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My son is in the ICU with a case of Covid-induced sepsis. And it isn’t looking good. So if I don’t tweet anything liturgically for a while, that’s why. I have some drafts made from a few days ago that might go out, but it’s not a big priority right now.
He’s been hospitalized
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The SSPX just announced that at the conclusion of all their Masses in France tomorrow, the De profundis and Parce, Donine will be recited in reparation for the blasphemous display at the Olympics opening ceremony.
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My son has improved greatly over the past 24 hours. His lab numbers are way better and his vent settings have been able to be reduced. Not out of the woods yet, but much better than yesterday when it looked much bleaker.
Thank you for all the prayers and kind thoughts.
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The fact that Vigano, whatever you may think of him, is about to receive a canonical trial, while Rupnik remains a priest in good standing with full priestly faculties proves just how unserious the present Vatican's approach to justice actually is.
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Priests in World War II literally hauled around heavy vestments, alongside patens and chalices worthy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Yet according to Mainstream Catholic Apologist Clergy and People, doing the same at World Youth Day was "too hard" or "impractical."
Our
@FatherChrisVor1
@thelb236
@ThatRedCatholic
@_idnar
Defies every common sense application of "Lex Orandi Lex Credendi". Presents staggering naivete abt the teaching of children & passing on of knowledge generally.
If ever a priest had reason to ditch his vestments & serve Communion out of a mess kit, it's here:
Why not?
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The fact so many people in the replies are outraged over this certainly lends credence to the theory that the Church post-Vatican 2 is not the same as the Church pre-Vatican 2.
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I am in a really bad place mentally and spiritually right now. I don't deserve any prayers, but if someone is generous enough to say an Ave for me, I think it will help. I promise to do the same in return.
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Already I'm seeing progressive Catholics, both laymen and clerics, accusing Africans of being "backwards" for not mindlessly accepting Fiducia supplicans. Which only goes to prove my longheld suspicion that, deep down, liberals and progressives are more racist than anyone else on
HOMOSEXUALITY: Bishop Martin Mtumbuka delivers a powerful homily on homosexuality, representing my cherished country, Malawi. Watch the full clip on my YouTube channel.
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Congratulations, newly-established Archdiocese of Las Vegas. You might very well have one of the worst-looking and deleterious-to-prayer cathedrals I've ever seen.
Pat yourselves on the back.
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I'm sorry, but I can't let this go by without comment:
In the average American Novus Ordo:
--The Introit (now retitled the "Entrance Antiphon") is never sung or recited
--The Confiteor (rewritten to omit references to St. John the Baptist, St. Michael, and Ss. Peter and Paul)
@CdnMnrchyRspctr
Legit it is the same format and order of the mass minus foot of the altar prayers and ending Gospel. Introit, Confiteor, Kyrie, Gloria, Collect, Readings, Alleluia, Gospel, Homily, Creed, Offertory, Consecration, Lord's Prayer, Fraction of Bread/Agnus Dei, Communion, Close
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No.
For the thousandth time: You can “trad up” the Novus Ordo all you want, but it still doesn’t fix its inherent deficiencies. So can we please stop with this nonsense?
@EricRSammons
If this happens, let the traditionally minded celebrate the Novus Ordo in Latin, ad orientem with all the rubrics and customary ceremonials and vestments from the TLM.
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The Vatican today just launched the most viral recruitment campaign for the SSPX ever, and it didn't cost the Society a penny.
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Whatever one thinks of Vigano, I find it "interesting" (scare quotes intended) that the Vatican can expedite judicial proceedings in matters in which it's clear they want to punish a perceived enemy. Contrast that with the manner in which they are dragging their feet on Rupnik's
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has declared Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò excommunicated latae sententiae.
The full statement:
On 4 July 2024, the Congress of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith met to conclude the extrajudicial penal process referred to
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Deacon at the local Novus Ordo (paraphrasing): “Faith is more important than traditions. If you like the Latin Mass, that’s nice, but if you can’t understand it, it’s not helpful.”
Gee, thanks, Reverend Deacon. Not only have you insulted the intelligence of your congregation by
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Saturday evening Masses should never have been allowed to “count” as fulfilling the Sunday obligation.
All it has done is turn every Saturday evening Mass in northwest Ohio (so it seems) into the parish boomer Mass, attended almost exclusively by people 65 and older whose
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@NCRonline
The irony in this piece is off the charts.
The fact that boomers don't realize younger generations are simply doing to them what they brazenly did to those that came before them demonstrates precisely just how narcissistic and self-centered so many boomers actually are. (Yes, I
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Archbishop Lefebvre said basically the same thing 50 or so years ago.
ROME: Cdl. Burke to
@catholiccom
:
“The great irony is those of us who are insisting on what the Church has always and everywhere taught are now accused of schism, and the confusion…that’s coming out of this whole synodal process…this is what’s leading to division and schism.”
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I've been informed by a friend who lives in the Archdiocese of Washington that Cardinal Gregory has approved a forthcoming document that will abolish the use of the traditional Roman rite in the entire archdiocese. No carveouts. No maintaining one or two locations. (cont)
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Before Vatican 2:
Non-Catholics can convert to the faith whenever the local parish priest determines they're ready (cf. 1961 Parish Ritual for the US).
After Vatican 2:
"You MUST attend 6 months of classes and can ONLY enter the Church at Easter, dammit!!!"
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Actually, many of us "gave up" on the "reform of the reform" precisely because such an aesthetic only works so long as one has a sympathetic pastor. Far too many of us have spent years trying to make the Novus Ordo as reverent as possible, only for a new pastor to come in and
@Pavel_Zahradnik
@DrKwasniewski
Absolutely. Why so many Trads gave up on the Reform of the Reform is a sure sign their intentions are for division, not unity.
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So, let me get this straight:
Strickland was basically removed for not being enough of a "team player" and for, in essence, making lots of other U.S. bishops look bad by actually (horror of horrors) defending Catholic teaching. But bishops with ties to McCarrick, who cover up
JUST IN—
@BishStrickland
tells
@RaymondArroyo
the US Nuncio cited a lack of “fraternity” with brother bishops, lack of support for the
#Synod
, & failure to implement
#TraditionisCustodes
as basis for his removal. Strickland said “he didn't mention a single administrative concern.”
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Remeber that Joan of Arc died excommunicated from the Church. This does not mean she isn't in heaven (although she probably isn't, since she was found guilty of heresy by ecclesial authorities and executed for it).. But it means she will never A) be declared a saint & B) much
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“Conservative” Catholics:
“The NO is valid; go to your local parish and make it better.”
Well, the deacon at the local parish in his homily just said “Scripture is not a historical document” (condemned under Pius X) and “it’s okay to doubt”.
This is why the SSPX exists.
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So, re the SSPX, y'all can either listen to:
--The Ecclesia Dei commission
--Actual canonists like Gerald Murray
--Bishop Schneider, who was officially assigned to investigate them
--The present pontiff
Or you can listen to Untrained Canon Lawyers and online grifters.
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I must have missed what
@TaylorRMarshall
did to get people so upset with him and saying he’s sowing “dissent” in the Church. Maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me our bishops and priests and even the pope are doing a fine job of that on their own.
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A simple request:
If you attend an SSPX chapel and suddenly see a swell of new faces in the coming weeks from suppressed diocesan TLMs, now is not the time for “I told you so”s.
Welcome them. Love them. Comfort them.
Now is not the time for pettiness.
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Dear George Weigel, Dave Armstrong, and pretty much the entire staff of Catholic Answers:
I hope you're proud of yourselves. You've created thousands of "conservative" Catholics who have no idea how to respond to what Francis is doing, thanks to your collective "JP2 beat the
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Meanwhile, the FSSP, ICKSP, and SSPX can't accept the number of men who want to be seminarians due to lack of space.
The Paulists, a U.S. religious order, have announced they are likely to close ministries, due to falling numbers of available priests. They are expecting to have 31 members in active ministry by 2034.
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Mike Lewis has zero idea of what "schism" actually is under canon law and how that term is applied by actual trained canon lawyers, yet it doesn't stop him from falsely accusing Bishop Strickland of it.
This is just pathetic.
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When you have to "trad up" the Novus Ordo to make it "reverent", why not just go straight to the TLM instead?
We have to face reality, folks: By the words of everyone involved in the NO's creation, up to and including Paul VI himself, it's *intentionally* supposed to be a break
@kennedyhall
The Novus Ordo at St John Cantius, at St Peter’s in Volo, and at Marytown in Libertyville- all in Illinois - are beautiful and reverent and lovely and all Catholic. Not all NO Masses are clown Masses.
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Every single Catholic priest in Ohio should offer some form of penitential votive Mass in violet vestments today after what happened in last night's election.
Most won't, sadly, either because they have been indoctrinated since their seminary days to believe that it's more
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Yet the majority of Catholics are forbidden from worshipping in the traditional Roman, Catholic rite in their own churches.
ROME: happening now -- Anglican abp of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
processes into Catholic basilica of San Bartolomeo for Anglican communion service.
He thanks
#PopeFrancis
especially for having granted permission for the service.
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Today is the last Sunday the traditional Latin Mass may be offered in diocesan churches in the Diocese of Cleveland (pending the approval of from Rome of two Sunday-only locations). Effective Wednesday, November 1, only the Institute of Christ the King apostolate at St. Elizabeth
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All I can do is draw attention to the situation, hope +Gregory comes to his senses, and relents.
For the Cupiches, the Gregorys, and the Twitter Cindys (you know who I mean) of the world, is this act of cruelty really necessary? What have these people done?
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Update 2:
This includes the suppression of all the original 1988 Ecclesia Dei indult TLMs, places that have been the heart and soul of the TLM in the DC metro for almost 35 years.
35 years of parish life, community, ritual wiped away w/the stroke of a pen. Unfathomable.
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@ForSavonarola
@JamesMartinSJ
Weakland and McCarrick, both the darlings of progressive Catholics, serve as the quintessential archetypes of clericalism. I wonder (not really) if the irony is lost on Fr. Martin, or if he's just disingenuous enough to pretend otherwise.
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I frequently see "conservative" Catholics on Twitter accuse trads of "making an idol of the TLM." I want to ask these people: Do the Eastern-rite Catholics in communion w/Rome make an idol of their liturgical patrimony and culture? If not, then please, just shut up.
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The Novus Ordo's suppression of the octave of Pentecost is one of its greatest flaws, and anyone who dares try to argue "The NO restores the practice of the early Church" needs to be beaten over the head with that fact, repeatedly, since the Pentecost octave is ancient in origin.
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After two hospital admissions to the ICU, one botched discharge, and a total of three-plus weeks in the hospital, my son is finally home, healthy, and happy. Thank you again for all the prayers.
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I would suggest that, at this point, all Catholics simply stop giving Skojec and Sciambra attention on social media. Pray for them, yes, but stop enabling their bitter rants against their former religion (when they're supposedly "happier" now, so they say) and move on.
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Holy cow. Lofton's gone full authoritarian here. So much for a "listening Church," a "synodal Church," and so forth. Proof positive the popesplainers are nothing more than bootlickers who exist only to act as brownshirts for the establishment, "religious liberty" and everything
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Turn for the worse: My son has developed a new pulmonary infection, so we’re right back in the ICU after getting discharged Wednesday afternoon.
I’m utterly exhausted.
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The conclusion of Mass at the local diocesan parish. With the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle to boot.
Thanks, Vatican 2.
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Pope Francis: "The rubrics need to be followed."
Also Pope Francis: "I'ma gonna sit in the sanctuary at Mass with zero vestments, not even a mozetta, preach without a stole, and concelebrate as a bishop with an ordinary priest (not allowed) while not wearing vestments."
Enough
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Children who have known nothing but the TLM will now, it seems, in a matter of weeks, if not days, have it taken from them, as will all the young adults and seniors who have worked so hard for years on end.
I don't know what to say; "I'll pray for you" seems inadequate. (co
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Diocese of Cleveland just got the vast majority of TLMs taken away. Perhaps one of the greatest examples of how Summorum was integrated into parish life with a dozen diocesan TLM locations, it is all now reduced to only three, with only the newly-designated shrine (soon to be
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Concelebration as practiced in the Novus Ordo may be the most cringe-inducing elements of the “reformed” rite. Half a dozen priests crowded around a table altar taking turns saying their part just looks like a really bad stage play with no historical praxis to base how it’s
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The future Pope Pius XIII needs to suppress the public usage of the Mandatum ceremony completely. This is complete and utter nonsense.
Pope Francis today washed the feet of 12 women, as he concelebrated the Mass of Lord’s Supper at the Rebibbia Women's Prison in Rome
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Face-to-face confession needs to be suppressed. As in, yesterday. I am quite confident it’s one of the biggest contributing factors to people turning the few available weekend confession times into half hour long therapy sessions.
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At a bare minimum, "conservative" bishops had at least 20 years (c. 1990-2010, when JP2 and B16 were at the height of their powers) to rein in the worst excesses of the Novus Ordo in their dioceses. The fact that the overwhelming majority of them chose not to--whether from fear
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"The Novus Ordo is perfectly valid and acceptable, and you should stay away from the skizmatic SSPX, but I, of course, don't attend the Novus Ordo myself" might be one of the biggest grift lines I've ever heard in the history of Catholic grifters.
Bonus points if you guess who.
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Don't let Lofton, Lewis, and the Where Peter Is crowd rewrite history to try and make it seem as if Francis is balanced in who he chooses to prosecute.
Every time they bring up the fact that Rupnik has a canonical proceeding against him, remind them that Rupnik's excommunication
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The new story going around Catholic media today is that Bishop Strickland's apostolic visitation was triggered by his alleged mismanagement (including financial) of his diocese.
If so, then why in the hell is Stika still bishop of Knoxville, hmm?
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By elevating Tucho Fernandez to the cardinalate, Pope Francis has given the middle finger to every priest, deacon, and layperson who has submitted to the "Protect Our Children" required of everyone in the U.S. who wants to work for the Church.
Where are the self-proclaimed
@TaylorRMarshall
Cardinal Smoochie is worse than that. He put sexual predators into a school for the blind and deaf. And he gets the red hat in spite of all that . He's papabile now in spite of all that
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Today, the Institute of Christ the King has officially come to Cleveland, taking stewardship of the newly-designated St. Elizabeth of Hungary Shrine.
Pray for the success of the apostolate.
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Rome: “Americans, you’re obligated to hear Mass on the feast of the Immaculate Conception.”
Trads: “Great. I’ll do that on Sunday, December 8 this year.”
Rome: “That doesn’t count.”
Trads: “What?”
Rome: “You have to go on Monday the 9th, because in the modern rite, Sundays of
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The online pundits on this site are already putting out the talking points:
If the "good" people who go to the TLM (but "accept" the Novus Ordo and Vatican 2 [whatever that means]) are hurt by a papal decree that bans the old rites in parish churches, it's 100% the fault of
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The suppression of Septuagesima (which begins next Sunday in the TLM) was one of the most bone-headed things the "reformers" did in crafting the NO. Now, we simply parachute directly from "Ordinary Time" into Lent with no preparation. How stupid is that? (cont)
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Don’t distribute Communion to 1.5 million people.
Look, I get diocesan clergy feel obligated to defend everything the hierarchy does, but don’t treat the faithful like idiots who clearly recognize a bad thing when they see it.
These posts are so infuriating. You’d think the Lord was being kept in the plastic bag on the floor!
If u’re going to complain, at least propose a better idea for distributing Communion to 1.5 million people spread over many square kilometres!!
This is what I saw, first hand…
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Please read this thread.
This is proof positive that, loathe as I am to admit it, Vatican 2 was NOT the SOLE reason the liturgical chaos we see to day exists. These ideas were prevalent decades earlier; this book from 1948 is prophetic in how much it predicts came to pass.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
But, seriously, can we just all now admit the obvious fact that the post-Vatican 2 liturgical reforms have been such a disaster we’re having to still work out what they are “supposed” to look like 60 years later?
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Said friend assures me that if this comes to pass, this will lead to the inevitable closure of at least three parishes, since the TLM is far and away the most attended Mass at these parishes.
This looks like an attempt to bleed the TLM in Washington DC to death slowly.
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The old rite manages to make the sign of peace sane by restricting it solely to the clergy and those assisting in choir at solemn Mass with deacon and subdeacon.
This is what happens when men decide to create a new rite ex nihilio and just throw ideas at the dartboard; what
I don’t care for TM most of the time but I’m not afraid to admit when he’s right. The “sign of peace” in the mass is easily the worst part of the mass and should be done away with.
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And "conservative" Catholics wonder why the establishment Church is in such dire straits. Because if something so long received as traditional as the Stations of the Cross can change, or if the Mass itself can change, then why not conclude, not illogically, that Catholicsm is
The 14 stations are a pious tradition of a very low level, & not an apostolic tradition. There is no issue changing a few or even changing the number to 12 or 15 stations.
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And “normie” Catholics wonder why trads won’t just be happy with the new rite ad orientem with a smidgin of Latin tossed in occasionally.
Because those things can be killed instantaneously the minute the local ordinary decides to do so. But do keep telling us how the NO is
This is an excerpt from a "pastoral letter" intended for all priests and parishes within the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings MT.
Kneelers and Ad Orientem shouldnt be used. And Latin should be extremely limited to very few responses (contrary to SC). 🧵 1/
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The utter delusion possessed by boomer priests and deacons who insist that the pre-Vatican 2 era was distinguished by authoritarianism by the clergy and post-Vatican 2 gave power back to the “the people” is hilarious considering the present pope, a man whose entire priesthood has
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You mean the "existing community" that, last I checked, barely scratched 50 people at Sunday Mass before September of last year yet now is bursting at the seams under the Institute's leadership? (Don't take my word for it; check out their livestreamed Masses on their YouTube
The institute [of Christ the King Sovereign Priest] faced similar questions in 2019 after being invited to join St. Joseph Parish in Hammond, Indiana, by the Gary Diocese. Parishioners said the institute made little effort to incorporate itself into the existing parish community.
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Look at yesterday’s document being “misinterpreted” already. And by one of Pope Francis’s favorite people, no less.
But I thought the popesplainers said this couldn’t happen.
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Friendly announcement:
If you are a Catholic apologist and you use any of the following terms, I will not take you seriously and will recommend others ignore you:
"new springtime"
"new evangelization"
"It takes years for a council to be implemented"
"Francis is misinterpreted"
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France, once the eldest daughter of the Church, now has open-contempt for the Catholic faith that built her.
St. Therese, St. Genevieve, St. Joan of Arc, St. Louis de Montfort, and all other French saints, pray for us!
@Arwenstar
And some heresy going on with the Woke Last Supper thing they're trying to push on us
#OpeningCeremony
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It seems the anti-SSPX, “conservative” crowd is getting more legalistic and nervous with each passing day. My suspicion is they know the genie has been let out of the bottle when the SSPX stayed open while the rest of the Church in the U.S. abandoned them. (cont)
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It would behoove us trads to remember that things didn't all of a sudden become bad in the Church b/c of Vatican 2. All Vatican 2 did was expose the rot within, the modernism and heresy espoused by clergy of the "Greatest Generation" who heretofore had kept things under wraps.
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Why have I never made this connection before?
The Exorcist is far more profound than I gave it credit for. How many priests and religious who weren't fullscale enamored with the revolution died a slow, cruel death inside as they watched the Church they loved and served take away
@FeserEdward
The most terrifying scene for me is when Fr Karras is celebrating the new 1969 Rite and you can see him losing his faith. The new rubrics + his Jesuit education. This horror played out for so many clergy.
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@RetroMania_YT
@Veldhuis94x
@NintendoAmerica
You didn't miss it. For some reason, the North American stream made no mention of a physical release, while the Nintendo of Europe, Japan, etc. all did.
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If there is a silver lining at all in the aftermath of what both Cupich and now Gregory have done to the TLM in their dioceses, it should be that any and all arguments against the SSPX should be recognized as completely moot by all at this point.
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I've seen lots of left Catholics attacking Fr. Schumacher in the most despicable of ways over the past 24 hours for having the audacity to state the simple truth that the Church has always recognized the authority of those in power to execute those who are truly a danger to
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The deacon at my Novus Ordo parish during his homily said "There are many paths to God" and "In heaven there is no religion".
Two questions:
1. What's the point of being Catholic if all religions are valid?
2. How is this deacon is in "communion" with Rome but not the SSPX?
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All these non-Catholics who keep appearing in my timeline arguing that Mary is not the mother of God are demonstrating is that they don’t understand the Trinity at all, and many of them actually embrace, without realizing it, heresies that Church councils condemned more than
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I dare even the most pro-Vatican 2 person to look at the replies to this wonderful tweet and explain to me with a straight face that the faithful today have a better understanding of sacramental theology than they did before 1962.
Most Catholics today don't know what Mass is.
What’s better than one Mass?
Eight Masses!!
“When Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.” – St. John Chrysostom
From the Institute’s apostolate in Engelport, Germany
#ICKSP
#LatinMass
#TLM
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I have learned so much on liturgy and Church history from reading Fr. Hunwicke's blog over the years. He was a true intellectual giant and will be sorely missed.
Very sad news: Fr John Hunwicke of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, died on Tuesday. A man of wit and scholarship, 'fortes in fide', and a great support to the work of
@latinmassuk
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei
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@JamesMartinSJ
Weakland embezzled $450k of the faithful’s money to pay off his former homosexual lover. He was a monster.
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I can almost guarantee that if you were to poll a large sample of average American Catholics who attend diocesan NOs, they would truly believe the Church abolished the existence of Purgatory at Vatican 2.
And who can blame them? When every funeral is celebrated in white
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Say it with me now:
Pius 👏 XII 👏 wasn't 👏 a 👏 traditionalist.
Would a "traditionalist" pope displace the feast of two apostles (Ss. Philip and James the Lesser, on May 1) and move said feast to an arbitrary date (May 11, chosen only because it was the first day in May on
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Important new information via
@LMSChairman
. Roche has made it clear: If any bishop asks Rome for permission for any of their priests to say the TLM, they will be denied. Period.
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I confess, I used to be very wary of the SSPX, what with the whole "not in full communion" thing and all. But after seeing how most of their priests responded to COVID this past year, among other reasons before that, I'm done with that nonsense. (cont)
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Update:
My friend has informed me that the expected plan is to allow ONE Sunday-only TLM at the Franciscan Monastery in Brookland, which is not easily accessible by public transit, may have an unsympathetic pastor, and may not permit the Triduum. (cont)
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Unless you personally kept your parish open in March/April 2020 and continued to give the sacraments without restriction, I don’t want to hear it. Because in a large part of the world, the SSPX priests were about the only ones who did so.
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“You sound Protestant” might be the lowest-IQ attempt at an insult I’ve ever seen, considering the Catholic Church has, for the past 50 years, bent over backwards to assure us that being Protestant really isn’t all that bad and that Protestants can be saved without becoming
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The reaction to Bishop Schneider's Credo by certain parties all but proves that something changed at Vatican 2, in spite of B16/Ratzinger's insistence that council could be read in continuity with what came before.
Until someone with actual authority in the Church is able to
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I must confess:
For all my liturgy tweets over the years, I have never owned a full Breviary before. Thanks to Angelus Press’ pre-Lent sale, I am now a proud owner of the SSPX’s edition of the 1962 Breviary. And it’s beautiful.
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Suppressing the hour of Prime is most certainly *not* traditional.
@massoftheages
Sacrosanctum Concillium is traditional. What became the novus ordo is not found in SC.
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Whether you agree with Fr. Altman or not, I find it quite troubling that there are people with enough time on their hands to act like the snitch/tattletale everyone hated back in school instead of worrying about their own salvation.
I've seen several people this week who've
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Good news: My son was discharged from the hospital yesterday afternoon.
Bad news: He’s having withdrawals from the medication he was on to keep him sedated, the worst withdrawals he’s ever had. The doctors are doing everything they can to keep him from being readmitted, but he
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Not to criticize those who are doing this in all sincereity, but to the cynical, this is just another message from the hierarchy that introverts are not welcome in the mainstream Catholic Church. If you aren't comfortable actively DOING SOMETHING, whether it's this or shaking
THIS IS CATHOLICISM. There is a massive Eucharistic Congress going on right now in Indiana.
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What alternative universe are these people living in?
JP2 had “zero tolerance for insubordination”? So that’s why he allowed all sorts of dissent under his reign to go unpunished in the name of avoiding schism. And B16 could “excommunicate old school”? When did that ever happen?
@khughes1963
@TheresaMac1960
John Paul II had zero tolerance for insubordination, and Benedict was quite old school, the sort of pope that could excommunicate people
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I love how it's now "weird" (see later tweet by this priest in the thread) to be so zealous for the faith (as we're commanded to be by Scripture) that one wants to worship in the same rite that sustained saints such as St. Therese and St. Pio, rather than to just be "normal"
Novus Ordo Holy Thursday Mass, packed to the gills, with 41 altar boys
Those in attendance at this one Novus Ordo parish outnumber those who attend the local FSSP and SSPX combined
The TLM is good but pretending as if it's not less than 1% of Catholics is foolish
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