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HISTORIC GERMAN CHURCH DEMOLISHED AS MOSQUES MULTIPLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY

PLANEFRANCIS SCARES THE PLANET AGAIN OVER TRUMP, NORTH KOREA, AND NUCLEAR WAR; HOLDS UP THAT MISERABLE, DEAD BABY PICTURE

FRANCIS DEPARTS FOR APOSTOLIC VISIT TO CHILE AND PERU LIKE HE’S AN APOSTLE OR SOMETHING

CANADA TO HAITIANS IN MIAMI: “COME TO CANADA ILLEGALLY & WE’LL DEPORT YOU

HIPPIEFRANCIS: “SO IT IS NECESSARY TO DESTROY THE WEAPONS, LET’S STRIVE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT”

FLASHBACK DEATHMONSTER PAPAL KNIGHT PLOUMEN 2015: ‘WE FACE HUGE CHALLENGES THAT WILL REQUIRE EFFORTS FROM ALL OF US, INCLUDING RELIGIOUS LEADERS. WITH THEIR INFLUENCE AND AUTHORITY THEY CAN HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE DEBATE.’

TOKEN AMERICAMAG HAITIAN: ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RACISTS, AND AMERICA HAS ALWAYS EXPLOITED HAITI

SCRANTON DIOCESE ASKS CREEPY FRANCISVATICAN FOR LEGATE TO 150TH ANNIVERSARY, SO THEY SEND NOTORIOUS L.A. CARDINAL MAHONY!  ABP. CHAPUT TO PREACH.

POLISH ABP, .GADECKI AT 2015 SYNOD: IT’S FULL OF THE SPIRIT OF 19TH C. FREEMASONRY

“FRANCIS ENJOYS ENORMOUS POPULARITY AND CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL HEFT, WHICH, AS SOME HAVE ALREADY LEARNED, CAN PROVE EITHER HELPFUL OR LETHAL.- CRUXMAG WARNS ROME MAYOR RAGGI NOT TO CROSS POLITICAL KRYPTONITE FRANCIS

WHY IS LIBERAL CALIFORNIA THE POVERTY CAPITAL OF AMERICA?

FRANCIS EFFECT: DRAMATIC DECLINE OF CATHOLICISM IN CHILE AND ARGENTINA

AMORIS LAETITIA PURGES AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY – FRANCISMERCY IN ACTION

AND FOR ANY JESUIT HOMOSEXUALIST ADVOCATE WHO MIGHT BE READING THIS:

PETITION AGAINST REMOVAL OF HISTORIC CROSS WHERE FR. MARQUETTE DIED

SELECTIVE OUTRAGE AND HYPOCRISY FROM THE DEMOCRATS AND THE LIBERAL MSM

FRANCISSPEAK: IT WAS WIDELY NOTED THAT A LOT OF THE UN VOCABULARY FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE ENCYCLICAL LAUDATO SI. THE ADOPTION OF THAT VOCABULARY CAN BE A PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN “CATHOLIC YOUTH DAY 2017” — CAN THE NEW CHURCH STOOP LOWER? I SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT!

“MUCH AS I ADMIRE THE PIETY OF LADIES WHO EAGERLY SERVE AS LECTORS, THE TIMBRAL QUALITIES ONE HEARS — FROM SWEET AND SOFT TO SCHOOLMARMISH AND SCOLDING — ARE OFTEN SIMPLY NOT EDIFYING.”

TRIBALISM AT AUSTRALIAN ‘CATHOLIC’ FESTIVAL

FRANCIS MARCH VIDEOMARCH FRANCISINTENTIONS VIDEO BLAMES ECONOMIC SYSTEM FOR MEN BEATING THEIR WIVES

INSIDER BANKSTER, JEB’S BROTHER NEIL BUSH JOINS CRUZ FINANCE TEAM

BOOM? – ST. PETER’S RECTOR SAYS MORE ITALIANS, FEWER ENGLISH SPEAKERS, MORE NON-CATHOLICS GOING TO CONFESSION?

YOUR FIVE LOAVES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD: LENTEN FRANCISRETREAT GETS ALL HIPPY HOPEY CHANGEY WITH THE MIRACLE OF OUR LORD

POPE’S MERCIFUL VATICAN CHARITY EFFORTS JUST DESTRUCTIVE REDUNDANT PUBLICITY STUNTS

FRANCISCARDINAL HARVEY LEADS US INTERFAITH DELEGATION THROUGH HOLY MERCYDOOR, APOLOGIZES FOR ‘EMBARASSMENT OF RICHES IN ROME’

VORIS EXPOSE: NYC GAY MAFIA GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP

TRUMP: I THINK ISLAM HATES US

THE FBI: “BIASED” STUDENTS ARE A POTENTIAL THREAT

MEXICAN BISHOPS ATTACKED BY FRANCIS FOR BEING CATHOLIC?

What's wrong wit chu?

What’s wrong wit chu?

REMNANT’S MATT CALLS ON FR. LONGENECKER TO RETRACT HIS HYSTERICAL FRANCISSMEAR AGAINST FAITHFUL ‘FUNDAMENTALIST’ CATHOLICS

40 YEAR OLD ANTI-MERKEL RISES IN GERMANY

PAGLIA: PRIMARY VOTERS NATIONWIDE ARE CLEARLY RESPONDING TO TRUMP’S BRAND OF CLASSIC CAN-DO AMERICAN MOXIE

DONALD TRUMP’S FAVORITE FOOD IS MEATLOAF.

ON INFLATED DIGNITY, FALSE FREEDOM, AND A SUPPRESSED ANCIENT MASS

WHAT IS THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, AND WHY DOES FR. JENKINS WEAR A COLLAR?

SEATTLE JESUIT COLLEGE SET TO GIVE PODIUM TO ABORTIONIST

MEXICAN BISHOPS WARN AGAINST THE BERGOGIKA VIRUS.  SPREADS BY WORD OF MOUTH

WHAT WILL BE DONE WHEN FRANCIS’ FINAL SYNOD EXHORTATION DROPS?

ESTABLISHMENT HOLDS ITS NOSE AND MOVES TOWARD SUPPORTING CRUZ

TED CRUZ TOO JESUS-Y?

UK:  I WISH THIS WERE A “MODEST PROPOSAL” BUT THEY’RE SERIOUS! DR. MENGELE, CALL YOUR OFFICE.

THE UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF CARDINAL SARAH?

FRANCIS IGNORES CDF AGAIN ON NEW BISHOPS’ ACCOUNTABILITY TRIBUNAL

POPE FRANCIS APPROVES NEW RULES FOR FUNDS OF SAINTS’ CAUSES

A NO GOOD, VERY BAD NIGHT FOR THE STOP-TRUMP FORCES

 

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Feeling the FrancisMercy

Feeling the New Mercy

At the UK Guardian Anthea Butler provides a great example of the whole point behind the new abortion FrancisMercy.

Pope Francis’s pastoral letter for the Year of Mercy, indicating that priests may absolve those who procure abortions, does nothing to change Catholic church policy with regards to how abortion is viewed. Current canonical law states that abortion is a grave sin, resulting in “automatic” excommunication.

It also doesn’t change very much when it comes to the mechanics of sin and forgiveness in the Catholic Church. Current teachings state that bishops could give priests the right to forgive a woman for having an an abortion if she was truly penitent; for this year, priests do not specifically have to ask a bishop for the right to absolve anyone seeking forgiveness for assisting an abortion or having one. (And Pope John Paul II gave priests the same term-limited right in the year 2000.)

What the Pope did was make a deft statement on the eve of his first visit to Cuba and the United States – a very Jesuitical move from the Jesuit pontiff. It presents to the public and press a more forgiving, more open church, which needs all the good PR feelings it can muster.

So far, so good.

In a letter outlining the preparations for the Year of Mercy beginning on 8 December 2015, the pope stated he is “conceding to all priests for the Jubilee year the discretion to absolve the sin of abortion to those who have procured it”.

While the edict is not a change in canon law, it does give a pathway to forgiveness for what the church terms “a grave sin”. Once a person is absolved, then they are back in “good standing’ with the Catholic church, and are able to partake of the sacrament of the Eucharist and be accepted into heaven.

Not so sure about this ‘new pathway’ she’s talking about, but it’s great to hear a big secular paper actually explain Confession, Holy Communion, and forgiveness in our Faith.

But wait:

The move to offer absolution to women who had abortions is likely to rankle conservatives who have found themselves embattled with this pope, who hews closely to Catholic church teachings but still makes comments like “who am I to judge” with regards to homosexuality and calls upon Church leaders to get active on climate change.

The letter particularly puts the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops once again in the interesting position of having to support the pope, even though many of them are staunch anti-abortion advocates who may not have wished to extend – or even forbidden the extension of – forgiveness to those women who have sought it regarding abortions. Many of those bishops have been eager to fight the culture wars surrounding abortion rights in the United States; this announcement reduces their bluster substantively.

They were doing so well, weren’t they?  They were talking about the Church and not making things up.  Pro-life faithful bishops don’t want forgiveness for abortions!  Now we have to silence the culture war?

Just when we thought maybe the secular left would start to understand Christ’s mercy, we find out they only get FrancisMercy.  FrancisMercy is only for liberals.