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[Catholic Caucus] Priest expert on Freemasonry says Vatican cardinals spread ‘disinformation’ about SSPXLifeSiteNews is pleased to publish Fr. Charles Murr's preface to reporter Kennedy Hall's latest book, 'SSPX: The Defence'.(LifeSiteNews) — Fr. Charles Murr, a close friend of both Sister Pascalina, personal secretary to Pope Pius XII, and Cardinal Édouard Joseph Gagnon has written a fascinating foreword to a new book by LifeSite journalist Kennedy Hall about Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the Society of St. Pius X.Fr. Murr endorses Hall’s SSPX: The Defence, an attempt to defend the work of the traditionalist priestly society, and he describes how...

SECOND WEEK OF EASTER John 3:31-36Friends, today’s Gospel promises eternal life to those who believe in the Son of God.In almost every religion, the life of faith has something to do with a creature’s relationship to the Creator; nearly all religions speak of the creature’s dependency upon God, of his subjection to the divine providence, and of his need for grace and forgiveness. Christianity, too, articulates these basic relationships, but it pushes beyond them because it speaks of the Incarnation and the gifts associated with it.We hear in the third chapter of John’s Gospel that “God so loved the world...

Can We Call Ourselves “Traditional Catholics”?Painting: “A Mass Scene” by José Miralles Darmanin (1851–1900).Some people object to the phrase “traditional Catholic,” as if it were redundant: Aren’t Catholics by definition adherents of Catholic tradition—and thus, any Roman Catholic has as much right to be called “traditional” as he has to be called “Roman”?How sweet it would be if this were true. Alas, it is far from being the case.Let’s take up the charge of redundancy first. “Roman Catholic Christian” may seem like a triple redundancy, yet it is useful precisely because there are Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Christians, as well...

Cardinals Roche and Cantalamessa: The Mass of Paul VI Corresponds to a New Theology Cardinals Roche and Cantalamessa: The Mass of Paul VI Corresponds to a New TheologyGuest article by José Antonio UretaCardinals Arthur Roche and Raniero Cantalamessa indirectly acknowledged (perhaps unintentionally) what critics of Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae have said for over fifty years: the new rite corresponds to a new theology that “represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.”[1]On March 19, 2023, when...

[Catholic Caucus] Our Lord is Truly Risen, But His Church Remains Fettered by Vatican II“And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:14) In his commentary on St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, Cornelius a Lapide elaborated on the logic of St. Paul’s words about the necessary link between the Resurrection and our Faith:“It rightly follows that, if Christ has not risen, we are still in our sins; for . . . if Christ has not risen, therefore faith in risen Christ, which is the basis for...

[Catholic Caucus] REGNAVIT A LIGNO DEUS: God reigns from the Cross A Triduum Greeting to Remnant ReadersVexilla regis prodeunt, fulget crucis mysterium: The insignia of the King advance, the Mystery of the Cross shines forth. These are the words of the hymn which we have sung during the moving liturgical celebration of Good Friday, when the Blessed Sacrament is carried from the Sepulcher to the altar for the Communion of the priest. And these same solemn words were adopted in 1793 as the hymn of the Vendéean Army during the heroic Catholic uprising against the French Revolution. At that...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò on Easter Sunday: “The True Reset is Returning to the Truth of Christ,” Who is Risen IndeedIN AZYMIS SINCERITATISHomily for Easter SundayFratres: Expurgate vetus fermentumut sitis nova conspersio, sicut estis azymi.Etenim Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus.Itaque epulemur: non in fermento veteri,neque in fermento malitiæ, et nequitiæ:sed in azymis sinceritatis et veritatis. Brothers: Clear out the old yeastso that you may be a new dough,since you are unleavened.For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.Therefore, let us feast: not with the old leaven,nor with the ferment of malice and wickedness:but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.I...

Cardinal Müller comes out fighting on all frontsThe blessing of rainbow couples is heresy. The Belgian bishops cannot legitimise it by referring to alleged statements by the Pope. Even if he had said so, it is not within his competence to change Revelation". "The aim of the German Synodal Path is to become the locomotive of the universal Church". "To attack the ancient rite is absurd". "The Roman Curia is not the Vatican State, its secularisation is a theological error". Cardinal Müller speaks, on the occasion of the release of his book The Pope. Ministry and Mission.It is hard to...

[Catholic Caucus] “What if all these brilliant innovators were nothing more than a bunch of atrocious imbeciles?”: Msgr. Celada on the 1960sLast October 24, I published here a translation of a remarkable open letter written by Msgr. Domenico Celada in 1969. What follows is an article he published late in February 1969 in the periodical Il Tempo. Enjoy the clarity of this distinguished musicologist and — we must surely say looking back — prophet of the Lord. —PAKA “beat” Mass in Italy, from a book by Msgr. CeladaI remember having written, in the April-June 1966 issue of a music magazine,...

Montini’s Credo: Rubbish or treasure?A Canadian priest by the name of Fr. Paul Joseph Martin McDonald, who some readers may recognize for his “Ask Father” videos on the new Fatima Center’s website, recently took to Facebook to praise the so-called “Credo of the People of God” calling it:An extremely important document of Saint Pope Paul VI. A profession of Faith by the Successor of Peter of “the immortal Tradition of the holy Church of God” and in particular, of truths that were and are disputed, doubted or even rejected since the time of the Council.As I replied in comments that...

[Catholic Caucus] Does Francis’s Disastrously Flawed Vision Flow Naturally from Vatican II?After ten years of destructive attacks on the Faith, it has now become clear to all with eyes to see that Francis’s vision for the Church is an unholy nightmare. Traditional Catholics knew this from the beginning, but today many people who respected John Paul II and Paul VI also wonder how we can see Francis as Catholic, let alone pope. Significantly, though, Francis follows his predecessors in claiming to adhere to Vatican II — is he mistaken in this regard or does his failed vision actually flow naturally...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Roche on the Vatican II RuptureAbove: Bishop Athanasius Schneider offers the Holy Mass at St. Peter’s church in Steubenville, Ohio, United States. Photo by Allison Girone.As I recently wrote on Catholic Answers, the confusion surrounding the meaning of Traditionis custodes, and its flotilla of supplementary documents, is beginning to resemble that around Amoris Laetitia. I was talking specifically about the purpose of the document: what vision of the ecclesial landscape inspires it. Here I want to focus on the equally opaque reasoning behind it.Last Sunday BBC Radio 4 aired a short report on the Traditional Mass. They...

[Catholic Caucus] From Freemasonic Dreams to Francis: Why Are Catholics Talking About Married Priests? “Something has changed within the Church, and replies given by the Pope to the most urgent questions, such as priestly celibacy and birth control, are hotly debated within the Church itself; the word of the Supreme Pontiff is questioned by bishops, by priests, by the faithful. For a Freemason, a man who questions dogma is already a Freemason without an apron.” (French Freemason Jaques Mitterand, as quoted in Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s Open Letter to Confused Catholics)As much as we may dislike Paul VI and his disastrous...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Roche says Latin Mass needs to be restricted because the ‘theology of the Church has changed’Cardinal Arthur Roche's latest claim to defend the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass runs in opposition to the teaching of popes throughout history.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Defending the increasing restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, Cardinal Arthur Roche – who leads the Vatican’s Congregation (now Dicastery) for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments – stated that “the theology of the Church has changed.”Speaking on BBC Radio 4 for a program aired March 19, Roche defended the restrictions on the Traditional...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis praises modernistic sacred architecture at awards presentationThe pope described the award-winning chapel and church as 'an intervention of liturgical renovation and adaptation.'New St. Thomas Church in Pontedera, ItalyIn a March 14 message to the Pontifical Academies on the occasion of their 26th public session, Pope Francis congratulated the recipients of two awards given by the Academies for work in sacred architecture.The public session, organized by the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon, was dedicated to sacred architecture. The gold medal was awarded to the OPPS Architecture studio in Florence...

[Catholic Caucus] A Heartrending Trad NovelThis is an excellent book. It was so successful at portraying its heartrending themes that it made me feel physically sick. That makes it one of two novels to ever have affected me that way (the other was Rumer Godden’s In this house of Brede). Judith’s Marriage deserves a high ranking among novels dealing with the theology of marriage and family, while as a work of fiction treating explicitly traditionalist themes, it is almost unique in modern Catholic literature. An Englishman and convert to Catholicism, Bryan Houghton was ordained a priest in 1940. In 1969...

[Catholic Caucus] Ten Years of Francis: Destruction without Reconstruction in a Vatican that feels like North Korea -- by Aldo Maria Valli On the Ten Years of Francis (2013 - 2023)You have been redeemed at great cost; do not become slaves of men.1 Corinthians 7:23By Aldo Maria ValliTo comment on the ten years of Francis' pontificate, the words written by Demos (also known as the late Cardinal Pell) in the memorandum he wanted to distribute to all the cardinals a year ago would suffice: "A disaster in more ways than one, a catastrophe."Bergoglio has succeeded in the fine feat,...

[Catholic Caucus] The Fruits of “Francis” Yes I realize that the title sounds a bit odd. By fruits I am certainly not referring to the myriad sodomite priests, dykenuns, and assorted hangers-on that openly prance about the proverbial halls of the Church writ-large over the past decade. No, these fruits are legitimate and, if I may, quite beautiful – lush, fragrant, and ripe. Like many of you, my inbox has been filled up lately with articles sent to me by other trads marking the tenth anniversary of the throne squatting of Jorge Bergoglio. One in particular was sent to me...

[Catholic Caucus] Rome’s Persecution of the Traditional Latin Mass is the Most Important Sign in the World TodayAs Michael Matt highlighted in his recent Remnant Underground, tyrannical governments have occasionally banned the Traditional Latin Mass because they have hated the immutable Catholic Faith it embodies. The Church has always presented for our imitation the saintly examples of those Catholics who have risked their liberty, and even lives, to preserve the Mass in the face of such persecution. Today, however, those purporting to be the Catholic hierarchy in Rome have given us an unmistakable sign of the diabolically disoriented times: they...

“Continuous ‘Aggiornamento’” and Revolution World without End?After months of “listening to the People of God” and reviewing reports prepared by dioceses and episcopal conferences around the globe, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops in Rome has produced a “Working Document for the Continental Stage” (DCS), the next phase of the three-year Synod on Synodality (Oct. 2021—Oct. 2024).[1]The 49-page text, released last fall on Oct. 27, 2022 via a Vatican press conference, consists of four chapters and centers around a theme drawn from Scripture: “Enlarge the space of your tent” (Isa. 54:2). “This image and narrative,” the document states,...