All last week, the Lepanto Institute was on location at the Airport Marriott in St. Louis to observe and counter goings on at the Association of US Catholic Priest’s (AUSCP) 2019 Assembly. Early in the week we were there, we exposed the fact that the AUSCP has officially and formally called for the ordination of women as Catholic priests. Other areas of concern regarding the AUSCP can be explored in the following other reports: AUSCP’s Plan for Ordained Women and Priestless parishes AUS … [Read more...]
US Bishops Support Priest Assembly Calling for Women’s Ordination
The Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP), which claims a priestly membership of just over 1,300 priests, issued a white paper on May 8, 2019, titled “AUSCP Declaration on the Status of Women.” This white paper calls for the priestly ordination of women and utilizes condemned Modernist reasoning to reach its conclusions. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, AUSCP members will be asked to affirm this declaration at the ongoing AUSCP 2019 Assembly in St. Louis. The Lepanto Institute has wri … [Read more...]
Ask Abp. Carlson NOT to Celebrate Mass With the AUSCP!
The Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) is holding its 2019 assembly in St. Louis, and according to the assembly schedule, Archbishop Robert Carlson will celebrate Mass for the AUSCP on June 26. Over the last two years, the Lepanto Institute discovered that this organization of priests, which claims to be “the largest association of priests in the United States,” is: promoting women’s ordination to the diaconate (with eyes on the priestly ordination of women), homosexuality, … [Read more...]
Open Letter to US Bishops Regarding AUSCP
The following open letter was sent this morning to bishops of the United States. The Lepanto Institute has created a web page with a sample letter that concerned parishioners can send to their bishops, asking them to ban the AUSCP from their diocese and forbid their priests from being members. NOTE THIS WELL - Call to Action and the succeeding decades of liturgical abuse and heresy could have been stopped, dead in their tracks if we had the ability to conduct this kind of research and get the w … [Read more...]
Hichborn Speech in Albuquerque: Closing the Door on Ordained Female Deacons
The following is the text of the speech Michael Hichborn, President of the Lepanto Institute, delivered to a group of over 100 faithful Catholics in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 25, 2018. Despite being recorded on a professional camera and broadcast on Facebook Live, neither device captured the entire speech. We are, however, in the process of attempting to obtain a version that was recorded by a member of the audience. The topic I’ve been asked to speak on this evening is the proposal th … [Read more...]