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November 2-4, 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA

Your chance to network and strategize with some of the most exciting Catholic activists from both sides of the Atlantic. 

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Pope to Purge What’s Left of Catholic Nuns

More evidence keeps pouring into my email inbox that the current administration of the Congregation for Religious[1] is planning on using the provisions of Cor orans to totally rewrite the nature of contemplative women’s religious life, particularly the “conservative” and traditional communities, in the name of the “New Paradigm” of VaticanTwoism. [Editor’s Note:"Cor Orans" (“Praying Heart”) is the title of an April 1, 2018 document that Implements instructions on how to apply Pope Francis’ 2016 Apostolic Constitution – “Vultum Dei Quaerere” (“Seek the Face of God”) addressed to Catholic women religious in contemplative communities. MJM]

As I have written many times elsewhere, the one uniform characteristic of the current pontificate is the purge. It is clear now that Jorge Bergoglio was elected by a group of 1960s progressives to bring about the final removal of the last elements within Catholicism that have resisted the Vatican II revolution. After 50 years of ambiguity, of the two implacably opposed “paradigms” living in an uneasy truce within the same institution, those few recalcitrants left who refused to accept the new liturgical forms, new theological “formulations,” the new disciplines are being forced either to conform or leave.

Cardinal McCarrick in 2008    (Photo: Jersey Journal)

 **The often repeated plea of clergy abuse victims who viewed their priest abuser as an alter Christus.

Moments after the news broke that the Archdiocese of New York found credible child sex abuse allegations against Cardinal Emeritus Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., another shoe dropped.

Catholics would learn that the Church has settled with more victims of Fr. Ted McCarrick!

(The Church Dedicates the Month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus)

Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother… (Litany of the Sacred Heart)

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was descended from Adam “according to the flesh” (Rom. 1,3), because His Body formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Blessed Virgin was flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone. But the Holy Spirit did not merely form the Sacred Heart of Jesus; He also informed Him totally in the theological sense; “all the fullness of divinity”, of grace, of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit dwelt in the human Heart and Soul of Jesus from the first instant, because they did not belong to a human person, but to the Person of God’s only-begotten Son; Who, however, was truly man, because they did not belong to a human person, but to the Peron of God’s only-begotten Son; Who, however, was truly man, because human nature consists of a human body and a rational soul. We must never let go of the central truth that in Jesus there are two natures, but only one Person.

Where are the Catholic Children...

In the days before the Changes, nobody used words like liturgy or eucharist or reconciliation. It was Mass and Holy Communion and Confession. Simple, straightforward words. Everyone knew what they meant. We didn’t talk about rubrics, and most laypeople didn’t know about ambos and aspersoria and thuribles. That was the priest’s business. Like a doctor, he had his professional lexicon, and it was really not our concern. We just followed along, confident that we were being led to Heaven.

That’s what we talked about then, Heaven and Purgatory, and what we had to do to reach the one and shorten the other. We shuddered to think about Hell, and so we didn’t talk about it much either. We just set about working out our salvation with fear and trembling, like St. Paul told us to do. All for the love of Jesus, the Glory of God, and the Salvation of souls, we used to say.

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Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, celebrates Traditional Latin Mass for nearly 20,000 people in the most famous cathedral in Europe.

Tired of apologizing for being Catholic? Sick of every other religion in the world being praised while yours is condemned?

Weary of hearing about the rights of man, with no thought given to the rights of God and His Church?

Done with CINOs (Catholics In Name Only)? Here's the answer. On Pentecost weekend in France, nearly 20,000 Catholics from all over the world--of every race and color, men and women, old and young--came together to worship God, to honor Our Lady and to send a message to the world: the anti-Catholic revolution has failed!

Today I’ve received an interesting document issued by the Carmelite Order in Europe following a meeting of the “Federations of Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Europe & the Holy Land” in Avila, February 2009. As a snapshot of the current condition of Carmelite monastic life after it had been completely “federated,” it paints a depressing picture; but as a demonstration of what “federations” are likely to achieve once Cor orans is implemented universally, it clangs in the mind like a funeral bell.

The meeting covered Carmels of the Teresian, Discalced, reform from Germany, five areas of Spain, three from France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Croatia and the Holy Land[1]. The reports from each region showed that many of the provisions found in Cor orans were already in place: federations with broad powers, including financial control and combined formation courses, “religious assistant” priests appointed by the federation and overseeing individual monasteries and superiors giving up their authority to the federations. Given that this was 2009, it is clear that the plans to force all contemplative monasteries in the world into this disastrous European mould were well under way long before Pope Benedict was even considering resigning.