News Roundup: July 8, 2024

News Roundup: July 8, 2024 - Updated Links

By Tradical July 07, 2024

JMJ

Well, the Crisis of the Catholic Church continues down the same path with Pope Francis' foot on the accelerator.

The biggest news item is the rumoured attempt to ban the Tridentine Mass ... again.

I'll add some additional comments below as time allows.

My only word of advice is, if you have the Tridentine Mass be it SSPX, FSSP, Diocesan or other, to continue to be grateful for it. If it is taken away from you, well that will be a test for those outside the SSPX as the experiment of Tradition is still too scary for the hierarchy.

P^3

P.S. The following news articles have popped up as part of the internet churn on recent topics:

RORATE CÆLI: Father John Berg Elected as Fraternity of Saint Peter Superior General
Pope’s Restrictions Spark Resurgence of Interest in Traditional Mass Among Youth| National Catholic Register
RORATE CÆLI: Sign the Petition "Stop the Ban on the Traditional Latin Mass"
Vigano's excommunication: Which bishops have faced similar sanctions in the church? - Catholic news – La Croix International

Of course parallels will be attempted to be made with ++Lefebvre. The key item that most seem to be missing is that mere disobedience is now being weaponized into an act of schism. The Dictatorship marches on.

Archbishop’s Excommunication Fuels Revolt Against Rome - The Stream
Vatican excommunicates former ambassador to the US | AP News
In this Kansas town, an insular Catholic sect leaves some residents feeling left out • Kansas Reflector

Special note: This secular article recirculates some of old accusations. I find it interesting how they have used things stated in confession which no priest can testify on. It seems to be an early stage attack on the seal of confession.

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Popes Past Present and Future

Pope Francis says his conservative critics in the church have a ‘suicidal attitude’ | CNN
Pope Francis vs. Cardinal Hollerich| National Catholic Register
Pope Francis and ‘60 Minutes’: 4 Clear Noes and 1 Clear Yes| National Catholic Register
Pope Francis apologizes after using vulgar term about gay men | AP News
Is a Pope Beyond Criticism? - Crisis Magazine
Pope appoints Cardinal Tagle as his Special Envoy to US Eucharistic Congress - Vatican News
Why doesn’t Pope Francis Celebrate Mass? Part II | Catholic Culture
The Remnant Newspaper - A Major Statement Calling For Francis’s Removal Raises A Major Question
RORATE CÆLI: “The Bishop of Rome”: new Vatican document on papal primacy and “ecumenism”
RORATE CÆLI: Don Pietro Leone: Is Pope Francis Pope, and If Not, What Then?
RORATE CÆLI: "Unresolved Tensions in Papal-Episcopal Relations": New Anthology Maps Out the Terrain
LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: The Pope is NOT an Absolute Monarch! Catholics Must Understand the Limits of Episcopal Authority!
Cardinal Burke’s Position: Respect Papal Office Even If a Pope Is Failing – Gloria.tv

[Tradicat: The respect of the Papal Office - even with a Pope like Francis is simply the Catholic thing to do - read the Catechism of the Council of Trent.]
Francis Condemns Himself: "Conservativism [of the 60s] Is Completely Suicidal Attitude" – Gloria.tv
Complaint Against the Pope at the UN | FSSPX News

The Church and The Crisis

: Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary | AP News; Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes, Internet and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary | National Post; Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes, internet | CTV News; Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena; Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary | AP News

[Tradicat: It would be good if they took as strong and action against false apparaitions like Medjugorje as they do against the Tridentine Mass]

The Lazy Lies and Libels of the Catholic Left - Crisis Magazine

On that Associated Press piece and the future of the Church in America – Catholic World Report

Transgender Hermit Announcement Poses Questions About Church’s Teaching on Religious Life| National Catholic Register

Vatican Conference on Catholic Church in China Reflects the Vatican’s Compromises| National Catholic Register

Pablo de Rojas Sánchez-Franco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sects, real estate interests and an excommunicated bishop: the intriguing case of the nuns who deny Francis

The ‘Spirit’ of Vatican II Conservatism? | Commonweal Magazine

[Tradicat: I am going to have to read this one in more detail ...]

Sedes SapientiÆ: Special English-Language issue 2024: St Vincent Ferrer, Fraternity Of, Schneider, Bishop Athanasius, de Blignieres, Louis-Marie: 9781990685972: Amazon.com: Books

Chestertonian Realism as the Cure for Modern Insanity - Crisis Magazine

The Remnant Newspaper - A Dangerous Relator in Mischief

Introduction - Essential Latin Hymns - Angelus Press - YouTube

Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe, Knock — What Is the Common Link in These Marian Apparitions?| National Catholic Register

A New Miracle in Lourdes? – Gloria.tv

Restore-DC-Catholicism: Archdiocese of Baltimore And Fiducia Supplicans Versus Protection Of Babies

Restore-DC-Catholicism: Archdiocese Of Chicago's Laughable Attempt At Damage Control

Restore-DC-Catholicism: The Vatican Is Becoming A Joke - Literally

LMS Chairman: Praying for the Conversion of the Jews

LMS Chairman: George Galloway on the Traditional Mass

LMS Chairman: Getting men to Mass: for Catholic Answers

RORATE CÆLI: Don Pietro Leone: Is Pope Francis Pope, and If Not, What Then?

RORATE CÆLI: A Conspicuous Omission in the New DDF Document on Private Revelation - Guest Article

RORATE CÆLI: The Largest Traditional Pilgrimage is on: Follow the Live Feed of the Chartres Pilgrimage #NDC2024

Altar Against Altar: Wrestling with rifts in the Catholic Church - Where Peter Is

Fair-Weather Traditionalism Is Over - Crisis Magazine

What Is Missing in the Interreligious Dialogue With Muslims? - Crisis Magazine

News Headlines | Catholic Culture

Vigano and Sedevacantism

[Tradicat: I have been wary of ++Vigano since the beginning. Why? Because in forty plus years of being Traditional Catholic, I have seen Trads desperate for a Traditionalist Redeemer clutch are the robes of many a celebrity trad. Only to be led down the garden path.]: Interview with Archbishop Lefebvre in Le Figaro, August 4, 1976. - page 1 - Crisis in the Church - Catholic Info; Stephen Kokx on X: "“While we are certain that the faith the Church has taught for 20 centuries cannot contain error, we are much further from absolute certitude that the pope is truly pope.” - Archbishop Lefebvre, 1976 https://t.co/mDG2wClZwy" / X; The Hot Summer of 1976 and Archbishop Lefebvre | District of the USA; SSPX Supports Vatican Charge that Archbishop Viganò is “Schismatic”; Traditionalist SSPX group distances itself from Viganò and schism comparisons - Catholic Herald; FSSPX Distances Itself from Monsignor Viganó – Gloria.tv; In Italy, prominent conservatives back Vatican move against Viganò | Crux; Archbishop Viganò’s Astonishing Transformation from Vatican Insider to Alleged Schismatic| National Catholic Register; Traditionalist SSPX group distances itself from Viganò, archbishop accused of schism | Crux; BREAKING: Abp. Viganò Accuses Pope Francis of 'Heresy and Schism' - Catholic Family News; Bishop Strickland: 'I am not and have never been a sedevacantist' - LifeSite; EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Viganò confirms he has not and will not attend Vatican 'schism' trial - LifeSite; In Italy, prominent conservatives back Vatican move against Viganò | Crux; In Italy, prominent conservatives back Vatican move against Viganò | Crux; Archbishop Viganò’s Astonishing Transformation from Vatican Insider to Alleged Schismatic| National Catholic Register; Spanish Poor Clares announce break from Catholic Church; Bishop Strickland's mixed signals - Where Peter Is; Home; Vatican declares former US envoy excommunicated on July 4 | Crux; Viganò excommunicated for schism

Resistance

[Tradicat: It was interesting to see the 'Resistance' has made the news. I am still awaiting the compromise of the SSPX]: Cebu, cradle of Christianity in Asia, becomes nursery of ‘Catholic resistance’; Central Visayas: Cebu, cradle of Christianity in Asia, becomes nursery of ‘Catholic resistance’ | Cebu City | Head Topics

Persecution Of and By The Catholic Church

[Tradicat: The persecution of the Traditional Catholics has been going on since the Second Vatican Council - until we get a Great Pope - and I mean far far greater than Pope St. John Paul II, this crisis won't be over]

Liturgy and Doctrine

: RORATE CÆLI: An “Agatha Christie” Petition for Our Age: Great Names of Public Life and Culture sign Open Letter in Defense of the Latin Mass; La Croix: No Document in Preparation against the Roman Mass – Gloria.tv; Is there a secret plan to suppress the TLM — again?; RORATE CÆLI: Archbishop Viola, the violator of Tradition -- the dangerous secretary of Divine Worship and the man behind the attempts to ban the Traditional Mass. His letter to the Melbourne Archbishop; FACT CHECK: Did Latin Mass Adherents Bring Back Prayers About ‘The Perfidious Jew?’ | Check Your Fact; Will Pope Francis kill the Latin Mass? - UnHerd; TLM Crackdown: A ‘Final Solution’ Seems Probable - Catholic Family News; A Traditionalist Ordinariate? Reply to Fr de Blignières - OnePeterFive; Lay Movement Launches International Campaign for ‘Total Freedom of the Traditional Liturgy’ - Edward Pentin; LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: The Days of Persecution and the Underground Masses May be on the Horizon.; RORATE CÆLI: 2nd Worldwide Campaign for the Preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass; RORATE CÆLI: Pope’s Anti-TLM Theologian Shows His Pro-Contraception Cards; RORATE CÆLI: URGENT - URGENT - Growing Rumors of a “Final Solution” for the Traditional Latin Mass - TLM; RORATE CÆLI: “Before the Egghead Fell Off the High Wall and Shattered into a Thousand Pieces”: Charlier on Grillo; RORATE CÆLI: Accept or Reject the New Mass?; RORATE CÆLI: The Game: What Now For the Traditional Mass Under Francis? - Op-Ed; RORATE CÆLI: Sermon for the “Final” Mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne – 19th June, 2024 - The Prophetic Words of Cardinal Pell in 1992; RORATE CÆLI: EXCLUSIVE: Dom Alcuin Reid’s Response to Prof. Grillo’s Interview; RORATE CÆLI: Andrea Grillo: An astonishing interview of the main lay ideologue behind Traditionis Custodes and the desire to ban the Traditional Mass; "What Can I Do if the Traditional Latin Mass is Taken Away?" (Special Podcast Highlight) - Relevant Radio; The Patrick Madrid Show: June 26, 2024 - Hour 1 - Relevant Radio

Religious Orders etc

: French Latin Mass community asks for prayers after Vatican stops its priestly ordinations - CatholicVote org; RORATE CÆLI: An Ordinariate for Traditional Catholics? An interview with Father de Blignières; RORATE CÆLI: Frontline report: New rounds in the war against tradition; RORATE CÆLI: Odd Cancellation: Peronism has reached the Tiber -- by Abp. Héctor Agüer; LMS Chairman: An Ordinariate for Traditionalists?

Around The World

: In Israel, Anti-Christian Acts Are Increasing | FSSPX News; Madrid Catholic fined €3,600 for publicly praying the Rosary - Catholic Family News; Restore-DC-Catholicism: Harrison Butker's Commencement Address

SSPX

: We embrace an organized hierarchy | General House; Sermon of Bishop Bernard Fellay for the Funeral of Bishop Huonder | District of the USA; Santa Fe Pilgrimage - Kansas | District of the USA; Grasshopper Chapel Pilgrimage - Minnesota | District of the USA; A Tribute to St. Pius X on the Anniversary of His Canonization | District of the USA; Bishop Vitus Huonder and the SSPX | FSSPX News; Corpus Christi: The Feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament | FSSPX News; The Sacred Heart: A Collection of Devotions, Histories, and Meditations | District of the USA; The Church, Hong Kong, and the Ghost of Tiananmen Square | FSSPX News; “Brain Death” in the Spotlight Once Again | FSSPX News; United States: Ordinations at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary – 2024 | FSSPX News; Guiding dogma for our age: the Assumption | District of the USA; Agenda - 2024 Conference for Catholic Tradition; The Sino-Vatican Agreement Will Be Renewed | FSSPX News; Syro-Malabar Church: Is There a Solution to the Conflict in Sight? | FSSPX News; The Vatican Activates Extrajudicial Proceedings Against Archbishop Viganò | FSSPX News; Switzerland: Bishop Eleganti Criticizes the Latest Ecumenical Document | FSSPX News; Vatican: Archbishop Gänswein Appointed Nuncio to Baltic States | FSSPX News; A Pre-Conclave on WhatsApp? | FSSPX News; Will There Be African Resistance to the October 2024 Synod? (1) | FSSPX News; Will There Be an African Resistance to the October 2024 Synod? (2) | FSSPX News; The Synod on Synodality: The French Episcopate’s Synthesis | FSSPX News; Legislative Elections: The Embarrassment of the French Bishops | FSSPX News; South Africa: Church Worried After an Electoral Earthquake | FSSPX News; The Vatican Activates Extrajudicial Proceedings Against Archbishop Viganò | FSSPX News; Pope Francis: A Curious Statement About the Psalms | FSSPX News; The Angelus - May/June 2024: Sacred Music and Gregorian Chant | District of the USA; Are the SSPX Really Schismatic? (Fr. Gerald Murray) - YouTube; Archbishop Lefebvre and the Society of Saint Pius X with Kennedy Hall - YouTube; I was wrong about the SSPX -- 1988 Consecrations and attending SSPX Masses. Both good. - YouTube; RORATE CÆLI: First Public Acknowledgement of the Consecration of New Bishops for the SSPX - Letter by SSPX France Superior: Get Ready; RORATE CÆLI: First Public Acknowledgement of the Consecration of New Bishops for the SSPX - Letter by SSPX France Superior: Get Ready; RORATE CÆLI: The New SSPX Consecrations; Bishop of Regensburg "Forbids" FSSPX Ordinations – Gloria.tv; PiusX: New Announcement – Gloria.tv; News Headlines | Catholic Culture; Traditionalist SSPX group distances itself from Viganò and schism comparisons - CatholicCitizens.org; SSPX Talks to Begin | America Magazine

Current Events and Interesting Items

Echoes Of The Pandemic

[Tradicat: I expect we'll be hearing about this for some time ... and my position on Covid remains the same - it happened and mistakes were made on both sides. For example, according to one crackpot - I should be dead by now or have died when I cauhgt a cold after being vaccinated.]: NIH director admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — four years after COVID pandemic began; NIH admits to funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan lab | Fox News Video; Fetal Tissue, Stem Cells & Bioethics Archives - Lozier Institute; Children of God for Life | Children of God for Life; Leadership | Children of God for Life; Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 vs Influenza in Fall-Winter 2023-2024 | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | JAMA | JAMA Network; Canada Post wrong to suspend unvaccinated remote workers: arbitrator | National Post; Canada Post’s Suspension of Unvaccinated Remote Workers During Pandemic Was ‘Unreasonable,’ Arbitrator Rules | The Epoch Times; NIH Quietly Altered Definition For Gain-Of-Function Research On Its Website, Former Fauci Aide Confirms | CDN; The Telegraph admits COVID shots may have helped cause over 3 million excess deaths - LifeSite; High excess death rates in the West for 3 years running since start of pandemic | BMJ; Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022 | BMJ Public Health

Wars

: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, hardline ally of Supreme Leader, killed in helicopter crash | Reuters; US confirms first aid trucks arrive via Gaza pier; Bodies of three hostages recovered from Gaza, Israel's army says; Today in History: May 16, Nazis crush Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | AP News; What is Canada’s 2 Intelligence Company? | National Post; Why is There a Gaza Strip? Israel, the Land, and the Covenant — Part I - Catholic Family News; Ukraine: Catholic Priests Have to Go to War – Gloria.tv; Ukraine: Zelensky thanks Holy See for its help in the release of two priests - Vatican News

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The Curious Case of Steve Skojec and the Dangers of Deep Diving into the Crisis Sub-Titled: The Failings of Others

By Tradical February 03, 2024

+ JMJ It's been a while now since Steve Skojec sold 1P5 and abandoned the Catholic Faith. I've been a 'Trad' since 1982 and in those 40+ years I seen this death-spiral before with a similar end point. It seems that anyone who jumps into the fray unprepared for the enormous task of righting wrongs will, eventually, become discouraged by not the task but the people who surround them. I remember when Skojec complained of the treatment his family received from a traditional priest. This seems to have been the start of the end for him. So what can we learn from the likes of Steve Skojec, Michael Voris (maybe?), Louie Verrecchio, Gerry Matatix and other celebrity Catholics? Probably quite a lot about what not to do. First, don't burn out on the crisis? When you burn out, on work or anything else, little things assume a more greater importance than they are due. This is one of my 'canary in the coal mine' signals that I've been stretching myself too thin

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SSPX and Fr. McLucas

By Tradical July 30, 2019

+ JMJ So Church Militant is at it again - trolling the trads with an article that prove that the SSPX is "sheltering predators". So let's look a the fundamental claim made by CM via their free-lancer: Indulgence [shown by Rome] now being shown towards the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) by Church authorities can allow priests suspended from ministry on account of sexual immorality to function under the cover of quasi-legitimacy should they choose to associate themselves with the renegade organization . ... This is not just a theoretical possibility. It is already happening in the case of Fr. James McLucas. So the first question is ... what is the crime of Fr. McLucas? Ultimately, he was accused of sexual and physical abuse. Now there are two things to consider here (beyond the Fr. Perrone vs Fr. McLucas parallels): This single accusation was settled out of court. Meaning while we know the accusations, we don't know if it is true. The lady involved

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What the heck is a congregation of "Pontifical Right"

By Tradical August 06, 2018

+ JMJ In a discussion with a friend the question occurred to me that I didn't actually know was is involved in being a religious order of 'pontifical right'. I had a vague notion that this meant they reported to Rome as opposed to the local diocese. I'm also aware that, according to the accounts I have heard, the Archbishop received 'praise' and the written direction to incardinate priests directly into the SSPX. This is interesting because it implies that the SSPX priests were no longer required to incardinate in the local diocese but in the SSPX. This is something that belongs to an order of 'pontifical right'. Anyway here's some definitions: Di diritto pontificio is the Italian term for “of pontifical right” . It is given to the ecclesiastical institutions (the religious and secular institutes, societies of apostolic life) either created by the Holy See or approved by it with the formal decree, known by its Latin name, Decretu

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De Veritate - St. Thomas Aquinas - What is necessary to believe explicitly?

By Tradical June 09, 2014

I was recently introduced to a work of St. Thomas De Veritate ( Source ) in the course of an argument concerning the minimum content of explicit faith. When I submitted the following quote as proof: Theological faith, that is, a supernatural faith in Revelation, is necessary, and this is an effect of grace (D 1789); nemini unquam sine ilIa contigit iustificatio (D 1793). As far as the content of this faith is concerned, according to Hebr. 11, 6, at least the existence of God and retribution in the other world must be firmly held, necessitate medii (by the necessity of means) with explicit faith. In regard to the Trinity and the Incarnation, implicit faith suffices. The supernatural faith necessary for justification is attained when God grants to the unbeliever by internal inspiration or external teaching a knowledge of the truths of Revelation, and actual grace to make the supernatural act of faith. Cf. De verite 14, I I.Ott - Fundamentals of Dogma p241 In response my opponent wrot

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Morning and Evening and other sundry Prayers

By Tradical October 17, 2014

+ JMJ Along the theme of P^3 (Prayer, Penance, Patience), and for my own reference ... here is a collection of Morning and Evening prayers from the Ideal Daily Missal along with some additional prayers. In this crisis of the Church, I do not think it is possible to do too much prayer, penance and have patience. P^3

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