Hilary White
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Caution: Gen-X and retired. Former professional opinion writer. Religion, culture, politics, now deflating everyone's narratives for laughs. Here for the ratio.
Joined September 2024
None of these churches are in places anyone would recognise, still less make the effort to get off the beaten tourist track to visit. These are all from tiny and obscure rural and mountain villages.
Here's something that will make you think. A short thread on the magnificently decorated obscure country parish churches of rural Umbria. The sheer magnificence is sometimes astonishing. Parish of Poggio Primocaso, Cascia, (PG), once part of monastic holdings, 12th c. đ§”đ
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the Vatican still employs calligraphers and illuminators. The Bull of the Acceptance of the Roman Pontiff, drawn up by the Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations acting as notary. This is gorgeous. h/t Amelia Sims McKee
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Here's something we can all just do: say the Leonine Prayers after every Mass. Why not?
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Don't get divorced. Do whatever you have to do to stay sane - even live apart. But divorce is like a kind of suicide; it hurts everyone. Even people you've never met.
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I'm probably going to lose my Trad-Card over this, but I've been attending the evening Sunday Novus Ordo Mass at Narni's Duomo lately, and really found it quite peaceful. 1st, it's pretty cool to sit in a 1000 year old church, but it's also just not so FRAught. IDK.
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Also, get an owl.
Do you realize you look a lot cooler and more handsome when you stand up straight?
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If you want Sarah to be pope, you're the stage 4 cancer patient opting for pain killers instead of chemo.
Who is Cardinal Robert Sarah? Why would he be a good Pope?. In an age of noise, he is a voice of silence. In a Church facing storms, he is a pillar of clarity. This is the man many consider papabile, and why he may one day wear the white - a đ§”đ»đŠ
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Of your charity, please remember my mum, Judy, in your prayers today. She would have been 81 today.
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You want worse?. This would be worse.
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The problem with the Novus Ordo is it's cringe and gay, modelled after a bizarre combo of TV talk shows and game shows from the 70s and a corporate board meeting in a Las Vegas hotel. A cross between cheap entertainment and intellectual torture.
One problem is that Mass is boring. Hearing the same clumsy text week after week does my head in. Music outside major centres tends to be awful â our parish has reintroduced Gelineau whose harmonies are nauseating. The responsorial psalm is a particularly horror, destroying the.
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I happened to be at a party on Monday populated by some of the best informed, most experienced Vatican watchers, people who've lived in Rome & been deeply involved for many years. The consensus was that we should enjoy the respite while we can; the next one will be much worse.
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For 12 years we've had the bar in the bottom of an abyssal oceanic trench. A lot of what we'll see in the next while will feel like an exciting return to normal. But normal wasn't what we needed and the damage done will not be repaired.
A blessed relief to have the Roman Pontiff actually celebrating Mass again and not just constantly concelebrating.
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People keep asking me why I'm not going Ortho (or worse);it's pretty much this. It's a modern thing to think everything hangs on the pope's personal opinions. Or his crap decisions & garbage attitude or terrible personality has some bearing on what I do. He's not the boss of me.
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Pope Humble the First. "I want something simple. " result: a triumphal funeral procession through half of Rome. The next one will have to ask for burial at Termini.
Voglio una cosa semplize. risultato: un corteo funebre trionfale per mezza Roma. Al prossimo toccherĂ chiedere sepoltura a Termini.
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Here's a 2583 square foot (240m/s) house for sale in rural Umbria - safe, quiet, beautiful - 15 mins from supermarkets/schools, etc. 20 mins to the Norcia monastery. âŹ90,000. (US $92,836).
Nobody likes hearing this, but Gen Z has the opportunity to pull off the greatest small town revival in American history. The millennials fled their hometowns in droves, leaving a vacuum. Now look at any town under 25k pop. and find a craftsman home for about $100k.
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Me seeing people earnestly assuring me that Bergoglio wasn't a liberal, Tagle is a serious papal contender, Muller is a courageous theological conservative and Sarah is a liturgical traditionalist who stood up to the pope. All. Day. Long.
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Was Pope Francis on anti-psychotic medication to control his bizarre outbursts of rage & other unstable behaviour? Marco Tosatti seems to think so. He was notorious as a deeply vengeful and machiavellian man long before 2013. Can you take medication to cure an evil character?.
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@MichaelSWinters Rupnik. Inzoli. Zanchetta. Barros. Pena Parra. Grassi. And who could forget, McCarrick. And then we could start naming the financial criminals.
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Everywhere. Our little suburban parish in a working class town near Perugia: "All Masses are cancelled". That was it. No, "if you need a priest call this number." Just ____ off, peasant. Now they're wailing that no one is coming back.
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@calvinrobinson I shut one up completely by reminding her that the Synod of Whitby was about changing the uses of the Celtic church to Latin and the Roman calendar, not to Greek and the uses of Constantinople. These are historical facts.
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This is Novusordoism. They really enjoy bullying old ladies and little kids.
ITALY . Bishop Bruno Forte BERATES three people for receiving Communion on the tongue . He claims that Communion should only be received in the hands and that it is 'pride' that makes people do otherwise . What are your thoughts?
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Pretty partial to the late-antique Byzantin-Roman columns at San Vitale in Ravenna.
Donât care about your zodiac sign, what is your favorite column style?
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No one except the makers of the absurd "papabile" lists - made by the kinds of "journalists" whose material comes from other journalists - ever thought this ridiculous fool, fired by *Bergoglio* for unprecedented levels of incompetence, was a serious candidate. Please just stop.
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Someone needs to write the companion piece about how female religious life was strangled to death by ideologues, who then turned around and started wailing about a "vocations crisis".
@Sachinettiyil Twenty-two years ago, Michael Rose wrote about the artificial vocations crisis in the United States in his book Goodbye, Good Men. I hope and pray this is a sign that we are turning the page.
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It's hard to decide which is more outrageous; the baldfaced lie that Bergoglio was "reforming" anything - which they all know is a lie - or that the Vatican is claiming that men can "construct a new heaven and a new earth" in this life. Do these people not fear God?.
At the third Mass for the repose of Pope Francis, Cardinal Baldassare Reina, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, invited the cardinals to discern and set in order the processes of reform initiated by the Pontiff in order to continue the construction of âa new heaven and a new
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@jenly993767602 I really do find it restful. It helps that Don Sergio is a demonstrably good man and good Catholic, and there's no guitars or other nonsense. It's low key. I've been tightly wound for years, and can't do it anymore.
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I don't know what religion this is, but I know it ain't mine. .
The Cardinals held their General Congregation meeting today at the Vatican and discussed according to the Holy See Press Office: âAwareness emerged of the risk of the Church becoming self-referential & losing her relevance if she does not live in the world & with the world. There.
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@tonyannett @GoldSmith625773 The mass slaughter of 50+ million children a year around the world (not including China)? . Mmm. yeah. that seems like a pretty good issue to be interested in.
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Were you wondering if Hollyweird learned anything from their crashing numbers: Nope. "Streep is in talks to portray Aslan, who will be female in the series. Typically portrayed as a male, Aslan was created as an allegory for Jesus by author C.S. Lewis.".
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I'm at war with my dopamine/adenosine/serotonin issues, trying to get back to painting daily, to finish outstanding commissions & get back to the iconography study/courses. I think saving favourite podcasts will help. This is top of the list for tomorrow. @calvinrobinson.
Father Calvin back in Britain for the 30th Episode of #FoxandFather đŠâïž. We want to thank all of you who watch every week, for the love and support - and for the healthy debate!!. Iâ€ïžđŹđ§ badges available—ïž. @LozzaFox | @calvinrobinson | @culture_stores
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@idrathe60109097 I think the whole Traddie argument thing GIVES me anxiety. Just not bothering my head much about it anymore has helped a lot. It's also nice to interact with the local old ladies who are regulars at the Duomo. Being seen to participate is important in a town this small.
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Remember Card. Maradiaga said the Bergoglian long winter was creating "irreversible change"? This is how that works. And I can see in my feed that good Catholics, exhausted by 12 years of abuse, are already desperately eager to accept the same regime with the softer hand.
From what we know so far, Leo XIV definitely represents an ideological continuation of Francis' pontificate. His election is a clear sign that the progressive interpretation of Vatican II has finally triumphed. The difference in temperament between the two pontiffs may prove.
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Also, this would be a great time to trot out the many hilarious Kasperianisms of the past, especially the whole, "We can't let those darkies from Africa have too much of a voice. ".
Cardinal Kasper: People of God Have Voted and Called for Francis Continuity.
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@pontificatormax He has no guidance. It's what happens when your basic working principle is "I'll figure this out for myself.".
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Joseph Seifert was one of the earliest and most serious voices against Bergoglio's blatant destruction. His open letter to the next conclave:. ". There has never been a pope in Church history who has claimed similar monstrosities.".
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I was diagnosed with c. in Italy. Friends said they'd be happy to fly me back to Canada or Britain for treatment. I did the research and discovered Italy has ten times the survival rate than either of those s-holes.
The reality of âfree healthcareâ in Canada. You wonât have to pay out of pocket, but you also wonât live until your appointment.
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ok, a Bergoglian has been elected pope and, barring the unexpected, he could lead the Church for decades. Bergoglianism is now the guiding principle of the Catholic Church globally. That's a reality we're going to have to figure out how to come to terms with. 𧔠#CatholicTwitter.
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Ideological friendships are worthless; the "cause" - whatever it may be - will always be more important than the person. It's why Trad Catholics share with extreme leftists the habit of turning on each other so viciously if they perceive a step off the line.
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Welp, we already know 1 thing at least: he knows a LOT more than Pope Jabba did about giving Catholic signals. I remember a long time ago telling the head of LifeSiteNews that the next one would be worse bcs he'd be the same on the inside, but a LOT more plausible on the outside.
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He's definitely not Bergoglio. He doesn't seem to have any hint of that chaotic darkness and malice that hung about that man. But the agenda will go forward nonetheless. A kinder face & obviously a more normal personality. But the same programme in most resepcts.
@HilarityjaneArt Francis seemed quite comfortable - happy, even - to sow discord and division. I do not get the sense that Leo will be the same. I believe that he will roll back the policies that have caused these problems, albeit perhaps not to the extent that we'd like.
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It's so weird Boomers pretend to complain about this. It got you out of the house. It didn't fry your synapses with dopamine. It led you to read whole books. It allowed you to interact with other humans. It was in every way a better experience and learning method. Books.
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@englandthydowry My feed is distressingly full of Catholics today saying how relieved and happy they are that we're not being beaten every day.
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@wrathofgnon Can you imagine the colossal patience and determination it would take for a Japanese person to work with such people? And to actually succeed!.
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The more and more often they publicly declare their apostasy from and hatred of the Catholic religion, the better.
Cardinal Gregory apologizes for Catholic teaching on LGBT issues: .âThe way that we have treated our LGBTQ brothers & sisters has brought them tears and too many of us disgrace. I apologize from the heart for the hurt that has resulted in the loss of so many of our family
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@FT Idiot media rn: "Poap Fwansiss was the huh-huh-humblest poap ehvah!" . Catholic Church for 2000 years:
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And it was literally overnight. I remember the first day or so, the BBC was all, "Oh. he's from the rightwing of Argentine politics, opposes sacred abortion and holy gayness. " all set to investigate his involvement in the Dirty war. Literally over night it was all gone.
I remember when Francis was elected. Overnight, the media went from calling the Vatican a den of Nazi pedophiles to feeding us sugarcoated stories about Francis being a tango-dancing bouncer. You could tell right then he was Obama's pope. If ErdĆ gets elected, weâre going back.
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Everyone asking who my pick for pope would be is asking the wrong question. I don't have one. I have least bad and most bad, and Parolin is the second thing.
One last service this great cardinal can perform for the Church: stopping Parolin.
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@EmmaRSotomayor And none moreso than the Hobbits, who have a deep natural inclination against adventures and whose entire nature is about staying home. To do something that's right, bcs it needs doing, so completely at odds with your nature is true heroism.
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In brief, they've been mercied, Bergoglio style.
Ave Maria! . Dear Friends, not a happy news to share. We have been told to leave the Diocese of Dunkeld. Very soon 50 people (counting friars and sisters resident) will be homeless. To find another accommodation for both communities is not easy. Please pray for us and help us.
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@kalezelden by all reports, HUGE numbers of people are becoming Orthodox lately. Enough that it's shifting the demography out of the big urban centres, and creating an internal crisis over having enough priests for everyone. More applications for becoming clergy too.
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@AGisotti That person, that "rock to cling to" was the one who ordered every church in Italy closed, refused the sacraments to every single person in the country & tried to gaslight everyone in the world into taking an untested - and as it turns out, dangerous - pharmaceutical product.
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Let's look at the Detroit thing through a cold, calculating marketing lens: the Novusordoist bishops are creating scarcity. What does that do to a product?.
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@aelfred_D "Everyone knows that if an unattached rich guy shows up in town, what he's really doing is chasing skirt." .Jane Austen.
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The earth isn't "our mother". I'm not a big Rosary person, generally, but I'm going to say one on this day, in reparation for the Vatican's addiction to blasphemy.
JUST IN: Vatican will turn off lights on St Peter's Basilica tomorrow to mark Word Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour. @WWF @earthhour . The Holy See has done this on a number of occasions, to âraise awareness of respect for Our Mother Earth.â. @LifeSite read --
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I don't know what religion this is, but I know it ain't mine.
pope Francis responds to VP JD Vance, a catholic (and to his supporters), on the "ordo amoris"
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The great procession, last night. Festa of San Giovenale, Narni. Where I live.
Last night was the big procession of all the "Terziere" - the three sections of Narni that compete for the price in the race.
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@heaven_piercing @RorateCaeli Scripture, all the teaching of all the fathers and all the doctors of the Church, and the Natural Law. All the saints. All the popes before this one. The prophets of the old testament and Christ Himself.
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A papal death watch, and the long ancient rigamarole of getting another one, is a weird time. Where rules seem suspended and odd things can come out from between the tiles of reality.
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@OldHollowTree It's just the modern equivalent of a cottage industry. It's all the way back to the pre-industrial revolution.
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In a world of memes, be an essay.
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What the hell have they done to their faces? . They look like Romulans from 80s-era Star Trek.
I just assumed this is what the Marvel franchise was up to these days.
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@johnmilbank3 Yeah, actually I think it was all about his protection of kiddie fiddlers, sex perverts and criminals.
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And it's important to remember that he was anathematized not for outright preaching heresy, but for equivocation and ambiguity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us that âPope Honorius was much respected and died with an untarnished reputation.â Yet as it also reminds us, forty years later âhe was condemned as a heretic by the sixth general council,â and by Pope Leo II, who pronounced: âWe anathematize the.
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@EssexPoliceUK When did "ethics" become a policing matter? I thought the remit of police was the law. For that matter, when did police come to the door of journalists to intimidate them over perfectly legal and constitutionally protected free expression?.
@EssexPoliceUK say it was âunethicalâ of me to report my awful experience at the hands of two constables. Really?.The British people deserve to be informed about the Kafkaesque state of their justice system. Instead of solving frightening crime police are frightening people.
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@BruvverEccles Coverage from the MSM is hilarious. Here's the heroic reformer Pope Francis struggling on his deathbed to heroically reform the Vatican's finances, heroically. Hahahaha. Tell it to Cardinal Pell. Oh wait.
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@chrisjollyhale There's heretical icons, and then there's satanically delusional fantasy football icons.
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I seriously am starting to question either the good will or the sanity of anyone still willing to be formally associated with this institution. The thing you have to do to your brain, the cognitive dissonance it creates. It seems impossible that it's not harming you.
âCardinal McElroy was criminally complicit in covering up my ritual rape,â says @rachelmastro85 to @LifeSite in DC. âThe Church is being forced to recognise the enemies within,â says @LepantoInst .
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oh I'm so glad I found him again! I love this guy's work. He basically just paints his cat. And it's a really awesome cat.
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@EnglishHeritage What the hell is this? .
Handing away our history to strangers. It's our story, they have their own.
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Righty ho. So, business as usual then. We've all got well developed coping strategies in place. I'll just be getting back to mine.
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Cluny saved western Christendom. It didn't take a pope or an emperor, whatever was going on in politics at the opening of the Ottonian period (9th c.). It took the Duke of Aquitaine giving his friend a hunting lodge to start a new monastery.
When people say that the great #Benedictine abbey of Cluny was one of the wonders of the medieval world, think about this gif: the end of this is only half way to the incredible edifice it ended up being.
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@pontificatormax Most of this is just plain wrong. It's obviously been done by an American with very limited categories and zero experience outside the US.
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Americans need to learn that words mean things. A "tip" is a gratuity, a freely offered gift for excellent service. What's described here is a "surcharge" and 20% is cause for calling cops in Italy, where it's an illegal scam, called, "Truffa del sovrapprezzo".
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From the ever-helpful @EdwardPentin . "views close to Pope Francis". Perhaps a useful line of inquiry would be to ask how the Augustinians are doing.
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@firstthingsmag @BishopBarron Emma Bonino, Italy's leading abortionist and abortion campaigner, says hi Bishop Barron.
Ho accolto con profonda commozione la notizia della morte di Papa Francesco e con un enorme senso di vuoto. La tristezza Ăš mitigata dal fatto che Papa Francesco, anche se duramente provato dalla malattia, fino allâultimo ha voluto e saputo esercitare in pienezza la sua
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The "Let's build heaven on earth" idea has probably killed more people in the last 250 years than the Black Death, an honest bacterium.
Stop imagining the apocalypse and start imagining heaven on Earth. The world doesnât get better by spreading fear: it gets better by nurturing what we love. The only way to truly transform everything is to protect, cherish, and multiply the Good until it outshines the evil
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I must say I appreciate it when bishops confirm and endorse my contention that they are leaders of not only an entirely different religion, but one that is implacably opposed to the one founded by Christ, by busying themselves with ruthlessly stamping out the latter.
The cruelty is the point. These men have no faith and they hate the Church almost as much as they hate the faithful.
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Perp Francis is just the white pustule on the peak of the boil that is the current Catholic episcopate.
Having a hard time not believing that almost the entire Catholic episcopate is either complicit through silence or actually criminals themselves. If these men really represent the Church of Christ then some very undesirable conclusions become inescapable.
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"it's not the same thing." . The liturgy of 1570 and 1969 "is a different sense of the Church & of communion with the whole people of God, and with all humanity.". Max very reliably says the quiet part out loud, with perfect frankness. The New Rite = an entirely new religion.
@DrBrainMD @Catholicizm1 @TaylorRMarshall But theyâre not and we know that Protestants influenced and were part of the new mass. Can we just stop the gaslighting? Again, live not by lies. Face the ugly realities boldly and with charity. As Massimo boldly proclaims âthey communicate a different theology.â
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@CatholicArena Please stop doing this silly stuff. Spring is thunderstorm season in Lazio, and St. Peter's is the tallest building in town and has a big conductive metal thing on top of the dome.
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@ABC A simple wooden casket. exactly the same as every other pope's. you people do know about Google and fact-checking, right?.
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I don't know what religion this is, but I know it ain't mine. (Also. gross!).
Cardinal Radcliffe says that the âchallenge of talking about the synod is rather like talking about s3x with somebody whoâs just getting to pubertyâŠitâs about how youâre alive in a new way.â. A notable view about a Synod which has been billed as being for whole Church.Video:
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"Why is she making it political?" Because she is not a representative of Christ. She is a fraud wearing Christianity as a skin suit.
@DefiantLs Because feminist "priestesses" don't know Christ, and aren't interested in Christianity. The became priestesses to promote their political ideologies while wearing vestments to legitimise them. The entire business of priestesses is fraudulent political theatre.
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@AugustineOTV It is a liturgical posture appropriated erroneously by aggressive ideologues seeking to erase the distinction between the laity and the ordained. Orans is reserved for the priest. The laity have no strictly liturgical role proper to them.
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@SteveSkojec It's not charity. It's performative Stockholm Syndrome; where the captor isn't a person but an ideology.
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@holysmoke There are no nuns in it. This is the standard situation with nearly all convents in Italy; they're just empty buildings. Religious life in this country is all but extinct. They're turning the buildings into luxury hotels and apartments. which is what's happening here.
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Definitely seeing a silver lining here. When was the last time Leo XIII was in so many headlines?.
According to the BBC, Leo XIV's choice of name may indicate "more liberal leadership." I want to know in what world Leo XIII, the pope who promulgated no less than 5 encyclicals rejecting the separation or Church and State, is considered liberal? Seriously who writes this stuff?.
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Remember one thing about Sarah: he was CDW in Bergoglio's curia, and said and did nothing. He's a weak Ratzingerian who's proven he is without the stuff to stand up to a chihuahua.
@HilarityjaneArt Short of a miracle, he has no chance. But I can see him willing to kick some ass. Africans (and Asians) don't suffer from Western hangups about that. I think the Eminent Ones will be looking for someone who can run things and keep the bills paid, as much as do doctrine.
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I once brought an restaurant in Rome to a standstill when I refused to use my phone. They wanted me to put a QR code in & I said no. "Bring me a menu, and I'll decide what I want, and you can take my order and bring me my food." . Mayhem! but they did it in the end.
I donât want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I donât want to share the file with OneDrive. I donât want to download an app to check my carâs fluid levels. I donât want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I donât want to let Google know my location.
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This pope is a criminal, and the head of an international criminal organisation.
Notorious sex abuser Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, a papal protege whoâs supposed to be serving a jail sentence in Argentina, returned to Rome recently âin conditions of the utmost secrecyâ, reports Vatican correspondent Nico Spuntoni (in Italian).
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@FeserEdward It's exactly what I was fearing; all the poisonous Bergoglian agenda items will now be covered in a nice chocolate coating, and everyone will swallow it right down.
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I've seen my feed filled this morning with good Catholics talking gushingly about his Latin blessing, wearing of the mozetta and his general air of easy affability. This smacks of desperation, a people grateful - like an abused spouse - that they're not being beaten . today.
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Novusordoism is a foreign invader, a virus that has taken over every organ, and turns its most fervent practitioners into thugs.
One of the last straws at the New Mass for me was being physically grabbed and pulled off of my knees by a priest who told me "we don't do that here." after trying to receive kneeling on the tongue. Communion was distributed in front of the altar rail to try to prevent kneeling.
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I remember. I saw them having hysterics in public when Benedict was elected too.
Just a reminder:. If there had been X during the waking days of JP2 we would have been treated to an astonishing level of vitriol from men & women religious. If you knew any then, youâd know how blistering and âdisrespectfulâ they were towards him. They HATED him & were not.
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@eli4never @latinedisce Translation: "I'm too lazy to pick up a book, read the Bible or learn another language, so those things have to be erased so I'm never reminded that I chose to be a low-information troll my whole life.".
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