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Priest pushing ‘pride’ flags in schools advocated for ordaining women, transgenderism, activist says

Father Toby Collins, a Kitchener-area priest, is planning to advocate for 'pride' flags in schools despite clear Catholic teaching condemning LGBT lifestyles as gravely sinful.

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Clare Marie Merkowsky

• Apr 16, 2025Apr 17, 2025

Anglican female ‘bishop’ concelebrates Mass as populism is canceled in Europe

On this episode of Faith and Reason, John-Henry Westen, Father Charles Murr, and Frank Wright discuss the female Anglican 'bishop' at Mass in El Salvador, satanism in Kansas and Germany, and French populist Marie Le Pen.

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LifeSiteNews staff

• Apr 4, 2025Apr 16, 2025

Cardinal Schönborn’s 30-year tenure in Vienna ends with thousands fewer Catholics

The retiring cardinal became a notable voice supporting many of Pope Francis' positions on controversial doctrinal and moral issues, including welcoming the divorced and 'remarried' to receive Holy Communion.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Jan 24, 2025Jan 24, 2025

Cardinal Kasper calls for women ‘deacons,’ contradicting Church teaching on holy orders

Cardinal Walter Kasper made a personal appeal for the female diaconate, following the Synod on Synodality’s openness to it, also adding that prohibiting women from holy orders is ‘problematic.’

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 31, 2024Nov 1, 2024

Cardinal Fernández says no to female deacons ‘today’ but urges ‘step-by-step’ moves for women in Church

The Church’s teaching does not permit women's ordination, but while the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled out the female diaconate, he appeared to do so only on a temporary basis

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 22, 2024

Heretical group simulates Catholic ordinations for 4 women and 2 gender-confused men

The group called on Pope Francis to allow female ordination during a ceremony that warrants automatic excommunication.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 18, 2024Oct 18, 2024

Synodality is the common thread linking the many controversies of the Francis pontificate

As Cardinal Joseph Tobin stated in 2021, 'synodality is, in fact, the long-game of Pope Francis.' The process of 'listening and dialogue' leading to doctrinal revolution and relativism is the string which ties together not just previous synods, but the last 11 years.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 16, 2024Oct 16, 2024

Amazon cardinal ‘lays hands’ to confer ‘ministry’ on women going to ‘celebrate a sacrament’

Brazil’s Cardinal Ulrich Steiner told a press conference that he ‘lays hands’ on women who will baptize people in the Amazon region, asserting that 'in our reality, women exercise the deacon's ministries.’

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 15, 2024Oct 15, 2024

Women’s ordination activists stage regular protests in Rome during Synod

Every night during October at 7 p.m., activists take their positions outside St. Peter’s Basilica in a protest calling for women priests in a series of actions orchestrated by the Women’s Ordination Conference and Women’s Ordination Worldwide.

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 14, 2024Oct 15, 2024

Australian bishop slams ‘small minority’ with ‘powerful voice’ pushing female deacons at Synod

Bishop Anthony Randazzo attributed advancement of the topic of female deacons at the synod as being 'because a small minority, with a large powerful Western voice, are obsessed with pushing this issue.'

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Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 4, 2024Oct 11, 2024

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Priest pushing ‘pride’ flags in schools advocated for ordaining women, transgenderism, activist says

Anglican female ‘bishop’ concelebrates Mass as populism is canceled in Europe

Cardinal Schönborn’s 30-year tenure in Vienna ends with thousands fewer Catholics

Cardinal Kasper calls for women ‘deacons,’ contradicting Church teaching on holy orders

Cardinal Fernández says no to female deacons ‘today’ but urges ‘step-by-step’ moves for women in Church

Heretical group simulates Catholic ordinations for 4 women and 2 gender-confused men

Synodality is the common thread linking the many controversies of the Francis pontificate

Amazon cardinal ‘lays hands’ to confer ‘ministry’ on women going to ‘celebrate a sacrament’

Women’s ordination activists stage regular protests in Rome during Synod

Australian bishop slams ‘small minority’ with ‘powerful voice’ pushing female deacons at Synod