Cardinal Burke rebukes Pope Francis advisor Jesuit Anthony Spadaro

Raymond Cardinal Burke has written a commentary in the National Catholic Register rebuking the writing of Anthony Spadaro, S.J. and his assertion that the Synod has approved through the "internal forum," Holy Communion for adulterers.  

God bless Cardinal Burke!

The Truth About the 14th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops?  

COMMENTARY

by CARDINAL RAYMOND BURKE

In the Nov. 28 issue of La Civiltà Cattolica, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, director of the journal and a synod father, presents a summary of the work of the 14th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, dedicated to the vocation and mission of the family (pp. 372-391).

Although the author makes various affirmations about the nature and work of the Synod of Bishops, which demand critical comment in a longer study, one affirmation which necessitates immediate comment is summarized thus by the author:

The synod has also desired to touch wounded persons and couples to accompany them and heal them in a process of integration and reconciliation without barriers. Concerning access to the sacraments for those divorced and remarried civilly, the synod has formulated the way of discernment and of the “internal forum,” laying the foundations and opening a door which, on the contrary, had remained closed in the preceding synod.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-truth-about-the-14th-ordinary-assembly-of-the-synod-of-bishops/#ixzz3tDMB7PKW

Is there an "absolute truth" and if so, who or what is it?

I want to address once again the disgraceful words of the Pope whilst on his way back from Africa, for they are so deeply upsetting. Never have we heard a Pope speak so ill of the Catholic faithful. Sadly, it is not the first time that his words have been cruel and vicious.

Forced to defend himself and the good name of LifeSiteNews being accused of using a "faulty translation" or not putting the Pope's words "in context" John-Henry Westen is one step ahead, as usual. Visiting this link will take you to the Pope's words with the Vatican's official translation and words translated by LifeSiteNews not put in the "official" translation but clearly said by the Pope. He seems agitated in the video.

  

To you in the Vatican whomever you all are, because I know you come here and some days multiple times. Do you hate the Pope that you do not bring to him these concerns so that he will continue to disgrace himself and the Church? Do you not want him to know how he hurts people and secretly hope he will not change? Is it totally out of control that there is nothing you can do? Are you as disturbed by the words of this man as us? 

Will no bishop or cardinal there have the courage to tell him to his face what he is doing? At what point do we, the faithful, demand to the bishops and cardinals that they intervene directly and decisively? I suspect it will come soon, with his apostolic exhortation on the recent Synod. Expect the worst, he has already hinted at it. Bishops and Cardinal be forewarned. if you fail to act, you will be judged by God and man and held accountable in history and eternity.

Let us look again at what he said:

"Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions. We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe in the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my church."

Does he mean that some who believe in "absolute truth" are sinners and sometimes calumniate? I'll give him that, we're all sinners and notwithstanding the fact we believe, we sin.

Is he questioning whether or not there is "absolute truth?"

If a Muslim is a fundamentalist he cuts off peoples heads and blows up marketplaces. If a Catholic is a fundamentalist, she prays the rosary and wears a scapular, goes to Mass at least once a week and Confession frequently. 

What is Pope Francis trying to say?

We can only shake our heads and pray for him; but I tell you, I thought it was bad enough to invite a follower of the pervert, thief, warlord and liar Mahomet in to the Vatican gardens to pray to his false god, but to bow down and pray to the Kabaa is beyond an abomination. I would not want to be him after praying to the Kabaa by facing Mecca; nor would I want to be anywhere near him. God will not be mocked.

There is "absolute truth" and his name is Jesus Christ, for He said:

"I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father, except by Me."

Sounds pretty absolute to me.

Others are noticing, why does Pope Bergoglio not genuflect before God?

The first time I saw Pope Francis celebrate Mass was the day after his election from the Sistine Chapel on EWTN. I gasped when after the elevation of the Body and then again at the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, he bowed and did not genuflect. Okay, maybe he has a physical problem. Yet, he did it again and again. Then we saw him, that first regrettable Holy Thursday, grovel on the floor to wash the feet of laity, Catholic and heathen, male and female.

Yet, he bows before Jewish leaders. He bows before Schismatic Patriarchs, he now has bowed to the Kabah in Mecca.

Antonio Socci now reveals, as published at Rorate, that he did not kneel in prayer as customary upon the opening of the Holy Door whilst in Africa. We note that in his frailty and pain a few years before his death, John Paul II did kneel and did genuflect. He humbly submitted himself to be assisted in this process by those around him. 


What can we draw from this?

Why does the Bishop of Rome acknowledge the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ, "'tis God, the very God" in the same way as he acknowledges men or the false god of Mahomet or bows before sodomitical and homosexualist advocating priests or to in a questionable "charismatic" charade that borders on protestantism?

This is not a matter of "hating the Pope" or "hating Francis." I don't hate the Pope, I don't hate Jorge Bergoglio. I hate what he is doing. I hate that he does not speak with clarity but confusion. I hate that he gives credence to heresiarchs and condemns faithful Catholics as "fundamentalist" as if that is a bad thing which it must be because he says they are "evil." I hate his insults and what appears to be an embarrassment of all things Catholic. I detest his actions in every one of those pictures, the bowing before men in some false humility. I despise his failure to genuflect after the elevation giving adoration and acknowledgement to the Lord's Presence. As with the dispensing of rubrics on Holy Thursday, what kind of example does that set? 

Clearly, there is no problem with his ability to kneel and bow as can be seen with these pictures.

He may call me a "calumniator" but as the then, not Saint, Peter Damian called out the corruption of his day, even in letters to the Pope himself, we must do the same. 

To say that as laymen and laywoman we have no right to speak up and express our concerns is a clericalist lie.

Why did Pope Francis hide the truth about the Ugandan Martyrs?

Pete Balinski of LifeSiteNews asks; "Did anyone notice that during Pope Francis’ trip to Africa in which he commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Canonization of the 22 Ugandan martyrs, not once did he mention — or even hint — that their deaths were occasioned by their refusal to indulge the king in his request for homosexual relations?"

The Pope did not mention why these Saints were martyred. Our Twitterati homosexualist clerics made it abundantly clear that there was a homosexualist agenda on the mind of Bergoglio in Uganda. 

This is an interference into the internal affairs of Uganda who know well what evil comes from men who engage in sexual perversions that entrap their souls in the grasp of Satan and destroy societies.

These sodomite priests, bishops and cardinals must be outed.

 

 

Someone hide the Grappa from Pope Francis

Just one more because this is just too rich. The Pope's interview on the plane just gets better and better, or worse and worse depending on how we look at it.

When asked about condom use to stop the spread of AIDS and the Church changing its teaching, Pope Bergoglio said:

The question seems biased to me. Yes, it is one of the methods, the morality of the Church faces a bit of a predicament here. The fifth or the sixth commandment: defend life or a sexual relationship that is pen to life. But this is not the problem. There is a greater problem than this: this question makes me think of the question they once asked Jesus: tell me Master, is it acceptable to heal on a Saturday? Healing is obligatory! Malnutrition, exploitation, slave labour, the lack of drinking water, these are the problems. We’re not talking about which plaster we should use for which wound. The great injustice is social injustice, the great injustice is malnutrition. I don’t like making such casuistic reflections when there are people dying because of a lack of water and hunger. Think about arms trafficking. When these problems cease to exist, then I think we can ask ourselves the question: is it acceptable to heal on a Saturday? Why are arms still being manufactured? Wars are the leading cause of death. Forget about whether it is acceptable or not to heal on the Sabbath. Make justice and when everyone is healed, when there is no injustice in this world, then we can talk about Sabbath.

Did Pope Bergoglio just approve the use of condoms?

Someone hide the Grappa.

Bergoglio on plane: World is committing suicide - not from what you think?

Well it could be tens of millions of abortions and soon the implementation of euthanasia in Canada as well as other western lands. It could be the murderous rage of Islamic fascists. Even perhaps a military conflict between Russia and NATO.

Nope, that's in not why the world is heading towards suicide.

Jorge Bergoglio has now decided that it is "now or never" and that "we are at the limits of suicide" when it comes to the environment. What a bunch of hooey from a man that knows about as much theology as he does environmental science.

Our leaders have swallowed the lie of man-caused climate-change so much so that they had to change the name from global-warming. The climate changes. It always does. It runs in cycles. 

There are palm fossils in Greenland, does that tell you anything?  

Here's the Reuters report. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/30/us-climatechange-summit-pope-idUSKBN0TJ2FY20151130#qVW4XXQaCyssAijh.97

Pope visits mosque, bows before the Mihrab

I AM the LORD thy GOD, which have brought thee out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

So said the LORD to Moses. 

In the Central African Republic as in most of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Christians both Catholic and non-Catholic have been slaughtered by Muslims.

In a visit to a mosque there, the Pope said.

"Christians and Muslims and members of traditional religions have lived peacefully for many years," the pontiff said. "Together, we say 'no' to hatred, to vengeance and violence, especially that committed in the name of a religion or God."

It is reported that the Pope turned to face the mihrab, bowed his head and prayed. The mihrab is an architectural feature of a mosque. It is a shell shape and richly decorated. It is where the Imam gives his talk and it is where all Muslim bow because it points them to the Kabaa, in Mecca.

The Pope of Rome bowed to the Kabaa and the false god of Mahomet and he bows at Mass after the elevation but he does not genuflect. I imagine that that the inference that Catholics can draw from this is that Jorge Bergoglio believes that there is no difference between bowing to the god of Mecca and bowing to the God of the Universe in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Yet, the Mass requires the priest to genuflect, which he does not do, yet he follows the Muslim command to bow before Mecca.

The mosque's chief imam, Tidiani Moussa Naibi, thanked Francis for his visit, calling it "a symbol which we all understand."

Yeah, I bet they "understand" more than we think.

What did St. Thomas Aquinas say about the god of Mecca and its founder?

"He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity. 

He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the Contrary, Mohammed said that he was sent in the power of his arms - which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants. What is more, no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning (1). Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Mohammed forced others to become his follower's by the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he perverts almost all the testimony of the Old and the New Testaments by making them into a fabrication of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place faith in his words believe foolishly." 

Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, Chapter 6, Art. 4. Footnote: 1. Sura 21:5, Sura 44:14; Sura 16:103, Sura 37:36

Tell us please, Pope Francis; who are these terrible fundamentalist Catholics?

On his way back from Africa today, the Francis, Bishop of Rome gave another ad libitum interview on the plane to assembled journalists, he spoke for about an hour. These are dangerous moments for this Pope. It is generally when he says some of the least intelligent and charitable things emanating from his Jesuitical and Peronist mind.

We remember how "who am I too judge" has been so distorted by the sodomite movement and that Catholics should not "breed like rabbits." 

Today the Pope said: 

"Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions. We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe in the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil, I say this because it is my church. We have to combat it. Religious fundamentalism is not religious, because it lacks God. It is idolatry, like the idolatry of money."

What exactly is "religious fundamentalism" when it comes to Catholics?

Is it a Catholic who goes to Mass every Sunday and the Sacrament of Confession monthly or at least minimally of yearly? How about one who prays the rosary or wears a scapular? Is it a Catholic who believes what the Church teaches even when those teachings might be difficult? What about a Catholic who believes that doctrine cannot be changed? Is he referring to anyone specifically or any group of Catholics? Is it Catholics who blog? What about Catholics who attend the traditional liturgy or home school? Is it Catholics who believe the fundamental teaching of Holy Scripture and Our Lord to nurse the wounds of the poor?

Who exactly are these terrible, miserable fundamentalist Catholics? 

They must be those "self-absorbed, promethean, neo-pelagians" he wrote about it in that waste of paper called Evangelii Gaudium -- his apostolic exhortation of incoherent babble mixed with Lutheranesque claptrap.

These fundamentalist Catholics must be put out of the Church immediately. We must show them no mercy; and if this is not enough, it seems that he may think condoms are just fine in Africa, or does he? 

Quick, close the unholy door before a poor, sinful, fundamentalist Catholic might enter.

Pope Francis words to Lutheran woman taken to task by two Prelates

Robert Cardinal Sarah

A few weeks ago, we had the situation of the Bishop of Rome speaking at a worship centre of the followers of the heretic Martin Luther. At that time, he answered the question of a woman who was not Catholic and opined on her sorrow for not being able to receive Holy Communion together with her Catholic husband. 

Rather than the earthly head of the Catholic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ encouraging her to become Catholic he told her instead to follow her conscience on the matter of receiving Holy Communion. He admitted that he did not have the authority to tell her to "go" and he joked about how he should say nothing more. It was a sarcastic and dismissive remark to Catholics whom he labels "self-absorbed promethean neo-pelagians" who like to "sit in the chair of Moses to judge."

Diane Montagna writes today at Aleteia with comments from  about the matter. When Francis returns from the environmental polluting and financially burdensome rock-star tour for poor African countries will he discipline these two prelates who have the faith and courage to speak with truth and clarity?

Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan provide the truth and clarity so lacking from the Bishop of Rome and the minions who surround him.

“Intercommunion is not permitted between Catholics and non-Catholics. You must confess the Catholic Faith. A non-Catholic cannot receive Communion. That is very, very clear. It’s not a matter of following your conscience.” Cardinal Sarah

“We read in the Second Vatican Council document that real ecumenism is not irenicism, but sincere dialogue in which we hide nothing of our identity.” He added that any gesture which is “not clear, not sincere, and ambiguous will never help true ecumenism” on “every level.” ... He said “pastors and shepherds” have to be “very careful” in their pronouncements not to “create ambiguity and confusion among the people,” leading them to believe that “Catholic and Protestant doctrine are basically the same, with only minor differences.” Bishop Schneider

Bishop Athanasius Schneider

More Cardinals and Bishops must cease their silence. If the Bishop of Rome is attempting to change doctrine through pastoral practice affecting the Holy Eucharist he must be stopped. That  begins with his brother bishops sending a clear warning to him as to what is at stake should he succumb to the pressure of the evil men around him.

Perverted Montreal Deacon and CCCB spokesman quietly sentenced - Bishop Crosby, why do you allow his name to still appear as Director of Communications?

Previously, we reported on pervert Deacon William Kokesch of Montreal. Kokesch was arrested in 2012 on child pornography charges and convicted in March of 2015 to serve "two years less a day" meaning in a provincial, not federal, institution. Though posting on it back when he was charged, I had neglected following up on it. Sylvia's Site contains all the documentation of this violator of children and disgracer of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Canada. Whilst doing some research this morning on an unrelated matter, I found that Kokesch's name still appears on old press releases and web pages at the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

It took significant lobbying by Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness to then President and Edmonton Archbishop Smith to get the name of child pornograhic pervert and former Bishop of Antigonish Raymond Lahey's name off the site. 

Why does Bishop Crosby of Hamilton, now CCCB President permit Kokesch's name to still remains there? 

Has this Deacon been laicised? 

What is it about the Church in Canada and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops that manages to hide and protect such perverts such as Lahey, Kokesch and other bishops and monsignors who have suddenly disappeared from their dioceses under confusing and ill-defined circumstances?

St. Peter Damian

Three more come to mind, former Auxiliary Bishop John Knight of Toronto and former Rector of Toronto's St. Augustine Seminary and Bishop of St. Catharines, James Wingle. Then of course, there is Gordon Davies a former Dean of Studies at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto, famous there for his body-building equipment in his room at the Seminary. 

Lest you be too worried about St. Augustine's Seminary, that was a long time ago, the 70's and 80's are long gone. There were many Toronto priests ordained during that period who survived from those perilous days and are solid in their Catholicity, morality, liturgy and preaching, in spite of the days of the "Butterflies and Machos." The current crop of Seminarians are a bunch of rosary praying, scapular wearing, men on fire for Our Lord Jesus Christ. The previous Rector and Deans of Studies (two of whom I know) and the current Rector and Faculty are solidly Catholic and well formed. We have much to be thankful for under Thomas Cardinal Collins. 

Some people believe that talking about these things creates scandal. In fact, it is not talking about them and covering them up that is the real scandal. That era in Toronto under Pocock, Carter in particular were dark days before the Internet and before the awakening of Catholics to the scandal around them.

Fox and I have begun reading St. Peter Damian's classic work, The Book of Gomorrah. We've been struck by how little has really changed after a thousand years. What is also revealing was his clarity and aggressiveness in calling out the corrupt popes and clerics to their faces. Given what we've seen coming out Rome for the last while, I think he would have done the same.

If St. Peter Damian were alive today, he would have a blog.

Msgr. Alan McCormack Named New Judicial Vicar of the Canadian Appeal Tribunal

Tuesday, February 17 2004

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(CCCB-Ottawa) Msgr. Alan McCormack, P.H., of Toronto has been appointed Judicial Vicar of the Canadian Appeal Tribunal (CCCB). He succeeds Rev. Pierre Allard, S.M., who retired last October, and Interim Judicial Vicar Rev. Thomas Cassidy, O.M.I., who will continue in his function as Associate Judicial Vicar. The Tribunal is the judicial arm of the Canadian episcopacy dealing exclusively with marriage cases forwarded by “first instance” or diocesan tribunals.

Born in Toronto in 1946, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Toronto in 1978 and named chaplain to His Holiness in 1984 and then a Prelate of Honour in 2002. He has served in many capacities in the Archdiocese from 1975 to 1993, including judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal, episcopal vicar for canonical affairs and Vice-Chancellor.

He also served at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in Rome from 1997 to 2003 and continues as a member of the CDF’s Matrimonial Commission.

Msgr. McCormack holds a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and has studied at the Catholic University of America, Saint Paul University in Ottawa and the University of Toronto.

The Canadian Appeal Tribunal was established by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1984, with the approval of the Apostolic See. It is a national tribunal – the only “second instance” tribunal in Canada. After thorough study and, if necessary, additional evidence, the Appeal Tribunal confirms or reverses the “first instance” decision. The work of the Tribunal is both judicial and pastoral.

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For More information Contact: Deacon William Kokesch
Director, Communications Service

Missal Launch on Advent I for the Anglican Ordinariate of the Catholic Church

Father Alan MacDonald at Southern Orders put his own honest views forward and reprints post from Father James Bradley, a priest of the Anglican Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, informative of the new Ordinariate Missal. It comes into effect tomorrow Advent I, 2015, in the the three Ordinariates, Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom, Southern Cross in Australia and Chair of St. Peter in the United States and the Canadian Deanery of St. John the Baptist. Another insight can be found at the National Catholic Register further highlighting the injustice suffered by Latin Rite Catholics who know nothing of our liturgical tradition so richly embraced by the Anglican Ordinariate parishes. When one sees the beauty and richness of this Missal one can only weep at what we in the Latin Rite have been forced to suffer.

The Missal is an incredible blending of the Roman Missal of 1570, elements of 1970 and the English Catholic cultural character of the ancient Sarum of pre-revolution England. It is superior in every single aspect to the Roman Missal of 1970 even with its corrected English translation. The English can never be as correct as found in this Missal. Photos of the Missal's contents can be found here and here. 

The traditional Preparatory prayers may be said in the sacristy as originally done or at the Foot of the Altar. The Gradual and Tract/Alleluia may always be used in place of the Responsorial Psalm and Acclamation and the traditional Offertory is the first option. Rogation and Ember Days return as do the Gesima Sundays and the Dies Irae and the full Proper antiphons. The Roman Canon (EPI) is for Sundays and EPII is the only other option and never on a Sunday or feast day. 

It is truly a heartbreak that, at least in Toronto, the parish and Ordinariate are so little known. If I were not able to attend the Extraordinary Form, I would depart the Novus Ordo as quick as I could and get to the Ordinariate Mass. It is my view, this Missal in the not too distant future when Rome returns to sanity, will be the model for the return to a mandated and formalised Reform of the Reform that will once and for all, abrogate the disaster of 1970 to the dustbin of history.

The Toronto Anglican Ordinariate Parish of St. Thomas More worships on Sundays at 4:00PM at Sacre-Coeur Church on Sherbourne Street. East of Toronto, in Oshawa, you can find Good Shepherd Parish and west in Kitchener, St. Edmund, King & Martyr.


 You can find out more at these links:

Ordinariate in Canada http://peregrinus-peregrinus.blogspot.ca/

St. Thomas More, Toronto http://www.stmtoronto.ca/

Good Shepherd, Oshawa
https://www.facebook.com/Oshawa-Ordinariate-Page-1608127486137066/

St. Edmund, Kitchener
http://stedmund.ca/