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Dear Bishops, Dear Pope Francis — WE ARE YOUR SHEEP!

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  It speaks to the deep tragedy of the Pope's disastrous leadership that young Catholics from across the world are forced to beg for morsels at the Pope's table having been falsely categorised by him as rigid, divisive and problematic. The deep irony is that those who prefer the Traditional Liturgy are the ones who most care about the Pope and the Bishops and pray for them. Progressives do what they want to do and ignore the bishops. The cruelty of this Motu Proprio us extraordinary.

Authentic Youth Ministry

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Since the Second Vatican Council many people have worked tirelessly to address the excesses of those who, driven by a strange and spurious agenda, have exploited its' arguably ambiguous language in order to downplay what they consider to be the ‘hard truths’ of our faith. As we know, there is one such battle going on between certain Cardinals, between those who say that it possible to change the teachings of Jesus Christ on Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried in the name of pastoral sensitivities, and those who say that it is impossible. If you read my blog at all, you will also know that my position is that, pastoral sensitivities not withstanding, the proposition to controvert the direct teaching of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew is an intractable position, capitulation of which will do indeterminable damage to the foundations of the faith and the Catholic claim to truth; it would constitute a tacit surrender to moral relativism and a denial of objective reali...