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Is Rome Minimizing Our Lady? The Crisis of Marian Devotion Why are traditional Marian titles being minimized precisely when the Church needs Our Lady more than ever? From Coredemptrix and Mediatrix to Don Bosco’s famous vision of the Two Pillars, this powerful reflection calls Catholics back to the Mother of God, and warns against a Marian minimalism that risks forgetting how profoundly Our Lady belongs to the story of our salvation. On this feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church recounts the unique role of our Lady in salvation history: the one chosen by God to...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV’s Appointed President of the ‘Academy for Life’ Opens the Door to Euthanasia Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claims that Catholics could morally assent to a law permitting assisted suicide in Italy.Speaking to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.it on September 6, he said: “From the Catholic side, it is a matter of assessing whether we will be faced with an ‘imperfect law’, to which it would nevertheless be moral to give one’s assent, in view of the fact that more permissive and libertarian laws could otherwise quickly be approved in Parliament, laws...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Appoints Communist Chinese Bishop: "Love the Party!" Today, the Vatican announced that Leo XIV approved Archbishop Andrea Ding Yang, 44, of Chongqing, China, on 28 July and that he was consecrated a bishop today.Andrea Ding Yang, born in Chongqing in 1981, was ordained a priest in 2007 after studying at the Beijing state seminary.He was chosen unilateral by the Chinese state religion on 15 April. ChinaCatholic.cn states that he “was elected bishop-designate” on that date.Beijing’s ApparatchikHe served as a formator at the National Seminary in Beijing from 2012–14, and was allowed to study at the Pontifical...

[Catholic Caucus] Gaudium et Spes: The birth of the Conciliar Church of ManThe document repeatedly praises the modern world while claiming that the Church has 'profited' from humanity, as if the Mystical Body of Christ has nothing more to teach.On September 2, Leo XIV began a new series of catecheses on Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.Following his talks on Sacrosanctum Concilium, which focused on the liturgy, Leo is signaling his intention to galvanize the faithful to the false post-conciliar religion.His audience this week delivered few surprises and followed the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Holy See Legitimizes Panentheism: A Heresy Against the Creator A new Vatican document praises panentheism, a heresy that blurs the essential distinction between Creator and creation. This seemingly subtle theological shift actually strikes at the very foundations of Creation, Original Sin, Redemption, and the necessity of Christ’s Cross. Panentheism: When God and Creation Are No Longer DistinctOn August 21, the International Theological Commission published a document entitled “Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Trinitarian God.”This document sets out the context in which theological texts have been produced at least in recent...

[Catholic Caucus] Ahead of ‘Amoris’ meeting, plans uncertain Some leaders are uncertain what to expect at an October meetingJust one month ahead of a global meeting of bishops in the Vatican on Amoris laetitia, some episcopal leaders have told The Pillar that they have not received information about what to expect or how to prepare, and are eager to learn the pope’s plans for the scope and approach to the discussion.The Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life published in July the thematic framework for an October meeting on Amoris laetitia, involving the leadership of bishops’ conferences from around the...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Proves the “Prophets of Doom” Correct: Has the Church Abandoned the Reign of Christ? The “prophets of doom” were supposed to be wrong. But what if they saw exactly where Vatican II was taking the Church? Leo XIV’s latest catechesis on Gaudium et Spes reveals a Church increasingly concerned with water, poverty, pollution and worldly peace, while the old Catholic proclamation of Christ the King has quietly disappeared.On September 2, Leo XIV began his series of catechism lessons on Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes. Oddly, he opened...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholicism’s Surrender to Maoism: Beijing Chooses Communist Bishops. Rome Says Yes. Beijing has chosen a new Catholic bishop who promoted Communist ideology, participated in Maoist political “re-education,” and dismissed reports of persecution against Catholics in his own diocese. Rome approved him anyway. The consecration of Paul Liu Honggang, argues Gaetano Masciullo, is a shocking example of what the Sino-Vatican agreement has produced: The Communist regime chooses, and Rome goes along with it.The diplomatic farce of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik has reached a new, desolate peak. Last August 31, Paul Liu Honggang was consecrated bishop of Datong. The appointment had...

[Catholic Caucus] St. Pius X: Defending Tradition Without Abandoning the Church On the feast of St. Pius X, Catholics face a familiar battle: defending the integrity of the Faith while remaining faithful to the Church and the Papacy. In an age of Modernism, TLM restrictions, and deepening divisions, the great pope's example offers a powerful lesson in truth, charity, and Catholic fidelity.On September 3, the 1962 Roman Calendar exhorts Catholics to commemorate St. Pius X, a pope whose very name has become a banner for those who believe the one true Catholic Faith must be preserved and defended in its...

[Catholic Caucus] Professor Ratzinger Criticizes the Council The following essay was published in German on July 4, 2020, by Michael Charlier at Summorum Pontificum but the topic is relevant again, so we have made it available in translation.—PAKFor all those who feel committed to the entire Catholic tradition, the Second Vatican Council is a difficult topic. On the one hand, we know that Vatican II could not have turned anything the Church has always taught upside down. On the other hand, we live in an environment where much seems to have been turned upside down—and we are told that this...

[Catholic Caucus] Spain awakens for Ceuta and not a single bishop in the squares One thousand squares filled at the same time, a forest of Spanish flags from Cibeles to the Pilar, and a single cry from north to south: “Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta defends itself.” Nothing like it had been seen since the autumn of 2017, when the separatist challenge brought a seemingly dormant nation into the streets. The Spanish people are slow to react. But when they are put in check, they react. Yesterday they did so again — alone, without their shepherds.There are images a...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider: Leo XIV’s Liturgical Catechesis Reflects Neither Reality Nor History Bishop Athanasius Schneider has criticised Pope Leo XIV’s August 26 presentation of the post-conciliar liturgical reform. He argued that the Novus Ordo does not correspond to what the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council intended.Speaking to AdVaticanum.com on September 2, Schneider also argued that non-definitive teachings of Vatican II can be amended or corrected.Conciliar Formulations Can Be CorrectedBishop Schneider referred to the Council of Florence (1431 to 1449), citing two doctrinal statements that were later discussed and corrected by the Church.One concerned Holy Orders. Florence identified the...

From Dante’s Inferno to Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly: Papal Magisterium in Support of Satire and Invective Against Popes We thank Fr. Romano Tommasi, the pen name of a theologian, for this guest article.Writers on this site often inveigh against hyper-papalism or ultramontanism, evaluated as vices. Pre- and post-Vatican II popes agree in principle and have even taught it magisterially in a way unfortunately overlooked.Like a journal editor who tears to shreds a scholar’s blood, sweat, and tears, the taskmaster’s list of errata and objections to unsubstantiated, innovative arguments can move a scholar toward self-reflection on his method and call...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican claims Mass is ‘ecological school’ in ‘climate change’ document The Vatican’s International Theological Commission said the Eucharist can lead to ‘the ecological conversion that we so urgently need to undertake as a human family,’ in a new document on Wednesday. A lengthy document published by the International Theological Commission entitled “Caring for our Common Home – A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God” refers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as an “ecological school.”In the September 2 document focusing on the environment, “ecological conversion,” and so-called “climate change,” the Theological Commission devoted an entire...

SSPX Barred from Marian Shrines While Interfaith and LGBTQ Events Are Welcomed In the last two weeks, the SSPX has been barred from two of Europe’s most famous Marian shrines: Lourdes and Mariazell. But interfaith prayer and LGBTQ-themed events have been welcomed... Who or what exactly is being protected here?The Irony of The Vatican’s Logic of Exclusion: When Those Who Defend the Blessed Virgin Mary Are Barred from Her Shrines There is a bitter irony unfurling in the Catholic Church in 2026, one that explicitly exposes the contradictions at the crux of its present institutional crisis. Within the span of...

[Catholic Caucus] China’s Patriotic Church and Leo’s Synodal Church are driving faithful Catholics underground Both are puppet institutions that serve a higher power while betraying those who want to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ.The High Priest of Hypocrisy, Leo XIV, has once again given Catholics another reason to ask who is really directing the Church in Communist China.Any observer with two eyes and one brain cell can, of course, guess the answer.On August 31, Paolo Liu Honggang was consecrated Bishop of Datong in Shanxi province. The Vatican confirmed that Leo had “appointed” Liu on August 10 after approving his...

[Catholic Caucus] The Church ‘Cannot Declare War’ on Latin Mass Devotees, Cardinal Robert Sarah Says The cardinal praised Pope Benedict’s 2007 decision to allow the faithful greater access to the Latin Mass but called Pope Francis’ 2021 decision to restrict it neither ‘sensible’ nor ‘respectful.’“We, as a Church, cannot declare war on those who devoutly attend Mass simply because they prefer one form over another; this is a shortsighted and entirely ideological stance and, therefore, neither pastoral nor Christian,” Cardinal Robert Sarah said on Aug. 27. “It is harmful and destructive to the Church.”Cardinal Sarah, the former prefect of the...

Pope Leo’s Rimini Meeting: Everyone Is Welcome, Except Traditional Catholics Pope Leo’s Rimini Meeting was presented as a celebration of friendship, dialogue, and the search for truth among peoples. But what happens when Catholics insist that Catholicism is NOT merely one path among many? Let's examine Pope Leo XIV’s Rimini address, false ecumenism, and why Traditional Catholics have no place at the modern Vatican’s “friendship circle”.Leading up to Leo XIV’s August 22, 2026 visit to the Rimini “Meeting of Friendships Among Peoples,” Vatican News provided the background for the event:“The history of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples, also known...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: ‘I hate to see them pained’: Cardinal Radcliffe on traditional CatholicsEXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe speaks to AdVaticanum about Britain’s Catholic revival, the appeal of the faith to young people, synodality, growing Dominican vocations and his sympathy for Catholics attached to the Traditional Latin MassThe first English Dominican cardinal since the convert Cardinal Philip Howard in the 17th century, and the first Englishman ever to serve as Master of the Order of Preachers, Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is a symbol of Catholicism’s resurgence in the United Kingdom after centuries of persecution. Like St John Henry Newman before him, he...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV summons world’s bishops to entrench ‘heretical’ Amoris Laetitia Pope Leo considers the highly controversial Amoris Laetitia a guiding text for the Church, elements of which many consider to be heretical.Pope Leo XIV has called upon the presidents of the world’s Episcopal Conference to meet in Rome in October in order “to examine and discuss the teachings of Amoris Laetitia and how to proclaim the Gospel to families today,” according to a report from Vatican News. Earlier this year, Pope Leo praised Amoris Laetitia as a guiding text for the Church and signaled his intention to honor...