"The faithful are at risk when they are offered confusion and superficiality in place of systematic thought. In short, the Vatican has become a theological Chernobyl. We are in dangerous territory.”

Pope Francis’ new comments on the death penalty are incoherent and dangerous

Pope Francis says that his innovative teaching “does not imply any contradiction” of the Church’s tradition but, one has to say reluctantly, it indeed does.

By Father George Rutter

Debate has always been an invigorating and constructive way of defining and refining views, assuming that the debaters have minds of probity and reason. This is increasingly absent in our culture, where subjectivism rules, and where there is only one debater, and his opponent is a straw man of his own construction.

Yet when one reads the “spontaneous remarks” of Pope Francis on various subjects of the day, the quality of reasoning and information of facts is so fugitive, that frustration yields to sheer embarrassment. There is, for example, the Holy Father’s remarks to youth in Turin on a hot June day in 2015: even a Reuters press release said that his smorgasbord of concerns, from bankers to the weapons industry to Nazi concentration camps, was “rambling.” While constrained by respect for the Petrine office, and aware of the strains that imposes, it is distressing to look for a train of thought and find only a train wreck.

Read the rest at Catholic World Report

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/12/18/pope-francis-new-comments-on-the-death-penalty-are-incoherent-and-dangerous/

Cardinal Burke speaks of "heresy" and a how a pope would places himself in "schism"

In a carefully worded and very precise series of statements to Catholic World Report, Raymond Cardinal Burke has outlined, hypothetically, what would happen should a pope teach heresy.

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/5292/cardinal_burke_no_i_am_not_saying_that_pope_francis_is_in_heresy.aspx

He refers to the last time such a situation occurred was under John XXII in the thirteenth century and backs up with scripture, the right of a bishop or cardinal to correct a pope, citing Paul's rebuke of Peter in Galatians.

CWR: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C., the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan and titular bishop of Celerina, who has written an open letter of support for the four cardinals and their dubia, has also said that the Church is in a de facto schism. Do you agree with that?
 Cardinal Burke: There is a very serious division in the Church which has to be mended because it has to do with, as I said before, fundamental dogmatic and moral teaching. And if it’s not clarified soon, it could develop into a formal schism.
 CWR: Some people are saying that the pope could separate himself from communion with the Church. Can the pope legitimately be declared in schism or heresy?
 Cardinal Burke: If a Pope would formally profess heresy he would cease, by that act, to be the Pope. It’s automatic. And so, that could happen.
 CWR: That could happen.
 Cardinal Burke: Yes.

One could expect a new barrage of assaults from the minions surrounding Pope Francis. Let us keep Cardinal Burke and all faithful prelates in our prayers. 

Forget the Francis Effect, go with Khalilah

As time moves on, more and more Catholics are coming to the realisation of what is happening in the Church. Even the secular media, has begun to notice.

The Rosicas of the world can keep perpetuating the narrative of the France Effect. What is this Francis Effect? Is his reaching out filling the pews, the RCIA's, the Confessional line?

That is not my experience. In fact, it is the opposite.

What is yours? Are people coming back to your parishes because of the Francis Effect?

Carl. E. Olson of  Catholic World Report has much to say.

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/5091/francis_has_built_his_popularity_at_the_expense_of_the_church_he_leads.aspx

Or if you need a break from reality, there's always Remy!

A strange and dangerous time to be Faithful Catholic!

It is certainly a difficult, strange and dangerous time to be a Catholic. Daily, we see images of brutality and murder, rape and mayhem falling upon our Christian brothers and sisters in Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan. They are going through a martyrdom. We seem so oblivious to their suffering; it is happening so frequently that it is slipping from our collective consciousness.

Persecution comes in many forms and in many ways. It is not always bloody and it pales in comparison. Yet, the Lord asks us to take whatever comes and to offer it up to God united with His suffering; "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and come follow me." A few sentences later, Our Blessed Lord asks, "For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?" The people who engage in the world against faithful Catholics, need to ponder that.

Just over a month ago, I received a letter from one of Toronto's most expensive and aggressive law firms clearly threatening a lawsuit, notwithstanding later denials. It was clear in two letters that I would be sued in court the defense of which would have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I made fair comment on this blog against what I believe were certain contestable comments uttered by Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB in the public square; be they in his capacity as English-language spokesman of the Holy See, Executive Producer of Salt + Light or as a priest of the Congregation of St. Basil. These were public comments and Catholics have the right and duty under Canon Law to make their concerns known to their pastors and the Christian faithful. Dorothy Cummings MacLean of Catholic World Report provides some history and perspective on the situation.

Patricia Jannuzzi is a Catholic teacher threatened for her zeal for the faith. Even heartless Hollywood actors chimed in to denigrate and insult this woman which says much about them. She has been vilified and persecuted on social media. America, as well as our own Canada, has become fascist. Mrs. Jannuzzi put on her own Facebook page a comment about what we all know is a homosexualist agenda to change our culture, our schools, our language and our religions to force us to accept that which we do not believe. We never will accept it or succumb to their bullying no matter from whom it comes. It is an attack on the family and marriage and that has been clear from the beginning. Her bishop has remained silent. Her pastors sit by. Her Catholic school administrators have betrayed her, the students and Our Blessed Lord on the altar of political correctness where they have burnt incense.  The contact page at Immaculata High School has removed all the names of the administration and their emails. Fortunately, not before your writer wrote to them and here for your use are their emails which include the Principal, Vice-Principal and senior administrators. The links are live or you can copy and past them into the address line as they are separated by a semi-colon as follows.

jkline@immaculatahighschool.org; 

sannebrigid@immaculatahighschool.org; 

swhite@immaculatahighschool.org;

twelsh@immaculatahighschool.org;

The Pastor of the school is Monsignor Seamus F. Brennan of Immaculate Conception parish. It seems that Monsignor and the school are not unfamiliar with controversy surrounding the issue of homosexuality. The last time, they seemed to deny the seriousness of boys being photographed in the gymnasium shower room. The perpetrator, Patrick Lott the then volunteer coach at Immaculata and a former school principal elsewhere, pleaded guilty to numerous charges in connection with the filming. 

We have a Catholic high school with a track-record of staff with abusive behaviour by a homosexual, and make no mistake - that is what it was now persecuting a teacher for standing up for the truth. One can legitimately ask, is there more to this story?

The silent bishop is the Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski, Bishop of Metuchen. 

Patricia Jannuzzi has a family to support and with the actions of her persecutors and cowardly behaviour of Monsignor Brennan and the school administrators she is without work and healthcare. I have no doubt that someone is going to hire our sister but in the meantime, she needs our support both moral and financial.

In New York yesterday, Michael Voris and his cameraman were assaulted and jostled at the St. Patrick's Day parade. This came at the hands of those around Timothy Cardinal Dolan after Voris, with press credentials, asked the Cardinal a question about his participation as Grand Marshall in the parade with activist homosexualist groups marching behind him.

There is a common-denominator in all of these examples; the complete disregard by church authorities for Canon Law to say nothing of civil and constitutional rights and the tenets of the Second Vatican Council and the Pope's own words to "make a mess."

The time has come for all Catholic who care about the Truth and the Church as taught for two-thousand years to rise up and defend it and Her.