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[Catholic Caucus] Young Trads: "Bishops Must Seek a New Balance" [beyond the Roman Diktat of TraditionisYoung Trads: "The bishops must seek a new balance"Op-EdChristophe Dickès - HistorianLa CroixJune 4, 2023Despite the limitations placed on the traditional rite by Pope Francis, Christophe Dickès believes that all the evidence points to the attachment of younger people to this liturgy, as evidenced by La Croix's survey of young Catholics, and invites us to allow this creative minority to hold its place in the universal Church.***In the summer of 2021, in the days following the publication of Traditionis Custodes, drastically reducing the use of...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò on Pentecost: Invoke the Spirit of Truth to Overcome Demonic Counterfeits in Church and StateHOMILYon the Solemnity of PentecostEmitte Spiritum tuum,et creabuntur,et renovabis faciem terræ.Ps 103:30What is the characteristic of Love? Its gratuitousness. Whoever loves, loves without expecting anything in return. The one who loves is happy that the Good he enjoys can be shared by the beloved. Whoever loves does not have half measures: he loves totally, without reservation. Whoever loves desires the good of the beloved and thus knows how to say no. This is true to the highest degree when Love is divine,...

Pope says religions must give a ‘solid foundation’ for UN’s pro-abortion Sustainable Development GoalsVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Recently released transcripts from a 2019 Vatican conference have highlighted the Vatican’s and Pope Francis’ personal commitment to use religions as a “solid foundation” for the U.N.’s pro-contraception Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The transcripts come as the Vatican is also issuing a fresh push to make the good of the family part of the same pro-abortion SDGs. “The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, approved by more than 190 nations in September 2015, were a great step forward for global dialogue, marking...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Fights against “Sterile Traditionalism”n a message to the May 28 Festa del Voto in Sassari - celebrated since 1943 when a vigil to Our Lady of Grace protected Sassari while other Sardinian cities were bombed - Francis mentions the Mediatrix of all graces which in December 2019 he called "foolishness."He added his inevitable buzzwords ("pastoral conversion", "spiritual renewal", "synodality") and then threw a tantrum, “Do not give in to the temptation to remain anchored in a nostalgic popular piety that consists only of external rites or in a sterile traditionalism that is rather the expression of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis, in message, invokes Mary as Mediatrix of all graces, warns against ‘sterile traditionalism’Thousands of people took part in a Marian procession in the Sardinian city of Sassari on May 28 to mark the 80th anniversary of the sparing of their city from Allied bombing during World War II. #rcbrand { width: 300px; font-size: 12px; color:rgba(45,45,45,1.00); text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px; display: block; margin: 0 auto; } #rcbrand IMG { max-width:100%; } #rcbrand A { color:rgba(45,45,45,1.00); } <p> /*Smartphones and Phablets*/ @media only screen and (max-width : 450px) { #rcbrand { width: 100%; \ } <p> } Shop:...

Put an End to the Madness!Pope Francis has to stop the madness, and until he steps in to do so the Church will continue to fracture and unravel, spiraling completely out of control.Unlike everyone else who witnessed the Holy Father taking a phone call in the middle of a General Audience in St. Peter’s Square the other day, I was not the least bit surprised. And why should I be, since I was the one who made the call? No sooner had I dialed the number than I was put immediately through to the pope, who seemed quite delighted to...

Professor Seifert: Catholic Church in ‘Terrible Danger of Complete Collapse in Many Countries’ Unless Cardinals and Bishops Speak UpCatholic philosopher Professor Josef Seifert has said he sees a “terrible danger of a complete collapse of the Catholic Church in many countries” unless cardinals speak up about a “tremendous crisis” within the Church, one he says is possibly the greatest she has ever faced.In comments following the publication of an open letter he wrote April 30 calling on all cardinals, bishops and Church leaders to stand up for the truth of Catholic teaching in the face of prevailing relativism and situational...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland Demonstrates Humility with SSPX ‘Flip Flop’It is fitting that just in time for ‘pride’ month – or pride season – if you live in Canada, that a good bishop demonstrated humility in the public forum.A couple of weeks ago Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas tweeted the following: “Schismatic movements like SSPX or Sedevacantists however well-intended are an injury to the body of Christ.”It was May 13, the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima, and I was on my way to a wedding at an SSPX Chapel when I was sent the tweet. My first reaction...

[Catholic Caucus] Humanae Vitae: have the first shots been fired in a coming war?Italy’s current birthrate is 392,598 newborns per year, a staggering 30 percent drop since 2008, unsustainably low for any country. To avert catastrophe Italy must reach 500,000 newborns annually by 2033.Ever since his “Catholics shouldn’t breed like rabbits” comment in 2015, Pope Francis has not been popularly perceived as a person sympathetic to pro-natalist policies and attitudes. But in fact, for the second year in a row, he has spoken at the “General State of the Birthrate” conference in Rome. Even more strikingly, this year he shared...

[Catholic Caucus] Record-breaking participation in upcoming Chartres pilgrimage forces organizers to closeLe Forum Catholique reports:Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, the association that organizes a large pilgrimage to Chartres every year at Pentecost, has recorded a participation rate in 2023 that has never been equaled in the past. No less than 16,000 pilgrims are preparing to travel from Paris to Chartres on May 27, 28 and 29.Neither the motu proprio Traditionis custodes, nor even the rescript published on February 21, 2023 restricting the use of the Tridentine rite to which Notre-Dame de Chrétienté is attached, are holding back the faithful. On the contrary,...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: Mary, priests, and the Eucharist are key to the battle against Satan The divine liturgy of this votive Mass in honor of Mary Most Holy, under the title of Regina Crucis, proposes to us in the Epistle the vision of the Apocalypse of the woman and the dragon, which offers this solemn celebration great and important points of reflection.The woman represents Mary Most Holy and therefore the Church, of which she is queen and mother, since she is mother of our Lord and God, head of the mystical body, and spiritual Mother of Christians, who are...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope cracked down on Latin Mass to halt ideological ‘restorationism’ Pope Francis has said he launched the latest crackdown against access to the Traditional Latin Mass because the Old Rite was being misused “in an ideological way”.The Pontiff told a group of fellow Jesuits that he authorised the “rescript” that led to the cancellation of Old Rite Masses in churches throughout the world because of the rise of ideological “restorationism”.He said he considered the movement to be a form of indietrismo, an Italian word meaning “backwardness”, which he believed agitated against the reforms of the Second Vatican Council...

[Catholic Caucus] Prominent UK priest calls Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions ‘bonkers,’ ‘shameful’‘I have never offered it, so don’t have a personal stake, but some of the best priests and lay people I know in the diocese where I work (and further afield) are absolutely devastated,’ wrote Fr. David Palmer.A Catholic priest from the United Kingdom has joined his voice to those of prominent clerics across the West in expressing his dismay and strong disapproval of Pope Francis’ heavy restrictions upon the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).“The suppression of the Latin Mass is the most bonkers thing I have seen in...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod aims to turn Church upside down so that ‘sheep become the shepherds’: SSPX Superior GeneralFr. Davide Pagliarani declared that the Synod on Synodality shows a revolutionary conception of the Catholic Church in which God reveals Himself through the ‘experience of the people of God’ rather than through Scripture and Tradition.(LifeSiteNews) — The Society of St. Pius X’s (SSPX) Superior General has highlighted “synodal revolution” intended to “profoundly transform” the Church’s structure and “above all” its faith teaching as a top priority of Pope Francis.In an interview with the SSPX’s international news outlet, Father Davide Pagliarani asserted that...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop of Detroit issues new Latin Mass restrictions in conformity with Vatican rescriptIn response to Cardinal Arthur Roche's February rescript, Abp. Allen Vigneron has asked parishes to seek alternative buildings to continue offering the Traditional Latin Mass.DETROIT (LifeSiteNews) — In response to Cardinal Arthur Roche’s February rescript, the Archbishop of Detroit has asked parishes to seek alternative buildings to continue offering the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).The Most Rev. Allen Vigneron issued new guidelines on May 5, the Feast Day of Pope St. Pius V, requesting that pastors of parishes offering the TLM find a new location for the...

[Catholic Caucus] Latin Mass to be canceled at Oklahoma parish as Vatican dispensation expiresSt. Monica Catholic Church in Edmond, a suburb of Oklahoma City, will lose its Traditional Latin Mass in June.EDMOND, Oklahoma (LifeSiteNews) — A Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City will be eliminated next month once a dispensation from the Vatican expires.St. Monica Catholic Church, located in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, is a growing, vibrant parish led by Father Stephen Hamilton that offers the TLM Monday through Friday during the school year, in addition to a once-per-month Sunday TLM.In a gut-wrenching sermon on...

[Catholic Caucus] “What is ‘indietrism’ backwardness) anyway?”—Michael Charlier Just in case you live on an island of the blessed and haven't figured out what "indietrism" is yet: it's supposed to mean something like backwardness or restorationism. With this expression, invented by himself, our holy stepfather refers to all Catholics who adhere to the Apostolic Tradition and ecclesiastical tradition even where it does not fit into his Jesuit frame -- and that is quite a lot of it.So if you, dear reader, are not visiting this website for the first time, but -- alone or with others, several times or even...

As the World Grows More Demonically Insane, the Cross of Christ Beckonsvery day in the secular realm, we find new indications that the world is almost completely insane, and the insanity increasingly has a distinctly demonic aspect to it. As demonically insane as the secular world looks now, though, it is the picture of holy sanity compared to Francis’s Synodal Church. Since Easter alone, we have the following manifestations of insane wickedness from Rome: The celebration of an Anglican ceremony in St. John LateranFrancis’s gift of relics of the True Cross to King Charles IIIThe blasphemous transgender “art” exhibit in...

OMG: Hidden Camera Catches Catholic College Prioritizing Transgender Student, Promising Shared Accommodation With Biological Girls.The O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) has released footage from a citizen journalist showing the Housing Director at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota promising “top of the list” treatment for a fake transgender student invented for the purposes of the media sting.In footage release Wednesday evening, director Zoe Chang can be seen pledging multiple preferential accomodations for a transgender student, including but not limited to:Sharing a room or floor with biologically female students;Obtaining first place on a list for their own room, due to their...

[Catholic Caucus] The dangerous 'indietrismo' of Francisco The key is in the fetish word of the last council: “aggiornamento”, updating, updating. The Church, an institution that is not of this world but is in this world, is called to maintain its perennial doctrine, the eternal message of Christ, valid for all times, while studying the spirit of each age to adapt the form of the message so that it reaches the world effectively.That balancing act is risky, and there is always the danger of, as the Anglo saying goes, throwing the child out with the dirty bath water.What we see...