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CORONATION OATH OF THE POPE I VOW to change nothing of the received tradition, and nothing thereof I have found before me guarded by my God-pleasing predecessors, to encroach, to alter [change], or to permit any innovation therein; To the contrary; with glowing affection as Her truly faithful student and successor, to reverently safeguard the passed on good, with my whole strength and utmost effort; To cleanse all that is in contradiction with canonical order that may surface; To guard the holy canons and decrees of our Popes likewise as Divine Ordinances of Heaven, because I am conscious of Thee,...

Preface Pope St. Pius V, in this Papal Bull, codified the Mass for all time in perpetuity. The bogus Council Vatican II completely ignored the directives of this papal decree and created a new rite known as the Novus Ordo, a "mass" which is not the Sacrifice of Calvary, and in doing so, Vatican II created a new non-Catholic Novus Ordo religion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Upon Our elevation to the Apostolic throne, We gladly turned Our mind and energies, and directed all Our thoughts, to the matter of preserving incorrupt the public worship of the Church; and we Have striven with...

By the Time We Got to Woodstock: Vatican II and “The Spirit of Woodstock” Christopher Ferrara COLUMNIST, New Jersey Introduction—National Review Meets Woodstock Thirty years ago today, August 15, 1969, the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, some 500,000 young people made their way to Yasgur’s Farm in upstate New York to participate in “three days of peace, love and music.” The gathering was advertised as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, although Yasgur’s Farm was actually located in the nearby hamlet of Bethel. Bethel means “house of God” in Hebrew, but those half-million souls were not seeking God’s...

In his December 11th column, Patrick Buchanan wrote about the decline of Catholicism in the Church since Vatican II, based on statistics collected by Kenneth C. Jones of St. Louis. Among the findings: dramatic decreases in Mass attendance, an incredible loss of faith in the Real Presence, gigantic drops in the number of seminarians, priests, and religious, and a sky-rocketing increase in marriage annulments. In response to Buchanan's article, Carl E. Olson from Envoy Magazine countered with the typical Neo-Catholic line that Buchanan and other traditionalists have simply "misunderstood" Vatican II, that the council has not even been fully "implemented"...

The Twenty Mysteries of the Rosary? by John Vennari The Apostolic Letter opens the door for a "pastoral approach" to the Rosary that is "positive, impassioned and creative - as shown by World Youth Days". In other words, a nod is given to a jazzed-up Rosary for the "youth". "When one lives by novelty, there will always have to be a new novelty." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen On October 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II marked the 24th Anniversary of his papacy with the release of the Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, in which he proclaimed a "Year of...