Graduation time...
God and girl at "Catholic" College
"After our president stood to greet us, a priest approached the podium to give us a blessing. But instead of the traditional Catholic sacramental, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,' the priest said only: 'Let us place ourselves in the presence of God.' In fact, in the entire two hour ceremony, the Sign of the Cross wasn’t made a single time...."

NOW Comments: We'd like to sympathize more, but what was she doing at such a school in the first place?

Hey, they're buddies after all!
"Pope" Ratzinger and Darwin
"Benedict XVI will indeed be hosting a scholarly powwow this weekend at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, to debate evolution and creation. But don't expect the Catholic Church to start disputing Darwin's basic findings, which Pope John Paul II in 1996 called 'more than a hypothesis.' Moreover, advocates of the teaching in U.S. schools of intelligent design — which holds that nature is so complex that it must be God's doing — should not count on any imminent Holy See document or papal pronouncement to help boost their cause...."

Novus Ordo "parish" welcomes womanpriest, sponsors GLBT "retreat"

"Priest" who molested teen is released from jail

Hindu “Mass” sparks violent altercation in Toronto churchyard
"Another abomination took place at the Our Father. Instead of reciting the prayer together as a congregation, the people were asked to sit down while the girls launched into another interpretive dance number. Most gestures were completely un-fathomable, with the exception of receiving bread and forgiving trespasses (a shove, hurt feelings, forgiveness, hugs all around). The musical accompaniment was a Hare Krishna chant! Father D’Sa intoned the words “Our Father” four times. The response each time was the mantra “Hare Krishna”; towards the end of the prayer, the mantra was repeated over and over. Krishna, the reincarnation of Vishnu, who represents the Absolute Lord, is said to have seduced 16,000 women, and a whole occult, erotic literature has been developed around this aspect of Krishna...."

So where did the $1.4 million go?
Authorities get more church documents

Off key? Mozart, a Catholic master Mason, is favorite of "Pope" Benedict

Papal preacher: Wives should not obey husbands
"Husbands love your wives, this is good. Wives, submit to your husbands, this is unacceptable. This was the revolutionary message of a recent sermon by Capuchin Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pontifical Household. Fr. Cantalamessa was commenting on the passages of St. Paul (Eph 5:21-32) that includes the verse that has long upset feminists, specifically, 'Wives, be subject to your husbands' (5:22)...."

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2002 Sedevacantist Conference: Two talks on sedevacantism by John Daly and John Lane, and Q&A with Gerry Matatics
Don't miss this! John Daly speaks on the defection of the New Church, John Lane on heresy, and Gerry Matatics tests sedevacantism by asking difficult questions, to which Daly and Lane respond.

Vatican II strikes again
Abortion now legal in once-Catholic Columbia

Leftist "nun," Mary Luke Tobin dies
"'Luke brought in wise, forward-thinking women and men [sic] who were luminaries in their own way,' and who continued the renewal begun by Pope John XXIII, said former Loretto president Sr. Mary Ann Coyle, who knew Tobin since the 1960s. Besides [Thomas] Merton, Tobin asked Mercy Sr. Theresa Kane, Dominican Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, Redemptorist Fr. Bernard Häring and many others to lecture at Loretto...."

Background to betrayal!
The (Anti-) Liturgical Movement: The Destruction of the Traditional Roman Rite
"During the first session of the Second Vatican Council, in the debate on the Liturgy Constitution, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani asked: “Are these Fathers planning a revolution?” The Cardinal was old and partly blind. He spoke from the heart without a text about a subject which moved him deeply, and continued:

Are we seeking to stir up wonder, or perhaps scandal among the Christian people, by introducing changes in so venerable a rite, that has been approved for so many centuries and is now so familiar? The rite of Holy Mass should not be treated as if it were a piece of cloth to be refashioned according to the whim of each generation.

"So concerned was he at the revolutionary potential of the Constitution, and having no prepared text, the elderly Cardinal exceeded the ten-minute time limit for speeches. At a signal from Cardinal Alfrink, who was presiding at the session, a technician switched off the microphone, and Cardinal Ottaviani stumbled back to his seat in humiliation."

...and the evil fruit it bore
The post conciliar liturgical revolution

Warnings from our Lord about the "new mass"

Heretical roots of "new mass" exposed a century before Vatican II
 Dom Prosper Gueranger, OSB: The Anti-Liturgical Heresy

"Communism is Dead" update:
Subversive Vietnamese "bishop": OK for Novus Ordo youth to join Communists
"A Vietnamese bishop has told a gathering of 60,000 young people that they have the right to join the Communist Party provided their faith is not threatened.

UK "Catholic" youth party to "Sympathy for the Devil"
(Caution: Linked article has immodest photo!)
JAW DROP IN FRANCE!
Novus Ordo debauchery at Lourdes
"At Bar Angelus, a few hundred yards from the shrine, bare-chested men, and women wearing skimpy tops and crucifixes, swayed to the blaring music including Madonna's 'Like A Virgin' and 'Sympathy for the Devil' by the Rolling Stones. 'We come here to party after being reverential all day,' said Susan Clare, a 19-year-old student from south London....

"Later, as the bars continued to serve cocktails at £2.50 a time, revelers were seen running across the roofs of parked cars, indulging in mock fights and vomiting into gutters. It is these types of crime, along with minor acts of vandalism and 'lewd behavior' between amorous young Roman Catholics, that dominate the nightly reports of CRS [Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité] officers.

"'Offenders from Britain are easy to spot because they usually all wear the same colored T-shirts and hats,' said one CRS officer. 'Last week a couple sneaked into the grounds of the Rose Basilica and became very amorous in a very holy place. It's not the kind of thing other pilgrims want to see.'"

Relax, orthodoxy still isn't a requirement
New, stricter priestly formation program issued for US "Catholic" seminaries

From our "Pot calling the kettle black" Department
Mexico "Catholic" officials criticize protesters Guadalupe image use
"Supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador generated criticism from church officials when they used images of Our Lady of Guadalupe on political banners."

NOW Comments: Yes, using the Blessed Virgin's image to advance Marxist liberation theology is a sacrilege, but no more than the dozens of other false theologies peddled daily by the Novus Ordo church in Mexico. Any use of that nation's Patroness to promote pseudo-Catholicism is an affront to God and His Mother.

An architect of false ecumenism at Vatican II and beyond
Benedict XVI mourns death of "Cardinal" Willebrands
"Benedict XVI sent two telegrams to express his sorrow over the death of Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, the retired president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He was 96.

"The Holy Father sent the messages Aug. 2, the day the Dutch cardinal died, to Cardinal Walter Kasper, who succeeded Cardinal Willebrands in the Vatican dicastery, and to Cardinal Adrianus Johannes Simonis, who succeeded the late cardinal as archbishop of Utrecht.

"He contributed to develop and intensify dialogue between all the Churches and ecclesial communities," the Pope said in his message to Cardinal Kasper, adding that 'he served Christ humbly, responding to his prayer for unity.'"

Reality Check: Willebrands used perverted doctrine to advance false ecumenism (see Section II of linked essay for further context and documentation)
"'The change of est (Pius XII) to subsistit (Gaudium et Spes) took place for ecumenical reasons,' explains Fr. Mucci, S.J. in Civiltà Cattolica (December 5, 1988). And Fr. Louis Bouyer writes that thanks to the 'subsistit' introduced by the Council, one has sought to 'propose again the idea of the one Church, even if it is presently divided among the diverse Christian Churches, as if among many branches.' [NOW: This is nothing more than a reiteration of the false Anglican proposition condemned by the Church known as the Branch Theory.] This idea was taken up again by John Paul II in Canterbury. Furthermore, Cardinal Willebrands, on May 5th and 8th of 1987, held some conferences in which he affirmed that the 'subsistit' supersedes and corrects the est of Pius XII. (emphasis added)"

More eulogies

World reacts to death of oldest Novus Ordo "cardinal," ecumenical leader

LWF general secretary pays tribute to Dutch "cardinal"

Alexy II highly appreciates "Cardinal" Willebrands’ work

ADL mourns Willebrands' passing

AJC mourns passing of "Cardinal" Willebrands
 

Ohhh, you wanted us to cast them out!?
Woman sues priests for botched exorcism

Rome's insincere gestures to the faithful
Traditional Latin Mass and the Eastern Church
"In a May 22 interview with Martin Klöckener, professor of liturgical sciences at the University of Fribourg, he criticized dialogue with the 'integrists' (SSPX) as a danger to the ecumenical dialogue to which so many have become accustomed since the Second Vatican Council. This interview was conducted by the Swiss news agency, APIC. Klöckener said, 'The Catholic Church should not forget its engagement in favor of ecumenism, its steps toward the Churches of the Reformation.' 'It is not acceptable that a small, very special group, on the right side of the Catholic Church, block the dialogue of the Church as a whole,' he said."

A hate crime in the UK?
Criminalizing the sign of Cross

A review of Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
"It is Chesterton’s contention that, rather than stifling the individual, it is through orthodoxy that man is liberated to both accept and embrace the contradictions of this life for what they really are in all their wonder and horror. It is the heretic that is unable to rise to a level that would give him a perspective that would enable him to appreciate things as they actually are since the heretic is ultimately beholden unto these very forces of life. Chesterton muses, 'Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.'”

More illogical nonsense from the Society of St. Pius X
Rorate Cæli Interview: Bishop Williamson's latest attempt to explain away Benedict XVI's heresies as merely coming from a poor, sick mind

Bishop Richard Williamson: "Benedict XVI believes that Catholic 'truth' can evolve. For instance, very serious statements of Catholic truth that cannot change, like the Syllabus or Pascendi, he calls merely 'substantial anchorages' in Church doctrine, meaning that the Church could anchor there, and usefully anchored there for a while, but in modern times the Church needs new 'substantial anchorages' in doctrine. He cannot see that this anti-modern Catholic doctrine of his predecessors is of such a nature that it cannot change, and not even as Pope can he change it. His poor mind, however gifted, is sick with that modern – especially German – philosophy which unhooks the mind from its object, like cutting off lungs from oxygen."

Reality Check: What the bishop is saying here all flies squarely in the face of Catholic teaching. To begin with, Benedict's belief in evolving Church teaching isn't evidence of a sick mind, but a heretical one. In fact, Pope St. Pius X, namesake of the SSPX, declared in the 13th paragraph of his monumental encyclical Pascendi that such a notion is one of the damnable errors of the Modernists:  "Dogma is not only able, but ought to evolve and to be changed. This is strongly affirmed by the Modernists, and clearly flows from their principles." One will search in vain in the encyclical for anything—such as a pesky German philosophy—that excuses the Modernists for espousing such beliefs. In fact, in a subsequent decree, the same holy pontiff firmly commanded that

should anybody, which may God forbid, be so rash as to defend any one of the propositions, opinions or teachings condemned in these documents [Pascendi and its companion anti-Modernist syllabus, Lamentabili] he falls, ipso facto, under the censure contained under the chapter "Docentes" of the constitution "Apostolicae Sedis," which is the first among the excommunications latae sententiae, simply reserved to the Roman Pontiff.

 — from Praestantia Scripturae

Now, Canon 2199 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which lists a seven causes that remove culpability [including real mental illness],  presupposes that a wrongdoer otherwise knows what he does isn't right and therefore is responsible for his act. By all ordinary means of human reckoning, given Fr. Joseph Ratzinger [a.k.a. "Pope" Benedict XVI] clearly had to have known [and continues to know] that the teaching of evolving dogma is in violation of the magisterium of the Catholic Church. He had to have known because the Church required him, at his 1951 ordination and periodically after that, to solemnly swear:

"I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously...."

 — from The Oath Against Modernism

Hence, there reasonably can be no excuse for Benedict XVI not to have known his obligations as a Catholic priest to forthrightly uphold the teachings of the Church, nor can his departures from orthodoxy be explained away as the products of an unhinged mind.

It's time for the leaders of the SSPX to quit engaging in flimsy sophistries about the situation in Rome, for such arguments are counterproductive in the fight to restore the Church and ultimately could lead to the demise of the Society itself. 
 

Prosecution possible for California bishop

 What about the horror of Novus Ordo actions?
Vatican exorcist claims Satan possessed Stalin, Hitler
"The horror of Nazi and Soviet actions has convinced an Italian exorcist that Stalin as well as Hitler and other Nazis 'were all possessed by the devil.'"

Want to guess who likes it?
Is the new Superman meant to be Jesus?
"Is the Superman Returns movie meant to remind us of the Bible? And if so, is it blasphemy?"

It figures — The USCCB's movie reviewer gives Superman Returns a thumbs-up, calling it "a winner" and approving of its "Christological allegory," despite hints that Superman fathered a child out of wedlock.

Corrupting the post-Conciliar generation
Ratzinger's subversive professorial activities
"Other more narrow-minded [sic] teachers [at the University of Tübingen] didn’t even perceive the distance between them, and they looked at Ratzinger as a dangerous reforming liberal. They said: 'one [Hans] Küng is enough for us.'"

Former "Bishop" Pilla implicated in alleged kickback scheme

A network wrong from the start
EWTN: 25 years of programming for the Vatican II religion
"Twenty-five years ago, Mother Mary Angelica had a vision for Eternal Word Television Network, a channel offering nothing but Roman Catholic programming. She had little more than faith, $200 and a garage to use as a studio."

"No Rupture with the Past" Update:
Polish Church Leader: Death Penalty Not Christian
Imagine that, execution for murderers and child molesters!
Reality Check: "Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence. Hence these words of David: In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord." --Catechism of the Council of Trent, 16th century (more here)

Bishop Fellay: No Progress on SSPX Reconciliation with Rome

"No Rupture with the Past" Update:
John Paul II: "Indeed, the extent and depth of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council call for a renewed commitment to deeper study in order to reveal clearly the Council's continuity with Tradition, especially in points of doctrine which, perhaps because they are new, have not yet been well understood by some sections of the Church." --"Ecclesia Dei", July 2, 1988

You can't make this up:
Italian Cleric defends "Madonna" Ad on Novus Ordo Cathedral Scaffolding

...And Benedict XVI approves:
Another Assisi Meeting for "World Peace"
Nowadays, we need the Dalai Lama religions of the world to procure lasting and true peace. Back in the old days, Christ was sufficient... Reality Check: "the peace of Christ ... is the only true peace" --Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Ubi Arcano Dei, par. 37, 1922

On the "Hermeneutics of Suspicion":
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED:
"The more the enemies attempt to disguise their designs, the more a distrustful vigilance will be needed..."
--Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge, par. 39, 1937

Free Online Video: Traditional Catholic Mass (High & Low)

One wonders: Is the SSPX practically sedevacantist?

Were the Vatican II Changes only accidental or really substantial?
Free Online Sermon here.

Online Audio Sermon: The Errors of the Society of St. Pius X

'Knock it off, guys!'
African Novus Ordo Bishops to their Priests: 'No More of that Witchcraft Stuff!'
One wonders what this means for the "blooming vocations" they keep telling us about in Africa...

To all appearances, this "bishop" sent himself to hell for all eternity:
Flashback 1998: Novus Ordo Bishop in Pakistan Commits Suicide in Protest
Reality Check: "For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26)

Now there's someone to imitate:
Benedict XVI praises Heretic Bro. Roger on Anniversary of Death

So much for the idea that the Vatican wants to "crack down" on pseudo-Catholic politicians receiving the Sacraments:
"Papal Nuncio" gives "Communion" to Sen. John Kerry

What else can they be expected to do, since they're running out of Novus Ordo ministers?
Illinois Diocese to reintegrate Clergy after Sexual Misconduct?

"New Springtime" Update:
Moshing & Nose-Rings at Novus Ordo Event in Cleveland
...and you missed it!

Most People have lost the Catholic Sense:
Responses to Objections on Exposing the Church Revolution

Can you spell H-E-R-E-T-I-C?
Benedict XVI caught in more Heresy: "The Church also insists on the inalienable right of individuals to profess their own religious faith without hindrance, both publicly and privately, as well as the right of parents to have their children receive an education that complies with their values and beliefs without either explicit or implicit discrimination" (Address to Spanish Ambassador, May 20, 2006).

Oh yeah? Perhaps that's what his church insists on, but certainly not the Catholic Church, which teaches the exact opposite unequivocally:

"For you well know, venerable brethren, that at this time men are found not a few who, applying to civil society the impious and absurd principle of "naturalism," as they call it, dare to teach that "the best constitution of public society and (also) civil progress altogether require that human society be conducted and governed without regard being had to religion any more than if it did not exist; or, at least, without any distinction being made between the true religion and false ones." And, against the doctrine of Scripture, of the Church, and of the Holy Fathers, they do not hesitate to assert that "that is the best condition of civil society, in which no duty is recognized, as attached to the civil power, of restraining by enacted penalties, offenders against the Catholic religion, except so far as public peace may require." From which totally false idea of social government they do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an "insanity," viz., that "liberty of conscience and worship is each man's personal right, which ought to be legally proclaimed and asserted in every rightly constituted society; and that a right resides in the citizens to an absolute liberty, which should be restrained by no authority whether ecclesiastical or civil, whereby they may be able openly and publicly to manifest and declare any of their ideas whatever, either by word of mouth, by the press, or in any other way." --Pope Pius IX, Encyclical Quanta Cura, par. 3, 1864

But is it any surprise that Fr. Ratzinger should boldly contradict this, given that he said one of the Vatican II texts is a "counter-syllabus" to Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors, and given that he has informed us that many Catholic councils have just been a "waste of time" and that the "bastions of the Catholic Church" ought to be "razed"? It is clear that Benedict XVI is in heresy, and he knows it. He is an enemy of Christ and the Church, and every so often he lets it slip out in more obvious fashion.

Same Ole, Same Ole in Novus Ordo Land: They call it "Children's Liturgy"

The "Holy Father" strikes again!
Ratzinger '82: 'Many Catholic Councils have just been a waste of time!'
"Not every valid council in the history of the Church has been a fruitful one; in the last analysis, many of them have been just a waste of time." --Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology (Germany, 1982; Ignatius Press, 1987), p. 378
Gee, thanks, Father! Speaking of a waste of time, has anyone read his first encyclical?

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