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A Little Perspective on Pope Leo XIV

+ JMJ By Edgar Beltrán / The Pillar - https://x.com/edgarjbb_/status/1920590815472108021, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165004058 The Catholic Church has a new Vicar of Christ. As discussed in my short series " Who's in Charge? ", we know that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as Vicar of Christ in the recent conclave, taken the name Pope Leo XIV, and been accepted by the moral unanimity of Bishops and faithful in union with the Catholic Church. Roberto de Mattei has written an article for Rorate Caeili ( RORATE CÆLI: Leo XIV and the Future of the Church - by Roberto de Mattei ) that delves into some aspects of this major event in the life of the Catholic Church. The Pope has addressed the Cardinals and made clear some of his thoughts: In this regard, I would like us to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal Church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council ....

Rorate-Caeli: Cardinal Burke "Given the Gravity of the Situation" - Novena for the Conclave

+ JMJ I will be leaving this prayer up until the next Vicar of Christ is elected. P^3 Courtesy of Rorate-Caeli Cardinal Burke: "Given the gravity of the situation" The Sacred College of Cardinals during the General Congregation of Monday, April 28th last, has set the date for the beginning of the Conclave: May 7, 2025. Given the gravity of the situation, I ask that those who will complete the Novena on May 5th next, immediately begin a second Novena, continuing to pray the Novena Prayer until the new Successor of Saint Peter is elected. For those who have begun the novena after April 26th, I ask you to continue praying the Novena Prayer, until the new Successor of Saint Peter is elected. If you have not yet begun to pray the Novena Prayer, I urge you to begin praying it immediately. I thank all who have been praying the Novena Prayer or who will begin praying it now. We can be confident that Our Lady of Guadalupe will intercede powerfully for the election of a good and holy ...

Surviving Pope Francis and What is to Come ...

+ JMJ Even if the next Pope is a Pius XIII, Francis' legacy will be with us for a long time and the question is how to survive it as a Catholic. (N.B. I am writing this on April 29, 2025) I was thinking what advice would I give for weathering the storm to someone new to Tradition or even to the Catholic Church? First, remember that your first goal is to save your own soul and then those with whom you have an immediate relationship. That would be your spouse, children, parents, siblings etc. Second, is to hold true to what the Church actually teaches as opposed to theories. Theories includes how to determine when a Pope loses the papacy via heresy. If Pope Francis' papacy showed us anything, it showed the resilience of the Church to crossing the line into heresy. Third, feed your spiritual life with good reading. That mean spiritual works like the lives of saints, meditations like the Imitation of Christ etc. So pray, go to Mass and keep yourself in p...

SSPX: Novena for the Election of the Sovereign Pontiff Day 9

+ JMJ NOVENA FOR THE ELECTION OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF From April 28th to May 6th, 2025 As the conclave for the election of a new Sovereign Pontiff is imminent, the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X invites the entire Society and the lay faithful to invoke the Holy Ghost through a novena of prayers, which will take place from Monday, April 28 to Tuesday, May 6. This novena will consist of the Veni Creator Spiritus, to which will be added the collect from the votive Mass for the election of a Sovereign Pontiff and three invocations. The Latin/English text of the novena is included below. Courtesy of FSSPX.News: Novena for the Election of the Sovereign Pontiff | FSSPX News

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Who's In Charge? Part 5 of 5 Full Text and Map

+ JMJ Who’s in Charge? During this crisis of the Catholic Church, I know people who have been scandalized to the point where they ask “Who’s in charge of the Church, but it sure isn’t Pope so-and-so.” The goal of this article is to provide an solid answer by looking at Church Dogma and Doctine. N.B. I wrote the majority of this article before – and it turns out even during – Pope Franci’s last agony. So while Pope Francis no longer holds the office of the Vicar of Christ and the See of Peter is truly vacant, the interregnum will be of short duration – inspite of the Sede-Vacantists who claim that the Interregnum has lasted decades or even over a hundred years. Introduction So, who's In Charge? Ultimately God is in Charge and the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is the Head of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has a Visible Head on Earth and that person is the Pope. Pope Francis's papacy has been a seminal moment for the Catholic Church and the S...