Michael J. Matt sounds the alarm that in the middle of the Amazon Synod, the most prominent Synod fathers will, in few hours, make a special pilgrimage across Rome to the Santa Domitilla catacomb to renew the very weird 'Catacomb Pact'—a ritual that took more than 50 years ago by more than 40 Latin American bishops on the eve of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. The event, which is hailed by many as the secret founding of Liberation Theology, marks the point when the Church of Vatican II vowed to become the “Church of the Poor” and to radically reorient her mission from the Divine Commission of Jesus Christ to the freemasonic mission of the Church of Accompaniment. Tomorrow (October 20, 2019) the Amazon Synod fathers will sign a new document, written in the spirit of the original one, only this will be called the “Catacomb Pact of Our Common Home”. So, what’s the Amazon Synod all about? Why the establishment of a new world order of the brotherhood of man, of course, along …More

butler'slivesofthesaints A.D. 362
Augustus, not being willing to intrust the government of Egypt, which was a rich and powerful country, from which the city of Rome was in part supplied with corn, to a senator, like other great provinces of the empire, passed an order that, instead of a proconsul, it should be governed only by a Roman knight, with the title of Augustal prefect. The government of the troops was committed to a general officer with the title of duke, or general of Egypt. Artemius was honoured with this command under Constantius, after Lucius and Sebastian. If, in executing some commissions under Constantius, he appeared against Saint Athanasius, by various contrivances he afforded him means and opportunities to make his escape. If he betrayed too great weakness in obeying his prince at that time, he never approved his heresy. At least that he was orthodox in his faith in the reign of Julian, is evident from Theodoret, the Paschal Chronicle, and the ancient Greek …More

Michael J. Matt sounds the alarm: In the middle of the increasingly bizarre Amazon Synod, the most prominent Synod fathers will make a special pilgrimage across Rome to the Santa Domitilla catacomb in order to renew the very weird 'Catacomb Pact'—a signing ritual that took place 54 years ago with more than 40 Latin American bishops on the eve of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. The event--hailed by many as the secret founding of Liberation Theology--marks the moment when the Church of Vatican II vowed to become the “Church of the Poor” and to radically reorient her mission from that of the Divine Commission of Jesus Christ to the Freemasonic mission of the Church of Accompaniment. On October 20, 2019 the Amazon Synod fathers will sign a new document, written in the spirit of the original one, which they're calling the “Catacomb Pact of Our Common Home”. So, what’s the Amazon Synod all about? Why, the establishment of a new world order of the brotherhood of man, of course,…More

Edward Pentin on Twitter: "A Via Crucis for Amazonian peoples and martyrs, during which faithful “recalled the violence and repression of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon,” the Vatican said. Prominent again was the naked pregnant, female statue, said to be a symbol of life, fertility

Edward Pentin on Twitter: "Group of synod fathers, led by ++Hummes, renew the spirit of Vatican II’s “Pact of the Catacombs,” a commitment to live like the poorest of their flock and which marked beginning of liberation theology. Today those attending pledged a “Pact of the Catacombs for the Common Home”

"This is indeed a day of joy and happiness for the nation and for the Church in your land. It is a time of prayerful gratitude to God for all who see in this new Saint - and in his European and Asian companions, many of whom are related in one way or another to your country - the highest recognition of the work of evangelization begun nearly four hundred and fifty years ago... [Christ] did not hesitate to call a humble son of Binondo, of Manila extra muros”, to become one with him in the great mystery of his saving passion and death, not in his own land, but far away in Japan, as a seed transported to another field, at the beginning of another heroic page in the history of evangelization in Asia." – Pope St John Paul II. Today, 28 September, is the feast of St Lawrence Ruiz, protomartyr of the Philippines, after whom I am named.
Source: Lawrence OP on Flickr