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+ JMJ   Update 3: And ... it started to climb up the hit list again.  I'm going to change the link and see what happens. If this post is dear to you please let me know!   Update 2: I'm curious to see if this article creates more traffic. I'm going to put this back online and see what happens.   Update: There was a bit of an uproar over the consecrating bishop messing up / mumbling the key words of the consecration.  This, I am told, resulted in a do-over conditional consecration.  It would be funny if it weren't so serious and sad. :-(     I've had a series of "Error of the 'resistance' for years and now they've made their biggest mistake: Fr. Pfeiffer appears to have succeeded in conning some poor people into consecrating him a bishop. I don't know who the consecrating bishop was (on the left in the photo) but wow - based on previous reports it took him close to a decade (apparently Bishop Williamson refused) to find someone to consecrate him a...

+ JMJ A few days ago I posted a list of my heroes and villains, I thought it might be useful to understand why I classified them in that manner. First a recap of definition: Definitions Hero: a person admired for achievements and noble qualities; one who shows great courage. (Merriam-Webster) Villain: a character in a story or play who opposes the hero; a deliberate scoundrel or criminal; one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty. My criteria is typically based on my personal preference chained to the principles employed by the person ( see Part B of this series ). Keep in mind that these are people that I personally classify are 'heroes' etc.  I am grateful that I have been able to meet Archbishop Lefebvre, Bishop Fellay, Bishop Schneider in person and hope to meet with Mr. Matt at some point in the future. I am certain that my rationale for casting Bishop Williamson as a 'villain' will draw the ire of his followers. One clarification, when someone has moved to ...

+ JMJ For me, the lovey touchy feely -ness of the Theology of the Body has always caused the hair to standup on the back of my neck. So, perhaps it is my confirmation bias, but I was glad to see this article on Rorate-Caeli. I haven't read the whole article - but this section caught my attention: iii) Another problem is that of the goal(s) of marriage. Since the Pope’s marital and sexual ethics are an ethics of love, spousal love becomes the unique goal of marriage and sexuality. This however excludes the goal to which marriage and sexuality have been oriented by the Creator, namely procreation. In scholastic terms the finis operantis (the goal of the worker) ousts, or at least casts into shade, the finis operis (the goal of the work). The Pope to be accordingly described the conjugal act essentially as an act of love ‘with the possibility... of procreation’ (Person and Community ch. 19).   Hereby TOB comes into conflict with Church teaching concerning the order of the ends o...

+ JMJ I had a lot of fun finding a bunch of words that rhyme with 'Trad' and  thought that maybe some of the Trad prefixes bore a little explanation (some serious, so humorous). Fad: A practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal. In other words, these are recent trad 'converts'who don't stay for very long. Tad: a small or insignificant amount or degree. Someone who is a tad serious about 'Tradition' than a 'Fad-Trad'. Gad: go around from one place to another, in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment.  Bascially a fusion of the Fad and Tad-Trads. :-) Nad: Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme important in many biological oxidation reactions. - I am still looking for a good description for this neat prefix. Mad: When a Catholic realises that they have been betrayed by the modernists, they have a tendency to angry. This includes protestants who convert to the Catholic Church.  The danger is if they stay made they wi...

+ JMJ The turmoil created by the 'West' in the Middle-East has had a horrible impact on Christians in the area.  In their hurry to promote "democracy", they have made bad situations worse. I suspect that the "Liberal" Democracies may have been jealous of the power wielded by the dictators that they helped depose.  P^3 Courtesy of FSSPX.news: Hagia Sophia is a Mosque On July 10, 2020, the Turkish State Council repealed the decree of November 27, 1934 transforming the Hagia Sophia into a museum. There is no longer anything to prevent this symbolic high place of the Eastern Roman Empire from once again becoming a mosque. “Our nation has been waiting for this for 86 years. The court lifted the ban on Hagia Sophia,” wrote the editorial writer for Hürriyet, the Turkish daily reputed to be close to the ruling Islamo-conservative party, on July 9. For his part, the head of state soberly indicated on his Twitter account: “It has been decided that Hagia Sophia will b...

+ JMJ Dr. McCall has posted a copy of the open letter in support of ++Vigano and +Schneider. Like the authors, I am pleased to see the discussion on how to resolve the issue of the Second Vatican Council has been civil and focused on the problem (V2) as opposed to entrenchment in their views on how resolve the situation. P^3 Courtesy of Catholic Family News More Than 50 International Scholars, Clerics, and Journalists Publish Open Letter in Support of Abp. Viganò and Bp. Schneider Brian McCall July 15, 2020 17 min read Since its founding, Catholic Family News has never ceased to call upon the hierarchy of the Church to recognize the destruction wrought by the Second Vatican Council and to do something to correct the errors and dangers that stem from it. In these dark times, two brave voices have been raised up among the episcopacy who have called, although in different ways, for a critical appraisal of this unique event in the history of the Church. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viga...