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[Catholic Caucus] Today’s day thought experiment: The Oregon TrailA friend sent this:I never played Oregon Trail, but I watched enough Westerns and studied enough history that I get the gist.Today’s day thought experiment:The wagon train is headed west. After crossing the Mississippi, things seem to go well through the plains – but then as things start to rise toward the Rockies, the going gets tougher. There are some Native attacks, the path gets more difficult. The wagon train is still largely together, but it’s showing signs of imminent trouble.The leadership calls a brief halt to discuss what’s going wrong and...

[Catholic Caucus] The Roadmap of Archbishop Roche: Liquidate the Traditional Liturgy! Rorate is pleased to present a translation of the Paix Liturgique Letter 837, with permission of Christian Marquant. The Roadmap of Archbishop Roche: Liquidate the Traditional Liturgy!(Paix Liturgique Letter 837 in French)The future Cardinal Arthur Roche is a key figure in the project to destroy the traditional liturgy. This man, who likes his ease and his tranquility, does not have the stature of a historical figure, nor does he seek to be one: Auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, said Horace, Whoever loves golden mediocrity...This 71-year-old Englishman from Yorkshire, former...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Plans Bloodbath: Roman Rite Communities Will Be FORCED Into Novus OrdoMichael Charlier writes on Summorum-Pontificum.de (30 November) that measures will be announced before the end of 2021 to force all Roman Rite communities into the Novus Ordo.Charlier has published accurate reports and predictions in the past. Francis wants to "return" the Roman Rite communities "to the single mode of celebration" of the New Pseudo-Rite, before publishing regulations for Traditionis Custodes.According to Charlier, papal delegates will be sent to these communities. Unlike commissioners, they won't replace existing superiors but will be their superiors. Their mandate is "to reconcile"...

We Are Church International urges Pope Francis to make the Church participatory in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council An international group of Catholic laypeople have urged Pope Francis to replace the upcoming Synod on Synodality with an assembly of Catholics to make the Church participatory. We Are Church (WAC) International, a global coalition of national church reform groups, made the appeal as Catholics across the world participate in diocesan and regional consultations leading to the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican in October 2023. Pope Francis kicked off the two-year global consultation in Rome on Oct. 10. For...

Shepherding the Flock Out of the 1962 MissalThe time has come, says God to Moses. You must lead my people out of Egypt, out of captivity, toward the Promised Land.1 Unfortunately for the eager travelers, the journey lasts 40 years,2 and along the way the people murmur; they look back in nostalgia at the good things they once had.3 And they doubt that they will ever make it to the Promised Land. Many of them, in fact, die along the way.4 It is not easy to shepherd a people from one place to another physically; it is much harder to...

Liturgical Polarisation: a Reply to Fr Ruff Mass celebrated Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, London, on the feast of St Cecelia.The Mass was offered for the good estate of Vladimir Ashkenazy and his family:he is the sole survivor of the signatories of the 1971 Petition which prompted PopePaul VI to grant the first of the 'Indults' allowing public celebrations.Fr Anthony Ruff at the Pray, Tell blog tells us that the basic picture, in the debate about liturgy, is that either one supports Vatican II and the reformed liturgy to the exclusion of the preconciliar liturgy, or one shows greater or...

The Council and Eclipse of God- by Don Pietro Leone: Installment XX - Chapter V: The ‘Church and the World.’ This last chapter of Part I deals with the Church's relations with the World. Don Pietro shows how the Council teaching here combines the errors of Ecumenism and Religious Liberty, and has the net result of constructing a sort of notional 'Church-World', an aberrant fantasy condemned By St. Pius X over a century ago, and now being re-proposed by the contemporary global powers as the Masonic 'One World-Order.' F.R. V THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD Now Catholic Tradition divides...

[Catholic Caucus] South Carolina bishop restricts Latin Mass, bans some traditional sacraments altogetherBishop Robert E. Guglielmone expressly prohibited the traditional sacraments of confirmation and anointing of the sick. Wed Nov 24, 2021 - 6:25 am EST CHARLESTON, South Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Charleston’s Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone has issued a letter severely restricting the Latin Mass and traditional sacraments, while attacking those he described as “relegating the ‘NOVUS ORDO’ to a lesser expression of the prayer of the Church.”Dated November 12, Guglielmone’s letter told the priests and deacons of the Charleston, South Carolina, diocese that the Second Vatican Council had “indicated...

[Catholic Caucus] How the Modernists and Francis Turn Catholic Foundations into SandRegardless of whether “we perceive the intrinsic truth” of the Faith, we believe the truths the Church has always taught because God, the Revealer, can neither deceive nor be deceived. And since our Faith “is the beginning of human salvation,” we would be absolute fools to choose the opinions of men over the truth revealed by God, which can never change.If this Faith is strong enough to have inspired Catholics to become Martys for nearly two thousand years, surely it is strong enough to lead Catholics to resist any...

[Catholic Caucus] The Persecuted Mystical Body of Christ: Our Source of Direction and ConfidenceThe Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, resembling Christ and suffering as Christ suffered. When Pope Pius XII wrote this encyclical during Word War II, the world and the Church suffered immensely, but he knew that greater sufferings were on the horizon. As Christopher Ferrara related in The Secret Still Hidden, Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) made the following observation while he was the Vatican Secretary of State during Pope Pius XI’s papacy:“I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucia of Fatima....

The Mass of Paul VI “Well Celebrated”—a Myth! (Guest Article by Cyril Farret d’Astiès) Rorate Caeli is pleased to offer a translation of Paix Liturgique newsletter 833 of November 15, 2021, with permission of the editor Christian Marquant. Cyril Farret d’Astiès’s article is preceded and succeeded by remarks from Paix Liturgique.INTRODUCTIONA few weeks ago, a group of priests, religious and lay people, led by our friend Denis Crouan of the association “Pro Liturgia,” seized the opportunity of the publication by Francis of his motu proprio Traditionis custodes to launch a plea to our pastors to “finally” implement the Novus...

‘The Council and Eclipse of God’ Installment XIX: The Council’s Failure to Condemn the Moral Evil of Communism - by Don Pietro Leone A. The Council’s Failure to Condemn the Moral Evil of Communism [1] John XXIII with Vitalij Borovoj and Vladimir Kotjarov. the two observers of the Russian Orthodox Church who partcipated at the Second Vatican Council.Historical Sketch Despite the claims to charismatic inspiration for the Council, the opinion of many of the Fathers that large parts of Europe would become overtly Communist, were later to be shown to be mistaken. Such an opinion led to the policy of...

[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...