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Jul 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It’s very sad to see how Francis just “broke” some people. They just needed a push to be sucked into a kind of mental black hole…

Wish they’d paid more attention to our 2014 post, “Ten tips on how to survive a calamitous Pope and remain Catholic.” rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/11/ten-ti… (1) Keep calm.

(2) Read good books on the history of the Church and the history of the papacy.

(3) Do not give in to apocalyptic warnings.

(4) Do not stay silent, nor look away.

(5) Do not generalize.
Dec 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Unfortunately, not only do they know well @taylorrmarshall in the Vatican -- we are free to affirm for sure, from the most reliable sources, that the whole thought process that led to Traditionis Custodes started with Marshall's pachamama grift stunt. Francis was not particularly fond of Traditionalists (though he was of the SSPX), but his instinct was to keep a mostly aloof attitude regarding us. Just months before the Amazon Synod, he approved additional optional prefaces and saints' days for the 1962 Missal.
Nov 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"How great is the dignity of chaste wedlock, Venerable Brethren, may be judged best from this that Christ Our Lord, Son of the Eternal Father, having assumed the nature of fallen man, not only, with His loving desire of compassing the redemption of our race, ordained it in ... "...an especial manner as the principle and foundation of domestic society and therefore of all human intercourse, but also raised it to the rank of a truly and great sacrament of the New Law, restored it to the original purity of its divine institution, and accordingly ...
Nov 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"If we consider the end of the divine institution of marriage, we shall see very clearly that God intended it to be a most fruitful source of individual benefit and of public welfare."

Leo XIII
Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae
1880 "Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant...
Oct 11, 2022 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
We have a grave obligation to restore the Traditional Latin Mass as the proper and normative rite of the Church of Rome, the lex orandi definitively codified by St Pius V and received intact by all his successors until the tempestuous twentieth century. rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2022/10/new-bo… The Novus Ordo Missae constitutes a rupture with fundamental elements of all liturgies of apostolic
derivation, and that, as a consequence, it violates the Church’s solemn obligation to receive, cherish,
guard, and pass on the fruits of liturgical development.
Oct 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“The whole series of her [Russia’s] history, from the earliest period to the present day, has been one long-continued course of fraud and perfidy, of stealthy encroachment, or open and unblushing violence.”

Lord Lyndhurst
Speech at the House of Lords, June 19, 1854 He adds, recalling suppression and forced conversion of Polish, Ruthenian/Ukrainian Greek Catholics: “She ostentatiously proclaimed herself Protector of Greek Church…, fomented religious dissensions among that people, and, under pretence of putting an end to disorders…
Feb 24, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
MESSAGE
of Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk
of the Ukrainian Catholic Church

"Our Motherland is in danger again!

"A treacherous enemy, despite his own obligations and assurances, breaking the basic norms of international law, as an unjust aggressor set foot on Ukrainian... Image "soil, bringing with him death and destruction.

"Our Ukraine, which the world rightly called 'bloodlands', which has been so many times sprinkled with the blood of martyrs and fighters for the freedom and independence of its people, calls us today to stand up for her - to...
Sep 2, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
COMMUNIQUÉ of the Superiors-General of the "Ecclesia Dei" Communities [on Traditionis Custodes] ift.tt/3DD4IvE "We beg for a humane, personal, trusting dialogue, far from ideologies or the coldness of administrative decrees. We would like to be able to meet a person who will be for us the face of the Motherhood of the Church. We would like to be able to tell him about the suffering,...
Sep 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
But the most serious problem, for Fr. Freinademetz, is the moral decay of the West. “The greatest scourge for us and for the poor Chinese is beginning to be the many faithless and perfectly corrupt Europeans who are now beginning to flood all of China. They may be Christians... Image ...but they are worse than the pagans; they care about nothing but making money in order to pursue all worldly pleasures ”(May 28 1902). “The times are sad,” and “irreligion is assailing the whole world,” he writes on June 25 1905. On the eve of his death, on January 23 1907,...
Aug 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Taranto

#EvvivaLaMadonna! Image Image
Aug 3, 2021 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Highlights of the masterful lecture given by our contributor Prof. Peter Kwasniewski on the "Pope's boundenness to Tradition as a Legislative limit":

rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-po… "Catholic apologists have done a lot of great work over the decades. ... But the same apologists do not perform so well when they turn their sights to intraecclesial affairs, particularly when it comes to explaining the nature, purpose, and limits of papal infallibility. ...
Jul 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We wish to unburden ourselves.

The central crisis of the Church is the extremely high prevalence of homosexuality, active & widely present in the clergy.

Benedict XVI resigned because he was overwhelmed by it.

Every single "crisis" manufactured... 1/ ...by Francis has been a smokescreen to avoid addressing this grave matter, that has destroyed the Church from the inside, transformed much of the hierarchy into a factory of blackmail,& made the Priesthood of the New Testament, in much of the West, seen as a "Gay Profession". 2/
Jul 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Is it really necessary for the Holy Father to write in such a blunt and authoritarian manner? " "People are passionate about what they love, sometimes to a fault, but for the majority, this is human and generally kept within a tolerable range of sparring and bluster rather than disgust and deep division. I fear the Pope is using a cannon to kill a fly."
Jul 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Strengthened with all might,
according to the power of his glory,
in all patience and longsuffering with joy,
giving thanks to God the Father,
who hath made us worthy to be
partakers of the lot of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
and hath translated us into the kingdom
of the Son of his love,
in whom we have redemption
through his blood, the remission of sins;
who is the image of the invisible God,
the Firstborn of every creature:
Jul 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
All 4 TLM Masses outside the Personal Parish of St John Henry Newman have been cancelled in the Archdiocese of Melbourne At the diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, all Latin Masses are no longer allowed.
Jul 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
- New Twitter Series -

"The New Mass is the sole expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite." (Francis) "The New Mass is the sole expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite." (Francis)
Jul 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"Who does he think he is?"-- a priest told us today.

That is not really relevant. What is relevant is *Who do they think WE are?*

They think, as liberals of the past, that we are sheepish conservative idiots - blindly following THEIR rules, while THEY trample on everything. 1/ They are expecting one reaction from us, and one only: "obedience". That is: "blind obedience".

Of course, THEY (the Modernists, currently in charge of the highest echelons of the hierarchy) don't care about obedience from THEIR side. 2/
Jul 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#SummorumPontificum
We were asked by a prominent reporter to comment on the Francis document purportedly trying to do what a MUCH stronger pope in a MUCH stronger position (Paul VI) couldn't -- that is, abolish the Latin Mass. Here are our first thoughts. Yes, it is huge.

It is the most stinging rebuke by a Pope against his predecessor in living memory -- there has never been anything like it. Remember that the document itself is just 14 years old, and that Benedict XVI is still alive.
Nov 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques.” Justice Gorsuch "At least according to the Governor, it may be unsafe to go to church, but always fine to pick up another bottle of wine, shop for a new bike, or spend afternoon exploring your distal points and meridians. Who knew public health would so perfectly align with secular convenience?"
Sep 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Does the "Charismatic Renewal" include strange things?

Yes, it does.

But we have met an inordinately high number of cradle Catholics who came to the Traditional Latin Mass after being "Charismatics".

1/4 It's easy for us to forget the complete upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s. Beliefs and practice simply disappeared in many places. And, for many people, the new "Charismatic Renewal" was a refuge they found for some semblance of Christianity and family life.

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