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!
Is this picture what Leo was referring to when he said, "Some forms of worship do not foster communion with others and can numb our hearts"? No, because here we have a cow, pigs, a donkey, what might be a horse, and presumably people all in communion with each other.
Today at morning Mass at my church [N.O.] we were treated to the "memorial" of "saint" John XXIII. The priest kept calling him "the Good Pope" which he claimed {I wouldn't know since I was a baby then} was what everybody called him. The priest further cited John XXIII's comment about being against the "prophets of doom" and instead called the (2nd Vatican) Council to dialogue with the world. I believe the Fatima Center has made a good case that John might have been referencing the 3rd Secret, wherein Our Lady warned of the consequences of ignoring the need for penance & consecrating Russia to her Immaculate Heart.
Here's something I got from a traditional apostolate. It looks like they revised the horrible Jubilee Year logo to be more palatable to faithful Catholics. Compare to original:
"The text opens with Revelation and [the] Magnificat but lands, almost immediately, on the United Nations, Medellín, Aparecida, and “popular movements.” That arc gives the game away. Scripture supplies the epigraphs; the program comes from the sociology. The result is a document that speaks tenderly of almsgiving and the sick while catechizing the faithful into a theory of power, space, and class. If love for the poor is the hook, the line and sinker are political “structures of sin,” “dictatorship of an economy that kills”
Another great post by Ann Barnhardt. Loved this quote: "You have a “disciple” who doesn’t really believe in Jesus or what He says – he just pretends to because he thinks he can gain power and wealth by associating with Jesus for now. He’s just working the “Jesus angle”. But everything he is doing behind the scenes is working in direct opposition to Our Lord. Now, this “disciple” starts trying to appear pious and devout by pontificating that all wealth and resources should, by definition, be redistributed to “the poor”. But in truth, he is just a thief."
@Orthocat... I know that you are very pro-life, I just wish that Barnhardt was. By my count she has posted one prolife video by a speaker(not her) in the past 8 years. Even the post that you cite makes satire of abortion....."Stop obsessing about the baby killing. My friend and consultant Prof. John Schellnhuber says there are 6.5 BILLION too many of you".
"Every headline this week pointed to the same quiet apostasy: a Church that substitutes gesture for truth... Bishops who measure moral consistency by CNN talking points. Cardinals promising “integral ecology” while the ancient Mass is treated as ecological waste. It is the seamless garment once more, not as thread, but as solvent, dissolving distinctions, flattening doctrine, and catechizing confusion."
thanks for share it!! my great online friend, brother @Jeffrey Ade We are always outraged and firmly condemn the persecution and oppression of the Christian community by such vicious Islamic extremists... But what's funny here is that the stupid orthodox Catholics and Christians who support Trump, JD Vance, and the current Republicans are talking about their concerns about the situation in Syria, and I can't help but laugh at that. How ridiculous is it that Trump, whom these guys support so much, has lifted a large number of sanctions on Ahmed al-Shara, the leader of the Syrian Islamic extremists and interim president, and now the situation of the Syrian Christian community and religious minorities is getting worse, and they are completely silent about this? If we are always angry and vocal about the persecution and oppression of the Christian community by Islamic extremists, I am convinced that the same should be said about the persecution and oppression of the Christian community by …More
Quote: "It is the infantilization of Catholic life: resist nothing, question nothing, submit to everything. The “childlike” faith Leo extols is not the faith of martyrs or monks, but the faith of toddlers strapped into car seats."
The "pope-splainers" are out in force... They posit that because Leo didn't meet personally with the group of homo "pilgrims" and kept silent about them - you see, he actually disapproves of them! (Of course he granted a private audience - that was greatly publicized - with the 'spiritual leader' Jimmy Martin S.J. of the homo-group!!!)
This Vatican II step is getting tiresome - officially "keep" a doctrine, but undermine it by being "pastoral." THIS IS WHAT GOT US IN THE MESS WE'RE IN TODAY!
The media buzz is that the number of Catholic converts - especially young people - is exploding through the roof. Some cite a 50% increase. However the "view from the pew" [at least IMO] is a Church in decline, with parish closings, church sales, lay ministers replacing priests that are rare, etc. What's your experience?