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Joint letter of Cardinals Koch and Grech to Bishops responsible for ecumenismIn a joint letter of 28 October 2021, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and Cardinal Mario Grech, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, addressed the Bishops responsible for ecumenism in their Episcopal Conferences and Synods of the Oriental Catholic Churches.In the letter, the two Cardinals offer practical suggestions aimed at implementing the ecumenical dimension of the synodal process in Dioceses, Episcopal Conferences, and Synods.The Vademecum for the Synod affirms: “The dialogue between Christians of different confessions, united by one baptism, has...

A Synod to Create a Synodal Church In order to continue the aggiornamento of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis has decided to launch a synodal journey on the theme: “For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission.” On September 7, 2021, the Holy See released the synod's preparatory document, as well as a vademecum, prior to this synod on synodality.These instruments aim to help dioceses around the world to carry out the first phase of listening to and consulting with the People of God, which will take place from October 2021 to April 2022—the continental phase. The universal phase...

[Catholic Caucus] Grading Francis and Ourselves on the Good Samaritan StandardAs Michael Matt described in a recent Remnant TV video, Francis has now decided that even Our Lord’s Good Samaritan parable can be distorted to advance the globalist agenda:“Do you know what comes to mind now when, together with popular movements, I think of the Good Samaritan? Do you know what comes to mind? The protests over the death of George Floyd. It is clear that this type of reaction against social, racial or macho injustice can be manipulated or exploited by political machinations or whatever, but the main thing...

[Catholic Caucus] An Unwanted “Gift” from Cardinal Cupich The blog PrayTell has recently published an article from Blase Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, in which His Eminence makes some rather strange and bizarre claims in order to justify what he sees as the "The Gift of Traditionis Custodes". Firstly, the Cardinal makes the following rather odd analogy:In 1983, Pope John Paul II reformed the Code of Canon Law of 1917, in order to insure that Church Law conformed to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. Likewise, the saintly pope in 1993 [sic] reformed the Catechism of the Catholic...

[Catholic Caucus] Why the Pope Won't Resign Now “Will Pope Francis resign?” This is the very direct question posed by Le Figaro’s Vaticanist, Jean-Marie Guénois, on his blog “God only knows” of September 19, 2021.Among the elements that allow us to legitimately wonder about Francis’s possible resignation, the French journalist notes the facts observed during the Pope's trip to Hungary and Slovakia, from September 12-15, 2021:“The ‘outing’ this summer by Pope Francis, who had colon surgery on July 4, seems a closed episode. While he traveled to Hungary and Slovakia from September 12 to 15 with his personal doctor,...

On the Feast of Christ the King - 'The Council and the Eclipse of God' - Part XVIII - by Don Pietro Leone – Part 4 of Chapter 4 on Religious Liberty - Christ the King (b): Silence in the Liturgy ‘Christ my King, to Thee alone do I pledge my love, pure as a lily, and my fidelity unto death’ Silence in the Liturgy Michael Davies shows how the new, non-Catholic, that is to say false, social teaching introduced by the Council finds its expression in the new, post-Conciliar liturgy. Speaking of the Feast of Christ the King...

Demons Invited Into SanctuaryCA's pagan MassA California bishop offered Mass to open the Synod of Bishops, with participants in full regalia — pagan regalia. Dream catchers and feathers were the order of the day, along with dancers and an apparent shaman. Church Militant's William Mahoney has more on the event and the bishop overseeing it.Two Sundays ago, drums were heard thumping as a man stood at the pulpit shaking a maraca, waving a feather, and bowing to each of the four directions at the commencement Mass led by San Bernardino's Bp. Alberto Rojas.At the responsorial psalm, fully masked interpretative dancers...

[Catholic Caucus] Louisiana bishop defends Latin Mass, says restricting it would be ‘grossly negligent’Bishop Glen Provost of Lake Charles issued his official response to the Pope’s July motu proprio against the Latin Mass.LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Glen Provost of the Diocese of Lake Charles said it would be “grossly negligent if not callous” to impose any “restrictive law” on the Latin Mass.Pope Francis’ July 16 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes implemented sweeping restrictions on the celebration of the traditional liturgy, or Latin Mass, and declared the novus ordo to be “the unique expression of the lex orandi of the...

Priest Presides Over Novus Ordo Rubber Boat EucharistFather Josef Reisenhofer of Hartberg parish, Graz Diocese, Austria, presided a July 11 Eucharist at the shore of lake Greinbach. For the sermon, he rowed onto the lake in a bright yellow rubber boat.The songs played were banal and profane, and the liturgical texts free-style. At the alleged consecration, Reisenhofer said “Take and drink from it, all of you, this is the cup of love, my blood poured out for you, for all, for reconciliation and peace. Celebrate again and again, so that you do not forget my love.”The Eucharist was broadcast by...

NO RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS? (The Pfizer/Abortion Connection)We've dropped a few clips from the recent Vatican conference on health and vaccines into one of the recent Project Veritas videos on the connection between the Pfizer vaccine and abortion.Why? Because Pope Francis had the CEO of Pfizer speak at that Vatican conference, along with Tony Fauci and Chelsea Clinton. Is Francis ignorant of the Pfizer/Abortion connection? Is he malicious? Why would he not be calling for a religious exemption for the world's 2 billion Catholics? Just how pro-life is this guy?We're in YouTube Jail for the next two weeks. Please help us spread...

LGBT-friendly Irish bishop gives talk to dissident ‘Catholic’ group pushing for women priests‘We Are Church Ireland’ continue to call for the ordination of women priests, a heretical position at odds with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.(LifeSiteNews) — An Irish bishop who previously described a ban on same-sex marriage blessings as “hurtful” has told the dissident “We Are Church Ireland” group that the “door isn’t closed” on the question of married priests.“We Are Church Ireland” rejects magisterial teaching on the male-only priesthood, sodomy, abortion, divorce and the denial of Holy Communion to those in adulterous relationships.Bishop Paul Dempsey, the youngest...

TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 12:54-59 Friends, the famous call of the Vatican II fathers to "read the signs of the times" is grounded in Jesus’ exhortation in the Gospel for today. Followers of Jesus are meant to look at the world with clear eyes, to see what is happening, to be attentive. But this attention is of a particular type. It is not the attention of the scientist or the philosopher or the politician—though it can include those. It is an attention to the things of God. I have often argued that many of us today are still...

[Catholic Caucus] The Quantum Entanglement Theory of Vatican IIWhen Pope Francis issued Traditionis Custodes in July of this year, he attempted to do away with the bizarre situation in which Catholics have lived out their Faith since after the Second Vatican Council. For my whole life, we have had a doubled Mass. There have been two parallel visions of the Faith, and it had become increasingly clear that they were not as similar as the Church has been insisting. Francis tried to solve this dilemma by obliterating one of the two parallel lines.In truth, the “solution” to this situation which...

The Catholic world is abuzz with news that a prominent Anglican Bishop converted to Catholicism. Michael Nazir-Ali, the retired Anglican Bishop of Rochester, England, and once close to being tapped as the Archbishop of Canterbury, was received into the Catholic Church on the Feast of St. Michael (September 29). Needless to say, many Catholics were excited by the news.However, some Catholics were upset by Nazir-Ali’s conversion, while others were perplexed.Who’d be upset? Well, if the reports are true, it sounds like some high-ranking Vatican officials did not support Nazir-Ali’s swimming the Tiber. They considered it a “setback to ecumenism” and...

[Catholic Caucus] Flashback: Francis is in SCHISM from ALL Valid Popes in History who Reject his Sacrilege of Communion for Adulterers Remember when Francis and his collaborators cry “SCHISM” it means they are AFRAID!What are they afraid of?They are AFRAID that it will finally get through the cowardly and apparently not too bright heads of the few faithful bishops that:Zero valid popes in the history of the Catholic Church have committed the sacrilege of instituting as the Vatican’s official teaching that unrepentant adulterous couples can profane the Holy of Holy Jesus Christ who is true God by having unrepentant sinners...

In Glasgow Francis Will Be a No-Show. In His Place Will Be GretaIn Glasgow, at the United Nations conference on climate change to be held from October 31 to November 12, Francis will not be there. He has removed the trip from his schedule. But if he is not going - Father Thomas Reese, former editor of the Jesuit weekly “America,” proposed to his confrere Pope - why not include Greta Thunberg in the Vatican delegation? Why not give none other than her the pope’s seat? Not outside the conference, to demonstrate with the people oppressed by the politicians’ vacuous...

TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 12:39-48 Friends, in today’s Gospel, we meet a prudent steward who serves his master wisely. I would like to say something about prudence and wisdom. In the Middle Ages, prudence was called “the queen of the virtues,” because it was the virtue that enabled one to do the right thing in a particular situation. Prudence is a feel for the moral situation, something like the feel that a quarterback has for the playing field. Justice is a wonderful virtue, but without prudence, it is blind and finally useless. One can be as just as...

Francis Needs Our Weakness to Build His Ape ChurchWould you have thought that such a situation could ever arise? Keeping in mind that the ape religion was similar enough in external form to the Catholic Church that it would “deceive even the elect,” what would you have thought the new religion would look like? Would you have been confident that you would not be deceived by such a new religion?Whether we call it an ape church or not, the reality is that we have a situation tragically similar to the one Bishop Sheen foretold. Imagine that as you were pondering...

[Catholic Caucus] Priest: Did They Suppress the Latin Mass for the Synod on Synodality?I am one of those “aging boomer” priests that, according to the stereotype, is supposed to cherish Saint Louis Jesuit music, liturgical dance and the like. Only I don’t and even in my exclusively Novus Ordo days never really did. I was spiritually and temperamentally prepared for my Bishop asking me to help with the celebration of the traditional Mass. It was a tough learning curve, thirty eight years ordained and just the NO but I did it. As other priests have said of their first celebration...

[Catholic Caucus] Press Review: “Traditionis Custodes” in the Context of the Current Crisis (2) There have been many comments and analyses of the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes this summer. All place the decision taken by Francis to limit the celebration of the traditional Mass as much as possible in the context of the crisis which is currently shaking the Church, but with very different perspectives.On August 6, there appeared on the Correspondance européenne site, under the pen of Cristiana de Magistris, an article which sees in Traditionis Custodes the act of a weak power: “the document does not appear...