RCA Victor - our lead American blogger - offers his piercing and provocative take on contemporary Church and world events in the context of the rise of Occultism... What is occultism? The Catholic Encyclopedia defines it as “An attempt to work apparent miracles not by the power of God, but by the use of hidden...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXnFZMa7mU Below, extracts from a June 2020 interview about Vatican II with Archbishop Vigano - From Catholic Culture... Archbishop Vigano: I do not think that it is necessary to demonstrate that the Council represents a problem: the simple fact that we are raising this question about Vatican II and not about Trent or Vatican I seems to...
From Rorate Caeli... Fifty years ago this weekend, the Catholic Church debuted a new version of Mass following reforms made by the 1960s’ Second Vatican Council. From the use of vernacular language instead of Latin, to the priest facing the people instead of the tabernacle, the changes became mandatory at all parishes on the First...
Monks no longer allowed to run St Benedict's school where children were abused; ENGLAND: London Ealing: St Benedict's School Guardian, 24 October, 2019... A “sadistic and predatory” atmosphere and a culture of cover-up and denial in a Catholic school allowed sexual abusers to commit crimes against children for decades, an independent inquiry has found. Senior figures at...
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Pope Francis has canonized Pope Paul VI, Archbishop Oscar Romero and five other saints. This morning in St. Peter’s Square, before a crowd of about 70,000 people, Pope Francis presided over Holy Mass for the canonization of the saints while the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment is underway in...
From the Scottish Catholic Observer, 2nd March... Young people are ‘leaving the Church in droves,’ says Scots delegate to Vatican youth synod By James Farrell Young people are ‘leaving the Church in droves for all the wrong reasons,’ according to Scotland’s representative to a global Vatican meeting of young people. Sean Deighan, 23, a youth worker for...
February 9, 2018 Il Giornale Interview with Father Fausto Buzzi, SSPX (pictured) - Taken from Catholic Family News... Fr Fauso Buzzi SSPX Tradition represents the only possible future for the Church. Fr. Fausto Buzzi has clear ideas. A priest of the Society of Saint Pius X, founded by Marcel François Lefebvre on November 1, 1970, following...
We often receive emails asking questions about the state of the Church and how to deal with it. I'm afraid that I sometimes feel impatience with certain enquirers, especially if they are members of the older generation, when we were all taught very clearly that our Catholic Faith could never contradict Reason. Therefore, it seems...
