Tod Brown attacks kneeling, traditional Mass
California "bishop" responds to lay group
"I judge that the restoration of the Tridentine Mass at your parish at this time would only cause greater disunity and confusion...."

"Hanging out with Jesus"
A dean of students at a Novus Ordo seminary discusses his "vocation."

Conciliarists to participate with Anglicans, Evangelicals, etc.
Global day of interfaith prayer planned at UK soccer stadium
"Christian leaders from across the denominational spectrum gathered on Monday at West Ham Football Stadium in East London to prepare for a major new London prayer initiative slated for next May."

Islamic "call to prayers" mixed with Latin Mass
Novus Ordo finds new way to desecrate cathedral

A good summing up...
The death of a Catholic seminary
"The difference in perspectives was well symbolized by our way of worship. To begin with, we were instructed upon entry to the seminary that we could not kneel at the consecration during Mass, nor could we kneel after receiving communion. This would 'break community.' We were told that standing was also a posture of reverence on par with kneeling, and that it was more in keeping with Vatican II's 'call to mission' of Social Justice - hence standing to be ready to 'go out' to enact this justice. Kneeling was considered a 'privatistic' worship disconnected from others. It also reflected a repressed piety, a spirituality of 'Ghetto Catholicism.' This was said to be incompatible with the theology of the Council, and the spirit of the liturgical reforms."

NOW Comments: This is an article from the May 1995 issue of The Homiletic & Pastoral Review and, hence, written from the mistaken view that such abominations experienced by the author were merely abuses originating from a misinterpretation of Vatican II and, perhaps, disobedience to "the Holy Father." Certainly the author's concerns are heartfelt, his orientation essentially Catholic and there are many points well-taken, but the inherent confusion of his position is seen in nonsensical expressions such as the oxymoron, "a Neo-Modernist Roman Catholic seminary." The bottom line is that seminary horror stories like this one have been heard around the world for decades and continue to be heard, which is proof positive the entire Novus Ordo establishment, all the way to Rome, is culpable for permitting and abetting such attacks on clerical vocations.

Judge refused test that would have saved Terri Schiavo's life
Study indicates PVS patients aware, can communicate
"For the first time, scientists have been able to show that patients who have been diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state are actually aware of their environment and can communicate."

• The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation (Please assist this worthwhile cause with your prayers and, if able, your donations.)

•  Fr William Jenkins: The execution of Theresa Marie Schiavo (Link from an equally worthwhile site.)

Alert: False traditional Catholics on VIDEO!
One member of sect pleads guilty to and another is indicted on child molestation charges
"At the Tridentine Latin Rite Church, church elders strictly control members’ dress, daily routine  and contact with the world outside. But two boys say they were molested inside a house near Issaquah, the Tridentine's former home for male church members....The charging documents do not mention Francis Schuckardt, the Tridentine leader who former members say considers himself the one true pope although he was long-ago condemned by the Catholic church."

More information on the TLRC:

• Cult news links: Tridentine Latin Rite Church

• Fr. Anthony Cekada: A warning on Old Catholics: false bishops, false churches (Note: This article has been reprinted by a conservative member of the Novus Ordo religion, who opposes many of Fr. Cekada's views but who believes the article is of merit. Among the churches discussed is the Tridentine Latin Rite Church; the TLRC has been included in a list following the article but is not out of order--it can be found on the line beginning "Ceylon.") 

Abuse allegations against U. S. Novus Ordo "bishops" since 1993

From Christ or Chaos
Selectively excusing Modernism
"With the sole exception of the issue of clerical celibacy, which has been an issue for a few conciliarists over the past forty years, the list of 'reforms' that Pope Saint Pius X knew that the Modernists wanted to implement stands out as a prophetic warning as to the agenda that was formed by Modernist theologians in the years before the Second Vatican Council and became the fundamental basis for the whole ethos of conciliarism...."

$10M child abuse suit names Nashville "diocese"

What time is it? Why, it's "Polka Mass" time!
"Father" Frank  Perkovich's homepage
"These old ethnic melodies are a joyous, inspiring worship service with the most unusual music and orchestration presented in a manner of dignity that enhances the solemnity of the Mass." (Oh, yeah, sure they do.)

And while we're at it, here's "Fr." Frank's book,  Dancing a polka to Heaven, a "Polka Mass" video from Detroit (more beer and brauts, please!) and a special John Paul II "Polka Mass" album (featuring everyone's favorite, the "Jesus Lord Polka").

An apt metaphor, indeed!
Aachen's graveyard church
St. Josef's Church has it all, including niches for cremated ashes, " the Night of Open Churches" and an advertising billboard on its outside walls. Other churches in the Aachen diocese, when they aren't being given to heretics, like the U.S.-based  Vineyard sect (warning: immodest photo), can be stark and furnished with bizarre images (scroll down the "graveyard" page for more photos). (Interestingly, Daniel Pilarczyk the notorious  "archbishop" of Cincinnati, Ohio, sold a church to the Vineyard, which now boasts that it rents out the sanctuary!)

NOW Comments:  Heinrich Mussinghoff, who perpetrated the Aachen giveaway, is the same Novus Ordo "bishop"  who impiously  declared at an "interfaith" meeting that "God is not a Catholic." (Also see "A bizarre new god"--scroll down to the third section). It is, of course, "Bishop" Mussinghoff himself who is not a Catholic and his outrageously heretical quote (what happened to the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ?), a view that "Cardinal" Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the putative Archbishop of Westminster, has also stated  (and,  of the same opinion, "Archbishop" Vincent Nichols, another member of Britain's Conciliar hierarchy),  is very much in line with this passage from the Universal Universalist heretics, one from a council of "Independent Catholic" Community Churches and still another from a new age occultist, to cite a few examples of what is likely a very popular error.

Certain to encourage increases in...beachcombing?
Archdiocese of Adelaide: Vocations to the "priesthood" page

Background to the Revolution
"The spirit of Vatican II, jubilee optimism, and the Oath against Modernism"
"The implications are startling. Every single bishop, archbishop, and cardinal who participated in Vatican II and every single Vatican II peritus (expert advisor) who was also a priest, without exception, had taken, and presumably had not been absolved from the obligations [sic--as if anyone could be absolved from such a duty to uphold the Faith--NOW] of, the Oath Against Modernism mandated for all Catholic clergy by Saint Pius X in 1910 and not rescinded by the Vatican until 1967 [sic--while St. Pius X did allow that the oath could be rescinded at some future date, to do so in 1967, when Modernism had come fully out of the closet, could only be the product of insanity or treason, since ignorance must be ruled out--NOW].

"Every single participant in Vatican II was under an oath-bound obligation to God Almighty 'with due reverence [to] submit and adhere with [his] whole heart to the condemnations, declarations, and all the prescripts contained in the encyclical Pascendi and in the decree Lamentabili'. Seen in this light, Cardinal Ratzinger's statements are truly astonishing. How could the participants of Vatican II set out, intentionally, to 'correct', or to set up a 'countersyllabus' to, that to which they all, without exception, had sworn, 'with [their] whole heart,' to 'submit and adhere'? It is a puzzlement."

NOW Comments: This 2001 article comes from a now-defunct publication of conservative students at Catholic University of America and as such draws some weak conclusions based on its author's misguided adherence to John Paul II; nevertheless, we've linked to it because on the whole he makes some good points and has provided worthwhile documentation.

Mahoney assists stonewall attempt
Accused LA "priest" asks court to block release of personnel records
"A former Los Angeles priest accused of sexually abusing four people as children is asking an appeals court to block the release of his church personnel records."

False shepherd, false sheepfold
Vatican approves new "traditionalist" institute
"The Vatican has established a new religious institute to accommodate priests and seminarians leaving the schismatic Society of St. Pius X, the I Media news agency report.

"The new group, the Good Shepherd community, will be located in Bordeaux. Members will be allowed to celebrate Mass using the traditional liturgy exclusively."

NOW Comments: Not too much to say, as this is merely a variation of the same deception perpetrated by John Paul with the creation of groups such as the Fraternity of St. Peter, Society of St. John Vianney and the disgraced (but now back in business) Society of St. John: The promise of an oasis of Tradition in the Modernist desert, with a considerable number of strings--no, make that ropes--attached (accept the "new mass," Vatican II, the Novus Ordo hierarchy, etc.). The so-called Good Shepherd community differs from the others primarily in its timing: the SSPX's Superior Bishop Fellay, his protestations of "no compromise" not withstanding, is seen by Benedict XVI and his lackeys as being ripe for the picking and the "new" group is positioned to make it more enticing for the SSPX leader to comfortably capitulate.

Powerful article from "Christ or Chaos"
A new theology for a new religion

"Benedict XVI is an Hegelian who sees that the acceptance of truth is conditioned by time and circumstance, which is why his use of the word 'tradition' must not be permitted to fool those who are impressed with its frequent invocation. Authentic Catholic Tradition means no more to Benedict XVI than the word 'is' means to William Jefferson Clinton (or to any other secular positivist)."

"Catholic" bishop preaches at Protestant church
Relax, he wasn't trying to convert anyone.

After a lodge brother covers for Bernardin
Exposing another Freemasonic deception
"In a May 23, 1958 pastoral letter, Pope Pius XII had warned the Catholic faithful of the coming great apostasy and identified the causes: 'the roots of modern apostasy lay in scientific atheism, dialectical materialism, rationalism, illuminism, laicism and Freemasonry which is the mother of them all.'

"The Church is not confused about the spiritual danger of freemasonry to Catholics and other Christians; but high level Masons would like Catholics and other Christians to be confused about Masonry."

NOW Comments: There are some very good responses here to a Mason's "attempt to discredit Randy Engel's writing on Cardinal Bernardin," but a spirited attempt to suggest that recent pronouncements by Modernist Rome are anything but lip service is certainly wrongheaded.

Assisi III
"Pope" on interfaith prayer meetings: Unity, but no syncretism (sic)
"In this way, the worshippers of the different religions were able to show, with the language of testimony, that prayer does not divide but unites, and constitutes a determinant element for an effective pedagogy of peace, based on friendship, mutual acceptance [and] dialogue between men of different cultures and religions."

Related Story: More than 150 religious leaders discuss, pray, appeal for peace

Realty Check: "But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils." —1 Cor. 10:21

"It is apparent from these considerations that true peace, the peace of Christ, is impossible unless we are willing and ready to accept the fundamental principles of Christianity, unless we are willing to observe the teachings and obey the law of Christ, both in public and private life. If this were done, then society being placed at last on a sound foundation, the Church would be able, in the exercise of its divinely given ministry and by means of the teaching authority which results therefrom, to protect all the rights of God over men and nations." —Pope Pius XI,  Ubi arcano Dei consilio

Tell it to the Crusaders!
"Pope" says faith wars unjustified

Try not to get too reverent...okay, kids?
Warning: Immodest clothing in photos
Diocese of Phoenix youth retreat video
A retreat: silence, seclusion, meditation...right?...No, but we've got guys and gals together for grungy rock bands and messy games!

Nice slacks, huh?
Warning: Immodest clothing in photo
Trout-fishing with the great American outdoorsmen, er, nuns
“'I got one,' said Notre Dame Sister Lavonne Krebs, her proclamation turning the head of her fishing partner and fellow Notre Dame sister, Joyce Kolbet, who had taken a position farther down the stream, located near Preston."

Celibacy is not the problem

Just in time for Reformation Day!
Atlanta "archbishop" to attend Conciliar-Lutheran service
"Each year since Pope John Paul II visited Iowa, Catholics and Lutherans have come together for a joint service once a year, alternating between Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches. Speakers have rotated between the two faiths."

"Card." Wojtyla: Vatican II closed the Constantine era of the Church

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Pseudo-Franciscans promote false translations, private interpretation
Choosing and using a Bible: What Catholics should know
"Many Catholics in earlier decades also relied on an older edition of the Bible, the Douay-Rheims translation, based upon the Latin translation (the Vulgate) that at one time was the only official Catholic edition of the Bible. It, too, is out of date and the names of some of the Old Testament books may be confusing....

"You don't need to be afraid of misinterpreting the Bible if you remember that your interpretation is not necessarily the interpretation. This is especially good in a group setting: Sharing ideas about Bible passages is a wonderful way of studying the Bible, especially when you remain open to further guidance about your views. The ideal group would have a leader with some professional experience, or who has taken time to carefully learn and prepare a historical or scientific perspective." [The author, a Novus Ordo "priest," follows this section with a list of "reliable biblical translations are available....I'll note the Catholic edition where there is one."]

Reality Check: Contrast the above outrageous claims and suggestions with the Church's teaching about scripture (see chapter nine) and the teaching of Church Fathers on private interpretation. Also see a Catholic rebuttal of a Seventh Day Adventist's arguments in The Fruits of Private Interpretation.

Wojtyla Gets a Third Eye:
John Paul II's Pilgrimage to India
by John K. Weiskittel

---A hard-hitting exposé of John Paul II's Praise of Hinduism in India in 1986---

"And what of the marks received by 'His Holiness'? The Tilac is defined as: 'A sectarian mark made on the forehead with unguents or mineral or vegetal colouring matter... These visible signs are believed by many to have protective powers.' Also known as Bindi, it is frequently worn by Indian women to signify their married state, but it has a broader significance, as a representation of the third eye, the highest 'mystical center' in man. Said to be 'situated between and slightly above the normal eyes,' there are 'occult powers often associated with it.'"

"In Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust"
--"Second Vatican Council", Nostra Aetate, par. 2, 1965

Caution! This article has disturbing content because it gives an accurate portrayal of the Hindu Religion. This is a no-nonsense reality check for anyone who believes John Paul II to have been a true Pope of the Catholic Church. While some are stuck arguing that there is no heresy or apostasy because of some orthodox footnote or ambiguous comma splice in the official Novus Ordo documents, Weiskittel analyzes the big picture and leaves no question that John Paul II abandoned the Catholic religion whole and entire. He who has eyes to see, let him see! If you'd rather not be bothered by the disturbing facts presented in the article, please go here.

Coming in the near future: Voodoo You Trust? John Weiskittel examines John Paul II's 1993 Visit to Benin

An "I can't believe it's not Catholic!" Update:
John Paul II, as Bishop Karol Wojtyla, at Vatican II:
"It is not the Church's place to teach unbelievers. She must seek in common with the rest of the world."
(Source: Henri Sesquet, The Drama of Vatican II, 1967, p. 444 -- also quoted here)
Reality Check: "Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you..." (St. Matthew 28:19-20)