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- Fr Jackson on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Potentially important side note, as best I understand, salvo meliore iudicio. The latae sententiae excommunication that applies to the act…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Leo has roared. He has found whom he may devour. How unhappy to feel the need to resist him, standing…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Father, it gets even worse: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2026/07/dicastery-for-doctrine-of-faith.html#more “With respect to the lay faithful described in nos. 3–4, it is sufficient that…”
- on SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops: “@Gabriel Syme “Why cannot the Church, instead of scolding, choose to “accompany” the SSPX, the way it chooses to “accompany”…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “With the stroke of a pen, the number of priests in the world who can and do hear confessions has…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “As I mentioned the other day, the madness that compels my father to not speak with my brother is something…”
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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Pope Francis doesn’t have to “break the Church”
Last summer during Acton University I had the chance to get to talk at length with Russ Douthat of Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times… echo chamber of record for the liberal snob elite). Douthat is a voice of … Read More
Father’s job is to say “No.”
I have been saying for a very long time now that the Pope’s first job is to say “No.” The job of bishops, priests, fathers in general, is to say “No.” Whether your children are plotting to make a go-cart … Read More
USArmy: Ebola virus can go airborne in low temperatures
Not good news from info wars. U.S. ARMY: EBOLA GOES AIRBORNE ONCE TEMPERATURE DROPS Ebola can go airborne but hasn’t in West Africa because it’s too warm, researchers conclude Ebola can spread by air in cold, dry weather common to … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Pray For A Miracle, Semper Paratus, TEOTWAWKI, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Ebola
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Bishop calls England to conversion to Christ. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Disease with global killing potential is on the rise. Militant Islamism is on the rise. Homosexualism is on the rise. The Dictatorship of Relativism has weakened Western Civilization to the point of collapse so that hostile forces with satanic direction … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, I'm just askin'..., Just Too Cool, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pray For A Miracle, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The Religion of Peace, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Bp. Egan, D. Portsmouth, Holy Rosary, Lepanto, Pius V
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Salt and Light attacks Card. Burke: sticking to the ideal instead of ministering to people
Life Site has a piece about Salt and Light network’s verbal attack on Card. Burke. HERE As you may know, Fr. Thomas Rosica, who did some work for the Holy See Press Office during the Synod of Bishops, heads up … Read More
Extraordinary Synod on Family is, thanks be to God, over.
The Extraordinary Synod on the family is, thanks be to God, over. The bishops will meet again next year at the same time in the Ordinary Synod on the same topic: the Family. Let me start with the pessimistic take, … Read More
VIDEO: Card. Pell speaks on a ‘secular agenda’, the Relatio, the “stalking horse”
His Eminence George Card. Pell about the Relatio and the debate over releasing it. He calls Communion for divorced and remarried a “stalking horse” and homosexuality. He speaks about the first form of the Relatio. This is great stuff. Pause, … Read More
VIDEO: Holy League – Trailer
Alas, they took no account that in the Extraordinary Form the Feast of Christ the King is the last Sunday of October. Still!
“The truly bizarre document that the Vatican released Monday”
Have you been following the reports of Robert Royal about the Synod of Bishops? Here’s today’s: Synod Day 8 – A Bizarre Document and Process Print I have been in Rome, by my rough count, 100 times during my adult … Read More
Fr Jackson on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Potentially important side note, as best I understand, salvo meliore iudicio. The latae sententiae excommunication that applies to the act…”
