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[Catholic Caucus] The New York Times: "Catholics Who Prefer Latin Mass Pin Hopes on a New Pope"Main excerpts below:Catholics Who Prefer Latin Mass Pin Hopes on a New Pope Ruth GrahamThe New York TimesMay 7, 2025 (page A12)About 140 people came to the Sweetest Heart of Mary church in Detroit for the Traditional Latin Mass at noon the Sunday after Easter. Incense and organ music wafted through the ornate sanctuary, built by Polish Catholics in the late 19th century. It was a beautiful sunny spring afternoon, and the lilacs by the rectory were in bloom.In the pews, however, the mood...

Mar 5 2006 3:15PM Georgian communists mark Stalin's death anniversary TBILISI. March 5 (Interfax) - A gathering to mark the anniversary of Stalin's death was held on Sunday by Georgian Communists in the Georgian town of Gori, the birthplace of Stalin. About 100 communists and members of the Dzhugashvili family, among them Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, gathered in front of the local Stalin museum, an Interfax correspondent reported. After the meeting, wreaths were laid to a monument to Stalin in the center of Gori. sd md

[Catholic Caucus] Catholics ‘heartbroken’ after Scottish bishop asks thriving traditional order to leave dioceseIt is not known publicly why Bishop McKenzie wants the double order (known also as the Sisters of the Immaculate and St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Friars of the Immaculate and St. Francis) to vacate the large property and leave the Diocese of Dunkeld.DUNDEE, Scotland (LifeSiteNews) — A thriving religious community has been asked to leave Dundee by the new Bishop of DunkeldA group of Marian Franciscans, both friars and nuns, were invited to live in the old Lawside Convent and Diocesan Centre in Dundee by Bishop...

When a historical figure passes away, it’s almost inevitable that there will be a concerted effort to paint him in a favorable light — after all, the old adage of “don’t speak ill of the dead” prevails. However, the attempt to rewrite Jimmy Carter’s legacy following his death has reached such absurd, almost Orwellian heights, as if others are trying to erase history and pretend that Carter wasn’t one of America’s most ineffective presidents. Like clockwork, media outlets have rushed to elevate his presidency, attempting to reframe his time in office as the golden age of moral leadership. The most...

Jimmy Carter's No Real Humanitarian by Gordon Smith When former President Jimmy Carter speaks to the graduates of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on May 3, the listeners might bear in mind that Carter's reputation for principled concern for the downtrodden is open to question. Carter has done some benevolent things after 1981, as ex-President. He's built homes for the poor, spoken eloquently on behalf of human rights, helped the Haitian dictator Cedras resign, and presided over the negotiations ending the Yugoslav War. While all of this is good, Carter presided over some serious war crimes in the Third World....

CNN contributor Scott Jennings said Monday on CNN’s “Newsnight” that the late President Jimmy Carter was a “terrible president” who saddled up with dictators. Jennings said, “Let me preface my take by offering condolences to the Carter family on his death. He was obviously one of the most unique post-presidents we’ve ever had because he lived so long and he did so much. That having been said, he was a terrible president. He continued, “That’s why he lost in a landslide after his one term, and if it’s possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his...

[Catholic Caucus] Kentucky bishop cites Francis in letter defending Mass for pro-LGBT groupBishop John Iffert's saying of the Mass for the dissident pro-LGBT group comes just a year after he made headlines for canceling two priests in his diocese who offer the Traditional Latin Mass.A Francis-appointed Kentucky bishop who canceled two Latin Mass priests last year is defending his decision to offer an “LGBT Mass” for a dissident organization backed by neighboring heterodox Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, who serves as its ecclesial adviser. On August 28 at St. Joseph’s Church in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Bishop John Iffert of Covington...

On Monday on CNN’s “News Central,” former German Chancellor Angela Merkel told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that President-elect Donald Trump was fascinated by dictators’ power. Amanpour asked, “I remember very distinctly when Donald Trump was first elected. You did one– You were the only one to actually welcome his election conditionally. In other words, based on the respect and the adherence to mutual values, democracy, freedom, diversity, rule of law, human rights, etc. And I just wonder whether you thought he did act in that way, and especially because you said he was clearly fascinated by the Russian president. ‘In the...

[Catholic Caucus] Dishonest Cardinal Hollerich: Roman Rite Catholics “Did Not Write” To SynodThe Roman Rite "was not a topic for discussion" at the ex-synod, Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ said at the end of the meeting, according to NcRegister.com (November 6).Cardinal Hollerich added of Catholics: "We were not against them, we were not for them."When reminded that the synod was supposed to include listening to all points of view, Cardinal Hollerich replied: "We discussed things that were raised by the people of God, and those people did not write to us."In reality, there were numerous, well-documented interventions at all stages...

[Catholic Caucus] The Deplorable Situation in Fréjus-Toulon: Coercion of Conscience and Contempt of ConstitutionsBishop Touvet’s Persecution of Traditional LiturgistsJean-Pierre MaugendreRenaissance catholiqueOctober 17, 2024At the 3rd Assises de la Tradition, held in Paris on October 12, participants were somewhat stunned to discover the latest developments in Mgr Touvet’s persecution of traditional liturgists in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.Bishop Touvet’s abuse of powerWhile some may have believed that Mgr Touvet, appointed in 2023 as Mgr Rey’s coadjutor in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, would succeed in maintaining the unity of the diocese, the facts seem to contradict these optimistic prospects. Indeed, while it is...

[Catholic Caucus] Announcing the National Latin Mass Pilgrimage- Arlington, VA to Washington, D.C.- October 5, 2024BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND- As a response to restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass announced in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia, local TLM attendees organized a pilgrimage between the main cathedral of the Diocese of Arlington (St. Thomas More) and the main cathedral of the Archdiocese of Washington (St. Matthew). This pilgrimage was wildly successful and has now become a yearly tradition. Our goal: full freedom, once again, for the Traditional Latin Mass, and an end to any and all restrictions.The pilgrimage itself is beautiful....

[Catholic Caucus] New Zealand: Transalpine Redemptorists Kicked OutBishop Michael Gielen of Christchurch, New Zealand, has forced the Transalpine Redemptorists, who celebrate the Mass in the Roman Rite (the TLM), to leave the diocese.The decree of 14 July also removes their priestly faculties within the diocese. It is effective immediately: "Any ministry [...] will be unauthorised and liturgical celebrations will be illicit - that is, outside the rules of the Church."There are wishy-washy accusations of "spiritual and psychological abuse" and "unauthorised" exorcisms against the Redemptorists.Former Bishop Robert McGuckin of Toowoomba, Australia, carried out an Apostolic Visitation in November 2023. Subsequently, the...

[Catholic Caucus] “Before the Egghead Fell Off the High Wall and Shattered into a Thousand Pieces”: Charlier on GrilloThe devotional map of the late 19th century depicts the Holy Mass as the center of the unity of the triumphant, struggling and suffering Church. As in heaven, so also on earth.If Andrea Grillo were a professor at a German theological faculty, we could confidently put his interview to one side—irrelevant drivel, like most of what is produced by theology professors. But although he would fit very well into the German environment, his position as a liturgy teacher at a papal university...

Have you ever been listening to someone talk and have déjà vu, even though you’ve never seen or heard of the person speaking, and the interview you’re watching happened just a few hours ago? I have. Once. A couple of weeks ago. I was listening to Tucker interview Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese native who lived through the Cultural Revolution in China. She eventually immigrated to the United States and has lived here for 40 years. As I was listening to her talk about how the Cultural Revolution rolled out and how she was seeing many of the same things...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop statement on The Mission of Divine Mercy

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump was not qualified to be president because he “sucks up” to dictators like Russian President Vladimir Putin. Schumer said, “Putin is a threat. Look, there’s no doubt about it. You know, I was just in Ukraine, by the way, and I saw the bravery of Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people. They are just fighting as hard as they can for a country they love. They’re beautiful.” He continued, “When Trump says Putin is not a danger to our society, that sends shivers down my...

A provision in the 2021 "infrastructure" spending package, as it turns out, includes a provision that directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to come up with a way to stop you from driving your car or truck if the government doesn't want you to. The measure is sold as a way to keep people from driving while impaired, but the implications are chilling. "A provision in the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed in 2021 directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to come up with a rule by this year requiring new...

Michigan officials are calling upon state lawmakers to enact a mandatory state registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan. Since December 2023, Michigan state officials — including Attorney General Dana Nessel, the state House and Senate Education Committee chairs, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Michael Rice — have criticized homeschooling and called for stricter government regulation and oversight over homeschooled students and their parents. The motivation for these attacks was the arrest in December of two couples in Clinton County for “allegedly abusing and financially profiting from foster and adopted children.” However, instead of focusing on the...

The former president has been accused time and again by both Democrats, such as President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, and hawkish Republicans, such as Haley, of being too friendly toward authoritarian regimes such as Russia and North Korea. The same criticism was leveled at Ronald Reagan. When Reagan decided to meet with Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, Republican Rep. Newt Gingrich slammed the president’s “weak policies” and called it “the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.” (Where else have we heard that?) Obviously, Gingrich was fantastically...

Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hinted to a U.S. delegation that he will reduce migration to the United States if liberal President Joe Biden gives more aid and support to Latin American dictators. Instead of blocking migration, “it is more efficient and more humane to invest in the development of the people,” Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said before the Wednesday meeting. “The migration issue is going to intensify” in 2024, he added.