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[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] The Interdiction on "Communicatio in Sacris" Before the Second Vatican CouncilIn practice, we can hardly say that we recognize the same church, the same religion. Inspired by Saint Augustine, the erudite classicist Aram Frenkian (1898–1964) formulated an extremely important question in one of his studies: “Is perfection at the beginning or at the end?” A rhetorical question, of course, as the answer from the African Doctor indicates the perfection of knowledge at the origins, before Adam and Eve committed the “original sin.” Similarly, for classical Catholic thinkers, things have always been the same: the apostolic Church was that...

“Anglican Eucharist” in Roman Basilica: False Ecumenism on DisplayToday in Rome, Justin Welby, the Anglican “Archbishop” of Canterbury (more accurately, arch-layman, since Anglican Orders are null and void) was allowed to celebrate what Vatican News called “a sung Anglican Eucharist” in the Basilica of St. Bartholomew (the titular church of none other than Cardinal Blase Cupich). Michael Haynes, senior Rome correspondent for LifeSiteNews, reported that Welby thanked “Pope Francis especially for having granted permission for the service.”This “Anglican Eucharist,” reminiscent of the one which took place last April in the Basilica of St. John Lateran (the Pope’s cathedral church), was...

Müller: Francis’ Church More Divided Than EverFrancis' homosexual propaganda piece "Sodoma Supplicans" is a "failed project" and needs to be rewritten in a clear, Catholic way, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told Raymond Arroyo, EWTN.com (25 January video, below).Christ and his cross are the ways of salvation and "not just a good will" or "the Freemasons who talk about brotherhood."There is no salvation "without commitment, without conversion, without changing one's life and without imitating Jesus Christ", he stated.The Cardinal observes that the Church is "more divided than ever" because of the text Sodoma Supplicans and that the African bishops will be leading...

An Enemy Has Done This: Globalism, the Conciliar Church, and Crippled Consciences“There is only one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one can be saved.” (Innocent III and the Fourth Ecumenical Council of the Lateran, 1215) In his 1968 book about the aftermath of Vatican II, Is it the Same Church?, Frank Sheed described the way in which Catholic views on contraception changed in the 1960s:“Up to, say, 1960 it was assumed by everyone, inside the Church and outside, that the Church taught definitively and unchangeably that artificial contraception was a grave sin. Catholics who used it...

Pope invites Christians to join together in witnessing the GospelThanking God for ever-greater ecumenism, Pope Francis encourages Christians to work together, in a telegram to a synod gathering of Waldensians and Methodists, taking place this week in northern Italy.By Deborah Castellano LubovPope Francis has called upon fellow Christians to bear witness to the Gospel together.He did so in a telegram sent on his behalf, by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to the Synod of the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches, taking place this week in northern Italy.The telegram began by expressing the Pope's delight to greet the...

[Catholic Caucus] If We Love God and His Church, We Must Repudiate False Ecumenism Those who love the true Catholic Faith know firsthand how lost we would be without it. Through the Catholic Church we have the salutary truths entrusted to it by Our Lord and the Sacraments He instituted. Nothing is more precious than this gift of the Faith that God has given us, and if we truly love another person we would want them to have the same gift. Prior to Vatican II, the popes consistently emphasized the unique role of the Catholic Church in propagating the truths...

Pope: The Holy Spirit is our guide on the path to Christian UnityPope Francis receives members of the International Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Disciples of Christ. Christian unity, he notes, is achieved by walking and praying together and with works of charity. By Michele RaviartThe Holy Spirit is the "memory and guide who opens new and unforeseen trails where we thought that the way was closed or cut off". This was reiterated by Pope Francis who received members of the International Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Disciples of Christ in audience.The...

How Have Vatican II’s Ecumenical Wagers Against the Blessed Virgin Mary Panned Out?“I am campaigning, AS MUCH AS I CAN, against a consecration of the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, because I can see the danger that a move in this direction would constitute.” (Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, entry for September 17, 1964) What, in Yves Congar’s eyes, was so dangerous about consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary? As we can discern from the devastation he expressed following Paul VI’s declaration of the Blessed Virgin Mary as “Mater Ecclesiae” (Mother of the...

Vatican praises atheistic Buddhist ‘compassion’ as ‘antidote to the global crises’A message from the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue promoted Buddhist philosophy on suffering and equated Buddhist thought with Christianity.The Vatican has written to Buddhists to commemorate a pivotal holiday in the Buddhist tradition, praising its form of “compassion” despite scholars warning that Buddhism is firmly opposed to the tenets of Christianity.On April 21, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message to mark the Buddhist “feast of Varek,” which, as the Vatican body noted, “commemorates the major events in Buddha’s life.”Entitled “Buddhists and Christians: Healing Wounded Humanity and the Earth...

Listening to the West – Synodality according to Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, Methodists and Old Catholics TraditionsFollowing the two conferences, “Listening to the East”, on synodality in the Orthodox Church and in the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the first conference “Listening to the West,” on synodality according to Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, Methodists and Old Catholics, was held at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The initiative, organized by the Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Angelicum, took place under the patronage of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and the General Secretariat of the Synod.More than fourty theologians and...

To Deny One Dogma Is to Separate Yourself from Christ Can a Catholic Deny Just One Dogma and Remain a Catholic?In the past we considered that dogmas do not evolve, as well as the truth that Catholics must believe more than only infallible dogmatic proclamations. A similar question arises when someone asks what the consequence is for denying just one of the Church’s dogmas. What would happen to someone who absolutely refuses to believe that God created the world out of nothing; that the souls of the blessed in Heaven possess the Beatific Vision; that the Holy Eucharist is the...

The Synod on Synodality has been strongly criticized by the late Cardinal Pell, who said it ‘has neglected, indeed downgraded the Transcendent.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The next key stage of the Synod on Synodality will be preceded by an “Ecumenical Prayer Vigil,” Pope Francis has announced, which is aimed to further the “path to Christian unity and the path of synodal conversion of the Church.” Speaking to those assembled in St. Peter’s Square after the Sunday Angelus January 15, Pope Francis announced the ecumenical event which will take place on September 30. The 86-year-old Pontiff stated: The path to Christian...

Showing Gratitude for Our Savior as the World Desperately Seeks in Vain for Another“And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people. For this day is born to you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David.” (Luke 2: 10-11)The angel announced “good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people,” and yet the angels ended their heavenly message with reference to a narrower subset of people to whom the blessings of peace would apply:“Glory to God...

Blessed Dom Marmion on Catholics, Protestants, and the Worsening Crisis in the Churchopes Benedict XV and Pius XII praised the works of Blessed Dom Columba Marmion (1858-1923) for their holiness and wisdom, and few other writers living in the past 100 years have offered anything as spiritually nourishing as the books of the Abbot of Maredsous Abbey. His Christ: The Ideal of the Monk (1922) is no exception — his great love for God and the Faith shines forth from every page — but it is the book’s description of the differences between Catholics and Protestants that deserves particular attention...

Archbishop Who Forbids Cassock, Shows Up with YarmulkeToulouse Archbishop Guy de Kerimel, France, has been seen wearing a Jewish yarmulke on the square of his cathedral (Medias-Press.info, December 1).He was accompanied by Albi Archbishop Jean Mary Legrez, and Haïm Korsia, Chief Rabbi of France. The occasion for the performance is unknown.Kerimel is known for persecuting the Mass, forbidding his seminarians to wear a cassock, and playing ball during his induction eucharist in Toulouse.#newsTzrujujfwb

Why We Can’t All Get Along: The Myth of Accord Between Catholicism and False Ecumenism“Sir, you and I are not one in religion. Wherefore I pray you content yourself. I bar none of prayer; only I desire them of the household of faith to pray with me, and in my agony to say one Creed.” — St. Edmund CampionSt. Edmund Campion and his fellow English Martyrs willingly suffered torture and gruesome death rather than compromise their Catholic Faith. In many instances, their executioners offered to spare them if they “merely” abandoned the Catholic Faith in favor of the Anglican religion....

“Baptism and Growth in Communion”The Fifth Phase of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity (2008-2019) has now come to its official conclusion with the completion of the document Baptism and Growth in Communion.In a joint preamble, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) state that Baptism and Growth in Communion “includes important pneumatological impulses for ongoing theological and ecclesiological discussion. It makes a significant step in proposing a differentiating consensus on baptism.”At the same time, the preamble mentions still different views when it continues: Baptism and Growth in Communion “was studied and received...

Vatican II in Light of Tradition? Traditional Catholics are often told that we ought not to reject the Second Vatican Council, but merely reject the “Spirit of Vatican II,” which is showcased by clown masses, communion in the hand, Fr. James Martin, SJ, etc. In other words, reject the implementation of the council, but don’t reject the council itself. People will quote bits and pieces from the council that can sound more conservative, and try giving the impression that Vatican II isn’t so bad after all. This is known as reading Vatican II in light of tradition, or using...

It is Time to End the So-Called “Irreversible” Ecumenical Damage Common Ecumenical Prayer (Lund, Sweden, 2016) (Vatican Media)Among many other disturbing statements in the Roche/Francis Responsa ad Dubia, we find a reference to the so-called “irreversible” nature of liturgical reform:“When Pope Francis (Address to the participants in the 68th National Liturgical Week, Rome, 24 August 2017) reminds us that ‘after this magisterium, after this long journey, We can affirm with certainty and with magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible’ he wants to point us to the only direction in which we are joyfully called to turn our...

The Predictably Putrid Fruits of Francis’s Ecumenism A Pew Research Center survey of 6,485 U.S. adults from September 20-26, 2021 (Few Americans Blame God or Say Faith Has Been Shaken Amid Pandemic, Other Tragedies) yielded further evidence that the fruits of Vatican II’s ecumenical experiment have been putrid. The headline findings from the survey included the following:Catholics twice as likely as Protestants to say people who don’t believe in God can go to heaven Most Catholics, but not most Protestants, say some non-Christian religions can lead to eternal lifeDetails of the survey indicate that only 16% of Catholics surveyed...