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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Cardinal who runs the Synod (“walking together”): “It is a grace that today Christendom is no more.”
Corriere della Sera The man who runs the Synod (“walking together”), Mario Card. Grech. “It is a grace that today Christendom is no more. Because we felt we had arrived: the Church as a” perfect society “. And whoever is … Read More →
Posted in Pò sì jiù, Synod, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Christendom, Mario Card. Grech
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14 Comments
Francis opens the Synod quoting Congar: “We must not make another Church, we must make a different Church”
Francis opening address at the Synod (“walking together”). Read carefully. At least the Bolletino has it HERE… No… wait… Interesting approach. Let’s just sloooooow doooooown the English speaking wooooooorld. Here’s a version in English… my emphases and comments. Dear Brothers and … Read More →
Francis appointed a “Special Delegate” to take complete control of the group “Memores Domini”. They take care of Benedict XVI. – UPDATED
UPDATE: And… the traditional Carmelites in Pennsylvania are being investigated with an “Apostolic Visitation”, 25-28 September. The nuns have been served by a priest who was a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Remember them? The sisters are … Read More →
Francis’ dialogue with Jesuits in Bratislava about the Vetus Ordo, homosexuality, people who “wanted him dead”, a global Catholic TV channel doing the “work of the devil”
From La Civiltà Cattolica, which is run by Jesuit Fr. Antonio “2+2=5” Spadaro, a transcript of a meeting between Francis and Jesuits in Bratislava. HERE I think it’s best for me simply to send you over to LCC to read … Read More →
More hijinx in Saint Peter’s Basilica
Once upon a time, anyone who dared to use the papal altar in one of the major Roman basilicas without a rescript incurred an excommunication, including cardinals. Old photos show the rescript posted on a column of the baldachin during … Read More →
Posted in Pò sì jiù, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged San Pietro
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16 Comments
More bad news from the Vatican. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Ed Pentin reports on more fresh hell from the Vatican. What this boils down to, I think, is demonic gender bending theory and eventual ruthless population control/reduction through contraception (willing or not), sterilization (willing or not), and euthanasia (willing or … Read More →
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying?, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
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Tagged demonic gender ideology, jeffrey sachs, population control
21 Comments
21 Comments
Christmas in St. Peter’s is cancelled, but apparently this Mass is okay. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
As reported by CNA, Francis cancelled Christmas liturgies for the public. And yet… apparently a Mass like this is okay. Here’s a public service announcement. If you love good music, don’t… just… don’t. Unless, perhaps, you are in need of a … Read More →
VIDEO: Autopsy of a really slick LIE
I am watch the Senate debate on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. I watch recordings at high speed when possible. Right now I was just infuriated by a serious LIE by omission uttered by the … Read More →
Posted in The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged abortion, Amy Coney Barrett, SCOTUS, Sen. Feinstein, super precedent
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13 Comments
FAIL! @JamesMartinSJ claims you can’t dismiss false teaching on same-sex unions because Francis developed doctrine. Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Jesuit homosexualist activist James Martin said this on CNN: “[Pope Francis] may have in a sense, as we say in the church, developed his own doctrine. We have to reckon with the fact that the head of the church has … Read More →
More Jesuit Antics: Adoration of the Stanley Cup
From my youth I have been a hockey fan. I get that the Stanley Cup is a big deal. It would be pretty exciting to have that on display at a high school! A reader dropped me an email… I … Read More →
maternalView on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 12th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th Ordinary): “I appreciate the Mass intention for today. I needed it. It’s the one year anniversary of my mother’s fall and…”
