“As the Rascals always say: ‘If you can’t pass the test, change the test!’ But it’s hard to pass the test when the test itself keeps changing (or evolving!).” (The Famous Words of a Living Virginian) On the Feast of … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Catholic Bishop Shocks UU Ecumenical Guru by Speaking Like Catholic Bishop
This is from the 1P5 Blog: After 37 years of Bishop Howard Hubbard leading the Diocese of Albany, it appears that some within the interfaith community may miss him already. Earlier this year Pope Francis appointed Monsignor Edward Scharfenberger to replace … Continue reading
Synod Update: Cardinal Pell’s Assurances, ‘Blue Thursday’
In the interview below, Cardinal Pell completely contradicts Cardinal Kasper’s estimate that “a growing majority” are taking his own heterodox view on Holy Communion for habitual adulterers. He also makes an excellent point about the sexual chaos of the Roman … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper Denies Anti-African Comments, Journalist Posts Recording
That a progressivist who routinely denies the Catholic Faith and common sense in favor of liberalism and modernism was caught making xenophobic comments to a journalist about African bishops is news. That he denied making the comments is also news. … Continue reading
Cardinal Napier to the Rescue?
The Catholic Herald informs us that an outspoken South African Cardinal has been added to the committee that will draft the final report on the Synod: Pope Francis has added Cardinal Wilfrid Napier to the drafting committee which will produce the … Continue reading
Sanctity: Our Counterrevolutionary Grand Strategy
Here is the text of my talk from our recent Saint Benedict Center Conference. I. Introduction My talk today will be a brief elucidation of the following thesis: “The comprehensive and adequate grand strategy for today’s Catholic Counterrevolutionary is the … Continue reading
Fr. James Farfaglia Blasts Synod: ‘Gay Lobby Is in Control’
Renew America: Pope Francis has correctly criticized the plague of clericalism within the Catholic Church, but Monday’s document is the most disgusting example of clericalism that I have ever seen in my almost twenty-seven years as a faithful and hardworking … Continue reading
The Ecumenism of Matrimony, ‘Graduality,’ and Sacraments of the Perfect
Reading Vatican Insider today, the thought struck me that they may have contracted with the editorial staff of The Onion for their coverage of the Synod on the Family. But this is no joke. The quotes below are attributed to Vatican spokesman, … Continue reading
Synod Update: Well Then Let’s ‘Get Real’. Teach the Truth Now
Catholic News Service: In their discussions of sexual and medical ethics, participants at the Synod of Bishops on the family are giving emphasis to the concept of “graduality,” as a way of thinking about morality that allows for human imperfection … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke Assails Kasper Proposal
(Aletia) I certainly had serious difficulties with what Cardinal Kasper was proposing. In proposing it, he was urging a direction which, in the whole history of the Church, has never been taken, a direction which would in some way involve either … Continue reading
A Priest Writing Like a Priest Ought to Write
Writing for Rorate Caeli, Father Richard Cipolla has some good and priestly words for his readers (see especially the emboldened paragraph below). To his concerns that the social questions should be important to traditionalists, we add that doctrinal concerns ought to … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper Highly Critical of His ‘Fundamentalist’ Critics
CNA: “(Some Cardinals) fear a domino effect, that if one thing changes, everything will collapse. That’s their fear. All this is related to ideology, an ideological interpretation of the Gospel, but the Gospel is not a penal code. As the Pope … Continue reading
Albanian Priest Moves Pope to Tears Recounting His Sufferings Under Communism
CNA: With tears in his eyes, Pope Francis gave a warm embrace to Father Ernest Troshani Simoni, 84, one of the last survivors of the terrible Communist persecution in Albania. During his visit to Tirana, Albania, on Sept. 21, Pope Francis … Continue reading
Albanian Nun Tells Pope Francis of Her Ordeals Under Communism
CNA: Among the powerful moments on Pope Francis’ Sept. 21 trip to Albania was the Holy Father’s encounter with an 85 year-old Franciscan Stigmatine nun, who recalled witnessing to the faith in the midst of the Communist regime. Sister Maria … Continue reading
Father Claude Barthe on the SSPX Situation and “Imperfect Communion”
The Rorate Caeli site has posted the translation of an important analysis by Father Claude Barthe, originally written in French for the website of the Catholic journal, l’Homme Nouveau. L’abbé Barthe is the main chaplain of the Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage to Rome. Aside from … Continue reading