Trump administration halts cases against pro-lifers, strongly limits future FACE Act use
The Department of Justice stopped three pending Biden-era prosecutions of pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act on Friday, with strict new requirements for future invocations of the law to prevent it from being weaponized in the next four years.



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Quote:We are incredibly grateful, especially grateful to God,  that this pathetic lawsuit is gone. It never should have been brought in the first place. Indeed, Red Rose Rescues do not violate the FACE Act, as Red Rose Rescuers do not physically block or interfere with anyone’s freedom of movement. (Please see redroserescue.com for information on this innovative rescue strategy.) But, under the Garland/Biden DOJ, federal prosecutors were simply bending, twisting, and broadening the language of the FACE Act to make what we did fit their perverted interpretation. If we needed to go to trial our Thomas More Society attorneys felt confident we would prevail against this unjust charge. With the dismissal of this FACE case it is the total icing on the cake, on top of Trump’s pardons of the pro-life prisoners who were convicted of violating the FACE law and the extra charge of Conspiracy to Interfere with Civil Rights, resulting in draconian years-long prison terms. Now all pro-life rescuers are free at all levels in terms of the federal prosecutions.

We look forward to the repeal of the FACE act, the worst pro abortion law next to Roe v Wade.

With frustrating consistency, Pope Francis continues to expand and fructify the errors of Vatican II and his Conciliar papal predecessors:

Lutheran women ‘priests’ help lead pilgrimage organized by Pope Francis’ diocese
Attended by religious leaders of various creeds – including the Catholic Church, the Lutheran church, the Greek Orthodox – an ecumenical pilgrimage took place through Rome on Thursday night, with participants joining in a call for increased unity.



Ecumenical leaders at the Jan 23 pilgrimage in Rome
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Bp. Ricciardi reads a message in Rome’s Lutheran Christuskirche. © Michael Haynes

Lutheran pastor Mirella Manocchio preaches in the Lutheran Christuskirche. © Michael Haynes

Lutheran pastor Mirella Manocchio preaches in the Catholic church of St. Camillo de Lellis, Rome. © Michael Haynes

Quote:… it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ.

Quote:The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it.

Once again, Pope Francis expands and fructifies the errors in Vatican II.

The following is taken from Vatican II's "Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People," Apostolicam Actuositatem (Nov. 18, 1965):

Quote:The lay apostolate, in all its many aspects, is exercised both in the Church and in the world. In either case different fields of apostolic action are open to the laity. We propose to mention here the chief among them: Church communities, the family, the young, the social environment, national and international spheres. Since in our days women are taking an increasingly active share in the whole life of society, it is very important that their participation in the various sectors of the Church's apostolate should likewise develop (AA §9).

Quote:The more active participation is provoked, to a great extent, by the false "dogmas" that we have just related, and carried out under their signature, a participation that was condemned by Pius XI as "a grave disorder to eliminate at all cost" in his encyclical, Quadragesima Anno, because it takes "mothers of families" away from their proper duties (AAS23 [1931] 200).

Pope Francis institutes 23 women as Lectors, described as ‘tectonic shift’ in Catholic Tradition
Following his Canon Law changes in 2021, Pope Francis has now instituted men and women as Lectors four times, citing the 'common priesthood' in doing so. Liturgical scholars have warned that such actions contradict centuries of Catholic Tradition.



Pope Francis institutes a woman as Lector, Jan 26, 2025
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Quote:As readers and bearers of God’s word, you will assist in this mission, and so take on a special office within the Christian community; you will be given a responsibility in the service of the faith, which is rooted in the word of God, You will proclaim that word in the liturgical assembly, instruct children and adults in the faith, and prepare them to receive the sacraments worthily.

Pope Francis, Jan 26, 2026. ©Vatican News YouTube



Pope Francis, Jan 26, 2026. ©Vatican News YouTube



Male and female Lectors line up before Pope Francis, Jan 2025. ©Vatican News YouTube

Pope Francis with a new female Lector, Jan 2025. ©Vatican News

Quote:The motu proprio Spiritus Domini therefore commits a double categorical error by conflating the dignity of the baptized with the dignity of active liturgical ministry.

Quote:“The liturgical service of women in the Eucharistic liturgy, as reader and as acolyte and servant at the altar, was altogether excluded in the theological reasoning of the whole Old Testament and New Testament traditions, as well as of the two-thousand-year-old Eastern and Western tradition of the Church (see the cited study by Martimort).”

The Most Important Work in 2025 Is to See What Archbishop Lefebvre Saw in 1988

Quote:“A reading of ‘Peter, Lovest Thou Me?’ is enough to fill a faithful Catholic with despair, were it not that we have Our Lord’s promise that He will never desert His Church. He will truly be with us all days, but what trials we must endure, only He in His mercy knows. We can watch the world becoming more and more evil by the day, and we can watch the Princes of the Church doing nothing in its defense. More clearly can we see the warnings given by Our Blessed Lady at La Salette, at Lourdes, at Fatima. At La Salette she told us that ‘Rome will lose the truth and become the seat of the Antichrist.’ Our Lady gave to Sr. Lucia a third part to her message at Fatima, which was to be published in 1960. The world still waits, but it almost certainly spoke of a general apostasy. Is that not what we are witnessing today?”

Quote:“The churches and separated communities, although we once believed that they suffered from deficiencies, are not totally deprived of importance and value in the mystery of salvation. The Spirit of Christ does not refuse to use them as means of salvation, through the strength deriving from the fullness of grace and truth which has been conferred on the Catholic Church.” (p. 42)

“Nostalgia for the unity of Christians makes common cause with that of unity of the whole human race. The new concept of a ‘People of God’ has made us revise the old truth about the possibility of redemption outside the limits of the Catholic Church. This gives rise to the attitude of the Church towards the other religions, which is based on the recognition of their spiritual values, humans and Christians together, reaching out to such religions as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism . . .” (p. 45)

“In celebrating the Redemption we go beyond the historic misunderstandings and contingent controversies to find once more what is common to all Christians, that is to say, like the redeemed.” (p. 111)

“Christians and Moslems, we meet one another in faith in the one God, our creator, our guide, our just and merciful judge. We strive to put into practice in our daily lives the will of God, following the teaching of our respective holy books.” (p. 140)

“Christians and Moslems, we have many things in common as believers and as men . . . We believe in the same God, the only God, the living God. Respect and dialogue require mutual reciprocity in all areas, especially concerning fundamental liberties and more particularly religious liberty. Each man expects to be respected for what he is and what he believes.” (p. 141)

“Jerusalem must become the city of man, in which the believers of the three great monotheistic religions — Christianity, Judaism and Islam — live in full liberty and equality, as do the believers of other religious communities, in the recognized guarantee that this city is the sacred patrimony of all, and is destined for adoration of the One God, of mediation and the work of fraternity.” (p. 200)

Quote:“To read these lines presenting the true face of John Paul II is a terrifying experience for the faithful Catholic, it fills the soul with sadness and dread.”

Quote:“Also, it raises serious problems of faith for any true Catholic; problems that often have no solution, although they explain the perplexity and confusion which are now troubling even those whose faith is strongest. The Pope is Peter, the rock on which Christ founded His Church. He is the one whose faith must not fail; who is to confirm his brethren; feed his sheep; feed the lambs. It is he who, assisted by the Holy Ghost has, for almost twenty centuries in this manner given the Papacy a moral credibility unique in the history of the world. Is it conceivable that, since the 1960s, the Apostolic See has been occupied by Popes who have been the cause of the ‘auto-demolition of the Church,’ and are spreading within it ‘the smoke of Satan’? Leaving aside the pertinent question of what these Popes are, we are certainly obliged to ask ourselves questions about what they do, and we can observe with alarm and amazement that they are introducing the Revolution of ’89 into the Church, complete with its motto, its charter, which is fundamentally opposed to the principles of the Catholic Faith.”

Quote:“This book is very enlightening on the activities of John Paul II, a true follower of Paul VI. We have the facts before our eyes which, enlightened by the immutable Catholic Faith, are now, with increasing sorrow and grief, seeing the Church threatened with complete ruin.”

Quote:“Echoing the Popes before the 1960s, who foretold the disasters that would come upon the Church if their warnings were not listened to and their condemnations not heeded, and echoing the prophesies of Our Lady of La Salette and Fatima, let us strive to re-establish the Church upon the eternal principles taught by the Magisterium for nearly twenty centuries, rejecting the errors of the Liberal Modernist Revolution, even when these errors may be endorsed by those who occupy the See of Peter.”

Quote:“The Declaration we made on November 21, 1974 after the first visit to Rome is still relevant, and we were obliged to reaffirm it after our second visit in 1987. We must reject Modernist Rome as it pursues its course of destroying the Faith and Christianity. It is our daily duty to repudiate it by attaching ourselves to the eternal Rome, proclaiming more than ever the need for the Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother, Mary Our Queen. To bring about the coming of this Reign, we need Bishops, we need priests and religious who have but one name on their lips, and one love in their hearts: that of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”