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[Catholic Caucus] PiusX: Francis' Persecution of Mass Produced Record YearThe 2022/2023 seminary year of PiusX has been exceptionally successful.• St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Dillwyn, USA. 28 entries: 25 Americans, 2 Canadians, 1 Brazilian.• Herz-Jesu Seminary, in Zaitzkofen, Germany. 21 entries (pictured): 9 Polish, 6 German, 1 Austrian, 1 Croatian, 1 Danish, 1 Hungarian, 1 Dutch, 1 Serbian. This is the largest entry in this seminary since its creation.• Saint-Curé d'Ars Seminary in Flavigny, France. 21 entries: 14 French, 2 Italians, 1 English, 1 Brazilian, 1 Indian, 1 Sri Lankan, 1 Swiss.• Nostra Señora Corredentora Seminary, La Reja, Argentina. 9 entries:...

Bishop Schneider: Pope’s ‘persecution’ of the Latin Mass an ‘abuse of power’ which must be resisted‘The current persecution’ against the traditional liturgy resembles the Arian persecution of the Catholic faith, said Bishop Schneider.PITTSBURGH (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider has described Pope Francis’ restrictions on the traditional Mass as a “gross abuse of the papal office” which “violate the 2,000 year tradition” of the Catholic Church.His Excellency made the comments in his prepared address to participants of the Catholic Identity Conference, organized by The Remnant in Pittsburgh over the weekend. The full recording of his talk, along with that of...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis’s Unholy Occupation of the Papacy, Fatima, and the Pressing Need for HolinessOctober 4, 2022 will mark the third anniversary of Francis’s introduction of the Pachamama idol at the Vatican. During the past three years, Francis has caused numerous other grave scandals, each of which would have been considered unthinkable prior to Vatican II:He has convoked the Synod on Synodality, which by its structure and objectives seeks to undermine the immutable nature of the Catholic Faith and set aside Christian morality;He travelled to Canada to apologize for evils the Church did not commit and be present for a...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller reveals Consistory speech on “unlimited power of the papacy,” says this view “contradicts the entire Catholic tradition” The following article is translated from an interview published on September 23, 2022 by InfoVaticana (here).German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has granted an interview to InfoVaticana. The Cardinal responded to the questions of this media without beating around the bush and entered fully into the questions raised about the recent consistory of cardinals held in Rome at the end of August and about the dramatic situation...

[Catholic Caucus] Conference to Issue Formal Declaration of Resistance to Pope Francis Catholic Conference to Declare Resistance to Globalist Agenda of Pope FrancisMINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – At 4:30PM on Saturday, October 1, a press conference will take place at the Catholic Identity Conference (CIC) in the Grand Ballroom of the Doubletree By Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Greentree (500 Mansfield Ave). Three prominent Catholic spokesmen will present articles of resistance against the Vatican and the Pontificate of Pope Francis. There will be three 5-minute interventions, each covering a different and separate aspect of formal resistance on behalf of practicing American Catholics....

China Analysts Say Vatican’s Agreement With the Chinese Communist Party Ignores Negative RealitiesPope Francis and his secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, support the deal’s renewal despite the absence of tangible benefits for the local faithful.VATICAN CITY — As the Holy See prepares to renew its provisional agreement with the People’s Republic of China, recent remarks by Pope Francis and his secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, have been criticized by China-watchers and experts as naïve and out of touch with the reality facing Catholics in China and Hong Kong. The Pope told reporters on his way back from...

Vatican Strangles Tradition-Friendly BishopPriest slams Vatican for approving prelates who bless homosexual unionsTOULON, France (ChurchMilitant.com) The Vatican has imposed draconian restrictions on a French bishop who upset Pope Francis by welcoming traditionalist Catholics into his diocese. Bp. Dominique Rey with his priests The bishop of Fréjus–Toulon, Dominique Rey, who was blocked from ordaining six deacons and four priests at the end of June, has revealed that the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops prohibited him from receiving new priests into the diocese.Henceforth, a presbyteral council, and not the bishop, would make decisions regarding the reception of new priests, Rey told 150 diocesan...

[Catholic Caucus] No Pictures, Please: Soon, We Won’t Even Be Able to Say the Words “Latin Mass”.Yesterday I attended Holy Mass in one of the “new locations” offered by the Arlington, VA Diocese for the celebration of the TLM. I have to admit that I was impressed by the redesign of the space. Formerly a school gymnasium (and not on the property of a Catholic parish), this space was, in the span of a few weeks, turned from a utilitarian hall into a somewhat proper looking “church”. It is obvious that some money had been spent installing a new wood...

Pope Francis has betrayed Cdl. Zen in his hour of greatest need(LifeSiteNews) – As Confucius said, “A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.”On Monday, September 19, 2022, the beloved and revered 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, the Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, will walk into West Kowloon Court and face trial on charges of failing to legally register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. This fund was established to provide financial assistance to those in the democracy and freedom movement who protested the CCP crackdown in Hong Kong in 2019. Zen and 5 other defendants...

[Catholic Caucus] National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage draws hundreds to DC: “Tradition cannot be cancelled! We have found the Faith, and we are not going backwards!” This past Saturday, Sept. 17, between 250 and 300 Catholics from across the country prayerfully marched five miles from the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington, VA, to the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington D.C. as part of the first-ever National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage for the Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass. The pilgrimage was organized, in a span of hardly over a month, in response to the cruel and...

Francis Brings His Unholy Globalist Routine to Kazakhstan “How many people, even today, lack ready access to vaccines! Let us be on their side, not on the side of those who have more and give less. Let us become prophetic and courageous voices of conscience.” (Address of Francis to the “VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions,” September 14, 2022 In his Angelus address from September 11, 2022, Francis warned us about the Kazakhstan trip he would soon take:“The day after tomorrow, I will leave for a three-day journey in Kazakhstan, where I will take part in...

[Catholic Caucus] Large Crowds March for Latin Mass in Washington DCAs many cities across the globe reel from the self harm of Latin Mass crackdowns, a group of Catholics in the Arlington and Washington DC took to the streets today to express their wish to see it restored. Carrying banners stating ‘What earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred’ and ‘Save the Traditional Mass’, the Summorum Pontificum event was intended to petition for ‘The Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass’. Those marching said Rosaries on their route from one suppressed church to another. Speakers at the event decried the ‘rupture’...

[Catholic Caucus] The Freshmen Seminarians of Fall 2022 in France: They're Choosing the Traditional Mass The Freshmen Seminarians of Fall 2022: The Seminarians are Choosing the Traditional MassJean-Pierre MaugendreRennaissance catholiqueSeptember 15, 2022 For the past year three Roman documents have led to converging and complementary attacks on the freedom to celebrate the traditional Roman Mass. These included, on July 16, 2021, Pope Francis' motu proprio Traditionis custodes; the August 4 response of Archbishop Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, to questions posed by Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster; and, finally, on...

Archbishop Viganò: ‘Authoritarian tyrant’ Pope Francis causing ‘incalculable’ damage in the Church'It seems obvious to me that the assessment of the intellectual dishonesty of the proponents of the recent restrictions on liturgical matters – all of whom are emissaries of Bergoglio – is inexorably negative.'(LifeSiteNews) – Editor’s note: Below follows the transcript of an interview between Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and Paix Liturgique during a conference held by the Civitas movement on August 13. The interview has been translated from Italian.Paix Liturgique (PL): Your Excellency, why, after Vatican II, is the question of the liturgy such a burning question?Archbishop...

POPE FRANCIS and HIS CHURCH PLAY an INDISPENSIBLE ROLE in WOKE TYRANNYPope Francis and the Novus Ordo Catholic Church forms a crucial arm of the insane anti-human tyranny which now grips almost the entire Western world (ie Europe, North America and Australasia). The refusal of Church authorities to mount any real opposition to the social revolution that has swept the West since the mid-1960s has left the field open for the most unhinged and anti-Christian ideologies to dominate the cultural landscape. Furthermore, those same ideologies now dominate the seminaries and much, if not the great majority, of erstwhile Catholic institutions....

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago: the Saga of a Cancelled ParishEditor’s note: the month of August has now passed since the cancellation of the Chicago ICKSP shrine by Cardinal Cupich, while the deadline looms for more cancellations in DC and Arlington in the month of Our Lady of Sorrows. On this month’s First Friday, we offer this retelling of the Shrine’s saga, to prepare the hearts of the faithful to endure yet more for their Roman Catholic birthright. Less than seven years after the faithful parishioners of the Shrine of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, run by the Institute of Christ the...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Mass of the Ages’ trilogy aims to show Francis who traditional Catholics really areOn today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, 'Mass of the Ages' director Cameron O'Hearn discusses what's coming in the third and final episode, as well as what motivated him to produce the series. (LifeSiteNews) — Cameron O’Hearn, the director of the Mass of the Ages trilogy, was kind enough to join me on today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show. The timing of Mass of the Ages could not have been better, given the huge controversy surrounding the Latin Mass since Pope Francis asked...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Roche, Synod cardinals avoid direct answers to questions on Latin Mass restrictionsThe Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments insisted the restrictions on the ancient liturgy were not his but Pope Francis’s.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The distress of faithful Catholics who love and attend the Traditional Latin Mass was brought to the attention of several high-ranking cardinals at the Vatican this weekend.Newly elevated Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, deflected the issue, insisting that the restrictions of the Latin Church’s ancient...

[Catholic Caucus] Exclusive. Brandmüller in Consistory: The Pope Wants to Shut the Cardinals’ Mouths(s.m.) The above are a few handwritten lines of the remarks that Cardinal Walter Brandmüller prepared for the consistory of August 29 and 30, which he was not allowed to deliver, published in full on this page of Settimo Cielo.The consistory saw the cardinals gathered with Pope Francis. It was behind closed doors, but above all it was broken down, at the pope’s behest, into linguistic groups, thus preventing direct dialogue among all, as did in fact happen in the now long-gone February of 2014, at the...

Cardinal Roche (Unwittingly?) Utters the Most Ironic Statement Since the Council In comments published in The Tablet, newly-minted Cardinal Arthur Roche manages to utter what may well be the most ironic statement since Vatican II:That reform [to Catholic worship since the Council] is taking place, but it’s a slow process because there are those who are dragging their feet with regard to this and not only dragging their feet but stubbornly opposing what the Church has actually decreed. That’s a very serious matter. In the end, people have to ask themselves: am I really a Catholic, or am I...