PETER’S DENIAL
In his pilgrimage in the Holy Land, our Holy Father the Pope followed the itinerary of the Hebrews by passing through Jordan. He followed and imitated even more closely Simon Peter entering Caiaphas’ court and denying his Master there. The Pope did so not out of cowardice, but to stick to the rule of his system.
GAUDIUM ET SPES (6) : ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE
Men believed in the myth of perpetual and accelerated progress during these years when the Council was listening to them. Our bishops make democracy their religion and therefore, hold fast to the old programme: to reduce inequalities by striking at wealth and distributing it to the poor… At the end of this study of the conciliar texts, the Abbé de Nantes expresses his stupefaction, his scandal, and his trembling.
SAINT JOSEPH, OUR GREAT PROTECTOR
« The humble Joseph is little known, » complained St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Three centuries later, we are still deploring the same ignorance and indifference. Let us listen to the lesson that St. Joseph is trying to breathe into our souls, and into the whole Church.
The alleged invalidity of the Sacraments, an alibi for Schism
Anxious to preserve Unity in the Truth, the Abbé de Nantes demonstrated the effective validity of the new rites. Then, catching Mgr Lefebvre and his faithful in an act of betrayal towards the Tradition and the Roman See that they meant to save, he strove to outline a salutary “high ground” and already proposed the solid pastoral theory of the Council of restoration.
THE MISSION OF SAINT MICHAEL
Let us glance through Sacred History up to our days and see the extent to which the head of angels has taken an interest in the struggles of France and of the Church. Perhaps we will find in it more reasons to pray and invoke him along with Mary in this Apocalyptic combat that we are living through today.
THE NOVUS ORDO MISSÆ: THE INTEGRIST SCHISM
« This conciliar right-wing was defeated because it deserved to be. Its integrism began with a flagrant error regarding Authority and declared that it was a show of loyalty to persons before being a show of fidelity to God and combat for the Faith. »
THE APOSTLE SAINT THOMAS FOUNDED THE CHURCH IN CHINA
Archaeology proves beyond a doubt the founding of the Church in China by the Apostle St. Thomas between 65 and 68 A.D. Thus China takes her place among the first countries in the world to be evangelised, and her Church can take pride in the title of “apostolic”.
MGR SIMON REPLIES TO US... AND BROTHER BRUNO RETORTS
Your Excellency, I thank you for your letter. I am touched by its benevolent tone, and it encourages me to reply to you on a point that is dear to my heart, despite your desire not to continue the controversy. You read the Abbé de Nantes with profit thirty years ago. If, however, you had read his Letters to my friends during the Council, you would be unable to believe that Rome has spoken, that the Cause has been judged since 8 December 1965.
« POOR HOLY FATHER! »
How are we not to see in the media’s hate-filled cries that today victimise Pope Benedict XVI the fulfilment of little Jacinta’s prophetic vision in which she saw the Holy Father weeping. We are waiting for the Holy Father to abjure this “faith in the human person” so that the rest of Jacinta’s vision, our invincible hope, may be fulfilled.
GAUDIUM ET SPES (5) : THE PROPER DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE
We only find one or two passages as regards our holy religion; on the other hand, atheistic culture fills dense pages with abundant scientific vocabulary and explanations for which the Council seems to be bubbling with enthusiasm.- I. The circumstances of culture in the world today
- II. Some principles for the proper development of culture
- III. Some more urgent duties of christians in regard to culture
CLOTHING CEREMONY
On this Lætare Sunday, 22 March, there was truly great jubilation in our houses since five postulants, two young men and three young women, received the holy habit in the presence of their families gathered for the occasion.
CRUSADE AGAINST THE NEW CATECHISMS
The Dutch Catechism, Introduction to the Catholic Faith was published shortly after the Council, and in France, the Fonds commun obligatoire. The Abbé de Nantes immediately understood the plot that was being hatched: the bishops want to impose on us the « catechism of their new religion ». The new catechism would thus be the first battlefield of the Counter-Reformation.
REPENTANCES
In a letter of 29 January addressed to Benedict XVI to thank him for having lifted their excommunication, the four bishops of the Fraternity St. Pius X say that they hope “to assist the Holy See in finding the appropriate remedy for the loss of faith within the Church”. As for us, we would like to assist « the four bishops » in spelling it out.
GAUDIUM ET SPES. PART II: SOME PROBLEMS OF SPECIAL URGENCY
After having laid down the principles and foundations of its pastoral aid, which it offers to the whole world for its salvation and its earthly future, the Council intends to implement them. It thus chose to deal with some problems of special urgency that, in fact, fall under the province of individual morality, as we used to say formerly.- Introduction
- Marriage and the family in the modern world
- The fruitfulness of marriage
- Everyone must promote the welfare of marriage and the family
- An anti-freud catechism
IV. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES : 1921-2000
CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT THE CROSS
The 1920s indubitably marked a new stage of the Church’s history in the USA. It was not a rupture with the preceding period but, on the contrary, a consolidation of Cardinal Gibbons’ work. From 1921 to 1960, Catholic Americans would win a title of incontestable American citizenship, but at what cost?
THE APPEAL FROM THE POPE TO THE POPE
All the principles of the conciliar revolution are already contained in the Opening Address of John XXIII of 11 October 1962. They are not new ideas, but the daring and authoritarian formulation of already condemned errors. We are waiting for Pope Benedict XVI to renew, to confirm these condemnations in order to confirm his brethren in the faith.
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LITTLE BROTHERS
OF THE SACRED HEART (1958-2008)
How to set about it, where to begin in order to found a religious community? When the moment came, there was nothing simpler! The singing of the first vespers of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows on 14 September 1958 marked the beginning… and the rest has followed, from moment to moment, until today.
OUR LADY OF FATIMA CAMP 2008 : THE COUNCIL IN THE DOCK
For forty years the entire history of the Church can be summed up in the history of the derelictions of duty by which the reformist party, which triumphed at the Council, turned a deaf ear to the appeals of the Abbé de Nantes, pursued its « permanent reform » of the Church, yet without succeeding in stifling the Catholic Counter-Reformation. This proves that the Church is still the Church.
« CAN THE CHURCH LEGITIMATE ISLAM AS A RELIGION
AND CONSIDER MOHAMMED AS A PROPHET? »
Appeal to the Holy Father for clarification on the relativist and Islamically correct drift that has led highly placed Catholic prelates to legitimise Islam as a religion and transform churches and parishes into places of assembly for Islamic extremists.
OPEN LETTER TO MGR SIMON
If the Abbé de Nantes could express himself, he would write to you as he did in the past “to Brother Yves Congar” in order to ask him: « What can we do for our Church and for the unity of her communion, which we all, you and I, love, brother? » Your recent speeches show the same concern, Monseigneur, and this is why I dare to address a petition to you in the form of this open letter.
« TOTAL DISAGREEMENT »
How can unity in charity be obtained outside of the truth? This is the question that is raised by the lifting of the excommunication of the bishops whom Mgr Lefebvre consecrated. The lone issue in what already appears to be a dialogue of the deaf is found in the solution that the Abbé de Nantes has advocated for forty years: the appeal to the infallible judgement of the Pope.
APOCALYPTIC TIMES
What will 2009 be? I will tell you. It will be a year of grace for the purpose of doing penance in response to the call of the Angel who stood « at the left of Our Lady and a little higher up » in the vision of 13 July 1917, while « the tragedy of 1917 is recurring in this beginning of the twenty-first century ».
III. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES : 1865-1921
WHO BENEFITS FROM RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?
Mgr Gibbons resolutely engaged the Church in the United States in a policy of unconditional support for American institutions. He was convinced that under such a regime, « the Catholic Church could but open out like a rose ». Yet, on three occasions, this certitude should have been shaken…
II. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES : 1865-1899
1865-1899: this epoch of the history of the Church in the United States was characterised by a renewed attachment to religious freedom. It seems that the Church was obeying a watchword: dispel prejudice against Catholicism by the practice of open-mindedness, constant dialogue, and respect for others in a common admiration of the new democratic order in the United States. Let us take a look at this charm offensive that the Church launched.
AUTO-DA-FE
Not only through our sheer existence and our unchanged Catholic Counter-Reformation Faith, which is unchangeable by reason of its divine perfection, but also through our prophetical certitude we must affirm that divine Truth, divine grace, and the virtues of divine holiness still exist and will exist until the end. They merit and draw down the aid of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus, who will grant the « apostles of the last times » to be Holy Church saving herself.
THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL. GAUDIUM ET SPES:
Chapter IV: THE OFFERS OF THE CHURCH TO THE MODERN WORLD
Like Jerusalem at the time of the last kings, who were both « God’s sons » in virtue of their hereditary right as David’s descendants, but debauched idolaters with a kind of suicidal and blasphemous furor, the Church today has a double commerce, one that is rightful with her God and one adulterous with the world.- Ezekiel 16: Adultery
- The relationship between the Church and the world (40-41)
- Assistance that the Church seeks to offer human society (42-43)
- Assistance that the Church receives in the world of today (44-45)
THE MIRACLE OF JOHN PAUL I
Among the numerous testimonies relating graces received through the intercession of John Paul I, here is the account of the healing of Giuseppe Denora according to Mgr Giorgio Lise, vice-postulator of the cause, rector of the “Papa Luciani” Centre. This recognition gives hope that the Italian Pope will be raised to the altars more rapidly than either his predecessor, Paul VI, or his successor, John Paul II.
EXEGETICAL CRUMBS: THE PSALMS, INSPIRED PRAYER
PSALM 17: PRAYER AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION
The Messiah’s « heart » was crushed but finds its joy anew at the thought of God’s mercy, which it attracts by its sacrifice (Ps 13). The Messiah’s « heart » speaks the truth in answer to the « heart » of Nabal, who personifies the madman who knows only how to blaspheme (Ps 14). The Messiah’s speaking the truth is the reason that He is unshakable (Ps 16). Yahweh-Sedeq can test Him, but He will find nothing deceptive in Him.
BENEDICT XVI: THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER… 2005 – 2008
Humanly speaking, we do not see what could lead Benedict XVI to challenge the « Council’s achievements », as he says. He is too attached to them, for they are his own ideas since the early days of his priesthood. One day the vision that Jacinta had of the Holy Father praying on his knees in a church before the Immaculate Heart must be fulfilled.
THE CCR IN THE CHURCH
Rebellious against the conciliar heresy, because « the truth is ours », the CCR is a work of Truth. As the enemy of schism, faithful to the law, to authority, to the unity of the Holy Church, the CCR is a work of Charity.
WARTIME CHRISTMAS
“World” war is before our eyes as in 1914, as in 1940. It is indeed the most indisputable aspect of “globalisation”, against a background of financial crisis, recession, and, therefore, famine. There is holy war in the Sudan, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq, in Sri Lanka; piracy, in the Indian Ocean.
GAUDIUM ET SPES. Chapter III:
MANS’S ACTIVITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
This chapter aims at convincing humanity that the extensive control that the great modern industrial powers take over all forms of material energy corresponds to God’s plan, which leads to material, moral, and finally spiritual betterment, all to the praise of the Creator. - Human navigation in the universe (n° 33 to 37)
- Human activity and its fulfillment in the Paschal mystery (n°38 – 39)
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES BENEATH THE AEGIS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. I-PIONEER DAYS
The United States is usually presented as a very religious nation – its national motto is, « In God we trust ». In reality it has been a secularised nation ever since the Constitution’s first amendment was passed in 1789, which proclaimed religious freedom and the principle of separation of religion and the State...