Before and After: St. James, Millstadt, IL.

This is the bishop against the Carmelite nuns in Arlington

This is the bishop against the Carmelite nuns in Arlington

How sad

Former head of German lay Catholics wants married deacons to be ordained priest without permission from Rome
Canon lawyer Pulte: Sternberg's move on "viri probati" absurd
German bishops should dare to try to ordain married deacons as priests, suggests former ZdK president Thomas Sternberg. Matthias Pulte, an expert on canon law, supports the underlying concern - but considers the move harmful and warns of the consequences.
Matthias Pulte, an expert on canon law from Mainz, considers the proposal by Thomas Sternberg, former president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), that German bishops should ordain married men as priests without approval from Rome to be "absurd and ultimately counterproductive". "As a result, Mr Sternberg's proposal brings nothing but annoyance and damage for all concerned," Pulte writes in a statement available to katholisch.de. It is detrimental to the underlying, "certainly justified" concern, which Pulte says he supports, "because arbitrary violations …

Did anyone else catch that? Brief but important

This video covers either fake or under-reported or un-reported stories about Maui wildfires and the aftermath at Lahaina. Make up your own mind.

Hypocrisy of room in the Church for "All, all, all!"
As Pope Francis said in Lisbon, there is room in the Church for everyone, everyone, everyone! How, then, can we justify closing the Church to the traditional Mass, persecuting the Mass of all time and those who celebrate it, banning it from the very shrines where it has been glorified by the saints, as at Ars, and confining its faithful to "Indian reserves", far from the eyes and hearts of the pastors?
The Parisian faithful, from whom Bishop Aupetit withdrew their Masses before resigning in disgrace, write:
"There's room for everyone in the Church! Everyone, everyone, everyone! This is what the crowd of young people gathered for WYD in Lisbon repeated after the Pope and at his request: "All, all, all!
It was a surprising gathering, at least for the bishops of France. "WYD Lisbon, a divine surprise for the Church in France", was the headline in Valeurs actuelles on 10 August, in an article by Fr Danziec. "Despite the dismaying news of …

The Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden Cover-Up
Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president.&n...
Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president. And doing so while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud. In any previous election cycle, these overt and unabashed actions would have been the death knell for the incumbent president’s campaign and his party.
Yet the Democrats are blatantly unconcerned, …

6 Types Of Charges In The Latest Crazy Trump Indictment
Late Monday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants in a 98-page indictment that included a total of 41 different counts.
The defendants are already fighting back, with Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, seeking to remove the case to federal court based on a statute that protects federal officials from state court prosecution for official conduct. More counteroffensives will likely follow, with other former federal officials, including Trump, presumably also seeking removal to federal court, while the remaining defendants will probably expeditiously move to dismiss the indictment on a variety of grounds.
To get a handle on the indictment and to stay current with the various developments, it is helpful to put the charges into one of six buckets, starting with the biggest one: the alleged RICO conspiracy.
Bucket 1: RICO
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt …

Francis: "Everyone Is Welcome In Church"
Francis officially joined World Youth Day in Lisbon on August 3. In the morning, he presided over a Eucharist for an elderly French pilgrim who had died the previous day after a fall and a head injury in Lisbon on Monday.
He then met with 15 young Ukrainian pilgrims at the Apostolic Nunciature and posed for photographs with the Ukrainian flag.
In his speeches, Francis didn't talk about Christ, sin or salvation, but rambled on about being "protagonists of a 'new choreography' and putting the human person at the centre."
During his keynote address to 500K in Lisbon's Eduardo VII Park, where the stage looked like a rubbish incineration plant, he lied that “there is room for everyone in the Church, for everyone, for everyone…including for those who make mistakes, who fall or struggle.”
He made the crowd to repeat three times “per todos” (for everyone). At Francis' World Youth Day, there is hardly any place for the Roman Mass and for good Catholics. …

Catholic priest promotes radical 'sexologist' who defends homosexuality, transgenderism - LifeSite
Fri Aug 4, 2023 - 9:57 pm EDTSat Aug 5, 2023 - 2:15 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A prominent Washington, D.C., priest is spreading confusion about Catholic teaching and promoting a radical “sexologist” who supports homosexuality, transgenderism, and masturbation.
Father Edgardo “Lalo” Jara, a Franciscan priest from Costa Rica, is rising rapidly in the Archdiocese of Washington. Ordained six years ago, he serves as the director of the archdiocese’s Office of Evangelization and Pastoral Planning, a vocation director for the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Name Province, and a faculty member at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis.
In 2021, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis named him a National Eucharistic Preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival, according to his profile at Aquinas Institute of Theology.
The priest …

NEW YORK CITY— What would you do if you were a witness to this harassment?

New York City was once a city. A proper city.

When you put his "God loves us as we are" together with "Everyone is welcome in the Church", you get a clear message.

Trump made a huge mistake by backing COVID jabs and could lose crucial MAGA voters to RFK Jr. - LifeSite
Kennedy could be a perfect storm opposing Trump in a three-way race. He refrains from criticizing Biden, no one owns the COVID vaccine debate as he does, and his recent interview with James O'Keefe shows that he is targeting MAGA voters.
Fri Aug 4, 2023 - 12:34 pm EDTFri Aug 4, 2023 - 3:45 pm EDT
(American Thinker) — History provides examples of third-party presidential candidates swinging elections. Ross Perot denied George H.W. Bush a second term in 1992, running on the Reform Party ticket and garnering 18.9 percent of the popular vote. Bill Clinton won with only 43.0 percent.
In 1980, Congressman John Anderson ran an incoherent candidacy yet captured 6.6 percent of votes. Reagan prevailed over Carter 50.7 percent to 41.0 percent. It is unclear if Anderson’s bid was engineered by Reagan’s campaign to split votes from Carter. Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 third-party run split Republican …

NYC is completely out of control.

"As one sees the power of Antichrist spreading, one can only pray that the Lord will give us mighty shepherds to defend His Church against the power of evil in this hour of need."-- Pope Benedict XVI

Francis Rages Against Young Priests
The time is not ripe for a Vatican III, nor is it necessary, because Vatican II has not yet been properly implemented, Francis told VidaNuevaDigital.com (August 4).
The decades-old myth of an "unimplemented Vatican II" is a form of denial of reality. Francis' work of destruction is a de facto Vatican III.
As usual, when talking about Catholics, Francis gets angry, claiming that "traditionalism" is surrounded by "moral problems", "serious vices", and "double lives". Reality check: Immorality, vices and double lives exploded when the clergy abandoned faith and tradition in the 1960s and ran after the Vatican II ideology.
Francis said that "I do not like rigidity because it is a bad symptom of interior life. The pastor cannot afford to be rigid.” Reality check: Francis' tenure has been the most rigid and unforgiving in decades.
He longs for seminarians who don't have the face of a saint, but who are “normal”, who "play football, who don't go into the …