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| 5 worrying things you need to know about Leo XIV |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-08-2025, 04:25 PM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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5 worrying things you need to know about Leo XIV
The conclave has chosen an anti-Trump, pro-Synod American – Robert Prevost, now known as Leo XIV – to succeed Francis.
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VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - MAY 08: The newly elected Leo XIV
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May 8, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [adapted and reformatted]) –– The conclave has chosen an anti-Trump, pro-Synod American – Robert Prevost, now known as Leo XIV – to succeed Francis.
Vocal critic of Trump immigration policy
Prevost is a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and has consistently used his X account to promote material hostile to Trump’s immigration policies.
In one instance from February 3, Prevost reposted an article by NCROnline titled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” The article criticizes the U.S. vice president for correctly arguing that we owe more immediate responsibility to our own family members and country than to those overseas – a position taught by St. Thomas Aquinas and reiterated in the “social encyclicals” of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century popes.
He shared a similar article by dissident America Magazine on the same topic days later.
Persecuted Bishop Strickland, appointed McElroy
As head of the Congregation for Bishops, Prevost was instrumental in the removal of Bishop Strickland from Tyler, Texas, and the leading French conversative bishop, Dominique Rey, from his diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.
Meanwhile, he has placed openly heterodox bishops in sees worldwide. The most notorious is Cardinal McElroy, who was installed as Archbishop of Washington despite being implicated in the cover up of sexual abuse by Cardinal McCarrick
Banned communion on tongue, promoted invalid confessions
During COVID, Prevost imposed receiving communion on the hand, and confession by telephone, which is both invalid and sacrilegious.
He also reposted a call for the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines to be “available for all” and a USCCB post that called getting vaccinated “an act of love.”
Support of synodality and the ‘synodal church’
A strong supporter Francis’s radical agenda, Prevost supports “synodality.” He has suggested that “synodality” is the solution to “the current polarization currently gripping the Church.” He dismissed those who “prefer the security of answers already experienced in the past”
Prevost restated this goal during his speech from the loggia in his first public appearance following the conclave, in which he said, “we want to be a synodal Church.”
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| BREAKING: Cardinal Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-08-2025, 04:18 PM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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BREAKING: Cardinal Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV
The election of Cardinal Prevost as Pope comes at the end of the second day of the conclave.
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VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - MAY 8: The newly elected Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV is seen for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8, 2025
Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
May 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted]) — Cardinal Robert Prevost is the 267th pope, elected by the cardinals today on the second day of the conclave.
Cardinal Prevost has taken Leo 14th as his papal name.
“Habemus Papam” announced Cardinal Dominique Mamberti on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, in his capacity as the proto-deacon of the College of Cardinals.
Some minutes earlier, the white smoke had billowed out of the famous chimney atop the roof of the Sistine Chapel, to announce the cardinals’ decision on a candidate.
The vote to elect Prevost as pope was announced via the white smoke just after 6 p.m. local time, likely being the fourth vote of the conclave, which began on the afternoon of May 7.
For a pope to be elected on four ballots is notably speedy, though not without precedent: in the last hundred years Benedict XVI, John Paul I, and Pius XII were elected in four or less votes.
Giving his first address to the Catholic Church as pope, Leo XIV drew heavily from the theme of Christ’s peace, and also on the Blessed Virgin Mary, notably closing his speech by leading a recitation of the Hail Mary.
He also drew on his religious nature as an Augustinian, quoting from St. Augustine to say “For you I am a bishop, with you I am a Christian.”
Addressing the crowd with measured tone, though notably moved, Leo XIV promised the Church “to walk along with you searching altogether for peace and justice and working together men and women faithful to Christ, without fear, to proclaim the Gospel, to be missionaries.”
“May we all walk together towards that place that God has prepared for us,” he added.
Leo also addressed the Diocese of Rome and his former own diocese of Chiclayo in Peru:
I give a special greeting to the Church of Rome as bishop of Rome.
We must seek together how we can be a missionary church, that builds bridges but is always open to receive everyone, of all kinds, to welcome everyone, in charity, dialogue and love…
To all of you of Rome and Italy, we need to be a synodal church, that shows charity always and especially is charitable to those that are suffering.
The new pope closed his speech by invoking the aid of the Blessed Virgin mary, and leading the crowds in the recitation of the Hail Mary in Italian:
Today we also prayer to the Madonna of Pompeii, who always wishes to be close to us – to intercede for us through her love.
Let us pray together for this new mission, for all the Church, for peace in the world, that she will help us and give us a special grace as mother.
A member of the Order of St. Augustine (OSA) since 1977, he was ordained a priest in 1982 in Rome. Prevost spent a number of years in the OSA missions in Peru, serving different terms in the Trujillo mission as community prior and formation director, as well as being judicial vicar for the Archdiocese of Trujillo.
Elected superior of his Chicago province in 1999, it was not long before Prevost rose to become Prior General of the entire order in 2001. He held this position for two terms, until 2013.
Prevost’s episcopal life began in November 2014, when Pope Francis appointed him as apostolic administrator of Peru’s Diocese of Chiclayo. The Augustinian was bishop of the diocese from 2015 through until his appointment as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops in January 2023.
As bishop and then cardinal, Prevost arrived to the Roman Curia in 2019. He was made a member of the Congregation for Clergy in July 2019 and then a member of the Congregation for Bishops in November 2020, becoming a rare non-cardinal member of the Congregation.
He was created cardinal in the consistory of September 29, 2023.
His record on handling sexual abuse cases has caused some to protest and raise concerns about his ability to address the issue. His aides have strongly defended his actions in this matter, and his election as pope by the College of Cardinals suggests that they place confidence in his ability on the matter.
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| New pope set to emerge from Vatican balcony after white smoke signal |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-08-2025, 12:57 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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New pope set to emerge from Vatican balcony after white smoke signal
AP | May 8, 2025
White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.
That means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers.
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| Black smoke after Thursday morning votes: no new pope yet |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-08-2025, 10:10 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Black smoke after Thursday morning votes: no new pope yet
The black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney once again on Thursday
at the close of the first of two sessions of votes being held today.
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Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel on morning go May 8, 2025
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May 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel after the morning votes on Thursday, meaning that cardinals in conclave remain undecided about who is to be the new pope.
At around 11.50am local time, onlookers in the square below witnessed the black smoke emerge from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. The smoke came to mark the conclusion of the morning session of the conclave, which is comprised of two rounds of votes.
On a full day of conclave, cardinals hold a morning session with two rounds of votes, and an afternoon session which also has two rounds of votes.
If no pope is elected in the first round of either the morning or afternoon session then the cardinals proceed straight to the second session, without releasing the black smoke.
However, if a new pope is elected during any round of votes then white smoke will be released from the temporary chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the world will wait to see a new pope presented from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The cardinals began the conclave yesterday morning, starting with the Mass for the election of a new pope before processing into the Sistine Chapel in the afternoon.
Once inside the famous chapel, they swore their oaths of secrecy regarding the conclave – promising not to reveal details to any non-cardinal electors under pain of excommunication.
Previous conclaves back to that which elected Pope Paul VI have taken just two days. Precedent of the recent decades thus suggests that a new pope could be elected swiftly, perhaps even on Thursday or Friday.
However, many cardinals have observed that they do not know each other, and this key aspect might lead to a slightly longer conclave than normal.
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| Young Adult Gathering 2025 |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 05-07-2025, 09:45 PM - Forum: Event Schedule
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This year's Young Adult Gathering will be from July 18th - 21st, 2025
at the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart in Wentworth, New Hampshire!
For Catholic Singles aged 18 - 35
Please include the following info:
Full Name, Age, Address, Phone Number, Email, and if you’ll need transportation from Boston MA airport
(and flight info if applicable)
Transportation to and from the Boston MA [Logan] airport is available if needed.
[Another airport option to fly into would be MHT Manchester-Boston Regional Airport]
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Legitimately Promulgated? |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-07-2025, 01:18 PM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Legitimately Promulgated?
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | May 6, 2025
In 1988, +Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre signed a protocol with Rome, and retracted it in 24 hours.
He refused to legitimize the New Mass.
He called it a “bastard rite.”
He saw the revolution behind the reform.
And he chose fidelity over false peace.
But in 2012, Bishop Bernard Fellay signed a new doctrinal declaration.
This time, one word changed everything: “legitimately.”
That single word accepted the New Mass not just as valid—but as lawful.
And it has never been retracted.
This episode exposes the entire war hidden in one phrase. It contrasts Lefebvre’s 24-hour retraction with Fellay’s 12-year silence. It walks through St. Thomas Aquinas’ definition of law, the SSPX’s own 2001 liturgical study, and the devastating reality of compromise.
One word once split Christendom.
One word today defines the battle for the Church, and by the grace of God, we will continue exposing the rest of the compromises of the 2012 Declaration until it is publicly retracted by the SSPX or Bishop Fellay.
This isn’t about semantics. This is about the Catholic Faith of all time.
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| Viganò sues Vatican Bank, implicates Cardinal Parolin |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-06-2025, 12:55 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Viganò sues Vatican Bank, implicates Cardinal Parolin
'The Civil Court of Rome will be asked for an international rogatory so that the competent Vatican Authorities order the preventive and precautionary seizure of the aforementioned assets.'
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May 5, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a press release saying he has sued the Vatican Bank for appropriating assets meant for charity and that Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin knows about the alleged impropriety.
“I gave a mandate to Prof. Attorney AUGUSTO SINAGRA with Legal Firm in Rome in Viale Gorizia n. 13, to file a lawsuit with the Civil Court of Rome against the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) of the Vatican, in the person of the previous Directors General and in the person of the current Director General, Dr. Gian Franco Mammì, along with a Prelate of the Roman Curia,” Vigano wrote in the press release issued Monday.
Summing up the alleged affair, Viganò said:
Quote:The lawsuit concerns an undue appropriation of very valuable assets deposited at the IOR that were intended to be used for works of charity.
The Civil Court of Rome will be asked for an international rogatory so that the competent Vatican Authorities order the preventive and precautionary seizure of the aforementioned assets. At the same time, all the expert opinions – in addition to those already acquired – necessary to assess the responsibility of the various people involved, and the quality of their conditions and their conduct will be requested.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, among the most favored papal appointees, has been fully aware of the story and all its implications for some time, also on the impetus of the significant endorsement given to him by the Freemason Prof. Giuliano Di Bernardo, former Grand Master of the Great East Lodge of Italy.
His Eminence is well informed about the facts and all the events that in his time, and even recently, saw him involved and questioned. I considered it my duty to proceed through the courts to request the return of said goods following a repeated denial by Cardinal Parolin to make reparation outside of court of the serious damage that has been caused to me.
The Cardinal will be – along with many others – also called as a witness to confirm what is already incontrovertibly proven from documents in my possession and also possessed by Cardinal Parolin himself.
This story is developing …
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| Leading Freemason supports Cardinal Parolin for Pope, says Francis had masonic ties |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-06-2025, 12:52 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Leading Freemason supports Cardinal Parolin for Pope, says Francis had masonic ties
'If the Church still has a glimmer of rationality, it must elect Pietro Parolin as Pope. It is the only way to restore its authority,'
declared Freemason Giuliano Di Bernardo.
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May 6, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Pietro Parolin is a leading Italian Freemason’s choice for Pope, and the former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy has also hinted that the late Pope Francis may have been a Freemason himself.
In an interview published by the Italian Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper on May 3, 2025, Giuliano Di Bernardo, a leader in masonic circles, revealed that he is a close friend of Cardinal Pietro Parolin. He said that he and Cardinal Parolin have known each other for at least twenty years and have mutual respect for each other.
“If the Church still has a glimmer of rationality, it must elect Pietro Parolin as Pope. It is the only way to restore its authority,” he declared.
Giuliano Di Bernardo has belonged to more than one masonic group. In the 1990s, he left Grand Orient of Italy to found a new masonic order, the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy, which was, he says, more aligned with the principles of the English masonic tradition. Disillusioned even by this experience, in 2002 he founded another masonic group, called “Dignity Order” as well as the Academy of the Illuminati.
He became friends with Pietro Parolin about twenty years ago. After he founded the “Dignity Order” and the Academy of the Illuminati in 2002, a request came from the Vatican to include a Church representative, he said. Di Bernardo was then introduced to Bishop Gheorghi Eldarov, who at the time was investigating, on behalf of the Secretariat of State, the so-called ‘Bulgarian track’ (actually a diversion) related to the attempted assassination of John Paul II. To this day, Eldarov is officially listed among the founders of the Academy.
“One day, Eldarov told me that there was someone in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State who wanted to meet me. I found myself face-to-face with the then-Undersecretary, Pietro Parolin,” Di Bernardo said. “There was an immediate intellectual affinity, so much so that we collaborated on several projects. We have remained very close friends.”
Di Bernardo spoke more extensively about this collaboration when he was questioned by the Italian judiciary regarding certain mafia infiltrations into Freemasonry. On that occasion, he stated that, after 2002, “I returned [to the Secretariat of State] several times and helped Parolin resolve a problem with the Chinese government.”
The former Grand Master believes that the Church’s decline began with the Second Vatican Council, but that it was under John Paul II that the institution of the papacy was eroded at its foundations. According to Di Bernardo, Benedict XVI tried to save the papacy but, faced with the “abyss” that had already been opened, eventually decided to step down.
RELATED: Freemasonic lodge hails Pope Francis’ work as ‘deeply resonant’ with their ‘principles’
The Freemason holds that Pope Francis continued this great dismantling of the papacy rapidly and effectively, and that that his entire program was revealed in his initial greeting in St. Peter’s Square, when he introduced himself as the Bishop of Rome, rather than as the Pope.
Di Bernardo suggested that Jorge Mario Bergoglio had very strong ties, if not an actual initiation, to Freemasonry in Argentina.
“Bergoglio, as a cardinal, certainly had relations with Freemasonry,” he declared.
Di Bernardo criticized Pope Francis for reaffirming the Church’s condemnation of Freemasonry, which has been reiterated by all popes over the past three centuries. However, the journalist asked him: “There are strange letters circulating in which, before becoming pope, Bergoglio on several occasions signed his name by placing three black dots in the shape of a triangle at the end—symbolism linked to Freemasonry.”
The former Grand Master, without going so far as to confirm the suggestion, stated: “I believe I know the kernel of truth behind it. In South America, Freemasonry is very powerful and widespread, but those who are Freemasons are often also Catholic—there is no incompatibility.”
This is not a view held by the Catholic Church. In response to the rise of the Masonic Lodges, Clement XII regarded them so seriously, and membership in them so dangerous, that in the 1738 papal bull In Eminenti he imposed an automatic excommunication on any Catholic who joined them.
This sentence of excommunication was renewed by successive popes many times over. It was incorporated into the 1917 Code of Canon Law, and although not explicitly mentioned in the 1983 Code, a special intervention and clarification from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), titled Declaration on Masonic Associations and Irreconcilability of Christian Faith and Freemasonry, instructed that the Church’s discipline and judgement regarding freemasonry remained unchanged from the 1917 Code.
The reasons the Church forbids membership in Freemasonry include the latter’s secretive and binding oaths, its hatred of the Catholic Church and mission to destroy it through undermining the papacy, and its denial of the truths of faith.
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