Seal of Confession

Priests Citing Pious Reflections & Ignoring Scriptural Truths in Sermons – Confusing!

Editor writes... Sometimes teachers find themselves asked questions in religion lessons by students confused about something their priest has said in a sermon.  Things like, "Miss/Sir, Father X said the Church began at Pentecost when the tongues of fire came down on the heads of the apostles, but that's not what you said last lesson!"...

Open Discussion: Your Thoughts on International, National, Church News, Interests… Whatever!

Editor writes... Among the suggestions for ideas on how to best utilise the blog as we approach its closure in July, nobody suggested this one - an open forum for bloggers to post their thoughts on ... whatever!  Still, that doesn't mean we can't have said open forum, so voila!  If this one proves popular,...

Traditional Chartres Pilgrimage Sold Out: A (Clear) Message to Pope Francis – Will He Listen?

Le Forum Catholique reports: Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, the association that organizes a large pilgrimage to Chartres every year at Pentecost, has recorded a participation rate in 2023 that has never been equaled in the past. No less than 16,000 pilgrims are preparing to travel from Paris to Chartres on May 27, 28 and 29.  Neither the motu proprio Traditionis...

Explaining the Dangers of the New Mass to Diocesan Catholics – But Will They Listen?

Blogger, RCA Victor (USA) writes...  "...I’d like to discuss how traditional Catholics (i.e. Catholics) can speak convincingly (not to mention charitably and patiently) to “mainstream” Catholics about why the Novus Ordo is a poverty-stricken, basically anti-Catholic liturgy that should be shunned. I know we just had a topic on the “Stated Purpose of the New...

Closure of the Catholic Truth Blog…

Editor writes... First things first; as I promised in the May newsletter, Holy Mass will be offered for all our supporters and benefactors, as we close our apostolate. I invited Father Linus Clovis (left), to offer this Mass.  In fact, he has promised to offer two novenas of Masses.  The first from 1st June 2023 to...

Latin Mass Provision in Glasgow Reduced…Again. Are We Really Going to Roll Over & Accept This?

Editor writes... News started to come through to me earlier this evening that Archbishop Nolan has further reduced the TLMs in Glasgow, by suppressing the Mass in the Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in Balornock.  I asked around to see if it really was "news" or simply rumours.  Sources, Sources, Sources, was the theme of...

USA – FSSP Priest Wages War Against SSPX: Laity to Clergy… We Just Want the Mass – Help! Please!

From Tradidi Quod et Accepti... The priests of the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) of St. Joan of Arc in Post Falls, Idaho, announced in their parish bulletin today that Fr. Josef Bisig, the rector of the Fraternity’s seminary in Nebraska, will be arriving in our town to give a talk on Saturday, April 29....

Should Laity Be Bound by the Seal of Confession?

From One Mad Mom... While she just came on my radar, I have a lot of issues with Alessandra’s ideas, but this one is solidly hypocritical and pretty much gossip, detraction, and slander rolled into one. I’m sure in her mind she’s just fighting for the little guys, but the problem is, the little guys...

Fr János Brenner – A Model Priest & Martyr

From YouTube Platform... Catholic priest Fr. János Brenner, a victim of the retaliation that followed Hungary’s failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, was beatified at a ceremony attended by more than 15,000 people in his hometown of Szombathely, in western Hungary in 2018. Fr. Brenner was murdered on December 15, 1957 after being ambushed in the middle...

Holy Week – Blog Closed to Comments…

Editor writes... As usual in Holy Week, the blog will be closed to comments to allow us all time (a)  to reflect on the pivotal importance of the sufferings and death of Our Lord in God’s plan of salvation for souls (2) to think seriously about Christ's key teaching about loving enemies, and (3) to...