Cardinal Carlo Martini, who at the conclave of 2005 was a favorite of ‘social justice’ Catholics to be elected Pope, has penned a book wherein he supports homosexual relationships.
By Peter J. Smith ROME, January 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The retired Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has struck another subversive blow to the clearly defined teachings of the Catholic Church on life, reports Vatican expert Sandro Magister in the Italian journal Chiesa, who says “the real clash is between Martini and the Pope.” Just nine months previously, Martini, a high profile leader in the Catholic Church, exposed his public dissent from the Church’s life teachings on artificial insemination, embryos, abortion, and euthanasia published in the Italian weekly L’espresso in what Magister wrote was a “bombshell […]
By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, May 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although mostly below the surface, there has been much activity from the Vatican in combating the negative effects of Cardinal Carlo Martini’s break with the Catholic Church on bioethical matters. (coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042108.html) The controversial remarks, published in the Italian weekly L’Espresso, were, according to EWTN’s Vatican Bureau Chief Joan Lewis, the cause of a “high level meeting” on how to deal with the matter. The results of that meeting, says Lewis, “may never be known for no statement or declaration was issued, no article appeared in the Vatican newspaper, nor was […]
by John-Henry Westen and Hilary White WASHINGTON, April 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The uproar caused last week as a highly placed Vatican Cardinal announced the Pope had asked for a study on the use of condoms and AIDS prevention, on the heels of statements in support of condoms in the context of AIDS by another notable Cardinal, has put a smile on the faces of anti-Catholic groups. The notorious ‘Catholics for a Free Choice’, who have been condemned as an anti-Catholic, pro-abortion group, responded to the news saying, “As we mark the one year anniversary of Benedict XVI’s papacy, the […]
Cardinal Pierre acted as Pope Francis’ hatchet man in the removal of Bishop Joseph Strickland and strongly pushed Francis’ ‘synodal’ agenda to the US bishops.
Contrary to the claim of Cardinal Godfried Danneels’ biographer, Cardinal Walter Kasper said the St. Gallen Mafia ‘never’ discussed who ‘the future pope should be’ before Francis was elected.
'All those bishops and cardinals who formed the [Saint] Gallen group were named by Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio,' Father Charles Murr said, referring to one of the cardinals who in 1974 was accused by two other cardinals of being a freemason.