Blast from the past - in light of Leo's "remarks" to the curia at CHRISTMAS! It's like the old Seinfeld episode on "Festivus" - the airing of grievances!!
On December 21, Pope Francis addressed his Curia in the Clementine Hall for the Christmas Greetings. Regarding the much advertised "reform of the Curia" which he has failed to deliver so far, Francis attempted a self-justification: “Making reforms in Rome is like cleaning the Sphinx with a toothbrush”. Then, he warned the Curia of an "unbalanced and debased mindset of plots and small cliques that in fact represent" a "cancer", despite the fact that Francis has increasingly presented himself as the pope of a small magic circle treating the rest as people under suspicion. These people Francis insulted as "those who betray the trust put in them". He accused them of failing to understand their responsibility for "the reform" and even of being "corrupted by ambition or vainglory". Francis continued with thinly veiled allusions, "When they are quietly sidelined [Cardinal Sarah], they wrongly declare themselves martyrs of the system [Cardinal Müller, Cardinal Burke], of a 'Pope kept in the …More
Louis IX There are two kinds of Catholics. Those who are modernist and ignorant. And then the Catholics who think they know it all and quote only some parts of the Bible. But never ever mention.... Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it "not" to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. Why does Trump arrest mostly those who work the farms? Work in factories? DC says, they arrest thousands everyday. But only the workers. They say, they caught a bunch …More
Indeed, anyone who supports lawlessness by Catholics can be considered to be in a deplorable state. The next time I visit Spain I suppose I should refuse to leave, join a gang, get on benefits and complain when I should rightly be thrown out on my keister.
Catholics respect the authority of the Seat of Peter. Fortunately, most Catholics don't know about the bad policies of the current occupant of the seat. These Catholics can live their lives as Catholics and not as Synodal heretics.
This week we marked the 60th anniversary of the closing of Vatican II, and the usual suspects tried to tell us that it still has wonderful fruits. Yet the reality on the ground tells us something quite different. Isn’t it time to move on?
About time - it's corpse has been putrifying since its release. It was ill-begotten and deserves to be interred with the rest of the ill-considered works which have sidelined the Faith from time to time.
The subtitle: "He is following in the footsteps of his predecessor by adopting a cautious approach, ensuring that Mary is honored without overshadowing the primacy of Christ." Spin control?
This is the money sentence here: "“The Catholic Church faces an urgent and immediate need for equipping ministerial leaders, especially in minority communities underrepresented by ordained clergy." That's the statement. The whole thing is the usual double talk, but the main idea is we have to get "trained" lay people into minority communities to completely undermine what ever might possibly remain of what was once the Catholic Church.
I just received an email yesterday from the local hospital asking (begging?) me to "get caught up" on my vaccines - flu, pneumonia, COVID. NO WAY. But I got to thinking: what if some confused Catholic asked one of these 'pharma-funded' priests about their struggles with this subject - or any other hot-button issue [ex. contraception, etc.]. Will they receive a Catholic response grounded in solid moral theology & medical ethics? Or will the 'grateful minister' share how these drug companies work for the 'common good'? And why wouldn't he think that? They provided a generous GRANT to his seminary! Can't serve God and mammon!!!
"Thank you Tucho for your "permission" to pray my Rosary & wear the Miraculous Medal" {sarcasm} N.B. I say so because rejecting Our Lady's unique mediation & role in salvation makes the above-mentioned devotions useless. So clearly it cannot be forbidden!
Prevost and Caritas promote transsexuality under the pretext of helping the "poor," when in reality they are unrepentant trans homosexual activists and prostitutes who fight against God's law and Catholic morality. “Alessia Nobile” is a 46 year old male transvestite, homosexual porno escort.It should also be noted that the anti-Catholic Bergoglio, of infamous memory, invented this secular holiday, the Marxist "World Day of the Poor," to promote his progressive, Marxist, and anti-Catholic agenda. In doing so, he displaced Jesus Christ in favor of idolatrous worship of man, since Sunday is the Lord's Day. When the Marxist apostate Robert Prevost calls a trans activist, transvestite, and unrepentant male prostitute “poor,” and “marginalized” he is blasphemously and maliciously saying that God and the Church have been the oppressors. Supposedly, the Caritas organization was meant to help the poor, but it is now a Marxist organization that steals money from the Church and the worship due …More
I smell PR spin... As we've seen in other posts of this site, the more significant influence on Leo was his immersion in the liberation theology soaked Latin American experience. That's the key to understand his choice by Francis as his successor!
Does the God-Man need collaborators to complete His Passion? Can we really console Him in His sorrows, even though living centuries after His Ascension into Heaven?
Once again Ann Barnhardt cuts through all the crap and gets down to the truth of the matter! She is a "gem among gems" to use a Peanuts reference. I was downcast that the Vatican's former Holy Office was condemning the title Co-Redemptrix for Our Lady when I realized that bad faith actors have NO RIGHT TO MAKE JUDGEMENTS ON DOCTRINE!! I don't know why this action so rattled me - my own past experience in seminary demonstrated the HATRED modernists have towards the Mother of God! It was so bad I got in trouble for praying the Rosary with fellow seminarians!!
“Toties quoties” (Latin: ‘as many times as’) devotion Beginning on, November 1st , at noon and continuing to Midnight, November 2nd , the Catholic faithful, as often as they visit a church to pray for the dead, reciting 6 times during the visit the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of Holy Mother Church, may gain: A plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in Purgatory. This indulgence may also be gained from noon of the following Saturday until Sunday Midnight, but only by those who did not gain the indulgence on All Souls’ Day (Raccolta #590).
Liberal modernist NCR {not supposed use term catholic} whines about "conservative younger priests. Blames John Paul II & Benedict XVI... Quote: "As a result of the papacies of John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI, it is not surprising that "over 70% of the youngest priests described themselves as either 'conservative/orthodox' or 'very conservative/orthodox,'... Once again, the theological views of younger priests are out of sync with their peers and with the Catholic population. Catholics tend to favor progressive views on married priests, gay marriage, Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics and the use of contraceptives."
It used to be that religion in general, and Christianity specifically, was seen as more appropriate for women whereas men lived in "the real world." For example: One running plot point of the old TV series The Waltons was the wife Olivia trying to convince her husband John to get baptized & right with God. Fast forward to today, and as reports come in that young men are increasingly drawn to the faith, women are spouting agnostic woke views. For instance: a pastor's wife is tattooed and opining on social media how all her former morality was brainwashing from organized religion!