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[Catholic Caucus] Louisiana bishop defends Latin Mass, says restricting it would be ‘grossly negligent’Bishop Glen Provost of Lake Charles issued his official response to the Pope’s July motu proprio against the Latin Mass.LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Glen Provost of the Diocese of Lake Charles said it would be “grossly negligent if not callous” to impose any “restrictive law” on the Latin Mass.Pope Francis’ July 16 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes implemented sweeping restrictions on the celebration of the traditional liturgy, or Latin Mass, and declared the novus ordo to be “the unique expression of the lex orandi of the...

Pope Demands Silicon Valley “In the Name of God” Censor “Hate Speech,” “Conspiracy Theories”Pope Francis thinks empowering giant corporations to silence free speech is Godly.Pope Francis invoked God in an effort to pressure Silicon Valley giants into censoring more content, including “hate speech” and “conspiracy theories.”Yes, really.The Pope made the remarks during a World Meeting of Popular Movements, a shadowy organization created to promote “social justice” and fight racism with the help of religious leaders.“In the name of God, I ask the technology giants to stop exploiting human weakness, people’s vulnerability, for the sake of profits without caring about the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinals Respond to Traditiones Custodes by Consecrating Priests in Immemorial Mass of All Ages Cardinal Müller ordained a monk from Le Barroux as a priest in the traditional rite.[katholisches] Two well-known cardinals have offered the priestly ordination in the Immemorial Mass of All Ages during these months. Cardinal George Pell consecrated two Benedictines from Nursia and Cardinal Gerhard Müller one Benedictine from Le Barroux. Both consecrations are a signal to want to defend the Rite and the communities associated with it against the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes. A new website also provides up-to-date information on the effects...

[Catholic Caucus] Athanasius Schneider Pontifical High Mass in Detroit There's no real theme to today's post, just some random smattering of thoughts I put together after returning from Detroit:Today the great Bishop Athanasius Schneider said Mass in Detroit as part of the Call to Holiness event put on by Assumption Grotto. If the name Assumption Grotto sounds familiar, this is the parish of traditional priest Fr. Eduard Perrone of the Archdiocese of Detroit. Some years ago Fr. Perrone was accused of sex abuse and suspended from ministry. Fr. Perrone fought back, however, and was successfully able to demonstrate that...

Swiss Guard calls Vatican vax mandate ‘scandalous, inhumane’ after being ousted over jab refusal'What we are experiencing has nothing human let alone Christian about it, and it is truly intolerable to see the holy Vatican City come to this point!'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A member of the Swiss Guard who lost his job after refusing an abortion-tainted COVID-19 injection penned an open letter to Vatican officials on October 8 slamming them over their anti-Catholic vaccine mandates. “How many of my dear colleagues have unfortunately succumbed to a medical treatment to which they did not give full consent, compelled by force,...

[Catholic Caucus] Press Review: “Traditionis Custodes” in the Context of the Current Crisis (2) There have been many comments and analyses of the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes this summer. All place the decision taken by Francis to limit the celebration of the traditional Mass as much as possible in the context of the crisis which is currently shaking the Church, but with very different perspectives.On August 6, there appeared on the Correspondance européenne site, under the pen of Cristiana de Magistris, an article which sees in Traditionis Custodes the act of a weak power: “the document does not appear...

NOPE: The Pope Calls on Big Tech to Censor More OnlineIn a discussion about equality, Pope Francis called for more censorship online. Pope Francis was discussing how the public views him as a “pest” for defending the poor."Thinking about these situations (of exclusion and inequality), I make a pest of myself with my questions. And I go on asking. And I ask everyone in the name of God," the pope said from the Vatican while participating in the World Meeting of Popular Movements online.He then discussed social media and “hate speech” online, calling on Big Tech platforms to take an...

[Catholic Caucus] Schneider: Ideologist Francis Accuses Others of "Ideology," Wants "Another Faith"In Communism, news presented exclusively Communist ideology, Bishop Schneider told CrisisMagazine.com (October 8), while in this "so-called pandemic time," official news is "all the same from morning to evening, continuously brainwashing the people."Schneider reminds that in democratic societies, it's legitimate to doubt the official narrative while in Soviet times, dissenters were labelled “enemies of the people” and in Covid propaganda they are called “enemies of health” or “enemies of the neighbour.”“We are living in a society of lies, and this is communism — substantially, intrinsically a system of lies,”...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican on the verge of closing down traditional Carmelite monastery in PhiladelphiaThe order has a long history in the archdiocese, but all indications point to Rome uprooting traditional orders. Mass at the Carmelite Monastery of PhiladelphiaAccording to several sources, the Vatican is attempting to shut down the Carmelite monastery in Philadelphia that had been the cradle of devotion to St. Therese of Lisieux in the early 20th century. Collaborating with Archdiocese of Philadelphia Auxiliary Michael Fitzgerald, Rome has now discouraged younger traditional nuns who had moved into the monastery from staying to help some of the elderly nuns,...

Archbishop Roche: Vatican II’s reform of the Mass is ‘irreversible’In his first public lecture as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche left no doubt as to the direction the congregation will take under his leadership. He did so by quoting Pope Francis’ words, referring to the reform of the liturgy approved by the Second Vatican Council: “We can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible.”The English-born archbishop, whom Pope Francis appointed to succeed Cardinal Robert Sarah as prefect of this congregation on May 27,...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider tells Steve Bannon the Latin Mass is ‘stronger’ than Pope Francis: ‘It will win’The Pope's 'limitations are really short lived – they will collapse. Because the truth and the beauty of the prayer of the Church of all ages is [are] so powerful and so beautiful. This is the demonstration that the Church is in the hands of God.' Discussing Pope Francis’ new motu proprio Traditionis Custodes that aims at abrogating this Mass, the Kazakh bishop stated, “The traditional Mass is stronger than Pope Francis … it will win.” In an EWTN interview aired October 7,...

Reflecting on Traditionis Custodes on the 50th Anniversary of the English IndultThis twelfth edition of Greogius Magnus is dominated by two contrasting, indeed dissonant, themes. One is Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter, given Motu Proprio, Traditionis Custodes: a number of reactions to this have been included here. The other is the 50th Anniversary of the English Indult, which was signed by Pope Paul VI on 30th October 1971. It would be useless to deny that Traditionis Custodes is a serious blow to our movement. While many bishops around the world have indicated that they will not restrict the celebration of the...

Schneider: Liturgical Reform Pushes God Out of the MassSchneider: Liturgical Reform Pushes God Out of the MassThe Catholic Mass. Bishop Athanasius Schneider will publish the English interview book "The Catholic Mass" next January with Sophia Press. It was written in collaboration with the Italian church musician Aurelio Porfiri, is divided into 12 chapters, and explains the Mass. The book can be pre-ordered now. Schneider gave several interviews about the book in the USA last week.Mass is focused on ManPutting God Aside. Speaking to EWTN, Schneider said readers of the book should recognise the beauty and richness of the Mass and...

[Catholic Caucus] Hermit priest doubles down on claim that Pope’s plans will ‘destroy’ contemplative ordersAn Apostolic Visitation confirmed the Franciscan chaplain 'was 100% correct in my assessment' that Rome is doing all it can to modernize traditional communities of nuns. Father Maximilian Mary Dean, the former Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate who now is the chaplain to the traditional Carmelite nuns in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, has once more spoken up. After his initial interview with LifeSite’s Jim Hale published last week, there were many comments on what he said about the general intention of Rome – namely to destroy the traditional...

Ethnic Diversity and the Latin MassIn a recent article in the Illinois Times, Massimo Faggioli, a theology professor at Villanova University in Philadelphia, is quoted as follows, of a specific Traditional Mass location:It’s not an accident that all of these Catholics at the old Mass are white, because one of the things that happened after Vatican II was an ‘inculturation’ of the liturgy. …The Latin Mass is white and European by its definition, because it’s a product of the Catholic Church of the 16th century. So, this is creating serious problems because it is never limited to the liturgy only,...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope urges Church to leave behind "outworn pastoral models"Francis officially launches two-year consultation of the world's Catholics leading up to the next assembly of the Synod of Bishops Pope Francis during the opening Mass of the Synod, Sunday, October 10 in St. Peter's Basilica.Pope Francis has launched a two-year consultation of all the world's Catholics, an ambitious project to prepare the agenda for the next meeting of the Synod of Bishops in 2023."In these days, Jesus calls us, as he did the rich man in the Gospel, to empty ourselves, to free ourselves from all that is worldly,...

Without the Holy Spirit, there can’t be a synod, says PopeIn opening marks, the Holy Father recalled that the 2-year event is not an opinion survey, but will have the Spirit as protagonist.To open the Synod on Synodality on October 9, Pope Francis identified three risks that could impede the process, instead inviting the Church, “Let us live this Synod with the spirit of prayer for his disciples that Jesus raised to the Father with such fervor: ‘That they may be one …'”Departing from his prepared text, the Pope immediately insisted that the Synod “is not a Parliament, it’s not...

Hapless Francis Wants to Make "This Church Different”“We must make this Church different. This is the challenge, for a different Church open to new elements,” Francis said at the October 9 opening of the Synodal Synods on Synodality.Contradicting Christ (“the world hates you and hated me first”, John 15), he came up with the idea that “the Church needs more friendship with the world.” Francis paraphrased “the risks” with his usual empty buzzwords: “formalism,” “intellectualism,” “the temptation of complacency.”Luxembourg Cardinal Hollerich, the synod’s relator general, confessed that he had “no idea” what kind of work instrument he will be writing,...

BOMBSHELL—New internal CDF information shows Pope Francis flagrantly lying about bishops’ TLM survey The full transcript of Diane Montagna's revelatory lecture at the Catholic Identity Conference 2021, held in Pittsburgh this past weekend, has just been published at The Remnant, enriched with additional material. "Traditionis Custodes: Separating Fact from Fiction" includes extensive quotations from the internal CDF document in which the bishops who responded predominantly spoke favorably of Summorum Pontificum and the TLM in their dioceses (some even requested help with establishing the Mass). It also includes inside information about the crooked path by which Traditionis Custodes was pre-designed,...

TRADITIONIS CUSTODES: Separating Fact from FictionWhen, on July 16, 2021, Pope Francis promulgated Traditionis Custodes, restricting the traditional Latin Mass, he said that according to the results of a recent Vatican consultation of bishops, the norms of his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, had been exploited by some who attend the traditional Latin Mass to sow dissent from the Second Vatican Council. In the apostolic letter, Pope Francis writes in regard to the survey of bishops:“In line with the initiative of my Venerable Predecessor Benedict XVI to invite the bishops to assess the application of the...