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  • [Catholic Caucus] Upcoming book ‘We Must Obey God’ written by Bishops Strickland, Schneider, and Archbishop Aguer

    07/04/2024 8:08:50 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | July 3, 2024 | Archbishop Héctor Agüer
    [Catholic Caucus] Upcoming book ‘We Must Obey God’ written by Bishops Strickland, Schneider, and Archbishop AguerSophia Institute Press has reported that it will publish the upcoming book 'We Must Obey God: Fidelity and Obedience in Times of Crisis,' co-authored by Archbishop Héctor Aguer, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider.Sophia Institute Press has reported that it will publish the upcoming book We Must Obey God: Fidelity and Obedience in Times of Crisis, co-authored by Archbishop Héctor Aguer, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider. The volume will offer theological principles, historical examples, and practical advice on fidelity and true obedience...
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “JOSEPH'S FATHER JACOB JOINS HIM IN EGYPT” ✝️ Link to New Video, GENESIS Series

    07/03/2024 7:36:33 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 9 replies
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  • Rome Takes Historic Step Towards ‘Full Communion’ with Conservative Anglicans

    07/02/2024 5:05:42 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 12 replies
    The Stream ^ | July 2, 2024 | Jules Gomes
    Rome Takes Historic Step Towards ‘Full Communion’ with Conservative AnglicansThe Vatican is taking historic strides towards achieving “full communion” with Anglicans who do not ordain female priests. It is doing so by recognizing Anglican holy orders and churches, but not requiring them to merge with or convert to Roman Catholicism.“We are scheduled to begin our talks at the Vatican this coming September 26-27,” Bishop Ray Sutton, presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the U.S., announced in an Ecumenical Relations Task Force Report of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) College of Bishops.The ACNA bishops, who oversee 128,000...
  • Bishop Strickland: Remember that the gates of hell shall not prevail against Christ’s Church

    07/02/2024 9:03:14 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 95 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | July 1, 2024 | Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
    Bishop Strickland: Remember that the gates of hell shall not prevail against Christ’s Church'The Church is now facing extremely hard times. ... It is important for all of us to wake up and look around.'The following is a piece written by Bishop Emeritus of Tyler, Texas, Joseph Strickland, first published here. (LifeSiteNews) — “And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias, and I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Why is the Traditional Latin Mass So Hated? - Op-Ed

    07/02/2024 8:05:38 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 17 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 2, 2024 | Father Enda*
    [Catholic Caucus] Why is the Traditional Latin Mass So Hated? - Op-Edby Father Enda*Vision of TuyAmongst all women one alone was chosen to be His Mother, who is The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mediatrix of All Graces. No other. Chosen from amongst all other holy Virgins.Amongst all instruments one alone was chosen to be His Katechon, ("what witholdeth" (2 Thess. 2:6-7 -singular), which is the Latin Rite Mass of the Ages. No other. Chosen from amongst all other holy rites. The Vision of Tuy is the vision of the Katechon. The Mediatrix of All Graces stands beneath Her Son over...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland urges Catholics to oppose ‘blasphemies’ and corruption from Church hierarchy

    07/01/2024 5:49:14 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | July 1, 2024 | Emily Mangiaracina
    [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland urges Catholics to oppose ‘blasphemies’ and corruption from Church hierarchyBishop Strickland warned Catholics that remaining ‘complacent’ towards false teaching, such as homosexual ‘blessings,’ ‘leaves us in grave peril and at risk of eternal damnation’ and criticized Joe Biden as a ‘disastrous puppet.’Bishop Joseph Strickland has denounced the Catholic hierarchy’s attempts to “alter basic teachings of the faith,” warning that complacency about this puts us “at risk of eternal damnation.”In a Saturday X post, Bishop Strickland urged U.S. Catholics to make “critical decisions with immediate urgency,” regarding both support of President Joe Biden and obedience to a...
  • [Catholic Caucus] I am accused of not following the “Hermenentics of continuity” when criticizing the “Fiducia supplicans”!?

    07/01/2024 2:44:43 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Old Yosef ^ | July 1, 2024 | Cardinal Joseph Zen
    [Catholic Caucus] I am accused of not following the “Hermenentics of continuity” when criticizing the “Fiducia supplicans”!?I must confess that I have often wasted my time following the program “Reason and Theology” of Michael Lofton, this big man with a little beard (who would do well to hide his tattoo when he speaks like a theologian), I have been driven by curiosity to hear the hilarious non sense he says. This time, however, I saw that he was criticizing me. With great seriousness, he is scandalized that I, who insist so much on the hermeneutics of continuity, now dare to...
  • Lefebvre, Viganò and the Post-Conciliar Struggle Against the Catholic Church’s Enemies

    07/01/2024 12:17:43 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | July 1, 2024 | Robert Morrison
    Lefebvre, Viganò and the Post-Conciliar Struggle Against the Catholic Church’s EnemiesArchbishop Carlo Maria Viganò began his recent statement (responding to accusations of schism) by quoting Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre from 1979:“‘When I think that we are in the palace of the Holy Office, which is the exceptional witness of the Tradition and of the defense of the Catholic Faith, I cannot stop myself from thinking that I am at home, and that it is me, whom you call ‘the traditionalist,’ who should judge you.’ So spoke Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1979, when he was summoned to the former Holy Office, in...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Game: What Now For the Traditional Mass Under Francis? - Op-Ed

    06/30/2024 11:54:36 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | June 28, 2024 | Kevin Tierney
    [Catholic Caucus] The Game: What Now For the Traditional Mass Under Francis? - Op-EdDuring the pontificate of Pope Francis, we have seen a careful game being played by the Vatican and their allies when it comes to dealing with Catholics drawn to the Traditional Latin Mass. When they attempt to downplay traditionalists, they are an irrelevant sect, with numbers so insignificant none should take them seriously. After this approach, they then flip, treating traditionalists as a threat to the unity of the Church, a threat so severe the ordinary rights of clerics and the faithful must be curtailed. This mentality...
  • BIBLE art ✝️ “JOSEPH'S BROTHERS JOIN HIM IN EGYPT” ✝️ Link to New Video, GENESIS Series

    06/30/2024 10:46:12 AM PDT · by Hebrews 11:6 · 3 replies
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  • [Catholic Caucus] Belgian court rules against 2 Catholic archbishops for refusing woman to enter training for diaconate

    06/29/2024 6:36:21 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 29, 2024 | Jeanne Smits
    [Catholic Caucus] Belgian court rules against 2 Catholic archbishops for refusing woman to enter training for diaconateCardinal Jozef De Kesel and Archbishop Luc Terlinden have both been ordered to pay more than $1,000 in damages for having ‘discriminated’ against a female pastoral worker by refusing her requests to enroll in a training course for future deacons.A district court in Belgium has ruled that two Catholic archbishops must pay damages of more than $1,000 each for refusing to allow a woman to enter training for the diaconate.In a bizarre case, a district court in Mechelen ruled against Cardinal Jozef De Kesel...
  • The Pope is NOT an Absolute Monarch! Catholics Must Understand the Limits of Episcopal Authority!

    06/29/2024 12:58:23 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 36 replies
    Les Femmes ^ | June 29, 2024 | Mary Ann Kreitzer
    The Pope is NOT an Absolute Monarch! Catholics Must Understand the Limits of Episcopal Authority!People tend to think of the pope as the head of a large company with the ultimate power to make all the decisions and impose them on his underlings beginning with the heads of the various departments. They can express their opinions to him, but he is the ultimate authority and if they disagree they can obey anyway or "off with their heads!"That is not a proper image for the Catholic Church.The pope is not a dictator with the ultimate power to throw out bishops on...
  • [Catholic Caucus] New York Priest Celebrates ‘Pride Mass’ Outside of Gay Monument — on LGBT Flag

    06/29/2024 9:35:15 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 15 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | June 28, 2024 | Joe Bukuras
    [Catholic Caucus] New York Priest Celebrates ‘Pride Mass’ Outside of Gay Monument — on LGBT FlagFather Eric Andrews, Pastor of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in New York City, celebrates Mass at the Stonewall National Monument surrounded by pride flags. A New York City Catholic church, previously caught up in LGBT controversy, hosted a “Pride Mass” Thursday evening using an altar shrouded with a gay and transgender “pride” flag at a local federal monument with sculptures of two same-sex couples and decorated by dozens of LGBT rainbow flags.The federal monument enshrining a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, and its...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Priest: Pope Francis causing ‘many schisms’ and ‘deeper wounds’ in the Church than any other Pope

    06/28/2024 4:02:19 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 28, 2024 | Fr. Joachim Heimerl
    [Catholic Caucus] Priest: Pope Francis causing ‘many schisms’ and ‘deeper wounds’ in the Church than any other PopeIn the past, the Popes stood for purity of Church doctrine, while the schismatics rejected this doctrine. Today, however, Pope Francis rejects traditional Catholic teachings and seems to condone schisms or even provoke them.Anyone who has been following Church news recently will increasingly come across the term “schism,” which is causing an unusually strong stir.In Spain, a convent of Poor Clares has broken away from the Church and considers all Popes after Pius XII (1939-1958) to be illegitimate. In their view, the Apostolic...
  • Archbishop Viganò: I accuse Bergoglio of heresy and schism

    06/28/2024 11:07:15 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 13 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 28, 2024 | Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
    Archbishop Viganò: I accuse Bergoglio of heresy and schismEditor’s note: The following essay is the full English translation of a statement from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in response to the charge of schism from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, published in Italian on June 28, 2024.‘But even if we or an angel from heavenShould preach to you a gospel other than the one that we preached to you,let that one be accursed.As we have said before, and now I say again,if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received,let him be...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke criticizes ‘terrible situation’ of German Church, says ‘synodality’ is linked to ideology

    06/28/2024 10:54:44 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 28, 2024 | Andreas Wailzer
    [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke criticizes ‘terrible situation’ of German Church, says ‘synodality’ is linked to ideologyCardinal Burke lamented the German Church’s ‘so-called Synodal Way’ and pointed out that ‘no one can define’ the novel idea of ‘synodality’ in a new interview.Cardinal Raymond Burke criticized the German Synodal Way and the concept of “synodality,” which he said is a “placeholder” for “all kinds of ideologies” during an interview with Pints with Aquinas host Matt Fradd.“Today we have this terrible situation in Germany with this so-called Synodal Way and in general this whole notion of ‘synodality,’” Cardinal Burke said. “I’ve spoken about...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Vatican communications head slammed for downplaying Rupnik case: ‘We’re not talking about abuse of minors’

    06/27/2024 4:43:10 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 26, 2024 | Stephen Kokx
    [Catholic Caucus] Vatican communications head slammed for downplaying Rupnik case: ‘We’re not talking about abuse of minors’‘Who am I to judge?’ said the Vatican’s Paolo Ruffini about Fr. Marko Rupnik, who has been accused of abusing dozens of people and committing blasphemous sexual abuse against religious sisters.The embattled pro–LGBT prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, shockingly downplayed last week the sexual abuse scandals of disgraced former Jesuit priest Father Marko Rupnik. Ruffini spoke at the annual Catholic Media Conference, held from June 18-21 in Atlanta, Georgia. In his keynote address, he urged attendees to change “the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Accept or Reject the New Mass?

    06/27/2024 9:47:33 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | June 26, 2024 | James Baresel
    [Catholic Caucus] Accept or Reject the New Mass?Just days after Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum, Italy’s Bishop Luca Brandolini—who had been a close collaborator of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini—stated, “This day is for me a day of grief. I have a lump in my throat and I do not manage to hold back my tears…Today, a reform for which so many labored, at the cost of great sacrifices…has been canceled.”Hard as it may seem to avoid laughing at the absurdity of claiming that allowing the ancient form of the Roman Mass the rather second-class and exceptional status of an “extraordinary”...
  • How and Why Do Traditional Priestly Institutes Fit Within Francis’s Synodal Church?

    06/27/2024 9:31:48 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | June 27, 2024 | Robert Morrison
    How and Why Do Traditional Priestly Institutes Fit Within Francis’s Synodal Church?By prohibiting Traditional Latin Masses other than those offered by the ex-Ecclesia Dei communities (e.g., the FSSP and ICKSP), the new document would dramatically reduce the number of Traditional Latin Masses, harming souls in various ways. On June 13, 2024, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity published a “study report” entitled The Bishop of Rome. Primacy and Synodality in the Ecumenical Dialogues and in the Responses to the Encyclical Ut unum sint, which helpfully outlines how the various pieces of Vatican II’s ecumenical movement fit together to form a...
  • New Vatican document reveals Francis’ plan for a grotesque parody of the papacy

    06/27/2024 9:17:58 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 16 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 27, 2024 | Matthew McCusker
    New Vatican document reveals Francis’ plan for a grotesque parody of the papacyA new Vatican document reveals the roadmap by which Francis intends to establish a new 'synodal papacy,' intended to replace the papacy permanently established by Christ.A new Vatican document reveals the roadmap by which Francis intends to establish a new “synodal papacy,” which will preside over a new “synodal church.”This new “synodal papacy,” which is intended to replace the papacy permanently established by Christ, would lead a global ecumenical church without doctrine or discipline. The new “working document,” called “The Bishop of Rome,” outlines a number of objections...