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An Interview With Aldo Maria Valli Look at who is working for the self-destruction of the Church Aldo Maria Valli is one of the Italian journalists who helped publish the testimony of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in August 2018. While an epochal clash is unfolding between the traditionalist and progressivist wings of the Church, Aldo Maria Valli, former Vatican journalist for RAI (Italian national public broadcasting), has recently published a book, L'ultima battaglia (Fede & Cultura) [The Final Battle], which is both a dystopian novel as well as a disturbing photograph of the present situation in the Vatican. Dear friends of Duc in...

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope What Do We Mean by the Word “Mystery?” In the secular world, a “mystery” is something that baffles or eludes understanding, something that lies undisclosed. And the usual attitude of the world toward mystery is to solve it, get to the bottom of, or uncover it. Mysteries must be overcome! The riddle, or “who-done-it” must be solved!In the Christian and especially the Catholic world, “mystery” is something a bit different. Here, mystery refers to the fact that there are hidden dimensions in things, people, and situations that extend...

I explore Surah 74 from The Koran, and try to account for the malleability of a book which Muslims believe is eternal.

[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] Fr. Jan Kobylowicz: Living Martyr of the Confessional Seal The sacrament of Confession has been under attack in Australia since the conclusion of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in December of 2017. Several states have now passed legislation that requires Catholic priests to violate the confessional seal in cases where child sexual abuse is revealed in confession. The Queensland Labor government has announced its intention to table a similar bill in the coming weeks, making it the latest Australian state to openly attack the Catholic Church and her sacraments by use of the...

U.S. Bishops’ Conference Sued for Lying and Stealing Peter's Pence donors invited to join lawsuit PROVIDENCE, R.I. (ChurchMilitant.com) - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is being sued for obtaining millions of dollars in charitable donations under false pretenses and privately investing that money into ventures such as luxury condominium developments and Hollywood movies.  Texas-based legal firm the Stanley Law Group filed a class-action lawsuit against the USCCB on Wednesday, alleging the organization fraudulently promotes Peter's Pence as a papal charity when recent reports show as little as 10% of donations are used for its stated purpose.  The lawsuit against the USCCB touches...

Pope Francis’ favored interviewer casts Cdl Sarah as leading ‘opposition’ campaign Is the new ‘interview’ a further example of Pope Francis’s parallel press office? ROME, January 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Eugenio Scalfari’s latest “interview” with Pope Francis, which came out at the height of the recent Benedict XVI-Cardinal Sarah book controversy, was a “loose reconstruction” of the Italian journalist’s recollection of the meeting, the Vatican has said. In the January 16 “interview,” published in the left-leaning Italian daily La Repubblica, 95-year-old Scalfari, who is regarded as Francis’s preferred interviewer, portrayed “From the Depths of Our Hearts” as an opposition...

Lutheran minister: Pope Francis told me Protestants and Catholics are ‘very close’ in how we ‘worship’ Pope Francis has signaled prior to this that Protestants should be able to receive Holy Communion with Catholics. January 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – On January 10, Pope Francis granted a private audience to Reverend Michael Jonas, pastor of the Lutheran Evangelical Community in Rome. In a subsequent interview with the official website of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), evangelisch.de, Jonas reports on his conversation with the Pope, saying that the Pope “stressed” that “Catholics and Protestants are very close to one another...

I explore Surah 72, and explain how Islam is not a monotheistic religion so much as a patchwork of beliefs derived from pre-existing Arab pagan beliefs.

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope I Did Not Know Him. A Meditation on a Saying By St. John the Baptist In Sunday’s Gospel (John 1:29ff) John the Baptist speaks of Jesus, calling him superior, pre-existent, and anointed by the Holy Spirit. But what also stands out is that twice he says, “I did not know him.” This seems odd given that they were cousins. While it is possible that the text merely means they were not well acquainted, it is likely the text means something more, something deeper. It is as if he is saying,...

[Barf Alert] Pope urges bishops to teach discernment, including on political issues Pope Francis meets with U.S. bishops from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican Jan. 20, 2020. The bishops were making their "ad limina" visits to report on the status of their dioceses to the pope and Vatican officials. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) ROME - Sometimes the political choices people face can seem like a choice between supporting a “snake” or supporting a “dragon,” but Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops their job is to step back from partisan politics and...

Munich Resistance: German Catholics Must Stop Paying Church Tax Traditionalists rally a 'terrible army with banners' to combat synodal path MUNICH (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholics protesting in Munich are accusing the German Bishops' Conference of deploying their multi-billion-euro income from the state-imposed "Church tax" to subvert traditional Catholicism in Germany and across the globe.  At a silent prayer rally in the center of the Bavarian city on Saturday, an international coalition of more than 130 prominent lay Catholics called on the German bishops to end the "dissimulation and deception" being introduced into the worldwide Catholic Church by the Trojan horse of the so-called "synodal path." Critics say the two-year German "synodal path," which began on...

There Is Already A Schism: Two Religions In One Church There is already a practical, but not yet formal schism in the Church, said Italian historian Professor Roberto de Mattei.Talking at the January 18 "Acies Ordinata" presser in Munich (English video here), De Mattei stated that "there are two different religions within the same Church."He distinguished between the religion of the German bishops around Cardinal Marx on one side, and the Catholic religion on the other side.De Mattei stressed that Francis has also to decide whether he wants to be the Vicar of Christ or "the head of the German-Amazonic...

Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope Dr. Martin Luther King’s Refutation of Atheistic Materialism I am reposting this article since we are discussing it on EWTN’s Morning Glory radio show. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we commemorate today, is best known as a civil rights leader who worked to end racial injustice, but he had other things to say as he preached each Sunday, first in his own assembly and later as he spoke around the country.Among his recorded sermons is one in which Dr. King addressed the problem of unbelief, of...

U.S. Bishops’ Immigration Chief Says Jesus Was Part of a ‘Refugee Family’ The chairman of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration said Jesus Christ was the member of a refugee family, while applauding a judge’s block of President Trump’s executive order on refugee resettlement.

I explore Surah 69, The Sure Calamity, and examine how Islam distorts key aspects of the End Times, including the great tribulation, and role of Christ in judgment.

Marco Tosatti: A Review With Excerpts of From The Depths of Our Hearts Read excerpts yourself to decide who wrote the book Dear friends and enemies, trolls, infiltrators, disturbers and those who sing the company line [for Bergoglio], this morning "from the depths of my cold" I found a gift in my mailbox: From the Depths of Our Hearts — a copy of the new book by Benedict XVI and Cdl. Sarah — yes, the book written by both of them.  Controversy has erupted over the joint authorship of From the Depths of Our Hearts A rapid reading of the introduction and conclusion (co-authored by the two) and...

The Prisoner of the Vatican In one of his last speeches before abdicating in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI decried the liberalism that had seeped into the Church after Vatican II. To this liberalism, he traced “so many problems, so much misery, in reality: seminaries closed, convents closed, the liturgy was trivialized.” But he then proceeded to hand the Church to the very liberals responsible for these problems and to a successor set upon liberalizing the Church even more.Not long after assuming power, Jorge Bergoglio took a veiled swipe at his predecessor. He told an interviewer that Vatican II had encouraged...

44 profs at Catholic university demand school apologize for screening pro-life film Unplanned The school's principal responded by saying the college 'does not have an official position on abortion.' LONDON, Ontario, January 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Forty-four faculty members from a Catholic university in Canada have demanded the school apologize for allowing campus ministry to show the wildly successful pro-life film “Unplanned.” “Unplanned” is a movie about the life of former Texas Planned Parenthood center manager Abby Johnson and recounts how she quit her job in 2009 after having a conversion and renouncing abortion. Its debut across Canada, as...

Posted on January 18, 2020January 18, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope What is a Prophet? – A Homily for the Second Sunday of the Year The first reading today from Isaiah 49:3-6 speaks of some of the qualities of a prophet. Since, by our baptism we are called to be prophets, we do well to look at these qualities and seek to imitate them. Since it is also the national observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I will also supply some quotes from him that help to illustrate the qualities taught by Isaiah. As a pastor of a...

Bishop: Amazon Synod final doc will be ‘mockery of our faith,’ pope should destroy it 'Let's hope that Pope Francis will destroy the final document,' Dutch bishop Robert Mutsaerts declared, 'but hopes are truly slim. Lord, have mercy.' January 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — “Let’s hope that Pope Francis will destroy the final document, but hopes are truly slim. Lord, have mercy.” With these words, the Dutch bishop Robert Mutsaerts voiced his concern over the Amazon Synod. Its final document () is steeped with cultural relativism, calls for revolutionizing priesthood and suggestions to introduce “Amazonian” elements into the Catholic liturgy....