Introduction

Traditional Catholicism can be loosely defined as the prayers, customs and spirituality which existed universally in the Latin Rite prior to the Second Vatican Council.  This term was not used at the time of the Council.  It came into use subsequently, as these prayers, customs and the accompanying spirituality were being removed from modern life in every civilization throughout the world while a vigilant remnant protected it, considering it as having every right to exist and worth protecting. 

To this date Traditional Catholicism has survived a prolonged period of unceasing effort to purge it, continuing to survive and even thrive as the spiritual life that millions of people throughout the world adhere to. Traditional Catholics are those Catholics who retain, practice, and protect the customs and traditions, and liturgical norms that existed throughout the world prior to 1965.  Demographic surveys of this group vary, but it is commonly understood to be about 1% of all Catholics, along with another 11% who “consider themselves traditional.”  [4]   

The Fall of Francis?

Part I

Editor’s Note: In a series of Remnant posts, Elizabeth Yore, an international child protection attorney who has investigated numerous clergy abuse cases, analyzes the Archbishop Viganò allegations of clerical abuse coverup in the Francis pontificate. MJM  

Now that nearly three months have passed since the MOAB (Mother of All Bombs) was dropped on the Francis pontificate by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, it is time to assess what can be gleaned from the Vatican response about the accuracy of the Viganò charges.

Talks now available - CHORBISHOP ANTHONY SPINOSA | JOHN RAO | CHRISTOPHER FERRARA | More added throughout the day!

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God help us, here's what's coming next. Here's what the Synod on Youth was all about, and here's what the future of the Synodal Church is all about.

 (Synod 2018/AP photo)

I’m in the village bar[1] having an evening pint and using the wifi. In Rome, the Synod fathers are voting on a document most of them can’t read and which is reportedly not being read to them as promised because of “translation errors” and other “technical glitches” … Yeah… totally. “Technical glitches.” [2]

In effect, this means that by the time Remnant readers see this, new legislation will have been created for the Church Universal that not even the bishops of the Synod have actually read.

On Vatican II: Lefebvre from 1972...

Editor’s Note: NEWSFLASH: Being ‘rad trad’ is now very much en vogue.  I guess nobody wants to be on a losing team, and Team Bergoglio will surely never make the playoffs.  Strange days indeed!  Folks who were defending the regime just a few months ago are suddenly presenting themselves as traditionalists who’ve more or less been here all along. Good for them! Welcome to the front, boys. Still, natural justice impels us to recall that the pioneers of Traditionalism didn’t need to be on any winning team. In fact most of them were losers for Christ, who died excommunicated or otherwise disgraced for the lonely stand they took. But history will cast them as the heroes they surely were—men and women who didn’t require a buffoon like Francis to help them recognize a massive problem in the Church that had first outed itself in the Vatican, not in 2018, but sixty years earlier in 1958. Francis is hardly the ramrod. His arrival on the scene was as inevitable as sunrise. But now that resisting Modernist popes is all the rage, some Internet heroes are out there denouncing men such as Archbishop Lefebvre for doing fifty years ago what they finally mustered the courage to do just a few months ago.  This article is dedicated to the pioneer traditionalists—men who did their Catholic duty and became traditionalists long before Traditionalism was cool. Let’s never forget. MJM

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Michael Matt takes on Catholics who are not supporting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, including those so-called traditionalists who dismiss Viganò on the grounds that he's not a traditionalist. Plus, in the face of the Pope Francis crisis can faithful Catholics jump ship and join the Orthodox? Michael talks strategy and issues a clarion call to stay in the Church and fight, while standing strong with Archbishop Viganò.

Exclusive Access to CIC 2018 Via On-Demand Video:

Dear Friends:

I'd like to let you in on an early bird special for this year's Catholic Identity Conference (November 2, 3, and 4).  We're opening up early registration this week for the CIC On-Demand service, which means that if you cannot be with us physically this year, you can at least join us virtually.

There are only 25 seats left over at www.CatholicIdentityConference.org which we hope to fill over the course of the next week; but there will be unlimited availability via Remnant TV's CIC On-Demand.

Our RTV crew is already hard at work making sure to bring you top quality video of the event, along with special interviews, interactive online features and full access to each exciting CIC talk within minutes of its completion.

As Catholics begin to feel the noose tightening around their own necks here in 2018, it seems somehow appropriate to remind ourselves of the persecution that may come, that please God never will, but that did visit itself upon our brothers and sisters in Mexico not so very long ago. May their heroic example inspire us to stay strong and to never surrender that which meant everything to our fathers in the years and centuries leading up to the Second Vatican Council: the ancient traditions of the holy Catholic Faith, especially the old Latin Mass. 

Few Americans—and amazingly few Mexicans—are aware of the epic, three-year struggle to save the Catholic faith that convulsed Mexico in the 1920s. Fewer still are aware of the key players in this dramatic event that came to be known as “La Cristiada,” or “The Cristero War”.

Mexico has a long and fascinating history. In 1924, a deadly period was ushered in by the tenure of President Plutarco Elias Calles. This shift catalyzed the period known as the Maximato. It was during the Maximato that La Cristiada took place. 

See Part I HERE

Can a Canonization Be Based on Dubiously-Miraculous “Miracles”?

Tomorrow, October 14, Pope Bergoglio, having already authorized Holy Communion for public adulterers and declared the death penalty immoral—flatly contradicting bimillennial Church teaching and practice in both cases—will declare that both Paul VI and Oscar Romero are saints the universal Church must venerate as such. Yet Paul VI unleashed an unprecedented liturgical debacle and the post-conciliar revolution in general, over which he spent the rest of his life weeping and wringing his hands while faith and discipline rapidly collapsed all around him. Whereas Romero, a complex figure one cannot honestly call a Marxist, was not assassinated on account of hatred of the Faith as such, but rather on account of his public agitation against the government of El Salvador, then in the midst of a civil war with Marxist revolutionaries. Nor has it ever been determined with certainty which side of the conflict was responsible for his murder, for which no one has ever been prosecuted or even identified definitively as a suspect.