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T -68: Coming Full Circle

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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Sacking of Rome 410Today we return to our irregular summer posting with two posts coming from very opposite “points of view”, yet containing information (data points) that are very similar in nature. Synod Bishops, take note!

The reason that I am providing these two text for your review is twofold:

First of all, these two posts provided a historical example of the concept that is known as “coming full circle”. Hence the title.

Secondly, these two posts demonstrate that even with differing positions on the “politically left/right” continuum, information (data points) appear that are objectively true. These objectively true data points are then used to make observations that are logical. I am obviously referring here to the “left” side of the political continuum who has been waging a war on OBJECTIVE REALITY since the Age of “Enlightenment”.

As to the posts themselves, the first one is from R.V. Young at Crisis Magazine titled Saint Nero, Patron of Gay Marriage (see here). The subject matter is a historical overview of what can be described as the “doctrine of the inevitability of gradualism”. For those not familiar with left-wing dogma and this theory of gradualism, I pass on a link that should explain. (see here) And on an aside, yes this is what passes for the Bergoglian/Kasperian “graduality”. But I digress… The manner in which these two links are related is that the doctrine of the inevitability of progress is circular.

The take away from these two linked posts is this:

the OBJECTIVE REALITY of the doctrine of the gradualism of progress is that it leads back to the same place as that from which it started. I.e. the doctrine of gradualism is circular!

With respect to Western Civilization, the circular nature of the doctrine of the gradualism of progress has brought post Age of “Enlightenment” society back to a time between A. D. 64 – Nero’s burning of Rome and A.D. 410 – the fall of Rome.

With respect to the last post that I am reproducing below, it come from the Liberty Blitzkrieg blog. (see here) I have reproduced this post as a snapshot of a point in time Anno Domini 2015. While reading the below, it would appear that we have come full circle to Anno Domini 64. However, since the Roman Empire at the time of Nero faced no significant military foes, especially ones with the ability to rapidly project their military presence, the analogous time span between A.D. 64 and A.D. 410 could be much shorter this time around.

Below, is the Liberty Blitzkrieg post re-blogged for the record.

3-Year-Old London Child Deemed “Extremist” and Placed in Government re-education Program

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The United Kingdom has gone batshit crazy. There’s simply no other way to put it. I warned about Britain’s “war on toddler terrorists” earlier this year in the post: The War on Toddler Terrorists – Britain Wants to Force Nursery School Teachers to Identify “Extremist” Children. Here’s an excerpt:

Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government.

The directive is contained in a 39-page consultation document issued by the Home Office in a bid to bolster its Prevent anti-terrorism plan.

The document accompanies the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, currently before parliament. It identifies nurseries and early years childcare providers, along with schools and universities, as having a duty “to prevent people being drawn into terrorism”.

Never fear good citizens of Great Britain. While your government actively does everything in its power to protect criminal financial oligarchs and powerful pedophiles, her majesty draws the line at toddler thought crime. We learn from the Independent:

A three-year-old child from London is one of hundreds of young people in the capital who have been tipped as potential future radicals and extremists.

As reported by the Evening Standard, 1,069 people have been put in the government’s anti-extremism ‘Channel’ process, the de-radicalization program at the heart of the Government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy.

The three-year-old in the program is from the borough of Tower Hamlets, and was a member of a family group that had been showing suspect behavior.

Since September 2014, 400 under 18s, including teenagers and children, have been referred to the scheme.

The fact that this story broke on the same day that chairman of the UK’s Lords Privileges and Conduct Committee, Lord John Sewel, was caught on video snorting cocaine off the breast of a prostitute with a £5 note, is simply priceless. You just can’t make this stuff up.

From the BBC:

Lord Sewel is facing a police inquiry after quitting as House of Lords deputy speaker over a video allegedly showing him taking drugs with prostitutes.

The footage showed him snorting powder from a woman’s breasts with a £5 note.

In the footage, Lord Sewel, who is married, also discusses the Lords’ allowances system.

As chairman of committees, the crossbench peer also chaired the privileges and conduct committee, and was responsible for enforcing standards in the Lords.

Lord Sewel served as a minister in the Scotland office under Tony Blair’s Labour government.

Tony Blair, why am I not surprised:

Tony Blair

He has been a member of the Lords since 1996, and is a former senior vice principal of the University of Aberdeen.

Here’s a clip, in the event you’re interested:

The UK government is so far gone that it insists on protecting the public from toddlers, rather than protecting toddlers from powerful sexual predators. In case you need a reminder:

In Great Britain, Powerful Pedophiles are Seemingly Everywhere and Totally Above the Law

In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of “National Security”

Former BBC Host “Sir” Jimmy Savile Exposed as Major Player in Massive Pedophile Ring

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T -73: What About a Literary Deconstruction of Vatican I?

24 Friday Jul 2015

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Three AmigosToday is the 73nd day preceding the start of the Stealth Sex Synod of 2015 and we get more intelligence from the Eastern Front. About 4 hours ago, this appeared on the Polonia Christiana website PCh24.pl. (see here) Since the website is in Polish, I have taken the liberty to translate the article and post below.

The significance of this article is that it appeared on the official website of the German Bishops’ Conference, therefore is was authorized by the leadership. At this point it needs to be noted that this is information THAT COULD BE, BUT DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE significant in the upcoming Synod of Bishops.

The below translated post needs to be read in the proper context, i.e. as part of a wider STRATEGY. Since the appearance of the Lineamenta in December and now the Instrumentum Laboris for the 2015 Synod last month, the German heretics (German Manipulators) who will be at the Synod are trying to “suss out” what they can get away with in terms of doctrinal change. Furthermore, this cabal of German heretics that dominate the German Bishops’ Conference, i.e. Marx and Co. are desperate to find a way to get around the majority of the bishops that will be at the upcoming Synod, bishops who overwhelmingly refuse to change Catholic dogma. To this end, the German contingent has been sending out trial balloons to gauge just what route they should take to get around the upcoming Synod majority. By reading the signals that are emanating from their speeches, interviews and texts, we see their strategy coming into focus. It is in this context that the below translation is an important piece of this puzzle.

As to the strategy itself, it appears that THE STRATEGY is composed of two parts:

The first part is composed of a strategy that was adopted at the Second Vatican Council, i.e one of “strategic ambiguity”. Here is a passage that explains this quite well from the always excellent Rorate Caeli blog. (see here) The following is the key text:

The need for extreme ambiguity is in itself revealing. It is revealing in the light of Cardinal Kasper’s interview with Raymond Arroyo earlier this month. LifeSite News explains: (emphasis added)

In his televised interview with Raymond Arroyo of the Eternal World Television Network on June 4, Kasper acknowledged the opposition to his proposal of large numbers of bishops and even whole episcopal conferences, and recognized that inducing a large majority to support it would be difficult.  As a result he proposed a different approach. 

“I get a lot of agreements, but also a lot of critiques, and there are tensions there,” Kasper acknowledged.  “Now I propose to those who prepare the Synod to prepare a text which can get the agreement of the whole, of the great majority. It’s the same method also we had in the Council.” He later repeated, “My suggestion is to find now a formula where the great majority can adhere.” 

In the second part of his interview with Arroyo, which will air June 11 on EWTN, the cardinal admitted that he doesn’t have an “overwhelming majority” on his side and that more generally acceptable language will have to be sought to reach a consensus. 

“I see something more differentiated because I know many bishops who have a different position, and bishops’ conferences,” he told Arroyo. “And so it is not, ah … perhaps there will be, but we must find the solution where everybody, or the great majority — the Pope wants a certain unanimity of the episcopate and now it cannot. It’s too easy, I think, to say it’s already an overwhelming majority, no.”

This above is a very good summary of the first part of the German strategy and just another case of “putting phrases with contradictory meanings in the same sentence”. (see here)

As to the second part, it can be termed as “numbing down” the opposition. This part of the strategy is reliant on creating a false narrative that the changes are in no way doctrinal, but only pastoral.

The below translated article can be viewed as one part of the second half of this strategy. The below article pertaining to the “suggested ‘adjustment’ to the dogma of papal infallibility”. In and of itself, I would put it in the “they are not really serious about this” camp. ON ITS OWN THAT IS! It could look like Francis “Showing a Leg”. (see here)

However, this above “idea” has NOT been put out into the public domain frivolously. What is most likely the case, this information is being put out to preemptively anesthetized the vigilance of the Synod majority. What could be happening (hypothesis) is that the German Manipulators are trying to claim that since Francis will not be teaching ex-Cathedra, these issues are of a lower rank, i.e. not threatening to the Magisterium. By playing up this silly notion that “the people of God” CAN NOT BE INCORRECT, (see article below) the Synod Manipulators will try to introduce text that will nominally appear as a “feel good” factor. After all, how could the bishops “not agree” that their sheep don’t know what is best doctrinally?

But in reality, it is just another explicit attempt to play the sheep off against the shepherds.

And in this above context, I am reproducing the below…

FOR THE RECORD:

Portal of the German episcopate: Francis will not be teaching infallibly.

According to the website of the German episcopate, Pope Francis will not exercise the right of infallible teaching. According to the author of the text, the Pope will talk about the infallibility of the faithful, rather than about the infallibility of the Head of the Church. As noted by Mathias von Gersdorf, this article even suggests that it is this dogma can be the subject of discussion.

The information portal of the German episcopate suggests that the Holy Father Francis will never use the dogma of papal infallibility because he prefers to talk about “the infallibility of the faithful.” To prove this thesis the writer of the text, Simon Linder, is relying on the views of theologians like Hans Küng and August B. Hasler – the author who maintained a critical tone on infallibility in his book.

“From Pope Francis in any case, we should not expect any infallible decisions [concerning] teaching. [The Pope] does not highlight his ‘infallibility’, but in the context of infallibility speaks willingly about believers “- writes Linder.

The katholisch.de author then quotes from the Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” the following passage: “I also don’t think that you should expect from papal teaching a definitive or exhaustive word on all matters concerning the Church and the world”. He juxtaposes words from another paragraph of the same encyclical. The Pope says in it that “the people of God are holy, through this anointing, which makes them infallible in credendo. This means that, when they believe, they cannot be mistaken, even if they cannot find proper words to express their faith. ” According to Linder, this means that the dogma of infallibility is merely a “signal”, which would be consistent with the will of the “majority of the bishops’ at Vatican I.

The article was commented on by Catholic journalist Mathias von Gersdorff. He noticed that Linder suggests that “the dogma was proclaimed under specific conditions and provide a basis for discussion and various other opinions”.

The article titled “Thou art Peter – 145 years of the dogma of papal infallibility” was published to celebrate the 145th anniversary of the adoption by the First Vatican Council of the dogma of papal infallibility.

Sources: katholisch.de, mathias-von-gersdorff.blogspot.de

Processes: Francis “Showing a Leg”

14 Sunday Dec 2014

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This post and the subsequent post will be expansions of The “Jesuitical” Bait-and-Switch (“JBS”) post. Today’s post is titled Francis “Showing a Leg”. “Showing a leg” is an expression which describes an old football tactic whereby a player who is running with the ball extends a leg toward the would be tackler, only to pull it away as soon as the tackler commits himself to reaching for that leg. This allows the ball carrier to avoid being tackled and allows him to score a touchdown. And from what we have witnessed at the Shameful Secret Synod so far, Francis is desperate to “score a touchdown”. And all that is left for us to do is identify what exactly “scoring a touchdown” to Francis entails.

Introduction

In the JBS post introduction, I started by making the case that IF the Secret Synod was really about “the family”, than the natural starting point for Team Francis should have been the JP II Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Concortio (“FC”). And even if “FC” wasn’t the initial starting point, with all the changes made by the Synod bishops and the direction in which those changes went, the Final Relatio brought the discussions back to that starting point, i.e. the Familiaris Concortio. But since the “FC” is still nowhere to be found in the discussion, there is something in it that creates serious problems for Francis and his manipulators with respect for their true agenda. So a hidden agenda is being promoted, whose results will be to attain the goals of the true agenda. This hidden agenda appears to be comprised of two elements, since it is these two elements that were forced into the Final Relatio despite being voted down by the Synod And these two elements are: communion for the divorced remarried (“cdr) and changing the Church teaching on homosexuality (“cth”).

In this post I will focus on the Communion for the Divorced Remarried (“cdr”) issue.

A Third Rail Issue

With respect to the first element of the manipulator’s hidden agenda, i.e. “cdr”, in the JBS post I explained how the justification that Francis used in the La Nacion interview was clumsy at best and in reality an attempt to convince a gullible audience that he is really, really thinking about changing the doctrine practice on “cdr”. I think it is fair to say that the rationale behind the “godfather” example in the La Nacion interview was pure and utter gibberish.

And then I quoted the Scalabrinian illustrious canonist and president emeritus of the prefecture of economic affairs of the Holy See Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, who wrote the following: (emphasis added)

In the judgment of Cardinal De Paolis, this paragraph [of the final “Relatio”, dealing with pros and cons of “cdr”] is not only incoherent and contradictory in itself, but “the innovations that would be introduced if it were approved would be of unprecedented gravity,” because they would undermine the very foundations of Catholic dogma and morals.

And even if no other evidence existed, and no other supporting positions by other members of the Catholic Church hierarchy were stated publicly, this passage alone would demonstrate that Francis and his ghost writer’s proposal is nothing short of a “ third rail” issue. And just to explain the concept of a “third rail”, it is a metaphor derived from the electrically charged third rail that acts as the power source for electric train engines. If a person touches the third rail, he is electrocuted.

As to the consequences of trying to force a change in the doctrine practice of the “cdr”, a change in doctrine that would “undermine the very foundations of Catholic dogma and morals”, Francis would be risking a situation whereby:

“the hierarchical structure of the Church would require that (in the case of an apostate pope, or a heretical pope, or an invalidly elected pope), that some cardinals and bishops break with the fraud and reconstitute the hierarchy because the indefectibility of the Church preserves at least in part all the orders in the church, cardinals, bishops, clergy, religious. (H/t to the From Rome blog.)

Here is where we are entering into serious Sedevacante territory. And on an aside, it is not without meaning that cd. De Paoli is the Prefect Emeritus of the Economics Secretariate of cd. Pell, the author of the 37 false popes soundbite.

Proof that Francis will not change doctrine/practice on the “cdr”.

The proof that Francis will not do anything to risk his papacy by attempting to change either doctrine or practice with respect to the communion for the divorced remarried is of a “circumstantial evidence” variety. Therefore, the question becomes: does it meet the preponderance of evidence threshold? My case is laid out below.

Background

I didn’t spend too much time addressing this point in the JBS post because I think it is a bogus issue. On this point, as I stated above, I think Francis is “showing us a leg”.

Why do I think this? Because Francis said so. How do we know that he said so?

We know that Francis said so from an interview that Cardinal Meisner of Cologne gave to Deutschlandrundfunk, and was posted (partially) on Fr. Z’s blog on 23 December 2013. (see here) True, we are dealing here with a third person account as our source, but let’s just assume it’s true. Furthermore, please recall that this interview appeared almost two months before the Kasperian “theology done on ones knees” speech. So Francis had no reason to not tell us what he thinks simply because he did not know how the Shameful Secret Synod would play out. Therefore, on the issue of changing dogma practice on the “cdr”, here is what the good cardinal said that Francis said: (emphasis from Fr. Z)

During the flight back from Rio you were asked about people who divorced and remarried. And the pope responded frankly: People who are divorced can receive communion, people who are remarried can’t.

Do I believe what Francis said?  Yes, and without mentioning that this is a canonically proper position to hold, here is why.

There are four reasons why I think Francis will not change the doctrine/practice in this area, which support the point in the Third Rail section:

Reason 1:

First note that De Paolis has “come back” to the argument of communion divorced and remarried. De Paolis has taken a public position as early as March 27 2014, (see here) and his position was included in the Five Cardinals book. The present quote from De Paolis is a complete and utter “trashing” of paragraph 52 of the final Relatio. And it is worth repeating that De Paolis makes the case that:

“the innovations that would be introduced if it were approved would be of unprecedented gravity,” because they would undermine the very foundations of Catholic dogma and morals.

So Francis had been warned. But Francis knew there were problems with “theology on the knees” no later than when De Paulo joined the other four cardinals in the Five Cardinals Book that came out before the Synod started, and most likely much, much earlier. As early as the date of the cd. Meisner meeting.

Reason 2:

Francis would not make a change like this without cover, as per Third Rail section argumentation. This is why he called the Shameful Secret Synod in the first place. All the scheming, maneuvering and manipulation that we witnessed at the Secret Synod of 2014 was an attempt to give Francis cover. And not necessarily for the ”cdr”. We also know this from the same interview with Cd. Meisner, when he relates these words of Francis:

And the pope responded quite bluntly that he’s a son of the church, and he doesn’t proclaim anything else than the teachings of the church.

Now we can question the intentions behind the reason why Francis said what he said, but it would appear that he provides to cd. Meisner the “line of demarcation” that he will not cross. From observing what went on at the Secret Synod of 2014, the following would be an accurate statement: Francis will lie, cheat and steal, as long as Francis has cover for his lying cheating and stealing. Besides, we also have confirmation that he will not cross this line from cd. Scola. (see here)

Reason 3:

Francis does not have cover. A good case in point about Francis needing and lacking cover can be observed from the situation that developed leading up to Benedict revising his texts on just this subject matter. As we have seen, Francis has been quoting Benedict when trying to justify his “purported” changing of the doctrine practice on “cdr”. Here is a Francis quote from Fr. Z’s blog from the 27 of May 2014, (see here) given on the flight back from the Holy Land to a reporter: (emphasis added)

“Something Pope Benedict said three times about the divorced has helped me a lot. Once, in the Valle d’Aosta, another time in Milan, and the last time in the public consistory which he held for the creation of cardinals: to study the procedures for matrimonial nullity; to study the faith with which a person comes to matrimony and [NB] to clarify that the divorced are not excommunicated, and so many times they are treated as excommunicated.”

And it was not only Francis who was suggesting that his position has Benedict’s tacit support. Kasper was saying the same thing likewise. (see here). So is it any wonder why Benedict went through all his earlier work to expiate the “nuances”, at the same time depriving this “dynamic duo” of a large part of their cover. (see here) Also puts the Benedict revisions in a proper context. Yes?

Before we go to reason 4, which is really an “anti-reason” we need to make the following observation. From the above 3 reasons, it would appear that Francis “gave it the old college try” to get the “cdr” doctrine practice changed. However, it just wasn’t meant to be. The “stubborn” just wouldn’t bend to the “god of surprises” Holy Spirit, Francis can claim. As a matter of fact, he did just that in the La Nacion inteview. Funny that! But I digress…

But the question is, did he really, really try, or was he just going through the motions. And here is why I think he was going through the motions.

Reason 4:

The reason why I think Francis is just going through the motions of trying to change the “cdr” doctrine practice, and at the same time playing the German Bishops’ Conference and its president card. Marx like a cheap banjo is due to the following fact. Francis and his cohorts did not bring out the big gun to get the “cdr”practice changed, let alone the dogma changed. And the big gun was the JP II Apostolic Exhortation Familiars Concortio. And what is the evidence?

Evidence 1:

First of all, the “FC” would have given Team Francis a bridge between Vatican II Gaudium et spes, with the associated “Sacred Spirit of VII” pastoral stuff, through the “FC” and into the forthcoming final product of this Secret Synod 2014/2015. Making the final product of Francis grounded in FC, would have been easy enough to do. How do we know this would have been easy to do? Since in the run up to the Synod, cd. Kasper was quoting the “FC” in his promotional tours. (see here).

Next,  a foundation in the “FC” would have placated a larger number of the bishops at the Synod. Keep in mind that the majority were elevated by JPII, and hold him in high esteem. And that is not even mentioning the Polish bishops who were personally offended by the “FC” being completely disregarded by Team Farncis. Therefore, by totally disregarding the “FC”, the manipulators “created a defeat” for their position on the “cdr” at the Secret Synod 2014. But to paraphrase the rogue priest in the the Dirty Harry movie: ”Sacrifices have to be made”.

Evidence 2:

A lot of the disquiet outside of the Polish Episcopate Conference was due to the fact that “FC” was completely ignored. As a matter of fact, we could observe just this fact, that “the will of the Synod bishops” was to bring the Final Relatio back to this starting point, i.e. the FC. And they did just that. Refer to the argumentation in the JBS post.

Futhermore, the Thursday when cd. Pell stood up and banged his hand on the desk and shouted to Team Francis to “stop manipulating the Synod” was considered by some as an act of divine intervention attributable to JPII. (see here). And that is why this day will always be known on the Deus Ex Machina blog as the “JPII/Familiaris Concortio Miracle Thursday”. But I digress…

Evidence 3:

By not grounding this new “Product of Synod 2014/2015” in the “FC”, it is as if the manipulators are trying to start from scratch. What ever the form of the Francis magisterium that will be coming out of this process, it will be void of the lineage of JP II Familiaris Concortio and by extension Gaudium et spes of Vatican II by design, i.e. independent of all predecessors. Talk about a hermeneutic of rupture. And from the “quote fest” of Benedict XVI citations from both Francis and card. Kasper with respect to the “communion for divorced remarried” issue, it would have appeared that a hermeneutic of continuity was desperately needed. Or so it appeared.

But from the evidence above, it obviously wasn’t.

Summa Summarum

In the above text, we see that the Secret Synod of 2014/2015 was created to provide cover for making changes to Catholic Church doctrine, masked as “only a change in practice”. The “Family” was used as a proxy to changing doctrine/practice that is not in the least bit related to “The Family”. The hidden agenda was exposed at the Secret Synod 2014 by courageous clerics and according to bp. Athanasius Schneider; journalists and bloggers. (see here)  The hidden agenda centered around two issues, namely “communion for divorced remarried” and “church teaching on homosexuality”. The way we know this to be the case is that even though the paragraphs associated with these two issues were voted down by the bishop’s at the Synod, the head manipulators (or rather the Head Manipulator) had them forcefully inserted into to Final Relatio that went out to the bishops’ conferences for further consultation.

However, after a careful analysis of the process to date, it would appear that the “cdr” is not a real concern. The argumentation is explained in the above text. And just to make the final argument, we can assume that this to be the case from two before unmentioned facts. First is the comment by Francis made to cd. Meisner in the above cited interview that:

Furthermore, when there are open theological questions, it’s up to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to give detailed responses“.

And we know what cd. Muller’s position on this matter and corroborates the Francis position. (see here).  Therefore, it is really a non issue, however an non issue that is generating by far the most debate post Shameful Secret Synod of 2014. Given the argumentation above, it would appear that that the issue of “communion for the divorced remarried” is analogous to the “leg” of the ball carrier who shows it to the would be tackler, only to pull it away as soon as the tackler commits himself to reaching for that leg.

Given the above, it would appear that the real issue driving the Francis hidden agenda is the second element of the identified hidden agenda of Francis, i.e. changing the teaching on the “intrincsic disorder” which is homosexuality.

And this is the subject for the next post.

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  • Traditional Catholic Priest
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  • New Liturgical Movement
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Ite Ad Thomam

Why Thomism?

Pope Francis Little Book of Insults

THE MAGISTERIUM OF FRANCIS

The INTERACTIVE Francis “magisterium”.

A Special Message For Conservative Catholics From The Bishop of Rome!

The Denzinger-Bergoglio

What's the Canon Law Equivalent for: "Indictment"?

Logical Fallacies – The List

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The Scholasticum

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“Sovereign” Military Order of Malta

The Lepanto Institute

Must read.

International Una Voce Federation

Global Mass Directory

Love the Mass, Learn the Mass, Pray the Mass

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Douay-Rheims Bible w/ Challoner Notes

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The Stumbling Block

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

non veni pacem

The Splendor of Truth

RadTrad Thomist

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

liturgy guy

Life, Liturgy and the Pursuit of Holiness

EOTT LLC

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Restore-DC-Catholicism

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

What's Up With Francis-Church?

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Ite ad Thomam Institute

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

The Orthosphere

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists - Joseph de Maistre

LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

OnePeterFive

Musings of a Michigan-Man

Observations on the great questions of life, however small they might be

The Deus Ex Machina Blog

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Barnhardt

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

newsitedenz.wordpress.com/

Surprising contributions by Francis to the Magisterium...

ST. CORBINIAN'S BEAR

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

LifeSite

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Mahound's Paradise

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

PCH24.pl

Prawa Strona Internetu. Informacje z życia Kościoła i prawicowa publicystyka

DarwinCatholic

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

THE TENTH CRUSADE

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

UnaCum.pl

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

The New Emangelization

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Team Orthodoxy

Catholic Collar And Tie

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

The Radical Catholic

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

American Thinker

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

The American Catholic

Politics & Culture from a Catholic Perspective

Creative Minority Report

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Damsel of the Faith

Spiritual Daughter of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Faithful to Eternal Rome. Fighting with the spirit of St. Joan of Arc for the True Faith.

Traditional Catholic Priest

A Blog for Dallas Area Catholics

New Liturgical Movement

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

That The Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Pewsitter News

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Fr. Z's Blog - What Does The Prayer Really Say?

Fr Ray Blake's Blog

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

AKA Catholic

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Mundabor's Blog

Tradidi quod et accepi: Catholicism without Compromise

Orbis Catholicus Secundus

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Unam Sanctam Catholicam

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Vox Cantoris

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Musings of a Pertinacious Papist

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

LMS Chairman

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

Lamentably Sane

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

The Eponymous Flower

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

RORATE CÆLI

A blog dedicated to chronicling the "Restoration of all things in Christ"

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