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New Uganda Law: Life Imprisonment for Having Gay Sex
Yesterday, news broke that Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which criminalizes gay sex and confers life imprisonment and the death penalty for so-called aggravated homosexuality. Annually, the United States provides approximately $1 billion in health and developmental assistance to Uganda. However, this aid may be halted due to Uganda's opposition to the LGBT agenda. Read more
Vatican Cautions Against ‘Social Media Divide’
The Vatican is urging Christians to "weave relationships" on social media and avoid what it calls "social media divide" months after Pope Francis challenged his critics to criticize people to their faces. On Sunday, the Vatican Dicastery for Communication published a piece titled "Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media" to address some of the main questions regarding how Christians should behave on social media. Read more
Clerical Sex Abuse Revelations Explode Across Bolivia
Bolivia's president is warning Pope Francis of grave consequences for the Church after multiple exposés of predator priests abusing minors rocked the predominantly Catholic country in May. In a four-page letter addressed to "Brother Francis" on Monday, President Luis Arce expressed "shock and outrage" at the revelations and demanded that the pontiff instruct the Bolivian hierarchy to release diocesan secret files on sexually abuser priests. Read more
Head of Pope’s Sex Abuse Council Sued for Cover-Up
Three former Catholic students are suing Cdl. Seán O'Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, for covering up alleged sex abuse by a former principal of the Arlington Catholic School. The lawsuit against the cardinal, who heads the Boston archdiocese where clerical sex abuse scandals first exploded in 2002, was filed on May 5 — a day after O'Malley admitted that the commission has been "the subject of intense criticism both internally and externally." Read more
Cardinal Urges Humanae Vitae Forum to Be ‘Inclusive’
Italy's top cardinal and potential successor to Pope Francis is urging a congress on Humanae Vitae to reject groupthink on the 1968 papal encyclical prohibiting artificial contraception. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, exhorted participants at the international conference called "Humanae Vitae: The Audacity of an Encyclical on Sexuality and Procreation" to "avoid working within closed and homogenized circles." Read more
SSPX Priest on Trial on Charges of Molesting 27 Children
A priest of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is being put on trial in France after being indicted for abusing 27 children. Church Militant has confirmed the trial begins May 22 in the Cours d'Assises (Court of Assizes) at la Roche-sur-Yon, in the Vendée in western France, and will continue for two weeks until June 2. Read more
No. 1 Tennis Player in the World Calls Out Fake Media
Novak Djokovic, the highest ranked tennis player in the world — who's also been banned from multiple tournaments due to his refusal to get the COVID jab — is now countering what he considers false narratives perpetuated by the mainstream media. Competing at the Italian Open in Rome, Djokovic, a Serbian Orthodox Christian, recently spoke to Italy's Corriere della Sera, stating that he believes "95% of what has been written and said on TV about me in the last three years is totally false." Read more
France Issues Digital Clergy ID to Fight Abuser Priests
Clerics in France are being issued electronic identity cards that can be scanned to check if the priest has been charged with sexual abuse or stripped of his clerical status. Bishops, priests and deacons will be required to produce the wallet-sized plastic swipe cards on public demand to ascertain they are not potential sex abusers, a move that clerical sex abuse victims have derided as a public relations stunt. Read more
Australia Seizes Catholic Hospital for Protecting Life
The archbishop of Canberra is fighting back after the government of the Australian Capital Territory announced measures to seize the Calvary Public Hospital run by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary. "I am deeply troubled about the situation and its implications," Abp. Christopher Prowse wrote on Thursday in a letter to the faithful of the archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, slamming the "shocking news" of the state's decision to "compulsorily acquire" the hospital. Read more
Diary Details Horror of Jesuit Predator’s 85 Victims
The Society of Jesus in Bolivia has suspended and begun investigating eight former provincials for their roles in protecting a fellow Jesuit who abused more than 85 males, including several seminarians, in the 1980s. Father Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno's predation was covered up at the order's highest levels in Rome by Pope Francis' tertianship instructor, Fr. José Arroyo, and by Fr. Marcos Recolons, assistant ad providentiam to Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, the Jesuit superior general from 2008 to 2016. Read more
Paulist Mother Church Displays ‘God Is Trans’ Exhibit
A prestigious Manhattan church, notorious for pushing pro-LGBT propaganda, has divided parishioners after it displayed a "God Is Trans" exhibit next to the high altar. In defiance of the Vatican's rulings against gender ideology, the parish of St. Paul the Apostle is showcasing Adah Unachukwu's blasphemous exhibit titled "God Is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey." Read more
Syro-Malabar Church Resists Gay ‘Marriage’ Ruling
The ancient Syro-Malabar Church is opposing the Supreme Court of India's attempt to legalize same-sex "marriage," stating that it is "a denial of human nature constituted as male and female and an injustice to the family system and society." On Thursday, the Eastern Rite Catholic Church issued a statement warning that "legalizing same-sex marriage could lead to calls for the legalization of sexual perversions such as attraction to children, attraction to animals and attraction between blood relatives." Read more
How to Defeat the ‘Virus’ of Woke Ideologies Plaguing the World
CPAC Hungary — short for the nation's conservative political action conference — kicked off in Budapest this morning, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opening the event with a cure for what he calls the "virus" of woke ideologies. The prime minister delivered a rousing keynote speech to a packed house at the conference venue on the shores of the Danube. Read more
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