tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78461898352395941602024-03-18T20:55:59.361-04:00southern ordersGlorious Saint Joseph!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger11182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63795697031890123582024-03-18T18:28:00.001-04:002024-03-18T18:28:34.055-04:00HOW DO YOU SPELL SIMPLY MAJESTIC?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiyQ8auKGw-1UOL1F0O8Xkf7V2AUSZLPRouPmZ5OqgKOsUsLx0TNJD4xjzhsy9O7w6Qd90_U2qwOhdtX8Gnn4RSLVULcXe95I7gIyzKar_REz3xvUJHR7cgm-X5tEb_bIuEW2BllDq57NZAfTb9ymO_xJs4pZgUXt8Uo6i4Y4jDQRQDG34txZJY3AeMuw/s1535/IMG_3580.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="1139" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiyQ8auKGw-1UOL1F0O8Xkf7V2AUSZLPRouPmZ5OqgKOsUsLx0TNJD4xjzhsy9O7w6Qd90_U2qwOhdtX8Gnn4RSLVULcXe95I7gIyzKar_REz3xvUJHR7cgm-X5tEb_bIuEW2BllDq57NZAfTb9ymO_xJs4pZgUXt8Uo6i4Y4jDQRQDG34txZJY3AeMuw/w475-h640/IMG_3580.jpeg" width="475" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-45998666559220562512024-03-16T07:50:00.003-04:002024-03-16T07:51:35.699-04:00FATHER RAYMOND DE SUOUZA PRAISES MIKE LEWIS OF THE “WHERE PETER IS” BLOG—VERY INTERESTING<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_PvAlX4gfMSE5EJIVBi17JZemfzFmXlOPGAzNOqbWdNSWCHtSYWVSc0GCQLNSq1goMNFrDNE0OtkSlhhZl7VxsaQDByPybMM2yvOzP4gkP-wTgccrHE6CgftVsgfOkyKgNH5uQQB6mJjwvPeUhXgaARTg3brYsdKgEDpvTY6iivToBF5RHrd31Lgse4/s760/IMG_3573.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="760" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_PvAlX4gfMSE5EJIVBi17JZemfzFmXlOPGAzNOqbWdNSWCHtSYWVSc0GCQLNSq1goMNFrDNE0OtkSlhhZl7VxsaQDByPybMM2yvOzP4gkP-wTgccrHE6CgftVsgfOkyKgNH5uQQB6mJjwvPeUhXgaARTg3brYsdKgEDpvTY6iivToBF5RHrd31Lgse4/w640-h360/IMG_3573.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> I love how Father Raymond de Souza writes. He’s clear and interesting to read. This is what he just wrote about all the vitriol of far right heterodox Catholics and the far left heterodox Catholics who defend him. Please note the praise that Father de Souza heaps upon Mike Lewis, I copy from <b><span><i><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/" style="color: #ffa400;">THE CATHOLIC THNG</a><span style="color: #ffa400;">. </span><span style="color: red;">MY COMMENTS EMBEDDED IN THE TEXT IN RED:</span></i></span></b><p></p><header class="entry-header" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; text-align: left;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="font-size: 21px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Pope Francis at Eleven </span></a></h1><h1><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span class="entry-date" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/"><cite style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fr. Raymond J. de Souza<br /></cite></a></span>Saturday, March 16, 2024</span></h1></header><div class="entry-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;"><div data-beyondwords-player="true" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">To an unusual degree – at least in English – the public presentation of the current pontificate, which marked its eleventh anniversary this week, has been entrusted to various commentators.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The Roman Curia under Pope Francis lacks John Paul-era figures like Cardinals Joseph Ratzinger, Benardin Gantin, Camillo Ruini, Francis Arinze, and Eduardo Pironio (already beatified), who had the stature and following to offer authoritative interpretations.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Under Pope Francis, putatively authoritative interpretations – again, in English – are outsourced to independent figures like Austen Ivereigh (UK), Michael Sean Winters (USA), Massimo Faggioli (Italy), and (in all languages) Fr. Antonio Spadaro. In recent months though, a certain frustration appears to have set in, brought vividly to a head by the Holy Father’s recent comments about Ukraine raising the “white flag” of negotiation, which caused deep dismay among Ukrainian Catholics. <b><i><span style="color: red;">(Let’s be clear, I think most sane people of good will prefer a negotiated peace settlement for Ukraine which respect the integrity and borders of that independent country. HOWEVER, the pope was asked a question about a “white flag solution” which is basically an unconditional surrender. The pope, because he speaks too much to newspapers and loves off-the-cuff remarks, unthinkingly and uncritically parroted the reporter’s use of “white flag” meaning unconditional surrender and that is what made the mess and this pope over and over and over again captures defeat out of victory with off-the-cuff remarks.)</span></i></b></p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I offer as an example my preferred source for Francis-friendly hermeneutics: <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where Peter Is</em></a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[1]</sup> (WPI) a site run by <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mike Lewis</span></i></b>. He founded it in 2018 to offer “<a href="https://wherepeteris.com/pilgrimage-and-the-path-ahead/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">an apologetical approach</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[2]</sup>” to Pope Francis in face of his critics. I consider him a good model of the dialogue that the Holy Father calls for.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">“We’ve explained at great length the traditional Catholic understanding of papal primacy and authority,” Lewis writes. “We have repeatedly clarified what the Church teaches on the role of the living Magisterium. On many controversial questions, we’ve responded in great detail with the Church’s position on every debated aspect of an issue multiple times. Six years ago, we wanted to start a website that helped explain Pope Francis to our fellow Catholics who claimed to be ‘confused’ by him and his teachings. We’ve made the case for Pope Francis’s teachings throughout this time.”</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">WPI’s commentaries are serious, well-researched, and careful. For example, recent posts on <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/chrism-mass-concelebration-a-litmus-test-for-traditionalist-priests/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">concelebration</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[3]</sup> and <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/concelebration-and-the-fssp-identifying-the-real-problem/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">traditionalists</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[4]</sup>, or the <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/the-myth-of-the-ontological-superiority-of-the-priest/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ontological non-superiority of priests</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[5]</sup> were comprehensive, theologically competent, and fair. WPI has its point of view, but often shows respect to those it is criticizing. It is unabashedly in the Holy Father’s corner at all times, but that is not a bad thing to say about Catholics – and in the environment this pontificate has engendered it is understandable. Partisanship abounds.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">For those who wish to keep abreast of the wackier things going on in the wild internet precincts of those truly <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/where-is-father-altman/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">deranged by Pope Francis</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[6]</sup>, WPI has the patience and doggedness to <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/has-church-militant-been-taken-over-by-antisemitic-conspiracists/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">report on it</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[7]</sup>.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">So it was noteworthy in December that, while <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/honestly-confused-over-couples-and-unions/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">defending <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fiducia supplicans</em></a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[8]</sup> on blessings for irregular and same-sex couples, Lewis proposed a new year’s resolution “<a href="https://wherepeteris.com/make-a-new-years-resolution-to-understand-pope-francis/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">to begin again with Pope Francis</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[9]</sup>.” He suggested that it’s time to go back and start over with <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Evangelii gaudium</em>, which had a profound influence on Lewis.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">“If this week in the Church has shown anything, it’s that many Catholics simply don’t <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">get</em> Pope Francis. Particularly in the US – although clear cracks have appeared in Germany, Africa, and Eastern Europe as well – there is a disconnect between the pope and many of the people, even after ten years,” Lewis writes. “It isn’t only affecting those who are openly rebellious or critical of him, either. I’ve seen many express that they think he’s well-intentioned, but sense that he is naive, out-of-touch, or is listening to bad advisors.”</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">After sending out hundreds of thousands of words over six years explaining the grandeur of the pontificate, Lewis is frustrated that somehow it is not getting through. So, it is time to start all over again, because surely a second time through will convince the recalcitrant.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">The Holy Father’s responsible critics are not unaware of the beauty of <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Evangelii gaudium</em>. They simply don’t see its evangelizing urgency reflected, for example, in the synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church.<b><i><span style="color: red;"> (Early on when Pope Francis was elected, I would quote him in my homilies in a very positive way, pointed out his Italian humor, sarcasm and tongue-in-cheek comments quite common in my Italian culture. I held adult religious education classes on Evangelii gaudium as well as Laudatio si. But more and more, I was beginning to be tested by this pope’s off-the-cuff reflections and inconsistencies or ambiguities that I could not explain nor the popesplainers could explain and these have occurred throughout his papacy. For example he laments the clericalizing of the laity and clericalism in general, yet so much of the novel things in breach of even the post-Vatican II Church are from what I believe to be the very core of negative clericalism with this pope’s mind and heart. For example, he approved changing the biblical words of the Italian language “Our Father”. He promotes blessing of couples in a sexual union outside of the Sacrament of Marriage or whatever gender or sexual lifestyle knowing quite well that this begins a process of sacramentalizing these unions eventually and probably quite quickly. It appears too that women will be ordained deacons all the while having said himself that this isn’t possible. No wonder left leaning heterodox Catholics and right leaning heterodox Catholics are angry, confused and fed up!)</span></i></b></p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-68904" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_68904" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 700px;"><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/wp-content/uploads/white-flag-screen.jpeg" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-68904" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pope Francis during his “white flag” interview on Italian television</figcaption></figure><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Recall that in 2013 George Weigel wrote fulsomely in the <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wall Street Journal</em> that <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Evangelii gaudium</em> is “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304017204579224030204080004" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a clarion call</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[10]</sup> for a decisive shift in the Catholic Church’s self-understanding. . .the great historical transition from institutional-maintenance Catholicism to the Church of the New Evangelization.”</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">This week Weigel returned to those pages with an excoriating assessment of the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-francis-waves-a-white-flag-at-vladimir-putin-ukraine-war-catholicism-cf888fcf" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“white flag” approach</a><sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[11]</sup> of Pope Francis to international relations. The problem that frustrates Lewis and others is not that people are not paying enough attention, but rather too much. So Lewis <a href="https://wherepeteris.com/pilgrimage-and-the-path-ahead/" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">concluded last month</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[2]</sup> that ill will – and worse – must be the problem.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">“The damage done by the people in the indietrist movement is real, but no individual can stop it,” wrote an exasperated Lewis. “The only way they’ll ever change is if they respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. The painful truth is that we can’t dialogue with the devil. And much of the opposition to the teaching of Pope Francis is straight from the bowels of hell. . . .And I have finally discerned that it’s time for me to say, in the words of Fr. Jacques Hamel, ‘Go away, Satan.’” <b><i><span style="color: red;">(I read what Mike Lewis wrote in this regard and I think the core of his “fed upness” while masked by his anger at “backwardist Catholics” is really at its core he too is fed up with the pope and the anger and confusion he has created!” The pope is not a psychologist or sociologist or a weatherman. He should not pontificate on these things although he is free to have his opinions and opinions these are and should be kept to himself.)</span></i></b></p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">That eruption is uncharacteristic of Lewis. Of course there is no shortage of ill will to be found in the angrier corners of the internet. But that is not where the problem lies. The question that African and Ukrainian and Dutch and Asian (and American) bishops have is not <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where Peter Is</em> – Francis is Peter in Rome – but where the Peter of <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Evangelii gaudium</em> went.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">It is impossible to imagine that eleven years into John Paul’s pontificate anyone would seriously think it time to begin again to figure out the pontificate. John Paul did not face an angry internet, but he did face hundreds of leading theologians signing the <a href="https://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/1999a/011599/011599s.htm" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cologne Declaration,</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[12]</sup> including leading figures such as Fathers Eduard Schillebeeckx, Johann Baptist Metz, Hans Küng, Norbert Greinacher, Ottmar Fuchs, and Bernard Häring. The January 1989 declaration was a pointed vote of non-confidence in the pope.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">John Paul did not go back to the beginning. He got on with the task at hand. Later that year European Communism was vanquished; three years later the <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Catechism </em>was published and in 1993 <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Veritatis splendor </em>was issued.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Another prominent Francis interpreter is Michael Sean Winters of the <em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">National Catholic Reporter</em>, who published an anniversary reflection this week entitled, “<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/our-wonderful-pope-horribly-wrong-about-ukraine" rel="external" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Wonderful Pope is Horribly Wrong about Ukraine</a> <sup style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[13]</sup>,” which lumped the Holy Father in with Neville Chamberlain in his approach to hostile powers.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">“The Christian witness [of the Ukrainian Catholic bishops] ought not be discounted or disrupted by a careless choice of words in an interview,” he wrote about Pope Francis.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Again, a remarkable statement. Pope Francis has been speaking ceaselessly about Ukraine for more than two years. Since the initial invasion in 2014, it has been the most significant foreign policy crisis of this century. To get that “horribly wrong” after all this time is a rather damning indictment from a friend. And to be “careless” about such a grave matter leads Winters to advise the Holy Father to give “far fewer interviews.”</p><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Thus, the eleventh anniversary arrives with some disquiet among those most devoted to the Holy Father’s program. Despite his frustrations, Lewis vows to carry on. I will continue to read WPI to great profit.<b><i><span style="color: red;"> (I read Lewis too, I recommend that he make his posts less detailed and shorter like Pope Francis suggests priests keep their homilies brief and to the point!)</span></i></b></p></div><div class="author-bio" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><em style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fr. Raymond J. de Souza is a Canadian priest, Catholic commentator, and Senior Fellow at Cardus.</em></p></div>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-30261048553744039182024-03-14T10:18:00.001-04:002024-03-16T07:59:30.928-04:00WHEREIN I DISAGREE WITH THE NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT’S ARTICLE ON “LITURGY WARS”<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWHaGePFvcqPKenYXTsE9uJylRAI1aja03vPeMY3D4e9X2qlvz5CmV3dYlWZbgP5dCy_-E13M8YOhcO-xfxpIqBZaNoABns8GKt5F4GjXbiatGTGDc256s6k_u72T_pmaZClIdDJ1tbBe6EJz5xdUqzpUTFVszQbxmPkexMgvqNEOZeIxwVJGw5KUnhw/s259/IMG_3571.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWHaGePFvcqPKenYXTsE9uJylRAI1aja03vPeMY3D4e9X2qlvz5CmV3dYlWZbgP5dCy_-E13M8YOhcO-xfxpIqBZaNoABns8GKt5F4GjXbiatGTGDc256s6k_u72T_pmaZClIdDJ1tbBe6EJz5xdUqzpUTFVszQbxmPkexMgvqNEOZeIxwVJGw5KUnhw/w640-h479/IMG_3571.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h2 class="date-header" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 19.200001px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;">Wednesday, March 13, 2024</h2><div class="post uncustomized-post-template" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><a name="6440321037746662667"></a><h3 class="post-title" style="font-size: 30.4px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/03/the-root-of-liturgical-war-guest-essay.html" style="color: #003399; font-family: Georgia, "Palatino Linotype", serif; text-decoration: none;">The Root of the “Liturgical War”: Guest Essay by Mr Kevin Tierney</a></h3><span class="post-author" style="font-family: Georgia, "Palatino Linotype", serif; font-size: 14.4px; text-transform: uppercase;">GREGORY DIPIPPO</span><div class="post-body" style="font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><p><span style="text-align: left;">In the article, somewhat long, that I link above, I found myself disagreeing although not entirely. I am not going to quote the article, so read it first and then you will understand my comments below.</span></p></div></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">What did not cause the Liturgies wars?</span></h1><p>1. I was a teenager very enthralled by what was happening in my parish in Augusta around 1966 or so. We may have been late with some of the new things coming our way, but not that late. My sense of things was that the vast majority of the laity liked the 1964/65 revision of the 1962 Missal that allowed for a great deal of vernacular but maintained Latin for the Roman Canon and many other prayers, usually the quiet prayers of the priest. The Roman Canon remained in a low voice.</p><p>2. I think most people did not mind the Mass facing the congregation.</p><p>3. I think most people accepted the new Lectionary although the revision of the calendar threw out the baby with the bath water. Removing saints from the calendar made it appear that these people were not saints and never existed. I can remember seeing in a secular newspaper a priest carrying out St. Christopher from his church because he had been removed from the calendar! That annoyed people.</p><p>4. Even the 1970 Missal, basically what we have now, but it too experiencing reform in the 2011 Missal, was accepted by most practicing Catholics. </p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">What caused the Liturgies wars? </span></h1><p>1. It was the iconoclasm of important devotional elements of Catholics, the peek of which was the stripping and “wreckovation” of entire church buildings, the iconoclasm of beautiful altars and art work and the reorientation of parish churches all of which cannot be found in any official Roman document or in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal</p><p>2. I can remember around 1971 or 72 in my parish church walking into the church for Sunday Mass and seeing the old altar pulled away from the wall and stripped of its six majestically tall candlesticks, the tabernacle moved to a side altar underneath our Blessed Mother’s statue and the priest’s chair now moved to the position of the tabernacle behind the free standing altar and higher!</p><p>3. Then communion was received standing, kneeling not allowed and altar railings removed. That was not well accepted by the laity quite capable of kneeling.</p><p>4. Then Communion Ministers became the norm.</p><p>5. Then receiving Holy Communion in the hand which quickly evolved into irreverence in receiving and all of this came about all by 1975 or 1976.</p><p>6. Then things started to be sloppy. No altar clothes, beautiful statuary replaced by cheesy banners and clutter galore in the sanctuary to include the choir or folk group and instrumentation and everything else the music ministry needed. </p><p>7. Then priests started to improvise the words of prayer, some parts of the Mass to include the Gloria and Agnus Dei not to mention the Sanctus and Creed when sung used different wording from what was in the Roman Missal—similar, dissimilar and different than the official English translation of the Mass. These were improvised.</p><p>8. Catering to various language groups in the Church and in particular parishes disunited parishes and Balkanized parishes according to language groups and Latin no longer was the unifying factor of the Mass in terms of language. Everyone wanted/wants their own language and style of worship.</p><p>9. Inculturation was never well received except by those who like creating an inculturated Mass. </p><p>10. Casualness, banal and pedantic hymns and irreverence reigned and was disdained by most. This has led to the loss of awe, reverence, mysticism and experiencing the liturgy in a non pedantic way. </p><p>These last 10 things are more serious than the Roman Missal itself and its reforms. </p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-57332319602754524582024-03-14T06:50:00.004-04:002024-03-14T10:24:00.373-04:00WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?<p> Most recent renovation/refurbishment:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix92pFQgEMF_m399vpeyMNi2TkbWs4j9Q3wdeGYz-NDB8QMNxKtnGVtkMa2IzXLjDxch9Iv_mphkDvE8OEq1isyHmKCXYAwwjdkb6VOF6IJGEWaBbsrSUjvmUn2q010e390W7YRWBvLNnbOlV7vfnUNrWWJLuH8WvMpqVF_ecpZhixdAVh1rXON71LHfw/s1456/IMG_3570.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1456" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix92pFQgEMF_m399vpeyMNi2TkbWs4j9Q3wdeGYz-NDB8QMNxKtnGVtkMa2IzXLjDxch9Iv_mphkDvE8OEq1isyHmKCXYAwwjdkb6VOF6IJGEWaBbsrSUjvmUn2q010e390W7YRWBvLNnbOlV7vfnUNrWWJLuH8WvMpqVF_ecpZhixdAVh1rXON71LHfw/w640-h360/IMG_3570.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Pre-Vatican II look:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjese-0CHhx8U8BAmN8kf0tnn0Gm1JoLoF89cj1WQOJyHE-sezXRxqRs1KbIq9V53GJFdUhpJSIt9BAUX6xA-yzP_MLwoLKrDbv7s3N3ER7vZMIxXkTtbE2y_coyDVqb8t0P5s6CE57Om6CLXqoF68rVrMaHoNhTRk0qfn1glnR-nuB06gy5iOrJjJscuU/s600/IMG_3572.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="600" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjese-0CHhx8U8BAmN8kf0tnn0Gm1JoLoF89cj1WQOJyHE-sezXRxqRs1KbIq9V53GJFdUhpJSIt9BAUX6xA-yzP_MLwoLKrDbv7s3N3ER7vZMIxXkTtbE2y_coyDVqb8t0P5s6CE57Om6CLXqoF68rVrMaHoNhTRk0qfn1glnR-nuB06gy5iOrJjJscuU/w640-h398/IMG_3572.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>This is the Cathedral in Lafayette, Indiana. It has been renovated as one can see. Overall, the renovation is attractive, so what’s wrong with it?</p><p>1. The damnable placing of the altar in the sanctuary some six steps LOWER than the bishop’s throne. That damnable throne is six steps higher from the altar and some nine steps higher from the floor of the nave. It’s the elevation of the bishop over the altar which represents Christ and the saints in heaven. That’s damnable. </p><p>2. The altar, the most important liturgical “item” in any church is in a lesser position than the placement of the bishop’s throne. In the photo above not only is it lower, but then it is obscured by flowers, plants and material cloth! Yes, you read that correctly. The decorators at the cathedral somehow thought hiding the altar with plants, flowers and material was a good idea! Are the flowers prettier than the new free-standing altar? Is that why these are placed there?????</p><p>3. My recommendation is to place the altar where the bishop’s throne is. Lower the bishops throne to the altar’s current location but to the side and hide it with flowers, plants and material cloth!</p><p>4. To the far left of the sanctuary, please note the clutter of damnable stuff associated with the music ministry, to include an organ console, piano and God only knows what other stuff! And I am sure, that there is a spacious choir loft in the traditional location where all that crap could be and out of sight! Who thought doing this was a good idea? Are they intentionally trying to drive me crazy?????</p><p>5. Please note where the tabernacle is, to the far right of the Bishop’s throne. That let’s you know what they think of the Most Blessed Sacrament—relegate it to an obscure position so that stupid Catholics won’t be distracted by the “active and static” real presence of Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity Who has two natures, human and divine. Yes, let’s make a distinction between the “active and static” Real Presence. Stupid Catholics would happily be informed about that!</p><p>I can’t find what this cathedral looked like prior to this latest renovation, but I suspect it was ordered properly and more stunningly beautiful, at least the sanctuary! </p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-46147126602223331502024-03-11T06:43:00.005-04:002024-03-11T06:48:31.267-04:00READ BETWEEN THE LINES, A DIPLOMATIC TERSE RESPONSE TO CONFUSED AMBIGUITY DUE TO CONSTANT TALKING OFF-THE-CUFF<p> <b><i>From Crux:</i></b></p><h1 class="lg:-mr-[8.333%]" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: var(--font-primary); font-size: 2.25rem; letter-spacing: 0.015em; line-height: 1.35; margin: 0px -48.828125px 0.625em 0px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/03/pope-faces-civil-ecclesial-backlash-for-ukraine-white-flag-remarks"><span style="color: red;">Pope faces civil, ecclesial backlash for Ukraine ‘white flag’ remarks</span></a></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_c2mSXb6zUig35x8MZGKHbLwUixHANI0Bc9LLYwYBspZCgDDGV0oiCzJfSiRAp7H1rNCKVDABkHgmbYb0l2ISm7u4vrXPxiDHWuiPtERz1Xeca_iOEzDLrkonGnIsKsgHPKPfJru_WX3vu5tqybq7WAvEHXtp9lzVr7zTmdIXSEBmZ-7u4A4A8Xi_Os/s467/IMG_3569.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="467" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_c2mSXb6zUig35x8MZGKHbLwUixHANI0Bc9LLYwYBspZCgDDGV0oiCzJfSiRAp7H1rNCKVDABkHgmbYb0l2ISm7u4vrXPxiDHWuiPtERz1Xeca_iOEzDLrkonGnIsKsgHPKPfJru_WX3vu5tqybq7WAvEHXtp9lzVr7zTmdIXSEBmZ-7u4A4A8Xi_Os/w640-h404/IMG_3569.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />As reported by Rorate Caeli:<p></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: grey; font-family: Georgia, Garamond, Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/03/ukrainian-greek-catholic-church.html" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: #4d0b53; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Statement on Francis: “ Ukrainians will continue to defend themselves. They feel they have no choice.” - Synodality in Action </a></h3><div class="post-header" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", Garamond; font-size: 18px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="post-header-line-1" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2982946102622453270" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", Garamond; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Statement of the Permanent Synod of the Ukrainian </b><b style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Greek Catholic Church </b><b style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">In light of the interview of Pope Francis </b><b style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Conducted by Radio Télévision Suisse</b></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">We do not yet have a full version of the interview given by Pope Francis to the RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) that apparently will be published only on March 20. According to <a class="external" href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-03/pope-francis-ukraine-interview-rts-holy-see-response.html" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgba(214, 184, 78, 0.75); border-image: none; border-spacing: 0px; border-style: none none solid; border-width: medium medium 1px; color: #192736; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.1px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the Holy See Press Office</a>, the reference to a “white flag” in the interview is a summons to negotiations not to a surrender by Ukraine. In the conversation, the Holy Father speaks not only about the Russian war against Ukraine but also the war between Israel and Hamas. As he has done repeatedly, Pope Francis calls for negotiated settlements of armed conflicts.<span style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: red; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2024/03/ukrainian-greek-catholic-church.html#more" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Statement on Francis: “ Ukrainians will continue to defend themselves. They feel they have no choice.” - Synodality in Action">Read more »</a></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The bishops of the Permanent Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, meeting in the USA:</i></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">His Beatitude Sviatoslav,<br style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych<br style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Father and Head of the UGCC</i></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Reverend Borys Gudziak,<br style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop and Metropolitan of Philadelphia</i></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Reverend Włodzimierz Juszczak,<br style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Bishop of the Eparchy of Wrocław—Koszalin</i></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Reverend Bohdan Dzyurakh,<br style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Apostolic Exarch in Germany and Scandinavia</i></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Reverend Josaphat Moshchych,<br style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Bishop of Chernivtsi</i></p><p style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: medium; caret-color: rgb(25, 39, 54); color: #192736; font-family: "noto serif", serif; font-size: 16.1px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; list-style: none; margin: 1.4em 0px 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><i style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-height: 1000000px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 10, 2024 [<a href="https://ugcc.ua/en/data/statement-of-the-permanent-synod-of-the-ugcc-in-light-of-the-interview-of-pope-francis-conducted-by-radio-tlvision-suisse-955/" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: grey; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Source</a>]</i></p></h1>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-5570655243008019492024-03-10T13:44:00.005-04:002024-03-10T13:46:56.552-04:00TIRESOMELY, THE VATICAN ONCE AGAIN IN MAJOR, MAJOR DAMAGE CONTROL OVER SOME STUPID OFF-THE-CUFF NOTHINGNESS POPE FRANCIS SAID—FURTHER DIVIDING THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD ESPECIALLY THOSE SUFFERING THE MOST IN WAR-TORN UKRAINE!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0RjhLgNG4cXf9jfHG584aLEYghl-ntV0zK_Q6OJPrraCvb0cqU3nlRLxeVCz3u_HLG9D9iBbf7WhR2Ci7BNAjVUVUbk5qC3fjbYzHDw5CdwPv_m-iWMjnnoSvs2ENqvPigeMHA_JPfyleYZrfzklE0yjZnlMAGjk5EsyiO9ydUtjwuAt_0E8jtvX_xuo/s1240/IMG_3566.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1240" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0RjhLgNG4cXf9jfHG584aLEYghl-ntV0zK_Q6OJPrraCvb0cqU3nlRLxeVCz3u_HLG9D9iBbf7WhR2Ci7BNAjVUVUbk5qC3fjbYzHDw5CdwPv_m-iWMjnnoSvs2ENqvPigeMHA_JPfyleYZrfzklE0yjZnlMAGjk5EsyiO9ydUtjwuAt_0E8jtvX_xuo/w640-h384/IMG_3566.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="dcr-1djovmt" data-gu-name="headline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-column-end: headline; grid-column-start: headline; grid-row-end: headline; grid-row-start: headline; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-14emo0l" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1msbrj1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 36px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="dcr-1m6z4y2" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/10/pope-francis-criticised-for-saying-ukraine-should-raise-white-flag-and-end-war-with-russia"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Pope provokes outrage by saying Ukraine should ‘raise white flag’ and end war with Russia</span></a></h1></div></div></div><div class="dcr-1yi1cnj" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-column-end: standfirst; grid-column-start: standfirst; grid-row-end: standfirst; grid-row-start: standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1teqwow" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Francis’s failure to condemn Moscow as aggressor decried as ‘shameful’ and ‘incomprehensible’</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUEX9ZMZJXJ5ZO8YR2yclEGRQh-c4H-2TFrPfB3L-psmONr6SHKkD4DU8FW9MaVHH7K8oRZA0Ys0ffRUnrFsaw2T-zw5IepfJR6FM0ssXVVUPYUEwNmrv0rFHQUMm_8U2WlfOL9zEtySlUNm-0bgh2Qk8SJ1vgDIxna_1Raxoith86CKP4cE18IX8LElI/s500/IMG_3567.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUEX9ZMZJXJ5ZO8YR2yclEGRQh-c4H-2TFrPfB3L-psmONr6SHKkD4DU8FW9MaVHH7K8oRZA0Ys0ffRUnrFsaw2T-zw5IepfJR6FM0ssXVVUPYUEwNmrv0rFHQUMm_8U2WlfOL9zEtySlUNm-0bgh2Qk8SJ1vgDIxna_1Raxoith86CKP4cE18IX8LElI/w640-h360/IMG_3567.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">AND VATCAN NEWS ONCE AGAIN IN MAJOR DAMAGE CONTROL:</p><h1 class="article__title" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl"; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 46px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px 30px; width: 748px;"><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-03/pope-francis-ukraine-interview-rts-holy-see-response.html"><span style="color: #ffa400;">‘Pope asks for the courage to negotiate for Ukraine’</span></a></h1></div></div>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-61147064642920858472024-03-10T08:41:00.003-04:002024-03-10T08:42:05.304-04:00SAY IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN: ROSE NOT PINK! ROSE NOT PINK! ROSE NOT PINK! AND SOON YOU WILL BELIEVE THIS FALSEHOOD!<p> THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT IS LAETARE SUNDAY AND THE COLOUR IS ROSE NOT PINK, YAH! RIGHT!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoEOtAhVL5ldrCsSUgSrwAWUJBAFi_dkekaF3VozRYLmjCqdnKVTZ2lv38RcNxPYSf2WIomSDUQ2CxKI4dQyXf0qbohsNEyb8Rq8GybimHnrrkdIEEoG5Bc513kipDasvCojFCyQR30PWX1kAkH3uqJL8oAfARZTyKw82vgUNnDHtmt-w73mSGWbwmhAA/s2160/IMG_3565.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoEOtAhVL5ldrCsSUgSrwAWUJBAFi_dkekaF3VozRYLmjCqdnKVTZ2lv38RcNxPYSf2WIomSDUQ2CxKI4dQyXf0qbohsNEyb8Rq8GybimHnrrkdIEEoG5Bc513kipDasvCojFCyQR30PWX1kAkH3uqJL8oAfARZTyKw82vgUNnDHtmt-w73mSGWbwmhAA/w640-h480/IMG_3565.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EFS5bKa6933WRmz3f_AoJP-3v-qSxe3q9N5EIy_oQhU38xUR31WyHzRBVnZrU94R0sKNvpP4bankiVSbBaEk4x89b6VGzqdU6aEdw-dH5DjSaUdovdYsFZOBzhAvZpvXX5sIBVmHQU2wV1jLi31lEoHvh1KF4c_v4eMkI_MXaViRNDeBfpOxp-Cna4s/s2160/IMG_3563.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1469" data-original-width="2160" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6EFS5bKa6933WRmz3f_AoJP-3v-qSxe3q9N5EIy_oQhU38xUR31WyHzRBVnZrU94R0sKNvpP4bankiVSbBaEk4x89b6VGzqdU6aEdw-dH5DjSaUdovdYsFZOBzhAvZpvXX5sIBVmHQU2wV1jLi31lEoHvh1KF4c_v4eMkI_MXaViRNDeBfpOxp-Cna4s/w640-h436/IMG_3563.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1V_ZbGJKrJIxd4ipTGZoWkjC2WkQ8cUoGUE7OmeqKx6oCmaqRUUI4thiGoqhUoJdMjjWFWCRcOMaCheX58W8g_AKxPHL-H0X2dTNpl1oOkmGb5kUqS2CG2tJgmiW3VTW_PLIecAB3wfma0cGOsT6BJ-r0V20R1Pu_HfoodiITel9d0vShrrmHEMJaeM/s1620/IMG_3562.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1218" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1V_ZbGJKrJIxd4ipTGZoWkjC2WkQ8cUoGUE7OmeqKx6oCmaqRUUI4thiGoqhUoJdMjjWFWCRcOMaCheX58W8g_AKxPHL-H0X2dTNpl1oOkmGb5kUqS2CG2tJgmiW3VTW_PLIecAB3wfma0cGOsT6BJ-r0V20R1Pu_HfoodiITel9d0vShrrmHEMJaeM/w482-h640/IMG_3562.jpeg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLCTtMxWsx5ur5jvCOb2gadTx8BvP6bkSDCRt5dlVWk6qpr_ISpuMFLIBc5uRULbs-5ArBGQaonMRQX1MM8-FT1_-N-H3_uCCnyu_ssWEBKkHutCjnjk2KCUa347vexX1w7uJoi0rkTPTb-2v7-yuAv8PNUDl1eE8Ms2RGtSqLIRnMgUvRQVAAl20sVc/s1620/IMG_3561.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1603" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLCTtMxWsx5ur5jvCOb2gadTx8BvP6bkSDCRt5dlVWk6qpr_ISpuMFLIBc5uRULbs-5ArBGQaonMRQX1MM8-FT1_-N-H3_uCCnyu_ssWEBKkHutCjnjk2KCUa347vexX1w7uJoi0rkTPTb-2v7-yuAv8PNUDl1eE8Ms2RGtSqLIRnMgUvRQVAAl20sVc/w634-h640/IMG_3561.jpeg" width="634" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJewNI32WHGhLULtAnfCBcMBB4TTZgxx4fa2tpqfE_NNh_t8JJsEYQwuKSSVewQfKmWWC2iq0Z_0LPmjM8BBrk3g6w9R6SXkVVgCdpNXo7PnB0aot7_AQdvd8VNUXMwteeWE-XZx51UvKgjHMgqlP7MAbHgyYkbXYBGXp_0bgN0s-HU2h9ZyC22XKMrgI/s1620/IMG_3560.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJewNI32WHGhLULtAnfCBcMBB4TTZgxx4fa2tpqfE_NNh_t8JJsEYQwuKSSVewQfKmWWC2iq0Z_0LPmjM8BBrk3g6w9R6SXkVVgCdpNXo7PnB0aot7_AQdvd8VNUXMwteeWE-XZx51UvKgjHMgqlP7MAbHgyYkbXYBGXp_0bgN0s-HU2h9ZyC22XKMrgI/w474-h640/IMG_3560.jpeg" width="474" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-67865550551789134182024-03-08T07:53:00.002-05:002024-03-08T08:41:21.594-05:00IN TODAY’S WORLD OF TOXICITY AS IT CONCERNS THE CHURCH AND POLITICS, LET’S FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE ELEMENTS OF THIS PAPACY…<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBzT9N_2pqLOAW9-9aQ9JivpicyT2_kvIoSIPVBXkLaxrwIo8vv7ZQkkamu5ebnGDnYLE8viKVwUbNw2rO6GOIDzHsZwPqfEChqu3OcWE6ubKRByQPflnwGQXrAmBDrln5-ZnZtarX_1FwNOdE_UcFukN1NidYbXKC0Ql0UxSQ9VktdzQYfsvaGhr22g/s225/IMG_3559.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBzT9N_2pqLOAW9-9aQ9JivpicyT2_kvIoSIPVBXkLaxrwIo8vv7ZQkkamu5ebnGDnYLE8viKVwUbNw2rO6GOIDzHsZwPqfEChqu3OcWE6ubKRByQPflnwGQXrAmBDrln5-ZnZtarX_1FwNOdE_UcFukN1NidYbXKC0Ql0UxSQ9VktdzQYfsvaGhr22g/w640-h640/IMG_3559.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />There is a lot, and I mean, a lot of poisonous ideologies out there both in the Church and the world.<p></p><p>I think social media platforms, 24 hour news stations and the like have contributed to the toxicity out there which is disrespectful to persons, institutions and life in general. </p><p>We may not like a particular president, pope or other religious or political figure. We can certainly disagree about policy, pastoral directions and the like. But we should always respect the institutions of the presidency, papacy and the priesthood. </p><p>We must respect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. Some of the comments I allow to be posted are “anti-respect for life” although those making the comments protest up and down that they are pro-respect life. They attack people with the most vile language not just their positions. Mortal sins against the virtue of charity are committed publicly and exacerbated by the mortal sin of pride by making mortal sins against charity somehow as something good.</p><p>Thus said, what good has Pope Francis accomplished in his long papacy?</p><p>Demos II highlighted that in the preamble of his recommendations to the next Conclave.</p><p>But in addition to that, Pope Francis has recovered orthodoxy in the following areas, all of which are a great challenge to the heterodox in the Church:</p><p>1. He has emphasized the devil and demonic temptations all within traditional pre-Vatican II orthodoxy on this subject. </p><p>2. He has recovered encouragement for popular devotions</p><p>3. He has recovered the femininity of the Church as Mother. For the heterodox this was anathama in the 1970’s as it challenged the heterodox agenda to blur the distinctions between male and female and their complementarity. On Thursday, the pope reiterated that the Church “is herself a woman, a daughter, a bride and a mother.”</p><p>4. Pope Francis has constantly call Catholics to repentance in the face of God’s infinite love and to make use of the Sacrament of Penance, Confession as a way to allow God’s grace lead us to repentance and a new life. </p><p>5. Pope Francis has encouraged Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Benediction and other Eucharistic devotions all of which are anathema to the heterodox. </p><p>6. Most recently, as it concerns the Pauline Mass, he has demanded that bishops, priests and deacons read the black and do the red and has done so without ambiguity. The heterodox oppose this. </p><p>7. The pope has promoted a pastoral approach to sinners and saints. He wants bishops, priests and deacons to be real people, identifying with the humanity of their parishioners and not just men of ritual with a preoccupation with ritual and form over being truly human, sympathetic and available for pastoral ministry.</p><p>These seven aspects of the current papacy are challenging to so-called liberal Catholic, in reality who are heterodox. This is a most positive development.</p><p>Finally, while this pope has used his authority against neo-traditionalists, actually modern Protestants, he has used his papal authority in a harsh way which opens the door for future popes who may be more traditional minded to use their authority against neo-heterodox and pure heterodoxy. This is positive. </p><p>He has also opened the door to future popes modifying or canceling some of the more controversial aspects and teachings of this pope or at least clarifying these ambiguous teachings. </p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-1864173194731202852024-03-06T16:17:00.004-05:002024-03-06T16:17:22.858-05:00MODERN MASS EYE CANDY<p> Tonight in the Cathedral in Tortona S.E. il Card. Angelo Bagnasco presided over the Eucharistic Celebration in the solemnity of San Martian. This is Bishop Guido Marini’s Cathedral. Perhaps the good cardinal was strategizing about the next pope…</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaF6OYsKGnbu5IitqaGhVLHGE9FpMg2ZPffhPeXRBelLaEuip86V0Wz7ecJD-W4td7wXGG47O3_spZtANXPLhrCUbO-LawyBF3f6lA4_vrnoamfkbGudU70g_OZqsqUW2KAmQ0m7gTsmlC-K4ywJSoMvMvySD1B1BbHhLUfBIDcK0Hv51JXRDaQ7gaqq0/s1434/IMG_3556.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1434" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaF6OYsKGnbu5IitqaGhVLHGE9FpMg2ZPffhPeXRBelLaEuip86V0Wz7ecJD-W4td7wXGG47O3_spZtANXPLhrCUbO-LawyBF3f6lA4_vrnoamfkbGudU70g_OZqsqUW2KAmQ0m7gTsmlC-K4ywJSoMvMvySD1B1BbHhLUfBIDcK0Hv51JXRDaQ7gaqq0/w640-h360/IMG_3556.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSzbWxkvaRaZn4oznCq3G1jv8wQr64PKLlUAR3o3l_lP3nM7yNwmGKOfJH5ro2GER03-oHZRCXHW-zF97Wzzb7l7dFKwC148sQvcoEVyZii_vXostTL-ICJ9T_LlYJQS91dhmrJggjKos55jlkPkAoqaSzQTRJ5RCoIgShEe6szWe2UNnZl4mLEhqFoE/s960/IMG_3557.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="960" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSzbWxkvaRaZn4oznCq3G1jv8wQr64PKLlUAR3o3l_lP3nM7yNwmGKOfJH5ro2GER03-oHZRCXHW-zF97Wzzb7l7dFKwC148sQvcoEVyZii_vXostTL-ICJ9T_LlYJQS91dhmrJggjKos55jlkPkAoqaSzQTRJ5RCoIgShEe6szWe2UNnZl4mLEhqFoE/w640-h354/IMG_3557.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWAkVz3_bLG1rDduk6V7Sk6LeaTQe2N4_oQTFJ4azdyG2Up3abtU-d_qz8RJp2dKXBYji-hW4JZMBqvmPrJ8DZ_BBdDvIA5GF0V8cM1SYto-r8YG674BUOMMz2GcldnWonFz971zB0eOI3EmEL6dYtWS7XUIYDt5pJHu-GILGa9cOYCV7cS9ZGNmHOzbE/s960/IMG_3558.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="960" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWAkVz3_bLG1rDduk6V7Sk6LeaTQe2N4_oQTFJ4azdyG2Up3abtU-d_qz8RJp2dKXBYji-hW4JZMBqvmPrJ8DZ_BBdDvIA5GF0V8cM1SYto-r8YG674BUOMMz2GcldnWonFz971zB0eOI3EmEL6dYtWS7XUIYDt5pJHu-GILGa9cOYCV7cS9ZGNmHOzbE/w640-h356/IMG_3558.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-41905940807160832132024-03-06T09:24:00.004-05:002024-03-06T09:27:56.550-05:00MORE EVIDENCE OF THOSE DAMNABLE TRADITIONALISTS AND THEIR SCHISMATIC WAYS! OR MAYBE IT IS NON TRADITIONALISTS MOCKING TRADITIONALISTS?<p> These have to be post-Vatican II traditionalists, no? (Press “watch on YouTube” to see the video):</p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/deLalNJv7B8?si=0c2Cz7NfatPidJdJ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-90314356517162152462024-03-06T07:50:00.001-05:002024-03-06T07:50:05.431-05:00WHICH MASS, THE TLM OR THE MVM HAVE ENABLED MORE CATHOLICS TO BREAK COMMUNION WITH THE POPE?<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">The majority of Catholics, which itself is a huge number of people, have gone into schism not by joining traditionalist communities but by becoming Protestant or non-denominational. These are Catholics completely formed by the Post Vatican II Church and her Modern Vernacular Mass!</span></h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0ZxGDRdETOQQMKZjmCF2vFSkMbly42cY5ppJ-UK12FmG6DmkZAmwyEjDZAiKSL7Az3lzmiot7EjQWmIGldcUwhAjABEPro2Bs_6ZX15epDgXGFvXgVf0-JAihUGenJDYbE_j4oKoaaObUIirNDuNnyfeBebI4hPtuLN0kBtafg5nlcNlXHWyUwSECZE/s259/IMG_3553.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0ZxGDRdETOQQMKZjmCF2vFSkMbly42cY5ppJ-UK12FmG6DmkZAmwyEjDZAiKSL7Az3lzmiot7EjQWmIGldcUwhAjABEPro2Bs_6ZX15epDgXGFvXgVf0-JAihUGenJDYbE_j4oKoaaObUIirNDuNnyfeBebI4hPtuLN0kBtafg5nlcNlXHWyUwSECZE/w640-h479/IMG_3553.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />One of the reasons that Pope Francis has tried to crush those Catholics he insults with such epithets as “backwards” “mentally ill” and just plain ignorant, is that the TLM drives people to break Communion with the Pope and Vatican II. <p></p><p>We know, at least I do, that the percentage of Catholics who prefer the TLM and its patrimony are quite small even compared to the 5% to 12% of Catholics who bother to attend the Modern Mass on Sunday. They are far outnumbered by those Catholics who cease to go to any Catholic Mass. </p><p>But within traditionalist communities, only a small number would consider breaking Communion with the pope and joining the SSPX if the TLM was no longer offered by their diocese. </p><p>They might go to an SSPX Mass just as some might go to an Eastern Orthodox Liturgy but would still consider themselves Catholics in good standing with the Church, meaning they would not join these ecclesial communions only attend liturgy with them.</p><p>But all of that is a smoke screen to hide the true schism in the Church. As I mentioned in some places as little as 2% to 5% of Catholics actually attend any Catholic Mass. </p><p>In my neck of the woods, the problem, apart from those who attend no religious services, are those Catholics who have become Protestant. Most are attracted to the non-denominational cults. </p><p>In Savannah, the largest Protestant Church in the city is a non-denominational community called Compassion Church. It is a mega church. And it has a slew of Catholics who no longer identify as Catholics who are their members. Of course many Catholics have chosen more traditional forms of Protestantism, becoming Episcopalian (to include some of the Diocese of Savannah priests). Some have become Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptists. Some have joined the Pentecostal communions.</p><p>Yet, the blog, <b><i>Where Peter is</i></b> is worried more about the FSSP and SSPX and the traditional Latin Mass celebrated in normal parishes as the greatest threat to ecclesial communion with the pope and Vatican II.</p><p>And you know what I say to that? What the hell??????</p><p>Catholics who have chosen Protestant Communions have done so as a result of their experience in post-Vatican II parishes and the distorted celebrations of the Modern Vernacular Mass of Vatican II.</p><p>They far out number, far out number, did I say, far out number those Catholics who have gone into schism by joining break away traditionalist ecclesial communions. Far out number, did I say that?</p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red;">The schism in the Church today is from those who were formed by the post-Vatican II Church, not those formed by the pre-Vatican II Church or prefer the Pre-Vatican II Liturgies and anthropology and ecclesiology!</span></i></h1>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-24495924450739556672024-03-05T12:29:00.002-05:002024-03-05T12:29:31.840-05:00WHILE THE REST OF THE CATHOLIC WORLD IS IN THE PENITENTIAL SEASON OF LENT, SAVANNAH IS IN THE FESTIVE, DRUNKEN GLUTTONY AND DEBAUCHERY OF THE SEASON OF SAINT PATRICK!<h1 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #38761d;">WHAT’S CONFUSING ABOUT THE SEASON OF SAINT PATRICK IS THAT THIS LITURGICAL SEASON IS GREEN, NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WITH ORDINARY TIME, NOT A FESTIVE SEASON LIKE THAT OF SAINT PATRICK! </span></h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zCgrJ9f-E3VdsDVyw3Why0797wByar7Nc7FTbnZDGccBP8BHQulpyTfqjzMchOfJhz03eNcijBiNtdnof9amIDttV9zhqrHGM6zyYrTswkORl_jbvBs0LSn7xJGhxlPdWhdGpMfZWmUaFBcI_nTaqVDaLHZudd6q-6ergmk-NBMfErz47zAvm6Et53Y/s300/IMG_3552.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zCgrJ9f-E3VdsDVyw3Why0797wByar7Nc7FTbnZDGccBP8BHQulpyTfqjzMchOfJhz03eNcijBiNtdnof9amIDttV9zhqrHGM6zyYrTswkORl_jbvBs0LSn7xJGhxlPdWhdGpMfZWmUaFBcI_nTaqVDaLHZudd6q-6ergmk-NBMfErz47zAvm6Et53Y/w640-h358/IMG_3552.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-6140244435305931592024-03-05T12:06:00.008-05:002024-03-05T12:10:50.546-05:00ONE LESS BLOG TO COMPETE WITH MY WILDLY POPULAR BLOG…<h1 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #800180;">AND GUESS WHAT! IT WAS A FRINGE TRADITIONALIST GROUP THAT BROUGHT IT DOWN! YES, YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY. POPE FRANCIS’ FAVORITE PERIPHERY BROUGHT IT DOWN, A FRINGE TRADITIONALIST CATHOLIC GROUP! O MY! YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! MAYBE IN THANKSGIVING, POPE FRANCIS WILL CANCEL TC!!!!</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3vwMxtqT7gRL-xwhbtgV91pyOeXrVze_ZeoDP4mWqquqskfUsv-34wYAwZfPsuxT5lgey3NYjfGI6OTmTGXabu-FXJ9W9VDGx0tcvCt8BvINyUWL-ka66SlkZmmCdJ-ajsyEukR6MPaMVvb1ZULwk9ErurjPpTZXOmLT8erupP4qfLOLFqPi-WbVz9M/s600/IMG_3551.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="600" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha3vwMxtqT7gRL-xwhbtgV91pyOeXrVze_ZeoDP4mWqquqskfUsv-34wYAwZfPsuxT5lgey3NYjfGI6OTmTGXabu-FXJ9W9VDGx0tcvCt8BvINyUWL-ka66SlkZmmCdJ-ajsyEukR6MPaMVvb1ZULwk9ErurjPpTZXOmLT8erupP4qfLOLFqPi-WbVz9M/w640-h354/IMG_3551.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="row row-7" role="presentation" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="row-content stack" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column column-1" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top; width: 608px;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="heading_block block-1" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 10px; text-align: center; width: 608px;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 27.6px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="tinyMce-placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://osv.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uc%5EcnyygnSaqyS6dgk3LA82QyL%7Cs5k78BEGthpa7jXFgk0B%7Em2p" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vortex of scandal leads to Church Militant closure</a></span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="row row-8" role="presentation" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="row-content stack" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column column-1" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; vertical-align: top; width: 608px;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="text_block block-1" role="presentation" style="width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;">The Ferndale, Michigan-based Church Militant will discontinue operations thanks to a legal drama set in motion by a fringe traditionalist group and its canon lawyer. On Feb. 29, Church Militant and its parent non-profit, St. Michael’s Media, announced a settlement of the defamation lawsuit brought forward by Father Georges de Laire, the judicial vicar of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire. Find out how the lawsuit forced the closure of the controversial media outlet.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="row row-9" role="presentation" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="row-content stack" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: black; margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column column-1" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding-bottom: 5px; vertical-align: top; width: 608px;" width="100%"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" class="button_block block-1" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div align="center" class="alignment" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://osv.omeclk.com/portal/wts/uc%5EcnyygnSaqyS6dgk4qA82QyL%7Cs5k78BEGthpa7jXFgk0B%7Em2p" style="background-color: #d12030; border-color: transparent; border-radius: 23px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: auto; word-break: keep-all;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-mce-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px;">Read more</span></strong></span></span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-30345573668520350302024-03-05T09:44:00.002-05:002024-03-05T09:44:43.295-05:00BESIDES THE USUAL SUSPECTS, WHO MIGHT DEMOS II BE?????<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi580FEkltD6GIv2SXV2-aIobbDbInq5HOgCHx5eZ9HKi4EwnBcjTnfOyP6QvVM2zdPC4tRDanS3xC6cz_NzS9dUd5SEtybHMTFD1k4zFmn-h_1kfN7Tr3QXzyUGFa6BfR3Yw7396hMEFZX9yeaRUJ_aEZ7SmNv8jOYrcxJhTFpYiC2KQNIK4ZDU3IK7_Q/s258/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="258" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi580FEkltD6GIv2SXV2-aIobbDbInq5HOgCHx5eZ9HKi4EwnBcjTnfOyP6QvVM2zdPC4tRDanS3xC6cz_NzS9dUd5SEtybHMTFD1k4zFmn-h_1kfN7Tr3QXzyUGFa6BfR3Yw7396hMEFZX9yeaRUJ_aEZ7SmNv8jOYrcxJhTFpYiC2KQNIK4ZDU3IK7_Q/w640-h484/Untitled.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> I was shocked, I mean shocked, to learn that Cardinal Pell was Demos I. He nailed the problems that the next conclave would have to take up in discerning who the next pope will be. <p></p><p>And now we have Demos II, also anonymous. Will we ever learn that Cardinal's identity?</p><p>If you ever watched the TV show "To Tell the Truth" maybe we will learn, when three cardinals play Demos II claiming to be him and at the end the true Demos II stands up!</p><p>Of course the usual suspects might be Cardinals Mueller, Burke, Sarah, although I would rule out Sarah right away but I would have also ruled out Cardinal Pell as Demos I.</p><p>Might it be Cardinal Dolan? Prior to Demos II making his case, New York had two F***** S******* events with worldwide news coverage, the sacrilege in the Nation's Cathedral, Saint Patrick's, LGBTQ+++ related and the same group renting an Archdiocesan facility for kinky sex instructions. You can't make this stuff up!</p><p>And then Demos II issues his document for the next conclave. Is Cardinal Dolan guilty as charged in being the author and how convenient it comes o the heels of the two LGBTQ+++ scandals in his archdiocese.</p><p>It might it be the previous Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the good Spanish Jesuit Cardinal Ladaria.<br /></p><p>Once Pope Francis dumped him and selected Cardinal Fernandez to take over, Cardinal Ladaria refused to be a part of the Synod on synodality this past October to which he had been appointed by Pope Francis. I am sure, he is aghast at what has happened to the Church's doctrine in the past 11 years. Maybe he is Demos II?</p><p>Or might it be Cardinal Cupich? This would be a stealthy way to get himself elected the next pope by telling the truth to the College of Cardinals about what needs to be done at the next Conclave? But even I acknowledge that Cupich would be a dark horse candidate for Demos II!</p><p>Who do you think it is and why?<br /></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-10562867132458591772024-03-05T07:00:00.001-05:002024-03-05T07:03:17.945-05:00A TRULY LIBERAL AND MAGNANIMOUS POPE—A ROLE MODEL FOR ALL FUTURE POPE, IN PARTICULAR THE SUCCESSOR OF POPE FRANCIS…<h1 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNLrkQtBlcMEOTp9EQiI7ojEPIwjRoHvX3E_CVR6hbO6EvENF1u6WK18R-yEWyUtT79v1WK2onG6YjHkXiM3hcHJxA7d-CCgCaeIqDMgqAVT85oB_eO_BagaSGMu9jOOByJHlZhh8HbkHVyOc79FTxw4vyy5gSf4Q2xNRijq9blpEkUdzClNy0CFbzZBU/s300/IMG_3550.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="300" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNLrkQtBlcMEOTp9EQiI7ojEPIwjRoHvX3E_CVR6hbO6EvENF1u6WK18R-yEWyUtT79v1WK2onG6YjHkXiM3hcHJxA7d-CCgCaeIqDMgqAVT85oB_eO_BagaSGMu9jOOByJHlZhh8HbkHVyOc79FTxw4vyy5gSf4Q2xNRijq9blpEkUdzClNy0CFbzZBU/w640-h169/IMG_3550.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>Lest we forget Pope Benedict’s brilliant liturgical reform, a threat to those who are backward looking when it comes to the 1970 Roman Missal:</h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This letter of Pope Benedict XVI was issued 7 July 2007 together with his Apostolic Letter "Summorum Pontificum" on the celebration of the Roman Rite according to the Missal of 1962. The following is the Vatican's unofficial translation of the official Latin text.</i></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Apostolic Letter<i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Summorum Pontificum issued Motu Proprio</i></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">My dear Brother Bishops,</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">With great trust and hope, I am consigning to you as Pastors the text of a new Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data" on the use of the Roman liturgy prior to the reform of 1970. The document is the fruit of much reflection, numerous consultations and prayer.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">News reports and judgments made without sufficient information have created no little confusion. There have been very divergent reactions ranging from joyful acceptance to harsh opposition, about a plan whose contents were in reality unknown.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This document was most directly opposed on account of two fears, which I would like to address somewhat more closely in this letter.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In the first place, there is the fear that the document detracts from the authority of the Second Vatican Council, one of whose essential decisions – the liturgical reform – is being called into question. This fear is unfounded. In this regard, it must first be said that the Missal published by Paul VI and then republished in two subsequent editions by John Paul II, obviously is and continues to be the normal Form – the Forma ordinaria – of the Eucharistic Liturgy. The last version of the Missale Romanum prior to the Council, which was published with the authority of Pope John XXIII in 1962 and used during the Council, will now be able to be used as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgical celebration. <b><i><span style="color: red;">It is not appropriate to speak of these two versions of the Roman Missal as if they were "two Rites". Rather, it is a matter of a twofold use of one and the same rite.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">As for the use of the 1962 Missal as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgy of the Mass, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this Missal was never juridically abrogated and, consequently, in principle, was always permitted. </span></i></b>At the time of the introduction of the new Missal, it did not seem necessary to issue specific norms for the possible use of the earlier Missal. Probably it was thought that it would be a matter of a few individual cases which would be resolved, case by case, on the local level. Afterwards, however, it soon became apparent that a good number of people remained strongly attached to this usage of the Roman Rite, which had been familiar to them from childhood. This was especially the case in countries where the liturgical movement had provided many people with a notable liturgical formation and a deep, personal familiarity with the earlier Form of the liturgical celebration. We all know that, in the movement led by Archbishop Lefebvre, fidelity to the old Missal became an external mark of identity; the reasons for the break which arose over this, however, were at a deeper level. <b><i><span style="color: red;">Many people who clearly accepted the binding character of the Second Vatican Council, and were faithful to the Pope and the Bishops, nonetheless also desired to recover the form of the sacred liturgy that was dear to them. This occurred above all because in many places celebrations were not faithful to the prescriptions of the new Missal, but the latter actually was understood as authorizing or even requiring creativity, which frequently led to deformations of the liturgy which were hard to bear. I am speaking from experience, since I too lived through that period with all its hopes and its confusion. And I have seen how arbitrary deformations of the liturgy caused deep pain to individuals totally rooted in the faith of the Church.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Pope John Paul II thus felt obliged to provide, in his Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei (2 July 1988), guidelines for the use of the 1962 Missal; that document, however, did not contain detailed prescriptions but appealed in a general way to the generous response of Bishops towards the "legitimate aspirations" of those members of the faithful who requested this usage of the Roman Rite. At the time, the Pope primarily wanted to assist the Society of Saint Pius X to recover full unity with the Successor of Peter, and sought to heal a wound experienced ever more painfully. Unfortunately this reconciliation has not yet come about. Nonetheless, a number of communities have gratefully made use of the possibilities provided by the Motu Proprio. On the other hand, difficulties remain concerning the use of the 1962 Missal outside of these groups, because of the lack of precise juridical norms, particularly because Bishops, in such cases, frequently feared that the authority of the Council would be called into question. Immediately after the Second Vatican Council it was presumed that requests for the use of the 1962 Missal would be limited to the older generation which had grown up with it, but in the meantime it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them. Thus the need has arisen for a clearer juridical regulation which had not been foreseen at the time of the 1988 Motu Proprio. The present Norms are also meant to free Bishops from constantly having to evaluate anew how they are to respond to various situations.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In the second place, the fear was expressed in discussions about the awaited Motu Proprio, that the possibility of a wider use of the 1962 Missal would lead to disarray or even divisions within parish communities. This fear also strikes me as quite unfounded. The use of the old Missal presupposes a certain degree of liturgical formation and some knowledge of the Latin language; neither of these is found very often. Already from these concrete presuppositions, it is clearly seen that the new Missal will certainly remain the ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, not only on account of the juridical norms, but also because of the actual situation of the communities of the faithful.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">It is true that there have been exaggerations and at times social aspects unduly linked to the attitude of the faithful attached to the ancient Latin liturgical tradition. Your charity and pastoral prudence will be an incentive and guide for improving these. For that matter, the two Forms of the usage of the Roman Rite can be mutually enriching: new Saints and some of the new Prefaces can and should be inserted in the old Missal. The "Ecclesia Dei" Commission, in contact with various bodies devoted to the usus antiquior, will study the practical possibilities in this regard. <b><i><span style="color: red;">The celebration of the Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI will be able to demonstrate, more powerfully than has been the case hitherto, the sacrality which attracts many people to the former usage. The most sure guarantee that the Missal of Paul VI can unite parish communities and be loved by them consists in its being celebrated with great reverence in harmony with the liturgical directives. This will bring out the spiritual richness and the theological depth of this Missal.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">I now come to the positive reason which motivated my decision to issue this Motu Proprio updating that of 1988. It is a matter of coming to an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church. </span></i></b>Looking back over the past, to the divisions which in the course of the centuries have rent the Body of Christ, one continually has the impression that, at critical moments when divisions were coming about, not enough was done by the Church’s leaders to maintain or regain reconciliation and unity. One has the impression that omissions on the part of the Church have had their share of blame for the fact that these divisions were able to harden. This glance at the past imposes an obligation on us today: to make every effort to unable for all those who truly desire unity to remain in that unity or to attain it anew. I think of a sentence in the Second Letter to the Corinthians, where Paul writes: "Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. In return … widen your hearts also!" (2 Cor 6:11-13). Paul was certainly speaking in another context, but his exhortation can and must touch us too, precisely on this subject. Let us generously open our hearts and make room for everything that the faith itself allows.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">There is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal. In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place. Needless to say, in order to experience full communion, the priests of the communities adhering to the former usage cannot, as a matter of principle, exclude celebrating according to the new books. The total exclusion of the new rite would not in fact be consistent with the recognition of its value and holiness.</span></i></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In conclusion, dear Brothers, I very much wish to stress that these new norms do not in any way lessen your own authority and responsibility, either for the liturgy or for the pastoral care of your faithful. Each Bishop, in fact, is the moderator of the liturgy in his own Diocese (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, 22: "Sacrae Liturgiae moderatio ab Ecclesiae auctoritate unice pendet quae quidem est apud Apostolicam Sedem et, ad normam iuris, apud Episcopum").</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Nothing is taken away, then, from the authority of the Bishop, whose role remains that of being watchful that all is done in peace and serenity. Should some problem arise which the parish priest cannot resolve, the local Ordinary will always be able to intervene, in full harmony, however, with all that has been laid down by the new norms of the Motu Proprio.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Furthermore, I invite you, dear Brothers, to send to the Holy See an account of your experiences, three years after this Motu Proprio has taken effect. If truly serious difficulties come to light, ways to remedy them can be sought.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Dear Brothers, with gratitude and trust, I entrust to your hearts as Pastors these pages and the norms of the Motu Proprio. Let us always be mindful of the words of the Apostle Paul addressed to the presbyters of Ephesus: "Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the Church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son" (Acts 20:28).</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">I entrust these norms to the powerful intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, and I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing to you, dear Brothers, to the parish priests of your dioceses, and to all the priests, your co-workers, as well as to all your faithful.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Given at Saint Peter’s, 7 July 2007</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: left;">What was Pope Benedict’s reaction to Pope Francis sending the 1962 Roman Missal back to a time prior to 1988? Let’s listen to one who knows the truth and exactly that truth:</h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: "Goudy Old Style"; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: currentcolor !important;">New curbs on the Traditional Latin Mass “broke Pope Benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: "Goudy Old Style"; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: currentcolor !important;">Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the closest confidant of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, revealed that the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: currentcolor !important;">de facto</em> reversal of his policies to liberate the Old Mass came as a heavy blow to the former pontiff, who died on Saturday at the age of 95.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: "Goudy Old Style"; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: currentcolor !important;">“It hit him pretty hard,” said the archbishop. “I believe it broke Pope Benedict’s heart to read the new <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: currentcolor !important;">motu proprio</em> because his intention had been to help those who simply found a home in the Old Mass to find inner peace, to find liturgical peace, in order to draw them away from [the schism of Marcel] Lefebvre. </p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: "Goudy Old Style"; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: currentcolor !important;">“And if you think about how many centuries the Old Mass was the source of spiritual life and nourishment for many people, including many saints, it’s impossible to imagine that it no longer has anything to offer.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: "Goudy Old Style"; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: currentcolor !important;">He added: “Let’s not forget that many young people who were born long after Vatican II and who don’t really understand all the drama surrounding the Council, that these young people, knowing the New Mass, have nevertheless found a spiritual home, a spiritual treasure, in the Old Mass as well.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-family: "Goudy Old Style"; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: currentcolor !important;">“To take this treasure away from people – well, I can’t say I am comfortable with that.”</p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-13557521737272106952024-03-04T06:59:00.002-05:002024-03-04T06:59:58.105-05:00IS WHAT IS CELEBRATED IN 99% OF PARISHES REALLY WHAT POPE PAUL VI ENVISIONED FOR THE POST VATICAN II MASS HE AND HIS COMMITTEE MANUFACTURED?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBQfR6FXf4xajbXbUWzjqjoLGr61AbA9GSHSQL8pIVH-oSVyiNq4Sk_kFnA45MY9LhUcQGHd6XlQuk-THgiZMdIQNL9o4RjJy3juMczyqPjLIJgyGL6BtAdlrA4bFmUyIG1IjCykHJcOwRk8WPiYEkw3NMdGZUH6aclx1EBvQjQNahHOedxtoAx9XhzU/s545/IMG_2916.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="369" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBQfR6FXf4xajbXbUWzjqjoLGr61AbA9GSHSQL8pIVH-oSVyiNq4Sk_kFnA45MY9LhUcQGHd6XlQuk-THgiZMdIQNL9o4RjJy3juMczyqPjLIJgyGL6BtAdlrA4bFmUyIG1IjCykHJcOwRk8WPiYEkw3NMdGZUH6aclx1EBvQjQNahHOedxtoAx9XhzU/w434-h640/IMG_2916.jpeg" width="434" /></a></div><br />Even Pope Francis realizes the disaster of how the Pauline Mass is celebrated and really since it was promulgated on the First Sunday of Advent, 1969.<p></p><p>1. Sloppiness reigned</p><p>2. Reverence was redefined which was irreverence</p><p>3. Disobedience to the rubrics was the norm</p><p>4. Ad libbing came quickly with made up prayers even made-up Eucharistic Prayers.</p><p>5. Sacred Scripture was substituted with other readings, mostly secular.</p><p>The disobedience led to approved reforms that Pope Paul VI never envisioned.</p><p>1. Eucharistic Ministers becoming the norm rather than the exception</p><p>2. Female altar servers, banned and forbidden, but through disobedience, finally was approved by the mid 1980’s</p><p>3. Communion in the hand, once forbidden, was approved because of widespread disobedience. </p><p>In no way, unless one lives in a fantasy land, can we say that the manner in which the Mass is celebrated today is what Pope Paul VI, let alone Vatican II, envisioned for the reform of the Mass.</p><p>And I haven’t even touched on the abysmal state of hymns sung at Mass, to include secular ditties or religious words set to secular tunes. I had a parishioner just yesterday, after Sunday Mass, say he was in Zurich, Switzerland for two Sundays and both Sundays, the Mass had music performed by a jazz band that was seated in the sanctuary and secular, popular music was sung. Can anyone say this is what Vatican II wanted? Evidently some to and some bishops don’t care what parishes do with the Mass—Vatican II wanted this?</p><p>How many parishes in the world chant the propers with Gregorian Chant which Vatican II said was to be maintained?</p><p>Howe many parishes celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist ad orientem since the General Instruction of the Modern Mass envisions it and allows both ad orientem and toward to the nave?</p><p>How many parishes allow the reception of Holy Communion, kneeling, on the tongue and at a restore altar railing? </p><p>All of these options are Vatican II and are allowed but if a bishop says no, then his disobedience must be followed. Is that Vatican II?</p><p>Pope Benedict XVI realized the abysmal failure the Vatican II Mass is because of its distorted celebrations and so does Pope Francis, but only recently acknowledging it. Pope Benedict nailed it when he said the New Mass was manufactured, not organically developed, respecting what was the previous ancient tradition. </p><p>He knew the way to true liturgical renewal. The current cabal of 1970’s liturgical ideologues in the Vatican are clueless and wish to cancel Pope Benedict’s vision of the much needed “reform of the reform.” They won’t win, because they are all aging people who are entering or have entered the final stages of their life.</p><p>There is hope, liturgical hope and hope for the heavenly liturgy properly celebrated on earth!</p><p><br /></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-41118156472486472332024-03-01T08:26:00.003-05:002024-03-01T08:26:53.387-05:00BOMBSHELL—POPE FRANCIS CONDEMNS GENDER IDEOLOGY! DUH!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg73Ng7opjxaaEsVJ6FwGvsy80wA7P0Qx1_choUsIxbdJOfzJTlOySb9CXTrwnVdyieO-iadsOhnCUlnK09pBaIoDI8brIN_os-w0x-MaNG-H7Ry5U69i91qoebLqPbpBmR-WDUpDLF_hfLK3tkucsWhXKReN2ukRnM5JfBQuTHuvWbIilwYAgRbgiWqF8/s1500/IMG_3544.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg73Ng7opjxaaEsVJ6FwGvsy80wA7P0Qx1_choUsIxbdJOfzJTlOySb9CXTrwnVdyieO-iadsOhnCUlnK09pBaIoDI8brIN_os-w0x-MaNG-H7Ry5U69i91qoebLqPbpBmR-WDUpDLF_hfLK3tkucsWhXKReN2ukRnM5JfBQuTHuvWbIilwYAgRbgiWqF8/w640-h360/IMG_3544.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />This report is from Vatican News. For Pope Francis to reiterate traditional teaching on gender ideology and the Biblical anthropology of humanity made in the image and likeness of God, male and female did he create them, to be considered a bombshell coming from this pope, reiterates what Demos II has said about what the new pope must do, clean up ambiguity and make clear Jesus Christ! When this pope is clear about Church doctrine, it is seen as a bombshell. Think about that!<p></p><p>Press title for Vatican News article:</p><h2 class="teaser__title" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl"; font-size: 38px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px; max-height: none; max-width: 100%; overflow: unset; padding: 0px 10px 10px; width: 492px;"><a aria-label="Pope Francis gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time" href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-03/pope-francis-gender-ideology-is-the-ugliest-danger-of-our-time.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pope Francis gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Pope Francis gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time</span></span></a></h2>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53829057556455835472024-03-01T08:04:00.002-05:002024-03-01T08:04:09.665-05:00DEMOS II DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE LITURGY AND THE NEXT POPE, SO I WILL!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSlv1yyi80PlO6MNhfwAy38jVK6a_mKey6WnxfJQY3j_qs3iEloXDf5EaDYpHr0Qv5mgX3TInQX1pY9Rp8NEvtywhwVQECfapCdwMbgagiqL5s9_VO9c7IpIC7mpXRej7I95fI6B1qK4sE0UeXYZdmY9LWsByiuErRdm1MZDhsoB02sVjE2NUDv8mRuMY/s2158/IMG_3249.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="2158" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSlv1yyi80PlO6MNhfwAy38jVK6a_mKey6WnxfJQY3j_qs3iEloXDf5EaDYpHr0Qv5mgX3TInQX1pY9Rp8NEvtywhwVQECfapCdwMbgagiqL5s9_VO9c7IpIC7mpXRej7I95fI6B1qK4sE0UeXYZdmY9LWsByiuErRdm1MZDhsoB02sVjE2NUDv8mRuMY/w640-h344/IMG_3249.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87PNqCGxwfSDNLgkmGUPPSNmp5glcafrKp6afq4YPfDejjPuKCl7qu-hkLiXbhuml3-TblKuWy_l9q4GY20LmxSev-h5QIdpRbe26Fvd6mmNoWKZm0FiYCIpC_yW0puQdBYwSW7-iKMJkxuDuBWh-ls60tSNYjEI3e7u_MooO1SyMPgMlmQk3Io3r1X0/s2160/IMG_3257.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87PNqCGxwfSDNLgkmGUPPSNmp5glcafrKp6afq4YPfDejjPuKCl7qu-hkLiXbhuml3-TblKuWy_l9q4GY20LmxSev-h5QIdpRbe26Fvd6mmNoWKZm0FiYCIpC_yW0puQdBYwSW7-iKMJkxuDuBWh-ls60tSNYjEI3e7u_MooO1SyMPgMlmQk3Io3r1X0/w640-h480/IMG_3257.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />We know that Pope Francis has reignited the liturgy wars, calmed down by Pope Benedict XVI and his gracious allowance of the pre-Vatican II Liturgies. At the same time, Pope Benedict made clear that the Modern Revised Mass was the norm for the Church but it needed the “reform of the reform” in continuity with the previous manner of liturgies. <p></p><p>This was brilliant. There is no need to suppress the older Mass, just make sure it is the exception rather than the rule and that the revised Mass is the norm, but in need of reform to make it more like the Ancient form of the liturgies. </p><p>The pressing liturgical issue for the next pope is to undo the suppression of Pope Benedict’s gracious vision of the liturgy and allowance of the ancient liturgies. Then based on the ancient liturgies, the pope should revise and reform the Modern Mass exactly as Sacrosanctum Concilium stated the reforms.</p><p>The Modern Mass has what SC desired but went way beyond it too. A more sober revision of the ancient liturgies needs to take place. </p><p>1. Return to the ancient order of the Mass and limit options which would be a return to noble simplicity</p><p>2. Revise the revised lectionary and make it more like the TLM’s lectionary in the sense of eliminating one of the readings but maintaining a three year cycle for Sundays. The current daily Mass lectionary is fine and needs no revision. But three major readings at Mass is too much as is 15 to 20 minute homilies. Less is more! Attention spans cause people be less engaged in the Mass and thwarts active participation.</p><p>3. Find a way to maintain Latin for the unchanging parts of the Mass</p><p>4. Demand that the Propers of the Mass never be substituted by anyone with chosen hymns and chosen by someone’s own personal tastes and creativity. Demand that in Sung Mass, Gregorian Chant and Polyphony are maintained especially for the propers. The Propers for the most part are Sacred Scripture and there is no need for everyone to say or sing these as there is no need for everyone to say the Readings of the Liturgy of the Word!</p><p>5. Recover the rubrics and directions of the Ancient Liturgies. This will curtail unscrupulosity and creativity!</p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-80513031267374088122024-02-29T14:55:00.001-05:002024-02-29T14:55:06.156-05:00DEMOS II BOMBSHELL ON THIS LEAP DAY!<h1 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3XZ3VvP87RHQMF1jaXsagdTRYVf3HUt8YnJTFDQ9zGwHdj9nVjfNoQtQUkpkh5NwG8QTmZR_GwTDI0tBRvvTkFl5ygmaq6qCCOLF3sgoTHkUnOT27VufAZefnywJfc5j8jfEYp-47OEi24eb60cKaUxTTDMuKTf4PmfROUNuQqUoZyx-iwVXNhZ1RtI/s474/IMG_6957.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="474" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3XZ3VvP87RHQMF1jaXsagdTRYVf3HUt8YnJTFDQ9zGwHdj9nVjfNoQtQUkpkh5NwG8QTmZR_GwTDI0tBRvvTkFl5ygmaq6qCCOLF3sgoTHkUnOT27VufAZefnywJfc5j8jfEYp-47OEi24eb60cKaUxTTDMuKTf4PmfROUNuQqUoZyx-iwVXNhZ1RtI/w640-h384/IMG_6957.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />IMO, Seems to be a sound program for the upcoming Conclave! What do you think?</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYcCLCvxJvj_0fW26WXAMxnE4TP1lqtldYW_CpLUDr0r_HEFQt1hWT1GxvUuNeFB3rDZkTLKqxIk-HEmyABDY1n4o52g9cN2Nxmvs36t68j8evwXMyYyYIdgyagUNsxmeZem_tNXp4NvcLzCOSR_3ASvyo-HDq7Ic7ItV20CQhbixO83so2k5hMB-ooA/s275/IMG_3543.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYcCLCvxJvj_0fW26WXAMxnE4TP1lqtldYW_CpLUDr0r_HEFQt1hWT1GxvUuNeFB3rDZkTLKqxIk-HEmyABDY1n4o52g9cN2Nxmvs36t68j8evwXMyYyYIdgyagUNsxmeZem_tNXp4NvcLzCOSR_3ASvyo-HDq7Ic7ItV20CQhbixO83so2k5hMB-ooA/w640-h426/IMG_3543.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz1wHvrdnDBil015P1Q_PFv4OLqQFXGXYvalRn2FkG9wSSzvY3hFsy_L2WIMAQfuUsb_MlqesRcRpuw8t7yCTqeUqjjHnudxs3zSutgaN_ZIoWAeot4kBeRMK-qFm2kjjCVkLCwD0tmvAdenEWx8LUqK485fQ0_SALjkxvH1fjEMQrteijXbZ0ZAAtjdI/s259/IMG_3542.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz1wHvrdnDBil015P1Q_PFv4OLqQFXGXYvalRn2FkG9wSSzvY3hFsy_L2WIMAQfuUsb_MlqesRcRpuw8t7yCTqeUqjjHnudxs3zSutgaN_ZIoWAeot4kBeRMK-qFm2kjjCVkLCwD0tmvAdenEWx8LUqK485fQ0_SALjkxvH1fjEMQrteijXbZ0ZAAtjdI/w640-h479/IMG_3542.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://newdailycompass.com/en/a-profile-of-the-next-pope-writes-cardinal"><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px;">The New </em><span face="Barlow, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 19.200001px;">Daily Compass</span></a><em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px;"> is publishing an exclusive document in six languages, intended to circulate among cardinals in view of the forthcoming conclave and among the faithful as food for thought on the priorities of the Church. The text was written principally by a cardinal after he collated the suggestions of other cardinals and bishops. They have chosen to remain anonymous for the reasons explained in the letter.</em></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://newdailycompass.com/en/a-profile-of-the-next-pope-writes-cardinal">The Vatican Tomorrow</a></span></h1><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">(February 29, 2024) In March 2022, an anonymous text appeared – signed “Demos” and titled the “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220315084708/http:/magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2022/03/15/a-memorandum-on-the-next-conclave-is-circulating-among-the-cardinals-here-it-is/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(var(--bs-link-color-rgb), var(--bs-link-opacity, 1)); text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s ease-in-out;">The Vatican Today</a>” – that raised a number of serious questions and criticisms regarding the pontificate of Pope Francis. Conditions in the Church since that text appeared have not materially changed, much less improved. Thus, the thoughts offered here are intended to build on those original reflections in light of the needs of the Vatican tomorrow.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The concluding years of a pontificate, any pontificate,</span> are a time to assess the condition of the Church in the present, and the needs of the Church and her faithful going forward. It is clear that the strength of Pope Francis’ pontificate is the added emphasis he has given to compassion toward the weak, outreach to the poor and marginalized, concern for the dignity of creation and the environmental issues that flow from it, and efforts to accompany the suffering and alienated in their burdens.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Its shortcomings are equally obvious: </span>an autocratic, at times seemingly vindictive, style of governance; a carelessness in matters of law; an intolerance for even respectful disagreement; and – most seriously – a pattern of ambiguity in matters of faith and morals causing confusion among the faithful. Confusion breeds division and conflict. It undermines confidence in the Word of God. It weakens evangelical witness. And the result today is a Church more fractured than at any time in her recent history.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The task of the next pontificate must therefore be one of recovery and reestablishment</span> of truths that have been slowly obscured or lost among many Christians. These include but are not limited to such basics as the following: (a) no one is saved except through, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">only</em>through, Jesus Christ, as he himself made clear; (b) God is merciful but also just, and is intimately concerned with every human life, He forgives but He also holds us accountable, He is both Savior and Judge; (c) man is God’s creature, not a self-invention, a creature not merely of emotion and appetites but also of intellect, free will, and an eternal destiny; (d) unchanging objective truths about the world and human nature exist and are knowable through Divine Revelation and the exercise of reason; (e) God’s Word, recorded in Scripture, is reliable and has permanent force; (f) sin is real and its effects are lethal; and (g) his Church has both the authority and the duty to “make disciples of all nations.” The failure to joyfully embrace that work of missionary, salvific love has consequences. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 9:16, “woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Some practical observations flow from the task and list above.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">First:</em> Real authority is damaged by authoritarian means in its exercise.</span> The Pope is a Successor of Peter and the guarantor of Church unity. But he is not an autocrat. He cannot change Church doctrine, and he must not invent or alter the Church’s discipline arbitrarily. He governs the Church collegially with his brother bishops in local dioceses. And he does so <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">always</em> in faithful continuity with the Word of God and Church teaching. “New paradigms” and “unexplored new paths” that deviate from either are not of God. A new Pope must restore the hermeneutic of continuity in Catholic life and reassert Vatican II’s understanding of the papacy’s proper role.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Second: </em>Just as the Church is not an autocracy, neither is she a democracy.</span>The Church belongs to Jesus Christ. She is his Church. She is Christ’s Mystical Body, made up of many members. We have no authority to refashion her teachings to fit more comfortably with the world. Moreover, the Catholic <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sensus fidelium</em> is not a matter of opinion surveys nor even the view of a baptized majority. It derives only from those who genuinely believe and actively practice, or at least sincerely seek to practice, the faith and teachings of the Church.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Third:</em> Ambiguity is neither evangelical nor welcoming.</span> Rather, it breeds doubt and feeds schismatic impulses. The Church is a community not just of Word and sacrament, but also of creed. What we believe helps to define and sustain us. Thus, doctrinal issues are not burdens imposed by unfeeling “doctors of the law.” Nor are they cerebral sideshows to the Christian life. On the contrary, they’re vital to living a Christian life authentically, because they deal with applications of the truth, and the truth demands clarity, not ambivalent nuance. From the start, the current pontificate has resisted the evangelical force and intellectual clarity of its immediate predecessors. The dismantling and repurposing of Rome’s John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family and the marginalizing of texts like <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Veritatis Splendor </em>suggest an elevation of “compassion” and emotion at the expense of reason, justice, and truth. For a creedal community, this is both unhealthy and profoundly dangerous.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fourth:</em> The Catholic Church, in addition to Word, sacrament, and creed, is also a community of law. </span>Canon law orders Church life, harmonizes its institutions and procedures, and guarantees the rights of believers. Among the marks of the current pontificate are its excessive reliance on the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">motu proprio</em> as a tool for governance and a general carelessness and distaste for canonical detail. Again, as with ambiguity of doctrine, disregard for canon law and proper canonical procedure undermines confidence in the purity of the Church’s mission.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fifth:</em> The Church, as John XXIII so beautifully described her, is </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">mater et magistra</span>,</em> the “mother and teacher” of humanity, not its dutiful follower; the defender of man as the subject of history, not its object. She is the bride of Christ; her nature is personal, supernatural, and intimate, not merely institutional. She can never be reduced to a system of flexible ethics or sociological analysis and remodeling to fit the instincts and appetites (and sexual confusions) of an age. One of the key flaws in the current pontificate is its retreat from a convincing “theology of the body” and its lack of a compelling Christian anthropology . . . <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">precisely</em> at a time when attacks on human nature and identity, from transgenderism to transhumanism, are mounting.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sixth:</em> Global travel served a pastor like Pope John Paul II</span> so well because of his unique personal gifts and the nature of the times. But the times and circumstances have changed. The Church in Italy and throughout Europe – the historic home of the faith – is in crisis. The Vatican itself urgently needs a renewal of its morale, a cleansing of its institutions, procedures, and personnel, and a thorough reform of its finances to prepare for a more challenging future. These are not small things. They demand the presence, direct attention, and personal engagement of any new Pope.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Seventh and finally: </em>The College of Cardinals exists to provide senior counsel to the Pope</span> and to elect his successor upon his death. That service requires men of clean character, strong theological formation, mature leadership experience, and personal holiness. It also requires a Pope willing to seek advice and then to listen. It’s unclear to what degree this applies in the Pope Francis pontificate. The current pontificate has placed an emphasis on diversifying the college, but it has failed to bring cardinals together in regular consistories designed to foster genuine collegiality and trust among brothers. As a result, many of the voting electors in the next conclave will not really know each other, and thus may be more vulnerable to manipulation. In the future, if the college is to serve its purposes, the cardinals who inhabit it need more than a red zucchetto and a ring. Today’s College of Cardinals should be proactive about getting to know each other to better understand their particular views regarding the Church, their local church situations, and their personalities – which impact their consideration of the next pope.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Readers will quite reasonably ask why this text is anonymous</span>. The answer should be evident from the tenor of today’s Roman environment: Candor is not welcome, and its consequences can be unpleasant. And yet these thoughts could continue for many more paragraphs, noting especially the current pontificate’s heavy dependence on the Society of Jesus, the recent problematic work by the DDF’s Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, and the emergence of a small oligarchy of confidants with excessive influence within the Vatican – all despite synodality’s decentralizing claims, among other things.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Exactly because of these matters</span>, the cautionary reflections noted here may be useful in the months ahead. It is hoped that this contribution will help guide much needed conversations about what the Vatican should look like in the next pontificate.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-size: 19.200001px; line-height: 1.7rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Demos </em></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-70377991112036979262024-02-28T13:39:00.003-05:002024-02-28T13:41:41.858-05:00IS IT STUPIDITY? IS IT GENIUS? OR IS IT DEMONIC? TODAS! TODAS! TODAS!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOJStLKHKgTEOGJOdwGOyPyFAfY87E4ccMwBILS78qH628l-i7viKsgqTHJK31WSR3cmpV6rlB3QA-Fy7HrXpe2scpKGoE50lHYXkWHOBebph1FSsfbAzx3qAD8IG-849By5DM-H9wcoUA80KPJ3AGJmi-j4g97cXHZADWUpsCLQUdYJfVX7uEYsgcaU/s299/IMG_3541.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOJStLKHKgTEOGJOdwGOyPyFAfY87E4ccMwBILS78qH628l-i7viKsgqTHJK31WSR3cmpV6rlB3QA-Fy7HrXpe2scpKGoE50lHYXkWHOBebph1FSsfbAzx3qAD8IG-849By5DM-H9wcoUA80KPJ3AGJmi-j4g97cXHZADWUpsCLQUdYJfVX7uEYsgcaU/w640-h360/IMG_3541.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The so-called inclusive Church and its promotion from the highest level of the human hierarchy of the Church has enabled the Holy Roman Church in the Archdiocese of New York to be used for demonic ideological purposes. This kind of inclusivity is dialogue and submission with and to the devil.<p></p><p>On the heals of the sacrilegious Funeral Liturgy at Saint Patrick’s Once Great Cathedral is followed by this:</p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/ny-archdiocese-arts-center-to-host"><span style="color: #800180;">Update: NY archdiocese arts center cancels ‘kinky’ sex workshops</span></a></h1><p>1. The Archdiocese, as with the Sacrilegious Funeral, pleads ignorance and issues no apology for the incompetence of those who did not do due diligence to find out more about the ideological use of their Cathedral and now another property owned by the Archdiocese</p><p>2. There is no apology issued to faithful Catholics and others of goodwill who see the Faith and Morals, Scripture and Tradition of the Church and their own love and reverence for Holy Mother Church trampled upon in the most offensive ways possible. </p><p>3. It is an insult and an outrage against God’s Holy People and all in the name of “TODAS, TODAS, TODAS!</p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-71856479476621157302024-02-28T08:03:00.003-05:002024-02-28T08:06:37.032-05:00LARRY CHAPP AND BISHOP JAMES CONLEY SAID SOME IMPORANT THINGS ABOUT THE REFORM OF THE REFORM, IN FACT THE VERY SAME THINGS I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS--MAYBE THEY READ MY BLOG?<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wSE1-Xdy4EE?si=PEklzFl_gX0kuTql" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p>Larry Chapp praises the latest document from the DDF, <b><i>Gestis verbisque</i></b> which confirms what so many have been saying, no one is happy with the Modern Roman Mass, no one and everyone wants to improve it because it is such a mess in a variety of ways. We can all agree on that, both traditionalists and heterodox. </p><p>Larry says this, which I have said over and over and over again: "...<i><b>Gestis</b></i>...emphasis [is] upon liturgical abuse as a manipulative form of clericalism." Here Chapp is referring to bishops, priests and deacons using the Roman Missal has their own creative guide, changing words and gestures according to their narcissistic pleasures. Think of the ad libbing prior to the Penitential Act, as though the celebrant is the host of the guests before him not realizing he is one of them who together belong to God and His Church, he is no owner or host who is the one who welcomes as no one who is Catholic needs to be welcomed to their own home!!!!!</p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><i>In other words read the black and do the red, got it?</i></h1><p>The ad libbing and manipulation of words and gestures according to the narcissistic pleasures of the celebrant has led to "a crisis of [liturgical] abuse and a crisis of sanctity! Just view the professional video of the sacrilege at St. Patrick's Once Great Cathedral at a politically motivated funeral for LGBTQ+++ ideologies. That could never have happened with the 1962 Roman Missal--not possible!</p><p>Bishop James Conley recommends, as do I, that we recover the "reform of the reform" that has lost steam because of the preference for the TLM that modern reformers of the 1970 Roman Missal prefer, thus they have given up on the "reform of the reform." That needs to change and orthodox traditionalists must once again take up the call to reform the Modern Mass which everyone agrees is a mess and needs a major overhaul in rubrics, ritual and sanctity and reverence!<br /></p>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-48649731646508335472024-02-28T06:35:00.007-05:002024-02-28T07:35:57.366-05:00BOMBSHELL BREAKING NEWS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfDFZGgN2MygflcaAxLiTsfk7aCO4Wz1d-Gz4eNhK0rD-HWsJUDetwYnjXERAiIRCpXuwjVpyrkMR2sj5nJzhwmH-2i3lY5SEcQZIcxrgaPXVNgLaIH-9x_QWufYxyH5zsSM3xQ_VVMqSzOglpfRLY7DK_oFiqssdEHu4M6sYlseLJdz4_ZV3JlN25OQ/s275/IMG_3539.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfDFZGgN2MygflcaAxLiTsfk7aCO4Wz1d-Gz4eNhK0rD-HWsJUDetwYnjXERAiIRCpXuwjVpyrkMR2sj5nJzhwmH-2i3lY5SEcQZIcxrgaPXVNgLaIH-9x_QWufYxyH5zsSM3xQ_VVMqSzOglpfRLY7DK_oFiqssdEHu4M6sYlseLJdz4_ZV3JlN25OQ/w640-h426/IMG_3539.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeUPyd7cgPVlEW1SIGX16Ml7rbyph84Wmb9xilroE6W2prRRw8b-zWvtz6tISbRaLvQApLfeKbIM4szwcvQbMKGfOszqDeopeI7iFEzmuldcNodFwAD8uwrIovzoSqV_ikSkys6Ov-tIbiEbojaqoyWevwTJXAv-Bmf1G9exthye458q3-NzA2Pwjph8/s275/IMG_3540.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeUPyd7cgPVlEW1SIGX16Ml7rbyph84Wmb9xilroE6W2prRRw8b-zWvtz6tISbRaLvQApLfeKbIM4szwcvQbMKGfOszqDeopeI7iFEzmuldcNodFwAD8uwrIovzoSqV_ikSkys6Ov-tIbiEbojaqoyWevwTJXAv-Bmf1G9exthye458q3-NzA2Pwjph8/w640-h426/IMG_3540.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Pope Francis rushed to hospital following Wednesday Audience! Prayers requested.</span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">UPDATE</span></h1><div><span style="color: #ffa400;"><div class="article__subTitle" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px 30px; width: 748px;">Following the weekly General Audience, Pope Francis, who has been suffering from mild flu symptoms in the past days, visits Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on the Tiber Island for some diagnostic tests.</div><div class="title__separator" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="article__text" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px 30px; position: relative; width: 748px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By Vatican News</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">A statement released by the Holy See Press Office on Wednesday said Pope Francis visited the Gemelli Hospital on Rome’s Tiber Island straight after the General Audience, where he underwent some diagnostic tests. Following the tests, he was driven back to the Vatican.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">Some scheduled papal audiences were cancelled in the past days as a precautionary measure due to flu symptoms the Pope was experiencing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">On Wednesday morning, at the beginning of the Wednesday General Audience, he explained to those present in the Paul VI Hall that he still had a “cold” and he asked one of his collaborators, Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli, to read the catechesis for him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">Immediately after the audience, he was driven to the Rome hospital on the Tiber Island, which is very close to the Vatican.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">On Sunday, he recited the Angelus as usual, appearing at the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit !important; margin: 0px; padding: 30px 0px 0px;">The Holy See Press Office meanwhile has confirmed the Pope will receive German Chancellor, Olaf Scholtz, in audience on Saturday, 2 March, as planned.</p></div></span></div>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-11392191379799112652024-02-26T04:20:00.001-05:002024-02-26T04:20:43.808-05:00BOUNCE BACK POPE BOUNCES BACK AND FORTH WITH CRITICAL HEALTH ISSUES, OLD AGE PRIMARY AMONG THEM…<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSSRGbuqzQqExgG6gvmnWgsuSsDmiTdz0kAjbagaOlsMpN2Egy2YvpzWs26sOHI90Bb0l6cXnxo9e_W7kYZvqIHnShuXOIUIVmBlzOpX0sR4gdUGO7jK31k67TqYsou36dXtDr_bigkG4qK4YbZBkVuTrvGi3GPovlHz6HfLhYMdtgvKLkxn6jcTTQ9k/s500/IMG_3538.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="500" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSSRGbuqzQqExgG6gvmnWgsuSsDmiTdz0kAjbagaOlsMpN2Egy2YvpzWs26sOHI90Bb0l6cXnxo9e_W7kYZvqIHnShuXOIUIVmBlzOpX0sR4gdUGO7jK31k67TqYsou36dXtDr_bigkG4qK4YbZBkVuTrvGi3GPovlHz6HfLhYMdtgvKLkxn6jcTTQ9k/w640-h360/IMG_3538.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />On Sunday, the Holy Father gave his normal Sunday Angelus. Crux called him the “bounce back Pope” and indeed he fits that description. But on Monday morning, the Vatican declares the following headline. Push title for article from Vatican News. <p></p><h2 class="teaser__title" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Museo Sans Cyrl"; font-size: 38px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px; max-height: none; max-width: 100%; overflow: unset; padding: 0px 10px 10px; width: 492px;"><a aria-label="As mild flu-like symptoms persist, Pope cancels Monday audiences as a precaution" href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-02/pope-francis-has-no-fever-cancels-audiences-as-precaution.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="As mild flu-like symptoms persist, Pope cancels Monday audiences as a precaution"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">As mild flu-like symptoms persist, Pope cancels Monday audiences as a precaution</span></span></a></h2>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15958768163854082522024-02-24T09:40:00.003-05:002024-02-24T09:40:34.017-05:00AN ENTERTAINING MUST READ! FATHER RAYMOND DE SOUZA HITS THE BALL OUT OF THE PARK IN A MOST ELOQUENT AND ENJOYABLE READ!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yMglK6mKbSByLbzWCo19A1SUKz-msgiaILCxZxfhdW1UPpxEBOGgwZyEgiuTKsa4s_A31MteCa-HEZ8uVcqoYmP9jbifRDDj_x-qQzWYVF5clLJ7chbEbl4RMX8G0NZNVGXke7XtMI7FGT_CDIlxmCrfC5kKK96ljxB3ctnx55r98FFf22OK4YzhQkc/s276/IMG_3532.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yMglK6mKbSByLbzWCo19A1SUKz-msgiaILCxZxfhdW1UPpxEBOGgwZyEgiuTKsa4s_A31MteCa-HEZ8uVcqoYmP9jbifRDDj_x-qQzWYVF5clLJ7chbEbl4RMX8G0NZNVGXke7XtMI7FGT_CDIlxmCrfC5kKK96ljxB3ctnx55r98FFf22OK4YzhQkc/w640-h424/IMG_3532.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObbhAtVIRmdSgiVRkHJkO9CoKUpVqcYQCWIl5cO4VjYFBj9QGzw7DJ8hvhJ2EgD3W-8MLyJ0WerAvf0W0NEx2NOo4Mt7mBeu3sCbJOqSDcnG7gtKGarrvzr2-EGkDlzKNT9ojICg70YM4ARfchjGE13-wkN0tmEM-EbwJvtDEGe6xx4DAM0xJvQRWEiY/s273/IMG_3531.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="273" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObbhAtVIRmdSgiVRkHJkO9CoKUpVqcYQCWIl5cO4VjYFBj9QGzw7DJ8hvhJ2EgD3W-8MLyJ0WerAvf0W0NEx2NOo4Mt7mBeu3sCbJOqSDcnG7gtKGarrvzr2-EGkDlzKNT9ojICg70YM4ARfchjGE13-wkN0tmEM-EbwJvtDEGe6xx4DAM0xJvQRWEiY/w640-h431/IMG_3531.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Dead Synodality<br /><span style="background: 0px 0px repeat; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; outline-color: currentcolor; outline-style: none;">Fr. Raymond J. de Souza</span><br />SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024</span></a></h1><div class="btn-group socialbar" role="group" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: 0px 0px repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: inline-block; float: right; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;"></div>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-85130392319208380962024-02-24T05:56:00.002-05:002024-02-24T05:56:53.439-05:00POPE FRANCIS GRAVELY ILL?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhUx3O90m0p8MB26NnEh6oj7xaLbwjBcMqtUo2oz6V6kqo3Yx5nkt_VQQVCHHea3VJi4fSuwWerFyeDuS2UhyphenhyphenftMZuHs1sHtCbqlfJw9hLkUXHqTsIw8M4SXrKcSbpRYSVjSf50JeEvQV34w5TXHpKmOonq9hxENlPGsXo8j3VRourRL4k07pSvJDMkI/s1200/IMG_3529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhUx3O90m0p8MB26NnEh6oj7xaLbwjBcMqtUo2oz6V6kqo3Yx5nkt_VQQVCHHea3VJi4fSuwWerFyeDuS2UhyphenhyphenftMZuHs1sHtCbqlfJw9hLkUXHqTsIw8M4SXrKcSbpRYSVjSf50JeEvQV34w5TXHpKmOonq9hxENlPGsXo8j3VRourRL4k07pSvJDMkI/w640-h400/IMG_3529.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Recently I had dinner with a priest who works in Rome. He said that Pope Francis is riddled with cancer which began in his colon. There are a number of other health issues. Many don’t believe he will make it through 2024. In addition to that, he is almost 88 years old. Saint Jude, pray for us!<p></p><p>Please pray for the Church and the pope who leads her!</p><h1 class="lg:-mr-[8.333%]" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: var(--font-primary); font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0.015em; line-height: 1.35; margin: 0px 0px 0.625em; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/02/pope-francis-cancels-audiences-due-to-mild-flu"><span style="color: red;">Pope Francis cancels audiences due to ‘mild flu’</span></a></h1>Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.com12