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 + JMJ  Raising Catholic adults instead of Worldly Children is a key goal of Catholic Parenthood.  While we can leverage our upbringing, in many cases this doesn't seem to be enough. I think we need to move beyond the children's Catechism and explain the reasons why we believe what we believe, delve into the principles, and walk the talk.  In other words, demonstrate that the Catholic Faith and knowledge / study is more important that the Sunday Football Game (Grey Cup or SuperBowl). My kids have mentioned that they remember seeing me reading the Spirago Catechism and Catechism of Trent at breakfast.  They know that I study the Faith and that I am not afraid of having intense discussions to defend the Faith. Example paired with Teaching is the key to raising law abiding Catholic adults. P^3   Courtesy of FSSPX.news   Why is it that we adults find the child’s pioneering spirit charming but the same in the teenager alarming? We think our shift jus...

 + JMJ  On May25th Rorate-Caeli reported that Pope Francis intends to modify (extent unknown) Summorum Pontificum. It is of interest no so much what Pope Francis says, but how we learn about it.  Here again is second hand report of someone concerning the concern that Pope Francis has concerning 'Traditionalists'. It has been said that Pope Francis is imbued with an Argentinian political ethos - saying contradictory things to people ... I believe this is in order to keep them all off balance. So how to keep balance in the quagmire of this pontificate?   Simple, study the faith and stick to Catholic principles.  Otherwise you'll pick a hill to die on and discover that it is just a little knoll.  From my perspective, there are many people standing on knolls these days all shouting that theirs is the mountain to die upon. My answer: not so. If the Pope does suppress Summorum Pontificum, then we just need to stick to the principles that brought us to Tradit...

+ JMJ In part I (link) , Murrax asked a couple of questions - the original can be seen at the link -but I have also mapped it out below. Murrax, please chime in if I didn't catch the gist of the question.  So, my first thought is this seems to breakdown into a core question: Must Catholics obey civil laws? This is something that I have wanted to dig into for sometime, but alas I don't have time to do a lot of research at this time - so I'll be going on my own reasoning and previous research. Starting off with St. Thomas we have the following high level principles: Is the order within their sphere of authority? Yes  / No Does the order involve immediate or proximate sin? Yes / No  This is pretty simple and the question that is usually asked is what defines the sphere of authority?  I have been told that for Catholic religious leaders the sphere of authority is largely defined by the rule of the organization. Here's what I found: So the basic conditions are: Was it ma...

 + JMJ  Now THIS is probably the most important news item in the last two years - yes I place this above the pandemic. I'm only surprised by how long it took for this to surface during this pontificate. I hope and pray that it is false or that if it comes to pass that somehow some good will arise out of the ashes of Summorum Pontificum. P^3  Courtesy of Rorate-Caeli URGENT: Pope tells Italian Bishops he plans to abolish the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (Updated) Update (May 26): Rorate's additional sources in Rome have confirmed this Wednesday that Francis has indeed a text on Summorum Pontificum lined up, which has been developed for months, but what is not known at this point is if the text is just about a more limited take on the Summorum application questionnaire (first revealed by us in the spring of 2020) or about an overhaul of Summorum Pontificum in general: drafts could be dealing with both matters. It is also not impossible for a text to come ou...

 + JMJ       In a post that was written days ago, but published this morning - I wrote: While I'm confident that Voris et al will try to spin this to suit their narrative, Plan to Protect has been in the development years before Voris launched the campaign against the SSPX.  Well true to form during this morning's CMTV briefing has the following headline: SSPX Lack of Transparency Society slammed for refusing to publish names of review board. Here's what Ms. Niles had to say: The SSPX is being slammed for lack of transparency. In a Tuesday update to its sex abuse review board the SSPX finally published a description of its review board members. While failing to actually publish their names. Victims have requested full disclosure of identifies to assure no conflict of interest. But leadership has refused unlike many dioceses who are transparent about their review board membership. I have some time, so let's unpack this soundbite and think critically. Don'...

 + JMJ While I'm confident that Voris et al will try to spin this to suit their narrative, Plan to Protect has been in the development years before Voris launched the campaign against the SSPX. It is good to see this review board established. P^3 Courtesy of SSPX.org   Update on SSPX Independent Review Board May 18, 2021 Source: District of the USA As part of the United States District of the Society of Saint Pius X’s (SSPX) commitment to investigating allegations of abuse and offering assistance to victims, the Society has established an Independent Review Board as part of its ongoing Plan to Protect. The Independent Review Board will advise the U.S. District Superior and other designated individuals in the assessment of allegations, assistance to the alleged victim, appropriate measures regarding alleged abusers, civil and canonical procedures, and the administration of immediate pastoral measures. The initial Board members, whose names shall remai...

 + JMJ I see that the 'resistors' are in a tizzy because Fr. Robinson used them as an example instead of the sedevacantists. What is interesting is that you can apply the exact same reasons against going to a sede mass as that of the 'resistors'. Namely: On the other extreme are those situations where an SSPX priest knows that a certain non-SSPX traditionalist venue is a grave danger to the faith . Frankly, most, if not all, of the Resistance Masses would fall into this category. In many cases, the behavior of these priests has been and continues to be scandalous, by their (A) spirit, their (B) preaching, and their indiscriminate conferral of the (C) priesthood and (D) episcopacy. To attend a Mass with such ongoing scandals poses a serious danger to the souls of the faithful. Yep, looking at A,B,C and D the shoe fits. On this basis the "resistors" = "sedevacantists". P^3 Courtesy of SSPX.org   A companion article to a recent "Questions with ...

 + JMJ     Source: LifePrint I've been pondering my discussion with Smith and my responses to serious comment made by readers of this blog. I took some time to look at my responses and concluded that I have been lacking in charity and not practising what I preach (probably since this blog's inception).  Yes, we need to be critical of ideas and seek the truth whenever and wherever possible, but I found errors in my understanding of the comments that, if I had looked at the whole as opposed to the individual points, it would have been both more charitable and probably a more fruitful exchange for all concerned. So, my apologies to those of you who have taken your most precious commodity (time) and written a comment on this blog. I will try to be better! P^3 P.S. No - that is not a picture of me ...

 + JMJ    I mentioned earlier that I see the 'alternative' media as simply the flipside of the 'liberal' media. This caught my eye today: Ezra Levant: A heavily-armed SWAT team just took down a Christian pastor heading home from church. Police say he’s charged with “inciting” people to go to church. This is the second pastor jailed this year.  So, being critically minded I wondered what had happened beforehand ... after all it is important to know the context. Here's what the Calgary Herald reported: Artur and Dawid Pawlowski were charged with organizing an illegal in-person gathering. "... Calgary police said they proactively served the church organizers with the order to ensure citizens attending service on Saturday were abiding by public health orders. In a release, police said the Pawlowskis "acknowledged the injunction, but chose to ignore requirements for social distancing, mask wearing and reduced capacity limits for attendees" and went ahead w...

 + JMJ   Wikicommons Introduction There has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about cannibalism, vaccines, abortion, fetal cell lines, lockdowns, masks, protests and Catholicism. Not your normal word association eh? How Catholics deal with the "World, Flesh and Devil" is, I feel, like holding up a mirror and not liking what we see. Please don't be hasty and post a comment ... just yet. Reality: The World isn't and People aren't Black and White / Good and Evil First, the Black and White issues are, sadly, not as common as we would like to believe. They exist in the theological and theoretical realms, but once we try to categorize people as evil or good it gets more difficult. The reason is simple ... Most humans aren't wholly good or wholly bad. They are speckled, with varying degrees of black and white. Some people have groups of speckles that become splotches.  Yet, they still aren't wholly evil or for that matter wholly good.  The same applies to ...

 + JMJ  Ok - so I do not agree with Bishop Schneider on the his opinion vis-a-vis the immorality of receiving tainted vaccines. I also do not agree with departing from the principles. Either it is a remote cooperation in evil or it is not. If it is, then we know what we must do, it not - then the size of the can of worms just got bigger. While  I don't like disagreeing with a Bishop, especially one that I admire and respect, but I dislike even more abandoning Catholic principles based on personal opinion. Either the principles are Catholic or they are not. Either St.Thomas was right, or he was not. I strive to abide by each and it will take more than an assumption about what Pope St. JP2 would do to move me off of this point. P^3  h/t Rorate-Caeli Particular comments ... Abortion-tainted vaccines and the culture of death Anti-Christian world powers that promote the culture of death are seeking to impose on the world’s population an implicit — though remote and pass...