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From Vatican II to Abu Dhabi: Debate Between Bishop Schneider and Archbishop Viganò Mgr Athanasius Schneider On February 4, 2019, Pope Francis with the Grand Imam of the Cairo Mosque signed a Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together. On February 24, 2019, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X denounced this “impious gesture that scorns the First Commandment of God and attributes to the Divine Wisdom, incarnate in Jesus Christ who died for us on the Cross, the statement that ‘the pluralism and the diversity of religions’ is ‘willed by God...

Archbishop Roche says Vatican II is the guide for liturgical reform Archbishop Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, has said Vatican II is the guide for liturgical reform and has warned against “ideologies”.The leader of the Holy See’s divine worship office said the task for the Church’s liturgists is implementing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and avoiding “ecclesiastical ideologies”.Archbishop Roche, who was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments earlier this year, set out the principles for liturgical reform in his first major public lecture since taking office....

Pope Pius V and the Mass Reproduced with permission from the Voice of the Family Digest. To subscribe to this weekly newsletter, scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your email address.----------------------------In 1570 Pope St Pius V promulgated a new edition of the Missale Romanum, the Roman Missal, as mandated by the Council of Trent (1545-1563). The event was an important one, but it has often been misunderstood. At a moment of liturgical crisis, it would be good to remind ourselves of its real significance. Superficially, there is a strong parallel with what happened in 1969, when...

The incredibly obvious… the problem in the Church today is …. THE LATIN MASS!Link to short video of a Novus Order Mass: "the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite" per Jorge Bergoglio

[Catholic Caucus] To Banish the TLM to the CatacombsRecently, I heard a middle-aged exorcist give a talk about how all the elderly exorcists in the world agree that something happened in 1963 that tanked the power of the Church in exorcisms. The middle-aged exorcist did not say what this event was. I asked his friend, and his friend suspected it was this event that happened in 1963, reported even [barely] by Wikipedia: “Windswept House describes a satanic ritual – the enthronement of Lucifer – taking place at Saint-Paul’s Chapel inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963. The book gives a...

Anglican leader wears papal ring to VaticanFascinating piece of history, via Vatican Media: Wrapping up an interview with Vatican News, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, showed those present the pastoral ring he is wearing. It’s not just any ring, but a very important “fragment” of the history of ecumenism. Indeed, it was given by Pope Paul VI to the then Anglican Primate, Michael Ramsey, on March 23, 1966, during his historic visit to Rome. This was the first visit by a head of the Anglican Communion since the beginning of the English Reformation, four centuries earlier.On that day the...

Explainer: The story behind Pope Francis’ beef with EWTNPope Francis made headlines last week when he criticized those who attack his papacy in the media, calling the attacks “the work of the devil.” The comment was widely interpreted to be a reference to EWTN, the largest Catholic television network in the world, which has given a platform to some of the pope’s most vocal English-speaking critics.This may come as a surprise to many people. As the hosts of America’s Jesuitical podcast put it last week, for many of their young adult listeners, EWTN is “where their grandma watches Mass” and...

More German DissentBishop's address to politiciansThe head of the German Bishops' Conference is calling for "courageous" change in the Church. The prelate is known for his dissent from Church teaching on a host of topics such as the all-male priesthood. Church Militant's William Mahoney looks at some key points from the bishop's address.Bishop Georg Bätzing: "The Catholic Church is diversifying — but in very different ways and at very different speeds and partly with some unreconciled differences." Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the German Bishops' Conference, spoke Tuesday evening to a room of guests and roughly 200 politicians, at the...

How Does Francis Actually Use Vatican II?Prior to Francis’s release of Traditionis Custodes, many traditional Catholics never had to think seriously about whether they accepted what Benedict XVI and Francis described as “the binding character of the Second Vatican Council.” Such faithful Catholics could attend the Tridentine Mass, learn the Faith from traditional catechisms and the writings of the saints, and have devout and fruitful lives without ever hearing of Lumen Gentium, Gaudium et Spes, or Nostra Aetate, let alone knowing their contents. So what were traditional Catholics to think when they learned that Francis had embarked on a path...

Pope says Vatican II shaped his theology, including in social teachingVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said the Second Vatican Council so shaped his theological and pastoral vision that perhaps he has not been as explicit as he should have been in highlighting those ties, especially when it comes to his contributions to Catholic social teaching."In the history of Latin America in which I was immersed, first as a young Jesuit student and then in the exercise of my ministry, we breathed an ecclesial climate that enthusiastically absorbed and made its own the theological, ecclesial and spiritual intuitions of the...

The Principal Errors of Vatican II This document exposes the heresies (and other errors) found in following documents of Vatican II (or at least those statements which can be given a heretical interpretation): Unitatis Reintegratio - the Decree on Ecumenism Orientalium ecclesiarum - the Decree on Eastern Catholic Churches Lumen Gentium - Constitution on the ChurchDignitatis Humanae - Declaration on Religious LibertyAd Gentes - Decree on Missionary Activity Nostra Aetate - Decree on Non-Christian Religions Sacrosanctum Concilum - Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Gaudium et Spes - Constitution on the Church in the Modern World This document exposes the principal...

Call Me Ishmael (The Remnant Responds to Francis’ Latest Attack on Faithful Catholics)The two rows of colonnades which frame St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican were designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini to resemble arms outstretched in welcome. (https://vatican.com/St-Peters-Square-Colonnades/) The Catholic Church is universal and open to all who seek salvation. At the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York City is a secular version of this sentiment: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” (https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/colossus.htm) For the Church, however, there are no “masses,” no “teeming”...

[Catholic Caucus] Faithful of canceled parish in Mexico warn of ‘eventual extinction’ of Latin MassThe faithful warn of ‘an eventual extinction of the celebration of the Mass according to the Missal of St. John XXIII in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.’Mon Sep 27, 2021 - 2:35 pm EDTMon Sep 27, 2021 - 2:35 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — After Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara, Mexico, published a decree on September 21, in which he canonically suppresses the quasi-parish St. Peter in Chains run by the Fraternity of St. Peter, the faithful now ask the cardinal “to be heard and for the...

"The Council and the Eclipse of God" by Don Pietro Leone - Part XV:The Church and the State: Religious Liberty - part 2 of Chapter 4 The present installment concerns the Council's doctrine on Religious Liberty, which represents one of its most important departures from Tradition. The Church has always taught that Religious Liberty is the liberty of a Catholic to profess the one true religion; whereas the Council teaches that it is the liberty of any-one to profess and practice the religion he chooses. The Council bases its teaching on the excellence of man's freedom to which it...

[Catholic/Orthodox Caucus] Can a Catholic Have “Doubts” about Vatican II?“To doubt the Council is to doubt the intentions of those very Fathers who exercised their collegial power in a solemn manner cum Petro et sub Petro in an ecumenical council, and, in the final analysis, to doubt the Holy Spirit himself who guides the Church.” This is the fundamental reason Pope Francis gives in the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes for the ultimate abolition of the celebration of the Mass according to the traditional form of the Roman Rite. The supporters of these celebrations supposedly doubt the Council and thus...

Op-Ed: "Traditionis Custodes: Vatican II at the Throes of Death"The non-reception of the Second Vatican Council has focused in a concrete way on the refusal of the liturgical reform, even if a certain number of practitioners of the old Mass affirm their adherence to the "well interpreted" conciliar intuitions. In any case, the existence of the traditional liturgy is a persistent and even growing phenomenon of non-reception. Marginal? Pope Bergoglio, who wants to be the pope of the full realization of Vatican II, has come to be convinced that the phenomenon is sufficiently important that he must work to eradicate...

The Devious Bad Will of Vatican II’s “Men of Good Will”Faithful Catholics have penned mountains of books and articles describing the infiltration of the Catholic Church leading up to Vatican II and the seemingly unlimited anti-Catholic fruits that have followed. As the picture of treachery and incompetence becomes clearer, more Catholics have (properly) started to evaluate Vatican II in light of tradition instead of evaluating the Church’s pre-Vatican II history entirely in light of the Council. Unfortunately, the picture is still as complex as it is unpleasant. For better or worse, though, we can get a surprisingly accurate glimpse of...

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the 1976 Audience with Pope Paul VI The Sources and Their StatusWith the publication of Mgr. Sapienza’s book on May 16, 2018, we now have two sources that reproduce the famous meeting between Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on September 11, 1976, in Castel Gandolfo.The first source to tell of the event was Archbishop Lefebvre himself, who immediately told the story to the seminarians in Econe in two conferences recorded on September 12 and 18, 1976. They served as the basis for the account given by his authorized biographer, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais.The...

Archbishop backs principle of national synodArchbishop of Liverpool Malcolm McMahon said he would encourage those who believe the Church in England and Wales should hold a national synod.Speaking at The Tablet discussion, A synodal Church: what does it mean? Archbishop McMahon, who oversaw the 2020 Liverpool synod, backed the synodal path for the Church and suggested that without it, the Church was facing “a very diminished, narrow future”.The other speaker at the webinar was Dr Myriam Wijlens, Professor of canon law at Erfurt University in Germany and a consultor to the synod of bishops’ office in Rome.She said the preparations...

[Catholic Caucus] Be seriousOn Tuesday, the permanent secretariat for the Synod of Bishops in Rome published a preparatory document and handbook for the forthcoming synod on synodality, which will proceed over the next two years to feed up from the local level of every diocese and into a final meeting of the bishops in the Vatican in 2023.The preparatory document came packaged with the kind of graphics and font which childhood early learning centers would probably think a little de trop, but which have become the hallmark of synodal documents in recent years. Both texts make for ponderous reading, written...