A new edition of our biannual magazine Gregorius Magnus is published! The magazine is free and available to all; you can read it online, we handed out 150 copies to participants of the Summorum Pontificum Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage in Rome, and a small number will receive it in the post.
In a better age, like Cardinal Pie, he would have long been created a Cardinal. Alas…
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Synodal process as an instrument to change the Church?
Bishop Robert Mutsaerts
November 4, 2022
On Thursday, Oct. 27, the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in Rome presented the working document for the Continental Phase of the Synod "For a synodal Church: communio, participatio, missio.” This took place at a press conference chaired by Cardinal Grech held at the Holy See press center in Rome. The document was entitled "Increase the space in your tent" (Isaiah 54:2). Based on all the final documents of the meetings in the various Continents, the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops then compiles the Instrumentum Laboris, the working document for the 2023 and 2024 Synod meetings.
Message sent by the Vatican Secretary of State, Card. Parolin, to the French Episcopal Conference meeting this week in Lourdes:
The Holy Father Pope Francis wishes to assure you and all the members present [at the 2022 Fall Plenary Assembly] of his prayer and his fraternal and spiritual support.
At a time when the Church of France is once again shaken by the drama of abuse on the part of some of its pastors, he invites you, with your eyes fixed on the cross of Christ, not to be discouraged but to persevere in the assurance that the Holy Spirit will accompany your efforts, which will once again be the object of your work. He knows your determination to give the Church of France its true missionary face, and he encourages you to go forward with audacity and discernment.
Cardinal Zuppi, Abp. of Bologna, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, led Traditional Vespers at the oldest standing religious building in Rome, the Pantheon (Sancta Maria ad Martyres), on this first day of the 2022 Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage to Rome:
The Church, which, as a main publicly owned tourist website, remains open for visitation during ceremonies had its seats filled with lay faithful, mostly young, and young priests. Fr. Claude Barthe, chaplain of the pilgrimage, made a brief pronouncement, and so did Cardinal Zuppi, joyfully welcoming the traditional pilgrims to the Eternal City.
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You may have heard that the "Working Document for the Continental Stage" of the "Synod on Synodality" was released today. (You may not have heard, in which case, I apologise for this article!) Numerous Catholic news outlets (of varying quality) have already commented on this document, but I thought I would provide a few of my own "highlights" for readers.
1. The document claims that "Globally, participation exceeded all expectations" (n. 5). Given that the participation of even those Catholics who attend Mass has been exceptionally low - something even cardinals have recognised! - this is either a lie, or the expectations were very, very low to begin with!
2. One of the few positives is that the document explicitly says that "it is not a document of the Church’s Magisterium" (n. 8). Thus, when the time inevitably comes, we can just chuck it in the bin and concentrate on more important things in the life of the Church. Deo gratias!
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| The main hall in Pennsylvania Station, 1910-1963 |
Sophia Institute Press held a booklaunch for Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s The Catholic Mass, in Arlington, VA on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Diane Montagna was the moderator. Bishop Schneider delivered a talk on the centrality of Christ in the Mass. (When this talk becomes available, I will share it.)
As part of the event, I gave a 30-minute presentation entitled “Cursed Cultus or Worthy Worship: The Choice that Faces Us.” This is now available on YouTube:
A nightmare that has no end: that is the sick pontificate through which we are suffering.
The Pontifical Academy for Life was one of the very few positive post-conciliar creations. Unsurprisingly, it was born of the mind of Dr. Jerôme Lejeune, one of the greatest pro-life heroes, who suggested it to John Paul II and was named its first president.
Since the advent of Francis, the new Pontifical Academy for Life has become a hotbed of dissent from Catholic moral teaching: from contraception to homosexuality to abortion, and other doctrinal issues, there is no matter on which it has not caused scandal under the leadership of Abp. Vincenzo Paglia.
Its newest members were named by Francis yesterday, among them a radical leftist economist, an Italian living in the U.S. named Mariana Mazzucato. Mazzucato is an avowed atheist:
The section on Gnosis is particularly damning - it's a long read but highly recommended. F.R.
We here (as we have done
above) understand ‘religion’ broadly as a system of belief and ethics. The
religion (in this sense) which proposes the self-deification of man [1]
in its original and paradigmatic form, is Gnosis.
Here we consider:
1. The Origin of Gnosis,
2. The Development of Gnosis;
3. Gnosis in the Council.
Don Marcello
Stanzione
Il Nuovo
Arengario
October 9,
2022
Padre Pio with Father Jean Derobert
The "prophets of doom" mocked by John XXIII in his opening speech were right. Of course they were. Those who warn of the disastrous results of revolutionary projects are always right. They were right when they warned Louis XVI against calling the Estates-General. They were right when they warned Franz Joseph not to declare war on Serbia after the ultimatum had been basically all accepted or when they warned Nicholas II not to decree "partial mobilization" in 1914.
Anyway, many good things are still going on despite the noxious fumes coming from the Vatican still now with the nonsensical Satan Synod ("Synod on Synodality") as this completely bankrupt pontificate unravels.
This past Saturday, for instance, hundreds of faithful, mostly young people, attended the Pontifical Mass celebrated at the Church of Saint Roch, Paris, for the 40th Anniversary of the association that promotes the yearly Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage (Notre-Dame de Chrétienté). The Mass was celebrated by the Abbot of St. Madeleine of Le Barroux.
Father Fahey’s analysis of Modernism serves as an all too accurate critique of the Council’s theology.
B. Theology
The theology of which we here
treat is Modernist theology, which we understand to be the theology of the
Council. In fact one of the more perceptive Council Bishops, Monsignor
Borromeo, noted less than two months after the first Council session: ‘Siamo in pieno modernismo’ [1].
Professor de Mattei, an expert on the subject, explains how the term
‘Modernism’ makes its first official appearance in Pascendi as a concept intended to group together a complex of
errors in all fields of Catholic doctrine: Holy Scriptures, theology,
philosophy, and cult. He quotes the description of it as a ‘fluid and
incandescent material… the character of which was the very indetermination of
its program’ [2]. He
states that: ‘The roots and motives of this movement reside in the attempt to
establish a ‘dialogue’ between the Church and the process of secularization
which followed the French Revolution’ [3].
Holy Name of Jesus Church is hosting a Solemn High Requiem Mass in honor of Gerald Russello, an integral player in the NYC Catholic scene for years.
More information below:
Rorate Caeli marks the 60th anniversary
of the opening of The Second Vatican Council on October 11th 1962, with an analysis of its causes, Metaphysical, Theological and Religious – causes as
dramatic as the effects that the whole world has been living for the past two
generations. Don Pietro Leone delves
deep into the very heart of modern error and traces it back to its roots in the
Rebellion of the Angels and the First Man at the dawning of creation. Parts 2 and 3 of this analysis will be published on the 11th and 13th of October respectively.
F. R.
A Traditional Latin Requiem Mass will be held in London this Saturday in memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to mark a month since the death of the monarch.
The Sung Mass organized by the Latin Mass Society will be held at 11am at St Mary Moorfields church in the City of London. It will feature music by Tomas Luis da Victoria sung by the Southwell Consort directed by Gareth Wilson with the unusual accompaniment of Sackbutts and Cornetts.
Church location: 4-5 Eldon St, London EC2M 7LS; click for a map.
Nearest tube stations Moorgate and Liverpool Street.
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| Mass at the St Catherine's Trust Summer School in 2022 |
"Queer" theory, "interfaith" meetings, and Muslim participants. The Satan Synod will have it all: all, except Catholicism.
Join us for holy Mass and a continuing series on Saint Thomas and the virtues at the new Sunday traditional Latin Mass location in southern Maryland.
Sundays, 12 noon. Preceded by confessions beginning at 11:30. 22400 Aquasco Road, 20608.
What a fun pontificate this is...
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| Bishop Dominique Rey meets with his clergy, September 15, 2022 |
