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+ JMJ According to Google, the series “Examining the Calgary SSPX School Policy” generated a fair number of 'views'. What is interesting is the distribution of the views. Basically, aside from the 'Gullible and those like him' post, the majority of views were on part 4b – where I dealt directly with the offending texts. Meaning that a number of the readers are focusing on only 17% of the posts. In fact the majority of readers passed right over part 4a, where I focused on the immediate context of the offensive text. Some of the responses that Google picked up were over at CathInfo (see bottom of article for texts that I copied on January 10, 2020). A look at the distribution and comments on CathInfo support my conclusion: People don't have patience to read a thorough analysis of a topic.  They seem to go along with their confirmation bias (see linked article) and look for elements that support their feelings instead of a rational conclusion.

+ JMJ I sometimes wonder if Pope Francis is going to have a stroke one of these times when his little plans are thwarted  - even a tiny bit. P^3 Source: Rorate-Caeli Reliable sources inside the Vatican have pieced together what happened. The book “From the Depths of Our Hearts” is clearly by Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah (as is indeed the letters between the two of them -  made public by Cardinal Sarah -  demonstrate unequivocally). Everything had been decided and agreed upon from the very start. The other day – when the part defending celibacy was published -  pandemonium broke out in the Vatican because Bergoglio was fuming with rage. In fact, that authoritative  pronouncement by Benedict, stops him from tearing apart ecclesiastic celibacy, as he had intended to do in the upcoming Post-Synod Exhortation. So, he personally summoned Monsignor Gaenswein, Benedict’s secretary, but also Prefect of Bergoglio’s Papal Household and, furious, ordered him to have Benedict XVI’s

+ JMJ So ... this happened the last time I needed set aside blogging to concentrate on other worthy responsibilities. Something wicked this way comes. Pray ...  hard that those eyes which are shut may be opened! P^3 Source: Rorate-Caeli Vatican City, 13 January 2020 Your Eminence, Your Grace, Your Excellency: The Holy Father is preparing a new Apostolic Exhortation to present the New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology as developed with the guidance of the Holy Spirit during the Synod on the Amazon in October last year. The draft is currently being reviewed and corrected and then needs to be translated. Pope Francis hopes to promulgate it by the end of this month or in early February. The Exhortation is keenly awaited and will attract great interest and many different responses. Accordingly, as was previously done with Laudato si’ (2015), Amoris Laetitia (2016), Gaudete et Exsultate (2018) and Christus Vivit (2019), the Holy Fath

+ JMJ Barring any earth shattering development, I will be blogging much less for the next few months (read i have no articles planned). So in the meantime .... P^3

+ JMJ Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Nov 22, 2019, on the Book of Maccabees and the cleansing of the temple and how this relates to going to Mass at a schismatic chapel, including those of the SSPX, the Society of St Pius X. So here we go again - someone claiming that the SSPX is schismatic and that you shouldn't go to Mass at an SSPX bomb shelter. My kids would say: Seriously? We have Cardinals who were responsible for dealing with the SSPX saying that you can go. We have the Pope (such as he is) giving the SSPX authority to hear confessions and witness marriages! Oh well.  Eventually he'll learn who are his friends, who are his enemies and who are his frenemies. P^3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMzXu_ViDUg

+ JMJ I believe that the root of the crisis of the Catholic Church is disobedience to some form of authority. The Protestants revolted against the Pope and the Church - denying Dogmas and casting aside much of the 'artefacts' of the Catholic Faith.  All they have left are vestiges. The modernists revolted against the Teaching Authority of the Catholic Church, undermining Divine Revelation and as a result denied core Dogmas of the Catholic Faith.  This revolt emerged in full light at the Second Vatican Council and we've been suffering its effects every since! The Popes, starting even under Pius XII gave way to innovations that, as a pebble starts an avalanche, ended in a revolt against the authority of Tradition in the Catholic Church. With the erosion of the authority of the Church, anarchy soon followed and the bastions against heresy were razed to the ground. This is the phase in which we now strive to save our souls. Re-establishing Catholic Obedience in t

+ JMJ So, whether or not Fr. Couture found that the text was 'bad' as related by Mr. Verrecchio is not relevant to the analysis. Instead of relying on hearsay, I'm forming my own opinion based upon the facts that I was able to obtain. In the full context, the school was not obliged to sin and  the "context is that St. John Bosco is a Catholic school and it will foster an "inclusive, safe and caring learning environment within our district must be in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church." Following the principle of obedience they had an obligation to either obey or withdraw from the sphere of authority.   Was the mandated inclusion of those phrases in the policy desirable?  Of course not. However, that is not the point. Many things in Canadian Law are not desirable. Is what was required sinful?  The answer is no. As a judge recently said to a plaintiff, "we deal with reality here".  That the 'resistance'

+ JMJ As mentioned in the previous post, up to the mandated section, the context is that St. John Bosco is a Catholic school and it will foster an "inclusive, safe and caring learning environment within our district must be in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church." https://www.stdennis.ca/st-john-bosco-school-blog The mandated section is titled "Inclusive Communities" and starts on page 45 and continues until page 48.  NB: I have used bullets instead of number resolve some errors in numbering. First the background section: Consistent with its mission and vision, St. John Bosco Private School is committed to a safe, caring, respectful, inclusive and welcoming learning and teaching environment for all staff and students having charity above all other considerations. Catholic charity (Love of God) is the greatest of all virtues.  Charity should guide all of our actions as we need to love God as He loves each of us sinners. In other wo

+ JMJ We have four key elements as a starting point in the analysis: The NDP was a lawfully elected government. As such they received authority from God. Catholic have an obligation to obey the legitimate commands of their superiors - both secular as well as religious. Otherwise society falls into anarchy with everyone wanting to be their own prime minister, or like the protestants all want to be pope. If an order involved immediate or proximate sin ( see this series of articles ) then a Catholic is obliged to disregard it. The NDP passed legislation (ie laws) that required actions on school management in 2015 and then again in 2017 that closed some loopholes. The goal of the analysis is to determine if in fact the legislation required a sinful act (immediate or proximate).  If it did, then the SSPX should have disregarded the order and, in my opinion, relied on a charter challenge to the act. Including the title page etc, the policy is 62 pages in length and is divi

+ JMJ === Update === I have reviewed final articles and will be posting them early tomorrow morning. P^3 ============ Just a quick note that, with fighting colds and flus, I've had more time to review the facts of the matter. I have completed the articles and they will be posted on Jan 29th, 30th and Feb 1st.  This will give me a chance to review the articles over the next few weeks. Gullible has gone dark, so I don't know if they will respond.  If they do, I hope it will be with their own thoughts and not a parroting of someone else's. I further hope that it will be an engagement on the arguments in the articles and won't be with some new objection or claim about the SSPX. For further reading: Catholic Dogmas, Doctrines and Principles - What are they good for? P^3

+ JMJ I downloaded the comparison that was linked in the previous article on the mass (here) . ... a very good reference! P^3 From: Whispers of Restoration (available at this link) . CHARTING LITURGICAL CHANGE Comparing the 1962 Ordinary of the Roman Mass to changes made during the Anglican Schism; Compared in turn to changes adopted in the creation of Pope Paul VI’s Mass in 1969 The chart on the reverse is a concise comparison of certain ritual differences between three historical rites for the celebration of the Catholic Mass Vetus Ordo: “Old Order,” the Roman Rite of Mass as contained in the 1962 Missal, often referred to as the “Traditional Latin Mass.”The Ordinary of this Mass is that of Pope St. Pius V (1570) following the Council of Trent (1545-63), hence the occasional moniker “Tridentine Mass.” However, Trent only consolidated and codified the Roman Rite already in use at that time; its essential form dates to Pope St. Gregory the Great (+604), in whose time the R

+ JMJ Sometimes codified as in the 2009 Criminal Code of Canada : " Ignorance of the law by a person who commits an offence is not an excuse for committing that offence." Source As I write this I have a cold, so I have had time to think about my interactions with Gullible and the blogger of Restore DC Catholicism. What occurred to me is that ignorance is the root of the issues that motivate both the blogger and Gullible. The blogger, when confronted with Church Teaching on the required intention for confecting the Sacraments replied: That's a bit of a stretch that I don't believe. It is useless to argue facts so I invite the blogger to not take my word for it.  They should look up the facts from reliable sources. Then they can judge if I am right or wrong. The same goes for Gullible. Like most 'resistors' that I've encountered (... NTS: I am making an assumption that Gullible is a 'resistor'), Gullible is hasty in judgement

+ JMJ A look back - not too far only 2016. P^3 Courtesy of SSPX.org Conference given by Bp. Fellay, October 8, 2016, Port-Marly (France) fsspx.news During Tradition Days , Bp. Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, gave a conference, the second part of which is transcribed here, on the present state of relations with Rome. The complete text of this conference will be published in the original French in the next issue of Nouvelles de Chrétienté (no. 161, October 2016). Can a Pastoral Council be Debatable? All of a sudden, more than a year ago, Rome made us a new proposition. They were really stuck because we were saying: No. We cannot say that the Council is traditional. We cannot. And then this new Mass, we cannot say that it is good. Well, then, all of a sudden, they made us a new proposition, and you can understand what happened through certain interviews given by Abp. Pozzo. He explains to us that, at the