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Did Pope Francis call us to pray the Rosary to silence Archbishop Carlo Vigano? In this latest Sunday Sermon from South St. Paul, Father explains the history of the Holy Rosary and then stresses the necessity of praying the Rosary for the intention of a heavenly intervention in the ongoing crisis in the Church under Francis of Rome. “Let Heaven hear the sound of your rosaries so that the voices here on earth trying to expose the wickedness in the Church might be heard and this help bring an end to this wickedness.”

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What the heck is going on at the Synod of Young People over in Rome right now! 

Down in the Remnant Underground, Michael Matt takes a look at some interesting video images of the 2018 Synod on Young People, and uses this as a springboard to discuss the traditional Catholic attitude toward those priests and bishops who know something is going terribly wrong inside the Vatican and who are speaking out, but who are not traditionalists, who don’t fully understand the problems with Vatican II and still offer the New Mass.  What do you think? Are prelates such as Vigano, Burke, Morlino, Chaput, Sarah and Schneider part of the problem, or a long-awaited first step in the right direction?  Michael discusses this, the continuing auto-demolition of the Francis pontificate and the Catholic response, i.e., The Catholic Identity Conference 2018 to be held near Pittsburgh on November 2, 3 & 4, 2018. 

All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances …
Shakespeare...As You Like It

For nearly two weeks, millions of Americans have watched the televised confirmation hearings regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. In an earlier comment in The Remnant about the nomination,  I wrote:

"I buttress my favorable assessment of Kavanaugh not on my limited first hand knowledge of Kavanaugh's record, but on that of two other experts in the field: one of them is Ed Whelan, a former law clerk of Justice Scalia, who totally supports the Kavanaugh nomination, and believes that he will be helpful in moving another step forward along the way of bringing back sanity to the High Court, including in the field of religious liberty. The other is Eugene Scalia. I strongly doubt that the lawyer son of  the late Justice would endorse anyone whose legal views were antithetical to those of his saintly father. I believe that Judge Kavanaugh will be confirmed, and that he will join the fight to restore the religious liberty that the current court has set in motion."

Dear Friends:

Have I got a treat for you!

I’m tempted to say: “Drop whatever you’re doing and read the article by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on the front page of the new issue of The Remnant!” It’s just that good.

The thing is from 1972, and yet it reads like a log entry from a time traveler of the Vatican II era who’d rocketed four decades into the future to see where the V2 asteroid was going to land.

 The new witch hunt has begun...

Three-hundred and twenty-six years ago several towns in Massachusetts were beset by what some historians and observers have termed a form of mass hysteria: the 1692 Salem Witch Trials remain seared in our public consciousness, and, even more, have occupied a prominent place in our literature and popular culture. Some 200 people—mostly but not all women—were accused of necromancy and black magic, and nineteen were found guilty and hanged.

Those trials, so engraved in the popular imagination, are illustrative of what occurs when corrupted religious sentiment, faulty ethical and moral thinking, and the power of suggestion on a mass scale have free rein in society. 

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In this Sunday Sermon from South Saint Paul, Father warns us to beware of apocalypses--those present as well as the final one to come. Father puts Pope Francis into context as "effect" rather than cause, and warns us to reject all which led up to the Francis disaster, all that which violates holy Tradition, everything that was inflicted upon the Church since the 1960s—including, yes, the many errors and novelties of the Second Vatican Council. 

Editor’s Note: I wrote these few words 14 years ago, the day after the death of my friend Michael Davies on September 25, 2004. Those wishing to learn more about this premier traditional Catholic layman can read the entire eulogy HERE. For over 30 years Michael Davies wrote a bi-weekly column for The Remnant called, simply, “A Letter from London.” May he rest in peace. MJM

Though he was not martyred, the name Davies can surely and without hesitation be placed alongside those of More, Fisher and Campion, as men who gave their lives to the defense of the Holy, Roman Catholic Church in times of great upheaval.

With all my heart I believe this to be true and am convinced that history will concur. In terms of sheer positive impact on souls languishing in a revolution-wracked Church, I can think of no layman who served more loyally or confirmed the brethren more steadfastly. He knew history and he understood the perils of our own time in the context of history.

The great Catholic counterrevolutionaries in history fought under the banner of the Sacred Heart. From the Vendeans in France to the Cristeros in Mexico to the Carlists in Spain. And now to the worldwide Traditional Catholic movement.

We're very excited to invite friends and allies of The Remnant to become a member of The Remnant League of the Sacred Heart.