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By Catholic World News - Pope Francis and Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York sent messages of support to a Catholic LGBTQ conference organized by Outreach, led by Father James Martin, SJ... “Again, thank you, thank you for your witness,” Pope Francis wrote in a handwritten letter, dated May 6, to Father Martin... “The Pope was very pained when the CDF [Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith] published a letter, not signed by him, saying same-sex couples cannot be blessed,” Cruz reportedly said. “You’ll have to trust me when I say those people are no longer working in the CDF.”

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The idea is that, owing to the constant infidelity and confusion we encounter in contemporary Catholicism, it is sometimes very hard to feel spiritually connected with the Church. Two news stories particularly reminded me of this while I was otherwise happily minding my own business... The first story was Vatican releases working document for Synod on Synodality, along with Phil Lawler’s commentary: The Synod working document: a recipe for confusion... The second story was: Pope Francis, Cardinal Dolan send greetings to Father Martin’s LGBTQ conference.

By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, The Catholic Thing - Many questions have arisen about the current “synodal process,” and therefore in order to be of service to Christ’s flock, I would like to address some important points of the Instrumentum Laboris for the October 2023 Session of the Synod on Synodality. This Working Document or Instrumentum appears to undermine the Divine constitution and the Apostolic character of the life and mission of the Catholic Church, substituting for them an invented “synodal church,” inspired predominantly by Protestant, social and anthropocentric categories. Below are several principal areas of concern.