Catholic Newscuttings January 2020

Viganò comes out of hiding to protest German bishops’ ‘synodal path’ of destruction

In first public appearance since McCarrick report in 2018, Archbishop Viganò participates at Munich prayer event. By Maike Hickson of Life Site News

January 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In his first public appearance since going into hiding over a year ago, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò joined other prominent Catholics in Munich today in prayer and protest against the German Episcopal Conference and its President Cardinal Marx. The Vatican whistleblower joined Catholic laity to oppose the German prelates’ plan to embark on a “synodal path” that critics say would create a “new church” that departs from Catholic teaching on priestly celibacy, contraception, homosexuality, and fornication. read more here

Benedict is defending celibacy from the media, not from Francis

Charles Collins

Jan 13, 2020 

If you were HBO, you couldn’t ask for better publicity. Just as their television series “The New Pope” presents the crisis rising between the fictional Pope John Paul III and his predecessor Benedict XIII, news arises of a possible “conflict” between Pope Francis and the pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, read here

Cardinal Sarah: Claim That Pope Benedict XVI Did Not Co-Author Book is ‘Defamation’

The cardinal's words are in response to a Vatican correspondent claiming on social media that “a source” close to Pope Benedict XVI had told her that the pope emeritus did not write the book with Sarah, or give authorization for its publication.

Catholic News Agency

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Sarah said Monday that claims Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI did not co-author with him a new book on priestly celibacy are “defamations of exceptional gravity.” - National Catholic Register. read more here

Antifa are the new Fascists

True colours proudly flying

• The Antifa and its paedophile comrades

• The BBC, meanwhile, refuses to report on the campus bombings

Antifa has a new offshoot, Anti-Pedophobe Aktion, dedicated to normalising child molestation and removing any stigma attached to it.  They, and their comrades in Resist (the anti-Trump umbrella body) and Black Lives Matter, now produce banners carrying their logos alongside the Anti-Pedophobe Aktion and North American Man-Boy Love Association insignia.  The company they keep, and the causes they champion, show just what kind of people these alt-left are, and just why decent people need to condemn them and ask our MPs for political action against them to disrupt their activities and ban international speakers.

  

The BBC, meanwhile, refuses to report on the campus bombings and use of these banners at public protests in America, or the fact that the Antifa ‘brand’ is used by those threatening violence if certain speakers are allowed to address student societies or to lecture at British universities; indeed, a reporter claimed that Antifa had not performed acts of terrorism without that claim having been challenged, and had the clip repeated on news bulletins for hours one afternoon.

By Prayer Crusader St Philip Howard

Please see the article Whitewashing the Black Bloc by the same Prayer Crusader.