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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Hollerich Projects Novus Ordo Group Problems onto CatholicsHomosexualist Jean-Claude Hollerich (Luxembourg's Cardinal), relator general of the Synod on Synods, stated that the disastrous Vatican II “saved the Church” [sic!].He told VidaNuevaDigital (17 October): "If we had not had this point of reform [sic!], which was Vatican II, the Church today would be a small sect, unknown to most people" - which is indeed the current state of the Novus Ordo Church.Hollerich lamented that the strongest opposition to the failed Vatican II came from "the traditionalists," who "are also, curiously, a postmodern phenomenon." Resistance to failure, however, is...

At Sacred Heart University conference, theologians reengage with Vatican IILast week, Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by hosting a wonderful conference, "Vatican II and Catholic Higher Education: Leading Forward." The school, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary next year, was a fruit of the council, the first Catholic university under lay leadership in the country. The event was part of a growing body of evidence that a significant minority of U.S. Catholic theologians are reengaging with Vatican II, and ecclesiology more generally, in important ways.Massimo Faggioli of...

[Catholic Caucus] Evil Clown Is Very AfraidTough luck, evil clown… The Second Vatican Council started his official path 60 years ago. At that time: Families were intact all over the West. Divorce was banned or very rare in Catholic countries, still fairly rare elsewhere. Catholic churches were full. Catholicism was state religion in Italy, France, Spain and many other European and Southern American Countries. Abortion was forbidden over most of the West. Illegal abortions were generally rare, and very risky. Sodomy Laws were in the books (if likely not brutally enforced) in most European Countries. Most people knew so much...

“Traditionalism: Fidelity, Resistance, Work of the Church”: Jean-Pierre Maugendre On Saturday, September 24, 2022, a symposium on the future of the traditional Mass was held in Paris, bringing together nearly 500 participants. The great success of this event, co-organized in particular by the associations Oremus-Paix Liturgique and Renaissance Catholique, was due to the quality of the interventions and in particular that of Jean-Pierre Maugendre, President of Renaissance Catholique, a translation of which appears below.Everything began well:The Council that has just opened is like a resplendent dawn that is rising over the Church, and already the first rays of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis says ‘traditionalism’ is ‘infidelity’ to the Catholic Church and Vatican II‘Traditionalism’ is a form ‘of a Pelagian selfishness that puts our own tastes and plans above the love that pleases God, the simple, humble and faithful love that Jesus asked of Peter,’ said Pope Francis.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis attacked “traditionalism” as being “evidence … of infidelity” to the Catholic Church.The Argentinian Pontiff made his remarks in his homily during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on October 10, marking the 60th anniversary...

[Catholic Caucus] A Snapshot of the Church before Vatican II: How Today’s Crisis Cures the Pre-Conciliar IllsAlthough Francis has tried his best to make it clear, some faithful Catholics still do not accept the reality that certain parts of Vatican II itself are opposed to what the Church has always taught. This is the case despite the fact that we have admissions from the Council’s progressive architects that they intentionally included ambiguities and previously condemned ideas into the Council documents. These architects and their followers have spent the past sixty years exploiting those heterodox passages to advance their anti-Catholic initiatives.As...

[Catholic Caucus] Saint Called Vatican II “Time of Darkness”Before the end of Vatican II, in February 1965, someone announced to Padre Pio that a eucharist would soon be presided according to a New Rite, ad experimentum, in the vernacular, a rite that had been composed by a liturgical commission to respond to the “inspirations of modern man.”Padre Pio immediately wrote to Paul VI, even before he had seen the text, to ask him to be dispensed from this liturgical experiment and to be allowed to continue celebrating Mass.When Cardinal Antonio Bacci (+1971) came to visit him to bring him the...

Ecclesial Center-Right and Center-Left Strategies Have Been Tried and Found Wanting — Article by Abbé Claude Barthe Vatican II, we need more Vatican II! But the reforming elixir has long since grown stale...Reforming what, by the way? Francis's grand design, symbolized by Prædicate Evangelium, the constitution that reforms the Curia, is as much a reform of the Church according to the spirit of Vatican II as it is a reform of the Curia. There is certainly an ambiguity about the object -- the Curia, the Church -- which is prolonged and increased by the media, but the links between...

Bishop Schneider: Pope’s ‘persecution’ of the Latin Mass an ‘abuse of power’ which must be resisted‘The current persecution’ against the traditional liturgy resembles the Arian persecution of the Catholic faith, said Bishop Schneider.PITTSBURGH (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider has described Pope Francis’ restrictions on the traditional Mass as a “gross abuse of the papal office” which “violate the 2,000 year tradition” of the Catholic Church.His Excellency made the comments in his prepared address to participants of the Catholic Identity Conference, organized by The Remnant in Pittsburgh over the weekend. The full recording of his talk, along with that of...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis’s Unholy Occupation of the Papacy, Fatima, and the Pressing Need for HolinessOctober 4, 2022 will mark the third anniversary of Francis’s introduction of the Pachamama idol at the Vatican. During the past three years, Francis has caused numerous other grave scandals, each of which would have been considered unthinkable prior to Vatican II:He has convoked the Synod on Synodality, which by its structure and objectives seeks to undermine the immutable nature of the Catholic Faith and set aside Christian morality;He travelled to Canada to apologize for evils the Church did not commit and be present for a...

Cristina Siccardi: New sanctuary in Italian cathedral reveals expensive “assisted suicide” of postconciliar Church The whole world witnessed the mighty sacred pageantry of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral rite, which lasted a full 12 days and concluded in the presence of 2 million subjects and people who came from all over to bid farewell to the Queen, who was delivered by Anglican officiants strictly dressed in mourning (unlike the modern Church of Rome in its funeral liturgies), in solemn and majestic form, to her eternal rest, blatantly displaying Britain's traditional monarchical-style identity with its rites, symbols, banners, and hymns.In contrast,...

[Catholic Caucus] Future Bleak for Vatican II MassMy parish is forced back into compliance with the “unique liturgical expression of the Roman rite” this month, as expressed by Pope Francis in Traditionis custodes, with the banning of the traditional Latin Mass in my as well as in other parish churches. This in order to open us to the full experience of the wonders of Vatican II and its sole expression of public prayer in the Novus Ordo or Mass of Paul VI. Pope Francis’ vision of the full flowering of the 1960’s revolution is now realized only through compliance with...

[Catholic Caucus] Ratzinger, Tyconius, and Fatima: An Interpretive Key for the End Times. Dear friends and foes of Stilum Curiae, a scholar has sent us this short essay which we gladly offer for your attention, convinced that it may be of great interest. Happy reading. §§§ Ratzinger, Tyconius, and Fatima: An Interpretive Key for the End Times By A Marian Soul It is no easy task to understand the present crisis of evil within the Church, which at times may seem overwhelming. Benedict XVI has indicated that the theology of Tyconius can assist the Church in understanding how to expose...

[Catholic Caucus] Diocese in the Netherlands announces parishes will no longer offer Mass every Sunday'In many deaneries, it is simply no longer possible to find and maintain structured enough priests to celebrate the Eucharist every weekend in every church; other places are experiencing a shortage of priests.'ROERMOND, Netherlands (LifeSiteNews) – As Mass attendance continues to dwindle, the Diocese of Roermond in the Netherlands recently announced its parishes will no longer offer the Mass every Sunday.Citing a shortage of priests and volunteers as well as an increase in energy costs, Vicar General René Maessen wrote in a letter last month that...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Weakland Stole More Than Money, He Stole the FaithSpeak only good things of the dead, the saying goes. The yoga division of The New York Times assumed a veritable Möbius strip of a position to attempt to write a laudable obituary for Rembert Weakland, the disgraced former archbishop of Milwaukee, who died the other day at the age of 95.It wasn’t entirely successful. The eulogist, one Robert D. McFadden, did have to mention that Weakland “paid” $450,000 as hush money to ward off a lawsuit by his former male lover, who accused him of sexual assault. I...

[Catholic Caucus] From Vatican II to Pregnant Men: Bounding Down the Path of Diabolical InsanityOne can imagine a world in which life simply became progressively worse without also becoming increasingly absurd, but such is not the world in which we live today. Our Church and world have gotten astonishingly worse since Francis introduced us to his blasphemous Pachamama in October 2019, and every single wicked development has also involved an aspect of phenomenal absurdity. We do not necessarily hear the demons laughing uproariously, but surely they are.Insanity did not originate with the Second Vatican Council, but there is a clear...

Michael Davies in 1976: “My Lord, this is not the action of a good shepherd but a bad bureaucrat” Now that current Church leaders have adopted the motto of “Back to the 1970s” (who is the “backwardist”?), it is worthwhile to take out and dust off some of the great writings from that period, such as this masterful letter penned by the premiere English apologist for the TLM, Michael Davies, in response to Bishop Donohoe of Fresno’s vitriolic letter against the traditional Mass. The letter was published in The Remnant on March 20, 1976. Below is a copy of...

American Mass Attendance Before and After “the Council.”Photo credit above: Dr. Peter Kwasniewski.A new CARA study quoting Gallup polls has recently published statistics on current American Catholicism as seen above. We have all known for awhile that there were more ex-Catholics than Catholics in the USA, but the spread is enormous in the above numbers that just came out in 2022. In one graphic from CARA (above chart) see especially that there’s almost 113 million US Catholics baptized but only about 53 million of them even attempt to attend yearly Mass at Christmas and Easter.Another study (above) came out a...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope hails post-Vatican II liturgical moves, calls for ‘dialogue’ to promote lay and female ministriesPope Francis called for discussions amongst the world’s bishops to further promote the changes to the Church promoted after Vatican II. His letter was described as pushing ‘a revolutionary process.’ANALYSISVATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has issued a message praising the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s abolition of the Catholic Church’s traditional minor orders, calling for further examination of the “richness” of this decision, and hinting at future actions that would undermine the ordained priesthood.

[Catholic Caucus] The “Latin Novus Ordo” Is Not the SolutionIn the wake of Traditionis Custodes, some have made the good-faith suggestion that a “solution” for a future depleted of traditional Latin Masses is “doing the Novus Ordo in Latin.”This is an absolute non-starter for several reasons.First, the missals are notably different. All you have to do is compare them to see that the Order of Mass and the Propers of the Mass are largely divergent. The classic article here is Matthew Hazell’s, demonstrating that only 13% of the orations of the old missal are found intact in the new one...