De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

The latest from Katherine Bennett, too controversial for the Catholic Herald! The world is full of so many disadvantaged people living on the margins – high profile politicians, former US Presidents, billionaire globalists and their nepo babies, Hollywood stars and celebrity LGBT activists – all of whom are welcomed into the big tent by Pope Francis while Cardinal Zen shivers in the car park with the Latin Mass-goers. The latest marginalised face to receive a golden ticket to PopeWorld™ was rich, celebrity loudmouth Whoopi Goldberg who has waited years to thank Pope Francis for his message of inclusivity towards people who had never been excluded in the first place. What Ms Goldberg, a pro-abortion activist, is really thankful for is that there is now a Pope whose ambiguity allows people to indulge the perennial temptation to push God aside and place their own will at the centre. “At the heart of all temptations,” Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his series of books entitled “Jesus of Naza...

 An excellent letter in the Irish Times today as follows: Hat tip to Luke for sharing this! Sir, – There has been a great deal of heat and very little light coming out of the Vatican synod on synodality. Even the name is incomprehensible and designed to confuse and obfuscate. This is, of course, quite deliberate, but there is an easy, step-by-step way of deciphering precisely what is happening. Step one is to understand that the church is mirroring the world instead of the other way around, and the world is governed by midwits who have spent just enough time in universities to think themselves educated. These people then colonise administrative and bureaucratic positions and use their office to “make a difference”. This generally involves sidelining and “reinterpreting” the directives of whatever constitution they are supposed to be serving until the goals of that constitution are eventually run into the sand. It rarely occurs to such people that the difference they make is more ...

I receive a lot of messages from clergy & speak to a lot of priests, not just from my own diocese, but from all over the world. Most feel unable to speak publicly about the situation in the Church, although they are extremely worried. I received this message below, which, I felt, summed up so much of what is currently going on from a priest's perspective. I thought it was well worth sharing, which I do here with permission: Laying aside the perfect prototype of our Heavenly Father, none of us men have perfect earthly or biological fathers, but we are usually blessed to have imperfect fathers. When we are young, we might imagine our fathers to be perfect, but as sons grow older, the tendency is for these youth to be in training for fatherhood themselves, and teenage boys start to notice more the weaknesses of their fathers. It isn’t that these weaknesses are legion, but only that boys are starting to become men, slowly, and often these lads think that they are ready to be men ...

  You have perhaps heard that there have been some developments as the Synod on Synodality opens - on Monday five Cardinals (above) published questions they sent to Pope Francis in July. They got a response from the Holy Father the very next day. The answers they received did not follow the practice of responsa ad dubia [responses to questions], that is, they did not give clear answers to the questions. Because of this the Cardinals reformulated the dubia in an attempt to elicit a clear response based on the perennial doctrine and discipline of the Church. They received no response to that second communication. Because of this they decided they had a responsibility under Canon 212 to make the questions public. In response to this, the DDF immediately posted Pope Francis' responses to the Cardinals on the Vatican website in Spanish. This is all the material, starting with the Cardinal's notification to the faithful: Notification to Christ’s Faithful (can. 212 § 3) Regarding  ...