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Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"The current events have nothing to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of #Ukraine and the #Ukrainian people. They are connected with the defending #Russia from those who have taken Ukraine hostage...." — #VladimirPutin, Feb. 24, 2022

Do you believe Mr. Putin?
Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Also from #Putin's speech (Feb. 24, 2022) — he refers to "the ruling #Ukrainian regime" as "today’s neo-Nazis": bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Image
As well as this threat to "those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside": Image

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Feb 27
#Russia has still not been validly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, since no pope has ever met all the conditions specified by Our Lady herself (see below): fatima.org/about/consecra…

#Fatima #ConsecrateRussiaNow Image
.@cardinalrlburke agrees that #Russia still needs to be consecrated "in accord with her [Our Lady's] explicit instruction" (May 20, 2017): voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-card… Image
.@BishopAthanas1 concurs in "Christus Vincit" (@AngelicoPress, 2019): "It has not yet been made in the manner Our Lady requested. In my opinion, the consecration has to be made more perfectly, and this means with the explicit mention of Russia..." (p. 300) angelicopress.org/christus-vinci…
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Feb 25
For those tempted to believe that #VladimirPutin is "the good guy" in present circumstances, please consider the following: catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2018/03/0… Image
As shown above, Putin signed a "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation" with Communist #China (July 16, 2001), "with the hope of promoting and establishing a just and fair NEW WORLD ORDER...." voltairenet.org/article173177.…
Moreover, just 20 days ago Putin and #XiJinping renewed their nations' strong ties via a lengthy joint statement, the essence of which is 'Eurasia vs. the West': washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
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Jan 21
"The promotion of the pre-Vatican II liturgy as somehow more holy or prayerful than the current liturgy 'is not basically a liturgical problem, it is an *ecclesial* problem,' the archbishop said."

Trans.: The TLM is incompatible with the new ecclesiology. ncronline.org/news/theology/…
As I mentioned yesterday:
For further background: catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2022/01/2…
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Jan 21
BREAKING: @Pontifex has declared St. Irenaeus of Lyons (d. ca. 202 A.D.), a very important early Church Father, a Doctor of the Church "with the title of Doctor unitatis ['Doctor of unity']." press.vatican.va/content/salast…
St. Irenaeus' five-volume work "Adversus haereses" ("Against Heresies") is one of the most important Patristic texts of the 2nd century A.D. — a text which thoroughly proves the Catholicity and Apostolicity of the early Church. Here is a sample: newadvent.org/fathers/010330…
St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Doctor, pray for us! newadvent.org/cathen/08130b.…
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Dec 15, 2021
As others have pointed out, @ThomasJTobin1, "Recognize and Resist" has been around for decades and is based on St. Paul's example (Gal. 2:11) plus such texts as the following from St. Robert Bellarmine:

"Therefore, just as it would be lawful to resist a Pontiff..." 1/4
2/4 "invading a body [i.e., threatening physical harm], so it is lawful to resist him invading souls or disturbing a state, and much more if he [the Pope] should endeavor to destroy the Church. I say, it is lawful to resist him, by not doing what he commands, ..."
3/4 "and by blocking him, lest he should carry out his will; still, it is not lawful to judge or punish or even depose him [the Pope], because he is nothing other than a superior." — St. Robert Bellarmine, On the Roman Pontiff, Book II, Ch. 29 mediatrixpress.com/product/on-the…
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Oct 9, 2021
This morning in Rome, @Pontifex presided over a "Moment of Reflection" in preparation for the official opening of "the synodal Journey" tomorrow.

"The Synod," said Francis, presents "a great opportunity for a pastoral conversion in terms of mission and ecumenism..." 1/4
However, said @Pontifex, the #Synod "is not exempt from certain risks," including "formalism", "intellectualism", and "complacency".

Invoking the Holy Spirit, Francis prayed: "keep us from becoming a 'museum Church', beautiful but mute, with much past and little future." 2/4
@Pontifex also quoted Fr. Yves Congar (below, with a young Fr. Ratzinger), a progressive Dominican peritus (theological expert) at Vatican II, who "once said: 'There is no need to create another Church, but to create a different Church' (True and False Reform in the Church)." 3/4
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