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[chajin]

Eighty percent of Catholics under the age of fifty no longer believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Perhaps they should become Lutherans; we still believe in the Real Presence...

(just kidding, though if one were a Catholic and had to choose between people being a Catholic and not believing in the Presence and people being a Lutheran and believing in the Presence, it would not be a easy choice, I think)

[jtal]

We are witnessing the fulfillment of the terrible vision of Leo XIII (of happy memory) which prompted him to require the “Leonine” prayers in order to stave it off; this succeeded for nearly a century.

Paul VI promptly suppressed them and look where we are now after only a generation.

You are quite right this is a day for mourning and penance not celebration.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>Communist Anti-Pope Francis: Jesus’ famous remark, “Do not make My Father’s house a marketplace!”

That’s not what Jesus said. He called it “a den of thieves”. They were gouging the faithful who needed to buy sacrifices.

I don’t see a problem with vernacular, as long as it is theologically sound and well done, which I take it is neither. Not being Catholic I wouldn’t know for sure.

But removing the bit about “the perfidious Jew” has to count for something positive.

[piusv]

And yet today Pope Francis celebrates with great enthusiasm the anniversary of the introduction of Pope Paul VI’s infamous Novus Ordo Missae—a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product that has driven millions from the bosom of Holy Mother Church and left the rest of us to feast on stones and hunger for bread.

Paul VI: soon to be yet another "saint" of the Vatican II church.