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[Catholic Caucus] The Red Guard of TraditionWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.—George Orwell, 1984.Tucker Carlson recently interviewed a Chinese woman named Xi Van Fleet. After Mao’s culture revolution, Xi sought and received asylum in the United States in the 1970s. She soon came to love and defend America. This became especially evident when, in 2020, she realized the United States was undergoing a communist revolution, fabricated not upon a conflict of class, but rather that of race. (Fabricated is the operative word in the last sentence.) Although Xi never wanted to be...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Papal biographer confirms Pope Francis will remove Cardinal Burke’s flat, salaryMainstream media and heterodox Catholic outlets have consistently vilified Cardinal Burke, due to his pronouncement of Catholic teaching which is often placed in juxtaposition with the statements of Pope Francis.Pope Francis’ favored biographer, Austen Ivereigh, has stated the Pope personally confirmed the reports that he intends to strip Raymond Cardinal Burke of his flat and salary, though denied calling the cardinal his “enemy.”In a report published November 29 on the heterodox site Where Peter Is, Ivereigh wrote that he had met with the Argentine pontiff on Monday,...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: Laying His Life Down for His SheepWhen America’s loneliest bishop stretched his arms and stepped from his bedside in the predawn darkness of Deep East Texas yesterday, smallmouth bass were snoozing at the bottom of Bellwood Lake, and prairie lands of cattle kept still before sunrays began to gore their hides. I’m going to take a stab at the exact day the headsman began his sharpening. It fell on a cold and gray day in Baltimore, on November 12, 2018. It was then, outside of the annual meeting of bishops, that Bishop Strickland knelt on a...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis's Latin Mass Restrictions Confirm the Link Between Liturgy and Orthodoxy Today is the second anniversary of Traditionis Custodes. Having fallen in love with the beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass a year or so before, I remember the feeling of shock and confusion at the unveiling of the cruel, angry document that seemed targeted at destroying the celebration of the ancient liturgy for all time. At a time of such confusion and crisis, both in the Church and the world, to target the relatively small number of Catholics who had found refuge in the timeless beauty...

[Catholic Caucus] French traditional Dominican nuns being forced to embrace Novus Ordo; community suffering lossesThe organization Paix Liturgique has been following the drama in France concerning this community of traditional Dominican nuns, who, it appears, are being forced to embrace the Novus Ordo and who, as a result of community instability, are faltering and suffering. Translation of Letter 946bis (source) by Dr. John Pepino. - PAKThis time it's certain: the new Mass—"celebrated worthily," course!—is coming, discreetly but surely, into all the houses of the Institute of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit, i.e. the mother house in Pontcallec (diocese...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland should resist Pope Francis if told to step down: here’s whyDr. Peter Kwasniewski is my guest on this important episode of The John-Henry Westen Show.(LifeSiteNews) — We all know that Vatican I infallibly taught that the Pope is the supreme governor of the Universal Church, with universal jurisdiction over disciplinary matters. But what would happen should we receive a bad Pope, and what can bishops do if said Pope attempts to oust them from their dioceses without cause?My guest today on this important episode of The John-Henry Westen Show is Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. He discusses with...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò founds group to help priests and religious resist ‘the Bergoglian revolution’Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has founded his own international organization to help “canceled” priests and religious.On Saturday, it was announced that the former papal nuncio to the United States has become the patron of a civil association named Exsurge Domine (“Arise, Lord”), which will defend not only destitute clergy and religious but the “perennial Tradition of the Church”:… under my personal patronage, the civil association Exsurge Domine has been founded, which has as its social purpose ‘to provide assistance, support and material help to clergy, religious...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis, King by Divine Mandate. What No Pope Before Him Had Dared to SayThe new fundamental law of Vatican City State was published the very day, May 13, when everyone’s attention was on the meeting between Francis and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. With the effect that the coverage was scanty and poor. When instead from its very first lines it marked a reckless and unprecedented turning point in the history and conception of the papacy.Mark well. The turning point does not lie in article 1 of the new fundamental law, in which it is written that “the Supreme...

Judge and Defendant. The Pope’s Two Bodies, in the Trial of the CenturyAfter nine hearings blocked by procedural obstacles, there began on March 17 what the international media are calling “the trial of the century,” conducted against Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and other defendants mainly on account of the disastrous purchase of a building on Sloane Avenue in London, by the secretariat of state.In the previous hearing of March 1, the judges of the Vatican tribunal presided over by Giuseppe Pignatone, in a 40-page decree, rejected as unfounded all the objections to the validity of the trial raised up to...

[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...

Puerto Ricans rise up in support of bishop deposed by Pope FrancisPriests, parishioners, and Catholic and other Christian leaders have rallied strongly behind Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres in recent days. Puerto Rican Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres, center right, at a pro-life march in 2018Sat Mar 12, 2022 - 4:04 pm ESTSun Mar 13, 2022 - 12:04 am EST ARECIBO, Puerto Rico (LifeSiteNews) — Puerto Ricans have expressed an outpouring of support for a faithful bishop abruptly dismissed by Pope Francis this week after defending conscience objections to COVID vaccination.Priests, parishioners, and Catholic and other Christian leaders have rallied behind Bishop...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Removes a 57-year-old American Bishop Named by Benedict XVI with no Explanation For a bishop named in 2010, and now very healthy and still only 57, to be removed, there must be a serious reason. Abuse? Cover-up? Embezzling?Yet the bishop of Arecibo (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States), Chicago native Daniel Fernández Torres, was simply removed by Francis today, after being ordered by the Vatican to resign.You will find several explanations online -- that he was supportive of religious objections to COVID vaccines; that he was "conservative"; that he was not very well liked by his...

[Catholic Caucus] "Synodality": Francis REMOVES Bishop As If He Were an Altar BoyFrancis removed the irreprochable Arecibo Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, 57, Puerto Rico, on March 9.In an August 17 statement, Fernández had defended the human right to object to unsafe Covid injections. Days later, he refused to sign a statement of the other six Puerto Rican Covid bishops who claimed that to be injected is "a duty."After complaints from the Covid bishops, the Nuncio requested Fernández to resign as if the bishop were only administrators and not fathers of their diocese. Fernández refused on grounds of conscience. So, he...

[Catholic Caucus] Response to Bergoglio’s Christmas Massacre – Press ReleaseDigital Mobile Billboard “God Save the Latin Mass” Campaign at the USCCB Fall General Assembly, Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, Nov. 16, 2021While there will be much commentary in the next several days and weeks to the dreck that was just released by the Congregation for Divine Worship in regard to the so-called dubia about the Traditional Latin Mass, the Coalition for Canceled Priests wants to make clear to all priests of good will that we will support priests who feel they cannot go along with the draconian restrictions placed on the celebration...

The Second Atomic Bomb Has Exploded: CDW Issues Directives Banning Traditional Confirmations and Ordinations, Decrees the End of Ecclesia Dei CommunitiesCFN will hold a LIVE Q&A Session on this topic tonight, December 18, at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. Join us with your questions!The predicted document of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW) extending the totalitarian measures against the Traditional Latin Mass has been published. It takes the form of a letter from Archbishop Arthur Roche, the Congregation’s Prefect, and a series of responses to dubia (questions) it says are a consolidation of questions submitted by...

[Catholic Caucus] A "Revolution of Tenderness", or "The Roche Christmas Massacre": A Farce in Eleven DubiaAs reported by this blog a few days ago, the "clarifications" of Traditionis custodes from the CDWDS, which the Pope has given his assent to, have been published today - relentlessly appalling in their attempted suppression of the traditional rites, yet comically absurd in their claim to be "preserving the gift of ecclesial communion by walking together, with conviction of mind and heart". In this current joke of a pontificate, war truly is peace. The summary of what the Pope and the CDWDS are...

[Catholic Caucus] Father Claude Barthe: We Must Resist the Illegitimate Norms on the Traditional Rite - "Vatican hardliners have started a war they can only lose." Resisting an unjust liturgical lawMichel JanvaLe Salon BeigeDecember 18, 2021[Rorate: Father Barthe is well known by our readers. One of the greatest experts in the history of the Traditional movement, and the chaplain of the pilgrimage to Rome, he knows what he talks about.] This morning, the Congregation for Divine Worship published responses to certain provisions of the Apostolic Letter in the form of a "Motu Proprio" Traditionis Custodes. We interviewed Father Claude...

Why Churchmen Who Demand the Vaccine Are Literally ‘Tyrants.’ The Ultimate ResourceAs I did yesterday, I’m eschewing originality this time in favor of usefulness. Imagine me leaning much too close to you, and speaking like some Palestinian used car salesman when I say, “I am only trying to help you, my friend. In fact, I am losing money on this deal. Losing money! But I like your face!” Then I give your cheeks a squeeze. The ones on your face.Today I call your attention to a magnificent piece of reasoning, and writing, but not by me. Instead it’s by Canadian...

Wherein a priest alumnus of the North American College responds. Wherein Fr. Z rants.From an alumnus of the North American College (US seminary in Rome) … edited so that the style of writing can’t be traced to any one priest by those who might recognize it.As a NAC grad, I read your article [HERE] with interest.I disagree that a student will get in trouble for googling the Latin Mass and related material.Things that will get a seminarian in trouble are wearing a cassock, biretta, or bad mouthing Conciliar theology or the Vatican II liturgy in public.Men who show openly an...

[Catholic Caucus] Ecclesia Dei communities issue official response to Pope Francis’ restrictions on the TLMThe superiors asked the pontiff to heed the promise of the 1988 document Ecclesia Dei that 'all measures would be taken to guarantee the identity of their Institutes in the full communion of the Catholic Church.' COURTALAIN, France (LifeSiteNews) – Superiors from twelve Latin Mass communities have issued a joint official statement to Pope Francis and the French bishops in response to Traditionis Custodes.The priests and abbots have asked for a “humane, personal, trusting dialogue” and promised to “convert if party spirit or pride has polluted...