IT’S A BIT GUADI TO ME BUT THAT’S A GOOD THING!

 

Antoni Gaudí, known as “God’s architect,” declared Venerable

The Pope recognizes miracle attributed to a religious sister from India, the martyrdom of an Italian missionary; and the heroic virtues of "God's architect" and three priests.

By Vatican News

Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to Eliswa of the Blessed Virgin; the martyrdom of Fr. Nazareno Lanciotti; and the heroic virtues of Antoni Gaudí, Fr. Peter Joseph Triest, Fr. Angelo Bughetti, and Fr. Agostino Cozzolino.

In an audience with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the Pope authorized the promulgation of the Decrees concerning these six people—moving them each one step on the path to sainthood.

Antoni Gaudí, “God’s architect”

Born in 1852, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet accepted the task of directing the project of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona in 1883. His focus was making art a hymn of praise to the Lord and he considered it his mission to make God known and bring people closer to Him.

On June 7, 1926, he was struck by a tram. Not recognized, he was taken to the Hospital de la Santa Creu, the city’s hospital for the poor. After receiving the last sacraments, he died three days later, on June 10. Around 30,000 people attended his funeral.

THE SPLENDOR OF THE PAPCY AND EVANGELIZATION THROUGH ATTRACTION…

 We’ve come a long way!

PERHAPS THOSE WHO ORGANIZE PAPAL MASSES COULD LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE MASTERS!

I copy this from a Facebook site:

At Augusta National, tradition reigns supreme—and that means leaving your phone behind. The Masters enforces a strict no-cellphone policy, creating a rare escape from the digital world for attendees. This rule encourages face-to-face interactions and full immersion in the event.   

Instead of selfies and live tweets, patrons experience the tournament through their own eyes, engaging more deeply with the game and fellow fans. As Swedish golfer Ludvig Åberg notes, the absence of mobile devices leads to more eye contact and attentiveness from fans, which he finds particularly rewarding.  

For those needing to make a call, Augusta National provides banks of public telephones—a nostalgic nod to simpler times. These phones allow patrons to connect with the outside world, often surprising recipients with a call from “Augusta National Golf Club.”  

In an era dominated by screens, The Masters offers a refreshing return to presence and tradition. It’s not just about watching golf; it’s about experiencing it fully, without digital distractions.  

#TheMasters #TraditionUnplugged #AugustaNational #RatedRed

BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF ST. PETER’S PALM SUNDAY MASS AND BRIEF REMARK BY POPE FRANCIS AT THE END…

 

WHEN A GESTURE LEADS TO UNINTENDED GOSSIP AND RUMORS

When Pope Francis entered St. Peter’s Basilica without his papal cassock, but in a t-shirt and black pants with a poncho type blanket over his upper body, the gesture of a pope stripped of his papal insignia came across to some as a sign of an upcoming renunciation of the papal office. 

Pope Francis and those who enabled this gesture of a stripped down pontiff had not anticipated that such rumors and gossip would circulate worldwide especially through the internet and blogs. 

Thus on Saturday, the Holy Father visited his favorite basilica in Rome, St. Mary Major, where he intends to be entombed wearing his papal cassock. St. Mary’s is my favorite too.

And today, Palm Sunday, the Holy Father made a surprise visit to St. Peter’s Square following the Palm Sunday Mass there, again wearing the papal cassock. He spoke briefly but with a somewhat improved voice.

Are the rumors of renunciation, created by the Pope himself, now put to rest? Time will tell. 

CHANTING THE PASSION ON PALM SUNDAY…

 Have you ever heard the Passion chanted by three cantors on Palm Sunday or Good Friday?

I WOULD NOT CALL THIS AN EMBARRASSMENT, BUT PECULIAR…

 Silerium non possum doesn’t like it. May be too critical. But could you imagine Pius XII, John XXIII or Paul VI entering St. Peter’s dressed like this? 

View Facebook video HERE.

Silerium non possum (digital translation of Italian):

Vatican City — An image that surprised, displaced and, for many, left a sense of discomfort. Pope Francis arrived today at St. Peter's Basilica in a wheelchair, with his body wrapped in a woolen blanket, without wearing the white talare, but simply black pants. The pale face, the tired breath, the tired look: the Pontiff seems visibly exhausted, still convalescent after a bilateral pneumonia that forced him to be hospitalized in recent days. The visit, they report, is due to the Pope's desire to visit St. Pius X and Benedict XV. "In recent years he has never made these prayers, how strange" comments a canon of St. Peter's Basilica.

"He can't breathe on his own," confessed a cleric from Casa Santa Marta. "For the visit of the English royals the oxygen was taken away for a short time, only for the photo, which was artfully studied because now there is the terror of your criticism".

The management of the Pope's public image - as already pointed out several times on these pages - is today entrusted to a small group of characters "romanacci da cicchetto and osteria". It is not even the case, here, to reopen the embarrassing chapter of the Dicastery for Communication, which has long represented one of the most opaque pages of this pontificate. The reference is rather to those who today, concretely, deal with the "body of the Pope", his public exposure, his outings, his image, in fact. In recent weeks, the Pontiff has appeared in public in conditions of obvious fragility, exposed, almost exhibited, as a symbol to be shown. To do so are some of the "wist collaborators" who surround him today, figures who have remained on the margins of the scene for years and who are now looking for a space that until now they have not had. Last Sunday, in St. Peter's Square, the Pope was taken outside without even a coat, despite the cold. Today, wrapped in a wool blanket, he was led to the Vatican Basilica between disorder, improvisation and a visibly neglected environment. The dirt that reigns in the Basilica led by the Franciscan Mauro Gambetti, already reported several times by faithful and visitors, have made the scene even more embarrassing.

I THINK THESE ABERRATIONS ARE MORE COMMON THAN I WANT TO THINK! YET TRADITIONALISTS GET SINGLED OUT FOR RIGID DISCIPLINE AND MARGINALIZATION!

Watch this video from Facebook and weep! This priest should be disciplined by his Bishop and sent to counseling to address his grotesque immaturity!

WATCH THE FACEBOOK VIDEO HERE!

THE JOY OF EASTER SUNDAY AT SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT CHURCH, BLUFFTON, SC…

Easter Sunday in South Carolina’s Low Country is CRAZY! I help at Saint Gregory’s each Sunday, but not Easter Sunday as I am celebrating two early morning Masses at Holy Family Church on Hilton Head. Easter Sunday there sees an Armageddon of tourists packing the Church and nearby hall!

This is what St. Gregory’s administrator writes in an email about Easter Sunday there:

I have updated the SGG Easter Plan document to reflect this year’s timeline. There are areas that are highlighted in yellow that may need to be addressed—some practice times, coverage for overflow in the PLC, distribution of the Eucharist on the lawn (especially at the 11 am), etc. 
 
As of now, we are expecting and praying for good weather, which means SGG will be very busy Easter Sunday. The KofC are preparing for helping with parking during the 9 am and 11 am Masses; Hispanic Ministry plans to handle parking for the 1 pm; we also have contracted with the State Highway Patrol from 7 am to 1 pm to assist with general traffic direction. We have six troopers on Easter Sunday with two planned at the fire department area and four in the Berkeley Hall/SGG entrance. I have also communicated with the Beaufort County Traffic Engineers and the SC Department of Transportation on making significant adjustments to the lights to help us with traffic flow. Please note that Sunday, April 20 is also the last full day of The Heritage on Hilton Head Island—so there WILL BE traffic!
 
Deacon Denny plans to coordinate with the deacons on coverage, especially in the PLC and for additional coverage at Masses (or on the lawn to help with Communion, because the 11 am tends to have a large crowd).
 
The large screen will be on the lawn for the 9 am and 11 am—with the 1 pm also as a possibility!
 
If you would communicate with your ministries (ushers, greeters, etc.), that would be appreciated—and any staff who are present for any of the Masses can be expected to be “called into action” to assist with chairs, passing baskets, etc. 
 
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me or coordinate with your team. It will be a flurry of activity here in the next few days so get your rest and be ready to go!
 
Have a blessed rest of your week…

YES VIRGINIA, THIS IS A NOVUS ORDO MASS….

 This is Saint Anne’s Richmond Hill, original church in 2020:

You can watch this Mass as a Facebook video for the Third Week of Lent, March 18, 2020 HERE.

THE ORGANIC REDEVELOPMENT OF ALTAR RAILINGS AND THEIR USE

The National Catholic Register has an article on the restoration and use of altar railings and spotlights my former parish of Saint Anne’s Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia in a very good article. Press the title for the full article:

Communion Rails Return as Churches Embrace Beauty and Reverence

A growing number of Catholic parishes in the U.S. are restoring altar rails, renewing reverence and transforming the faithful’s experience of the Holy Eucharist.

When I was there from 2016 through 2022, I began using kneelers to allow people to kneel if they felt called by God to do so. The article says I only had one, but in fact there were two, for the two main lines approaching the altar.

I recommended to my successor, Fr. Dawid Kwiatkowski, that he install an altar railing in the future. I would not have placed the railing on the top level of the sanctuary but expanded the first step leading up to it for the railing to be there. I think it would not have fenced in the spacious sanctuary as much as having it on the top level does. That’s the fly in the ointment for me. But over all it is a great thing to do.

I should also say that I am the first priest in the Diocese of Savannah ever to have removed an altar railing from a historic church in our diocese in 2004 only to have it restored in a new location in 2015. I guess I have always been a modern trend setter! 

This is the blessing of the restored altar railing at St. Joseph Church in Macon, Georgia in 2015:

THIS IS HOW SAINT POPE PAUL VI’S WORSHIP COMMITTEE REFORMED THE LITURGICAL BOOKS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE LATE 1960’S…

 

IN HONOR OF MASTERS’ WEEK, A BLAST FROM THE PAST…

 In honor of Masters’ Week in Augusta, I post a photo of me in the early 1970’s after having crashed through the main gate of the Augusta National (Magnolia Lane) as I drove some friends of my father to the parking lot, got out, took a tour and left and no one knew the difference. THEY LET ME THROUGH ON WASHINGTON ROAD! Even then, that would not have been allowed. I guess my Masters’ green 1970 Chevy Nova confused the guard at the gate as he waved me through!

BEAUTIFUL CHURCH, BUT…

 Why put something not needed in front of the altar to clutter it? It’s gimmickry! And an altar in front of an altar. Only one is needed and the hidden one preferred!

WHAT WAS SAINT POPE PAUL VI'S LITURGY COMMITTEE THINKING? THEY WEREN'T AND WE ARE SADDLED WITH THEIR STUPIDITY...

Let me say that I am not opposed to the organic development of the Liturgy. We would not have the 1962 Roman Missal if not for that organic development. 

As I have written time and time again, Sacrosanctum Concilium gave a very conservative and sober direction to liturgical renewal. The Fathers of Vatican II were not out to destroy the Liturgy but to make the Mass better, without going backwards to the 2nd Century or forward to some unknown century.

So with that said. I want to rant some more about some abysmal aspects of  state of the Modern Version of the Roman Rite Mass.  

I've already ranted about the loss of the pre-Lenten season of Septuagesima. What was that worship committee thinking. They weren't!

I've already ranted about the loss of the mandated propers, especially Entrance Chants, of the Roman Missal, so much so the wearing of Rose vestments on Guadete and Laetare Sundays makes no sense in the parishes that substitute something else in place of the official Introits of those Masses. What was that worship committee thinking? They weren't! 

Now to cap off my rants about the Modern Mass idiocy (actually that dang worship committee that wasn't thinking) let me write about the 5th Sunday of Lent and the covering of statues. 

Did your parish cover the crucifix and statues? Does anyone in the Modern Mass know why this is done?

No they don't know why! The reason for this is that that dang worship committee in Rome, not thinking, changed the Gospel reading for the 5th Sunday of Lent, eliminating the Gospel of the TLM's lectionary altogether in order to provide three others. What was that worship committee thinking? They weren't!

The TLM's Gospel for each and every 5th Sunday of Lent, known as Passion Sunday and the beginning of Passiontide, is from John 8:46-59. This is the last sentence of that Gospel and reason for covering the crucifix and statues. This says it all, but only a small minority of TLM Catholics heard this Gospel and thus understand why the crucifix and statues are covered. If this Gospel isn't used, it makes no sense to cover anything!!!!!

"So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple".

 And not reading the TLM's Gospel for Passion Sunday removes the Passiontide designation for the last two weeks of Lent. There is only a remnant of that in the Modern Missal which for daily Mass requires that we begin to use the Passion Prefaces instead of the Lenten ones, but that isn't required on 5th Sunday of Lent in the Modern Mass or for Passion/Palm Sunday. What was that worship committee thinking? They weren't!

I've already ranted about the elimination of so many private/devotional (but prescribed) prayers of the priest in the modern Missal. Oftentimes, the organic development of the Mass that admitted these now deleted prayers were not just for the priests' own piety, but they were of course, but to allow the liturgy be be celebrated in a way that things happening behind the priest could be carried out in the needed time allowed, especially think about the Suscipe after the Lavabo that gives the servers enough time to incense the congregation and return to the places or the Placeat prior to the final blessing that gives the laity a chance to kneel prior to the blessing. It all fits together, but now gone in the Modern Mass. 

 What was that worship committee thinking? They weren't!

 

WHAT IS IT WITH PARISHES THAT CLUTTER THE FRONT OF THE ALTAR!

 This drives me crazy apart from the fact that it is ugly, uninspiring as well as inane! Just my humble opinion…

Guardian Angels, Copley, Ohio

WE HAVE ONE DETERMINED HOLY FATHER

Pope Francis pays a visit to Saint Peter’s Square to be with the sick and suffering.

Press title for NCR’s article and more photos:

Pope Francis makes surprise appearance in St. Peter's Square

It was the first time the pontiff has been seen publicly at the Vatican since Feb. 9

WHAT THE????

 This is St. Brendan’s Church in central Los Angeles. What a great idea. Hide the old high altar with silly looking structures and hide the silly looking cube altar with cacti. What a great idea! NOT!

I am sure this configuration instills wonder, awe and reverence for the Holy Mass and the Blessed Sacrament. NOT!

WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY IS WRONG WITH THE VATICAN AND IT’S HOLY YEAR DESCRIMINATION?

 

This Holy Year of 2025 is off to a stunningly bad start with the dying process of Pope Francis, the star attraction, sidelined and made invisible or disappeared by his critical condition.

But apart from that, the Vatican has instituted policies of making money off of tourists who come to see St. Peter’s Basilica. 

Elizabeth Lev writes a stinging commentary on this situation. She is a Catholic historian, living in Rome, who gives tours of historic Catholic sites and shrines in Rome. She teaches seminarians and priests on sabbatical in Rome. I can testify to her knowledge and that her commentary is to be taken seriously as I had  her twice for historical tours in Rome when I was in Rome for two sabbaticals:

The Jubilee: Call to Conversion or Cash Cow?

And yes, there have been many graces already in 2025, but the beacon of the Year of Hope has been dimmed by hasty policy changes at St. Peter’s Basilica.
This is due to what, one presumes, the basilica administrators considered a clever plan to combat Vatican deficits by drawing a line between tourists and “pilgrims,” soaking money from the former while preserving free worship for the latter. Card-carrying Pilgrims continue to access the basilica from the magnificent Via della Conciliazione, but mere “tourists” are routed out of the Piazza San Pietro and lined up along the road leading to the Sant’Anna entrance to Vatican City.
Well-heeled tourists, however, may also skip the line by paying 7 euros for a fast pass into the basilica. Bernini’s colonnade, designed to resemble the open arms of a church for the whole world, ready to welcome one and all, has been turned into a web of barriers to enforce the new system, and while the desperate financial straits of the Holy See are common knowledge, it could be that exploiting the pope’s basilica will turn out to be robbing Paul to pay Peter. After all, the Holy Year is supposed to be about saving time in Purgatory, not saving time in line.
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WHEN DEATH AND ONE’S PERSONAL JUDGEMENT IS A GOOD THING!

 

He needs our prayers. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

Breaking: Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick dies at 94

A CONCLAVE BLESSING? IS THE LONG DYING PROCESS AND ABSENCE OF POPE FRANCIS A BLESSING FOR THE CONCLAVE THAT WILL ELECT THE NEXT POPE? IS IT THE HOLY SPIRIT’S SURPRISE?

Many had worried that if Pope Francis had died suddenly, that the cardinals in the conclave to elect the new pope would not have known each other long enough to make a well-informed decision. 

But Pope Francis’ long dying process has put an end to that. Pre-Conclave discussions are taking place and the cardinals are thinking about who will be the best candidate to be the next pope given all the chaos of the current papacy for the last 12 years. They are making concerted efforts to know one another and the problems caused in the last 12 years. 

And all of this lengthy dying process has taken place within the context of an American Presidential election that has put so much of this pope’s agenda into question, and here I am speaking about His Holiness’ secular agenda as it concerns globalization, the weather and human-made climate change and enabling a political process in the Church to determine future doctrines and a different Church than what the Catholic Church is and has been. 

All of this 1960’s chaos recovered by Pope Francis after the great papacies of St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI has enabled a completely new generation of Catholics, from cardinals to the laity to see how much wisdom there was in the previous two papacies compared to the current one that relishes in the past, specifically the period from 1964 to 1977, the period of St. Pope Paul VI’s papacy of chaos and impotence in the face of the progressive agenda of those who wanted a completely different Church than the one Christ founded.

Because of Pope Francis, a completely new generation knows the chaos and disorientation in the Church caused by the so-called spirit of Vatican II. 

The conclave too, will have to deal with the neo-Gnosticism of the current synodal way of thinking that it is possible to blame God for dogma and doctrinal changes a parliamentary Church procedure initiates in contradiction of doctrines, dogmas and corrections instituted in a clear and unambiguous way by previous papal Magisteriums and Ecumenical Councils. 

And currently, the Italian Church’s synodal process taking place in Rome has been a complete and unmitigated disaster making clear to the conclave cardinals just what a disaster the synodal way is for Italy and the entire Church. Hopefully, they are rereading the late, great Cardinal Pell’s evaluation of Pope Francis’ papacy and they have time to do it!

Blaming the Holy Spirit for every fresh novelty seem to be blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, in my most humble opinion. 

But with that said, I do believe the Holy Spirit has given the cardinals of the next conclave a great gift of time to figure things out before the conclave while we experience Pope Francis’ lengthy dying process. 

ITALY’S SYNODAL WAY, CARRIED OUT IN ROME, IS REDUCED TO BITTERNESS, CHAOS AND RECRIMINATIONS, IN OTHER WORDS A DISASTER, ARE THE CONCLAVE CARDINALS LISTENING? ARE THEY LISTENING TO WHAT THE SYNODAL WAY IS DOING?

This is a mechanical English translation from the original Italian from Silere non possum:

Who wrote the 'Propositions'? The truth behind the document that shook the Second Synodal Assembly in Italy

In his book Faith, Truth, Tolerance, Benedict XVI addressed the theme of the ambiguity of language and the risk that ideologies insinuate themselves into the Church. The Pope warned that, in the name of tolerance and adaptation to the times, one can end up relativizing the truth of the faith, opening the door to secular ideologies in ecclesial discourse. This phenomenon manifests itself in particular when terms such as "dialogue", "opening" and "update" are used vaguely, without a clear reference to Catholic doctrine. A dynamic that was also evident in the four years of synodal journey of the Italian Church.

From March 31 to April 3, 2025, the Second Synodal Assembly was held in the Vatican, with the participation of 1,008 delegates, including 168 bishops (seven cardinals), 252 priests, 34 religious, 17 deacons and 530 lay people. It was an event characterized by strong tension. “Moments of tension have always been part of the synodal journey and, if lived in a constructive way – as happened in this Assembly – they can become spiritual experiences,” said Monsignor Erio Castellucci, trying to sugarcoat the pill. The real crux of the matter, however, is that few have grasped the authentic meaning of this Synod, while many seem to have lost sight of the primary mission of the Church: to announce Jesus Christ and his Gospel.

On March 28, 2025, an online meeting of the National Committee of the Synodal Path took place, and on March 29, 2025, at 4:29 p.m., the Secretariat of the Synodal Path sent an email to the participants of the Second Synodal Assembly, attaching two documents: Propositions and Group Methodology 

When both bishops and lay people noted that the text containing 50 propositions was “excessively synthetic,” a widespread sense of discontent emerged. “Four years’ work has been reduced to nothing,” protested especially the bishops and progressive lay people, who have invested their entire existence in this path.

Already on March 31, the first interventions proved to be highly critical and, during the group work, rather than limiting themselves to proposing simple amendments as requested by the presidency, the request was made to completely rewrite the text. “The amendments were too substantial, they served to bring the document back to what had actually been developed in recent years, but which was completely ignored in the synthesis work”, explain some of those present.

In recent weeks, the Permanent Council of the Italian Episcopal Conference had entrusted S.E.R. Mons. Claudio Giuliodori the task of elaborating a summary of the synodal work. Mons. Giuliodori, current General Ecclesiastical Assistant of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the Italian Catholic Action, Bishop Emeritus of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia and President of the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education, School and University, was busy condensing the path taken in some propositions, while trying to stem the drift that the Synod has taken. So he chose to summarize and cut. A text that was more than fine.

"At this point I point out and admit some shortcomings in the March process, also due to the fact that the transition from these syntheses to our Assembly had to be contracted within three weeks. In the first days of the month, the Presidency of the Synodal Path read all the contributions and some of the members drafted a first summary text, of 74,000 characters, read in full and discussed on March 11 in the Permanent Episcopal Council; in that meeting it was asked for a drastic reduction, so that the form of Synthetic and targeted Propositions (as per Regulation) could be reached. The diet was probably excessive, having also eliminated all the quotes and reduced the text to 46,000 lines," explained Mons. Castellucci reconstructing the process of recent months.

In the meantime, as expected, some press began to launch sensationalist headlines on "gays and women" to attract clicks, diverting attention from the real problem. Mons. Giuliodori tried to limit the damage, but the error dates back upstream: having granted 530 frustrated lay people the opportunity to transform the Synod into an arena in which personal ambitions and subjective opinions take over the primary mission of the Church, namely the proclamation of the Gospel. It was inevitable that the usual protests would start, just as it was obvious that they would resort to the media to whine and put pressure.

The climate has been particularly tense, so much so that the criticism has annoyed a lot S.E.R. Mons. Claudio Giuliodori, who this morning preferred not to show up. In light of the situation, it has been decided to postpone everything to the meeting of October 24-26, 2025, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the synodal teams, where the text will be voted on (October 25). Although there are those who offer sweetened visions of the situation that has been created in the Paul VI room, the assembly applauded the bishops only when they bowed to the wishes of those who protested. It was not an acclamation of faithful and clerics obedient to their pastors. It would be appropriate to start seeing the world with a bit of realism, instead of living in the world of fairy tales.

Most of the participants today left the classroom with expressions of disappointment, and today's Holy Mass celebration was brought forward by an hour. What is striking is that the only noteworthy moments of this event were the Eucharistic Celebrations celebrated by Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Mons. Rino Fisichella It suggests that these presuli, which are not directly linked to the Catholic Church in Italy, were the only ones to offer significant and interesting ideas.

Consequently, the 80ª General Assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference will not be held in May, as is tradition, but will slip to November in defiance of the Statutes. The reason? The Church now seems to have chosen to transform itself into a democracy, despite the fact that someone had already warned against this drift years ago, in Rimini.

"We have reiterated that the Church is not composed of guides who ignore the "feeling" of the people (of God), pulling straight as if they were always right - which is unfortunately very widespread today in sovereignist and dictatorial tendencies - but is composed of guides called to discern the presence and action of the Spirit in the People of God, of which they are part," said Mons. Castellucci

Yet, it is necessary to remember that the Church is not even a parliament, where anyone can express his opinion and one remains in a perpetual "listening to the voice of men". The Church needs pastors, faithful to Christ, who make decisions, not in a dictatorial way - a method that, paradoxically, seems to be a prerogative of Pope Francis when he imposes his will in defiance of what the bishops ask - nor according to synodal logic, which claims to transform the voice of a thousand people into an unquestionable dogma for 1 billion and 390 million Catholics. The Church needs to "listen to the voice of God" and our task is not to indulge the careerism or ambitions of individuals but to testify to Jesus Christ and remain faithful to that Church that He has given us.

M.R.C.

Silere non possum

IN PRINCIPLE, NOT OPPOSED TO THIS, BUT…

 

How about a common date in the Latin Rite for the 40th day after Easter, ASCENSION THURSDAY! And a common date for Corpus Christi, which should fall on a Thursday always! And a common date for Epiphany, as always on January 6! And a common celebration of Septuagesima!

Just saying!

Vatican calls for all Christians to set joint date of Easter

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Finding a common date for Easter has been part of ecumenical endeavors for many years, as the divide between Catholics and Orthodox over the use of different calendars has led to varying dates of the feast.