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[Catholic Caucus] Young Woman Kneels at Holy Communion. Priest Loses His TemperLucrezia B., 24, whose aunt is a nun, wrote to AlleatiEucarestiaEVangelo.blogspot.com to tell how she was liturgically abused in a church in the province of Messina.The priest was Don Giuseppe Mammana, 76, of the parish of San Benedetto il Moro in Acquedolci, Diocese of Patti, Sicily.After the incident, Lucrezia wrote to the bishop and received a "positive reply". The bishop expressed his regret and promised to take the necessary steps to prevent this unfortunate situation from happening again in the future. It is to be hoped that his words...

[Catholic Caucus] Müller Refutes Francis: "Lack of Synodality and Church Doctrine Are Not Sins"Cardinal Gerhard Müller commented on September 21 on the announced "penitential liturgy" with Francis in the midst of the October ex-synod.He criticizes that new, man-made sins are being invented.Francis' list includes an alleged "sin" of using doctrine as a stumbling block and a "sin against synodality", that is, the lack of listening and communion.For Cardinal Müller, this "catalogue of alleged sins" against the doctrine of the Church, misused as a weapon, or "sins" against synodality ("whatever one may understand by it") reads like a checklist of the...

Is there ‘universal peaceful acceptance’ of Francis as pope?The Catholic who regards Francis and his collaborators as truly exercising authority in the Church finds himself in a state of constant conflict with those whom he regards as appointed by Christ to teach him.In a recent article I summarized a number of arguments that lead to the conclusion that Francis does not hold the office of pope.In a second article, I outlined the argument from public heresy and membership of the Church in more detail. In a third article, I responded to the claim that we can attain certainty that Francis...

[Catholic Caucus] Swiss Bishop: "Latin Mass Has Deep Prayers, Expresses Christ's Centrality Better"Monsignor Marian Eleganti, former Auxiliary Bishop of Chur in Switzerland, gave an interview on August 14 to Kath.ch, the media portal of the Swiss bishops. Key points.- "I am very critical of the synod process. I see the danger that certain, already established agendas will determine it and control it from the beginning. This is not true listening."- "I believe that in such processes, the editors who formulate the final documents are the decisive factor - not necessarily the Holy Spirit."- "Today, the so-called 'reality of life' is...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Zen publishes book on building Church without ‘synodal process’Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun published a book on August 20 providing advice and practical wisdom for how to live an authentically Catholic life amid the contention brought by the Synod on Synodality.Cardinal Zen, who has previously criticized the Synod, focuses on ways to daily live out the Catholic faith in his book, “Catholic and Apostolic: From the Church of the Apostles to the ‘Synodal’ Church.” One of his former criticisms of the Synod was that it is at the universal level with no clear goal, Catholic News Agency reported...

Roche and Viola (Dicastery for Divine Worship) Forbid Latin Mass in Helsinki Cathedral (Finland) - celebrated (for the moment) in another Church Finland. A land lost by the Church to Lutheranism.In that beautiful and peaceful land, those who are Catholic are a tiny minority, but very conscious of their rights and filled with conviction regarding their Faith. Some of them are, like so many of us, attached to the Traditional Latin Mass -- which was, of course, the Mass of Finland before the Reformation.One would think the Vatican would be happy to have such faithful Catholics in a land of...

[Catholic Caucus] Potholes on the road to Synod 2024 The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and it’s getting both tiresome and worrisome.As for tiresome: Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the General Rapporteur of Synods 2023 and 2024, informed us in a June 14 “news” release from the Vatican’s Synod office that “the Holy People of God has been set in motion for mission thanks to the synodal experience.” Well, no, Your Eminence, that’s not quite right.God’s holy people were set in motion for mission by the Lord Jesus...

[Catholic Caucus] Eucharistic Congress a Blessing for the Church — Now What Must be Done?Traditional Mass in Indianapolis during the Eucharistic CongressThe United States Catholic Conference of Bishops recently sponsored a series of events that were meant to be an affirmation of witness to the Catholic belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The first was a series of Eucharistic processions from disparate points in the United States whose ultimate goal was the site of the major event of the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana. I must confess that when I first heard about the plans...

[Catholic Caucus] Ask Father: What's with the Eucharistic Revival thing? "Ask Father" is a column exclusive to The Remnant Newspaper. If you would like to send questions to our resident priest, Fr. Wilson, send your query to newstips@remnantnewspaper.com and put "Ask Father" in the subject line. Then, subscribe to The Remnant (print or E-Edition) to see your answer in future issues!Dear Father: I have been seeing lots of coverage in the Catholic press about the National Eucharistic Congress, although not a lot of notice of it in the secular media. Of course, I think Eucharistic devotion is a wonderful thing,...

[Catholic Caucus] Post-Catholic Ireland: One (!) seminarian in Dublin archdioceseOnly one person is studying to become a Catholic priest in Dublin, reports TheTimes.com (August 4).Father Séamus McEntee, vocations director for the Dublin archdiocese, said the low number of applicants to the priesthood was indicative of a wider crisis of faith.The Archdiocese of Dublin has more than one million Catholics (out of a total population of 1.6 million). Ireland was once one of the most Catholic countries in the world.

[Catholic Caucus] Young Catholics aren’t ‘schismatic’ for preferring the Latin Mass to sappy Novus Ordo MassesRome - 7 September 2017 - Celebration of the Holy Mass vetus ordo, Mass in Latin, in the days of the pilgrimage Summorum Pontificum decennial(LifeSiteNews) — In Part 1 of this two part series, I discussed how young Catholics today view the Second Vatican Council. In Part 2, we shall examine how these young people experience the “fruits” of the Council and the “spirit” of Vatican II. Why is it that so many are fond of the Traditional Latin Mass? Why do so many consult...

Vatican II: For Better or For WorseWhen Pope John XXIII should have been calling Catholics to repentance, prayer, and sacrifice, he decided to call a Council to do the impossible.When the bishops and their theological advisers met in Rome for the Second Vatican Council, journalists divided the participants into two main groups: Progressives and Conservatives. It was a gross exaggeration because within each group there were many different schools of thought. But, for the sake of the point that I want to make, let the names of these two main opposing groups stand, for in all caricatures there is always...

[Catholic Caucus] Now That We Know Bishops Can Condemn Olympic Scandals, Can They Condemn the Worse Sins of Francis’s Synodal Church?Even those who never would have known the Olympics were taking place in Paris have likely learned of the opening ceremony’s mockery of the Last Supper. The French district of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) denounced the blasphemous scene as a great scandal for many souls:“No one can ignore the opening ‘ceremony’ of the 2024 Olympics. The whole world saw it and millions of spectators were able to witness the blasphemous parody of the Sacrament.It is impossible to...

[Catholic Caucus] Synodal ecclesiology is an ecclesiology without ChristThe following interview shows what happens when the Church as the People of God is promoted at the expense of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ. Synod becomes a law unto itself without reference to Christ.The Venezuelan theologian Rafael Luciani is a Professor at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas (Venezuela). He is also an associate professor at Boston College (USA) and an advisor to the General Secretariat of the World Synod in the Vatican and the Latin American Bishops' Council CELAM. Luciani's research focuses on Christology, ecclesiology, Latin...

[Catholic Caucus] Some Reflections for Our Catholic Friends Who Freely Denounce Traditional CatholicsAs Catholics, we hear that we are schismatics, heretics, and enemies of the Church; as those who refuse to take experimental Covid shots, we hear that we are science-deniers and enemies of society. And, thanks be to God, none of that unhinged nonsense impels us to abandon what we know is right.“And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of...

[Catholic Caucus] EXCLUSIVE: Abp. Viganò Clarifies His Position Following DDF Ruling — Part IIn this exclusive interview, which will continue in a further installment, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò clarifies various aspects of his position following the Vatican’s announcement that he was “found guilty of the reserved delict of schism” on July 4 by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF). In this first installment, he explains more precisely what he means when he distinguishes the Catholic Church from the “conciliar church,” describing it as “an overlap of two entities — Church and anti-church — in the same Hierarchy,”...

[Catholic Caucus] For Those With Eyes to See, Satan’s Synodal Church is the Most Important Sign in the World Today“He will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.” (Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West)Five years before the publication of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s Communism and the Conscience of the West, Pope Pius XII wrote his 1943 encyclical on the Mystical Body of Christ,...

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...