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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
This reminds me of something.
This reminds me of something. What is it? I really miss Calvin and Hobbes, don’t you? What is it….? Ah… right. Synodality? Everything from Germany? The Vatican-China Deal? Soooo many possibilities.
Keep in mind the phrase: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
If they think this is going to go away, they are delusional. Keep in mind the phrase: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur. Also, yesterday in some commentary on the strange opinions of a bishop, I mentioned the issue of “unity”, … Read More →
Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point?
One wonder’s how much the progressivists (aka libs) despise the people who desire traditional sacred worship. Prediction: “synod” will be turned into a verb. At LifeSite we find this. This is truly crazy stuff, from the Bishop of Pilsen in … Read More →
Detroit’s Archbishop attends mosque opening, says: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness”
From a priest… I’m sure that you have seen this already, but the archbishop of Detroit was recently at the opening of a mosque in Dearborn, MI. “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness,” Archbishop … Read More →
The Devil makes pots, but not lids.
There is an Italian proverb. Il diavolo fa le pentole ma non i coperchi. The Devil makes pots, but not lids. The truth will out. In the face of lies, deceit and acts of malice, truth and justice will prevail. … Read More →
Dealing with some misleading … not quite fake… news
Yesterday I nearly had a syncope when I saw a tweet that Leo XIV had given the “highest diplomatic honour” to the Ambassador to the Holy See from vicious IRGC in Iran to the Holy See. HERE I noticed a … Read More →
The Roche Report, ‘Traditionis custodes’, and Permanent Revolution
Do you remember all the way back to the dark year of 2023? Newly minted Cardinal Fernandez of the DDF vowed in an interview that he was not a “Soros spy infiltrated in the Church.” Hamlet 3.2.245 According to … Read More →
The text Card. Roche gave the other Cardinals about the TLM, ‘Traditionis custodes’ and “unity” during the recent consistory: an examination of “The Roche Report”
When Leo called the consistory, there were several proposed agenda items. Fr. McTeigue aptly describes what happened. [T[hey were going to talk about lots of things and then they talked about not as many things as the things they were … Read More →
We are our rites… “In some way or another”, I guess.
From Ed Pentin at the National Catholic Register: Liturgy Sidestepped at Pope Leo XIV’s First Consistory? [With my emphases and comments.] Cardinals choose evangelization and synodality as key topics, disappointing those who expected the liturgy to be a central theme … Read More →
It’s time to stop being “inappropriate”!
The hits just keep rolling in. Get this. An “expert” (I know people who know him) has clarified for us what the DDF doctrinal note about titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary mean. CNA has it. My emphases and comments. … Read More →
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