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Why Pachamamas have no place in the Church

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, May 25 2023 The podcast Merely Catholic gives me the opportunity to meet people of real calibre and interest, as well as discovering things I was unaware of. For this week’s edition of the Catholic Herald podcast I had a fascinating discussion with... read more

Austrian bishop hangs banner of nude trans activist over main altar for Lent

The model's Instagram account shows many equivocal pictures of trans men, tortured faces, and homosexuals kissing, as well as a post about how abortion is a 'sacral' act By Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent, LifeSite News, March 4, 2022 The Catholic bishop of Innsbruck, Austria, inaugurated... read more

Mass protest in Vienna against Austria’s controversial COVID restrictions

An estimated 44,000 people were at the protest in Vienna By Lisi Niesner , John Revill , Mike Harrison, Fox News/Reuters, December 11, 2021 Author Douglas Murray discussed the backlash in Europe, calling the COVID-related policies 'insane.' Tens of thousands of people rallied... read more

LIFESITE EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Tschugguel tells LifeSiteNews he will resist COVID tyranny in Austria

'I'm very sure that the first thing they will try to do is go after the family.' By Jeanne Smits, LifeSite News, Paris correspondent, November 20, 2021 VIENNA, Austria (LifeSiteNews) — As Austria prepares to go into full lockdown on Monday and faces the threat of mandatory COVID jabs,... read more

Austrian Catholics fly rainbow flag in face of Vatican

AFP, VIENNA, April 4, 2021 The Catholic church of the parish of Hard is one of many in Austria that decided to fly the rainbow flag in solidarity with the LGBTQ community after the Vatican ruled last month that the church could not bless same-sex partnerships. The powerful Vatican office... read more

THE EUTHANASIA CANCER SPREADS

By Wesley J. Smith, First Things, December 31, 2020The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. But they are particularly evident in the ongoing collapse of the sanctity of human life ethic, which... read more
World AIDS Day charity concert, St. Stephen’s Catholic Cathedral, Vienna, Nov. 30, 2018.

Vienna Cardinal Schönborn to host ‘blasphemous’ pro-LGBT benefit concert in Cathedral again

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSite News, November 30, 2018. Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn is yet again allowing a pro-LGBT benefit concert to take place in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Catholic Cathedral. Tshugguel said he is less concerned about “Conchita Wurst’s”... read more
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Schönborn spells out shocking reality of clerical sex abuse

By Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, The Tablet, November 27, 2019 The cardinal was delivering a lengthy, detailed lecture on clerical sex abuse at the University of Vienna. Clerical abuse is a “massive reality” in the Church caused among other factors by “closed systems” and the... read more
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Cardinal Schönborn: I Haven’t Read About Criticisms of the Synod

The Archbishop of Vienna, a member of the drafting committee on the final document, also said he hadn’t reviewed evidence that the pro-abortion Ford Foundation is funding key synod groups. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 21, 2019 Despite being one of the four members of... read more