Confirmed: Bishop Forbids Latin, Ad Orientem, Kneeling at Communion, St Michael Prayer
A draft letter about liturgy written by Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, but not yet issued to his clergy, was published on Rorate-caeli.Blogspot.com on 28 May. Monsignor Martin became infamous internationally for almost abolishing the Roman Rite in his diocese. Below are some key excerpts of the draft letter [no matter how factually wrong].
On Latin
- In some places in our diocese, there tends to be a recurring tendency to attempt to reclaim the rubrics, actions and sensibilities of the 1962 Missal or pre-Vatican II liturgical customs, and to implement them in the celebration of the Novus Ordo Missae. This can also extend to art, architecture, and other liturgical and 'para-liturgical' celebrations.
- In the Diocese of Charlotte, I have encountered the frequent and prevalent use of Latin in parish liturgies. The faithful's full, conscious and active participation is hindered wherever …

Confirmed: Bishop Forbids Latin, Ad Orientem, Kneeling at Communion, St Michael Prayer
A draft letter about liturgy written by Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina, but not yet issued to his clergy, was published on Rorate-caeli.Blogspot.com on 28 May. Monsignor Martin became infamous internationally for almost abolishing the Roman Rite in his diocese. Below are some key excerpts of the draft letter [no matter how factually wrong].
On Latin
- In some places in our diocese, there tends to be a recurring tendency to attempt to reclaim the rubrics, actions and sensibilities of the 1962 Missal or pre-Vatican II liturgical customs, and to implement them in the celebration of the Novus Ordo Missae. This can also extend to art, architecture, and other liturgical and 'para-liturgical' celebrations.
- In the Diocese of Charlotte, I have encountered the frequent and prevalent use of Latin in parish liturgies. The faithful's full, conscious and active participation is hindered wherever …

Bishop Gracida, the Oldest Living U.S. Bishop, in Critical Condition
Bishop Henri Gracida, aged 102, from Texas, is in a critical condition in hospital with sepsis.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 9 June 1923, Gracida served as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
He subsequently studied architecture at the University of Houston, going on to work professionally in the field.
In 1951, he joined the Benedictines at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He was ordained a priest on 23 May 1959.
By 1961, friction between Fr Gracida and the Benedictine Order had resulted in his transfer to the Archdiocese of Miami, where he worked as a parish priest.
Ten years later, in 1971, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Miami. He was subsequently appointed bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in 1975 and of the Diocese of Corpus Christi in 1983. He remained there until retiring at the age of 75 in 1997.
Monsignor Gracida is known for his Catholic …

Cardinal Farrell at the Center of Lies, Criminality and Sexual Perversion
Irish-born Curia Cardinal Kevin Farrell has stated that during his tenure with the Legionaries of Christ, he "maybe would have met Maciel once or twice". But he "never suspected anything." The remarks were made in a 2016 interview with The Irish Times.
Farrell joined the Legionaries in 1966 and was ordained in 1978. Virtually any seminarian at that time has met the founder of the group more often than twice.
Former Legionaries have disputed Farrell's claim. Joseph Foley, for example, said that Farrell was among the seminarians who regularly interacted with Maciel, including playing dominoes with him.
Cardinal Farrell left the Legionaries in the early 1980s, citing "intellectual differences", and joined the Archdiocese of Washington in 1984.
In a 2018 interview with LaStampa.it, he declared that he had served as a the driver for Father Marcial Maciel during his frequent visits to Rome:
"During my years in the …

Moscow: Priest Sacked for Quoting Müller and Schneider
On 5 February, Rev. Gregory Zwolinski, the former parish priest of Kirov, 950 kilometres northeast of Moscow, went public on VK.com.
The post is highly critical of Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, 64, the Italian-born head of the Moscow archdiocese.
Rev. Zwolinski recalls that on 5 April 2024 he published on his VK.com page an interview with Cardinal Müller, who criticised Fiducias supplicans and showed that it was incompatible with the Bible and the teaching of the Church.
On 6 April, Archbishop Pezzi called Zwolinski on his mobile phone and asked: "Who gave you permission to publish this material?"
The priest replied that he fully agreed with Cardinal Müller's statement and would not remove the text.
On 26 May, he published on VK.com an interview with Bishop Athanasius Scheider, in which Scheider criticised Francis's homosexual propaganda.
The next day, 27 May 2024, Zwolinski received a document from the Moscow Curia in which Monsignor …

Empty Basilica for Inauguration of Homosex Activist Robert McElory as Washington Cardinal
Robert McElroy was installed on Tuesday as the eighth archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Some Catholic media claimed that the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception "was full".
However, Robert Nugent posted a picture taken at 1:56 p.m. during the reading of the apostolic mandate. This picture shows the basilica half empty.
The faithful were told to arrive and be seated by 1 p.m., and the entrance procession began at 1:30 p.m.
Examples of McElroy's Anti-Catholic Ideology
Robert McElroy has a record of promoting homosexual sin and aborting children.
He regularly presided over homosexual-propaganda Eucharists in his former diocese of San Diego.
In 2016, he called it a "destructive language" to call homosexual acts intrinsically evil.
Three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, he defended Joe Biden against critics of his anti-life positions, claiming that it was "offensive" to …

Empty Basilica for Inauguration of Homosex Activist Robert McElory as Washington Cardinal
Robert McElroy was installed on Tuesday as the eighth archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Some Catholic media claimed that the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception "was full".
However, Robert Nugent posted a picture taken at 1:56 p.m. during the reading of the apostolic mandate. This picture shows the basilica half empty.
The faithful were told to arrive and be seated by 1 p.m., and the entrance procession began at 1:30 p.m.
Examples of McElroy's Anti-Catholic Ideology
Robert McElroy has a record of promoting homosexual sin and aborting children.
He regularly presided over homosexual-propaganda Eucharists in his former diocese of San Diego.
In 2016, he called it a "destructive language" to call homosexual acts intrinsically evil.
Three weeks before the 2020 presidential election, he defended Joe Biden against critics of his anti-life positions, claiming that it was "offensive" to …

Tabula Rasa: Vatican Replaced Destroyed Candlesticks
The management of St Peter's has replaced the six precious candlesticks on the high altar with small, wretched candles.
A guard told the journalist Michael Haynes that these banal candles will now be the norm, except during papal ceremonies.
The former antique candlesticks may have been destroyed by a vandal last Friday because of the Vatican's dysfunctional security system.
St Peter's has enough beautiful candlesticks in its cellars to decorate the altar.
Picture: © Michael Haynes, permariam.com CC BY, #newsPnicmjurpn

Chicago: Blase Cupich Wants Homosexual Adoption
Homosexual activist Blase J. Cupich, Cardinal of Chicago, a close friend of homosexual activist Robert McElroy, now Cardinal of Washington, has published an article on the website of homosexual activist James Martin, a Jesuit.
In the article, Blase J. Cupich calls for "putting aside our preconceived ideas and really listening" in order to approach "people in a variety of life situations" [e.g. paedophiles, racists, abortionists, green politicians,...].
Playing on emotions, the homosexual activist speaks of 'many encounters' he has had over the years with activists who promote homosexual sins.
According to Cupich, these people '[rightly] feel pre-emptively judged and excluded'.
Blase J. Cupich condemns the fact that Catholic schools have turned away children 'adopted' by homosexuals and denied them baptism, but he doesn't explain the valid reasons why this has happened, for example because homosexual activists are just using this to publicly …

Koran Verses Read in Catholic Churches During 'Interfaith Christmas' Services
For several years, Catholic parishes in Europe have been collaborating with Muslims to organise 'Christmas celebrations'.
Such events go beyond sharing festive treats and singing carols and consist of interfaith services held in churches. Two examples:
Spain: The parish of Guisona, diocese of Urgel, is organising an 'inclusive' Epiphany procession with Islam on 5 January. Portions of the Koran will be read. The image of the article is the poster on Instagram.com announcing the charade.
Germany: The parish of Recklinghausen, diocese of Münster, has been organising an interfaith Christmas service on 3 January for several years. In the church, participants read verses from the Gospel about the birth of Christ and also from the Koran (in Arabic, translated into German).
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Italian Bishops’ Newspaper: Luther a Foreshadow of Francis
The Italian daily newspaper Avvenire which belongs to the Italian bishops , a homosexual propaganda publication, has characterized the ideas of Martin Luther as a "foreshadowing" of Francis' 2016 "Amoris Laetitia".
As a matter of fact, Luther defended polygamy. The December 13 article is written by a certain Luciano Moia. He recalls the 500 anniversary in 2025 of the marriage between the Augustinian monk Luther and Katharina von Bora, a former nun.
Moia bases his article on a certain Don Francesco Pesce, a professor of pastoral theology and director of the Family Center in Treviso, who wrote: "The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia presents numerous elements that seem to open up the possibility of structuring a dialogue with what emerged on marriage by and for Luther".
Moia and Pesce argue that both, Luther and Amoris Laetitia refer to a "gradualness of marriage" and say that there are limits, imperfections and …

Cardinal Burke: "Highest Church Authorities Abandon Christ and Fall into Apostasy"
Cardinal Raymond Burke pronounced in a December 14 homily the truism that the Church is in "the most troubled time."
He acknowledged that "the confusion, error, and division that multiply daily in the Church" can evoke feelings of fear, betrayal, anger, and even thoughts of abandoning the Church.
However, Cardinal Burke emphasized that "schism is never justified".
And, "No matter what we are asked to suffer we must remain with Christ even if those in the highest positions of authority in the Church should abandon him and commit the grave crime of apostasy from the Catholic faith."
Cardinal Burke urged the faithful to hold fast to the Gospel, the Sacred Tradition handed down from the Apostles, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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New Cardinal: "Church Was Unjust Against Adulterers" - "Only Polygamy Is Adultery"
Prohibiting divorced people who live in adultery from sacrilegiously grabbing Communion is "a huge, enormous injustice," homosexual activist Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Algiers and since Saturday a Cardinal, believes.
He admitted to LifeSiteNews.com (December 12) that "it is the position of the Church" that such adulterers are indeed adulterers: "If you don't come out of this sin of adultery, well, you can't receive the sacraments."
"But for me, adultery is when you have two people in your life at the same time."
And: "To say adultery in all situations was something that was not true or just. When you have a person who has - as I had recently - a person who was widowed, who after a while remarried to a person who was divorced: because in her life, she's not an adulterer, neither one nor the other is an adulterer."
Cardinal Vesco, referring to Francis’ document Amoris Laetitia, calls such a sinful life "…

1000 Brazilians Gathered for Latin Mass - Many Newcomers
More than 1,000 Brazilians gathered at the VII National Forum (November 16-17) of the 'Liga Cristo Rey' in Brazil to celebrate and defend the Roman Rite.
On Sunday, hundreds of faithful experienced for the first time this Mass of all ages. The Portuguese priest João Silveira said that the restoration of the Church necessarily involves re-establishing the Latin Mass throughout the world.
Father David Nix from the United States spoke about his own journey through "three categories of Catholics: liberals, conservatives and traditionalists," calling modernism and Catholicism "two different religions". He encouraged Catholics to be patient with those who are still searching for the truth, although there is "only one authentic Catholicism, apostolic Catholicism".
Professor Everton Toresim spoke of the Antichrist who will persecute the Church and offer a "false peace with the aim of seducing souls". And: "He will promote a global …

Priest 'Laicised' After Denying Francis' Papacy
Francis has dismissed Don Fernando Maria Cornet from the clerical state. He was a priest of the Archdiocese of Sassari, Italy.
The priest had published the book Habemus Antipapam? in August 2023.
Don Cornet, a native of Argentina with a grandmother from Sassari, was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Sassari in 2011. He was parish priest of the churches of San Donato and San Sisto, in the heart of the historic centre of Sassari.
The sentence speaks of "crimes against the faith (schism)" and is final. The decree doesn't use the term "excommunication", which is usually associated with "schism".
According to SarDies.it, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith gave Don Cornet the chance to defend himself, but he refused. His successor as parish priest is Don Antonino Canu.
Cornet's book of 2023 contains a series of questions about Freemasonry, the St Gallen Mafia and Benedict's resignation. He describes Francis as an illegitimate pope.
A …

Priest 'Laicised' After Denying Francis' Papacy
Francis has dismissed Don Fernando Maria Cornet from the clerical state. He was a priest of the Archdiocese of Sassari, Italy.
The priest had published the book Habemus Antipapam? in August 2023.
Don Cornet, a native of Argentina with a grandmother from Sassari, was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Sassari in 2011. He was parish priest of the churches of San Donato and San Sisto, in the heart of the historic centre of Sassari.
The sentence speaks of "crimes against the faith (schism)" and is final. The decree doesn't use the term "excommunication", which is usually associated with "schism".
According to SarDies.it, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith gave Don Cornet the chance to defend himself, but he refused. His successor as parish priest is Don Antonino Canu.
Cornet's book of 2023 contains a series of questions about Freemasonry, the St Gallen Mafia and Benedict's resignation. He describes Francis as an illegitimate pope.
A …

Bergoglio Prostrates Himself to the Builders of Evil. By Danilo Quinto
The author is a former and repented high-placed activist of the immoral and inhuman Italian Partito Radicale which works for the de-Christianisation of Italy. On 5 November Bergoglio paid a visit to Emma Bonino, a former leader of that party. Bergoglio called Bonino a ‘great Italian’ (sic) and example of ‘liberty and resilience’ (sic).
I too frequented that terrace in Trastevere, in the centre of Rome.
Those were the years when strategies were being imagined and constructed to consolidate the results of the divorce and abortion laws, which destroyed the family institution.
A 'demographic bomb' was denounced, which never existed, but served to decertify an entire country and prevent, with the spread of the pill and other contraceptive systems, its growth, which is only determined by the birth of new creatures into the world.
The foundations for the campaign on euthanasia were laid, which over the years, despite the …

All Saints’ Day in Germany: "Catholic" de facto Priestess Leads Service
On All Saints' Day, German state broadcaster ARD aired a service from the Church of St John in Nürtingen, in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The event was entitled "Holy. Here and now".
One speaker after another gave a talk, interspersed with musical performances.
The professionally made-up blonde Katharina Leser, dressed in alb, was the main ego on stage. She was accompanied by a man in alb and some altar girls.
She presented slogans like: "Before God, everyone is equal and holy" [including paedophiles?].
Then the pseudo-priestess read a fairy tale while raising her hands: "Let us pray: God, before you we are all equal. All of us - no matter where we come from or what we are. We are sacred to you. Let us feel that we are important and great, that we can be an example and a sign of your holiness in the here and now. [...]"
Between the sermons, a text from the Book of Revelation was read, some intercessions were …

All Saints’ Day in Germany: "Catholic" de facto Priestess Leads Service
On All Saints' Day, German state broadcaster ARD aired a service from the Church of St John in Nürtingen, in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. The event was entitled "Holy. Here and now".
One speaker after another gave a talk, interspersed with musical performances.
The professionally made-up blonde Katharina Leser, dressed in alb, was the main ego on stage. She was accompanied by a man in alb and some altar girls.
She presented slogans like: "Before God, everyone is equal and holy" [including paedophiles?].
Then the pseudo-priestess read a fairy tale while raising her hands: "Let us pray: God, before you we are all equal. All of us - no matter where we come from or what we are. We are sacred to you. Let us feel that we are important and great, that we can be an example and a sign of your holiness in the here and now. [...]"
Between the sermons, a text from the Book of Revelation was read, some intercessions were …

Francis Somehow Concelebrates Eucharist - Only Fourth Time Since 2022
On All Souls' Day, Francis somehow concelebrated the Eucharist. It was only the fourth time in three years that he had concelebrated. Today he wore a chasuble and sat near the altar, raising his arm during the consecration.
Francis has not presided a single public Eucharist himself since the beginning of 2022. No explanation has ever been given.
He usually sits at the side wearing a Pluviale and only comes forward to give a sermon.
Francis is elderly and has problems with his knees. But many infirm priests celebrate Mass regularly. Francis's co-workers could help him cope with his physical limitations, especially as presiding a Eucharist is not physically demanding.
Francis has no apparent difficulty in giving lengthy interviews. He keeps an active schedule, sometimes meeting several groups a day. He holds public audiences on Sundays and Wednesdays and continues to travel around the world.
John Paul II lost the ability …