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Monday, February 27, 2023

FSSP’s Mission Will Not Be Affected by Traditiones Custodes

The traditional Holy Mass that unites the saints and believers of all times in Church history.

From a female Catholic

Rumors have been circulating for weeks about an Apostolic Constitution with which Pope Francis wants to finally put an end to the Immemorial Mass. A rescriptum for the execution of Traditionis Custodes, published on February 21, could be a precursor to this.

In an interview with the Catholic online portal Aleteia, the French district superior of the Fraternity of St. Peter, Abbé Benoît Paul-Joseph, recalls that this document does not contain anything significantly new, but rather specifies the general guidelines from Traditionis Custodes regarding the permission to celebrate according to the Missal of 1962 for priests ordained according to Traditionis Custodes and regarding the use of parish churches for the celebration of the traditional liturgy and the establishment of personal parishes.

However, the local bishops are now, without exception, referred to the sole responsibility of the Dicastery for Worship and the Order of the Sacramenta. Special permits that have already been granted must subsequently be checked by the Holy See.

Nothing will change for the FSSP, emphasizes the French district superior, since on February 11, 2022 the Pope gave it a confirmation of its liturgical autonomy, according to which all of its priests have the power to:

“to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass, administer the Sacraments and other holy rites, and perform the Office according to the respective Editio typica of the liturgical books in force in 1962, i. H. the Missal, the Rituale, the Pontificale and the Breviary.

They may exercise this power in their own churches and oratories; in other places, however, only with the consent of the local ordinary, except for the private celebration of Mass”.

Abbé Benoît Paul-Joseph underlines that the Pope's concession is also due to the "fidelity of our founders to the Pope at the moment of the consecration of four bishops by Monsignor Lefebvre without papal permission.” Pope Francis has expressly emphasized that this behavior must be "honoured, protected and encouraged.” Abbé Benoît also sees all other ex-Ecclesia Dei communities addressed here.

However, the papal confirmation also states:

“Nevertheless, the Holy Father recommends that the provisions of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes also be taken into account as far as possible.”

How easily a “recommendation” can become an obligation! The rumors about a final document for the complete destruction of the Immemorial Mass by the rescript are not yet confirmed. There is still no ban on priestly ordination in the traditional Rite, and the confirmation of liturgical proper law still applies in particular to the Society of St. Peter.

But a possible ban on priestly ordinations is looming ominously on the horizon and would correspond to the Pope's previous approach of ruling with the stick and a little carrot until the latter is completely abolished.

The injuries that he has already inflicted on tradition-bound believers who, loyal to the pope and the teaching office, adhere to the traditional liturgy and want to partake of its fullness of grace are serious. Francis does not let his cards be looked at and acts in a ruthlessly autocratic manner, precisely in his dogged ideological struggle against tradition and the traditional Mass.

The declared goal remains the elimination of the traditional Latin mass. It is only a matter of time for Pope Francis. And he sees himself as the master of this time. Despite all the relief that the worst has not yet happened, one should not hide one thing: the TC or the accompanying letter to the bishops announced the gradual re-education of the faithful “who are rooted in the previous form of celebration and need time , to return to the Roman Rite as taught by Saints Paul VI. and John Paul II was promulgated”.

In France in particular, we have followed how a number of bishops have taken the first steps after TC in their dioceses with bans and "re-education decrees" and have proven their loyalty to the line.

Building trust looks different.

Ultimately, this also applies to other areas. Thus, even the clear papal admonitions and warnings in the direction of German-synodal detours cannot provide lasting reassurance as long as schismatic acts continue to be pushed ahead, above all by Bishop Bätzing, without Rome following up the warning words with deeds and appropriate sanctions. If one does not want to interpret such an incongruous behavior as a "weakness in leadership", the only remaining assumption is that openness is a tactic to achieve one's own goals, which may play a role in the world synod on synodality.

Quite apart from that, one can certainly ask oneself the question of whether the stubborn German bishops in Rome could not at some point be used as compliant and then very Rome-loyal vicarious agents in undermining tradition. Despite the calm in this country so far, where the energies are still tied up by the so-called synodal path, one must not forget that, with Bätzing and companions, a large part of the German episcopate is undeterred and concerned with a fundamental change in faith and teaching and with it may not necessarily be well-disposed towards the old fair. Because in the context of the tradition, no Maria 2.0 supporters thrive, whether they be priests or lay people, from "*inside", God* and so-called rainbow flags that are deficient in color, one is spared, teaching authority and tradition apply, the catechism is the guideline for a Catholic way of life and no one wants a ratty sexual morality, as practiced in the world ruled by an unholy "spirit of the times".

Lots of questions, lots of worries. Perhaps it is good that Abbé Benoît is now advising Paul-Joseph to take advantage of the rich graces of Lent to take a salutary distance from all these disturbances in the presence of the Lord and to find spiritual nourishment in the texts of the traditional Latin liturgy find that the attachment to the old liturgy has nothing ideological about it. It is about living from the spiritual riches of this liturgy. Especially during Lent she offers a powerful help.

Let us follow the calls to prayer and fasting in this way:

"We call on all Catholics of good will to pray and do penance this Lent for the resolution of this question and the freedom of the ancient Latin Mass."

Image: Fssp.fr

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com

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Biden Protects Cartels Attacks Ranchers

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Orthodox Jew Guilty of Raping Children

Edit: self-identifying sodomite rapes children. This story is often repeated and often obscured by the media for obvious reasons. If this were a Catholic priest, there would be a lot more coverage.

One commenter asks, “Is this what Charlie Kirk meant by Jewish values?” Like abortion is a Jewish value?

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Pope Bows to Israeli Cabinet Member

Edit: what a dandy!

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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Catholic Bishop Found Dead — Taylor Marshall Live

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Friday, February 17, 2023

The Sad Apostasy of Alessandro Gnocchi

Catholic journalist and author Alessandro Gnocchi apostatized to the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow in October 2019. Gnocchi, who studied history and philosophy, published several books and commentaries with the philosopher Mario Palmaro until his early death in 2014, with which they were among the first and harshest critics of Pope Francis' pontificate, including the unforgettable article: "We Don’t Like This Pope". For this, the two authors were fired from Radio Maria Italy, where they were responsible for their own series. After Palmaro's death, things quieted down around Gnocchi until he was converted to the Moscow Patriarchate. This is the terminus of disappointment about the development of the Church in recent years and the aversion to the pontificate of Pope Francis. In January, Gnocchi published his latest book, in which he tries to justify his apostasy from the Catholic Church and declares it irrevocable. On the other hand, the historian Prof. Roberto de Mattei, a forerunner of Catholic tradition, raises his voice vigorously and warns against such a temptation, which exists in some Catholic circles, to go so far, even into apostasy, out of opposition to the current successor of Peter to fall.

The sad apostasy of Alessandro Gnocchi

By Roberto de Mattei*

The loss of a soul is always painful, but it is even more painful when it becomes a nuisance to other souls. Such is the case with Alessandro Gnocchi's Apostasy, described in a book “Return to the Sources. My pilgrimage to the East into the heart of Orthodoxy” (“Ritorno alle concernti. Il mio pellegrinaggio a Oriente nel cuore dell'Ortodossia”, Monasterium publishers, 2023, 170 pages) announces that he has turned his back on the Catholic Church in order to to join the “Moscow Patriarchate, Orthodox Ecumenism” (p. 14).

He is now "Aleksandr" and his soul no longer belongs to the Church but to his "Starze": "One who absorbs the soul and will of another into his soul and into his will" (F. Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov). Under the leadership of the starets, he believes he has embarked on the "path of holiness" (p. 30). His heart is "on Mount Athos, Hagion Oros, the Holy Mountain, in the worship of the true saints" (ibid.). Everything "in my book," he says, "is the conclusion of a job I did with my starets" (p. 103).

Gnocchi's Book of Apostasy Justificatio

I have known and respected Alessandro Gnocchi since 2009. On several occasions he presented my history of the Second Vatican Council, which was published by Verlag Lindau in 2010 [German edition 2011], and I reviewed his work and that of Mario Palmaro in the daily newspaper Il Foglio ( 1968-2014) the beautiful book "Sleeping Beauty. Why the Church has been in crisis since the Second Vatican Council and why she will wake up again” (“La Bella addormentata”, Verona 2012). According to Gnocchi and Palmaro, the “sleeping beauty” is the bride of Christ, who in her divine aspect preserves her beauty unchanged but seems to have sunk into a deep lethargy. "Beauty, because in spite of our sins, our weaknesses, our treacheries and our errors, the Catholic Church still is and will be the Immaculate Bride of Christ" (p. 5).

Today, however, Gnocchi rejects this "Immaculate Bride of Christ" and replaces the voice of her Popes, her Doctors and her Saints with that of the Russian celebrity dependent on the Moscow Patriarchate. His apostasy is also portrayed in some traditionalist publications and blogs as a serious and painful spiritual decision. This confirms the situation of deep confusion in which this world has been for several years.

Basically, Gnocchi despises his shallow apologists because, unlike them, he is not a syncretist. The rejection of ecumenism is the only point on which he agrees with his past. For him, the theological reconciliation between Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church is “technically” impossible: “The unity of the Churches appears more and more as a chimera designed in reality to betray good feelings that are based on nothing…” (p .113). His rejection of the Roman Church is complete and non-negotiable. The Catholic religion is called the "Roman hemisphere," "blind and fruitless" (p. 62). Peter had no successors (p. 105): "The Pope of Rome is therefore only a bishop, nothing more" (p. 106) and the "papal ideology" (107) finally distanced itself from Christ. For him it was an instant "conversion" in the opposite direction:

"When I first entered an Orthodox parish while the Divine Liturgy was being celebrated, I knew immediately that I, who had entered with the idea that I was a Roman Catholic would become Russian Orthodox when I come out. And so it was” (p. 80). "It was also clear to me," he continues, "that from the earliest centuries the Roman Church had succumbed to the demonic temptations which Jesus rejected in the desert" (p. 97).

This position, so clearly expressed, is not only schismatic but openly heretical. After the First Vatican Council defined the primacy of the Roman pontiff as a truth of faith, a schism without heresy is no longer possible. The consequence of this apostasy is autocephaly. All feel like little "popes" and become "Protestants". After all, if not Protestantism, what is the Russian schismatic religion that arose on a whim of Tsar Fyodor (Theodor) I Ivanovich in 1589 when the Moscow Patriarchate was established in the Kremlin? Since then, of all the Eastern Churches, the "Third Rome" has presented itself as the main rival of the Catholic Church.

Let no one say that the schismatic Eastern Church maintains a spiritual reservation in maintaining the validity of the sacraments. Indeed, the validity of the sacraments does not mean that the spiritual life is flowing. The sacraments are instrumental, effective causes which, like any active principle, require the willingness of the recipient to be effective. There is no holiness outside of the life of grace, but neither is there genuine grace outside of the Catholic Church. Leaving the Catholic Church to convert to so-called orthodoxy commits a mortal sin of the gravest kind. By grace we receive the divine Person of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity dwells in our souls and she becomes the bride of God; through grace we are imbued with the theological and moral virtues and receive the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. But he who is in mortal sin is deprived of the effect of sanctifying grace.

It is quite correct to call orthodoxy a "withered branch" good only for the fire. The supernatural juice does not flow in the tribe of false religions. As Joseph de Maistre aptly states: "All these churches, which separated from the Holy See at the beginning of the twelfth century, can be likened to frozen corpses whose forms were preserved by the cold" (Lettre à une dame russe sur la nature et les effets du schisme, in: Lettres et opuscules inédits, A. Vaton, Paris 1863, vol. II, p. 406).

It is true that even in non-Catholic religions one can save oneself in extraordinary ways, despite their errors, but Alessandro Gnocchi is not a muzhik [a simple peasant in the tsarist empire] who is unaware of the Catholic truth: he is a baptized man, who, after learning and professing the true faith, publicly rejects it, describing his “conscious return to orthodoxy” (p. 39) as an “irrevocable step” (p. 81).

Whoever is in conscious and irrevocable mortal sin withdraws himself finally from the influence of grace. For this reason the Enciclopedia Cattolica teaches that “the schismatic who is voluntarily outside the Church does not participate in the divine life of the mystical body and is deprived of the means of sanctification” (Vincenzo Carbone: Schisma, vol. XI, column 116). Grace is a divine gift, infinitely greater than anything created. And if, as Saint Thomas says, it is greater to bring a sinner back to the state of grace than to create heaven and earth (Summa Theologica, I, 2, q. 113, a. 9), then what is the point of hold for those who stubbornly reject grace? An earthquake like the terrible one in Turkey, which destroys a city or a region, shakes us deeply, but the ruin of a soul at the loss of grace should terrify us even more. We say this with a loud voice. The musty smell of Moscow religion repels us, the smell of eternal Rome, the Cathedral of Truth and the Mother of Nations, attracts us. However, we feel great pity for Alessandro Gnocchi and for all those tempted by schism and heresy, also because of the errors and sins of the highest authorities of the Church. We face a drama that requires reflection and prayer. No one, beginning with the writer of these lines, can feel safe from such devastating falls. Perseverance to the end is a grace that we must ask every day with great confidence from the Mother of All Graces who, after promising in 1917 the conversion of schismatic Russia and the whole world, on January 3, 1944, gave the great promise of Summarized Fatima in these words to Sister Lucy: “In time one faith, one baptism, one holy, catholic and apostolic Church. In eternity in heaven” (Um Caminho sob o olhar de Maria, Edições Carmelo, Coimbra 2012, p. 267).

*Roberto de Mattei, historian, father of five children, professor of modern history and history of Christianity at the European University of Rome, President of the Lepanto Foundation, author of numerous books, most recently in German translation: Defense of Tradition: The Insurmountable Truth of Christ, with a foreword by Martin Mosebach, Altötting 2017, and The Second Vatican Council. A Hitherto Unwritten Story, 2nd ext. Edition, Bobingen 2011.

Books by Prof. Roberto de Mattei in English translation and books by Martin Mosebach are available from Amazon.

Introduction/Translation: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Corrispondenza Romana

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Antifa Scum Attack Hungarian Citizens as a Provocation

Edit: the account sharing the video of the Antifa attack has been shut down by YouTube.

Maybe you’re not interested in war but it’s interested in you!

[Hungarian Conservative] Monday marked the end of a series of attacks that began on Friday last week, when foreign ‘antifas’ arriving in the country brutally assaulted passers-by selected on the basis of their attire. The antifas obviously concluded that Hungarians wearing black jackets or military gear were probably far-right sympathisers, who wanted to mark the anniversary of the siege of the Buda castle by the Soviet forces in 1945.

Antifa—short for the German Antifaschistische Aktion (Anti-Fascist Action)—is a radical, violent left-wing movement that traces its origins back to the 1930s, but has been resurrected in the early 2000s. Responsible for a number of brutal attacks on conservatives, liberals and freethinkers, both in the United States and in Europe, Antifa has so far largely been absent from Hungarian public life.

As our readers may recall, in 2020 US President Donald Trump threatened—and not for the first time— to classify the US radical left movement Antifa as a terrorist organisation. Back then, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany, the home country of the ‘anti-fascist activist community’, immediately spoke out in full solidarity with the group, which is mainly made up of young people in their twenties. There have also been attempts in the European Parliament to have the extremist group classified as terrorists, but to no avail.

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Monday, February 13, 2023

Biden Appointee Who Mandated Military Death Jab Resigns

[The Dossier] Dr Terry Adirim, the government bureaucrat behind the infamous and unlawful Pentagon vaccine mandate, will “leave her post in the coming days,” reports FedScoop.

Adirim is currently the executive director of the VA’s electronic health record modernization integration office, having held the role since late 2021.

While she was in the Pentagon as the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs (serving as a Biden Admin political appointee), Dr Adirim, signed her name to an order forcing service members to take the emergency use authorization (EUA) vaccine. Adirim’s memo attempted to justify mandating EUA shots as if they were FDA approved, which was not the case at the time, and remains the same today. The mandate led to countless vaccine injuries, the worst recruiting crisis since the formation of the all-volunteer military, and thousands of service members discharged for refusing to take the mRNA experimental gene serum.

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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Holocaust Deniers in Putin’s Russia Face Prison

Edit: this recent law change adds fuel to speculation that Putin is controlled by Chabad, and that while thousands of Slavic Christians are slaughtered on both sides, that Jews pulling the strings are leading the fight on both sides.

Putin recently fired a minister who dared criticize Chabad.

So, if you though you might be able to find refuge in the “former” Soviet Union, think again.

Even after many fled the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s, they still have an undeniable death-grip on Slavic peoples.

Article from Slate.

[Forward] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union’s role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail.

The law, described by critics as an attempt to curb freedom of expression to appease conservative Russians, the ex-KGB spy’s main support base, also criminalises the public desecration of war memorials.

The Kremlin has used World War Two as a pillar to unite a society that Putin has said lost its moral bearings following the 1991 Soviet collapse.

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

Pope Throws "Rebellious" Nuns Out of Their 50 Million Dollar Monastery and Takes Over

The "rebellious" Poor Clares leave the monastery of Ravello.

(Rome) They have resisted for a long time: Now the "rebellious" nuns Massimiliana Panza and Angela Maria Punnacka have left the monastery of Santa Chiara in Ravello after Pope Francis had made an example of them.

The town of Ravello is located in the enchanting countryside of the Amalfi Coast in the southern Italian region of Campania. The city with the great panoramic view was able to survive as a Byzantine territory for a long time. It was not until the 11th century that it briefly came under Lombard rule, which was replaced by the Normans in 1073. It was also the Normans who made Ravello a diocese.

At the end of the 13th century, a Poor Clares cloister was built on the outskirts of the town. Since then, cloistered nuns have lived there, whose charism is worship. The small three-nave church and monastery were given their present appearance in 1722. The high altar is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and shows representations of St. Francis and St. Clare. The oldest fresco, a blessing Christ, dates back to the presumed founding year 1297 or shortly before. In the right aisle, a door with a grille allows conversation with the nuns, who adhered to the strict cloister until the end, which is why the monastery cannot be visited. For many of today's mostly hurried tourists, a visit to such a place would be nothing anyway. They are more drawn to the famous Villa Cimbrone, which adjoins the monastery just to the west.

The view from Ravello of the Amalfi Coast and the Gulf of Salerno

"We take a discreet look behind these walls, where silence is sacred," wrote the Ravello-born minorite, historian and archaeologist Fr. Oreste Maria Casaburo in his description of the monastery and church. When he entered the novitiate of his native town in 1942, life and the cultural landscape on the Amalfi Coast were somewhat different, but life in the Poor Clares monastery of Ravello hardly changed. The square in front of the church is as sun-drenched as ever. The monastery complex on the ridge offers a fantastic view over the Gulf of Salerno and into the Vallone del Dragone, the dragon valley, in the northwest.

For more than 700 years, the Poor Clares have lived on this mountain and have survived all attacks, turmoil and natural disasters. The monastery is thus one of the oldest continuously inhabited monasteries in the country. In its heyday in 1577, 41 sisters, three novices and two converses lived here. The large dormitory was then located above the nave.

When the Tridentine church reform was implemented in the 17th century, the monasteries of the Augustinian hermits and the Minorites in Ravello were closed. The monasteries of the Benedictines and the Poor Clares, however, remained. The Poor Clares monastery also survived the anti-monastic Napoleonic turmoil, because at that time there were more than twelve sisters in the monastery, which were prescribed by the French rulers as a minimum number. When, later in the 19th century, Italian unification was carried out under anti-Church auspices and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was incorporated into the new Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the hour seemed to have struck for the Poor Clares monastery of Ravello in the course of the great abolition of the monastery. The decree of repeal had already been signed by the new rulers, but it was never implemented, because even now, despite the ban on admission, the number of sisters never fell below the minimum limit that would have allowed their expulsion.

Now, 150 years later, under Pope Francis, a wind is blowing in the Church that is not very friendly to the cloistered monasteries. Like the "Enlightenment" thinkers of the late 18th century, Santa Marta does not seem to see any "benefit" in adoration sisters shut off from the world.

Three Poor Clares lived in Ravello. Too few, said the Roman Congregation of Religious, to "justify" the continued existence of the monastery, and last year decreed the abolition of the convent and the division of the three nuns among three other monasteries. In order to save their convent, the two younger sisters Massimiliana Panza and Angela Maria Punnacka and their 97-year-old sister Maria Cristina Fiore, who has lived in the convent since 1955, resisted. The citizens of Ravello formed a committee to support the sisters. However, negotiations with the ecclesiastical authorities were inconclusive. In the diocese and in the order, reference was made to Roman requirements.

The entrance to the Poor Clares monastery of Ravello

In order to save the convent and to prevent the monastery from becoming the object of real estate speculation, the sisters donated the entire complex, whose value is estimated at 50 to 60 million euros due to the fantastic location, to Pope Francis. In a petition to the Pope, they announced the donation and asked him for his protection. What was intended as a saving anchor in desperation, however, turned out to be the opposite. Pope Francis did not think of taking the nuns under his protection. However, the donation was accepted by him and makes him the owner of a considerable fortune. As soon as the transfer of ownership was completed, the resistance of the nuns of Rome was classified as a "rebellion" and answered with maximum severity.

On February 3, the two younger sisters left the convent after all, because the Holy See made a hard example of them. Both were released from their vows because of their "disobedience" and dismissed from the religious state. The penal decree was personally signed by Pope Francis.

When the sisters were shown the Pope's signature under the decree last week, their world collapsed. Pope Francis expressly prohibited the sisters from appealing the decision. Then they capitulated. The 46-year-old Sr. Massimiliana, who lived in the monastery in Ravello for 18 years, returned to her family. For the time being, she also accommodates her younger sister Angela Maria there.

From their 97-year-old sister, the two said goodbye on Friday morning only briefly. To spare her a stir, they didn't tell her about their personal tragedy. According to the Vatican decree, Sr. Maria Cristina is allowed to stay in the monastery because of her old age. The absurd thing: For their care, two other nuns were transferred to Ravello by the Congregation of Religious, which means that three sisters continue to live in the monastery.

"It's a piece of Ravello's history. Although only three nuns remained, it is important to preserve the monastery (...) We are disappointed and confused by the Vatican's decision, especially after they threw out these two sisters, only to let two others move in," Gino Schiavo, who heads the citizens' committee to save the monastery, told the press.

A group of people said goodbye to the now former sisters on the short way from the convent to the car that took them away. "We promise them to continue fighting for the preservation of the monastery," Gino Schiavo said to the two women and presented them with a ceramic bowl with a thank you and a dedication.

Sr. Massimiliana explained to those present that they had not been transferred, but dismissed, and said goodbye with the words:

"We came with nothing and leave with nothing. We don't want anything for ourselves. We were born Franciscan poor when we entered the Order and we want to die that way."

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: MiL/Wikicommons/SalernoNews (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Pope Francis Sends Visitor to Traditional Diocese of Frejus Toulon

Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon finds himself more and more in Rome's line of fire hostile to tradition. The picture shows him celebrating a Pontifical Mass in the traditional Rite for the international pilgrimage Populus Summorum Pontificum ad Petri Sedem in St. Peter's Basilica. On the right, Abbé Claude Barth, the spiritual assistant of the pilgrimage.

(Paris) It goes in quick succession. The Holy See, through the Dicastery of Bishops, has ordered an Apostolic Visitation of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. The reason is named with an adjective: Bishop Dominique Rey is "traditional".

The diocese in Provence has become an exceptional diocese under its bishop. In relation to size, it has far surpassed all other French dioceses for many years. Although it comprises only two percent of the Catholics of France, ten percent of all seminarians in Fréjus-Toulon prepare for the priesthood there.

The reason for this is that Bishop Dominque Rey treats both forms of the Roman Rite equally. The traditional Rite has a firm place in his diocese. Seminarians are trained in both forms. In addition, it promotes the establishment of traditional religious orders. Some were even constituted by him in his diocese, including an ancient Benedictine monastery and a Bi-ritual missionary order.

The ancient Benedictine monastery founded and built by monks in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon

These facts are a thorn in the side of some in France and Rome. The 70-year-old Msgr. Rey was appointed in the Holy Year by Pope John Paul II. Under Benedict XVI, who held him in high esteem and personally appointed him synodal member of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization where he developed. Under Francis, however, the wind changed. Nevertheless, Bishop Rey pressed ahead in 2017 and declared as the only diocesan bishop at the time that priests of the SSPX can perform weddings in all churches of his diocese.

Then, however, Pope Francis issued his infamous motu proprio Traditionis custodes in the summer of 2021. In June 2022, Rome shocked with a ban on Bishop Rey to administer the already fixed diaconate and priestly ordinations. Katholisches.info wrote at the time to a picture showing a smiling Pope Francis shaking hands with Bishop Rey: "The smile is deceiving".

The accusations made against Bishop Rey last year resemble the stereotypes that are part of the stereotypical anti-conservative and anti-traditionalist repertoire. With the ban, it was clear that the bishop, his diocese and his thriving seminary were targeted by Rome. Those who hoped for calm misjudge the dynamics that drive forces hostile to tradition. It is said that they need enemies like daily bread, and if there were none, they would have to invent them.

The prohibition of ordination eight months ago is now followed by an Apostolic Visitation. An announcement that frightens connoisseurs of the matter. Under Pope Francis, the procedure in other cases means that after the visitator the retirement of Bishop Rey could follow.

Bishop Dominique Rey with canons of his cathedral chapter. Msgr. Marc Aillet (not pictured), since 2008 tradition-friendly bishop of Bayonne, has been honorary canon of Fréjus-Toulon since 2003.

The visitation is scheduled to begin next Monday, February 13, and is expected to last "several weeks," French radio reported. The new Archbishop of Dijon, Msgr. Antoine Hérouard, has been appointed Apostolic Visitor, assisted by Msgr. Joël Mercier, former secretary of the Roman Congregation for the Clergy.

Officially, it says that the visitor should "deepen and continue the work carried out by Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline during his fraternal visit, which took place in 2021 at the request of Rome". Cardinal Aveline, the Archbishop of Marseille, had taken in his report to Rome, especially the seminary in the crosshairs. With the result of that visit, Rome then justified the ban on ordaining six deacons and four priests in June 2022. With reference to visitor reports, retirements then took place, even if the visitors had recommended nothing of the kind. In Rome, there is talk of a "well-rehearsed process" in which the result is already fixed.

But not only the seminary of the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon disturbs, but also the foundation and reception of new religious communities, in short, everything that has to do with the special and tradition-friendly course of the diocese. Of course, this is not said.

In a statement published this afternoon, the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon says that it welcomes the news of a visitation "in a climate of trust" and invites "all the faithful and clergy of the diocese to carry this visit in their prayers so that it can bear the expected fruits for the good of our diocese".

The local church has used the past few months, it continues, "to think about how various areas of church leadership can be improved". Whether this can appease the anger of the enemies of tradition is doubtful. The fact that Bishop Rey has increased pastoral visits to his diocese and "improved the procedures for monitoring the various communities received in the diocese" and has "received more than 100 priests for a personal meeting" since September should not be very impressive.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Twitter/Monastère Saint-Benoît/MiL (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Monday, February 6, 2023

Fake Catholic School in Canuckistan Expels Catholic Student for Being Catholic

An Ontario high school student is not allowed to attend his Catholic school for the remainder of the year because he expressed the belief that God created only two sexes, with the school arguing that his presence would be “detrimental to the physical and mental well-being” of transgender students.

Josh Alexander, 16, has not been permitted to attend St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario since last November when he organized a protest in support of the right of female students to have single-sex washrooms after two girls had confided in him that they were uncomfortable sharing spaces with trans-identified male students.

Alexander had also expressed his belief that there are only two immutable sexes during a law class discussion, saying that he felt that males belong in male washrooms and females belong in female washrooms because identity doesn’t change biology. This, he told The Post Millennial, was considered "offensive" and "bullying" because there was a transgender student in the class.

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Sunday, February 5, 2023

The Filth Reveal - FFWN

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Keep wearing your masks 😷 , losers!

No, they don't work!

https://renz-law.com/i-know-i-should-be-better-than-this-but-if-youre-still-wearing-a-mask-for-covid-youre-an-idiot/

But, the CDC hasn't given up!

American Karens

Why the Germans defeated the French so quickly

As Rome burns, Gary the Fairy reminds us that the SSPX is really bad

Maybe it's just that FrancisChurch is more accepting of his lifestyle?

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

More Untimely Deaths and Heart Attacks -- Did Mark Steyn Get the Death Jab?

Edit: we'll just keep sharing these out. It's sad that such a young man might otherwise be alive today if he hadn't gotten the death jab to keep his job. It would be a shame if someone sued KARE TV.

[MSN] Regular viewers of KARE 11 in Minnesota were somewhat shocked following the news that Andy Trowbridge, a sports producer who had worked with the station for 15 years, had died. The news came quite suddenly, and Andy was only in his 30s at the time of his death. Following the news, many naturally wondered what Andy's cause of death was, and whether it was a surprise to those who knew him.

Even Neocon war mongers like Mark Steyn got the Vaxx and has had TWO heart attacks.

Apparently, Steyn is opposed to the jab. Did he get the JAB? The Jewish commentator gives an account of himself, here. He pretty much breezes over.

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2023-02-01T11_26_33-08_00

Speaking of anti-Vaxx Canadians! Remember these guys at Lifesite?

AMDG

Saturday, January 28, 2023

Game over Pfizer

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Why we won't be flying any time soon

Post Covid Vaccine release, pilots are being allowed to fly with weaker hearts.

https://dailyclout.io/military-its-time-to-stand-up-and-say-no-to-masks/

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Conservatism is for Dummies

The New Reality

If you can suffer through a few ignorant statements tainted by Protestantism, Judaism, & Americanism, these discussions are pretty useful. https://stream.org/tucker-carlson-permanent-washington-remains-in-charge-of-our-political-system/

Hey Honey, Rabbinic Judaism does not predate Christianity. That's what all of those Catholics turning up at Seder Meals believe.

The Great Papal Interview: "Benedict XVI Was a Slave"

Pope Francis gave an in-depth interview to AP's Nicole Winfield on current issues.

(Rome) Interviews by popes are only given very rarely. Under Pope Francis, this has changed. He uses the interview as a main means of communication. Recently, he granted one to the Associated Press (AP), one of the Big Three international press agencies. The interview published yesterday was conducted by the AP Vatican scholar Nicole Winfield in Spanish with a potpourri of topics from Benedict XVI. to Cardinal George Pell to papal critics and the wealth of Africa, from the Ukraine conflict to the arms trade to the trivialized People's Republic of China and a ridiculed Cardinal Zen, from homosexuality and the sexual abuse scandal, from the women's diaconate to the Amazon Synod and synodality to the only "so-called synodal way" of the German bishops and from his own resignation, the Rupnik case to a visit to Argentina – with some interesting statements.

Evil Dominican to Address Bishops

Edit: this groomer has been at this for a long time. You might wonder what Bergoglio’s predecessors were thinking by presiding over the election of this degenerate to head the Dominican Order.

If anyone is a poster child for Amoris laetitia, it’s this man.

This is the calibre of man who has been controlling church institutions for the last 70 years, but as with Don Marco Bisceglia, who died penitent and reconciled to the Church from AIDS in 2018, there is hope.

[Catholic Snooze Network] Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich announced Monday that the October 2023 session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will begin with a three-day retreat led by a Dominican preacher whose statements on homosexuality have previously sparked controversy.

Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe will lead the Catholic bishops and participants in the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in a retreat near Rome from Oct. 1–3 at the invitation of Pope Francis, according to the cardinal.

Radcliffe, 77, served as head of the Dominican Order from 1992 to 2001. His heterodox statements, particularly those on homosexuality, have previously caused controversy in the Church.

In the Anglican Pilling Report in 2013, Radcliffe wrote that when considering same-sex relationships, “we cannot begin with the question of whether it is permitted or forbidden! We must ask what it means and how far it is eucharistic. Certainly it can be generous, vulnerable, tender, mutual, and nonviolent. So in many ways, I think it can be expressive of Christ’s self-gift.”

AMDG

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Bishops Push Aberrosexuality and Aberrosexuals Prey on Children

Edit: In view of recent efforts to normalize aberrosexual degeneracy, a certain story about two evil perverts in Georgia who pretended to be married fathers and tortured two boys they adopted, has gotten a little buried.

All of this is especially interesting in light of Benedict's posthumous book wherein he describes his isolation and attempts to deal with "Gay Clubs".

These news stories are contrasted by the breathtaking dishonesty of evil Bishops like McElroy of San Diego are working hard to smooth things over, but we’ll see if the public continues to swallow this cool aide. Some will remember that McElroy is a creature of the predator ex-Cardinal McCarrick. The bishop calls the “animus” against these perverts “demonic”, but in light of the way ecclesiastical effeminates like himself abuse their power and in light of the way so many prelates, and Bergoglio himself, have covered up the sex abuse of male children by aberrosexual demons, it’s completely understandable there’s an animus.

It's outrageous that this clerical apologist for deviancy should be allowed to attack the Catholic faithful like this.

It is a demonic mystery of the human soul why so many men and women have a profound and visceral animus toward members of the L.G.B.T. communities. The church’s primary witness in the face of this bigotry must be one of embrace rather than distance or condemnation. The distinction between orientation and activity cannot be the principal focus for such a pastoral embrace because it inevitably suggests dividing the L.G.B.T. community into those who refrain from sexual activity and those who do not. Rather, the dignity of every person as a child of God struggling in this world, and the loving outreach of God, must be the heart, soul, face and substance of the church’s stance and pastoral action.

A little context is in order:

AMDG

Bergoglio Promoting Globohomo Again

Edit: in the water is wet section of the blog. He at least admits it’s a sin, but does he know what a sin is?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.

“Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press.

Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops in some parts of the world support laws that criminalize homosexuality or discriminate against the LGBTQ community, and he himself referred to the issue in terms of “sin.” But he attributed such attitudes to cultural backgrounds, and said bishops in particular need to undergo a process of change to recognize the dignity of everyone.

Monday, January 23, 2023

Steven Crowder vs. Ben Shapiro and Con Inc.

https://dailystormer.in/steven-crowder-is-going-to-war-with-jew-controllers-of-con-inc/

Pro-Vaxx Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Admits Profusely "The Anti-Vaxxers Win"

https://thelibertydaily.com/pro-vaxx-dilbert-creator-scott-adams-admits-profusely-the-anti-vaxxers-win/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1uEAgeiJUw

Pelosi Seeks Exorcist for Home

[New York Post] Former House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi summoned priests to rid her luxe San Francisco home of evil spirits after a man allegedly attacked her husband with a hammer.

“I think that weighed really heavy on her soul. I think she felt really guilty,” said Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, the New York Times said.

“I think that really broke her. Over Thanksgiving, she had priests coming, trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services,” she added.

Fr. Arturo Albano, the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Church, Pelosi’s local parish, insisted his staff was not involved in such a rite.

“As far as I know, no exorcism or priest services were performed at her home,” Albano told The Post.

But Pelosi may have gone outside her local church hierarchy for holy help.

Archbishop Cordileone has effectively banned Pelosi from receiving the Communion.

AMDG

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