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How Can You Canonize Without Bonafide Miracles?Honoring the SaintsA saint is a person who held the true Faith, exercised heroic virtue in accordance with their state in life, and lived a life of holiness in union with God on earth. The Church honors such a person by “raising them to the altar.” The culmination of an ecclesial process of acknowledging a person’s sanctity is “canonization.” This means they are declared to be in Heaven and the Church presents the individual as one we are called to imitate. The Church does not canonize every soul in Heaven (even if known) but...

[Catholic Caucus] From Fatima to the Synod: the Three October 13 Milestones and Reason for HopeIf those who had witnessed the Miracle of the Sun in 1917 had been granted a vision of what transpired forty-five years later at the beginning of the Council, many would have understood that the Church was being eclipsed by its enemies. In his Fatima: A Spiritual Light for Our Times, Fr. Karl Stehlin recounted the messages of Our Lady of Fatima to the three children of Fatima on October 13, 1917:“I want a chapel to be built here in My honor. I am Our...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo XIII and the Church’s Visibility as Satan Reveals His Throne in the Holy Place“In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most blessed Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.” (Exorcism of Leo XIII against Satan and the Fallen Angels)In his They Have Uncrowned Him, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre commented on these words from Pope Leo XIII’s exorcism prayer against Satan...

[Catholic Caucus] How to Be a Catholic in the Synodality EraA Voice from the PewsWe know now that the culmination of the Francis Papacy will occur in October of this year (regardless of whether he is still around to see it). That is when the Synod on Synodality will take place. This has been building for nearly 11 years.Back when the working document for the Synod was released, Father Gerald Murray, writing for The Catholic Thing on June 24, 2023, predicted the outcome:a make-believe, delusional religion of self-worship in which God is relegated to the role of the Divine Affirmer...

Catholic church in Austria registers record number of resignationsThe number of faithful leaving the Catholic church in Austria reached a new record of 90,808 in 2022, according to statistics released Wednesday.The number shrank from 4.83 million in the previous year to 4.73 million.A single reason for the number of departures cannot be inferred from the numbers.The number of people leaving the church was already relatively high at 72,222 in 2021 and represented the second-highest figure behind 2010, when 85,960 people turned their backs on the church after abuse cases came to light, according to the daily Der Standard."For many...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Plops Another Synod Stinker Upon The Church As many of you know, the pope and cabal initiated a "Synod on Synodality". That is no joke. They are literally talking about talking. Not only that, but they've decided to extend the gabfest for who knows how long. We know from past synods what the real deal is. The New World Order wonks - and that includes Francis - have an agenda that will be realized through this. They are merely putting on this charade to give the appearance that they really care about input from real Catholics....

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: The post-Vatican II church has almost entirely eclipsed the Church of Christ'There is something terribly self-centered, typical of Luciferian pride, in claiming to be better than those who preceded us.'Editor’s Note: Below follows the full text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s latest essay titled “REPETITA JUVANT: How with its own self-referentiality the ‘conciliar church’ places itself outside of the path of the Tradition of the Church of Christ.”(LifeSiteNews) — With the prosopopoeia that distinguishes ideological propaganda, the recent Bergoglian panegyric on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Opening of the Ecumenical Council Vatican II...