Sorry about this, but it has to be distributed widely. The fact that @CardinalBCupich & the Archdiocese of Chicago have severely restricted the traditional Latin Mass because it is a threat to "Church unity," yet allows this "Mass" to take … 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 →
At Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) we read the insights of Jesuit Thomas Reese, disgraced former editor of Amerika, who wins our Oaf For A Day Award. HERE Jesus continues his commentary by commenting on the commandment, “You shall love your … Read More →
A note to the priests and people of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, where someone in the chancery is trying to bully you into submission. Someone whom I gather is the “priest secretary” to the Archbishop of Atlanta, and who is … Read More →
I’ve been reading something co-written by scholars whom I have hitherto respected. These are not “libs”. These are not Fishwrap types. They are sound scholars. What they signed is over-the-top ideological cant about the Novus Ordo and its Spirit-inspired glories, with a strong polemical … Read More →
I try not to pay too much attention to Jesuit-run Amerika Magazine. It occasionally intrudes. Even less to I want thoughts of or by Austen Ivereigh. I am therefore grateful to my friend Fr. Raymond J. de Souza who, writing … 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 →
Forgive typos… I am writing under time constraint and pressures. Biretta tip to Peter Kwasniewski – o{]:¬) – for the following from Mr Cricket, Andrea Grillo, whose photo on his blog looks like – and it is exactly what he is … Read More →
UPDATE: 21 Oct 22: Check this out. Hilarious and sad at the same time. HERE Originally Published on: Oct 19, 2022 While bad news is unpleasant, and often we do well to sidestep the avalanche that hurtles at us everyday, sometimes … Read More →
From Vatican News: Cardinal Grech: Synodal process is mature fruit of Vatican II As the Pontifical Lateran University begins the celebration of the 250th anniversary of its founding, Cardinal Mario Grech reflects on the Second Vatican Council and synodality. Cardinal … Read More →
Remember that art that the Synod (“walking together”) process in Philly excreted, not to reflect the actual opinions of young people but to drive an agenda? Well, it turns out that the art was intended not to reflect the actual opinions of … Read More →
The great Fr. Hunwicke at his esteemed page has composed an insightful post. He is dead on target. The reason the haters of the Vetus Ordo fear and hate the Vetus Ordo is because of the moral life implied in … Read More →
Sometimes coincidences are just coincidences. Sometimes they aren’t. Yesterday, 1 September, on the anniversary of a very creepy thing, two very creepy things happened. 1- Francis gave a speech to the world’s bishops, more an more reduced to “branch managers” … Read More →
I am sure that you have by now seen the moronic, sick, anti-Catholic dreck at The Atlantic about the Rosary written by … who? The writer feverishly connected the use of the Rosary, as a matter of spiritual warfare – … Read More →
Today at Le Crock… sorry… Le Croix… there is a piece by one Gregory Solari. Who? I asked the same question. I found this link. Involvement with McGill in Montreal. French, I think, maybe Swiss. Interested in Newman. Seems to … Read More →
Let’s guess the general direction of Francis’ thought. a) Gosh, everyone. I am really sorry for my past restrictions and I think it’s overdue time to return Tradition to its rightful place. Let’s reintegrate our traditional sacred liturgical worship into … Read More →
At Crisis there is a scorching, rousing piece by Fr. John Perricone about the synodal (“walking together”) process as a form of naval gazing. It’s quite a read: The Synodal “listening sessions” can easily be dismissed as another parlor game, … Read More →
This isn’t satire or parody or Fr. Z’s version of the Babylon Bee. The Vatican’s Synod (“walking together”) on Synodality (“walking togetherality”) is coming. They produced a document on the spirituality of synodality. HERE and PDF of the actual … Read More →
That is one of the most painful videos I have ever seen. This is the Pentecost Mass from a parish in the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph, Holy Family. Mind you, the parish leadership wants people to see this. … Read More →
Above… Aeneas rescuing his family (not so much his wife) and household gods from the sack of Troy. Leonello Spada Who was Vincent of Lérins? He was a Gaul and writer who died about 445. His work Commonitorium is a … Read More →
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The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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