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I warmly recommend a pair of videos from Catholic Unscripted.
Catholic Unscripted, if you don’t know about it, is an initiative from three English Catholics, Katherine Bennett, Gavin Ashenden, and Mark Lambert. They talk about stuff in a way that is NOT a waste of time (as so many other Catholic videos are).
The videos I post, below, stem from the dreadful developments in the Diocese of Charlotte, where a bishop has undertaken virtually to deconstruct Catholic identity.
In the first video, the more recent, they interview Peter Kwasniewski. The title of the video is taken from this blog and I was mentioned at the end. (I would have posted it anyway.)
The second video, older by a day or so, delves into the mentality of those who want to do away with the traditional Roman Rite.
Their YouTube channel is HERE.
Again, I warmly recommend Catholic Unscripted. I even decided to get a membership for their site in order to support them. Believe me, I know what that’s about. I am, however, a bit cross with them about the membership thing, since they deny to site members access to certain videos on their YouTube channel.
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Over in Norway, more chessy drama as Magnus blunders a knight and loses again…
Did that really just happen? ?
Magnus blunders a piece, and Wei Yi wins the Armageddon…AGAIN!#NorwayChess pic.twitter.com/lrTqbhCb76
— Norway Chess (@NorwayChess) June 3, 2025
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The monks of Le Barroux have a project. They are trying to build a museum/shop. To get the project rolling they need to sale 20K bottles of wine. That’s where YOU come in. Help monks, get wine. Everyone wins. HERE
Disgusting — the building that caught fire Saturday evening in Alençon after PSG’s victory in the Champions League was the watchmaker-jeweler’s shop of St Louis Martin, the father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. #Paris #Catholic #france pic.twitter.com/iZ01pFa7Eh
— Sancta Familia Media (@SanctaFamiliaTV) June 2, 2025
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Photograph showing Joseph Ratzinger and Fulton Sheen during the Second Vatican Council. pic.twitter.com/sdjZBn8Yqx
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— Norway Chess (@NorwayChess) June 1, 2025
Welcome to the 13th edition of News of the Church.
It’s 2 June 2025 and it is the Monday after Ascension Thursday and we commemorate Sts Marcellinus and Peter. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer scratches out a living as a gazetteer. He travels from town to and town and reads aloud stories from different newspapers. People pay a dime .10c a head to listen, which is about $2.50 today. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer.
An audio “gazette” of Catholic things.
00:14 – Init
01:00 – June and the Sacred Heart
10:25 – News from Outer Space
16:10 – Connecting Pentecost and Cheesecake
21:26 – News from Gower Abbey
26:14 – Frequency of Confession
28:46 – SSPX opines about Pope Leo XIV
35:00 – Exit
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? BREAKING: Canadian Cardinal: Catholics shouldn’t use ‘Pride’ symbols—they’re ‘contrary to God’s divine revelation’ ?
Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto, spoke out strongly against Catholics who use “misguided and inadequate” symbols in the month of June that “do not… pic.twitter.com/UiQX3xyOot
— Pro-life Canadian Man (@PeteBaklinski) May 30, 2025
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie: HERE
This is a CRAZY historic puzzle. White to move and checkmate in two. However, there is a massive twist.8/4P1Q1/2P5/8/8/6Pk/5P2/7K w – – 0 1
Hint. It’s not just checkmate. It’s double checkmate.
The answer is so offbeat I don’t really expect anyone to work it out on their own. It’s too bizarre and it concerns now-outdated rules of chess.
Meanwhile, lots of drama at Norway Chess. I was able to follow the video of the coverage yesterday during my peregrinations… which involved massive and annoying delay. In one game Hikaru was completely winning against Arjun Erigaisi, but he blundered by blitzing out 41… Rf6 and wound up resigning. ONE MOVE! BAM! Look what happened after that. It’s gruesome. Very young children should be supervised.
Play at chess.com! HERE
BTW… since I have been putting up calendar pages during my travels, here’s a last shot for awhile. This is a busy page!
Here we see that it is the Feast of Justin Martyr (I have a 1st class relic) along with the founder of the Scalabrini. We see that in the Vatican it is the 7th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) and in Italy it is Ascension Thursday… Sunday. We are informed that this is the beginning of the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart. We are reminded that we are looking at the times for the city of Rome (Vatican City State is a different city and country) and that Rome has daylight savings going (ora legale). We are reminded of some liturgical abbreviations. We are informed that it is the World Day for Social Communications… woo hoo. It is the 152nd day of the year and there are 214 to go.
Today the Pope, Leo XIV (a pleasure to type that) gave a sermon for a Mass for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly.
In this sermon he directly contradicted something that Francis inspired in others through the still un-clarified document Amoris laetitia. You will recall that, years back in the buzz around and after the Synods (“walkings together”) on the family, marriage and continence were degraded as nearly impossible “ideals” which people can’t be expected to try to attain. Therefore, it would emerge from that starting point, just about anyone (except perhaps those who attend the Traditional Latin Mass), in any sort of relationship, adulterous, same-sex, etc., should be admitted to Communion, blessed, “accompanied”.
The situation was bad enough concerning marriage, divorce, adultery and Communion, that four cardinals submitted five questions (dubia) asking for clarification. Those questions were left, infamously, ignored, except through a strange response from the DDF
With that unpleasant chaos in the background, this is what Pope Leo said today:
In recent decades, we have received a sign that fills us with joy but also makes us think. It is the fact that several spouses have been beatified and canonized, not separately, but as married couples. I think of Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus; and of Blessed Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi, who raised a family in Rome in the last century. And let us not forget the Ulma family from Poland: parents and children, united in love and martyrdom. I said that this is a sign that makes us think. By pointing to them as exemplary witnesses of married life, the Church tells us that today’s world needs the marriage covenant in order to know and accept God’s love and to defeat, thanks to its unifying and reconciling power, the forces that break down relationships and societies.
For this reason, with a heart filled with gratitude and hope, I would remind all married couples that marriage is not an ideal but the measure of true love between a man and a woman: a love that is total, faithful and fruitful (cf. SAINT PAUL VI, Humanae Vitae, 9). This love makes you one flesh and enables you, in the image of God, to bestow the gift of life.
For all you young people out there, contemplating your vocation, your future, the married life… YES… it is possible to live holy lives in the sacred bond of matrimony and your contribution to wider society, to your extended family, and to your Church is immeasurable. It is hard to see up close and it is hard to see from afar, but there are, as Leo pointed out, saintly families of the past (but living in memory and in our honoring at the altar) which serve as exceptional models and there are many wonderful families – perhaps your own, and so I pray – close at hand with whom you can draw great strength and guidance.
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff.
Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for the Sunday after Ascension Thursday? Novus Ordo – 7th Sunday of Easter… OR… Ascension Thursday Sunday. Not confusing at all.
Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news? I know there is a lot of BAD news. How about some good news?
A taste of my thoughts from the other place: HERE
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Third, Christ ascended as the High Priest to present perpetually His Sacrifice to the Father. We use the images of physical locations, such as the Father’s “right hand”. So, we can speak of Christ in the heavenly temple at an altar beyond space and time where He renews His self-oblation without ceasing. This means that His High priestly action is in eternity and not just in points of historical time. By the Ascension, all the transformative mysteries of the Passion and Resurrection are still available to us. The action and effects of the Last Supper, continuous with Calvary and the empty tomb, are not bound by clocks, calendars or by geographical location. The High Priest in Heaven guarantees that we can have many Masses at many altars in many places at the same time. Christ is not just in this Host and then in that Host but in every Host, not just on this altar only now, but on every altar. He simultaneously is available to us in thousands of Hosts around the globe or in thousands of Host in the same church building. There isn’t just one priest now acting in Christ’s person, but many persons who are His priests who act in persona Christi.
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It was called to my attention that our Eastern lung, as St John Paul II might say, celebrates today the Nicene Fathers, the bishops who participated in the FIRST Ecumenical Council at Nicea which was called to deal with the divisions caused by the pernicious heresy of Arianism.
This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicea, which met from May to July of 325.
The background of Arianism is more complicated than I want to get into in a blog post. In a nutshell, Arian heresy slithered up in the early 4th century and is named after Arius, a priest of Alexandria who taught that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was not co-eternal with the Father and was instead a created being—divine but not equal to God. This was contrary to the developing doctrine of the Trinity, which states that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are of the same divine substance. Arius’s error gained a significant following, causing widespread division. In response, the Council of Nicaea was convened in 325 AD by Emperor Constantine. The council condemned Arianism as heresy and affirmed the full divinity of Christ, coining the term homoousios (“of the same substance”) to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son. Despite the Council’s decision, Arianism persisted for centuries.
A subtle form of Arianism exists today, in my opinion, which affects not a few members of the clergy.
The Emperor thought it necessary to have this for the sake of the civic order. People rioted about this question. Arianism touched on the very idea of “salvation”: if Christ is a mere creature, however exalted, He cannot give us eternal life. Only God can do that.
Out of the Council of Nicea emerged a compromise symbolon or creedal formula. In ancient Greek a symbolon was something like a piece of broken pottery that could prove your identity or the authenticity of a thing it was attached to because it fit perfectly to another broken piece. The creed of Nicea, which anathematized any who said that “there was a time when Christ was not”, would eventually amended by the Council of Constantinople to give us something like we use at Mass today. The main resolution is that the Father and the Son are “consubstantial”.
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