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The Principal Errors of Vatican II This document exposes the heresies (and other errors) found in following documents of Vatican II (or at least those statements which can be given a heretical interpretation): Unitatis Reintegratio - the Decree on Ecumenism Orientalium ecclesiarum - the Decree on Eastern Catholic Churches Lumen Gentium - Constitution on the ChurchDignitatis Humanae - Declaration on Religious LibertyAd Gentes - Decree on Missionary Activity Nostra Aetate - Decree on Non-Christian Religions Sacrosanctum Concilum - Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Gaudium et Spes - Constitution on the Church in the Modern World This document exposes the principal...

Call Me Ishmael (The Remnant Responds to Francis’ Latest Attack on Faithful Catholics)The two rows of colonnades which frame St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican were designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini to resemble arms outstretched in welcome. (https://vatican.com/St-Peters-Square-Colonnades/) The Catholic Church is universal and open to all who seek salvation. At the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York City is a secular version of this sentiment: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” (https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/colossus.htm) For the Church, however, there are no “masses,” no “teeming”...

Just After the Council, Lefebvre Responds to OttavianiThe Council had been over for less than a year. Catholics were excited and confused. Different moves towards implementation, sometimes contradictory, were rumored. Already Catholic liberals were hard at work to lead the Church in their direction. What was Rome to do? After fifty-five years, we know what Cardinal Ottaviani, one of Cardinal Ratzinger’s predecessors as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, decided to do: on July 24, 1966, he wrote to the Ordinaries of the world to sound the alarm. He had been receiving daily indications of a...

'The Council and The Eclipse of God' by Don Pietro Leone - Part XIV: The Church and The State n Chapter 4, Don Pietro turns to consider the Council’s teaching on the Church and State. He explains how the Church has a duty not only to Her members, but also to the entire world. Her role in regard to the State is to guide Kings and governors to promote the best interests of their citizens, i.e. in the final analysis the attainment of eternal life in Heaven, such as has been the constant teaching of Holy Mother Church. Readers...

[Catholic Caucus] Andrea Grillo: The Mind Behind the Motu Proprio Andrea Grillo: The Mind Behind the Motu ProprioAndrea Grillo (born 1961) is a professor of Sacramental Theology and Philosophy of Religion at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome (Sant’Anselmo) and of Liturgy in Padua at the Abbey of Santa Giustina. With the promulgation of Pope Francis’s motu proprio of July 16th, 2021, Traditionis Custodes, he has become a more important figure in Catholic thought. Many indications point to Professor Grillo as an author or at least inspirer of the document, serving as the Pontiff’s “house” liturgist and...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican II Was Worst Spasm of Iconoclasm in HistoryFrancis is tearing the Church apart, Michael Brendan Dougherty, a writer at National Review and Roman Mass goer since 2001, writes on NYTimes.com (August 12).He says Traditionis Custodes will push the Roman Rite communities into the radicalism of their origine confirming their belief that the NO Eucharist “represents a new religion.”To stamp out the Mass, Francis is using the papacy in a way which progressives usually claim to deplore, Dougherty explains: centralism, usurpation of episcopal prerogatives, and micromanagement motivated by paranoia of disloyalty and heresy.Francis’ wish that Old Believers attend...

[Catholic Caucus] Rosarii Custodes: On the Use of the Holy Rosary Prior to the Luminous MysteriesWith the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, Francis of Rome has further revealed himself to be an enemy of Tradition. One wonders what core component of true religion is next on his bucket list to destroy before his own demise. The traditional Rosary perhaps? That could be easily accomplished, using the template he has already completed with his most recent motu proprio. Here it is:Rosarii Custodes: On the Use of the Holy Rosary Prior to the Luminous MysteriesGuardians of the Rosary, the bishops in communion with...

Vatican2ism’s Futile War Against CatholicismAs several astute Catholics have observed, Francis’s Traditionis Custodeshas abruptly ended the “hermeneutic of continuity” campaign of confusion aimed at convincing the world that, despite all appearances, the reforms of Vatican II were in continuity with the timeless Catholic religion. As the letter accompanying Traditions Custodes made clear, one must choose between the beliefs and practices that Catholics held for nearly two thousand years or those that flow from Vatican II. If they are the same, why must one choose between them? Whereas the attempt to bridge the gap between Catholicism and the religion animated by...

[Catholic Caucus] All to Rome in Late October! "Summorum Pontificum" Pilgrimage Will Take Place Paris, July 29, 2021Dear Friends,As scheduled, we shall be undertaking our Pilgrimage of the Traditional Mass in Rome October 21-31. From its very beginning it has been about giving thanks for the acknowledgement by the Apostolic See of rights of the usus antiquior. Furthermore, it has always also been about begging God each year to sustain us throughout the world in our efforts to promote the flourishing and spread of this liturgy, which has been the lifeblood of Rome for at least a millennium.These intentions...

Source Found! Bergoglio Copied BugniniArchbishop Annibale Bugnini (+1982), the inventor of the Novus Ordo – who wrote the Second Eucharistic prayer in a restaurant – formulated in 1976 four conditions for allowing Archbishop Lefebvre and other Catholics to continue celebrating the Roman Mass. These conditions are listed on page 180 in a Bugnini biography published 2018 by French historian Yves Chirion: 1. A declaration that the Novus Ordo is not heretical or Protestant, and that those who composed and approved it are not heretics and Protestants. 2. The order of Mass may be that of the 1962 Missal but the...

Traditionis Custodes: Just a Pinch of Incense Isn’t EnoughTo one who knows nothing about Catholicism, Church history, or Pope Francis, Traditionis Custodes might seem like a sober attempt to restore order in the face of attempts by some renegades to foment divisions. In the letter accompanying the Motu Proprio, the pope tells his bishops that he has not acted rashly in enacting new the restrictions because he previously circulated a questionnaire to them regarding the implementation of Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum. He speaks of his sadness in reading the responses to this questionnaire:“The responses reveal a situation that preoccupies...

[Catholic Caucus] Mythbusting: How Much of the 1962 Missal is Actually Used in the Post-Vatican II Missal?In a recent article in Notitiae, the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche, made the following claim about the textual relationship between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ Missals:While the Missal retains the basic structure of that of Saint Pius V, together with ninety percent of the texts of that Missal, it removes a number of repetitions and accretions and simplifies the language and the gestures of the liturgy. At the same time, it uses...

More Than 220,000 People Left the Catholic Church in Germany in 2020BERLIN, Germany — More than 220,000 people left Catholic Church in Germany in 2020, according to official figures released on Wednesday.The statistics issued by the German bishops’ conference on July 14 showed that 221,390 people exited the Catholic Church last year. The figure was almost 19% lower than that of 2019, when a record 272,771 people departed. But it was higher than the 2018 figure of 216,078, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.In a July 14 statement, Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, said...

Cardinal Sarah: This Reform Is IRREVERSIBLE - Despite Clerical IntransigenceHistory will remember Benedict XVI as a great theologian and as the Pope of Summorum Pontificum, Cardinal Robert Sarah told IlTimone.it (July 2).He believes that with the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum began “a path of liturgical and spiritual REFORM" which in spite of difficulties, and resistances is "irreversible.”Sarah acknowledges a new generation of young people and families which emerged in the Church “despite intransigent clerical attitudes of opposition” to the Roman Mass.“This liturgy has a future because it has a past, a history of holiness and beauty that cannot be erased...

[Catholic Caucus] The Most Precious Blood of Jesus: A Feast Added, Withdrawn & ReturningEACH YEAR, AS we turn the corner from the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus into July, the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, we fittingly start off with the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus that bathes the rest of the month in its vermilion glow. Like so many feasts in the calendar, this one owes its origin to an act of thanksgiving for a military victory: its inscription in the general calendar was Pius IX’s act of thanksgiving for the...

Don Pietro Leone: The Council and The Eclipse of God - PART VII : The Four Notes of the ChurchIn this installment, Don Pietro addresses the Council’s attack on the Four Notes of the Church. Here he looks at the Church’s Oneness or Unity and explains how the Council attacked this Dogma in four ways. F.R.ByDON PIETRO LEONEPART VIIA. The Four Notes of the Church The Four Notes, or defining characteristics, of the Church are Her Oneness, Holiness, Catholicity and Apostolicity, infallibly professed in the Creed as follows: ‘I believe in one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.’ We shall show...

Apostolic nuncio to Mexican bishops: ‘Look reality in the eye’MEXICO CITY (CNS) — The apostolic nuncio to Mexico urged the country’s bishops to “look reality in the eye” as the country’s non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious.Speaking April 12 at the opening of the Mexican bishops’ conference biannual gathering, Archbishop Franco Coppola also told the virtual audience to rethink their pastoral approaches as fewer people participate in parish life and don’t get married in the Church.“The decline in the Catholic population in this land of Guadalupe is extremely worrying,” Archbishop Coppola said. “We’re seeing now with ever...

[Catholic Caucus] Bergoglio’s Broken Chain of WitnessIn Pope Francis’s church, truth can contradict truth so long as you have false witnesses who are bold or foolish enough to make that claim. ________In his epistle to the Galatians, St. Paul presented an idea on which the credibility of our Faith depends entirely:But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: if anyone preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be...

How modernists use ‘weaponized orthodoxy’ to silence conservative CatholicsSome recent words from Pope Francis cast this mode of gaslighting in stark relief.February 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — “Weaponized ambiguity” has become a common term in recent discussions about the crisis in the Church. It refers to ambiguous terms that were supposedly inserted into Vatican II as preparation for the chaos we now see around us. Leaving aside the question of whether ambiguity is the main problem of Vatican II (as opposed to contradiction of Church teaching), let us look at another concept, “weaponized orthodoxy,” which been used against sincere Catholics for...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican modifies distribution of ashes for Ash WednesdayThe Congregation for Divine Worship releases a note laying out the procedures priests around the world are to follow for the distribution of ashes at the start of Lent.By Vatican NewsThe health situation caused by Covid-19 continues to forces changes on daily life, which are also reflected in the Church’s sphere.Ahead of the beginning of Lent, on Wednesday, 17 February, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has published a note detailing how Catholic priests are to distribute ashes.InstructionsAfter blessing the ashes and sprinkling them with holy...