Consider... Some weeks ago, a reader from a far-flung part of the world, emailed to ask for my help in responding to critics of the SSPX . It surprises me that there are still Catholics out there who are living through the utter chaos in both the Church and the world, and yet do not...
One of the most shocking aspects of the Covid-19 lockdown, with its serious restrictions on personal freedoms, both civil and religious, is the way in which the Church has co-operated - from the Pope down. No questions asked, simply uncritical obedience, of the kind not even expected of religious men and women in monasteries. ...
Editor, Catholic Truth, writes... Our blogger, Athanasius, has now studied the recent articles about the SSPX published by the American organisation known as Church Militant (CM), which were brought to our attention recently. To describe those articles as "sleaze" is an understatement, by any standards. Their most recent piece can be read here but we...
From blogger, Gabriel Syme... Bishop Huonder of the Diocese of Chur (Switzerland) has announced he will spent his retirement with the SSPX. He is 76 and has wished to retire for a while, Pope Francis having already rejected his resignation in 2017. I don’t know a lot about him, beyond the fact he seems quite...
The German episcopate is divided on the question of granting Protestants access to Eucharistic Communion, and the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reminds priests that they are not obliged to obey their bishops when they order them to commit acts that go against the doctrine and practice of...
Editor writes... A friend of mine tells me that it was only when she read Archbishop Lefebvre's Open Letter to Confused Catholics that a light switched on in her head and she began to comprehend the gravity of what is going on in the Church. Below, Chapter One of the Open Letter, entitled Why are...
Yesterday, I found myself in conversation with a reader (we'll call her Jo, because that's not her name but it's short and sweet) who has started attending the SSPX Masses in Glasgow. We were discussing the hostility which I have personally witnessed at a number of Fatima meetings recently, when novus-attending Catholics became furiously...
Editor writes.... Since Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, permitting all priests to offer the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) without seeking permission from bishops, there has been a kind of "traditionalist identity crisis" within the Church, where "conservative" priests and people have taken to the ancient Mass and, coupled with their orthodox adherence...
As the turmoil in the Church intensifies with every new report from the Vatican (think sacrilegious "climate change Light Show" at St Peter's) it might help to pause for an edifying few moments, to take a trip around the new website on the life of Archbishop Lefebvre. Click here to view, and then share...
The New Priests To the man in the street, even the most indifferent to religious questions, it is obvious that there are fewer and fewer priests, and the newspapers regularly remind him of the fact. It is over fifteen years ago since the book appeared with the title "Tomorrow a Church without Priests?" Yet the...
