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"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." (Matthew 5,6)

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"We love the TLM because we are duty bound- at the very core of our Catholic being- to hand it on. It does not just make us happy- it makes us Catholic. Handing on the TLM (and the entirety of the Tradition) is what makes us right with God, because it is what fulfills His command to hand on everything He taught us. To be a traditionalist then, is not just about where you go to Mass on Sunday; it means to have made up your mind about what must be handed on to future generations."

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A Disagreement with Phil Lawler

So, it is with not a little hesitation I begin this article by announcing a rather firm disagreement I have with one of his recent pieces: Why I am not (quite, yet) a Traditionalist: Part II (see article here). To be entirely honest, my objection is not to his article alone, rather my target is also the somewhat dismal account of what traditionalism really is that has been given by traditionalists. This statement is more confession than condemnation.
I would argue that Mr Lawler’s point that what ultimately matters is that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass be celebrated reverently and that this celebration produce a salvific effect on the human soul, is entirely correct. But correct only in so far as it is the tradition that determines what ‘reverence’ actually means and what effects it has on the soul. Reverence is neither a feeling nor an impression- something I imagine Mr Lawler would firmly accept. Reverence is a conclusion to a process that is ultimately defined by what has been …

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Roman Catholic be you must!

Malki Tzedek

As has been mentioned by others, the Marxist ruse to fragment and splinter wholeness is something which should be considered an anathema in the Church. Our Lord has One Body, One Church. It's members are either part of the Body/Church or they are not. Anything which contradicts Church doctrine and teaching is not of that One Body/One Church. Vatican II has been grossly (and likely purposely) misapplied and misrepresented, and I say that as someone who finds much of what came out of it guided by double-speak chicanery and certainly not of the Holy Spirit. Our Faith remains the Faith taught by our Lord. It stems from the rich sources of Divine revelation and Tradition. All Catholics, by the nature of their universal Faith, are, if the term needs to be applied at all, de facto 'traditionalists'. Protestantism has a place for any who think otherwise.

Ivan Tomas

Gloria in excelsis Deo!
LATIN-Gratulationes nataliciae
NL-kerstkaarten & HR-Božićne čestitke

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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO!

Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.
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Antiphon of Saint Nicholas Against the Errant Doctrine
O lumen veritatis,
Shone Nicholas in council hall;
The heretic raised trembling voice,
And shadows gather’d round them all.
O pastor fidelissimus,
Nick rose with righteous, solemn fire:
“Let not the Son be counted less
Than He who births the heavenly choir.”
O verbum aeternae lucis,
He struck with creed, not flesh nor spear—
A blow of truth, a liturgy
That drove the errant teaching clear.
O sancte Nicolae, quick,
Rose steadfast Nick against the heretic;
Not flesh he struck, but error thick—
A truth-born slap, austere and mystic._
O defensor fidei,
Thus did the saint his vigil keep:
By doctrine’s light the night was torn,
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How I wish we had another Saint Nicholas today. Saint Nicholas pray for us.

Ivan Tomas

Eight years ago or so, there was a skinny little WEF “bio-ethicist” named Matthew Liao, giddly prattling on in a TED talk about how “the powers that be” can start putting a disease in ticks to induce people to have allergies to red meat. A shorter, more concise video of him stating this can be found HERE, and he says:
“People eat too much meat, right? And if they were to cut down on their consumption of meat then they would actually really help the planet. But people are not willing to give up meat. Some people will be willing to, but other people, they may be willing to but—they sort of have a weakness of, ‘Wow! This steak is just too juicy! I can’t do it!’ I’m one of those by the way! Here’s the thought: it turns out that we know a lot about—we have this intolerance to, uh, so…I, for example, I have milk intolerance. And some people are intolerant to crayfish. So possibly we can use human engineering to make it the case that we’re intolerant to certain kinds of meat. So certain …More

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They'll Make You Allergic to Beef With Ticks

They'll Make You Allergic to Beef With Ticks
Genocide-adjacent actions by unseen actors
Eight years ago or so, there was a skinny little WEF “bio-ethicist” named Matthew Liao,
HERE
The little, thin twerp stutters as he tries to cough this statement out, because he knows that what he’s saying is completely unethical, and he can’t state it confidently.
Liao first appeared on the scene eight years ago. But what do we have today? Lo and behold! A guy died in New York eating a hamburger this past week
- Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger,
The idea that anyone in the world would even considering ruining humanity in this way is completely satanic and diabolical. World Economic Form demons would ruin everyone’s lives to achieve their warped ends. They are perfectly willing to shift all of civilization to appease “Mother Earth.” They will kill and injure billions for their pagan religion.
“Let’s just make people sick! Let’s make people allergic to healthy food and …

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”In Leo’s Church of permanent emergency, the priest is no longer the man who offers sacrifice; he is a logistics problem."

Forty-Eight Men in Dresses who rely on Prevost to continue declaring war on God and the Church.
48 Homosexuals, Prostitutes, Trans Activists who defy the laws of God and the Church

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Forty-Eight Transvestites, Zero Altar Rails

Forty-Eight Transvestites, Zero Altar Rails
Leo’s jubilee of inclusion, synodality, and “Mother Earth” has room for everyone — except the Catholic Faith.
In Leo’s Church of permanent emergency, the priest is no longer the man who offers sacrifice; he is a logistics problem.
Josef Grünwidl, Leo’s new archbishop of Vienna, told Austrian state TV that we should stop thinking of the Church “in terms of priests” and focus instead on parishes “remaining alive locally – even if there is no priest present every Sunday.” His plan is to “empower” lay men and women to support and organize parish life when the priest is absent.
The crisis is not framed as apostasy, collapsing vocations, or decades of liturgical abuse. The crisis is that Catholics might need to drive farther to get to an actual Mass. Better, says the new logic, to keep every village “alive” with a lay-led Sunday celebration than to admit that the sacramental life of the Church cannot be reduced to a community gathering with …

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Deuteronomy 22:5
“A woman shall not wear men's clothing, nor shall a man put on women's clothing, for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.”

Ivan Tomas

Padre Peregrino to Chris Jackson:
I know you wrote on Pope Paul IV's Apostolic Constitution "Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio" a month ago, so it's important to highlight again that his document insists that if a heretic be raised to the Chair of Peter, it is "null, void and worthless... even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals." Those last 16 words absolutely destroy the modern-myth of "Universal Acceptance." It also means a public heretic is easily recognizable by your average blue-collar Catholic, even before any intellectuals get to the advanced topic of formal canonical trials.

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Why “Universal Peaceful Acceptance” Can’t Save the Conciliar Church

Why “Universal Peaceful Acceptance” Can’t Save the Conciliar Church
Why “everyone agrees he’s pope” was never the Catholic rule of faith – and how that myth now props up a church that blesses sin and rewrites its own past.
If you’ve spent any time arguing with the new papalist influencers, you know the script.
“Leo XIV was universally accepted by the bishops. Paul VI was universally accepted. John Paul II, Benedict, Francis, Leo – all universally accepted. Therefore it is infallibly certain they were and are true popes. Therefore anything they teach cannot truly contradict the pre-conciliar magisterium. Therefore if you think adulterers at Communion, blessings of homosexual couples, and the reversal on the death penalty clash with the prior faith, the problem is you.”
In other words, “universal peaceful acceptance” has become the magic spell that makes every contradiction vanish. The living episcopal club cannot be wrong about the man in white, so you must be wrong about what …

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It should be noted, however, that the situation after Vatican II is somewhat different from that of a pope who fell into heresy. Essentially, with the council, a new church emerged and then developed, which Paul VI called "conciliar." This structure is not the same as the Catholic Church; they are not the same thing. A conciliar church is like a neocatechumenate within the conciliar church. That is, a conciliar church is a sect within the Catholic Church. And its enormous size should not disturb us, since the historical precedent of the Arian heresy showed that 97-99% of bishops can very well be heretics. This is where the main question arises: did all these conciliar popes ever act as popes of the Catholic Church (even if both the electors and those elected believed this to be the case)? I believe not. They never spent a single day fulfilling the functions of popes of the Catholic Church, even if they believed that was what they were doing. Their entire lives were spent within the …More

Malki Tzedek

We were told by our Lord that we were 'in the world' but shouldn't be 'of the world'. Appeasement and capitulation to the world is a very bad detour.

Ivan Tomas

Documentary history of Japan, the Catholic Church, the persecutions that lasted 200 years and Our Lady of Akita

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Why is the world going insane? The enemy knows that by assaulting the principles of truth then everything that flows from them will be disordered in the minds of men. Spreading lies about “the Beginning” (Gen 1:1; Jn 1:1) obscures God our Creator as well as human nature, engendering fatal deceptions about evolution, transgenderism and transhumanism.
So much that is bleak in society and the Church can be readily repaired and brought back to life by a recuperation of sound metaphysics — namely, the awesome insights of Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas. Presenting their teaching, The Metaphysics of Love — Reality as the Way to Life, will be published later this month (November), Deo volente.

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"The Metaphysics of Love" to be published November 2025

Why is the world going insane? The enemy knows that by assaulting the principles of truth then everything that flows from them will be disordered in the minds of men. Spreading lies about “the Beginning” (Gen 1:1; Jn 1:1) obscures God our Creator as well as human nature, engendering fatal deceptions about evolution, transgenderism and transhumanism.So much that is bleak in society and the Church can be readily repaired and brought back to life by a recuperation of sound metaphysics — namely, the awesome insights of Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas. Presenting their teaching,

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"What else was Jorge Mario Bergoglio if not the perfect living embodiment of what Canon Roca predicted almost a century and a half in advance?"

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Il rifiuto dei sacramenti di Bergoglio e il conclave: è la fine della falsa chiesa profetizzata da padre Pio? - La Cruna dell'Ago - di Cesare Sacchetti

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Alla fine l’annuncio è giunto nella maniera più inaspettata e più sorprendente, una di quelle che fa veramente pensare all’intervento della Divina Provvidenza.
Dopo mesi di incertezze e di ambiguità, e dopo un lungo periodo ospedaliero nel quale Santa Marta non aveva mostrato nemmeno una immagine di Bergoglio, il giorno del Lunedì dell’Angelo, viene dato l’annuncio della morte di papa Francesco.
Secondo il bollettino del Vaticano, il pontefice sarebbe morto alle 7:35 del mattino in seguito ad un ictus, ad uno stato di coma e infine ad un collasso cardiaco, e quando il cardinale camerlengo, l’irlandese Farrell, fa il suo annuncio con voce greve, già emerge una prima contraddizione.
Nel comunicato del cardinale decano, Giovanni Battista Re, dove viene convocato il collegio cardinalizio la mattina successiva alla morte, viene scritto che Francesco …

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"When a bishop of such rank calls sexual sin a “right” under papal blessing, the heresy becomes institutional. The rainbow cross carried through the church was not a plea for mercy but a banner of conquest. The revolution no longer asks permission from Rome; it celebrates Mass on her altars while the Vatican’s silence functions as the new imprimatur."

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The Week Rome Laughed: De Niro’s Rosary, Mary Demoted, a Bishop Blesses Sodomy, and $760,000 of USCCB Cash to Abortion Allies

The Week Rome Laughed: De Niro’s Rosary, a Bishop Blesses Sodomy, and $760,000 of USCCB Cash to Abortion Allies
Celebrity photo-ops, doctrinal minimalism, episcopal scandal, socialist slush funds, an “Amazonian Rite,” and the slow euthanasia of rural parishes. Otherwise, a quiet week.
Robert De Niro got his Vatican moment. Smiles, small talk, the Sala del Tronetto, and a gift Rosary. Rome excels at this kind of theatre. The city crowns a Hollywood legend with the Lupa Capitolina, he drops a line about Rome as a living work of art, and the cameras purr. Meanwhile, the same house that can choreograph a flawless photo-op cannot manage to defend the most exalted Marian title in the tradition or keep Sunday Masses open in Iowa. The contrast is the point. A Church that performs impeccably for VIPs but blanches at confessing hard doctrine is a Church that knows how to look Catholic without the inconvenience of being Catholic.
The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer
publicly rebuked the Vatican’s …

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Denique, quinque Dogmata Mariana erunt.

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"The irony of Leo’s pontificate is that while he denounces “clericalism” and “rigidity,” he presides over the most clerical and rigid cult of papal personality in history. His theologians rewrite dogma; his apologists applaud; his bishops close churches; and his priests lose the Faith in real time; all under the banner of “renewal.”
But the true renewal is the old one. When Gabriel said “Hail, full of grace,” he did not mean “partially relevant to the work of redemption.” He meant what the Fathers meant: that in her consent, the Word was made flesh. To deny her Co-Redemption is to deny the logic of the Incarnation."

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Leo’s Humiliation of Our Lady

Leo’s Humiliation of Our Lady
The Vatican erases the Mother of God from Redemption, calling her title “inappropriate,” as bishops mock tradition and preach politics.
On November 4, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released its new doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis, approved by Leo XIV and signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández: the erotic novelist turned prefect of the Holy Office. Its message is simple: the title Co-Redemptrix is now “inappropriate.”
According to the leaked text published by Messa in Latino (§ 22), the document declares:
“Considerata la necessità di spiegare il ruolo subordinato di Maria a Cristo nell’opera della Redenzione, è sempre inappropriato usare il titolo di Corredentrice per definire la cooperazione di Maria. Questo titolo rischia di oscurare l’unica mediazione salvifica di Cristo e, pertanto, può generare confusione e squilibrio nell’armonia delle verità della fede cristiana… Quando un’espressione richiede numerose …

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Our blessed Mother is integral to our Catholic faith, and persuaded her Son to perform His first miracle. He appeared to her first (I believe) after His resurrection. He assumed her spotless humanity into Heaven. Any pope who would dare to minimize Her contributions and role in man's salvation does not represent what most Catholics believe. I warned Catholics about this man.He is dangerous to your faith.

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This is not Catholic but Satanic to betray our Lady . three words go to hell

Ivan Tomas

"Conservatives from the John Paul II & Benedict XVI era will have to start getting used to the Vatican II revolution they swear was a ‘valid’ council. They are no longer living in the era of Vatican II, but in the end game now (to cite a popular meme).
We have already entered the multiverse of Bergoglian synodality where anything & everything goes - everything except authentic, vintage Catholicism (aka Traditional Catholicism) that is."

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Fr. Alar in the Bergoglian 'end game': The slow burn of the 'Revolution':

BIG NEWS: Transalpine Redemptorists ‘repudiate the Synodal Church’ as ‘distinct’ from the Catholic Church
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Father Chris Alar MIC (the Provincial Superior of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception - click here for source & more details), a notable figure in the Catholic Social Media space, especially on YouTube (whose Divine Mercy channel boasts 560,000 subscribers), joined John Henry Westen’s (JHW) on his Sign of the Cross Media YouTube video (Nov 01st 2025), where among a few things discussed was the Nostra aetate anniversary celebrations in the Vatican commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Vatican II document published in 1965.
Scenes at the Vatican during the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Nostra aetate. Image Source: Sign of the Cross Media
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Ban the Novus Ordo and they will go away!

Ivan Tomas

This is what Traditionis Custodes defended: not tradition, but the custody of chaos. The regime that criminalized the Latin Mass in parish churches now blesses drag homilies on state television. The Novus Ordo was declared “the only form” of the Roman Rite, and the experiment has reached its natural endpoint: a rite so elastic it can absorb heresy, inversion, and mockery without bursting.

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The Church of the Absurd: From Queer Masses to Vampire Nuns

The Church of the Absurd: From Queer Masses to Vampire Nuns
As bishops bless gender theory and Leo hails Newman’s “friendship,” even Trump sounds more Catholic than Rome.
Germany has finally shown us what “the only expression of the Roman Rite” means. ZDF, the national broadcaster, aired a full “Queer Divine Service” this week: men in lace, rainbow stoles, and self-congratulating affirmations of “love.”
This is what Traditionis Custodes defended: not tradition, but the custody of chaos. The regime that criminalized the Latin Mass in parish churches now blesses drag homilies on state television. The Novus Ordo was declared “the only form” of the Roman Rite, and the experiment has reached its natural endpoint: a rite so elastic it can absorb heresy, inversion, and mockery without bursting.
The irony is that the same bishops who suppressed the old Mass now boast that their new one welcomes “diversity.” What they really mean is diversity of sin, uniformity of apostasy.
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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, to describe a counterfeit church or an anti-church that the Antichrist will establish in the last days. This false church will mimic the external appearance and characteristics of the true Church but will be "emptied of its divine content" and operate in reverse of God's will.

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It was the perfect sacrament of the new religion. Words remain on parchment, but practice preaches louder. The modern papacy has discovered that it need not revoke doctrine, it can simply outlive it. The Anglicans once begged for recognition; now Rome flatters them for legitimacy. The ecumenical dream has come true: both sides now agree that truth no longer matters.

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The God of Dialogue Has No Creed

The God of Dialogue Has No Creed
Leo XIV celebrates Nostra Aetate’s 60th anniversary, prays with Anglicans as if Leo XIII never lived, and leaves the last faithful monks condemned for saying what Rome once taught.
At his general audience on October 29, Leo XIV used the sixtieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate to tell the world that dialogue itself is the essence of religion. The Samaritan woman at the well became the new model of faith, not because she recognized the Messiah, but because she conversed with Him. Worship, he said, is no longer bound to a mountain or a temple, but to “spirit and truth,” a phrase now stretched to include every creed and its contradictions.
He called Nostra Aetate a “point of no return” in how the Church meets other religions, praising its vision of “rays of truth” in every faith and urging all believers to “act together” to save the planet and regulate artificial intelligence. This is no longer the language of salvation but of sustainability. The Church …

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It is all one choreography: the velvet glove and the hidden knife. The ancient liturgy is allowed just long enough to reassure the flock that nothing essential has changed, while the machinery that forbids it everywhere else hums quietly in the sacristy.

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A Latin Mass for the Cameras, While Leo XIV Says the Old Faith Is Over

A Latin Mass for the Cameras, While Leo XIV Says the Old Faith Is Over
Cardinal Burke says the old Mass again in St. Peter’s, Leo blesses the synodal revolution, and Rome pretends the two are one Church.
It was a sight both glorious and hollow: Cardinal Raymond Burke, flanked by torchbearers, processing half a mile with hundreds of faithful from the Basilica of Sts. Celso and Giuliano to St. Peter’s. Incense rose under Bernini’s bronze clouds as he offered the pontifical Mass of the Ages at the Altar of the Chair: the first time in two years that the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage was allowed inside the Vatican’s central sanctuary.
The crowd rejoiced. The cameras clicked. And at almost the same hour, Leo XIV was presiding over the “Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies,” preaching that no one “possesses the whole truth” and that the Church must “walk together.” The juxtaposition was perfect: at one altar, the ancient faith expressed in Latin and silence; at another, the …

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Hebrews 13: 8-9
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings".

Ivan Tomas

Zip It Or Zip It, That Is The Question?

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The true climate change we need today must start with the most dangerous place to be: the human womb and the human heart.

Ivan Tomas

A Church that claims zero tolerance keeps finding exceptions for its friends. While Rome trumpeted “independent judges” for Marko Ivan Rupnik, the Centro Aletti rolled on like an extraterritorial duchy. Bishops lodged there as if on spiritual holiday. Clergy cycled through for exercises. Then the center paywalled his summer meditation, monetizing the scandal like a museum gift shop at the exit. No precautionary measures. No meaningful restrictions. Only the little people get laicized. The networked get microphones.

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Leo’s Vatican: The Adulteress Gets a Medal, the Predator Gets a Mission

Leo’s Vatican: The Adulteress Gets a Medal, the Predator Gets a Mission
Rupnik preaching, Charles kneeling in the Sistine, Pius IX award for Camilla, Nostra Aetate’s 60th, a “Gospel updated,” a louder Novus Ordo, and the Robertito who learned his Church in a Peruvian lab.
A Church that claims zero tolerance keeps finding exceptions for its friends. While Rome trumpeted “independent judges” for Marko Ivan Rupnik, the Centro Aletti rolled on like an extraterritorial duchy. Bishops lodged there as if on spiritual holiday. Clergy cycled through for exercises. Then the center paywalled his summer meditation, monetizing the scandal like a museum gift shop at the exit. No precautionary measures. No meaningful restrictions. Only the little people get laicized. The networked get microphones.
The institutional reflex is always the same. Delegitimize the accusers. Reassign the collaborators. Incardinate the untouchable. Canon 269 says a bishop must verify a cleric’s conduct and moral suitability …

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"Everyone can recognize masculine conquistadors or racist SS guards as evil because the evil is out in the open. (I don’t even buy the notion that all the Portuguese colonialists 500 years ago were racist since many married Brazilian Indians and Indonesian islanders.) But today, the evils of leftism and feminism kill more people than either of those (do the math) and they keep recruiting people all over the globe because its evil is not only hidden, but occasionally attractive.
Think about it: Even Bishop Franceseco Savino (Vice-President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference) admitted that Leo approved of the recent blasphemous LGBT pilgrimage in the Vatican (above) and prior sacrilegious Mass at the Gesú. A few weeks later, Islamic prayer rugs were unfurled for Muslims’ use in the Vatican library. Think Muslims and leftists are strange bedfellows now? They’re not. They’re just both anti-christ and pro-death. That’s their overlap. That’s it."

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Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.

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Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century at the University of Paris and he went on to baptize a half million people in East Asia. On his missions, he was pure charity to the Indians but he was
After numerous fruitless warnings on the eternal salvation of these men who were impeding his mission, Xavier finally wrote King John of Portugal to tell him (in sober, respectful terms as only a Spaniard can do) that if King John (who normally ordered people around) didn’t tell the Portuguese soldiers to stop the pillaging of the colonies, he would find
I started thinking about how these men represented the villains of history: White, European hypocritical Catholic men who would clearly be called spreaders of “toxic masculinity” in any University today. And perhaps with good reason. So, this is not a post defending any of those men (especially as my …

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Why are these psychos being appeased and welcomed by the Vatican….Do we not know that they will never like us or agree with us…The pope is wasting his time, his energy, his influence, his ethics to Kow tow to those so-called leaders who hate God and his creation…wake up!

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*An excellent synthesis of the mess we are in…so clear it’s astonishing..God bless you father peregrino….

Ivan Tomas

There is wisdom in refusing the doom-scroll. There is danger in pretending that the wolf disappears when you close your eyes. The laity are not saved by knowing every phrase of the latest encyclical, but they are certainly imperiled when those phrases are used to bulldoze doctrine, suppress the ancient Mass, and re-engineer moral theology at scale. Pray the Rosary. Then keep your sword unsheathed.

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The New Quietism: “Tuning Out What the Pope Says So I Can Save My Soul”

The New Quietism: “Tuning Out What the Pope Says So I Can Save My Soul”
A week when “don’t listen to Rome” became the pastoral plan, a non-Catholic took Communion, and the revolution kept its course.
Kennedy Hall has finally said the quiet part out loud: stop watching the papal circus and just be Catholic. The testimony about leaving a corrupted school system rings true, and the fatigue with weaponized ambiguity is universal. But spiritual triage cannot become strategic surrender. When shepherds teach confusion publicly, the faithful cannot be catechized privately into silence. If the post-conciliar papacy has become a noise machine, that is not a reason to mute the crisis; it is the crisis. Catholics have always had to pray like monks and fight like crusaders. If we outsource the fight to “Pelican Plus” and focus only on personal devotions, we will wake up with tidy prayer lives and no public Mass.
There is wisdom in refusing the doom-scroll. There is danger in pretending that the …

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Shill.