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Scandalous Pride Mass at St. John the Evangelist Parish in San Diego

The parish website contains a link to San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy’s January article in America Magazine calling for ‘radical inclusion’ for “L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church.” In the article, McElroy posits that the Church is a field hospital and the Eucharist is medicine, implying it should not be denied to anyone, regardless of the state of their soul. The cardinal also talks about “reverence for conscience in the Catholic faith” and states it is “conscience that has the privileged place” while omitting that conscience must be well-formed in accord with Church teaching. In effect, McElroy’s article can be used by pro-homosexual congregations as an imprimatur to promote sodomy.

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What is the “Missionary Spirit” of the Synodal Church?

“Since Jesus Christ has proclaimed that the special sign of discipleship with Him is that we ‘have love one for another’ (John xiii, 35; xv, 12), can we give a mark of greater love for our neighbors than to assist them in putting behind themselves the darkness of error by instructing them in the true faith of Christ?” (Pope Pius XI, Rerum Ecclesia, 1926)

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A Transgressive Disaster

Women have spent decades fighting for equal opportunities and Title IX ensured they had a level playing field. Allowing men to compete against them is its antithesis. Men’s and women’s sports exist due to fairness.

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The Lefebvre/Mindszenty Connection

Editor’s Note: I am pleased to present Father Wilson’s crucial historical observation about the context of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s reservations where trusting the Vatican in 1988 was concerned. With rumors flying today that Francis is allegedly claiming the “SSPX is not in schism” and that he may even be planning to confirm a SSPX bishop or two, I can’t help but to ask the obvious question: Do those celebrating this rumor somehow imagine that the Vatican hadn’t offered Lefebvre the same deal in 1988? I lived through that drama. I remember it well. It wasn’t that Archbishop Lefebvre had not been offered a way out of his predicament; it was, rather, that he didn’t trust the Vatican, pure and simple! He turned down their offer because he believed that hierarchs who had betrayed God (at Assisi, for example) could not be trusted to honor agreements with men (Just look how they’d betrayed Mindszenty!). Today, 35 years later, when the situation has only gone from bad to apocalyptic under Francis, it seems to me we are left with two alternatives: Either Lefebvre was wrong in 1988 for not trusting the Vatican in the first place; or the SSPX would be foolhardy to trust the Vatican today. If this is more than a mere rumor, and Francis really is about to approve a new bishop for the SSPX – right after his fatwa against the Latin Mass – I would paraphrase the Trojan priest, Laocoön, in reference to that other Trojan Horse: Beware of Romans bearing gifts. MJM

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No Father, We Should NOT Stand to Receive Holy Communion

A recent article in Northeast Ohio Catholic magazine by Fr. Gerald Bednar, “ Why Should We Stand to Receive Communion? ” states that kneeling for communion is permitted but “not as the norm.” The article continues, “This quirky regulation calls for some explanation.” Indeed it does.

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Confidential Fish Wrappers

The inmates are once again passing out the meds throughout the bureaucratic asylum where all top-secret documents are to be stored in the Penn Biden Center closets and in Biden’s garage, or better yet – his corvette’s glove compartment.

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