It just gets better.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The New Viganò Letter
Edit: it's live now as of 0728 PST. The stream has ended. You can read up on this at Catholic Family News.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Two Blows For Pope Benedict: The Death of His Brother and His Household Staff Will Be Placed Under a Commissar
(Rome) Pope Francis places the next community under provisional administration. He appointed a Jesuit as Commisar. In Rome, some speak of a "sneaky" move because it concerns Benedict XVI. What happened?
On the same day, however, his nine-year-old predecessor surprisingly traveled to Bavaria. Benedict XVI left his chosen retreat in the Vatican Gardens for the first time in seven years to visit his older brother Georg, whose health had deteriorated. The eighth German Pope returned to the Vatican after four days. Msgr. Georg Ratzinger died on July 1 at the age of 96.On June 18, the incumbent head of the Church announced that he would continue to insulate himself from Corona. Francis doesn't want to engage in any foreign travel. All pastoral visits that were already planned or in preparation were canceled without replacement. It is currently unknown whether and when they will take place.
The Commissar for the Memores Domini
Hardly had he returned to the monastery Mater Ecclesiae, that Benedict XVI. received a surprise that is as unusual as it is unpleasant. The Memores Domini Community, whose sisters live with him in the monastery, manage the household and look after him, was placed under the Provisional Administration by Pope Francis.
Cardinal Barbarin Will Retire to Brittany
(Paris) Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who retired as Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul despite his acquittal, announced his future role.
In March 2019, he was sentenced to six months in prison in the first instance because he allegedly did not report a sexual abuse offender, the priest Bernard Preynat, to the state law enforcement agency in good time. The cardinal had suffered media prejudice that seriously damaged his reputation. The appeals court then received the sentence in early 2020 and acquitted the cardinal. However, there was no real rehabilitation because Pope Francis considered it "more opportune", as it was said in Rome, that the cardinal resigned as archbishop of Lyon. Following this "wish", Cardinal Barbarin submitted his resignation request, which Pope Francis accepted in March 2020.
It was only on May 29, months after the acquittal and retirement, that Pope Francis received the cardinal for an in- person interview . In the meantime, the purple bearer had retired to the Holy Land for a long spiritual retreat.
In interviews with CFR and Aleteia Cardinal Barbarin said the first time about his future. To Aleteia he said:
“When I came back from the Holy Land in late May, I went to the Holy Father. We talked a lot about the Middle East. He said he would like me to be available for missions in countries that I know well, like Iraq, Lebanon, or Israel. Otherwise, he gave me the opportunity to do what I want. I had already contacted the Archbishop of Rennes and the Superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Saint-Pern in Brittany, where Monsignor Marcus, the emeritus Archbishop of Toulouse, lives. From the beginning of July I will be by his side, but I will also be chaplain to the sisters. In addition, Monsignor D'Ornellas [Archbishop of Rennes] asked me to teach at the Rennes seminary. ”
Cardinal Barbarin had after the publication of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum aligned birituell training at his seminary in Lyon. The seminarians experience their preparation in both forms of the Roman Rite.
The second cardinal, recently innocent in court, initially convicted but then acquitted, Cardinal George Pell, was also stripped by Pope Francis of all his office. Unlike Cardinal Barbarin, Cardinal Pell has not been received by Pope Francis since his acquittal in April. Sources close to the Pope in Rome speak of a possible ("maybe") appointment in autumn. Francis wanted to let some time pass since the acquittal.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican.va (screenshot)
Image: Vatican.va (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Romania Passes Law Banning Gender Studies Following Poland and Hungary
[National File] Romania has passed a law banning gender studies and educational institutions from promoting gender identities divorced from biological sex, joining the ranks of Central European countries Hungary and Poland to require a more traditional approach to gender theory.
On Tuesday, Romanian lawmakers passed an amendment to an education law banning educational institutions from “activities propagating theories and opinions on gender identity according to which gender is a separate concept from biological sex,” according to The Swaddle.
The decision elicited widespread condemnation from a variety of activist organizations, with some professors openly intending to defy the law. The amendment was passed without any debate or consultation with teachers or educators. [Many times these laws promoting degeneracy are passed without consultation of parents.]
Link...
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Friday, July 3, 2020
German Bishop Foresees an Even More Drastic Decline in Church Membership for 2021
Edit: counterfeit religion debases true religion?
Heiner Wilmer believes an even more drastic decline in membership in the Catholic Church is possible in 2021 due to the Corona Crisis
Hildesheim (kath.net) Hildesheim Bishop Heiner Wilmer considers an even more drastic decline in membership in the Catholic Church for 2021 because of the Corona crisis is possible. The bishop said to the diocese press office in Osnabrück, "I assume that if the distance regulations and precautionary measures fall, we will have a drastic drop in church visitors again." The increasing number of people leaving the Church is very worrying.
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Cowardly Bishop Timothy Doherty Suspends Priest for Telling the Truth about BLM
Edit: unlike Thug Gordon who clearly wasn't fired for disparaging Black Lives Matter, since he didn't have any tweets about it till after he was fired... this priest is being suspended by a Bishop eager to please those who will show him no mercy when the time comes.
[WMD] A Catholic priest in Indiana has been suspended by his diocese for condemning the organization Black Lives Matter in his weekly message last Sunday.
Rev. Theodore Rothrock of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel described organizers of the Marxist, gay activist, anti-nuclear family organization as "maggots and parasites."
His bishop, Timothy Doherty of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, ordered the move Wednesday.
Link....
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Pope Benedict Will Not Be at Brother's Requiem Mass and Burial
Georg Ratzinger is also not to be buried in the family grave, but in the grave of the Regensburger Cathedral Sparrows at the Lower Catholic Cemetery in Regensburg
Regensburg (kath.net) Benedict XVI will not attend Georg Ratzinger's funeral on Wednesday. This has been reported by "Vatican News". Georg Ratzinger is also not to be buried in the family grave, but in the foundation grave of the Regensburger Dom Sparrows in the Lower Catholic Cemetery in Regensburg, before which the solemn requiem takes place in the cathedral. Georg Ratzinger was the last close family member of the pope emeritus.
Edit: I hope it's Mozart at the funeral Mass. I know I know.
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Just when you thought Mark Shea couldn't get more vain
File under: Anger makes you blind Stupid
Does he really think the algorithm is smart enough to know he's slandering Trump? How many are interested enough in what this lolcow has to say that Zuckerberg's goons would apply more scrutiny to his posts? Use the phrase Covid-19 is a hoax in a post trying to downplay the virus instead of mocking the president and the results will be the same. Can't do it here. We were banned from Facebook a long time ago for saying far less.
Hey Mark:
Step away from the snack foods and the computer. Spend a little time cleaning up that shit hole.
The exercise would do you a little bit of good too.
And if you're serious about shedding the blubber, give your insufferable blogger buddy Jimmy Akin a call. He may still be hanging on to the Neo-Catholic delusion and not be ready for full-blown Leftism but I think he has enough decency to help out a fellow apologist.
Vatican Revokes Catholic Identity of Brothers of Charity
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ladaria: "Perverse" when doctors and relatives practice active euthanasia out of false pity - No Catholic identity for psychiatric clinics of the order "Broeders van Liefde
Vatican City / Geneva (kath.net/KAP) The Vatican has confirmed the revocation of Catholic identity for psychiatric clinics of the Belgian order "Broeders van Liefde" (Brothers of Charity). As became known weeks ago, they have not been able to call themselves "Catholic" since the end of March. In a letter published on Tuesday, the Roman Congregation of the Faith justified this step.
After numerous contacts and meetings, one unfortunately had to take note that there was no willingness in the clinics connected to the order to accept the Catholic teaching. Active euthanasia remains inadmissible even in extreme cases, according to the letter signed by Cardinal Luis Ladaria. Human life maintain its dignity under all circumstances. It is all the more "perverse" when doctors and relatives practice active euthanasia out of false pity. It was therefore decided "after a long and painful journey" to no longer consider the clinics concerned as Catholic.
The chairman of the board of the Association of the Brothers of Charity, Raf de Rycke, had already reacted calmly to the withdrawal in May. They have no "consequences in civil law," he said at the time to the Flemish newspaper "De Standaard".
Belgium has allowed active euthanasia since 2002
The dispute as to whether a psychiatric clinic that does not rule out the use of active euthanasia can still call itself Catholic dates back to 2017. At that time, the Belgian organization "Broeders van Liefde" announced that it would no longer rule out active assisted suicide for the mentally ill in its clinics. In Belgium, active euthanasia has been legal under certain conditions since 2002, including for the mentally ill.
The "Broeders van Liefde" run twelve psychiatric clinics in Belgium as well as dozens of schools, crèches and orthopedic centers. According to its own statements, the organization has a total of 14,000 employees nationwide. The religious order is legally, closely linked to the organization.
The specialty of the Order of Brothers of Charity, founded in Ghent in 1807, is the care of the mentally ill. The community, known as "Broeders van Liefde" in Belgium, has around 600 members worldwide and is active in around 30 countries.
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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RIP Father Georg Ratzinger
Pope Benedict XVI's brother passed away in Regensburg this morning.
Regensburg (kath.net) cathedral bandmaster Georg Ratzinger, the brother of Pope Benedict XVI. passed away in Regensburg this morning. The former director of the world-famous Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows was 96 years old. The Pope Emeritus had recently visited him. Georg Ratzinger was born on January 15, 1924, when he was 11 he played the church organ. After joining in 1935, he entered the small seminary in Traunstein. There he received his first professional instrumental lessons. In 1946 he entered the seminary of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising together with his younger brother Joseph and studied church music. After ordination in 1951, he became choir director in Traunstein and later in 1964 cathedral conductor of the Cathedral Sparrows.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Cardinal Schönborn Calls the Police on Pensioner Who Refuses to Wear Mask -- "This is Like Communism"
Vienna (kath.net) There was an incident in the Archdiocese of Vienna in May in view of the Corona epidemic, which has now become known in the media via "" initiative-corona.info According to the report, in the largely empty cathedral and at a great distance from others, the woman had refused to wear a Covid mask, "because I want to pray to my Heavenly Father without a mask, there is a right to freedom of religion." When a cathedral supervisor called the police, the police led her out of the church. Gisela R. comments: “Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Church, what is the police doing here, it is like Communism!”
The woman was then taken away by the police via Stephansplatz and taken into custody. Gisela R. told the police that she felt humiliated by the mask because it shows that one is the other's enemy and that many people must now die alone. According to the report, the police are considering her being admitted to the psychiatric ward, and it is only after almost 4 hours of police custody that the official doctor finally released her. She later received a criminal fine of EUR 120 for “disturbing the religious peace”. Gisela R. is appealing "because she is not a dog who needs a mask". and because for medical reasons she was not allowed to wear a mask after a pulmonary embolism. A few days later, three policemen visited her at home to question her again. She was quoted and later questioned at the police station. “I am a free citizen who insists on her human rights and does not have to follow dictatorial laws. Politics overrides the law here, ” says Gisela R. “But there are no longer any laws, now Corona is the law.”
kath.net asked the Archdiocese of Vienna for an opinion last week, but has unfortunately received no answers to the incident to date!
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Archbishop Negri "A Litany of Loreto for Migrants? Political Correctness."
(Rome) Archbishop Luigi Negri is a top shepherd of firm faith and clear thoughts and words. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro and then archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio. No bishop was more opposed to the choice of Pope Francis and he was directly intrigued against. Now he commented on Mary's new appeal as "Helping the Migrants".
Now Archbishop Luigi gave an interview on another current, albeit very different, question. The archbishop, the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was adapted next to the presbytery for the celebration in the Immemorial Roman Rite in his diocesan church, which his successor again reversed it, commented on the changes in the Litany of Loreto that Pope Francis last made on June 20th.
Monsignor Negri was able to hold office until he was 75. But then he was retired by Francis despite good health and like Cardinal Caffarra in nearby Bologna he was replaced by a " street priest" whose self and understanding of the Church could not be more different. The archbishop is one of the high-ranking prelates who participated in Veritas liberabit vos in early May. In it, they warned of forces that are using the Corona virus as an excuse to establish a new world order. The mainstream media rolled over it with the steamroller.
The ARD Tagesschau knew what it was all about: "Bishops spread conspiracy theories".
The Domradio put one better and said: "With conspiracy against the Pope". The fashion in public discussion is new, but efficient and above all one-sided: Whoever does not want to hear certain voices and opinions talks about the "conspiracy theory". After the press flattened everything, the topic was hushed up.
Francis recently introduced three new invocations of the Virgin Mary: Mater misericordiae (Mother of Mercy), Mater spei (Mother of Hope) and Solacium migrantium (consolation of migrants). The first two appeals come from the first millennium, but the third is a new creation with a hint of daily politics. It is known that Pope Francis sees unrestricted migration as his special concern and is its first apologist. Archbishop Negri, on the other hand, disagrees in an interview with La Fede quotidiana: “It is difficult for the people of God to understand why. I wouldn't have done it."
Question: Excellency, are you convinced by this novelty?
Archbishop Luigi Negri: I'm not surprised about it, but I prefer to go to the roots, to the why. I think that motivation is based on a worldly way of thinking that is also present in the Church, which is connected with the things of the world and not with those of heaven, with the immanent and not with the transcendent. Furthermore, and I affirm this without any polemics, the Church has always lived its millennial tradition. Why question everything with constant changes and additions?
Question: Most of the incoming migrants are Muslims. Do you think it makes sense to call Maria for them?
Archbishop Luigi Negri: Mary is loved from a certain point of view by Catholics and Muslims who respect her. I'm not overly concerned about this. There is an ecumenism that unites Catholics and Muslims in the name of Mary.
Question: What is the essential?
Archbishop Luigi Negri: That we should not forget who Mary is to us. It is not a matter of the world, but a clear statement that God loves us through her. Maria never leaves us, that is our certainty, and she lets us as mother accept the most difficult things and situations. A person who is in daily contact with Maria will never be disappointed.
Question: Would you have introduced this invocation?
Archbishop Luigi Negri: No, I wouldn't have. They could have done without it because it complicates things, but of course it's not a heretical thing. Heresy allegations must be handled with care.
Question: What does this addition call for?
Archbishop Luigi Negri: Probably to employ a worldly key to support the logic of political correctness.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: MiL
Image: MiL
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Ohio congressman shows masks are unsafe.
Ohio representative Nino Vitale demonstrates how masks are unsafe. How will his overlords silence him now? So far, they've tried to say he's an anti-semite and a racist.
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| Maybe call him a gun nut for his NRA rating and for teaching Concealed Carry in Ohio? |
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| Will they say he has too many kids? Or, say he defeated an unqualified sodomite?
The best bet is probably to get the archdiocese of Cincinnati to say he's a schismatic for preferring the TLM.
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Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Pleads Self-Defense
Edit: Based!
According to NBC News, Keung, 26, will plead not guilty and “will argue he acted in self-defense and used reasonable, authorized force to detain Floyd.”
It’s not clear how his attorney will argue or prove self-defense nor how the other three officers will plead.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill hasn’t decided if the four officers will be tried jointly or separately.
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