Trump’s Art of the Deal: a deal with NATO leadership over GREENLAND. Tariffs are off the table—for now.

FUCK THE EU!!! The EU started a very stupid game when it decided to sanction its own members (Poland & Hungary); now it is surprised that the US wants to play the same game. By withholding billions in recovery funds and invoking "Rule of Law" mechanisms, Brussels transformed

I'll add to what @jennfrey says here: One of the goals of post-Conciliar liturgical (and more generally, church life) reform was to have the liturgy reflect less of the externally universal and be more reflective of the local community. The idea was that your parish's liturgy

Well, it took a while, but the Holy Father made a statement, and it was a good one.

Almost 80% of “refugees” go on vacation to the country they claim to have fled from …

As we consider the Pope’s new consistory and every little bishop and cleric waits with bated breath to hear the wisdom emanate from Rome, remember that what these yes-men have been doing for their entire careers continues to produce more of the right column and less of the left.

One of the quaintest modern delusions is the notion that the scientific method and peer review somehow preserves people from the effects of original sin.

I am awaiting a Vatican statement on J. B. Pritzker and the Illinois assisted suicide bill. They seem intent these days on commenting on non-Catholic US politicians (after curious silence on our former - Catholic - president) sooo... 3... 2... 1...

The moral of the story of the College Football Playoff Committee is that the best way to position your team for the postseason is to finish in third place on a Power 4 Conference.

It appears that the most enthusiastic episcopal enforcers of Traditiones Custodes share an attitude with Hollywood: “You will enthusiastically consume what we provide and ask for nothing else, or you can just leave.” Didn���t work for Hollywood. Good luck with that, Excellencies!

Yet again the Conciliar and Synodal Vatican reminds everyone that it’s concerns are reserved for those clinging to pre-Conciliar forms and devotions and not for the average pewsitter who are doing just fine in getting “the message.”

10/10 Under cannon law, the faithful may satisfy the 3rd commandment by assisting at any legitimate rite offered. The Vetus Ordo is such a rite, and TC has not changed that. It has only limited the ability of priests to offer it. And it has done so by means of fraud.

9/10 Moreover religious assent permits public reservation regarding the implementation of the teachings of VII. Most Masses said in the US on most Sundays do not look like the “reformed Mass” described in Sacrosanctum Concilium. Ex: Father wearing a Philadelphia Eagles chasuble?

8/10 Dogmatic proclamations require religious assent. While some of the VII documents contain dogmas, they are dogmas previously taught. Sacrosanctum Concilium is non dogmatic and requires “religious submission of the will and intellect” while allowing for private reservation.

7/10 Furthermore the “disunity” and “schismatic tendency” canards that accompany the calls for ruthless TC implementation are themselves DISTINCT 8th commandment violations. Vatican II was organized with the understanding that it was to be pastoral and promote no new dogma.

6/10 It of course is possible that some bishops who are currently implementing TC do so without knowing of the fraudulent pretext on which it is based and thus might avoid violating the 8th commandment. It is highly unlikely that Pope Leo is unaware, however.

5/10 Francis of course knew TC was promulgated based on a lie. Moreover, as long as it stands, it is a continuing violation of the 8th commandment (in the same way that remarriage without annulment is a continuing violation of the 6th commandment) for all who knowingly pursue it.

4/10 But Francis chose not to do that. He chose to publish TC under the fraudulent pretense that Francis was forced to respond to a crisis of disunity reported by the bishops. TC, therefore, is a disciplinary law of the Church issued under false pretense. It is therefore no law.

3/10 Specifically a majority of bishops surveyed said the celebration of the Vetus Ordo brought harmony in their parishes and that a vast majority of the faithful attending did not “reject Vatican II.” Francis had the authority to ignore the survey results and publish TC anyway.

2/10 Those documents summarized the bishops’ survey that Pope Francis commissioned and Francis SAID lead him to conclude that the celebration of the Vetus Ordo in the parishes needed to be curtailed out of concern that it promotes disunity. The survey results said the opposite.