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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Ed Pentin interviewed the Prefect of the CDW about “Traditionis custodes” and the Dubious Dubia.
At the National Catholic Register, Ed Pentin has an interview with Archbp. Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Roche’s responses are typical, in that they are replete with buzz words and jargon and the usual specious premises. These … Read More →
ASK FATHER: Not one word about Card. Cupich’s “The Gift of Traditionis Custodes”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Card. Cupich, who is a trusted advisor of Pope Francis, issued a document the other day called “The Gift of Traditionis Custodes”. I take it you don’t see it as a gift, but I notice that … Read More →
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Why would a pope do such a thing?
I have a few busy days right now and also people in town, so my energies are divided. However, I bring to your attention the fact that, other day, with other religious leaders Francis signed a document about “safeguarding nature” … Read More →
Two macabre images come together
Damian Thompson is one of those writers who reminds me of Hamlet’s advice to Polonius: “After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.” Lately, at The Spectator, he offered some views … Read More →
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Cardinal who runs the Synod (“walking together”): “It is a grace that today Christendom is no more.”
Corriere della Sera The man who runs the Synod (“walking together”), Mario Card. Grech. “It is a grace that today Christendom is no more. Because we felt we had arrived: the Church as a” perfect society “. And whoever is … Read More →
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Francis opens the Synod quoting Congar: “We must not make another Church, we must make a different Church”
Francis opening address at the Synod (“walking together”). Read carefully. At least the Bolletino has it HERE… No… wait… Interesting approach. Let’s just sloooooow doooooown the English speaking wooooooorld. Here’s a version in English… my emphases and comments. Dear Brothers and … Read More →
Francis appointed a “Special Delegate” to take complete control of the group “Memores Domini”. They take care of Benedict XVI. – UPDATED
UPDATE: And… the traditional Carmelites in Pennsylvania are being investigated with an “Apostolic Visitation”, 25-28 September. The nuns have been served by a priest who was a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Remember them? The sisters are … Read More →
Francis’ dialogue with Jesuits in Bratislava about the Vetus Ordo, homosexuality, people who “wanted him dead”, a global Catholic TV channel doing the “work of the devil”
From La Civiltà Cattolica, which is run by Jesuit Fr. Antonio “2+2=5” Spadaro, a transcript of a meeting between Francis and Jesuits in Bratislava. HERE I think it’s best for me simply to send you over to LCC to read … Read More →
More hijinx in Saint Peter’s Basilica
Once upon a time, anyone who dared to use the papal altar in one of the major Roman basilicas without a rescript incurred an excommunication, including cardinals. Old photos show the rescript posted on a column of the baldachin during … Read More →
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More bad news from the Vatican. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Ed Pentin reports on more fresh hell from the Vatican. What this boils down to, I think, is demonic gender bending theory and eventual ruthless population control/reduction through contraception (willing or not), sterilization (willing or not), and euthanasia (willing or … Read More →
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