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[Catholic Caucus] The only Mass that was ever imposed by force upon the Church is not wantedN.B. The novus Ordo is a botched product. And a failed experiment. Sure, many people attend but there are always many people who just do what everyone else is doing for a variety of reasons. Some get paid to go, parish staffs and employees for example, some go because they are getting something like Catholic grade school or high school or sacraments like Confirmation. Some think that’s all there is. (Won’t they be surprised. And many constantly are when they finally discover what it...

Female Anglican bishop ‘concelebrates’ Mass with Catholic priestsThe incident in El Salvador has been condemned by the Apostolic Nuncio as a violation of liturgical and canon law.Anglican clergywoman (2nd from left) joining Catholic priests on the altar in El SalvadorThe Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador has issued a correction after a female Anglican prelate joined Catholic clergy on the altar to concelebrate a recent Mass.On March 24, a Mass was held to mark the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. Held in the chapel of the Hospitalito La Divina Providencia, where Romero was assassinated, the Mass was...

Bishop Strickland: Novus Ordo Mass, priestly formation have led to problems in the ChurchBishop Joseph Strickland said the ‘more comfortable’ Novus Ordo Mass has shifted priests toward acting like ‘social workers’ and declared that the Latin Mass ‘will stay with us’ in a recent interview.Bishop Joseph Strickland said that the shift to the Novus Ordo Mass from the Traditional Latin Mass has led to a decline in the priesthood and called out the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for pushing bishops to “forget that they’re successors of the Apostles.” The former bishop of Tyler, Texas, who was removed...

[Catholic Caucus] Irony Alert: Postconciliar Iconoclasts Arrive at the Feast of St John Damascene and Smash ItSo much to observe about today's confluence in the Roman Rite, on this Thursday of the third week of Lent, with a commemoration of St. John Damascene.First, the ancient Roman liturgy keeps a station today at a church in honor of the physician brothers and martyrs Cosmas and Damian. Obviously the Gospel about the healing of Peter's mother-in-law fits right in; the propers also mention "salus," whose basic meaning is "health" although it takes on the supernatural meaning of "salvation."The TLM, by remembering Cosmas...

EXPOSED: Inside the anti-Catholic agenda of the parish hymn industryWho controls the 'hymnal industrial complex'? The people reaping the profits are not just business executives. They are ideologues with a mission to reshape Catholic worship. Since the 1960s, the ancient chants and beautiful hymns that once elevated the Mass have been discarded in favor of a more “modern” sound. Organs and choirs have given way to guitars, pianos, and tambourines, a shift many faithful Catholics find deeply inappropriate. Yet few realize that this transformation is not just a matter of musical preference – it is rooted in a deliberate, anti-Catholic...

[Catholic Caucus] The Pope, the Poor, “Pageantry and Prominence”When the pope warns against “pageantry and prominence,” I want to know how he will also protect against tacky and tawdry because the latter has often been the practical upshot of post-Vatican II liturgical choices.Pope Francis sent a message February 28 to participants in a course at Rome’s Anselmianum for bishops’ masters of ceremony. The message was one of those usual ones dispatched for an event of which the Holy See somehow wants to take note, either because it likes the idea or somebody involved had a friend in the Curia. According...

Cardinal tries to ban girls from being altar serversSri Lankan Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo has tried to ban girls from serving as altar servers in his archdiocese, on the grounds that the role of altar server is potentially part of the pathway to the male-only priesthood and having girls as altar servers could impact vocations. In a 22 October 2024 letter addressed to the priests of his diocese, which has since come to light, Ranjith said: “It has been brought to my knowledge that several parishes in the Archdiocese of Colombo have appointed girls as altar servers.“In this context,...

Female Anglican vicar ‘concelebrates’ Mass with new Brazilian archbishopThe recently created Archdiocese of Chapecó in Brazil admitted to an ‘inadvertent violation of liturgical norms’ by having a female Anglican cleric attempt to concelebrate Holy Mass during the installation of its new archbishop.Vivian Schwanke De Oliveira, seen wearing the blue stole, on February 9, 2025CHAPECÓ, Brazil (LifeSiteNews) — An Anglican female cleric “concelebrated” Catholic Mass in Brazil recently for the installation of the new Archbishop of Chapecó.On February 9, Archbishop Odelir José Magri was installed as new ordinary of the recently created Archbishopric of Chapecó in Brazil. Magri, appointed to the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: Compromises to the Mass are ‘extremely dangerous’ to ‘Catholic life’'The emphasis on mercy and inclusion at the expense of repentance lessens the understanding of the Mass as a holy sacrifice that requires proper preparation and reverence, and this could lead to the taking of the Eucharist unworthily,' writes Bishop Strickland. (Editorial note: The following is a letter from Bishop Strickland.)Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am writing this letter to talk to you about the Holy Mass. As St. Padre Pio said, “It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do...

[Catholic Caucus] God is allowing the passion of the Catholic Church for our sanctification'Providence has allowed this painful crisis in the Church for our sanctification and in order to give more brightness to the pure gold of its doctrine and its means of redemption,' wrote Archbishop Lefebvre in 1978, words that ring even truer today. In his letter to friends and benefactors on the Feast of St. Joseph in 1978, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wrote of the “passion” of the Catholic Church: Providence has allowed this painful crisis in the Church for our sanctification and in order to give more brightness...

Ratzinger & Tolkien on the Novus Ordo and Organic DevelopmentGetting your Trinity Audio player ready...Many of these trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nuts and acorns; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where there were singing groves. ― TreebeardJoseph Ratzinger and the Organic MetaphorDom Alcuin Reid’s monograph, The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005), represents a significant contribution to the rediscovery of the liturgical Tradition that had been obscured by the “mutation” following the replacement of the Liturgy of the Ages with...

[Catholic Caucus] Defense by Word Twisting: Mayan Rite Not a Mayan Rite, the Liturgical Dance not a Liturgical DanceThe Mexican Bishops’ Conference felt the need to justify its "Mayan Rite" in a statement last Friday. They responded to "different interpretations" which were in fact persuasive criticisms.The bishops claim that there is no Mayan rite, no ritual dances and no Mayan altars.According to them, the new Eucharist "does not constitute a new rite or a substantial change in the structure of the Roman Missal".The Mayan rite is an "optional adaptation" to the Novus Ordo.The Bishops do not want to speak of...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider tells Michael Knowles that reverence is a question of taking ‘God seriously’‘God is not something which we can treat as we like. God is God,’ the Kazakhstan bishop said of the importance of right worship.Bishop Athanasius Schneider stressed the importance of reverence toward God in a Friday interview, saying that it is a question of taking God “seriously.”The Kazakhstan bishop began by telling Daily Wire host Michael Knowles how as a child he lived under the Soviet regime and grew up in the “catacombs” of the Catholic Church, with his parents helping to organize “secret Masses.”...

[Catholic Caucus] Young Woman Kneels at Holy Communion. Priest Loses His TemperLucrezia B., 24, whose aunt is a nun, wrote to AlleatiEucarestiaEVangelo.blogspot.com to tell how she was liturgically abused in a church in the province of Messina.The priest was Don Giuseppe Mammana, 76, of the parish of San Benedetto il Moro in Acquedolci, Diocese of Patti, Sicily.After the incident, Lucrezia wrote to the bishop and received a "positive reply". The bishop expressed his regret and promised to take the necessary steps to prevent this unfortunate situation from happening again in the future. It is to be hoped that his words...

[Catholic Caucus] Swiss Bishop: "Latin Mass Has Deep Prayers, Expresses Christ's Centrality Better"Monsignor Marian Eleganti, former Auxiliary Bishop of Chur in Switzerland, gave an interview on August 14 to Kath.ch, the media portal of the Swiss bishops. Key points.- "I am very critical of the synod process. I see the danger that certain, already established agendas will determine it and control it from the beginning. This is not true listening."- "I believe that in such processes, the editors who formulate the final documents are the decisive factor - not necessarily the Holy Spirit."- "Today, the so-called 'reality of life' is...

The Spirit of Paul VI Is a False Spirit and, like All False Spirits, It Is Unconsciously CruelIn 1970, the Belgian philosopher Marcel De Corte (+1994), who taught at the University of Liège, wrote a letter to the French publisher Jean Madiran (+2013) about the Novus Ordo- "I confess that for a long time I was deceived by Paul VI. I thought he was trying to preserve the essential".- But there is no example in history of a deceiver who does not eventually expose himself.- "How dare Paul VI proclaim that there is no 'new Mass', that 'nothing has changed',...

[Catholic Caucus] Hope Lies Not in Some Future PopeI get little solace from the idea that some future pope will come along and undo the Francis papacy. Not that I don’t think it could happen. But what is the point of a religion that changes from time to time depending on who is pope?What got me to this point is the scandal of Traditionis Custodes.First, let me clarify what I mean by “scandal.” I am not talking about tabloid “scandal.” I am talking about theological “scandal,” which St. Thomas Aquinas describes as a word or action evil in itself, which...

[Catholic Caucus] Italy: Cardinal Finds an Alternative to LatinCardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians until 16 August, presided yesterday at the Eucharist in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin on the occasion of a youth synod.When he came to the Lord's Prayer, he invited everyone to pray in their own language.As a result, those present were given a vivid illustration of how the Latin Roman Rite had been replaced by a Novus Ordo Babylon.Regarding the Lord's Prayer, this chaos was exacerbated by Francis in June 2019, when he invented a falsified version of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Young Catholics aren’t ‘schismatic’ for preferring the Latin Mass to sappy Novus Ordo MassesRome - 7 September 2017 - Celebration of the Holy Mass vetus ordo, Mass in Latin, in the days of the pilgrimage Summorum Pontificum decennial(LifeSiteNews) — In Part 1 of this two part series, I discussed how young Catholics today view the Second Vatican Council. In Part 2, we shall examine how these young people experience the “fruits” of the Council and the “spirit” of Vatican II. Why is it that so many are fond of the Traditional Latin Mass? Why do so many consult...

Marcel De Corte's 1970 Letter to Jean Madiran “On the New Mass” - First Translation into English - "Paul VI is a man full of contradictions"(The following text was published in no. 140 of Itinéraires, February 1970. It was translated by Gerhard Eger for Rorate Caeli.)I must admit to you, my dear Jean Madiran, that I have been tempted more than once to leave the Catholic Church wherein I was born. If I have not done so, I give thanks to God and to the good peasant’s common sense with which he has blessed me. The Church—I murmur to myself...