VOCES8: 'Locus Iste' by Anton Bruckner

"This place was created by God as a priceless sanctuary; it is without reproach."

From the Gradual of today's Mass for the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour.

André Campra — Quàm dilecta tabernacula tua Domine

Introit verse for the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour.

The Tallis Scholars - Requiem Officium Defunctorum - Tomas Luis do Victoria

Tallis - Audivi vocem de cælo

I heard a voice coming from heaven: come all wisest virgins;
fill your vessels with oil, for the bridegroom is coming.
In the middle of the night there was a cry: behold the bridegroom comes

LIVE: Michael Knowles speaks at the University of Minnesota on the Latin Mass

The demonic hatred of Charlie Kirk in this combox

September 17. Come on, you little coward, where are you? You won’t comment on this, you won’t disclose your real name. You little incel? An unmarried, sissy man, the very antithesis of Charles Kirk.

What kind of disgusting cretin leaves a comment such as this? Never did I think the hatred of the late assassinated Charlie Kirk would enter this combox (one post below). As for the personal comments about me, they reveal a great deal about the writer. A coward and a hypocrite and a liar. You present Marxist tropes, just as those who show bloodlust over his murder. You're a disgusting cretin. Get off my blog.

Grammar and spelling errors from "Robert." 

Robert has left a new comment on your post 'God rest Charlie Kirk. God damn to Hell his murderer!':

I am sorry that you have taken this position. You only show yourself to be an angry petty llittle man who goes on the attack if/when someone takes a diffent line than you. First, my last post was not even directed at you, it was addressed to Evangeline to clarify my position. As to Kirk and right-wing ideologies, he was a racist, an anti-semite, a mysoginist, and anti immigrant. So, definitely not a hero. I will still for the repose of his soul, but moreover I will pray for those known and unkown who have been harmed by his words. Btw, say hello to the Oratorians if they are willing to let you back in to their parish.

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Posted by Robert to Vox Cantoris at 14 Sept 2025, 16:39\

God rest the soul of Charlie Kirk and bring his murderer(s) to Your Divine justice!

Eternal rest grant unto Charles Kirk, O LORD, 

and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. 

Blood on your hands!

Absolutely right. So does the mother. She affirmed his demonic delusion. 

Mentally ill and should have been committed. 

Enjoy Hell, you rotten piece of shit.

Toronto's Catholic Register suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome

Only 4 days after the Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska and on the very day that the European globalist Heads of State are meeting at the feet of Donald John Trump, who is demanding an end to the killing, the irrelevant Catholic Register of Toronto writes this headline.

Trump-Putin summit fails to advance peace, justice | The Catholic Register

Perhaps, they might find it more worthwhile to write about this.

Vox Cantoris: A look back at The Desolate City of the Archdiocese of Toronto and a lost "Dialogue of Trust"

Judge refuses to dismiss sexual assault charges against Thomas J. Rosica and Basilians

 

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/judge-declines-to-dismiss-fr-rosica

 

All bad things come to an end!

 

LifeShiteNews - "trust that we are indeed doing the will of God"

LifeShiteNews has fired its co-founder, John-Henry Westen. Steve Jalsevac engineered the coup d'etat. In a now-deleted post on X, Jalsevac gives some history. 

JH certainly went off the deep end. As a Latin Mass promotor, cantor and choir director and head of an Una Voce chapter in Canada, I was happy to see his promotion of the Mass. What disturbed me about JH over the last couple of years was an almost obsessive dalliance with mystics and alleged prophets. He chased after them continuously, and for me, it was a major reason I stopped reading. That turned people off, Steve, not the Latin Mass.

What you, dear reader, don't know is that this writer was a source for many, many articles on LifeShiteNews. I did them many favours. My reward was when I called out Jalsevac for his grotesque anti-semitism and his ignoring of the events of October 7, 2023, he blocked me on the webpage, and mocked me, attacked me and made up lies, -- outright calumny in emails to a priest friend. When called out on it, he refused multiple times to apologize. He even wrote they they, LifeShitNews, were doing "God's work." Such hubris! Since when did fabrication and calumny become God's work? Blasphemous. 

Jalsevac, like many other Catholics, have given the impression that the only way to be a good Catholic is to hate Jews. It seems deeply embedded in their psyche. It is grotesque.

Unlike Steve's view, I do see this as the end of LifeShiteNews. JH had a cult-following that will now close its wallets. In this day of splintered social media and Substack articles and as a blogger, I see the change in views and comments; there is too much information and not enough people prepared to fork over funds in a tough economy. 

LifeShiteNews did good work for some time. Lately, it has reaped what it has sown, and the sacking of JH will only hasten its demise.

Steve Jalsevac
@jalsevacs

That is just what John-Henry may have wanted many to believe. It is completely false.

LifeSiteNews has been a close team of many talented persons who created what was an incredibly successful, international pro-life, pro-family news service. None of that could have happened without all those people and their valuable contributions to what, for the first 12 years, was a project of and within Canada’s national pro-life organization that dealt with many international developments related to the culture of death vs. the culture of life.

It was founded, funded, encouraged and guided by CLC and especially by its leader Jim Hughes who was the visionary who saw the great need for the pro-life movement to have its own international news service to counter the lies, manipulations and ignoring of many important developments within the international pro-life movement.

CLC gave us its large email list to begin the incredible growth of LifeSite. LifeSite would never have existed without CLC.

Jim Hughes assumed we would continue to grow and continue as the pro-life, pro-family news agency that it was founded to be and which CLC gave so much to from its own resources.

In recent years, John-Henry worked and insisted that we change the highly successful LifeSiteNews mission to become a dramatically different one of a traditional, Latin Mass Catholic evangelizing, religious organization to draw readers into the Catholic Church according to the teachings of the Council of Trent.

Founding board members Jim Hughes, myself and others strongly opposed this change which we believed would tremendously confuse our loyal readers and subscribers and most new people as to what LifeSiteNews really was because of the schizophrenic messaging that the new mission statement presented.

A large majority of subscribers and readers were not traditional Latin Mass Catholics or not Catholic at all, and the changed LifeSiteNews would appeal to a far narrower audience since the target audience that John-Henry insisted on preaching to were only a tiny fraction of Catholics and violated our founding purpose.

Sadly, John-Henry was able to arrange a board vote that outnumbered those who never thought they would have to vote on such a dramatic change, including other board memberss who were removed prior to the vote for poor behaviours because they were so intensely opposed to the change in what they had given so much of themselves to for a number of years.

One of those board members was wholly responsible for encouraging and paying for LifeSiteNews to incorporate in the United States and was a very generous donor and constantly active supporter in many other ways. The other removed board member was also a major donor and played a large role in our highly successful sustainers program

LifeSite will not die because it has always had a strong appeal to international pro-life Catholics/Christians amd others of goodwill and has never been dependent on any one person.

Our fears about the dangers of the dramatic mission change have proven to have been valid. Readership has plummeted, many have been dismayed by the change, LifeSite has been widely viewed as a sedavacatist website and donations have dramatically declined this past campaign.

Without major needed change LifeSiteNews cannot survive. With common sense return to the incredibly successful founding mission and a return to collaborative management, rather than top-down, one person control, it stands a very good chance of tremendous renewal for the good of all.

We will still always been based on traditional Catholic/Christian moral principles in all we do, as we always have been.
2:33 PM · Jul 9, 2025

Steve Jalsevac's letter to a priest committing calumny against this writer. We had not conversations where I influenced him. We were sympatico and as for the priest, nobody tells him what to think! 

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On 2024-11-22 11:33 p.m., Steve Jalsevac wrote:

Father,

 Please don’t force us to ban you from commenting. On many issues your comments have been good and appreciated, although you do tend at times to be overly harsh and condemning rather than providing thoughtful, helpful comments. However, on Israel you have been irrational, making totally false accusations and revealing that you have a poor knowledge about the history and actions of the Zionist state.

Several of our top journalists have been intensely researching and writing on the issue. We have learned a great deal that we were previously not aware of and have been humble enough to admit that in the face of irrefutable facts discovered. We, like most Westerners, had a false, poorly informed understanding about the history and actions of the Zionists who are NOT authentic, believing Jews although there are a good number of authentic religious Jews in Isreal who are being badly mistreated now over their objections to being forced to be conscripted into the IDF and kill Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians in violation of their religious beliefs.

We have reported and proven that there are at least a few million Jews who are very critical and condemning of Israel and its antisemitic nature that is harmful to all Jews in the world. Those are their words, not ours. Most of what we have written has especially been based on the writings, comments, talks and even first-hand communications with Christian leaders in the Middle East and an even larger number of Jewish persons, including a substantial number of Jewish rabbis.

LifeSite has frequently quoted and shown many Jewish individuals, and quite a few Rabbis, who expressed valid reasons for their grave concerns about the alleged state of the Jews, Israel, which they consider to NOT authentically represent the Jews of the world, and which was founded by atheistic, non-religious and even Marxist Jews.

In their own writings, the Zionists reveal that they chose Palestine for their new nation, not because it was the Holy Land, but because it was the most marketable location for their non-religious project and racist-supremacist ideology. Again, we learned that from orthodox religious rabbis and Middle East Catholic and other Christian leaders. They have been telling us that and they have greatly appreciated that the truth about the Zionists is finally getting out to the world.

Your harsh, condemning comments in response to our article today by the distinguished, faithful Catholic, Hugh Owen, whom you don’t seem to know anything about, are disturbing to have come from someone who is supposed to be a faithful Catholic priest and whom we thought was a dear friend.

I am suspecting that David Domet has been negatively influencing you since we received similar hostile, off-the-wall comments from him today. David is known for having a self-defeating quick temper and angry disposition although he does have some valid reasons for demanding justice from the Church that seems to have unjustly caused him harm. We have tried to be of help to him, but he has a strange way of alienating true friends.

In his article today on LifeSite, Hugh Owen is NOT inciting “more hatred against the Jewish People” with his article and your claim related to the article that “it would be more than shameful if the biased, dangerous and irresponsible reporting against the people of Israel resulted in more bloodshed” only reveals your shocking mistrust, ignorance and unwillingness to consider all that we have worked very hard to accurately report on the Israel/Palestinian situation.

I could go on and on, but all of this has already been written and explained in our many articles.

Don’t let David Domet take you down to his frequently too bitter and emotional level. Please trust that we really do know what we are doing. We understand that our reports can be a shock to those who have never been exposed to this information before, as it has also been to us, but PLEASE trust that we are indeed doing the will of God on this. That is the only reason why we all work in this mission.

The reality is that when you condemn our reporting, you are in effect also condemning all the Christian and Jewish leaders from whom we have learned the information we have reported. That is condemning at least several million people of good heart who love and serve God or who are otherwise good, trustworthy and principled persons who have a true heart for the downtrodden suffering injustice. We would not trust them if they were not those types of persons.

Zionism is what we are writing about, not Jews and Judaism. They are not the same. The conflict in Israel is NOT as we have been told again and again by Jewish and Christian sources, a religious one of Muslims vs Jews. It is one between Zionists vs Palestinians, Christians and others in the region whose homes and lands of many generations have been stolen from them and forced to live in what are essentially open-air prisons and subjected to constant surveillance, frequent, unjust arrests, unjust killings, torture in prisons and now starvation and no food, water, power or medical care. They are living under horrific conditions.

If you open your mind and heart and read our many articles with a different, prayerful disposition, I am sure you will develop a very different response to these articles. No one in LifeSiteNews is antisemitic. We are faithful Catholics, and we realize antisemitism is a sin, but valid criticisms of the actions and ideology of the state of Isreal is NOT antisemitism. Israel itself is antisemitic – as repeatedly explained to us by orthodox religious rabbis.

Wishing you all the best,

Steve Jalsevac

I expect LifeShitNews won't survive the year.

The liars in the Vatican

 

Diana Montagna has done great work exposing what we all suspected. Bergoglio lied and promulgated punitive "law" that indicated that the majority of the bishops wanted an end to Summorum Pontificum and the suppression of the traditional Roman Rite liturgy. 

EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes

Read it all at the link above.

All these rats need to be exposed. 

It is time for Leo XIV to act with justice and compassion and distance himself from these Bergoglian monsters. 

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My Pope, my Pope, not my Pope, my Pope!

 One of these things...

Is not like the other.

Pope Leo XIV

 

Unlike 2013, I had no chills and did not feel the urge to vomit, which is a good thing because I was dining with friends at a churrasqueira. As the curtains opened, I first said, "Let's see how he's dressed." He vested as a pope should vest. He also did not say, "good evening," nor did he ask that we bless him because we cannot bless him, we have no authority over him, and he blessed us. That says a lot, as does his name. But, an American? For what it's worth, notwithstanding some of his various X reposts, it also appears that he's a registered Republican! 

He also chose a rather interesting name. It recalls strength, doctrinal clarity, as well as Catholic social teaching. 

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V. Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Leo. 

R. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius. [Ps 40:3]     

Deus, omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum Leo, quem pastorem Ecclesiae tuae praeesse voluisti, propitius respice: da ei, quaesumus, verbo et exemplo, quibus praeest, proficere: ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi credito, perveniat sempiternam.                                            Per Christum, Dominum nostrum. Amen.           

Pater Noster, Ave Maria.

V. Let us pray for Leo, our Pope.

R. May the Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. [Ps 40:3]

Our Father, Hail Mary.

O God, Shepherd and Ruler of all Thy faithful people, look mercifully upon Thy servant Leo, whom Thou hast chosen as shepherd to preside over Thy Church. Grant him, we beseech Thee, that by his word and example, he may edify those over whom he hath charge, so that together with the flock committed to him, he may attain everlasting life.        Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Donald I

Oh, get a life. 

It's funny.

Frankly, I'm more offended by the man who wore it for the past twelve years.

Woe Canada

Daddy, Daddy, beat me some more. Harder, harder. Thank you for giving me some more gruel.

Francis is dead

May he have repented for 12 years of horror, and may God have mercy on his soul.  

This Joyful Eastertide - King's College Cambridge.

The Triduum for we and not for thee

 

On November 16, 1955, Pope Pius XII issued Maxima Redemptionis Nostrae Mysteria on the reform of Holy Week and the Triduum. Those attending the Holy Triduum according to the Pian reforms of 1955 experience an abridged liturgy. Having undertaken the music and liturgical planning for both, there is no doubt, at least in my opinion, that the structural reforms were unnecessary and represent a significant loss and disconnect. What was necessary, in my view, was a restoration of the hours so that the liturgical action coincided with that of the LORD's suffering and ancient practice and shedding the ridiculous practice of Holy Thursday in the morning and the Vigil eliminated on Holy Saturday to a morning service for the very reasons the Pope described in the above linked document. Further, the structure of society was changing, and the faithful could no longer attend these sacred services. They became the realm of clericalists.

The current Pope, Francis, granted permission for the pre-55 Holy Week to be used on an experimental basis for three years by the FSSP. The ICRSS has, for many years, conducted the services according to the older books. This experimental permission was not granted to diocesan priests. However, both of these used the prior liturgical books, but with the new hours as evidenced here:

If the FSSP and ICRSS can adapt the pre-55 liturgy to the new hours, how is it possible for others to outright refuse to follow the liturgical rubrics? How is this any different from some modernist deciding for himself in the new rite? The fact is, there is no difference!

The very idea that in 2025 a Holy Thursday Mass and procession is held after noon at 3 o'clock or Good Friday at 8 o'clock at night is a direct contradiction of Pope Pius XII and every pope that has come after. It is an insult to the liturgy and to the people who cannot attend these hours. It is completely in defiance of Pope Pius XII and the rubrical law for either the Missal of Pius XII, John XXIII or Paul VI. Interpreting liturgical rubrics of prostration meant for clerics to the people forcing people who may not be able to get down or get up to prostrate to kiss and venerate the cross, is an abomination to human dignity, weight, age, even back-braces don't matter. The blatant passing on the requirement to "name" the present Pope in the public prayers is completely and utterly reprehensible within the Roman Catholic liturgy, no matter what one may think of the actions of any current Pontiff and reveals a serious deficiency in thinking.

Sadly, clericalism and fetishism have both invaded the traditional movement.