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A Sick Elderly Francis Hates America - Like Biden, Propped Up to Support Leftist Ideology


The current American administration took office three weeks ago. It has been a busy three weeks, but one thing that has surely not happened are "mass deportations"... Deportation procedures and flights have remained what they were under Biden, and still under much lower levels than they were under the previous Democrat administration (Obama).


Still, the fact that nothing in practice has changed so far, other than the pause of funds to NGOs (including those run by certain dioceses), has not prevented Francis from sending a highly unusual, undiplomatic, ideological (under the appearance of syrupy devoutness), and frankly embarrassing letter to "the bishops of the United States of America":

Birth Rate Collapse: Pets Instead of Children? -- Op-Ed by Archbishop Héctor Agüer

 Children or Pets?

by Archbishop Héctor Agüer
Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina
Buenos Aires, February 11, 2025
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

[The collapse of birth rates in Argentina]



        I read in [the Argentine daily paper] “La Prensa” that, since 2016, births in the City of Buenos Aires have been decreasing. Between January and mid-December 2024, 37,864 births were registered, according to official figures from the Buenos Aires Civil Registry: a twelve percent drop compared to the previous year. 

The true enemies of the Church are bad Catholics

On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the anniversary of her first apparition to Saint Bernadette, I offer this reprise from our kind benefactor NC:


It is a well-known account. Sister Marie Bernarde (Bernadette) Soubirous is in the convent of the Sisters of Charity in Nevers, it is 1870, war is raging throughout northern France as the Prussian-led German armies march towards Paris. The first printed version of the account,* published while she was still living, is the following. A visitor came to Bernadette at that time and made her the following questions:

 


- Did you receive, in the grotto of Lourdes, or after then, any revelations related to the future and fate of France? Did not the Blessed Virgin deliver any warning for France, any threats?
No
- The Prussians are at our gates; does that not cause you any fear?
No.
- There is thus nothing to fear?
I only fear bad Catholics.
- You do not fear anything else?
No, nothing else.

Catholic Church leaders are running scared

What would happen if the Holy Father restated some salient items of Catholic dogma? 

 

First of all, I am thinking about this dogma: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. This is defined as follows: “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302.) If Pope Francis repeated this, one can only guess at what might happen. At the very least he would utterly destroy 60 years of ecumenical dialogue and cause a massive internal rift within the Catholic Church. He may even have to go into hiding!

Catholic Family News Conference - March 1st-2nd, in Orlando, Florida

 



Catholic Family News will be holding a Conference near OrlandoFlorida on March 1-2, 2025. The theme is the Global Conflict to Implement the Catholic Plan for Social Order, covering a wide array of topics including politics, education and the current challenges traditional Catholics face today.

A Vatican II Moment: Dancing in Front of the Relics of Saint Maria Goretti

 The relics of Saint Maria Goretti are on a worldwide tour — and in one of those stops, her martyred body has been subjected to the horror and humiliation of a dance by some apparently “devout” “Catholic youth” that is nothing but mockery of her purity.


“TikTok evangelization,” we guess — video below:

The Role of Sisters in the Church: Truly Appreciating Nuns Consists in Helping Them Live Their Own Vocation - by Abp. Héctor Aguer

Sisters in the Church

by Archbishop Héctor Agüer
Emeritus of La Plata, Argentina
Buenos Aires, February 4, 2025




        Pope Francis has discovered that machismo and misogyny reign in his Vatican Curia. And that, therefore, the sisters who work there - numerous in all ranks - are not properly appreciated. He believes that, in order to elevate them, they must be turned into civil servants. In this bureaucratization of the nuns, he has set an example by appointing one as prefect and another as secretary of a dicastery. A belated and curious feminism!

"The Spectacle of a Double Collapse, of the Church and of the State"

We are grateful to David Critchley for providing us with a translation of the Foreword to a recently published collection of essays by the eminent French traditionalist Jean-Pierre Maugendre: Quand la mer se retire: La tragédie de l’Église au XXIe siècle (When the Sea Withdraws: the Tragedy of the Church in the 21st Century) (Contretemps, 2024). Hopefully this entire book will be translated soon. Meanwhile, the Foreword itself is worth sharing for its directness and plain speech.

Foreword by Michel de Jaeghere