Pop Quiz:
What Religion is This?
(Hint: It's a Dominican Convent)

"Archbishop" Gregory: 'Flip-Flops are Welcome at my Mass'
Says Gregory: "I must confess that I have never been offended or scandalized by any attire that I have seen our kids wear to Church" -- but the problem is probably with him then: just because he isn't offended doesn't mean it's not offensive. The Catholic position on this issue is very simple: the church is the house of God and one must be dressed respectfully because God is present there. For ladies, no slacks, no low-cut, no sleeveless, but dress or skirts, veil, modest clothing. For gents, Sunday best, suit and tie or similar, no sneakers, etc.

Pulpit Fiction:
Bishop Gumbleton says Condemnation of Homosexuality is Evil
Caution! Read this sermon at your own risk!
Reality Check:
"But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me" --Holy Words of the "Inclusive" Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 10:33-38)

English Translation now available: Fr. Trytek's Declaration on Why He Left the Society of St. Pius X for Sedevacantism -Why the SSPX Position is not a Catholic Solution-

Hands Up! Always something New at the Fun Church

Speaking of Fun Church...
"Church on the Ball"
--"Cardinal" Lehmann has neat liturgical suggestions for World-Cup-proof Liturgy:
Bring a Jersey, Soccer Shoes, Soccer Ball, etc., to the Altar
(in German only, sorry; Germany is hosting the Soccer World Cup 2006)

New Cartoon!
The Real Story behind the SSPX-Rome Negotiations:

(This cartoon was designed exclusively for Novus Ordo Watch by Paul Nichols.)

Related: More Information on the Fellay-Benedict Negotiations, Part 1
See also: Part 2
More SSPX News: Checking those Rumors

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"No Rupture with the Past" Update:
The Vatican II Church and Ecumenism vs. Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church:
"If Christians, despite their divisions, can grow ever more united in common prayer around Christ, they will grow in the awareness of how little divides them in comparison to what unites them. If they meet more often and more regularly before Christ in prayer, they will be able to gain the courage to face all the painful human reality of their divisions, and they will find themselves together once more in that community of the Church which Christ constantly builds up in the Holy Spirit, in spite of all weaknesses and human limitations." --John Paul II, "Encyclical" Ut Unum Sint, par. 22, 1995
Reality Check:
"...be on guard lest, on the false pretext that more attention should be paid to the points on which we agree than to those on which we differ, a dangerous indifferentism be encouraged, especially among persons whose training in theology is not deep and whose practice of their faith is not very strong. For care must be taken lest, in the so-called 'irenic' spirit of today, through comparative study and the vain desire for a progressively closer mutual approach among the various professions of faith, Catholic doctrine --either in its dogmas or in the truths which are connected with them-- be so conformed or in a way adapted to the doctrines of dissident sects, that the purity of Catholic doctrine be impaired, or its genuine and certain meaning be obscured." --Instruction of the Holy Office on Ecumenism, 1949

Good: Novus Ordo Bishop calls Pro-Abortion Position "Heresy"
But (and there always seems to be a "but") he also seems to call the pro-death penalty position "heresy," inasmuch as execution is not a natural death.
Reality Check: The Catholic Position on the Death Penalty

"Cardinal Sean" doesn't want to be

Benedict announces Consistory for March 24:
Here's a List of the New "Cardinals"

Castro invites Benedict XVI to Cuba

Coming Soon, to a Novus Ordo School near you?
Ratzinger 101
--Yes, they're studying the thought of a man suspected of heresy under Pope Pius XII
...and that openly proclaimed heresy in his 1982 Book Principles of Catholic Theology
...and whose book Introduction to Christianity was banned in a Polish Diocese for Liberalism
etc.

Blessed John XXIII? Hardly!
Related: The Truth about John XXIII

Exclusive Translation for Novus Ordo Watch: Full Article on Impious German "Youth Churches": 40 Tons of Sand, Erotica, Partying in German Novus Ordo Church Incl. "Heaven is a Halfpipe" Skater Project Fully Approved by "Bishop" Kamphaus, who attended the opening event!

Benedict XVI cheers Religious Liberty for "Harmonious Social Development"
It is clear that Benedict does not advocate a Catholic (or even Christian) Civilization
Reality Check:
"the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants." --Pope St. Pius X, "Our Apostolic Mandate", 1910

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Benedict XVI: "The only path that can lead to peace and fraternity is respect for the convictions and religious practices of others."
Oh, yeah? Contrast that with real Catholic Popes teaching real Catholic doctrine:
"Men must look for the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ... When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony." --Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Quas Primas, par. 1,19, 1925
"The peace of Christ ... is the only true peace" --Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Ubi Arcano Dei, par. 37, 1922
"Jesus has loved us with an immense, infinite love, and He came on earth to suffer and die so that, gathered around Him in justice and love, motivated by the same sentiments of mutual charity, all men might live in peace and happiness. But for the realization of this temporal and eternal happiness, He has laid down with supreme authority the condition that we must belong to His Flock, that we must accept His doctrine, that we must practice virtue, and that we must accept the teaching and guidance of Peter and his successors. Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all, but He instructed them in order to convert them and save them." --Pope St. Pius X, Letter "Our Apostolic Mandate", 1910

How about some Jesuit Liturgy?

Vatican Banker "Archbishop" Marcinkus Dead at 84
--was involved in Vatican Bank Scandal around the death of John Paul I

SSPX Update:
Fellay says No Contact with Benedict XVI since August '05
That's interesting, given that an Italian paper has claimed Fellay and Benedict have had phone conversations and something major would take place March 23 (here)
See also: More Notes on SSPX-Rome Negotiations

JAW DROP - Words Fail: 40 Tons of Sand in Church-- Erotica, Graffiti, Skating, Dancing, Partying at Novus Ordo "Youth Church" in Germany Also: "Pimp My Church" / "Jesus Unplugged" It used to be possible to satirize this impiety, but no longer --you just can't make it up, that's how bad it is! Welcome to the "New Springtime" of Vatican II!

Benedict XVI expected to hold Consistory March 25

PAPAL WISDOM:
"...at the hour of His precious death [Christ] willed that His Church should be enriched with the abundant gifts of the Paraclete in order that in dispensing the divine fruits of the Redemption she might be, for the Incarnate Word, a powerful instrument that would never fail. For both the juridical mission of the Church, and the power to teach, govern and administer the Sacraments, derive their supernatural efficacy and force of the building up of the body of Christ from the fact that Jesus Christ, hanging on the Cross, opened up to His Church the fountain of those divine gifts, which prevent her from ever teaching false doctrine and enable her to rule them for the salvation of their souls through divinely enlightened pastors and to bestow on them an abundance of heavenly graces." --Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Mystici Corporis, par. 31, 1943
Yes, the Catholic Church cannot fail and cannot teach false doctrine. This proves once more that the Novus Ordo Church cannot be the Catholic Church.

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"New Springtime" Update:
Vienna Cathedral Rector Blesses Homosexuals on St. Valentine's Day

Apologies in Chicago

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WFTS Radio - Listen Live!

Another Apostate Cheers Benedict's Encyclical
Put on your surprise face...

WE HAVE BEEN WARNED: "Our Predecessors, have, with Apostolic fortitude, constantly resisted the nefarious enterprises of wicked men, who, like raging waves of the sea foaming out their own confusion, and promising liberty whereas they are the slaves of corruption, have striven by their deceptive opinions and most pernicious writings to raze the foundations of the Catholic religion and of civil society, to remove from among men all virtue and justice, to deprave persons, and especially inexperienced youth, to lead it into the snares of error, and at length to tear it from the bosom of the Catholic Church." --Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Quanta Cura, 1864 Ratzinger Fact Check: From the Ratzinger Files 1982: 'Raze the Bastions of the Church, don't return to Pius IX'

The New Religion at Full Throttle
CAUTION! Indecent Pictures!

$$$
So now the Vatican charges Money to spread their New Religion

Young and Non-Catholic -- The Face of the New Church

French Modernists want New Debate on Birth Control--
Encouraged by Benedict XVI's Encyclical!

SSPX-Rome Update:
 
Italian Paper Claims "End of Lefebvre Schism" in Sight - March 23
Asserts Repeated Telephone Conversations between Ratzinger, Fellay

New Cartoon!
The Vatican "Cracks Down" on Homosexuals
(relevant story here)

(This cartoon was designed exclusively for Novus Ordo Watch by Paul Nichols.)

New Resource:
"Must I Believe It?" (by Canon Smith, 1935)
Do not think that Catholics are only bound to believe the infallible teachings of the Church...

Behold the "Future of the Church" at "Mass"

Sermon Audio File (click to download / play):
On the Church, the Papacy, Heresy, and the True Faith

"New Springtime" Update:
Interview with New "Archbishop" of San Francisco

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Benedict XVI writes to his Fellow-Non-Catholic Brother
Reality Check:
Kasper is a Textbook Modernist Apostate
(and therefore not a cardinal of the Catholic Church)
Funny, isn't it, how Kasper went from "heretic" (Ratzinger's word) to "Venerable Brother"!

More SSPX-Rome News:
Hoyos presents Reconciliation Plan -
Arinze insists on Novus Ordo Participation by SSPX

"Archbishop" Fitzgerald Reassigned

"Archbishop" of Rabat: "If the Other really became My Brother..."
And if that bishop really became a Catholic... how fantastic that would be!

Curious Connections emerge in Schiavo "Marriage" Case

Newchurch decides Priest's Sexual Abuse "Not Sexual"
Caution! Offensive Content!
"May have been inappropriate"? Are they joking?

Küng gives Two Thumbs Up to Benedict's Encyclical
Any other questions?

Benedict has Egg on his Face:
Newly-appointed "Archbishop" of San Francisco likes Gay Cowboy Movie,
apparently doesn't consider Same-Sex Attraction an Aberration

Vatican II Church in the Crossfire:
Is the Schindler-Centonze Marriage Invalid?

How about some Penance for Septuagesima?
Listen to "The Great One" by the Irrev. Stan Fortuna
(Fortuna is a Novus Ordo priest, clearly visible here)

Check out what King Küng is up to

SSPX-Rome Update:
Wider Use of the Traditional Mass - YES
Budging on Vatican II - NO

Next Stop, March 23?
Second Meeting to solve SSPX-Rome Problems in March

Have we all been mistaken? FATIMA UNRAVELS (or does it?) Shocking evidence of a False Sr. Lucy, a Papal Consecration of Russia long ago, and a Period of Peace that could be about to end? You be the judge!       Sr. Lucy         vs.         "Sr. Lucy"?

"Ratzinger the Conservative" Update:
De Lubac: Ratzinger Destroyed the Holy Office
With "Catholics" like these, who needs Protestants?

SSPX Watch:
Novus Ordo Watch has learned from a credible source that Bishop Fellay will meet with U.S. SSPX clergy at their Seminary in Winona, Minnesota, February 20th

Benedict's February 13 Meeting with Curia: Document to "Free the Old Mass" to be Drafted? A "Quick Solution" Sought Vatican: No Decision - Discussion postponed till March 20? (scroll down for English translation) More Notes about the Meeting

Who will be Benedict's New "Cardinals"?

"Liturgical Abuse" Update:
Benedict plans to apply some Band-Aids soon!
Without offending anyone, of course! They'll just be talking about the abuses. Oh, has anyone told them that the New Mass itself is part of the abuse?
This same article speaks also about Benedict's desire to reconcile with the SSPX. The most ironic thing is for "Cardinal" Arinze to say Benedict XVI cannot disown Vatican II because he "cannot change the Faith of the Church"! What has he been doing since the 1960s but changing the Faith, pray tell?

Guess what:
Homosexuality will Continue in the Novus Ordo Priesthood
--thanks to Ratzinger XVI

Miami makes it possible:
MLK Interfaith Celebration, K-9 Dogs at "Catholic" Cathedral

For those who read Polish:
Fr. Trytek explains why he left the Society of St. Pius X

It's that Time of the Year again:
The "Carnival-Cardinal" is Back
Caution: Indecent Pictures!
(It's perhaps humorous that "Lehmann" is pronounced "Layman")

SSPX Watch:
Bp. Fellay: "If we were to sign today, all our faithful would not follow us"
--The persistent rumors about the SSPX-Rome situation couldn't have anything to do with this interview, could they? Fellay even says, regarding the intermediate step of having a "free traditional Mass" only for the SSPX, that "maybe we will have to go through this stage, yes, it is even probable," when at first the freeing of the Mass for all was a condition to even begin a reconciliation!

Flashback 1994: Could This be the TRUE Third Secret of Fatima? "There will be a Wicked Council... The Church will Bleed from all Her Wounds..." It would certainly make a lot more sense than what the Vatican tried to pass off as the Third Secret in 2000.

Putting the Perspectives into Perspective:
Orthodox and Protestant Ecumenists happy with a Pope who agrees not to be Pope?
Yes, but so is Benedict XVI: "[I]t would be worth our while to consider whether [the schismatic Patriarch Athenagoras'] archaic confession [of Paul VI's "primacy"], which has nothing to do with the 'primacy of jurisdiction' but confesses a primacy of 'honor'… and agape [love], might not be recognized as a formula that adequately reflects the position Rome occupies in the Church" (Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology, Ignatius Press, 1987, p. 217).
Reality Check: "If anyone thus speaks, that the Roman Pontiff has only the office of inspection or direction, but not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which pertain to faith and morals, but also in those which pertain to the discipline and government of the Church spread over the whole world…: let him be anathema." --First Vatican Council, 1870 (Denz. 1831)

"New Springtime" Update:
"Brokeback Campus" at "Catholic" University

"Let him be anathema":
Why is the SSPX even negotiating with THIS MAN?

What is going on with the SSPX?
Brief Comments on the SSPX Situation

Fellay Sermon in Search of Meaning?

Correction:
Novus Ordo Watch had reported that an SSPX cleric had claimed a reconciliation between the SSPX and Rome might take place by Easter. After further checking, this information was based on an unfortunate misunderstanding. We have removed the claim and apologize.

"No Rupture with the Past" Update:
New Church: Catholic Altars used by Non-Catholics? No Problem!
Reality Check: This "Ecumenical Directory" was fully promulgated by John Paul II for the entire Novus Ordo Church: "On March 25th, 1993, His Holiness Pope [sic] John Paul II approved this Directory, confirmed it by his authority and ordered that it be published. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding."

New Cartoon:
Paul VI 'laments' the Sad State of his Church

(This cartoon was designed exclusively for Novus Ordo Watch by Paul Nichols.)

SSPX Watch:
Bishop Fellay: No Compromise to Reconcile with Rome
More: Text of Fellay Press Conference on January 13

Outing "Cardinal" Egan and others?

News Flash from Poland:
Fr. Rafal Trytek leaves SSPX for Sedevacantism

"New Springtime" Update:
Novus Ordo Priest blesses Mardi Gras

No Joke:
Beer, Brats, and Benedict [PDF File]

"No Rupture with the Past" Update:
Mickey Mouse "Tabernacle" in Psychedelic Novus Ordo Temple

Interesting:
Major Novus Ordo Magazine criticizes 'Siri Thesis'
Now that is CURIOUS. How many people hold to the Siri Thesis in this world? Maybe one or two thousand? There are perhaps more Flat Earth believers than Siri believers, i.e., Catholics who are convinced Cardinal Siri was the true Pope from 1958-89. Why in the world would a Novus Ordo magazine of such stature deal with the Siri thesis? Isn't this a bit like the National Review writing an article about 35 people in the U.S. who believe that Walter Mondale was elected President in 1984? Novus Ordo Watch has long indicated that Cardinal Siri might have been elected in the 1958 conclave (see here) -- the whole point really being not so much that this particular cardinal was elected but that it is plausible that some cardinal other than Roncalli was elected first. Why is the New Vatican so interested in getting people not to believe this? Regarding the error of the Silvio Negro article (here), we apologize for the error but must note that we relied on an Italian-English translator, who had assured us that the correct way to understand the article was to understand the reference to the note passed on to Vatican Radio as being a reference to the 1958 conclave, not the 1939 conclave. In any case, the Siri thesis does not stand or fall with this article. Another curious item: It was Inside the Vatican itself, in its September 2004 issue, that quoted Fr. Charles-Roux as follows: "There were certain irregularities about the election during that 1958 conclave, as Cardinal Tisserant has himself acknowledged. Some say Agagianian was elected, others Siri [!!], others some other cardinal, and that the camerlengo then annulled the election. In any case, I'm quite sure John XXIII chose his name, the name of an antipope [of the 15th century], quite consciously, to show he had been irregularly elected" (p. 41).
Related: Press Reports and Comments on the 1958 Conclave

JAW-DROP:
SSPX's Fr. Schmidberger: Better Novus Ordo than Sedevacantist!
(scroll to February 9 entry)
Thank you, this says it all. Somehow Sedevacantism is the unforgiveable sin, even for many Neo-Traditionalists. But why? A sedevacantist practices the Catholic Faith whole and entire -- he simply is convinced that Benedict XVI is not the Pope and not a Catholic (and therefore he is not subject to him) -- and this is supposed to be worse than practicing the Novus Ordo religion, which is a mixture of humanism, syncretism, indifferentism, and modernism? One wonders: Why this sudden outburst of opposition and hatred towards sedevacantism? First the indult/Remnant crowd, then the SSPX, the St. Benedict Center, and now the February 2006 issue of Inside the Vatican also takes up the issue of sedevacantism to an extent. What is going on?

Another Report Confirms:
On Feb. 13, Benedict XVI will discuss lifting the SSPX Excommunications and "freeing" the Traditional Mass (well, the 1962 Roncalli Missal)

Put on your Surprise Face:
Michael Jackson to sing John Paul II's Prayers?
It's quite understandable that they wanted to keep this secret...

No Modernism here:
Cardinal Suenens vs. God

You can't make this up:
"Catholic" University to Offer Minor in "Queer Studies"

"New Springtime" Update:
Many "Catholic" Hospitals dispense Abortion Drug

Maida in Trouble:
A 100,000-Square-Foot Money Pit

SSPX Watch:
Bishop Fellay disclaims Recent Rumors

Novus Ordo Priest charged in Abuse of Boy under 12

Vatican Official claims Violence of Holy Inquisition was "Mistake"
Reality Check:
"That heretics be burned, is against the will of the [Holy] Spirit" --condemned by Pope Leo X, Bull Exsurge Domine, no. 33, 1520
Also: The Truth about the Holy Inquisition

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Flashback 1968 - "Introduction to Christianity Modernism"
Ratzinger's Book Banned in Warsaw Diocese by Cardinal Wyszynski

Ex-Vatican Official wanted on Ontario Sex Charges

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

SSPX Alert:
Benedict XVI wants to Lift Excommunications against SSPX Bishops
See also: Original Report in Italian Here
Also: Benedict to discuss SSPX-Reconciliation with Curia
Everything is going according to plan, it seems: See, We Told You So

WE HAVE BEEN WARNED:
"These moderns, forever prattling about culture and civilization, are undermining the Church's doctrine, laws, and practices. They are not concerned very much about culture and civilization. By using such high-sounding words they think they can conceal the wickedness of their schemes. All of you know their purpose, subterfuges, and methods. On Our part We have denounced and condemned their scheming. They are proposing a universal apostasy even worse than the one that threatened the age of Charles. It is worse, We say, because it stealthily creeps into the very veins of the Church, hides there, and cunningly pushes erroneous principles to their ultimate conclusions." --Pope St. Pius X, Encyclical Editae Saepe, par. 17-18, 1910

Was Paul VI a Homosexual? Rumors and Realities...

Words Fail:
"Catholic" Cathedral celebrates Year of the Dog

Ex-Priest speaks on "Cardinal" McCarrick, Homosexuality

SSPX Priest disclaims Recent Rumors

"Great Renewal" Update:
The Sad State of Novus Ordo Sisterhood
No wonder they cannot find vocations...