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Friday, August 22, 2025

IT’S OKAY TO BE IN DISCONTINUITY WITH ALMOST 2000 YEARS OF CHURCH TEACHING AND PRACTICE BUT NOT IN DISCONTINUITY WITH POPE FRANCIS


What kind of Jesuiticial skullduggery is this? Jesuitical Father Spadaro writes a book claiming that Pope Leo is in complete continuity with Pope Francis and is basically Pope Francis II.

The good Jesuit says it is an interview with Pope Leo, as though he conducted the interview.

This is a big scandal in Italy, because the interview is what Cardinal Robert Prevost gave in a question and answer session in Joliet, Illinois well before he was elected Pope.

In fact, I posted the YouTube video of that question and answer session at a parish church there within hours of Pope Leo’s election!!!!!

It was this video that assured me that Pope Leo would be a “refining” pope and in continuity will all of his predecessors including Francis, but a refined Francis. And we have certainly seen that in recent days with Pope Leo calling out Pachamma (nature worship) and Jesuitical situational ethics, by encouraging moral theologians to follow the pre-Vatican II moral teaching and methods of St. Alphonsus Liguori. Maybe Pope Leo is reacting to this new book length fake interview with Pope Leo??????

Read about the Jesuitical Skullduggery THE DAILY COMPASS HERE:

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Father Spadaro's fake interview with Leo XIV

An “interview” with the pope which is neither the author penned nor is an original text, is nonetheless ostentatiously reproduced in the latest book by the prolific Jesuit, published by an Italian editor. The book claims to show continuity between Francis and Leo. And the Italian daily La Stampa falls for the ploy. The only continuity that exists is with the publication mess reminiscent of Monsignor Dario Viganò's attempt to misuse a letter by Pope Benedict.

POPE LEO XIV MEETS WITH RAYMOND LEO CARDINAL BURKE TODAY ON THE FEAST OF THE QUEENSHIP OF MARY

 Let’s speculate on what the conversation is that Pope Leo is having with Cardinal R. Leo Burke? Do you think TC and SP came up? How couldn’t those not come up?????


Thursday, August 21, 2025

PLEASE PRAY THAT POPE LEO HAS A TRUSTWORTHY BUTLER AS HE MOVES INTO THE APOSTOLIC PALACE TO LIVE AND WORK!

The above video highlights a sad chapter in Pope Benedict’s papacy, but the video shows a bit of the Apostolic Palace that Pope Leo will use as His Holiness’ residence to include a few people of His Holiness papal court who will live with him in community:

Thank God that Pope Leo understands the sacramentality of the monarchial court. The sacramental image of kings, queens, princes, princesses and palaces and their trappings is embedded in Jesus Christ’s very words. The Gospel for Thursday of the 20th Week of Time is a prime example.

Only Catholic puritans would askew the imagery of earthily kingdoms as a metaphor for the Kingdom of God on earth and most especially in heaven. The trappings of kingly things is indeed a sacramental sign that Pope Leo is recovering after the stripping of it for the past 12 years.

Soon Pope Leo will move into the Apostolic Palace papal apartment and take with him his papal court.

Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II and all other popes, except for our most humble pope of all centuries, Pope Francis, all had their kingly court.

Lifesite news reports this about Pope Leo’s court:

Pope Leo is to be accompanied by a small community, somewhat mirroring the style of Pope John Paul II. Alongside his private secretary Father Edgard Rimaycuna Inga – whose presence is not out of the norm – the Pope will be joined by a small group of Augustinians.
The religious – believed to be three in number and from Nigeria, Italy, and the Philippines – will join the daily household life of the Pope, taking meals with him and being present at his private Masses.


POPE LEO RECOMMENDS THE MORAL TEACHINGS/THEOLOGY OF THE GREAT PRE-VATICAN II MORALIST AND SAINT

 Back in the day, right after Vatican II, we were told that we should no longer pray St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Way of the Cross. Why, because it was to “me and Jesus” not communal enough and emphasized too much our own culpability for our sins and our need to take responsibility for them and to repent of them. 

Thank you Pope Leo for rehabilitating St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Way of the Cross:

My Lord Jesus Christ, Thou hast made this journey to die for me with love
unutterable, and I have so many times unworthily abandoned Thee; but
now I love Thee with my whole heart, and because I love Thee, I repent
sincerely for ever having offended Thee. Pardon me, my God, and permit
me to accompany Thee on this journey. Thou goest to die for love of me; I
wish also, my beloved Redeemer, to die for love of Thee. My Jesus, I will
live and die always united to Thee.



It is significant for a new way of promoting the theology of continuity of Vatican II with the Church prior to this pastoral ecumenical council that Pope Leo asks moral theologians to refer to St. Alphonsus Ligurian as their guide.

He navigated a path away from a rigid, Jansenistic approach to morality, not a problem today but in his day it was and what is the actual problem today, moral laxness. Just think of Tom Fox at the NCR and what he wants and Fr. James Martin and his post-Catholic morality, winks and nods. 

Pope Leo is a genius:

This is an AI breakdown:

moral teachings st alphonsus liguori

The moral teachings of St. Alphonsus Liguori
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) is known as the founder of the Redemptorists and a Doctor of the Church, particularly renowned for his contributions to moral theology. His teachings are characterized by a balanced approach that emphasized both love and freedom as central to the Christian life, in contrast to the rigid legalism and laxism prevalent in his time. He offered a vision of holiness that was accessible to all, not just those in religious life. 
Here's a breakdown of his key moral teachings:
1. Primacy of love and freedom
  • St. Alphonsus believed that love, not fear, should be the primary motivator for Christians.
  • He emphasized that God's plan is rooted in love and freedom, not primarily in law and punishment.
  • His moral theology encouraged individuals to respond to God's love and freedom with a creative and faithful love for God and neighbor. 
2. Importance of conscience
  • St. Alphonsus championed the primacy of conscience against legalistic moralism.
  • He stressed the importance of forming a mature and upright conscience by seeking to understand what promotes or hinders genuine love.
  • He maintained that in cases of doubt regarding the existence or application of a law, freedom should be favored, provided that such an action aligns with the individual's commitment to loving God and neighbor. 
3. Equiprobabilism
  • St. Alphonsus is known for his system of moral reasoning called Equiprobabilism.
  • This approach is designed to guide the conscience in cases where there is doubt about whether one is obligated by a particular law.
  • Equiprobabilism states that if there are equally probable opinions for and against the existence of a law, it is permissible to act on the less safe opinion, thereby upholding personal liberty. 
4. Holiness in everyday life
  • St. Alphonsus promoted the idea that all individuals, regardless of their state in life (married, single, business people, religious), are called to holiness.
  • He encouraged integrating love of God and neighbor into daily life as a means to achieve holiness.
  • He demonstrated this through his work as a missionary among the poor and neglected, showing that holiness could be found in practical service and compassion. 
5. Practicality and compassion
  • St. Alphonsus's moral teachings were characterized by practicality and compassion, recognizing the struggles of ordinary people striving for a moral life.
  • He sought to remove unnecessary obstacles on the path to holiness and to offer positive encouragement.
  • He emphasized the significance of prayer and devotion to Mary as means to grow in the love of Christ. 
6. Specific teachings
  • Usury: St. Alphonsus challenged the traditional condemnation of all lending with interest, arguing that moderate interest was permissible under certain circumstances, based on the practice of good Christians in his time and the universal call to holiness.
  • Marital Chastity: St. Alphonsus argued against the rigorous view that marital relations were only permissible for procreation. He asserted that the conjugal act, expressing love and faithfulness, is inherently good and doesn't require a direct intention for procreation to be justified, according to a Redemptorists.uk article.
  • Justice and Honesty for Lawyers: He wrote a "Decalogue of the Lawyer", which emphasized the importance of accepting only just cases, avoiding excessive fees, and upholding justice and honesty in legal practice. 
In conclusion, St. Alphonsus Liguori's moral teachings offered a merciful, compassionate, and practical approach to Christian morality, emphasizing the centrality of love and freedom, the importance of conscience, and the universal call to holiness for all people. 

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

BOMBSHELL! FIRST POPE LEO XIV BURIED PACCHAMAMA WITH A REQUIEM EULOGY! DID HE JUST GIVE A REQUIEM EULOGY FOR JESUITICAL SITUATION MORALITY? YES, I THINK SO..,


Under Pope Francis, the rad leftists in the Church prayed that Pope Francis’ version of synodality would lead to the so-called “new morality” of the post Vatican II era. Of course it was the old immorality of the Church for 2,000 years prior to this new and improved morality.

Tom Fox did a marvelous job in that NcR article I posted yesterday, even with creeping senility, to highlight that new morality of the 1960’s he hoped Francis would confirm through synodality. 

Poor Tom Fox! This will really make him crazy like a fox 🦊! 

VATICAN NEWS:

Pope urges moral theologians to take St Alphonsus as their model

Pope Leo XIV urges moral theologians to follow the example of St. Alphonsus Liguori and other saints as they reflect on the “challenges, changes, and conflicts” of the modern world in the light of divine revelation.

By Christopher Wells

In a message to the 17th International Congress of Moral Theology, Pope Leo XIV encourages participants to approach modern moral issues “following the wise and always timely example of the Saints, such as Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.”

Known as the Doctor of Moral Theology, Saint Alphonsus “was able to find a balanced synthesis of the laws of God and the dynamics of man’s conscience and freedom, at the same time assuming a charitable, understanding, and patient attitude towards his brethren, thus becoming a visible sign of God’s infinite mercy,” the Pope said.

The message to the Congress was conveyed in a telegram signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.

The Holy Father expressed his hopes that the event “might provide a favourable opportunity to reflect on the challenges, changes, and current conflicts in the light of divine revelation, which finds its fulness in Jesus Christ.”

The Pope’s message concluded with the invocation of “the maternal protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Seat of Wisdom,” along with the Pope’s Apostolic Blessing for participants and their loved ones.

BOMBSHELL! POPE LEO XIV ORDAINS AS A PRIEST A LITTLE BOY!


Well, there is the laying on of hands and the boy is vested in a chasuble, what other evidence do you demand?

After his Wednesday teaching, Pope Leo is asking all of us to pray and fast for peace this coming Friday, which is the Memorial of the Queenship of Our Lady. He’s asking for peace not only in Ukraine, being brokered by President Trump,  but also in other war zones, like Gaza. 

Pope Leo also gave a great elocution at His Holiness’ Wednesday audience. All of his talks as I hear or read them are like a mini-retreat:

GENERAL AUDIENCE

Audience Hall
Wednesday, 20 August 2025

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Cycle of Catechesis – Jubilee 2025. Jesus Christ our Hope. III. The Passover of Jesus. 3. Forgiveness. «He loved them to the end» (Jn 13:2)
 

Dear brothers and sisters,

Today we will look at one of the most striking and luminous gestures in the Gospel: the moment when Jesus, during the last supper, offers a morsel to the one who is about to betray him. It is not only a gesture of sharing: it is much more; it is love’s last attempt not to give up.

Saint John, with his profound spiritual sensibility, tells us about this moment as follows: [During supper, when] “the devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over… Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass …  he loved them to the end” (Jn 13:1-2). To love until the end: here is the key to understanding Christ’s heart. A love that does not cease in the face of rejection, disappointment, even ingratitude.

Jesus knows the time, but he does not submit to it: he chooses it. It is he who recognizes the moment in which his love must pass through the most painful wound, that of betrayal. And instead of withdrawing, accusing, defending himself… he continues to love: he washes the feet, dips the bread and offers it.

It is the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it” (Jn 13:26). With this simple and humble gesture, Jesus carries his love forward and to its depths, not because he is ignoring what is happening, but precisely because he sees it clearly. He has understood that the freedom of the other, even when it is lost in evil, can still be reached by the light of a meek gesture, because he knows that true forgiveness does not await repentance, but offers itself first, as a free gift, even before it is accepted.

Judas, unfortunately, does not understand. After the morsel – says the Gospel – “Satan entered him” (v. 27). This passage strikes us: as if evil, hidden until then, manifested itself after love showed its most defenceless face. And precisely for this reason, brothers and sisters, that morsel is our salvation: because it tells us that God does everything – absolutely everything – to reach us, even in the hour when we reject him.

It is here that forgiveness reveals all its power and manifests the true face of hope. It is not forgetfulness; it is not weakness. It is the ability to set the other free, while loving him to the end. Jesus’ love does not deny the truth of pain, but it does not allow evil to have the last word. This is the mystery Jesus accomplishes for us, in which we too, at times, are called to participate.

How many relationships are broken, how many stories become complicated, how many unspoken words remain suspended. And yet the Gospel shows us that there is always a way to continue to love, even when everything seems irredeemably compromised. To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to prevent it from generating further evil. It is not to say that nothing has happened, but to do everything possible to ensure that resentment does not determine the future.

When Judas leaves the room, “it was night” (v. 30). But immediately afterwards, Jesus says, “Now is the Son of Man glorified” (v. 31). The night is still there, but a light has already begun to shine. And it shines because Christ remains faithful to the end, and so his love is stronger than hatred.

Dear brothers and sisters, we too experience painful and difficult nights. Nights of the soul, nights of disappointment, nights in which someone has hurt or betrayed us. In those moments, the temptation is to close ourselves up, to protect ourselves, to return the blow. But the Lord shows us the hope that that another way exists, always exists. He teaches us that one can offer a morsel even to someone who turns their back on us. That one can respond with the silence of trust. And that we can move forward with dignity, without renouncing love.

Let us ask today for the grace to be able to forgive, even when we do not feel understood, even when we feel abandoned. Because it is precisely in those hours that love can reach its pinnacle. As Jesus teaches us, to love means to leave the other free — even to betray — without ever ceasing to believe that even that freedom, wounded and lost, can be snatched from the deception of darkness and returned to the light of goodness.

When the light of forgiveness succeeds in filtering through the deepest crevices of the heart, we understand that it is never futile. Even if the other does not accept it, even if it seems to be in vain, forgiveness frees those who give it: it dispels resentment, it restores peace, it returns us to ourselves.

Jesus, with the simple gesture of offering bread, shows that every betrayal can become an opportunity for salvation, if it is chosen as a space for a greater love. It does not give in to evil, but conquers it with good, preventing it from extinguishing what is truest in us: the capacity to love.

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APPEAL

Next Friday, 22 August, we will celebrate the memorial of Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary is the Mother of believers here on earth, and is also invoked as Queen of Peace, while our earth continues to be wounded by wars in the Holy Land, in Ukraine, and in many other regions of the world.

I invite all the faithful to devote the day of 22 August to fasting and prayer, imploring the Lord to grant us peace and justice, and to dry the tears of those who suffer as a result of the ongoing armed conflicts. Mary, Queen of Peace, intercede so that peoples may find the path to peace.

SILERE NON POSSUM HELPS ME TO KNOW WHY POPE FRANCIS’ AGITATION IS SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN POPE LEO’S RESTLESSNESS AND EVERY POPE IN MY LIFETIME



 Silere non Possum gave me a true insight into my discomfort with Pope Francis and from the first moment, and I mean the first moment, of His Holiness’ papacy. Their article gave me insight into my own psychology concerning Pope Francis although their article gives an insight into the animating force within Pope Francis (a negative one) and the one in Pope Leo (a positive Augustinian one). 

At it concerns me, it was agitation that can describe my feelings toward Pope Francis. He did not bring me or many of the Faithful I have counseled the type of “restlessness” that is of the Augustinian type, meaning we are restless until we rest in the Lord. Pope Leo points me to the Lord and resting in him. Pope Francis, on the other hand, seem to always lead me to the agitation that he promoted and being agitated in his agitations. 

When I hear, read and see Pope Leo, I have the comfort of resting in the Lord. I am not agitated. Pope Francis agitated me and quite a few of the faithful and that was not a grace. 

This is an “edited” version of Silere non Possum’s article

The word “restlessness” carries a precise theological and spiritual weight. St. Augustine, in the Confessions, writes: “Inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in Te.” Restlessness, then, is that inner movement born of the awareness of human limitation and of the insatiable desire for God. It is a wound that burns, but does not destroy: a longing for the Other, a nostalgia for a rest that cannot be found in earthly things.

Those who observe Leo XIV, in his sober gestures and his unshouted words, perceive precisely this kind of restlessness. He is a man who does not settle, who constantly seeks to bring the Church back to the heart of the Gospel, with the awareness of never fully possessing the answer. His is not agitation, but thirst. It is a restlessness that generates silence, listening, searching, vigilance.

Different, however, is what Francis demonstrated in twelve years of pontificate. What animated him was not the same Augustinian restlessness, but rather a form of agitation (unquietness). The difference is substantial. Agitation is the constant movement that prevents one from stopping, the difficulty of finding stability, the need to constantly produce novelties so as not to fall into immobility. It is a nervous rather than spiritual motion: an activity that risks confusing evangelical dynamism with mere human activism.

If restlessness is rooted in the depth of the soulagitation often remains on the surface. The first leads to prayer, contemplation, trusting expectation; the second rather to agitation, the search for approval, and a continuous acceleration that leaves no room for silence.

(The) comparison between Leo XIV and Francis, from this perspective, (gives us many insights). The former lives that healthy restlessness which springs from the awareness of one’s own smallness before God, and which paradoxically becomes spiritual strength. The latter, instead, often showed an agitation which, though pastorally motivated, turned into a constant frenzy of gestures and words.

Perhaps it is precisely in this difference that the current perception of the two pontificates is at stake: Leo XIV appears as a man who, even in turmoil, knows how to remain silent before the Mystery; Francis, as a man who, though eager for closeness, could not resist the need to appear, to make himself talked about, and to speak incessantly.

True restlessness, Augustine reminds us, is a gift: it does not leave us at peace, but leads us to God. Agitation, on the other hand, often scatters us.

d.T.A.
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