Censoring Viganò? Michael Matt responds
Excellent analogy - wish I'd thought of it!
Censoring Viganò? Michael Matt responds
@Simon North There is definitely too much of the 'cult' status around online Catholic media figures. Some people seem to adopt one and then become fixated on that person's opinions and can't believe they could be wrong on anything.
Censoring Viganò? Michael Matt responds
I've just re-listened to this, having listened late last night. 1) You can't have unity at a conference whilst ignoring the fact that some possible speakers won't agree with each other. So you don't let anyone speak who may upset people. Otherwise there will be no unity. 2) If it was too much hassle to set up for a video at short notice, why did Matt bother say he'd read it? Presumably the hassle would have been worth it if Vigano had been speaking in union with everyone else there??? 3) As far as I'm aware, there was no bomb. Hasn't Vigano previously suggested that Francis isn't the Pope? 4) I'm curious as to what they replaced it with. Something less disturbing of the 'unity', so as not to upset attendees too much?
How can you possibly have a conference about Catholic Unity whilst completely ignoring everything which is wrong with it and the fact that there is disunity everywhere. How do you tackle the disunity whilst demanding at great length that everyone concentrates on some ephemeral 'conference' unity.
If I'd paid good money to hear Vigano (or anyone else), I'd be fuming that I had to go and search the internet to do so. This is coming from someone who is no particular fan of Vigano. The correct procedure would have been simply to have said "I'm very sorry, your Grace, but we are unable to change the programme at such short notice, but we can still go ahead with the interview, as planned, but you must now agree to only discuss matters allowed at this conference".
US Nuncio: Catholic Websites Have Big Audience
@Caroline03 A one sentence post directing people to go to Barnhardt's site (Vigano speech available there) was left on The Remnant. It has now been deleted by the Remnant. Barnhardt's site is well known (people can choose whether they use it or not) so it seems to me that the only reason to delete that post is to discourage more people listening to Vigano. Or perhaps they don't like their faithful to read other opinions on this matter. I find Matt's 'explanation' video pathetic.
US Nuncio: Catholic Websites Have Big Audience
Matt explanation on his twitter feed.
US Nuncio: Catholic Websites Have Big Audience
The Remnant and other sites delete posts and also bans posters who disagree with them. It appears +Vigano has now fallen foul of this policy. Ironically, I have many issues with some of the Archbishop's political ideas and it is disagreement with them that often gets me banned, but I find it appalling that this has been done. The speech was apparently just cancelled 'from the roster'. How many people paid to hear him?
US Nuncio: Catholic Websites Have Big Audience
Text of censored speech at Associazione EXSURGE DOMINE 230930-cic-eng/
New Driver Picture: © gloria.tv, CC BY-ND, #newsRvjvoekaxf
If God doesn't take the garbage out soon, I think I'll be making a trip to hospital. What a bunch - can it get worse? Yep, probably so.
New Driver Picture: © gloria.tv, CC BY-ND, #newsRvjvoekaxf
"Lord don't you think the weeds have overtaken your Church ." What a lovely way of saying it" I might add it as my last words of my night prayers as I doze off each night.
FRANCIS EXCOMMUNICATED IN 1999
Thanks, Adrien, for taking the time to reply in such great detail. It's much appreciated. We won't agree on everything - eg Faustina and, although I know nothing of Ryden, from the bit I've just read about her probably won't be following her either! I steer clear of modern mystics.
However, the rest is very interesting. I knew about Liu Ming and the suspect resignation but it's always good to be reminded about such details. I'll work through your links later. Have just dropped by thewildvoice, which I didn't know about, and see there is plenty to read about Francis. I'm sure at least some of it will be new to me. If those documents are genuine - and I have no problem at all with the idea of him being involved in Freemasonry - it just shows how little anyone in the hierarchy cares about such 'minor' details. Mind you, half of them are probably tied up in it these days.
Your English is fine - I wouldn't have known it isn't your first language. In Christo.
FRANCIS EXCOMMUNICATED IN 1999
Adrien - I missed this at the time. Do you know if anyone else has published/written anything about this? Any higher clerics doing anything with this - or at least trying to? You would think it would be a smoking gun. Many thanks.
Cardinal for Three Months
@Sancte Teotónio Thanks for the reply. I looked them up on Wikipedia and it says 'The missionaries are not, strictly speaking, a religious institute, whether "order" or "congregation". Instead, they are a society of apostolic life.'. So then I looked that up and I still don't understand the situation either generally or in this context!!! Wikipedia's not the best place to read up on it all. They don't appear to be Diocesan Priests either.
Cardinal for Three Months
Could someone explain to me what secularized means in this context? It keeps cropping up and I don't understand how they can be made Bishops etc if they have left the Priesthood. ????
Schneider: The Results of the Synod on Synodality are Conceived in Advance
I don't think we can bet anything on this - it'll play out as God wishes and it depends how much longer He has decided this horror will continue.
Schneider: The Results of the Synod on Synodality are Conceived in Advance
1970s? Who's he kidding. Was that a misprint? 1960s would be an official/public start but this really started decades earlier. If it hadn't, Russia would have been consecrated as requested by Our Lady and VII would never have happened.
Three Cardinals: Francis' Church Degenerates into a Pagan Spectacle
At first I thought secularized meant laicized but presumably not. Demonized would be a better word. There appear to be 'nuns' present - what do you think they all say when praying. Perhaps "Thank you, God, for making all gods and demons welcome in your Church"? I'm beyond incredulous. Just what goes on in their heads?
Last Hope: God Won't Let It Happen - Cardinal Burke
Cardinal Burke should re-read Daniel :
"And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground and he shall do and prosper." (Dan 8:12). "The victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation." (Dan 9:27). "They shall defile the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination of desolation." (Dan 11:31)."
Germany: Old Catholic Female Priest At The Altar
The idea that any of this is valid Catholicism in any sense is a joke. They're all nutters - "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" comes to mind, but the original source from Sophocles is much fuller.
Chorus
[615] See how that hope whose wanderings are so wide truly is a benefit to many men, but to an equal number it is a false lure of light-headed desires. The deception comes to one who is wholly unawares until he burns his foot on a hot fire. [620] For with wisdom did someone once reveal the maxim, now famous, that evil at one time or another seems good, to him whose mind a god leads to ruin. [625] But for the briefest moment such a man fares free of destruction.
I reckon PMama and her fellow 'gods' are quite busy at present and that there are going to be more than a few burnt feet and hot flames around in the spiritual sense!
High-Quality Sacred Art to Be Auctioned in France (Photos)
Or did he collect them in the wake of VII?
High-Quality Sacred Art to Be Auctioned in France (Photos)
Am I missing something? Who was Canon J-C and how could he afford to collect all these items?