Don Nichola Bux Says Pornmonger Fernández Should Resign --- "He has discredited himself"

 Don Nicola Bux: Religious Prefect Fernández has discredited himself and should resign.

Vaticanist Edward Pentin yesterday published an interview with noted liturgist Don Nicola Bux about the controversial document Fiducia supplicans. In it, the long-time confidant of Pope Benedict XVI. and advisor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the Declaration of the Dicastery for the Faith “is not part of the authentic Magisterium” and that its author, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, should resign. If Fiducia supplicans, as he is convinced, is not part of the authentic Magisterium, then the declaration is not binding.

Don Bux spoke to Pentin about how the document was received in Italy, what he thinks of Fernández's January 4 clarification, and what all this could mean for the future of the Church and the upcoming conclave. The well-known theologian found clear words.

Because of their “proximity to the Apostolic See,” Italy’s bishops behave like “stupid dogs” who fear “reprisals.” Their attempts to justify would be viewed by believers as well as non-practitioners “as an insult to their intelligence.”

There are the faithful who know the teachings of the Church and therefore raise the first dubium ( doubts) presented : Is it possible that the Church today teaches doctrines that contradict those , which 

She previously taught on questions of faith and morals, be it through the Pope ex cathedra, be it through the definitions of an ecumenical council, be it through the general ordinary Magisterium of the bishops scattered all over the world (cf. Lumen Gentium 25)?

“Certainly the declaration Fiducia supplicans does not belong to the authentic magisterium and is therefore not binding, because what is asserted in it is not contained in the written or transmitted Word of God, which the Church, the Pope or the college of bishops either definitively, that is, through solemn judgment, or proposes to believe as divinely revealed with the ordinary and general Magisterium. It cannot be followed even with the religious consent of the will and mind.”

 The problem, says Don Bux, is that “the majority of the baptized are ignorant because for decades social issues have been preferred to catechesis.” This has consequences: “For irregular heterosexual and homosexual couples, the following now applies: love is love.”

But those “who use logic” are of course of a different opinion and oppose this postulate. This is the second dubium of the five cardinals from summer 2022: Is it possible for a priest to bless marriages between homosexual people under certain circumstances and thereby suggest that homosexual behavior as such does not violate the law of God and man's path to God? This doubt is linked to another: does the teaching held by the general Magisterium remain valid that every sexual act outside of marriage, and in particular homosexual acts, constitute an objectively serious sin against the law of God, regardless of the circumstances in which they take place, and regardless of the intention with which they are carried out?

The declaration of Faith Prefect Fernández on January 4 “is therefore a classic attempt to paper over the cracks”.

Benedict said Don Bux, “in his remarks of April 11, 2019," described the origin of the debacle of Catholic morality and thus of the division among Catholics, "because the cohabitation of both a heterosexual and a homosexual couple is no longer considered sinful”

“The division or schism that was previously hidden has now come to the surface. Whether it will be formally declared at a future Church event, such as a synod or conclave, remains to be seen. The next pope will certainly have to do the math and decide whether he wants to deepen the division or resolve it by calling a council. Whoever will be the candidate for the papacy will have to be asked in the meetings before the conclave to answer the accumulated Dubia.”

The resistance to Fiducia supplicans appears primarily in Africa and Eastern Europe and not in the West because “in the Western Hemisphere after the Second Vatican Council, relativistic ideology” penetrated moral teaching and destroyed natural law.

"A Jewish friend who heard about Fiducia supplicans said to me, 'Does the Pope not know the Bible?' Not to mention the mockery of Muslims and the alienation of the Orthodox, who have now declared unity with the Catholics impossible. Fiducia supplicans and the subsequent statements are the result of the ignorance of Prefect Fernández.” 

The teaching is pastoral, “but if the pastor does not know it, he cannot do pastoral work”:

“The drama of the Church today is the separation of pastoral care from doctrine, that is, the separation from the love of truth. And that will cost us dearly, as John Paul II predicted. Pope Francis should abolish the fiducia supplicans and replace the prefect with a man of “certain, sound and pure doctrine,” in the words of the apostle to Titus.

The current situation will therefore have a significant impact on the coming conclave. According to Don Bux, the next pope will have to ask himself the question:

“What is the mission of the church: to adapt to the world or to save it?”

The unity of the Catholic Church is endangered by Fiducia supplicans , said the renowned Liturgist, “because in practice it accepts opposing views among churches scattered all over the world on such an essential moral truth. An example: the new bishop of Foggia said his church would be the 'Church of Francis who blesses all'. But isn’t the Church the Church of Jesus Christ?”

“Fernández has discredited himself by publishing a document that is the opposite of that of his predecessor, Cardinal Ladaria, in 2021. Is this a 'further development' or rather a doctrinal heterogeneity? The Dicastery and the Holy See have exposed themselves. Someone has already renamed the Dicastery 'for the destruction of the faith'. The suspicion of ignorance and bad faith will weigh on Fernandez in every document he signs. He should resign.”

 

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image : MiL

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

AMDG

Oh NO! Journalism RIP

Edit: now that all of these powerful institutions are dead and dying, how will democracy survive?

 

NEW - WaPo's Taylor Lorenz: "Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out."pic.twitter.com/k5kokYenKI

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 25, 2024

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Bishop Athanasius Authors Prayer for Holy Popes

With a prayer he formulated, Bishop Athanasius Schneider calls on God to call on holy popes

 Praise Jesus Christ!

Dear faithful Catholics, especially those who are suffering from the unprecedented crisis of our Holy Mother Church in our time!  Dear Catholic fathers and mothers of families!  Dear Catholic youth!  Dear innocent Catholic children!  And especially dear contemplative religious sisters, spiritual pearls of the Church!  Dear Catholic seminarians!  Dear Catholic priests, you “are the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”!

The confusion within the Church has reached such a level that we must pray to the Lord with the words of Esther: “We have no helper but you” (Esther 4:31/14,3 Vulg.).  Let us, therefore, take refuge in the Immaculate Heart of Mary through daily prayer, imploring holy Popes.  Let us cry out with the Psalmist: “Arise, O Lord, why do you sleep?  Arise, O Lord, help us and bring us salvation!” (Psalm 43:23).

 January 18, 2024, earlier feast of the Cathedral of Peter in Rome

 + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Mary in Astana

 Prayer for Holy Popes

Kyrie Eleison!  Christe Eleison!  Kyrie Eleison!  Lord Jesus Christ, you are the good shepherd!  With Your almighty hand You guide your pilgrim Church through the storms of every age.

Decorate the Holy See with holy popes who neither fear the greats of this world nor compromise with the spirit of the times, but who preserve, strengthen and defend the Catholic faith until the shedding of their blood and who observe, protect and pass on the venerable liturgy of the Roman Church  .

O Lord, return to us through holy Popes who, inflamed by the zeal of the Apostles, proclaim to the whole world: “In no other is salvation found than in Jesus Christ.  For there is no other name under heaven given to men by which they should be saved” (cf. Acts 4:10-12).

 Through an era of holy popes, may the Holy See, which is the home for all promoters of the Catholic and apostolic faith, always shine as the chair of truth for the whole world.  Hear us, O Lord, and through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of the Church, grant us holy popes, grant us many holy popes!  Have mercy on us and hear us!  Amen.

 Image: Giuseppe Nardi

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com

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Patheos Witch Blogger Eager for Civil War

Edit: who’s going to enforce this disastrous and suicidal policy being imposed by Mommy Judges on the Supreme Court? The army of Globohomo lost against poor Afghan farmers, and is losing in Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen. I suppose they could lose in Texas. 

People are sick of these invaders most of whom hate the idea of the USA to begin with. 

 

Seriously, where do we go from here? https://t.co/eyIWycWUPU

— Mary Pezzulo (@mary_pezzulo) January 23, 2024

 People actually want to prevent these individuals from entering the country. 

Incredible!

Ready to engage in Anarcho-terror in your hood

It didn’t take long for them to impose their will on him 

We all know who’s ultimately responsible 

Hows it goin?

BORDER SHUTDOWN: 3 migrants from Venezuela are blocked from entering illegally by razor wire installed by Texas Military Department.

courtesy of @NewsNation @NewsNationTV pic.twitter.com/gEbRoAzgak

— 🍀Qᵁᴱᴱᴺ🔰ᴹᴬᴳᴬ🔰ᵁᴸᵀᴿA🍀 (@QueenMAGAUltra) January 24, 2024

Some, like Commie Pez Dispenser Pexual, think Caucasian peoples deserve this kind of treatment.

AMDG

White Boys & Catholics

 

HOW SEXUAL FREEDOM CREATED POLITICAL PRISONERS

Caution: The ADL doesn't like this.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/jason-whitlock-nods-as-guest-claims-jews-have-created-a-plantation-for-black-people-and-457-of-them-are-running-the-biden-administration/ 

They just can't let him lie (lay? laid?)

We wouldn't have expected this from the folks who brought us The Dutch Catechism

COVID whistleblowers, what nurses saw

Safety for women from harassment? Paris gives a Third World answer

Paris is in a state of security emergency, but the government is turning a blind eye for ideological reasons.

[Katholisches] Almost nine out of ten women said they had been victims of harassment, sexual assault or even rape on public transport in Paris. These figures were recently published by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition. Don't be amazed at the curious name of the former Ministry of Transport, but pay attention to the dramatic figures that reveal a real security emergency in France's capital, one of Europe's most important metropolises. Safety on public transport is a powerful indicator of the state of a society.

But how do politicians and RATP, the state-owned public transport operator in Paris, intend to react to this? France has been governed by the Socialists since 2012 and Paris since 2001.

The aim is to create so-called "safe spaces" in all metro stations of the Paris Métro. The term comes from the woke sociologist language of the USA and refers to protected spaces that create an "inclusive environment" in which people should be "free from discrimination". Instead of taking action against the evil and eliminating it, women should take refuge from harassers in a safe space. The state and the city capitulate to the increasingly unbelievable violence. They do this because the violence comes from foreigners.

The first shelter was opened on 11 December at Auber station. By the end of 2024, there should be a total of 30. There are a total of 308 stations in Paris.

"You can ask for help if you're being harassed on the street, if you feel unsafe, or if someone is aggressive," Pauline Vanderquand, co-founder of the Umay app, told the media. Users who download the app will be able to locate themselves geographically and find the nearest protected location.

Fourteen days after the opening of the first anti-harassment room, there were already ten cases where it was visited.

"We have almost one victim a day," says Pauline Vanderquand.

Staff were trained to receive the victims, reassure them and give them information. But what became of civilized Paris, where women could feel safe on the streets?

With Sandrine Charnoz, the RATP has its own commissioner for combating sexual and sexist violence. It emphasizes that the employees of the protected area support the employees of the transport companies and vice versa:

"All people need to know that they can turn to any RATP employee, especially our staff in the train and metro stations, but also to a bus driver or inspector."

Hasn't that been the case so far?

The "Safe Spaces" initiative is the result of pressure from the political left and feminists. However, it serves to gloss over it, because it is intended to circumvent the real problem, namely the drift of the multicultural society. The unbelievable increase in violence, the victims of which are mainly women, is not due to the French, but to immigrants from foreign cultures, whether with or without a French passport.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, which is suspected of not wanting to show the reality in all its harshness for political reasons, in Île-de-France, which includes the Paris metropolitan area, 69 percent of thefts and physical and sexual violence on public transport were committed by foreigners (not even taking into account naturalized citizens of foreign descent). 52 percent of the perpetrators were of African descent.

Although the violence mainly affects immigrants from Islamic countries, the ruling left does not want to talk about the issue to, as it says, "not be considered racist" or, to put it less charitably, to affront the political competition that raises the issue as "racist".

A representative of the so-called Brigade anti-frotteurs, a plainclothes police unit that takes action against harassers who abuse the evening hours to sexually harass women, confirmed that the attackers are of non-European origin. It is precisely this aspect that the woke left is trying to hide. They don't want to admit that immigration policy has failed. They prefer to put the safety of women in Paris at risk.

The Brigade focuses mainly on the northern area of the urban transport network, in particular lines 2, 4 and 13, which pass through the most criminal areas of Greater Paris, but where there are still tourists. The latter factor apparently plays a role in plugging the security holes. Resources are limited, which is why we have to focus on action. What is meant by this is that at least appearances should be preserved to a certain extent. A member of the brigade recently told Le Figaro:

"In the ten years I've been doing this work, there have been some Europeans and one Chinese, but the vast majority of the attackers I've stopped are of Maghreb origin."

These voices of reality are not perceived by the self-proclaimed "benefactors". In order not to "stigmatize" a certain group of the population, reality must be concealed. Thus, the idea of "protected spaces" is also similar to the proposal of Caroline de Haas, the founder of Osez le féminisme, the oldest feminist movement in France that advocates lesbianism and abortion. In 2017, De Haas had proposed to combat sexual harassment in the multicultural district of Chapelle-Pajol, where hardly any women dare to take to the streets, to "widen the sidewalks".

Text: Andreas Becker
Image: Wikicommons

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

AMDG

The January 6th film they tried to suppress

https://cozy.tv/emichaeljones/replays/2024-01-07

https://www.mymoviesplus.com/q-sent-me

https://youtube.com/shorts/q3UO_B1n7U0?si=9AdD3fUzcay9cLo0

Gonzalo Lira Dies in Ukrainian Captivity and Torture

Edit: he wasn’t a good Catholic, (but Catholic he was) but what he said about living out the precious gift of life and doing your best with it, is a message worthy of Saint Alphonsos.

This is a testimony by one of his close friends, the controversial JF Gariepy.

 It was joyful when I found out that he’d managed to somehow to survive being kidnapped by the Ukrainian secret police.

AMDG

Yeah, Diversity part II!

Part ONE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhOYiz8nYBs

Yay Diversity!

https://nypost.com/2023/12/23/news/faa-identifies-19-serious-runway-incursions-this-year-report/

We've exposed Scott Kirby here at EF in the past 

https://www.theeponymousflower.com/2022/01/uals-scott-kirby-is-cross-dressing-freak.html

He had zero tolerance for those who disagreed with him on the baby-juice injection.

Saint John’s Abbey Elects Accused Predator as Abbot

Here is Abt Klassen with another head of a moribund religious community, Justin Welby the Archlayman of Canterbury and the fraudulent Saint John’s Bible 

Edit: +John Klassen had reached his expiration date and is getting retired at 75. Could it be the failing numbers of monks? Saint John’s Abbey may have the ugliest abbey church, but it is no longer the world’s largest Benedictine monastery in the world with only 100 monks compared to Saint Vincent Archabbey. So, this early retirement is unusual for a Bergoglian fellow traveler.  The tall vampiric abbot is trying as gracefully as he can, to get down from the abbatial throne and pass his crook to another crook. 

The new head honcho monk is  a light in the loafers educator who was previously accused of interfering with a 15 year old male student at the Benedictine High School, Saint John’s Preparatory, the alma mater of the troubled FBI Agent Peter Strozk.

Despite the new Abbot Douglas Mullins then “adamantly” denying the charges, according to NPR, the courts have dismissed the case the Abbey filed to defend his “good name”. Mullin is not on the list of credibly accused predators, but it seems like he should be:

Mullin is not named on that list. But he was named in court documents filed by the abbey in 2016. That year, the abbey filed seven lawsuits in district court that had been served, but never filed, by plaintiffs’ attorneys shortly before a window for filing sexual abuse claims created by the Minnesota Child Victims Act closed.  

The abbey said it filed the complaint at Mullin’s request “to restore his good name.” The lawsuit was dismissed in 2017.

 

It’s unusual to see NPR bringing up these embarrassing details in light of the glowing report given by legal beagle Jeff Anderson about Klassen’s deplorable career.

Well, it’s no big deal if Saint John’s has a predator abbot now, it’s had at least two, Abbots Eidenschenk and  Kelly who not only gave a pass to predators under their authority, but they created them.

And, as I never tire of reminding people, Saint John’s Abbey is the cradle of the rot of Vatican II with Liturgist Virgil Michel, Frank Kacmarcik (1920- 2004) and the evil Baldwin Dworschak, (1950-1971), just to name a few…

Source

It’s also noteworthy that the Saint John’s Abbey President emeritus, Father Bob Koopman, was accused of harassment by a piano student in 2016.  There are other revelations that he would read “ejaculation poetry” with students in the nude while knitting indecent socks for their private parts, while Koopman was an on floor resident. 

An anonymous monk of the Abbey demanded that Koopman come clean. Koopman resigned from his post as University President when this monk confronted him. Koopman resigned in 2012.

Given the nature of these apparent offenses and the high profile resignation of one of Saint John’s senior monks, you’d expect a little more news coverage. There is no coverage on this story. Koopman is still on the SJU website and lists himself as a piano teacher.

Koopman on his “ministry” at Bauhaus (torture dungeon?) abbey church:

AMDG

Underground Tunnels

It’s now almost certain the tunnels found at the Chabad synagogue in Brooklyn were designed for child sex tracking.

This footage released shows the Jewish synagogue had dystopian tunnels made with stained mattresses that have been sent for forensic analysis.

Items such as baby… pic.twitter.com/T1f1jRsPF3

— Pelham (@Resist_05) January 9, 2024

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Doctor Doesn’t Get Jail Time Whilst Having Child Porn on His Computer

 Edit: in UK you can go to prison for questioning the intrusion of Islamic males into your society, but if you’re a doctor, it’s OK to have child porn on your computer. Even Pete Townsend gets away with it!

This anesthetologist was spared jail time despite having horrific child porn on his computer, including a five year old girl being drugged before being anally raped.

The whole system is compromised #BurnItAllDownhttps://t.co/WWxRS4FYqh

— Blonde Bigot (@BlondeBigot11) January 9, 2024

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Jack Pocobiec’s Special on Franco Banned on X

Edit: just what is the Marxist government of Spain afraid of that they are silencing this important witness, and why is X caving to their demands?

[Human Events] The Spanish government banned a Human Events special about the Spanish Civil War from X, on the basis that it is "Illegal or Harmful Speech." 

A message from X to Human Events host Jack Posobiec reads, "In accordance with applicable law, X is now permanently withholding the reported content in Spain, specifically for the following legal grounds: Illegal or Harmful Speech."

By the Grace of God ✝️🇪🇸https://t.co/z5zPfVGlDXpic.twitter.com/dnbCKcSGXY

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 28, 2023

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Cancelled bishop appears with former Catholic turned Mormon

Remember me?

 Dear all,

Someone (I honestly don't know who) has somehow or other managed to contribute to the kind of humor that I once published on this blog:

https://twitter.com/PapistB/status/1741989796090974217

In days like this, we all need to enjoy such relief.

Oremus, fratres, pro invicem.

MH

What happened on January 6th?

 

 Question: If a white cop shot an unarmed, 5 ft. 1 in.  black female veteran at a protest, would the country still be burning?

Why is the GOP fronting so many Constitutionally Ineligible Candidates?

https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2023/07/01/vivek-ramaswamy-not-a-natural-born-citizen-of-the-united-states-not-constitutionally-eligible-to-be-president-and-commander-in-chief-of-our-military/  

 Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, George Romney, Chester A. Arthur, Herbert Hoover...... It obviously didn't start with the Dems and Barry Soetoro. And, another thing, how many members of the House & Senate hold Israeli passports?

++Vigano Joins Resistance

For the information of all, Archbishop Vigano @CarloMVigano , it is confirmed is now conditionally consecrated and is a Bishop of the Resistance with Bishop Williamson. We welcome his excellency to our ranks! pic.twitter.com/swXQDDQPAc

— Trad Cath HQ (@FlatTrads) January 4, 2024

Bishop Richard Williamson explains what it was which woke up Archbishop Vigano to what's going on in the Church.

(Audio only unfortunately. But it's short.)#Catholictwitter pic.twitter.com/7d3cPZt4FM

— Trad Cath HQ (@FlatTrads) January 5, 2024

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Ireland Doesn’t Have Enough Problems of Its Own — Replacement

 

Edit: now that Sinn Fein has bowed to the population control agenda to murder unborn Irishmen in their mother’s womb, these feminist slags and Marxist puppets are advocating for the elimination of the Irish people right there in the Dáil. And apparently, Ireland doesn’t have enough miscegenation, crime, chaos and the political unrest and poverty of the third world. After centuries of fighting the Briddish, a new oppressor is in control of every aspect of Irish politics and culture.

It’s almost as if, unable to defeat the Irish, the English will win by replacing the Irish with a hodgepodge of immigrants from violent cultures abroad. 

AMDG

Not “Dumb Dogs”: Bishop Aillet of Bayonne On Fiducia Supplicans

Bishop Aillet of Bayonne finds clear words about the Roman declaration Fiducia supplicans

From a Catholic Lady

On December 27, Marc Aillet, bishop of the diocese of Bayonne, Lescar and Oloron, released a statement on Fiducia supplicans, the Vatican declaration on the blessing of same-sex couples, calling on priests in his diocese to “prudence, the virtue of discernment.”  He encourages them to have a pastoral dialogue when dealing with so-called “homosexual couples”, but to reject couple blessings and, in conjunction with individual blessings, to call people to conversion and to “tell them clearly the truth that the Church teaches regarding their situation”.  He misses this clarity in Fiducia supplicans.

Bishop Aillet says what needs to be said.  The subtitle of his book Le temps des saints (The Time of the Saints), published in October, says it all: Let us not be dumb dogs.  In a time of faith confusion, he wants to strengthen believers by writing about the prophetic mission of the missionary Holy Church, the sacramental priesthood and the tasks and formation of the laity.  Neither excessive structural reforms nor adaptation to world developments are effective for the Church, but true priests in Christ and lay people educated through liturgy and catechesis are needed for a spiritual renewal of the Church, a “time of the saints” for the revitalization of Catholicism in Jesus  Christ.  (French book review here.)

His analysis of Fiducia supplicans is also based on one truth and grew out of “a time for reflection”.  In fact, his extensive writing testifies to a clear theological reflection on the meaning of blessings in the Church and gradually questions Cardinal Fernández's theological and semantic confusion, which “needs clarification”.

Associated with the French Community of St. Martin, the bishop is one of France's tradition-friendly shepherds.  Ordained a priest in Italy in 1982, he came to the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon from 1986 to 1992 and again in 1998, where Bishop Dominique Rey (sic!) appointed him vicar general in 2002.  Since October 2008 he has been Bishop of Bayonne, Lescar and Oloron.  In 2021, he reacted prudently to the Motu proprio Traditionis custodes, assured the faithful and priests associated with the tradition of his appreciation and confirmed the status quo for the celebration of the old Mass in his diocese.

He acknowledged that “the priests in the diocese of Bayonne who celebrate the liturgy according to the 1962 Missal are in full compliance with the Second Vatican Council, the legitimacy of the 1970 Missal, the expression par excellence of the lex orandi of the Latin Church,  recognize and cultivate a strong sense of ecclesial community […]” and particularly emphasized the young average age of the traditional believers, whose families “are very anxious to pass on the faith to their children”.

Only last autumn, at his invitation, the Canons of Lagrasse (Canons Regular of Our Lady of Lagrasse) established a new priory in the city of Pau.  The bishop explained that the canons living according to the rule of St. Augustine celebrate in the traditional Rite, but this does not conflict with Traditionis custodes, since the Church assigned to them within a newly established diocesan house is not a parish church and Masses are also held there in the Novus Ordo could be celebrated by other groups.

In the context of the publication of his current book, in which he also advocates liturgical peace, he recently expressed to the monthly magazine La Nef his “discomfort” caused by Traditionis custodes and emphasized that in his diocese “the liturgical difference between the two forms  “lived peacefully”, the priests and believers associated with the Vetus ordo are integrated into diocesan life and, above all, many young people find the sacrality they are looking for in this liturgy in a completely non-ideological way.

For many years, Bishop Aillet has repeatedly been a target by left-wing Catholics in his diocese who accuse the conservative bishop of being backwards and for whom priests in cassocks and Gregorian chant are anathema.  Added to this are Bishop Aillet's clear condemnation of abortion and euthanasia and the gay pride in Biarritz.

With his current statement, Bishop Aillet wants to act as a shepherd to care for his priests and faithful in the face of “stubborn ambiguities” in a “secularized society in which we are experiencing an unprecedented anthropological crisis”.  He gives clear instructions on how they should bear witness to the love and mercy of God in dealing with Fiducia supplicans in a pastoral attitude towards sinners, without abandoning the unchanging truth of the Church:

 - I invite the priests of the diocese to be welcoming to irregular couples or people who have a homosexual relationship: people should not feel judged but welcomed with a perceptive and listening attitude that promises them God's love.

 - Furthermore, I invite you to carry out a pastoral dialogue and to have the courage to tell them clearly the truth, for the good of people and with the appropriate sensitivity, without judging them and by involving themselves personally in the pastoral relationship,  that the Church teaches regarding their situation.

 - Finally, I invite you to give them a blessing when people ask for it, provided that it is individual for each person, calling them to conversion and inviting them to ask for the help of grace that the Lord  granted to all who ask him to bring their lives into harmony with the will of God.”

 Msgr. Marc Aillet, Bishop of Bayonne, Lescar and Oloron

 Bayonne, December 27, 2023

 On the feast of St. John, Apostle

 Image: Alliance des Coeurs unis (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

AMDG

Let's be heard!

Hungarian Bishops Oppose Fiducia Supplicans

The Hungarian Bishops' Conference also opposes the Roman declaration of Fiducia supplicans

The rejection of the declaration of Fiducia supplicans poured over Rome like an avalanche.  Contradiction comes from all parts of the world.  After virtually all black African bishops' conferences, the Polish and Hungarian bishops' conferences have also rammed their "no" into the ground.

The Hungarian Bishops' Conference under its President Msgr. András Veres, Bishop of Győr, published a statement on Wednesday on the blessings for “irregular” couples.  Here is the full text:

 “At Christmas we celebrated the joy that God is with us and for us, who with merciful love has invited all people to communion with him.  With this in mind, we, members of the Hungarian Bishops' Conference, address the pastors and believers of our local church with the following message.

 The Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith Fiducia Supplicans on the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, issued on December 18, 2023, does not change the conviction and consistent teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage and sexual morality.  In view of the pastoral situation in our country, the Bishops' Conference specifies that all people can be blessed individually by pastors, regardless of their gender identity and sexual orientation, but a common blessing must be given to couples who are in a non-marital union, in a union that is not valid in the Church  Marriage or living in a same-sex partnership should always be avoided.

At the same time, let us accompany our sisters and brothers who live in special life situations with love and respect, and help them to gain a deeper understanding of God's will on the path of the Gospel of Christ.”

Monsignor János Székely, the Bishop of Szombathely, implemented the joint declaration of the Hungarian bishops in his diocese yesterday.  Msgr. Székely is a member of the four-member Permanent Council of the Bishops' Conference.  In his pastoral letter he writes:

 Bishop János Székely

 “When a same-sex couple asks for a blessing, especially by asking for it together, they are expressing that they also want to ask for God's blessing and the Church's moral approval for their relationship and life choices.  We would be perverting the gospel of Christ and not doing what we should do as pastors to such a couple if we gave them a blessing in such a case.”

And further:

“The Gospel of Christ is not only about God’s infinite mercy, but it also calls us all to repentance.  If this second half is left out, it becomes a false Gospel.  Jesus calls us to enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the way that leads to destruction (Luke 13:24).  He invites us to light our candle and put on wedding clothes so that we will not find ourselves at the closed door on the last day (Matt. 22:11; 25:1-13).  Jesus protects marriage with special strength and jealous love: “God created man and woman at the beginning of creation.”

And as well:

“The Bible and the sacred tradition of the Church hold same-sex sexual relationships to be morally wrong (Genesis 19; Rom 1:26-27; 1 Cor 6:9-10; 1 Tim 1:10; CEC 2357).  The law of Christ is demanding, God’s mercy is not cheap mercy, His love is not lukewarm love.”

From this follows, according to Bishop Székely:

“Therefore, in accordance with the decision of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference, I call on priests not to bless same-sex couples in the Szombathely diocese.  Let us welcome with great love and respect our brothers and sisters who are attracted to people of the same sex, but let us not justify their wrong life choices, but rather help them on the path of life according to the Gospel of Christ.  This makes us real, authentic shepherds and brothers.”

 Text/Translation: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: Katolikus.hu/Tamás Thaler/Wikicommons (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com

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“Whoever Doesn’t Have a Good Relationship With Pope Francis, Isn’t Catholic “

At the end of the year, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi waves his rod against critics of the Fiducia Supplicans pontificate

 (Rome) Resistance to the Roman declaration Fiducia supplicans on homosexual blessings is internal.  There is great indignation among the faithful, including in Italy, where the maxim of not wanting to be “more papal than the Pope” applies.  Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the chairman of the Italian Bishops' Conference, now threatened to use the rod to discipline the clergy and believers.

Today TV2000, the bishops' television station, is broadcasting an interview with the cardinal as a review of the year and an outlook.  Zuppi, with his unmistakable Roman accent, belongs to the Community of Sant'Egidio.  He was appointed archbishop of Bologna, Italy's left-wing stronghold par excellence, by Pope Francis and created a cardinal.  Zuppi is very close to Francis and is used by him as a peace mediator in the Ukrainian war.  In addition, the 68-year-old cardinal is considered the Bergoglian papabile in the next conclave.

A central content of the interview was distributed in advance by the Italian state press agency ANSA.  The wish is that this part of the message in particular should reach people.  According to ANSA, Zuppi first emphasizes:

 “There is a good dialectical relationship between the Italian Church and Pope Francis.”

To then get to the actual message:

"If you're Catholic and you don't have good relations with the Pope, then maybe you've forgotten that you're Catholic, I think."

In other words, anyone who does not follow Pope Francis “is not Catholic.”  In the current context, the statement is obviously aimed at contradicting Fiducia supplicans.

Of course, the cardinal continued, this applies in principle to “every pope,” but of course, “as always in life,” one can feel “closer to one pope than to others” because of one’s own history, “because of sensitivity, because of some words.”  but it’s always about the Pope.”  However, the rod that Zuppi wields is intended to discipline the clergy and believers not for just any pope, but for Francis.

In the context, there is also a reference to the Fiducia supplicans declaration, which is currently causing tempers to flare up.  Zuppi packages his support for “Love is Love”, the slogan of irregular relationships, especially the gay movement, as follows:

 “Sometimes the church also has a certain idea, which I think is distorted, to think that it has the copyright on love, 'the real one is ours, the other's is worth a little less'.  Obviously we then understand that our Lord is much wider than our hearts, and he allows us to discover many beautiful, incredible testimonies, many examples.  How can you have a master so great and yet be such a failure?  The Church is not an NGO, it is much more.”

Such statements, with the approval of Pope Francis, have been known for years by the Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn.

As a further example of the “dialectical relationship,” Zuppi cited the fact that Francis had asked the bishops’ conference “to be light, to do a lot with little, to help, but not to do it because we have the means, but to use the means,  to do things.”

Because of his papal mission as a peace broker in the Ukraine conflict, the cardinal commutes between Kiev, Moscow, Washington and Beijing.  So far, however, it has been largely unsuccessful.  Regarding his commitment, he said with reference to Francis:

“We must do everything to achieve peace because war hurts, it kills, it is a pandemic.”

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: TV2000 (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.Com

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Happy Feast of Saint Thomas Becket

Edit: Saint Thomas suffered a posthumous martyrdom as Henry ransacked his shrine and declared veneration of Saint Thomas illegal. Despite Henry’s best efforts, and Cromwell’s, some 100,000 pilgrims a year come to pray at Becket’s shrine.

When Becket was martyred, the monks of his cathedral were saying Vespers with a large number of people present. How many churches, cathedrals or otherwise, host Vespers and Matins, even though it is called for by Vatican II?

EPISTLE Heb. 5:1-6
Brethren: Every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins: Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity. And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was. So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: "Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee." As he saith also in another place: "Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech."

T.S. Elliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

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Feast of the Holy Innocents

INTROIT Ps. 8:3

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, O God, You have fashioned praise because of Your enemies.
Ps. 8:2. O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is Your name over all the earth!

V. Glory be . . .

 Edit: It used to be a day of fasting and penance, but now it passes all but unnoticed in Christendom.  This post is in remembrance of the lost, for all of the innocents trafficked even in the West, or who are murdered in their mother’s wombs, all of the waifs who are swept up by the dark souls who lurk on the roads and streets in lonely places.

Simon of Trent

Pray for Us, Saint Simon

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