De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

I had a great weekend, on Saturday meeting up with a bunch of committed Catholic friends for a paintballing session deep in the Surrey woods, and on Sunday after Mass, meeting up with my Catenian brothers for our Christmas lunch. The men I spent Saturday with are all full of distress about the Church and disappointment regarding the attitude of bishops/ cardinals, the lack of leadership and the fact that consistently, Catholics who believe what the Church teaches, teachers who teach what the Church teaches, and especially priests who teach what the Church teaches are attacked, punished and marginalised, while any kind of heresy is ignored or even promoted. To be honest I'm swamped with material like this. I feel I have a duty to draw your attention to the dangerous things going on in our Church at present, but on the other hand, I also have a number of positive things I want to report on. I can't find the time to keep up with all the negative stuff, let alone gather my ...

The big story this weekend was that a CDF official, in a clear attempt to subvert the synod which opened on Sunday , announced:  "My name is Krzysztof Charamsa. Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa. I am a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...the second secretary of the International Theological Commission. I'm a theologian, philosopher; I lecture  in bioethics at the Pontifical Gregorian University... I am gay" Counter Cultural Father offers his usual intelligent analysis of the flaws in Mgsr Charamsa’s thinking here . Fundamentally, it would seem clear that the Mgsr has fully bought into the secular delusion that his identity is somehow centred on his erotic desires. It was good to see that the Vatican , the CDF, his own Bishop  (if your Polish is up to it) and Fr. Dariusz Oko , who was singled out for criticism by Mgr Charamsa, all quickly responded faithfully to Church teaching. Fr. Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said on Oct. 3 t...