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International Scientists Agree the Climate Crisis Is Fake News
International scientists are sounding the alarm on the myth of man-made climate change. A total of 1,609 scientists and professionals worldwide signed a declaration this month that dismissed the idea of a global climate emergency. Read more
Starving Christians in Artsakh
An Armenian Catholic bishop is imploring the faithful around the world to join in prayer as over 100,000 Christian Armenians face imminent starvation in the Caucasus. The Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States and Canada is collaborating with an international online prayer forum to promote a novena for the Armenian Christians facing death by starvation in Nagorno-Karabakh. The region, referred to by locals as Artsakh, lies within Muslim-ruled Azerbaijan. Read more
Prelate Sued for Upholding ‘Pure Blood’ Catholicism
A couple, denied the sacrament of marriage on racial grounds despite a high court order, is suing a Syro-Malabar archbishop and priest for contempt of court. Justin John, a Catholic from the Kottayam archdiocese, filed a contempt of court petition against Abp. Mathew Moolakkatt and Fr. Sijo Stephan in the Kerala High Court on Friday, upping the ante in a 30-year-long battle against the racist practice of "pure blood" Knanaya Catholics. Read more
Pope Francis’ Ad-Libbing Triggers Diplomatic Debacle
In a rare intervention, the Holy See Press Office has stepped in to clarify Pope Francis' stance on the Russia–Ukraine conflict after the pontiff's extempore comments praising Russia triggered a diplomatic fiasco. "The pope's intention was to inspire young people to uphold the positive aspects of Russia's great cultural and spiritual heritage" and "not to exalt imperialistic logics and governmental figures," Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, clarified on Tuesday. Read more
Archbishop Licenses Priests to Confer ‘Gay Blessings’
The archbishop of Berlin has released an official statement permitting priests under his jurisdiction to administer blessings to same-sex couples, emphasizing that his directive aligns with the intentions of Pope Francis. Quoting Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia in a letter dated Aug. 21, Abp. Heiner Koch notes that "it is no longer possible to say that all who are in any so-called irregular situation are in a state of mortal sin and have lost sanctifying grace." Read more
Ghana Religious Leaders Blast LGBT Agenda
Catholic bishops and other religious leaders in Ghana are calling on the West to stop imposing its ideologies on the African country. On Thursday, members of three Christian ecumenical councils in Ghana released a joint statement asking the United States and other Western countries to "stop the incessant attempts to impose unacceptable foreign cultural values on us." Read more
Gay Catholic Priest Drafts World’s First ‘Queer Bible’
A homosexual priest from Lucerne, a city renowned as the capital of Catholic Switzerland, claims to have reimagined the Holy Scriptures to create the world's first "Queer Bible." Launching 'Die Queerbibel' at the Lucerne Pride Festival on Saturday, Fr. Meinrad Furrer, an LGBT activist, presented a sample of his heterodox text by offering a "queer" rewriting of the Joseph story in the book of Genesis. Read more
Greek Bishop: Pope’s Synod Doesn’t Fit Eastern Model
A senior prelate in the Greek Catholic Church is trashing the frequently stated claim that Pope Francis' forthcoming Synod on Synodality conforms to the synodal model followed by the Eastern Churches. In a commentary published on the Greek Catholic Exarchate website, Bp. Manuel Nin Güell warns that the pope's synodal project runs the risk of turning into a form of "'Christian parliamentarianism' that would allow us to express opinions on everyone and everything." Read more
Jesuits Banned in Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan government banned the Jesuits and seized all the society's assets. On Wednesday, the Sandinista regime, led by President Daniel Ortega, banned the Society of Jesus and dictated the confiscation of all the religious order's assets. Read more
The ‘Hypocrisy’ of the World Bank
A Ugandan politician is slamming the World Bank for hypocrisy regarding its decision earlier this month to halt new loans for the country owing to its laws against homosexuality. On Wednesday, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, stated, "While we welcome sanctions against [President Yoweri] Museveni, we call out the hypocrisy of the international community." Read more
Priest Commits Suicide After Masturbating on Beach
A Polish Salesian priest who was charged with masturbating before minors on a beach in Poland has committed suicide. Father Piotr Ziółkowski, a catechist at a primary school and priest at Our Lady of the Rosary parish in Szczecin, northwestern Poland, was found dead on Saturday after he threw himself in front of a train. Read more
Top Cardinal Warns of Synodality as ‘Pandora’s Box’
A leading cardinal is warning that the forthcoming Synod on Synodality is "a revolution" that is at work "to change radically the Church's self-understanding in accord with a contemporary ideology which denies much of what the Church has always taught and practiced." In a foreword to a new book titled The Synodal Process Is a Pandora's Box: 100 Questions & Answers, Cdl. Raymond Burke notes that "synodality," which is set to redefine Catholicism, "has no history in the doctrine of the Church" and "no reasonable definition." Read more
Pope Picks Brothel-Scandal Judge for Vatican Body
A pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Argentinian former supreme court judge who was investigated for renting out his apartments as a brothel has been appointed by Pope Francis to a Vatican entity operating within the framework of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences. Justice Raúl Eugenio Zaffaroni, handpicked by the pontiff to serve on the newly created body dealing with social rights and colonialism, sparked further outrage after he exempted a pedophile from prison for abusing an eight-year-old girl. Read more
Syro-Malabar Priests Defy Excommunication Threat
"Any disobedience to this order will be considered voluntary, personal and culpable disobedience to the Holy Father," papal delegate Abp. Cyril Vasil warned priests of the Syro-Malabar Church's Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy in a letter published Thursday. Vasil said that defiance of the Vatican's diktat to implement the liturgical formula for the Holy Qurbana (Holy Mass) "will be considered a serious delict against the Holy Father with subsequent canonical penal sanctions." Read more
Oz Priest Shuffled to 16 Parishes Abused 72 Children
Magistrate Hugh Radford told Fr. Gerald Ridsdale that the priest would "probably die in custody" after reading out the serial abuser's extended sentence at Ballarat Magistrates' Court on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The verdict marks Ridsdale's 193rd conviction for child abuse and follows a guilty plea by the priest in June to the latest charge of indecent assault against a 13-year-old boy while the abuser worked at a Catholic school in Horsham in 1987. Read more
