“Invincible ignorance is a punishment for sin.”
St.
Thomas Aquinas (De Infid. q. x., art. 1.)
It “covereth” first the sins of others, and then consequently,
our own.
But before all things have a
constant mutual charity among yourselves:
for charity covereth
a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4, 8
Remember:
Iconoclasm, the destruction of the images of our holy faith, is a defined and
condemned heresy!
Remember
the former age, for I am God, and there is no God besides…. Who show from the
beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things
that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand , and my will shall be
done.
Isaias
46: 9-10
“Make of
everything you can a sacrifice and offer it to God as an act of reparation for
the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication, for the conversion of
sinners.”
Angel of
Fatima to the three children
“Therefore,
brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have
learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.”
St. Paul, II
Thessalonians 2:15
“Invincible
ignorance is a punishment for sin.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“To
trust to an unfaithful man in the time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth, and
weary foot.”
Proverbs
25:19
“(Dogma must be
understood) by the very sense by which it is defined... and... must be held to
be by itself a sufficient demonstration, very sure and adapted to all the
faithful.”
Blessed Pope
Pius IX, Inter Gravissimas
Remember the
former age, for I am God, and there is no God besides…. Who show from the
beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things
that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and my will shall be
done.
Isaias
46: 9-10
“I
say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other:
because every one that exalteth himself shall be
humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted.”
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In the whole Gospel, then, there
was no teaching more appropriate than this, as a sequel to the history of
Jerusalem’s fall. The children of the
Church, who, in her early years, saw her humbled in Sion
and persecuted by the insulting arrogance of the Synagogue, now quite
understand that word of the Wise Man: ‘Better is it to be humbled with the
meek, than to divide spoils with the proud (Prov. 16:19)!’ According to another Proverb, the tongue of
the Jew – that tongue which abused the publican and ran down the poor Gentile –
has become, in his mouth, as ‘a rod of pride’ (Prov. 14:3), a rod which, in
time, struck himself, by bringing on his own destruction. But, whilst adoring the justice of God’s
vengeance and giving praise to His mercy, the Gentiles must take care not to go
into the path wherein was lost the unhappy people whose place they now
occupy. Israel’s offence, says St. Paul,
has brought about the salvation of the Gentiles; but, his pride would be also
their own ruin; and whereas Israel is assured, by prophecy, of a return to
God’s favour when the end of the world shall be
approaching (Rom. 11:25-27), there is no such promise of a second call of mercy
to the Gentiles, should they ever apostatize after their baptism.
Dom Gueranger,
The Liturgical Year, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
“Praepre for more trouble…. Authority is to serve
Truth. It has no other purpose…. Truth
is the purpose of authority.”
Bishop
Richard Williamson, June 28, 2015
St. Hyacinth (1184-1257) founded communities at Sandomir, Cracow, and at Plocko
on the Vistula in Moravia. He extended his missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania,
and Lithuania; then crossing the Baltic Sea he preached in Denmark, Sweden, and
Norway. He came into Lower or Red Russia, establishing a community at Lemberg and at Haletz on the Mester; proceeded into Muscovy, and founded a convent at Dieff, and came as far as the shores of the Black Sea. He
then returned to Cracow, which he had made the center of his operations…No
other saint, we make bold to say, with the exception of St. Vincent Ferrer, ever surpassed him in the number and character of
miracles wrought. The mere enumeration
of Hyacinth’s miracles fills thirty-five pages of the Acta Sanctorum. The bull of his
canonization, issued on April 17, 1594, declared his miracles to be “almost
countless”… in Cracow alone fifty dead persons had been raised to life and
seventy-two dying restored to perfect health… to whom our Blessed Mother said,
“Have great courage and be joyful, my son Hyacinth! Whatsoever thou shalt
ask in my name, shall be granted thee.”
St. Hyacinth, pray for us and for thy fellow Dominicans
to our Blessed Mother. Dominican
Saints
“It is not the magisterium as such that is
the rule of faith, but the definitions of the magisterium
that are the rule.”
Fr. Chad Ripperger, The Binding Force of Tradition
“Mercy
without justice is the mother of
dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
St.
Thomas, commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew
The Holy Spirit has not been promised to the
successors of Peter that, under His revelation, they might make known a new
doctrine, but in order that, with His assistance, they sacredly preserve and
faithfully set forth the revelation transmitted by the Apostles, that is to
say, the deposit of the faith.
Vatican Council I, Pastor Aeternus
“Hold
firmly that our faith is identical with the ancients. Deny this, and you
dissolve the unity of the Church.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
As
Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later known as Pope Francis,
and now forgotten, kneels to receive the “blessing” from Protestant ministers
before thousands in Buenos Aires, 2006. He is now receiving the reward of a
traitor.
COMMENT: We are required to subject what is of man in ourselves to what
is of God in our fellow men. This is justice.
We are permitted to
subject what is of man in ourselves to what is of man in our fellow men. This
is humility.
We are forbidden to
subject what is of God in ourselves to what is of man in our fellow men. This
is betrayal. This is treason! This is sin!
“How many sheep there are without, how many wolves within!”
St. Augustine, Homily on John, 45:12
Ss.
Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is constituted as a religious
society. It is canonically a pious union of Catholics but functions in
the manner of a confraternity. Like other confraternities, its constitution
and governing structure are intended to be fixed, dedicated toward a specific
spiritual end, for which members join together in common union to seek their
own spiritual perfection working toward a common end. Membership in the
Mission is open to any Catholic who subscribes to its corporate purpose and
takes upon himself the obligation to offer a daily Rosary of reparation to the
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, a weekly day of fast, preferably on
Tuesday, and a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament at least once each month
as a minimum for the intentions of the Mission. The Mass intention
offered each Sunday and Holy Day are for members of the Mission. Membership forms are located in the vestibule. If you are not a member of the Mission please
consider becoming one.
“It is a sin to believe there is salvation
outside the Catholic Church!”
Blessed Pope Pius IX
“A
religious error is the main root of all social and political evils.”
Pope
Leo XIII, Inscrutabili Dei Consilio
Remember the former age, for I am God, and there
is no God besides…. Who show from the beginning the things that shall be at
last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My
counsel shall stand , and my will shall be done.
Isaias 46: 9-10
The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that
assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to
neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be
baptized are “reborn of water and the Spirit.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church, On the Necessity of Baptism
The
secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us
and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29
“Fight, children of light, you little number who see
clearly, for behold the time of times, the end of ends is at hand.”
Blessed Virgin Mary, LaSalette
“If
anyone despises or rejects either written or unwritten ecclesiastical
tradition, let him be anathema.”
Canon
4, Ecumenical Council of Nicea in 787 A.D
I will send forth famine into the land, not a famine of bread . . . but
of hearing the word of the Lord, . . . they shall go about seeking the word of
the Lord and shall not find it.
Amos 8:11
The
use of the “received and approved rites customarily used in the solemn
administration of the sacraments” for the worship of God is a DOGMA of Catholic
faith defined at the Council of Trent!
Since, then,
no one is allowed to be remiss in the service due to God … we are bound
absolutely to worship God in that way which He has shown to be His will …. ”
Pope Leo XIII,
Immortale Dei, On the Christian
Constitution of States
Faithfully do what God expects of you each moment,
and leave the rest up to Him.
I assure you that living in this manner will bring
you great peace.
St. Jane Francis de
Chantal
Ss.
Peter & Paul Chapel is open to its members at any time of the day or night
for visits to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
The
Archdiocese of Baltimore is selling churches and buying guns. A real inversion
of the Great Commission!
This was the eight year that the Mission
has offered the complete pre-Bugnini "received and approved" Holy
Week liturgical ceremonies. Thanks to everyone and their long hours dedicated
to making this possible. Once again we experienced the beauty and richness of
the liturgy as well as the depth of unforgivable deconstruction committed by
the liturgical innovators in 1956 with the first Bugnini transitional
Missal. Was it stupidity or malice? Take
your pick. Also of note, Low Sunday, April 27, is the anniversary of the death
of Rev. Fr. Joseph F. Collins who was present and helped us with our first
complete traditional Holy Week in 2018.
An OPEN LETTER to E. Michael Jones for the
purpose of defending Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and helping Dr. Jones
understand the nature of schism and its relationship to faith and charity has
been posted on our OPEN LETTERS page. The charge of "schism" is a
cheap smear often directed against members and supporters of Ss. Peter &
Paul Roman Catholic Mission by cowardly Novus Ordo clerics that are just as
ignorant of the question as Dr. Jones. The OPEN LETTER was sent to Dr. Jones,
owner of Fidelity Press and editor of Culture
Wars Magazine, and to the "Guild Prophets" that Jones challenges
to condemn Archbishop Viganò, namely, Dr. Marshall Taylor professional Catholic
apologist, Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside
the Vatican, John-Henry Westen, editor of Life Site News, and Mr. Michael Matt, editor of the Remnant Magazine. The OPEN LETTER has
been posted on CathInfo Forum inviting Dr. Jones to defend his allegations in a
written exchange. The Guild Prophets have also been invited to share their
understanding of the crime of schism, reply to Dr. Jones and comment on the
OPEN LETTER.
Dr.
Jones claims to be an "expert" on the question of schism. We disagree.
In fact we accuse Dr. Jones of a singular longstanding ignorance on the
question. Members of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission have been
accused by the last five local ordinaries in Harrisburg of schism so it is a
question that we have long reflected upon. We have in fact tried for nearly 25
years to get the local bishop or his designated representative to engage in an
open discussion on the question of schism. Perhaps something in this proposed
open exchanges will enlighten our local ordinary.
The
first stain glass window repair was completed and the re-installed in the
window over the sanctuary. These are the windows that change colors at sunset
and sunrise.
The
renovations on the lower level have been completed including the donation of a
new refrigerator. The renovations included the new flooring in the lower sacristy, office,
community room and kitchen area, new cabinetry in the kitchen, new cabinets, sinks
and toilets in both lower lever bathrooms, and donation of several large
bookcases for the library collection. Thanks for your patience and particularly
to those who helped keep the chapel dust free during the renovation.
The Archdiocese of
Baltimore is restructuring. The Baltimore Sun reports "The changes would
be.. "historic. It would reduce the number of parishes in Baltimore and a
few nearby suburbs from 61 to 21, and the number of worship sites from 59 to
23." Archbishop William E. Lori says that this is restructuring is
unrelated to the current bankruptcy proceedings. Does anyone believe this? Like
the Harrisburg diocese, Baltimore has refused to admit that the financial
problems causing bankruptcy are due to homosexual clerics abusing adolescent
boys in over 90% of all cases and they further refuse to implement any
meaningful correction to remove homosexual clerics or prevent homosexuals
acceptance into seminaries. We are to believe that the collapse of the Catholic
Church in the first diocese of the United States is just growing pains of the
"springtime of Vatican II". As Pope Francis might say, "Time is
greater than space," no one alive will ever see, or was ever expected to
see, the "springtime of Vatican II".
Bishops Senior
of Harrisburg and Lori of Baltimore using same playbook!
"Traditionis
Custodes went into immediate effect in July 2021 and could have resulted in
the immediate cessation of Mass according to the Missal of 1962. For the
pastoral good of the faithful, the Holy See in its wisdom granted an indult to
allow St. Mary's to temporarily continue Mass according to the Missal of 1962
during a period of transition. The purpose of the indult was to
allow those who had become accustomed to Mass according to the Missal of 1962
to receive catechesis and formation so they would come to welcome and embrace
the Novus Ordo.
As the transition period will soon be
coming to a close, it is now important to share what will take place after the
indult expires in August. After much careful and prayerful consideration, I
have discerned that for the pastoral good of all the faithful in the
Archdiocese of Baltimore, the celebration of the liturgical rites and pastoral
care according to the Missal of 1962 within the Archdiocese of Baltimore on or after
August 1, 2024 will be entrusted solely to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
(FSSP) at the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Baltimore.
[....]" Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, 3-13-2004
COMMENT: Like
the Diocese of Harrisburg, the Archdiocese of Baltimore under Archbishop Lori
has restricted the use of the Indult 1962 Bugnini transitional Missal to the
single location. As long as Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is in
York, PA there will be an Indult offered in Harrisburg and Baltimore. If we
were not here, they would not be there. It is however refreshing to hear +Lori
admit that the purpose of the Indult is to provide remedial educational
transition for recalcitrant traditional Catholics into the Novus Ordo. This is
why to FSSP never, ever criticizes the heretical and immoral slag that flows
from the Vatican.
Bishop
Senior has issued a LETTER
implementing new regulations regarding the use of the Indult Missal as directed
by Pope Francis' Traditionis custodes.
The current regulations governing the Indult contain no changes excepting that
the use of the 1962 Rituale Romanum
will be restricted to the chapel in Harrisburg. Therefore, if anyone wants to
be married, buried or shriven in the 1962 Bugnini rite they will have to do so
in Harrisburg. The two conditions to obtain the Indult require Catholics to
offer only 1962 Indult Bugnini transitional Missal and they must accept the
"validity" of Vatican II. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission
has no interest in the Indult and offers only the "received and
approved" immemorial Roman rite of Mass before Bugnini laid his Masonic
hands on it. As for the "validity" of Vatican II: it is a legally
valid as an act of the "authentic magisterium", that is, an act of
churchmen acting by virtue of their grace of state, as a merely pastoral
council that has proven to be a pastoral failure. On the doctrinal question:
It's pastoral 'legality' is unrelated to any of its implicit or explicit
heretical teachings the implications of which were difficult to foresee. Who
would have guessed that the 'teachings' of Vatican II would lead to the
pastoral "blessing" of sodomite couples? Be that as it may, as long as
we are here, the Indult community will be unmolested in Harrisburg.
Bishop
Timothy Senior has issued his bromide on the recent publication of Fiducia supplicans, the document issued
by the "Dicastery" for the Doctrine of the Faith and signed by Pope
Francis on the question of blessings for “couples in an irregular situation and couples of the
same sex.” This document is bald
attack on the sacrament of marriage as seen in every heretical and schismatic
sect. Bishop Senior regurgitated the public comment from the USCCB
distinguishing between liturgical (Catholic Truth) and pastoral (human
compassion) questions. Catholic faithful are asked to look the other way while
the bishops are looking the other way. This is just one big cowardly dodging of
their duty to uphold and defend Catholic truth. May God grant Bishop Senior his
just reward and the sooner the better.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore filed
bankruptcy to seek protection from their creditors. Perhaps our former bishop,
Ronald Gainer, and our current bishop, Timothy Senior, based upon his
experience in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, can help them to structure their
Chapter 11 proceedings so as to emerge from this shameful process without
having to identify the cause of the insolvency or implement any serious
corrective action to prevent its recurrence. He can also advise on how to
conceal from Catholics what it will cost them and exactly what of their assets
will be liquidated to satisfy creditors.
Recently
completed the exterior painting and rebuilding of the east entrance decking.
The reupholstering and staining was also completed. Thanks to everyone who has
helped with their contributions for the completion of this work.
Bishop
Timothy Senior is now the new ordinary of the Diocese of Harrisburg. We will
pray for his welfare as we have for his predecessors in the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass and the daily Rosary.
Bishop
Ronald Gainer, as a token of farewell, has re-circulated the old diocesan
calumny against Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission. A letter was sent to Rev. John Bateman,
the pastor of St. Patrick Novus Ordo rite Church extending to him an opportunity
to enter into a public exchange on the merits of the doctrinal, moral,
liturgical and canonical arguments upon which our Mission was established for
the end of bringing whoever is in error back to truth. The letter was copied to
Bishop Gainer and to the new bishop of Harrisburg, Timothy Senior.
Pope
Francis appointed Bishop Timothy Senior, an auxiliary bishop for the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia, as the next bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg.
He was the former rector of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and is currently the
chancellor responsible for the selling of that property and relocation of the
Seminary to a more modest venue. He assumes his new role on June 21.
Bishop Ronald Gainer's Swan Song:
Diocese of Harrisburg completed its plan for judicial
resolution of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This publication regarding reorganization
of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Bishop Ronald Gainer says nothing about the
liquidation of Catholic assets to pay creditors! What is worse, this plan of
reorganization does NOT identify that the cause of more than 90% of all sexual abuse cases are committed
by homosexual clerics using the clerical collar as cover for predatory abuse of
adolescent boys (the crime of pederasty) or offer any plan to eliminate these
predators from the clergy and religious vocations!
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg (RCDH) announced that its Chapter 11 Plan of
Reorganization has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. With this approval, the RCDH has emerged from
bankruptcy, nearly three years from when this process started. The Most
Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, offered the following
statement on the completion of this process:
“Three years ago, I announced that the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protections. That difficult decision was made as a means of stabilizing the
Diocese’s financial situation, while at the same time allowing us to make
restitution to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and continue our
ministries.[....]
With the plan approved, the RCDH and
related entities will establish a Survivor Compensation Trust and provide
funding to the Trust in an amount equal to $7.5 million. The settling insurers
will contribute an additional $10.75 million, bringing the total Trust amount
to $18.25 million. This Trust will provide financial restitution for survivors
of clergy sexual abuse. According to the plan, the Trust will be established by
early March. More details related to the Trust are included in the Plan, which
is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and on the Diocesan website. Once
established, a Trust administrator, and not the Diocese, will determine
compensation amounts and claim eligibility for abuse survivors.
The RCDH filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in February 2020. More than 60
timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during
the reorganization process. The move to declare bankruptcy came after years of
financial hardship, which was exacerbated by the Grand Jury investigation and
subsequent lawsuits, and after every attempt to scale back operations,
including reducing overhead, were unsuccessful.
The RCDH has a zero-tolerance policy
regarding child abuse and has passed every audit related to the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People since 2002. In 2019, the Diocese’s independent Survivor
Compensation Program assisted 111 survivors, for a total financial commitment
of $12,784,450
Ss. Peter &
Paul Roman Catholic Mission is constituted as a religious society. It is
canonically a pious union of Catholics but functions in the manner of a
confraternity. Like other confraternities, its constitution and governing
structure are intended to be fixed, dedicated toward a specific spiritual end,
for which members join together in common union to seek their own spiritual
perfection working toward a common end. Membership in the Mission is open
to any Catholic who subscribes to its corporate purpose and takes upon himself
the obligation to offer a daily Rosary of reparation to the Sorrowful and
Immaculate Heart of Mary, a weekly day of fast, preferably on Tuesday, and a
Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament at least once each month as a minimum
for the intentions of the Mission. Membership forms are located in the
vestibule. If you are not a member of
the Mission please consider becoming one.
The last of the Vatican II popes,
Benedict/Ratzinger, has died. He will likely become another "Novus Ordo
saint" for the examination is superficial, the process expedited and the
standard of “heroic virtue” so very, very low that it hardly meets the level of
any naturally good act. As for miracles, ‘We don't need no stinking miracles’.
His own voluminous writings are full of heresy, most serious of which was his
denial of substantial reality and
from this, the dogma of the True Presence, Transubstantiation. He wrote that
the idea of visiting God’s localized sacramental presence in a Church was
rejected by the modern mind. His conservative style made him less threatening
than Pope Francis but in the end he will be shown to have been far more
damaging to the Catholic Church because he corrupted its first principles
throughout his long tenure in positions of great influence and authority while
Francis simply applies the corrupted principles in a crude and rigorous
manner.
August 24th was the 75th birthday of Bishop
Richard Gainer. He has submitted the offer of his retirement to Pope Francis
and, if accepted, will move on to other endeavors perhaps less challenging but
certainly more rewarding.
The
Diocese of Harrisburg, as its embraces Pope Francis’ “The Synodal Way,” has
become like Francis himself, shamelessly effeminate and hopelessly dated. We
respectfully ask anyone who has access to Bishop Gainer to remind him that his
time of stewardship is short. Soon he will be steward no longer and must make a
detailed account for his stewardship. If he tries any of the buzzwords
published by his “Synod Ambassadors” at his particular judgment, he will be
told to try them with the Devil and see if he has any more success!
The new front doors were completed on Thanksgiving
Day. The project was over a year in
execution but the results are well worth the time and expense involved. Thanks to all involved with this project as well
as the man who designed, constructed and installed the doors.
Backbone for sale
Now that Summorum Pontificum is a dead letter, the "Latin Mass
Community" in Harrisburg is back to being an "INDULT COMMUNITY"
and no longer a 'grant of legal privilege' garden club. That's nice. It is a
lot easier to call them "Indultists" rather than "GOLPs"
(Grant of Legal Privilegers"). It is ironic that Indultists sounds like
"Insultists." After all, what is more insulting than agreeing to
never defend the faith or preach it in its purity in return for "crumbs
that fall from the table." Hopefully a few of them will learn that it is
the faith itself that first must be defended. And perhaps a few of these few
will learn that DOGMA is the proximate rule of faith for all the faithful.
There
are rumors that Bishop Gainer may offer the Indult community the opportunity to
purchase St. Lawrence Church. This is good news if done properly. The church
must not be sold to the Fraternity of St. Peter because any future bishop may
remove them from the diocese, the Fraternity would then simply sell the
property and take the assets with them. If the church is sold to a lay
corporate traditional community, any future bishop will not be able to expel
the Fraternity from the diocese because the corporate body will retain the
property and simply obtain the help of other priests who recognize that the
virtue of obedience owed to the bishop is conditionally regulated by the virtue
of Religion. Our hope is that this will be done as much as for the welfare of
Bishop Gainer as for the faithful in the diocese of Harrisburg.
Pope Francis
abrogates Summorum Pontificum: Indult
crowd in panic.
PREDICTION: The end of this Motu Proprio is to terminate all Indult communities and drive their members into the SSPX fold. The SSPX has already been regularized sub rosa. Their guiding lights have already made the JPII ‘Profession of Faith’ and ‘Oath of Fidelity’ which is required to be admitted into the Novus Ordo communion and to hold any office within the Novus Ordo structure. This betrayal has not been shared with its members or with the faithful who attend their Masses. Once the conservatives have been driven into the SSPX fold, the SSPX will then gradually drive them to compromise on every immemorial tradition. The SSPX cannot defend traditional Catholicism because they deny that Dogma is the proximate rule of faith for all faithful Catholics and that our immemorial ecclesiastical traditions are necessary attributes of the faith and not mere matters of Church discipline subject to the free and independent will of the legislator. They have already sworn unconditional obedience to the “authentic magisterium” of Pope Francis and have nothing to offer in opposition to an abuse of authority.
Who Owns Parish Property? Should we
buy or rent?
And just why do Indultists pay
$6,889.00/week rental fees for the use of “stolen property” to obtain services
that are in fact the bishop’s duty to provide???
Bishop
Ronald Gainer in Harrisburg is tied up in bankruptcy court and apparently does
not know why. In an effort to exclude individual parish properties from
creditors, his lawyers argue that the bishop is only a trustee for the
individual parishes acting in their best interests and not the owner, and therefore
parish assets should not be included as part of the diocese’s. If that is true,
then Bishop Gainer’s predecessors were certainly guilty of theft when they
closed 33 parishes in the diocese, sold off their assets, and pocketed their
bank accounts into the general diocesan fund against the expressed wills of the
parishioners which includes the parish of St. Lawrence in Harrisburg. Normally,
bankruptcy court requires the business to submit a restructured business plan
that demonstrates an understanding as to why the business failed, that will
correct previous financial mismanagement, keep the business solvent, satisfy
its creditors, and still permit it to accomplish the ends for which it is
constituted. Does anyone think that Bishop Gainer will publically admit that it
is the failure of his predecessors to remove homosexual priests from the clergy
and prohibit homosexuals from entering Catholic seminaries that is responsible
for the crisis of pederasty that has cost faithful Catholics millions of dollars
in damages and injured countless souls? Poor Bishop Gainer does not even know
what the Mission of the Church is. If Indultists ever do the math, they might learn that they can buy
their Church from the bankruptcy court for far less than they are renting from
the diocese, but that is a dirty little secret that we are expected to be quiet
about.
For
the last three years Ss. Peter & Paul Mission has had the complete
immemorial Roman rite of Holy Week in the manner that public worship was done
in monasteries and cathedral churches before the Freemason, Archbishop Annibale
Bugnini, and the Pian Commission began their liturgical deconstruction with the
Missal of 1956. The traditional Holy Week has been rarely experienced by even
traditional Catholics. We are most grateful to God for this gift and now
express our public thanks Him and to all those who, by their dedication to true
worship of God, made it possible. Participants travelled from Indiana,
Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, central and north-eastern Pennsylvania to be
part of this experience and their dedication was a great example of sacrifice
to all. The joy of Easter is proportional to the work put into Lent and
particularly Holy Week, and our joy is full.
There
have been inquiries from time to time as to why the Bishop(s) of Harrisburg
will not, either by himself or by his representative, enter into a public
debate on the merits of the doctrinal, liturgical, moral and canonical claims
of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission to the end that those who are in
error may be restored to Catholic Truth and Worship. The reason is simple: He does not want to be
publically exposed as an ignorant hypocrite. The modernist Novus Ordo Church of
the New Advent denies the immutability of Catholic dogma. In fact, the only dogma they recognize is
that there is no dogma. Since the
definition of a heretic is the denial of dogma they cannot enter into a debate
without looking foolish and exposing their vulgar hypocrisy. The challenge
remains open but it will not be accepted because Truth with purity of Worship
is not their end.
Philadelphia
has a new bishop. Archbishop Charles
Chaput, another worthless conservative who conserved nothing, will be moving
along. It is not expected that he will
really retire but rather enter the ranks of the faithless conservative
opposition of Judas Goats. He might even
learn to offer the Indult Mass to establish his credentials. He seems very animated in his praise for the
incoming new bishop. As for the new
bishop, Nelson J. Perez, we can say that we already have something in
common. Bishop Perez forbade kneeling in
the Novus Ordo rite from the Pater Noster
to the end of communion service within the diocese of Cleveland. The reasons given are the standard tripe: early
practice of the Church, done in the East, etc. etc., but none of this can
overturn immemorial custom established in the Latin Church and the ugly, ugly
fact that it is the established tradition of Protestant communion services
because they deny the True Presence of the Catholic Sacrament. Bishop Perez quotes St. Ambrose, “When in
Rome, do as the Romans,” but he has not the understanding of St. Ambrose
regarding liturgical tradition. On this
point we can agree, we would, like Bishop Perez, never kneel at a Novus Ordite
communion service.
This
letter sent by Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain, Vicente Jiménez Zamora, to Fr.
Philippe Brunet Superior of the FSSPX in Spain Casa San Jose 28607 EL ÁLAMO
(Madrid). Fr. Brunet submitted a formal
request to Archbishop Zamora to renew the Indult for his community to offer the
Extra-ordinary form of the Roman rite, i.e., the 1962 Bugnini transitional
Novus Ordo Missal. This letter is the
denial of that request.
This letter is important because it
proves two things that Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission has said for
many years. Firstly, it proves that the
SSPX has already been regularized by Rome. That it has,
contrary to Archbishop Lefebvre's direction, established a practical solution
with Rome before a doctrinal solution.
This has not been revealed by the inner circle of SSPX leadership to the
rank and file priests or the faithful who attend their chapels and finance
their operations, but it has been evident from necessary canonical deductions
drawn for a long time from actions of their leadership.
Secondly, it demonstrates that the 1962
Missal, aka, the Extra-ordinary form, an Indult and grant of legal privilege,
can be denied by any authority for any reason whatsoever.
Anyone who has accepted this grant, by so doing, has accepted in principle that
it is a privilege, and therefore has conceded that he possess no legal or moral
recourse to its denial.
Those
who are intent upon defending the Catholic faith and passing it their children
cannot do so by supporting the Indult community or any of its institutional
structures.
English
Translation:
Zaragoza, December 18,
2019 The Archbishop of Zaragoza Fr. Philippe Brunet Superior of the FSSPX in
Spain Casa San Jose 28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid)
Dear Fr. Philippe:
I received your
kind letter of 13 December 2019, in which you ask me to renew the Indult to
celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form, which my predecessor, Bishop
Manuel Ureña, granted aloud, through the priest D. Waldir Consuega, former
pastor of Calaceite. In reply to this letter, I communicate the
following:
1. I had no knowledge of the subject until now.
2. I am not
renewing the permit because I know that in Calaceite there are not enough
people to celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form. The participants
belong to other parishes which are not in the Diocese of Zaragoza.
Moreover, it is not practical for the full communion of the parish community of
Calaceite.
3. With the same date, I am sending a copy of this letter to the present parish
priest, Rev. Mr. Arturo Hollman Ladino Gutiérrez, in order not to authorize
Father José M Jiménez, in charge of the Region of Catalonia and Aragon, to
celebrate in any of the parishes, which he has entrusted to his pastoral care.
With my affection and blessing,
+ Vicente Jiménez Zamora Archbishop of Zaragoza
Fr.
Waters received a reply from Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia
to his letter of April 24. Unfortunately
for Chaput, his reply had nothing to do with the letter that was sent to him. Therefore, Fr. Waters has sent a reply to Chaput's reply once again trying
to make clear to him what is evident to everyone else. Archbishop Chaput has proven himself to be a
remarkable hypocrite. He appeals to
Dogma when it is convenient, such as his public exchange with Cardinal Blase
Cupich and his earlier rift with Cardinal Kevin Farrell, and he throws Dogma
out the window when it is not. No surprise that his name is not appended to the
recent public defense of the faith by Cardinal Raymond Burke, et al.
Fr. Samuel Waters has sent another letter
to Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia.
The letter applies a point made by Bishop-emeritus of Rome,
Benedict/Ratzinger, in his letter to the bishops of the world regarding his
take on understanding and addressing the problems of sexual abuse among the
clergy to Chaput's unjust treatment of Fr. Waters and its moral implications. Fr. Waters letter to Chaput, April 24, 2019.
We
are currently witnessing the Pope Francis Vatican cover-up of the great sex
abuse scandal within the Catholic Church.
The problem in the great majority of cases (90%+) is caused by
homosexual clerics sexually abusing adolescent boys. Anyone who denies this evident fact is by
definition part of the Homosexual Lobby that works to obscure this in the minds
of the public with the help of the secular press. The CEO of the HomoLobby who is committed to
protecting their perverse interests is none other than Pope Francis himself.
NOTE:
Anyone who claims
that the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is caused by
"clericalism" is by definition a member of the Homosexual Lobby.
Anyone who is a member of the Homosexual Lobby is a homosexual and pederast in
potency or act until proven otherwise. Even if a member of the Homosexual Lobby
is not a homosexual in act, he possesses an entirely disordered moral sense
that is wholly incompatible with the Catholic faith. He is an enemy of God, an
enemy of His Church, and an enemy against the salvation of souls and must be
treated as such. We are bound to love our enemies and pray for them, but we are
not supposed to pretend they are not our enemies.
The Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
released the names of over 70 members of its clergy who have been accused of
sexual abuse in cases spanning back to the 1940s. This list is only those who
were caught. The Homosexual Network will always cut its losses to protect
itself. Nothing will be corrected until the root of the problem is identified
and thoroughly removed. Every apology
issued by the Church in the public forum for the crimes of homosexual
molestation of adolescent boys (which constitute more than 90% of all cases of
sexual abuse) must include a declaration that the Church remove every
homosexual from its ranks.
On
the first day of their General Chapter meeting, the 41 handpicked electors by
Bishop Bernard Fellay elected his successor to head the SSPX. There are several reports that this election
represents a repudiation of Fellay's policies.
That is not likely. It is more
likely to be a calculated retrenchment before a continuation of the course
established since the GREC meetings began in 1997. The Vatican Insider announced the expected
outcome before the actual elections took place.
How could they have known? The
answer may be that they were able to predict what they had orchestrated. The new superior general and his two
assistants have direct ties to Argentina.
Maybe Bishop Fellay will assume the title of "Superior-General
Emeritus." One thing is for sure,
he will not be sent to take up residence in the Philippines.
(Note: This announcement was made before
the addition of two additional advisors to the Superior General were created,
which happen to be the last two Superior Generals, Bishop Fellay and Fr.
Schmidberger.)
In November 2001 the
arguments taken from Reply to a
Conservative Canon Lawyer were formally presented to Bishop Nicholas
Dattilo by a priest of this diocese requesting an official judgment. Dattilo
never responded beyond summarily forcing the priest into an unceremonious
retirement, and eventually publishing the unsubstantiated charges of
"heresy" and "schism" against the Mission in the diocesan
newspaper.
Since that time, an OPEN CHALLENGE has been repeatedly
placed before each of the last four bishops in Harrisburg to enter into an open
written discussion regarding the liturgical, doctrinal, moral and canonical
claims of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission for the purpose of
bringing those in error back to the Catholic faith and obedience to her
immemorial traditions (the last challenge was offered May 13, 2023). Think of
the Catholic saints who have labored among heretics and schismatics to bring
those in error back to the Catholic faith and the possibility of salvation such
as, St. Augustine among the Donatists and Pelagians, St. Dominic among the
Albigensians, St. Peter of Verona among the Cathars, St. Peter Canisius among
the Lutherans, St. Francis de Sales among the Calvinists, St. Andrew Bobola
among the Orthodox, St. John Fisher among the Anglicans, and on and on and on.
These saints offered their very lives for the restoration of heretics and
schismatics to the Catholic Church. The
local bishops of Harrisburg have done nothing. Could it be that they are not
sure who in fact in an open debate would be demonstrated to be the heretics and
schismatics?
Eighteen
Twenty-three years is not long in the history of the Church
but it is long time in the life of every faithful Catholic. These bishops have
been grossly negligent in the duties but their silence itself is really reply
enough. These cowards have not taken up our challenge because they have no
answers against those who defend Dogma and the rights of immemorial
ecclesiastical traditions which are the images of our faith that make it known
and communicable to others. They think being silent is better than looking
stupid.
We were recently told
by a friend of our Mission that conservative Catholics who have objected to the
Mission refused to discuss or so much as to even read the OPEN LETTERS. They
are afraid. The Mission scares them and they prefer willful ignorance than to
burden their consciences with open and clear obligations. If we are correct in
what we profess everyone from the bishop to the lowest Catholic will have, in
some degree or another, to answer for their sloth. Willful ignorance does not
excuse sin, it aggravates it.
Two
Catholics have attended Mass at our Mission leaving the Fraternity of St. Peter
Indult Community that offers the Extra-ordinary Form of the Novus Ordo. The
first said that in the indult sermon they were told that obedience must be
given to Pope Francis by every Catholic without any qualification whatsoever
including the moral corruption of Amoris
Laetitia. The second said that they were refused absolution in the
confessional because they told the priest that in conscience they could not
attend a Novus Ordo memorial meal if unable to find a traditional Mass. The
Indult community, like the clergy in Germany, sell the sacraments. The only
difference is the currency of exchange. They are no better than a guard dog
that can be appeased with a couple of hard-boiled eggs.
Bishop Richard Williamson performed the
Episcopal consecration of Bishop Gerardo Zendejas at St. Athanasius Chapel in
Vienna, Virginia on May 11, 2017. Please
remember his welfare in your petitions to our Lord that he will faithfully
defend the Dogmas of our Catholic Faith and the immemorial ecclesiastical traditions
that make that Faith known and communicable to others.
The SCHISM is HERE!
Only the brain dead have an excuse!
COMMENT: This book
provides an interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoria
Laetitia (AL). It is addressed to bishops
with a “merciful heart” and offers an interpretation that is consistent with
the interpretation approved in the private letter sent by Pope Francis to the
bishops of Argentina as well as with the interpretation of Cardinal Schornborn
who Pope Francis has publically identified as its ‘official interpretor.’ These bishops say that the proper
understanding and application is that any Catholic living in public adultery
based upon their own private judgment in the internal forum can declare
themselves worthy to receive Holy Communion and absolution in the sacrament of
Penance and therefore cannot be denied these sacraments. It is given semi-official approval by its
publication in L’Osservatore Romano.
Now in the Novus Ordo which may be nothing
more than a memorial meal as initially defined by Pope Paul VI, perhaps giving
the Novus Ordo communion wafer to a person in objective mortal sin is not a
real problem. But what is certainly a
grave sin it that these persons expect to be absolved by a confessor in the
sacrament of Penance without confessing or repentance of mortal sin. Pope Francis and his CDF puppet, Cardinal
Muller, will not be answering the Dubia in any official capacity. This does not represent a change in the
Church’s teaching. It represents the
active effort of a Francis and his minions to destroy the Catholic doctrine and
morality. As we announced during the
synod, the schism has long been present.
It is more evident each passing day and every Catholic will have to pick
sides. God cannot let an open attack
upon the sacrament of marriage go unpunished.
Their hypocrisy is oozing from every pore. Imagine if a Catholic with “humility,
discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere search for
God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it” arrives at
traditional Catholicism, what kind of response can be expect from the local
bishop and Rome? If you want to know
read our OPEN LETTERS!
10. If, as a result of the process of discernment, undertaken with
“humility, discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere
search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it” (AL
300). a separated or divorced person who is living in a new relationship
manages, with an informed and enlightened conscience, to acknowledge and
believe that he or she are at peace with God, he or she cannot be precluded
from participating in the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (see
AL, notes 336 and 351).
Bishops Charles J Scicluna and Mario Grech, Guide for the
Interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia: An Invitatiion to the Bishops
of Merciful Hearts. This book received semi-official
approbation by being favorably reviewed in L’Osservatore Romano, Italian
edition, January 2017.
Pope says
Schonborn interpretation on Communion for remarried is the final word
April 16, 2016 LifeSiteNews – On the flight returning from
Greece, Pope Francis was asked if the Apostolic Exhortation (Amoris Laetitia)
contained a "change
in discipline that governs access to the sacraments" for Catholics who are
divorced and remarried. The Pope replied, “I can say yes, period.” Adding,
however, that this would be "too small" of an answer, the Pope then
urged reading the presentation of Cardinal Schönborn, calling Schönborn a
“great theologian who knows the doctrine of the Church.”
"In that presentation your question will have the answer," the pope concluded.
Schonborn’s presentation boiled down Pope Francis’ more than 60,000 words in the exhortation to 3000, but in that short space made sure to include the “smoking footnote” being seen as the opening of the door to Holy Communion to Catholics living in second unions where annulment from the first union was not possible. The position contradicts Pope St. John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.( as well as divine positive law and the constant immemorial universal tradition of the Catholic Church in all her rites without exception whatsoever) [……]
The following “announcement” has been
posted on the Mission web page since the election of Pope Francis. There is no reason to take it down or amend
it in any way, especially in light of the recent attacks on the Sacrament of
Matrimony that have been supported by Pope Francis. We pray for the Pope so that we may not share
in the punishment that will certainly follow upon this sin and objective
scandal.
“Pope Francis has almost daily since his election last month shown a
studied contempt for the Ecclesiastical Traditions of our Church. It is good
that the wolf looks and acts like a wolf.
The Traditional Catholics, grounded in true Hope, ‘know that to them
that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his
purpose, are called to be saints.’ (Rom. 8: 28) Therefore, no matter how
stupid, blind, incompetent, or willfully malicious the helmsman may be, God is
still in charge of His Church and His providential care will be accomplished
willy-nilly. The coming chastisement
will separate the hirelings from the shepherds.”
Pope
Francis and SSPX superior Bishop Fellay met Friday evening in Rome. Greg Burke, Vatican Press Office
vice-director, announced on Monday that a meeting took place in the Casa Santa
Marta on Friday, April 1, between Pope Francis and the Superior General of the
Society of St. Pius X. We
have learned that it was a very positive meeting. Apparently, Pope Francis was impressed by
+Fellay's incompetency displayed during his interview on Conflict Zone!
The question that must be asked of +Fellay
is: “When and where did he make the 1989 Profession of Faith and the Oath of
Fidelity to the ‘authentic magisterium’ of the conciliar popes?” It awaits to be seen if he is able to bring
the rank and file to agree with his accommodation of error.
Amoris Laetitia,
“On Love in the Family,” an act of the 'authentic magisterium' of Pope Francis,
an apostolic exhortation that presents his findings and conclusions from the
two synods, which threw open to discussions settled moral and doctrinal
questions of Catholic revealed truth, was released April 8. Pope Francis gave the honor of presenting the
document to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P. of Vienna, Austria, who is a
recognized apologist for the homosexual heresy, and Cardinal Lorenzo
Baldisseri, secretariat of the synod of bishops. Baldisseri was the man who
ordered the interception of the book, Remaining
in the Truth of Christ, which had been mailed to participants in the
Extraordinary Synod last October. The book is a collection of essays by five Cardinals
and four other scholars in defense of Catholic truth regarding the sacraments
that was written in response to heretical opinions in Cardinal Walter Kasper’s
book, The Gospel of the Family.
Amoris Laetitia,
as expected, overturns the Catholic doctrinal and moral teaching on the
sacrament of Marriage and by directly endorsing situation ethics which is
morally repugnant to all faithful Catholics.
As said before, this will eliminate conservative Catholicism. The problem facing Catholics who have been
faithful to the doctrinal and ecclesiastical traditions of the Catholic Church
is to make conservative Catholics, who are just now rejecting the novelties and
corruptions of Francis, understand that the answer to the problem is not a
return to the novelties and corruptions of Benedict and John Paul II. Neither of these two conciliar popes could or
would offer any principled objection to Pope Francis who is just travelling a
little further down the same road!
A
Letter was sent to Bishop Ronald Gainer in response to his
comments to the York Daily Record after the Palm Sunday story covering the
liturgical worship at Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel. A copy of the letter is available in the
vestibule.
It
has come to our attention that Virgil Bradley (Gabriel) Tetherow is reforming
the suppressed order of Servants of St. Francis and using favorable comments
made from our Mission that have long ago been retracted and apologized
for. Therefore we are republishing our
assessment of the character of Tetherow for a public warning. TETHEROW
Posted
Letter to
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller
at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
was sent on December 15, 2015 on the occasion
of Pope Francis' declaration, in an act of his “authentic magisterium,”
condemning “Catholic fundamentalism” as a “disease” of ‘Godless idolatry’
afflicting “many Catholics” for believing in “Absolute Truth.”
The
Synod on the Family was a sham from beginning to end and will undoubtedly go
down as the greatest corruption of Catholic doctrine and morals in the history
of the Church. It was in fact a very
crude attempt by Pope Francis to give the appearance of popular collegial
support for the corruption he has militantly imposed upon the Catholic
faithful. For nearly two years since
Pope Francis’ public praise of Cardinal Kasper’s theological novelties, Pope
Francis has lead an opened discussion on settled moral and doctrinal questions
that he does not possess the authority or power to change. This has done incalculable damage to Catholic
Truth. Those who give only tacit support
to this corruption will pay the worst of all penalties. Every heretic always attacks the doctrine of Marriage because Matrimony
is the metaphor that God employs to describe His unbreakable union with His
Church as a whole and with each individual faithful Catholic as well. Since heretics have broken union with God
they cannot abide the integrity of the metaphor.
To conservative Catholics who have enough Catholic
sense to repent of Francis but not enough Catholic sense to stop yearning for
the “good old days” of Benedict/Ratzinger.
COMMENT:
As Pope Pius XII explained in Humani
Generis, it is impossible to affirm the Catholic dogma that the “Lord Jesus
Christ... is consubstantial with the Father” or the Catholic dogma of
Transubstantiation, if the concept of “substance” is rejected in the same sense used by
scholastic theologians found in the perennial realist philosophical tradition
and fixed by its usage in Catholic dogma.
Benedict/Ratzinger
denies the meaning of “substance”
and then, he necessarily denies the dogma of the True Presence.
Benedict/Ratzinger’s entire “hermeneutic of reform” vs. the “hermeneutic of
rupture” is predicated upon accepting his Neo-Modernist philosophy which, in
the end, denies the term substance
and replaces it with the accident of relationship.
There is no
philosophical difference between Benedict/Ratzinger and his chosen replacement
Francis who marks, as Benedict/Ratzinger predicted in December before his
abdication, the “beginning of the new Church and the end of the old.” The only
difference between the two, apart from superficial style, is that Francis is
wholly formed by the Novus Ordo Church and suffers no misgivings of conscience
about the direction he is dragging the Church because he knows no other way.
Those conservative Catholic who are nostalgic for a return of
Benedict/Ratzinger or John Paul II in the face of Francis’ infidelities are even
more superficial than Francis!
“Some even say that the doctrine of transubstantiation,
based on an antiquated philosophic notion of substance, should be so modified
that the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist be reduced to a kind of
symbolism, whereby the consecrated species would be merely efficacious signs of
the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful
members of His Mystical Body.”
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
“…the medieval concept
of substance has long since become inaccessible to us.
In so far as we use the concept of substance at all today we understand thereby
the ultimate particles of matter, and the chemically complex mixture that is
bread certainly does not fall into that category.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and the Future, p. 14
“Eucharistic
devotion such as is noted in the silent visit by the devout in church must not
be thought of as a conversation with God. This would assume that God was
present there locally and in a confined way. To justify such an assertion shows
a lack of understanding of the Christological mysteries of the very concept of
God. This is repugnant to the serious thinking of the man who knows about the
omnipresence of God. To go
to church on the ground that one can visit God who is present there is a
senseless act which modern man rightfully rejects.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Die Sacramentale Begrundung Christliche
Existenz
Planned
Parenthood’s Director of Medical Services, Deborah Nucatola, M.D., has been
captured on video discussing the PP practice of selling baby body parts for
profit procured by partial birth abortions, both practices of which are
violations of U.S. positive law. The
U.S. Supreme Court overturned any reference to Natural Law in Casey vs. Planned
Parenthood as a basis for determining the morality of U.S. law, so U.S. law is
no longer limited to the imagination but is grounded upon pure arbitrary
fantasy. Anyone who thinks ‘homosexual
marriage’ and infant ritual murder are protected “rights” under the U.S.
constitution cannot have too much a problem with infant cannibalism. We should
not be too surprised because it was historically the practice to eat body parts
of victims of ritual murder. The video
should be widely distributed to as many as possible before the national
morality becomes entirely jaded and justifies this disgusting practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
Msgr.
William Lynn, the former director for clergy for the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia has been sent back to jail. Lynn was freed last year after an
appeals court overturned his conviction on child endangerment charges relating
to Philadelphia Archdiocese’s sex-abuse scandal. On April 25, the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court overturned that reversal and reinstated the original conviction —
saying that the child endangerment statute applied to Lynn even though he did
not directly supervise the welfare of the child victims in the scandal. The
Supreme Court said that Lynn:
• ”Mollified victims of sexual abuse by falsely telling them
their allegations were being seriously investigated and that the particular
priest would never again be assigned around children, despite knowing that the
priests under his supervision would merely be reassigned to another parish with
no ministry restrictions on contact with children.”
• “Informed parishioners that the priests he transferred were
moved for health reasons, leaving the welfare of children in jeopardy.”
• “Routinely disregarded treatment recommendations for
priests.”
• “Failed to inform the relocated priest’s new supervisor
about abuse allegations.”
• “Took no action to ensure that the abusive priest was kept
away from children at his new assignment.”
• “Suppressed complaints and concerns by the colleagues of
the priests; all with the knowledge that sexually abusive priests rarely had
only one victim and that all of these actions would endanger the welfare of the
diocese’s children.”
• “Finally, and even more egregiously, when (Lynn) was
contacted by law enforcement, he misrepresented facts to thwart their
investigation of these priests, and their crimes.”
The OPEN LETTERS
of FR. SAMUEL WATERS now include the Letter to Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith (CDF), which has the Arguments addressing the moral, doctrinal,
and canonical deficiencies of Archbishop Charles Chaput's “Decree of
Excommunication” as well as his calumny, offered without evidence, that Ss.
Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is a “schismatic organization.” Also posted for viewing is the LETTER of
reply from the CDF written by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P. and Fr.
Waters' reply to Archbishop Di Noia.
This is the same Di Noia who argued the Vatican's alleged 'doctrinal'
dispute with the SSPX. The Letters speak
for themselves and really require no additional comment. They are themselves a clear revelation of the
character of each author.
Open
Letters between Fr. Waters and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the CDF
Fr.
Luigi Villa, Th.D. authored the book, Paul VI - Beatified?, which derailed the
process of Paul V's beatification until it was resuscitated by Pope
Francis. It is a book every Catholic
should be familiar with to understand what kind of man gave us the Novus Ordo
Church that has just declared him “blessed.”
Priests who see insults offered to God and remain
silent are called by Isaias “mute dogs.” But to these mute dogs shall be
imputed all the sins that they could have – but have not prevented.... Hence, St. Leo adds: “The priest who does not
withdraw another from error proves that he is himself involved in it.”
St. Alphonsus De Liguori
Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to
defend truth is to suppress it.
Pope St. Felix III
Fast-Track Catholic
Divorce
COMMENT: Pope
Francis the Humble and Merciful has instituted Fast-Track Catholic Divorce to
begin on December 8 for the “Year of Mercy”.
The divorced and remarried, who are in a state of objective adultery,
are now identified as the Church’s “poor” to whom the bishops must exercise a
‘preferential option’. A new ground for
“nullity” has been invented being the lack of “faith” which all of Pope
Francis’ predecessors were too blind to see, or just too unmerciful to forgive. So now, those who do not have the “faith” are
to be granted a Catholic divorce so they can regularize their new “marriages”
which were received without faith and then be admitted to the Church and
receive communion which they do not believe in?
It will be Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto at the Roman Rota who will be
implementing the Catholic divorce for Pope Francis through the local
ordinaries. He is calling for a
“metànoia” of the Catholic bishops to the new divorce regulations so that they
will be seen as the will of God and the operation of the Holy Ghost “who speaks
through Francis.” This sounds very much
like the sin against the Holy Ghost which Jesus Christ warned against. The coming schism will clearly distinguish
Catholic faithful from Novus Ordites.
So, with
this fundamental law, Francis makes a real beginning to his reform: by putting
the poor at the center, that is, the divorced and remarried, considered set
apart and distant, and asking bishops for a true and proper metànoia. That is
to say, a “conversion”, a change of mentality which convinces and sustains them
in following the invitation of Christ, present in their brother, the Bishop of
Rome, to pass from the restricted number of a few thousand annulments to that
immeasurable [number]of unfortunates who might have a declaration of nullity —
because of evident of absence of faith as a bridge to knowledge and thus to the
free will [necessary]to give sacramental consent — but are left on the
outside by the current system. [.…]
But
how will the bishops or eparchs, most of all in large dioceses, be able to
guarantee, at least in part and as a sign, their role as shepherds and judges?
What is important is that the spirit of collegiality and communion among
bishops under obedience to the Pontiff, begins to permeate the hearts and minds
of the shepherds. The faithful are waiting with eagerness and love for such a
metànoia and will nonetheless be patient in the Lord when faced with the good
faith of their shepherds. The Jubilee Year of Mercy expects this sign of humble
obedience (on the part of the Churches’ shepherds) to the Spirit who speaks to
them through Francis.
Msgr.
Pio Vito Pinto, the Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota
Bishop Gainer’s Comment – Apparently he did not read
the fine print. The new regulations in
fact do “alter the… grounds on which annulments are granted,” that is,
“evidence of absence of faith.”
The reforms announced by our Holy Father will
simplify and in some cases quicken the process for obtaining an annulment
though the Diocese of Harrisburg. This will aid us in our mission of
compassionate healing to those in failed marriages and in our concern for the
salvation of souls. We see these changes as procedural in nature. They do not
alter the teaching of the Catholic Church on the permanency of marriage or the
grounds on which annulments are granted. The Diocese of Harrisburg, through our
Tribunal, remains committed to walking with those on a path of peace and
reconciliation with our merciful Lord.
Bishop Ronald
Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg
COMMENT: Laudato Si’
represents a change in appearance in neo-modernism's liberation theology. Liberation Theology's purpose was to enroll
Catholic doctrine and morality in the service of Marxist Ideology. Laudato
Si’s purpose is to enroll Catholic doctrine and morality in the service of
the Gaia cult of earth worship. Wisdom
is the perfect knowledge about the most important things in there right order
of reference. Laudato Si’ is an overthrow of Wisdom. Even when the document speaks of some
Catholic truth, it is never in the proper order of reference.
Once
again, the Novus Order Regime in Rome endorses the United Nations call for One
World Government ruling a “noble
and generous society” based upon a “genuine and profound humanism” and thus,
repudiates the gospel message of the true “social teaching of the Church” to
promote and defend the social Kingship of Jesus Christ!
As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of
the Church: “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the
crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater
imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament,
food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to
regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world
political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years
ago.” […….] Here, continuity is
essential, because policies related to climate change and environmental
protection cannot be altered with every change of government. Results take time
and demand immediate outlays which may not produce tangible effects within any
one government’s term. That is why, in the absence of pressure from the public
and from civic institutions, political authorities will always be reluctant to
intervene, all the more when urgent needs must be met. To take up these
responsibilities and the costs they entail, politicians will inevitably clash
with the mindset of short-term gain and results which dominates present-day
economics and politics. But if they are courageous, they will attest to their
God-given dignity and leave behind a testimony of selfless responsibility. A
healthy politics is sorely needed, capable of reforming and coordinating
institutions, promoting best practices and overcoming undue pressure and
bureaucratic inertia. It
should be added, though, that even the best mechanisms can break down when
there are no worthy goals and values, or a genuine and profound humanism to
serve as the basis of a noble and generous society.
Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, On
earth worship, global warming, etc.
The ‘1989 Profession of Faith’ - Which
demands in a Catholic creed the unconditional “submission of the will and the
intellect,” or as Lumen Gentium says,
submission of the “soul,” to the purely human and arbitrary authority of the
Pope, is enforced upon only Faithful Catholics and no one else!
COMMENT: The one “non-negotiable point” in the Vatican’s dealing
with the SSPX is the “1989 Profession of Faith” which demands from Catholics
the unconditional submission of the “will and the intellect,” or as Lumen Gentium describes it,
unconditional submission of the “soul,” to whatever the “authentic (ordinary)
magisterium” opines. This exercise of
the “authentic (ordinary) magisterium” is the pope teaching by his grace of
state to which submission must always and necessarily be conditional and not to
his teaching by virtue of the attribute of infallibility which Jesus Christ has
endowed His Church. The “1989 Profession
of Faith” demands that the Faithful give to a man what can and must only be
given to God.
And just for the record, Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis taught nothing of the kind nor was Human Generis cited as an authoritative reference
in Lumen Gentium for this novel
teaching! Every example cited by Pope
Pius XII in Humani Generis demanding
submissive obedience by the Faithful to the Holy Father regards his teaching by
the ‘authentic ordinary and universal Magisterium’ which is always infallible.
Jean-Marie Dumont: What is, therefore,
the non-negotiable point?
Archbishop Guido Pozzo: That which is
essential, that to which we cannot renounce, is adherence to the Professio
fidei and to the principle according to which it is only to the magisterium of
the Church that was entrusted by the Lord the faculty of authentic
interpreting, that is, with the authority of Christ, the written and
transmitted word of God. It is the Catholic doctrine, recalled by Vatican II (Dei Verbum, 10), but already expressly
taught by Pius XII in the encyclical Humani
Generis. This means that the Magisterium, while it is not of course above
Scripture and Tradition, is nevertheless the authentic instance that judges the
interpretations on Scripture and Tradition, from whichever part they may come.
“Consequently, if
there are no different degrees of authority and adherence of the faithful to
her teachings - as the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium (25) declares - no one can place himself above the
Magisterium. I earnestly think and hope that, in this doctrinal framework that
I have just explained, we will be able to find the point of convergence and
common agreement, because this specific issue is a doctrinal point belonging to
the Catholic faith, and not to a legitimate theological discussion or to
pastoral criteria.
Archbishop Guido
Pozzo, secretary of the Pontifical Commission of Ecclesia Dei and a member of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in an interview with the French
magazine Famille Chrétienne, October 20, 2014, responding to a question
regarding the Vatican negotiations with the SSPX.
The
“New Evangelization” and the “New Ecclesial Realities”
The “new evangelization” identifies “new ecclesial realities” as the
“work of the Holy Spirit” and thus, regards them as the means by which God will
bring about a rebirth of Christian faith since the collapse following Vatican
II. These “ecclesial realities” include
such entities as the Neocatechumenal Way, Communion and Liberation, the
Focolare Movement, and the Charismatic Renewal.
They all embody the novel teachings of Vatican II, which the hierarchy
denies as having any causal relationship with the collapse of faith that the
“new ecclesial realities” are expected to restore. These “ecclesial realities” have developed
more in Europe and Latin America than in the United States. The obvious reason for this is that the U. S.
is already a religious pluralistic society that has similar entities as these
“ecclesial realities” in every city. The
Masonic brotherhood religion for world peace has a lot in common with
Focolare. The Neocatechumenal Way is
comparable to a Baptist Evangelical church with a Lutheran theological
conception of the Holy Eucharist. The
common thread among all these “ecclesiastical realities” is that they seek an
encounter with Jesus Christ without the burden of dogma or the moral
imperatives and duties that dogma imposes.
Cardinal Ratzinger nevertheless, at the World Congress of Ecclesial
Movements, May 27, 1998, compared these “ecclesial realities” to St. Anthony of
the Desert and the early monastic movement, to St. Francis and St. Dominic, St.
Ignatius and the Jesuits, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Catherine of Siena. John Paul II addressed them on the vigil of
Pentecost in 1998 and said:
“With the Second Vatican Council, the
Comforter recently gave the Church, which according to the Fathers is the place
'where the Spirit flourishes' (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n.
749), a renewed Pentecost, instilling a new and unforeseen dynamism. Whenever
the Spirit intervenes, he leaves people astonished. He brings about events of
amazing newness; he radically changes persons and history. This was the
unforgettable experience of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council during which,
under the guidance of the same Spirit, the Church rediscovered the charismatic
dimension as one of her constitutive elements: 'It is not only through the
sacraments and the ministrations of the Church that the Holy Spirit makes holy
the people, leads them and enriches them with his virtues. Allotting his gifts
according as he wills (cf. 1 Cor 12:11), he also distributes special graces
among the faithful of every rank.... He makes them fit and ready to undertake
various tasks and offices for the renewal and building up of the Church' (Lumen
gentium, n.12). […….] Today the Church rejoices at the renewed confirmation
of the prophet Joel's words which we have just heard: 'I will pour out my
Spirit upon all flesh' (Acts 2:17). You, present here, are the tangible proof
of this 'outpouring' of the Spirit. Each movement is different from the others,
but they are all united in the same communion and for the same mission. Some
charisms given by the Spirit burst in like an impetuous wind, which seizes people
and carries them to new ways of missionary commitment to the radical service of
the Gospel, by ceaselessly proclaiming the truths of faith, accepting the
living stream of tradition as a gift and instilling in each person an ardent
desire for holiness.[….] In our world, often dominated by a secularized culture
which encourages and promotes models of life without God, the faith of many is
sorely tested, and is frequently stifled and dies. Thus we see an urgent need
for powerful proclamation and solid, in-depth Christian formation. There is so
much need today for mature Christian personalities, conscious of their
baptismal identity, of their vocation and mission in the Church and in the
world! There is great need for living Christian communities! And here are the
movements and the new ecclesial communities: they are the response, given by
the Holy Spirit, to this critical challenge at the end of the millennium. You
are this providential response.”
John Paul II, speech addressing “ecclesial
movements and new communities.” May 30,
1998, Vigil of Pentecost
Now, Pope Francis, who
has recently taken credit for introducing the Charismatic Renewal into
Argentina, again addressed these “new ecclesial realities” on the vigil of
Pentecost and he looks to them as the hope for the “new evangelization.” Pope Francis, who has knelt before Protestant
evangelical charismatics to receive their “blessing,” cannot possible have any
clue whatsoever regarding the discernment of spirits.
At the funeral for Fr. Luigi Giussani, the founder of the “ecclesial
reality,” Communion and Liberation, Cardinal Joesph Ratzinger said, “Fr. Giussani
always kept the eyes of his life and of his heart fixed on Christ. In this way, he understood that Christianity
is not an intellectual system, a packet of dogmas, a moralism, Christianity is
rather an encounter, a love story; it is an event.” It was Jesus Christ who said, “If you
love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15)
This is the necessary condition of “love.” And only when that necessary condition is
fulfilled will Jesus, “ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete,
and He may abide with you forever, the Spirit of truth.” St. Francis and Peter Waldo embraced the
radical poverty of Jesus Christ but they were of entirely different
spirits. Only St. Francis possessed the
“Spirit of truth.” He was a saint,
Waldo, a heretic. There is no encounter
with Jesus Christ without believing His revealed truth, that is, all dogmas
that are formal objects of Divine and Catholic faith, and keeping His
commandments. Whoever sets opposition
between Jesus Christ and the truth He revealed and the commandments He gave
does not know Jesus Christ and does not possess the Holy Ghost, the “Spirit of
Christ.” “Now if any man have not the
Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.”(Rom. 8: 9) None of the saints identified by Cardinal
Ratzinger ever held any of our articles of faith or our ecclesiastical
traditions in contempt as these “new ecclesial realities” clearly have
done. And every one of these saints gave
evidence of personal holiness and performed remarkable miracles as a testimony
to the truth of their mission. The
winter of Vatican II will be getting colder and darker.
The
Neocatechumenal Way
- A Fearful
Danger to the Faith -
FATHER
ENRICO ZOFFOLI
April
1995, Christian Order
“I charge thee,( ... ): preach the word, persevere in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
“For the day will come when they will no longer endure sound doctrine, but, after their own lusts, men shall surround themselves with teachers, having itching ears. And they shall refuse to listen to the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
“But watch thou attentively, know how to endure afflictions, do thy works as an evangelist, carry out thy ministry” [2 Tim 4, 1-5]
DOCTRINAL
ERRORS
We have been able to identify these in the above-mentioned typewritten texts reserved for the Catechists and kept secret not only from the public but also from the faithful committed to the Way.
They concern ideas which cannot be shared by many Neocatechumenals and seem above all to be ignored especially by those who, devoid of theology, are not in a position to judge their orthodoxy with the necessary competence.
The accusation of heresy is aimed at the doctrinal positions, not the persons, whom we still regard as worthy of respect and who can be inspired by the best intentions.
* * * *
1. SIN: man cannot avoid committing it, in the same way as he can neither accomplish good nor acquire merits for himself;
- conversion is possible only as
recognition, by everyone, of their own moral poverty, not as a determined wish
to correct one's faults which sanctity tends to realize;
- sin cannot offend God, and man does not incur the duty to
expiate it by satisfying the requirements of His justice.
2. REDEMPTION: Jesus has not brought this about by liberating man from his faults and reconciling him with God;
- the
passion and death of Christ has not been a true sacrifice offered
to the Father in order to remedy sin and to redeem man;
- Jesus saved the world by virtue of His Resurrection: in
order to enjoy the fruits of His work it is enough to confess to be sinners and
to believe in the power of the risen Christ.
3. THE CHURCH was not founded by Christ as his only Sheepfold: it is also possible to save oneself by following other religions;
- the
Church is not a juridical and hierarchical society, but a
spiritual, charismatic one;
- in it there is not found a priesthood derived from the
sacrament of the Order - as it is sufficient to have the Baptism which,
incorporating all the believers in Christ, makes them participants of His
priestly dignity.
4. THE MASS is not a “sacrifice”: the Church, at the altar, does not offer to God any Victim;
- in place of the altar, there is
nothing but the table, which in the Eucharist allows a festive
party to be celebrated among brothers united by the same faith in the
Resurrection;
- the consecrated bread and wine are only the symbol of the
presence of the risen Christ which unites the fellow-guests by communicating
their own spirit, thus making them participants in his triumph over death;
- the Mass, thus conceived, is not celebrated by the priest, but
by the Assembly, from which “springs the Eucharist.”
5. EUCHARISTIC WORSHIP does not have any meaning, it negates the true, real and substantial presence of Christ under the sacramental species. Acts of faith such as genuflections before the Tabernacle, frequent Communions, hours of adoration, benedictions, processions, congresses, etc. are not therefore justified.
6. CONFESSION is reduced to the sacrament of Baptism: their distinction does not go back to the primitive Church:
- the Church ”gestates and leads to the
conversion.” “The important thing is not the absolution” of
the priest, because the value of the confession is essentially its community
and ecclesial nature;
- in the ”passages” and
in the, ”scrutinies” the acknowledgement of one's
transgressions, including the serious ones, is public, as can still be the case
during the ”redditio.”
7. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, as a voluntary effort of self-discipline, and therefore an exercise and progress in virtue, is an illusion;
- everyone remains intrinsically a
sinner, incapable of obtaining true justice as a
perfection of the love of God and of one's fellow creatures;
- on the other hand, Jesus has not been presented to anyone as a ”model” to
be imitated;
- He has commanded that we should actually hate our parents,
brothers, relatives etc, not just, if necessary, to be prepared to prefer
Him to them;
- in order to follow Christ, we need to sell our own goods; but, once this
renunciation has been accomplished, it is permissible to acquire others and to
enjoy all the pleasures of life. “Poverty” as understood by St. Francis, is
inspired by the ”natural religion,” and was also practiced by
the pagans: it is not a Christian virtue;
- Jesus, having suffered for us, has made our sufferings superfluous,
therefore the austerities of the ascetics, the slow martyrdom of the Saints and
the religious life itself, involving the effective practice of
the evangelical counsels, are not justifiable;
- eternal salvation is offered freely to all by the mercy of God, who
forgives everything. Hell should not exist, nor should one
speak of Purgatory, of prayers and of indulgences for the
dead.
8. THE
HISTORY of the true Church founded by Christ comes to an end with
the Pax Constantinia and does not resume its course until the
20th century with the Second Vatican Council, having remained
frozen for about 1,600 years ... ;
- in this long interval, the exercise of the triple
power of the hierarchical Church (teaching, sanctification,
guidance) would have been improper, illegitimate ... ; and in
particular the Council of Trent would be responsible for the paralysis of the
Church, determined to fix formulae of faith, liturgical rites, disciplinary,
rules ... ;
- the interpretation of the Word of God is
not reserved for the Hierarchy, it is possible for all believers: ”the
Bible is explained by itself.” This freedom of examination in the
exegesis excludes the ecclesiastical Teaching, the tradition of the Elders and
the doctrine of the theologies
“The media gave a distorted picture of the Second Vatican
Council. Now the real spirit of Vatican II needs to be examined.”
Benedict XVI, from his final
address to the priests in the diocese of Rome 2-14-2013
Comment:
This "impromptu" address given to
the priests of the diocese of Rome should be read by every Catholic who is
faithful to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. It is entitled “The Second Vatican Council, as I saw it.” In it Pope Benedict parrots every modernist
nostrum that we have been choking on for the last fifty years, all of which
have been thoroughly refuted time and again and many of which could be refuted
by Ratzinger’s own writings.
Just one example. Pope Benedict said in this address that the
“Liturgical movement had grown in Western Central Europe as the rediscovery of
the richness and depth of the liturgy which hitherto was almost locked with the
priest’s Roman Missal while the people prayed with their prayer books…. So the
task was to translate the high content, the language of the classical liturgy,
into more moving words, that were closer to the heart of the people……. Now
(after VC II) the beauty, the depth, the Missal’s wealth of human and spiritual
history was rediscovered as well as the need (for) more than one representative
of the people… to respond……. A real dialogue between priest and people so that
the liturgy of the altar and the liturgy of the people really were one single
liturgy, one active participation….. So that the liturgy was rediscovered,
renewed.”
Compare this with the following:
“What happened after the Council was
altogether different: instead of a liturgy, the fruit of continuous
development, a fabricated liturgy was put in its place. A living growing
process was abandoned and the fabrication started. There was no further wish to
continue the organic evolution and maturation of the living being throughout
the centuries and they were replaced -- as if in a technical production -- by a
fabrication, a banal product of the moment. Gamber, with the vigilance of a
true visionary and with the fearlessness of a true witness, opposed this
falsification and tirelessly taught us the living fullness of a true liturgy,
thanks to his incredibly rich knowledge of the sources. As a man who knew and
who loved history, he showed us the multiple forms of the evolution and of the
path of the liturgy; as a man who saw history from the inside, he saw in this
development and in the fruit of this development the intangible reflection of
the eternal liturgy, which is not the object of our action, but which may
marvelously continue to blossom and to ripen, if we join its mystery
intimately.”
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, from his
introduction in the French edition of Monsignor Klaus Gamber’s book, The Reform
of the Roman Rite
This is just one example. The entire missive, about ten type-written
pages, is nothing but the modernist version of the history of Vatican II where
subjective sentiments dominate objective reality. Soon its lies and distortions will die and be
buried with its last protagonist. “By
their fruits, who shall know them” (Matt. 7:16). It is instructive to see how the vice of pride can be so
blinding to facts. The Church over the
last fifty years has gone through the greatest decline in her entire history
with no evidence of any meaningful reversal.
Now, the “media” is responsible for the “distorted picture” of VC
II? And now, fifty years later, “the
real spirit” can at last “be examined.”
And for this tripe, he gets an ovation by the blighted clergy of Rome
for his pretend “humility.” We can take
consolation in the return of Benedict to Ratzinger, that, no matter how bad the
next pope may be, we will be dealing with someone who has no personal stake for
his legacy in salvaging the disaster that is Vatican II.
Fr. Luigi Villa, Th.D. the author of Vatican II, About Face!, which details the heresies of Vatican II,
died November 18 at the age of 95. In his book Fr. Villa explains in detail the
following “eight heresies that have been ordained and promoted by this
Council”:
1. The Cult of Man
2. A New Religion
3. “New Prophets” of Joy
4. Idolatry of the World
5. “Modernism”
6. “Religious Freedom”
7. Ecumenism
8. Universal Salvation
Pope Benedict XVI demands “acknowledgment” of the
‘authentic magisterium’ as the one “indispensible condition”???
...[T]he entire phrase 'the Holy Father does
not intend to leave aside an indispensable condition' [in the Secretariat of
State's draft] was cancelled by Benedict XVI and replaced with, [in his own
handwriting], 'For a future recognition of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X, the
full acknowledgment of the Second Vatican Council and of the Magisterium of
Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and of the same Benedict
XVI is an indispensable condition.
Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
COMMENT:
The word “Magisterium” is capitalized in the original. It should not be because it only refers to
the “authentic magisterium” which is a term that refers to the person who holds
the papal office and not to any particular teaching. The Magisterium of the Church is derived from
the attribute of Infallibility that Jesus Christ endowed His Church so that He
could say, “He who heareth you, heareth Me” (Luke 10, 16). This power belongs to the Church by its
nature and only accidently to the person who occupies the papal office. The Magisterium of the Church was not
employed by Vatican II or the councilar popes for any of the novelties of the
last fifty years. This demand of Pope Benedict is asking only that Traditional
Catholics “acknowledge” that Vatican II and the post-conciliar popes personally
taught something. It does not
distinguish between the truth or the error of what was taught. If Pope Benedict wants to teach infallibly
and bind the “mind and will” of the Catholic faithful to a teaching as a formal
object of Divine and Catholic Faith, he can only do so by engaging the
Magistrium of the Church.
An edited letter sent from the Mission in
reply to Dr. E. Michael Jones article, Traditionalism at the End of Its Tether,
was published in Culture Wars Magazine. The unedited letter has been posted on
the Open Letters page to better clarify the Mission’s position in defense of
Catholic tradition. The letter is entitled, Why the SSPX Cannot Effectively Defend
Catholic Tradition.
In
all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.
Ecclesiasticus
7:40
If anyone despises or
rejects either written or unwritten ecclesiastical tradition, let him be
anathema.
Canon 4, Ecumenical Council
of Nicea in 787 A.D
Your divine Providence, O
God, takes care of all Your creatures as though they were but one, and it takes
care of each one as though all others were contained in it. Oh! If Your Providence were only understood,
everyone would forget the things of this world to be united to it.
St. Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi
“(Dogma must be understood)
by the very sense by which it is defined...and...must be held to be by itself a
sufficient demonstration, very sure and adapted to all the faithful.”
Blessed Pope Pius IX, Inter Gravissimas, 1870
All novelty in faith is a
sure mark of heresy. St. Paul cried out
aloud, again and again, to all men, to all times, and to all places that, if
anyone announces a new dogma, let him be anathematized!
St. Vincent of Lerins
Ordinary Pope Greets Extra-Ordinary Pope!
I spoke because now more than ever,
corruption has spread to the highest levels of the hierarchy of the Church. I
ask the journalists: why are they not asking what happened to the cache of
documents that, as we all saw, were delivered at Castel Gandolfo to Pope
Francis from Pope Benedict? Was that all useless? It would have been enough to
read my report and the transcript that was made of my deposition before the
three cardinals charged with the investigation of the Vatileaks case (Julian
Herranz, Jozef Tomko, and Salvatore De Giorgi) in order to begin some cleaning
up in the Curia.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, comment
during interview after his open letter accusing Pope Francis of covering for
homosexual predators in the Catholic Church, August 28, 2018
The Question: Who is deceived?
One deceives himself who
thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.
Pope Benedict XVI, May 2010
In the Third Secret it is foretold, among
other things, that the great apostasy in the Church begins at the top.
Luigi Cardinal Ciappi, personal theologian to
four Popes
To save them [poor sinners who are on the road to hell], God
wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If what I say
to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is
going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse war will break
out during the reign of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown
light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to
punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions
against the Church and against the Holy Father.
To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of
Russia to My Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First
Saturdays. If My requests are heeded, Russia will be converted and there will
be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars
and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father
will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated… Only Our Lady of
the Rosary can help you.
Blessed Virgin Mary to the children at Fatima
Priests, my Son's ministers, priests, by
their evil life, by their irreverences and their impiety in celebrating the
holy mysteries, love of money, love of honor and pleasures, priests have become
sewers of impurity. Yes, priests call forth vengeance, and vengeance is
suspended over their heads. Woe to priests, and to persons consecrated to God,
who by their infidelities and their evil life are crucifying my son anew! The
sins of persons consecrated to God cry to heaven and call for vengeance, and
now here is vengeance at their very doors, for no longer is anyone found to beg
mercy and pardon for the people; there are no more generous souls, there is now
no one worthy of offering the spotless Victim to the Eternal on the worlds
behalf………Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
Our Lady of La Salette to Melanie Calvat
and Maximin Giraud
New Entry Doors for our Chapel
Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel
St. Vincent de Paul and The
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary next to our Patrons
Print of St. Dominic in the Vestibule
St.
Elizabeth of Hungry & St. Francis Xavier
The
Risen Christ & St. Joan of Arc
St.
Dominic Savio & St. Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face
St.
Jude the Apostle
St.
Clement Mary Hofbauer
Crucifix
& St. Joseph in the Community Room
St.
Anthony of Padua in the Community Room
Every possible care must be taken to hold fast to that faith
which has been believed everywhere, always, and by everyone. He is a genuine
Catholic who continues steadfast in the faith, who resolves that he will
believe those things - and only those things- which he is sure the Catholic
Church has held universally and from ancient times. It is therefore an
indispensable obligation for all Catholics to adhere to the faith of the
Fathers, to preserve it, to die for it and, on the other hand, to detest the
profane novelties of profane men, to dread them, to harass them, and to attack
them.
St. Vincent of Lerins Commonitoria, PL 50:637
The Holy Spirit has not been promised to the successors of
Peter that, under His revelation, they might make known a new doctrine, but in
order that, with His assistance, they sacredly preserve and faithfully set
forth the revelation transmitted by the Apostles, that is to say, the deposit
of the faith.
Vatican Council I, Pastor Aeternus
Why the Church Requires Our
Prayers for the Sovereign Pontiff
The Holy Ghost, who has guaranteed the infallible purity of
the doctrine taught officially from the apostolic Chair, has not pledged
himself to protect in a like degree from all failure either the virtue, or the
private judgment, or ever the administrative acts of the Sovereign Pontiff… Our
Lord has willed that to the prayers of all should be confided the charge of
completing His work by obtaining for the successors of Peter such preservative
graces as do not of themselves necessarily spring from the divine constitution
of the Church.
Dom Gueranger, The
Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Leo II
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