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Category Archives: The Coming Storm
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
Rumors of a forced-resignation attack on Bp. Joseph Strickland from ROME
In about mid-August I had heard that perhaps Bp. Strickland would be ousted by Rome in the first part of July. “I’ll believe it,” quoth I quietly but pretty much believing, “when I see it.” We heard about the visitation … Read More
QUAERITUR: Is there something wrong in Rome?
At The Catholic Thing today, my friend Dr. Robert Royal asks the elephantine – nay, rather, mastodontic question: Is there something wrong in Rome? The obvious answer is YES. Only a fool or fanatical ideologue (in the real sense) would … Read More
On airplane from Mongolia Francis is asked about the book “The Synodal (“walking together”) Process Is a Pandora’s Box: 100 Questions and Answers”. His response.
On the way back to Rome, Francis was slightly Mongolian grilled when asked about the book that is making waves The Synodal Process ((“walking together”)) Is a Pandora’s Box: 100 Questions and Answers which has a Preface by Card. Burke. … Read More
Posted in Pò sì jiù, SESSIUNCULA, Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Hard-Identity Catholicism, Synod
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22 Comments
Views on the upcoming Synod (“walking together”)
At Crux there is a piece about a new booklet published on 22 August by TFP concerning the upcoming Synod (“walking together”). Card. Burke wrote the intro… Burke claims Pope’s synod will foster ‘confusion, error and division’ Keep this in … Read More
Number of Priestly Ordinations in Free Fall
A recent piece at the SSPX site deals with the “vertiginous” drop in priestly vocations in France, in particular, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The figures they used are from the French bishops conference and other non-SSPX sources. The … Read More
How I feel right now… renewed.
I posted this four years ago and I have not changed my position. No. Way. The. Enemy. Wins.
Summer 2023 etc. Why is so hot? It’s YOUR fault. Or… maybe not.
It has been a hot summer. CLIMATE CHANGE! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DROWN IN THE GLACIERS! This was spotted at American Thinker. What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about … Read More
How to force a new ecclesiology on the Church. It takes time.
At Rorate today there is a useful piece by Roberto de Mattei. In spite of his strange jabberings about “the jab” It is useful in that it provides a few concise paragraphs that put into perspective where we have been … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged ecclesiology
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12 Comments
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.: “mcferran: What would Pope Leo XIV advise this individual? We may never know, given that we have nothing from him…”
