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Conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7 as cardinals get to know one another

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they can get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel.

The cardinals set the date after arriving for the first day of informal meetings following Pope Francis’ funeral Saturday. In a chaotic scene, journalists shouted questions about the mood inside and whether there was unity. A reporter for a satirical Italian television program asked whether an Italian cardinal who has been convicted by the Vatican criminal court on finance-related charges would be allowed to vote.

by Blazingcatfur•April 28, 2025April 28, 2025•0•Catholic Church

Conclave explained: What happens next after the Pope’s funeral?

The days between the death of a Pope and the election of his successor are packed with centuries-old ceremonies and rituals, following a timetable intended to find a new pontiff within three weeks.

Tradition begins at the moment of the Pope’s death, as an official given the title camerlengo, or chamberlain, calls out the Pope’s name three times at his bedside to ensure he has died.

His next task is to deface and smash the pescatorio, or “ring of the fisherman”, which symbolises papal authority and was once used as a seal on official documents.

by Blazingcatfur•April 26, 2025April 25, 2025•0•Catholic Church

Joy Behar Fears Pope Francis Will Be Replaced by ‘Some Conservative Guy‘

Joy Behar said she fears that Pope Francis will be replaced by “some conservative guy” on Tuesday’s episode of ABC’s The View, during which the show’s co-hosts used the pope’s death as an opportunity to complain about U.S. politics.

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2025April 24, 2025•0•Catholic Church, Celebrity Idiots

Who will be the next pope? First Asian pontiff leading the race

With the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the world’s attention now turns to who will replace him.

Predicting who will be chosen as the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics is notoriously fraught with difficulties. In theory, any baptised Catholic male could be made Pope.

In practice, however, the next pontiff will likely be drawn from the cardinals who will gather in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican for the secret papal election known as the conclave.

Pope Francis latest: stroke named as cause of death

by Blazingcatfur•April 22, 2025April 21, 2025•0•Catholic Church

Columbia Is Targeting Catholic Students Like Me

The university says it’s cracking down on campus anti-Semitism. Instead, it’s going after a student for publicly expressing his faith.

Columbia University has told the Trump administration that it’s cracking down on anti-Semitic violence and intimidation and winding down DEI. But behind closed doors, the university’s Office of Institutional Equity (OIE), a new bureaucracy supposedly set up to address campus anti-Semitism, is targeting me for expressing my Catholic faith.

by Blazingcatfur•April 16, 2025April 16, 2025•0•Catholic Church, Christian Persecution, Christianophobia

Germany: Priest calls altar boy a ‘Nazi’ and fires him after he takes photo with AfD politician

An altar boy who served in a Bavarian church for nine years was slammed as a “Nazi” by the parish priest and dismissed from his position after the boy took a photo with Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Maximilian Krah.

The family says they are shocked by the conduct of the Bavarian priest.

by Blazingcatfur•April 7, 2025April 6, 2025•0•Catholic Church, Germany, Germany - AfD party

Catholicism on the Decline in the US

There is a crisis of belief in the Catholic Church. Will the priests and bishops of America remedy that?

American Catholics ought to be alarmed but, in a way, inspired by some recent statistics on the Catholic faith in the U.S. The Pew Research Center published its Religious Landscape Study recently, including an analysis of the habits, beliefs, and religious practices of Catholics in the U.S. Although nearly a fifth (19 percent) of Americans identify as Catholics, that’s down from nearly a quarter (24 percent) in 2007. It doesn’t get much better.

by Blazingcatfur•April 6, 2025April 6, 2025•0•Catholic Church

Vatican Thinks ‘Charity’ Means Championing Democrat Causes And Taking Money To Flout Immigration Laws

America’s Catholics are facing a crisis of authority.

The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the Vatican’s facile theologizing on open borders. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in accord with Pope Francis’ globalist conceits, opposes President Donald Trump’s resolve to curtail illegal migration. Catholics are caught between fidelity to ecclesial leadership and obedience to the just laws of our own country.

by Blazingcatfur•February 25, 2025February 24, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

The US Bishops’ Hypocrisy on Human Trafficking

Platitudes and press statements will not be enough to confront the depraved evils of human trafficking.

America’s Catholic bishops are decrying the evils of human trafficking, while ignoring their own role in facilitating the dehumanizing practice amidst the illegal immigration crisis. Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chairman of immigration activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said in a statement Thursday, “Human trafficking is not only a serious crime — it is a rejection of the God-given dignity of every human being.”

“I’ve talked to little girls as young as nine who were raped multiple times by members of the cartel. Not once, numerous times.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 9, 2025February 9, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

How the Catholic Church Became a Champion of Biden’s Open Borders

Church groups grew massively with government funding for the controversial immigrant and refugee programs that Trump is now cutting.

Vice President J. D. Vance has emerged as one of the Trump administration’s unwavering defenders on many issues. One of his most widely quoted retorts to critics occurred on the January 26 edition of CBS’s Face the Nation. Vance was responding to statements by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemning as “deeply troubling” the administration’s enforcement actions against illegal aliens and its pause of government-funded refugee-resettlement programs. As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church for its role in garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to serve immigrants over the last several years. “I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?”

by Blazingcatfur•February 5, 2025February 5, 2025•0•"Deep State", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Catholic Church

JD Vance Knows That Catholic Charities Has Lost Its Soul

The truth is that the border crisis itself has threatened the very fabric of our society. The Catholic Charities and US Bishops should acknowledge this.

Faithful Catholics have been saddened by the allegations — most recently suggested by Vice President JD Vance — that their Church has been complicit in creating the humanitarian crisis at the border. Vance pointed out that the Catholic Church has received over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants. Much of that money has been spent on providing transportation and housing for newly arrived illegal immigrants and helping to resettle them from the border to the interior of the country.

This collaboration with the Democratic Party continues today as the federal government pays for most of the activities of Catholic Charities.

#BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has announced she and Trump have stopped ALL GRANT FUNDING for the NGOs who are assisting in the invasion of the United States

Organizations like Catholic Charities and Red Cross received over $340 MILLION in 2024 from DHS assist illegals… pic.twitter.com/knaitqoeG7

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 29, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•February 2, 2025February 2, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

Bishop Says Catholic Teaching Does Not Support ‘Open Border Policy’

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington signaled Friday that Catholic teachings support President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement.

Pope Francis and several bishops have previously taken stances against the president, calling Trump’s mass deportation plans a “disgrace” and stating that Catholic teaching requires countries to be open to migrants. Burbidge stated that although Catholics should affirm the dignity of migrants, nations also have a duty to uphold the rule of law and common good for its citizens.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2025February 1, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

Catholic Organizations and Open Borders

Last week Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington received backlash when she injected politics into her sermon during a prayer meeting with President Trump, Vice President Vance, and their respective families in attendance.

The bishop urged President Trump to be merciful towards gay, lesbian, and transgender children and illegal aliens. Many were outraged by her casual mention of transgender children as if their condition was a natural phenomenon.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2025January 31, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

US Bishops Denounce Trump’s Immigration Plans

The Catholic Church has clear teachings on immigration, but US bishops stand to lose lots of money from mass deportations.

As President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from returning to the White House, American Catholic leaders are denouncing his immigration agenda. Chicago’s powerful Cardinal Blase Cupich warned in a recent interview that U.S. bishops “are going to have to be prophetic and denounce any abuse of human dignity that may occur” as Trump rolls out his mass deportation program. “We are going to be vigilant and we are going to defend the human dignity of immigrants,” Cupich said. The cardinal called deportation plans “intolerable, especially in a country where we are all immigrants. I am a product of immigration!”

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2025January 12, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, President Trump

Church and State collide: Pro-immigration cardinal to become DC archbishop

If you happen to find yourself in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican today, that vibration you feel beneath your feet is likely caused by St. John Paul II spinning in his sacred crypt. John Paul, born Karol Josef Wojtyla and pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, would undoubtedly be reacting negatively to the action of his successor, Pope Francis, who this week chose Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to take over as archbishop of Washington, D.C.

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2025January 7, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, President Trump