The hubris of Davos is overflowing with those who were born on third base and believe they hit a triple. The five days of nonstop blathering received a much-needed respite when WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab, who forever is auditioning for the next Mr. Freeze in the Batman series.
One of the most serious errors widespread today is designated by the term “papolatry.” This error is not manifested through denial but rather through an excessive affirmation of the Pope’s authority and privileges. To designate it, there is at least one alternative term, namely the concept of “hyperpapalism” proposed by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski in his comprehensive monograph, The Road from Hyperpapalism to Catholicism (Arouca Press, 2022). However, the most commonly used word remains the former. In this article, I want to explain as clearly as possible the meanings of this term. I hope to respond to some of the common criticisms made by those Catholics who perceive this term as an attack directed against the pontifical function itself and its attributes.
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Fr. Hackett’s response to the Grand Master, written on behalf of the ACBC, clearly leaves the door open to sacramental reception by Australian Catholic Freemasons in many or most cases, even though that door had been totally and firmly closed – and remains closed – by the Church’s perennial doctrine and discipline.
As I will try to show in the end, the analogy between the authority of the Pope and that of absolute monarchs is one of the most important directions that can be followed to clarify the issue of the possibility of a heretical pope. The era of absolutism spans the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. The most representative figure was the famous King Louis XIV of France (1638–1715), known to the world by his nickname le Roi Soleil (i.e., “the Sun King”). Without delving into details beyond the scope of this article, I will note the period when this new view of royal authority emerged: the 17th and 18th centuries. We will see later why this is significant.
Next the NFL will find a way to charge for using your mute button to tune out those droning announcers who encourage viewers to “place their bets” as if they are at a craps table while shilling nonstop for streaming services.
“And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ( Matthew 16: 17-18).
No Catholic is required to believe the messages from the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the three children of Fatima, but the reactions to the messages from high-ranking churchmen reveal several vital aspects of the current crisis in the Church. The conclusions we can draw from these reactions do not depend on the Fatima messages being legitimate — all that matters in this analysis is that the churchmen under consideration purported to believe them. And yet, if we honestly assess the way in which Church’s leaders have acted in light of the messages of Fatima, we can see something absolutely staggering: their actions paint the same picture of apostasy as that apparently contained in the complete Third Secret of Fatima that they have concealed.
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In a statement published Jan. 23 on his blog, Zen said the declaration Fiducia Supplicans contains numerous passages in need of clarification and “leaves many questions unanswered,” according to an unofficial translation.
Kathy Clubb: Dom Alcuin, it is now more than eighteen months since the clandestine ordinations which led to your suspension. How do you feel now about your decision?
Apart from the bitterness caused by Fiducia Supplicans, last Christmas brought me an unexpected joy. After more than thirty years, I re-watched Frank Capra’s film, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). The one to whom I must express gratitude for this (re)discovery is Michael J. Matt. When he saw my small list of family movies that can be enjoyed during the Christmas holidays, he expressed surprise that I hadn’t mentioned this particular title. Drawing my attention to one of the most significant cinematic creations, Michael gave me an unforgettable gift.
I’m not the only one to suspect that he’s actually trying to bury Catholic doctrine beneath a bucket of sanctimonious word vomit in service of the Globalist agenda. If you’re going to build a Brotherhood of Man, you start by pretending to solve humanity’s most obvious problems, such as poverty – something that has never and will never be solved. It is also predicated on the “fact” that poor people can’t possibly be happy, and until they are happy, you are a selfish pig for thinking about selfish spiritual things, such as selfishly trying to save your immortal soul. It’s religion’s equivalent to white privilege.
Our common condition is that of being spiritually blind: although the Sun of the entire creation, God, shines eternally upon everything that exists, we do not see Him directly during this passing life.
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One of the meditations in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises depicts the spiritual war between Jesus Christ and Lucifer, in which all men must choose which standard to follow:
Archbishop Morandi was seen as the driving force behind the Vatican’s rejection of same-sex blessings when the CDF published a responsum ad dubium to a question about the legitimacy of liturgical blessings for same-sex couples.
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Should we destroy the Colosseum in Rome, the Parthenon in Athens or Chichén Itzá in Mexico because those civilizations permitted slavery?
Over the years, Victor “Tucho” Fernández’s career has been marked by a penchant for the salacious on the good days and the downright pornographic on the bad, the latter having been nicely exemplified in his 1995 magnum opus on the spiritual meaning of kissing, titled, Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing.
In his Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Dr. Ludwig Ott included the following truths of the Catholic Faith regarding Hell:
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As it turned out, the wreckage of the economy, by itself, was insufficient to ruin the Orange Man’s re-election chances, and the Democrat establishment (which, since the advent of Trump, has become the main vehicle of corporate and globalist power), was ultimately compelled to steal the election in the most brazen act of political piracy ever witnessed in a modern democracy. Mail-in ballots, stuffed with fabricated Biden votes, continued to arrive at counting stations up to two weeks after the actual election day. When tallied up, the senile old pervert, who couldn’t attract more than half a dozen people to his pre-election rallies, was said to have garnered 81 million votes – twelve million more than the previous popular vote record held by Barak Obama. The establishment, having rubbed Trump’s nose in it by such a move, might reasonably have expected the latter to retire from politics. After all, if they could take the election from him in such a brazen way – one which he almost certainly won by a landslide – why would he even imagine that he could gain the White House again in a future ballot? But Trump has made a comeback, much to everyone’s astonishment (not least, perhaps, his own). To all intents and purposes he now looks set to win the election this coming November in an even bigger landslide than in November 2020, when he took 71 million votes.
