On 28 April, in the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, known as the Sanctuary of Santa Terezinha, in Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil, a priest disrespected a faithful and refused him Communion (video below). …More
On 28 April, in the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, known as the Sanctuary of Santa Terezinha, in Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil, a priest disrespected a faithful and refused him Communion (video below). The communicant was kneeling. Rev. Silvio José Dias tried to force the faithful to receive the Communion with his hands, but the layman refused to touch the Body of Christ [Noli me tangere" / "Do not touch me" Jn 20:17]. As a result, the disrespectful priest denied him Communion and turned around. The Archdiocese of São Paulo told Metropoles.com (16 May) that a member of the faithful who is in a state of grace has a "right" to receive Communion. "In situations where there is a risk of the Eucharist falling or being desecrated, such as in large crowds, it is recommended that Communion not be distributed in the hand". The archdiocese added that in "exceptional circumstances", such as a "health emergency", a bishop may allow grabbing Communion with the hand [as if this were "more hygienic"]. …More
So in today's Church.... public heretics like Joe Biden & Nancy Pelosi are given communion....no problem.... but a devout Catholic attempting to give …More
So in today's Church.... public heretics like Joe Biden & Nancy Pelosi are given communion....no problem.... but a devout Catholic attempting to give all due reverence to the God of the Universe who he is about to receive into his body....is refused. This is not the Catholic Church I was born into in the early 1950's..... It just isn't!!!!!
In such circumstances, the priest should ask himself 'What would Christ do in the same situation; taking into account the Lords instruction to "Feed my …More
In such circumstances, the priest should ask himself 'What would Christ do in the same situation; taking into account the Lords instruction to "Feed my Sheep"? The answer is patently obvious despite any direction to do otherwise.
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The hidden heroes who help us know the Holy Spirit on 05/18/24 So many unseen ministries work together to strengthen the life of the Church and help us all feel the movement of the Holy Spirit. As we …More
The hidden heroes who help us know the Holy Spirit on 05/18/24 So many unseen ministries work together to strengthen the life of the Church and help us all feel the movement of the Holy Spirit. As we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit in such a powerful way on Pentecost, I want to take a minute to thank those who help us to feel the movement of the Spirit through their ministries. Some of these are obvious, of course, such as priests who bring us the living water of God’s grace through the Sacraments. But many go unseen and unheralded, yet they do so much to help us know and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit. Recently I read about the ways that we know the Holy Spirit in the Catechism, which explains how self-effacing is the Holy Spirit: “No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” Now God’s Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who “has spoken through the …More
“Every home art and craft has come back into vogue: sourdough starters, gardening, knitting, homesteading, sewing, and interior design. Americans spend billions of dollars on our homes not just so they …More
“Every home art and craft has come back into vogue: sourdough starters, gardening, knitting, homesteading, sewing, and interior design. Americans spend billions of dollars on our homes not just so they can be beautiful, but in the little-recognized hope that they can become sanctuaries, places that nourish, comfort, and embrace those who live in them. But the physical home cannot do these things on its own. It needs a homemaker.”
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He's 30. He's Opus Dei. He knows what men should be doing, what women should be doing, what his wife should be doing, what couples should be doing, what …More
He's 30. He's Opus Dei. He knows what men should be doing, what women should be doing, what his wife should be doing, what couples should be doing, what priests should be doing, what Catholics should be doing. He knows it all because he gets his info from his teammate's EX girlfriend and his numerary. Just lean into your career and stay in your lane and it's all good.
In a meeting with 800 priests and religious in the Basilica of San Zeno during his visit to Verona on 18 May, Francis once again promoted formalism by calling for cheap absolution after an empty confession. …More
In a meeting with 800 priests and religious in the Basilica of San Zeno during his visit to Verona on 18 May, Francis once again promoted formalism by calling for cheap absolution after an empty confession. He overlooked the fact that confession has virtually died out after Vatican II precisely because of such formalism. "Confession should not be a torture," he said, as if anyone had ever claimed it was. Then Francis, who is known to be vindictive and unforgiving, added: "Please forgive everything" and "forgive without making them suffer" - something Francis himself has never done since he has been running the Vatican. If the priest doesn't understand what the penitent is saying, he should go on, because "the Lord understands", Francis said, revealing a magical understanding of confession. Francis recalled a cardinal, a confessor [Cardinal Luis Pasqual Dri OFMcap, 96], who, when someone "had difficulty saying things", would tell the penitent: "Go on. I didn't understand, but God understood …More
That right there is how the Church is, and those who say anything about it are the ones paying the price. Those who preach inmorality are promoted and …More
That right there is how the Church is, and those who say anything about it are the ones paying the price. Those who preach inmorality are promoted and celebrated.
@Pierre Henri@occasnltrvlr@chris griffin Pat Archbold NCR August 19, 2014 " New Fatima Revelation?" (Per Italian journalist Antonio Socci) New Fatima Revelation? "...Right after – says Sr. Lucia – ‘I felt my spirit flooded by a light-filled mystery which is God and in Him I saw and heard: the point of the flame-like lance which detaches, touches the axis of the earth and it [the earth] shakes: mountains, cities, towns and villages with their inhabitants are buried. The sea, rivers and clouds leave their bounds, they overflow, flood and drag with them into a whirlpool, houses and people in a number unable to be counted; it is the purification of the world from the sin it is immersed in. Hatred, ambition, cause destructive wars. Afterward I felt in the increased beating of my heart and in my spirit a quiet voice which said: ‘in time, one faith, one baptism, one Church, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. Heaven in eternity!’ This word, ‘Heaven,’ filled my heart with peace and happiness, so much …More
Married Spanish Ex-Bishop Xavier Novell "is not so orthodox or conservative" as he seemed, his wife Silvia Caballol told Antena3.com. She is an author of pornographic literature. “It's one thing to …More
Married Spanish Ex-Bishop Xavier Novell "is not so orthodox or conservative" as he seemed, his wife Silvia Caballol told Antena3.com. She is an author of pornographic literature. “It's one thing to preach and quite another to live it”, she explained. According to her, Novell is not against homosexual sins and both have "many" homosexual and transvestite friends. Caballol believes that the Church has made "a lot of progress" [= regress] on these issues, "because now they give their [pseudo] blessing," Caballol says. She does not deny that Novell himself attended sessions of a homosexual healing therapy. Infovaticana.com (May 18) adds that this rumor is widespread. Interesting: Caballol claims and Infovaticana.com confirms, that only the "direct and express intervention" of Francis led to the wedding and that the required procedures (laization) were skipped. Caballol adds that Novell is still “in limbo” because “he is still a bishop although he is no longer a bishop.” The “Church hierarchy …More
Since this man is monumentally conceited and political, he may want to be buried there so he will be segregated from other popes and a cult could more …More
Since this man is monumentally conceited and political, he may want to be buried there so he will be segregated from other popes and a cult could more easily be formed around him, with the location of his body becoming a pilgrimage site for all his fellow non-believing “Catholic” fans, and they could be inspired to continue their yet unfinished goal of dismantling the Church.
Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich believes that Francis will not introduce [invalidly] ordained priestesses. Simultaneously, he referred to one of the Dubia of five cardinals which asked about …More
Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich believes that Francis will not introduce [invalidly] ordained priestesses. Simultaneously, he referred to one of the Dubia of five cardinals which asked about John Paul II’s teaching in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that women cannot be priests. According to Jean-Claude Hollerich, “Francis responded very wisely: It is binding, but not forever” (Kath.ch, 17 May). In other words: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis means nothing and can be changed at any time. Hollerich confirms this interpretation: “It is not an infallible doctrinal decision. It can be changed. It needs arguments and time.” John Paul II defines in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women.” What was true then, must also be true now. In October 1995, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger confirmed that Ordinatio Sacerdotalis is “infallible” and “is to be held always, everywhere, and by all, as belonging to the deposit of the faith”. Since both …More
The reality is that Hollerich's atrocities scandalize us and rightly so. But it happens that we are in a minority in a Church and a society that is …More
The reality is that Hollerich's atrocities scandalize us and rightly so. But it happens that we are in a minority in a Church and a society that is increasingly disoriented and without Faith. And it turns out that this man is a cardinal elector, and will continue to be so for many years, so he can choose and, most seriously, be elected pope, because the good cardinals are also in the minority, and as long as Francis remains pope this will only get worse. Therefore, and although we currently refuse to believe it, what prevents that in a few decades, or a century at most, and with another pope and another context, there will no longer be a "storm" and the Church, in the hands of these guys, start "ordaining" women priests? Let's face it, the majority of people, inside and outside the Church, in many countries if it were done today would not only not oppose it but would applaud it. I'm sorry but I'm not optimistic.
In a second short clip (below) released by '60 Minutes' (in addition to the one on 'conservative' bishops), Francis commented on his homosexual propaganda text 'Fiducia Supplicans'. "What I have …More
In a second short clip (below) released by '60 Minutes' (in addition to the one on 'conservative' bishops), Francis commented on his homosexual propaganda text 'Fiducia Supplicans'. "What I have allowed is not to bless [a homosexual] union. I cannot do that because it is not a sacrament. I cannot do it. The Lord has made it so. But to bless every person, yes. The blessing is for everyone. For everyone. To bless homosexuals is against the law, against the law of the Church, but to bless every person, why not? The blessing is for everyone. Some people were scandalised by this. But why? For everyone, for everyone". Francis' dishonesty is even more dislikable than his being unbelieving, rude, ambiguous, divisive, tyrannical, and hypocritical, etc. He knows full well that the text of 'Fiducia Supplicans' is not about blessing a single person, but about 'blessing irregular couples [= unrepentant mortal sinners]'. Couples are defined by their union. #newsKmhfolwusf
On 17 May, Tucho Fernández published guidelines on alleged supernatural phenomena entitled "Norms for proceeding in the discernment of alleged supernatural phenomena." The main change: Neither the …More
On 17 May, Tucho Fernández published guidelines on alleged supernatural phenomena entitled "Norms for proceeding in the discernment of alleged supernatural phenomena." The main change: Neither the local bishop nor the Vatican will declare that phenomena are of supernatural origin, but the Vatican can authorise the local bishop to declare that a phenomenon is "not supernatural". There is no provision in these norms for ecclesiastical superiors to give positive recognition to the divine origin of alleged supernatural phenomena, the regulations state. The second major change is the centralisation of the process, since Francis is the pope of Roman centralism. The local bishop's decisions must be given approval by the Vatican. The document refers to cases in the 20th century where the local bishop declared a phenomenon to be supernatural, and the Vatican later issued a decision to the contrary. In other cases, a bishop said one thing and his successor said the opposite about the same phenomenon. …More
Norah O'Donell of CBS News asked Francis during an interview that will be published in full next Sunday: "There are conservative bishops in the United States who oppose your new efforts to revisit …More
Norah O'Donell of CBS News asked Francis during an interview that will be published in full next Sunday: "There are conservative bishops in the United States who oppose your new efforts to revisit teachings and traditions. How do you respond to their criticism?" Francis: "They use this adjective 'conservative' [belittling smile]. A conservative is someone who clings to something and does not want to see beyond it. It is a suicidal attitude. Because it is one thing to consider tradition, to consider situations from the past. It is quite another to be locked up in a dogmatic box." No Pope has lived so much in a "dogmatic box" as Francis, who runs after every ideology of the bygone 1960s, and indeed: this conservatism is suicidal for the Church and its disastrous results are visible to everybody. #newsWaprsyvyve
I'm betting that there are many players in the NFL who support Harrison but don't have the courage to say so. There is strength in numbers. What would …More
I'm betting that there are many players in the NFL who support Harrison but don't have the courage to say so. There is strength in numbers. What would the rotten NFL do if they all made a public statement in support of him? Too bad it won't happen.
A total of 49 Vatican employees are threatening to file a complaint over poor working conditions that "do not respect the basic principles of dignity". The group includes 47 museum guards, a restorer …More
A total of 49 Vatican employees are threatening to file a complaint over poor working conditions that "do not respect the basic principles of dignity". The group includes 47 museum guards, a restorer and a bookshop worker. According to Italian media, they intend to take the Governatorato, the Vatican administration headed by Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, a Spanish Legionary of Christ, to court if they do not receive a satisfactory response to their demands. In a letter to Vérgez Alzaga, they say that the working conditions in the Vatican Museums are detrimental to the dignity and health of the workers. They complain that they have been unfairly paid for overtime, that they have not received promotions and that they have to pay back part of the salary they received without working because of the closures during the Covid hysteria. Other Vatican workers may be ready to join the complaints. The workers write that "legislation regulating the world of work in the Vatican is insufficient …More
“A sizable majority of Catholics (61 percent) think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 38 percent say it should be illegal in all or most cases."
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