CARDINAL FERNANDEZ IS GOING TO COMMISSION A STUDY ABOUT WHY THE TRANSMISSION OF THE FAITH HAS FALLEN SO DRAMATICALLY IN THE LAST 60 YEARS, AFTER VATICAN II! DUH!

Edward Pentin has an article on the big plans of Cardinal Fernandez to figure out why the Church is declining in so many places in the world. Press the title for the story and then below the title is my most humble summary of the true problem which doesn’t take a Church genius to figure out:

Cardinal Fernández Shares More Details on Upcoming ‘Transmission of the Faith’ Document

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 I have written on the blog time and again, that the decline in participation in the Church, at least in the USA, must be attributed to the “spirit of Vatican II’ and spirit of rupture, chaos and division and the methodology used to shove this spirit down the throats of Catholics, some who willingly swallowed and enjoyed it and others who choked and threw up in disgust. 

Apart from the 1960’s cultural upheaval that was secular in nature but bled into the Church too, because of the spirit of Vatican II and revolutionaries in the culture bringing that revolution to Vatican II through a rupture hermeneutic, we have seen as a result of that and its trickle down effect to this day, that having nearly 90% of Catholic attend Mass on Sunday in 1965 is now down to about 5% to 20% of Catholics doing so today.

And of that percentage, a high percentage are sporactic  in attending Mass, don’t believe in Transubstantiation, advocate for women priests, same sex or whatever marriages and free love. They want divorced enshrined also. 

What the spirit of Vatican II did to the Church beginning in 1965 with the laity, is a direct result of a mistaken belief that if some things in the Church can change, any and everything else can change!

I would venture to guess that the 90% of Catholics attending Mass prior to the Council believed that everything in the Church was set in concrete and nothing could change in the Church as it concerned her discipline, sacraments, faith and morals. NOTHING!

Very shortly after the Mass began to change, habits disappeared, priests and nuns leaving their vocations to marry each other or whoever, Catholics thought that everything should change. Allow nuns to marry and remain nuns. Let priests marry and stay priests. 

And then in 1968, after the laity thought they could have sex without procreation by being allowed to use the pill, after all, everything else was changing, why not that, Pope Paul VI said no with Humanae Vitae!

And in 1968 you had angry young Catholics of marriage and childbearing age infuriated by that and so were priests and nuns. Many laity left the Church over that which meant so did their families, their children. 

Trace the real decline in Catholicism and the transmission of the true faith to 1968 and accelerating after than for more than three generations now.

This, in our own day, has led to a flimsy Catholicism, that no religion or any religion is okay.

This has led to a contempt for Church law and its requirements.

This has led to once storied Catholic families known for their commitment to the Church no longer committed to the Church. Children brought up in the post-Vatican II Church of this generation, no longer practice, aren’t getting married in the Church and aren’t having their children baptized. And they aren’t giving their parents Catholic funerals!  And many of these Catholics, were brought up in post-Vatican II practicing Catholic families, who went to Catholic schools and Catholic universities are the ones totally disengaged from the institutional Church altogether!

And the sex abuse scandal, truly on steroids in the early aftermath of Vatican II and precisely around 1974 less than 10 years after Vatican II, has caused infinite damage to the psyche of lay Catholics and their love of the Church. 

And now there is the Synod that is so compromised from an academic and intellectual perspective making all things equal for the sake of making everyone and every sin welcomed into the Church, one wonders if those in the institutional Church and the synod and in the highest places of the Church don’t have a death wish for the Roman Catholic Church!

I don’t condone the intransigence of the FSSPX as it concerns certain aspects of Vatican II. And if they ordain bishops without papal approval, the pope, according to current canon law, should excommunicate them. But, what they are like today is basically what the Church and parishes were like prior to the Council. Most Ordinary Form parishes are far, far, far, from the unity of Catholic Faith that we once had and the unity in the way we worshipped and Catholic spirituality and faith and morals. For the most part, and apart from the macro issues the pope has with the FSSPX, their parishes are what our parishes were like on the eve of Vatican II—strong, committed and secure in their Catholic modesty, identity and unity—-that is gone for the most part in most parishes as nearly 95% of Catholics in a geographical area don’t even bother to attend Mass, get married in the Church or have their children baptized. They are cooked in secular politics and the ways of the world, flesh and devil. 

As it concerns our parishes, I have had to put bulletin announcements reminding Catholics that Daisy Duke shorts, tank tops and bare midriffs are not allowed at Mass. Nor are t-shirts with any slogans, especially obscene slogans or political propaganda. Do you think FSSPX parishes have to put that into their bulletins????

Need I write more?

OKAY, CHURCH, HERE WE GO! POPE LEO XIV BEGINS HIS WEDNESDAY CATECHESIS ON THE PROPER INTERPRETATION OF SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM!

My most humble astute comments first: 

One of the misinterpretations of SC is the modality of the “real presence” of Christ in the Mass, makes all four “means” of the “real presence” equal, a false egalitarianism. 

Pope Leo clears that up immediately. Yes, during Mass, Christ is present as High Priest in the Mass when the Word is proclaimed (not in the Book by the way), in the gathered community, in the ministers who celebrate (i.e. priest) and IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE IN THE EUCHARIST. 

As I have noted before, in the 1970’s the false teaching that the Word and Sacrament are equal in status, sanctuaries were re-ordered to have the Ambo and Altar (table) equally placed, meaning neither in the center (except the priest’s chair, of course). 

Today, I have seen a non-rubrical addition to the proclamation of the Gospel, when the deacon takes the Book from the altar to go to the Ambo, he stands and shows the book to everyone in an arch of movement from center to side and side. What the heck?

And then once the Gospel is proclaimed and the page of the Gospel is kissed, the Book of the gospel is processed to its enthronement, usually on an older altar. What the heck?

I can remember lectors raising the lectionary at the end of their reading and saying in a bold voice and gesturing with the lectionary to the congregation, “THIS is the WORD OF THE LORD!” 

That along with the additional things deacons do with the Book of the Gospels are actions of creativity and non-rubrical and should be purified from the Mass. It is the proclamation of the Word, by a lector or the Gospel that Christ is present. The Book of the Gospel is not the same as the Consecrated Host!

Pope Leo’s Catechesis. The Documents of the Second Vatican Council. III. Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium. 1. The liturgy in the mystery of the Church:

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome!

Today we are beginning a new series of catecheses on the first Document issued by the Second Vatican Council: the Constitution on the sacred liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium (SC).

In drafting this Constitution, the Council Fathers sought not only to undertake a reform of the rites, but to lead the Church to contemplate and deepen that living bond which constitutes and unites her: the mystery of Christ. Indeed, the liturgy touches the very heart of this mystery: it is at once the space, the time and the context in which the Church receives her very life from Christ. For in the liturgy, “the work of our redemption is accomplished” (SC, 2), which makes us a chosen lineage, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people whom God has acquired for Himself (cf. 1 Pet 2:9).

As manifested by the threefold renewal – biblical, patristic and liturgical – that the Church underwent through the course of the twentieth century, the Mystery in question does not designate an obscure reality, but God’s salvific plan, hidden from all eternity and revealed in Christ, according to Saint Paul’s affirmation (cf. Eph 3:2-6). Here, then, is the Christian Mystery: the Paschal event, that is to say, the passion, death, resurrection and glorification of Christ, which is made sacramentally present to us precisely in the liturgy, so that every time we take part in the assembly gathered “in his name” (cf. Mt 18:20) we are immersed in this Mystery.

Christ Himself is the inner source of the mystery of the Church, the holy people of God, born from His side pierced on the cross. In the holy liturgy, through the power of His Spirit, He continues to act. He sanctifies and unites the Church, His bride, to His offering to the Father. He exercises His utterly unique priesthood, He who is present in the proclaimed Word, in the sacraments, in the ministers who celebrate, in the gathered community and, in the highest degree, in the Eucharist (cf. SC, 7). Thus, according to Saint Augustine (cf. Sermon, 277), in celebrating the Eucharist the Church “receives the Body of the Lord and becomes what she receives”: she becomes the Body of Christ, “a dwelling place of God in the Spirit” (Eph 2:22). This is the “work of our redemption”, which conforms us to Christ and builds us up in communion.

In the holy liturgy, this communion is achieved through “rites and prayers” (SC, 48). The rituality of the Church expresses her faith – in accordance with the familiar saying lex orandi, lex credendi– and at the same time shapes ecclesial identity: the proclaimed Word, the celebration of the Sacrament, the gestures, the silences, the space – all this represents and gives form to the people gathered by the Father, the Body of Christ, the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Every celebration thus becomes a true epiphany of the Church in prayer, as Saint John Paul II recalled (Apostolic Letter Vicesimus quintus annus, 9).

If the liturgy is at the service of the mystery of Christ, one understands why it has been defined as “the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed … the font from which all her power flows” (SC, 10). It is true that the action of the Church is not limited to the liturgy alone; however, all her activity (preaching, service to the poor, the accompaniment of human realities) converges towards this “summit”). Conversely, the liturgy sustains the faithful by immersing them ever and anew in the Pasch of the Lord and, thus, through the proclamation of the Word, the celebration of the sacraments and communal prayer, they are refreshed, encouraged and renewed in their commitment to faith and in their mission. In other words, the participation of the faithful in the liturgical action is at once “internal” and “external”.

This also means that it is called to unfold in a tangible way throughout daily life, in an ethical and spiritual dynamic, so that the liturgy celebrated is translated into life and demands a faithful existence, capable of making concrete what has been experienced in the celebration: it is in this way that our life becomes a “living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God”, fulfilling our “spiritual worship” (Rom 12:1).

In this way, “the liturgy daily builds up those who are within into a holy temple of the Lord” (SC, 2), and forms an open community, welcoming to all. Indeed, it is inhabited by the Holy Spirit, it introduces us into the life of Christ, it makes us His Body and, in all its dimensions, it represents a sign of the unity of the entire human race in Christ. As Pope Francis said, “the world still does not know it, but everyone is invited to the supper of the wedding of the Lamb (Rev 19:9)” (Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi, 5).

Dear friends, let us allow ourselves to be shaped inwardly by the rites, symbols, gestures and above all the living presence of Christ in the liturgy, which we will have the opportunity to explore in the coming Catecheses.

INTERESTING, NO?

 This morning, the Holy Father received in audience:
- His Eminence Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

A LOVELY, SOLEMN, REVERENT DAILY MASS FOR TUESDAY, THE 7TH WEEK OF EASTER AT SAINT GREGROY THE GREAT CHURCH IN BLUFFTON, SOUTH CAROLINA WITH YOURS TRULY THE CELEBRANT…

 You can view Saint Gregory the Great’s daily Livestream Mass for Tuesday in the 7th Week of Easter Facebook feed HERE. The Mass, with yours truly as celebrant, begins at minute 35!

THE VATICAN PRESENTS THE NEW VESTURE FOR LECTORS AT MASS—VERY NICE!

 

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POPE BENEDICT’S WAY TO LITURGICAL PEACE IS THE WAY, BUT WE ALL MUST WORK TO MAKE IT HAPPEN

 Sileri non possum pits Andrea Grillo against an Italian blogger, Enzo Bianchi in a commentary that you can read HERE, in English.

It concerns Bianchi’s desire for liturgical peace in the Church as it concerns the two forms of the one Roman Rite as Pope Benedict XVI declared it to be. 

He has some influence with the Vatican and popes. 

I like what he has to say and what Grillo wants is typical of his liturgical ideology and should be heard and then dismissed. 

If one truly understood Summorum Pontificum, liturgical peace, which is exactly what Pope Benedict desired with this document, would have happened if bishops had been on board with it. By this I mean, bishops actively involved in the development of the reintegration of the Vetus Ordo into parish life and priests who chose to celebrate it.

What I didn’t like about how SP was implemented, is that bishops seem to be disengaged with seminarians who were becoming radicalized by the Vetus Ordo “rad trads” and thus not loving the rubrical celebration  of the Novus Ordo. That first Masses in the Vetus Ordo went unchecked is not the fault of SP but of local bishops. The Vetus Ordo should not be imposed on congregations not accustomed to it and not asking for it, even for a first Mass. 

Pope Benedict made clear that the Novus Ordo was the Ordinary, regular Mass of the Church and that the Vetus Ordo was now the exception but allowed, extraordinary in the sense of not being better but the exception and thus must have some rules regarding its celebration in parochial settings and by priests who should have their bishop’s imprimatur to do so. 

This is the question and answer from Bianchi: 

“What would *you* do to heal the rift with the traditionalists?” I replied then what I reply even now: for the sake of liturgical peace—*pax eucharistica*—let the following absolute requirements be established:

–       For those who celebrate the *Vetus Ordo*:

1)    To recognize the validity of the four Eucharistic Prayers of the Missal of Paul VI, as well as the *Ordo Missae* that bears his name.

2)    To concelebrate at the Chrism Mass presided over by the bishop, in order to bear witness to the unity of the Church and of the presbyterate gathered around the bishop.

3)    Not to disparage the liturgies reformed by the Second Vatican Council.

4)    To accept the dogmatic constitutions of the Second Vatican Council (*Sacrosanctum Concilium*, *Dei Verbum*, *De Ecclesia*).

–       For those who celebrate the *Ordo* of the liturgical reform:

Not to disparage the *Vetus Ordo*, and to regard traditionalists as full Catholics—in every respect—while respecting their liturgies and their signs.

–       For everyone, clarity is essential: there can be no possibility of an unregulated, indiscriminate adherence to one *Ordo*…

A FACEBOOK VIDEO OF A PRIEST IN FULL COMMUNION WITH THE POPE—CELEBRATING MASS HIS WAY AND THERE IS NO THREAT OF EXCOMMUNICATION WHATSOEVER!

 YOU CAN WATCH THE FACEBOOK VIDEO HERE.

By the way, I like the altar cloth and the chasuable!

Apart from the extremely immature priest and his liturgical antics, the greatest problem I see in this video or hear, is that the congregation loves what he is doing. They are as immature as he is. The priest looks like how a three year old acts when he is extremely excited!

But if you look at the young people’s faces, the altar servers behind him and the kid on the front row, they know this is a joke and they will be glad to leave the Church when they are old enough to do so. For them Catholicism and the Mass, as celebrated by this priest, is a BIG FAT JOKE!

Yet, this kind of thing goes unchecked and today with social media we know that this kind of thing goes on all over the place, all over the world and yet, nary a word from local bishops to discipline these priests and their congregations. 

But celebrate the Order of Mass that has 1,600 years behind it and WATCH OUT! 

IT TRULY IS AN ORWELLIAN TIME IN THE CHURCH IN WHICH WE LIVE!

THE TREND TOWARD DECORATING CHURCHES TO MAKE THEM INTO SOME ORNATE WHEN ORNATENESS WAS NEVER THE GOAL

 This Church in Germany was designed to look like this—there is nothing incomplete about it, but…

I do have a couple of rants about what I see. First, the two floral arrangements on either side of the altar or tabernacle enhance and do not hide what is behind the arrangements. But, why in the name of God and all that is Holy, would anyone simply stick a floral arrangement in front of the altar. For what purpose is this done. And often today, the altar is completely hidden by flowers and plants placed directly in front of it. I simply do not get it. Don’t hide in any way the altar by floral arrangements or plants placed directly in front of it. It’s down right stupid to do so. 

But back to the title of this post: don’t do to churches that were designed to be austere by making them baroque looking with stenciling, artwork and no empty wall space whatsoever. 

In the case of the church photo I post, maybe an altar railing could be added, but on the level of the nave, not any higher. Don’t let an altar railing hem in the sanctuary or become an obstacle or a fence to it, constricting the sanctuary. And the railing should never hide the altar, ambo and celebrant’s chair by hiding these even partially. 

WHAT DO THE PHOTOS AND AI SUMMARIES SAY ABOUT THE TWO DIFFERENT TYPE MEETINGS POPE LEO HAD WITH FR. JAMES MARTIN, SJ AND WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF COURAGE? I SHOW AND REPORT; YOU LOOK AND DECIDE…

Pope Leo XIV met with Fr. James Martin, SJ, in a private audience at the Vatican on September 1, 2025, signaling a continuation of openness toward LGBTQ+ Catholics. The meeting, held in the Apostolic Palace, saw the Pope encourage Martin’s ministry, with Martin describing the Pope as "joyful, relaxed, and serene".[1, 2, 3, 4]

Key Details of the Meeting

• Purpose: The meeting occurred during Fr. Martin’s visit to Rome for a Jubilee pilgrimage for his LGBTQ+ ministry, Outreach.
• Significance: This meeting is viewed as a signal that Pope Leo intends to maintain the welcoming approach toward LGBTQ+ individuals fostered by his predecessor, Pope Francis.
• Message: According to Fr. Martin on Facebook, the Pope expressed a desire for all people, including LGBTQ+ individuals, to feel welcomed in the Church.
• Context: The meeting lasted approximately 30 minutes and was officially announced by the Vatican. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Fr. Martin stated that he felt encouraged to remain steadfast in his ministry and found the conversation with Pope Leo deeply consoling

Pope Leo XIV met with the leadership of Courage International on February 6, 2026, marking a historic first papal audience for the 45-year-old Catholic apostolate. Held privately at the Vatican, the meeting included prominent representatives who shared the organization's work in providing spiritual support to Catholics experiencing same-sex attraction who seek to live chaste lives. [1, 2]

Key Details of the Meeting

• The Delegation: The Courage International team was led by Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who serves as the chairman of the episcopal board. He was accompanied by Executive Director Father Brian Gannon, Executive Board Head Father Kyle Schnippel, and long-time member Angelo Sabella.
• Core Themes Discussed: The Holy Father and the leadership focused on the healing power of chastity and the concept of true freedom. Pope Leo XIV emphasized that real freedom means mastering one's passions and surrendering to God's will, rather than chasing unbridled worldly desires.
• Message of Support: According to a report from EWTN News, the Pope expressed deep support for the group's mission, encouraging them with the reminder that Christ walks closely with the wounded and "you are not alone

MARIO CARDINAL GRECH IS WALKING BACK HIS EFFUSIVE JOY OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF CATHOLIC SEXUAL MORALITY BY FR. JAMES MARTIN’S LGBTQ+++ BUDDIES WHO WROTE GLOWINGLY OF THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH SEXUAL IMMORALITY

Diane Montagna is a great Catholic investigative reporter. She has a great article on the manipulation of the synodal way for which it was developed, to manipulate and you can read her report HERE.

But this is what she writes about Cardinal Grech’s joyful release of the synodal report on regularizing immoral sex and sexual unions, what many call loving someone:

In a press release issued in five languages on May 5, Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, described the Final Report of Study Group No. 9 as touching on “the very heart of ecclesial life,” adding that it “offers concrete tools for addressing the most difficult questions without fleeing from complexity.”

“It is the synodal method applied to the most demanding situations,” he said.

But it seems that he’s heard of the push back and maybe his superior, the Supreme Pontiff isn’t at all pleased about it as it contradicted His Holiness, not only that the pope doesn’t agree with what the report witnesses to in terms of love and sexual license, but also Pope Leo praised “Courage” with whom he had an audience with their leaders and thanked them for calling their members to conversion. 

Thus, Montagna reports this:

However, the General Secretariat of the Synod is now distancing itself from the same report. 

In comments today to Religión Confidencial, a secretariat spokesperson stressed that “the working groups have, as expected, worked autonomously” and that, therefore, “these reports cannot be attributed to the Synod Secretariat.”

“The Secretariat’s logo does not even appear, only that of the synodal process,” he added.

The spokesperson further emphasized that “these reports are only working documents.”

Interesting, no?

THE HERETICAL SPIRIT OF VATICAN II HAS CAUSED SO MUCH DAMAGE TO THE CHURCH AND IS CERTAINLY THE SMOKE OF SATAN THAT SAINT POPE PAUL VI EXPERIENCED AND DECRIED!

The elephant in the room which both Saint Pope Paul VI highlighted in a smoky way and Pope Benedict XIV explicitly pointed out is the spirit of Vatican II that has corrupted the actual implementation of Vatican II and thus corrupted everything prior to Vatican II by negating the actual Council of Vatican II and putting forward a non-Catholic expression of the Church. 

This is what Sileri non possum says about that Trojan Horse:

The Council is not the problem: its application is

The substantial rejection of the Second Vatican Council that emerges line after line from the Declaration of Menzingen is, in itself, extremely grave. An ecumenical council, convened by the Pope and with the Pope, is an act of the Church’s magisterium, not one opinion among many which a Catholic may accept or reject according to conscience. Yet this is precisely where the Society of Saint Pius X reveals the fundamental flaw in its position: it confuses the Council with its application, indeed with its distorted applications.

On these pages too, on many occasions, we have expressed precise concerns and criticisms regarding choices made during the pontificate of Pope Francis - from Fiducia supplicans to the ambiguities of Amoris laetitia, and this synodal process - as well as the conduct of bishops and episcopal conferences which, even today, seem to interpret pastorality as a dispensation from doctrine. 

But these, it must be said just as clearly, are not the Council. They are - to use the clear formulation Joseph Ratzinger gave to the Curia in his celebrated address of 22 December 2005 - the poisoned fruits of a “hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture”, set against that “hermeneutic of reform in continuity” which is the only Catholic key for reading Vatican II.

Ratzinger said it without circumlocution: the damage of the post-conciliar period does not come from the conciliar texts, but from an ideological reading of them, from a “spirit of the Council” manufactured at a desk against the letter of the documents. Lefebvre responded to one deviation with another deviation, equal and opposite: instead of calling for the correct interpretation of the texts, he challenged their legitimacy at the root. Instead of fighting those who apply them badly, he fought what - if applied properly - belongs to the binding patrimony of the whole Church. It is a shortcut that solves nothing and, indeed, provides an alibi for precisely those abuses denounced by the Society: because as long as someone rejects the Council in toto, it will always be easier for those who betray it from within to present themselves as the only “moderate” alternative. The Catholic wounded by the confusion of recent years does not need to choose between two ruptures. He needs Peter, the conciliar texts read in continuity with Tradition, and pastors who apply them as they are - not as someone has rewritten them, and not as someone else has rejected them.

My concluding comments:

This hermeneutic of rupture has led to logical conclusions by factions in the Church. First we have the ultra-traditional movement, like the FSSPX and even the Sedevacantists, who in the most reactionary way say they are preserving the True Church, not the Pope and his bishops. 

The other reaction, much more dastardly and corrupt, are those associated with the hermeneutic of rupture and epitomized by the German Schismatic Way and those the likes of Fr. James Martin and his lobbying for a post-Catholic sexual ethic and morality, really unethical and amoral if not downright immoral. 

The use of Pope Francis’ form of synodality turns the Church into a political system with lobbies that aim to change the Church and make her something else. The FSSPX aren’t doing this, there schism is more disciplinary than heretical. 

But Fr. James Martin and the German Bishops are using the synodal way to create a heretical sect or cult. Their LGBTQ+++ lobbying is actually a Trojan Horse though. 

The goal is to change entirely the anthropology of all the Sacraments of the Church and in doing so change doctrines and dogmas. 

What they want is an asexual Sacramental system where only spouses are spoken of, not male/female, bride/groom. 

It is about same sex Sacramental Marriage, polygamy, and whatever gender one claims and how they live that out in their love life being eligible for Holy Orders.

That’s what the Germans and Fr. James Martin really want to accomplish. They will fail of course. For it isn’t of God. But they will create a lot of damage to the unity of the Church and schismatic sects will evolve from it all. 

SILEREI NON POSSUM HAS AN EXCELLENT COMMENTARY ON THE HUBRIS OF THE FSSPX BUT ALSO ON THE HUBRIS OF THOSE IN HIGH PLACES IN THE CHURCH WHO HAVE NOT PRESENTED VATICAN II TO THE CHURCH BUT SOMETHING ELSE NOT IN CONTINUITY WITH VATICAN II OR ANY COUNCIL THAT HAS PRECEDED VATICAN II--WHAT POPE BENEDICT CALLED THE HERMENEUTIC OF RUPTURE!

Press title:

Tradition without Peter: the Society of Saint Pius X at a dead end