REQUIEM MASS FROM SAINT PETER’S—MARVELOUS AND SO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT MOST CATHOLICS EXPERIENCE AND WANT—WHY OH LORD, WHY?????

I am happy to see, too, that the central crucifix is on the Altar of the Chair, rather than to its side. I am wondering if Archbishop Viola desires this compared to all the dang experimentations we have see with the placement of the crucifix at papal Masses--ugh!

And of course the Bishop of Knoxville “ville” condemn the post Mass Marian Prayer. He will tell the pope that extra prayers at the end of Mass are verboten!

Here’s that prayer:

This Requiem Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV is the template of what Requiem Masses should be but aren’t and not by a long shot! 

My final wishes include that my Requiem Mass, while primarily in English will have the Proper Latin Chants for the Introit, Offertory and Communion antiphons. As I don’t expect a lot of people at my Requiem, if there is time during Communion, I’d like to hear Panis Angelicus and at the Offertory, Ave Maria. The recessional will be “In Paradisuum” and nothing else.

The Mass parts will be the Jubilatio Deo Mass.

I have instructed my bishop not to preach about me but about Jesus Christ and how He redeems us. Preach the Gospel, dagnabit !

The rest of the Mass will be in English—no second reading after the Responsorial Psalm and please God, I’ll die during Lent thus there won’t be an Alleluia sung—but one of the Lenten Acclamations. 

If I were to reform the so-called reformed Bugnini Requiem, I would recover no Alleluias for the Requiem and the Requeim Agnus Dei, with its Requiem endings. And when incense is used, it is only used at the offertory and the Final Commendation, not at the beginning or the Gospel. 

After watching the Papal Requiem, why, oh why, in the Name of God and all that is Holy, would anyone want those godawful “You-Who Song”, Be Not Afraid and the Protestant How Great Thou Art”? Songs?Why Oh Lord, why?

A RORATE CAELI COMMENTARY POINTS OUT THE FACT THAT I WAS RIGHT WHEN I SAID WEEKS AGO, THAT BISHOP SCHNEIDER’S SELECTION AS THE CELEBRANT FOR THE TLM AT THE SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM PILGRIMAGE MORE THAN LIKILY LED TO THAT MASS’S CANCELATION AT ST. PETERS AS WELL AS THEIR HOPED-FOR PROCESSION INTO SAINT PETER’S! VINDICATION IS MINE!

 I wrote HERE that the major reason this year’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage was sidelined by the Vatican, i.e. Pope Leo, was because of Bishop Schneider who has aligned himself too closely with the schismatic FSSPX.

He seems to like those who tend towards schism. Unfortunately, Bishop Schneider has personally touched my former parish in the Diocese of Savannah, as well as my diocese there and also a diocese in Florida. Bishop Schneider added fuel to the small, very small fire of schism tending ideologies. 

If a Vatican department, like Ecclesia Dei, were in charge of TLMer’s as they once were, this debacle would not have happened. A Cardinal in good standing would have been chosen by that department to be the celebrant and leader of events that traditionalists might have in Rome and at Saint Peters!

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Considerations on the Traditional Pilgrimage to Rome -- by Roberto de Mattei

Considerations Sine Ira et Studio on the Ad Petri Sedem Pilgrimage

Roberto de Mattei

Now that the polemics that arose in the heat of the moment have settled, let us attempt to offer some dispassionate considerations, sine ira et studio, as the Romans used to say, on the fifteenth Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem, held in Rome from October 23 to 25, 2026.

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On the other hand, the centrality which the Coetus Internationalis attributed to Bishop Athanasius Schneider, confirmed as the principal celebrant of the pilgrimage, surely offered the Secretariat of State an argument for stiffening its position. The public statements of the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in favor of the Society of Saint Pius X in fact gave his presence a prominence that went beyond the liturgical function. Bishop Schneider spoke out on the Écône consecrations on March 9 and June 4, 2026 and, after the event, again on August 17. In the three interventions he maintained a consistent position, always supporting the reasons of the Society and the wrongs of the Vatican. On March 9, he asked the Pope to authorize the consecrations even before the resolution of the doctrinal controversies, asserting that the lack of a mandate would not make them schismatic. On June 4, he presented the Society as a providential help for the Church and a possible excommunication as a grave pastoral error. On August 17, he sought to offer a theological and moral justification for the act performed, appealing to the primacy of divine law over ecclesiastical norms. In a subsequent interview on October 13, ten days before the pilgrimage, the bishop reiterated that "with the passing of history, the contribution of Archbishop Lefebvre and the Society of Saint Pius X will later be regarded as beneficial for the whole Church." His position leaves no room for misunderstanding.

The organizers were careful to specify that the faithful gathered in Rome are not "Lefebvrians." But the episcopal face of the pilgrimage was that of a bishop favorable to the Society of Saint Pius X in its conflict with Rome.

It is true that Bishop Schneider had been designated as celebrant many months before the episcopal consecrations of 2026. His subsequent statements should, however, have prompted the organizers to reflect on whether it was advisable to confirm that assignment. Bishop Schneider himself could have considered stepping back, leaving to another bishop the leadership of the pilgrimage, rather than playing the role of guide of the Populus Summorum Pontificum during the three Roman days.

The prevailing chaos does not annul the principle of causality, according to which every act has consequences. Bishop Schneider certainly has the right to set forth his own judgments. The organizers, however, bear in turn the responsibility to ask themselves whether those judgments are compatible with the representative function he is called to fulfill.

WHILE I AM NORMALLY PUT OFF BY LIFESITE NEWS AND ITS RIGHTWING CATHOLIC HETERODOXY, THIS BRIEF COMMENTARY SURPRISINGLY HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD

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Worst GOP election since 1974: what you need to know

Democrats will enter office next year with at least 54 U.S. Senate seats and a 241-seat majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

MY CATHOLIC, NON POLITICAL, TAKE ON ALL OF THIS: 

 There is one person and one group to blame for the blue tsunami the USA just experienced. Let me start with the one person responsible. That is the president. He comes across as mean-spirited. When a reporter asked him a question outside of Air Force One over the weekend, a question the president didn’t like, President Trump made an ad holmium attack on the reporter, resorted to his typical and sophomoric name calling which included calling him fat.

It went viral.  It was a horrible thing that anyone would do, let alone the president of the United States. But we have become accustomed to it, or maybe not! I think the election results indicate that the majority of democrats, republicans and independents want statesmanship from their elected figures, and the president of the USA should be leading the way. 

 Another recent event, gone viral, has to do with immigration and the tactics of ICE. While I don’t encourage or support anyone blocking law enforcement with their autos or bodies, there are better ways to deal with this problem than law enforcement using brut force. The most recent brut force tactic by ICE occurred this week, when a woman used her body to stop a law enforcement vehicle from leaving. An ICE agent, a large man, went up to her, shoved her out of the way causing her to fall forcefully to the ground. 

 I was taught that men don’t treat women that way. And in that situation, a more gentle removal of the woman could have occured. The optics did not work in Republicanss’ favor, to say the least.

 Senator Elect Talirico in an interview given today, November 4, to Fox News, says he wants to work with President Trump on immigration. He praised him for closing the country to illegal immigration. And even made a distinction between what Trump has accomplished in this regard, compared to Biden. He praised Trump. But then he added one more thing that I have been saying and praying for, that we need to make a way to citizenship for all those illegals various administrations have allowed to enter this country and for decades, many, if not most, having made something of themselves in this country, work hard and are law abiding, apart from illegally entering. Many of them have been here for years and decades and making life in the USA better for everyone. Now they live in fear that they can be deported in the most cruel way possible. 

What Senator Elect Talirico proposed is commonsense and goodwill that most Americans would like to see. 

 My final comment has to do with those who support President Trump, not having the ability or desire to call him out on his worse traits, especially his verbal assaults on those he perceives as opposed to him. They are spineless sycophants. And when President Trump disrespected Pope Leo XIV there were few Republican Catholics calling that out! Disgraceful. 

And what the Lifesite commentary says in its last paragraph sums it up: 

 While various factions have already started advancing dueling explanations and excuses, exit polls confirm longstanding expectations that Republicans would be rebuked for President Donald Trump’s overall disapproved job performance, which exacerbated the public’s affordability frustrations between his tariff policies and the spike in oil prices stemming from the Iran War, drove widespread perceptions he was more fixated on enriching himself and allies and personal projects such as the White House ballroom, and even turned the public against him on his most durable issue, immigration, with controversial deportation tactics.

LITURGICAL EYE CANDY…

 Nice, no?

As it concerns the second photo, this is my preference for the marvelous and traditional Benedictine Altar arrangement when the celebrant is facing the nave. I prefer the candlesticks to be upon a reredos behind the altar and not on the altar itself and the crucifix above the altar, preferably hanging. 

As it concerns both photos above, did your celebrant at the All Souls Day Mass wear black?

I did at Hilton Head Island’s Holy Family Church’s 8 AM All Souls’ Day Mass. Nice, no?

THE DEBATE ABOUT CONVERTING PEOPLE TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH, GOOD WORKS AND THE CHURCH JESUS FOUNDED—IS IT A MATTER OF SEMANTICS?

If Bishop Vesco is opposed to the OCIA and making converts because he is opposed to evangelization, then he should be condemned not only by Bishop Barron, but all bishops and the Bishop of Rome, Pope Leo.

But I will give Cardinal Vesco the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he is opposed to proselytizing rather than to evangelization which all Catholic Bishops should be to include Bishop Barron. 

This is AI’s description of the difference between the two:

Evangelization is the respectful sharing of the Christian Gospel that invites a free, personal response to faith, whereas proselytizing uses pressure, manipulation, or coercion to recruit members.

Evangelization

• Core Focus: Proclaiming the "good news" of Jesus Christ, salvation, and God's love.

• Method: Relies on witness, testimony, charity, dialogue, and respect for human freedom and conscience.

• Goal: To introduce people to a genuine relationship with God, allowing faith to grow by attraction rather than force.

• View of Conversion: True faith must be chosen freely; conversion is seen as the work of God/the Holy Spirit, not human salesmanship.

Proselytizing

• Core Focus: Increasing numbers, filling church pews, or meeting organizational quotas.

• Method: Often uses fear, guilt, unfair attacks on other faiths, or attaching strings (like financial aid or material benefits) to conversion.

• Goal: To pressure or convince someone to switch their religious label or join a specific group.

• View of Conversion: Treated like a transaction or a forced argument where compliance matters more than free will.

Pope Leo is not opposed to Evangelization but is opposed to proselytizing. If he were opposed to evangelization, he would not have authorized the beatification of the five Georgia Martyrs and he would have condemned every missionary the Church has sent to the new worldin North, Central and South America!

He would not have been a Bishop in Peru! He would not be pope!

If Cardinal Vesco is opposed to evangelization, he should be removed as the bishop of his diocese, no? And if Bishop Barron is in favor of proselytizing, he should be too, no?

At Sunday’s Angelus at St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo said this:

After the Angelus

Dear brothers and sisters,

Yesterday, in Savannah, Georgia, in the United States of America, Pedro de Corpa and four companions, religious of the Order of Friars Minor, who were killed in odium fidei in 1597, were beatified. Originally from Spain, they responded generously to the Lord's call to evangelize the peoples of the Americas, even to the point of giving their lives. Let us invoke the intercession of these martyrs for all missionaries of the Gospel.

MY FORMER PARISH OF SAINT ANNE CHURCH IN RICHMOND HILL (SAVANNAH IS ITS SUBURB) HAD ITS CANDLESTICKS BEATIFIED BY FRANK CARDINAL LEO OF TORONTO!

 A glorious and historic day for the Diocese of Savannah! Five Franciscan Georgia Martyrs were beatified at Savannah’s gargantuan Convention Center. 10,000 or so of the faithful came to celebrate. Yours truly led the priests and bishops down the aisle! 

I was able to distribute Holy Communion too! God is Good!

They had an altar railing installed to the delight of the Bishop of Charlotte who joined many other bishops and archbishops for the Beatification.

Cardinal Leo of Toronto has a very nice ars celebrandi and read the black and did the red and seem to me, this most humble reform of the reform in continuity priest that he incorporated certain aspects of the TLM in to how His Eminence consecrated the Bread and Wine. 

His homily was very good too. He spoke of not becoming worldly when it comes to Marriage (which got the five martyrs martyred in the first place). We are to conform to Christ, not the world. Hopefully I can post his homily on line when I find it.

The last two photos are of St. Anne’s candlesticks at St. Anne and then at the Beatification—are these now relics? 

Saint Catherine Island where the Franciscans were martyred is a barrier island off of Richmond Hill. 

NON PAPAL MASS AT THE PAPAL ALTAR FOR VILLANOVA AND NOTRE UNIVERSITIES ON HALLOWEEN…

 From St. Peter’s Basilica, Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez presides at Holy Mass with delegations from Villanova University and the University of Notre Dame

WARNING CATHOLICS NOT TO ATTEND FSSPX MASSES AS THEY ARE NOW IN A FORMAL SCHISM WITH THE CHURCH

I’m not complaining that bishops are making clear to Catholics tempted to attend the schismatic FSSPX Masses that it is wrong, sinful and at least imprudent to do so! But I can remember when I was a child, prior to the ecumenical movement that Vatican II put on steroids, that we were warned about even setting foot in a Protestant Church let alone attend one.

There were some exceptions for attending funerals and weddings, but we were always warned not to receive Communion in those denominations and not to join them in prayers. 

Bishops and priests did a great job about warning us about that.

My father even got mad at me when I told him I looked through the glass doors of the Episcopal Church down the road from us to see what it looked like. He said I shouldn't even look into a Protestant Chruch! Good for dad!

But after Vatican II, we didn’t hear so much about that even while thousands of Catholics were leaving the Church for Protestant sects. Today the number one sect that Catholics join are the non-denominationals sects that have great music and fellowship, worship and praise music.

A Catholic musician, who was not what I would call a traditionalists, lamented that the Catholic Church was using Protestant worship and praise music which he felt was preparing them to leave the Catholic Church to join those sects where their worship and praise music is done a lot better than how Catholics attempt to mimic them! 

But that’s my point! We have far, far, far more Catholics joining Protestant sects, especially the non-denominational ones than we have Catholics joining the FSSPX! Catholics going to SSPX chapels are minuscule in numbers compared to those going to Protestant sects.

Yet almost every bishop is mum, I mean, mum on that, but are writing letters galore about not going the SSPX Masses. What’s up with that??????

VERY INTERESTING!

 

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Robert Prevost requests to vote in Illinois in an unprecedented gesture in the history of the papacy

Pope Leo XIV has requested to vote by mail in the midterm elections taking place in the United States next Tuesday, November 3. The request was registered on October

WHEN IT COMES TO THE CHURCH AFTER VATICAN II, THE PROBLEM IS PUTTING THE HORIZONTAL OVER THE VERTICAL—OF COURSE IT ISN’T EITHER/OR BUT BOTH/AND BUT IN A HIERARCHY WHERE THE VERTICAL COMES FIRST!

 There are two commentaries very much related, one from Cardinal Fernandez and the other from Bishop Robert Mutsaerts although Mutsaerts’ commentary is very coherent and specific!

Cardinal Fernandez says this according to Infovaticano:

Fernández criticizes the priorities of progressives and conservatives 

"No one is passionate about it": Fernández admits the scant impact of Venite ad me

The prefect attributes the scant interest in the document to the priorities that, in his view, predominate in different ecclesial sectors.

According to Fernández, more progressive bishops pay greater attention to structural changes and dialogue with society, while conservative sectors concentrate especially on the transmission of sexual morality. (My comment: While “conservatives” might seem to focus on sexuality, my experience of “conservatives” is that they focus on the 10 Commandments in general—but indeed, sexuality is vey personal and intimate to their own lives, be it  a grace-filled moment or one of sin and guilt. But it is personal to them, from them, whereas social issues like war and peace, ways to care for the poor and the displaced are other than them and many feel helpless to solve these social problems apart from political affiliations or activism. It’s like the progressives who focus only on things external to them, rather than on Christ who is intimate with them and should be the center.)

The cardinal believes that both orientations relegate the proclamation of Jesus Christ and the personal experience of faith to a secondary place.

In this context, he maintained that Pope Francis’s call to renew the missionary proclamation of the kerygma has not produced significant changes in the pastoral projects of dioceses and movements.

In his opinion, this lack of response explains why the new document has not aroused particular enthusiasm either.

READ THE ENTIRE INFOVATICANO ARTICLE HERE.

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Cardinal Roche's Threatening Language: Do Not Attend the TLM! But Why? The Church Need Not Forbid Its Past to Secure Its Future.

By Bishop Robert Mutsaerts

Auxiliary of ‘s-HertogenboschOctober 24, 2026

The Catholic Church prides (herself) on its universality, cherishes an impressive diversity of liturgical traditions, and regards that diversity as an expression of its riches. A Catholic may attend the divine liturgy according to the Byzantine tradition, the Maronite tradition, the Armenian tradition, or the Chaldean tradition. No one finds this in itself a threat to ecclesial unity. But the moment a Catholic wishes to attend Mass as it was celebrated for centuries in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and virtually the entire Latin Church, certain ecclesial authorities in Rome begin to grow uneasy.

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My final comments:

While Bishop Mutsaerts is more specific and coherent about it, Cardinal Fernandez also indicates that focusing in on the horizontal rather than the vertical is the problem in today’s Church. 

When you understand the TLM, you realize that the focus is completely vertical, contemplative and other-worldly where the focus is on Christ—which then leads to the horizontal in the world—love of God and neighbor as the Church teaches the laity should carry out in the world, but the liturgy is other-worldly.

Not so, in many celebrations of the post-Vatican II Bugnini Mass. Often it is celebrated as though it’s a 1960’s Kumbaya Mass. There’s nothing transcendent about it. The problem is the Missal’s ambiguous General Instruction and the manipulation of the scant rubrics and rituals of the Mass by the priest and the laity during its celebration, such as casualness, clowning around and making Mass into a convivial “Sacred Meal” rather than the Holy Sacrifice it is. Revising the Bugnini Mass by giving it the TLM’s Order and rubrics would completely solve that problem without changing the vernacular or any of the prayers of the Mass (except the Introductory Rites). 

Fernandez also indicates that progressive leaning bishops and dioceses think that more meetings, more structure, more talking (all horizontal by the way) are more important than a transcendent encounter with Christ who is the center of one’s life, not meetings! The disconnect for Cardinal Fernandez is that the synodal thingy, that no one likes and few care about, except that it is instrumentalized to make the Catholic Church like the Anglican Communion, is what the Vatican has been promoting for the last 14 years!

But Bishop Mutsaerts hits the nail on the head—Thank you good Bishop!

APART FROM BEING EXTREMELY UGLY, WHAT IS THE CORRUPT THEOLOGY BEHIND THE 1980 WRECKOVATION?

 And let us thank God for the return to sanity for this poor parish after having suffered such insanity at the hands of design experts!

INSTRUMENTALIZING THE SYNODAL MEETINGS AS A POLITICAL, PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS, AN ARTICLE AT WHERE PETER IS, AKA, WHERE POPE FRANCIS WAS, LOBBIES YET AGAIN FOR FEMALE ORDINATION, BEGINNING WITH DEACONS BUT ENDING WITH PRIESTS, BISHOPS AND ULTIMATELY THE POPE—LIKE THE ARCHBISHOPESS OF CANTERBURY

 The anthropology of Catholic ordination hinges on the difference between male and female, husbands and wives, the masculine and feminine especially as it relates to marriage as well as ordination.

Those political lobbies in the Church, instrumentalizing synodality as a parliament, want to do away with this anthropology or act as though it doesn’t exist and in the modern world is irrelevant.

You can see how this is related too, with political lobbies of synodlaity wanting to do away with sexual sins or ignore them for other sins more devious, in order to eventually get to same sex or whatever sex is claimed, marriage and ordination. It effectively, too, does away with Humanae Vitae and the Catholic Church’s reliance on natural law. 

You can read a bleeding heart’s take on why women should be ordained deacons from Where Peter is, aka, Where Pope Francis Was, HERE. 

However, this is what Artificial Intelligence says about Pope Francis’ position on the subject of ordination, all three elements that form a whole, deacons, priests and bishops:

Pope Francis and the Roman Catholic Church teach that women cannot be ordained priests because of theological anthropology, apostolic tradition, and the symbolic nature of the priesthood. [1, 2, 3]

Key Teachings and Rationale

Apostolic Tradition: The Church holds that Jesus Christ deliberately chose only men as his 12 Apostles, a pattern maintained throughout Church history as an unchangeable norm. Pope Francis reaffirmed the permanence of this rule, referencing Pope John Paul II’s 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Theological Anthropology and the Petrine vs. Marian Principles: Catholic theology frames the Church through two complementary dimensions: the Petrine principle (governing and ministerial priesthood) and the Marian principle (femininity, maternity, and the spousal nature of the Church). Pope Francis explains that excluding women from the ministerial priesthood is not a deprivation of dignity, as Mary holds a higher theological and mystical place in the Church than the apostles. [1, 2, 3]
In Persona Christi: During the Eucharist, the priest acts in persona Christi (in the person of Christ the bridegroom), and the Church views the male body as an integral sacramental sign of that representation. [1, 2] This principle applies to deacons at Mass, when a deacon reads the very Words of Jesus in the Gospels—when a deacon reads those worsds, he is acting sacramentally in Persona Christi. 
Distinction in Roles: While barring women from holy orders (diaconate, priesthood, and episcopate), Pope Francis has emphasized increasing women's decision-making and administrative roles in Vatican governance and financial bodies. [1, 2, 3]

HOLY FATHER, IT IS TIME TO BRING BACK ECCLESIA DEI! THAT WOULD HAVE SOLVED THE SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM DEBACLE, A DEBACLE OF ROME AND THOSE WHO ORGANIZED THE PILGRIMAGE!

Michael Haynes

If only, if only, if only, Pope Leo had reestablished Ecclesia Dei as it was before Summorum Pontificum, it would have solved all the problems of this year’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage.

If that pilgrimage had been coordinated by Ecclesia Dei and renamed the Ecclesia Dei Pilgrimage, the scandal of the “visuals” of the Vatican slamming the door in the face of Traditionalists would not have happened!

The Curial bishop or cardinal, the prefect for the reestablished Ecclesia Dei would have coordinated all events, made sure that there wasn’t any instrumentalization by those in the Traditionalist movement and the Prefect would have selected the celebrant for the Mass at St. Peter’s and all other events in the basilica. 

For the love of God and all that is holy, reestablish and reconstitute Ecclesia Dei!

Here’s an AI description of the Ecclesia Dei established by St. John Paul II:

Primary Actions

Pontifical Commission: Established the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" to help reintegrate traditionalist priests, seminarians, and religious communities wishing to remain in unity with Rome while keeping their traditional spiritual and liturgical forms. [1, 2]
Liturgical Provision: Urged a "wide and generous application" of the pre-conciliar Roman liturgy (the 1962 Roman Missal) for Catholics attached to the traditional Latin Mass. [1, 2]
Later Dissolution: Pope Francis dissolved the commission on January 17, 2019, transferring its duties directly to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. [1, 2]

SHOULD THE CHURCH STOP BLESSING AND PRAYING FOR SINNERS OR IF DONE HELD IN THE CONFESSIONAL UNDER ITS SEAL?

Did President Trump used this photo op to instrumentalize those poor Catholic bishops who may or may not have wanted to be the President's political pawns? You betcha!

Did the LGBTQ+++ ideologues instrumentalize that poor priest when this photo of him praying over and blessing a same sex sexual partners was immediately sent out to the world, by the priest, btw? You betcha! 

Did the couple apologize that this photo was instrumentalized for LGBTQ+++ideologies promoted in the Church and world today? Not to my knowledge nor did the priest apologize to my knowledge. 

The first photo photo op is probably one of those events where nothing more should have been said. But two bishops who are there and praying over and blessing President Trump have apologized for doing so. Yes, you read that correctly. They accepted an invitation to the Oval Office and to meet the president. Most people would jump at the chance for that kind of experience and they did.

Of course, evangelical minister Paula White initiated the prayer and being Post Vatican II Catholics embracing unbridled ecumenism, the Catholic bishops were happy to display their ecumenical mindset and joined in very quickly. Could you imagine if they hadn’t? The ecumenists would have crucified them!

Anyone who knows President Trump knows that he, a politician like all politicians, but unique in his own way, would instrumentalize for political purposes anyone praying over him, especially Catholic bishops. 

Why did they go if they didn’t want to be instrumentalized.

After the fact, maybe less said is more and only two apologizing while the others did not put on sackcloth and ashes really draws even more attention to what bishops should be doing, praying for and over people and offering blessings. 

The attention given to this really plays into President Trump’s favor, no? 

YIKES! WILL THERE BE ENOUGH ROOM IN THE INN? THE BEATIFICATION OF THE GEORGIA MARTYRS ON ALL HALLOW’S EVE!

The Beatification of the Georgia Martyrs will take place on Saturday, October 31 at the Savannah Convention Center. Frank Cardinal Leo, Archbishop of Toronto, will be the Celebrant.

I will be one of many con-celebrants. Knowing that parking will be difficult on Hutchinson Island, across the Savannah River from downtown Savannah, I booked a room at the Westin Hotel next door to the Convention center.

But this is an email that we just received overnight!:

IMPORTANT BEATIFICATION UPDATE!

Dear Monsignors and Fathers,

 

Bishop Parkes has asked me to share with you that the registrations for the beatification of the Georgia Martyrs has been exceptional – in fact, registrations have exceeded the capacity of the Savannah Convention Center!

While this is wonderful news, we ask that you please share the following with your parishioners at the Masses this weekend:

 

The Diocese of Savannah has been blessed with an overwhelming number of registrations for the Beatification of the Georgia Martyrs, and the Savannah Convention Center will be at capacity during the event. 

For those of you who registered, please note that the event is expected to be standing room only. If you did not register, please do not plan to attend as you will likely be turned away. We encourage you to instead watch the livestream on EWTN or at diosav.org.

You can read about the Georgia Martyrs HERE. 

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Traditionalists at St Peter’s: The Latin Mass, the Lies and the War on the Pope

The Mass had been refused for organisational reasons, but some chose to portray the decision as persecution. The role played by Pentin, Montagna and Giansoldati, and the contradictions of those who claim to defend the faith while attacking the Church’s hierarchy.

TRADITIONALISM AND ORTHODOXY—THE TWO DON’T NECESSARILY GO TOGETHER

Eric Sammons writes this (copied from a longer commentary HERE):

 How has (traditional Catholicism) changed for the better? In many ways, traditional Catholicism has become more accepted, more normalized. Whereas for a long time traditionalism was a fringe movement within the Church, now traditionalists are part of the wider Church in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. Young Catholics in particular don’t look askance at traditionalism, and in fact they often embrace it in disproportionate numbers.

But how has traditional Catholicism changed for the worse? It’s become more internally divided. Perhaps that was inevitable. Success bred complacency, and Francis’s death removed the common focal point. There’s no question in my mind that there’s far more infighting among traditionalists today than five years ago. Under Francis, there was a unifying force among traditionalists: resisting the anti-traditional agenda of the Argentine pope. Now, however, with Pope Leo, there are real disagreements among traditional voices as to how to best proceed

My comments:

I see myself as an orthodox Catholic and priest. That means that I am obedient to the Church and her popes and bishops even if I dislike this, that or the other in terms of discipline and change. 

While I loved the option of having two forms of the one Roman Rite freely allowed, it isn’t anymore. I dislike that but as an orthodox priest, I am obedient to the new rules. 

I see that both forms could have benefited from cross-fertilization leading to a new single Roman Missal. But for the time being that isn’t on the table anymore. 

I embraced Summorum Pontificum in a literal way, meaning the Bugnini Mass is the normal, regular, ordinary Mass of the Roman Rite while the 1962 Missal and ancillary liturgies are not the usual, ordinary or regular liturgies of the Roman Rite—these are out of the ordinary, the exception not the rule.

I am not opposed to girls and women allowed to serve the altar, distribute Holy Communion and read the Scriptures. And I accept and wish that the formal ministries of lector and acolyte for adults become the norm and those who serve these without benefit of these official ministries would be suppressed.

I would love to see the Order of the 1962 Mass be an option for the Bugnini Mass to include ad orientem and kneeling for Holy Communion—those two things should not be viewed with suspicion by clergy or laity, to include popes and bishops. 

I would love to see the changing parts of the 1962 Mass celebrated in the vernacular as an option and the Liturgy of the Word, using the 1962 lectionary, offered as in the Bugnini Mass and with lay lectors, male or female—the same for altar servers. 

All of this makes me orthodox not heterodox and that is the distinction that everyone should embrace be they on the right or the left, traditionalists or revisionists. Always orthodoxy seeking unity and never heterodoxy pouring gasoline on disunity. 

IS POPE LEO DOING AWAY WITH THE IDEOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF INCLUSIVITY AND ALL ARE WELCOME AND GATHER US IN?

TRADITIONALISTS ACTING STUPID…

 Well, when you challenge the Supreme Pontiff and the Second Vatican Council, what do you expect? If only traditionalists were like Pope Benedidict XVI. He never stopped celebrating the Bugnini Mass although he would have preferred a reform in continuity. If he had been pope for 10 more years, maybe that would have happened. Only God knows.

But Bishop Schnieder and others of his ilk have managed to set back the reform in continuity by be so stupid and so Protestant, neo-protetstantism that is. 

Pope Benedict XVI pray for 

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