On July 6, Cardinal Müller spoke with K-TV about the Traditional Latin Mass and the FSSPX episcopal consecrations. Key statements: - "The implementation of the liturgical reform was marked by many abuses because many failed to grasp the spirit of the renewed liturgy and neglected its essential elements: the worship of God, the communication of salvation, and reverence before God." - "The so-called old rite is not forbidden. Rather, it is permitted to a certain extent and under certain conditions, and it is, of course, valid." - "Pope Benedict XVI made the wise decision that the same Latin liturgy could be celebrated in both its ordinary and extraordinary forms." - "The faithful always have the opportunity to attend the Holy Mass celebrated according to the older form." - "Many people may have sympathies for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X because they believe that the Catholic faith and the liturgy are being preserved there against many of the abuses found in modernist circles.…More
Tibetan Rituals in a U.S. Church. Worse than Germany: On Monday, more than 60 Tibetans gathered at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Dalai Lama's 91st birthday and mark the conclusion of the "Year of Compassion," an initiative of the Central Tibetan Administration. The event opened with a ritual in which participants chanted "Om" three times and tossed tsampa (barley flour) into the air. Attendees also made mandala offerings by bowing and placing a white ceremonial scarf before a photo of the Dalai Lama. The celebration continued with speeches, traditional Tibetan songs and dances, and performances by students from a local Tibetan Sunday school.
"Members of the Tibetan community celebrate the Dalai Lama's 91st birthday during the Year of Compassion at Most Holy Redeemer Church in Hadley", Massachusetts
The term “con man” originated as “confidence man,” and the original confidence man was a New Yorker named William Thompson. Thompson, like others who practiced his trade, preyed on the trust and good manners of his victims. Here is how the New York Herald described the arrest of the original “confidence man” in July 1849. “Arrest of the Confidence Man. For the last few months a man has been traveling about the city, known as the ‘Confidence Man,’ that is, he would go up to a perfect stranger in the street, and being a man of genteel appearance, would easily command an interview. Upon this interview he would say after some little conversation, ‘have you confidence in me to trust me with your watch until to-morrow;’ the stranger at this novel request, supposing him to be some old acquaintance not at that moment recollected, allows him to take the watch, thus placing ‘confidence’ in the honesty of the stranger, who walks off laughing and the other supposing it to be a joke allows him so to …More
Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media English broadcaster Alex Phillips says the UK's open borders policies are rooted in Fabian Society and UN documents promoting "replacement migration". She argues that despite rhetoric about closing borders, the government is deliberately facilitating "inundations" of migrants as outlined in these documents.
Leo XIV’s promotion of homosexuals within the Synodal Church has raised suspicions to the point where his own homosexuality is considered more than a mere possibility. Pope Leo appoints German bishop who endorsed homosexual ‘blessings,’ claimed sodomy ‘not sinful’ - LifeSite
The potato is one of the most comforting things a human being can eat. Mashed, boiled, roasted, barely seasoned or loaded with everything. There is almost no version of it that people find unpleasant. It requires almost no translation across languages, cultures, or centuries. But France almost never learned to love it. For most of the 18th century, the potato was widely scorned in France. Considered peasant food at best and animal fodder at worst, it was officially banned in some regions on suspicion of causing disease. Hard to imagine, given what French cooking would eventually do with it. Then a military pharmacist named Antoine-Augustin Parmentier ate almost nothing else for several years. Captured during the Seven Years' War, Parmentier was held as a Prussian prisoner where potatoes were the standard ration. When the war ended, he returned to France with a conviction: this overlooked vegetable could feed a nation. The problem was persuasion. He won the interest of King Louis XVI and …More
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 @NiohBerg This is Linton-on-Ouse in England. Population 1200. The British state is planning to dump 3,750 migrants into this village and essentially replace them overnight. Millennia of traditional rural life are about to be wiped out at the altar of open borders.
Worse than Germany: Archbishop Erio Castellucci of Modena-Nonantola has proposed a form of liturgical "co-presidency" in which women would lead the Liturgy of the Word while priests would preside over the Eucharistic consecration. The proposal appears in a speech published on May 24 in the diocesan bulletin, delivered at a conference organized by the Centro Italiano Femminile in Carpi. Monsignor Castellucci is the vice President of the Italian bishops and President of the National Committee for the Italian Synod. He suggested that women could take responsibility for the first part of the Eucharist, proclaiming the Resurrection "as Mary Magdalene did to the apostles." This would sidestep "the impasse" over women's ordination while still respecting Church teaching that only a priest can consecrate. Archbishop Castellucci also called for expanding shared governance in the Church, proposing that consultative councils' recommendations be made binding after a process of "consensus-building,"…More
Pope Leo XIV just appointed a German bishop who supported same-sex blessings, gender ideology, and LGBT initiatives. The same Vatican that celebrated that appointment has now imposed canonical sanctions on the Society of Saint Pius X, sanctions that require a more demanding process for lifting than the procedure for Catholics who have procured an abortion. The comparison is stark. The priorities are exposed. The inconsistencies that have left traditional Catholics reeling are now being seen. John-Henry Westen also investigates a widely circulated letter attributed to Bishop Fulton Sheen criticizing the SSPX. While the letter may be genuine, the host argues it likely does not reflect Sheen's own thinking, citing historical inaccuracies, Sheen's declining health, and the possibility that staff drafted much of his correspondence. The Vatican's treatment of the SSPX is not about discipline. It is about eliminating the Traditional Latin Mass and the communities that preserve it. The episcopal …More
Personally, I don't think Bishop Sheen wrote the letter. It doesn't sound like Bishop Sheen at all. This is someone's opinion. And it seems like they had something against the SSPX. Maybe someone who was part of the novus ordo mess or preferred it to the Latin Mass. But I don't believe Bishop Sheen had anything to do with writing it.
Novus Ordo with Flatbread while Sitting on the Floor: On July 1, two priests of the Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt, Austria, celebrated their 30th anniversary of ordination at the Europagymnasium in Klagenfurt. According to the diocese’s website, they celebrated “a Mass sitting on the floor and with flatbread.”
Zwei Priester feiern 30jähriges Jubiläum in Klagenfurt: Am 1. Juli feierten sie deshalb mit einer Kinderschar aus dem Europagymnasium eine heilige Messe, am Boden sitzend und mit Fladenbrot. Quelle: kath-kirche-kaernten.at/pfarren/detail/C3080/30-j…
Mgr Ganswein is labouring under the impression that they care. Martin in North Carolina shrugged nonchalantly at the prospect of a Catholic exodus as the result of his persecution of Catholics.
What is deeply tragic is the case of priests unfaithful to Christ who prefer to remain in a cage—in full communion with the apostate Prevost and the homosexual Tucho, who defies God and the Church—while deluding themselves into believing they will be saved simply because they are united with an apostate masquerading as Pope.