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[Catholic Caucus] New Preface by Cardinal Burke to French Reissue of the "Ottaviani Intervention" The Short Critical Study [or Brief Critical Examination] of the New Order of Mass—better known as the "Ottaviani Intervention"—is well known to traditionalists around the world (if you'd like to read more about it, see here and here). Every few years, a new edition appears in some major language. It strikes me as particularly significant that a new French edition has appeared with a Foreword by none other than His Eminence Cardinal Burke. The full French text may be found here; what follows is an automated...

Professor Seifert: Catholic Church in ‘Terrible Danger of Complete Collapse in Many Countries’ Unless Cardinals and Bishops Speak UpCatholic philosopher Professor Josef Seifert has said he sees a “terrible danger of a complete collapse of the Catholic Church in many countries” unless cardinals speak up about a “tremendous crisis” within the Church, one he says is possibly the greatest she has ever faced.In comments following the publication of an open letter he wrote April 30 calling on all cardinals, bishops and Church leaders to stand up for the truth of Catholic teaching in the face of prevailing relativism and situational...

[Catholic Caucus] New Zealand: The Content of the Novus Ordo? Snickers...The Presiding Bishop of New Zealand, Steve Lowe of Auckland, wore a pallium-like lei made of Snickers bars (sic) during a May 19 Novus Ordo Eucharist in his cathedral. Leis are traditional garlands made from flowers or shells. The occasion was a Eucharist for Liston College, a Catholic school for boys aged 12 to 18. Some of them were baptised and confirmed during the Snickers show. If nothing else, Lowe was very effective in conveying to the boys that the Novus Ordo is a bad joke.

[Catholic Caucus] Why bishops are to blame for empty Catholic churches across AustraliaChildren are no longer taught the basic beliefs of the faith, such as the existence of mortal sin and hell, and consequently they see no reason to continue to go to church as adults.(LifeSiteNews) — A group of orthodox Catholics in Australia called “New Perspectives for Catholic Education” has discovered how the Australian bishops managed to convert a Catholic population in the 1960s, a large proportion of whom were practicing the faith, into a population of mainly non-practicing Catholics. In doing so, it has exposed one of the...

Bp. Schneider calls out high-ranking Church leaders for supporting ‘neo-Marxist’ LGBT ideologyThe courageous Bishop Athanasius Schneider is my guest on today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show.(LifeSiteNews) — The courageous Bishop Athanasius Schneider is calling out “neo-Marxist” LGBT ideology and its proponents, even among the Catholic hierarchy, on today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show.I had a chance to sit down for an interview with His Excellency in Washington, D.C. Bp. Schneider talked about how LGBT ideology seeks to destroy the family, mentioning that there are proponents of these heterodox ideas even among the Catholic episcopate. However, he also stressed...

Examining the Most Profoundly Absurd Contradictions of Liberal Catholicism “Yes, truly, Vatican Council II is the ratification of liberal Catholicism. And when it is remembered that Pope Pius IX, eighty-five years earlier, said and repeated to those who were visiting him in Rome, ‘Be careful! There are no worse enemies of the Church than the liberal Catholics!’ — then can be measured the catastrophe that such liberal Popes and such a council represent for the Church and for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, They Have Uncrowned Him, p. 222) All around us today we see...

Custom and the Force of LawSomething missed by Catholics enamored of the post-Conciliar mentality—that dangerous blend of modernism and ultramontanism—is that, in the past, custom was as good as law. St. Augustine could not have been clearer on this:The customs of God’s people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God (Ep. ad Casulan. xxxvi).St. Thomas Aquinas concurred: “When a law is changed, the binding power of the law is diminished, in so...

VINDICATED: Pioneer Traditional Catholics Were Right! Editor's Note: This article is reproduced from The Remnant Newspaper, March 15, 1973. The following is a summary of an address given on August 7, 1972, by Archbishop Lefebvre to a conference of French priests, his discourse being recorded on tape and then translated and transcribed. Of the following article from The Remnant archive, I’m tempted to say: Drop whatever you’re doing and read this article!Here are the words of a wise man, an outstanding Catholic and something of a prophet. And, let’s not forget: Archbishop Lefebvre was a Council Father at Vatican II....

[Catholic Caucus] “What is ‘indietrism’ backwardness) anyway?”—Michael Charlier Just in case you live on an island of the blessed and haven't figured out what "indietrism" is yet: it's supposed to mean something like backwardness or restorationism. With this expression, invented by himself, our holy stepfather refers to all Catholics who adhere to the Apostolic Tradition and ecclesiastical tradition even where it does not fit into his Jesuit frame -- and that is quite a lot of it.So if you, dear reader, are not visiting this website for the first time, but -- alone or with others, several times or even...

AggiornamentoI read an article days ago complaining that 50% of those baptised as Catholics stop attending as young adults. I am surprised it’s not more. Looking at my experience in the UK, I can give to my readers some clues as to why. Firstly, it is a very childish experience. The lack of solemnity and the dumbing down of the liturgy has made of the Mass an exercise for children. When the children grow up, they don’t want to be identified with that stuff anymore. Second, it is a very child-oriented experience. You see here the anxious desire to keep...

St. Pius V is a model for defending traditional Catholic teaching in troubled timesPope St. Pius V boldly defended the Church against the Protestant reformation and successfully implemented the reforms of the Council of Trent, which included the establishment of the Tridentine Mass and the Roman Breviary.We have already met with the names of several pontiffs on the Paschal calendar. They form a brilliant constellation around our risen Jesus, who, during the period between His resurrection and ascension, gave to Peter, their predecessor, the keys of the kingdom of heaven.Anicetus, Soter, Cauis, Cletus, and Marcellinus, held in their hands the...

Catholic Mass Attendance Has Fallen by HalfI was born and raised Southern Baptist. Gave my life to Jesus at 15. Got baptized in a pair of white pajamas. Then, I went to a Free Methodist college. Got a job at an American Baptist Church and have been serving in the ABCUSA for more than twenty years. I will be elected to the Board of General Ministries for American Baptist denomination this summer. My wife is Irish Catholic. We got married in St. Teresa of Avila in our hometown. My very Southern Baptist grandmother went to her grave not knowing that...

[Catholic Caucus] Deconstructing John XXIII’s Opening Address of Vatican II to Understand Satan’s BlueprintAlmost sixty years after the completion of the Second Vatican Council, it may seem, at first glance, like a pointless exercise to examine John XXIII’s October 11, 1962 speech to open the Council. After all, we would expect that any useful insights from the speech would have been fully revealed by now. And yet, if we carefully deconstruct his speech in light of all that has transpired since the Council opened, we can see the foundation and framework for so much of the crisis in the Church...

[Catholic Caucus] The Life and Times of App. John R. Quinn & Friends-Part IIIA Study of the West Coast Homosexual Network Part III – Archbishop Quinn Undermines Church Teachings Introduction It is a common myth among Catholic pew sitters that the harm caused by habituated clerical sodomites only affects the moral sphere, but do not affect their actions in other areas of ecclesiastical life, that is, you can be an active homosexual and still be a good bishop or a good religious superior. This segment on Quinn’s theological and political opinions and actions demonstrates just the opposite and it support...

Ten Points in Favor of Communion on the Tongue—and the Sordid History of Communion in the Hand Rorate is pleased to publish this comprehensive study of a most urgent question that has everything to do with authentic (as opposed to glitzy or bureaucratic) Eucharistic revival. The author shows, among other key points, that the conditions established by Rome for the granting or retention of an indult for communion in the hand were never and are not now met in the USA, which means this practice's introduction was duplicitous and its continuation illicit.—PAK Ten Points in Favor of Communion on...

[Catholic Caucus] Brazil's Bishops' Conference blames the country's polarisation on the "extreme right" and "traditionalist groups"Also trashes Pope Benedict see below- marked red Presentation of the report during the General Assembly of the Bishops of Brazil Presentation of the report during the General Assembly of the Bishops of BrazilIn the last session of the 60th General Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of the Bishops of Brazil, the Brazilian episcopate gathered in the Noé Sotillo auditorium of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida to discuss a report commissioned by them under the title: "Threats to ecclesial communion in the...

[Catholic Caucus] Now That We See the Fruits of Rejecting Catholic Truth, How Do We Recover?In his 1951 encyclical on the promotion of Catholic missions, Evangelii Praecones, Pope Pius XII wrote of the great spiritual battle that was raging over seventy years ago:“Venerable Brethren, you are well aware that almost the whole human race is today allowing itself to be driven into two opposing camps, for Christ or against Christ. The human race is involved today in a supreme crisis, which will issue in its salvation by Christ, or in its dire destruction. The preachers of the Gospel are using...

[Catholic Caucus] No Father, We Should NOT Stand to Receive Holy CommunionA recent article in Northeast Ohio Catholic magazine by Fr. Gerald Bednar, “Why Should We Stand to Receive Communion?” states that kneeling for communion is permitted but “not as the norm.” The article continues, “This quirky regulation calls for some explanation.” Indeed it does.From the outset, I want to state that I do not write this out of any personal animus against the Fr. Bednar. As the saying goes, I don’t know him from Adam. Nor do I think the arguments presented in his article are particularly unusual or...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest expert on Freemasonry says Vatican cardinals spread ‘disinformation’ about SSPXLifeSiteNews is pleased to publish Fr. Charles Murr's preface to reporter Kennedy Hall's latest book, 'SSPX: The Defence'.(LifeSiteNews) — Fr. Charles Murr, a close friend of both Sister Pascalina, personal secretary to Pope Pius XII, and Cardinal Édouard Joseph Gagnon has written a fascinating foreword to a new book by LifeSite journalist Kennedy Hall about Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the Society of St. Pius X.Fr. Murr endorses Hall’s SSPX: The Defence, an attempt to defend the work of the traditionalist priestly society, and he describes how...

SECOND WEEK OF EASTER John 3:31-36Friends, today’s Gospel promises eternal life to those who believe in the Son of God.In almost every religion, the life of faith has something to do with a creature’s relationship to the Creator; nearly all religions speak of the creature’s dependency upon God, of his subjection to the divine providence, and of his need for grace and forgiveness. Christianity, too, articulates these basic relationships, but it pushes beyond them because it speaks of the Incarnation and the gifts associated with it.We hear in the third chapter of John’s Gospel that “God so loved the world...