Otherwise, bankruptcy in three years
Cincinnati "archdiocese" needs cash
"Money is so tight at the Archdiocese of Cincinnati that the central office is now taking a bigger share of donations from its parishes' Sunday collection plates. Church officials also are considering cutting staff - through attrition and, possibly, layoffs - and are pushing parishes to repay tens of millions of dollars in outstanding loans from the archdiocese."

 VIDEO
Suddenly,  the Latin Mass is making news
This report from a St. Louis television station centers on "approved" Masses, but also supplies some historical information, including Paul VI establishing the Novus Ordo Missae, along with some footage of John Paul II looking distinctly unpapal and undignified, as only he could do!

"Communism is dead" update
China steps up persecution of Christians

At least someone's putting them to use
Protestant congregations eyeing vacant Catholic church properties
"The Rev. Cecilio Perez says a prayer every time the telephone rings. He is waiting to hear whether his offer to buy one of the city's closed Catholic churches has been accepted.

"'God has blessed the church with a growing membership, and we need to make it comfortable for our elderly members,' said Perez, pastor of Assembly of God Church on Vine Street. He is one of several Protestant ministers eyeing, or buying, area Catholic churches."

In a land dedicated to religious indifferentism...
Taking an oath on Koran should be okay
Black Muslim Keith Ellison, the newly-elected Congressman from Minnesota, is a fallen away Catholic. Despite this, on Dec. 27th he was invited to speak at Detroit's Holy Redeemer [Novus Ordo] Catholic Church--what a surprise--to defend swearing his oath of office as a Mohammedan (see MOSES interfaith group section).
 

Church betrayal revisited
Pope visits India December 1964

Invisibilism
"If Modernism is "the synthesis of all heresies," then Invisibilism is 'the heresy behind all heresies' for the visible Church, as She was for nearly 2000 years, is no longer visible to the vast majority. In her stead has come the eclipse by the conciliar church of Her infrangible dogmas and doctrines, not to mention the very essence of Catholic worship - the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Thanks to the heresy of Invisibilism these have been slowly, and not so slowly, but surely erased from the memories of several generations...."
 

Guess who's upset?
English church criticized after replacing live Christmas crib with replica of Israeli security wall
"An Israeli-born woman who lives in St Ives has accused a local Catholic church of being politically biased after it put up a replica of an Israeli security wall in the Holy City of Bethlehem. The Sacred Heart Catholic church in Needingworth Road, St Ives, cancelled its annual live crib and replaced it with a replica portion of the 30ft concrete wall built by Israel around the city." I

As a tyrant was marched to the gallows
Modernist Vatican wanted Saddam spared death penalty
"Cardinal Renato Martino, Pope Benedict XVI's top prelate for justice issues and a former Vatican envoy to the United Nations, said that Saddam [Hussein]'s execution would punish 'a crime with another crime' and expressed hope that the sentence would not be carried out....'The death penalty is not a natural death. And no one can give death, not even the State,' he said."

NOW Comments:  It bears repeating that what Martino is saying is diametrically opposed to what the Catholic Church has always taught about capital punishment, which is that provided that the sentence is a just one, the State most certainly does have the right to take the life of a criminal and, so, in carrying out the sentence it is in no way punishing "a crime with another crime." This does not preclude, of course, the State from using other forms of punishment short of a death sentence or granting clemency in certain cases, but to pretend that there is something intrinsically wrong or evil about the such a penalty flies in the face of true Catholic teaching on the subject. To cite an authoritative source:

Q. Are there cases in which it is lawful to kill?

A. It is lawful to kill when fighting in a just war; when carrying out by order of the Supreme Authority a sentence of death in punishment of a crime; and, finally, in cases of necessary and lawful defense of one's own life against an unjust aggressor.

—from The Catechism of St. Pius X  

For an in-depth examination of the issue, also see: A Matter of Justice: the Catholic Church on Capital Punishment

 VIDEO
Homosexual infiltration of the Catholic Church
Fr. John O'Connor, the Dominican who passed away earlier this month [R.I.P.], masterfully exposes the subversion of the Church by sodomites in this two-part video. While we cannot agree with some of his conclusions regarding the Novus Ordo church (especially his failure to speak out against John Paul II, who appointed as "bishops" many of the culprits either actively or passively responsible for the infiltration), we do believe that Fr. O'Connor still had a fundamentally Catholic outlook.  

Baiting the trap
Fellay in Argentina: "already signed"
The Society of St. Pius X's most prominent bishop in talks with Modernist Rome announces that a motu proprio for the so-called universal indult for priests to have "total freedom" to say the Tridentine Mass at any time in any diocese (so long as the local "bishop" doesn't have a prohibition in writing) has already been signed and but apparently is stuck in bureaucratic limbo. 

NEWS FLASH: Bishop unearths a sin...
Smoking ban for Evansville "diocese"

But even worse is the spiritual embezzling going on!
85 percent of U.S. "dioceses" report embezzling
"Sacred Heart parishioners and residents of Bath, Pa., were shocked last month when Elizabeth Fields, mayor of the tiny borough, was charged with stealing about $10,000 from the church’s Sunday collections. Fields was secretly videotaped in the parish rectory as she allegedly altered the collection tally sheets so the funds she pocketed would not be seen as a shortfall."

Related article: Novus Ordo "dioceses" have embezzlement problem
 

  AUDIO  Wielgus called "one of the most important collaborators"
Gazeta Polska: Glemp sucessor a former Communist spy
"Investigative journalists from the Gazeta Polska weekly have found documents from the communist archives, according to which the newly appointed archbishop metropolitan of Warsaw, Stanisław Wielgus, collaborated with the communist secret services for over 20 years, informing them about the activities of the Catholic Church in Communist Poland....

"Gazeta Polska writes that the archbishop's cooperation went uninterrupted until the beginning of the 1990s when the communist services ceased to exist. He never changed his mind about what he was doing, even after a series of brutal murders by the communist regime on priests, says Gazeta Polska."


Related Article: Controversy over "Archbishop" Wielgus still boiling

Reality Check
"Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, philosophy professor and widow of the renowned philosopher and anti-Nazi activist, Dietrich von Hildebrand, has said that Americans are 'naïve' to think that Soviet agents, whose intention was to undermine the then-powerful political influence of the Catholic Church, would have passed over the Catholic seminaries.

"Von Hildebrand cites the voluminous Senate committee testimony of former Communist Party organizer and high Party official, Bella Dodd who revealed that the Catholic priesthood in the US and other western countries had been heavily infiltrated by communist agents whose mission it was, she said, 'to destroy the Catholic Church from within.' Dodd predicted changes in the Church that would be so drastic that 'you will not recognize the Catholic Church.'"

Source:  Polish Catholics call on priests who spied for Communists to come clean and resign

But don't worry, it's still a "house of worship"
Former Catholic church sold, to be turned into mosque
"It will still be a house of worship. That's something that was important to Lokman Yanbul and Catholic parishioners regarding the former St Matthew Church in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts.

"The 142-year-old colonial church and the rectory next door were sold for $150,000 in October to the Turkish-American Islamic Society Inc., which plans to convert the church into a mosque...."
 

Traditional Catholicism 101: A Brief Primer

Policy needed because they're a Hanukkah-friendly place!
Florida Conciliar "sisters" ban Christ-centered Christmas gifts at hospital
"'Yes, we were founded by Catholic sisters, but we serve everybody in our community,' said Sister Pat Shirley, a Franciscan nun and the hospital's vice president of missions. 'We have to create an environment in which all feel comfortable, whether it be Christmas or Hanukkah or Gasparilla or any circumstance.'"

"Bishops" respond: "We have no king but Caesar!"
Lawmakers propose making Jesus honorary king of Poland
"Backing from the church in this strongly Catholic country would be crucial for building support for the proposal, but on Wednesday several bishops criticized it, and said parliament should stay out of religious affairs."

REALITY CHECK

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony. Our Lord's regal office invests the human authority of princes and rulers with a religious significance; it ennobles the citizen's duty of obedience.

— Pope Pius XI,  Encyclical Quas Primas (1925)

Comments from the Christ or Chaos site on the Polish "bishops'" errors: Betraying the Faith quite directly

...including her "Catholic" enemies
Three reasons the Church's enemies hate the Immaculate Conception

The enemies
As we prepare for the Centennial Year of the great Pascendi, let us heed the warnings of Pope Saint Pius X.
 

Mission: "spread de-christianization by confusing the rites..."
Was the "Architect of the New Mass"a Freemason?
"In June of 1992, 30 Dias magazine featured an article on the influence of Freemasonry in the Liturgical Reform of Paul VI. The magazine tries to save John XXIII and Paul VI from responsibility for the damage caused by the reform by putting the blame on Msgr. Annibale Bugnini."

For a more detailed examination of the subject, see The Bugnini File: A Study in Ecclesial Subversion

Chancery files taken by police reveal
Toledo "diocese" paid for abortions
"Officially, Sergeant Forrester said the privileged files involved cases of sexual abuse of children by priests. Off the record, a number of insiders, including a diocesan priest, said the files contained reports of abortions paid for by the diocese."

Christ or Chaos says...
Thank you, John Paul II
"This is very important to remember. All of the efforts to get the conciliar bishops to stop doing what they are supposed to be doing as a result of their being part and parcel of the conciliar revolution are bound to fail. These men are doing what the men (Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI) have wanted them to do. The conciliar bishops have been given carte blanche to supervise the ongoing revolution as they see fit, knowing that the novelty of episcopal collegiality will leave them in power, if not actually get them a nice promotion, over the course of time no matter what they say or do that might offend pious ears and actually be, shall we say, in overt conflict with the Deposit of Faith."
 

A new book from the U.K.
"No Crisis in The Church?"
"Many who are concerned today about the state of the Catholic Church point to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). For some the Council represents 'a Second Pentecost'; to others, however, it represents 'a Second Crucifixion.' For the former the latter are dissident, disobedient and even schismatic; for the latter the former are modernist, heretical and even apostate. How is it possible that a Church Council could provoke such turmoil and such profound hostility amongst the faithful? Is it a matter of misunderstanding? Is it a matter of interpretation? Or is it a question of Dogma misrepresented and and distorted?"

Italian political party petitions for Latin Mass
"Italy’s National Alliance party is leading a petition drive among Catholics in the Liguria region, asking the bishops there to allow at least one Sunday Mass each week celebrated in the Tridentine rite."

 MOVIE REVIEW  No wonder the Vatican likes it!
Don’t watch Protestant Nativity Story
"Plainly said, the movie is a Protestant rendition of the birth of Christ, and should be strongly rejected by Catholics. Once we could have expected the Vatican to alert the faithful not to view this heretical display. Priests would have issued warnings in their diocesan papers or from the pulpits: 'Parents, don’t take your children to this movie so they won’t become confused. Instead, protest strongly against it.'"

"Instead, [T]he [Modernist] Vatican held its first-ever hosting of a movie for The Nativity Story on November 26. An audience of seven thousand – cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and selected Catholics – attended the showing.. .."
 

He's at it again!
Benedict XVI's worst heresy?
Benedict XVI, Joint Declaration with Schismatic Patriarch Bartholomew, Nov. 30, 2006: “This fraternal encounter which brings us together, Pope Benedict XVI of Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, is God's work, and in a certain sense his gift.  We give thanks to the Author of all that is good, who allows us once again, in prayer and in dialogue, to express the joy we feel as brothers and to renew our commitment to move towards full communion. This commitment comes from the Lord's will and from our responsibility as Pastors in the Church of Christ…."

Notorious abortionist hopes to seize home of pro-life family of 13

Anti-Christian campaign in Canada
Jewish judge orders Christmas Tree out of lobby
"A Toronto judge has ordered a Christmas tree out of a downtown provincial courthouse lobby, saying it's not an appropriate symbol to non-Christians."

"New Springtime" update in Australia
Findings to help "bishops" address "Mass" attendance
"They [reasons for decreased attendance] included a perceived irrelevance of the Church to modern life, the quality of homilies, inter-personal problems with a parish priest, problems with Church teachings or personal faith, and disillusionment in the wake of sexual scandals."

NOW Comments: Wait, wasn't Vatican II supposedly all about relevance of the Church to modern life? Ha, the aggiornamento church isn’t updated enough!! Precisely by trying to make the Church “relevant” to modern man was an utterly irrelevant Novus Ordo religion spawned! Of course, the real Catholic Church, while never buying into the Modernist "embrace the Zeitgeist" error, has always been relevant and, in fact, the most relevant institution in every age of its existence— at the center of which has always been the real Mass, the ever-relevant Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, instead of the irrelevant counterfeit "new Mass" of Paul VI.

Related Article
Catholics cite scandals for Mass decline
"Attendance has been falling in all age groups under 75 but, worryingly for the Church, it has identified up to 60,000 young Catholics between the 1991 and 2001 censuses who no longer identified themselves as such."
 

Archaeologists unearth St. Paul's tomb

What's that rumble? ...St. Francis rolling in his tomb!
Charismatic heretics hit it off: Benny Hinn meets "papal" preacher Cantalemessa
"Capuchin" disappointed because he couldn't get a seat at Benny's packed arena "crusade" in once-Catholic Rome.
 

Benedict XVI praying in the Mosque
Note: A new video link has been added to our report below, replacing the CBS report that changed unexpectedly to another story on the CBS website (reminding us once again that even big networks are capable of glitches from time to time), after we had uploaded. The new link is from Associated Press and actually turns out to be much better in showing the apostasy than what CBS has produced. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Background: Exposing the subversion of the Church
What Vatican II should have done!

"Many among the Clergy do not discern the errors of the Revolution anymore, and do not resist them. Others love the Revolution as an ideal cause, they propagate it, collaborate with it, they persecute and speak evil of the adversaries of the revolution, and hinder their apostolate. Very many pastors keep silent. Others assimilate the errors and spirit of the revolution and encourage this spirit openly or covertly, in the same way as the pastors did in the time of Jansenism. Those who fight against the errors suffer persecution from their colleagues, and are labeled 'integrists'."

— Bishop Gerald Sigaud
 

  More scandal, indignity, grave errors from Novus Ordo "religious orders" 

Hey, look at me, I'm an anti-missionary "missionary" in a goofy hat!
He attacks the traditional concept of mission as "an unworthy competition for souls,"  a vicious slur in keeping with the post-Vatican II policy of "no proselytism," which is based on the false premise that all religions are more or less good, all possess more or less of the truth and so all are alternate paths to God, that is, universal salvation.

Reality Check:
"Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned." — Mark 16: 15-16

CONDEMNED PROPOSITIONS:

15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.-- Allocution Maxima quidem, June 9, 1862; Damnatio Multiplices inter, June 10, 1851.

16. Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.-- Encyclical Qui pluribus, Nov. 9, 1846. —Venerable Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus of Errors

Related Stories:
Orders not obligated to name accused friars
"Diocese [of Wilmington, DE] officials said seven religious-order priests also have credible allegations against them. But [["Bishop" Michael] Saltarelli left it to the orders to release those names, saying in a letter that he would support them if they chose to do so."

Texas "Catholics" urged not to donate to "diocese"
"Files for the Rev. Joseph Tu Ngoc Nguyen, a Dominican order priest, remain sealed because he has appealed their release."

French "Benedictine" teaches Zen meditation
"I passed from a penitential and monastic vision of the body to a dynamic vision turned to enjoyment and exercise."

Former "Catholic" brother pleads guilty to raping two boys
"A former member of a Roman Catholic religious order has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and assaulting two young boys he counseled at a youth services center."

One of Mother Teresa's "nun"  beats a different drum

 Jewish split emerging on Pius XII sainthood
“'It is a fallacy to suggest that opening the archives would resolve the debate over Pius, since the difference between the two sides is subjective in nature,' [Rabbi David] Rosen remarked. 'Catholics look at the evidence and say, "Pius did everything he could do to save Jews". We see it differently and no amount of [new] evidence will change that.'"

For the wrong reason, of course!
French residents file lawsuit against city's JP2 statue
 

They're Conciliar "Catholics," too!
"Crypto-Jews' call New Mexico home
"The Rev. Bill Sanchez always felt Jewish, too. But not that Jewish; he's a Catholic priest."

Israeli PM urges Benedict to protest Holocaust denials
"Israel's prime minister asked Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday to urge Christians to protest Holocaust denials, Israeli government officials said. During their meeting at the Vatican, Benedict told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert he would consider the request, which followed an Iranian conference questioning the Nazi genocide against the Jews."

Related Stories:
World must never forget Holocaust, Modernist Vatican says
"Cardinal" condemns revisionist history of the Holocaust
Rabbis seek to excommunicate Jewish Holocaust revisionists
 

Vatican has no problem and is hosting world premiere
"Nativity's" Mary played by unwed, pregnant actress
"The teenage star of a film about the Nativity is missing its Vatican premiere because she is expecting a baby with her 19-year-old partner. New Zealander Keisha Castle-Hughes, 16, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Whale Rider, plays Mary....
"A member for the Papal Council for Culture said the actress was expected to play her part well, not be a saint. The actress, who is expecting a child in spring, said that she was 'thrilled' at the news and had made the film 'in a state of grace'."

NOW Comments: Prior to the Vatican II revolution an actor or actress would be expected to be living a decent life to play such a role or at least not be living publicly in sin, yet according to the film's director, Catherine Hardwicke: "The Vatican knew of Keisha's pregnancy from the start. And they know she's not married, that she's an actress playing Mary...." (Hardwicke also makes a ludicrous, near-blasphemous comparison between the circumstances surrounding Christ's birth and Castle-Hughes pregnancy.) That Castle-Hughes can speak of having made the film in a "state of grace," although she's not expressed the slightest public repentance for having committed the immoral act is an indictment both on her and the Novus Ordo church. In addition, there's not the slightest indication from her that she and her "partner" even intend to get married. Even if there wasn't this issue, The Nativity Story isn't a film we're all that eager to see because it isn't a Catholic film, but an ecumenical one (that is, one that's perfect for a premiere at the Modernist Vatican), as can be seen by learning the backgrounds of it's cast and crew (the second trailer for the film has the angel telling Mary that she's "highly favored" with God, as the Protestants distort the Gospel --not full of grace (Luke 1:28).

Sex, lies and sealed records in Fort Worth
More light on the sinister world of pedophile "priests"

Corrupting the young in Austria
Utter scandal in "diocese" of Linz
CD promoting immorality still available on-line on the Diocesan website. CAUTION! Link provided for information.
NOW Comments: The person running the blog is outraged over this, which is completely understandable, but then opines that if the "bishop" doesn't resign, "he should have a coadjutor appointed by Rome." Yeah, like that's going to happen, but even if "Pope" Ratzinger did so, it the result doubtless would be along lines of the unclean spirit mentioned by our Lord in scripture, who, having been cast out from a man and having wandered for a while, returns and "taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself...." (Matt. 12:45)

Novus Ordo Seclorum Update...
Kissinger to serve as Benedict XVI's adviser?
"Over the course of his long and controversial career, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has had many titles. Now he reportedly has one more — adviser to the Pope. According to the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Benedict XVI has invited the 83-year-old former adviser to Richard Nixon to be a political consultant, and Kissinger has accepted."

NOW Comments: Should this be confirmed, it will be but a continuation of a long-going move by Conciliar "popes" to legitimize the drive for world government and even to an extent merge the Vatican and other captive Catholic institutions into it. John XXIII warmly praised the United Nations in 1963 with Pacem in Terris, which was two years after he ignored a plea "to the moral conscience of the world" to denounce horrendous atrocities that were being committed by U.N. "peacekeeping" forces in the Congo. Paul VI took this a step further by addressing delegates at U.N. headquarters, where he spoke of the organization as "the world's greatest hope." (The late Fr. Francis Fenton, one of the great figures in the traditional movement, once responded to this quote by saying he thought the Catholic Church was the great hope of humanity!) John Paul II established formal Vatican-U.N. ties, and on more than one occasion used  new world order, the codeword for world government. And now Benedict XVI appears to have chosen someone who also is known to greatly desire a new order (the "old order" being, of course, Christian civilization).

“Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the world government.”

—Henry Kissinger (attributed, Bilderburg Conference 1991, Evian-les-Bains, France)

More of Henry Kissinger:
Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State
From rabbi's son (an appropriate choice for Rabbi Ratzinger!) to U.S. Secretary of State, foreign policy advisor and Nobel Prize winner, along the way Henry Kissinger also was identified as someone who while in Germany during World War II "worked for a Soviet intelligence network -- code name ODRA...." (see Chapter 11: "Moscow's Man in Washington?")

Henry Kissinger: This man is on the other side
"The New York Times Magazine of October 28, 1973, quotes him as remarking: 'The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.' These who take Kissinger's 'jokes' lightly do so at their own risk."
 

'Tis the Season—Novus Ordo Style
Wilmington bishop dedicates Advent season to sex abuse victims
"The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington has dedicated this year's Advent season to victims of clergy sexual abuse and their families, diocesan officials said Thursday."

Mahony: "It's a day of healing..."
Archdiocese to pay $60 million over sex-abuse cases
"The nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese said Friday it will pay $60 million to settle 45 sex abuse lawsuits, the largest payout yet by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and among the biggest resulting from the molestation crisis that's plagued the church.

"The cases were among more than 500 abuse claims pending against the Los Angeles Archdiocese. 'It's a day of healing and reconciliation as we move forward with these 45 cases,'" Cardinal Roger Mahony told The Associated Press. "'This is very special for these victims in their moment of healing."