Liturgical dance to song from R-rated film ('nudity and sexual content')

The Hong Kong chapter of the Mindanao Liturgical Dancers, a troupe that originated in the Philippines, helps celebrate the 25th anniversary of that city's "Catholic Center" with choreography performed to Irene Cara's "Flashdance…What a Feeling", a hit song from the 1983 movie Flashdance, which was rated R (Restricted – Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian) based on "strong language, nudity and sexual content".

A caption accompanying the above video offers "thanks to all provincial dancers of El Shaddi, for sharing your talents."  El Shaddi, it turns out, is one of the largest and richest "Catholic Charismatic" groups in the world, claiming over 8 million adherents in over 30 countries. Started in the Philippines in 1984, El Shaddi boasts a 16,000-seat mega-church in Manila, which was built in 2009 at a cost of approximately $21 million, a figure that does not include the land.

As for the dance shown here, no, there's no nudity or sexual content, but there are some things that border on the sexually provocative. The young ladies are dressed in outfits that include matching jackets, sneakers and very short (nearly mini) skirts. Fortunately, there are leotards under the skirts, but still, there's no way this attire would pass muster for following pre-Vatican II standards for properly modest (or Marylike) dress; rather, it is closer to the immodest dress Pope Pius XII warned about  when he wrote of "the harm resulting from excess in certain gymnastic exercises and sports not suitable for virtuous girls". The first dance move is for them to strip off their jackets and discard them. The word strip is used intentionally, because that is the suggestion given (and apparently sought), as is evidenced by the collective oohs and aahs of the observers and resulting smiles on the faces of the participants. Ensuing semi-racy movements include high leg kicks, hip shakes and hands on upper thighs (and in the case of the girls nearest the camera, inner thighs), none of which, to state the obvious in Pius's words, are not suitable for virtuous girls.

The tragedy here is that these "Catholic" girls are being brought up to think there's nothing at all unvirtuous about what they're doing. There's nothing in their religion classes telling them of the great importance of modest dress and behavior on their purity and that of boys who watch them, their pastors and dance instructors aren't telling them any differently, their friends are supportive (or even performing in the troupe with them), the movies, television and the internet assure them it's what "all the girls are doing these days", and to top it off, even their parents don't mind, because "the Church" says it's okay. Surely this in no way excuses the girls, but it certainly mitigates their culpability to a degree (were they traditional Catholic girls deliberately turning from what they'd learned almost from the cradle, then their guilt would be greater).

This particular event looks to be conducted in a gymnasium or social center, and not part of a religious service. However, it's important to note that the same sort of song and dance is just as likely to occur during a "new Mass". (Some readers are probably saying to themselves that no dance could be that bad during a "new Mass". No, not usually, but there are actually instances that are far  worse than this, far more immodest and sexually suggestive, such as in this video―viewer discretion advised.)  And please note that this video was uploaded to YouTube on January 22nd, so going on seven years after the the election of Benedict XVI, the supposed great restorer of dignity to liturgical functions, who many believed would put his foot down to eliminate profane and secular music in such a context, the nonsense rolls on unabated. His utter failure to act is hardly surprising, but rather quite consistent with man who has shown every indication since his election of continuing Vatican II Modernism under the guise of restoring Catholic Tradition, quite consistent with a man whose "pontificate" has been a fraud from day one.

To call this of doubtful validity is a major understatement
The Remnant promotes 'extraordinary form of Rome Rite' to be said by dubious celebrant
"We are pleased to welcome His Excellency, Thomas G. Wenski, Archbishop of Miami as the celebrant of this Mass. The Mass will be preceded by the traditional blessing of candles and a procession for the feast day.

"Ceremonial and logistical assistance for the Mass is provided through the generous efforts of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP)."

NOW Comments:
For those inclined to view The Remnant as a staunchly traditional Catholic publication/website, the above announcement should disabuse the more perceptive among them of such an illusion. "Abp." Wenski was "ordained a priest" (1976) and "consecrated a bishop" (1997) according to the doubtful new rites of Paul VI. In other words, The Remnant is encouraging people to attend a service in which may well a simulation of a Mass at which they will be receiving mere bread instead of the Blessed Sacrament―in other words, encouraging people to attend a likely sacrilege. It is a principle of moral theology that the faithful can in no way avail themselves of doubtful sacraments, and there is no exception to this rule in the case of "the Holy Eucharist because of the danger of idolatry" (Fr. Heribert Jone, O.F.M. Cap., J.C.D., Moral Theology [trans. Fr. Urban Adelman, O.F.M. Cap., J.C.D.], Westminster, MD:The Newman Bookshop, 1945, p.323)

So, can The Remnant really make the claim of being traditional Catholic? No, not in any truly meaningful sense of the term, because they've had decades to determine that Paul VI's sacraments are doubtfully valid (and it's not even a close call). It's time that Michael Matt and his staff wake up to reality, and stop giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Then, they'll be entitled to be called traditional Catholic, and not a moment before.

Sends Neocat families to bring 'the Faith' to dechristianized nations
Benedict XVI approves radical rites of the Neocatechumenal Way

'Pope': The Neocatechumenal Way is a 'special gift of the Holy Spirit'
"My friend Jan was following some of the conservative sites from Italy that were dramatically awaiting “the verdict” to be delivered by the Vatican on the controversial Neocatechumenal Way on January 20. On that day, Pope Benedict would meet with thousands of its members in the Paul VI Hall and the Pontifical Council for the Laity would release a decree regarding the movement.

"Jan told me she knew something of the controversial liturgical practices and doctrinal aberrations of the Neocatechumenal Way. She specified:

•it denies the sacrificial character of the Mass;
•it rejects transubstantiation;
•and it follows Luther’s teaching on justification.
“The Way (as it is called) is more Lutheran than Catholic,” my friend affirmed. 'I am sure that our Holy Father will never give his approval to it. After all, if he is serious about reconciling with Catholic traditionalists, why would he approve this sacrilege? It would be a contradiction.'

"I do not share Jan’s opinion on the supposed conservatism of Benedict XVI. So I was not surprised to learn that actually at the January 20 audience the Pope warmly praised the Neocatechumenal Way, calling it “a special gift which the Holy Spirit has given to our times.” He lauded the members for their apostolic zeal, noting their “firm commitment to proclaim the Gospel of the risen Christ,” and urged them to always make sure their "precious work" was in "profound communion with the Apostolic See and the pastors of the local church in which they are inserted." more>>>

Related Links:
Nothing has changed with 'papal' approval, explains Neocatechumenal priest
 PHOTO  'Pope' Benedict XVI’s Neocatechumenal audience

 VIDEOS/TEXT  1,700+ over last decade
Massive 'Catholic' school closings across the nation
"Archbishop Charles J. Chaput has been ordered to close a massive numbers of Catholic schools, privately recommended to him against his wishes. But Philadelphia is just one city that is being forced to close Catholic schools for many reasons.…

"Cardinal Justin Rigali, the predecessor to Archbishop Chaput, had appointed a "blue-ribbon panel" a year ago, calling for the closing of 45 Catholic elementary schools and four Catholic high schools. Catholic commission chairman, John L. Quindlen, says that even though the move would save the Philadelphia Catholic Church approximately $10 million annually, about 200 teachers would be laid off."

Related Links:
 VIDEOS/TEXT  44 'Catholic' Elementary Schools, 4 High Schools Closing
Proposed: Closing of 6 Omaha schools

NOW Comments:
The interview (see first video, which is significantly titled "Catholicism in Decline?") between a Philadelphia television  news reporter and a member of the "archdiocese's" panel on schools has a few telling exchanges. First, there's an explanation that the main reason Novus Ordo church attendance is down stems from the secularization of society. What isn't said, of course, is that the stated intent of John XXIII in convening Vatican II sect in the first place was to open the windows of the Church to the world, which has turned out to be something of the spiritual equivalent of opening the windows of one's home to the noise, smog and foul odors of a crowded, man-centered city. One amazing statistic that came out is that the number of students enrolled in Philadelphia's "parochial" school system currently stands at only 68,000, down from 250,000 pupils in the city's Catholic schools back in 1961; to find an enrollment as low as 68,000 in those schools, one has to trace all the way back to 1911! The excuse? In part, due to fewer baptisms. Wow, what an admission! The ultimate cause, however, traces back to the fantastically successful efforts to undermine the Catholic Church set in to motion at the Robber Council of Vatican II.

Another cowardly 'prince of the Church' in action
'Cardinal' George apologizes to perverts for 'inflammatory' remark
"Let's say a bishop or priest gives an interview to a newspaper or television/radio station and says something that can be construed as inflammatory. He then has to issue a 'clarification' followed a few days later by an apology.

"That scenario has played out here in the Archdiocese of Chicago in recent days, starting with an interview Cardinal Francis George gave to a local television station in which he said, 'You know, you don't want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.'

"Needless to say, the homosexual activists and their sympathizers weren't too pleased with the cardinal's remarks. A "clarification" was issued on Dec. 27 and was posted on the archdiocese's website…

NOW Comments:
Well, business as usual, and Matt Abbott's nailed it pretty well with the opening paragraph, because the statement-clarification-apology sequence of events is standard operating procedure for Novus Ordo clerics.

 PHOTOS/TEXT  Complete with canine vestments
Novus Ordo churches go to the dogs…literally
"A new extravagant way of desecrating the Mass has been introduced into progressivist churches: the altar dog. An experiment is now being made in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in the city of Mission, Texas. It has also been introduced Our Lady of the Holy Cross Church in Baden, Missouri.

"In Mission, the one responsible for this new outrage is Fr. Ray Snipers. From his 13 dogs, he selects four or five to accompany him during his Masses, confessions and other priestly duties. He dresses them in a kind of vestment to emphasize that he actually sees them as acolytes. In Baden, it is Fr. Donald Buhr who is accompanied by his one dog as he says the Mass and hears confessions."

NOW Comments:
Maybe now they'll need to start a new "lay minister" designation to follow in processions after the "priestly" hounds: Extraordinary pooper scooper.

On avoiding the "spiritual and mental sickness" of Modernist Rome
Bishop Williamson: 'I would rather be a schismatic sedevacantist than a Roman apostate'
"A long-standing correspondent wrote to me recently with a dozen arguments to show why the SSPX should come to some agreement with Rome, even if the doctrinal Discussions of 2009-2011 showed that the Rome-SSPX doctrinal disagreement is radical. Let me dwell here on one of his arguments, because I think it opens up the full dimensions of what the SSPX is up against.

"He wrote that if the SSPX does not soon "normalize" its standing with Rome, then it runs the risk of losing the sense of what it means to belong to the Church. For there are layfolk and even SSPX priests who are comfortable with their present abnormal situation and have adapted to it, because the SSPX "has all that it needs, notably bishops". Such adaptation, wrote my colleague, tends towards a schismatic mentality and a practical, if not theoretical, sedevacantism. I replied that in my opinion a much greater risk than that of acquiring a schismatic mentality is that of contracting "the spiritual and mental sickness of today's Romans by getting too close to them." A scandalous reply? Let me explain.

"'Mental sickness' is the phrase applied to Roman churchmen with whom a second friend recently held long conversations. He said that they are intelligent and sincere men, fully capable of grasping the arguments of Tradition put before them, but he concluded, 'They are mentally sick. Only, they have the authority." Certainly he meant no personal insult to these Romans when he called them 'mentally sick'. What he was uttering was something far more serious than a mere personal insult. He was commenting on the objective state of the Romans' minds, as confirmed by his long conversations with them. Their minds are no longer running on truth.…

"And the fascination of the Vatican is only a small part of the total pressure of the modern world seeping into minds to disable them, and to make us follow its current. Dear friend of mine, I would rather be a schismatic sedevacantist than a Roman apostate. With the grace of God, neither!"

NOW Comments:
"At least the Sedevacantists are consistent", once wrote Stephen Hand, a harsh critic of traditional Catholics. "They simply say that the conciliar and post-conciliar Popes were and are heretics, thus they possess no authority to teach anything in the name of the Catholic Faith,…But those who say---all the more deceptively---- 'No, we are not sedevacantists,' but who in fact thrive on constant opposition to the successor to Peter, the 'Rock' to whom Our Lord gave the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, and the promise of absolute indefectibility, these have even less credibility,...."

That candid quotation came to mind when reading what Bishop Richard Williamson has to say here. It is a prime example of how maddening the positions of the SSPX are when it comes to evaluating the crisis in the Church and the proper approach to dealing with it. Although Society Superior General Bishop Bernard Fellay has been in the forefront of negotiations with Modernist Rome to normalize relations between the two sides, Bp. Williamson has often challenged those negotiations as ultimately fruitless endeavors. And of course, his position is the correct one, insofar as it goes, for despite appearances to the contrary, the SSPX has nothing to gain and everything to lose by entering into any agreement with the Vatican―an agreement that would necessarily require it to make doctrinal compromises.

Where his position falters, however, is his agreement with the characterizing the problem in Rome being merely one of churchmen having "spiritual and mental sickness". But what about theological and moral sickness?

Ah, there's the rub.

That's what we're dealing with here in these 21st century Modernists. Certainly it's true that sick minds are to work in them, but it's a sickness containing an element of culpability, much as alcoholism or drug addiction. In Pascendi, Pope St. Pius X made it abundantly clear that moral corruption is involved in the formation of Modernists:

"We recognize that the remote causes may be reduced to two: curiosity and pride. Curiosity by itself, if not prudently regulated, suffices to account for all errors. Such is the opinion of Our predecessor, Gregory XVI, who wrote: 'A lamentable spectacle is that presented by the aberrations of human reason when it yields to the spirit of novelty, when against the warning of the Apostle it seeks to know beyond what it is meant to know, and when relying too much on itself it thinks it can find the truth outside the Catholic Church wherein truth is found without the slightest shadow of error.'

"But it is pride which exercises an incomparably greater sway over the soul to blind it and lead it into error, and pride sits in Modernism as in its own house, finding sustenance everywhere in its doctrines and lurking in its every aspect. It is pride which fills Modernists with that self-assurance by which they consider themselves and pose as the rule for all. It is pride which puffs them up with that vainglory which allows them to regard themselves as the sole possessors of knowledge, and makes them say, elated and inflated with presumption, 'We are not as the rest of men,' and which, lest they should seem as other men, leads them to embrace and to devise novelties even of the most absurd kind. It is pride which rouses in them the spirit of disobedience and causes them to demand a compromise between authority and liberty. It is owing to their pride that they seek to be the reformers of others while they forget to reform themselves, and that they are found to be utterly wanting in respect for authority, even for the supreme authority. Truly there is no road which leads so directly and so quickly to Modernism as pride.…(emphasis added―NOW)"

This explanation, which sharply puts into focus the mentality (and mental sickness, if you will) of the Ratzingers and Rahners, the Kaspers and Kungs, and all the rest of the pseudo-Catholics who have had their way for the past 50+ years in corrupting the Church (or at least her outer structure) is a hard saying, a stumbling block for Bp. Williamson, for the moment he concedes that the men with whom the Society are negotiating fit this profile to a tee is the moment he concedes they aren't Catholic, at all.

But wait. Bp. Williamson does speak of not wanting to become "a Roman apostate", as if to acknowledge that there is such a category of individual. Wouldn't that logically mean that he believes some of these men not to be Catholic? Well, yes, logically it would, but unfortunately when it comes to discussions of this sort, His Excellency has been known to throw logic clean out the window. He has, after all, come up with some of the most ludicrous (and we suspect he's well aware that they ludicrous) attempts to explain away the heresies of John Paul II (e.g., he's in a "liberal dream") and Benedict XVI (e.g., he's too much enamored with "modern German philosophy"), rather than state the obvious: they were or are manifest heretics who ceased being Catholic and who ipso facto lost the office by their very own acts (see Objection 3. A heretic-"pope" remains pope until judged infallibly by Holy Church) if, in fact, they ever possessed it to begin with. We call attention to the fact mentioned before on these pages, that regrettably for Bp. Williamson's arguments, nowhere in Pascendi (or anywhere else in the Church's magisterium, for that matter), are allowances made for Modernists to retain the good name of Catholic because their heresies are the result of nocturnal activities or metaphysical predilections. How said individuals arrived at their public heresies is of no great concern to the Church; what is of vital importance is their defection from the Faith and the danger that that falling away may have on others.

Finally, we come to his remark that he'd 'rather be a schismatic sedevacantist than a Roman apostate'. Now, without getting into the question of schism too deeply, Bp. Williamson should know very well that the position he and his SSPX brethren hold concerning Modernist Rome can just as easily―actually more easily―be characterized as schismatic, because whereas the sedevacantist rejects the papal claims of Fr. Ratzinger, thus not consciously disobeying a man he recognizes as Pope, Bp. Williamson believes Benedict XVI is a true pontiff, yet gives him scant obedience, if any. The term "cardboard pope", coined by Fr. Anthony Cekada to describe someone who's only regarded as a figurehead to be trotted out "for display purposes only", is an apt summing up of the SSPX "recognize but resist" stance. In the end it leads the Society into inadvertently un-Catholic policies, which are arguably schismatic, as in making the call as to whether it will accept or reject Conciliar canonizations (St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that canonizations are infallible, a position subsequently upheld by the Church) and canon law (which, were it coming from the true Church could not be challenged, as it is part of the magisterium).

It would be good for Bp. Williamson (and others in the SSPX) to adopt the only logically consistent and tenable position, the only position by which one may explain the current situation in the Church today without resorting to mental gymnastics that in the end only leaves one's mind tied up in knots, to adopt policies that give lip service and nothing more to the man putatively referred to as Pope or to dread the thought of getting too close to the "Pope's" representatives for fear of losing the Faith…and that position is sedevacantism. Since the Society is the largest grouping of traditionally-minded Catholics in the world, how it chooses to move forward necessarily is of monumental importance to the future of the Church.

There are essentially three options: 1) It can maintain the status quo, which is to play its cat and mouse games with Modernist Rome, but stay out that sect; 2) It can sell out and join the Novus Ordo "Church" (and it is ultimately a sell out of the SSPX's own foundational principles, even if it's blind to the fact, because the doctrinal compromises it will be forced to accept are irreconcilable with true Catholicism), which will amount to a tactical nuclear weapon landing in the midst of the traditional movement; or 3) Realizing that the first option isn't advancing the cause, but merely treading water, and the second is suicidal, it can make the bold step of acknowledging that the way to restore the Church is to quit pretending that the problem only consists of confused churchmen who can be talked back to orthodoxy, and see that there is an enemy occupation of many of the highest positions and that this isn't a new situation but one that's plagued Holy Mother Church for generations. Please God, the sooner the Society finally wakes up to how counterproductive its stand has been in this regard, the sooner the long-desired restoration of the Church can begin in earnest.
 

Instuare omnia in Christo
 

'New springtime' flashback
'Archbishop' Timothy Dolan actively joins in celebration at 'gay'-friendly church

DATE: Saturday, June 19, 2010
PLACE: The Church of St. Francis Xavier (Manhattan)
EVENT: 'Mass' of Rededication

New York's "Abp." Timothy Dolan, a "conservative" appointee of Benedict XVI in 2009, showed his true colors when he took part in the ceremonies rededicating the historically Jesuit Church of St. Francis Xavier. At around the 5:29 mark of the video an announcement is made during the gathering, in which we hear: "Let us now present our Catholic lesbian group and our gay Catholic men's group. Through their evangelizing efforts, educational and advocacy programs, and their emotional and spiritual support, these groups help LGBT Catholics return to the sacraments, and find an adult place in the church of their youth. I invite them and all who support this ministry to stand". These words (including the rhetorical abuse of the terms "evangelizing", "educational", "spiritual support" and "ministry" bring a rousing standing ovation, while Dolan, smiles broadly and waves, instead of stopping the proceeding dead in their tracks and condemning deviant behavior as wrong (of course, he wouldn't have been there in the first place had the church not been in good standing with him). Then at the end of "Mass" (7:56), Dolan adds further sacrilegious insult by attempting to invoke the intercession of St. Francis Xavier. Such actions have not deterred Modernist Rome from naming Dolan a "Cardinal".

Related Links:
Dolan blames married men for child sexual abuse
List of 'gay'-friendly churches

Thanks to an Ohio friend of Novus Ordo Watch for this video find.

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But in the process misses the bigger point
Rick Perry questions Rick Santorum’s conservative record, notes his 'Catholic' faith
"Packed into a corner of the Drive-In restaurant, Rick Perry today attempted to differentiate himself from Rick Santorum, who is flirting with much of the evangelical vote that Perry is counting on to win South Carolina.

"Perry slammed the former Pennsylvania senator’s social conservative record while in Congress and made one clear religious distinction between the two candidates, for the first time mentioning that Santorum is a “good Catholic” two times.

“'Rick Santorum is a good man,' Perry said of Santorum during a media availability. 'He is a good father. He’s a good Catholic, but he hasn’t always been a good conservative.…'

"The Texas governor took issue with Santorum’s vote to approve Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to an appellate court, which set her on track to become a Supreme Court justice.

“'I mean she is pro-abortion,' Perry said. 'Obama is a very liberal president and she is reflective of his philosophy, so there were 29 conservatives that voted against her, people like Strom Thurmond, and Rick voted for her, so the idea that he is a pure social conservative, this flies right in the face of it.'”

Related News:
Rick Santorum dismisses flyer attacking his wife

NOW Comments:
Here's an example of where the Protestant Perry is echoing the age-old error of Martin Luther that a Christian ruler need not behave as a Christian in his government capacity, as if somehow the private man can be divorced from his public side. (It's notable that this false thinking has become very popular in Novus Ordo circles with the "personally opposed to abortion" canard.) Perry's wrong to suggest that Santorum can somehow simultaneously be a good Catholic while approving abortion, because it's impossible to compartmentalize in any reasonable way how a man deals with moral decisions he's personally obliged to make at his job and his walk with God, as if the Almighty isn't mindful of those decisions. In fairness, Santorum's approval of Sotomayor in 1997 was not done with a full understanding of her abortion is a woman's right" position, which she kept close to her vest. However, it doesn't appear that he did due diligence to find out, either. But there's an even more egregious example Perry could have used in this regard, something where no plea of ignorance could be used, and that's Santorum's support of longtime pro-abortion Senator Arlen Specter. If Rick Santorum wants to be a good Catholic, a good conservative and a good leader he must, like the rest of us, heed our Lady's apparition at Fatima, where she specifically called for each and every person (politicians were not singled out as exceptions) to fulfill the duties appropriate for their state of life. In the case of Santorum this means always doing all that he can to fight the slaughter of the unborn, not just when he deems it politically expedient to do so. The flyer mentioned in "Related News" claims that prior to marriage Santorum's wife in the 1980s had a six-year affair with an abortion doctor. Sure, people change, but one has to fear, were he to be elected, that  she would turn out in the mold of GOP pro-abortion First Ladies like Barbara and Laura Bush, whose husbands also claimed to be pro-life.
 

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Occult links to the Novus Ordo
Vanguard art against the Church
"Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1885-1935), defining his religious position, reveals the underpinning of modern art: [I am] a Gnostic Christian and, therefore, completely opposed to all organized churches, above all the Church of Rome. I am faithful … to the secret tradition of Christianity, which is intimately connected with the secret tradition of Israel (the holy Kabala) and the occult core of Freemasonry.'

"Similar Gnostic interests led Oswaldo de Andrade, one of the founders of Brazilian modern art, to confess his sympathies for the leftist liturgical currents that had infiltrated the Church. He affirmed that Catholicism was adjusting itself, “returning, so to speak, to its pro-socialist position.' What interests him most, in the movement of renewal in Catholicism, however, is the persona of the German early progressivist priest and scholar, Romano Guardini.…"

The scandal that won't go away
Belgian police raid 'Catholic Church' offices over abuse files for third day running

'Canonical Appeals for Dummies'
Most U.S. 'Catholics' take complaints to 'church' court
"In recent years, clergy and lay people in the United States have increasingly turned to the church's internal legal system to challenge a bishop's or pastor's decision about even the most workaday issues in Catholic life, according to canon lawyers in academia, dioceses and in private practice. Sometimes, the challengers even win.

"In one example cited by veteran canon lawyers, parishioners wanted to bar musical performances in their church that weren't liturgical. Their priest had been renting space to a local band. In another case, a nun filed a petition after a religious superior disclosed the nun's medical information to others — a potential violation of privacy. Regarding bishops' often contentious decisions to close parishes, the liberal reform group FutureChurch posts a guide on its website called "Canonical Appeals for Dummies" on seeking Vatican intervention to stay open."

Predictable protest
Vatican protesters evicted by police
"Demonstrators attempting to set up a protest camp in St Peter's Square in Rome have been forcibly removed by riot police backed by the Vatican.

"Aiming to set up a protest camp similar to the Occupy encampment outside St Paul's in London, up to 50 protesters arrived in the colonnaded piazza in front of St Peter's basilica carrying placards calling on the Catholic church to pay more taxes, a likely reference to tax breaks handed to the Vatican by the Italian government."

NOW Comments:
This demonstration was just a matter of time. The so-called Occupy movement is a full-scale assault on established institutions with the aim being to have everything overseen by a one world government. It should go without saying that our call to "Occupy the Vatican!" is in no way connected to what these radicals are doing and what they stand for. We look for a time when Tradition is truly restored to the Apostolic See and the scoundrels now falsely in control there are thrown out.

 PHOTOS/TEXT  Not to mention attire
Nuns: Faces and gestures tell the story

Quick, somebody grab the cucumber peels!
Pope gets rare, scaled visitor at general audience
"Pope Benedict XVI received a rare, scaly visitor Wednesday during his weekly general audience: an endangered Cuban crocodile."

NOW Comments:
This item reminds of us John Paul II's dealings in Africa with voodooists, some of who worship crocodiles. It was while he was visiting Togo that that "pope" talked about praying with animists, and it is reported that this involved him tossing cucumber peelings in front of a "sacred" snake hut.

Exposing the phony, subversive "Saint" Dorothy Day
The Catholic Worker Movement (1933-1980): A Critical Analysis
"This is an eye-opening account, based on authentic documentary evidence, of two American Catholic radicals Dorothy Day (1897-1980) and Peter Maruin (1877-1949), founders of the Catholic Worker Movement (CWM), who, during the Great Depression and the Cold War, made common cause with Communist-led movements to build a new society where “Social Justice” would reign supreme.…

"The importance of this message to the survival of traditional Catholicism is obvious: as Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization has been opened by the Vatican, there is an ongoing need to alert people to the dangers of importing into the Christian community the same revolutionary principles espoused by Lenin and his followers. This book will appeal to anyone interested in issues concerning the continued dangers posed by 'cultural Marxism' to our Christian-based cultural heritage."

 

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Excerpts from the Notes:

p.7
Day mentioned with approval the Communist policy of “abolishing private property altogether and setting up communes” in CW [Catholic Worker newspaper―NOW] July-August 1969 when she stated:

"We are living in an era in which vast countries like Russia and China have solved the problem of agribusiness by abolishing private property altogether and setting up communes, which may be areas consisting of thirty villages, as in China, or collective farms, as in the Soviet Union and Cuba."

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p. 43
Day’s references to Louis Budenz are taken from CW December 1946. Her biographer, William D. Miller, revealed that “when Louis Budenz became a Catholic, Day wrote in CW that she hoped Budenz would not take to the lecture circuit to denounce his old faith.” (William D. Miller, Pretty Bubbles in the Air: America in 1919, University of Illinois Press, 1991, p. 142.)

Budenz stated immediately after his conversion to the Catholic Church: “Communism and Catholicism are irreconcilable. Communism, I have found, aims to establish a tyranny over the human spirit; it is in unending conflict with religion and true freedom.” (Louis Budenz, This is My Story, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1947)

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p. 62…
"Day always opposed efforts to combat Communism and stated: 'Forget the negative idea of "fighting Communism".' ( CW May 1937) Her true position on the Spanish Civil War became clear when she admitted many years later:

"'When my friends back then kept saying that the Catholic church in Spain was fascist, was part of a fascist coalition, was corrupt and a bulwark of all the worst, most exploitative elements in Spain, I had to agree. I knew what they were saying was politically and economically true.'"

(Quoted in Robert Coles, Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion , Da Capo, 1987, p. 79)

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p. 65
It is interesting to note that the Pacifist monk, Fr Thomas Merton, supported Day’s stance. He stated that some CW readers

"may get quite hot about the fact that you want to point out that Castro may have had good intentions and in actual fact has been less wicked than our mass media want him to have been. People who are scared and upset use a very simple logic, and they think that if you defend Castro as a human being you are defending all the crimes that have ever been committed by Communism anywhere and they will feel that you are threatening them." (Quoted in Nancy Roberts, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, State University of New York Press, 1984, p. 156.)

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p. 242
Day stated:

"The Liturgical movement has meant everything to the Catholic Worker from its very beginning. We had our communion procession and even the altar facing the people, as far back as 1937." ( CW March 1966)

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p. 277
In November 1965, when Day was in Rome, she wrote:

"On the way I saluted the statue of Garibaldi, who was God’s instrument in relieving the Papacy of those encumbrances, the Papal States." (Dorothy Day, On Pilgrimage, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan: 1999, p. 33)

"Garibaldi invaded the Papal States with his insurgents – an act that Day, despite her absolute Pacifism, described as a 'mighty work of God'" ( CW July-August 1969)

Day noted approvingly: “Fortunately, the Papal States were wrested from the Church in the last century.” ( CW July-August 1969)
 

Making better Buddhists!
Zen Buddhist-'Catholic' Dialogue

This is a great example of the "spirit of Assisi" in action. Far from seeking converts, Salt Lake City "Bp." John Wester" openly rejects proselytizing his Buddhist friends, whom he sees as belonging to an equally valid "faith tradition". If they leave the dialogues  more fulfilled in their false religion, so much the better. Wester was appointed to his post by the friend of (Buddhist?) tradition, Benedict XVI, and installed by "Abp." George "How should I know I wasn't supposed to give communion to a  transvestite wearing a string of pearls, mime makeup and a traditional nuns' habit?" Niederauer. 

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Educational fallout continues
Once-Catholic schools still feeling effects of Vatican II

Benedict XVI names new 'cardinals' (mostly Europeans) who’ll choose successor

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More fruits of Vatican II
Poland adjusting to more secular age
"The traditional primacy of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been shaken. On Oct. 9, one of every 10 Poles voted for the socially egalitarian and explicitly anticlerical party known as the Palikot Movement, named after founder Janusz Palikot.

"While politicians generally avoid criticism of the church in a country that is 97 percent Catholic, the Palikot party has already demanded the removal of a crucifix from the main chamber of Poland’s Sejm (parliament―see photo left――note crucifix over doorway).

"This new party, which won 40 seats in the 460-seat parliament, seeks to end tax exemptions for priests, religion classes and crucifixes in public schools, and all state subsidies for churches. It favors marijuana legalization and same-sex civil unions.

"Palikot has brought controversial issues into the open. Among the Palikot members seen during the nationally televised swearing in of parliament Nov. 8 were a transsexual woman and a gay man. Conservative Poland has never experienced anything like this."

NOW Comments:
Some may question the subheading "More fruits of Vatican II", but among the issues the article raises is that "the presence of a crucifix in parliament was a violation of the constitution, which is neutral on religion." The Conciliar Constitution Dignitatis Humanae, in contradiction to the perennial teaching of the Catholic Church, that opened the door to changing national constitutions in historically Catholic countries from those favoring the Church to denominationally-neutral ones, a policy that Paul VI pushed forward in nations like Spain and Columbia. Sadly, Poland has now followed suit after the official "fall of Communism", so in practical terms, many of the same anti-Catholic policies favored by the erstwhile Soviet satellite are once again in place―the more things change, the more they stay the same.

More Polish news:
Polish liberal stirs anger with call to remove cross from parliament
 PHOTOS/TEXT  Guitar hybrid 'Mass' in Poland (with video link)
Jewish friend from childhood who influenced John Paul II dies

THE CHURCH'S MAGISTERIUM TEACHES 'NEW MASS' Changes TO

THE essence* of THE rite are strictly forbidden and invalidating

Modernist Rome admits Paul VI's Novus Ordo Missæ made substantive changes to Sacramental rites
"The reform of the liturgy, carried out in accordance with the Constitution of the Second Vatican Council, has also introduced certain modifications in the very essence of the Sacramental rites".
 

― L'Osservatore Romano ( November 7, 1974; emphasis added―NOW)

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Eternal Rome teaches substantive changes to Sacramental rites are utterly forbidden
"It is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever to innovate anything touching on the substance of the Sacraments".

 ― Pope St. Pius X, Ex quo non (December 26, 1910; emphasis added―NOW; )

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Eternal Rome teaches substantive changes to Sacramental rites are invalidating
"If the priest were to shorten or change the form of the consecration of the Body and the Blood, so that in the change of wording the words did not mean the same thing, he would not be achieving a valid Sacrament".

― Pope St. Pius V, De Defectibus (emphasis added―NOW)

 

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* In the present context the terms "essence" and "substance" and "essential" and "substantive" (or "substantial") are synonymous, pertaining to that part of the sacrament which is fixed and unalterable, and without which the sacrament cannot be validly confected.
 

A victim of the Novus Ordo's spiritual recession

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to an Ohio friend of Novus Ordo Watch for this find.

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Into S/M and child S/M flicks, but not a threat to children?
'Gay' Canadian bishop’s child porn sentence doesn’t reflect seriousness of crime

U.S. 'Catholic bishop' who resigned had fathered two children

PHOTOS/TEXT  Punk 'papal' devotees
Benedict XVI :Champion of what tradition? The Sex Pistols?

Dark holiday season for Detroit 'Catholic Church' as 'archdiocese' downsizes

Lux vera     ―     lux aeterna 


Novus Ordo Watch Christmas greeting and appeal  

"in Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness and the darkness
did not comprehend it.…That was the true light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world."

 ― Gospel of St. John 1:4-5, 9

in this holy season we rejoice in the nativity of Our Savior Jesus Christ, Who was born in poor, humble surroundings to the Blessed Virgin Mary at the dead of night in Bethlehem. The cold stable into which St. Joseph brought his most pure spouse and which served as refuge for the Holy Family was open to the elements and only dimly lit by oil lamps, but from a lowly manger there the light of the Divine Infant shown forth the brightness and warmth of Heaven. Today, two millennia later the light of the Christ Child still burns just as brightly and just as warmly in the hearts of the faithful, as it serves, too, as a beacon to all men of good will.

It is in the spirt of the season that Novus Ordo Watch staff takes this moment to extend our best wishes that the Christ Child will bless our readers and their loved ones now and in the coming days and throughout 2012. May He bring you and yours every good gift, especially His true light to guide you in this life and lead you at length of days into the eternal light of the Beatific Vision. More and more may He give you that true enlightenment that only He is capable of giving, He Who is the Divine Wisdom.

And may he strengthen us all in the coming year to be true to our vocations as members of the Church Militant, for we live in a day when antichristian forces are redoubling their efforts to extinguish the light of Christ from the face of the Earth. Most insidious of those forces is Modernist Rome, because it does it's destruction deceptively, falsely claiming the name "Catholic", while carrying out an agenda that is anything but Catholic…tearing down as it pretends to build up.

Now in our second decade online, Novus Ordo Watch continues to expose the nefarious works of the Conciliar Church. Today that task is more daunting than ever before, as Benedict XVI has shown himself to a very crafty adversary by pretending to be a friend of Catholic Tradition. "Pope" Ratzinger has fooled many with his ruse, but we continue to make available the truth about him.

Thus, it is all the more imperative that we continue our work to enlighten those still deceived by the counterfeit sect that is the Novus Ordo "Church". We know from our readers around the world that we have made and continue to make a difference for better. We are firmly committed to keep our candle shining brightly. But to do this, we need your help. Our apostolate is gravely compromised by equipment that is barely functional, one of the primary reasons updates have been so spread apart. Recurring bouts of illness and other pressing personal matters have further frustrated our efforts, but over and above all other considerations has been computer unreliability. This has been an ongoing concern for quite some time now and on more than one occasion we've warned our readers of the detrimental effect this has been having on providing timely updates. It's gone from our bringing you regular updates to occasional ones (The situation is dire enough that there were limitations even to the formatting that could be done on this appeal!)

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