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[Catholic Caucus] Prominent priest says we need to ‘save the papacy’ after Francis deposes conservative bishop‘To save the papacy we must save the primacy of law in the Church’ said Rev. Santiago Martín, founder of the Franciscans of Mary. MADRID (LifeSiteNews) — A prominent Spanish priest is calling for renewed respect for Church law to “save the papacy” from distortion, after Pope Francis’s sudden dismissal of a bishop in Puerto Rico and amid the unchecked dissidence of the German “Synodal Path.”In a March 11 video titled “Save the Papacy,” Rev. Santiago Martín denounced a growing lawlessness in the Church that...

Nephew of late Argentine cardinal accuses Pope Francis of covering up homosexual abuseThere are known cases of priests who displayed such behavior and could always rely on Bergoglio’s discreet protection.’Fri Jan 14, 2022 - 5:30 pm ESTFri Jan 14, 2022 - 6:18 pm EST BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (LifeSiteNews) – The nephew of Pope Francis’ predecessor as archbishop of Buenos Aires accused the pope of covering up homosexual clerical abuse in a recent interview and blasted Francis for the leadership style “of a despot.”Speaking with Gloria.tv, Dr. José Arturo Quarracino, a teacher and nephew of the late Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, said...

Pope Francis Writes to New Ways Ministry: “Thank You for Your Neighborly Work”"News broke yesterday that Pope Francis has been in correspondence with New Ways Ministry this past year, thanking the group for its work and affirming its co-founder.According to the National Catholic Reporter:“In two letters to New Ways Ministry this year, Pope Francis commended the organization for its outreach to the LGBTQ community and referred to one of its co-founders, Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick, as ‘a valiant woman’ who had suffered much for her ministry.“Written in Spanish on official Vatican stationary, Francis’ letters mention that the pope is aware...

[Catholic Caucus] For the record: highlights from an Interview by La Verità newspaper to Aldo Maria Valli re: the Pope’s illness, rumours of a conclave and the war against the Old Mass The interview was conducted by Alessandro Rico and published in La Verità on September 6, 2021.Aldo Maria ValliAldo Maria Valli, historian and highly-esteemed Vatican expert for the RAI (Italian Radio and TV), runs the blog Duc in Altum from which he has been courageously criticizing the ambiguity and the confusion of Pope Francis’ papacy for years now. We ask his informed opinion on the recent rumours about...

Open Letter of Traditional Lay Faithful to the Catholic Faithful of the Whole World - Francis, time to revoke Traditionis Custodes: WE WILL NOT DEPRIVE OUR CHILDREN LETTER OF THE FAITHFUL ATTACHED TO THE TRADITIONAL MASSTO THE CATHOLICS OF THE WHOLE WORLDWhat father, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? (Mt 7, 9)Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,It is with great sadness that we learned of Pope Francis' decision to abrogate the main provisions of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7, 2007. After decades of divisions and...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditionis Custodes: Is An Even More Fanatical Document in the Pipeline?Luigi Casalini of MessaInLatino.it (August 8) reports that after the summer an application document to Traditionis custodes will be released by the anti-Catholic Congregations for Liturgy and for the Religious.This document is supposedly even more extreme. Futher, according to Casalini, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith sent a July 22 letter to Old Rite monasteries and communities informing that from now on the Liturgy Congregation will be responsible for liturgical and the Congregation for the Religious for administrative matters.The officials at the Congregation for the Doctrine...

Vacatio LegisLike most of those who have read Traditionis custodes, I was vastly intrigued by the bit right at the end.Legal enactments of any and every sort, secular and religious, tell you when the new law will come into effect. Summorum Pontificum, for example, came into effect a couple of months after it was published. But TC was to come into effect as soon as it had been published in Osservatore Romano (a journal which, by a curious coincidence, went ... that day ... behind a paywall). So TC was shared with the world's media on a Friday; Osservatore Romano...

MEMORANDUM To: All Priests and Pastoral Administrators From: The Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano Date: July 16, 2021, Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Re: Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes The Holy Father has issued motu proprio an Apostolic Letter entitled Traditionis Custodes, dated July 16th, 2021, effective immediately, in which he promulgates norms relating to the celebration of the Holy Mass in what his predecessor Pope Benedict termed the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, that is, using the liturgical rites in force prior to the post-conciliar liturgical reforms, namely the Missale Romanum of 1962. In a cover letter...

[Catholic Caucus] Father de Tanoüarn, IBP: "It is Francis who contradicts communion. We are witnessing a rare case where the pope destroys communion." Father Guillaume de Tanoüarn, one of the priests who involved in the foundation of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP), established by pontifical authority in the days of Pope Benedict XVI, is a well-known figure in conservative circles in France, and in Paris in particular, where his apostolate has been located for over a decade. He spoke to French website L'Incorrect on Francis' edict against the Latin Mass.Were you surprised by the suddenness and severity...

The bomb has been dropped. Today Pope Francis issued his motu proprio Traditionis custodes severely restricting the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. In effect, it wipes out Pope Benedict’s 14-year-old motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, which was issued in order to help those faithful who “continued to be attached with such love and affection to the earlier liturgical forms which had deeply shaped their culture and spirit.” Apparently Pope Francis doesn’t think that’s necessary anymore. I’m not going to analyze the details of the new motu proprio here—you can find that elsewhere. Instead I’d like to share my initial reaction...

[Catholic Caucus] A RORATE CÆLI Editorial: The Attack of Hatred and Vengeance Against the Latin Mass Should be Ignored As confident as we were in our sources forecasting today as the day of reckoning for Summorum Pontificum and the traditional Latin Mass as we know it, in the back of our minds we had hoped it was merely an unfounded rumor. After all, Pope Benedict XVI is not only alive, but fully cognizant, dressed in a white cassock while living in the Vatican gardens. To that end, would a sitting pope be so arrogant as to publicly humiliate the 94...

URGENT: ANTI-SUMMORUM MOTU PROPRIO "Traditionis Custodes" -Note: Accompanying Letter below Motu Proprio:APOSTOLIC LETTERISSUED "MOTU PROPRIO"BY THE SUPREME PONTIFFFRANCIS“TRADITIONIS CUSTODES”ON THE USE OF THE ROMAN LITURGY PRIOR TO THE REFORM OF 1970Guardians of the tradition, the bishops in communion with the Bishop of Rome constitute the visible principle and foundation of the unity of their particular Churches.[1] Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, through the proclamation of the Gospel and by means of the celebration of the Eucharist, they govern the particular Churches entrusted to them.[2]In order to promote the concord and unity of the Church, with paternal solicitude towards...

Francis convinced the former football player and current manager of Italy’s national team Roberto Mancini, 57, not to make the Sign of the Cross on the football field, Mancini told Italian television TG5 (December 20, Italian video sequence below). Mancini told TG5 that he is a lifelong Catholic and that he was lucky to grow up next to a parish, "My life was school, house, and parish." He also visited Medjugorje a couple of times. To the question whether it happens that he prays on the pitch, Mancini quickly replied, "No, on the pitch not." "Many make the sign of...