De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

Finally, after much prompting, The Catholic Bishops have published something about the overturning of Roe vs Wade 4 days ago. Celebrities , politicians and the media have been decrying the ruling for days now and the bishops have said nothing. The reaction serves to demonstrate how woeful and inadequate their approach to this essential, pre-eminent issue of our times, continues to be. They love shouting about non-controversial issues like climate change and illegal immigrants, but always fail when it comes to the things they should be focused on. The only individual comment I spotted was from Bishop Egan: Fantastic news about the overturning of Roe v. Wade - a real opportunity for the promotion of life in the US. It gives new heart to our campaigns here. pic.twitter.com/82KO4A9EJ6 — Bishop Philip Egan (@BishopEgan) June 25, 2022 Given the massive victory this constitutes for the pro-life cause, how can our bishops say so little? It was left to Westminster Auxiliary Bishop John Sher...

Fr John A. Perricone PhD is a professor of philosophy, a prolific writer and lecturer from New York. He is someone I have had the pleasure of meeting at some length and he was immediately recognisable as a great intellect and a talented homilist, with a wealth of knowledge to draw upon to make his points. He writes on the Synod in Crisis Magazine : “That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light:  and that which you hear in the ear,  preach ye upon the  housetops.” ( Matthew 10:27) It seems as though navel-gazing is quite the fashion these days —even in the Church, if Synodal “listening” is any indication. The problem with navel-gazing,  a fortiori  Synodal “listening,” is that it prefers solipsistic reverie to the bold injunctions of Christ Our Savior. Rather than considering ways for Holy Church to bring the fire of her divine teachings to a wheezing culture drawing its last breath, it chooses the exhausted psychobabble of the transgressive seventie...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect for the CDF, removed by Francis speaks to John Henry Westen about some of the madness going on in the Church at the moment. He says no one understands what is going on with Pope Francis and the August consistory and expresses concern about the appointment of Bishop McElroy to the Cardinalate . He says it makes no sense that this suffragan bishop has been appointed over his superior: Gomez, who is a good, faithful bishop. The Cardinal states that this strange move seems to stem directly from a misunderstanding of the Church in that it is an attempt to politicise the Church, seeking to change the Church to fit certain political agendas and to support political agendas. Here he is clearly stating that McElroy and the Pope are blatantly attempting to support Biden and are putting this political approach above a theological and moral approach to the issues of life and moral integrity. Cardinal Müller flatly condemns McElroy's promotion of issues l...

As Pope Francis seems to grow increasingly polemical in his comments, Raymond Arroyo and Dr. Peter Kwasniewski expose the incoherence in his increasingly rant-filled comments: far from implementing the Council (by which the Pope only means the Second Vatican Council), Pope Francis doesn't even seem to know what "the Council" taught, regularly conflating his comments on implementation with elements never even discussed by Vatican II.

An important post from Anthony Stine - he asks the question surely everyone is wondering since the last batch of Cardinals was announced: "Francis has elevated a number of highly questionable prelates to senior positions in the roman curia recently and elevated more questionable junior members of the episcopate to their first positions as the local ordinary of their own dioceses and many of them have something in common that a lot of people aren’t really talking about. Statistically too many of these men have direct ties to Ted McCarrick for it to be coincidental. Today I’m going to give you the highlights of that because the sheer number of McCarrick’s men who are getting promoted right now leaves me asking a rhetorical question: Is Ted McCarrick the de facto pope?"  

When I actually consider how dreadful the Pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio has been, I am literally amazed that he has been allowed to remain in post. There are no more excuses. He is a knave who deliberately favours thieves , abusers , narcissists and charlatans . He has enshrined Pagan idols in the Vatican and promoted globalist, anti-Catholic agenda's  which work against the Gospel. The Catholic Church is a network of dozens of churches, all unified by their association with the Pope, who acts as a physical point of unity for the Church. The simplest working definition of a Catholic is a Christian who is in communion with the bishop of Rome, as I have posted on this introductory page to my blog . Has Pope Francis served as a point of unity or division? His whole Pontificate is a tirade of condemnation. Not of the evils of the world which threaten the establishment of the Heavenly Kingdom, no, Francis criticises the faithful: the faith itself  and those who hold it in high r...

On a much more positive note, I was fortunate enough to attend a sung Mass in the Dominican Rite at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane  on Monday. This is one in a series of special liturgies which form part of the London Eucharistic Octave for 2022 . Corpus Christi, a London Church of great provenance, has recently been restored and dedicated as the Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament, making it a particular place of pilgrimage and devotion to the Eucharist. The Eucharistic Octave runs from 11th - 19th June 2022, leading up to Corpus Christi. Each day, Mass is celebrated in a different tradition of the Catholic Church. Full details at https://catholiclondon.org/ I had to rush up to London after work, but it is quite an easy run for me from Essex. It was a beautifully sunny day, and I brought a friend with me who has found their own faith greatly deepened through attending the Traditional Latin Mass, so I had someone to chat with on the train and share the experience with. Entering C...

 Remember the scandal broken by The Pillar in July 2021 ? After being caught using the homosexual hook up app Grindr for casual sexual encounters, the Secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops quietly resigned and disappeared. He suffered no sanction and no investigation. Now he is back, recently appointed to a parish in the diocese of LaCrosse in Wisconsin: What of accountability? What of repentance? Should Burrill's new parishioners just expect gay liaisons as a normal part of their priest's life? How will he approach marriage preparation? Would you trust him in the confessional with your son? The fact that they seem to think this is acceptable is beyond understanding! This is a man who will be responsible for the moral formation of hundreds of people. Has he no shame? Yes we all make mistakes, but to be a priest in such a high position while living a double life raises numerous important questions.  It seems to say that the bishop is complicit to some degree, es...

German bishops gave Holy Communion to a Muslim politician and a Protestant politician during Masses at a “Catholics Day” event in late May. In a stroke of irony, the biannual event, called Katholikentag, also prohibited the German Federal Association for Life from setting up a stall on its grounds for the first time in its history. Event organizers reportedly told the pro-life group, “During the examination, the program group could not determine that your organization is clearly Christian,” according to a statement by the association’s president, Alexandra Maria Linder. Bishop Gebhard Fürst of Rottenburg-Stuttgart gave Holy Communion at the event’s opening Mass to Muhterem Aras, a Muslim German parliamentarian of the environmentalist “Greens” party, CNA Deutsch reported .  Makes you wonder why a Muslim would want to receive the Eucharist? Similarly, and perhaps more pertinent to a papacy which has the temerity to see itself as the Guardians of Tradition while attacking any sem...

  From AP : Pope Francis added fuel to rumors about the future of his pontificate by announcing he would visit the central Italian city of L’Aquila in August for a feast initiated by Pope Celestine V, one of the few pontiffs who resigned before Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013. Italian and Catholic media have been rife with unsourced speculation that the 85-year-old Francis might be planning to follow in Benedict’s footsteps, given his increased mobility problems that have forced him to use a wheelchair for the last month. Those rumors gained steam last week when Francis announced a consistory to create 21 new cardinals scheduled for Aug. 27. Sixteen of those cardinals are under age 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect Francis’ successor. Once they are added to the ranks of princes of the church, Francis will have stacked the College of Cardinals with 83 of the 132 voting-age cardinals. While there is no guarantee how the cardinals might vote, the chances that they ...

You may recall this post about Bishop Rick Stika of Knoxville. It re-visited some of the bizarreness of his episcopacy, but, most importantly, it revealed the details of a homosexual predatory seminarian who was protected and promoted by Stika. Now, Christine Niles of Church Militant has released this outstanding, professional and detailed investigation of the situation in Knoxville. The first part focuses on Stika's bizarre relationship with a seminarian parachuted into the diocese from Poland. As previously noted , this is really important because it is not an isolated incident, it is a template for how abusers are recruited, protected and promoted within the Catholic Church. We must join together, learn how to recognise this and demand that it stops. In my last post on this I said: I have heard of cases like this myself, where a man in seminary moves around dioceses following instances of sexual misconduct, until he finds a place that will overlook his inclinations out of comp...

 ...and Pope Francis has endorsed him to the point where he could be the next pope! The Pillar is a trustworthy news source which you can rely on to give you un-sensationalised facts. However, on McElroy JD Flynn states : "I’d also mention accusations that have been raised against Cardinal-elect McElroy on social media over the weekend: the charge that he “protected” or “covered up” for former cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual abuse and coercion, after he was informed of allegations about that abuse in 2016. It is true that McElroy was informed about allegations against McCarrick in 2016, in a letter from psychotherapist Richard Sipe. The letter mentioned that Sipe had “interviewed twelve seminarians and priests who attest to propositions, harassment, or sex with McCarrick,” and asked McElroy to address it. In 2016, McElroy was Bishop of San Diego, with no authority over McCarrick, and no authority to investigate him. The bishop says that he sent Sipe’s letter to the apostolic ...