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Cardinal Cordes Demolishes the Party Line on the Consecration of Russia by Christopher A. Ferrara May 17, 2017 Pope Bergoglio has come and gone at Fatima. And, of course, there was no Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, although there was the usual sloganeering that would reduce Our Lady of Fatima to Our Lady of Social Justice. Hence Pope Bergoglio, during his homily at the Fatima Shrine, did not implore Our Lady for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of their souls, concerning which there was only an oblique reference to the seers’ “insistent prayers for...

In VaticanCrux StaffMay 19, 2017 AUTHORLeft: Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke. (Credit: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi.) Right: Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. (Credit: Mtande (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)While the coordinator of the pope's 'C9' council of cardinal advisers has dismissed American Cardinal Raymond Burke as a 'disappointed man' upset with his loss of power, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has defended Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea as someone with whom the Church's liturgy is in "good hands."

Our Italian colleague and friend, Marco Tosatti, has once more been able to detect some important developments in Rome. On 11 May, Tosatti posted an article entitled “Humanae Vitae: Voices on a Vatican Study Committee to Examine the Encyclical of Paul VI.” (Giuseppe Nardi of Katholisches.info in Germany has already diligently reported on this piece of news.) Tosatti reports, as follows (translation kindly provided by Andrew Guernsey): In the Vatican, unconfirmed reports from good sources have leaked that the Pontiff is on the verge of appointing – or even might have already formed – a secret commission to examine and...

Note: My learned EWTN “Papal Posse” colleague, Fr. Murray, dissects today a phenomenon all too common in the Church just now – Churchmen who, on the basis of no one knows what, casually change Catholic teaching and practice. He directs us back to the saving and safe reality of truth. This is something that, in one way or another, we try to do every day at The Catholic Thing. Our fund drive is doing well so far and thanks again to all of you who have made generous contributions to this work. Let me remind the rest of you...

Lightening strikes the Vatican Feb. 11, 2013, hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation. Pete Baklinski Follow Pete Share on Facebook 1.9k Share on Twitter Comment on this Article 55 Share via Email Print this Page NewsCatholic Church, Faith, FamilyThu May 18, 2017 - 12:37 pm EST We are witnessing St. John Paul II’s prophesy of an ‘anti-Church’: Catholic priest Pete Baklinski Follow Pete amoris laetitia , anti-church , anti-gospel , catholic , linus clovis , our lady of fatima , pope francis , pope john paul ii , rome life forum 2017 ROME, May 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews)...

Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga loses it In his new interview book Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga loses his temper when lashing out on Cardinal Raymond Burke because he stated that the controversial document Amoris Laetitia is not part of the Magisterium. Rodríguez insults his confrere as a "disappointed man because he wanted power and lost it." He insinuates that "[Cardinal Burke] thought he was the highest authority in the United States." Then he adds: "As Saint Therese of Lisieux said, 'I prefer to be small because if I happen to stumble, to fall, then the hit will not be so big; but those...

A scenic brook in Autumn, and I sing two verses of the hymn, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood, accompanied with, lyrics, and piano music.

Pius XII's Condemnation of Situation Ethics: "Accusations of rigidity first attack the adorable person of Christ" "Taking, therefore, the words of Christ and of the Apostle [Paul] as the strict rule, should not one say that the Church of today is rather inclined more to coddling than to severity? It so happens that the accusation of oppressive rigidity made against the Church by the ‘new morality,’ in reality, attacks, in the first place, the adorable Person of Christ Himself." These words, uttered 65 years ago in 1952 by Pope Ven. Pius XII against so-called 'situation ethics' ring true today now...

The Return of the Prayer to St. MichaelJoe Bissonnette Modern philosophy is full of all sorts of absurd theories about the illusory nature of existence and the unreliability of everything we know to be true. But the boots on the ground, living, breathing, day to day philosophy of even the most angst-ridden German nihilist or the most wild-eyed French existentialist has to be common sense realism. Even German and French philosophers must eat, sleep and conduct themselves in civil society.There’s great consolation in the reliability of the law of gravity and the fact that it means something specific to me...

Fatima, 100 Years Ago Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.  It is also the 100th anniversary of her first appearance to the Fatima children.  She spoke of the need to repent of sin to avoid hell.  Later she appeared to a Japanese sister at Akita and basically continued her message.  There she said that "if men do not repent and better themselves the Father will inflict a terrible punishment."  Between 1917 and now, what has been the change?  Our Lady delivered her words to a world that still was nominally Christian.  That cannot be said anymore, with...

Happy Mother's Day To All The Praying Great Mothers

I want to begin by saying Happy Mothers Day to each and every Freeper Mom at FreeRepublic. Proverb 14 (NKJV) The Ways of Life and Death 01 The wise woman builds her house, 00 But the foolish pulls it down with her hands. 02 He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, 00 But he who is perverse in his ways despises Him. 03 In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, 00 But the lips of the wise will preserve them. 04 Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; 00 But much increase...

I have been in the church for over twenty years now. I’ll never forget my first experience in a real Bible-believing, Spirit-filled, grace-singing church. I was surprised people enjoyed being there, floored that they knew the words to the songs, and freaked out that they talked about their faith when they weren’t at church. I saw spouses doting over each other, kids being respectful, and college students staying sober. It had a tremendous effect on me — I was sold on the church. Twenty years later, I have felt the pains of being in church. I have felt the pain...

Proverb 13 (NKJV) Wisdom Loves Righteousness 01 A wise son heeds his father's instruction, 00 But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. 02 A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, 00 But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence. 03 He who guards his mouth preserves his life, 00 But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction. 04 The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; 00 But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich. 05 A righteous man hates lying, 00 But a wicked man is...

L’Osservatore Romano has published a six-paragraph article on Ecumenical Advocacy Days, a recent four-day gathering at a Washington-area hotel. The event’s theme was “confronting chaos, forging community—challenging racism, materialism and militarism.” Highlights of the gathering, according to its website, were a “march urging Congress to reject Trump’s immoral federal budget proposal” and a “lobby day & public witness for a moral budget.”

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Vatican Insider has published a report concerning the postscript to a volume on Amoris Laetitia entitled “Amoris Laetitia: a turning point in moral theology?” The title is a dead giveaway to the book’s thesis: that the current occupant of the Chair of Peter, by the mere publication of an apostolic exhortation, has altered the Church’s constant moral teaching in some dramatic way — as if any Pope had such authority. The postscript on which the article reports demonstrates how this imaginary “turning point” is to be defended: sophistry that borders on the clownish, to which a reasonable response would be:...

Since Mother’s Day of 2004, a First Amendment religious display of wooden crosses representing the deaths of aborted children has been faithfully displayed each day during business hours outside a Wichita abortion facility. Over the years, the display withstood numerous attacks – both physical and legal. On April 28, 2017, that all changed. That’s when the City of Wichita began enforcing a new sign ordinance that prohibits stand-alone signage on the public right of ways. Mark Gietzen, Chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life, owns the cross display along with other pro-life signs that have been regularly displayed for years...

n the course of researching No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom, I learned that the late Chicago cardinal Joseph Bernardin helped pay for the education of Barack Obama in Saul Alinsky’s ruthless tactics. A forerunner to Pope Francis, Bernardin was a devious socialist who poured the faithful’s money into the pockets of the hard left. No Higher Power contained a copy of the check — a source excavated it from the archives of the archdiocese of Chicago and gave it to me — proving that Bernardin had financed Obama’s trip to a training seminar in California organized by...