Background to betrayal
Interview with the liturgical subversive who arranged John Paul II's pagan 'exorcism'
"While [Modernist Rome's ex-Master of Ceremonies Piero] Marini’s papal liturgies were always precise and deeply rooted in tradition [sic], he would occasionally push the envelope. It was Marini, for example, who allowed an indigenous Mexican shaman to exorcise John Paul II [see photo left and here] during the canonization Mass [sic] for Juan Diego in Mexico City in 2002, and who permitted scantily clad Pacific islanders to dance for the pope during the opening liturgy of the Synod for Oceania in St. Peter’s Basilica in 1998 -- both under the rubric of 'inculturation,' adapting the rites of the church to speak to the experience of local cultures. He also favors local decision-making over centralized Roman control. In fact, both of the envelope-pushing instances cited above originated with requests from local bishops." (More on the shaman affair here.)

NOW Comments: This is one of the more important interviews to surface in quite some time, as Marini, who began his career as personal secretary to the "architect of the New Mass" (accused Freemason) Annibale Bugnini, tells the leftist National Catholic Reporter [NCR] that the liturgical "reforms" of Vatican II are "irreversible," equating efforts to go back to an earlier liturgy with Lot's wife, who was turned into a pillar of salt for turning back to Sodom. Noting that he grew up with "the Mass of Pius V," he adds "I don’t have any nostalgia for this older rite" because it "had to be adapted to changing times."

Marini's departure as "Papal" Master of Ceremonies is seen as a reason to cheer by those who believe that "Pope" Ratzinger is making a change for the better ( that is, for Tradition). What they fail to recognize (or choose to ignore) is the fact that Piero Marini was Benedict XVI's emcee for nearly two-and-a-half years (pictured together below right) or that Benedict, far from showing any displeasure with Marini, named him President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, meaning that he will still have some input in liturgical matters, just not the liturgies of the "pope," which from now on are to take a more conservative style.

And the matter of the motu proprio on the 1962 missal came up in the NCR interview. Marini did not want to discuss it at any length and it's clear he would have gone a different route had it been his call, but he did emphasize a bitter truth that many traditionally-minded supporters of the motu simply don't want to hear:

"the pope himself wrote in the letter that accompanied the motu proprio that it takes nothing away from the authority of the Second Vatican Council. In the same way, the pope said that this is no way detracts from the validity of the liturgical reform. From my point of view, therefore, the motu proprio does not change the need to keep moving forward with renewal of the liturgy." 

Significantly, NCR chose to accompany the Marini interview with a strongly worded editorial reminding all who read it that the liturgical revolution was indeed a war against Tradition and that descendants of those 20th Century Luthers are, like Marini, bound and determined to prevent a restoration of the Faith:

"If liturgy has characteristically been below the radar for most Catholics, opponents of Vatican II knew from the outset that the one way to preserve Trent was to halt liturgical reform. To look back over the 42 years since the close of the council is to see that progress in the reform has been real but slow, and to admit that any awakening of Catholic laity to their full baptismal identity is still in the future. At the same time, those devoted at many levels to a pre-Vatican II model of the church have worked hard to bring down many aspects of liturgical reform. Frustrating the process of vernacular translations, crimping the rubrics for Mass to accentuate the ordained and, most recently, restoring the Tridentine rite, are among the more visible signs of successful retrenchment."

Full text here:
Liturgy reform: No going back

Book Review:
Piero Marini's A Challenging Reform

Vatican denies exorcist expansion
"The Vatican is denying reports it plans to install more exorcists around the world so possessed people can get help quickly. 'Pope Benedict XVI has no intention of ordering local bishops to bring in garrisons of exorcists to fight demonic possession,'' Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters in Rome Friday."

Humanistic death mongers
The Global Warming suicide cult
"The Global Warming movement has been compared to a religion -- albeit one without God, but with a vision of sin and repentance, damnation and salvation. Not quite.  Real religion is about improving the human condition by encouraging moral conduct in obedience to the will of God. The proponents of Global Warming are creating a suicide cult, which -- if followed to its logical conclusion -- will lead to human extinction."

Abortuary worker: "He got what he deserved!"
Blood-crazed abortion supporter nearly kills elderly defender of the unborn
"At 6:30 am on Saturday, December 22, while most were snug in bed, resting up for Christmas activities, veteran pro-lifer Ed Snell was arriving at Hillcrest Abortion Center, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.…As Ed stood on his platform that morning, a man and woman exited a car in the parking lot and proceeded towards that door of the abortion mill.  When Mr. Snell tried to counsel the woman, his words were cut short when the man became furious, jumped the fence and, in the words of [a witness], 'leaped on the vehicle with Ed and catapulted him off of the vehicle and onto the ground.' Mr. Snell hit his back and head on the pavement and was knocked unconscious."

A disturbing track record
The legacy of Judas: National Right to Life's betrayal of the unborn
"In 1981, after President Ronald Reagan agreed he would sign federal personhood legislation for the unborn, National Right to Life and their longtime attorney James Bopp actually opposed that effort claiming they supported a states' rights approach. Move forward in time a quarter century to today. Notice that NRTL and Bopp have long opposed all state personhood efforts. Demonstrated below, NRTL has continuously promoted legislation that undermines the personhood of an innocent child. In betrayal, NRTL quietly worked to oppose South Dakota's recent abortion ban referendum.…"

Related story: New group challenges National Right to Life

St. Paul's Outside the Walls to Outside the Church
Papal basilica to open 'ecumenical' chapel
"An ecumenical chapel at St. Paul's Outside the Walls is one of the first initiatives of the upcoming Pauline year. Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica, announced plans for the chapel in an interview with L'Osservatore Romano."

 VIDEO
Communist and Freemasonic infiltration of the Catholic Church (Part 1of 9)

New lectionary illustration deemed 'courageous initiative'
A test of courage: Have the Nativity painted by an abstract artist
"The Italian bishops' conference has entrusted the illustration of the new Lectionary to thirty contemporary artists, with their styles. It's the first time that a liturgical book has been associated with modern images. An audacious undertaking – and one immediately criticized."

 'The 'Hanukkah, Christmas & Hajj Festival'
Maryand Novus Ordo church joins Jews, Muslims, Protestants in interfaith 'holiday' dinner
"The first interfaith dinner was held last year during the holiday season with nearly 100 members from the Islamic Society of Frederick and two Jewish congregations — Congregation Kol Ami and Beth Sholom. This year, five Christian communities were invited to participate in the event — United Church of Christ, Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, Unity Church, Frederick Interfaith and Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick.

Ferrara's 'Modernist termite' at it again
Kasper presides over Methodist event
"Cardinal Walter Kasper led an anniversary celebration Dec. 3, marking the birth of Charles Wesley (1707-1788), one of the initiators of the Methodist congregation. The ecumenical event was organized by the World Methodist Council and held at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. It was attended by the highest Methodist leaders and the Anglican Communion."

'New' as in Modernist
Vatican gives Nativity scene a 'new look'
"This year's Nativity scene [at the Vatican--NOW] will be unlike any other. Instead of the traditional depiction of a stable in Bethlehem, on-lookers might soon find the Baby Jesus born in Joseph's Nazareth workshop. The State Department of the Vatican announced the transformation in setting and location, citing the need for 'a change' and a desire to crack down on the various 'fanciful Nativity scenes' as their reasoning, the London Daily Telegraph reported."

NOW Comments: Considering some of the major doctrinal scandals that have come forth from the post-conciliar Vatican, for many observers this may seem a mere trifle by comparison, however, that is a mistaken view. True, it may not have the shock value of Benedict XVI praying like a Muslim at Turkey's Blue Mosque or John Paul II telling voodoo witchdoctors in Benin that their religion and his can mutually enrich each other. The new Nativity scene came about, stated a spokesman for Benedict in the textbook Modernist jargon, because a change was needed, yet the change is one that reflects falsified translation of the Gospel of Matthew and openly contradicts the Gospel of Luke, which does not state that Christ was born at St. Joseph's home, but at a stable in Bethlehem "because there was no room for them in the inn."  And St. Luke is very explicit as to why the Holy Family was in Bethlehem and that to enroll in a census decreed by the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. So, this move by Modernist Rome is putting two Gospels at odds with each other, thus throwing into doubt the Divine inspiration of scripture. Thus, this Christmas innovation ironically is as fanciful in its way as any of those upon which "Pope" Ratzinger and company are supposedly cracking down. And according to a well-placed Zenit columnist in Rome, this Modernist so-called "Nativity scene" is "very much of Joseph Ratzinger." That we can well believe!

The aftermath of 144 sexual abuse claims
San Diego's Novus Ordo 'diocese' sells land to settlement
"San Diego's Roman Catholic diocese is selling land once set aside for a new school campus in order to pay for its share of a $198 million settlement with victims of sexual abuse by clergy."

A Catholic oasis in the Modernist desert
Mother Cabrini's shrine: A pictorial essay

Niederauer: Bay area's 'moral compass' without a needle
San Francisco 'Archbishop' speaks on political participation
"Using the 'high level of political consciousness and energy' in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as a kind of backdrop, Archbishop George H. Niederauer issued a pastoral letter on the role of the church in the political arena."

NOW Comments: Please excuse us for being less than enthusiastic about Niederauer's posturing as a shepherd of souls, but we just have a little trouble getting these images out of mind. Two months later and he's still Benedict XVI's man in what some claim has a higher percentage of sodomites than any other city on earth.

Let's just say the water there won't be holy
Irish 'Jesuits'' sale of church will turn it into: tavern? traditional Mass center? swimming pool?

Contradicts police report
'Priest' pleads innocent to jogging nude
"The Rev. Robert Whipkey entered his plea to the indecent exposure charges this week, disputing a police officer's allegation that he was found completely in the buff on a Frederick city street early one morning, Denver's KMGH-TV reported Wednesday."

Holiday card from Modernist Rome

He was knowingly allowed to prey on boys
Fort Worth 'diocese' reaches settlement with priest's accusers
"Three alleged victims of convicted child molester the Rev. Thomas Teczar have reached an out-of-court settlement with the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese. But their lawyer, Tahira Khan Merritt of Dallas, says she's prepared to go to trial for a fourth man who says he was abused by Teczar and another priest, the Rev. James Hanlon, who died in 1990."
 

Related article:
Press release - Blinded by faith? Long-secret documents reveal Fort Worth bishop was aware of priest's troubled past

Background  VIDEO :
1998 TV news report on allegations against Teczar (Warning: Disturbing content and brief immodesty ) 

The latest in Novus Ordo 'relics'?
"I wanted to let you know that 'Ma' has arrived here safe and sound! You were right.....she IS a beauty!!" (Should such "relics" ever become available for, say, John Paul II or Mother Teresa, here's proof that the minimum donation won't be cheap.)

Liturgical travesty du jour

'historic encounter'
'New Mass' and Japanese tea ceremony meet
"Grand Master Jimyosai performs the tea ceremony at many religious places, such as Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, but this was the first time he had done so at a Catholic Mass. He used a new tea bowl marked with a silver cross. The tea ceremony followed the homily."

USCCB reviewer caught okaying another film celebrating homosexual immorality
"Harry Forbes, director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Office of Film and Broadcasting, has given a positive review to the homosexually-themed 'Rent.' Forbes, whose initial positive review of 'Brokeback Mountain' two years' ago was subsequently modified by the USCCB, became the center of controversy earlier this month after the USCCB withdrew his positive review of 'The Golden Compass.'"

For 1980 ritualistic murder of nun
Ohio prosecutors file brief against overturning conviction of priest
"The Lucas County Prosecutor's Office filed an 80-page brief yesterday detailing its reasons why Toledo priest Gerald Robinson's murder conviction should not be overturned. Robinson was convicted in May, 2006, for the 1980 murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, a 71-year-old Catholic nun who was strangled nearly to death, then stabbed 31 times."

Related links:
'Sacrilege: Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church'
Also see NOW's coverage in the November 2007 archive

The same reason Niederauer is still running things in San Francisco. He fits their plans!
Why is 'Cardinal' Kasper still in charge of anything at the Vatican?
"In a recent undated report by The Catholic Herald online, we learn that Cardinal Walter Kasper, the modernist termite who still holds the position of head of the Pontifical Council for “Christian Unity” (PCCU) is opposed to the idea 'that a breakaway group of Anglicans might be received into the Catholic Church en masse,' and that he opposes it 'despite Benedict XVI’s personal support for such a move.'”

NOW Comments: Can't mistake a Chris Ferrara article. He loves to throw the word "termite" around. Keep one thing in mind, however: When he uses it, it's just a lawyer word that can mean anything or can mean nothing. It's very pliable, like verbal Playdough. Pretty strong-sounding expression, "modernist termite," isn't it? That's something you'd expect from a real traditional Catholic. Trouble is that in this context it's coming from a sham traditionalist. Before you brand us as being harsh, consider a couple of things. First, when you read the context above, it seems that Kasper is being racked over Ferrara's prosecutorial coals for opposing the position of the "cardinal's" good friend, Benedict XVI, as to Anglicans joining the Novus Ordo sect. It would seem, then, that the modernist termite Kasper, is tearing down what the "Catholic pontiff" Benedict is attempting to build up. Well, that sounds familiar.…

And so it should, for nearly three years ago, in February, 2005, the same Chris Ferrara made an similar observation about another notorious "cardinal":

"More and more it becomes apparent that this man is perhaps the most industrious ecclesial termite of the post-conciliar epoch, tearing down even as he makes busy with the appearance of building up. The longer Ratzinger 'guards' Catholic doctrine, the more porous the barriers that protect it become." (emphasis added throughout)

Hundreds join wacky 'Franciscan's' hunger strike for threatened river
"Hundreds of protestors have come out in force to support a Brazilian Bishop's hunger strike to stop the environmentally destructive diversion of the country’s fourth largest river."

A 'serial predator' of young boys
Church attorney admits in court that 'priest' was molester
"An attorney for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis acknowledged in court Monday that one of its priests 'was a child molester and serial predator' of young boys."

Led by Notre Dame Modernist Fr. Richard McBrien's TV interview
Bobby Schindler reveals shocking support by 'Catholic' clergy for sister's euthanasia killing
"Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, the young woman who was dehydrated to death in Florida in 2005, has become a prominent opponent of euthanasia since that wrenching time for his family. In a recent Challenge magazine interview with Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Schindler revealed the shocking details of the support from many prominent Catholic clergy for the court ordered removal of food and hydration from Terri. Bobby is a practicing Catholic as was his sister."

Related Link:
Hospice Patients website: Terri Schindler Schiavo page

This is meant tongue in cheek, right?!
Vatican strongly affirms Church's duty to faith
"Acknowledging 'a growing confusion about the Church's missionary mandate,' the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has released an important 19-page document strongly defending the right and duty of all Catholics to spread the faith."

NOW Comments: Growing confusion? Couldn't guess where that's coming from, can you? Maybe Ratzinger's Mad Tea Party known as Vatican II? Yes, there you go. And now this great concern forty plus years after the fact. What's behind it. Well, nearly all genuinely Catholic missionary efforts were successfully smothered as a result of the novel ideas that took hold after the Council about how all religions are true in their own ways, so converting their adherents is not only regarded as unnecessary, but even rude and intolerant. (The only true missionary activity of note today comes from traditional Catholics.) So, again, why the fuss now about getting missions up and running again. Sadly, it's because after the counterfeit faith supplanted the true Faith in tens of thousands of once-Catholic churches around the world, it has been deemed the appropriate time "to share the full and abundant means of salvation" with others; not, mind you, the only means of salvation, for that would be to deny the Modernist "truth" that all false religions have at least partial mean of salvation. (It's like equating a fast food takeout order and a well-balanced, fully nutritious meal.) 

Up to 100,000 pages of church documents
Providence, RI: More abuse files open
"[Rev. Roland] Lepire was a few years out of the seminary and the assistant pastor at St. Aloysius in Woonsocket in 1979 when a mother reported in an affidavit that her son was groped by the priest.…The mother said that she brought her son to the Woonsocket police station, where the boy was questioned; the police said that they believed him and that they would be in touch. A few days later, the mother said in her affidavit, a Woonsocket police detective came to her house.

"'He said the bishop [at that time Bishop Louis Gelineau] would like my permission to handle this situation,' said the mother in her affidavit. '.…According to the paper, what he [the bishop] was proposing was that he would remove Father Roland from the parish and he would be given necessary counseling. The document gave the bishop my permission to handle the situation. It said that I would not press charges, and I would not take any legal action.' Not wanting to put her son through a trial, the mother said, she signed the paper. Father Roland was gone within a few weeks."

From Christ or Chaos
Conciliarism's Sacred Duty
"The twin forces of Modernity and Modernism have produced a monstrous world, one in which most people have not a blessed clue as to their identity as redeemed creatures or that they will have to face the moment of their Particular Judgments after they die. Rather than to seek with urgency the unconditional conversion of all men to the Catholic Faith, however, the scions of the counterfeit church of conciliarism want to engage in the sort of "obstinate wrangling" (called 'dialogue' in conciliarspeak) that was condemned by Lactantius, a Third Century Catholic apologist, who was cited by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos, December 31, 1929. Indeed, Walter 'Cardinal' Kasper, the President of the 'Pontifical' Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said in the very presence of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on November 23, 2007, that ecumenism is a 'sacred duty.'"

A fine gift for Christmas or anytime!
An homage to Pius IX: The Pope's Cologne

More in the John Paul II mold
Zefirelli offers to do a 'happier Pope' makeover for Benedict XVI
"Pope Benedict has been offered a make-over by famous Italian film and opera director to help him portray a 'happy image.' Reuters reports Franco Zeffirelli says he will gladly be the image maker of the Pope, who 'comes across as cold.'"

Survey reasons include problems with teachings, pedophile priests
Aussie 'bishops' listen to why people stopped attending their churches
"Australia's Catholic Bishops have discussed a survey that reveals many Catholics have stopped attending Mass because they feel the Church is irrelevant to their lives."


Baptist leader joins 'pope,' Dalai Lama in documentary

Bad attitude 'Catholic'
TV review: Hard as Nails
"I grew up in the same city as Justin Fatica, a Catholic youth minister who infuses his religious program with a touch of Scared Straight. It's a small city with a predominantly Catholic citizenry. Fatica, a Catholic, attended the region's most notable Catholic high school (one that is still boys only). The HBO documentary Hard as Nails follows Fatica as he builds his controversial Catholic ministry, Hard as Nails."

Related links:
Hard As Nails Ministries Website
Preacher goes to extremes with passion for Christ

The worst chasuble ever
Yet CathCon insists on calling this man a Catholic priest, apparently without the slightest trace of irony! When will they ever learn?

The Ravenna Document - the Vatican II sect's latest ecumenical outrage with the "Orthodox"
"A commission under Benedict XVI recently put out a document with the 'Orthodox.' It received many headlines in the mainstream press. The commission which published the document is entitled the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. The heretical document it produced is called The Ravenna Document. If I were to sum up the document in one sentence, it would be: A Vatican commission under Benedict XVI has approved the schismatic 'Orthodox' view of the Church, the 'Orthodox' view of the authority of bishops and how they work together, the 'Orthodox' view of how ecumenical councils are approved, etc."

Once-Catholic Ireland organizing secular schools
"Ireland's government announced Thursday it will organize new nonreligious primary schools in the capital, a move that reflects growing immigration and declining church power in this traditionally Roman Catholic nation."

John Paul II confidant
Austrian 'Cardinal' Stickler dead at 97

Currently pastor of a Milwaukee church
Weakland's former secretary arrested high on crack
"The pastor of St. John Vianney Parish in Brookfield and former priest-secretary to now-retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, was charged Tuesday in Milwaukee County with misdemeanor possession of cocaine."

Procedure, chopped-up body part shown in hidden-camera exposé
The horrors of late-term abortion shown on Spanish television

Liturgical traditions attacked at Ave Maria University
"Despite its short life and frequent claims to being 'authentically' or 'unabashedly' Catholic, AMU already has a history of intolerance for certain traditionalist forms and practices, and has acted in ways that appear to misappropriate liturgical decisions to be made by priests or the local bishop to, instead, lay university administrators."

Object to its anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia posture
Doctors in once-Catholic Italy want to scrap 'outdated' Hippocratic oath
"Senior medical figures in Italy are campaigning to scrap the Hippocratic Oath for doctors on the ground that the passages forbidding abortion and euthanasia are outdated. Giorgio Iannetti, a professor of surgery at Rome University, said that the oath, which is read out by medical students when they graduate, must either be abolished or 'radically modified”'

RIP
Fr. Harry Marchosky passes on at 84

Divide and conquer!