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Category Archives: The Coming Storm
A “perpetual synodal” (“walking together”) Church? What could go wrong?
From the National Catholic Register (the Catholic paper, not the other one, the Fishwrap). Pope Francis announced on Sunday that the Synod (“walking together”) on Synodality (“walking together”) will be extended to 2024. Speaking in his Angelus address on Oct. … Read More
11 Oct 1962 – the opening of Vatican II and John XXIII’s speech
11 October 1962 saw the opening of the Second Vatican Council. John XXIII, brushing off the reservations of advisors and those whom he consulted, determined to have that Council (but who refused to reveal of Secret of Fatima at Our … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Vatican II
Tagged Gaudet Mater Ecclesia, John XXIII, Vatican II
11 Comments
11 Comments
VIDEO: London Rosary Crusade of Reparation 2022
A friend in London sent this video of procession with the Rosary, Rosary Crusade of Reparation. He wrote: It’s held each year on the Saturday after the feast of the Holy Rosary, and the March starts at Westminster Cathedral and … Read More
ASK FATHER: Father rushes through the weekly Novena. What to do?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: At my parish, we have a new pastoral administrator…. Don’t know the whole story, but suffice it to say that Fr. W does not really seem to want to be in parish ministry. Our parish has … Read More
Wow… just… wow….
WOW. I am a bit at a loss for words, after reading this. It is dead on. I would only quibble with one small part, but even in that he has a point that ought to be considered. There are … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Larry Chapp
38 Comments
38 Comments
Card. Koch: German Synod (“spazieren gehen zusammen”) is doing what some Christians did along with Nazism in order to change the Church’s teaching
It seems that Swiss Card. Koch has raised his concerns about the Germans “Synodal (“walking together”) Way”. In doing so, he has incurred the wrath of German bishops and others who have sent him, and the organizers of an event … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Fr. Z KUDOS, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Card. Koch
4 Comments
4 Comments
“This has the logo of the Synod (“walking together”) of Bishops. ” Prepare for a rough ride.
When I first saw this, I thought it was a spoof account. It isn’t. In #Frascati22 our experts are working on the syntheses produced during the local consultation phase. Pages and pages full of stories, insights, but also in some … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, You must be joking!
Tagged Synod of Bishops
43 Comments
43 Comments
Persecution by Rome of the Bp. of Fréjus-Toulon – UPDATED
I firmly believe that their overreach will overtake them. Hitherto, Bp. Rey of Fréjus-Toulon in France has been open to accepting traditionally-minded seminarians and religious. Vocations in that diocese were up, unlike the rest of France. Hence, Rome is now … Read More
14 September: Exaltation of the Cross and Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Today, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, is also the anniversary of the 2007 Summorum Pontificum going into effect. This Motu Proprio – the Emancipation Proclamation for the faithful who desire the Vetus Ordo – was a keystone … Read More
“The liturgical reform was ‘sold,’ so to speak, on a mighty promise of the countless wonderful blessings it could not fail to bring to the Church.”
I read a story at CNA about a diocese in the Netherlands where the wonderous springtime of Vatican II has revolutionized all of Catholic life. So successful has the Vatican II reform been, that the Diocese of Roermond has said … Read More
The agony of their “ecstasy”
You will want to watch this before it is expunged from on orders from high atop the thing. Tucker Carlson’s opening monologue on 31 August 2022. He goes over the many ways in which the left, fully in charge, is … Read More
“Crazy” rumor about what Francis might do during the August consistory
Church news, especially having to do with the papacy, has lately become a hybrid between a long-delayed forensic autopsy and Fawlty Towers, sickeningly hilarious. Yesterday, I saw this tweet from Damian Thompson. Crazy rumour in Rome that at his August … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged can. 144, Ecclesia supplet
29 Comments
29 Comments
The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.
The Vetus Ordo is not going away. No matter how much pressure and repression, no matter how much persecution of priests and marginalization of lay people certain “shepherds” apply, it will remain and grow stronger in ways they fear more … Read More
Coincidences? I think not.
I recently wrote: I am convinced that one of the reasons certain bishops and priests seem determined to suppress the TLM and isolate, marginalize the people who want it is because the TLM unsettles, disturbs, annoys, irritates, needles, vexes clerics … Read More
“Si vis pacem para bellum!” Traditional Catholic Activism? Possible? Necessary? Unavoidable? A mind exercise.
I am mindful of what I posted here: 3.5% of a group can bring the group down, turn it around, or take it over. A friend, who sees and sends the most interesting things, saw and sent this, from The European … Read More
3.5% of a group can bring the group down, turn it around, or take it over.
3.5% 3.5% of a group can bring the group down, turn it around, or take it over. Alinsky knew this. Demographers know this. At 3%, groups gain significant influence. Read HERE. I was struck by something in the decree in … Read More
Francis: Grandmother of the West, invoked, to open the great circle and then blasts at “traditionalists”.
At The Catholic Thing there is a summary piece abooot Francis’ trip to Canadia. It starts: “Well, that’s over.” You can read it there. It paints a rather pathetic picture and darns with faint praise, the point being that it … Read More
But, you know, “unique expression” and all that. That’s why the Traditional Latin Mass faithful must be crushed.
The powers High Atop The Thing fear people who desire the Traditional Roman Rite and hate the Vetus Ordo because they know that the demographic sink hole opening under the Church is gobbling the people they have neglected to catechize … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Traditionis custodes
Tagged Australia
6 Comments
6 Comments
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