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[Catholic Caucus] Some lies to entertain you "The New Mass is what Vatican II ordered."Vatican II, in its Sacrosanctum Concilium, gave sensible guidelines for the reform of the Liturgy. Unfortunately, these guidelines were largely ignored in the decade that followed. RUPTURE!"All but four of the Council Fathers voted for the New Rite."No; what all but four of the Fathers voted for was Sacrosanctum Concilium. But this actual Conciliar Decree was largely ignored once 'the Experts' got their hands on the levers of power. RUPTURE!"Modern Catholic Worship is what the Council wanted."Even the New Rite as actually drafted after the...

Cardinal Cupich and The Big LieCardinal Blase Cupich recently furthered The Big Lie of our times.This Lie of surpassing Bigness is not the systematic cover-up of decades of sexual abuse by ecclesiastical authorities, although this can certainly be laid at their feet. Neither is it the strange eagerness of many bishops to promote illegal immigration, resettlement, and the mass injection of citizens with abortion-tainted serums (positions entirely unrelated to attracting government funding as a replacement for collapsing pew-sitter revenues, so we’re told).No, The Big Lie considered here is far more fundamental, nefarious, and harmful to man’s salvation. This lie has...

[Catholic Caucus] Don’t Avoid The SSPX. Avoid The VC II Church.The Diocese of Denver has “warned” their faithful from attending Mass at a chapel of the SSPX. Some people really are tone deaf. Such an appeal would have been dumb enough in normal times. People don’t attend at the SSPX chapel because they happen to be in the neighbourhood. They attend there because the TLM gives them a nourishment the Novus Ordo never could, and they want to give witness of sound Catholicism in the time of Francis. The dumbness becomes, then, absolutely idiotic if you consider that we live...

The Younger The Priests The More They Are Critical of Francis' Vatican II BackwardnessA 2021 survey by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture queried US priests on issues including abortion, homosexual behaviour, and their approval of Francis.The result: The younger the priests the more likely they affirm Catholic positions. 90% of priests ordained after 2010 said that abortion is always a sin compared to just 56% of those ordained prior to 1980, the generation of Francis who was ordained in 1969.89% of priests ordained after 2010 said homosexual behavior is always sinful, compared to 34% of...

German Priest Performs Gay Pseudo-Blessing In Gay SaunaFather Wolfgang Rothe performed a November 4 homosex blessing in Munich's gay sauna Deutsche Eiche, he wrote on Facebook.com.Rothe who has a dazzling biography was accompanied by a BBC "journalist." Ordained by conservative St Pölten Bishop Kurt Krenn, Austria, he became the vice-rector of now defunct St Pölten seminary. In 2004 pictures showing him while seemingly kissing seminarians on their lips producing a scandal that made worldwide headlines. After that, Rothe returned to Germany working in Munich Archdiocese.In recent years, he has again been active on the homosex front. In May, photos showing...

[Catholic Caucus] Liturgical Screwtape Letters Leaked to Gloria.tvA July 28 letter of Westminster Cardinal Nichols to Archbishop Roche, the Prefect of the Liturgy Congregation, has been leaked to Gloria.tv (below).It contains six questions regarding the application of Traditionis Custodes. Nichols asked:- whether following-up documents on TC will be issued;- whether TC abrogates the celebration of the other sacraments and the Roman Breviary;- whether the Novus Ordo calendar must be imposed on the Roman Rite;- what translations must be used for Roman Rite readings;- who exactly constitutes a Roman Rite “group” (TC);- whether TC allows for Roman Rite Requiems according to...

Pope Hugs Anti-Christian Hindu NationalistIndian Catholics compare meeting to Hitler's greeting Vatican officialsVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Indian Christians are exploding with outrage after the Vatican released photographs of Pope Francis and India's anti-Christian prime minister Narendra Modi clasped in a warm embrace. Meme compares Hitler and Modi meetings India's religious minorities and secular-minded Hindus — who regard Modi as a racist, populist, nationalist and Hindu-supremacist politician — recoiled in horror at the images of Modi and Francis during a papal audience Saturday. Christians asked if Francis had addressed the persecution of minorities that has peaked under Modi, with Christians and...

Pope Francis’ ecumenical Abrahamic Family House project contradicts the teachings of JesusThe price of entry into the Abrahamic House is to de-emphasize the central elements of the Christian faith. The proposed Abrahamic Family House, to be built in Abu Dhabi. From left to right: the mosque, the church, and the synagogue.The Abrahamic Family House is scheduled to open in Abu Dhabi in 2022. It will consist of three main buildings — a mosque, a church, and a synagogue. A project of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF), the Abrahamic Family House was inspired by the 2019 Document on Human...

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...