THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION IS THRIVING IN CANADA

On Monday, 26 April, excavator, bulldozer, and dump truck went into action to dig the foundations of a new building that will double the size of our Maison Saint-Georges, which has become too small for our sisters in Canada.

O CRUX, AVE, SPES UNICA !

Since the hierarchy has paid no heed to the vision of 13 July 1917, the Good God continues to warn us about the loss of souls – who are already falling into Hell here below, while awaiting the other, eternal Hell ! – by means of signs of the times, events that fulfil before the eyes of the whole world the prophetic vision that was confided in great secret to the little children.

THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS, « THE PRICE TO BE PAID »

An Iraqi relates how he converted from Islam to Christianity at the peril of his life. His account demonstrates that to proclaim religious freedom while sitting around idly, is certainly the most scandalous of the acts of cowardice of which Christians are guilty, like the renegades in the times of the incursions of the Barbary States.

THE ROMAN DERELICTION OF DUTY (FINAL EPISODE)

In a personal letter to someone from his diocese, our Bishop accuses us of lying. The addressee asks me for explanations. I give them to him… with all the publicity that our modest review permits, in order that none of those whom our Bishop privately puts on their guard against us be unaware of them. The sixty-four thousand dollar question: Who is breaching faith with whom?

PILGRIMAGE TO TURIN:
DEVOTION OF REPARATION TO THE HOLY FACE

Before the exhibition of 1898, it was not the Holy Shroud kept in Turin that was the object of devotion to the Holy Face but the image that the holy man of Tours, Monsieur Dupont, honoured and made known, from 1851 on.

TO PREPARE VATICAN III

We undertake the systematic preparation for Vatican III, the Council of Catholic Reconciliation. Month after month, each of its prepared chapters will give rise to a return to the Catholic doctrine from which the reforming Second Vatican Council has distracted us. Does this mean that we advocate a simple return to the past? No.

THE SOURCES OF THE FAITH

For the Pope as for the Body of the bishops, the immediate Source of the Faith is always the global, ordinary, continual and universal teaching of the Church, which the Holy Spirit guarantees. It is through this total teaching, through and in her formulas and rites, that the Catholic reaches by means of faith the very mystery of God and achieves union with his Saviour.

THE ROMAN DERELICTION OF DUTY (1)

In correspondence with a friend, after the funeral of our Father, Mgr Stenger, Bishop of Troyes, gives proof that our Father was sanctioned without having being judged according to Canon Law and that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith « did not deem it necessary to open a trial »… This document will be a milestone in this dispute that is unprecedented in the history of the Church.

BENEDICT XVI AND THE HOLY SHROUD

On Sunday, 2 May, the Pope visited the Cathedral of Turin where the Holy Shroud was exposed to the veneration of the faithful. His meditation had nothing to do with the data furnished by a hundred years of scientific examinations of this icon. The Pope deliberately refuses to raise the question of the authenticity of the Holy Shroud because he is a Modernist.

BENEDICT XVI AND FATIMA

For Benedict XVI, not only does Hell not exist, but also the Church is unaware that she has enemies without, contrary to the warnings in the second part of the Secret of Our Lady of Fatima. Benedict XVI substitutes a tension between the present and the past for the confrontation between Christ and Belial.

TOTAL METAPHYSICS

According to the jargon of the philosophers, the science of physics is the science of the nature of things, while metaphysics is a superior science that consists of going beyond. I remember my perplexity when our professor, the Abbé de Nantes, told us that metaphysics was the science of being « as being ». What would he be able to tell us about « being as being »?!

EMPRESS ZITA, FRENCH PRINCESS,
EMPRESS AND REGENT OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

One cannot speak of the Emperor Charles of Austria without mentioning at the same time the figure of his spouse, the Empress Zita. This is because they formed a holy and united couple, both in the days of peace and happiness that did not last and in the tragic years of war and exile.

PREPARING FOR VATICAN III: THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH

The Third Vatican Council ought to deal with the Church and the Virgin Mary in the same dogmatic Constitution, as Vatican II did, except that instead of relegating the Virgin Mary to the last chapter She will be the object of the first chapters, and that the history of the Church will be evoked in the conclusion of the Constitution as a march towards the triumph of the Immaculate.

BROTHER GEORGES OF JESUS-MARY
MYSTICAL DOCTOR OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH

« I seem to remember that very early there was mysteriously erected – but by whom? – in the centre of my heart a throne of gold and purple for You alone, where no creature ever sat, even for a single moment ». Such an exclusive cult has become a sign of contradiction in the Church.

OPEN LETTER TO MGR STENGER, BISHOP OF TROYES

The Abbé de Nantes, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, must be rehabilitated, and our consciences enlightened. It is not a question for us of “dialoguing” about the Faith, but of obtaining that the Church teach us the Catholic Faith on the disputed questions, with all the guarantees of the infallible assistance of the Holy Spirit.

PILGRIMAGE TO TURIN IN REPARATION AND SUPPLIANT ADORATION
OF THE HOLY SHROUD OF JESUS CRUCIFIED

By furnishing abundant and converging proofs of the Holy Shroud of Turin’s authenticity, the exact sciences make it a major archaeological relic. They contribute a multitude of details that had remained unsuspected until now. Not only are the Gospel facts clarified, but the theology of the fourth Gospel itself casts an admirable light on the phenomenon of the Holy Shroud.

PILGRIMAGE TO TURIN: THE MONSTRANCE OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD

Eternal life is open to us but at what price! This is what we contemplate on the Holy Shroud: it was at the price of Your Precious Blood that still impregnates it. We can see it with our eyes and the scientists have confirmed it. Next 15 and 16 May, we shall imitate the crowds of pilgrims who, throughout the centuries, have venerated this renowned Relic.

THE FATHER OF OUR SOULS

Thus, it has pleased our dear Heavenly Father to call to Himself, and to Her, the one that His Blessed Mother « was eager to clasp to Her Heart ». It came to pass like a candle going out, after a glance towards Our Lady of Fatima. In the eyes of the doctor, however, this death holds a mystery.

THE BETTER PART: PRIEST, VICTIM WITH CHRIST

« The death of Christians, who are consecrated in Baptism to be victims, became in the death of Jesus Christ a perfect Sacrifice; and from His oblation, together with theirs, there became but one oblation. Jesus Christ is the Sovereign Priest of our deaths, and until the end of time He perpetuates His agony and His Sacrifice in the death of the faithful! »

THE HEROIC VIRTUES OF JOHN PAUL II? THEY ARE MOCKING US!

Our memorandum recapitulating the well-founded accusations against the so-called Servant of God, Karol Wojtyla, has not received the least response. To proclaim the heroic character of the virtues of John Paul II without knowing the objections brought against his possession of the virtues of faith, hope and charity constitutes a lie by omission.

THE PSALMS, INSPIRED PRAYER - PSALM 18: APOCALYPSE

This psalm recapitulates the divine revelation in its entirety and completes the first booklet or “first volume” of the Psalmist’s work. It ends with an oracle of thanksgiving to God, affirming that David is the figure of the Messiah who is to come to deliver us from the snares of Hell.

THE STORY OF JOSEPH, FIGURE OF REDEMPTION
Commentary on the Oratorio of Brother Henry of the Cross

Holy Scripture is « inspired poetics », explains the Abbé de Nantes. In order to taste this poetry, one has only to set it to music. We are thus going to listen to Brother Henry commenting for us the THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH, son of Jacob, told in the Book of Genesis.

WE ARE ALL… ANGLICANS !

The Council posed as the prosecutor, the accuser, or at least the caustic critic of the Church counted on a permanent reform that would improve her in the eyes of the world. The Council has forced the Church to descended incrementally so far from her original lofty position that she will end up converting in order to become Anglican or to merge with this “Church” that is so close, that it will no longer surprise anyone.

THE LAST EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA AND THE QUEEN OF PEACE

On 21 November 1916 he inaugurated his reign of barely two years, mingled with the agony of the Great War and brutally interrupted by revolution. Charles of Austria was not from “our side,” he was not favoured with any revelation, but he is now Blessed. Jean Sévillia has just devoted a fascinating work to him.

13 MAY 1983 : SECOND APPEAL TO ROME

The approach that the Abbé de Nantes undertook on 13 May 1983 was dictated by the coercive force of faith and reason; its aim was to prevail upon H. H. John Paul II to judge Karol Wojtyla on the basis of the accusations contained in the Liber Accusationis Secundus.

THE CAPITAL CHARGE AGAINST JOHN PAUL II

Struck by the extraordinary importance of the Liber Accusationis Secundus, let us open the book, since, as we shall see, it bears witness to both the indefectible attachment of the Church to the infallible Truth and her fidelity to her only Bridegroom and Lord, Jesus Christ.

KAROL WOJTYLA, A CONSUMMATE ACTOR

Our one-show actors had us attend the pre-trial investigation of the cause for the beatification of John Paul II, such as it will unfold at the renaissance of the Church. The Polish pope’s close friend, Mieczyslaw Malinski testifies with unconditional enthusiasm in favour of the Servant of God before the Promoter of the Faith, who does not hesitate to raise serious objections…

TOMORROW, VATICAN III ! ANTIDOTE

What will the Third Vatican Council of our hope do? In it, the Fathers will examine our times in the light of the Gospel and of holy Tradition in order to determine what is appropriate and what is alien to them. The Holy Spirit will be there to help them to express the unchangeable doctrine in a manner that responds, not to the demands, but to the needs of the time.

JOHN PAUL II, THE POPE OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN

It was under these strange titles: Pope of the dissidents, Pope of human rights that the press hailed Karol Wojtyla’s election. This reputation was not overrated. John Paul II’s pontificate would reveal that this combat in favour of the rights of man was not secondary but of paramount importance, and it had serious consequences for the Church and Christianity.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA CAMP 2009: THE CHURCH BEDEVILLED
BY THE GREAT APOSTASY (1978-1988) I. POPE JOHN PAUL I

Last year we studied the post-conciliar period from 1966 to 1978, during which time the Church was « attacked from all sides ». We have now come to 1978, the year when Albino Cardinal Luciani was almost unanimously elected to the sovereign pontificate on 26 August and took the name of John Paul I.

PILGRIMAGE TO TURIN

« I am looking for Veronicas to wipe and adore My Divine Face. » These are words that Our Lord said to Sr. Marie de Saint-Pierre. Why? Because ungrateful men have never ceased sullying the Holy Face throughout the centuries with their blasphemies, which are like so much spittle. Since the Revolution the Devil has broken loose.

HOLY SHROUD: PILGRIMAGE OF REPARATION AND CONSOLATION

Since it is the “medieval dating” that is “fake”, the Holy Shroud is true. This is why it will be the object of a new exhibition next spring. It will be a premiere, for, since 2002, the Holy Shroud resembles more what Peter and John discovered in the empty tomb than what we contemplated in 1998.

TOO LATE, YOUR EMINENCE!

The prospect of the conversations that will begin in Rome in mid-October between Vatican Authorities and the Fraternity of Saint Pius X dominates religious news. Cardinal SCHÖNBORN, Archbishop of Vienna, wanted to set the tone... The manoeuvre is the same as in 1993.

THE MYSTICAL PAGES OF A « GREAT WRITER »

Far from being an escape into the intemporal, these pages constitute a veritable harmonic of the Church’s struggles, her concerns, and the ills she suffered during the years from the immediate post-Council to the death of Paul VI.

MYSTICAL AESTHETICS

In French, the word for “error” rhymes with “ugliness”, and “truth” rhymes with “beauty”. Where shall we discover the sense of beauty? Along the way that leads from the gracious beauty of created beings to the all gracious goodness of God, of which created beauty is the sign...

GAUDIUM ET SPES: The fostering of peace and the promotion of a community of nations

The “divine politics” whereby peace was entrusted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a mystery that we must have in mind as we continue reading GAUDIUM ET SPES. Its chapter five is a kind of insolent retort to St. Pius X’s Letter on the Sillon.

LETTER ON THE SILLON (3)

« What are we to think of this appeal to all the heterodox, and to all the unbelievers, to prove the excellence of their convictions in the social sphere in a sort of apologetic contest... What are we to think of this respect for all errors, and of this strange invitation made by a Catholic to all the dissidents to strengthen their convictions through study so that they may have more and more abundant sources of fresh forces? »

GAUIUM ET SPES : THE LIFE OF THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY

This conciliar text is the perfect expression of the betrayal that the liberals have perpetrated in the very bosom of the Church of Jesus Christ. They opened the doors of the holy City to the “ENLIGHTENMENT”, under the pretext of “opening to the world”, “dialogue”, and the “search” for the truth in common with men of all beliefs, and universal reconciliation.

LETTER ON THE SILLON (2)

In the second part of his Apostolic letter, St. Pius X expounds the Sillon’s doctrinal errors that sow erroneous and fatal notions on authority, liberty and obedience, among Catholic youth, while at the same time instilling distrust of the Church. At the root of all their fallacies on social questions, lie the false hopes of Sillonists on human dignity.

JOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS

One day, our Father told us that he had had a dream. It was at the end of the Council, when he was publicly opposing the texts that were being promulgated. He was laying the blame on the Pope, on 2,400 bishops, and on the thousands of theologians and periti who were assisting them. He said so; he published it. Now one night…

DID SAINT MARY MAGDALENE COME TO PROVENCE? (2)

Is the tradition of the apostolate in Provence of the “saints of Bethany” well established? The question is important – not for our well-grounded faith in the holy Gospels, but for our understanding of the divine orthodromy and for our devotion.

From Paul VI to Benedict XVI
CARITAS IN VERITATE, POPULORUM PROGRESSIO II

The encyclical confirms the diagnostic of the theologian of the Catholic-Counter Reformation concerning the dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium: it would seem that the Church is contributing her spiritual supplement, her finishing touch to a universal Babel that has already been built.

THE TRUTH IS OURS!

Brother Thomas’ article on St. Thomas in China gave rise to a friend’s reflexions. We publish extensive excerpts. Our Father has always taught that faith and science go hand in hand: we must therefore continue to study the scientific bases of the traditions of these Apostolic Churches.

KERYGMATIC THEOLOGY : THE MYSTERY OF JESUS

The only means to save the Church is to re-examine the central issue of man’s destiny and of the eternal Mystery of Jesus in all its components, and to give it a completely satisfactory solution to which all minds may adhere. Only kerygmatic theology can achieve this aim.

RECONCILIATION – THE LESSON OF THE CHURCH’S GREAT CRISES

In the mid-70s, the Abbé de Nantes foresaw that the triumph of the Faith would necessarily begin with reconciliation among Catholics. He did not content himself with foreseeing; he wished already to make provisions for this reconciliation by taking advantage of all the opportunities to specify the conditions for it.

TO SURMOUNT THE CRISIS

The “social” encyclical that was announced for Easter 2007, the fortieth anniversary of Populorum Progressio, has finally come out. The failing of Benedict XVI is being convinced that the social question and social science did not arise only yesterday…

DID SAINT MARY MAGDALENE COME TO PROVENCE?

It is fashionable today, to doubt the authenticity of the relics of St. Mary Magdalene, to lower the crypt of St. Maximinus to the rank of mere anonymous antiquities, and to muse upon the naivety of those who still believe in the Provençal legend about Mary Magdalene. Yet the supporters of this venerable tradition’s authenticity are not giving up, far from it.

THE COUNCIL, ALTHOUGH A HAPPINESS-MERCHANT,
HAS CAUSED THE MISFORTUNE OF PEOPLES

The world-wide financial, economic, and social “crisis” into which the planet is sinking, makes it our urgent duty to continue reading and commenting on Gaudium et Spes’s third chapter, i.e., from the point where the Abbé de Nantes had left off.

THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF SAINT PIUS X : LETTER ON THE SILLON (1)

With the publication of Benedict XVI’s social encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” it seems opportune to republish St. Pius X’s luminous document in which he expounded his social doctrine. It can serve as a counterpoint not only to the sections of Gaudium et Spes on social questions but to the encyclical itself.

AN URGENT TASK

To read the “Auto-da-fe” brings immense sorrow for Holy Church, the Church of the martyrs, the Spouse of Him who said: « Without Me, you can do nothing », but also a great joy for the honour of Our Lord and the Church of the Counter-Reformation, which is thus rehabilitated, avenged: “Gaudium de veritate”.

« STRIKE THE HEAD! »

« To resist the Pope out of obedience to God », this is indeed a principle that our Father has often been criticised for applying: is it not precisely the principle and foundation of reform, of revolt, of anarchy in the Church? On the basis of what authority does the Abbé de Nantes not pay heed to the will of the Pope, which is, he is told, that of God? How dare he judge the Pope and write that « the evil has risen to the Head » ?

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.

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.

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.

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.