Welcome to the Weekend Roundup! – News & Views – 7/9/22

• Catholic Men Must Defend Their Churches

This conservative Catholic writer calls upon Catholic men to defend their churches from outside attackers. But who is going to protect Catholic children from the pedophile priests inside?

• What do plummeting Catholic numbers mean for Germany’s Synodal Path?

Catholic sources report 359,000 Germans officially withdrew from the Catholic church in 2021. The Synodal Path initiative (2019-2023) was launched in hopes that progressive reforms might stem the freefall, but it’s had no effect.

• 10 things you should know about Catholics and the American Founding

Catholic “pundits” relish pointing out that “anti-Catholicism” was pervasive in early-America. Context is everything. The writers purposely fail to mention that religious freedom was non-existent in European Catholic countries of that era and that popes condemned democratic forms of government and religious freedom into the early-20th century (see here).

• Fulton Sheen’s July 4 ‘Declaration of Dependence’

Archbishop, Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), was a Catholic “media pioneer,” who used both radio (1930-1950) and television (1952-1968) to advance Roman Catholicism. Sheen was admired by tens of millions, including credulous “Protestants” like Billy Graham. The RCC’s canonization of the popular Sheen was a certainty until evidence surfaced in 2019 that Sheen may have covered-up for pedophile priests while he was bishop of Rochester, New York, 1966-69.

• Kentucky Catholic church holds ‘Service of Apology to the LGBTQ+ Community’

Expect to see an increasing number of Catholic churches holding these “apology services.”

• Pope Francis: “United Nations has no power”

It’s ironic that pope Francis complains that the U.N. has no power. Centuries ago, the papal-led Roman Catholic church wielded immense political power and initiated the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the bloody persecution of Protestants.

• “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” to publish another statement this year

The “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” initiative was forged in 1994 by Rome-friendly evangelical, Chuck Colson, and Catholic priest, Richard John Neuhaus, to advance ecumenical ties between evangelicals and Catholics. Colson and his “Protestant” allies turned a blind eye to Roman Catholicism’s false gospel of salvation by sacramental grace and merit. We’re told ECT is currently working on a new declaration to be published later this year, “Fear God, Honor the Emperor.” Shame on all so-called evangelicals who muddy the genuine Gospel by supporting ECT.

• How pope Pius XII failed the Jews in the Holocaust

The news broke back in early-June that historian David I. Kertzer had discovered documents in the Vatican’s archives revealing that pope Pius XII had a secret diplomatic concord with Adolf Hitler. We’re now seeing reactions from the Jewish press including the sample article above. What does it say about the allegedly Holy Spirit-led, so-called “Vicar of Christ” when he had a secret accord with a genocidal monster?

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