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Did Pope Francis keep Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga "co-ordinator" of the papal inner circle C9 in office for seven months despite his knowing of the Cardinal's scandal? The United Kingdom Spectator's Damian Thompson reported on who may be behind this embarrassing expose of Francis's "Vice-Pope" or "co-ordinator" of the C9: "Are we to believe, then, that Francis kept Maradiaga in office for seven months while the outside world was told nothing of this scandal?" "Some Catholic observers are speculating that Maradiaga is the victim of a hit job by forces inside the Secretariat of State, the sprawling department of the Pope’s ‘prime minister’ Cardinal Pietro Parolin." "Parolin’s increasingly powerful... profoundly threatened by a new model of Church government... known as 'C9'. Taking out its co-ordinator would effectively demolish this divided and unimpressive body – and also help Parolin position himself a...

Last year, Cardinal Raymond Burke in an exclusive interview gave a timeline on the "formal correction" of Pope Francis: "Now of course we are in the last days, days of strong grace, before the Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord... -the whole mystery of Our Lord's Birth and His Epiphany- so it would probably take place sometime after that." (LifeSiteNews, "Exclusive: Cardinal Burke suggests timeline for 'formal correction' of Pope Francis," December 19, 2016) All faithful Catholics must pray that Cdl. Burke keeps his word and after Epiphany, on January 7, that he issue the first correction and possibly the second formal correction. It is possible that the Dubia Cardinals, Cld. Burke and Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, have already issued the first correction to Francis. On January 4, LifeSiteNews reported that Cdl. Brandmuller told the Vatican Insider: "'I believe that Cardinal Burke is convinced that a formal correction mus...

Catholic author James Larson has established a new website titled Rosary To The Interior: For the Purification of the Church. It is found here: www.rosarytotheinterior.com   James asks you to read the Proposal which it contains and think over whether you would like to be of additional help in furthering this effort.    He has also placed a new, short article on my War Against Being site titled Advent which explains why he think it so important and necessary to promote this during the Advent and Christmas season.    It would probably help if you read the Proposal first. The two websites are independent of one another, and for obvious reasons it would seem necessary to keep them separate. Please pray for the effort.   Advent   The Rosary to the Interior: For the Purification of the Church , scheduled to occur throughout our nation in parishes on February 2, 2018, now has its own website at: www.rosa...

St. Catherine of Sienna was in the same situation that Cardinal Raymond Burke is now. Catherine knew what Cld. Burke knows which is that if God's will is done, in terms of speaking the truth and reforming the Church, there will be a schism. He fears that if he does God's will and issues the correction to Pope Francis that there will be a schism. The Cardinal needs to take the advice of St. Catherine who is not only one of the greatest saints in history, but a Doctor of the Church. Do God's will no matter the consequences. Do God's will even if it brings about a schism. She knew that if she did God's will and got the French Pope Gregory XI to leave the French court of Avignon and return to Rome that there would be a schism. Catherine knew that as long as Gregory stayed in France that would be no "reform" of "the morals of the clergy" and that the corrupt inner circle of the papacy would get more corrupt leading to the loss of more sou...

Dr. Luca Gili, a professor of philosophy at the University of Quebec in Montreal, told LifeSiteNews: “By saying that ‘there is no other interpretation’ [to guidelines that appear to blatantly approve Communion for adulterers], the pope is stating that he is (magisterially) proposing a doctrine which is contrary to the Sixth Commandment and to Saint Paul’s prohibition outlined in 1 Cor. 11:27-30." Dr. Gili in speaking of heresy said: “Any denial of a divinely revealed truth is (material) heresy, according to the definition of heresy in CIC 751. In conclusion, the pope is (allegedly) teaching a plain heresy.” [ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lifesitenews.com/mobile/news/pope-francis-supporters-demand-faithful-catholics-accept-communion-for-adul#ampshare=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-supporters-demand-faithful-catholics-accept-communion-for-adul ] With Pope Francis like Pope Honorius now officially teaching error we need a bird's eye view or perspecti...

- Updated December 7, 2017- Onepeterfive.com's December 3 headline said it all: "Pope's Letter on Argentinian Communion Guidelines for Remarried Given Official Status" The website said the Argentina letter "has now been added to the official acts of the Apostolic See, conferring official status." Onepeterfive.com asked Magisterial authority expert Dr. John Joy about the papal act. The website wrote that "Dr. Joy pointed out that adding the letter to the AAS could... potentially" be "removing the possibility that it could be interpreted in a orthodox way... that the unorthodox intrepretation is the official one." [ Pope’s Letter on Argentinian Communion Guidelines for Remarried Given Official Status By Steve Skojec on Dec 02, 2017] The Argentinian Bishops Guidelines says couples in adulterous second marriages not living in continence in "other more complex circumstances... Amoris Laetitia opens up the possibility of acces...

Pope Francis and his inner circle appear to have symptoms of paranoia. Cardinal Gerhard Mueller in a recent interview revealed that Francis told him: "They tell me you're my enemy." Muller in the interview said the “magic circle” around Francis does “spying on alleged opponents” and tells the Pope who are his friends or enemies. It seems that Francis may be overly attached and surrounded by certain persons with unhealthy thought processes and strange conspiracy ideas. The Vatican Insider usually a solid news source which has access to ranking Vatican insiders close to the Pope on October 19, 2016 wrote a tabloid like paranoid article. It slandered anyone remotely criticizing the questionable prudential actions and non- infallible teachings of Francis. The Insider claimed that those who question Francis are in a global conspiracy with Russian strongman Putin against the Pope. Phil Lawler and his CatholicCulture.org which defends...

Barack Obama friend Jimmy Kimmel is attacking Judge Roy Moore because of sexual misconduct accusations. He is a hypocrite because he did not immediately speak out about Jimmy Weinstein's scandal and never spoke out about Obama's sexual misconduct accusations. Back in in 2012, the national media and Gloria Allred launched a Trump/Judge Moore-like media attack on Herman Cain for one woman accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior. At exactly the same time, the national media, Kimmel and Allred ignored two male student editors accusation of inappropriate sexual behavior by Obama as reported in the Kansas Citian. It seems that two persons accusing a man of inappropriate sexual behavior is more credible than one person's accusation. This cover-up of Obama's sexual misconduct by Kimmel, Allred and the media is hypocrisy: -"During Barack Obama’s tenure as the president of the Harvard Law Review in the late 1980s, at least two male student editors complai...

Evaluation of the Charismatic Movement and Pentecostalism Phenomenon By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Before entering on the formal presentation, I think it will be useful to first clarity some possible sources of misunderstanding. The immediate focus of this study is Pentecostalism. It is not directly concerned with the persons who call themselves Pentecostals or, as some prefer, Charismatic. Moreover, the purpose here is to make an evaluation. It is not to impart information about Pentecostalism, since such information is fairly presumed, with all the literature by and about the movement and, from many people, either personal experience or direct observation of the movement in action. Finally, though I seldom do this when speaking, in this case it may be useful to give a run-down of “references” about the speaker’s own qualifications in talking on the subject. My professional work is teaching Comparative Religion. A phenomenon like Pentecostalism, I know has for years...