Posted on 09/27/2015 6:17:24 PM PDT by xzins
He never wanted to be Pope.He just filled in till he started feeling sick.He fell on a trip in the bathroom and hit his head.The trips were too much.A writer met with him and he was going blind in one eye and now he’s using a walker.Benedict knows all but didn’t have the strength to do it.No way anyone pushed him out.Danneel who wrote this book met with him and made amends a few years ago.
You know how the song goes: The Vatican is just so mean to homosexuals, to participants in abortion even if Muffie REALLY needs that abortion for social or economic reasons and the abortionist really needs that new Lamborghini, and to divorced and re"married" folks who just cannot be bothered to get an easily available annulment of marriage #1 or 2 or 3. The "progressives" want a Church that accepts each and every sin and the consequences (and the souls in the pews) be dam*ed. Read the reader responses to articles on homosexuality or even abortion in The National "Catholic" Reporter for the agendas of SNAP, Call top Action and similar groups of termites.
I belong to a Church raised to the status of an Oratory by our previous Bishop Thomas Doran and run exclusively by a priest (two priests as of this coming weekend) of The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.All Masses and sacraments are of the Tridentine (Old Latin) rite.
When people are converting to Catholicism, there is no RCIA just sessions with the pastor as it used to be and as it ought to be.
The Catholic Faith that you seek can be found not in the chatty progressive termites who abound whenever the laity gets involved in distorting doctrine. It is found in Scripture, in great books by great men: Thomas a Kempis, St. John of the Cross, Bishop Fulton Sheen (such as his Life of Christ), Gilbert K. Chesterton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fr. Vincent Micelli, Fr. Malachi Martin, Dietrich von Hildebrand, the writings and encyclicals of solidly Catholic popes: Pope Leo XIII (esp. Rerum Novarum), Pope St. Pius X (esp. Pascendi Domenici Gregis and Lamentabile Sane both against the heresy of Modernism), Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul I, Pope St. John Paul II (books and encyclicals), and Pope Benedict XVI (books and encyclicals). If you must go through RCIA to become Catholic, books and encyclicals like those mentioned above will arm you to absolutely destroy Madame Progressive running RCIA and arm you for the rest of your life.
If you ever are in Rockford, Illinois, come to St. Mary's Oratory in downtown Rockford, directly across from the County Jail. Meet Canon Brian Bovee and he will introduce you to the kind of Catholicism that ought to be universal.
.Good luck! God bless you and yours!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless you and yours!
Yep, that’s why John chapter 14 was written.
Yet, I’ve been amazed at how few understand it.
Ann Barnhardt is a bit over-the-top and some of her language is intemperate, but there’s very little I can find in her analysis to disagree with.
These are dark days indeed.
Pope Benedict XVI is winning behind the scenes by existing quietly in the Vatican. Every day his presence reminds the modernists they yes, they are defeated intellectually and spiritually. Pope Francis probably hates having Benedict XVI in the same household.
Thus, Benedict XVI is winning by convincing Pope Francis that he is psychologically defeated. And Pope Francis looked very tired and defeated while traveling in NY and Philly.
Thank you. Thank you so much for the encouraging words, as well as for the reading list. I needed both.
I live outside of Houston, and apparently there is a cathedral that offers a Tridentine Mass on this side of town, even. The idea of attending Mass there is exciting to me!
I think I may owe Madame Progressive a thank you for pushing me to air my frustrations on FR!
You can find a Church that adheres to the Pre-Vatican II tradition. I left the Novus Ordo about 8 months ago. My new Parish is conservative and a true God send, I am so grateful to God for leading me here. I pray and think of our Lord more than ever before, He is my First thought at rising, throughout the day and my last thought before sleep.I now look forward to mass, adoration and confession. I am even attending Catechism classes again..and I am in my 50’s!! I never left the church, the church left me. But I have rediscovered it now and I pray that many others find it as well. What a Blessing!
Straw man argument.
I never stated that Francis was illegitimate for reason of Benedict still living. Celestine V governed the Church for four months, before deciding the job was too big for him (Dante placed him in the “inferno” and called him cowardly).
The fact, which you attempt to toss out from the first, is that there has NEVER been a “Pope Emeritus” sharing the office of (and possibly “advising”) the reigning Pope. To hold the title of “Pope” - notwithstanding the qualifier “Emeritus” - one must ACT in the capacity of the office of Pope. This is not the case with Benedict XVI - and no provision has ever been made for such arrangement ... Not in Church tradition, nor in Canon Law, nor in Holy Scripture.
This “Emeritus” position is yet another liberal novelty, foisted upon the Catholic word by the same “innovators” who gave us the illicit bastardize Novus Ordo Missa. It is pure Modernist bull crap all the way to the core.
In any case, if what is stated in the original premise of this thread is true, then the argument we are having is moot - because Pope Frankie’s megalomaniac papacy would be null and void - and he and his fellow Modernist conspirators would all be excommunicated from the Church.
More properly known as pederasty.
Ping me anytime for reading suggestions. I now spend most of my time on the internet and at medical appointments so I can suggest books and other things.
I don't know if you saw the movie For Greater Glory about the Catholic Cristero revolution in Mexico in the 1920s. If not, I am sure it would be available on Netflix or at movie rental stores. Andy Garcia, Lawrence O'Toole (I believe it was his final movie, and a wide cast of actors/actresses who did a magnificent job. Very Catholic movie. As the final credits roll, the background is the film of the martyrdom of Fr. Miguel Pro, SJ, shot by firing squad for saying Mass in a private home in Mexico City.
When you deal with Madame Progressive, you will be fortified by the Tridentine Mass and by good books. When you become a Catholic, you will be fortified and nourished by receiving Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the sacrament of the altar. You might talk to those at the Tridentine Church about continuing your journey to Catholicism there. It may well be simpler and quicker. The novus ordo churches up here make converts wait until Easter to be formally received into the Church unless they are in near danger of death. I regard that as ecclesiastical malpractice. All that waiting without the sacraments!
As one who is converting you might be delighted by the works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton whose parents had been Unitarians and who became a High Church Anglican himself before converting to Catholicism when he was 48 years old. Look him up on Wikipedia for a comprehensive story of his life and friendships with George Bernard Shaw (not at all one of us) and author Hillaire Belloc (also well worth reading) and a bibliography of his many books including Orthodoxy which is a good starting point. Chesterton was humorous and sarcastic and penetrating in his insight. You could spend years enjoying his prolific work. He influenced C. S. Lewis to return to Christianity but Lewis never quite followed him in swimming the Tiber as we say. Belloc wrote short books brilliantly on single topics.
Enjoy and God bless!
See #132. I attend a Tridentine only Church run by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Rockford, IL.
Yes, that is the exact term.
How sad for you and your daughter. Absolutely - I am praying for both of you.
I feel so much better than I did yesterday. For some reason, I felt locked in to RCIA (until Easter) because I thought that was just the way it was done. It had gotten to the point I felt worse after going to Church!
I feel stabilized and excited again, and am in the process of getting fortified. Not sure what the direction will be from here, but the joy of it all will not get misplaced again.
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