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until August 25, 2026

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What about 'communion' in the hand with particles all over the place?
So I have been going to the New Mass now for almost a full year after seven years in the TLM. Here are my thoughts and musings. Some things I enjoy about the New Mass more than the TLM:
- The larger lectionary (though it is purposively selective). Scripture is so needed in
Yeah, nothing like 'bearing witness to Christ' with heresy....
Meeting with a delegation of the Lutheran World Federation, Pope Leo XIV encourages Christians to bear witness to Christ and continue on the ecumenical “journey of grace.”
https://t.co/VHGulA9FbJ
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
👉🏻 Come avevo ampiamente anticipato, sabato (salvo sorprese o ulteriori tentativi di aggrapparsi alla…
This is the complete speech which ritual abuse survivor Rachel Mastrogiacomo (@rachelmastro85) was going to present but was not allowed to finish at the 'Restore Tradition' Women's Conference in Littleton, Colorado, on Sep. 25. She was cut off by the organizers and prevented from https://x.com/NovusOrdoWatch/status/2105749435498348942/photo/1
Two more aspects of Mr Sammons' wanton slur:
1. @EricRSammons' argument reeks of the same arguments used to justify "tran…
On Apr. 12, 2026, Leo XIV wrote to his fake cardinals that mission "hold[s] in balance explicit proclamation, witness, commitment and dialogue, and yielding neither to the temptation of proselytism nor to a merely institutional mentality of preservation or expansion" -
No surprise there: Novus Ordo Bishop of Charlotte praised Jewish academic to lead 'Catholic Biblical Association' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop-of-charlotte-praised-jewish-academic-to-lead-catholic-biblical-association/
Leo XIV embraces ‘profound change’ in stance on false religions - https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/leo-xiv-embraces-profound-change-in-churchs-stance-on-false-religions/
Leo: World needs ecumenical witnesses to Christ - https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-10/pope-leo-xiv-world-lutheran-federation-augsburg-confession.html Ah, but not the SSPX, eh?
If You Still think Leo’s Visit to France was a Victory for Catholicism, His Latest Audience Should Convince You Otherwise - https://radicalfidelity.substack.com/p/if-you-still-think-leos-visit-to
AOC speaks at pro-LGBT 'Catholic' church on ‘our trans brothers and sisters’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/aoc-speaks-at-pro-lgbt-catholic-church-on-our-trans-brothers-and-sisters/ But why limit it to "brothers and sisters" only? Doesn't such binary talk reinforce heteronormative stereotypes?! 😜😉
Carefully-planned doctor-assisted suicide gets you a 'Catholic' funeral in Archdiocese of Paris: https://www.gloria.tv/post/GGwmGm8ewBj24rrdESHXanwKW Well, at least he didn't deny Vatican II, that would have gotten him barred probably....
Fulton Sheen’s Bad Doctrine & Morals - https://traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/K010_She.htm
Leo XIV on June 12, 2026, on Tenerife: "The greatest grace is to allow ourselves to be evangelized by those we assist and to recognize the mysterious wisdom of God written in their very flesh" - https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2026/documents/20260612-spagna-messa-tenerife.html
One can only imagine how excluded the "LGBTQ+ community" will feel when they die and go to Hell for reducing human lif…
Leo XIV Pens a Letter to the White Sox Ahead of Their World Series Quest - https://www.ncregister.com/blog/pope-leo-pens-white-sox-letter
Leo XIV to Lutheran delegation today: "On our common journey from conflict to communion, there are special moments. As you have mentioned, the year 2030, which marks the 500th anniversary of the [Lutheran] Augsburg Confession, can become one such shared moment: a profound
In this month's 'Pray with the Pope' video, Leo XIV prays: "May your Church be an open house, a safe space where everyone has a place - a community that accompanies and never excludes, that listens without judging and draws near without fear." https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2026/10/01/261001f.html That's a lot
LATEST: A request to expand the Traditional Latin Mass in the Diocese of Saluzzo has become a ping-pong match, with neit…
For their new synodal revelations, a claim to infallibility will surely come in handy. They will then be able to appeal to the 'universal Christian experience'...

NEW: The Synod's canonical group has published proposals to revise Canon Law
1 change includes having the “entire body of the Christian faithful” included in exercising infallibility
Fr Murray warns against it: the Church “does not teach that the People of God enjoy the charism https://t.co/Dwi3Z3e19e
Traditional Latin Mass petitioners sent back to bishop who rejected their request
Catholics in northern Italy seeking…
Come on, the priest is obviously practicing solidarity with the marginalized!
A priest of St. Paul and Minneapolis has affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X.
Abp. Hebda has initiated a canonical process, which could presumably see the priest declared excommunicated.
The archdiocese has declined additional questions. The priest has not yet returned https://t.co/gtWw2u3TqZ
Victor Manuel Fernandez publishing a document on transmitting the faith. That's going to be a doozy!

Cardinal Fernández has announced that his document on the transmission of the faith will be published in October.
Evangelisation needs “a Church capable of welcoming everyone in a different way, precisely as it is,” he said.
Details coming @CatholicHerald https://t.co/2H1l0cYQuv
Schism in the Anglican Church Finalized: Alternative See to Canterbury Established in Africa - https://zenit.org/2026/09/29/schism-in-the-anglican-church-finalized-alternative-see-to-canterbury-established-in-africa/ Sarah Mullally as 'Archbishop of Canterbury' was the final straw...
This babbling fool has a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian in Rome and is a professor at Boston College.
Jesuit priest, Fr. James Keenan, and former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, praises theologians advancing “queer natural law” against “gender essentialism,” then says, while promoting "transgender identity" in Catholic theology:
“Flora Tang makes https://t.co/HxJJQKnoVt
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