ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ss.
Peter & Paul Chapel is open to its members at any time of the day or night
for visits to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
This was the eight year that the Mission
has offered the complete pre-Bugnini "received
and approved" Holy Week liturgical ceremonies. Thanks to everyone and
their long hours dedicated to making this possible. Once again we experienced
the beauty and richness of the liturgy as well as the depth of unforgivable
deconstruction committed by the liturgical innovators in 1956 with the first Bugnini transitional Missal. Was it stupidity or malice? Take your pick.
Also of note, Low Sunday, April 27, is the anniversary of the death of Rev. Fr.
Joseph F. Collins who was present and helped us with our first complete
traditional Holy Week in 2018.
An OPEN LETTER to E. Michael Jones for the
purpose of defending Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
and helping Dr. Jones understand the nature of schism and its relationship to faith
and charity has been posted on our OPEN LETTERS page. The charge of
"schism" is a cheap smear often directed against members and
supporters of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission by cowardly Novus Ordo clerics that are just as ignorant of the question as
Dr. Jones. The OPEN LETTER was sent to Dr. Jones, owner of Fidelity Press and
editor of Culture Wars Magazine, and
to the "Guild Prophets" that Jones challenges to condemn Archbishop Viganò, namely, Dr. Marshall Taylor professional Catholic
apologist, Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside
the Vatican, John-Henry Westen, editor of Life Site News, and Mr. Michael Matt,
editor of the Remnant Magazine. The
OPEN LETTER has been posted on CathInfo Forum
inviting Dr. Jones to defend his allegations in a written exchange. The Guild
Prophets have also been invited to share their understanding of the crime of
schism, reply to Dr. Jones and comment on the OPEN LETTER.
Dr.
Jones claims to be an "expert" on the question of schism. We
disagree. In fact we accuse Dr. Jones of a singular longstanding ignorance on
the question. Members of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission have been
accused by the last five local ordinaries in Harrisburg of schism so it is a
question that we have long reflected upon. We have in fact tried for nearly 25
years to get the local bishop or his designated representative to engage in an
open discussion on the question of schism. Perhaps something in this proposed
open exchanges will enlighten our local ordinary.
The
first stain glass window repair was completed and the re-installed in the
window over the sanctuary. These are the windows that change colors at sunset
and sunrise.
The
renovations on the lower level have been completed including the donation of a
new refrigerator. The renovations included the new flooring in the lower sacristy, office,
community room and kitchen area, new cabinetry in the kitchen, new cabinets,
sinks and toilets in both lower lever bathrooms, and donation of several large
bookcases for the library collection. Thanks for your patience and particularly
to those who helped keep the chapel dust free during the renovation.
The Archdiocese of
Baltimore is restructuring. The Baltimore Sun reports "The changes would
be.. "historic. It would reduce the number of parishes in Baltimore and a
few nearby suburbs from 61 to 21, and the number of worship sites from 59 to
23." Archbishop William E. Lori says that this is restructuring is
unrelated to the current bankruptcy proceedings. Does anyone believe this? Like
the Harrisburg diocese, Baltimore has refused to admit that the financial
problems causing bankruptcy are due to homosexual clerics abusing adolescent
boys in over 90% of all cases and they further refuse to implement any
meaningful correction to remove homosexual clerics or prevent homosexuals
acceptance into seminaries. We are to believe that the collapse of the Catholic
Church in the first diocese of the United States is just growing pains of the
"springtime of Vatican II". As Pope Francis might say, "Time is
greater than space," no one alive will ever see, or was ever expected to
see, the "springtime of Vatican II".
Bishops Senior
of Harrisburg and Lori of Baltimore using same playbook!
"Traditionis Custodes went
into immediate effect in July 2021 and could have resulted in the immediate
cessation of Mass according to the Missal of 1962. For the pastoral good of the
faithful, the Holy See in its wisdom granted an indult
to allow St. Mary's to temporarily continue Mass according to the Missal of
1962 during a period of transition. The purpose of the indult was to
allow those who had become accustomed to Mass according to the Missal of 1962
to receive catechesis and formation so they would come to welcome and embrace
the Novus Ordo.
As the transition period will soon be
coming to a close, it is now important to share what will take place after the
indult expires in August. After much careful and prayerful consideration, I
have discerned that for the pastoral good of all the faithful in the
Archdiocese of Baltimore, the celebration of the liturgical rites and pastoral
care according to the Missal of 1962 within the Archdiocese of Baltimore on or
after August 1, 2024 will be entrusted solely to the Priestly Fraternity of St.
Peter (FSSP) at the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Baltimore. [....]" Most Reverend William E.
Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, 3-13-2004
COMMENT: Like
the Diocese of Harrisburg, the Archdiocese of Baltimore under Archbishop Lori
has restricted the use of the Indult 1962 Bugnini
transitional Missal to the single location. As long as Ss. Peter & Paul
Roman Catholic Mission is in York, PA there will be an Indult offered in
Harrisburg and Baltimore. If we were not here, they would not be there. It is
however refreshing to hear +Lori admit that the purpose of the Indult is to
provide remedial educational transition for recalcitrant traditional Catholics
into the Novus Ordo. This is why to FSSP never, ever
criticizes the heretical and immoral slag that flows from the Vatican.
Bishop
Senior has issued a LETTER
implementing new regulations regarding the use of the Indult Missal as directed
by Pope Francis' Traditionis custodes. The
current regulations governing the Indult contain no changes excepting that the
use of the 1962 Rituale Romanum will
be restricted to the chapel in Harrisburg. Therefore, if anyone wants to be
married, buried or shriven in the 1962 Bugnini rite
they will have to do so in Harrisburg. The two conditions to obtain the Indult
require Catholics to offer only 1962 Indult Bugnini
transitional Missal and they must accept the "validity" of Vatican
II. Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission has no interest in the Indult
and offers only the "received and approved" immemorial Roman rite of
Mass before Bugnini laid his Masonic hands on it. As
for the "validity" of Vatican II: it is a legally valid as an act of
the "authentic magisterium", that is, an
act of churchmen acting by virtue of their grace of state, as a merely pastoral
council that has proven to be a pastoral failure. On the doctrinal question:
It's pastoral 'legality' is unrelated to any of its implicit or explicit
heretical teachings the implications of which were difficult to foresee. Who
would have guessed that the 'teachings' of Vatican II would lead to the
pastoral "blessing" of sodomite couples? Be that as it may, as long
as we are here, the Indult community will be unmolested in Harrisburg.
Bishop
Timothy Senior has issued his bromide on the recent publication of Fiducia supplicans,
the document issued by the "Dicastery" for
the Doctrine of the Faith and signed by Pope Francis on the question of
blessings for “couples in
an irregular situation and couples of the same sex.” This document is bald attack on the sacrament
of marriage as seen in every heretical and schismatic sect. Bishop Senior
regurgitated the public comment from the USCCB distinguishing between
liturgical (Catholic Truth) and pastoral (human compassion) questions. Catholic
faithful are asked to look the other way while the bishops are looking the
other way. This is just one big cowardly dodging of their duty to uphold and
defend Catholic truth. May God grant Bishop Senior his just reward and the
sooner the better.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore filed
bankruptcy to seek protection from their creditors. Perhaps our former bishop,
Ronald Gainer, and our current bishop, Timothy Senior, based upon his
experience in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, can help them to structure their
Chapter 11 proceedings so as to emerge from this shameful process without
having to identify the cause of the insolvency or implement any serious
corrective action to prevent its recurrence. He can also advise on how to
conceal from Catholics what it will cost them and exactly what of their assets
will be liquidated to satisfy creditors.
Recently
completed the exterior painting and rebuilding of the east entrance decking.
The reupholstering and staining was also completed. Thanks to everyone who has
helped with their contributions for the completion of this work.
Bishop
Timothy Senior is now the new ordinary of the Diocese of Harrisburg. We will
pray for his welfare as we have for his predecessors in the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass and the daily Rosary.
Bishop
Ronald Gainer, as a token of farewell, has re-circulated the old diocesan
calumny against Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission. A letter was sent to Rev. John Bateman,
the pastor of St. Patrick Novus Ordo rite Church
extending to him an opportunity to enter into a public exchange on the merits
of the doctrinal, moral, liturgical and canonical arguments upon which our
Mission was established for the end of bringing whoever is in error back to
truth. The letter was copied to Bishop Gainer and to the new bishop of
Harrisburg, Timothy Senior.
Pope
Francis appointed Bishop Timothy Senior, an auxiliary bishop for the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia, as the next bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg.
He was the former rector of St. Charles Borromeo
Seminary and is currently the chancellor responsible for the selling of that
property and relocation of the Seminary to a more modest venue. He assumes his
new role on June 21.
Bishop Ronald Gainer's Swan Song:
Diocese of Harrisburg completed its plan for judicial
resolution of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This publication regarding reorganization
of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Bishop Ronald Gainer says nothing about the
liquidation of Catholic assets to pay creditors! What is worse, this plan of
reorganization does NOT identify that the cause of more than 90% of all sexual abuse cases are committed
by homosexual clerics using the clerical collar as cover for predatory abuse of
adolescent boys (the crime of pederasty) or offer any plan to eliminate these
predators from the clergy and religious vocations!
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Today, the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg (RCDH) announced that its Chapter 11 Plan of
Reorganization has been approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Middle District of Pennsylvania. With this approval, the RCDH has emerged from
bankruptcy, nearly three years from when this process started. The Most
Reverend Ronald W. Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg, offered the following
statement on the completion of this process:
“Three years ago, I announced that the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protections. That difficult decision was made as a means of stabilizing the
Diocese’s financial situation, while at the same time allowing us to make
restitution to survivors of clergy sexual abuse and continue our
ministries.[....]
With the plan approved, the RCDH and related
entities will establish a Survivor Compensation Trust and provide funding to
the Trust in an amount equal to $7.5 million. The settling insurers will
contribute an additional $10.75 million, bringing the total Trust amount to
$18.25 million. This Trust will provide financial restitution for survivors of
clergy sexual abuse. According to the plan, the Trust will be established by
early March. More details related to the Trust are included in the Plan, which
is on file with the Bankruptcy Court and on the Diocesan website. Once
established, a Trust administrator, and not the Diocese, will determine
compensation amounts and claim eligibility for abuse survivors.
The RCDH filed for reorganization under
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in February 2020. More than 60
timely filed proofs of claim from clergy abuse survivors were received during
the reorganization process. The move to declare bankruptcy came after years of
financial hardship, which was exacerbated by the Grand Jury investigation and
subsequent lawsuits, and after every attempt to scale back operations,
including reducing overhead, were unsuccessful.
The RCDH has a zero-tolerance policy
regarding child abuse and has passed every audit related to the United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People since 2002. In 2019, the Diocese’s independent Survivor
Compensation Program assisted 111 survivors, for a total financial commitment
of $12,784,450
Ss. Peter &
Paul Roman Catholic Mission is constituted as a religious society. It is
canonically a pious union of Catholics but functions in the manner of a
confraternity. Like other confraternities, its constitution and governing
structure are intended to be fixed, dedicated toward a specific spiritual end,
for which members join together in common union to seek their own spiritual
perfection working toward a common end. Membership in the Mission is open
to any Catholic who subscribes to its corporate purpose and takes upon himself
the obligation to offer a daily Rosary of reparation to the Sorrowful and
Immaculate Heart of Mary, a weekly day of fast, preferably on Tuesday, and a
Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament at least once each month as a minimum
for the intentions of the Mission. Membership forms are located in the
vestibule. If you are not a member of
the Mission please consider becoming one.
The last of the Vatican II popes,
Benedict/Ratzinger, has died. He will likely become
another "Novus Ordo saint" for the examination
is superficial, the process expedited and the standard of “heroic virtue” so
very, very low that it hardly meets the level of any naturally good act. As for
miracles, ‘We don't need no stinking miracles’. His own voluminous writings are
full of heresy, most serious of which was his denial of substantial reality and from this, the dogma of the True Presence,
Transubstantiation. He wrote that the idea of visiting God’s localized
sacramental presence in a Church was rejected by the modern mind. His
conservative style made him less threatening than Pope Francis but in the end
he will be shown to have been far more damaging to the Catholic Church because
he corrupted its first principles throughout his long tenure in positions of
great influence and authority while Francis simply applies the corrupted
principles in a crude and rigorous manner.
August 24th was the 75th birthday of
Bishop Richard Gainer. He has submitted the offer of his retirement to Pope
Francis and, if accepted, will move on to other endeavors perhaps less
challenging but certainly more rewarding.
The
Diocese of Harrisburg, as its embraces Pope Francis’ “The Synodal
Way,” has become like Francis himself, shamelessly effeminate and hopelessly
dated. We respectfully ask anyone who has access to Bishop Gainer to remind him
that his time of stewardship is short. Soon he will be steward no longer and
must make a detailed account for his stewardship. If he tries any of the
buzzwords published by his “Synod Ambassadors” at his particular judgment, he
will be told to try them with the Devil and see if he has any more
success!
The new front doors were completed on Thanksgiving
Day. The project was over a year in
execution but the results are well worth the time and expense involved. Thanks to all involved with this project as
well as the man who designed, constructed and installed the doors.
Backbone for sale
Now that Summorum Pontificum is a dead letter, the
"Latin Mass Community" in Harrisburg is back to being an "INDULT
COMMUNITY" and no longer a 'grant of legal privilege' garden club. That's
nice. It is a lot easier to call them "Indultists"
rather than "GOLPs" (Grant of Legal Privilegers").
It is ironic that Indultists sounds like "Insultists." After all, what is more insulting than
agreeing to never defend the faith or preach it in its purity in return for
"crumbs that fall from the table." Hopefully a few of them will learn
that it is the faith itself that first must be defended. And perhaps a few of
these few will learn that DOGMA is the proximate rule of faith for all the
faithful.
There
are rumors that Bishop Gainer may offer the Indult community the opportunity to
purchase St. Lawrence Church. This is good news if done properly. The church
must not be sold to the Fraternity of St. Peter because any future bishop may
remove them from the diocese, the Fraternity would then simply sell the
property and take the assets with them. If the church is sold to a lay
corporate traditional community, any future bishop will not be able to expel
the Fraternity from the diocese because the corporate body will retain the
property and simply obtain the help of other priests who recognize that the
virtue of obedience owed to the bishop is conditionally regulated by the virtue
of Religion. Our hope is that this will be done as much as for the welfare of
Bishop Gainer as for the faithful in the diocese of Harrisburg.
Pope Francis
abrogates Summorum Pontificum:
Indult crowd in panic.
PREDICTION: The end of this Motu
Proprio is to terminate all Indult communities and
drive their members into the SSPX fold. The SSPX has already been regularized sub rosa.
Their guiding lights have already made the JPII ‘Profession of Faith’ and ‘Oath
of Fidelity’ which is required to be admitted into the Novus Ordo communion and to hold any office within the Novus Ordo structure. This betrayal has not been shared with its
members or with the faithful who attend their Masses. Once the conservatives
have been driven into the SSPX fold, the SSPX will then gradually drive them to
compromise on every immemorial tradition. The SSPX cannot defend traditional
Catholicism because they deny that Dogma is the proximate rule of faith for all
faithful Catholics and that our immemorial ecclesiastical traditions are
necessary attributes of the faith and not mere matters of Church discipline
subject to the free and independent will of the legislator. They have already
sworn unconditional obedience to the “authentic
magisterium” of Pope Francis and have nothing to
offer in opposition to an abuse of authority.
Who Owns Parish Property? Should we
buy or rent?
And just why do Indultists
pay $6,889.00/week rental fees for the use of “stolen property” to obtain
services that are in fact the bishop’s duty to provide???
Bishop
Ronald Gainer in Harrisburg is tied up in bankruptcy court and apparently does
not know why. In an effort to exclude individual parish properties from creditors,
his lawyers argue that the bishop is only a trustee for the individual parishes
acting in their best interests and not the owner, and therefore parish assets
should not be included as part of the diocese’s. If that is true, then Bishop
Gainer’s predecessors were certainly guilty of theft when they closed 33
parishes in the diocese, sold off their assets, and pocketed their bank
accounts into the general diocesan fund against the expressed wills of the
parishioners which includes the parish of St. Lawrence in Harrisburg. Normally,
bankruptcy court requires the business to submit a restructured business plan
that demonstrates an understanding as to why the business failed, that will
correct previous financial mismanagement, keep the business solvent, satisfy
its creditors, and still permit it to accomplish the ends for which it is
constituted. Does anyone think that Bishop Gainer will publically admit that it
is the failure of his predecessors to remove homosexual priests from the clergy
and prohibit homosexuals from entering Catholic seminaries that is responsible
for the crisis of pederasty that has cost faithful Catholics millions of
dollars in damages and injured countless souls? Poor Bishop Gainer does not
even know what the Mission of the Church is. If Indultists ever do the math,
they might learn that they can buy their Church from the bankruptcy court for
far less than they are renting from the diocese, but that is a dirty little
secret that we are expected to be quiet about.
For
the last three years Ss. Peter & Paul Mission has had the complete
immemorial Roman rite of Holy Week in the manner that public worship was done
in monasteries and cathedral churches before the Freemason, Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, and the Pian Commission began their liturgical deconstruction with
the Missal of 1956. The traditional Holy Week has been rarely experienced by
even traditional Catholics. We are most grateful to God for this gift and now
express our public thanks Him and to all those who, by their dedication to true
worship of God, made it possible. Participants travelled from Indiana,
Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, central and north-eastern Pennsylvania to be
part of this experience and their dedication was a great example of sacrifice
to all. The joy of Easter is proportional to the work put into Lent and
particularly Holy Week, and our joy is full.
There
have been inquiries from time to time as to why the Bishop(s) of Harrisburg
will not, either by himself or by his representative, enter into a public
debate on the merits of the doctrinal, liturgical, moral and canonical claims
of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission to the end that those who are in
error may be restored to Catholic Truth and Worship. The reason is simple: He does not want to be
publically exposed as an ignorant hypocrite. The modernist Novus Ordo Church of the New Advent denies the immutability of
Catholic dogma. In fact, the only dogma
they recognize is that there is no dogma.
Since the definition of a heretic is the denial of dogma they cannot
enter into a debate without looking foolish and exposing their vulgar
hypocrisy. The challenge remains open but it will not be accepted because Truth
with purity of Worship is not their end.
Philadelphia
has a new bishop. Archbishop Charles Chaput, another worthless conservative who conserved
nothing, will be moving along. It is not
expected that he will really retire but rather enter the ranks of the faithless
conservative opposition of Judas Goats.
He might even learn to offer the Indult Mass to establish his
credentials. He seems very animated in
his praise for the incoming new bishop.
As for the new bishop, Nelson J. Perez, we can say that we already have
something in common. Bishop Perez
forbade kneeling in the Novus Ordo rite from the Pater Noster
to the end of communion service within the diocese of Cleveland. The reasons given are the standard tripe:
early practice of the Church, done in the East, etc. etc., but none of this can
overturn immemorial custom established in the Latin Church and the ugly, ugly
fact that it is the established tradition of Protestant communion services
because they deny the True Presence of the Catholic Sacrament. Bishop Perez quotes St. Ambrose, “When in Rome,
do as the Romans,” but he has not the understanding of St. Ambrose regarding
liturgical tradition. On this point we
can agree, we would, like Bishop Perez, never kneel at a Novus Ordite communion service.
This
letter sent by Archbishop of Zaragoza, Spain, Vicente Jiménez
Zamora, to Fr. Philippe Brunet Superior of the FSSPX in Spain Casa San Jose
28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid). Fr. Brunet
submitted a formal request to Archbishop Zamora to renew the Indult for his
community to offer the Extra-ordinary form of the Roman rite, i.e., the 1962 Bugnini transitional Novus Ordo
Missal. This letter is the denial of
that request.
This letter is important because it
proves two things that Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission has said for
many years. Firstly, it proves that the
SSPX has already been regularized by Rome. That it has,
contrary to Archbishop Lefebvre's direction, established a practical solution
with Rome before a doctrinal solution.
This has not been revealed by the inner circle of SSPX leadership to the
rank and file priests or the faithful who attend their chapels and finance
their operations, but it has been evident from necessary canonical deductions
drawn for a long time from actions of their leadership.
Secondly, it demonstrates that the 1962
Missal, aka, the Extra-ordinary form, an Indult and grant of legal privilege,
can be denied by any authority for any reason whatsoever.
Anyone who has accepted this grant, by so doing, has accepted in principle that
it is a privilege, and therefore has conceded that he possess no legal or moral
recourse to its denial.
Those
who are intent upon defending the Catholic faith and passing it their children
cannot do so by supporting the Indult community or any of its institutional
structures.
English
Translation:
Zaragoza, December
18, 2019 The Archbishop of Zaragoza Fr. Philippe Brunet Superior of the FSSPX
in Spain Casa San Jose 28607 EL ÁLAMO (Madrid)
Dear Fr. Philippe:
I received your
kind letter of 13 December 2019, in which you ask me to renew the Indult to
celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form, which my predecessor, Bishop
Manuel Ureña, granted aloud, through the priest D. Waldir Consuega, former pastor of
Calaceite. In reply to this letter, I
communicate the following:
1. I had no knowledge of the subject until now.
2. I am not
renewing the permit because I know that in Calaceite
there are not enough people to celebrate Holy Mass in the Extraordinary
Form. The participants belong to other parishes which are not in the
Diocese of Zaragoza. Moreover, it is not practical for the full communion
of the parish community of Calaceite.
3. With the same date, I am sending a copy of this letter to the present parish
priest, Rev. Mr. Arturo Hollman Ladino Gutiérrez, in order not to authorize Father José M Jiménez, in charge of the Region of Catalonia and Aragon,
to celebrate in any of the parishes, which he has entrusted to his pastoral
care.
With my affection and blessing,
+ Vicente Jiménez Zamora Archbishop of Zaragoza
Fr.
Waters received a reply from Archbishop Charles Chaput
of Philadelphia to his letter of April 24. Unfortunately for Chaput,
his reply had nothing to do with the letter that was sent to him. Therefore, Fr. Waters has sent a reply to Chaput's
reply
once again trying to make clear to him what is
evident to everyone else. Archbishop Chaput has proven himself to be a remarkable
hypocrite. He appeals to Dogma when it
is convenient, such as his public exchange with Cardinal Blase
Cupich and his earlier rift with Cardinal Kevin
Farrell, and he throws Dogma out the window when it is not. No surprise that
his name is not appended to the recent public defense of the faith by Cardinal
Raymond Burke, et al.
Fr. Samuel Waters has sent another letter
to Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia. The letter applies a point made by
Bishop-emeritus of Rome, Benedict/Ratzinger, in his
letter to the bishops of the world regarding his take on understanding and
addressing the problems of sexual abuse among the clergy to Chaput's
unjust treatment of Fr. Waters and its moral implications. Fr. Waters letter to Chaput,
April 24, 2019.
We
are currently witnessing the Pope Francis Vatican cover-up of the great sex
abuse scandal within the Catholic Church.
The problem in the great majority of cases (90%+) is caused by
homosexual clerics sexually abusing adolescent boys. Anyone who denies this evident fact is by
definition part of the Homosexual Lobby that works to obscure this in the minds
of the public with the help of the secular press. The CEO of the HomoLobby
who is committed to protecting their perverse interests is none other than Pope
Francis himself.
NOTE:
Anyone who claims
that the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is caused by
"clericalism" is by definition a member of the Homosexual Lobby.
Anyone who is a member of the Homosexual Lobby is a homosexual and pederast in
potency or act until proven otherwise. Even if a member of the Homosexual Lobby
is not a homosexual in act, he possesses an entirely
disordered moral sense that is wholly incompatible with the Catholic faith. He
is an enemy of God, an enemy of His Church, and an enemy against the salvation
of souls and must be treated as such. We are bound to love our enemies and pray
for them, but we are not supposed to pretend they are not our enemies.
The Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
released the names of over 70 members of its clergy who have been accused of
sexual abuse in cases spanning back to the 1940s. This list is only those who
were caught. The Homosexual Network will always cut its losses to protect
itself. Nothing will be corrected until the root of the problem is identified
and thoroughly removed. Every apology
issued by the Church in the public forum for the crimes of homosexual
molestation of adolescent boys (which constitute more than 90% of all cases of
sexual abuse) must include a declaration that the Church remove every
homosexual from its ranks.
On
the first day of their General Chapter meeting, the 41 handpicked electors by
Bishop Bernard Fellay elected his successor to head the SSPX. There are several reports that this election
represents a repudiation of Fellay's policies. That is not likely. It is more likely to be a calculated
retrenchment before a continuation of the course established since the GREC
meetings began in 1997. The Vatican
Insider announced the expected outcome before the actual elections took
place. How could they have known? The answer may be that they were able to
predict what they had orchestrated. The
new superior general and his two assistants have direct ties to Argentina. Maybe Bishop Fellay will assume the title of
"Superior-General Emeritus."
One thing is for sure, he will not be sent to take up residence in the Philippines.
(Note: This announcement was made before
the addition of two additional advisors to the Superior General were created,
which happen to be the last two Superior Generals, Bishop Fellay and Fr.
Schmidberger.)
In November 2001 the
arguments taken from Reply to a
Conservative Canon Lawyer were formally presented to Bishop Nicholas Dattilo by a priest of this diocese requesting an official judgment.
Dattilo never responded beyond summarily forcing the
priest into an unceremonious retirement, and eventually publishing the
unsubstantiated charges of "heresy" and "schism" against
the Mission in the diocesan newspaper.
Since that time, an OPEN CHALLENGE has been
repeatedly placed before each of the last four bishops in Harrisburg to enter
into an open written discussion regarding the liturgical, doctrinal, moral and
canonical claims of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission for the purpose
of bringing those in error back to the Catholic faith and obedience to her
immemorial traditions (the last challenge was offered May 13, 2023). Think of
the Catholic saints who have labored among heretics and schismatics
to bring those in error back to the Catholic faith and the possibility of
salvation such as, St. Augustine among the Donatists
and Pelagians, St. Dominic among the Albigensians, St. Peter of Verona among the Cathars, St. Peter Canisius among
the Lutherans, St. Francis de Sales among the Calvinists, St. Andrew Bobola among the Orthodox, St. John Fisher among the
Anglicans, and on and on and on. These saints offered their very lives for the
restoration of heretics and schismatics to the
Catholic Church. The local bishops of
Harrisburg have done nothing. Could it be that they are not sure who in fact in
an open debate would be demonstrated to be the heretics and schismatics?
Eighteen
Twenty-three years is not long in the history of the Church
but it is long time in the life of every faithful Catholic. These bishops have
been grossly negligent in the duties but their silence itself is really reply
enough. These cowards have not taken up our challenge because they have no
answers against those who defend Dogma and the rights of immemorial ecclesiastical
traditions which are the images of our faith that make it known and
communicable to others. They think being silent is better than looking stupid.
We were recently told
by a friend of our Mission that conservative Catholics who have objected to the
Mission refused to discuss or so much as to even read the OPEN LETTERS. They
are afraid. The Mission scares them and they prefer willful ignorance than to
burden their consciences with open and clear obligations. If we are correct in
what we profess everyone from the bishop to the lowest Catholic will have, in
some degree or another, to answer for their sloth. Willful ignorance does not
excuse sin, it aggravates it.
Two
Catholics have attended Mass at our Mission leaving the Fraternity of St. Peter
Indult Community that offers the Extra-ordinary Form of the Novus Ordo. The first said that in the indult sermon they were
told that obedience must be given to Pope Francis by every Catholic without any
qualification whatsoever including the moral corruption of Amoris Laetitia. The second said that they were
refused absolution in the confessional because they told the priest that in
conscience they could not attend a Novus Ordo
memorial meal if unable to find a traditional Mass. The Indult community, like
the clergy in Germany, sell the sacraments. The only difference is the currency
of exchange. They are no better than a guard dog that can be appeased with a
couple of hard-boiled eggs.
Bishop Richard Williamson performed the
Episcopal consecration of Bishop Gerardo Zendejas at
St. Athanasius Chapel in Vienna, Virginia on May 11, 2017. Please remember his welfare in your petitions
to our Lord that he will faithfully defend the Dogmas of our Catholic Faith and
the immemorial ecclesiastical traditions that make that Faith known and
communicable to others.
The SCHISM is HERE!
Only the brain dead have an excuse!
COMMENT: This book
provides an interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoria Laetitia (AL). It is addressed to bishops with a “merciful heart”
and offers an interpretation that is consistent with the interpretation
approved in the private letter sent by Pope Francis to the bishops of Argentina
as well as with the interpretation of Cardinal Schornborn
who Pope Francis has publically identified as its ‘official interpretor.’ These bishops say that the proper
understanding and application is that any Catholic living in public adultery
based upon their own private judgment in the internal forum can declare
themselves worthy to receive Holy Communion and absolution in the sacrament of
Penance and therefore cannot be denied these sacraments. It is given semi-official approval by its
publication in L’Osservatore Romano.
Now in the Novus Ordo
which may be nothing more than a memorial meal as initially defined by Pope
Paul VI, perhaps giving the Novus Ordo communion
wafer to a person in objective mortal sin is not a real problem. But what is certainly a grave sin it that
these persons expect to be absolved by a confessor in the sacrament of Penance
without confessing or repentance of mortal sin.
Pope Francis and his CDF puppet, Cardinal Muller, will not be answering
the Dubia in any official capacity. This does not represent a change in the
Church’s teaching. It represents the
active effort of a Francis and his minions to destroy the Catholic doctrine and
morality. As we announced during the
synod, the schism has long been present.
It is more evident each passing day and every Catholic will have to pick
sides. God cannot let an open attack upon
the sacrament of marriage go unpunished.
Their hypocrisy is oozing from every pore. Imagine if a Catholic with “humility,
discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere search for
God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it” arrives at
traditional Catholicism, what kind of response can be expect from the local
bishop and Rome? If you want to know
read our OPEN LETTERS!
10. If, as a result of the process of discernment, undertaken with
“humility, discretion and love for the Church and her teaching, in a sincere
search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it” (AL
300). a separated or divorced person who is living in a new relationship
manages, with an informed and enlightened conscience, to acknowledge and
believe that he or she are at peace with God, he or she cannot be precluded
from participating in the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist (see AL,
notes 336 and 351).
Bishops Charles J Scicluna and Mario Grech, Guide for the Interpretation of Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia: An Invitatiion to the Bishops of Merciful Hearts. This book received semi-official approbation
by being favorably reviewed in L’Osservatore Romano,
Italian edition, January 2017.
Pope says Schonborn interpretation on Communion for remarried is the
final word
April 16, 2016 LifeSiteNews – On the
flight returning from Greece, Pope Francis was asked if the Apostolic
Exhortation (Amoris Laetitia)
contained a "change
in discipline that governs access to the sacraments" for Catholics who are
divorced and remarried. The Pope replied, “I can say yes, period.” Adding,
however, that this would be "too small" of an answer, the Pope then
urged reading the presentation of Cardinal Schönborn,
calling Schönborn a “great theologian who knows the
doctrine of the Church.”
"In that presentation your question will have
the answer," the pope concluded.
Schonborn’s
presentation boiled down Pope Francis’ more than 60,000 words in the
exhortation to 3000, but in that short space made sure to include the “smoking
footnote” being seen as the opening of the door to Holy Communion to Catholics
living in second unions where annulment from the first union was not
possible. The position contradicts Pope St. John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio as
well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.( as well as divine positive law
and the constant immemorial universal tradition of the Catholic Church in all
her rites without exception whatsoever) [……]
The following “announcement” has been
posted on the Mission web page since the election of Pope Francis. There is no reason to take it down or amend
it in any way, especially in light of the recent attacks on the Sacrament of
Matrimony that have been supported by Pope Francis. We pray for the Pope so that we may not share
in the punishment that will certainly follow upon this sin and objective
scandal.
“Pope Francis has almost daily since his election last month shown a
studied contempt for the Ecclesiastical Traditions of our Church. It is good
that the wolf looks and acts like a wolf.
The Traditional Catholics, grounded in true Hope, ‘know that to them
that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his
purpose, are called to be saints.’ (Rom. 8: 28) Therefore, no matter how
stupid, blind, incompetent, or willfully malicious the helmsman may be, God is
still in charge of His Church and His providential care will be accomplished
willy-nilly. The coming chastisement
will separate the hirelings from the shepherds.”
Pope
Francis and SSPX superior Bishop Fellay met Friday evening in Rome. Greg Burke, Vatican Press Office vice-director,
announced on Monday that a meeting took place in the Casa Santa Marta on
Friday, April 1, between Pope Francis and the Superior General of the Society
of St. Pius X. We have
learned that it was a very positive meeting. Apparently, Pope Francis was impressed by +Fellay's incompetency displayed during his interview on Conflict Zone!
The question that must be asked of
+Fellay is: “When and where did he make the 1989 Profession of Faith and the
Oath of Fidelity to the ‘authentic magisterium’ of
the conciliar popes?” It awaits to be seen if he is able to bring
the rank and file to agree with his accommodation of error.
Amoris Laetitia,
“On Love in the Family,” an act of the 'authentic magisterium'
of Pope Francis, an apostolic exhortation that presents his findings and
conclusions from the two synods, which threw open to discussions settled moral
and doctrinal questions of Catholic revealed truth, was released April 8. Pope Francis gave the honor of presenting the
document to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn,
O.P. of Vienna, Austria, who is a recognized apologist for the homosexual
heresy, and Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretariat
of the synod of bishops. Baldisseri was the man who
ordered the interception of the book, Remaining
in the Truth of Christ, which had been mailed to participants in the
Extraordinary Synod last October. The book is a collection of essays by five
Cardinals and four other scholars in defense of Catholic truth regarding the
sacraments that was written in response to heretical opinions in Cardinal
Walter Kasper’s book, The Gospel of the Family.
Amoris Laetitia,
as expected, overturns the Catholic doctrinal and moral teaching on the
sacrament of Marriage and by directly endorsing situation ethics which is
morally repugnant to all faithful Catholics.
As said before, this will eliminate conservative Catholicism. The problem facing Catholics who have been
faithful to the doctrinal and ecclesiastical traditions of the Catholic Church
is to make conservative Catholics, who are just now rejecting the novelties and
corruptions of Francis, understand that the answer to the problem is not a
return to the novelties and corruptions of Benedict and John Paul II. Neither of these two conciliar
popes could or would offer any principled objection to Pope Francis who is just
travelling a little further down the same road!
A
Letter was sent to Bishop Ronald Gainer in response to his
comments to the York Daily Record after the Palm Sunday story covering the
liturgical worship at Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel. A copy of the letter is available in the
vestibule.
It
has come to our attention that Virgil Bradley (Gabriel) Tetherow
is reforming the suppressed order of Servants of St. Francis and using
favorable comments made from our Mission that have long ago been retracted and
apologized for. Therefore we are
republishing our assessment of the character of Tetherow
for a public warning. TETHEROW
Posted
Letter to
Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller
at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
was sent on December 15, 2015 on the occasion
of Pope Francis' declaration, in an act of his “authentic magisterium,” condemning “Catholic fundamentalism” as a
“disease” of ‘Godless idolatry’ afflicting “many Catholics” for believing in
“Absolute Truth.”
The
Synod on the Family was a sham from beginning to end and will undoubtedly go
down as the greatest corruption of Catholic doctrine and morals in the history
of the Church. It was in fact a very
crude attempt by Pope Francis to give the appearance of popular collegial support
for the corruption he has militantly imposed upon the Catholic faithful. For nearly two years since Pope Francis’
public praise of Cardinal Kasper’s theological novelties, Pope Francis has lead
an opened discussion on settled moral and doctrinal questions that he does not
possess the authority or power to change.
This has done incalculable damage to Catholic Truth. Those who give only tacit support to this
corruption will pay the worst of all penalties.
Every heretic
always attacks the doctrine of Marriage because Matrimony is the metaphor that
God employs to describe His unbreakable union with His Church as a whole and
with each individual faithful Catholic as well.
Since heretics have broken union with God they cannot abide the
integrity of the metaphor.
To conservative Catholics who have enough Catholic
sense to repent of Francis but not enough Catholic sense to stop yearning for
the “good old days” of Benedict/Ratzinger.
COMMENT:
As Pope Pius XII explained in Humani Generis, it
is impossible to affirm the Catholic dogma that the “Lord Jesus Christ... is
consubstantial with the Father” or the Catholic dogma of Transubstantiation, if
the concept of “substance”
is rejected in the same sense used by scholastic theologians found in the
perennial realist philosophical tradition and fixed by its usage in Catholic
dogma.
Benedict/Ratzinger denies the meaning of “substance” and then, he necessarily denies
the dogma of the True Presence. Benedict/Ratzinger’s
entire “hermeneutic of reform” vs. the “hermeneutic of rupture” is predicated
upon accepting his Neo-Modernist philosophy which, in the end, denies the term substance and replaces it with the
accident of relationship.
There is no
philosophical difference between Benedict/Ratzinger and
his chosen replacement Francis who marks, as Benedict/Ratzinger
predicted in December before his abdication, the “beginning of the new Church
and the end of the old.” The only difference between the two, apart from
superficial style, is that Francis is wholly formed by the Novus Ordo Church and suffers no misgivings of conscience about
the direction he is dragging the Church because he knows no other way. Those
conservative Catholic who are nostalgic for a return of Benedict/Ratzinger or John Paul II in the face of Francis’
infidelities are even more superficial than Francis!
“Some even say that the doctrine of transubstantiation,
based on an antiquated philosophic notion of substance, should be so modified
that the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist be reduced to a kind of
symbolism, whereby the consecrated species would be merely efficacious signs of
the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful
members of His Mystical Body.”
Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
“…the medieval
concept of substance has long since become inaccessible to us.
In so far as we use the concept of substance at all today we understand thereby
the ultimate particles of matter, and the chemically complex mixture that is
bread certainly does not fall into that category.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and
the Future, p. 14
“Eucharistic
devotion such as is noted in the silent visit by the devout in church must not
be thought of as a conversation with God. This would assume that God was present
there locally and in a confined way. To justify such an assertion shows a lack
of understanding of the Christological mysteries of the very concept of God.
This is repugnant to the serious thinking of the man who knows about the
omnipresence of God. To go
to church on the ground that one can visit God who is present there is a
senseless act which modern man rightfully rejects.”
Joseph Ratzinger, Die Sacramentale Begrundung Christliche Existenz
Planned
Parenthood’s Director of Medical Services, Deborah Nucatola,
M.D., has been captured on video discussing the PP practice of selling baby
body parts for profit procured by partial birth abortions, both practices of
which are violations of U.S. positive law.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned any reference to Natural Law in Casey
vs. Planned Parenthood as a basis for determining the morality of U.S. law, so
U.S. law is no longer limited to the imagination but is grounded upon pure
arbitrary fantasy. Anyone who thinks
‘homosexual marriage’ and infant ritual murder are protected “rights” under the
U.S. constitution cannot have too much a problem with infant cannibalism. We
should not be too surprised because it was historically the practice to eat
body parts of victims of ritual murder.
The video should be widely distributed to as many as possible before the
national morality becomes entirely jaded and justifies this disgusting
practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
Msgr.
William Lynn, the former director for clergy for the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia has been sent back to jail. Lynn was freed last year after an
appeals court overturned his conviction on child endangerment charges relating
to Philadelphia Archdiocese’s sex-abuse scandal. On April 25, the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court overturned that reversal and reinstated the original conviction —
saying that the child endangerment statute applied to Lynn even though he did
not directly supervise the welfare of the child victims in the scandal. The
Supreme Court said that Lynn:
• ”Mollified victims of sexual abuse by falsely telling them
their allegations were being seriously investigated and that the particular
priest would never again be assigned around children, despite knowing that the
priests under his supervision would merely be reassigned to another parish with
no ministry restrictions on contact with children.”
• “Informed parishioners that the priests he transferred were
moved for health reasons, leaving the welfare of children in jeopardy.”
• “Routinely disregarded treatment recommendations for
priests.”
• “Failed to inform the relocated priest’s new supervisor
about abuse allegations.”
• “Took no action to ensure that the abusive priest was kept away
from children at his new assignment.”
• “Suppressed complaints and concerns by the colleagues of
the priests; all with the knowledge that sexually abusive priests rarely had
only one victim and that all of these actions would endanger the welfare of the
diocese’s children.”
• “Finally, and even more egregiously, when (Lynn) was
contacted by law enforcement, he misrepresented facts to thwart their
investigation of these priests, and their crimes.”
The OPEN LETTERS
of FR. SAMUEL WATERS now include the Letter to Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which has the Arguments
addressing the moral, doctrinal, and canonical deficiencies of Archbishop
Charles Chaput's “Decree of Excommunication” as well
as his calumny, offered without evidence, that Ss. Peter & Paul Roman
Catholic Mission is a “schismatic organization.” Also posted for viewing is the LETTER of
reply from the CDF written by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia,
O.P. and Fr. Waters' reply to Archbishop Di Noia. This is the same Di Noia
who argued the Vatican's alleged 'doctrinal' dispute with the SSPX. The Letters speak for themselves and really
require no additional comment. They are
themselves a clear revelation of the character of each author.
Open
Letters between Fr. Waters and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the CDF
Fr.
Luigi Villa, Th.D. authored the book, Paul VI - Beatified?, which derailed the
process of Paul V's beatification until it was resuscitated by Pope
Francis. It is a book every Catholic
should be familiar with to understand what kind of man gave us the Novus Ordo Church that has just declared him “blessed.”
Priests who see insults offered to God and remain
silent are called by Isaias “mute dogs.” But to these
mute dogs shall be imputed all the sins that they could have – but have not
prevented.... Hence, St. Leo adds: “The
priest who does not withdraw another from error proves that he is himself
involved in it.”
St. Alphonsus De Liguori
Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to
defend truth is to suppress it.
Pope St. Felix III
Fast-Track Catholic
Divorce
COMMENT: Pope
Francis the Humble and Merciful has instituted Fast-Track Catholic Divorce to
begin on December 8 for the “Year of Mercy”.
The divorced and remarried, who are in a state of objective adultery,
are now identified as the Church’s “poor” to whom the bishops must exercise a
‘preferential option’. A new ground for
“nullity” has been invented being the lack of “faith” which all of Pope
Francis’ predecessors were too blind to see, or just too unmerciful to forgive. So now, those who do not have the “faith” are
to be granted a Catholic divorce so they can regularize their new “marriages”
which were received without faith and then be admitted to the Church and
receive communion which they do not believe in?
It will be Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto at the Roman
Rota who will be implementing the Catholic divorce for Pope Francis through the
local ordinaries. He is calling for a “metànoia” of the Catholic bishops to the new divorce
regulations so that they will be seen as the will of God and the operation of
the Holy Ghost “who speaks through Francis.”
This sounds very much like the sin against the Holy Ghost which Jesus
Christ warned against. The coming schism
will clearly distinguish Catholic faithful from Novus Ordites.
So,
with this fundamental law, Francis makes a real beginning to his reform: by
putting the poor at the center, that is, the divorced and remarried, considered
set apart and distant, and asking bishops for a true and proper metànoia. That is to say, a “conversion”, a change of
mentality which convinces and sustains them in following the invitation of
Christ, present in their brother, the Bishop of Rome, to pass from the
restricted number of a few thousand annulments to that immeasurable [number]of
unfortunates who might have a declaration of nullity — because of evident of
absence of faith as a bridge to knowledge and thus to the free will
[necessary]to give sacramental consent — but are left on the outside by
the current system. [.…]
But
how will the bishops or eparchs, most of all in large
dioceses, be able to guarantee, at least in part and as a sign, their role as
shepherds and judges? What is important is that the spirit of
collegiality and communion among bishops under obedience to the Pontiff, begins
to permeate the hearts and minds of the shepherds. The faithful are waiting
with eagerness and love for such a metànoia and will
nonetheless be patient in the Lord when faced with the good faith of their
shepherds. The Jubilee Year of Mercy expects this sign of humble obedience (on
the part of the Churches’ shepherds) to the Spirit who speaks to them through
Francis.
Msgr.
Pio Vito Pinto, the Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman
Rota
Bishop Gainer’s Comment – Apparently he did not read
the fine print. The new regulations in
fact do “alter the… grounds on which annulments are granted,” that is,
“evidence of absence of faith.”
The reforms announced by our Holy Father will
simplify and in some cases quicken the process for obtaining an annulment
though the Diocese of Harrisburg. This will aid us in our mission of
compassionate healing to those in failed marriages and in our concern for the
salvation of souls. We see these changes as procedural in nature. They do not
alter the teaching of the Catholic Church on the permanency of marriage or the
grounds on which annulments are granted. The Diocese of Harrisburg, through our
Tribunal, remains committed to walking with those on a path of peace and
reconciliation with our merciful Lord.
Bishop Ronald
Gainer, Bishop of Harrisburg
COMMENT: Laudato Si’
represents a change in appearance in neo-modernism's liberation theology. Liberation Theology's purpose was to enroll
Catholic doctrine and morality in the service of Marxist Ideology. Laudato Si’s purpose is to enroll Catholic doctrine and
morality in the service of the Gaia cult of earth worship. Wisdom is the perfect knowledge about the
most important things in there right order of reference. Laudato Si’ is an
overthrow of Wisdom. Even when the
document speaks of some Catholic truth, it is never in the proper order of
reference.
Once
again, the Novus Order Regime in Rome endorses the United Nations call for One
World Government ruling a “noble
and generous society” based upon a “genuine and profound humanism” and thus,
repudiates the gospel message of the true “social teaching of the Church” to
promote and defend the social Kingship of Jesus Christ!
As Benedict XVI has affirmed in continuity with the social teaching of
the Church: “To manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the
crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater
imbalances that would result; to bring about integral and timely disarmament,
food security and peace; to guarantee the protection of the environment and to
regulate migration: for all this, there is urgent need of a true world
political authority, as my predecessor Blessed John XXIII indicated some years
ago.” […….] Here, continuity is
essential, because policies related to climate change and environmental
protection cannot be altered with every change of government. Results take time
and demand immediate outlays which may not produce tangible effects within any
one government’s term. That is why, in the absence of pressure from the public
and from civic institutions, political authorities will always be reluctant to
intervene, all the more when urgent needs must be met. To take up these
responsibilities and the costs they entail, politicians will inevitably clash
with the mindset of short-term gain and results which dominates present-day economics
and politics. But if they are courageous, they will attest to their God-given
dignity and leave behind a testimony of selfless responsibility. A healthy
politics is sorely needed, capable of reforming and coordinating institutions,
promoting best practices and overcoming undue pressure and bureaucratic
inertia. It should be
added, though, that even the best mechanisms can break down when there are no
worthy goals and values, or a genuine and profound humanism to serve as the
basis of a noble and generous society.
Pope Francis, Laudato Si’, On earth worship, global warming,
etc.
The ‘1989 Profession of Faith’ - Which
demands in a Catholic creed the unconditional “submission of the will and the
intellect,” or as Lumen Gentium says, submission of the “soul,” to the purely
human and arbitrary authority of the Pope, is enforced upon only Faithful
Catholics and no one else!
COMMENT: The one “non-negotiable point” in the Vatican’s dealing
with the SSPX is the “1989 Profession of Faith” which demands from Catholics
the unconditional submission of the “will and the intellect,” or as Lumen Gentium
describes it, unconditional submission of the “soul,” to whatever the
“authentic (ordinary) magisterium” opines. This exercise of the “authentic (ordinary) magisterium” is the pope teaching by his grace of state to
which submission must always and necessarily be conditional and not to his
teaching by virtue of the attribute of infallibility which Jesus Christ has
endowed His Church. The “1989 Profession
of Faith” demands that the Faithful give to a man what can and must only be
given to God.
And just for the record, Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis taught nothing of the kind nor was Human Generis cited as an authoritative reference in Lumen Gentium
for this novel teaching! Every example
cited by Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis
demanding submissive obedience by the Faithful to the Holy Father regards his
teaching by the ‘authentic ordinary and universal Magisterium’
which is always infallible.
Jean-Marie Dumont: What is, therefore,
the non-negotiable point?
Archbishop Guido Pozzo: That which is
essential, that to which we cannot renounce, is adherence to the Professio fidei and to the
principle according to which it is only to the magisterium
of the Church that was entrusted by the Lord the faculty of authentic
interpreting, that is, with the authority of Christ, the written and
transmitted word of God. It is the Catholic doctrine, recalled by Vatican II (Dei Verbum, 10), but already expressly taught
by Pius XII in the encyclical Humani Generis.
This means that the Magisterium, while it is not of
course above Scripture and Tradition, is nevertheless the authentic instance
that judges the interpretations on Scripture and Tradition, from whichever part
they may come.
“Consequently, if
there are no different degrees of authority and adherence of the faithful to
her teachings - as the Vatican II dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium (25) declares - no one can
place himself above the Magisterium. I earnestly
think and hope that, in this doctrinal framework that I have just explained, we
will be able to find the point of convergence and common agreement, because
this specific issue is a doctrinal point belonging to the Catholic faith, and
not to a legitimate theological discussion or to pastoral criteria.
Archbishop Guido Pozzo, secretary of the Pontifical Commission of Ecclesia
Dei and a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in an
interview with the French magazine Famille Chrétienne, October 20, 2014, responding to a question
regarding the Vatican negotiations with the SSPX.
The
“New Evangelization” and the “New Ecclesial Realities”
The “new evangelization” identifies “new ecclesial realities” as the
“work of the Holy Spirit” and thus, regards them as the means by which God will
bring about a rebirth of Christian faith since the collapse following Vatican
II. These “ecclesial realities” include
such entities as the Neocatechumenal Way, Communion
and Liberation, the Focolare Movement, and the
Charismatic Renewal. They all embody the
novel teachings of Vatican II, which the hierarchy denies as having any causal
relationship with the collapse of faith that the “new ecclesial realities” are
expected to restore. These “ecclesial
realities” have developed more in Europe and Latin America than in the United
States. The obvious reason for this is
that the U. S. is already a religious pluralistic society that has similar
entities as these “ecclesial realities” in every city. The Masonic brotherhood religion for world
peace has a lot in common with Focolare. The Neocatechumenal
Way is comparable to a Baptist Evangelical church with a Lutheran theological
conception of the Holy Eucharist. The
common thread among all these “ecclesiastical realities” is that they seek an
encounter with Jesus Christ without the burden of dogma or the moral
imperatives and duties that dogma imposes.
Cardinal Ratzinger nevertheless, at the World
Congress of Ecclesial Movements, May 27, 1998, compared these “ecclesial
realities” to St. Anthony of the Desert and the early monastic movement, to St.
Francis and St. Dominic, St. Ignatius and the Jesuits, St. Teresa of Avila and
St. Catherine of Siena. John Paul II
addressed them on the vigil of Pentecost in 1998 and said:
“With the Second Vatican Council, the
Comforter recently gave the Church, which according to the Fathers is the place
'where the Spirit flourishes' (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n.
749), a renewed Pentecost, instilling a new and unforeseen dynamism. Whenever
the Spirit intervenes, he leaves people astonished. He brings about events of
amazing newness; he radically changes persons and history. This was the
unforgettable experience of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council during which,
under the guidance of the same Spirit, the Church rediscovered the charismatic
dimension as one of her constitutive elements: 'It is not only through the
sacraments and the ministrations of the Church that the Holy Spirit makes holy
the people, leads them and enriches them with his virtues. Allotting his gifts
according as he wills (cf. 1 Cor 12:11), he also
distributes special graces among the faithful of every rank.... He makes them
fit and ready to undertake various tasks and offices for the renewal and
building up of the Church' (Lumen gentium,
n.12). […….] Today the Church rejoices at the renewed confirmation of the
prophet Joel's words which we have just heard: 'I will pour out my Spirit upon
all flesh' (Acts 2:17). You, present here, are the tangible proof of this
'outpouring' of the Spirit. Each movement is different from the others, but
they are all united in the same communion and for the same mission. Some charisms given by the Spirit burst in like an impetuous
wind, which seizes people and carries them to new ways of missionary commitment
to the radical service of the Gospel, by ceaselessly proclaiming the truths of
faith, accepting the living stream of tradition as a gift and instilling in
each person an ardent desire for holiness.[….] In our world, often dominated by
a secularized culture which encourages and promotes models of life without God,
the faith of many is sorely tested, and is frequently stifled and dies. Thus we
see an urgent need for powerful proclamation and solid, in-depth Christian
formation. There is so much need today for mature Christian personalities,
conscious of their baptismal identity, of their vocation and mission in the
Church and in the world! There is great need for living Christian communities!
And here are the movements and the new ecclesial communities: they are the
response, given by the Holy Spirit, to this critical challenge at the end of
the millennium. You are this providential response.”
John Paul II, speech addressing “ecclesial
movements and new communities.” May 30,
1998, Vigil of Pentecost
Now, Pope Francis, who
has recently taken credit for introducing the Charismatic Renewal into
Argentina, again addressed these “new ecclesial realities” on the vigil of
Pentecost and he looks to them as the hope for the “new evangelization.” Pope Francis, who has knelt before Protestant
evangelical charismatics to receive their “blessing,”
cannot possible have any clue whatsoever regarding the discernment of
spirits.
At the funeral for Fr. Luigi Giussani, the
founder of the “ecclesial reality,” Communion and Liberation, Cardinal Joesph Ratzinger said, “Fr. Giussani always kept the eyes of his life and of his heart
fixed on Christ. In this way, he
understood that Christianity is not an intellectual system, a packet of dogmas,
a moralism, Christianity is rather an encounter, a
love story; it is an event.” It
was Jesus Christ who said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John
14:15) This is the necessary condition
of “love.” And only when that necessary
condition is fulfilled will Jesus, “ask the Father, and He shall give you
another Paraclete, and He may abide with you forever,
the Spirit of truth.” St. Francis and
Peter Waldo embraced the radical poverty of Jesus Christ but they were of
entirely different spirits. Only St. Francis
possessed the “Spirit of truth.” He was
a saint, Waldo, a heretic. There is no
encounter with Jesus Christ without believing His revealed truth, that is, all
dogmas that are formal objects of Divine and Catholic faith, and keeping His
commandments. Whoever sets opposition
between Jesus Christ and the truth He revealed and the commandments He gave
does not know Jesus Christ and does not possess the Holy Ghost, the “Spirit of
Christ.” “Now if any man have not the
Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.”(Rom. 8: 9) None of the saints identified by Cardinal Ratzinger ever held any of our articles of faith or our
ecclesiastical traditions in contempt as these “new ecclesial realities”
clearly have done. And every one of
these saints gave evidence of personal holiness and performed remarkable
miracles as a testimony to the truth of their mission. The winter of Vatican II will be getting
colder and darker.
The Neocatechumenal
Way = Evangelical Lutheranism with a Mariachi Twist
The Neocatechumenal Way
- A Fearful
Danger to the Faith -
FATHER
ENRICO ZOFFOLI
April
1995, Christian Order
“I charge thee,( ... ): preach the word,
persevere in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with
all long-suffering and doctrine.
“For the day will come when they will no longer endure
sound doctrine,
but, after their own lusts, men shall surround themselves with
teachers, having itching ears. And they
shall refuse to listen to the truth, and shall
be turned unto fables.
“But watch thou attentively, know how to endure
afflictions, do thy
works as an evangelist, carry out thy ministry” [2
Tim 4, 1-5]
DOCTRINAL
ERRORS
We have been able to identify these in the
above-mentioned typewritten texts reserved for the Catechists and kept secret
not only from the public but also from the faithful committed to the Way.
They concern ideas which cannot be shared by many Neocatechumenals and seem above all to be ignored
especially by those who, devoid of theology, are not in a position to judge
their orthodoxy with the necessary competence.
The accusation of heresy is aimed at
the doctrinal positions, not the persons, whom
we still regard as worthy of respect and who can be inspired by the best
intentions.
* * * *
1. SIN: man cannot
avoid committing it, in the same way as he can neither accomplish good nor
acquire merits for himself;
- conversion is possible only as
recognition, by everyone, of their own moral poverty, not as a determined wish
to correct one's faults which sanctity tends to realize;
- sin cannot offend God, and man does not incur the duty to
expiate it by satisfying the requirements of His justice.
2. REDEMPTION: Jesus has not brought this about by liberating man from
his faults and reconciling him with God;
- the
passion and death of Christ has not been a true sacrifice offered
to the Father in order to remedy sin and to redeem man;
- Jesus saved the world by virtue of His Resurrection: in
order to enjoy the fruits of His work it is enough to confess to be sinners and
to believe in the power of the risen Christ.
3. THE CHURCH was not founded by Christ as his only Sheepfold: it
is also possible to save oneself by following other religions;
- the
Church is not a juridical and hierarchical society, but a
spiritual, charismatic one;
- in it there is not found a priesthood derived from the
sacrament of the Order - as it is sufficient to have the Baptism which,
incorporating all the believers in Christ, makes them participants of His
priestly dignity.
4. THE
MASS is not a “sacrifice”: the Church, at the altar, does not offer to
God any Victim;
- in place of the altar, there is
nothing but the table, which in the Eucharist allows a festive
party to be celebrated among brothers united by the same faith in the
Resurrection;
- the consecrated bread and wine are only the symbol of the
presence of the risen Christ which unites the fellow-guests by communicating
their own spirit, thus making them participants in his triumph over death;
- the Mass, thus conceived, is not celebrated by the priest, but
by the Assembly, from which “springs the Eucharist.”
5. EUCHARISTIC
WORSHIP does not have any meaning, it negates the true,
real and substantial presence of Christ under the
sacramental species. Acts of faith such as genuflections before the Tabernacle,
frequent Communions, hours of adoration, benedictions, processions, congresses,
etc. are not therefore justified.
6. CONFESSION is reduced to the sacrament of Baptism: their
distinction does not go back to the primitive Church:
- the Church ”gestates and leads to the
conversion.” “The important thing is not the absolution” of
the priest, because the value of the confession is essentially its community
and ecclesial nature;
- in the ”passages” and
in the, ”scrutinies” the acknowledgement
of one's transgressions, including the serious ones, is public, as can still be
the case during the ”redditio.”
7. THE
CHRISTIAN LIFE, as a voluntary effort of self-discipline, and
therefore an exercise and progress in virtue, is an illusion;
- everyone remains intrinsically a
sinner, incapable of obtaining true justice as a
perfection of the love of God and of one's fellow creatures;
- on the other hand, Jesus has not been presented to anyone as a ”model” to
be imitated;
- He has commanded that we should actually hate our parents,
brothers, relatives etc, not just, if necessary, to be prepared to prefer
Him to them;
- in order to follow Christ, we need to sell our own goods; but, once this
renunciation has been accomplished, it is permissible to acquire others and to
enjoy all the pleasures of life. “Poverty” as understood by St. Francis, is
inspired by the ”natural religion,” and was also practiced by
the pagans: it is not a Christian virtue;
- Jesus, having suffered for us, has made our sufferings superfluous,
therefore the austerities of the ascetics, the slow martyrdom of the Saints and
the religious life itself, involving the effective practice of
the evangelical counsels, are not justifiable;
- eternal salvation is offered freely to all by the mercy of God, who
forgives everything. Hell should not exist, nor should one
speak of Purgatory, of prayers and of indulgences for the
dead.
8. THE
HISTORY of the true Church founded by Christ comes to an end with
the Pax Constantinia and
does not resume its course until the 20th century with the
Second Vatican Council, having remained frozen for about 1,600 years ... ;
- in this long interval, the exercise of the triple
power of the hierarchical Church (teaching, sanctification,
guidance) would have been improper, illegitimate ... ; and in
particular the Council of Trent would be responsible for the paralysis of the
Church, determined to fix formulae of faith, liturgical rites, disciplinary,
rules ... ;
- the interpretation of the Word of God is
not reserved for the Hierarchy, it is possible for all believers: ”the
Bible is explained by itself.” This freedom of examination in the
exegesis excludes the ecclesiastical Teaching, the tradition of the Elders and
the doctrine of the theologies
“The media gave a distorted picture of the Second Vatican
Council. Now the real spirit of Vatican II needs to be examined.”
Benedict XVI, from his final
address to the priests in the diocese of Rome 2-14-2013
Comment:
This "impromptu" address given to the
priests of the diocese of Rome should be read by every Catholic who is faithful
to the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.
It is entitled “The
Second Vatican Council, as I saw it.”
In it Pope Benedict parrots every modernist nostrum that we have been
choking on for the last fifty years, all of which have been thoroughly refuted
time and again and many of which could be refuted by Ratzinger’s
own writings.
Just one example. Pope Benedict said in this address that the
“Liturgical movement had grown in Western Central Europe as the rediscovery of
the richness and depth of the liturgy which hitherto was almost locked with the
priest’s Roman Missal while the people prayed with their prayer books…. So the
task was to translate the high content, the language of the classical liturgy,
into more moving words, that were closer to the heart of the people……. Now
(after VC II) the beauty, the depth, the Missal’s wealth of human and spiritual
history was rediscovered as well as the need (for) more than one representative
of the people… to respond……. A real dialogue between priest and people so that
the liturgy of the altar and the liturgy of the people really were one single
liturgy, one active participation….. So that the liturgy was rediscovered,
renewed.”
Compare this with the following:
“What happened after the Council was
altogether different: instead of a liturgy, the fruit of continuous
development, a fabricated liturgy was put in its place. A living growing
process was abandoned and the fabrication started. There was no further wish to
continue the organic evolution and maturation of the living being throughout
the centuries and they were replaced -- as if in a technical production -- by a
fabrication, a banal product of the moment. Gamber,
with the vigilance of a true visionary and with the fearlessness of a true
witness, opposed this falsification and tirelessly taught us the living
fullness of a true liturgy, thanks to his incredibly rich knowledge of the
sources. As a man who knew and who loved history, he showed us the multiple
forms of the evolution and of the path of the liturgy; as a man who saw history
from the inside, he saw in this development and in the fruit of this
development the intangible reflection of the eternal liturgy, which is not the
object of our action, but which may marvelously continue to blossom and to
ripen, if we join its mystery intimately.”
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
from his introduction in the French edition of Monsignor Klaus Gamber’s book, The Reform of the Roman Rite
This is just one example. The entire missive, about ten type-written
pages, is nothing but the modernist version of the history of Vatican II where
subjective sentiments dominate objective reality. Soon its lies and distortions will die and be
buried with its last protagonist. “By
their fruits, who shall know them” (Matt. 7:16). It is instructive to see how the vice of pride can be so
blinding to facts. The Church over the
last fifty years has gone through the greatest decline in her entire history with
no evidence of any meaningful reversal.
Now, the “media” is responsible for the “distorted picture” of VC
II? And now, fifty years later, “the
real spirit” can at last “be examined.”
And for this tripe, he gets an ovation by the blighted clergy of Rome
for his pretend “humility.” We can take
consolation in the return of Benedict to Ratzinger,
that, no matter how bad the next pope may be, we will be dealing with someone
who has no personal stake for his legacy in salvaging the disaster that is
Vatican II.
Fr. Luigi Villa, Th.D. the author of Vatican II, About Face!, which details the heresies of Vatican II,
died November 18 at the age of 95. In his book Fr. Villa explains in detail the
following “eight heresies that have been ordained and promoted by this
Council”:
1. The Cult of Man
2. A New Religion
3. “New Prophets” of Joy
4. Idolatry of the World
5. “Modernism”
6. “Religious Freedom”
7. Ecumenism
8. Universal Salvation
Pope Benedict XVI demands “acknowledgment” of the
‘authentic magisterium’ as the one “indispensible
condition”???
...[T]he entire phrase 'the Holy Father
does not intend to leave aside an indispensable condition' [in the Secretariat
of State's draft] was cancelled by Benedict XVI and replaced with, [in his own
handwriting], 'For a future recognition of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X, the
full acknowledgment of the Second Vatican Council and of the Magisterium of Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John
Paul II, and of the same Benedict XVI is an indispensable condition.
Bishop Bernard Tissier
de Mallerais
COMMENT:
The word “Magisterium” is capitalized in the
original. It should not be because it
only refers to the “authentic magisterium” which is a
term that refers to the person who holds the papal office and not to any
particular teaching. The Magisterium of the Church is derived from the attribute of
Infallibility that Jesus Christ endowed His Church so that He could say, “He
who heareth you, heareth
Me” (Luke 10, 16). This power belongs to
the Church by its nature and only accidently to the person who occupies the
papal office. The Magisterium
of the Church was not employed by Vatican II or the councilar
popes for any of the novelties of the last fifty years. This demand of Pope
Benedict is asking only that Traditional Catholics “acknowledge” that Vatican
II and the post-conciliar popes personally taught
something. It does not distinguish
between the truth or the error of what was taught. If Pope Benedict wants to teach infallibly
and bind the “mind and will” of the Catholic faithful to a teaching as a formal
object of Divine and Catholic Faith, he can only do so by engaging the Magistrium of the Church.
An edited letter sent from the Mission in reply
to Dr. E. Michael Jones article, Traditionalism at the End of Its Tether, was
published in Culture Wars Magazine. The unedited letter has been posted on the
Open Letters page to better clarify the Mission’s position in defense of
Catholic tradition. The letter is entitled, Why the SSPX Cannot Effectively Defend
Catholic Tradition.
In
all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt
never sin.
Ecclesiasticus 7:40
