Kyrie Eleison! Christe Eleison! Kyrie Eleison! Lord Jesus Christ, You are the Good Shepherd! With your almighty hand you guide Your pilgrim Church through the storms of each age.
In one of the most valuable books dedicated to the art of meditation, Religious Meditations, [i] Father Pierre Chaignon S.J. (1791–1883) emphasizes one of the essential aspects of how a Christian can effectively change his life by drawing closer to the demands of holiness. How? Certainly not through general, vague, and non-committal resolutions. The effectiveness of a good meditation depends on specific decisions applied with wisdom to our personal lives. Thus, Father Chaignon proposes an eloquent example:
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In 2001, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight broke the news of 12 priests molesting altar boys. The John Jay Report in 2004 showed a remarkable upsurge in pedophilia and pederasty beginning in the 1960s. The costly shockwaves have been ongoing with upwards of 11,000 U.S. occurrences by 4,300 Catholic clergy accused of molesting altar boys and novice seminarians. Many dioceses have since gone bankrupt paying off their victims.
Like many of his progressive collaborators at Vatican II, Hélder Câmara’s “theological agenda” included an overt attempt to strip the Catholic Church of the authority and mission Our Lord Jesus Christ entrusted to it. Prior to the Council, Catholics knew that there was no salvation outside the Church (absent extraordinary circumstances). This fact is perfectly consistent with the mission that Our Lord gave His Church:
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With the Vatican having just announced that “blessings” of homosexual “couples” will be administered in Saint Peter’s Basilica—thus providing a definitive confirmation, as if one were lacking, that we have entered the time of the Great Apostasy—why a second article on the Israel-Palestine conflict? The answer lies in a prophetic parallel I ought to have developed further: that a substantial segment of the Jewish people views the establishment of the State of Israel by force and violence as precisely an apocalyptic sign of Jewish apostasy.
As most of you know, on December, 18, 2023, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) issued a declaration entitled Fiducia Supplicans, which was signed by the Pope. While firmly safeguarding Catholic teaching concerning the sacrament of Marriage, this same declaration also grants, under strictly limited circumstances, permission for priests to bless couples in irregular unions, including same-sex couples. As a result of this declaration, a turbulent storm of confusion and division has engulfed the Catholic Church.
This means children born by the donation of egg/sperm do not have anything to know who is their biological mother/father. Is this nothing but trampling on their human rights?
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– Like Roe v. Wade did last year, this case will have a huge and lasting ripple effect regarding future taxation that should concern everyone.
Napoleon was fundamentally revolutionary: if his superficially Catholic culture didn’t make him as bitterly anti-Catholic as the Jacobins, he was steeped in the Enlightenment, like most of his literate contemporaries, and he knew how to maneuver the Church, to the latter’s great misfortune.
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What’s past is prologue. —Shakespeare
In his classic The Spiritual Combat and a Treatise on Peace of Soul, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote of the absolute necessity of striving to discard the “old man” in ourselves if we want to overcome evil:
This is the world created by communism! A massive lie, where we drank ‘nechezol’ and ate soy salami while propagandists incessantly repeated that soon we would reach the earthly paradise created by the one-party system.
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These satirical observations demonstrate that the Babylon Bee has a far greater grasp of Catholic teaching — and the extent to which Francis opposes it — than Francis’s professional Catholic defenders. Should we Catholics therefore take all of this to heart and leave the Church so that we can “sleep soundly” like the Protestant man in the Babylon Bee’s December 19, 2023 article mocking Fiducia Supplicans?:
“ Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality ” – by Mons. Victor Fernandez
No coincidence: On the birthday of Pope Francis, lightning struck a statue of St. Peter, the first pope, destroying the keys the statue was holding and its halo outside a church in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Francis served as cardinal. The lightning strike was also the day before Francis released “ Fiducia Supplicans,” which says it’s possible to give “non-liturgical blessings” to people in “irregular relationships” a discernable euphemism for sin.
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Another extraordinarily significant case is that of a Dutch Catholic priest, Andries (Andrew) Wouters (1542-1572). Ordained a priest in a parish in Heinenoord, he led a scandalous life. Engaged in illicit relationships and the father of several illegitimate children, he was never an example for his parishioners. And yet, when Calvinists captured him along with other priests and monks, he proved loyal to the only thing that could save him from eternal punishment. What this unique and essential thing is, we immediately understand from his last words:
