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Faced with a traffic jam near the Colosseum, a nun takes matters into her own hands.pic.twitter.com/yoOcpMpKvZ
— Wanted in Rome (@wantedinrome) November 19, 2025
At Pelican Dr. K hits hard, saying with clarity what we’ve known for a long time. HERE
Why They Are Taking Away Your Traditional Latin Mass
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Very often people will ask, as I myself asked for years: “Why in the world would the Church’s leaders persecute some of the most faithful Catholics—those who form the TLM communities?”
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The reason the Church’s leaders persecute the most faithful Catholics is that, broadly speaking, the leadership of the Catholic Church on earth at this time is dominated by a network of active homosexuals and theological modernists. They are not always the same people but they rely on, and receive, one another’s support. We all know individual good bishops or cardinals but such exceptions are a controlled opposition, with very limited mobility. The more they act or speak out, the more ostracized they are, and sometimes they can even be canceled, as priests are canceled lower down.
Now, let us consider the enormity of the evil represented by each of these forces. Homosexuals reject the first principles of natural law. Modernists reject the first principles of divine revelation. Together, they reject the foundations not only of Christianity but of religion as such, and therefore of morality.
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Why is a rite of thundering orthodoxy and majesty that existed in the Church for at least 1,600 years impermissible, intolerable, doomed to extinction, while the vast majority of new Masses are allowed to be at loggerheads with what Vatican II itself said about the liturgy, allowed to be done in never ending violation of laws, norms, and customs of one kind or another that are still “on the books” but might as well not exist?
The answer is simple: such Catholics and their Masses do not pose any threat at all to the homosexuals and modernists, the chaplains of secularism and the euthanists of Western civilization. In fact, secularized Catholics are their trophy—the desired outcome of decades of deconstructing Catholicism into a this-worldly program.
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There’s quite a bit more.
On around this day in First Age 495: Tuor, guided by Voronwë, passes through the Seven Gates and reaches Gondolin. He delivers a message from Ulmo to King Turgin that the Elves should leave Gondolin. They do not.
Image: Tuor Reaches the Hidden City of Gondolin by Ted Nasmith pic.twitter.com/IKm3R493kl
— Tolkien Society (@TolkienSociety) November 19, 2025
W Cardinal Müller ????
Do you think the Vatican should start enforcing this fully again? pic.twitter.com/WKAwv50tZL
— Trad West (@trad_west_) November 20, 2025
And… on the masthead of the print edition of The Wanderer…
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
White can mate in 4. Can you find it under a minute?
Meanwhile, true concelebration…
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That quote on THE WANDERER has always stuck with me.
Dr. K.’s article struck me as unusually urgent, as if prompted by something new. As you say he hits hard. For the last month I have been reading Chris Jackson’s Substack, too. Dr. K’s piece is exactly the sort of thing that Jackson normally rips to logical shreds the next day. I don’t see how he will be able to do it this time, but maybe I have missed something.
Our pastor was effectively cancelled several years ago- he sometimes spoke in opposition to abortion, homosexuality, and the like, but only in the mildest terms and not all that often. He used to describe our diocese as being run by a cabal of homosexuals, and he had stories to tell about some of them. We used to think he was on the extreme in these views, but not so much anymore.
In the UK I do not think it would be true to say “the vast majority of new Masses are allowed to be at loggerheads with what Vatican II itself said about the liturgy”. They may be rather anemic and often the music is poor, and not a good representation even of the current Missal, but none I have attended (and I have been frequently attending weekday Masses since the mid70s) has seriously infringed the rubrics.
Were any fully satisfying the rubrics? Very few, maybe a dozen.
Since I agree with Abp Lefebvre that only with the 1965 revision of the rubrics did the 1570 Missal reach its true fulfillment, I found the same inadequacy in my childhood (though of course I did not then appreciate it).