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The Council and the Eclipse of God by Don Pietro Leone- CHAPTER 10 - part 5: ‘The Principal Agents of the Council ’: 1. THE DEVIL'The Devil Entering Through A Window In The Church'(Detail from St. Anthony the Hermit in the Isenheim Altarpiece)by Matthias Grünewald (late 15th early 16th century) II The Principal Agents of the Council Here we consider: 1. The Devil; 2. The Bishops; 3. The Freemasons; 4. The Protestants; 5. The Periti; 6. The Press. 1. The Devil We proceed to examine: a) The Devil’s Agency in General; b b) Marks of the Devil’s Agency in the...

Abp. Chaput adds insult to injury for Arlington Catholics who love the Latin Mass'I also understand why the Pope thought he needed to act at this time' to restrict the Traditional Latin Mass, Archbishop Chaput told Arlington Catholics, who lost many of their beloved parish TLMs in what has become known around the diocese as a 'massacre.'ARLINGTON, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – Many Catholics attached to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) “simultaneously reject many parts” of the Second Vatican Council and “you don’t have to scratch them very hard before they bleed anti-Council thoughts and sentiments,” Philadelphia archbishop emeritus Charles Chaput claimed...

Archbishop Viganò: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is wrong to praise the diabolical revolution of Vatican IIIt appears that in recent decades the model of the Church which has inspired the proponents of Vatican II is that of the 'civitas diaboli,' judging by the support that the Holy See offers to globalist ideology, to the neo-Malthusian delusions of the ‘green economy,’ to transhumanism, and to the entire gender and LGBT repertoire.Editor’s note: Below follows the full text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s latest essay, “DE HOC MUNDO: The ‘secularization’ of authority as a premise for religious freedom and ecumenical dialogue theorized...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò: The post-Vatican II church has almost entirely eclipsed the Church of Christ'There is something terribly self-centered, typical of Luciferian pride, in claiming to be better than those who preceded us.'Editor’s Note: Below follows the full text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s latest essay titled “REPETITA JUVANT: How with its own self-referentiality the ‘conciliar church’ places itself outside of the path of the Tradition of the Church of Christ.”(LifeSiteNews) — With the prosopopoeia that distinguishes ideological propaganda, the recent Bergoglian panegyric on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Opening of the Ecumenical Council Vatican II...

[Catholic Caucus] “Lofty concepts and great hopes cannot be separated, in practical judgment, from their effects” — Guest article on the Birthday of Vatican II The main hall in Pennsylvania Station, 1910-1963Few other occurrences in history have their achievements celebrated as often as does the Second Vatican Council. So, although rather tiresome, the laudatory commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Council is de rigueur for today’s rather tiresome ecclesial establishment. Worthy of note, however, is the defensive tone adopted for the birthday party in which the Council’s partisans have made a point to defend the Council...

Outcome of Francis' Term: "The Church Is in Ruins" - SchneiderThe aim of the synod on synodality is to undermine the faith and adapt it to a [supposed] "fashion of the day", Bishop Athanasius Schneider told EWTN (20 October).He denounced the diocesan synodal processes as non-transparent, manipulative and a way of hearing only those who want to change the faith, while Catholics "are despised or not heard".Catholic people and priests told Schneider that their input into the synod has been ignored and "many" bishops fear the synod is a cover for a pre-determined agenda in Rome. He agrees with Cardinal...

[Catholic Caucus] Intentions Abandoned and Ignored: Cardinal Montini at Vatican II, Sixty Years Ago Today The 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council (11th October 1962) has recently passed, accompanied with the usual panegyrics and plaudits, this time round with the addition of so-called "synodality". Indeed, we should, so the Pope says, "return to the Council's pure sources of love... rediscover the Council's passion and renew our own passion for the Council."I thought, then, that it would be perfectly in keeping with the Pope's words to look at what the Council Fathers actually had to say...

[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...