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  • [Catholic Caucus] The Mystical Body of Christ Must Purge the Impurities Introduced by Vatican II

    08/15/2023 8:18:13 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | August 14, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] The Mystical Body of Christ Must Purge the Impurities Introduced by Vatican IIIn his 1846 encyclical, Qui Pluribus, Blessed Pius IX charged the Church’s shepherds with protecting the purity of the Catholic Faith:“So, in accordance with your pastoral care, work assiduously to protect and preserve this faith. Never cease to instruct all men in it, to encourage the wavering, to convince dissenters, to strengthen the weak in faith by never tolerating and letting pass anything which could in the slightest degree defile the purity of this faith.” According to Pius IX, the shepherds should never tolerate anything that...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke: ‘Populist rhetoric’ associated with Pope Francis undermines Catholic doctrine

    08/11/2023 3:36:08 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 10, 2023 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Burke: ‘Populist rhetoric’ associated with Pope Francis undermines Catholic doctrineCardinal Burke criticized ideological ‘rhetoric’ that is becoming commonly used in the Catholic Church, warning that it seeks to replace the Church's ‘irreplaceable’ teaching.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Raymond Burke has issued a detailed critique of “populist rhetoric” often “attached to language used by Pope Francis,” which he said are “slogans of an ideology replacing what is irreplaceable for us: the constant doctrine and discipline of the Church.”The former prefect of the Apostolic Signature delivered his analysis of the relation between canon law and current verbal arguments via...
  • [Catholic Caucus] WYD's UNHOLY TABERNACLES: Two Different Tabernacles for Two Visions of God & the Religion He Gave Us

    08/11/2023 10:36:43 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Remant Newspaper ^ | August 11, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] WYD's UNHOLY TABERNACLES: Two Different Tabernacles for Two Visions of God & the Religion He Gave Us“Almighty and eternal God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we kneel before Your Majesty, and thank You from the depth of our soul for the inestimable gift of the Catholic Faith, which you have deigned to reveal to us through Jesus Christ, True God and True man. We received this divine light in holy baptism and have promised You to keep this faith inviolate until death.” (Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s prayer for the triumph of the Catholic Faith.At some point over the course...
  • [Catholic Caucus] What Francis and His Defenders Spurn Most: God and His Commandments

    08/09/2023 4:54:14 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | August 8, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] What Francis and His Defenders Spurn Most: God and His CommandmentsOne of the prayers immediately before Communion in the Traditional Latin Mass expresses the profound desires of Catholics to be delivered from all that can separate us from God:“O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, Who according to the will of the Father, through the cooperation of the Holy Ghost, hast by Thy death given life to the world: deliver me by this, Thy most sacred Body and Blood, from all my iniquities and from all evils; and make me always adhere to Thy commandments, and...
  • [Catholic Caucus] WYD: Bishop Attacks Priest Who Refused to Hand Out Communion

    08/04/2023 3:24:25 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 13 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | August 4, 2023 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] WYD: Bishop Attacks Priest Who Refused to Hand Out CommunionA priest of the neo-conservative FLUHM community placed Holy Communion on the tongue of young people who presumably wanted to grasp it with their hands at World Youth Day. One of them was Hendrik Roos, 27, a theology student and staff member at the "Bund der deutschen [anti-]katholischen Jugend" (Federation of German [anti-]Catholic Youth) in Münster. As a result, the petty-minded Roos grassed on the priest to the Münster diocesan newspaper Kirche-und-Leben.de. Münster Auxiliary Christoph Hegge then pompously called the correct administration of communion a "no-go." During the Covid...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis says new council unnecessary as Vatican II ‘has not yet been implemented’

    08/04/2023 9:20:43 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | August 4, 2023 | Michael Haynes
    [Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis says new council unnecessary as Vatican II ‘has not yet been implemented’Pope Francis again blasted traditional Catholics and said Vatican II ‘was very risky’ in a new interview.In a newly released interview, Pope Francis has downplayed suggestions of a third Vatican Council, saying that Vatican II “has not yet been implemented.”The Pope’s comments came as part of an interview he granted to the Spanish-language outlet Vida Nueva marking the 65th anniversary of the publication, to which the Pope is a subscriber. Speaking about his reaction to ascending to the papal throne, along with topics such as...
  • [Catholic Caucus] The Liturgists and the Fascists

    08/03/2023 2:06:15 PM PDT · by ebb tide
    Rorate Caeli ^ | August 3, 2023 | DC Rosary Rally
    [Catholic Caucus] The Liturgists and the FascistsBy James BareselIn a 1964 letter to the editor of the Catholic Herald, Evelyn Waugh concluded: “Finally, a word about liturgy. It is natural to the Germans to make a row. The torchlit, vociferous assemblies of the Hitler Youth expressed a national passion. It is well that it should be canalized into the life of the Church. But it is essentially un-English…We pray in silence. ‘Participation’ in the Mass does not mean hearing our own voice. It means God hearing our voices. Only He knows who is ‘participating’ at Mass…Anyone who has taken part...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Neocatechumenal Way: Thanks God Benedict XVI Is Gone

    08/03/2023 1:56:22 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | August 3, 2023 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] Neocatechumenal Way: Thanks God Benedict XVI Is Gone“The only solution was for the Pope to die. He did not die, he resigned. Thank God” - Kiko Argüello told Archbishop San Juan de Puerto Rico Roberto Octavio González Nieves during a meeting on vocations.The words of the founder of the Neocatechumenal Way are immortalised in a 2017 video. On other occasions, Kiko has referred to Benedict XVI’s resignation as a "gift from Our Lady".Argüello added that it was Bergoglio’s election that saved him, because Benedict XVI had asked his group to eliminate liturgical abuses, but – not surprisingly -...
  • Does the Abrahamic Family House Fulfill Vatican II?

    07/29/2023 6:25:51 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | July 29, 2023 | Matt Gaspers
    Does the Abrahamic Family House Fulfill Vatican II?Above: St. Francis Church at the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, also titled “His Holiness Francis Church” in the official inscription (see below). Official website.Opening of the “Abrahamic Family House”Four 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 in which the text was signed. The Document, which falsely claims that “[t]he pluralism and...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Majority of religious sisters in US are now 80 or over; more are age 95+ than under 40

    07/28/2023 9:46:56 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 11 replies
    Catholic World News ^ | July 28, 2023 | CNA
    [Catholic Caucus] Majority of religious sisters in US are now 80 or over; more are age 95+ than under 40» Continue to this story on USCCB CWN Editor's Note: Supplementing data made public earlier this week, the National Religious Retirement Office of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a statistical report. Page 4 presents a detailed age distribution of numbers of men and women religious in the US as of December 31, 2022. There are 380 women’s institutes with 24,965 members, and 126 men’s institutes with 7,270 members. Over half of women religious—13,621 out of 24,965—are 80...
  • [Catholic Caucus] “Complexities and paradoxes in the history of the Church”: Vatican II, John XXIII, Ottaviani, and the Tucho Fernández challenge- by Roberto de Mattei

    07/27/2023 3:34:12 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 26, 2023 | Roberto de Mattei
    [Catholic Caucus] “Complexities and paradoxes in the history of the Church”: Vatican II, John XXIII, Ottaviani, and the Tucho Fernández challenge- by Roberto de MatteiThe appointment of Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has a symbolic weight of great import. In a certain sense, it represents the culmination of the pontificate of Pope Francis, who has meant to send a clear sign to those he referred to, at his meeting on 24 November 2022 with the members of the International Theological Commission, as the “backward-looking” of the Church.Another signal in this...
  • “The Church’s reform disaster: No one wants to see the causes of the abuse scandal. Yet they can be clearly identified”: Martin Mosebach

    07/25/2023 9:08:49 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 24 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 24, 2023 | Martin Mosebach
    “The Church’s reform disaster: No one wants to see the causes of the abuse scandal. Yet they can be clearly identified”: Martin MosebachThis article by Martin Mosebach was published on February 10, 2022 in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. As far as I am aware, it was not translated into English at the time—but its message is more relevant than ever, with the elevation, as prefect of Doctrine of the Faith, of a bishop widely regarded as guilty of mishandling abuse cases.—PAK The Church’s reform disaster: No one wants to see the causes of the abuse scandal. Yet they can be...
  • [Catholic Caucus] What Do Our Views of Vatican II Imply About Our Views of God?

    07/24/2023 5:09:04 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    The Remant Newspaper ^ | July 24, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] What Do Our Views of Vatican II Imply About Our Views of God? “The results that have followed the Council seem cruelly opposed to the expectation of all, to begin with that of Pope John XXIII, then that of Paul VI . . . The Popes and the conciliar Fathers were expecting a new Catholic unity and, on the contrary, we have gone towards a dissension which, to take again the words of Paul VI, appears to have passed from self-criticism to self-destruction.” (Cardinal Ratzinger, 1985, quoted in Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s They Have Uncrowned Him, p. 231) As...
  • The Last Italian Bishop Present at Vatican II Dies

    07/22/2023 6:04:50 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 8 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 23, 2023 | DC Rosary Rally
    The Last Italian Bishop Present at Vatican II DiesArticles by Borgo Pio from La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, (18 July 2023 and 19 July 2023, originals in Italian)The funeral of Bishop Emeritus Msgr. Luigi Bettazzi, who died last Sunday at age 99, will be held today in Ivrea Cathedral, celebrated by his current successor Msgr. Edoardo Cerrato. Born in 1923, Msgr. Bettazzi was the only Italian bishop still alive to have participated in the Second Vatican Council (he was consecrated bishop in 1963, as auxiliary of Bologna, later becoming ordinary of Ivrea in 1966).He was the last Italian exponent of Vatican...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Latin and Liturgical Participation

    07/20/2023 1:11:55 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 20, 2023 | James Baresel
    [Catholic Caucus] Latin and Liturgical ParticipationWhen told his movie The Producers was vulgar, Mel Brooks quipped “It rises beneath vulgarity.” That anecdote came to mind in reference to one of the most telling attempts to defend the restrictions placed on the Tridentine Mass over the past two years—an attempt which rose beneath ignorance to reveal that the foundation of the anti-Tridentine position is incompatible with Catholic dogma.In their now-notorious series of articles, Father Thomas Weinandy, John Cavadini and Mary Healy gave the game away in two simple sentences: “Without the vernacular, the active, vocal, intelligible participation [making responses together with...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Humani Generis, and the Holy Ghost’s Protection of What John XXIII Rejected

    07/18/2023 5:24:41 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | July 18, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Humani Generis, and the Holy Ghost’s Protection of What John XXIII Rejected“The Holy Spirit does not always prevent the necessary consequences of our negligence.” (Fr. Alvaro Calderon, Prometheus: The Religion of Man, p. 201) In his One Hundred Years of Modernism, Fr. Dominique Bourmaud provided a sobering assessment of the way in which the architects of Vatican II so thoroughly disavowed Pius XII’s encyclical condemning the errors threatening the Church, Humani Generis:“Humani Generis appeared in 1950. The year 1965 marked the closing of the Second Vatican Council, which cast doubt on the fundamental points reaffirmed by...
  • Evelyn Waugh and "The Bitter Trial" of the Council: What is Old Is New

    07/12/2023 1:04:23 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 2 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 12, 2023 | DC Rosary Rally
    Evelyn Waugh and "The Bitter Trial" of the Council: What is Old Is NewIn reading A Bitter Trial, the collection of letters by Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Second Vatican Council, what is striking is how similar our present day is to the tumultuous mid-1960s. In 2011, when the expanded edition was put together, it may have seemed as though the Church had recovered from the shocks of the Vatican II and the difficult decades that followed. But events of the last few years-- Traditionis Custodes, attempting to suppress the Traditional Latin Mass, and the Synod on...
  • [Catholic Caucus] New Coke: If Today’s Catholics Were In Charge

    07/11/2023 7:21:36 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    One Peter Five ^ | December 9, 2015 | Eric Sammons
    [Catholic Caucus] New Coke: If Today’s Catholics Were In ChargeIn April 1985 the Coca-Cola Company introduced a new formula for their flagship product, Coke. Called “New Coke,” it was a public relations disaster and within months the company reverted back to their beloved formula. But what if history were different? What if Coca-Cola handled the release of New Coke like many of today’s Catholic leaders handle the current crisis in the Church?July 1985Meeting of top Coke executivesCEO: So, it’s been three months since New Coke was introduced – how’s it going?Mr. Eldridge, VP of Operations: Not so good. We’re getting...
  • [Catholic Caucus] If We Love God and His Church, We Must Repudiate False Ecumenism

    07/11/2023 1:40:29 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
    The Remnant Newspaper ^ | July 10, 2023 | Robert Morrison
    [Catholic Caucus] If We Love God and His Church, We Must Repudiate False Ecumenism Those who love the true Catholic Faith know firsthand how lost we would be without it. Through the Catholic Church we have the salutary truths entrusted to it by Our Lord and the Sacraments He instituted. Nothing is more precious than this gift of the Faith that God has given us, and if we truly love another person we would want them to have the same gift. Prior to Vatican II, the popes consistently emphasized the unique role of the Catholic Church in propagating the truths...
  • Revealing interview with Archbishop Fernández: "Francis wants to give a different meaning to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith"

    07/05/2023 7:59:53 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 5 replies
    Rorate Caeli ^ | July 5, 2023 | Giuseppe Nardi
    Revealing interview with Archbishop Fernández: "Francis wants to give a different meaning to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith"Giuseppe NardiKatholisches.infoJuly 5, 2023(source in German)Msgr. Victor Manuel Fernández, the newly appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church, flirts with the media while discrediting his new office and his predecessors in office. The Dicastery of the Faith had been the old Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Holy Office, in other words, the Inquisition, an institution that investigated all kinds of people -- including himself, the new Prefect of the...