Readers may recall that, a little over two years ago, we reported that… The new Prior General of the Carthusians, Dom François Marie Velut, O. Carth., was once known as Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité. …and was the Fatima … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Convert David Gray Refutes Convert Mark Shea
DavidLGray.INFO My friend Ellen emailed me a recent article by Catholic pundit Mark Shea entitled, Elton John and the five stages of Intentional Discipleship, which was a follow-up piece to his article written four days prior on October 31, 2014, … Continue reading
Bishops Cannot Excommunicate Catholics Attending SSPX Masses
Latin Mass Society: Letters from the Bishop Semeraro of Albano, Italy, and then from Bishop Sarlinga of Zárate-Campana in Argentina, have declared that the lay faithful who receive the sacraments from priests and bishops of the Society of St Pius … Continue reading
The Deliquescent Hermeneutic of Moral Mensheviks
Today’s neo-conservatives in the Church — also called “neo-Catholics” — are the doctrinal, moral, and theological equivalent of Russia’s revolutionary Mensheviks. As Solzhenitsyn often said, Mensheviks prepare the field for Bolsheviks (as did the Girondins for the Jacobins). Dr. Jeffrey Mirus … Continue reading
Courageous Seminarian Could Leave Iraq But Will Not
CNA: Bombs are falling and the sound of the explosion is sending shock and fear into the hearts of the people. Amid the sound of crying and frenzied activity, people pack up what belongings they can carry and make off into … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper’s Error on God
Having read Father Serafino M. Lanzetta’s “Mercy according to Cardinal Kasper,” a couple of weeks ago, I was recently musing over the matter when it struck me: If, as Father Serafino Maria says, the Cardinal makes mercy God’s fundamental attribute, then he … Continue reading
Bishop Tobin’s Frankness on the Synod
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, of Providence, R.I., has published some frank observations on the Synod, some of which I excerpt here: In trying to accommodate the needs of the age, as Pope Francis suggests, the Church risks the danger of losing … Continue reading
‘Book of Remembrance’ Documents 1900 Catholic Victims of Soviet Communism
CNA: Catholic victims of the Soviet Union’s cruel anti-Christian persecutions faced execution, exile and arbitrary imprisonment for their faith – and now a new website tells their stories. “The persecution of the Church was immediate. It started within a couple … Continue reading
The Progressivist Putsch at the Synod
I am currently writing something about the Synod to be published as an Ad Rem. Meantime, here are some thoughts that I should not attempt to fit into that piece, which I am trying to keep concise. The Relatio that came out a week … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper Into Damage Control Mode
Catholic World News: Cardinal Walter Kasper has expressed regret about controversial remarks on African prelates in a conversation with journalist Edward Pentin, according to Catholic World Report. Cardinal Kasper had initially denied making any remarks on Africans, but then Pentin … Continue reading
Two Talks on ‘Where we are. How we got here. What we need to do.’
From “Video Sancto.” The speaker is not named on the YouTube video. Commenters are asked to refrain from doing so on this site. Part I. We are in a revolutionary time of history. Revolutions have been a part of the … Continue reading
Synod: Manipulation and Blowback
Sandro Magister outlines the methodology employed to assure that the progressivist agenda succeeds at the Synod on the Family. “New paradigms of divorce and homosexuality are now at home in the highest levels of the Church. Nothing has been decided, but … Continue reading
Breaking News: Cardinal Burke on the Synod, His Canning, and Pope Franicis
(Buzzfeed) A top cardinal told BuzzFeed News on Friday that the worldwide meeting of church leaders coming to a close in Rome seemed to have been designed to “weaken the church’s teaching and practice” with the apparent blessing of Pope … Continue reading