tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20113917233388694512024-02-20T09:09:34.880+00:00The Guild of Blessed Titus BrandsmaThe Boneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.comBlogger683125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-2366379708584580622022-08-27T17:21:00.001+01:002022-08-27T20:16:55.004+01:00National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Washington, DC - 17 September 2022<div style="text-align: left;">From our friends at the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Dear Friends,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><div class="gmail_quote" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Please consider making plans to attend this event in Washington and Arlington, to show our support for our friends in the Washington area and to protest recent cancellations of the Traditional Mass:</i></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Join us on Saturday September 17, 2022 at 9 AM for the National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. </span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">We will mark the 15th anniversary of Benedict XVI’s liberation of the Traditional Latin Mass, and make a public act of sorrow/support of what we will be losing as the Diocese of Arlington and Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. impose devastating new restrictions on the celebration of the TLM. </span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The Arlington Diocese restrictions go into effect on September 8, while the Washington Archdiocese’s draconian implementation of the papal decree starts 13 days later on the 21st.</span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">The pilgrimage will begin at 9 AM on Saturday, September 17 at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington, VA, will end when we reach St. Matthew’s Cathedral in DC, and should take about two hours. </span></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">For updates, we now have an instagram, twitter, and Facebook page (all of which can be found @tlmpilgrimage on the respective apps), and we now have a website being </span><a href="http://tlmpilgrimage.com" target="_blank">tlmpilgrimage.com</a>.<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">Please share, as we want this to be as large as possible for such an occasion.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdS7J1WQy5w9u6yVKF9VahCrtiVKHfujWwtWSvKWkJOd8XJ4EiwYUz3OYurRkSLhnV-wjTaGECcegvuMzAR8yt8IpSYRqZg-ifbPems1LokY-XXGi85S6OVPVh8ibyA9M4fzbFCUGU3tNSZa9oq6n1638tXrktH0R5S-67Fhv6C4slFVh8tGcYhou3" style="margin-left: 1em; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDTEuJYvpJlGCWXSfi6HpTj7O8qWMjvy0RtUApOuCZykLbXpojekVIM5sE5eq1uqZZU3j0ekwqlURSkgoWWqhsPT4ivrNBvPwgV0Df9xaf0aky0bqk07XJdeFk2F6gPY-4POVvVEEFLhjyb1w7lkfYJYaaTd9iLBWBVkOTY5lYCMEALt9Qlzj1tql/w400-h266/Cat%20No%20309--The%20Emperor%20Shortly%20After%20Death--Photograph.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Join Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Canon Jean-Marie Moreau of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, and Suzanne Pearson, Delegate of the Emperor Karl League of Prayer, on pilgrimage to Madeira Island to commemorate the <b>100th anniversary</b> of the death of Blessed Karl of Austria.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">4-11 August 2022</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Visit sites from Blessed Karl's life & pray at Blessed Karl's tomb.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For complete travel itinerary visit <a href="https://stolavtravel.blog/" target="_blank"><b>Sacred Heart Tours</b></a>. Additional information at the Emperor Karl League of Prayer <a href="https://www.emperorcharles.org/news/2022/2/14/pilgrimage-to-madeira-with-bishop-schneider" target="_blank"><b>website</b></a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-79465754001634066192022-01-09T20:25:00.000+00:002022-01-09T20:25:09.236+00:00<p> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The novels of Joris-Karl
Huysmans – Prophetic Parallels?</span></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
had the great good fortune when I was just sixteen years old of
quitting a boarding school in England and finding myself at the
University of Fribourg in Switzerland studying French Literature
under a brilliant teacher Robert Benoit Cherix – a convert from
Protestantism to Catholicism. One series of lectures he gave was on
French Catholic Literature in the 19<sup>th</sup> century starting
with Chateaubriand. Reading a selection of the recommended books the
one that impressed me most was "A Vau l'Eau" (Downstream)
by Joris-Karl Huysmans which struck me as the most depressing book I
had ever read. It is the story of a lowly civil servant trying and
failing to find a decent meal in the restaurants of Paris which leads
him to total despair. </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Huysmans
began as a follower of the Naturalist Movement led by Emile Zola.
Novels depicting people whose lives were bound and limited by
generally awful social conditions. Huysmans followed Zola's
example with 'Marthe' the story of a prostitute.; 'Les Soeurs Vatard'
about the unhappy love affairs of two sisters and 'En Menage' about
failing marriages. However Huysmans gradually fell out with
Naturalism and he wrote that it had ended in a cul-de-sac. He saw
the characters in these novels as merely cardboard cut-outs without
souls. There was no grace which would enable them to do other than
to respond to impulses and instincts in their social setting. “A
Vau l'Eau” was the beginning of a reaction in that the conclusion
for the hero is utter despair – there is no way out. Zola believed
in Positivism and Progress. Huysmans did not. </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His
next and most famous novel was “A Rebours” (variously translated
as 'Against Nature'). Here the hero is not a poor civil servant but
a rich aristocrat who sets out on a life of seeking every sensual
pleasure imaginable. “A Rebours” became a manual for
decadence influencing Oscar Wilde and others. Indeed to-day many
still regard it as such dismissing all of Huysmans later work. In a
later edition of “A Rebours” Huysmans writes in the Preface
that each chapter of “A Rebours” entailed deep research into
particular sensual specialities such as smell or taste or painting or
sculpture. As a disciple of Schopenhauer and an atheist he was
constantly surprised by what his researches told him about art and
the Catholic Church. How could such a religion 'invented for
children' have inspired such glorious works of art? He states that
the seeds of his later novels can be found in the chapters of “A
Rebours”.</span></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His
next novel “En Rade” (“Laid up”) is a curious mixture of
dreams, one about visiting the moon, and an account of living in a
decaying Chateau amidst a rural scene which he describes with brutal
realism and disgust. Huysmans never liked the countryside. There is
a particularly gruesome description of the death of a cat. Huysmans
was beginning to sense that there was more to life than Zola's
'realism'. </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There
followed four final novels brought together as “Le Roman de
Durtal”. Durtal is Huysmans himself. His interest in dreams in
“En Rade” leads to an interest in the life of the spirit with an
examination of Satanism in late 19<sup>th</sup> century France. The
centre piece of this first Durtal novel “La-Bas” (“Down there”)
is a biography of Gilles de Raiz, a follower of Joan of Arc, who
having lost his fortune hopes to recover it by appeasing Satan with
appalling acts of paedophilia. Court records of his eventual trial
say that he murdered some 200 children although it might have been
considerably more. The reality of Satanic phenomena haunted Huysmans
for the rest of his life. Satan has used paedophilia with
devastating effect for the Church in our own day.</span></p>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB">En
Route” follows and is the story of Durtal's return to the Church.
One evening he enters Saint-Sulpice in Paris during the Octave of
All Saints when the darkness hides what he calls the hideous nave.
“There he could soil his soul without being seen; he was at home”.
He recounts how he hears the unctuous speech, and the greasiness
of his accent of a well-fed priest pouring out the commonest of
platitudes to his listeners and Durtal is filled with disgust.
Suddenly though the organ starts and he hears the </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>De
Profundis. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">At
first it calls to his pessimism but eventually he is thunderstruck
by it. “What music so ample or so sorrowful or so tender that it
might be, was worth the solemnities of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Magnificat,
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
august words of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Lauda
Sion, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
enthusiasms of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Salva
Regina, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
distress of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Miserere
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Stabat,
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
ever powerful majesty of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Te
Deum”. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">For
Durtal the real proof of Catholicism lay in the art it had produced.
There follows a long discussion of sacred music based on his research
which had started with “A Rebours”. To-day Cardinal Aupetit has
clamped down on such traditional liturgy in Paris. You are more
likely to hear sacred music on Classic FM than in any church. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ave
Verum Corpus </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">seems
to be a popular request at the moment. How many realise it is an
assertion of the Real Presence in which so many Catholics no longer
believe?</span></span></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">Durtal
prefers the text of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Dies
Irae </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
that of the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>De
Profundis. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Benedict XVI explains in his book “Eschatology Death and Eternal
Life” in 1977 how “In the </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Dies
Irae</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">
… we hear only of the fear of judgement, which contemplates the End
under the appearances of horror and of threat to the soul's
salvation.” This was not acceptable to most of his fellow
theologians who no longer believed in the existence of the soul or
indeed salvation. Benedict wrote that in opposing this “I took up
a position which was sharply opposed to the post-conciliar consensus
of a seeming majority of Catholic theologians”. Benedict
continues “Indeed, the Missal of Paul VI dared to speak of the soul
here and there, and that in timorous fashion, otherwise avoiding all
mention of it , The soul has been deleted where possible. As for
the German rite of burial, it has, so far as I can see, obliterated
it altogether.” </span></span></span>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
listening to sacred music Huysmans/Durtal suddenly realises that he
believes. The rest of </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>En
Route</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is the story of his gradual recovery of the practice of the faith
seeking out good liturgy in various Churches; it is a veritable “Good
Music Guide” to the Paris of his time. He finds a spiritual
director who directs him to orders of monks and nuns and the best
plainchant in a Convent of Benedictine nuns in the Rue Monsieur. A
convent later to be associated with Gabriel Marcel, Claudel,
Maritain, Mauriac etc. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Huysmans/Durtal struggles with his sexual life and the
devil. The description of this is graphic to say the least which
led many Catholics to say that it was not a book for their daughters
and to doubt his sincerity. Eventually his spiritual director sends
him to stay in a Trappist monastery where he makes his confession.
In fact Huysman's penance was one decade of the Rosary but he was not
sure he had got it right and thought he was supposed to say ten
complete rosaries. Later explaining to his confessor that he done
this, rather badly and grudgingly, he was told that his confusion was
merely a stratagem of the Devil to discourage him.</span></p>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
next book </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>La
Catedrale</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is essantially a guide to Chartres Cathedral describing every statue
with great erudition but at the same time a humorous description of
his domestic life with his housekeeper and priest friends,</span></span></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">His final book is “L'Oblat”. Huysmans/Durtal had
already visited Solesmes and admired the work of Dom Gueranger and
his revival of plainchant. However he found the monastery too
regimented for him and he realises that he was not suited to the life
of a monk. Instead his ambition was to found a group of Benedictine
Oblates made up of artists – writers, sculptors, illuminators,
composers etc. He therefore buys a house next to what in reality was
the Benedictine Monastery at Liguge near Poitiers a daughter house of
Solesmes. Huysmans places his fictional version as being near Dijon
in Burgundy describing the life of the Monastery and the liturgy in
great detail.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Huysmans becomes an oblate but his ambition to create a
group of artists fails. One of his fellow oblates is more
strict than the monks while his niece wears the day's liturgical
colours as ribbons in her hair and at the same time is extremely fond
of her food. Being in Burgundy they discuss whether
Gevrey-Chambertin should only be used as communion wine or whether
it should be drunk at table. They decide on the latter. Despite his
dislike of rural life Huysmans/Durtal does see this as his final
destination but gradually the shadow of the anti-clerical and
free-mason government of Waldeck-Rousseau begins to overshadow
everything with its desire to control and limit all religious life. </span>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">Huysmans/Durtal
wonders whether Leo XIII could not do more to oppose these
developments but obviously the political influence of the Papacy had
weakened after the loss of the Papal States. Waldeck-Rousseau, a
Catholic in the same mould as Biden or Pelosi, disgusts him. Certain
clerics are ambivalent; particularly the Bishop of Dijon who appoints
a rough and poorly educated diocesan priest to the Parish previously
ministered to by the monks. The Bishop decrees that the monks must
hand over their Abbey Church every Sunday to this priest who promptly
abolishes the use of plainchant and introduces awful modern hymns.
Further the monks were forbidden to hear the confessions of the
parishioners even those of the oblates. The latter take the train to
Dijon and just happen to meet a monk there. Huysmans recounts the
ensuing rows with great humour. To-day the present Bishop of Dijon,
anticipating </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Traditionis
Custodes </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">by
a month,</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">has
expelled the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter from his Diocese. </span></span></span>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">Eventually
though the monks are obliged to abandon the Monastery for the third
time in just over a century under the “Loi des Associations” of
1905. The monks move to Belgium. Durtal's idyll comes to an end
and he returns to Paris. The “Loi des Associations” is still in
existence and makes a mockery of the French state's pretensions to
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Liberte,
Egalite et Fraternite. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">Recently
there has been a move to have it challenged before the European Court
of Human Rights. </span></span></span>
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<p align="LEFT" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">Earlier
in </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>En Route
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">Huysmans
makes a reference to Saint Lydwine de Schiedam and eventually he
wrote her biography. Huysmans's pessimism led him to the
consideration of the problem of suffering and he eventually found the
answer in the life of Saint Lydwine namely in the mystical theory of
substitution; the idea that the suffering of an innocent person can
expiate the sins of others and can bring them to virtue. He
discusses it in detail in </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>L'Oblat.
</i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">St
Lydwine, born the same year that St Catherine of Siena died, had a
skating accident when young and suffered for the rest of her life
from what some now believe was multiple sclerosis. Huysmans himself
contracted cancer of the jaw and suffered for many years until it
killed him. Robert Baldicks's excellent biography gives a very
graphic account of his suffering. This mystical theory of dolorism,
has its origins in Luke Chapter 2 and Simeon's prophecy to Our Lady
that a sword would pierce her heart.</span></span></span></p>
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sort of aberration. Feminists regard being told “to offer it up”
as an example of how women are oppressed. The nineteenth century
Comtesse de Segur, author of books for children including “Les
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dolorism. An order of nuns in France, whose work was the care of
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suspected of harbouring excessively traditional ideas and they
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literally axed or chopped up, was the word used for describing how
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</p>Nicolas Bellordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-34857690975224057122021-12-21T22:25:00.000+00:002021-12-21T22:25:10.138+00:00Institute of the Good Shepherd Expelled from Curitiba, Brazil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1wS326uFuKQyFAlySOHZFn_bYsrtO-0wImVG1-6SRBbHHAPy6GcbyVgp8HhVwlbjct0lAHHm3j58Ap3N4v4RhkxyFEXT9nRoHNd0SHP44H-Q1bPXXj9OWNPClUa3EdU3iy4HzdTObTp_ikPuJm-NIvCxVjxrzbK_sRSbMzeRk-U1c8RhUd68Wfbi5=s900" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="900" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1wS326uFuKQyFAlySOHZFn_bYsrtO-0wImVG1-6SRBbHHAPy6GcbyVgp8HhVwlbjct0lAHHm3j58Ap3N4v4RhkxyFEXT9nRoHNd0SHP44H-Q1bPXXj9OWNPClUa3EdU3iy4HzdTObTp_ikPuJm-NIvCxVjxrzbK_sRSbMzeRk-U1c8RhUd68Wfbi5=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Communiqué from the Superior of the District of Latin America</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Brasília/DF, December 20, 2021</b></div><div><br /></div><div>1. We inform you of the existence of an extrajudicial decree by His Excellency, Dom José Antônio Peruzzo, Archbishop of Curitiba, prohibiting the exercise of all priestly ministry to the Reverend Father Thiago Bonifácio, IBP, in the territory of that same Archdiocese. We consider the decree invalid and null according to canon law and natural law. The due canonical suspensive appeal of the decree was filed.</div><div><br /></div><div>2. We assure the faithful of our apostolate in Curitiba that they will not be abandoned by the Instituto Bom Pastor.</div><div><br /></div><div>We remain faithful to the Catholic Church, the Holy Father, and the Catholic hierarchy. The Good Shepherd does not abandon his sheep.</div><div><br /></div><div>Father Daniel Pinheiro, IBP Superior of the District of Latin America</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://ibpamericalatina.org/pt-br/noticias/item/367-comunicado-do-superior-do-distrito-sobre-curitiba-pr" target="_blank">Source</a>.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-28851098953247374902021-12-20T02:59:00.000+00:002021-12-20T02:59:24.274+00:00Archbishop Vigano - Message to the American People - 18 December 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyyrMrwpKfCCo5CVRgP-VsKpcBS2XQ_RcXT9e3yj_6bj1QLaD4h_GjEgHO07OcG_x0CC_ZyOJn9Qz3NSBjf_tEEcUqya9_esia_VcDQPwmjbOo9cnp6gqPQRa1FFFkvTEPkkh45NOHXaa64W_20i-SHPAsQHCvmzFfpwPPzNCquREh6kJm8iJ_1xtr=s267" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="250" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyyrMrwpKfCCo5CVRgP-VsKpcBS2XQ_RcXT9e3yj_6bj1QLaD4h_GjEgHO07OcG_x0CC_ZyOJn9Qz3NSBjf_tEEcUqya9_esia_VcDQPwmjbOo9cnp6gqPQRa1FFFkvTEPkkh45NOHXaa64W_20i-SHPAsQHCvmzFfpwPPzNCquREh6kJm8iJ_1xtr" width="250" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">MESSAGE</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE</div><div><br /></div><div>DEAR AMERICAN PEOPLE, DEAR FRIENDS, for two years now, a global coup has been carried out all over the world, planned for some time by an elite group of conspirators enslaved to the interests of international high finance. This coup was made possible by an emergency pandemic that is based on the premise of a virus that has a mortality rate almost analogous to that of any other seasonal flu virus, on the delegitimization and prohibition of effective treatments, and on the distribution of an experimental gene serum which is obviously ineffective, and which also clearly carries with it the danger of serious and even lethal side effects. We all know how much the mainstream media has contributed to supporting the insane pandemic narrative, the interests that are at stake, and the goals of these groups of power: reducing the world population, making those who survive chronically ill, and imposing forms of control that violate the fundamental rights and natural liberties of citizens. And yet, two years after this grotesque farce started, which has claimed more victims than a war and destroyed the social fabric, national economies, and the very foundations of the rule of law, nothing has changed in the policies of Nations and their response to the so-called pandemic.</div><div><br /></div><div>Last year, when many still had not yet understood the gravity of the looming threat, I was among the first to denounce this coup, and I was promptly singled out as a conspiracy theorist. Today more and more people are opening their eyes and beginning to understand that the emergency pandemic and the “ecological emergency” are part of a criminal plan hatched by the World Economic Forum, the UN, the WHO, and a galaxy of organizations and foundations that are ideologically characterized as clearly anti-human and – this needs to be said clearly – anti-Christian.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the elements that unequivocally confirms the criminal nature of the Great Reset is the perfect synchrony with which all the different Nations are acting, demonstrating the existence of a single script under a single direction. And it is disconcerting to see how the lack of treatment, the deliberately wrong treatments that have been given in order to cause more deaths, the decision to impose lockdowns and masks, the conspiratorial silence about the adverse effects of the so-called “vaccines” that are in fact gene serums, and the continuous repetition of culpable errors have all been possible thanks to the complicity of those who govern and the institutions. Political and religious leaders, representatives of the people, scientists and doctors, journalists and those who work in the media have literally betrayed their people, their laws, their Constitutions, and the most basic ethical principles.</div><div><br /></div><div>The electoral fraud of the 2020 presidential election against President Trump has shown itself to be organic to this global operation, because in order to impose illegitimate restrictions in violation of the principles of law it was necessary to be able to make use of an American President who would support the psycho-pandemic and support its narrative. The Democratic Party, part of the deep state, is carrying out its task as an accomplice of the system, just as the deep church finds in Bergoglio its own propagandist. The recent rulings of the Supreme Court and the autonomous action of some American states – where the vaccination obligation has been declared unconstitutional – give us hope that this criminal plan can collapse and that those responsible will be identified and tried: both in America as well as in the whole world.</div><div><br /></div><div>How was it possible to arrive at such a betrayal? How have we come to be considered enemies by those who govern us, not in support of the common good, but rather to feed a hellish machine of death and slavery?</div><div><br /></div><div>The answer is now clear: throughout the world, in the name of a perverted concept of freedom, we have progressively erased God from society and laws. We have denied that there is an eternal and transcendent principle, valid for all men of all times, to which the laws of States must conform. We have replaced this absolute principle with the arbitrariness of individuals, with the principle that everyone is his own legislator. In the name of this insane freedom – which is license and libertinage – we have allowed the Law of God and the law of nature to be violated, legitimizing the killing of children in the womb, even up to the very moment of birth; the killing of the sick and the elderly in hospital wards; the destruction of the natural family and of Marriage; we have recognized rights to vice and sin, putting the deviations of individuals before the good of society. In short, we have subverted the entire moral order that constitutes the indispensable basis of the laws and social life of a people. Already in the fourth century B.C., Plato wrote these things in his last work the Laws and identified the cause of the Athenian political crisis precisely in the breaking of the divine order – the cosmos – between these eternal principles and human laws.</div><div><br /></div><div>These natural moral principles of the Greco-Roman world found their fulfillment in Christianity, which built Western civilization by giving them a supernatural impetus. Christianity is the strongest defense against injustice, the strongest garrison against the oppression of the powerful over the weak, the violent over the peaceful, and the wicked over the good, because Christian morality makes each of us accountable to God and our neighbor for our actions, both as citizens and as rulers. The Son of God, whose Birth we will celebrate in a few days, became Incarnate in time and in history in order to heal an ancient wound, and to restore by Grace the order broken by disobedience. His social Kingship was the generating principle of the <i>ordo Christianus</i> that for two centuries now has been fiercely fought against by Freemasonry: because the Revolution it promotes is <i>chaos</i>; it is disorder; it is infernal rebellion against the divine order so as to impose Satan’s tyranny.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, as we see what is happening around us, we understand how mendacious were the promises of progress and freedom made by those who destroyed Christian society, and how deceptive was the prospect of a new Tower of Babel, built not only without regard for God but even in direct opposition to Him. The infernal challenge of the Enemy is repeated over the centuries unchanged, but it is doomed to inexorable failure. Behind this millennial conspiracy, the adversary is always the same, and the only thing that changes are the particular individuals who cooperate with him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dear American brothers and sisters! Dear Patriots! this is a crucial moment for the future of the United States of America and of the whole of humanity. But the pandemic emergency, the farce of <i>global warming</i> and the <i>green economy</i>, and the economic crisis deliberately induced by the <i>Great Reset</i> with the complicity of the <i>deep state</i>, are all only the consequence of a much more serious problem, and it is essential to understand it in depth if we want to defeat it. This problem is essentially moral; indeed, it is religious. We must put God back in the first place not only in our personal lives, but also in the life of our society. We must restore to Our Lord Jesus Christ the Crown that the Revolution has torn from Him, and in order for this to happen a true and profound conversion of individuals and of society is necessary. For it is absolutely impossible to hope for the end of this global tyranny if we continue to remove from the Kingdom of Christ the nations that belong to Him and must belong to Him. For this reason, the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade also acquires a very important meaning, since respect for the sacredness of unborn life must be sanctioned by positive law if it is to be a mirror of the Eternal Law.</div><div><br /></div><div>You are animated by a yearning for justice, and this is a legitimate and good desire. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,” says the Lord (Mt 5:6). But this Justice must be based on the awareness that this is a spiritual battle in which it is necessary to take sides without equivocation and without compromise, holding transcendent and eternal references that even the pagan philosophers glimpsed, and that have found fulfillment in the Revelation of the Son of God, the Divine Master.</div><div><br /></div><div>My appeal for an Anti-Globalist Alliance – which I renew today – aims precisely to constitute a movement of moral and spiritual rebirth which will inspire the civil, social and political action of those who do not want to be enslaved as slaves to the New World Order. A movement that at the national and local level will be able to find a way to oppose the Great Reset and that coordinates the denunciation of the coup that is currently in progress. Because in the awareness of who our adversary is and what his aims and purposes are, we can disrupt the criminal action he intends to pursue and force him to retreat. In this, the opposition to the pandemic farce and the vaccination obligation must be determined and courageous on the part of each of you.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yours must therefore be a work of truth, bringing to light the lies and deceptions of the New World Order and their anti-human and antichristic matrix. And in this it is mainly the laity and all people of good will – each in the professional and civil role he holds – who must coordinate and organize together to make a firm but peaceful resistance, so as not to legitimize its violent repression by those who today hold power.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be proud of your identity as American patriots and of the Faith that must animate your life. Do not allow anyone to make you feel inferior just because you love your homeland, because you are honest at work, because you want to protect your family and raise your children with healthy values, because you respect the elderly, because you protect life from conception to its natural end. Do not be intimidated or seduced by those who propagate a dystopian world in which a faceless power imposes on you contempt for the Law of God, presents sin and vice as licit and desirable, despises righteousness and Morality, destroys the natural family and promotes the worst perversions, plans the death of defenseless and weak creatures, and exploits humanity for its own profit or to preserve power.</div><div><br /></div><div>Be worthy heirs of the great Archbishop Fulton Sheen, and do not follow those of your Pastors who have betrayed the mandate they have received from Our Lord, who impose iniquitous orders on you or who remain silent before the evidence of an unheard of crime against God and humanity.</div><div><br /></div><div>May this Holy Christmas illuminate your minds and inflame your hearts before the Infant King who lays in the manger. And just as the choirs of the Angels and the homage of the Magi united with the simple adoration of the Shepherds, so also today your commitment to the moral rebirth of the United States of America – <i>one Nation under God</i> – will have the blessing of Our Lord and will gather those who govern you around you. Amen.</div><div><br /></div><div>May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <i>Archbishop</i></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;">18 December 2021</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-29324601222051486242021-12-19T00:53:00.001+00:002021-12-22T16:50:15.840+00:00A Message from Archbishop Viganò for Christmas 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO2j1u_ZcHzfEuVNMxzvo5mDfA5myNdI-I-nR6CX7aWKzy8KMwHR2HVt1oGh7dpgUic2a4BVnb481jwNtxvehd4SuZQkBh2SkwPj-FDzqhzyOozlM9Zk1SmSBDiqP42imtiio4BI4crV7aPwEHwbNMvUM932hOtmQlKI74EttH-qVdLPXdN-sUA77C=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO2j1u_ZcHzfEuVNMxzvo5mDfA5myNdI-I-nR6CX7aWKzy8KMwHR2HVt1oGh7dpgUic2a4BVnb481jwNtxvehd4SuZQkBh2SkwPj-FDzqhzyOozlM9Zk1SmSBDiqP42imtiio4BI4crV7aPwEHwbNMvUM932hOtmQlKI74EttH-qVdLPXdN-sUA77C=s16000" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><tr style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><td style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px none; width: 600px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_fusionResponsiveContent" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto; table-layout: fixed; width: 600px;"><tbody style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><tr style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><td style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 15px;"><br /><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-align: center;">NATIVITAS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-align: center;">SECUNDUM CARNEM</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">The twenty-fifth day of December.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />In the five thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty-seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham;<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty-second year from David’s being anointed king; in the sixty-fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the seven hundred and fifty-second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus;<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />the whole world being at peace, in the sixth age of the world,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />being made flesh.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Martyrologium Romanum, 25 Dec.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Like every year, in the cycle of seasons and of history, the Holy Church celebrates the Birth according to the flesh of Our Lord Jesus Christ, eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, conceived by the work of the Holy Spirit by the Virgin Mary. With the solemn words of the liturgy, the Birth of the Redeemer imposes itself on humanity by dividing time into a “before” and an “after.” <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nothing will be the same as before</em>: from that moment the Lord incarnates himself to carry out the work of Salvation and definitively snatches man, who fell in Adam, from the slavery of Satan. This, dear brothers and sisters, is <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">our</em> “Great Reset,” with which divine Providence restored the order broken by the ancient Serpent with the Original Sin of our First Parents; a Reset from which apostate angels and their leader Lucifer are excluded, but which has granted all men the grace to be able to benefit from the Sacrifice of God made man, and to regain the eternal life to which they were destined since the creation of Adam.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">What a wonderful gesture of Mercy, toward creatures rebellious from the beginning, on the part of their Creator. What divine Charity, which granted to disobedient man the ransom of his infinite guilt by accepting the offering of His divine Son on the Cross. What divine Humility, which responded to man’s pride with the obedience of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, incarnate “<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem</em>” – for us men and for our salvation. This is the true “New Order,” willed by God and destined to last for the eternity of the centuries, after the thousand battles of a war in which the eternal Defeated tries to prevent the glory of the divine Majesty from being shared by us, poor mortal creatures. This is the triumph of the One who is not satisfied with creating man with his perfections and granting him His friendship, but after man had betrayed Him by surrendering himself as a slave to the Devil, he decided to buy him back – <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">redemptio</em> is precisely the institution of Roman law by which the slave is redeemed and becomes free again – at the price of the Most Precious Blood of His Only Begotten Son. And it is also the triumph of the Mother of God, who in the Mystery of the Incarnation gave birth to the Redeemer, that Holy Child destined to suffer and die for us. It is She who in the Proto-Gospel was promised as the victor over the Serpent, in the eternal enmity between her lineage and the Enemy.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">For this the Chosen People were gathered; for this they were led to the Promised Land. For this the Holy Spirit inspired the Prophets by indicating the time and place of the Savior’s Birth. For this the Angels sang their<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Gloria</em> at the cave, and the Magi followed the Star to adore the Child wrapped in swaddling clothes like the son of a king. For this the Virgin sang her <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Magnificat</em> and the little Saint John the Baptist leapt in Saint Elizabeth’s womb. For this Simeon pronounced the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nunc dimittis</em> [“Now you may dismiss”] holding the promised Messiah in his arms.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Veni, Emmanuel: captivum solve Israël. </em>Come, Emmanuel: free your captive people. Free them also today, as you freed them with Your Most Holy Birth and with Your Passion and Death. Free Your Holy Church by revealing the false shepherds and mercenaries, as you revealed the envy of the High Priests and their silences regarding the Messianic Prophecies, which were hidden from the simple. Free the nations from evil rulers, from corruption, from the slavery of power and money, from enslavement to the Prince of this world, from the lie of false freedom, from the deception of false progress, from rebellion against Your holy Law. Free each one of us from our miseries, from sin, from pride, from the presumption of being able to save oneself without You. Free us from the disease that afflicts our soul, from the pestilence of the vices that infect our life, from the illusion of being able to defeat death, which is the just reward of our rebellion. Because You alone, O Lord, are the true Liberator; only in You who are Truth will we be free, will we see the chains that bind us to the world, to the flesh and to the Devil fall.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Veni, o Oriens.</em> Come, O Rising Sun: cast away the shadows and disperse the darkness of the night. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Veni</em>,<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Clavis Davidica</em>. Come, Key of David, open wide our celestial homeland; make the way to heaven secure and close the door to hell. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Veni</em>, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Adonai.</em> Come, O Powerful Lord, who gave the Law from above to Your people on Sinai, in the majesty of your glory. <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Veni</em>, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Rex gentium</em>. Come, King of the peoples, to reign over us, Prince of Peace, Angel of the Great Council. Come and descend into time and history, upset this infernal Tower of Babel that we have built by challenging You in Your Majesty.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Come, Lord. Because in these two years of pandemic madness, we have understood that Hell does not consist so much in the suffering of the body, but in the desperation of knowing You are far away, in Your silence, in letting ourselves sink into the deaf horror of Your absence.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">And blessed be your Most Holy Mother and our Mother, whom you have left at our side in these terrible days as our Advocate, because in the vision of this hell on earth we can find the spiritual medicine which enables us to welcome You into our souls, into our families, in our nations, returning to You that crown that we have usurped from You.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">Bless, O Child King, those who will allow themselves to be conquered by Your love, for which You did not hesitate to incarnate yourself and die for us. May this divine Love be received with grateful wonder by those who, dead in Adam, in You, the new Adam, have been reborn; by those who, having fallen with Eve, in Mary, the new Eve, will rise again.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">May it be so.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Archbishop</em></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sabbato Quattuor Temporum Adventus</em></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px;">December 18, 2021<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div><a href="https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2021/12/20/archbishop-viganos-christmas-message/" target="_blank">Source</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #201f1e; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-47672487343818336462021-12-05T19:27:00.000+00:002021-12-05T19:27:54.037+00:00Five Immaculate Conception Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh Area - 2021<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVY9E0zs6zxM_AyAEtXj88Hq07EclkEeAQLSsLQyh1snxb8bfmyC9bnqYyLqSf7l3sUVzYhK-zckT0ZXshQz3kRfrCr4y2i1Oc0i9ClDirQjn7Wucd6uLoH1DAtnxfhZb6Z8KBmnyKzVI/s449/0_L%2527Immacul%25C3%25A9e_Conception_-_P.P._Rubens_-_Prado_-_P1627_-_%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="309" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVY9E0zs6zxM_AyAEtXj88Hq07EclkEeAQLSsLQyh1snxb8bfmyC9bnqYyLqSf7l3sUVzYhK-zckT0ZXshQz3kRfrCr4y2i1Oc0i9ClDirQjn7Wucd6uLoH1DAtnxfhZb6Z8KBmnyKzVI/w440-h640/0_L%2527Immacul%25C3%25A9e_Conception_-_P.P._Rubens_-_Prado_-_P1627_-_%25282%2529.JPG" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rubens, <i>Immaculate Conception</i>,<br />1628-1629</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div>On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Wednesday, 8 December 2021, there will be five publicly offered Traditional Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Saint James Church (Society of Saint Pius X)</b></div><div>326 South Main Street, West End Village, Pittsburgh PA 15220 (<a href="https://fsspx.today/chapel/pa-pittsburgh/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><b>7:30 AM</b></div><div><b>7:00 PM</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Most Precious Blood of Jesus Parish (Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest)</b></div><div>3250 California Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15212 (<a href="https://www.institute-christ-king.org/pittsburgh-home" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><b>7:00 AM</b></div><div><b>12 Noon</b></div><div><b>7:00 PM</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Saint Titus Church (Order of Saint Benedict)</b></div><div>952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa PA 15001 (<a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><strike>7:30 PM</strike> <span style="color: red;"><b>Traditional Latin Mass forbidden by order of Bishop David A. Zubik</b>.</span></div></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-28391453771818751232021-07-31T18:54:00.002+01:002021-07-31T18:58:52.533+01:00ACTION ITEM! - 15 August 2021 – Worldwide Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by all TLM Communities<div><br /></div><div>As endorsed by <i><a href="https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/07/very-important-15-august-2021-world.html" target="_blank"><b>Rorate Caeli</b></a></i>, <b><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2021/07/action-item-15-august-2021-world-wide-consecration-to-the-immaculate-heart-by-all-tlm-communities/" target="_blank">Fr. Z</a></b>, and many other Catholic blogs and pages, you are urged to get your Traditional Latin Mass community to join this global effort. This is very important! We can only win this spiritual battle through prayer & sacrifice, and through the intercession of our Immaculate Mother.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>The Holy Catholic Church is in an unprecedented worldwide crisis. The only hope for the Faithful is a Divine intervention, through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><i>Two priests who wish to remain anonymous - one a Diocesan, the other a Religious, both of whom offer exclusively the Traditional Mass - propose a <b>worldwide consecration to the Immaculate Heart by all TLM communities on 15 August, 2021</b>, the feast of Our Lady’s Assumption. </i><i>They hope that many Cardinals and Bishops will also associate</i></div><div><i>themselves with this entrustment.</i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><i>May the Immaculate Heart of Mary triumph and reign!</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1gPxu6HnZoPewgE6I9afqxAHzOsiKCwc43A4Eotyet-WvOcYuuGFcDz6pElH-gl8qE53iXZ5FQX6M5z7jSyi0YbAMHHwgrwSvHMLdlqi1qOlOY6U74oBvCE_EcFXIvcdX3p7vUu8JmFc/s1024/WorldWideConsecrationAug2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="724" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1gPxu6HnZoPewgE6I9afqxAHzOsiKCwc43A4Eotyet-WvOcYuuGFcDz6pElH-gl8qE53iXZ5FQX6M5z7jSyi0YbAMHHwgrwSvHMLdlqi1qOlOY6U74oBvCE_EcFXIvcdX3p7vUu8JmFc/w452-h640/WorldWideConsecrationAug2021.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The consecration formula is available <b><u><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xydZq6tFURpkB1nULmHm45LoUXNulSaH/view" target="_blank">here</a></u></b>.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-45053506060894149872021-07-03T18:39:00.000+01:002021-07-03T18:39:44.483+01:002021 Traditional Ordinations<div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWama7EgIIFmL8BwEh3jGjW2ST6RRQ_RtJw3ovY_Thb22u5PuCTQJ9aTlhg0PoSpoRgQynr3Sak9LYIATBEOLpXCgjG2URhq_6nO59h_U86bpSVgQeEJRIHl4-bReJJyop-uTaQlu8Y3E/s640/FSSPordinations2021.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="640" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWama7EgIIFmL8BwEh3jGjW2ST6RRQ_RtJw3ovY_Thb22u5PuCTQJ9aTlhg0PoSpoRgQynr3Sak9LYIATBEOLpXCgjG2URhq_6nO59h_U86bpSVgQeEJRIHl4-bReJJyop-uTaQlu8Y3E/w640-h448/FSSPordinations2021.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 2021 FSSP Ordinations<br />Benedictine Basilica of Ottobeuren<br />(<a href="https://fsspwigratzbad.blogspot.com/2021/06/2021-ordinations-sacerdotales.html" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Based on published reports, the following Traditional Catholic orders have ordained <b>36</b> new priests in 2021.</div><div><br /></div><div>The breakdown is as follows:</div><div><br /></div><div>Society of Saint Pius X: <b>16</b> (Includes six ordained in December 2020)</div><div><br /></div><div>Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter: <b>10</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest: <b>8</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Institute of the Good Shepherd: <b>2</b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Hear our lowly prayers, Lord, we beseech Thee, and safeguard for ever Thy devoted servants: that no trouble may hinder them from carrying out Thy ministry with willing service. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen</span>.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-44988800930344644082021-06-30T15:50:00.001+01:002021-07-22T19:08:53.659+01:00Every Sunday Traditional Latin Mass Comes to the Beaver Valley of Western Pennsylvania<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXrsJ0XglkvS2ngPq3EWS5__APFZbDfYlHBw8l9f4U0VYSmQDhf_0QSh-aAHDUtWYqUR792bkoOvnVcgxn5mmMYceQn75Act6SgEJX991FT1Z_WdzFNwS6S2qAVGO2Z64OVdzWQ9Hyrc/s220/St_Titus%2527_RCC_in_Aliquippa.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="220" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXrsJ0XglkvS2ngPq3EWS5__APFZbDfYlHBw8l9f4U0VYSmQDhf_0QSh-aAHDUtWYqUR792bkoOvnVcgxn5mmMYceQn75Act6SgEJX991FT1Z_WdzFNwS6S2qAVGO2Z64OVdzWQ9Hyrc/w400-h265/St_Titus%2527_RCC_in_Aliquippa.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Titus Church<br />Aliquippa, Pennsylvania</td></tr></tbody></table>Beginning 4 July 2021, the Traditional Latin Mass will be offered every Sunday, First Friday, and Holy Day at St. Titus Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, northwest of Pittsburgh.<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the past fourteen years, since shortly after the promulgation of <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> in 2007, the Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council 2161 has sponsored the occasional celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass at St. Titus Church, beginning with a Mass every other month, and working up to twice monthly.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Traditional Latin Mass on 4 July 2021, will be offered at 12 noon, followed by a reception in the church hall. For more information visit the websites of the <a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council 2161 Traditional Latin Mass Guild</b></a> and the <a href="https://www.maryqueenofsaints.org/" target="_blank"><b>parish</b></a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;">UPDATE</span></u>: Effective 21 July 2021, all Traditional Latin Masses at St. Titus Church in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, are suspended until further notice by order of the Bishop of Pittsburgh, David A. Zubik, in response to the <i>motu proprio</i> issued by Pope Francis.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-36736285987261328652021-05-02T17:00:00.002+01:002021-05-13T17:49:22.535+01:00Six Ascension Thursday Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh Area<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWclPoltuk8tv1-Pelj93DX_W47cSYQ6AMTTAUN5v3c1mhT31mcZd18hcKD-mNmtxKfN8Ye1BXFh2gQPle9cgsb48VbjaoMa-MJSC2iVCmcp3xRbjAHi4dvF6FkTSJj0nciOsymhzouM/s600/Pietro_Perugino_cat48c.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="485" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWclPoltuk8tv1-Pelj93DX_W47cSYQ6AMTTAUN5v3c1mhT31mcZd18hcKD-mNmtxKfN8Ye1BXFh2gQPle9cgsb48VbjaoMa-MJSC2iVCmcp3xRbjAHi4dvF6FkTSJj0nciOsymhzouM/w518-h640/Pietro_Perugino_cat48c.jpg" width="518" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ascension of Our Lord<br />Pietro Perugino (1448–1523)<br />(<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Perugino_cat48c.jpg" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div><i><span style="font-size: small;">And he lead them out as far as Bethania: and lifting his hands, he blessed them. And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from them and was carried up to heaven. (Luke 24, 50, 51.)</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">+ + + + +</div><div><br /></div><div>On Ascension Thursday, 13 May 2021, there will be <b>six</b> publicly offered Traditional Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>Saint James Church (Society of Saint Pius X)</b></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">326 South Main Street, West End Village, Pittsburgh PA 15220 (<a href="https://fsspx.today/chapel/pa-pittsburgh/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>7:00 PM</b> High Mass</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>Most Precious Blood of Jesus Parish (Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest)</b></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">3250 California Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15212 (<a href="https://www.institute-christ-king.org/pittsburgh-home" style="color: #073763; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>7:00 AM</b> Low Mass</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>12 Noon</b> Low Mass</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>7:00 PM</b> High Mass</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>Saint Titus Church (Order of Saint Benedict)</b></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa PA 15001 (<a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/" style="color: #073763; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>7:00 PM</b> Low Mass</div></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b>Saint Blaise Church</b></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">772 Ohio Avenue, Midland PA 15059 (<a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/p/traditional-latin-mass-in-midland-pa.html" target="_blank">Website</a>)</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #f6f8fa;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>7:00 PM</b> High Mass</span></span></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-70494128693131321582021-03-29T10:00:00.006+01:002021-04-05T02:58:53.250+01:00Five Easter Sunday Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh Area<div style="text-align: left;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqKAeUzx84gfUCOyeJw7y1t5N8Gph1OXn8-9k68mMdhR2wanhTQViomhmLPjBxaRpI74CpTqgJG0av99nvjZfej6Ru10Ir1B6cACJFiYHeNtN-A9pyEskJuDDZobzia_t113c8F6hk94/s548/450px-Rafael_-_ressureicaocristo01.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqKAeUzx84gfUCOyeJw7y1t5N8Gph1OXn8-9k68mMdhR2wanhTQViomhmLPjBxaRpI74CpTqgJG0av99nvjZfej6Ru10Ir1B6cACJFiYHeNtN-A9pyEskJuDDZobzia_t113c8F6hk94/w526-h640/450px-Rafael_-_ressureicaocristo01.jpg" width="526" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Resurrection of Christ<br />Raphael 1499-1502<br />(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Christ_(Raphael)" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">The first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and coming rolled back the stone. And the angel answering said to the women: Fear not you; for I know you seek, Jesus who was crucified. He is not here. For he is risen. (Matthew 28, 1, 2, 5, 6.)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">+ + + + +</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021, there will be <b>five</b> publicly offered Traditional Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Saint James Church (Society of Saint Pius X)</b></div><div>326 South Main Street, West End Village, Pittsburgh PA 15220 (<a href="https://sspx.org/en/st-james-church-pittsburgh" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><b>9:30 AM</b> High Mass</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Most Precious Blood of Jesus Parish (Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest)</b></div><div>3250 California Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15212 (<a href="https://www.institute-christ-king.org/pittsburgh-home" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><b>7:30 AM</b> Low Mass</div><div><b>9:30 AM</b> Low Mass</div><div><b>11:30 AM</b> High Mass</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Saint Titus Church (Order of Saint Benedict)</b></div><div>952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa PA 15001 (<a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><b>12 noon</b> Low Mass</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-80646521747046924992021-03-14T20:07:00.004+00:002021-05-11T18:14:16.783+01:00<p> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<h1 class="western">Whatever Happened to Sin? A hidden heresy?</h1><p class="western"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nicolas Bellord</span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A debate
on sin arose in the October edition of the <i>Catholic Herald;</i>
Melanie McDonagh interviewed John Finnis describing him as a
celebrated exponent of natural law. She reports that he has recently
written “<i>A Radical Critique of Catholic Social Teaching</i>”
about which she wrote “<i>the gist of that much of what we
understand by Catholic Social Teaching is tendentious, and bishops
would do better to focus on teaching fundamental Catholic moral
principles instead, leaving their application to laypeople who know
what they're talking about … He is especially critical of bishops'
conferences that issue lengthy guidelines on, for instance, migration
or global warming, which are matters of legitimate debate”</i>.</span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
following month Professor Philip Allot responded in a letter in
response to the approach of Finnis: “<i>We should speak out if we
see evil in rampant capitalism, in perversions of humanising liberal
democracy, and in the rise of of new forms of dehumanising
absolutism, or in the human use of the natural world. These are
moral judgements, not political opinions.</i>”</span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later in
the same issue Thomas Storck laments that “<i>There is a certain
group of Catholics … who reject the entire notion of Catholic
social teaching … To limit the Church's teaching to matters of
private morality is to acquiesce in the effort to privatise religion
and drive the Church from the public square.”</i></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Now
all three are considerable people. Wikipedia tells us that among
other achievements John Finnis </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">was
Professor of Law & Legal Philosophy at Oxford </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">from
1989 to 2010, where he is now professor emeritus. His most important
work is </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Natural
Law and Natural Rights </span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
study of which I found very enlightening. Unfortunately much of his
other work, as Melanie McDonagh mentions, is in books which are
beyond the purse of most people.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
knew Philip Allott at school but was unaware of his subsequent career
until now when I have read about him on the internet. His roles,
publications and achievements are so numerous that it would be
foolish of me to sum them up in a few words. Something of his
distinguished career can be gleaned from his speech at his 80th
Birthday Dinner at Trinity College Cambridge. 8 June 2017
“REMEMBERING EIGHTY YEARS OF THINGS PAST”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Allott
was for many years in the Foreign Office subsequently returning to
Cambridge as Professor (now Emeritus) of International Law. “</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman PSMT, serif;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
have spent much of the rest of my life trying to help International
Law to become a more sensible system.</span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman PSMT, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”
</span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Evidently
he has been someone who wanted to change the world and was in a
position to do so although he is very modest about whether he
succeeded in any way.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Thomas
Storck has a website</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
“</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">that
is dedicated to Catholic Social Teaching in its full breadth and
depth.</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”
As a keen reader of the Chesterton Review I have read his
contributions and his book “</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">An
Economics of Justice & Charity</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”
is one I have noted as something I must read one day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now
it is fundamental to Catholicism that we not only have to have faith
but we also have to perform good works if we are to get to heaven.
This is where we differ from those Protestants who believe that one
can be justified by faith alone. Good works can extend from
making someone a cup of tea to promoting or implementing some grand
political programme for the relief of poverty in a third-world
country.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Expanding
Thomas Storck's first sentence in full he wrote: “<i>There is a
certain group of Catholics, doubtless more often found in the US than
in the UK, who reject he entire notion of Catholic social teaching</i>”.
I have no idea about the situation in the US but I have never come
across such a group in the UK. Professor Finnis is not rejecting a
Catholic response to social problems nor is he complacent about the
ills described by Philip Allott e.g. rampant capitalism etc. What he
is saying is that the solution to these problems are a matter of
prudence and there will be honest differences of opinion as to how to
solve them; Bishops should be wary of saying that there is one
'Catholic' solution to such problems.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However
I as a Catholic layman, and I suspect I am not alone, are fed to the
back teeth of being lectured by priests and particularly religious
about structural sin and how wrong it is for many people to be poor
and some rich. The reason for being fed up is that there is very
little the ordinary Catholic can do about these problems except to
feel guilty about some situation in which we had no detectable hand
in creating. Yes I can contribute to some charity which alleviates
poverty and I suspect they want me to vote for some political party
on the left. But what else can I do? Not much other than being made
to feel guilty. Obviously there are people who can do more: Thomas
Storck can write books suggesting what can be done; Philip Allott
has roamed the corridors of power and has been in a position to make
some changes. But they are exceptional people.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="en-RSVCE-28654"></a><a name="en-RSVCE-28655"></a><a name="en-RSVCE-28656"></a><a name="en-RSVCE-28657"></a>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
does the average layman do? Well he can follow the teachings of the
Church: the “</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">fundamental
Catholic moral principles</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”
of which Professor Finnis writes. But when do we ever hear a sermon
on such matters? What has happened to these fundamental Catholic
moral principles? Thomas Storck writes “</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">To
limit the Church's teaching to matters of private morality is to
acquiesce in the effort to privatise</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">religion
and drive the Church from the public square</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.”
I would query the logic of that statement but the truth of the
matter is that the clergy does no such thing. They simply no longer
teach “matters of private morality” but frequently limit
themselves to teaching what it perceives to be solutions to social
problems. Of course not all sermons are about social problems but
those that are not are often trite and innocuous. For example only
recently I watched a mass where the first reading was from Genesis
and the gospel was Mark 7:14-23 which finishes with the words: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span face="system-ui, apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Noto Sans, sans-serif, Arial"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
he said, “What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from
within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication,
theft, murder, adultery,coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness,
envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from
within, and they defile a man.”</span></i></span></span></span><i>
</i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The sermon was
just some remarks on the reading from Genesis. The list of sins in
the Gospel was a bit too much for the celebrant.</span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
idea that some social problems arise from a failure to follow
fundamental moral teachings seems to escape the clergy. When I watch
the TV and some example is produced of child poverty it is almost
always the case that a single mother is the example. Obviously it is
desirable to provide her with economic assistance but where is the
father of the children? Why are there so many single mothers? Is it
not the case that the Churches have utterly failed to teach about
marriage and the 'private morality' involved and have allowed the
traditional family to be undermined? Why is proselytism or any
missionary effort in the third world now decried? Has this not had
some effect on the proliferation of corrupt regimes which keep the
third world in poverty?</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And
it is not just the failure to teach fundamental morality by our
pastors but also the undermining of morality by our pastors on such
matters as contraception, homosexual acts, same-sex marriage and sex
education programmes for the young. Do I need to give examples of
such failures by our pastors? The list is endless. I wonder how
many priests giving a homily on the second Sunday in Ordinary Time
based on the readings mentioned the second reading which condemned
fornication? </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
used to think that one of the causes of all this was the dilemma
faced by members of the clergy who lose their faith. To declare such
a loss publicly is very difficult; not many are going to be able to
find a remunerative alternative career. Better to keep quiet. You
may no longer believe in the truths of the faith but you can see that
the Church does some useful social work – so why not concentrate on
that and ignore the rest? Keep in with your contracepting
parishioners and do not frighten them.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
loss of faith has been further demonstrated in the liturgy. Why not
waffle about how merciful God is rather than reciting the Confiteor?
“We believe ...” which means the simple people around me may do
so but I am above that sort of thing; fortunately now corrected to “I
believe...” “Look not upon my sins …” say the celebrant has
become “Look not upon our sins ...”. The beatitudes are about
happiness rather than being blessed. “And with you” has
fortunately being changed back to “And with your spirit”. “What
does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss
of his own life” becomes meaningless if you have translated “anima”
and “psyche” as “life” rather than “soul”. The previous
frequent use of the word 'soul' in Masses of the Dead has virtually
disappeared in the new rite. Completely in the German Mass of the
Dead. It is a whole series of things that spring to my attention and
cause me concern. Let us call them 'poisoned signs'.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But
is it too simple that one can attribute all this, as I have done, to
priests who have lost the faith? Recently I read Elio Guerriero's
“Benedict XVI His Life and Thought” (Ignatius Press 2018). A
curious feature of this book is that it describes what the author
sees as the thinking of Benedict but never has any substantial quote
from Benedict's enormous oeuvre. However I was astonished to read
the following paragraph on page 230:</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'In
the preface to the first edition of his volume dedicated to
eschatology, Ratzinger recalled that twenty years had passed since
1957, when at the age of thirty he had given the course on
eschatology for the first time. Since then he had not only addressed
over and over again the topics that emerged from it, but had made a
true retractatio, an abrupt reversal with respect to the question of
the soul. In his early years of teaching, indeed, he had adopted the
program of so-called de-Platonized eschatology that entirely denied
the idea of the soul, which was considered to be of Platonic origin
and foreign to the world of the Bible. Later on, however, he had
changed his mind, rediscovering “the inner logic of the Church's
tradition”.'</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So
for some period of up to 20 years Ratzinger had been teaching that there was
no such thing as the soul – a period that included Vatican II on
which he had substantial influence. Now I have never formally
studied theology but I learnt the Penny Catechism<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc"><sup>2</sup></a>
at my mother's knee and the first chapter of eight questions is all
about the soul. And I learnt them by heart and can still recite them
nearly 80 years later:</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>1.
<b>Who made you? </b>God made me.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>2.
<b> Why did God make you? </b>God made me to know Him, love Him and
serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>3.
<b>To whose image and likeness did God make you? </b>God made me to
his own image and likeness.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>4.
<b>Is this likeness to God in your body, or in your soul? </b>This
likeness to God is chiefly in my soul.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>5.
<b>How is your soul like to God? </b>My soul is like to God because
it is a spirit, and is immortal.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>6.
<b>What do you mean when you say that your soul is immortal? </b>When
I say that my soul is immortal, I mean that my soul can never die.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>7.
<b>Of which must you take most care, of your body or of your soul? </b>I
must take most care of my soul; for Christ has said, “What doth it
profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his
own soul?” (Matt, 16:26).</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>8.
<b>What must you do to save your soul? </b>To save my soul I must
worship God by Faith, Hope, and Charity; that is I must believe in
Him, I must hope in Him, and I must love Him with my whole heart.</i></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those
eight questions and answers are for me, the fundamental starting
point for the religious life. But it now seems, according to a
German school of theology, to which Pope Benedict adhered at one
time, they are just so much nonsense in that there is no such thing
as the soul. I was duly astonished. Indeed I was so incredulous
that I bought Joseph Ratzinger's book: “Eschatology <i>Death and
Eternal Life”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote3sym" name="sdfootnote3anc"><sup>3</sup></a></i>.
It is not an easy read for those like myself unversed in reading
theology. It is an examination of the errors of many theologians; an
examination which leads to a reassertion of the traditional teaching
of the Church that we have a spiritual soul; that when we die we may
go straight to Hell or Heaven but more likely we will go through a
purifying process in Purgatory and on the last day we will be
reunited with our bodies in a glorified form.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reading
Ratzinger's book there are constant echoes of the 'poisoned signs'
which have caused me so much concern and cause so much confusion
generally. Are we not dealing with a heresy? Contrariwise these
German theologians in rejecting the orthodox teaching believed that
'<i>The history of eschatology is nothing less than the history of an
apostasy'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote4sym" name="sdfootnote4anc"><sup>4</sup></a>
</i> Ratzinger wrote in 1977 that his support of the traditional view
of Eschatology which deals with the four last things “<i>runs
contrary to the contrary prevailing opinion</i>”.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote5sym" name="sdfootnote5anc"><sup>5</sup></a>
The Bible is not conclusive on eschatology – the orthodox view is
based on tradition. Luther's rejection of tradition therefore
rejects the orthodox view. Marxism offers an alternative – the
possibility of a utopia in this world. The orthodox view reduced
Christianity '<i>to the level of individual persons</i>' ...rather
than '<i>the confident, corporate hope for the imminent salvation of
all the world</i>'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote6sym" name="sdfootnote6anc"><sup>6</sup></a>
Does this not reflect the words of Thomas Storck above?</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
'<i>contrary prevailing opinion</i>' which sees salvation as just
some future utopia on earth '<i>blazed up soon enough. It became
Political Theology, the Theology of Revolution, Liberation Theology,
Black Theology</i>'.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote7sym" name="sdfootnote7anc"><sup>7</sup></a>
Ratzinger's response is to say '<i>The Kingdom of God, not being
itself a political concept, cannot serve as a political criterion by
which to construct in direct fashion a program of political action
and to to criticize the political efforts of other people'</i>.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote8sym" name="sdfootnote8anc"><sup>8</sup></a>
Our Bishops could well take note of that before pontificating upon
what they regard as the 'common good'. At the beginning of the
Covid-19 pandemic the Government were not minded to close the
churches. However the Conference of Bishops for England & Wales,
using a pro-LGBT and pro abortion activist, persuaded the Government
to close the churches citing the 'common good' and ignoring the
spiritual life of the soul. An act of almost unforgivable
wickedness.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ratzinger
goes on to say '<i>The Kingdom of God is not a </i><i><u>political</u></i><i>
norm of political activity, but is a </i><i><u>moral</u></i><i> norm
of that activity</i>.'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote9sym" name="sdfootnote9anc"><sup>9</sup></a>
Thus political activity must be governed by morality rather than
being derived from eschatology. We have seen plenty of examples of
political activity where morality is ignored from the time of the
Enlightenment onwards. Liberation Theology is just one example where
it has been used to justify violence as a means to create a supposed
Kingdom of God on earth. Ratzinger insists that political activity
must be sundered from eschatology less it become a '<i>Gulag
Archipelago</i>'.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote10sym" name="sdfootnote10anc"><sup>10</sup></a>
Utopia – the non-place – the fantasy that takes no account of
man's fallen nature which makes it impossible.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
Ratzinger moves on to the Theology of Death, he notes how
contemporary society hides death away. Death becomes a technological
issue to be handled by the appropriate institution rather than in a
human situation such as the family home. Death is pushed away and
trivialised. It is a banal event which does not happen to <i>me </i>but
is merely a technological event carried out by technicians (e.g. as
in abortion and euthanasia) and there are no metaphysical problems.
He asserts that '<i>For Christian faith there is no such thing as a
life not worth living</i>'.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote11sym" name="sdfootnote11anc"><sup>11</sup></a>
And yet in cases such as that of Alfie Evans some of our Bishops
have preferred to support the National Health Service as if it was an
almost sacred institution rather than plead for the life of a child.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Denying
the existence of the soul has led to a host of different theories.
Ratzinger sets about showing how many of them basically just do not
add up and are illogical.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But
on the question of whether 'salvation' is merely the implementation
of God's Kingdom on earth at some distant date Ratzinger comments:
“</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
biblical representation of the End rejects the expectation of a
definitive state of salvation within history.</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote12sym" name="sdfootnote12anc"><sup>12</sup></a>
Further “</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
planned salvation would be the salvation proper to a concentration
camp and so the end of humanity</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote13sym" name="sdfootnote13anc"><sup>13</sup></a>
- one thinks of present day China and its attempt to create a Utopia
about which </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202020;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Msgr.
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of
Sciences,</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
has said </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202020;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202020;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Right
now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the
Church are the Chinese</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #202020;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote14sym" name="sdfootnote14anc"><sup>14</sup></a>
But for Ratzinger what is important is '</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">that
faith in Christ's return is also the certitude that the world will,
indeed come to its perfection, not through rational planning but
through that indestructible love which triumphed in the risen
Christ.</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote15sym" name="sdfootnote15anc"><sup>15</sup></a>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ratzinger's
book was published in 1977 and shortly afterwards the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 17<sup>th</sup> May 1979, published
a 'Letter on Certain Questions on Eschatology' which is basically in
accord with Ratzinger's views. He therefore added an Appendix I to
the second edition of his book on Eschatology entitled '<i>Between
Death and Resurrection: Some Supplementary Reflections' commenting on
the Congregation's Letter</i>.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote16sym" name="sdfootnote16anc"><sup>16</sup></a>
If one does not have the time to read the whole book this Appendix
is a very useful summary of his views.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
position which Ratzinger opposed in his book is the denial of the
existence of something called the soul – a denial principally by
German theologians. For them the concept of a soul is merely an idea
imported from Platonism; it reflects the deplorable dualism found in
Descartes etc etc. The alternatives to having a soul have been
worked out in various forms such as the immediate resurrection of the
body on death, a complete denial of resurrection at all etc etc all
of which he shows to have no basis in scripture and is logically
implausible. But perhaps the most important idea behind the denial
of the soul is that of the Kingdom of God being something that will
be created on earth at some future date as a result of political
action and planning enacted by human beings.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
the Appendix Ratzinger points out that such views deny the last
sentences of the Creed viz: '</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
believe<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote17sym" name="sdfootnote17anc"><sup>17</sup></a>
in … the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to
come'</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
That denial effectively denies the whole of the Creed he says.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote18sym" name="sdfootnote18anc"><sup>18</sup></a>
He quotes the very strong statement in the CDF's Letter: '</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
importance of this final article of the baptismal Creed is obvious:
it expresses the goal and purpose of God's plan, the unfolding of
which is described in the Creed. If there is no resurrection, the
whole structure of faith collapses, as Saint Paul states so
forcefully (cf. 1 Cor 15). If the content of the words "life
everlasting" is uncertain for Christians, the promises contained
in the Gospel and the meaning of creation and Redemption disappear,
and even earthly life itself must be said to be deprived of all hope
(cf. Heb 11:1).</span></i></span></span></span><i> '<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote19sym" name="sdfootnote19anc"><sup>19</sup></a></i></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Letter
draws attention to the dangers of these idle speculations: '</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">But
one cannot ignore the unease and disquiet troubling many with regard
to this question. It is obvious that doubt is gradually insinuating
itself deeply into people's minds. Even though, generally speaking,
the Christian is fortunately not yet at the point of positive doubt,
he often refrains from thinking about his destiny after death,
because he is beginning to encounter questions in his mind to which
he is afraid of having to reply, questions such as: Is there really
anything after death? Does anything remain of us after we die? Is it
nothingness that is before us?</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'
Perhaps Hans Kung sees immortality merely in the statue he has of
himself in his garden.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote20sym" name="sdfootnote20anc"><sup>20</sup></a>Unfortunately
matters have moved on since 1979 and the confusion amongst the
faithful is even greater particularly as it is very rare that any
priests preach on the four last things. </span></span></span></span></span>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ratzinger
talks of the irresponsibility of certain theologians: '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because
the “fundamental truths of faith” belong to all believers, and
are, as a matter of fact, the concrete content of the Church's unity,
the fundamental language of faith cannot be regarded as something for
experts to work out. And for the same reason, that</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">language
which is the bearer of unity cannot be manipulated at will.</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote21sym" name="sdfootnote21anc"><sup>21</sup></a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Just
how widespread are the erroneous ideas that Ratzinger attacks? '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
crisis became manifest after the Second Vatican Council … The
impression arose that Christianity in all its aspects was to be
sketched out anew</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote22sym" name="sdfootnote22anc"><sup>22</sup></a>
He even goes so far as to use the word '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">necrophilia</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote23sym" name="sdfootnote23anc"><sup>23</sup></a>
In Appendix II '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Afterword
to the English edition</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'
he recounts that in 1977 '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
took up a position which was sharply opposed to the post-conciliar
consensus of a seeming majority of Catholic theologians</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">'.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thus
we have a set of views which deviates from the fundamental truths of
the faith and is widespread amongst Catholic theologians. We have a
major heresy that has seeped its way into the Church. Ratzinger
quotes G.Nachtwei, a theologian sympathetic to his views: '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
calls attention to the fact that the most “up-to-date”
eschatological theses were in many cases turned straight into
preaching and catechesis, without any intervening interval to allow a
suitable pause for reflection.”<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote24sym" name="sdfootnote24anc"><sup>24</sup></a></span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
It is a heresy which is seemingly widespread in the clergy and has
been fed to the laity, lacks coherence and comes in many forms. Like
many ideologies people just get part of the heresy rather than the
full picture. Ratzinger complains of '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
lack of philosophical seriousness' 'simplemindedness' 'absence of
awareness'</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and a '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">noticeable
paucity of reflection</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.'<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote25sym" name="sdfootnote25anc"><sup>25</sup></a></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For
me the prevalence of this heresy explains the 'poisoned signs' which
I have mentioned above. Perhaps only a few explicitly deny the
existence of the soul but there is a tendency to emphasise the
importance of the material world at the expense of the spiritual. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So
how has this affected sin? If all I can look forward is some future
worldly utopia then in listening to the news it does not sound very
likely to happen in my lifetime. If I am dead and no more, then what
sort of hope is that? We are constantly told that God loves us. The
incorrect translation of the Beatitudes insist that we are 'Happy'
when we patently are not. There is a pretence world “Happy are
those who mourn” etc. How do we deal with suffering if we have no
soul and there is no afterlife? Why should I bother about some
future utopia in which I will not share? Why should I avoid sin if I
have no soul to lose? What does it profit a man to gain the whole
world? Well quite a lot it seems if I have no soul to lose. We do
not need to worry about our sins as God is merciful and one day there
will be a utopia for all: Universalism. Indeed we need to follow the
spirit of the age as the German Bishops are proposing in abandoning
the teachings of the Church on sexual morality. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So
sin has lost its importance in the eyes of many. God will forgive
you whatever. The sacrament of Confession is largely ignored and
indeed is often not available. Any talk of sin is ridiculed as being
just Catholic guilt which we should have grown up out of. The
problem that arises when the clergy no longer teaches about sin is
that many still sense that some things are wrong. If the Church does
not deal with this and we become an increasingly atheistic culture
we turn to legislation to deal with matters for which the Church
previously catered. Thus we have the idea that legislation can make
people good. Hate crime is invented and legislated against. We have
political correctness and then the woke culture. We must not say
certain things. Talking about coloured people instead of people of
colour can lead to the end of a person's career. We are moving
towards a new morality enforced by legislation reminiscent of the
worst excesses of Puritanism; free speech is no longer acceptable if
what we say is deemed hateful in anybody's view. There is certainly
no forgiveness.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote26sym" name="sdfootnote26anc"><sup>26</sup></a>
A chance remark made decades ago will be brought up and condemned
regardless of context or any change in the person's views
subsequently. A job or a career will be terminated. This is the
path to the Gulag that Ratzinger feared.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
concentration camp survivor and future Bishop, Johannes Neuhausler,
wrote in 1946 wrote about the Nazis' attack on Catholicism: <i>'Attack
on the papacy, attack on the bishops, attack on all the clergy,
attack on religious instruction, attack on prayers and the crucifix
in schools, attack on all Catholic groups, constraints on church
services, constraints on Catholic religious orders, tendentious
portrayals and misrepresentations; diatribes against Christianity,
goodbye to the Old God … rage against “worthless lives”'.<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote27sym" name="sdfootnote27anc"><sup>27</sup></a>
</i>Does that at least not ring a bell?; the removal of crucifixes
in Catholic hospitals, religious orders deemed unfit to teach the
young, adoption societies closed down because they would not accept
'same-sex' parenting, the closing of churches, failures and
compromises in religious instruction particularly as regards sexual
morality, lukewarm response to attacks on human life?</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
big difference is that much of this is self-inflicted rather than, so
far at least, the result of the imposition of a pagan ideology.
However due to the negligence in teaching the fundamental Catholic
moral principles and observing them this is beginning to happen and
we may well find matters getting worse under a pagan ideology. We
need to fight against this and as Cardinal Sarah has said we need to
find God once again.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym">1</a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.law.cam.ac.uk/files/images/www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/legacy/Media/Eminent%20Scholars%20Documents/pj_allott_remembering_80_years.pdf">https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.law.cam.ac.uk/files/images/www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/legacy/Media/Eminent%20Scholars%20Documents/pj_allott_remembering_80_years.pdf</a></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote2">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote2anc" name="sdfootnote2sym">2</a>Known
as the Baltimore Catechism in the USA.</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote3">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote3anc" name="sdfootnote3sym">3</a>2<sup>nd</sup>
edition The Catholic University of America Press Washington D.C.</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote4">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote4anc" name="sdfootnote4sym">4</a>“Eschatology
<i>Death and Eternal Life” p.5</i></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote5">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote5anc" name="sdfootnote5sym">5</a>Ibid
Forward p.xxv.</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote6">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote6anc" name="sdfootnote6sym">6</a>Ibid
p.5</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote7">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote7anc" name="sdfootnote7sym">7</a>Ibid
p.58</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote8">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote8anc" name="sdfootnote8sym">8</a>Ibid
p.58 </p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote9">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote9anc" name="sdfootnote9sym">9</a>Ibid
p.59</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote10">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote10anc" name="sdfootnote10sym">10</a>Ibid
p.60 </p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote11">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote11anc" name="sdfootnote11sym">11</a>Ibid
p.101 </p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote12">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote12anc" name="sdfootnote12sym">12</a>Ibid
p.213</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote13">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote13anc" name="sdfootnote13sym">13</a>Ibid
p.213</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote14">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote14anc" name="sdfootnote14sym">14</a>http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Msgr.-Sanchez-Sorondo:-China,-the-best-implementer-of-the-social-doctrine-of-the-Church-43033.html</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote15">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote15anc" name="sdfootnote15sym">15</a>“Eschatology
<i>Death and Eternal Life” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">p.213</span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote16">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote16anc" name="sdfootnote16sym">16</a>Ibid
p.241.</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote17">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote17anc" name="sdfootnote17sym">17</a>Again
translated as '<i>We believe' </i><span style="font-style: normal;">prior
to 2012.</span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote18">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote18anc" name="sdfootnote18sym">18</a>Ibid
p.243</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote19">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote19anc" name="sdfootnote19sym">19</a>This
is taken from the official Vatican translation of the Letter into
English rather than the translation in Ratzinger's book' which is
undoubtedly a translation from the German translation. See:
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19790517_escatologia_en.html</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote20">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote20anc" name="sdfootnote20sym">20</a>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/05/catholic-revolution-nazi-dictatorship-pope</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote21">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote21anc" name="sdfootnote21sym">21</a>“Eschatology
<i>Death and Eternal Life” </i><span style="font-style: normal;">p.244</span></p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote22">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote22anc" name="sdfootnote22sym">22</a>Ibid
p.248</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote23">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote23anc" name="sdfootnote23sym">23</a>Ibid
p.249</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote24">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote24anc" name="sdfootnote24sym">24</a>Ibid
p.268</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote25">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote25anc" name="sdfootnote25sym">25</a>Ibid
p.263.</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote26">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote26anc" name="sdfootnote26sym">26</a>This
pitiless absence of forgiveness is something Douglas Murray has
drawn attention to in his book “The Madness of Crowds” and
elsewhere see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RrYz85E1A</p>
</div>
<div id="sdfootnote27">
<p class="sdfootnote-western"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote27anc" name="sdfootnote27sym">27</a>Quoted
in Peter Seewald's “Benedict XVI A Life” Volume 1 p.154.</p>
</div>Nicolas Bellordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-16507358405689723902021-02-27T14:00:00.005+00:002021-03-01T13:59:30.467+00:00The Traditional Latin Mass Comes to the Midlands of South Carolina<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQCPfzDsZMrBgaF-o-aQzrK5KgLPmBO1GIxj_HWycuMS9Zp5g2wRx8PrlnpedqocXKUF7SH98-Y8Py0ykGK1UZxpoQJpp18Xwl9qwyFdBZgS-kD6yKgmVM2rpigRlttgIJzwHQ8XEktY/s1500/OLLchurchChapinSC.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQCPfzDsZMrBgaF-o-aQzrK5KgLPmBO1GIxj_HWycuMS9Zp5g2wRx8PrlnpedqocXKUF7SH98-Y8Py0ykGK1UZxpoQJpp18Xwl9qwyFdBZgS-kD6yKgmVM2rpigRlttgIJzwHQ8XEktY/w400-h266/OLLchurchChapinSC.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church<br />Chapin, South Carolina<br />(<a href="https://www.ls3p.com/portfolio/our-lady-of-the-lake-catholic-church/" target="_blank">Source</a> and additional photos of the church.)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Beginning 28 February 2021, the Traditional Latin Mass will be offered on Sundays at 1:00 PM at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Chapin, South Carolina, northwest of Columbia.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>This is the culmination of many years of prayer, work & perseverance by the local faithful.</div><div><br /></div><div>For more information visit the websites of <a href="https://www.ctlms.org/" target="_blank"><b>Columbia Traditional Latin Mass Supporters</b></a> and <a href="https://www.ollchapin.org/" target="_blank"><b>Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church</b></a>.</div><div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-15170012172054236382021-02-13T19:00:00.002+00:002021-02-13T19:07:07.167+00:00Announcing the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2chHoGQfo73VymDUSjhuwOrWrmbk07bEfqdUyQ3RSiVFa7ckIL9HZr22cdEuVTqnurjmRstCeXUe4LUDmQxj15zOF7xc-2YtPUK5A9JZfaL_SkQqIcUZu4q-xAGsvabUiAx36A2FB5c/s638/fatima+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="490" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2chHoGQfo73VymDUSjhuwOrWrmbk07bEfqdUyQ3RSiVFa7ckIL9HZr22cdEuVTqnurjmRstCeXUe4LUDmQxj15zOF7xc-2YtPUK5A9JZfaL_SkQqIcUZu4q-xAGsvabUiAx36A2FB5c/w308-h400/fatima+%25281%2529.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">About the Confraternity</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>The <a href="https://www.livefatima.io/" target="_blank"><b>Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima</b></a> is a world-wide family of Catholics who are dedicated to bringing about the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as soon as possible and are dedicated to spending the rest of their lives living out the call of Our Lady of Fatima and in doing penance for poor sinners and reparation to Her Immaculate Heart.</div><div><br /></div><div>It was started in 2020 by Christopher P. Wendt, the International Director and Dr. Michael Sirilla, Professor of Dogmatic and Systematic Theology at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, USA, and became approved by His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider on July 26, 2020.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is growing like wildfire all over the world and is an answer to the times that we are currently living in where Russia’s errors are spreading.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Endorsement of Bishop Schneider</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglmOBkxcXeO3C52NeZZDDW75aU-e8Grl2-_AiaSgFaulAtf_BXHSaeSAQL_kevtp5jJYPJtS1cx_KFvXxP0dHolTlC88cc7GS6SzqIukdfJWwhRBxseqEiQ3gKvDFS48SySoAcDuCBCLw/s400/BpSchneider.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="266" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglmOBkxcXeO3C52NeZZDDW75aU-e8Grl2-_AiaSgFaulAtf_BXHSaeSAQL_kevtp5jJYPJtS1cx_KFvXxP0dHolTlC88cc7GS6SzqIukdfJWwhRBxseqEiQ3gKvDFS48SySoAcDuCBCLw/s320/BpSchneider.jpg" /></a></div>I encourage Catholic faithful to join the <b><a href="https://www.livefatima.io/" target="_blank">Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima</a></b> and become a practicing member. The Confraternity is a worldwide family united with one purpose – the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as she promised it in her apparitions in Fatima. Members work each day to bring this about by living out the call of Our Lady of Fatima, consecrated to Her as families, and then praying that the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart in the manner that She asked for. In the dark times that we live in, the goals of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima and their practical realization will be a necessary and helpful spiritual means in the warfare against the works of Satan and the powers of this world and in the supplication for the conversion of Russia, so that a time of peace and the grace-filled era of the Triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart may arrive. This will be the time of a true springtime of the Church, where grace will be more abundant, more souls will be saved and God more glorified in the Royal and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.</div></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How to Become A Member</span></b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Confession once per month</li><li>Daily Rosary (5 decades)</li><li>One daily act of simple penance</li><li>Wear the Brown Scapular</li><li>Pray the Prayer for the Holy Father to Consecrate Russia each day</li></ul></div></div><div><b><a href="https://www.livefatima.io/become-a-member/" target="_blank">Join Now</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Prayer for the Holy Father to Consecrate Russia</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother.</div><div>Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living</div><div>because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church.</div><div>In Fatima, you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia.</div><div>You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope:</div><div>that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart,</div><div>so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph,</div><div>through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith,</div><div>of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life.</div><div>O Queen of the Holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer.</div><div>Amen.</div><div><br /></div><div>+ Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oXi_fIe2f9HKcFqxqKDvWNimLM2ral4wJonlbIVhIgz6jVFmzDYFvdNKYMDzXkuNcRWDcXaTPKP8S-MlxD-MPgB9qmy8ZcqSyi1nt94GnUJWP3CMT7C44_gUa6jehvWhoh_JkxCsV4k/s500/confraternity_of_ol_fatima_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oXi_fIe2f9HKcFqxqKDvWNimLM2ral4wJonlbIVhIgz6jVFmzDYFvdNKYMDzXkuNcRWDcXaTPKP8S-MlxD-MPgB9qmy8ZcqSyi1nt94GnUJWP3CMT7C44_gUa6jehvWhoh_JkxCsV4k/w200-h200/confraternity_of_ol_fatima_logo.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Learn more about the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima at their <b><a href="https://www.livefatima.io/" target="_blank">website</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-38125123941938727792020-12-24T21:00:00.002+00:002021-03-27T17:56:14.050+00:00Three Christmas Midnight Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh Area<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNCIDtoJr4l9TqeBwbqsTQFieItVvCVG7SLZZWbEoSKv6PaXCrDiT5FdpFXXwtu8skanubWkvOO3kPtDePu8LpQWO-VhOXwZ79eLrR7zz6vJcsbBl5MglKI-CzpAI8HMQkjPc1Uw56aE/s1248/H0027-L19519529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1248" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNCIDtoJr4l9TqeBwbqsTQFieItVvCVG7SLZZWbEoSKv6PaXCrDiT5FdpFXXwtu8skanubWkvOO3kPtDePu8LpQWO-VhOXwZ79eLrR7zz6vJcsbBl5MglKI-CzpAI8HMQkjPc1Uw56aE/w384-h640/H0027-L19519529.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><div style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE Lord hath said to me: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee. </span></b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Introit.</span></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>First Mass at Midnight.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At Midnight on Christmas Eve 2020, there will be three publicly offered Traditional Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Saint James Church (Society of Saint Pius X)</b></div><div>326 South Main Street, West End Village, Pittsburgh, PA 15220 (<a href="https://fsspx.today/chapel/pa-pittsburgh/info/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Most Precious Blood of Jesus Parish</b></div><div><b>(Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest)</b></div><div>3250 California Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (<a href="https://www.institute-christ-king.org/pittsburgh-home" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Saint Titus Church (Order of Saint Benedict)</b></div><div>952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa PA 15001 (<a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-57673139657494860402020-12-17T02:00:00.001+00:002020-12-17T02:00:05.224+00:00“Don’t Be Afraid!” A Meditation on Christmas 2020 by Archbishop Viganò<p> </p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVdhkxJCEf9qyIb7pT3rD7d99pw6QPCQL0wyjweke7bENCRoCPqlYhFUFPjaPK22_Ph6hiGtomlcWjDxic4-792147dJA4lkUb3MjCZnGbo7BHWaQqOf4m3cU84JcOXJELQ7INhzv5UxM/s267/Vigan%25C3%25B2-stemma+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVdhkxJCEf9qyIb7pT3rD7d99pw6QPCQL0wyjweke7bENCRoCPqlYhFUFPjaPK22_Ph6hiGtomlcWjDxic4-792147dJA4lkUb3MjCZnGbo7BHWaQqOf4m3cU84JcOXJELQ7INhzv5UxM/s0/Vigan%25C3%25B2-stemma+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">NOLITE TIMERE</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">a Meditation in expectation of the birth</span></p><div class="marco-centro-post_2" id="marco-512353144" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">of the Most Holy Redeemer</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> </p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sleep, O Celestial Child:</em></div><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The nations do not know</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Who has been born;</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">But the day will come</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">When they shall be</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Your noble heritage;</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">You who sleep so humbly,</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">You who are hidden in dust:</em></div></em><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">They will know You as King.</em></div><div style="text-align: right;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> </em></div></em></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Manzoni,<em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> Il Natale</em></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In less than two weeks, by the grace of God, this year of Our Lord 2020, which has been marked by terrible events and great social upheavals, will draw to a close. Allow me to formulate a brief reflection with which to turn a supernatural gaze both towards the recent past as well as the immediate future.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The months that we leave behind represent one of the darkest moments in the history of humanity: for the first time ever, since the birth of the Savior, the Holy Keys have been used to close churches and restrict the celebration of the Mass and the Sacraments, almost in anticipation of the abolition of the daily Sacrifice prophesied by Daniel, which will take place during the reign of the Antichrist.</p><a name='more'></a>For the first time ever, at the Easter celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection, many of us were forced to assist at Mass and Holy Week services through the internet, depriving us of Holy Communion. For the first time, we became aware, with pain and dismay, of being deserted by our bishops and parish priests, who were barricaded in their palaces and rectories out of fear of a seasonal flu that claimed about the same number of victims as in other years.<p></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">We have seen – so to speak – the generals and officers abandon their army, and in some cases they even joined the enemy ranks, imposing on the Church an unconditional surrender to the absurd reasons for the pseudo-pandemic. Never, down all the centuries, has so much faint-heartedness, so much cowardice, so much desire to pander to our persecutors found such fertile ground in those who ought to be our guides and leaders. And what most scandalized many of us was the realization that this betrayal involved the highest levels of the Hierarchy of the Church much more than the priests and the simple faithful. Precisely from the highest Throne, from which we should have expected a firm and authoritative intervention in defense of the rights of God, of the freedom of the Church and the salvation of souls, we have received instead invitations to obey unjust laws, illegitimate norms, and irrational orders. And in the words that the media promptly spread from Santa Marta, we recognized many, too many, nods to the insider language of the globalist élite – <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">fraternity, universal income, new world order, build back better, great reset, nothing will be ever be the same again, resilience – </em>all words of the new language, which testify to the <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">idem sentire</em> of those who speak them and those who listen to them.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">It was a true act of intimidation, a thinly-veiled threat, with which our Pastors ratified the pandemic alarm, sowed terror among the simple, and abandoned the dying and the needy. In the height of a cynical legalism, it even reached the point of prohibiting priests from hearing Confessions and administering the Last Sacraments to those were abandoned in intensive care, depriving our beloved dead of religious burial, and denying the Blessed Sacrament to many souls.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">And if on the religious side of things we saw ourselves treated as outsiders and barred access to our churches like the Saracens of old – even as the implacable invasion of illegal immigrants continued to replenish the coffers of the self-styled humanitarian associations – on the civil and political side we discovered that our rulers had a vocation to tyranny: using a rhetoric now disproven by reality, they wanted to make us think of them as representatives of the sovereign people. By heads of state and prime ministers, by regional governors and local mayors, the fullest rigors of the law were imposed on us as if we were rebellious subjects, suspects to be placed under surveillance even in the privacy of our own homes, criminals to be chased even in the solitude of the woods or along the seashore. We have seen people forcibly dragged by soldiers in anti-riot gear, elderly people fined while they were going to the pharmacy, shopkeepers forced to close their doors, and restaurants that first took costly measures in an effort to comply with the government’s demands only to then to be ordered to be closed.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">With bewilderment, we have heard scores of self-styled experts – most of whom are lacking any scientific authority whatsoever and largely in grave conflict of interest due to their ties to pharmaceutical companies and supra-national organizations – pontificating on television programs and on the pages of newspapers about infections, vaccines, immunity, positive tests, the obligation to wear masks, the risks for the elderly, the contagiousness of the asymptomatic, and the danger of seeing one’s family. They have thundered at us, using arcane words like “social distancing” and “gatherings,” in an endless series of grotesque contradictions, absurd alarms, apocalyptic threats, social precepts and health ceremonies that have replaced religious rites. And as they have terrorized the population – all while being paid lavishly for their pronouncements made at every hour of the day – our rulers and politicians have flaunted their masks in front of all the television cameras, only to then take them off as soon as possible.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Forced to disguise ourselves as anonymous people without a face, they have imposed a muzzle on us that is absolutely useless for avoiding contagion and actually harmful to our health, but indispensable for their purposes of making us feel subjugated and forced to conform. They have prevented us from being cured with existing and effective treatments, promoting instead a vaccine that they now want to make obligatory even before knowing if it is effective, after only incomplete testing. And in order not to jeopardize the enormous profits of the pharmaceutical companies, they have granted immunity for the damage that their vaccines may cause to the population. The vaccine is free, they tell us, but it will actually be paid for with taxpayers’ money, even if its producers do not guarantee that it will protect from contagion.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In this scenario that is similar to the disastrous effects of a war, the economy of our countries lies prostrate, while online commerce companies, home delivery companies, and pornography producers are booming. The local shops close but the large shopping centers and supermarkets remain open: monuments to the consumerism in which everyone, even those with Covid, continue to fill their carts with foreign products, German cheeses, Moroccan oranges, Canadian flour, and cell phones and televisions made in China.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“The world is preparing for the Great Reset,” they tell us obsessively. “Nothing will ever be the same again.” We will have to get used to “living with the virus,” subjected to a perpetual pandemic that feeds the pharmaceutical Moloch and legitimizes ever more hateful limitations of our fundamental liberties. Those who since childhood have catechized us to worship freedom, democracy, and popular sovereignty today govern us by depriving us of freedom in the name of health, imposing dictatorship, arrogating to themselves a power that no one has ever conferred on them, neither from above nor from below. And the temporal power that Freemasonry and the Liberals ferociously opposed in the Roman Pontiffs is today claimed by them in reverse, in an attempt to submit the Church of Christ to the power of the State with the approval and collaboration of the highest levels of the Hierarchy.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Out of this whole humanly discouraging scenario, an unavoidable fact emerges: there is a chasm between those who hold authority and those who are subjected to it, between rulers and citizens, between the Hierarchy and the faithful. It is an institutional <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">monstrum</em> in which both civil and religious power are almost entirely in the hands of unscrupulous people who have been appointed because of their absolute ineptitude and great vulnerability to blackmail. Their role is not to administer the institution but to demolish it, not to respect its laws but to violate them, not to protect its members but to disperse and distance them. In short, we find ourselves facing the perversion of authority, not due to chance or inexperience but pursued with determination and following a pre-established plan: a single script under a single direction.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">We thus have rulers who persecute their citizens and treat them as enemies, while welcoming and financing the invasion of criminals and illegal immigrants; law enforcement officers and judges who arrest and fine those who violate social-distancing rules, even as they ostentatiously ignore criminals, rapists, assassins and treacherous politicians; teachers who do not transmit culture or the love of knowledge but instead indoctrinate students into gender and globalist ideology; doctors who refuse to treat the sick but impose a genetically-modified vaccine whose efficacy and potential side-effects are unknown; bishops and priests who deny the faithful the Sacraments but who never miss an occasion for propagandizing their own unconditional adherence to the globalist agenda in the name of Masonic Brotherhood.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Those who oppose this overturning of every principle of civil life find themselves abandoned, alone, and without a leader who would unite them. Loneliness, in fact, allows our common enemies – as they have amply demonstrated themselves to be – to instill fear, despair, and the feeling of not being able to stand together to resist the assaults to which we have been subjected. Citizens are alone in the face of the abuse of civil power, the faithful are alone in the face of the arrogance of heretical Prelates given over to vice, and those who wish to dissent, raise their voice, or protest within institutions are likewise alone.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Loneliness and fear increase when we give them ground to stand on, but they vanish if we think of how each one of us merited that the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity became incarnate in the most pure womb of the Virgin Mary: <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis. </em>And here we come to the Mysteries which we are preparing to contemplate in these coming days: the Immaculate Conception and the Lord’s Holy Nativity. From these mysteries, dear friends, we can draw renewed hope with which to face the events that await us.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Above all, we must remember that none of us is ever truly alone: we have the Lord at our side. He always wants our good, and so he never fails to send us His help and His grace, if only we ask for it with faith. We have the Most Blessed Virgin at our side, our loving Mother and our secure refuge. We have near us the hosts of Angels and the multitude of Saints who from the glory of Heaven intercede for us before the Throne of the Divine Majesty.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The contemplation of this sublime community that is the Holy Church, the mystical Jerusalem that we are citizens of and living members, should persuade us that the last thing we ought to fear is being alone, and that there is no reason to be afraid, even if the devil rages to make us believe that there is. True loneliness is in Hell, where the damned souls do not have any hope: that is the loneliness we should truly fear, and before it we must beg for the grace of final perseverance, that is, to be able to merit the grace of a holy death from the Mercy of God. A death for which we ought to always be prepared by keeping ourselves in a state of grace, in friendship with the Lord.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Of course, the trials that we are facing in this moment are tremendous, because they give us the feeling that evil is triumphing, that each of us is abandoned to ourselves, that the wicked have managed to get the better of the <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">pusillus grex </em>[little flock] and of all humanity. But was not our Lord perhaps alone in Gethsemane, alone on the wood of the Cross, alone in the Tomb? And returning to the mystery of Christmas that is now fast approaching: were not the Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph perhaps alone when they found themselves forced to take refuge in a stable because <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">non erat locus illis in diversorio </em>[there was no room for them in the inn]? Imagine how the putative father of Jesus must have felt seeing his Most Holy Spouse ready to give birth in the cold of the night of Palestine; think of their worries during the Flight into Egypt, knowing that King Herod had unleashed his soldiers to kill the Infant Jesus. Even in these terrible situations, the solitude of the Holy Family was only apparent, while God arranged everything according to His plans. He sent an Angel to announce the birth of the Savior to the shepherds.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">He moved no less than a Star to call the Magi from the Orient to adore the Messiah. He sent choirs of His Angels to sing over the cave of Bethlehem. He warned Saint Joseph to flee in order to escape the massacre of Herod.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Also to us, in the solitude of the lockdown which many of us are forced to endure, in the abandonment of the hospital, in the silence of the deserted streets and the churches closed to worship, the Lord comes to bring his company. Also to us He sends His Angel to inspire us with holy purposes, his Most Holy Mother to console us, the Paraclete to give us comfort, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">dulcis hospes animae</em>.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">We are not alone: we are never alone. And it is this, in the end, that the authors of the Great Reset fear most: that we become aware of this supernatural – but no less true – reality that makes the house of cards of their infernal deceptions collapse.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">If we think of how we have at our side She who crushes the head of the Serpent, or the Archangel who has drawn his sword to drive Lucifer into the abyss; if we recall that our Guardian Angel, our Patron Saint, and our dear ones in Heaven and Purgatory are with us: what can we ever be afraid of? Do we want to believe that the God of armies drawn up for battle has any hesitation about defeating any servant of the eternally defeated one?</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">She who in the year 630 saved Constantinople from siege, terrorizing the Avars and Persians by appearing tremendous in the heavens; who in 1091 at Scicli in Sicily was invoked as Our Lady of the Militia and appeared on a shining cloud chasing away the Saracens; who in 1571 at Lepanto and again in 1683 at Vienna was invoked as Queen of Victories and granted victory to the Christian army against the Turks; who during the anti-Catholic persecution of Mexico protected the <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Cristeros</em> and repelled the army of the Mason Elias Calles – She will not deny us Her holy assistance; She will not leave us alone in the battle; She will not abandon those who have recourse to Her with trusting prayer in the moment in which the conflict is decisive and the confrontation is nearing an end.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">We have had the grace to understand what this world can become if we deny the Lordship of God and replace it with the tyranny of Satan. This is the world that is rebellious against Christ the King and Mary the Queen, in which each day thousands of innocent lives in the wombs of their mothers are sacrificed to Satan; this is the world in which vice and sin want to cancel every trace of good and virtue, every memory of the Christian religion, every law and vestige of our civilization, every trace of the order that the Creator has given to nature. A world in which churches burn, Crosses are knocked down, statues of the Virgin are decapitated: this hatred, this Satanic fury against Christ and the Mother of God is the mark of the Evil One and his servants. In the face of this total Revolution, this accursed New World Order that would prepare the way for the kingdom of the Antichrist, we cannot still believe that any brotherhood is possible if not under the Law of God, nor that it is possible to construct peace if not under the mantle of the Queen of Peace. <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Pax Christi in regno Christi</em>.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The Lord will give us the victory only when we bow down to Him as our King. And if we cannot yet proclaim Him as King of our Nations because of the impiety of those who govern us, we can nevertheless consecrate ourselves, our families, and our communities to Him. And to those who dare to challenge Heaven in the name of “Nothing will be the same again,” we respond by invoking God with renewed fervor: “As it was in beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Let us pray to the Immaculate Virgin, Tabernacle of the Most High, asking that in our meditation on the Holy Nativity of Her Divine Son which now draws near, She may dispel our fear and solitude, gathering us together in adoration around the manger. In the poverty of the crib, in the silence of the cave of Bethlehem, the song of the Angels resounds; the one true Light of the world shines forth, adored by the shepherds and the Magi, and Creation itself bows down, adorning the vault of heaven with a shining Star. <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Veni, Emmanuel: captivum solve Israël. </em>Come, O Emmanuel, free your imprisoned people.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">+ Carlo Maria Viganò, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Archbishop</em></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">13 December 2020</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px !important; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Dominica Gaudete, III Adventus</em></p></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.marcotosatti.com/2020/12/15/dont-be-afraid-a-meditation-on-christmas-by-archbishop-vigano/" target="_blank">Source</a>.</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-23313331275460426172020-11-02T02:00:00.001+00:002020-11-02T02:00:04.395+00:00All Saints Altar - 2020<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZdnKRuYThYvdpIOqSXUef8A54WQ8DlURzwJFpjyDnVTbkywE6FU98hNn_YE5eTYwVAKxhD1hrNW_Wc729y8yvu2houvZLX9mZ7FJYYNCT9-gjIRzL4OIvMV12Z4csClGe4SE4NrB_7Y/s1280/All+Saints+Altar+2020_IMG_7519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZdnKRuYThYvdpIOqSXUef8A54WQ8DlURzwJFpjyDnVTbkywE6FU98hNn_YE5eTYwVAKxhD1hrNW_Wc729y8yvu2houvZLX9mZ7FJYYNCT9-gjIRzL4OIvMV12Z4csClGe4SE4NrB_7Y/w640-h480/All+Saints+Altar+2020_IMG_7519.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All Saints side altar, St. James Church (SSPX), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1 November 2020, Feast of All Saints and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Saint Pius X.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-15718587694460999572020-08-14T09:57:00.013+01:002020-08-14T14:00:43.473+01:00The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxZqfQpd1PiS3tlYpFUWadMJVsSxjxw5Yqsu5h_U3ExpNyNfIO3gjkqAENbRjdJUEg6YOoFn3k3vCxnLSdgXkvGFoAT1sSt5KCPCpXEOURmEjQXh2zorYPKIIIBc3hEDMKikuTB3zu65y/s434/unnamed+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxZqfQpd1PiS3tlYpFUWadMJVsSxjxw5Yqsu5h_U3ExpNyNfIO3gjkqAENbRjdJUEg6YOoFn3k3vCxnLSdgXkvGFoAT1sSt5KCPCpXEOURmEjQXh2zorYPKIIIBc3hEDMKikuTB3zu65y/s0/unnamed+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Sunday 16th August. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While the Bishops of England and Wales have dispensed the Faithful from attending Sunday Mass and Holy Days of Obligation such as this, Masses for this great feast will be at 10.30am and 5pm on Sunday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Come and honour the Immaculate mother of God and her glorious Assumption into Heaven, body and soul, where she intercedes for us by her Divine Son.</div><p></p>The Boneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10271719805983763595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-54912131677920358872020-06-12T21:13:00.002+01:002020-07-23T20:40:47.225+01:00The German Option: Will the English Bishops follow their German counterparts into Schism?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
German Option: Will the English Bishops follow their German
counterparts into Schism?</b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
is the <b>German Option</b>? Sandro Magister in L'Espresso has
explained how a synod is developing in Germany:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><a href="http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2020/05/06/sex-women-power-the-three-challenges-germany-is-issuing-to-the-church/">http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2020/05/06/sex-women-power-the-three-challenges-germany-is-issuing-to-the-church/</a>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here
are a few excerpts:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
synod held its first session in Frankfurt from January 30 to February
1. And the inaugural Mass, officiated by Munich cardinal Reinhard
Marx, provided the portrait of it, with bishops, priests, and lay
people [who form the majority]... </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;">… <span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">even
among the bishops the dissenters can be counted on the fingers of one
hand. Left to contest the dreaded slide toward a Protestant model of
Church are Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne, and
the bishops Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, Stefan Oster of Passau,
Gregor Maria Hanke of Eichstätt, and Wolfgang Ipolt of Görlitz”</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">POWER</span></b></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gender
equality must be achieved at all levels. For access to pastoral
services, even to the diaconal, presbyteral, and episcopal ministry,
it cannot be excluded.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The
institutional order linked to a hierarchy as ‘sacred power’ is
due not so much to a Catholic necessity as to an anti-modern mental
prejudice.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
this context, access to the ordained ministry must also be clarified.
On the synodal journey we must openly discuss married priests and the
access of women to these ministries, including the ordained
ministry.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">WOMEN</span></b></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
evident discrepancy between the position of the magisterial documents
and the unanimous argument of theological scholarship on the question
of the female call to the ministerial apostolate is a ‘skandalon’
that must be overcome for the sake of the credibility of the
proclamation of the Paschal Gospel.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
theological research we do not agree on how binding is the
affirmation in the apostolic letter ‘Ordinatio sacerdotalis’ of
Pope John Paul II, acccording to which the exclusion of women from
the sacramental ministry must be ‘definitive tenendam,’ or a
decision ‘to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.’ </span></span></span></span></span>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">SEX</span></b></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Turning
one’s attention to what happens between those who love each other
today ... can even mean scenting the work of the Spirit and the
action of God in unusual places.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
normative postulates of current Catholic sexual morality contradict
the knowledge of the human sciences on the multiple dimensions of
meaning of human sexuality.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...
Furthermore, the Church's ban on socially and legally recognizing
homosexual couples is judged as discrimination based on sexual
orientation.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">… <span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the individual declarations of the magisterium regarding pre-marital
and extra-marital sexuality, as well as autoeroticism, the negative
evaluation of sexual pleasure continues to dominate. […] The first
helpful guidelines are found in ‘Amoris laetitia’ [by Pope
Francis].”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Family
planning, even with the help of artificial means of regulating
conception, does not represent an act hostile to life, but supports
the right of a couple to decide responsibly on the number of
children, on the spacing of births, and on the concrete means of
family planning.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Homosexual
acts also realize positive values of meaning if they are an
expression of friendship, reliability, loyalty, and life support.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is necessary to recognize homosexual life unions without reservation
and to give up morally discrediting their sexual practice.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Basically
the German Church is looking to rubbish the Church's teaching on the
role of women and sexual matters. They may claim that they will
submit the most important decisions on doctrine to Rome but is there
any doubt that regardless of what Rome says they will go ahead with
these 'reforms' as Luther did with his 'reforms'? That is the </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>German
Option. </b></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>WILL
THE ENGLISH BISHOPS FOLLOW THE SAME PATH?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They
will not have a Synod on the German model; instead they may reach the
same destination by osmosis without consulting the laity in any
meaningful sense. Gradually proponents of these same proposals will
become more numerous in positions of power so that these new ideas
become the norm. Anyone not accepting them will be ignored and
sidelined as being out of touch with the modern world. In fact this
has been gradually happening over many years but has accelerated in
the last twenty years with the arrival of Cormac Cardinal
Murphy-O'Connor at the start of the new millennium. But now it has
reached a critical point with the controversy surrounding the closing
of Churches during the pandemic and the employment of the LGBT
activist Jim McManus by the Bishops' Conference to influence the
Government towards closing the Churches. The use of Jim McManus in
this role has come under a very strong attack by LifeSiteNews:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/english-bishops-senior-health-advisor-is-a-convicted-thief-and-lifelong-lgbt-activist">https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/english-bishops-senior-health-advisor-is-a-convicted-thief-and-lifelong-lgbt-activist</a><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
attack on the role McManus is so forceful as to make one wonder
whether it is credible. However at the Conference's own website at:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.cbcew.org.uk/coronavirus-what-catholics-need-to-know-about-covid-19/">https://www.cbcew.org.uk/coronavirus-what-catholics-need-to-know-about-covid-19/</a><span style="color: #007eac;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="color: #2a2e2e;"> <span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">there
is a picture of McManus. His connection to the Hertfordshire County
Council is clearly shown by the items appearing on the right of the
picture. Taken together with the video of him promoting LGBT at a
Hertfordshire CC event last year that is sufficient prima facie
evidence of his being a leading advocate of the LGBT agenda. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McManus
is not shy about his many achievements and roles as he sets them out
in his blog at:</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://jimmcmanus.wordpress.com/about-jim/">https://jimmcmanus.wordpress.com/about-jim/</a><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He
has certainly managed to embed himself in the Catholic Church:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
member of the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/research-centres/Research-Group-in-Theology-Religion-and-Practice/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ca2017;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Theology,
Religion and Practice Research Group </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">at
Roehampton University, and Vice-Chair of the Healthcare Executive
Group of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #2a2e2e;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
authoring the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.cbcew.org.uk/CBCEW-Home/Departments/Christian-Responsibility-and-Citizenship/Healthcare" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ca2017;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2008 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
2018 national chaplaincy guidelines for the NHS and the Catholic
Church, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
Trustee of St Joseph’s Hospice, Hackney, awarded the Good
Samaritan Medal for Excellence in Healthcare by Pope Benedict XVI,
the highest honour for healthcare the Vatican can award, a Companion
of the Order of Malta, </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.bioethics.org.uk/static_content.php?key_id=governors&page_id=about_us"><span style="color: #007eac;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chair
of the Board of Governors</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of
the Catholic Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight
and then a Grand Knight of the Knights of St. Columba sodality in
Birmingham between November 2008 and July 2012, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
Trustee of the Diocese of Birmingham from 2009 to 2014. </span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Truly
a very active man. However throughout his career he has been an
advocate of LGBT rights and evidently believes there is no problem
with their lifestyle.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Perhaps
what is interesting is that since the publication of the LifeSiteNews
article on 13</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
May 2020 there has been no reaction from anyone in the Catholic world
apart from a passing twitter from Damian Thompson. Blinded by his
CV? Fear of legal proceedings or just so aghast as to freeze? There
is total silence.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
is surely the moment to determine the future direction of the
Bishops' conference.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
story has come to a head over the closing of Churches during the
Covid-19 pandemic. Apparently the Government were not minded to
close Churches other than to ban religious services but McManus
acting for the Bishops' conference persuaded them to close the doors
of the Churches. This was utterly deplorable. I knew nothing of
McManus but I saw this as the culmination of an appalling record in
the Catholic Church in England going back many decades. </span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>THE
HISTORICAL RECORD</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
I was in practice as a Solicitor from the 1960s onwards all that
seemed to be happening was the collapse of the Church. I dealt with
nuns leaving their convents in droves and the inevitable closure of
convents that followed. Then we had the abuse scandals which made
being a Catholic an embarrassment. Church attendance was in
free-fall, many beautiful churches were uglified in a program of
re-ordering and Catholic institutions either disappeared or became
increasingly laicised and secularised. Clergy seemed preoccupied
with worldly matters and inevitably became political. Vocations fell
off a cliff and now we can anticipate our monasteries disappearing –
by their fruits you will know them. Modern catechetics lost its way
and much of the fault for that must be laid at the foot of the
Catholic Education Service which is an arm of the Bishops'
Conference.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
particular problem with which I was concerned was the secularisation
of the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth. First of all there
was an attempt by secular elements to purloin the Hospital. I
brought this to the attention of Cardinal Hume who was very angry
over this issue. Unfortunately he ended up dead at the Hospital
after his cancer was diagnosed as merely depression. His plan to
create a centre of Catholic Medical Excellence was buried by the
apparatchiks at the Bishops' Conference. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
the first decade of the present century a number of eminent lay
Catholics – philosophers, ethicists and others presented a petition
to Cardinal Cormac, to ban Gender Reassignment Operations (GROs)–
mainly female to male – which were taking place at the Hospital
contrary to their code of ethics but earning them much money. Cormac
instead of dealing with this passed the buck to Rome. Fortunately
the then Cardinal Ratzinger told Cormac to set up an inquiry which
duly reported and recommended a much stronger code of ethics.
However despite rumours of abortions taking place and a disregard for
</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><i>Humanae Vitae</i></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Cardinal Cormac gave in to secular minded doctors and allowed the new
code to be eviscerated. One particular point that struck me was that
the newly eviscerated code, blessed by Cardinal Cormac removed the
ban on FGMs – Female Genital Mutilation. One can now see such a
ban might have interfered with the lucrative Gender Reassignment
Operations. Cormac triumphed in the end when the Catholic Board of
the Hospital who had wrested control from the secularists were
unceremoniously asked to resign in favour of Cormac's more compliant
appointees.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">At
the time I pleaded with the Bishops' conference to do something but
they refused saying that there was nothing wrong with GRO's if the
patient felt better afterwards. It was plain to me that Cormac
rejected the Church's teaching on sexuality and the Bishops'
Conference followed his lead. Cormac's disastrous handling of the
case of the paedophile Father Hill has to be seen in that light. We
then had the scandal of the Soho Masses which seemed to be under the
control of an active gay man who ran a
blog:</span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://queeringthechurch.wordpress.com/">https://queeringthechurch.wordpress.com/</a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
proposing a 'reality-based theology'. Lay Catholics protested about
this but Cormac's successor Cardinal Vincent Nichols told them “Hold
your Tongues”. Cardinal Nichols emerged from a low week meeting of
the Bishops' Conference to say he was in favour of Civil Unions for
homosexual couples. A position taken up by a representative of
Catholic Voices at one point.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Over
the years the Catholic Education Service, an arm of the Bishops'
Conference, has been complicit in agreeing to the Government's plans
for sex education. In 2010 in correspondence they misrepresented
what the Government were laying down by quoting what the Minister had
said in Parliament but carefully cutting out statements that should
have been unacceptable to the Catholic Church. More recently the
Government is implementing an unacceptable sex education programme in
the Autumn and once more the Catholic Education Service has accepted
it. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There
is an authoritative article by Dr Tom Rogers entitled "How
Catholic Church Officials have betrayed Parents and Children" in
the Spring 2019 edition of 'Calx Mariae'. </span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<b><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">THE
McMANUS AFFAIR – A CRITICAL TURNING-POINT?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">I
see it as such but it is a matter of scandal which has not been
resolved one way of another. The official line as communicated to me
is that:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-weight: normal;">a.
The Bishops Conference did not persuade the Government to close the
Churches but that Churches have been closed in response to the
requirements of the Government. </span></span></span></span></span></i>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
rather dodges the issue as the question is how did those requirements
come about. The Westminster Archdiocese website at:
<a href="https://rcdow.org.uk/news/churches-to-close-with-immediate-effect/">https://rcdow.org.uk/news/churches-to-close-with-immediate-effect/</a>
reports on a clarification issued by the Bishops' Conference which
reads:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">"</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: cabin, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">'Professor
Jim McManus has spoken with a senior civil servant and it was quite
clear they just had not thought through the issues of infection and
security of churches and when he made these points clear, they were
appalled and agreed they had made a mistake.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">"</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">That
surely requires further explanation.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="">b.
McManus is not an employee of the Bishops' Conference.</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">If
you mean by employed that someone is a paid employee of the
Conference then that is probably correct. However in ordinary
parlance to employ someone has a much wider meaning. For example
somebody might say that they have employed a Solicitor to fight their
case in court. Of course this does not mean that the Solicitor is a
paid employee but merely that he is in a professional relationship
where he is self-employed acting on behalf of a client. McManus
appears on the Conference website advising about Coronavirus on
behalf of the Conference and the above quote shows him acting as an
agent for the Conference. Can the Conference really dispute that?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="">The
Conference and the hierarchy cannot comment as the matter is the
subject of legal processes.</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">It
is claimed that the matter is 'sub judice' and therefore any public
discussion would be a contempt of court. Did they bother to take
legal advice on this point? The Contempt of Court Act 1981 makes it
clear that in respect of civil proceedings the rule only applies
when the case has been set down for trial on a fixed date. As far
as has been reported no writ has been issued and the process of
setting down for trial only follows weeks or months after the issue
of a writ. It is therefore nonsense to say that the matter is 'sub
judice' and one can only assume that this is a pathetic attempt to
refuse to respond to the concerns of the laity and a desire to
cover-up the truth.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">Of
course the nub of this matter is not really about the closure of
churches but how it is that a man who promotes the LGBT cause and/or
promotes abortion, if that is the case, has been allowed to penetrate
the Church in England and Wales and to have such a high profile in
the Bishops' Conference and more distressingly become Chairman of
Governors of the Anscombe Bioethical Centre – an organisation that
is supposedly in the front line of supporting Catholic condemnation
of homosexual acts and abortion. Although their website has suddenly
said he is 'on leave of absence' – no doubt a euphemism.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">An
explanation is demanded but so far it is not forthcoming.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">The
question then arises as to whether the Bishops' Conference is heading
down a path similar to that of the German Bishops. There are of
course some Bishops who are very strong in opposing abortion and some
have murmured about the closure of Churches but it is only a murmur.
Are they strong enough to bring the Conference back on course?
There is no cause for optimism that they are.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">Is
the Conference so infiltrated by the homosexual lobby and a disregard
for sexual morality that they will take up the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>German
Option? </b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">
If they do I doubt whether it will be done openly or as a result of
consultation with laity. It will just gradually happen. Sin will
be normalised.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">Any
Bishop reading this should note that Sandro Magister's first heading
is </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>POWER.</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">
The </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>GERMAN
OPTION </b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">involves
handing over power to the laity. Perhaps this something which some
Bishops would be only too happy to accept. It would save them a lot
of bother if they just become figureheads.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">The
final question is what should be the response of the faithful laity
to such a move to the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>GERMAN
OPTION. </b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #251100;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">Some
have suggested that withholding money from the clergy is one answer
i.e. stop putting money in the plate. I doubt if this will work. If
the Church gradually becomes indistinguishable from the worldly
zeitgeist the Churches will empty – why bother? - </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">the
hierarchy can then sell off redundant churches and live on the
proceeds.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">Will
faithful Bishops, Priests or Religious stop this? Unfortunately most
will do nothing out of false loyalty and false obedience. It is
going to be up to the Laity to get the barque of the Church back on
an even keel. So far I have not seen overmuch happening amongst the
laity but let us hope matters will change.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">Maybe
there will be a rising up from an unexpected quarter. Some have
suggested that what we are seeing is a Marxist culture war to destroy
Christian civilisation by revolution and the destruction of morality
and in particular the family. Originally the theory was that the
proletariat would rise up and bring about the revolution. However
the proletariat have been a disappointment to Marxists. They have
therefore given up on the proletariat and have instead turned to
certain minorities – extreme feminists, ethnic minorities, those
with homosexual tendencies, those with gender dysphoria etc. to
replace the proletariat and to foment a revolution. However it may
be that it will be just these groups, who like the proletariat, will
disappoint the Marxists. It is noticeable for instance that the
ethnic minorities in the Church seem to be the most traditional and
they must be asking themselves whether those who cry 'Black Lives
Matter' means “Only some Black Lives Matter” when it comes to
the unborn. Are there not many with homosexual tendencies who do not
want to be promoting queerdom? Many feminists are at war with the
transgender movement. And are there not many ordinary people with no
particular religious affiliation who are protesting at the filth that
is being fed to their children as 'sex education'?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang=""><span style="font-style: normal;">We
live in interesting times.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nicolas J. Bellord 12th June 2020</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">UPDATE 13th June 2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Churches
are to be allowed to be re-opened for private prayers as from Monday
15<sup>th</sup> June. The Catholic Church has issued guidance to its
priests dated 1<sup>st</sup> June on 3<sup>rd</sup> June:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.cbcew.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/06/Guidance-Reopening-Catholic-Churches-Indiv-Prayer-100620-1633.pdf">https://www.cbcew.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/06/Guidance-Reopening-Catholic-Churches-Indiv-Prayer-100620-1633.pdf</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The Church
of England followed suit on 3<sup>rd</sup> June:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/COVID%2019%20Advice%20on%20Individual%20Private%20Prayer%20v2_0.pdf">https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/COVID%2019%20Advice%20on%20Individual%20Private%20Prayer%20v2_0.pdf</a>
</span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">There is a
great contrast. Whilst the Church of England writes:</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Should
someone be present all the time to monitor the church?</i></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>There
is no public health need to do this, though the decision will need to
be based on your own local situation and risk assessment. </i></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Catholic
priests are told:</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>At
least two stewards must be present in the church throughout the time
it is open for prayer; the stewards must ensure that hand
sanitisation occurs at entry and exit points, social distancing is
maintained by people in the church and if a pre-determined capacity
is reached, they prevent others from entering the church. (Through,
for example, a “one in, one out” policy.) People with cold or
flu-like symptoms should be asked not to enter.</i></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">And
that is just the start as to what these stewards have to do.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">But
why the difference? Are not Catholic priests being asked to do far
more than the Government actually requires? </span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Physical
veneration of relics or objects such as statues, crucifixes and
shrines is not permitted. </i></span>
</div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">So
presumably genuflecting in front of a crucifix is now forbidden;
although for years such quaint customs have been discouraged by our
more progressive clergy.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">As
for confession, which could easily be made available, there is no
mention.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">All
in all the Church of England's document is encouraging the opening of
their churches with as few restrictions as possible whilst the
Catholic Church seems to be imposing such detailed and burdensome
requirements on Parish Priests that it is difficult to see how more
than a few will be able to open their churches.</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">It
has been suggested that the hand of McManus is all over this
document. If so, just what is happening?</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">I
would imagine that Satan would see the current deprivation of the
laity of sacramental grace as truly a great victory. Has he not got
some useful disciples, knowingly or unknowingly, implementing his
wishes?</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">FURTHER UPDATE 23RD July</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> 2020</span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mr McManus has resigned as Chairman of Governors of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre with the encouragement of his fellow governors.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">No news from the Bishops. Their new regulations about Masses have resulted in Mass being available. My parish has announced public masses as follows:</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tuesday 14th July 9.30.a.m.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Friday 17th July 9.30.a.m.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tuesday 21st July 9.30.a.m.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Friday 24th July 9.30.a.m.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tuesday 28th July 9.30.a.m.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Friday 31st July 9.30.a.m.</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">But NEVER on Sundays which seems to be the rule at adjoining parishes</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div></span><h2 class="zfr3Q JYVBee" id="h.p_Tf4z32rswysT" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 19pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; 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<br />Nicolas Bellordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-17406094945075779652020-03-20T07:00:00.000+00:002020-03-20T10:53:00.800+00:00A Question for Priests<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Last Judgement<br />
Center Panel<br />
Rogier van der Weyden 1399/1400 – 1464</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Why did you deprive my people of the Mass?</b></span><br />
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It comes as no surprise that a faithless pope and faithless bishops would succumb to the call from atheistic governments to suspend the offering of public Masses. What is surprising, however, is that otherwise traditional priests are willing accomplices in depriving the faithful of the Mass.<br />
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The excuses being offered by both traditional order and diocesan priests for not offering Mass publicly are shocking. No more Come Rack, Come Rope. Now it is, "The bishop has forbidden Mass," and that's it. So easy, and the Mass is gone. No Irish Mass Rocks or Roman Catacombs, just live-stream and TV.<br />
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Now Church Militant <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/clergy-offer-clandestine-masses-as-bishops-capitulate-to-coronavirus"><b>reports</b></a> that priests in Italy are offering clandestine Masses for the people.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;">Catholics deprived of Mass are berating the bishops for "cowardice" in the face of the coronavirus crisis, while clergy afraid of being disciplined are celebrating the Eucharist "clandestinely" to small groups of the faithful in Northern Italy. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;">Former Vatican journalist Aldo Maria Valli also confirmed his attendance at "an underground Mass, celebrated in disobedience to the bishop's dictates but in obedience to the mandate of Christ."</span></span></blockquote>
Read the complete article at <a href="https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/clergy-offer-clandestine-masses-as-bishops-capitulate-to-coronavirus"><b>Church Militant</b></a>.<br />
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The words of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to the Knights of Columbus in June of 1972, come to mind:<br />
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"Who is going to save our Church? <b>Not our bishops, not our priests and religious</b>. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. <b>Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops, like bishops, and your religious act like religious</b>."<br />
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Perhaps the laymen need to step up and make arrangements and encourage and provide cover for our priests to offer Mass for us regardless of the temporal consequences. One day our priests will have to answer the question at the top of this post. They will not have to answer to the faithful or to their bishop. Will their excuses serve them well?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-51544183823529834512020-03-14T19:15:00.000+00:002020-03-20T14:16:11.209+00:00Latin Masses Increase by 25%. Corona Effect?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the decision of the Society of Saint Pius X to double the number of Masses at their St. James Church in Pittsburgh in response to the Coronavirus, there will be <b>five</b> publicly offered Traditional Latin Masses in the Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area on the Third Sunday in Lent, 15 March 2020. This is a record number of publicly offered Traditional Latin Masses on a Sunday in Pittsburgh since the introduction of the <i>Novus Ordo</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.</b></i></span> Malachi 1:11 <span style="font-size: x-small;">Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)</span><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>Saint James Church (Society of Saint Pius X)</b><br />
326 South Main Street, West End Village, Pittsburgh PA 15220 (<a href="https://sspx.org/en/st-james-church-pittsburgh">Website</a>)<br />
<b>7:00 AM (Last name beginning with A-K)</b><br />
<b>9:00 AM </b><b>(Last name beginning with L-P)</b><br />
<b>11:00 AM </b><b>(Last name beginning with R-Z)</b><br />
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<b>Most Precious Blood of Jesus Parish (Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest)</b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>All public Masses canceled by order of the bishop.</b></span><br />
3250 California Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15212 (<a href="http://www.institute-christ-king.org/pittsburgh-home">Website</a>)<br />
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<b>11:00 AM</b><br />
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<b>Saint Titus Church</b><br />
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952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa PA 15001 (<a href="https://knightsofcolumbuslatinmass.blogspot.com/">Website</a>)<br />
<b>12 noon</b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><u>UPDATE</u>:</b> Unfortunately, this blessing did not last long. Effective 16 March 2020, Bishop David Zubik has made the decision to cancel all weekday and Sunday Masses in the Diocese of Pittsburgh until further notice. View notice <a href="https://diopitt.org/news/allmassescancelled">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE #2:</u> As of 20 March 2020, the Society of Saint Pius X has <b>tripled</b> the number of Sunday public Masses at their St. James Church in Pittsburgh in order to continue to provide the faithful with access to the Mass. There are restrictions in place, including the number of people who may be in attendance, but the Mass is made available to the people.</span><br />
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REMEMBER, O Lord, Thy bowels of compassion, and Thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world, lest at any time our enemies rule over us: deliver us, O God of Israel, from all our tribulations. (Psalm) To Thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: in Thee, O my God, I put my trust: let me not be ashamed. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Remember, O Lord …<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Introit. Second Sunday in Lent.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span>THUS saith the Lord God: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert, in a salt land, and not inhabited. Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. And he shall be as a tree that is planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots towards moisture: and it shall not fear when the heat cometh. And the leaf thereof shall be green, and in time of drought it shall not be solicitous, neither shall it cease at any time to bring forth fruit. The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable: who can know it? I am the Lord Who search the heart, and prove the reins: Who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices: saith the Lord almighty.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Jer. 17, 5-10. Epistle. Thursday of the Second Week in Lent.</i></span><br />
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As of Christmas Eve, 2019, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest has been invited by the rector of the Basilica of Saints Celso & Giuliano to make this beautiful Roman baroque church its new home in the Eternal City.<br />
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Not far from Castello Sant'Angelo, the Institute will begin the care of this apostolate by offering the the Traditional Latin Mass on Sundays and Feast Days at 10am and will be present during the week for confessions and adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament.<br />
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Read more <a href="https://www.institute-christ-king.org/876-apostolate-in-rome">here</a> & <a href="http://www.icrss.it/2019/12/15/nuovi-orari-apostolato-icrss-roma/">here</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2011391723338869451.post-19796951936780006852019-11-16T16:00:00.003+00:002020-08-17T18:35:53.182+01:00Save the Date - 22 August 2020, Solemn Pontifical Mass in Washington, DC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>UPDATE: This Mass has been cancelled.</b></span> See <a href="http://www.thepaulusinstitute.org/index.htm" target="_blank">Paulus Institute</a> website for information on future events.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <a href="http://www.thepaulusinstitute.org/index.htm" target="_blank">Paulus Institute</a> Invites Your Participation in a</div>
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<b>Saturday, 22 August 2020, 1:00 PM</b></div>
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<b>Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary</b></div>
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<b>Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception</b></div>
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400 Michigan Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20017</div>
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Archbishop Thomas E. Gullickson</div>
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Papal Nuncio to Switzerland and Liechtenstein</div>
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