HAS THE “WHERE PETER IS” BLOG, AKA, “WHERE POPE FRANCIS WAS” APOLOGIZED TO THE NEW PREFECT FOR THE DICASTERY OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR BEING SO NEGATIVE AND CONTRARY TOWARDS EWTN? LET US PRAY THEY WILL REPENT!

 The Pope also took the opportunity to formally introduce the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, the former EWTN chief executive, Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado, someone “that many of you already know.” She had “joined the Vatican team of the Holy See” on November 1 to take on “this challenging role as Prefect of Communications,” succeeding Paolo Ruffini, “who has completed his term of service.” He praised her “wonderful experience,” “creativity,” “life and liveliness,” saying she would accompany them on the visit and help the Vatican and the Pope “in the very important dimension of communication.”

The Pope formally introduced the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Maria Montserrat Alvarado   (Vatican Media)

But the Pope Francis era “Where Peter Is” was quite negative about EWTN. I’m glad we have a “Where Peter Is” in Pope Leo that appreciates EWTN and its chief executive officer no the Prefect for the Dicastery of Communication.

An AI summary of Where Peter Is, Aka, Where Pope Francis Was attitude toward Pope Leo’s pick:

The blog Where Peter Is has frequently criticized the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), describing it as a voice of opposition to Pope Francis and accusing it of undermining papal authority. [1, 2]

Key criticisms and themes published on the site regarding EWTN include:

Opposition to the Pope: Contributors have characterized EWTN as "the voice of opposition to the pope," arguing that the network and programs like The World Over (hosted by Raymond Arroyo) regularly align with right-wing political causes and Republican party positions over teachings or guidance from the Church and Pope Francis. [1]
Ignoring or "Screening Out" Papal Teachings: The blog has accused EWTN of "screening out the papacy" when papal statements or initiatives challenge the network's preferred political or ideological narratives—such as ignoring or giving minimal coverage to major papal documents and books like Let Us Dream. [1]
Fostering Division and "Post-Truth" Media: Articles on the site have accused EWTN of engaging in "media pathologies," twisting facts to suit ideological prejudices, enabling anti-Francis campaigns (such as Archbishop Viganò's 2018 allegations), and poisoning dialogue and communication within the Catholic Church. [1]
Stewardship of Catholic Media: While commenting on broader Catholic media responsibilities, the blog maintains its stance of defending the integrity of Church tradition and critiquing what its writers view as disloyalty or defamation from platforms operating under the Catholic umbrella. [1]

You can read more directly on the Where Peter Is EWTN Archive. [1]

THE POPE LEO PONTIFICATE AND CONTINUING TO READ THE TEA LEAFS AND LISTENING TO VATICAN GOSSIP

 I noticed Pope Leo’s replacement of Sister Natalie Becquart and wondered what it meant, but I felt it was significant. Until now it was under reported or went unnoticed. 

But it tells us something about Pope Leo’s understanding of synodality which differs from Cardinal Grech and His Eminence’s right hand woman, Sister Natalie. She’s gone now and unceremoniously.

I used to complain about anything and any document coming the the Synodal way. Usually no mention of God, Father, Son or Holy Spirit was made; nothing about salvation, sin and redemption; nothing about the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Communion of Saints and Angels—nothing!

And what Sister Natalie wrote was often a word salad that would make Kamala Harris proud. 

Serre Verweij writes this about Sister Natalie:

Pope Leo unexpectedly ended Sister Nathalie Becquart’s tenure undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops and appointed both a replacement for her and for Marín de San Martín, who had been given a different position on 12 March with his position vacant since. Jesuit Father Giacomo Costa and Salesian Sister Elena Massimi were appointed as the new undersecretaries. This preserves the current status quo of one female religious and one male religious priest as undersecretaries. 

Nathalie Becquart was an openly activist progressive and an important ally of Cardinal Grech. Her removal is the first real strike taken at the core liberal block. At the same time Father Costa is about as liberal as Becquart. He has been involved in several synods since 2017 as a Special Secretary, steering so called experts and topics dealt with and was officially made Consultor in 2019. Through these roles he inserted a powerful behind the scenes influence promoting LGBT talking points amongst other things. His new role ironically forces him more into the open and requires accountability, and decreases his influence on the experts and content of synodal assemblies themselves. Whether this is a case of being kicked upstairs remains to be seen.


Sister Massimi appears to be a generic centrist outsider concerned with church music. She has rejected relativism in music and quoted Cardinal Ratzinger, yet paid very basic lip service to Traditionis Custodes when meeting with Francis. She has praised lay ministries involving women as well as synodality, but spoke of healthy progress within tradition.

Overall these appointments fit a pattern of Pope Leo only removing very select liberal figures from the Vatican institutions they dominate, internally promoting some others but refusing to bring fresh progressives into Rome. Yet, the new figures he does appoint to these institutions for now appear to be harmless centrists. 

Serre Verweij has a long, but very interesting gossip piece which I copy from Rorate Caeli. Press the title for the full commentary—very interesting:

The Latin Mass and the Struggle for Power in the Vatican

by Serre Verweij

When Pope Leo was elected, many traditionalists were initially cautious or did not know what to expect. Then, in his first real interview (with Crux), Pope Leo declined to stand behind Traditionis Custodes; next, his nuncio in the United Kingdom told bishops that they could request exemptions from Traditionis Custodes and that these would be granted automatically, while the persecution of traditionalist religious communities and of bishops who refused to enforce Custodes fizzled out.

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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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Money byte from commentary:

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.

Copied from Rorate Caeli, press title or read more for full great, common sense article, common sense so lacking in certain places in the Vatican and in chanceries:

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]