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The Serpent on a Cross-bar

Facing Whatever Chastisements the New Year Brings

“Everyone is tempted by being drawn away and enticed by his own passion.  Then when passion has conceived, it brings forth sin; but when sin has matured, it begets death.  Therefore, my beloved brethren, do not err.” (1.14-16)

We should never forget the meaning of the word Jesus. Observe that this name was not chosen for the Child by Mary or Joseph, but an angel imposed it.....MORE>>>

As we listened to these verses from the Epistle for the First Sunday of Advent in our chapels and churches and other catacombs, we could glimpse a new meaning of these words for our time.  In Rome, Our Mother that seemed dead (or possessed) for decades was showing signs of rising from the post-counciliar ashes. On November 30, 2007 (a date which may become as important, or maybe more so, than July 7, 2007), Pope Benedict XVI issued a landmark encyclical, Spe Salvi.  I say perhaps more important than the date of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontifcum, because that date saw the release of the True Faith and Worship from prison, November 30 saw it projected out into the world. .....MORE>>>

Why is Cardinal Walter Kasper still in charge of anything at the Vatican?  And who will finally declare “ecumenism” dead?

In a recent undated report by The Catholic Herald online, we learn that Cardinal Walter Kasper, the modernist termite who still holds the position of head of the Pontifical Council for “Christian Unity” (PCCU) is opposed to the idea “that a breakaway group of Anglicans might be received into the Catholic Church en masse,” and that he opposes it “despite Benedict XVI’s personal support for such a move.”1...MORE>>>

A Tribute and the Road Ahead

“I have been profoundly touched by the news of the death of Michael Davies. I had the good fortune to meet him several times and I found him as a man of deep faith and ready to embrace suffering. Ever since the Council he put all his energy into the service of the Faith and left us important publications especially about the Sacred Liturgy. Even though he suffered from the Church in many ways in his time, he always truly remained a man of the Church. He knew that the Lord founded His Church on the rock of St Peter and that the Faith can find its fullness and maturity only in union with the successor of St Peter. Therefore we can be confident that the Lord opened wide for him the gates of heaven. We commend his soul to the Lord’s mercy.”  Cardinal Ratzinger

9 November, 2004

Interviewer's Note: Michael Davies holds a special and very personal place in my heart......MORE>>>

According to Blaise Schweitzer of The Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY – July 20, 2007), Doubleday Publications has offered a proposal to Pope Benedict XVI to co-author a book with Rabbi Jacob Neusner, author of the 1993 book, A Rabbi Talks with Jesus:

Rabbi Jacob Neusner of Rhinebeck has been an internationally sought news source lately, mostly because of the attention paid to him in Pope Benedict XVI's current book, "Jesus of Nazareth." By extensively weighing and debating Neusner's analysis of Jesus' life in the book, the pope triggered a flurry of interview requests and additional writing assignments for Neusner.......MORE>>>

New World Order Now Here?

The truth behind the conspiracy theory

Editor’s Note:  The following article was reproduced in The Remnant back in 1991, having first appeared in Catholic Newswire’s April 1991 edition.  With the subsequent rise of the fascist European Union and now the rumored North American Union, as well as One-world-friendly trade agreements that are stripping millions of Americans of their jobs through outsourcing, while our nation grows more dependent every day on foreign countries such as China for food and basic staples—it strikes us that Mr. Ferrara’s article is more relevant now than ever, especially since its central thesis—that national sovereignty must take a backseat to internationalism—has passed beyond the realm of what many dismissed as mere “conspiracy theory” mumbo-jumbo and on into actual international policy.  Looks to us as though George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev knew very well of what they spoke when in the early 1990s they began using the term “New World Order” to describe what was coming. MJM

The apocalyptic turmoil and destruction resulting from the Persian Gulf War is being harnessed by self-styled Globalists to hasten the founding of a One-World government.  President Bush has given his personal endorsement of such a World Parliament by calling for the early formation of a New World Order.....MORE>>>

From her very beginning, the Church condemned cremation and had only one funeral rite: burial.  This practice was based on religious reasons, and was in direct opposition to the practices of the pagan world.  Even when the pagans, as a sign of their contempt for the Christian rites, burned the bodies of the martyrs and violated the graves in Christian cemeteries, the Church held firmly to the rite of burial, and propagated it everywhere she went.  So much so, that by the end of the 4^th century burial had replaced cremation in the whole Roman Empire.....MORE>>>

“Hundreds of people of all religious persuasions are flocking to be blessed by a 17-year-old South African girl who claims to have had visions of the Virgin Mary around her home,” reports the Associated Press (June 11, 2007). Seventeen-year-old Francesca Zackey of Benoni, a small town east of Johannesburg, claims to have received visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary surrounded by bouquets of roses and pictures of the crucified Christ. Her parents have converted the front room of their house into a prayer room, complete with a shrine, fronted by a child-sized statue of Mary. According to the AP report:....MORE>>>

Dismantling the Roadblocks

Micromanaging Bishops

Appropriately enough, there is rejoicing in the whole Catholic world (“Catholic” taken here in a very restricted sense) over the Holy Father’s support of what has  become a cause célèbre—the freeing the authentic Roman liturgy....MORE>>>

Turning Point

Traditional Mass Never Abrogated, Triduum Not ‘Banned’, Traditional Sacraments Restored

The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum establishes a turning point in the history of the Church and therefore of the world. The document is a masterpiece of skillful drafting that accomplishes a precise and quite dramatic legal result, but without explicitly declaring to adverse parties the consequences of its own terms.  Both proponents and opponents of the Motu Proprio, however, know quite well what the document does in principle.....MORE>>>
 

by Michael J. Matt

We at The Remnant — America’s oldest traditional Catholic newspaper which, for forty years (as of November 2007), has had the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass as its primary reason for existence — wish to express our profound gratitude to God and to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 7, 2007, which granted unrestricted use of the immemorial Mass of Tradition throughout the universal Church.....MORE>>>

Pope Affirms Cardinal Castrillón Interviews: SSPX within the Church

A Remnant Exclusive Interview

Ecône, Switzerland—Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), said at least three of the four SSPX bishops were satisfied with the contents of the motu proprio, confirming that the Traditional Roman rite of Holy Mass (extraordinary form of the Roman rite) has never been abrogated. By interview time, he had not spoken to the fourth bishop, but said he expected that bishop to also be pleased with the document. “The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X extends its deep gratitude to the Sovereign Pontiff for this great spiritual benefit,” read a July 7, 2007 news release from the SSPX. The SSPX also released a more detailed letter to its Catholic lay faithful.[1]......MORE>>>
 

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Fribourg, Switzerland, July 5, 2007—The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) elected now 37-year-old Fr. John Berg as Superior General for a 6-year-term last July 7, 2006, during their General Chapter at their mother house in Wigratzbad, Germany. The Very Rev. Fr. Berg, an American, is the third Superior General of the FSSP, and is one of the youngest Superior Generals of any group of priests in the Church. Nearing this the first anniversary of his election, Fr. Berg graciously granted an exclusive interview for The Remnant readers.  As part of an effort to present Remnant readers with insights into the thinking of the leaders of the traditional Catholic movement, we've made the effort to interview several key people on various sides of traditionalist issues, most recently Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Society of St. Pius X, and now Fr. Berg......MORE>>>

The current Congressional Immigration Reform Bill is about to be rammed through in defiance of the overwhelming opposition of the American people.  I wonder how long it will be before the 4th-of-July national holiday becomes entirely superfluous, and in time replaced by multiple foreign ethnic and sectarian holidays......MORE>>>

For the past seventeen years we’ve devoted the June issue of The Remnant to reports on the Pentecost Pilgrimage of Notre-Dame de Chrétienté — the 70-mile walking pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, France. The first ever American report on the Pilgrimage was written, in fact, by our friend and former columnist, Gary Potter, who covered the event in person for The Remnant back in 1991. Since then, Michael Davies (RIP), John Rao, Chris Ferrara, myself and others have attempted to describe the indescribable in sixteen consecutive June issues. After so many attempts, however, I don’t believe we’ve come close to achieving the desired objective. The Chartres Pilgrimage must be seen, really, in order to be believed.......MORE>>>

The Loss of the Sacred

New Jersey Bishop Issues Courageous Statement in Diocesan Newsletter

In the 17th century, Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, rejected the philosophical traditions of Aristotle and the Scholastics.  For Descartes, the very fact that we think is the proof that we exist.  Cogito, ergo sum.  I think, therefore I am.  He rejected the use of his senses as the basis for knowledge.  In so doing, he wounded the unity between mind and body found in classical philosophy.  Over the course of time, the wound has widened.  The spiritual and the material have drifted apart.  The sacred and the secular clearly divided......MORE>>>

Christophobic HBO

On May 18, 2007, the HBO Cable Channel ran an episode of the program, Real Time with Bill Maher, which included a blasphemous equating of the Catholic Mass with homosexual acts. Beginning with an attack on the late Jerry Falwell, host Bill Maher launched into an anti-Catholic tirade, saying: .....MORE>>>

Bertone vs. Socci

In the midst of the motu proprio mania there has been an enormously important development in the controversy surrounding the Third Secret of Fatima.  Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, has published a small book, The Last Visionary of Fatima, which attacks the Italian intellectual Antonio Socci for having concluded in his own book, The Fourth Secret of Fatima, that the Vatican is concealing a text of the Third Secret.  Socci’s conclusion brings to a rolling boil the long-simmering conviction among the faithful that, as Mother Angelica put it on her national television show in 2001, “we didn’t get the whole thing.”....MORE>>>

Not Against ‘Gay Marriage’, Goes to ‘Gay Clubs’, Set to Rock World Youth Day Sydney

(Zenit) The theme song for World Youth Day 2008 was written by singer/songwriter Guy Sebastian, the winner of the first Australian Idol contest in 2003.

"Receive the Power" was written by Sebastian, who will also perform the song at the World Youth Day in July 2008.

In choosing the song, the World Youth Day coordinator, Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Fisher, said that "we wanted a song that was stirring and uplifting."....MORE>>>

Three Cardinals and an Archbishop Give Clues to its Contents

Three curial cardinals and one archbishop have now spoken publicly on details of the expected motu proprio by Pope Benedict XVI reportedly easing restrictions on the Traditional Roman rite of Holy Mass.

Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei (PCED), in a May 16 address to the Latin American bishops at their Fifth General Conference in Aparecida, in São Paulo, Brazil, confirmed, “The Holy Father has the intention of extending to the entire Latin Church the possibility of celebrating Holy Mass and the Sacraments according to the liturgical books promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962.”.....MORE>>>

Confronting Depression

The texts of Sunday Masses during the season after Pentecost aim at keeping our attention focused on Heaven as the end and goal of life.  With this in view, Holy church selects Scripture readings which urge detachment from temporal and passing things.  She strives to deepen our sense of God’s loving Providence, and urges us to bear the sufferings of the present time with patience and tranquility of spirit.......MORE>>>
 

Catholicism in the Military

A Sailor's Reflection

It’s not easy being a Catholic sailor deployed to the Persian Gulf.  As an officer, it is my duty to ensure that those placed under my leadership are properly cared for, and that all of their needs are met.  To ignore their spiritual needs would be a failure on my part as a leader and a Catholic man.  And so, when the opportunity arose for a “Catholic Lay Leader” to volunteer, I felt that it was my duty to fill this role – not knowing entirely what it entailed......MORE>>>
 

Monsignor Richard Schuler Dies

On April 27^th thirty-three years ago, this writer received Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament for the first time.  For me it was an added honor to be offered the sublime privilege at the hand of a good and holy priest by the name of Monsignor Richard Schuler. 

Monsignor Schuler passed away on Friday April 20, 2007. Thus passes another alter christus from the rapidly fading ranks of the old guard, those trained and ordained before Vatican II....MORE>>>

Waiting for the Universal Indult

(Why the enemies of the Church hope it never comes)

During the first session of the Second Vatican Council, in the debate on the Liturgy Constitution, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani asked: “Are these Fathers planning a revolution?” The Cardinal was old and partly blind. He spoke from the heart about a subject that moved him deeply:

Are we seeking to stir up wonder, or perhaps scandal among the Christian people, by introducing changes in so venerable a rite that has been approved for so many centuries and is now so familiar? The rite of Holy Mass should not be treated as if it were a piece of cloth to be refashioned according to the whim of each generation......MORE>>>

Peter and the Rock Star

Why do they hate Christians so much?

Vittorio Messori Has Had Enough!

Where’s the protest?! Where’s the outrage?!  We’ve all asked the question a thousand times but with precious little by way of satisfaction, until now. Amidst the chillingly rapid de-Christianization of Europe, an alarum sounded last month in the Italian daily “La Stampa” that rocked the EU. Veteran journalist Vittorio Messori denounced the World Health Organization, Masonic groups, gay rights organizations, and pharmaceutical companies as anti-Catholic “lobbies” which “hate Christianity out of nostalgia for paganism.”  Everybody got that? Let’s not be confused as to who the haters are!.....MORE>>>

O Crux, ave, spes unica

“Hail Cross!  Thou only hope of man. During this Passiontide increase the grace of the pious and purge sinners from their guilt.” (Vexilla Regis.)

The first four weeks of Lent were but a preparation for the intense grief of the Church during the final two.  She knows that the enemies of Jesus seek His death and will lay their sacrilegious hands upon Him within twelve days.  She asks us to climb the hill of Calvary with Him; to witness His Passion and death; to see the stone placed against the Sepulcher where His lifeless body is laid. The work of our redemption required that Our Lord should be set as the salvation of mankind upon the tree of the Cross so that, whence came death, thence also life might rise again. On Palm Sunday He rides forward like a conqueror for the wondrous struggle between the Prince of Life and the Prince of Death (Easter Sequence).  On Good Friday He mounts His costly throne as a victim for our salvation......MORE>>>
 

Who's Afraid of Richie's dad?

“Ah, the evil Freemasons”, an anonymous blogger commented in response to the news that Michael Matt was scheduled to speak about the dangers of their movement to a Roman Forum conference in New York City last November; “seventy-five year old men in funny hats; terrifying. They are no doubt planning world domination during pinochle night at the YMCA. What a joke.” (See the response to our friend Josephus’ announcement of the meeting, Catholics on the Global Auction Block, on the website of the Cornell Society for a Good Time).....MORE>>>
 

Interesting Turn of Events

Did Pope Benedict Correct Vatican II?

The "seeds of the Word" are not in the pagan religions, but in Greek philosophy, according to the expression of Saint Justin.
...Pope Benedict XVI

Editor, The Remnant: I would like to submit to your appreciation  a summary of Orlando Fedeli’s article — President of MONTFORT Cultural Association, S. Paulo, Brazil —analyzing the speech of the Holy Father Benedict XVI on Saint Justin, last Wednesday, published in Portuguese under the « E AGORA? COMO FICA O ECUMENISMO? E COMO FICA O VATICANO II?»....MORE>>>

Liberation Theologian Censured

One Hundred Years After Pascendi, Vatican Still Condemns Modernist Theology

Many Catholics concerned about the continuing penetration of unorthodox, radical feminist and ‘gay-friendly’ ideologies into American church structures were less than enthusiastic at the unexpected elevation of San Francisco’s former archbishop, William Levada, to the position of Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Fall of 2005. Recent reports have suggested that some of the surprisingly non-conservative U.S. episcopal appointments of the last year or so (to Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Washington DC, Reno, etc.) have been due largely to Cardinal Levada’s influence as the top American prelate in Rome. (He is also a member of the Congregation for Bishops.)....MORE>>>
 

Religious Belief is a Nightmare, Says Scientist

"A forum this month at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, which might have been one more polite dialogue between science and religion, began to resemble the founding convention for a political party built on a single plank: In a world dangerously charged with ideology, science needs to take on an evangelical role, vying with religion as teller of the greatest story ever told," writes George Johnson of The New York Times (Nov. 22, 2006).

Sponsored by the Science Network, an educational organization based in California, and underwritten by a San Diego investor, Robert Zeps, the La Jolla meeting was titled "Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival.” With atheists and agnostics in the majority, one speaker after another attacked religious belief for allegedly stifling scientific inquiry....MORE>>>

Christmas in the Trenches

Though World War I had been raging for only four months, it was already proving to be one of the bloodiest wars in history. Soldiers on both sides were trapped in trenches, exposed to the cold and wet winter weather, covered in mud, and extremely careful of sniper shots. Machines guns had proven their worth in war, bringing new meaning to the word "slaughter."

In a place where bloodshed was nearly commonplace and mud and the enemy were fought with equal vigor, something surprising occurred on the front for Christmas in 1914. The men who lay shivering in the trenches embraced the Christmas spirit. In one of the truest acts of peace to men of goodwill, soldiers from both sides in the southern portion of the Ypres Salient set aside their weapons and hatred, if only temporarily, and met in No Man's Land....MORE>>>

Is Christ the King a Liberal?

Conservatism, Bush and the Iraq War

Dear Mr. Matt, (Readers' Forum Open for Comments)

It is with regret, after 30 years, that we will not renew our subscription to The Remnant. Although many of your articles are really excellent, I have noticed a trend towards liberal  politics; i.e., against President Bush and the war. Iraq did have WMDs (they were not loudly proclaimed in the press) and the President is trying only to protect the citizens of this country against further attacks from terrorists. In my opinion, he should do even more. Several commentators have said the situation today is similar to 1939 when Hitler tried to take over Europe. It seems you are not well informed about politics, and that you should stick to the religious issues where you have the most expertise. I think your father would have done so.

Sincerely yours,

Martha von Guggenberg....MORE>>>

The Rest of the Story

Jews Witness to Pius XII's 'Silence'

Philip Johnson’s column in the October 15^th  edition of The Remnant—The “Silence of Pius XII—brings to light the lies and calumnies expressed by Jews towards the pontificate of Pope Pius XII in World War II. It wasn’t always that way.

What is the case against Pius XII? That, as moral and temporal leader of the largest religion on earth, his sinful “silence” in not condemning the brutal Nazi regime’s crimes was unconscionable.  What is the case for Pius? No one--not Oskar Schindler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill or any individual, organization or nation--did more for the victims of Nazi war crimes than Pius acting as head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. His alleged “silence” forestalled further retaliation, not only against Jews but Catholics and others as well. Despite what he did accomplish, over 3,000 of his own priests were murdered in Dachau by the Nazis.....MORE>>>

Ecumenism's Ongoing Assault on Revealed Truth

The New Order “Ecumenism” of Vatican II seems to be running its ridiculous course to eventual oblivion.  Helping this along is the American (Protestant) Episcopal Church’s slide away from its traditional Anglican roots.  This is evident by its recent election of a radical feminist and sexual libertarian, Katharine Jefferts Schori, as Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church.  ....MORE>>>

Rome Corrects Error, After 40 Years

For traditionalist Catholics nothing is more symptomatic of the crisis in the Church than the deliberate mistranslation of pro vobis et pro multis—for you and for many—as “for you and for all” in vernacular renderings of the Latin typical edition of the Mass of Paul VI by local episcopal conferences and the ICEL.  This error, which falsely suggests the universal application of the fruit of the Mass to the elect and non-elect alike, was rightly described as “truly scandalous” by Monsignor Klaus Gamber in his Reform of the Roman Liturgy, to which the current Pope wrote an approving French language preface when he was Cardinal Ratzinger.....MORE>>>

Should Catholics Blog?

Blogging. By now every Catholic, even if he leads as hermetic an existence as did Saint Bruno, must know about it. Blogs (short, of course, for “weblogs”) have now become the preferred method for communication among Catholics in the English-speaking world, more especially in America. It seems every second Catholic one meets has a blog, from the staunchest traditionalist to the most oafish lesbian eucharistic minister.......MORE>>>

The Catholic Gentleman

A Fading Image

Buried deep within the archive of old photographs accumulated over the years by my family, there is an interesting picture of my great-grandfather that, like so many of its vintage, provides a sort of keyhole view through the great prison door of modernity that bars us from the old world, the memory of which is sadly growing  dimmer every day.......MORE>>>

The Universal Indult vs. the Universal Insurance Policy?

It’s November again, and Vatican watchers are buzzing about yet another November surprise: Pope Benedict XVI is reportedly set to release a motu proprio that will more fully restore the traditional Mass throughout the world.  It’s too soon to tell, of course, but perhaps the late Michael Davies’ predictions weren’t far off.  Is “Cardinal Ratzinger” preparing to make the serious move in Tradition’s favor that Michael insisted would come? Evidently, we’ll all know soon enough......MORE>>>

Portugal Will Keep the Faith and Legalize Abortion?

The country visited by Our Lady of Fatima — Portugal — risks becoming an abortion mill like so many other “Catholic” countries in Europe.  On October 19, 2006, the parliament ratified the proposition of the new socialist government of Jose Socrates to introduce a referendum for abortion on demand until the 10^th week of pregnancy. 

Until now, abortion is tolerated in Portugal only in cases of rape, congenital malformation of the baby, and serious danger for the mother's life.  Already in 1998, a similar referendum had been organized, with  a very  narrow majority  (50.07  %)  voting  against  it,  and  with  a  record rate  of abstention: 68.11%......MORE>>>

Anti-Catholic Terrorism

Searching for Rev. Gen-Jun "Joseph" Lu

When the Rev. Gen-Jun “Joseph” Lu answered his ringing cell phone last February, the voice on the other end – a fellow underground Roman Catholic priest: his comrade in the Church Militant – made a simple request.  “I’ve just purchased my train ticket. I’ll be arriving in Baoding tomorrow, and I’d like to talk to you. If you’re able, would you, please, meet me at the railway station?”

“Yes, of course.”

Of course, he would meet the priest. It was Lu’s duty. After all, the 43-year-old is, or was at that time, the administrative leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Baoding – an ancient city with a vast legion of underground Catholics faithful to the Pope, an ancient city just biding its time in the Communist-infested People’s Republic of China.....MORE>>>

Catholic Culture Conference Inspires Church Militant

A unique Catholic Cultural conference was held by The Remnant in St Paul Minnesota the weekend of September 23, 2006.

The theme was Militant Catholicism vs. the Culture of Anti-Christ. Its purpose was to spotlight the fact that Catholics who wish to maintain the Catholic Faith for themselves and their families need also to withdraw from the popular culture.

The Tridentine Mass is not enough. Home schooling is not enough. The popular culture is anti-Christ in its foundation, in its program and in its effects. Catholics need to be aware of the many aspects of this truth and resist the pop culture for their own souls and for the good of their families......MORE>>>

The Great Moral Flaw in the Second Vatican Council

It's a question of the Oath!

The thesis of this article will seem radical to many and will no doubt be controversial.  This article suggests that there was a great moral flaw – not just a moral flaw, but a great moral flaw – in the doings of the Second Vatican Council, and that the great moral flaw contains within it an implication that the participants in the Second Vatican Council could not have been cooperating with the oversight of God the Holy Spirit. The very title of this paper might be seen as offensive to those who suggest that there cannot possibly be a “moral flaw” in the Second Vatican Council, or in any Ecumenical Council, because of the oversight of the Holy Spirit.  To them, the title may even seem blasphemous.....MORE>>>

Abolishing Limbo?

Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI

Most Holy Father,

Yet again the Catholic world is disturbed by rumors that the International Theological Commission (ITC), with the approval of Your Holiness, is about to “abolish” the doctrine of Limbo. As one English reporter has claimed, the announcement of the “abolition” of Limbo has been scheduled for tomorrow, October 6, when Your Holiness will supposedly “cast aside centuries of Catholic belief” by “approv[ing] formally” the putative conclusion of the ITC that “all children who die do so in the expectation of ‘the universal salvation of God’ and the ‘mediation of Christ,’ whether baptized or not.” The reporter quotes an anonymous source, who states that “in effect, this means that all children who die go to Heaven.”.....MORE>>>

Assisi Revisited

It has often been rumored among segments of the traditional Catholic diaspora that Cardinal Ratzinger had, for one reason or another, been opposed to the inter-religious prayer meeting convened by John Paul II in Assisi in 1986. That meeting shook the Catholic world. Whether one was for or against it, all were agreed that the event was revolutionary.

A little over a decade later an earthquake shook the city where St Francis had received the divine command to rebuild the Church, a Church which today has ruptured (ironically, though predictably) along the fault-line of the ecumenism promoted with such zeal by Pope John Paul II. Other gatherings of various shapes and sizes, orchestrated on the same model, have taken place here and there ever since. And each time, traditional Catholics have been scandalized by the rank indifferentism and even objective sacrileges that have taken place. .....MORE>>>

Apocalypse Now!

Global Democracy and the Rise of the Anti-Christ 

(POSTED SEPT. 26, 2006 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) Editor’s Introduction:  Perhaps the following article will not be easy to read for some.  It’s an analysis of the philosophical and theological errors that were long ago insinuated into the root system of modern political thought. Born of the Protestant Revolution, these errors would ultimately bring the great tree of Christendom crashing to the ground.  Included within this analysis is a penetrating look at how some of these fundamentally Protestant ideas made their way into the founding documents of our own country.

It is never easy to see faults in ourselves or in those we love, and it is no less difficult to recognize them in the land of our birth and childhood, hearth and home.  Patriotism is a Christian virtue.  Love of country is part of what builds integrity and honor in decent men.  But love of country is not always synonymous with love of government, especially when governments deviate from Catholic principles as egregiously as has ours.....MORE>>>

Apocalypse Not Now

(POSTED September 16, 2006 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) In her lifetime, Sister Lucy said enough about the content of the Third Secret of Fatima to leave us in no doubt that those twenty-five lines or so of text speak of catastrophic events, particularly within the Church.

She wrote, for example, in reference to the Third Secret, of a “diabolical disorientation within the clergy”, and even went so far as to identify the whole text with chapters 8 to 13 of St. John’s Apocalypse, thereby confirming what Catholics have always believed; vis-à-vis that the Book of Apocalypse is a Divinely-inspired prophetic delineation of events concerning the Church from its foundation to the second coming of Christ and the end of the world.

Strange, then, that Pope Benedict XVI should refer to the Apocalypse in his General Audience of August 23, 2006 as having been “inappropriately linked with impending disaster”, and attempt to reduce the prophecies contained therein to merely a “profound pastoral sensitivity” on the part of St. John for the persecuted Christians of the seven Churches of Asia towards the end of the first century.....MORE>>>

Remembering September 11

(www.RemnantNewspaper.com) Editor's Note:  The following was published in The Remnant shortly after September 11, 2001 when a number of us visited Ground Zero in New York.  It is posted now in memory of all those who died there.  Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.  May they rest in peace. MJM

NEW YORK—I write these words from the twelfth floor of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.  Emergency vehicle sirens wail in the streets of Manhattan below my window. It seems that the city is crying again.

The television in my hotel room is on. I’m trying to learn more about the latest crisis to strike this poor city: an airplane—yet another American Airliner—has crashed into Queens. Over 240 passengers and crew are dead; nobody knows how many are dead on the ground where Flight 587 apparently exploded and plummeted into a residential neighborhood......MORE>>>

Brother Roger’s Immanentized “Conversion”

(POSTED 09/10/06 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) The Remnant ignited an international controversy when it published a newsletter report by the acclaimed French Catholic writer, Yves Chiron, that the late Brother Roger Schutz, who was head of the ecumenical “Taizé community,” had undergone a “discreet” conversion and was really a Catholic when he died. This, Chiron suggested, would explain why Brother Roger was allowed to receive Holy Communion at the hands of then Cardinal Ratzinger during the funeral Mass for John Paul II.  This “discreet” conversion, Chiron reported, took place in 1972, when, in the chapel of the Bishop of Autun, Brother Roger was administered Holy Communion by a Monsignor Le Bourgeouis after he had made “profession of the Catholic Faith.”...MORE>>>

Defending the Sacraments Against Protestants

In an old book, we read about the last hours of Dutch Schultz, at the time, the country's most notorious criminal. Cold-blooded murder, robbery and assault were just a few of the offenses credited to him and his gang. At thirty-three, Arthur Flegenheimer (his real name) was said to control an annual income which ran into the millions.

On an autumn evening in 1935, Dutch sat in a rear room of a tavern going over accounts with three underlings. Suddenly, two strangers appeared in the doorway and fired their guns. Dutch was rushed to a hospital, where his religion was put down as Jewish. The next morning, still conscious and aware of the gravity of his condition, he asked an attendant to summon a Catholic priest. Upon the priest's arrival Schultz expressed his desire to become a Catholic and to die in that faith. The priest baptized him, administered the Last Rites of the Church, and soon thereafter Schultz died. He was given a Christian burial.......MORE>>>

Did Brother Roger Schutz Convert?

Editor’s Note: Since the following article was recently sent to us by Yves Chiron directly, it seems fair to assume that the respected French author may have had The Remnant in mind when he lamented the fact that certain American and French reviews had criticized Cardinal Ratzinger for having given Holy Communion to “a Protestant”—the late Brother Roger Schutz. In the following article, Mr. Chiron sets out to prove that Brother Roger—the founder of the Taizé Community in France—had, in fact, made a profession of Catholic Faith some years ago and wasn’t Protestant at all.  According to Mr. Chiron, this conversion was “discreet,” and was not generally known until after Brother Roger’s controversial reception of Holy Communion at Pope John Paul’s April 2005 funeral, after which even Cardinal Kasper, when questioned directly, reportedly had to admit that Brother Roger was “formally Catholic.”  ....MORE>>>

A Shot at the Summit

The Forgotten Mass at Iwo Jima

I was once doing research for a paper concerning Fr. Charles Suver, a Jesuit from the Oregon Province who served as a Navy chaplain in World War II.  Suver, from what I ascertained, considered himself a bit of a tough guy and wanted to be assigned to the Marines, where the action was.  He got his wish.  On February 19, 1945, Suver landed with the 5^th Marines on the small volcanic island of Iwo Jima in the Bonin chain. 

Four days later, the Marines scaled Mount Suribachi and raised not one, but two American flags on its summit.  Father Suver, meanwhile, had survived the hellish days of fighting and on that same volcano said a Latin Mass for a handful of exhausted young men. .....MORE>>>

Is the Black Mass Valid?

Knowing the GNOSIS

A frustrated wag in these confused times is said to have asked his Bishop, “Your Excellency, does attendance at the black Mass satisfy my Sunday obligation?”

In view of the ceremonies now permitted in many Catholic churches, the question may not be as flippant as it sounds. It may come closer to penetrating the workings of iniquity than many a learned treatise.....MORE>>>

Traditionalists Bring Latin Mass Back to Lutheran Norway

NORWAY: The association UNEC (Union of the Nations of European Christians) organized, from August 5th to 14th, 2006, a "Pilgrimage to Catholic Norway". It's true  that in  this large  country -  with only 4.4 million inhabitants - the  number of  Catholics is  very small,  since  the  whole  country  accepted  Lutheranism in  the beginning  of  the  16th century,  after the exit  of Martin  Luther from  the Catholic  Church. What a calamity! 

The intention of UNEC was, just as was the case with its pilgrimage to "Catholic Sweden" in September 2005, to make something like a come-back, at least for one day, of the holy Catholic Mass (in the old Latin rite codified by Saint Pius V) to the Lutheran churches constructed in ancient times by the Catholics....MORE>>>

The Trial of Edward Atkinson

January 6^th: I wrote to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, advising them that I would not be available between certain dates for appointments in connection with proposed hip-replacement. I enclosed a pro-life leaflet containing a photo of an unborn baby who had been murdered by abortion.

January 11^th: Letter from Ruth May (Chief Executive) complaining about enclosures, and asking me not to send any more such material.

March 1^st:  I wrote to Ruth May explaining the situation viz: 7 million unborn babies murdered in Britain since 1968, with no end in sight, enclosing a leaflets on abortion with further details......MORE>>>

On the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady

Hark! She is call'd. The parting hour is come.
Take thy farewell, poor world! Heav'n must go home
A piece of heav'nly earth, purer and brighter
Than the chaste stars, whose choice lamps come to light her
While through the crystal orbs, clearer than they,
She climbs and makes a fair more milky way.
She's called. Hark how the dear immortal dove
Sighs to his silver mate, 'Rise up, my love!
'Rise up, my fair, my spotless one!
'The winter's past, the rain is gone. .....