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- Christopher M on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “We held a Twitter space this evening and prayed the rosary for the church, the Holy Father and the SSPX.…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “No one is mentioning the elephant in the room. Rome wants the SSPX to explicitly state that the Novus Ordo…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul: “Thanks to the Archconfraternity for all their efforts and hello to The World’s Best Sacristan(TM)! It was fun to spot…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “In his very interesting 25 June One Peter Five article, “When Pope Leo Allowed Illicit Episcopal Consecrations”, Father Matthew Dimock,…”
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- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Honestly, the number of olive branches both publically and privately that have been offered to the SSPX since JPII has…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Regarding the accusation that the SSPX is guilty of “neo-Feeneyism,” it is worth considering that the recent SSPX Profession of…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D The SSPX doesn’t wholesale reject NA. That is why they could and were going to sign the 2011 Doctrinal…”
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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Must Catholic doctrine on marriage now be affirmed by every bishop and bishops conference individually?
At the peculiarly appellated Eponymous Flower there is (in addition to a poll on the sidebar about Amoris laetitia) a piece gleaned from Katholisches.info about a presser held by the honchos of the Spanish Bishops Conference on, yes, Familiaris divortio … … Read More
In the wake of #AmorisLaetitia (aka #FamiliarisDivortio )
The other day I wryly wrote about what may take place in the wake of the now Post-Synodal Apostolic Letter Amoris laetitia (aka Familiaris divortio): Benedict, in Summorum, emancipated both the older form of Mass and priests who say it! … Read More
Beaten down. Demoralized. Confused. Frustrated. Let us now get up off the ground.
I’ve had a tough few days. How ’bout you? Conversations with friends and priests suggest that the Devil is working really hard right now to demoralize the Team. And there is Amoris laetitia with its Infamous Footnote 351 (et al.) and the … Read More
Another reaction to #Amorislaetitia – “The cowardice and hubris of Pope Francis” (Hang on tight!)
Reactions to Amoris laetitia, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (I’m getting tired of typing that out), are mixed between cloying gushes and frustrated contempt. The following is surely more along the lines of the later. I present it here because he … Read More
The Infamous #Footnote351 read through the lens of the Prodigal Son and his prostitutes
In the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia, there is a footnote, an infamous footnote in par. 305 . Context: Because of forms of conditioning and mitigating factors, it is possible that in an objective situation of sin – which may … Read More
More analysis: “There will be those who will try and contort #AmorisLaetitia into the Kaspser proposal”
The newly released Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia in English is HERE. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, some analysis of Amoris laetitia. My emphases and comments. Francis has left Church teaching on Communion for the divorced and remarried … Read More
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", Francis, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Apostolic Exhortation, Card. Kasper, divorced and remarried, Pope Francis, tolerated but not accepted
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Robert Royal on ‘Amoris Laetitia’: Beautiful, Moving, and Divisive… Chaos and conflict, not Catholicity
I begin with a call for prayer. Please pray, then read. Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up … Read More
Univ. Indiana student mistakes Dominican priest for Klansman. Hijinx ensues.
My in box is replete with notes about what would be an amusing story, but which really isn’t that amusing after all. One of my correspondents writes: Proof That Colleges Are Making People Stupid At U Indiana in Bloomington, a … Read More
SSPX Bp. de Galaretta: Pope Francis will unilaterally recognize the SSPX
If you read Italian, there is a fascinating piece at La Stampa by Marco Tosatti (who is not one of the traitorous Italian Vaticanisti) about SSPX Bp. Alfonso de Galarreta’s view of Pope Francis’ view of the SSPX. First, note … Read More
Christopher M on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “We held a Twitter space this evening and prayed the rosary for the church, the Holy Father and the SSPX.…”
