The documentary aired yesterday on Cuatro «Proyecto Sistiaga» was dedicated to homosexuality in the Catholic clergy. Sistiaga’s investigation is presented as a human approach to the experience of homosexuality in Catholicism through the suffering and contradictions of a series of specific individuals. However, beyond its empathetic tone, the program articulates from the outset a very specific thesis: chastity would be a form of harmful repression, and the only honest way to live sexuality—including in the priesthood—would be to embrace an active homosexual life. That is the interpretive key that runs through the entire narrative and conditions both the selection of testimonies and the conceptual framework from which they are read. One of the central testimonies is that of the British theologian and priest James Alison, who claims that between 70 and 80% of the clergy would be homosexual and describes an ecclesial structure practically dominated by a normalized homosexual subculture …
The strange pectoral cross of Bergoglio ANTIPOPE Bergoglio did not choose a new cross, but kept the one he had as Archbishop, seems to reveal that he does not consider the dignity of a Pope to be essentially higher than that of a Bishop. This also is confirmed by his insistence on being called Bishop of Rome, instead of Pope.
freemasons ADORED ANTIPOPE bergoglio Communiqué Rome, March 14, 2013 Grand Master Raffi: "With Pope Francis, nothing will be more as it was before. It is a clear choice of fraternity for a Church of dialogue, which is not contaminated by the logic and temptations of temporal power" "A man of the poor far away from the Curia. Fraternity and the desire to dialogue were his first concrete words. Perhaps nothing in the Church will be as it was before. Our hope is that the pontificate of Francis, the Pope who 'comes from the end of the world' can mark the return to the Church-Word instead of the Church-Institution, promoting an open dialogue with the contemporary world, with believers and non-believers, following the springtime of Vatican II." These were the comments of Gustavo Raffi, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy, at the beginning of the pontificate of Francis, in the world Jorge Mario Bergoglio. "The Jesuit who is close to the least ones of history," Raffi continues, "has the …More
Most of these are Vatican II speak: especially "People of God" = which the modernist mean everybody believer or not! Accompaniment replaces "dialogue" of the 60s.
The document that, according to an article by Diane Montagna, was presented by Cardinal Arthur Roche to the Extraordinary Consistory of January 2026 purports to defend “sound tradition” while simultaneously advocating a theory of perpetual liturgical reform. If Roche’s treatment of the concept of Catholic Tradition is sound, then I am a time traveller from the planet Zorg. Upon examination, the theological foundations of this two-page document, which is a thinly veiled defense of Traditionis Custodes, prove incompatible with the Church’s pre–Vatican II magisterium and with classical Catholic theology. What follows are ten reasons why Roche’s arguments are garbage and laughable when read in the light of Roman tradition. 1. It Redefines Tradition in a Manner Unknown to Catholic Theology The document asserts that Tradition is not the transmission of fixed forms but a “living river” subject to continual change. This notion directly contradicts the Church’s perennial understanding of …
Help is not on the way. Yesterday, in a cautious optimistic post about this week’s meeting of the College of Cardinals, I observed that “it is difficult to imagine how the consistory could discuss the liturgy without immediately raising the most contentious subject under that heading: the suppression of the Traditional Latin Mass under Traditionis Custodes.” Well, the cardinals managed to shatter my hopes immediately. Even before my comments were posted, they had voted to take the topic of liturgy off the agenda for the consistory. Instead the two-day meeting will focus primarily on… wait for it… synodality. Synodality: the same topic that was discussed at the last two meetings of the Synod of Bishops. The same topic that was discussed at an unprecedented number of preparatory meetings, at which Catholics who work for the church talked with each other about how to broaden their conversations. Synodality: a topic that has utterly dominated conversations in ecclesiastical circles for …
What has unfolded during Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory has already revealed more than any formal communiqué could hope to convey. As I have already mentioned in my last post on this, the agenda is framed in the familiar post-Francis lexicon of synodality, reform, and Vatican II. The Pope’s general audience catechesis, choosing Vatican II as its subject and highlighting liturgical reform and active participation, was a disappointment I have to admit. One can surmise that, on paper at least, this is aimed to speak to a hermeneutic of continuity. In substance, however, it risks reopening precisely the fault lines that many Catholics hoped this pontificate might finally begin to heal. The risk is not that Vatican II will be mentioned, still less that its legitimate teaching will be reaffirmed. Let us hope that is the case! The danger lies in the way the Council is being positioned once again as the primary interpretive horizon for the Church’s present and future. For a …