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[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Attacks Latin Mass In Letter To all BishopsArchbishop Arthur Roche, the anti-Catholic Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, who has been sidelining now retired Cardinal Sarah, has launched an attack on the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).UnaVoceScotland.org (February 21) published the English translation of a February 19, 2020 essay written by Roche which was forwarded to all bishops.The essay makes the unlikely claim that the New Mass is an "authentic development" of the Roman Rite, and calls its implementation an "ecclesiastical duty" - although nobody follows the Novus Ordo which is only used as an excuse for...

Don Pietro Leone: THE ENEMY WITHIN: PART II : A Historical Perspective PART II THE ENEMY WITHIN a Critique of Vatican II Beatissimae Vergini Mariae humillime dedicatum,Quae cunctas haereses sola interemisti in universo mundoA. Historical Introduction The 20 Councils prior to the Second Vatican Council had all been convened in order to extinguish the chief heresy or evil of the time: through an ever deeper and clearer enunciation of Church doctrine. This Council was different on two counts: first, in that it was not occasioned by any contemporary heresy or evil, and second (as we have already noted above),...

[Catholic Caucus] Bergoglio’s Broken Chain of WitnessIn Pope Francis’s church, truth can contradict truth so long as you have false witnesses who are bold or foolish enough to make that claim. ________In his epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul presented an idea on which the credibility of our Faith depends entirely:But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: if anyone preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be...

De Mattei: Pope Francis, Biden and “post-institutional” CatholicsFebruary 11, 2021What will be the effects of Joe Biden’s election on the life of the Church? Biden is the second Catholic President in the history of the United States after John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but as Massimo Faggioli notes in his recent book Joe Biden e il cattolicesimo negli Stati Uniti (Scholé, Brescia 2021), he finds himself in a reversed situation. Kennedy had the problem of reconciling his religious faith with a country in which the upper-class had always been Protestant and Catholics were considered an external body, tending to be poorly educated...

How modernists use ‘weaponized orthodoxy’ to silence conservative CatholicsSome recent words from Pope Francis cast this mode of gaslighting in stark relief.February 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — “Weaponized ambiguity” has become a common term in recent discussions about the crisis in the Church. It refers to ambiguous terms that were supposedly inserted into Vatican II as preparation for the chaos we now see around us. Leaving aside the question of whether ambiguity is the main problem of Vatican II (as opposed to contradiction of Church teaching), let us look at another concept, “weaponized orthodoxy,” which been used against sincere Catholics for...

Pope’s pick says ‘clericalist mindset is changing’Sr Nathalie Becquart (CNS/Paul Haring)A French sister who could be the first woman to cast a vote in the Synod of Bishops says her appointment as an undersecretary is evidence the “clericalist mindset is changing”. Source: Crux.Sr Nathalie Becquart told journalists on Wednesday that Pope Francis has been underlining the importance of including women in the decision-making processes, helping move the Church from a clericalist attitude towards a more synodal one.“How can we somehow end with a clerical Church, where there have been abuses, of power and other kind of abuses,” she asked, during...

Archbishop Viganò: Hypocrisy of Francis’ Claim Only Traditionalists Must be Treated StrictlyArchbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has released another text on Vatican II. This one was prompted by the recently reported comments of Pope Francis that with those who find in Vatican II a rupture, he must be “demanding and strict.”The Archbishop points out the blatant hypocrisy of a pope who calls for mercy and acceptance to all those who reject the doctrine of the Church and even the natural law. They are to be welcomed and accompanied and treated as brothers, even if they reject Christ. Yet, anyone who calls...

Don Pietro Leone: THE ENEMY WITHIN: a Critique of Vatican IIRorate Caeli is delighted to publish in installments, Don Pietro Leone’s latest work of anti-modernism: ‘The Enemy Within: a Critique of Vatican II.’Not content to rehash the three or four best-known sticking points of the Council, such as Collegiality, Ecumenism and Subsisit, the author with remorseless logic, offers a penetrating analysis, both metaphysical and theological of its entire distorted vision of the Faith, Truth and Reality, so exposing it as a diabolical attack on Holy Mother Church Herself and one of the greatest evils of the 20th century. In...

QUICUMQUE VULT SALVUS ESSE or Concerning the Idolatry of Vatican IISimiles illis fiant qui faciunt ea,et omnes qui confidunt in eis.Their makers will come to be like them,and so will all who trust in them.- Ps 113:16________While nations that were once Catholic introduce laws that promote abortion and euthanasia, gender theory and sodomitical “marriages;” while in the United States a legitimately elected President is seen to be usurped in the White House by a corrupt, depraved, and pro-abortion “President” placed in power by a gigantic fraud to the sycophantic applause of Bergoglio and progressive bishops; while the world population is...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis: Who Doesn't Follow Vatican II Is Outside The Church - Except the ModernistsVatican II is "the magisterium of the Church,” Francis proclaimed in a January 30 address to Italian Bishops' National Catechetical Office.While Francis is usually indifferent regarding dogmatic matters, he was suddenly all black-and-white, “Either you are with the Church and therefore follow the Council, or you do not follow the Council or interpret it in your own way, according to your desire, you do not stand with the Church.” Francis admitted that in this point, he is “demanding” and “severe,” adding that “the Council must...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis on Vatican II: ‘The Council is the Magisterium of the Church’“Either you are with the Church and therefore you follow the Council, or you interpret it in your own way, according to your desire, you do not stand with the Church.”From Vatican News: Pope Francis called on catechists to “pray and think creatively about a catechesis centred on the kerygma, which looks to the future of our communities, so that they may be ever more rooted in the Gospel, communities that are fraternal, and inclusive.”The Holy Father was speaking to members of the National Catechetical Office...

French Bishops Respond to Inquiry into the “Extraordinary Rite” The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last March conducted a survey of bishops around the world on the application of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum in dioceses. The Conference of Bishops of France (Cef) provided a summary of the results.This manner of proceeding is characteristic of the modern collegial spirit. A bishop has authority in his diocese, and he may have his own judgments that will not necessarily be accurately reflected in a synthesis of the thinking of all the bishops in a country.The document reveals that 87...

Cassocks, Tradition, and the Dying of the New Church of Vatican IIThe blog, Messa in Latino, quite recently published two pieces about Facebook postings by one of the clergy of the Bergamo diocese, Monsignor Alberto Cararra. They are both significant in offering hope that even in Italy the light of Tradition may be dawning.The first piece is about the ordination of three young men to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Sant’Alessandro Martyr this past August. The author points out that as late as the early ‘90s the diocese was ordaining over twenty priests a year. So that only three...

[Catholic Caucus] Younger, conservative clergy enrage progressives like Fr. James MartinI don’t envy priests who try to bring some order into parishes that have been ravaged by progressive theology and liturgical abuses over decades.January 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Fr. James Martin, SJ, has condemned younger, more conservative priests, linking to a National Catholic Reporter article that uses a parish’s experience as a jumping-off point to criticize a whole generation who are strongly motivated to oppose abortion, who are “active” and want to “evangelize,” who like Latin and incense, and — horror! — who read LifeSiteNews. Fr. Martin commented as he...

The Mature Fruits of Vatican IIWith his inauguration as President of the United States, Joe Biden solidified his standing as the world’s second most prominent nominal Catholic. He and the world’s most prominent nominal Catholic, Pope Francis, likely have many differing viewpoints but are united in their untiring dedication to misrepresenting unambiguous Catholic truth. In this regard, President Biden and Pope Francis are the mature fruits of Vatican II.Their fellow traveler, Cardinal Blase Cupich, rushed to the defense of President Biden after Archibishop Jose Gomez, president of the U.S.C.C.B., called out Biden’s longstanding positions on abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender....

Have There Been Worse Crises Than This One?Don’t you hate it when fellow Catholics say to you: “The Church has faced crises worse than this one before”?You hate it because you know it’s false. Of several popes who flirted with heresy, only two seem to have crossed a line: Honorius and John XXII. Honorius made one error in regard to Christology; he did so in a letter to a bishop. And for this he was posthumously anathematized and excommunicated as a heretic by an ecumenical council and by several of his successors in the papacy. John XXII preached a false...

Pope Francis’s inclusion of ‘female ministries’ continues his pattern of ruptureIt is, one might say, another nail in the coffin of the Novus Ordo, detaching it still further from the patrimony of Latin-rite worship.I do not belong to that special class of people who claim to have known, the moment Jorge Mario Bergoglio stepped out on the loggia of St. Peter’s, that we were in for a terrible time. However, within the first year, there was already evidence that the cardinals had elected a modernist, a proponent of rupture, of liberation theology and socialism; and as the years went on,...

Abp. Viganò: Abolition of anti-Modernist Oath is ‘a desertion, a betrayal of unheard gravity’In a wide-ranging response to LifeSite, Archbishop Viganò not only covers the history of the 1910 Oath Against Modernism and its abrogation and replacement by another formula of profession of faith, but he also discusses the influence of Jacques Maritain upon Pope Paul VI, the Gramscian-Communist method of cultural infiltration and subversion of the Catholic Church, and the person of Joseph Ratzinger as such.January 6, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In a new statement, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò presents the history of Pope Saint Pius X's Oath Against Modernism,...

A Time to Change...Again (2) On December 2, 2020, Pope Francis published a book entitled Let Us Dream (Simon and Schuster) with the subtitle: A Path to a Better Future.This article is the second part of the review devoted to this work, the result of his interviews with British journalist Austen Ivereigh, who is also his biographer (The Great Reformer – Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope).Bergoglian “Excesses” and Hegelian “Overflow”The sophistic casuistry found in the Pope's latest book is reminiscent of the four postulates posed by the Pope in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium (2013), in...

Abp. Viganò: Vatican Nativity is ‘expression of apostasy, immorality and vice’This irreverent monstrosity is the mark of the universal religion of transhumanism hoped for by the New World Order; it is the expression of apostasy, immorality and vice – of ugliness erected as a model. And just like everything that is constructed by man’s hands without God’s blessing, indeed against Him, it is destined to perish, to disappear, and to crumble.December 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written the following reflection on this year’s Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square.EN GREGE RELICTO[1] Considerations on the Nativity scene...