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[Catholic Caucus] “What is ‘indietrism’ backwardness) anyway?”—Michael Charlier Just in case you live on an island of the blessed and haven't figured out what "indietrism" is yet: it's supposed to mean something like backwardness or restorationism. With this expression, invented by himself, our holy stepfather refers to all Catholics who adhere to the Apostolic Tradition and ecclesiastical tradition even where it does not fit into his Jesuit frame -- and that is quite a lot of it.So if you, dear reader, are not visiting this website for the first time, but -- alone or with others, several times or even...

AggiornamentoI read an article days ago complaining that 50% of those baptised as Catholics stop attending as young adults. I am surprised it’s not more. Looking at my experience in the UK, I can give to my readers some clues as to why. Firstly, it is a very childish experience. The lack of solemnity and the dumbing down of the liturgy has made of the Mass an exercise for children. When the children grow up, they don’t want to be identified with that stuff anymore. Second, it is a very child-oriented experience. You see here the anxious desire to keep...

Catholic Mass Attendance Has Fallen by HalfI was born and raised Southern Baptist. Gave my life to Jesus at 15. Got baptized in a pair of white pajamas. Then, I went to a Free Methodist college. Got a job at an American Baptist Church and have been serving in the ABCUSA for more than twenty years. I will be elected to the Board of General Ministries for American Baptist denomination this summer. My wife is Irish Catholic. We got married in St. Teresa of Avila in our hometown. My very Southern Baptist grandmother went to her grave not knowing that...

WATCH: Retired Swiss bishop living with the SSPX says Novus Ordo Mass is ‘departure from tradition’'The crisis of the Church is a consequence of a partial apostasy from the transmitted faith, tradition, and practice of the faith,' says Bishop Vitus Huonder.Bishop Vitus Huonder, a retired bishop of the Swiss diocese of Chur, has issued a critique of the Novus Ordo Mass as it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. In his eyes, a “partial apostasy” in the Church has taken place in recent decades, and the “departure from tradition is felt most painfully in the changed rite of...

[Catholic Caucus] Deconstructing John XXIII’s Opening Address of Vatican II to Understand Satan’s BlueprintAlmost sixty years after the completion of the Second Vatican Council, it may seem, at first glance, like a pointless exercise to examine John XXIII’s October 11, 1962 speech to open the Council. After all, we would expect that any useful insights from the speech would have been fully revealed by now. And yet, if we carefully deconstruct his speech in light of all that has transpired since the Council opened, we can see the foundation and framework for so much of the crisis in the Church...

Can a Case Still Be Made for Reforming the Reform?The following is based on a real exchange of letters. Dear Dr. Kwasniewsi,I read your article “Why the ‘Reform of the Reform’ Is Doomed” and would, in a spirit of truth-seeking, like to present some objections that might be made to it.To start with, I do agree that the Novus Ordo is “ungraftable” onto the living tradition of the Roman liturgy, considered liturgically (as opposed to juridically, etc.). One of the great benefits of the admittedly awkward situation of “two forms”—a situation that continues to exist after Traditionis Custodes and shows...

[Catholic Caucus] The Life and Times of App. John R. Quinn & Friends-Part IIIA Study of the West Coast Homosexual Network Part III – Archbishop Quinn Undermines Church Teachings Introduction It is a common myth among Catholic pew sitters that the harm caused by habituated clerical sodomites only affects the moral sphere, but do not affect their actions in other areas of ecclesiastical life, that is, you can be an active homosexual and still be a good bishop or a good religious superior. This segment on Quinn’s theological and political opinions and actions demonstrates just the opposite and it support...

Ten Points in Favor of Communion on the Tongue—and the Sordid History of Communion in the Hand Rorate is pleased to publish this comprehensive study of a most urgent question that has everything to do with authentic (as opposed to glitzy or bureaucratic) Eucharistic revival. The author shows, among other key points, that the conditions established by Rome for the granting or retention of an indult for communion in the hand were never and are not now met in the USA, which means this practice's introduction was duplicitous and its continuation illicit.—PAK Ten Points in Favor of Communion on...

Monument to Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi: Abrahamic Family House and Vatican IIhis is an expanded version of an article that first appeared in the April 2023 Edition of Catholic Family News (click HERE to subscribe; current subscribers can access the E-Edition by following the instructions posted HERE).Opening of the Abrahamic Family HouseFour years after Pope Francis signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together (Feb. 4, 2019) with Grand Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the so-called “Abrahamic Family House” campus opened in Abu Dhabi (Feb. 16, 2023), the capital of the United Arab Emirates and the city...

[Catholic Caucus] Now That We See the Fruits of Rejecting Catholic Truth, How Do We Recover?In his 1951 encyclical on the promotion of Catholic missions, Evangelii Praecones, Pope Pius XII wrote of the great spiritual battle that was raging over seventy years ago:“Venerable Brethren, you are well aware that almost the whole human race is today allowing itself to be driven into two opposing camps, for Christ or against Christ. The human race is involved today in a supreme crisis, which will issue in its salvation by Christ, or in its dire destruction. The preachers of the Gospel are using...

[Catholic Caucus] No Father, We Should NOT Stand to Receive Holy CommunionA recent article in Northeast Ohio Catholic magazine by Fr. Gerald Bednar, “Why Should We Stand to Receive Communion?” states that kneeling for communion is permitted but “not as the norm.” The article continues, “This quirky regulation calls for some explanation.” Indeed it does.From the outset, I want to state that I do not write this out of any personal animus against the Fr. Bednar. As the saying goes, I don’t know him from Adam. Nor do I think the arguments presented in his article are particularly unusual or...

[Catholic Caucus] No Eucharistic Revival without RestorationThe how-to manual has been written for a long, long time. But the ones in charge don't want to read it.Dear Subscribers to “Tradition & Sanity”: I am overwhelmed by the support you’ve given me as I start this Substack. It knocked me off my feet. We went from scratch to 1,800 subscribers and counting. Many of you made pledges for the future (thank you!). I will pray for you; specifically, you will be my intention at the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass every Thursday.Speaking of which… after last week’s inaugural...

[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...