CommonSpirit Health and the launching of Planned Parenthood 2.0 In June, the Lepanto Institute published a 64-page report that catalogues the intrinsically evil activities of the largest Catholic health Network in the United States. The report proved that CommonSpirit Health was responsible for the performance of sex-change operations, providing hormone-based transgender therapies, providing puberty blockers to children under the auspices of so-called “gender-affirming care,” is financially … [Read more...]
Priests of the Sacred Heart
We’ve received many requests concerning the Priests of the Sacred Heart (SCJ), also known as the Dehonians, asking if they are safe for Catholic donations. After a lengthy period of research, we must unfortunately report that the Priests of the Sacred Heart as an organization is NOT SAFE for Catholic giving because it supports and promotes causes such as women’s sacramental ordination, homosexual activism, paganistic syncretism as well as contraception and Planned Parenthood sex-education … [Read more...]
Catholic Campaign for Human Development Closes all Communication, Refuses to Answer Questions
NOTE: Action item at the end of the article!!! Over the weekend, the Lepanto Institute received a letter from Bishop Timothy Senior, current chairman of the subcommittee for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), slamming the door on any discussion regarding serious concerns related to CCHD grantees while refusing to publish the most recent grants list. Despite the CCHD's vigorous commitment to "operate at the highest levels of ... transparency," this letter from the CCHD's … [Read more...]
Archbishop Hebda Taps Controversial Figure for Synod
A controversy erupted in 2021 when Bp. Richard Pates (Apostolic Administrator for the Diocese of Crookston, MN) told a small group from the Crookston Diocese that Abp. Bernard Hebda, head of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, sent him to attend an assembly of the notoriously dissident Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP). The small group of faithful Catholics asked him not to attend the assembly, to which he responded that Abp. Hebda “wanted to welcome them [the AUSCP] into the … [Read more...]
‘Where Peter Is’ Blog Shills for Homosexual Relationships
The blog “Where Peter Is” (WPI) is a super-ultramontanist website that has tried to present itself over the years as the reasonable voice in the room, explaining how Pope Francis’ statements and actions are all perfectly orthodox and that those alarmed by him are undermining the Church, revealing themselves to be “protestants.” There is much that could be said of the heterodoxy of WPI, but a recent article published on the blog titled, “Why all Christians should support LGBTQ persons,” simply … [Read more...]