catholic church says Haiti faces ‘descent into hell’ after clergy kidnappings – I thought the Clintons already saw to that?

The Catholic church has warned that Haiti is facing a “descent into hell” and condemned government inaction after 10 people, including seven members of the clergy, were abducted by kidnappers demanding $1m ransom.

“For some time now, we have been witnessing the descent into hell of Haitian society,” the archdiocese of the capital Port-au-Prince said in a statement, adding that “violence by armed gangs” was taking on “unprecedented” proportions.

“The public authorities who are doing nothing to resolve this crisis are not immune from suspicion. We denounce complacency and complicity wherever it comes from,” the statement continued.

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