UPDATE: On a related note, at One Peter Five find the transcript and video of Card. Sarah’s recent talk at the presentation (HERE) of Bp. Schneider’s catechetical Compendium. Card. Sarah’s talk dealt with the crisis in the Church. He has … Read More →
By now you will have read something about a new document, responses to dubia that were submitted by a Brazilian bishops about “trans”, etc. This is not just theological curiosity stuff, but rather practical problems that parish priests must deal with. LifeSite … Read More →
Looking at the Synod (“Walking Together: “W-T”) from as far as I can manage while being in Rome and as close as I need to be because I simply have to, the image that comes to mind is tied sack … Read More →
The point of the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” is the process itself. The process is the content, the message. That does not mean that there are not sidelines, some of them dominant. One of them is the normalization of … Read More →
Form a committee or some kind of group and after awhile they will want to know how much power they have. I read at CNA: Synod on Synodality members ask ‘for greater discernment’ of Church teaching on sexuality Participants in … Read More →
A reader sent this note… Father, I’ve been dividing time reading the Bible and CCC at your suggestion, and many times am thunderstruck at passages come across. This one hit me very, very hard right now; and I want to … Read More →
I put on my hazmat suit this morning after a friend sent a link from Fishwrap to our chat group. Vatican’s secretary of state: Clerical abuse not linked to homosexuality Yet while the cardinal’s reflections are notable coming from the … Read More →
“Katonda!” This year today is in the Vetus Ordo calendar Ember Friday in the Octave of Penance. However, it is also the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga. That said, because of the decree Cum sanctissima we can now celebrate St. … Read More →
Today is 30 April and in the traditional calendar it is the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Doctrix of the Church. In the Novus Ordo her feast falls on 29 April (her dies natalis). She was canonized by a … Read More →
Remembering always that the Traditional Latin Mass needs to be snuffed at Catholic schools like Steubenville, here’s what’s going on at Notre Shame. From Breitbart: The University of Notre Dame’s gender studies program is hosting a talk with the author … Read More →
This morning found me in a conversation between highly educated friends (among whom are former theologians of the CDF) about a LifeSite story saying that Cardinal Müller, the former Prefect of the CDF, “defended Pope Francis’ ability to change the … Read More →
Jesuit-run (who else?) Amerika ran a piece by – and this still has me shaking my head – Card. McElroy of that key See of San Diego, suffragan to Los Angeles. The Amerika piece is a dreadful obfuscation of Catholic moral teaching and … Read More →
A couple weeks back Hell’s Bible (aka NYT) published an airy yet vicious attack piece about Catholics who attended the Traditional Latin Mass. Apparently, if you go to the Vetus Ordo, you might be a white right-wing extremist of some … Read More →
Signs of the times… First, Archbp. Vincenzo Paglia – head of the Pontifical Academy for Life – did an interview for RU-486‘s (aka The Tablet) with the writer most suited for that sort of intercourse. You will recall that when … Read More →
This is from a tweet. The painting was being worked on by restorers. Things are looking grim for black. But it’s black’s move. UPDATE: So that you know, for sure, what we are up against (only figuratively, thanks be to … Read More →
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 →
From a priest… QUAERITUR: Is it okay to learn how to say the Traditional Latin Mass? Where are we at with the whole overblown, skewed notion of obedience and authority today that it would enter into a priest’s mind that … Read More →
Joe Biden supporters attempted to raid a Catholic church in New York today Police had to hold back the violent pro aborts from attacking the building as intolerance towards the country’s Catholic minority grows more hostile and bigoted pic.twitter.com/fDYtp33zKn — … Read More →
God bless this nun in Naples. God bless her. Watch the nitwits. Based Neapolitan nun pic.twitter.com/AovsAipgyT — ????Americana?? (@rex_italia) July 18, 2022
But remember… the problem is the Traditional Latin Mass! If only we could shut it down, the seminaries would fill up again. Right? The average age of a priest in the United States is 67. The large ordination classes of … Read More →
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