This….
This is Bishop Giuseppe Luigi Spiga of Grajaú, Brazil, dancing with a crowd from his Diocese during the National Youth Day on September 21, 2026. The Conciliar Church says this is the way to find Christ, but this is not the Christ of the Catholic Church. https://t.co/MLjzqOd3zw https://t.co/jBtejObTy2
— Tradition in Action (@TraditionAction) October 5, 2026
And this…
Raleigh bishop presides over a pagan smudging ritual and prayer to the “spirits of the four directions” inside a Catholic church.
The ceremony burned herbs to “cleanse” the space and call in “good spirits.”
https://t.co/piTPH2FCSx https://t.co/plbHqkqXHL
— Sign of the Cross (@CatholicSOTC) October 2, 2026
And this…
Meeting with a delegation of the Lutheran World Federation, Pope Leo XIV encourages Christians to bear witness to Christ and continue on the ecumenical “journey of grace.”
https://t.co/VHGulA9FbJ
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) October 1, 2026
But this…
SSPX pilgrims banned from venerating the relics of the Canadian Martyrs by Toronto archdiocese.
Families with young children were shut out of the shrine and forced to offer Mass in a field.
https://t.co/ncW5dr19B5 https://t.co/o55dud9l7j
— Sign of the Cross (@CatholicSOTC) September 28, 2026
It’s a common feature, sadly, to see how cruelty and superficiality often go together, since both reveal two sides of vapidity. I wonder what these gentle prelates will think of their shenanigans at Particular Judgment.
The Indians push this idea that they know how to use drugs properly.
Tom McLaughlin aka Billy Jack became a believer in this. He was a Catholic. I went to Church with him and his family. So Sad.
And the Heralds of the Gospel in Brazil were not allowed to ordain priests for a few years (until this April). Granted the Heralds are odd. But the approved oddity in the Church is all slanted one way it seems.
All the “synodality” stuff nowadays always makes me think of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V392zrQYwRQ
Can people please spare a little while to say a Grace for me and for our Lady of Lourdes ?
At Lourdes two years ago, I received a sudden relief to the pain in my knees.
It has now emerged from recent x-rays that whereas I had almost no cartilage during the previous 15 years or so, I now have normal cartilage in both knees.
So that I would be grateful if you could give a brief prayer of thanks on my behalf, and for the succour of all of those who seek for such Graces, spiritual or corporeal, at that Sanctuary.
Gosh, you’d think now that the SSPX are schismatics, they’d be welcomed with open arms in the Catholic Church, like the Anglicans, Lutherans, and any other Protestant group that presents itself, in full clerical garb no less, to the Vatican!
So how is the SSPX different from the Anglicans, Leo welcoming their Archbishopess last April, praying with her, and even getting a blessing from her, or the delegation from the Lutheran World Federation, with whom Leo had a very nice meeting on Oct 1st (which included a couple of ladies in black cassocks and Roman collars)?
On the occasion of Leo’s meeting with the delegation from the Lutheran World Federation the other day, Vatican News reports “Pope Leo then recalled the late Pope Francis’ invitation in 2021 to ecumenism, which he said purifies memories and overcomes inflexible attitudes.” and quotes Leo as saying, “Ecumenism is not an exercise of ecclesial diplomacy but a journey of grace,” he said. “It depends not on human negotiations and agreements, but on the grace of God”.
I hope I’m not detecting any “inflexible attitudes” regarding any particular Christian group who is not in full communion with the Catholic Church, or (God forbid!) a rejection of “the grace of God” on the part of the Vatican! ;-)
Course, consistency in praxis is not exactly the strong suit of progressives. That characteristic is helpful in getting a good view into what they actually believe, regardless of the fancy rhetoric.
Right about now they’d be saying, “Thank you for your comment. Let’s move on.” And that would be that.
Anyone doing pagan ceremonies to commemorate St. Kateri clearly does not understand the story of St. Kateri
Open and welcoming for some, not others. Flexibility for some, rigidity for others. Perhaps there’s a pattern?
“On the fifteenth day of the month Kislev, in the year one hundred and forty-five, the king erected the desolating abomination upon the altar of burnt offerings, and in the surrounding cities of Judah they built pagan altars. They also burned incense at the doors of houses and in the streets. Any scrolls of the law that they found they tore up and burned. Whoever was found with a scroll of the covenant, and whoever observed the law, was condemned to death by royal decree. So they used their power against Israel, against those who were caught, each month, in the cities. On the twenty-fifth day of each month they sacrificed on the pagan altar that was over the altar of burnt offerings. In keeping with the decree, they put to death women who had their children circumcised, and they hung their babies from their necks; their families also and those who had circumcised them were killed. But many in Israel were determined and resolved in their hearts not to eat anything unclean; they preferred to die rather than to be defiled with food or to profane the holy covenant; and they did die. And very great wrath came upon Israel.”
1 Maccabees 1:54-64 NABRE
As much as I can be critical of the more Traditionally minded in my comments on this blog, you all are my brethren. I would much rather be here than anywhere else in the Church. May God bless you all. Keep the Faith.
I used to have arthrosis.
And now I do not have arthrosis.
And the father will dance!
As on the day of joy!
He will exult over you,
And renew you by His love!
He will renew you by His love!
There was no other song that got me energized and totally pumped as that recessional, when I was a little Vatican II child. I confess I enjoyed that Shiva song by Mr. Carter as well, but the above confection by Carey Landry just gave me exuberant hope, as if my own adoptive father would jump up and dance a joyous jig, rather than always seeming relieved that Mass was ended.
JabbaPapa, that’s great, I said a prayer of thanksgiving for your healing at Lourdes.
Is my Maccabeean hypothesis so outlandish: that the Maccabees books describe encroachment and incursions by proto-Christian groups who are so clearly abhorrent to the Jews by their proto-Christian ways, that the Jews consider it a great triumph to persecute and wipe them off the map. I cannot falsify this hypothesis and it gives me a sick kind of thrill to reimagine Maccabees through the eyes of those licentious and blasphemous Hellenist Greeks (it would’ve been the Seleucids, I suppose, not many centuries B.C.) as they approached the revelations and liturgies that would herald the birth of Christ. How apropos it would be, if the Maccabeeans were the honored first ones to persecute Him, simply by remaining slavishly faithful to their fallen state-based nationalism? The one that Jesus preached against so vigorously?
Anyway, I finally recalled how my erstwhile pastor was actually a quite accomplished DJ with his own moniker. Our DJ-pastor would throw “Divine Mercy” parties for his inner circle, and he particularly loved reggae music. He had such taste in music that he was able to abolish our “praise band” with bass, drums and guitar, and re-establish sacred music as Vatican II intended, you know.
And the self-same pastor was always up for dancing when the time was right. He particularly shared some dance moves with the matriarch of our Hispanic community, with her husband’s consent, and he wasn’t half bad.
What’s more, I just recalled how a recent Holy Father basically refused to sing, claiming he couldn’t/shouldn’t sing, and how relieved I am now that we again have a Singing Pope. In Latin.
Pope Leo wants to evangelize. Look at all those people he wants to bring into the Church.
@Elizium23
I think you have it wrong about the Maccabees. Perhaps you might consider reading the whole context of the passage I posted above? I posted that passage because I think you and I share much in common with the Maccabees.