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ROME, June 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life and pro-family advocates gathered at the Rome Life Forum last month to discuss threats to parental rights and ways to combat the many moral and spiritual crises plaguing society and the Catholic Church.

The theme of the fourth annual Rome Life Forum was “The Family Under Attack: Protecting Parents as Primary Educators.” Speakers emphasized that the controversial exhortation Amoris Laetitia's treatment of sex education and the Vatican's recent sex education program “The Meeting Point” both pose threats to parental rights, which the Catholic Church has long defended.

The Forum took place the week after the 100th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children (two of whom were just canonized) in Portugal in 1917, warning them of future war and the loss of many souls because of sexual sins. She called the faithful to pray the Rosary every day and make reparation for blasphemy on the first Saturdays of the month. And she asked the Holy Father to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart in union with all the bishops of the world.

Cardinals Raymond Burke and Carlo Caffarra, two of the cardinals who signed the dubia asking Pope Francis for moral clarity on Amoris Laetitia, spoke. Caffarra was the recipient of a letter from Fatima visionary Sr. Lucia that said the final battle between God and Satan would be over marriage and family. He said that abortion and homosexuality show that this battle is here. Burke offered a solution to the turmoil the world faces 100 years after the Fatima apparitions: the explicit consecration of Russia, as requested by Our Lady, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. 

Below are links to the full texts and videos of the speakers' talks and interviews and coverage from LifeSiteNews.

Talks (with links to videos and summaries)

Cardinal Raymond Burke: A historic call for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Full text, Article, Full video)

Watch a clip of Cardinal Burke issuing his historical call for the consecration:

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra: Abortion, homosexuality show 'final battle' between God and Satan has come (Full text, Article, Full video)

Watch a clip of Cardinal Caffarra discussing Sr. Lucia’s prophesy on the importance of the pro-family cause: 

Bishop Athanasius Schneider: The Catholic family is the first defense against our current 'great apostasy' (Full text, Full video)

Duke Paul von Oldenburg: In our troubled culture, Catholic parents are more important than ever before (Full text, Full video)

Prof. Roberto De Mattei: How we’ve arrived at today’s unprecedented attacks on the family (Full text, Full video)

Fr. Linus Clovis: We are witnessing St. John Paul II’s prophesy of an ‘anti-Church’ (Full text, First article, Second article, Full video)

Fr. Francesco Giordano: Church must ‘prioritize’ procreation in marriage to combat abortion, gay ‘marriage’ (Article – full text embedded, Full video)

Matthew McCusker: Catholic prelates are embracing the anti-family agenda. Here’s proof (Full text, Full video)

Articles

Bishop Schneider: Consecration will bring Russia ‘to the fullness of conversion’

Priest: Pope’s ambiguity a ‘true blessing’ because it draws false Church out of shadows

Abortion, homosexuality show ‘final battle’ between God and Satan has come: Cardinal

Theologian: Church must ‘prioritize’ procreation in marriage to combat abortion, gay ‘marriage’

We are witnessing St. John Paul II’s prophesy of an ‘anti-Church’: Catholic priest

Full videos

Cardinal Raymond Burke: A historic call for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

 

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra: Abortion, homosexuality show ‘final battle’ between God and Satan has come

 

Bishop Athanasius Schneider: The Catholic family is the first defense against our current ‘great apostasy’

 

Duke Paul von Oldenburg: In our troubled culture, Catholic parents are more important than ever before

 

Prof. Roberto De Mattei: How we’ve arrived at today’s unprecedented attacks on the family

 

Fr. Linus Clovis: We are witnessing St. John Paul II’s prophesy of an ‘anti-Church’

 

Fr. Francesco Giordano: Church must ‘prioritize’ procreation in marriage to combat abortion, gay ‘marriage’

 

Matthew McCusker: Catholic prelates are embracing the anti-family agenda. Here’s proof

You can find articles, interviews, and videos from previous Rome Life Forums here.