Pope’s rhetoric against ‘fundamentalist’ Catholics could help pave way for active persecution

DSC_0278_810_500_55_s_c1Editor’s note: This is part 3 of a series examining Pope Francis’ papacy over the last three years. See part 1 here and part 2 here.

June 15, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – It’s one of the most frequent talking points of Pope Francis. It’s definitely part of his appeal for the media and simultaneously one of the most hurtful things for those inside the Church for whom the faith means everything. I’m speaking of the Pope’s penchant for castigating faithful adherents of the Catholic faith as “obsessed,” “doctors of the law,” “neo-pelagian,” “self-absorbed,” “restorationist,” “fundamentalist,” “rigid,” “ideological,” “hypocritical,” and much more. MORE

Last surviving Catholic priest of Dachau concentration camp dies

Weak and ill survivors of the Nazi conceThe last Catholic priest to have been imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp has died at age 102.

Father Hermann Scheipers was a young priest in 1940 when he was arrested by the Nazis and taken to the camp, near Munich. Dachau had a large population of priests: some 95% of the 2,720 clergymen imprisoned there were Catholic.

Father Scheipers died June 2 in Ochtrup in Münsterland, the same town where he was born on July 24, 1913. MORE

VIDEO: Pope Francis: Most Catholic marriages are null, some ‘cohabitations’ are ‘real marriage’

June 17, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis spoke yesterday at a pastoral congress on the family for the Diocese of Rome, and his remarks are causing consternation among faithful Catholics. In off-the-cuff remarks, the pope made the dual claim that the “great majority” of Catholic marriages are “null” – in other words, not actual marriages – and that some cohabitating couples are in a “real marriage,” receiving the grace of the Sacrament. MORE

Enough is enough, Pope Francis should resign

1466193123703Pope Francis’s three-year-old papacy, marred by controversy from the beginning, has hit a new low.

After Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, he quickly justified his reputation as an unconventional character who put himself on both sides of an argument with vaguely worded pronouncements.

From his “Who am I to judge?” statement on gay people that seemed to offer a hint at a change in church teaching, to his fumbles on contraception, to his recent claim that Donald Trump is not Christian, his off-the-cuff remarks cause headlines across the globe, often followed by some sort of “clarification” from the Holy See Press Office. MORE

 

Insight into the Catholic Faith presents ~ Catholic Tradition Newsletter

June19-St. Juliana F_279326Vol 9 Issue 25 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
June 18, 2016 ~ Saint Ephrem, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (73)
2. Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St Juliana Falconieri
4. Christ in the Home (47)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

The third Sunday of June has been designated as Father’s Day. It is near impossible to find true fathers, but those who are should be honored and given the respect they deserve. Today’s society does everything to destroy the role of the father and unfortunately fathers are only too willing to neglect their responsibility. Saint Joseph received the role of being a foster father to the Christ Child and there is nothing other that he is known for except that of what he did to provide for the Holy Family: a carpenter. It is the same for all true Fathers. Continue reading

Turkey Bans Gay Pride Parade in Istanbul

TURKThe governor of Istanbul has banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding pride parades at their usual venue, citing security concerns.

It said Friday that marches departing from the Turkish city’s iconic Taksim neighborhood would not be allowed “for the safety of our citizens and the participants.”

The LGBT community has called for demonstrations on June 19 and June 26, bookending pride week.MORE

First new U.S. nuclear reactor in decades

NUCSPRING CITY, Tenn. — In an immaculate control room at the Watts Bar nuclear plant, green bars flash on a large screen, signaling something that has not happened in the United States in two decades.

As control rods lift from the water in the core, and neutrons go about the business of splitting uranium atoms, life comes to a new nuclear reactor — the first in the country since its sister reactor here was licensed in 1996. MORE

Swiss Withdraw EU Application

WISResentment toward the EU hit a new high yesterday when the upper house of the Swiss parliament on Wednesday followed in thefootsteps of Iceland, and voted to invalidate its 1992 application to join the European Union, backing an earlier decision by the lower house. The vote comes just a week before Britain decides whether to leave the EU in a referendum. Twenty-seven members of the upper house, the Council of States, voted to cancel Switzerland’s longstanding EU application, versus just 13 senators against. Two abstained the Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported.

Thomas Minder, counsellor for the state of Schaffhausen and an active promoter of the concept of “Swissness,” said he was eager to “close the topic fast and painlessly” as only “a few lunatics” may want to join the EU now, he told the newspaper. MORE

 

ST. SILVERIUS, Pope and Martyr. June 20

ST. SILVERIUS, Pope and MartyrAs you can see by this article on St. Silverius that Empress Theodora had more power than the Pope and this is in 536. So you can see why the Popes had to take stronger measures to better arm themselves to defend Rome.
In Christ, Joseph

Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894], at sacred-texts.com

June 20.—ST. SILVERIUS, Pope and Martyr.

SILVERIUS was son of Pope Hermisdas, who had been married before he entered the ministry. Upon the death of St. Agapetas, after a vacancy of forty-seven days, Silverius, then subdeacon, was chosen Pope, and ordained on the 8th of June, 536. Continue reading

Probe of alleged hate speech by Valencia archbishop

5764098b8d7bd.imageProsecutors said Friday they are investigating a Spanish archbishop for possible criminal hate speech because of remarks he made recently about the gay community.

The Valencia’s provincial prosecutor’s office said it was studying a recent speech made by Valencia Archbishop Antonio Canizares in which he said “powers such as the gay empire” promoted the rise of movements against the Christian family.

Canizares also hit out at feminists and gender ideology.

The remarks raised much criticism and a regional LGBT group and 50 other groups filed a complaint. MORE

VIDEO: A record-breaking heat wave coming to the West Coast

3A record-breaking heat wave coming to the West Coast could bring major flight delays with it, 9News reported.

Temperatures in Phoenix are expected to come close to the all-time high of 122 degrees on Sunday and Monday for the first time since 1990, 9News said. Temperatures in Denver are expected to linger near the low 100s. Planes have issues operating at such temperatures, as wings and engines tend to struggle during take-off, NBC aviation analyst Gregory Feith told 9News. VIDEO

VIDEO: Vladimir Putin Has Everything He Needs to Blackmail Hillary Clinton

“Reliable intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been received that the Russian Government could in the near future release the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server from the time she was U.S. Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services.”  MORE