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Christopher West’s appearance on Nightline, during which
he praised Hugh Hefner and asserted that John Paul II advanced
the sexual revolution “in the right direction,” is but the
latest in a long series of scandals arising from West’s
promotion of “John Paul II’s Theology of the Body” (TOB). [Caveat:
I am forced to quote some of that scandalous material here—not
for the sake of multiplying scandal, but rather to demonstrate
its existence as a warning to Catholics to keep themselves and
their children away from this man’s morally offensive
presentations, and those of his fellow “experts” in TOB.]
Based on
his rendering of John Paul’s 129 deeply obscure audience
addresses filled with the Pope’s clearly personal “reflections”
and “meditations” as a private doctor, West has turned TOB into
a veritable branded product, complete with a
Christopher West logo, which he markets in every conceivable
venue with all the fervor and conviction of the late TV pitchman
for OxiClean. And the marketing pays off big:
a million books and three million audios sold. Yet another
success story in Neo-Catholic Land.
TOB,
West
exclaims, “has already begun a ‘sexual counter-revolution’
that’s changing lives around the world. The ‘fire’ is spreading
and in due time we can expect global repercussions.” Not
impressed? Wait, there’s more!: “Brace yourself! If we take in
what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we
will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the
Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate
vocation...we will never view the world the same way again.”
Oh come
off it, will you?...More>>> |
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Reformation Revisited |
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Scotland’s last
Catholic seminary closes |
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The last week in May 2009 saw the last Mass celebrated in the
last seminary in Scotland. Scotus College, home to a mere nine
candidates for the priesthood, closed its doors for good
bringing the curtain down on almost 300 years of official
seminary life in a country once so Catholic that the Popes
accorded it the special title of “dearest daughter of the
Church.”
If these Popes were alive today I think it quite likely that the
word “dearest” would be replaced with ‘dysfunctional’ in keeping
with a complete loss of the sense of the sacred in the Scottish
hierarchy.
While it is truly lamentable that a 16-year-old seminary should
be fated to call time on a glorious history, one look at the
chapel in that horrendous building does provide some comfort in
the knowledge that at least one thoroughly liberal hell hole has
gone down the drain sooner rather than later.
I have never seen such a dreadful excuse for a Catholic chapel,
as that in Scotus. Frankly, I would have hesitated to walk my
dog near the place let alone send young men there to be
malformed as priests....More>>> |
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The Selective Anathema |
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Thirteen priests ordained,
eight more on the way |
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Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, Chairman of the
German Catholic Bishops Conference
Achtung!
The German bishops are taking a stand. After four decades of a
more or less “anything goes” approach to heterodoxy and dissent
in the Church in Germany, the German Bishops Conference has
finally found something to anathematize. Several bishops,
including Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, Chairman of the German
Catholic Bishops Conference, have let it be known that tolerance
of dissent from ecclesial authority in Germany is not completely
without limits.
In a June 1 Vatican Radio interview, Bishop Gerhard Muller of
Regensburg warned officials at the Society of St. Pius X
seminary in Zaitzkofen that going ahead with priestly
ordinations this month would constitute a violation of canon law
and create a “dangerous situation.” So dangerous, in fact, that
the bishop’s only recourse would be to excommunicate the SSPX
bishop and ordinands should the ordinations take place.
Excommunication?
Didn’t that go out with chapel veils and mortal sin? Pretty
intolerant stuff. I mean, women priests in Germany—maybe,
homosexual priests—sure, heretical priests—duh, but the
SSPX? Evidently, a final solution is needed for that sort...More>>> |
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SSPX Ordinations and
the Reign of “the Vatican” |
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The
international controversy over the ordination of twenty-one priests
for the
Society of Saint Pius X prompts consideration of forty years of
governance by “the Vatican”
as opposed to the Vicar of Christ. |
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Today, June 19, 2009, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
ordained thirteen priests at the seminary of the Society of
Saint Pius X in Winona, MN. On June 27, 2009, Bishop Alfonso de Galaretta will ordain three priests at the Society’s seminary in
Zaitzkofen, Germany, and on the same date five more priests will
be ordained at the Society’s headquarters in Ecône,
Switzerland.
The Society has been ordaining priests since
the 1970s, but these twenty-one ordinations are perceived
differently because the international media have been in a state
of high alert over the growing threat of recrudescent Roman
Catholicism since the publication of Summorum Pontificum
and the remission of the excommunications of the Society’s four
bishops in January of this year—actions widely denounced by the
media because they were undertaken without a consensus of the
Pope’s advisors in “the Vatican.”
“The Vatican” and the Society’s Ordinations
Hence the media responded to the coming ordinations with a spate
of tendentious headlines suggesting what they would like us to
believe: that “the Vatican”—not the Pope, mind you—has forbidden
the ordinations. Herewith a sampling:...More>>> |
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On the Origin of the Specious
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The Evolution of 'Russia's Errors' |
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Adolf Hitler:
Evolutionist
At a
scientific convention in Chicago in 1980, over 150 of the
world’s leading evolution experts faced the facts of the fossil
record and virtually pronounced the death of Darwinism.
They
admitted that after 120 years of digging, the fossil record
showed that there are no fossil links between one species and
another, i.e., there are no transitional fossils. Thus, it was
acknowledged that there is indeed a genetic barrier between
species which renders impossible the theory that mankind evolved
from apes.
These
findings should have buried evolutionism forever as a serious
scientific concept. Yet, the opposite has happened. Staggering
numbers worldwide have continued to embrace evolution’s false
doctrines in preference to scriptural and other evidence
relating to man’s true origin...More>>> |
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Fatima and Akita |
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A Fateful Concurrence |
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From May 2-6, 2009 I was privileged to be in Akita, Japan as a
guest speaker for the Society of Saint Pius X. The occasion was
the annual pilgrimage to the site of the apparitions of Our Lady
of Akita by Japanese traditionalist faithful under the Society’s
care. The invitation came from Father Daniel Couture, the
District Superior of SSPX’s District of Asia, which ministers
not only to Japan, but also Korea, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Singapore, New Caledonia, New Zealand, the
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and even
(occasionally) Dubai....More>>> |
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1984: The
Sequel |
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(A Real World in Virtual Catacombs) |
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Big Brother is Watching...
and Speaking
If you still live here in America these days you’ll soon be
visited by one of the 140,000 workers recently hired by the
federal government to collect global positioning satellite (GPS)
coordinates on your home. Over the next year or so every home in
America will reportedly have its GPS coordinates logged in with Uncle Sam,
right down to the front door. In other words, Big Brother will
be watching you—literally. ....More>>> |
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The Wintertime of Vatican II |
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Notre Dame’s Scandal in
Perspective |
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I write these
words on May 17, 2009—a day that will surely go down in infamy
in the annals of the once mighty Catholic Church in America. The
springtime of Vatican II has obviously given way to darkest
winter when Our Lady’s University in South Bend, Indiana,
selects an ardently pro-abortion, pro stem-cell research, pro
homosexual unions socialist for its commencement speaker.
But this whole, sorry incident is indicative of a much greater
catastrophe at the very heart of the Catholic Church....More>>> |
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A Rubicon in Texas |
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Legal Infanticide on the Horizon |
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Rep. Ferrar, Another 'Catholic'
Politician Gone Wrong
Opponents of
legal abortion have always said it was a slippery slope.
Legalize abortion, and euthanasia would follow. This, of course,
is exactly what has happened, for instance,
in Oregon. Barely a day passes when we don’t read
a newspaper story about the merits of fetal stem cell research
or cloning. And now a Catholic legislator in Texas, with a
100 percent rating from the
National Abortion Rights Action League, wants to
make infanticide a mere jail offense....More>>> |
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Christopher West Exposed |
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First Lady of
Catholic Conservatism Blasts
'Catholic' Sex Therapist |
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“It seems to me that his [West's] presentation, his vocabulary,
the vulgarity of things that he uses are things that simply
indicate that even though he might have good intentions he has
derailed and is doing a lot of harm.”
-
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, seen here with Pope Benedict XVI
Renowned Catholic thinker Dr. Alice von
Hildebrand has criticized Theology of the Body speaker
Christopher West, saying his approach has become too
self-assured. She criticized his presentations as irreverent and
insensitive to the “tremendous dangers” of concupiscence. Also
cautious of West’s remarks on
his recent interview with ABC television were Mary
Shivanandan and Fr. José Granados, both Catholic authors and
theologians....More>>> |
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Obsessed
with Sex |
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Catholic Universities of America |
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Now that Pope
Benedict has
unchained the traditional Latin Mass and
rehabilitated the Society of St. Pius X, perhaps
he can begin cleaning up the Church in America. The top
priorities are these: first,
purging the perverts from the chanceries and
turning them over to police where necessary; second, scouring
the Catholic universities that are molesting the minds of the
students who attend them. Taking care of the first will help
take care of the second, and Benedict XVI has shown Catholics
that he listens...More>>> |
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The Darwin
Delusion |
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Catholic Scientists
Fighting Back |
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For more than a generation in the fourth
century, the dogmatic teaching of the Council of Nicea on the
divinity of Christ was misinterpreted and perverted so that the
majority of Catholic bishops tolerated or taught a false
Christology. Something similar is happening in our time in
regard to the Magisterial teaching on creation...More>>> |
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Christianity & the Blair Witch
Hunt |
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The Rise of the
Ultimate Neo-Catholics |
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At the September 1999 Labour Party Conference in Brighton,
England, Donald Dewar, the first leader of an independent
Scottish Parliament for 300 years, stood before his peers and
declared to rapturous upstanding applause: “Section 28 is no
more!”....More>>> |
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Tea Party Catholics |
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Lettin' Freedom Ring! |
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"Today
we are nothing but cowards in America. We can’t even say the
truth because we are so afraid of what our colleagues will
think."
- Abortion Survivor Gianna
Jessen
Introduction
This
commentary will take a critical look at what I call the Tea
Party circuit and its celebrity opponents of the Obama regime,
including Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Ron Paul, and Catholics
such as Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and certain lesser lights of
the “Catholic libertarian” persuasion who call themselves
traditionalists. I will argue that this political coalition,
which willingly confines itself to the morally relativistic
framework of post-Enlightenment liberalism, is unable to address
the civilizational crisis of radical evil with the necessary
radical defense of the good, which is really only possible on
the basis of the law of the Gospel and what the Magisterium of
the Catholic Church calls the Social Kingship of Christ....More>>> |
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Coordinating Apostasy |
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Group Urges Lukewarm Catholics to Leave Church |
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In an
effort to “reduce the church's political influence, Argentine
atheists and feminists are spearheading a drive to get people
who were baptized Roman Catholic but disagree with the church's
politics to formally renounce their faith,” reports Reuters
(Mar. 4, 2009)....More>>> |
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British Bigotry |
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State-sponsored Persecution of Christians Across the Pond |
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On March 4 this year, Catholic pensioner Ted Atkinson was
imprisoned for 12 weeks for the ‘crime’ of sending pro-life
material to pro-abortionists....More>>> |
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Tridentine Nightmares |
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Lefebvre Still
Speaking
After Eighteen
Years in the Grave |
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Eighteen
years ago this month Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre went to his
eternal reward. Given the mettle of the man it’s not surprising
he continues to make front-page news nearly two decades after
his passing. In life his defense of the Catholic Faith altered
the course of the Barque of Peter. In death his legacy is
threatening to change the course of history. No wonder the
anti-Lefebvre propaganda machine remains well oiled to this day....More>>> |
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Last Catholic Monarchy Euthanized
Grand Duke Henri
of Luxembourg
Silenced! |
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The last
act of the French Revolution came to a close on March 12, 2009,
but hardly anyone was watching. The demonic forces unleashed
over two hundred years ago took on the aim of destroying all
monarchial authority in Europe. The rulers of the once
Christian nations of Europe, or at least their governing
authority, had all been executed, except for the tine nation of
Luxembourg. On March 12, without much fanfare, the parliament
of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg voted to end government of
their small nation by the Grand Duke....More>>> |
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Pope
Stands With Traditionalists |
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A Remarkable Letter
to the Bishops of the World |
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Pope
Benedict’s
letter of March 10, 2009 to the entire world episcopate
“Concerning the Remission of the Excommunication of the Four
Bishops Consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre” is another in a
series of historic developments beginning with the “liberation”
of the traditional Latin Mass on July 7, 2007. The letter comes
in the midst of a relentless worldwide attack on the Pope by the
mass media, pressure groups, and members of the Catholic
hierarchy united in their determination to prevent the
paralyzing “spirit of Vatican II” from losing its grip on the
Church....More>>> |
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Franciscans, Dominicans and Lefebvrists
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An Open Letter to Progressivists and
Modernists |
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The work of
the restoration of the Church carried out with wisdom and
strength by the Holy Father has faced thousands of hindrances
by the ignorant progressivists and the modernists proud of their
pseudo-science. These men, who are enemies of all good, have
done everything to prevent the canonical regularization of the
Priestly Fraternity St. Pius X. For instance, the anarchist
heretic Hans Küng not only criticized the Pope for approaching
the traditionalists, but also incited the Austrian clergy and
laypeople against the appointment of a certain auxiliary Bishop
for a diocese in that country.....More>>> |
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A Word
from the Institute of the Good Shepherd |
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Father Philippe Laguérie Interviewed by The Remnant |
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Introduction
There’s no sense fooling ourselves: all indicators in the Church
and in the state point to the rise of a new economic, political
and social order that promises to be supremely hostile to all
things Christian. That’s the reality, and there’s only one thing
we can do to slow the “progress” upon which that reality
depends: devote ourselves entirely to the restoration of
Catholic social order. This begins, of course, with the
universal restoration of the Traditional Mass—the touchstone of
the Faith....More>>> |
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