tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39074701812705015842024-02-19T03:35:32.579-08:00FIDELIS MILES MILITISUNDER THE PROTECTION OF OUR LADY, THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARYPreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-43100355906125896962014-01-23T06:28:00.001-08:002014-01-23T06:28:39.173-08:00The visible destruction of the Catholic Church <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xcemNG02rNs" width="420"></iframe><br />PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-22651613220025799602014-01-20T06:04:00.001-08:002014-01-20T06:04:20.337-08:00 The Danger of Equating Vatican II and the Liturgical Reform <span class="post-author"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">nteresting article from <i><b>New Liturgical Movement: </b></i></span></span></span><br />
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Peter Kwasniewski
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Pope John Paul II pointed out: “For many people, the message of the
Second Vatican Council was perceived principally through the liturgical
reform” (<i>Vicesimus Quintus Annus, </i>12).</span></span></div>
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That’s just the problem in a nutshell, isn’t it? If the liturgical
reform itself was bungled—and, in the wake of the scathing critiques of
Gamber, Ratzinger, Nichols, Lang, Mosebach, Robinson, Reid, et alia, it
is no longer intellectually honest to think that it was not, in some
very important respects—and, what is worse, if its implementation was
still further compromised by the prevailing secularism of the
environment into which it was launched, one must ask: What version, or
rather, what caricature, of Vatican II did those many people perceive
whose idea of the Council came, perhaps exclusively, from the liturgical
revolution?</span></span></div>
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They took in little or nothing of the authentic doctrine of the
Council—the salubrious doctrine that, according to John XXIII’s
intention and the very words of Vatican II itself, fully accorded with
the teaching of former ecumenical councils, especially those of Trent
and Vatican I. Instead of bread, the faithful were given a stone.
Instead of substantive <i>content, </i>the faithful were given a <i>hermeneutic, </i>a
manner of viewing the Church, her teaching, her tradition, her
liturgy—and it was decisively one of rupture and discontinuity. To be
Catholic in those heady days meant to be different, to be other, to be
up-to-date; it certainly did not mean to be stably the same, consistent
with one’s past, reliant on tradition. The Church was no longer the
Mystical Body and Immaculate Bride of Christ; the Church was <i>reform, </i>reform
without an end in sight, without even much of a plan, reform for the
sake of reform. As the famous Protestant theologian Karl Barth asked in
the wake of the Council: “When will the Church know that it is
sufficiently updated?” I think that’s what you call a rhetorical
question.</span></span></div>
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Tragically, generations of clergy have been trained in the same
hermeneutic of rupture and discontinuity, including most of the world’s
bishops. That is why the unexpected resurgence of traditional forms of
faith and worship among young people, mounting at times to passionate
commitment, is a source of bewilderment, consternation, and even anger
to them. Due to their training and mental habits, such clergy equate
today’s liturgy and its multitudinous aberrations with Vatican II, and
hence equate a love of or preference for the traditional liturgy and the
culture surrounding it with a <i>rejection </i>of Vatican II. This might be true for some people, but it isn't true across the board, and it <i>need </i>not be true at all.</span></span></div>
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It does not seem to matter that the traditional liturgy and the integral
Catholic life it sustains is, in fact, profoundly in harmony with the
best and greatest teachings of the Council—one need only think of <i>Lumen Gentium, Dei Verbum, </i>and even <i>Sacrosanctum Concilium. </i>It
does not matter that Pope Benedict XVI, the greatest theologian to sit
on the Chair of Peter for centuries, saw continuity between his own
liturgical doctrine and praxis and that of the Council to which he made
significant contributions. No, it does not matter, because it doesn’t
look that way to Catholics ignorant of the Council’s documents, ignorant
of the liturgical patrimony of the Church, and poorly formed by almost
fifty years of liturgical abuse.</span></span></div>
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What is necessary today is to show, patiently, persistently, and
accurately, with the humility and confidence born of careful study, that
the fathers of Vatican II did <i>not </i>desire or ask for the liturgical reform that came out of Bugnini’s Consilium, that the <i>Novus Ordo Missae</i> is <i>not </i>in full accord with <i>Sacrosanctum Concilium </i>(see <a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2013/12/is-your-liturgy-like-what-vatican-ii.html#.UtRe9NJDt8E" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2760/the_liturgy_fifty_years_after_isacrosanctum_conciliumi.aspx#.UtRfHdJDt8E" target="_blank">here</a>),
and that the teaching of the sixteen official documents of Vatican II
supports rather than dismantles traditional Catholic theology and piety.
The least we can do, in any case, is not to allow ourselves to be
tossed to and fro, carried about by every wind of secondhand half-truths
or tendentious readings that emphasize rupture, whether modernist <i>or </i>traditionalist in source.</span></span></div>
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It is true that there are problems, difficulties, and ambiguities in the
conciliar documents. It is true that not every formulation is immune to
legitimate criticism—even Ratzinger complained that parts of <i>Gaudium et Spes </i>were
“downright Pelagian.” And it is beyond doubt that there were bishops
and periti at the Council who sought to infuse modernism into the
documents and, to some extent, succeeded in influencing the
formulations. But it is still more certain that the final documents,
reviewed so many times and passed through the crucible of papal and
conciliar scrutiny, are, with few exceptions, sound in content and form;
and it is most certain that they are free from error in faith and
morals, being the formal acts of an ecumenical council and solemnly
promulgated by the Pope. We must never, as it were, abandon the Council
to the modernists; this would only play into the devil’s hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In any case, it is not simply this most recent Council that gives us our
map and marching orders; it is the entirety of Catholic Tradition and
the totality of the Magisterium for the past 2,000 years, of which this
Council is but a part, and <i>within </i>which it is rightly understood. We know that <i>in principle, </i>no reading of Vatican II can possibly be right that results in formal contradiction between past and present. We are guided by <i>all </i>of
the Church’s teaching, not just the most recent. Indeed, we are blessed
to belong to a body that, while it develops over time, cannot <i>essentially </i>change.
The partisans of perpetual change can have their bizarre liturgies and
politically correct catechisms, but they will no longer—or not for much
longer—be Catholics.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pasquale Cati, <i>Council of Trent</i></span></span></td></tr>
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PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-46740183133629009672014-01-20T05:56:00.002-08:002014-01-20T05:56:37.669-08:00Benedict XVI “defrocked” 384 clerics in 2 years<b><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From Fr. Z:</span></span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-benedict-defrocked-400-priests-years-article-1.1583143" target="_blank">AP</a>, and this was also <a href="http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/retraction-vat-now-confirms-almost-400-priests-defrocked-sex-abuse" target="_blank">clarified by the papal spokesman Fr. Lombardi</a>, Pope Benedict XVI “defrocked” almost 400 priests for the crime of sexual abuse of children – in a little more than 2 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are talking here about the formal dismissal of clerics from the
clerical state, sometimes quickly, through inaccurately, called
“defrocking”.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nearly 400 from 2011-2012!</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">John Allen (now leaving NSR) says:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Based on information provided in the published volume
“Activity of the Holy See,” according to Scicluna, there were 135
priests in 2011 who voluntarily requested dismissal from the clerical
state and 125 for whom laicization was imposed as a penalty.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For 2012, the numbers were 67 voluntary dismissals and 57 cases in which laicization was imposed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In total, that comes to 384 clergy over the two year period who were
removed from the priesthood in cases related to the sexual abuse of
minors.</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What we will now wait to see in the MSM and in the liberal <span style="text-decoration: underline;">c</span>atholic press is the <strong><em>praise</em> of Benedict XVI</strong> for his aggressive and exemplary work to protect children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>T</span>he division of the Traditional
Catholic world was a master stroke by the enemies of the 1962 Missal
and of the Roman Catechism. They have managed to sow discord between
friends and to establish fratricidal hatred among priests who used to
march together hand in hand. The first group began to treat their
brothers as radicals, the second called the others sellouts. The former
were convinced that those who remained under Abp. Lefebvre would soon
fall in total schism, and the latter thought with certitude that their
former brothers would abandon both Mass and Catechism.</span></span></div>
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What can we say more than a quarter-century later? That, on both sides, these judgments were, in great measure, overreactions.</span></span></div>
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On its own side, for all its known problems, the Society of Saint Pius X
did not become schismatic or a parallel "church". It has always kept
contacts with Rome and has made what it considered necessary in order to
regularize its situation with the successive popes, even if, for
reasons that its superiors considers prudential (and with which we
ourselves may prudentially disagree), regularization has not been
achieved for the moment. On the other side, the Ecclesia Dei communities
never abandoned the Traditional Mass, nor traditional Catechesis.</span></span></div>
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It must be said in all honesty: on the side of the SSPX, recognition of
the Pope remains, and the desire for its work to be recognized is still
sought, according to different measures that vary from person to person.
On the side of the Ecclesia Dei communities, there remains a
disapproval of the new Mass (regardless of the fact that it is
considered both valid and legitimate) and of the alteration of
traditional doctrine, both of which are also expressed differently from
person to person. The exceptions within these groups confirm the rule in
both communities.</span></span></div>
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A problem has been that, throughout the years, some religious
authorities, while the situation remained by itself already quite
confusing, proclaimed <i>fatwas</i>, dogmatizing attitudes that would
require a certain pliancy and lots of understanding. We heard, for
instance: "Visiting the SSPXers? Don't even think about it, or you'll be
excommunicated!" Or still: "Go to a Mass with those sellouts? You'll
lose your faith there!"</span></span></div>
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In the documentary on the life of Abp. Lefebvre which was recently
released in America, a famous professor and journalist, Jean Madiran,
who had distanced himself from the SSPX in 1988, made nonetheless this
brave declaration regarding the Lefebvre consecrations: "<i>It is hard for me to say today that he was mistaken.</i>"
Since he passed away in 2013, it is, at least in a small way, his
testament. That the most famous French layman of the Traditionalist
struggle is willing to affirm this soon before dying should make us
ponder. Many faithful in the young generation refuse this mutual
demonization whose only motivation seems to be the fear of having some
sheep escape to the neighboring pasture.</span></span></div>
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Now, is this text an appeal to mix everything up? Absolutely not. May
each one continue to advance in one's own post. The scenario that has
come up in the past few decades, even more so after the <i>motu proprio</i> <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>
of Benedict XVI, is the worst thing that the Progressives could have
imagined considering the very dire circumstances of the 1969-1988
period: a Society of Saint Pius X that remains somewhat strong, and that
keeps presenting to Rome its doctrinal misgivings; and Ecclesia Dei
communities that spreaded out throughout the world, slowly but surely,
and with great determination, making clear to the bishops every single
day what the Church has always willed and stood for, especially in
liturgical matters. Are not both in a way the heirs of Marcel Lefebvre,
who unfailingly asked for the "<i>experience of Tradition</i>" to be allowed?</span></span></div>
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Now then, what is to be done in the future? The forceful proclamation of the faith! And to work <i><b>cum et sub Petro</b></i> without complaining! May the fans of the Ecclesia Dei and <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>
communities not be afraid of the first response. And may those of the
Society of Saint Pius X not shy away from the second. In times of
troubled waters and unknown obstacles, the unity of all likeminded
traditional Catholics is essential, with mutual tolerance and
acceptance.</span></span>PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-22955783610481658042014-01-13T05:17:00.001-08:002014-01-13T05:17:42.972-08:00The Smoke of Satan in the Church<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">a letter by <i>Mario Palmaro</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i>What follows is a little unusual, but
as it is a central topic in the life of the Church and of our work, we
offer it to you knowing well that it requires a considerable effort by
those who want understand things thoroughly. Mario Palmaro, a well-
known writer to the readers of La Nuova Bussola Quotidiano, wrote me a
very long letter to express publically his indignation about the
direction the Church is taking, above all regarding the homosexual
aggression which is of interest to the whole world. My reply follows
this letter, and with it, I do not want to close the discussion, but
open it to other input. Palmaro with his friend and colleague,
Alessandro Gnocchi, were at the centre of polemics in the past months
because of a series of articles in </i>Il Foglio,<i> when they harshly
criticized Pope Francis. The Pope himself, then called Palmaro, after
discovering that he had a grave illness. Hence, I would like to take the
opportunity to ask all our readers to pray for him. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">January 8, 2014</span></b></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Dear Director,</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I read your editorial of January 3 [2014] –
“Renzi - if this is progress!” , and I can only agree with your
analysis on the new Secretary of the [Socialist] Democratic Party - his
cunning self-confidence, his transformism, the inevitable contradiction
between saying he is Catholic and his promotion of things that conflict
not only with the Catechism, but with the natural law. I would like to
add my appreciation for all that you have been doing for some time now
with the <i>Bussola </i>in the face of the homosexual assault, and don’t want to reproach you in any way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">However, I feel the need to write to you and your readers. <b>In all honesty: is our problem really Matteo Renzi</b>?
Did we really expect that one who becomes Secretary of the Democratic
Party, would then set about defending the natural family, the unborn,
combating artificial insemination, abortion, and opposing euthanasia?
Forgive me, are you actually familiar with the PD electorate which
include Catholics on pastoral committees, nuns and parish priests? In
your opinion, what does that electorate want from Renzi? It is obvious:
“homosexual marriage” and “lesbian-democratic” adoptions. Have you
ever listened to the average worker who votes for the left? In your
opinion, do they want the defense of natural marriage or do they want
council houses for our brother-homosexuals so horribly discriminated
against? Let’s stop believing that the problem is Niki Vendola* or the
ugly, bad, communist extremists and that it is important to be moderate;
the points of reference for the average man are Fabio Fazio* and
Luciana Littizzetto*, the Coop, Gino Strada*, Enzo Bianchi* and Eugenio
Scalfari*. Renzi puts all these ingredients into his blender, mixes
them with doses of homoeopathy from Don Ciotti* and Don Gallo*, and the
result is the perfect brew which holds the “little democratic parish”
and the Arcigay together. To expect something different from him would
be stupid. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">The scandal, forgive me, is another.
Compared to Renzi - the Secretary of the PD who winks at the
homosexuals, the scandal is in listening to the exponents of the New
Centre Right who are saying: “Civil unions are not a priority for the
government”. Do you get it? It is not that the NCD jumps up like a
spring and declares: we shall never vote for these unions – ever! No: he
says that they are not a priority. Someone meets Hitler who is talking
about wanting to construct gas chambers. Does he reply like this: “Look,
Adolf, this is not a priority.” We will do that, we will do that too,
all in good time”?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I watched government minister, Hon. Lupi – a Catholic, who explained the situation on a <i>Rai News</i>
program. With a very embarrassed face and the terrified eyes of one who
is thinking (but I could be mistaken) : “Damn it! Now I have to talk
about the non-negotiable principles and homosexuals, and I’ll end up
like Pietro Barilla. I’ll have to leave my strategic and important
ministry, where I can do so much good for my country and my movement.
And then Lupi takes refuge in that well-known theme called ”priorities”,
like all of the other lion-hearts in Angiolino and Roccella’s party:
no, civil unions are not a priority.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Obviously there’s worse: on the same News
programme, there was Scelta Civica (Civic Choice) saying: we have to
defend the rights of homosexual people. Scelta Civica, I believe, is
that same party created in a rage by Todi 1* and Todi 2*, which the
Italian bishops had erected as a new bulwark for the non-negotiable
values under the ‘very Catholic’ leadership of Mario Monti. Then we have
the worst of the worst. In the same News, there was a ‘lady’ belonging
to Forza Italia who triumphantly announced that they would have put
their proposals for homosexual rights together with those of Renzi. I
heard a distant roll of drums against civil unions from Salvini’s Lega
and even more feebly from the Fratelli d’ Italia. The end.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">No, dear Director, my problem is not Matteo Renzi. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>My problem is the Catholic Church. </b>The problem is that <b>on the subject of the worldwide outbreak of the homosexual lobby, the Church has fallen silent.</b> We have <b>silence from the Pope to the humblest priest in the peripheries</b>. And if the Pope speaks, the day after Padre Lombardi has to rectify, specify, clarify and differentiate<b>.
Please abstain from dusting off letters and declarations made by
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio ten years ago. If I find out today that
my son takes drugs, what should I say to him: “go and re-read the joint
declaration made by me and your mother six years ago when we told you
not to take drugs”? Or would I face him and try to shake him
immediately as best I can?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Dear Director, where are the Episcopal Conference and the bishops in this battle? <b>A
deafening silence has fallen upon them. Actually, no: Monsignor
Domenico Mogavero, Bishop of Mazara del Vallo, ex-under-secretary to the
CEI and canonist – no less – spoke – oh, and how he spoke: </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">“<i>The law cannot ignore hundreds and
thousands of people cohabitating. It is right that cohabitating couples
be recognized also in Italy without putting them on equal terms with
families.</i>” For Mogavero, “The State can and must protect the pact
that two cohabitants have made between themselves. In contrast to
Christian mercy and universal rights – note well - two cohabitants
don’t exist for the law. Today, if one of the two is taken to hospital,
the other is even denied in the lending care or receiving medical
information, as if they were an outsider.” The Bishop concludes: “I
think it is legitimate to recognize rights such as the reversibility of
pensions or the transfer of rent in virtue of the person’s importance.
It is unsustainable – Mogavero underlines – that the cohabiter is a Mr.
Nobody for the law.” And as regards the Church, for which Pope Francis
has invited reflection on this theme, in view of the extraordinary Synod
on the Family, “<b>without equating them to married couples, there are no obstacles to common-law unions.</b>” Amen.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Do you get it, dear Director? Shortly
they’ll take my son of seven and at school they’ll make him play with
condoms and his genitals, and what does the Church talks about with me?
About boatloads which sink near Lampedusa, about Jesus who was a
refugee, about an obscure Jesuit of the 17th century just beatified! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">No, <b>my problem is not Matteo Renzi.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Dear Director, where is the Archbishop of Milan, Angelo Scola in this battle? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Shortly they will stop us from saying and
writing that homosexuality is against nature, and Scola talks to me
about half-castes and of the need to understand and value the Roma
culture. And again, it was the Archbishop of Milan some weeks ago who
invited the Archbishop of Vienna, Schönborn, to our Cathedral: <b>as the
Church is disappearing in Austria, they asked him to come and explain
to the priests of our diocese how to obtain such results - what their
secret was.</b> Just like this: a coach has brought his team to fall
down on the league, and so we’ll give him the teaching post at
Coverciano! [The central training ground and technical headquarters of
the Italian National Football Team.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">And would you look at the coincidence,
among other things: Schönborn – who wears the habit of St. Dominic and
Thomas Aquinas – came to explain to the Ambrosian priests that he had
personally intervened in protecting the nomination of two homosexuals
for a parish council. Schönborn says he met them and: <i>“I saw two pure young men, even if their cohabitation is not what the order of creation has foreseen.</i>” There you have it, dear Director, this is purity according to a prince of the Church at the dawn of the year 2014. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">And my problem should be Matteo Renzi and the PD? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">They are going to take my seven-year-old
son and brainwash him into thinking that homosexuality is normal and in
the meantime, my Archbishop invites a bishop to the Cathedral to teach
me that two homosexuals living together are examples of purity?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">And so to finish. The Matteo Renzi who
promotes civil unions is a physiological byproduct of a Pope who, in his
travels is interviewed by journalists on the plane and declares: “Who
am I to judge” etc, etc. Obviously, I know too that these two are not of
the same nature, that the Pope is against these things and certainly
suffers regarding them, and that he is motivated by good intentions.
However, facts are facts. Confronted with that little sentence –
epochal from the mouth of a Pope “Who am I to judge”–, loads of
corrective and reparatory articles can be written, which tireless troops
of “normalists” have been doing now for months, in order to say, don’t
worry all is well – everything is just fine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">But <b>we both know well, and anyone else who knows the mechanisms of communications does as well, that, that “<i>Who am I to judge</i>” is a tombstone on any political and legal battle regarding the recognition of homosexual rights.</b> <b>If
we were in rugby, I would tell you that that little sentence gained in a
few seconds more meters in favour of the homosexual lobby, than decades
of work by the world’s homosexual movement.</b> I’ll tell you too, that
bishops like Mogavero, in the shade of that little sentence “who am I
to judge” can build castles of dissolution without impunity, and the
only thing left for us to do is to keep our mouths shut.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Let’s be clear: to impute that the Pope or
the Church are to blame because all the countries in the world are
normalizing homosexuality would be foolish: this rising tide is
unrestrainable, it cannot be stopped. The reason is simple: London, and
Paris, New York and Rome, Brussels and Berlin have become a gigantic
Sodom and Gomorrah. The point is however, whether we want to admit this,
dispute and denounce it, or whether we want to play smart and hide
behind the “<i>Who am I to judge</i>”. The point is also, whether this worldwide Sodom and Gomorrah, merit the language of mercy and comprehension. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"> Well, then, I wonder, why don’t we also
reserve the same mercy for the traffickers of chemical weapons, the
slave-traders and financial embezzlers? Aren’t they also poor sinners?
Right? Or do I have to ask Schönborn to meet them for lunch and evaluate
their purity? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Dear Director, the situation by now is
very clear: any Catholic politician, intellectual or journalist even if
he wants to fight on the homosexualist front, will find himself spiked
in the back by the mysticism of mercy and forgiveness. We are all
completely de-legitimized, and <b>any bishop, priest, theologian,
director of a diocesan weekly or politician of the
Catholic-democratic-type can shut us up with that “<i>Who am I to judge</i>”.</b> We would be riddled with shots like a farm pheasant in a hunting chase by types like Mogavero.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Dear Director, <b>our problem is not Matteo Renzi. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Our problem, my problem, is that the other
day the Holy Father said the Gospel “is not proclaimed with doctrinal
beatings, but with sweetness.” Also here, I would please ask “<i>normalists</i>”
and timewasters to abstain. Even I know that effectively the Gospel is
announced like that – apart from the fact that John the Baptist had
rather brusque methods himself, and the Lord defines him “as the
greatest among those born of woman”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">But you know very well that with that little sentence, we have both been spiked like codfish. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>We have both been fighting against
legalized abortion, divorce, in vitro fertilization, euthanasia,
homosexual unions and cunning politicians like Matteo Renzi, who are
promoting and spreading all that stuff. </b>But there you have it, we
are both irremediable doctrinal bashers, people without charity,
ethicists, “theologians”, as some journalist from Communion and
Liberation calls us. Furthermore, phenomenon like <i>La Bussola </i>and <i>Il Timone</i>
are anachronistic examples of this lack of charity, of this
unpresentable moral rigour. Plus, the daily, titanic efforts of the “<i>normalists</i>”
will not be enough to subtract these titles of de-legitimization from
official Catholicism, as all the balancing exercises in trying to keep
your feet in two different shoes, always end up, sooner or later, with a
tragic flight into the void. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I also think that the problem – forgive
the personal aspect – is not dirty, ugly and bad Gnocchi and Palmaro,
because of what they wrote in <i>Il Foglio</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I would re-write the same thing again,
ten, a hundred, thousand times more, since unfortunately, everything is
coming to pass in the worst way, much worse than what we could have ever
predicted. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">This is why, dear Director, <b>our problem and the problem of Catholics and ordinary people is not Matteo Renzi</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The problem is our Mother Church, who has decided to abandon us in the jungle of Vietnam:</b>
the helicopters have taken off and we have been left where we’ll let
ourselves, one at a time, be spiked by the “Vietcong relativists.” I am
not protesting for myself, and you know the reasons why. And besides, I
prefer a thousand times, to stay down here waiting for the Vietcong,
rather than ever get into one of those helicopters, in which perhaps
there is the promise of a little seat in some clerical conference of the
type “<i>Scienza e Vita</i>,” under the illusion that one is a part, in
some way, of the official power, together with all the other ecclesial
movements. Or with the crazy idea - written in black and white - that,
Gnocchi and Palmaro were perhaps right, but they shouldn’t have said
it, because certain truths should not be uttered, rather they should be
somewhat denied publically in order to confound the enemy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">No, I am not protesting for myself.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">However, I still have the problem of that
seven-year-old son of mine and three older ones too. I don’t want to
and can’t give them the response of the boatloads sinking near
Lampedusa, the homosexual example of purity from Cardinal Schönborn, the
half-castes and the praise of the Roma culture by Cardinal Scola, the
disdain for doctrinal thrashings according to Pope Francis and the
eulogizing of civil unions by Mogavero. To these children I cannot tell
the fairy-tale called “<i>Matteo Renzi</i>.” Anyway, regarding Renzi, ten minutes done well by Crozza* will fix him. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">Dear director, dear Riccardo, why would I
ever write these things to you? Because last night I couldn't sleep. And
because I’d like to understand – and ask the readership of <i>Bussola </i>a question: <b>What
more has to happen in the Church for Catholics to stand up, once and
for all, and shout their indignation from the rooftops?</b> Attention: <b>I am addressing individual Catholics</b>,
not associations, secret meetings, movements, sects which for years
have been managing the brains of the faithful for the benefit of third
parties, dictating the line the followers have to take. These groups
seem to me to be placed under the care of those <i>minus habens</i> [of
lesser intelligence] and headed from afar by more or less charismatic
individuals, who are more or less trustworthy. No, no: here I am making
an appeal to individual consciences, to their hearts, their faith and
their virility. Before it is too late.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">I owe this to you my dear Riccardo. I owe
this to all those who know me and still have esteem for me and for what I
represent. Pardon me for having taken advantage of your patience and
also that of your readers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mario Palmaro</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Translation, slightly adapted to conform to informal style used by Mario Palmaro – Francesca Romana. Source: </span><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lanuovabq.it/it/articoli-il-fumo-di-satana-nella-chiesa-8142.htm">Bussola Quotidiana</a></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Translator’s notes:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Niki Vendola, LGBT activist, left-wing politician</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Fabio Fazio, TV presenter for left-wing RAI 3 </span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Luciana Littizzetto, comedian, anti-Catholic, does TV spots for COOP</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Gino Strada, war surgeon, Founder of Italian NGO Emergency </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Monastic Community of Bose (Biella), but not a priest, and progressive Catholic writer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Eugenio Scalfari, editor of left-wing daily – La Repubblica. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Todi
1 and Todi 2 – two Forums held in the Todi, Umbria for associations and
people of Catholic inspiration in the work place in October 2012</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Crozza, comedian of scathing satire</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Don Ciotti, Catholic priest, writer, social activist, particularly against drugs and the Mafia</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">*Don Gallo, Catholic priest, now deceased famed for communist ideals and social activism</span></span> </span></span></div>
PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-67495444191282763652014-01-13T05:15:00.000-08:002014-01-13T05:15:06.270-08:00 Business as usual in the Roman Curia
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://gatesheadrevisited.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/awards-and-honours-again.html">Fr. Michael Brown</a></b> and the ways of the Curia whose shenanigans compelled Pope Ratzinger to leave:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK I may have misunderstood but I thought
the situation was as follows. The conclave gathered after the
unfortunate resignation of pope Benedict XVI. He was the greatest
Supreme Pontiff since his namesake Benedict XIV but was overwhelmed by
the corruption he saw in the Church and so decided to throw his hat in.
The conclave are of the opinion that one of the Great Problems is the
Roman Curia. It is full of self-obsessed Promethean Neo-Pelagians only
concerned with how they can make further progress up the greasy pole and
is a scandal. So step forward Cardinal Bergoglio who has what it takes
to do the job and is elected on the understanding that he will reform
the Curia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So what happens? To overcome the great
evil of clergy careerism it is decreed that the title of Monsignor will
be abolished for all below the age of 65 to prevent clergy working to
procure a handful of purple buttons. Hurrah, they say this man means
business. But wait: this applies to the whole Catholic world <b><a href="http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-reforms-ecclesiastical-honours">except
the Roman Curia where it will be business as usual and priests over the
age of 35 who have completed five years service will automatically
become Monsignors</a></b>. Well that shows the Curia they`d better change their ways.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Reality
television is a genre of television programing that documents
unscripted situations and actual occurrences, often highlighting
conflict and drama. Typical reality programs involve survival
situations, family feuds</span><span style="color: #333333;">, repo companies, pawn stores and much more. The most popular reality program in the history of cable television is <em>Duck Dynasty</em>, which is watched weekly by millions of Americans and has brought in hundreds of millions in sales of merchandize. <em>Duck Dynasty</em> follows the everyday lives of a southern family that made a fortune in hand-made duck calls. Their company is called <em>Duck Commander</em>.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333;">Even if you do not watch reality shows you may have heard of the squawk raised against the family patriarch who founded the <em>Duck Commander</em> company for his recent remarks regarding homosexuality:</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: maroon;">"Start
with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality,
sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those
men…Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male
prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the
slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t
deceive yourself. It’s not right."</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333;">Contrast what the <em>Duck Dynasty </em>patriarch had to say on this subject with that of the <em>Bishop of Rome</em>:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: maroon;">"If
someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I
to judge...A person once asked me if I approved of homosexuality. I
replied with another question: "Tell me: when God looks at a gay person,
does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and
condemn this person?" We must always consider the person…We cannot
insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of
contraceptive methods. This is not possible."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">For
strong statements against homosexuality, the patriarch was bounced from
his reality program [and subsequently reinstated by A&E after
massive protest]. For soft comments regarding homosexuality, on the
other hand, the Pope was named “Person of the Year.” There is something
terribly wrong in the Church when a <em>Duck Commander begins to</em> sound more Catholic than the Pope.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">But
papal ambiguity is no longer limited to comments upon moral matters; we
are now subjected to such statements related to faith. Incredibly, even
for this papacy, Pope Francis said the following of Our Lady in a
recent sermon:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;">"The
Gospel does not tell us anything: if she spoke a word or not… She was
silent, but in her heart, how many things told the Lord! ‘You, that day,
this and the other that we read, you had told me that he would be
great, you had told me that you would have given him the throne of
David, his forefather, that he would have reigned forever and now I see
him there!’ Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to
say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’ John Paul II would say this, speaking about
Our Lady in that moment. But she, with her silence, hid the mystery
that she did not understand and with this silence allowed for this
mystery to grow and blossom in hope."</span><span style="color: #333333;"> (December 20, 2013)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Is
the Bishop of Rome kidding us? Whether intended or not, this statement
is scandalous. The idea that the Blessed Mother might possibly have
desired to accuse God of a lie—making God a liar—is so utterly contrary
to Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, Marian piety and Catholic
theology that not even a bible believing <em>Duck Commander</em> would make this assertion. Even Neo-Catholics may struggle to spin this whopper!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Even
apart from the egregious error regarding Mary, there is another error
by Pope Francis, regarding Pope John Paul II, whom he alleges—falsely—to
have said the same thing about the Mother of God:</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="color: maroon;">"And
now, standing at the foot of the Cross, Mary is the witness of the
complete negation of these words. On that wood of the Cross her Son
hangs in agony as one condemned…How great, how heroic then is the
obedience of faith shown by Mary in the face of God's "unsearchable
judgments"! How completely she "abandons herself to God" without
reserve, offering the full assent of the intellect and the will" to him
whose "ways are inscrutable" And how powerful too is the action of grace
in her soul, how all-pervading is the influence of the Holy Spirit and
of his light and power! Through this faith Mary is perfectly united with
Christ in his self- emptying. At the foot of the Cross Mary shares
through faith in the shocking mystery of this self-emptying."</span><span style="color: #333333;"> (Redemptoris Mater, 18)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">In
fact, it is readily apparent that Pope John Paul wrote just the
opposite of Pope Francis, namely, that Mary had a heroic obedience of
faith, not the deep-down doubt suggested by Pope Francis. If Francis
were correct—and he is not—then there would be little merit won beneath
the Cross by the doubting Mother. Instead of the Pieta, imagine <em>Mater Dubita</em> with fists clenched, screaming interiorly “Lies!”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">But
that is unimaginable, as is this papal meditation on this mystery.
Speaking of which, let’s hope and pray that there are not more modernist
mysteries to be added to the rosary. They may be called the <em>Doubting Mysteries</em>
and include: Zechariah doubts the Archangel, Joseph doubts Mary, John
the Baptist doubts Jesus, Mary doubts God, Jesus doubts the Father and
Thomas doubts the Apostles. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">One
really wonders how the Pope could get this wrong. In effect, he has
confused the New Eve with the Fallen Eve. Mary is the model of faith and
obedience. Never mind that Mary was personally familiar with the
prophecy of Simeon, that a sword of sorrow would pierce her heart; never
mind that Mary was certainly aware of the prophetic words of her own
Son, who repeatedly foretold that the Son of Man would be crucified and
then rise from the dead.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">If
anyone thinks that I am being too hard on Pope Francis, remember that
in this case, whether intended or not, the Bishop of Rome has messed
with our Mother. </span><span style="color: black;">The Pope concluded
his sermon saying, “May the Lord give all of us the grace to love the
silence.” Based on what we have heard, many of us would love a little
more papal silence. When</span><span style="color: #333333;"> it comes
to the matter of mystery, there is one mystery that defines this papacy:
the mystery of Pope Francis and what he really means.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Remnant Editor’s Note:</span></strong><span style="color: black;">
The following few quotations provide the traditional understanding on
the mystery of Mary’s role in the Incarnation and crucifixion of her
Son—an understanding which we hope and even presume Bishop of Rome
Francis intended to reiterate, if in vain, in his confusing sermon of
December 20, 2013. Credit to Rorate Caeli for compiling these quotes:</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">Venerable Fulton Sheen</span><span style="outline-style: none;"><span style="outline-style: none;"><span style="outline-style: none;"><span style="outline-style: none;"><span style="outline-style: none;"><span style="outline-style: none;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong>“From
the moment she heard Simeon’s words, she would never again lift the
Child’s hands without seeing a shadow of nails on them; every sunset
would be a blood-red image of His Passion.”<br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">St. Ambrose:<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">“His
mother stood before the Cross, and, while the men fled, she remained
undaunted... She did not fear the torturers... His mother offered
herself to His persecutors."</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">St. Bernard:</span></strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;"> <span style="color: black;">"But perhaps someone will say, 'Did she not know ahead of time that her Son was going to die?' Yes, undoubtedly."</span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">St Bonaventure:</span></strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;"> <span style="color: black;">"When
she saw the love of the Eternal Father towards men to be so great that,
in order to save them, He willed the death of His Son; and, on the
other hand, seeing the love of the Son in wishing to die for us: in
order to conform herself who was always and in all things united to the
will of God to the excessive love of both the Father and the Son towards
the human race, she also with her entire will offered, and consented
to, the death of her Son, in order that we might be saved."</span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange: </span></strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">"S<span style="outline-style: none;">he
is at the foot of the Cross on Calvary, though all the Apostles, St
John only excepted, have fled; she stands erect there, firm in her faith
that her Son is the Son of God, that He is the Lamb of God Who is even
then taking away the sins of the world, that though apparently defeated,
He is Victor over Satan and sin, and that in three days He will conquer
death by His resurrection. Mary's act of faith on Calvary was the
greatest ever elicited on earth, for the hour was unspeakably dark and
its object was the most difficult of all – that Jesus had won the
greatest of victories by making the most complete of immolations. Her
faith was aided then by the gifts of the Holy Ghost. By the gift of
Understanding she read far into the revealed mysteries, far into their
inner meaning, their harmony, their appropriateness, their consequences.
She was particularly favoured in her understanding of the mysteries in
which she herself had a part to play, such as the virginal conception of
Christ, His Incarnation, and the whole economy of the Redemption. ... </span><span style="outline-style: none;">It
was increased also by the fact that Mary was confirmed in grace and
preserved free from every shortcoming – lack of confidence as well as
presumption.”</span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">Blessed Simon of Cassia:</span></strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;"> <span style="color: black;">"While grieving, she rejoiced, that a sacrifice was offered for the Redemption of all, by which He Who was angry was appeased."</span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">Pope Benedict XV:<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">"She
offered her Son so generously in sacrifice to satisfy the justice of
God, that it may be said with reason that she cooperated in the
salvation of the human race along with Christ."</span><br /><br /><span style="outline-style: none;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">Arnold of Bonneval: </span></strong></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">"</span>Love
for his Mother moved Christ. At that moment, Christ and Mary had but
one single will, and both were equally offering a single holocaust to
God: she with the blood of her heart; He with the blood of His body."<br /><br /><span style="outline-style: none;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #990000; padding: 0in;">Alain de Lille: </span></strong></span>"<span style="outline-style: none;"><span style="outline-style: none;">The disciples' faith failed, but the firmness of the Virgin's faith was not diminished.''</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now,
I know only too well how easy it is to make light of the Novus Ordo, and all
that surrounds neo-Catholicism…but hey, at least this old priest believes in
the Benedictine arrangement on his table-altar. At least give him that much?</span></span></div>
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<br />PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-15757182929493362682014-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:002014-01-02T06:54:00.256-08:00 Dominican Rite Solemn Mass of the Ember Wednesday of Advent <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="post-author">by
Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the kindness of the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, I can now present some photos for the <b>Solemn High Dominican Rite Mass </b>celebrated
at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco CA on December 18,
2013. I have selected some of the photos from the Society's <a href="http://tlmofsf.smugmug.com/2013-Rorate-Caeli-Solemn-High">photo gallery</a> because they show distinctive Dominican features of Solemn Mass on penitential days and ferials.<br />
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The celebrant was <a href="http://www.dspt.edu/ramelow">Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.</a>, of the <a href="http://www.opwest.org/vocations/vocations">Western Dominican Province</a> who was assisted, once again, by the Province's student brothers from the <a href="http://www.dspt.edu/site/default.aspx?PageID=1">Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology</a>
(Berkeley, CA).
Since it is not the Dominican custom to celebrate a devotional "Rorate"
Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent, this Mass was that proper
to the Ember Day, which does, happily, have the Officium (Introit)
"Rorate."<br />
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As it was expected that the Mass would be by candle light as is the
common Roman custom, the church was in darkness except for the large
numbers of candles.<br />
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Here are some photos from the Mass:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQidFUQ1dyB3M5Vjy0h9_oDQ4pji4fC3ZhDz5VrERtnj4d1XMisxoR3k8CpriBQBcE8z53ZIfv11hOvcUWGBKP_Dk0VzUpfvn-N6DRJOjlcwfK2d6AQaznqERS7-a2UHbIXub5SBtiVs/s1600/collect.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQidFUQ1dyB3M5Vjy0h9_oDQ4pji4fC3ZhDz5VrERtnj4d1XMisxoR3k8CpriBQBcE8z53ZIfv11hOvcUWGBKP_Dk0VzUpfvn-N6DRJOjlcwfK2d6AQaznqERS7-a2UHbIXub5SBtiVs/s400/collect.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Priest with his hands in the Dominican Orans Position</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here you can see the Dominican position of the hands at the Collects,
with palms facing forward rather than toward each other as in the Roman
Rite.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjkjVcXMSVuQLCa4JtKssXGMi72ubYRM_Y9llhJHne4QigsX2eymLvKG4thlmWP8okUASDMK42bYDpi_Su908qn8moEOnESs5lbB0Ck50sl1yfQ4SmaF8lRGrW-GC9W4_PQh66r4lrPg/s1600/atsedila.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjkjVcXMSVuQLCa4JtKssXGMi72ubYRM_Y9llhJHne4QigsX2eymLvKG4thlmWP8okUASDMK42bYDpi_Su908qn8moEOnESs5lbB0Ck50sl1yfQ4SmaF8lRGrW-GC9W4_PQh66r4lrPg/s400/atsedila.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ministers at the Sedilla</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this photo you can see the Dominican order of seating for the
ministers (here during the sermon). The higher ranking the minister,
the closer to the altar, thus the priest (preaching and so not present)
is closest, followed by the deacon, subdeacon, senior acolyte, etc. You
can also see over the major minsters' laps the violet "mappula" or
"mappa," which is analogous to the Roman gremial.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98-AgRvU5oXZQLdgWD0pZA-G3qilWSC9MyVpUxUfyoVB-AvAwzYz09f4gohAh2TxMJRe8ze4Jts5YENMxoSH-b3cFjJti1fp5jHJfjVv4f2zL6tncQg5WcBh4aJQZChnec1rJb4-eukM/s1600/communionverse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98-AgRvU5oXZQLdgWD0pZA-G3qilWSC9MyVpUxUfyoVB-AvAwzYz09f4gohAh2TxMJRe8ze4Jts5YENMxoSH-b3cFjJti1fp5jHJfjVv4f2zL6tncQg5WcBh4aJQZChnec1rJb4-eukM/s400/communionverse.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ministers reciting the Offertory Verse</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this unusual photo, you can see the order of the ministers to the
Gospel side of the altar during the reading of the Offertory Verse. In
our Rite this position is taken so that at least the deacon can recite
the verse with the priest. In the middle ages, of course, all the
ministers would have had the propers memorized from frequent use and so
all would join the priest in the recitation. (The acolytes would not
normally carry candles at this point, but it was so dark in the church
that they carried them so that the ministers would not trip on the
steps.)<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4RII9FXF3nqjndhZf2qctnP57EdminULEVi2EluseD-STjl7CddZw_3FRRDP3xe0KkQ_eegARRin0GbzGf1GdKYSNLs6IRXC1cqV3gc3N5jBK_zjl-b0GKQ5qBmjUVoU8km-L8zVsapY/s1600/elevation.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4RII9FXF3nqjndhZf2qctnP57EdminULEVi2EluseD-STjl7CddZw_3FRRDP3xe0KkQ_eegARRin0GbzGf1GdKYSNLs6IRXC1cqV3gc3N5jBK_zjl-b0GKQ5qBmjUVoU8km-L8zVsapY/s400/elevation.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Elevation of the Host</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is, of course, no thurifer since incense is not used on penitential days and ferials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the ministers in the sacristy after the Mass: Brother
Christopher Wetzel, O.P. (in cappa, assisting), Bro. Thomas Aquinas
Pickett, O.P. (senior acolyte), Rev. Bro. Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P.
(deacon), Rev. Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P. (priest), Bro. Gabriel Mosher,
O.P. (subdeacon), and Bro. Bradley Elliott, O.P. (junior acolyte). The
Dominican practice that the deacon and subdeacon do not wear dalmatics
on penitential and ferial days is clearly evident in this photo.<br />
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A video of the entire Mass: </span></div>
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PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-17971339595330223222014-01-02T06:35:00.000-08:002014-01-02T06:35:50.350-08:00Mozart: Coronation Mass / Karajan · Vienna Philharmonic<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, granted, this is still the pitiful Novus Ordo, but the magnificent
music does tend to make one forget that the protestantized worship service is
being celebrated (or "presided" over) vice the True Mass.</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From <i>Rorate Caeli:</i></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The video below of a Pontifical Mass at St Peter's celebrated by Pope John
Paul II on the Feast of SS Peter & Paul in 1985. The most
incredible musical forces were assembled: the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra and the Vienna Singverein, along with soloists Kathleen
Battle, Trudeliese Schmidt, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Gosta Winbergh,
conducted by the legendary Herbert von Karajan. They performed Mozart's
Coronation Mass complete: Kyrie (3.32), Gloria (7.02), Credo (16.16),
Sanctus (29.36), Agnus Dei (40.36) and also Mozart's 'Ave verum'
(48.24). And not to be outdone, the Sistine Choir is on good form too,
singing a beautiful rendition of Bartolucci's 'O sacrum convivium' after
the dismissal (53.36) during which Pope John Paul goes over to thank
the Austrian maestro (53.58). The Deacon chants the Gospel exquisitely
too (12.17).</span></span><br />
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PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-8925859439339800412014-01-02T06:24:00.001-08:002014-01-02T06:24:46.298-08:00"Open war" with the Pope?<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Actually, the slaughter of the Ratzingerians</i></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Il mattatoio dei Ratzingeriani</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Poor Cardinal Bagnasco! First, the Archbishop of Genoa and President of
the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) is removed from the composition
of the Congregation for Bishops - we had mentioned in greater detail <b><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/burke-out-wuerl-in-at-congregation-for.html">Cardinal Burke's replacement</a></b>,
but that of Cardinal Bagnasco was much more astounding considering his
position in the episcopate of the Pope's very country. Then, one of his
right-hand men, the Secretary-General of the CEI, Bp. Mariano Crociata,
was removed and named Bishop of the small diocese of Latina (Latium),
and replaced by a "social" bishop on Dec. 30, Bp. Nunzio Galantino, of
Cassano (Calabria).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
Naturally, Cardinal Bagnasco is just a figurehead now in the CEI. But
even that is not enough for his enemies. For despite the amazing
coincidence of the end of all "Vatileaks" rumors or threats via the
media after February 2013 (indicating clearly that the Vatileakers got
what they wanted, that is, the end of the Ratzinger pontificate), and
all of Francis's repeated words against "gossip"..., intrigue and
backstabbing are more intense in the Vatican now than at any time since
the Council. So, despite all that Cardinal Bagnasco has suffered, in
silence and fidelity to the Pope, a newspaper close to the Vatican
liberals such as <i><a href="http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2013/12/30/cei-nunzio-galantino-nuovo-segretario-succede-a-mariano-crociata/827923/">Il Fatto Quotidiano</a></i> and its radical Vaticanist Francesco Grana can say:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Cardinal Bagnasco, <b><i>now in open war with Bergoglio,</i></b>
commented the Pontiff's decision by saying that this is 'a further sign
of the attention and care of the Holy Father for the Church that is in
Italy'."</span></span></span></div>
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"Open war"?... First, no Catholic would ever want to find himself in
"open war" against the Pope, because that is a battle he will certainly
lose. But, most importantly, this accusation is preposterous against the
docile spirit of Cardinal Bagnasco. We only mention it here as an
example of the vindictive spirit of the "Progressives" in the Vatican:
they are in open war against all that smells even mildly Ratzingerian.
The Ratzingerians themselves are just accepting the sacrifice as silent
lambs. More a slaughter led by the Liberals than an "open war" then. The
Vatileakers may have gotten what they wanted most, but their
slaughterhouse has only just opened.</span></span></div>
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<br />PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-7945865047074110302013-12-31T10:33:00.001-08:002013-12-31T10:33:29.715-08:00“Why are you waiting to fight back?"<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The following is the January 2014<span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"> editorial from <em><a href="http://radicatinellafede.blogspot.com/2013/12/tutto-eccetto-la-tradizione.html">Radicati nella Fede</a>. </em></span></span>The call to arms for Catholic priests and seminarians whom know tradition but haven't <em>fully</em> embraced it is especially important: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Practically everything is
allowed, everything except Tradition that is.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #c00000;"></span></b><span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;">After the courageous
but at the same timid act by Benedict XVI when he constituted the Motu Proprio
in 2007, we have witnessed a continuous effort to “confine” Tradition from the
Church.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;">The Holy Father said that the Old Mass had never been abolished.<span> </span>In some way, he confirmed that it could not
be abolished, because Church Authority serves to guard Tradition as source of
Revelation, just as it serves to guard Holy Scripture, and may never lord over
them; if it lorded over them, the Authority [of the Church] would not be that
willed by Our Lord and would take the form of authoritarianism.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;"><strong>Well then, after the Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, the various
diocesan curia engaged themselves in an unwavering work of stopping, stemming
and confining any attempt at a return of the glorious Tradition of the Church,
whether it was liturgical or doctrinal.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000; line-height: 115%;">This has been the complete boycotting of the will of the Pope which was a
simple act of justice: the Mass that the Church has celebrated for fifteen
centuries and which made Saints cannot be abolished.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Not even the awful lack of
priests, which we have seen these past years, not even this will be able to
liberate Tradition from its confinement. <em>They would rather be without priests,
they would rather close the churches, but they will not allow a traditional
priest to celebrate the Mass of ages.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Many priests were ready to
pass to Tradition, many were seriously interested in regaining possession of
that which is the greatest patrimony in the Church, many of them asked to learn
the Old Mass.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Then, like an implacable
executioners’ axe, the hatchet fell on those who with joyful simplicity had
begun to celebrate it: canonical proceedings, removal from parishes, subtle
accusations of schism! (etc.,). You know the story. Thus, a chill has fallen on
priests, many of whom were young and who dreamt of being able to go up to the
altar “Introibo ad altare Dei…” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">And what is to be said about
seminarians? “If you love Tradition you are dangerous and are unable to be
ordained in the Church,” this is the refrain from superiors of seminaries
obedient to their bishops.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">A tremendous chill has thus
fallen on a potential springtime for souls, first on the priests and then on
the faithful. <strong>The Pope had hoped for a change of climate in the Church, but the
old guard, nowadays in the diocesan curia, made up of ex-‘68ers, has allowed
for nothing.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Priests who love Tradition are
closed up in a prudential silence and the seminarians in an “apnea” of
conscience, so that they will be able to arrive at their longed for ordination,
illusorily convinced that things will change once they are priests.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><strong>Is all of this normal?
Absolutely not, <em>it is not normal in the Church!</em></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Are all those gentlemen who are
hostile to Tradition and impede it with strange Byzantinism[s] still concerned
about the salvation of souls? Do they still want [to promote] Christianity? Or
do they aspire to something different? And if it so, why are they occupying the
Church of God? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">They have been promoting a new
religion with timorous references to the Christianity of the past. They have
been working and spending a lot of money(!) in order to transform Catholicism
into a religion fit for literary salons; they waste time in trying to restore a
painting or commenting on a [literary] text, but they are absent in the
field…they are not going into the confessional and they are not going up to
altar every day, because they are [busily] engaged in some cultural project.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Are they still worried about
souls frequenting the Sacraments? Do they still deem the Sacraments necessary
for salvation, or are they only concerned about creating “community” substituting
the structure to the essential, that is, to God?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><strong>We hope with all our hearts
that the new year will bring two things:</strong></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;"></span></span><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. A</span><span style="font-size: large;"><u> leap of courage from all
those priests and seminarians who are suffering on behalf of a Church
increasingly hostile to its past.</u></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>We would like to say to them: “Why are you
waiting to fight back? Yes, fight back – so as to obey God!”</em></strong> Consider the
effects of this Church badly modernized, consider the great sadness that it has
produced and obey God joyfully. It is only in this way that you will serve the
Churc</span>h <span style="font-size: large;">with love, because the Church is - Tradition.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">2. An amendment in those who
have had such hostility to the Traditional Mass and have imprisoned it. We
realize that not all of them operate in bad conscience. To them we would like
to say: “Let us have the experience of Tradition,” give us the churches, allow
us to look after souls and then come in all simplicity and judge the fruits.
You have given churches to the schismatic Orthodox, advertised even the times
of worship for the Protestant heretics, when will you release the Mass of all
ages from limbo? What would your old parish priests, your grandparents and the
saints of over two thousand years of Christianity say?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Forgive us if we have spoken
to you with such frankness, we do not want to offend anyone but to stir up an
awakening of conscience: in this dramatic situation, there is no time for
ceremony.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c00000;">May the year 2014 remove the
torpor of many sincere souls, through the grace of God and the prayers of many.
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<em>Translated and adapted by Rorate Contributor Francesca Romana with emphasis added by Adfero.</em></div>
</span>PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-72963097354534244642013-12-30T08:18:00.000-08:002013-12-30T08:18:00.028-08:00One Roman Rite: Two Forms? BS!<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="375" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/77252042" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe><br />
<br />PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-37192510002608157602013-12-30T08:13:00.000-08:002013-12-30T08:13:13.330-08:00The Church Year in Review 2013<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="375" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/82950718" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/82950718">Catholic Church Year in Review 2013</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user12213053">Louie Verrecchio</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<br />PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-13741465205888631312013-12-30T07:50:00.000-08:002013-12-30T07:50:04.494-08:00Not exactly RCIA and sharing your feelings.<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From <i>Fr. Z</i>:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With a biretta tip to <a href="http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2013/12/creed-of-pope-pius-iv.html" target="_blank">St. Louis Catholic</a>, who did a good job with this, we should review what we believe as faithful Catholics.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the formula that I used when I was admitted to Holy Church as
a convert, though I did it in Latin. We did this at Vespers on the 4th
Sunday of Advent.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The “Professio fidei Tridentina”, also known as the “Creed of Pope Pius IV”, is one of the <strong>four authoritative Creeds of the Catholic Church</strong>. <strong><span style="color: red;">[Can you name the other 3?]</span></strong> It was issued on November 13, 1565 by <strong>Pope Pius IV</strong>
in his bull “Iniunctum nobis” under the auspices of the Council of
Trent (1545 – 1563). It was subsequently modified slightly after the
First Vatican Council (1869 – 1870) to bring it inline with the dogmatic
definitions of the Council. <strong>The major intent of the Creed was to clearly define the Catholic faith against Protestantism</strong>. At one time it was used by Theologians as an <strong>oath of loyalty to the Church and to reconcile converts to the Church</strong>, but it is rarely used these days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I, N, with a firm faith believe and profess each and everything which
is contained in the Creed which the Holy Roman Church maketh use of. To
wit:</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I believe in one God, The Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the Only-begotten Son of God. Born of the Father before all ages. God
of God, Light of Light, true God of true God. Begotten, not made, of one
substance with the Father. By whom all things were made. Who for us men
and for our salvation came down from heaven. And became incarnate by
the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary: and was made man. He was also
crucified for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was buried. And on
the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures. He ascended
into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. He will come again
in glory to judge the living and the dead and His kingdom will have no
end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceeds
from the Father and the Son. Who together with the Father and the Son is
adored and glorified, and who spoke through the prophets. And one holy,
Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the
forgiveness of sins and I await the resurrection of the dead and the
life of the world to come. Amen.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Apostolic and Ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances
and constitutions of that same Church I firmly admit to and embrace.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also accept the Holy Scripture according to that sense which holy
mother the Church hath held, and doth hold, and to whom it belongeth to
judge the true sense and interpretations of the Scriptures. Neither will
I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the
unanimous consent of the Fathers.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also profess that there are truly and properly Seven Sacraments of
the New Law, instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the
salvation of mankind, though not all are necessary for everyone; to wit,
Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy
Orders, and Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of these,
Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders cannot be repeated without
sacrilege. I also receive and admit the accepted and approved ceremonies
of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of the aforesaid
sacraments.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I embrace and accept each and everything which has been defined and
declared in the holy Council of Trent concerning original sin and
justification.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true,
proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; and
that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really,
and substantially, the Body and Blood, together with the soul and
divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ; and that a conversion takes place of
the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole
substance of the wine into the Blood, which conversion the Catholic
Church calls Transubstantiation. I also confess that under either
species alone Christ is received whole and entire, and a true sacrament.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I steadfastly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls
therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. Likewise,
that the saints, reigning together with Christ, are to be honored and
invoked, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their
relics are to be venerated. I most firmly assert that the images of
Christ, of the Mother of God, ever virgin, and also of other Saints,
ought to be kept and retained, and that due honor and veneration is to
be given them.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the
Church, and that the use of them is most wholesome to Christian people.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I acknowledge the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church as the mother
and teacher of all churches; and I promise true obedience to the Bishop
of Rome, successor to St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of
Jesus Christ.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all other things
delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred Canons, and general
Councils, and particularly by the holy Council of Trent, and by the
ecumenical Council of the Vatican, particularly concerning the primacy
of the Roman Pontiff and his infallible teaching. I condemn, reject, and
anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies which the
Church hath condemned, rejected, and anathematized.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which
I now freely profess and to which I truly adhere, I do so profess and
swear to maintain inviolate and with firm constancy with the help of God
until the last breath of life. And I shall strive, as far as possible,
that this same faith shall be held, taught, and professed by all those
over whom I have charge. I N. do so pledge, promise, and swear, so help
me God and these Holy Gospels of God.</span></span></blockquote>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Somewhat more that most RCIA demands.</span></span>PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-1183937411030259342013-12-30T07:45:00.002-08:002013-12-30T07:45:48.231-08:00O’ Council, where is thy infallibility?
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“That
an ecumenical council which satisfies the conditions above stated
[convoked by the pope, presided over by him or his legate, the decrees
of which receive the pope’s approbation] is an organ of infallibility
will not be denied by anyone who admits that the Church is endowed with
infallible doctrinal authority.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This according to the Catholic Encyclopedia’s entry on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm">Infallibility</a>; the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia that is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what does this say about the doctrinal weight of the decrees of
the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council that met each of the
conditions thus mentioned?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Absolutely nothing, and it is precisely for this reason that it is so instructive.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">You see, John XXIII’s idea of employing an ecumenical council, this
most profound and solemn expression of the infallible magisterium, when
nary a doctrinal crisis beset the Church, for purposes strictly
pastoral, <em>deliberately devoid of any intent whatsoever to either define doctrine or condemn error</em>, is in itself a novelty that in a healthier ecclesial age could not but reflect poorly upon his cause.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What then is one to make of Pope John’s stewardship of the authority vested in the Petrine Office?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Analogies fail, but imagine choosing a battering ram to pass through a
door that you claim to have no intention of destroying, and this when
the key is right in your pocket. Not only would such a decision be
entirely illogical, it would be a violation of the nature of the
instrument chosen.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The nature of the battering ram is to gain entry by way of
destruction; likewise, the nature of the ecumenical council is to teach
infallibly by way of ruling, definition and condemnation. Based on John
XXIII’s stated purposes, surely he could have employed any number of
other readily available instruments that more closely fit the pastoral
intent of the Council such as it was proposed.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For instance, he could have queried the bishops of the world for
suggestions as to what topics might be addressed (as he did), disposed
of the bishops’ more traditional concerns (as ultimately took place in
the Council sessions), taken up the progressive cause (as did the
majority of the Council Fathers moving forward), and simply promulgated
an Apostolic Exhortation similar in stature to the one Pope Francis just
gifted to the Church.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But no; Pope John XXIII, and likewise his successor, chose instead to leverage the force, or better stated, <em>the illusion of the force</em>,
of an ecumenical council wherein novelties, ambiguities and outright
falsehoods that have absolutely no standing whatsoever within the sacred
deposit of Christian doctrine could pose as solemn teaching.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This, my friends, was either a well-conceived plot hatched in minds
diabolical, or the ignorant machinations of Pontiffs so utterly
incompetent as to be truly mad. What it is <em>not</em> is heroic virtue.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In any event, what we now have before us in the conciliar decrees is a
nearly 200,000 word exposition (in the English translation) wherein
authentic Catholic doctrine (the majority of the text) is commingled
with propositions that would have been condemned outright less than a
decade earlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what shall we do now?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, if you’re a modernist hell bent on constructing the
church-of-man, or an ill-formed and under-nourished Catholic who just
doesn’t know any better, the answer is obvious:</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Canonize the pope who lit the match to God’s House, fast track the
cause of the successor who doused it with gasoline, treat the entire
regrettable disaster as if it fell to earth like rain from Heaven, and
await the coming of a new springtime.</span></span>PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-89649315596946474782013-12-23T06:53:00.003-08:002013-12-23T06:53:59.753-08:00Gladiator<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy a good battle on this Monday before Christmas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Christmas Truce at the World War I Front</span></span></h3>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span> <img alt="" height="322" src="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/images/benedict-XV.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="230" /></span><span><strong>On December 7, 1914, Pope Benedict XV suggested a temporary hiatus of the war for </strong> <strong>the celebration of Christmas. Though Germany readily agreed, the other powers refused. </strong> </span><br /> (<a href="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/">www.RemnantNewspaper.com</a>)
Though World War I had been raging for only four months, it was already
proving to be one of the bloodiest wars in history. Soldiers on both
sides were trapped in trenches, exposed to the cold and wet winter
weather, covered in mud, and extremely careful of sniper shots. Machines
guns had proven their worth in war, bringing new meaning to the word
"slaughter." <br /><br />In
a place where bloodshed was nearly commonplace and mud and the enemy
were fought with equal vigor, something surprising occurred on the front
for Christmas in 1914. The men who lay shivering in the trenches
embraced the Christmas spirit. In one of the truest acts of peace to men
of goodwill, soldiers from both sides in the southern portion of the
Ypres Salient set aside their weapons and hatred, if only temporarily,
and met in No Man's Land. </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> <strong>Digging In </strong> </span><br />After
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, the
world was plunged into war. Germany, realizing they were likely to face a
two-front war, attempted to defeat the western foes before the Russians
were able to mobilize their forces in the East (estimated to take six
weeks), using the Schlieffen Plan. <br />Though
the Germans had made a strong offensive into France, French, Belgian,
and British forces were able to halt them. However, since they were not
able to push the Germans out of France, there was a stalemate and both
sides dug into the earth creating a large network of trenches. <br /><br />Once
the trenches were built, winter rains tried to obliterate them. The
rains not only flooded the dug-outs, they turned the trenches into mud
holes – a terrible enemy in and of itself. <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
It had been pouring, and mud lay deep in the trenches; they were caked
from head to foot, and I have never seen anything like their rifles! Not
one would work, and they were just lying about the trenches getting
stiff and cold. One fellow had got both feet jammed in the clay, and
when told to get up by an officer, had to get on all fours; he then got
his hands stuck in too, and was caught like a fly on a flypaper; all he
could do was look round and say to his pals, 'For Gawd's sake, shoot
me!' I laughed till I cried. But they will shake down, directly they
learn that the harder one works in the trenches, the drier and more
comfortable one can keep both them and oneself.<sup>1</sup> </span><br /><br />The
trenches of both sides were only a few hundred feet apart, buffered by a
relatively flat area known as "No Man's Land." The stalemate had halted
all but a scattered number of small attacks; thus, soldiers on each
side spent a large amount of time dealing with the mud, keeping their
heads down in order to avoid sniper fire, and watching carefully for any
surprise enemy raids on their trench. <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> <strong> Fraternizing </strong> </span><br /><br /> <img alt="" height="359" src="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/images/Christmas_in_the_Trenches_0.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="278" />Restless
in their trenches, covered in mud, and eating the same rations every
day, some soldiers began to wonder about the un-seen enemy, men declared
monsters by propagandists. <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
We hated their guts when they killed any of our friends; then we really
did dislike them intensely. But otherwise we joked about them and I
think they joked about us. And we thought, well, poor so-and-sos,
they're in the same kind of muck as we are.<sup>2</sup> </span><br /><br />The
uncomfortableness of living in trenches coupled with the closeness of
the enemy who lived in similar conditions contributed to a growing "live
and let live" policy. Andrew Todd, a telegraphist of the Royal
Engineers, wrote of an example in a letter:<br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
Perhaps it will surprise you to learn that the soldiers in both lines
of trenches have become very 'pally' with each other. The trenches are
only 60 yards apart at one place, and every morning about breakfast time
one of the soldiers sticks a board in the air. As soon as this board
goes up all firing ceases, and men from either side draw their water and
rations. All through the breakfast hour, and so long as this board is
up, silence reigns supreme, but whenever the board comes down the first
unlucky devil who shows even so much as a hand gets a bullet through it.<sup>3</sup> </span><br /><br />Sometimes
the two enemies would yell at each other. Some of the German soldiers
had worked in Britain before the war and asked about a store or area in
England that an English soldier also knew well. Sometimes they would
shout rude remarks to each other as a way of entertainment. Singing was
also a common way of communication.<br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
During the winter it was not unusual for little groups of men to gather
in the front trench, and there hold impromptu concerts, singing
patriotic and sentimental songs. The Germans did much the same, and on
calm evenings the songs from one line floated to the trenches on the
other side, and were there received with applause and sometimes calls
for an encore.<sup>4</sup> </span><br /><br />After hearing of such fraternization, General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, commander of the British II Corps, ordered: <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
The Corps Commander, therefore, directs Divisional Commanders to
impress on all subordinate commanders the absolute necessity of
encouraging the offensive spirit of the troops, while on the defensive,
by every means in their power. Friendly intercourse with the enemy,
unofficial armistices (e.g. 'we won't fire if you don't' etc.) and the
exchange of tobacco and other comforts, however tempting and
occasionally amusing they may be, are absolutely prohibited.<sup>5</sup> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> <strong>Christmas at the Front </strong> </span><br /><br />On
December 7, 1914, Pope Benedict XV suggested a temporary hiatus of the
war for the celebration of Christmas. Though Germany readily agreed, the
other powers refused. <br /><br />Even
without a cessation of war for Christmas, family and friends of the
soldiers wanted to make their loved ones' Christmas special. They sent
packages filled with letters, warm clothing, food, cigarettes, and
medications. Yet what especially made Christmas at the front seem like
Christmas were the troves of small Christmas trees. <br /><br />On
Christmas Eve, many German soldiers put up their Christmas trees,
decorated with candles, on the parapets of their trenches. Hundreds of
Christmas trees lighted the German trenches. The British soldiers could
see the lights but it took them a few minutes to figure out what they
were from. British lookouts reported the anomalies to their superiors.
Could this be a trick? British soldiers were ordered not to fire but to
watch them closely. Instead of trickery, the British soldiers heard many
of the Germans celebrating. <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
Time and again during the course of that day, the Eve of Christmas,
there were wafted towards us from the trenches opposite the sounds of
singing and merry-making, and occasionally the guttural tones of a
German were to be heard shouting out lustily, 'A happy Christmas to you
Englishmen!' Only too glad to show that the sentiments were
reciprocated, back would go the response from a thick-set Clydesider,
'Same to you, Fritz, but dinna o'er eat yourself wi' they sausages!'<sup>6</sup> </span><br /><br />In other areas, the two sides exchange Christmas carols. <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>
They finished their carol and we thought that we ought to retaliate in
some way, so we sang 'The first Noël', and when we finished that they
all began clapping; and then they struck up another favourite of theirs,
'<em>O Tannenbaum</em>'. And so it went on. First the Germans would
sing one of their carols and then we would sing one of ours, until when
we started up 'O Come All Ye Faithful' the Germans immediately joined in
singing the same hymn to the Latin words '<em>Adeste Fidéles</em>'. And
I thought, well, this was really a most extraordinary thing – two
nations both singing the same carol in the middle of a war.<sup>7</sup> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> <strong>The Christmas Truce </strong> </span><br /><br /> <img alt="" height="308" src="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/images/Christmasintrenches-2.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" width="250" />This
fraternization on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas was in no way
officially sanctified nor organized. Yet, in numerous separate instances
down the front line, German soldiers began yelling over to their enemy,
"Tommy, you come over and see us!"<sup>8</sup> Still cautious, the British soldiers would rally back, "No, you come here!" <br /><br />In some parts of the line, representatives of each side would meet in the middle, in No Man's Land. <br /><br />·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="color: maroon;"> </span></span> <span style="color: maroon;">
We shook hands, wished each other a Merry Christmas, and were soon
conversing as if we had known each other for years. We were in front of
their wire entanglements and surrounded by Germans – Fritz and I in the
centre talking, and Fritz occasionally translating to his friends what I
was saying. We stood inside the circle like streetcorner orators. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;">
Soon most of our company ('A' Company), hearing that I and some others
had gone out, followed us . . . What a sight - little groups of Germans
and British extending almost the length of our front! Out of the
darkness we could hear laughter and see lighted matches, a German
lighting a Scotchman's cigarette and vice versa, exchanging cigarettes
and souvenirs. Where they couldn't talk the language they were making
themselves understood by signs, and everyone seemed to be getting on
nicely. Here we were laughing and chatting to men whom only a few hours
before we were trying to kill!<sup>9</sup> </span><br /><br />Some
of those who went out to meet the enemy in the middle of No Man's Land
on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day negotiated a truce: we won't fire
if you won't fire. Some ended the truce at midnight on Christmas night,
some extended it until New Year's Day. <br /><br />One
of the main reasons Christmas truces were negotiated was in order to
bury the dead. Though some had died recently, there were corpses out in
No Man's Land that had been there for several months. Along with the
revelry that celebrated Christmas was the sad and somber job of burying
their fallen comrades. On Christmas day, British and German soldiers
appeared on No Man's Land and sorted through the bodies. In just a few
rare instances, joint services were held for both the British and German
dead. <br /><br />Yet
many soldiers enjoyed meeting the un-seen enemy and were surprised to
discover that they were more alike than he had thought. They talked,
shared pictures, exchanged items such as buttons for food stuffs. An
extreme example of the fraternization was a soccer game played in the
middle of No Man's Land between the Bedfordshire Regiment and the
Germans. A member of the Bedfordshire Regiment produced a ball and the
large group of soldiers played until the ball was deflated when it hit a
barbed wire entanglement. <br /><br />This
strange and unofficial truce lasted for several days, much to the
dismay of the commanding officers. This amazing showing of Christmas
cheer was never again repeated and as World War I progressed, the story
of Christmas 1914 at the front became something of a legend. <br /><br /><span style="color: maroon;"> ·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span> This experience has been the most practical demonstration I have seen of 'Peace on earth and goodwill towards men.<sup>10</sup> </span><br /><br /><em>(The
present article first appeared on the Your Guide to 20th Century
History website. It is being reproduced here with the permission of the
author <strong>MJM</strong>.)</em><br /><br /><strong>Notes</strong> <br /><br />1. Lieutenant Sir Edward Hulse as quoted in Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton, <em> Christmas Truce</em> (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984) 19.<br /> 2. Leslie Walkinton as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 23.<br /> 3. Andrew Todd as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 32.<br /> 4. 6th Division of the Gordon Highlanders Official History as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 34.<br /> 5. II Corp's Document G.507 as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 40.<br /> 6. Lieutenant Kennedy as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 62.<br /> 7. Jay Winter and Blaine Baggett, <em>The Great War: And the Shaping of the 20th Century</em> (New York: Penguin Books, 1996) 97.<br /> 8. Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 68.<br /> 9. Corporal John Ferguson as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 71.<br /> 10. Oswald Tilley as quoted in Brown, <em>Christmas Truce</em> 97-98. <br /><br /><strong>Bibliography</strong> <br /><br />Brown, Malcolm and Shirley Seaton. <em>Christmas Truce</em>. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984. <br /><br />Terraine, John. "Christmas 1914, and After." <em>History Today</em> December 1979: 781-789. <br /><br />Winter, D. "Time off From Conflict: Christmas 1914." <em>The Royal United Service Institution Journal</em> December 1970: 42-43. <br /><br />Winter, Jay and Blaine Baggett. <em>The Great War: And the Shaping of the 20th Century</em>. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. </span></span><br />
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article was published in The Remnant in 2006 after having first
appeared on the Your Guide to 20th Century History website. </span></span><span style="color: #243568;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is reproduced here with the permission of the author. The original song</span></span><span style="color: #243568;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9coPzDx6tA" target="_self"> Christmas in the Trenches</a></span><span style="color: #243568;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by John McCutcheon is well worth listening to as you </span></span><span style="color: #243568;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">read
this incredible story from a day and age not so very far removed from
our own but, alas, fading in every way from the consciousness of "grown
up" and </span></span><span style="color: #243568;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"enlightened"
men who've lost sight of God, Country and even who and what they are
anymore-- much less the true meaning of Christmas. <strong>MJM</strong>)</span></span></span></span> </span>PreVat2http://www.blogger.com/profile/12653685396495060077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907470181270501584.post-12846215304887135242013-12-23T06:44:00.000-08:002013-12-23T06:44:32.626-08:00Battle Of The Isandlwana (01/22/1879)<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A very bad day for the British Empire 134 years ago.</span></span><br />
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