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[Catholic Caucus] St. Louis parishioners appeal Latin Mass cancellation, parish closure to Vatican’s highest courtA co-founder of Save Rome of the West argues that both Traditionis Custodes and its application in fact contradict the spirit of canon law by disregarding the salvation of souls.Parishioners in the Archdiocese of St. Louis appealed to the Vatican’s highest court of canon law to stop the archbishop’s closure of a parish church with a thriving Latin Mass community.St. Barnabas in O’Fallon, Missouri, on the outskirts of metropolitan St. Louis, was a flourishing parish that exclusively offered the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) when it was...

[Catholic Caucus] FULL STORY: Here’s why Bishop Strickland was canceledOn this episode of The John Henry Westen Show, Deacon Keith Fournier joins me to discuss his time working with Bishop Joseph Strickland in the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, what led to Strickland’s removal, the controversy surrounding canceled clergy, and more. I asked Deacon Keith about his time working with Bishop Strickland in the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and what he experienced working with him. Deacon Keith recalled how he had been working as a dean of an online Catholic school and in ministry when someone sent him Strickland’s Constitution on...

Francis to Muslims, "Inherited Religious Rites Must be Protected"On Thursday, Francis visited the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, to meet with representatives of dozens of false religions.He was received by the Grand Imam, Nasaruddin Umar.In the mosque, Francis and Umar listened to passages from the Koran sung by a young woman and the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke read by a priest.Then, Francis and Umar signed another joint declaration on "fraternity," entitled: Fostering Religious Harmony for the Sake of Humanity. The interreligious scribble is at least below 400 words long. It pledges to defend "human...

[Catholic Caucus] The New TLM Suppression: Crisis Averted?Remember when everybody was sure that there was a new Latin Mass suppression coming down the pike from The Dictator Pope and his mercy for the margins?That came from a credible rumour published by our friends at Rorate back on June 17th. While that was brewing, Viganò got the axe from the Vatican, and a different report denied any existence of a new TLM suppression.Meanwhile, the “Agatha Christie Petition 2.0” was released, along with a second petition by the same authors for the faithful to sign. A third petition was also put out...

[Catholic Caucus] Amsterdam bishop says young Catholics are going back to ‘roots of the faith,’ want traditional liturgyYoung Catholics who embrace tradition ‘are appearing out of nowhere’ in the Netherlands and ‘going in the opposite direction’ of the older, liberal generation, Dutch Bishop Johannes Hendriks said. ‘The Holy Spirit is at work.’Dutch Bishop Johannes Hendriks said that young Catholics are going back to the roots of the faith, including more traditional liturgies.In an interview with the German newspaper Die Tagespost, the bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam described the dynamic of Catholics in the Netherlands. While many of the older generation are still...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Eleganti: Pope Francis promotes ‘synodality’ while acting ‘authoritarian’‘Although Pope Francis has written Synodality on his banner, he has a very authoritarian leadership style,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti noted, criticizing the Vatican synod for being determined by a small group of officials rather than the Holy Spirit.Pope Francis with Cdl. Grech at the Synod on Synodality Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti has said that the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality is determined by “ready-made agendas” and criticized Pope Francis for his hypocrisy.In an interview with the Swiss news outlet kath.ch, he posited that “ready-made agendas will determine the synodal process and...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Aguer: Young people are showing the world the importance of Catholic traditionIn the old and worn-out corners where the post-conciliar syndrome has reigned, multitudes of young people are joyfully discovering the Tradition of always and are embracing it as the authentic reality of a Church that is flourishing to bear fruit in contemporary society.Vulgar thinking assures us that tradition is constituted by the chain of traditions led by the old, and that the young are attracted by novelties, by the invention of new artifices.But the reality of the life of the Church and of the breach that...

[Catholic Caucus] Trad Carmelite Nuns Need Your Help!Above: a community of Carmelites at prayerEditor’s note: as we can see with the traditional Benedictines of Mary, female religious vocations are exploding… if they are traditional. Please donate today to help these sisters whose prayers will move mountains in our time. They are in great need of the assistance of the faithful!Our Lady Co-Redemptrix Carmelite MonasteryA Carmelite community is starting a traditional Catholic Carmelite monastery in High Springs, Florida. The community, Our Lady Co-Redemptrix Carmelite Monastery, is being founded by Sister Loretta-Maria of the Blessed Trinity and the Rosary, a Carmelite nun...

Roche and Viola (Dicastery for Divine Worship) Forbid Latin Mass in Helsinki Cathedral (Finland) - celebrated (for the moment) in another Church Finland. A land lost by the Church to Lutheranism.In that beautiful and peaceful land, those who are Catholic are a tiny minority, but very conscious of their rights and filled with conviction regarding their Faith. Some of them are, like so many of us, attached to the Traditional Latin Mass -- which was, of course, the Mass of Finland before the Reformation.One would think the Vatican would be happy to have such faithful Catholics in a land of...

[Catholic Caucus] A Novus Ordo Priest Comments on a Roman Rite PilgrimageDon Joaquín Manuel Serrano Vila, a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Oviedo who is also involved in the formation of seminarians, commented on the Roman Rite Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Christianity to Covadonga."I am writing these lines after having experienced the pilgrimage from the outside," he wrote on SanFelixDeLugones.blogspot.com (10 August).Don Serrano has no experience of the Roman rite and only took part in the Archbishop's blessing of the pilgrims and the Te Deum in Covadonga.Through his involvement in the formation of seminarians, he has noticed how...

[Catholic Caucus] Latin Mass order takes legal action after bishop orders the community out of dioceseThe Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer are now suing Bishop Michael Gielen of the Diocese of Christchurch over his sudden decision in July to evict them from the diocese.Latin Mass offered by the New Zealand community of the Sons of the Most Holy RedeemerCHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (LifeSiteNews) — A traditional Mass community of priests is taking legal action against the local diocesan bishop who ordered their eviction from his diocese upon receipt of a Vatican investigation. Local news media recently reported that the New...

[Catholic Caucus] Transalpine Redemptorists Take Bishop to CourtThe Transalpine Redemptorists, who follow the Roman rite, have filed a canonical complaint against Bishop Michael Gielen of Christchurch, New Zealand, who is kicking them out of his diocese (Zenit.org, 6 August).Last month, an apostolic visitation recommended that the Redemptorists be banned from celebrating Mass in the diocese. The bishop willingly followed the Vatican's instructions.The order's canon lawyer has now formally asked the bishop to rescind his decision. If this request is refused, the order intends to take the case to the Apostolic Signatura, the Church's highest tribunal.The Redemptorists must know that there...

[Catholic Caucus] "The Traditional Mass as a Conclave Issue: An Obstacle for Cardinal Parolin[Paix Liturgique published the following reflections on the article by Nico Spuntoni in Il Giornale on July 14, 2024. Translation for Rorate. -PK]Given the nature of the Second Vatican Council as a kind of new beginning for the Church of all things, opposition to it, especially opposition to the new liturgy, carries a heavy psychological weight in successive conclaves.Cardinal indiscretions have revealed that, during the 2013 conclave, Jorge Begoglio hinted to the conservative cardinals that he would make gestures in favor of the SSPX. The interest shown...

[Catholic Caucus] Was Archbishop Viganò silenced by the Vatican for exposing corruption in the Church?If the Vatican’s attempt to silence Archbishop Viganò is successful, whatever you think of the prelate, Catholics will have lost one of the few voices courageous enough to challenge the don’t-ask-questions mentality now prevalent in Rome.(Turning Point Project) — The excommunication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for “his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff” presents us with an opportunity to revisit Viganò’s claim that the pope is not valid.Among the many reasons Viganò offers for saying so is the possibility that the election...

[Catholic Caucus] Diocese of Arlington (Va.) eliminates 72 Traditional Latin Masses at three remaining parish churchesSociety of St. Pius X chapel continues to grow and flourish; Father John Audino, FSSP, to replace Father John Killackey, FSSP, at Chelsea AcademyThe Diocese of Arlington announced in July that the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments had approved Bishop Michael F. Burbidge’s request to continue three parish churches to offer the Traditional Latin Mass on Sundays. The three parish churches are Saint Rita Catholic Church, Saint John the Beloved Catholic Church and Saint Anthony of Padua Mission Church within...

[Catholic Caucus] The Next Possible Anti-TLM Strategy: A Novus Ordo/TLM Hodge-Podge to Demonstrate “Acceptance of the Reform”Convent de Sant Francesc, Santpedor, Spain (source)In a press release dated July 25, 2024, the Dominicans of the Holy Spirit, a community that celebrated the traditional rite for decades but was then ordered by the Vatican to begin to adopt the Novus Ordo, announced that the Vatican had given them detailed stipulations as to how they should proceed in the future. As of December 1, 2024:The Holy See asks us to follow the liturgical calendar currently in force in the Universal Church for the...

[Catholic Caucus] Italy: Pope Francis Is Alarmed by the “Shortage of Vocations”During the General Audience of May 22, 2024, at the greeting the novices of the women’s congregations of Italy in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope expressed his concern about religious vocations. “I see these novices and I ask myself: how many are Italian? Few!” “There is a shortage of vocations in Italy,” Francis worried. And he urged the faithful: “Let us think and pray for vocations to the consecrated life.”In fact, in 2021, the data from a report of the Italian Bishops’ Conference revealed that in only 10 years,...

[Catholic Caucus] New Front in the Liturgy Wars: Rome Requires Dominicans of the Holy Spirit to Hybridize Novus Ordo and TLMAlmost exactly one year ago, Rorate reported on the plight of the Dominicans of the Holy Spirit, who from their founding adhered with principled consistency to the old liturgical rites. The Vatican sent Novus Ordo apologist Fr Henry Donneaud, OP to "regularize" them in accord with the Vatican campaign against traditional religious life and traditional divine worship.Now, there is an important update. On July 25, the community issued the following press release, which we translate here:In a press release of...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican says Latin Mass parishes in Virginia diocese must offer Latin Novus Ordo once a month insteadThe Vatican’s two-year extension of permission to offer the Traditional Latin Mass in parish churches in the Diocese of Arlington has a catch: They must offer the Novus Ordo instead of the TLM one Sunday a month.ARLINGTON, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — There are strings attached to the Vatican’s two-year extension for permission to offer the Traditional Latin Mass in the Diocese of Arlington in Virginia, with TLM parish churches required to offer the Novus Ordo in Latin once a month instead of the...

[Catholic Caucus] FOR THE RECORD: Superior of FSSP discusses Synopsis of French Bishops' TLM SurveyConsidering how the Synopsis of the French Bishops' Survey on the TLM is being weaponized against traditional Catholics, it seems fitting to present here, for the record, a translation of the interview that Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, the superior of the FSSP's French district, gave to La Salon Beige on June 7, 2021. Recall that Fr. Paul-Joseph has met now twice with Pope Francis and may be considered to be in possession of the salient facts both at home and in Rome. - PK(Salon-Beige introduction:) Following rumors...