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  Leo XIV Relativizes Miracle: Christ Invited Deaf-Mute to "Choose" to Speak Again
Posted by: Stone - 07-31-2025, 08:15 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV - No Replies

Leo XIV Relativizes Miracle: Christ Invited Deaf-Mute to "Choose" to Speak Again

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gloria.tv | July 31, 2025

Pope Leo XIV spoke at yesterday’s general audience about the man in Mark 7 who cannot speak or hear: "Just as it can sometimes happen to us, perhaps this man chose not to speak anymore because he did not feel understood; he chose to shut off every voice because he had been disappointed and wounded by what he had heard," Leo XIV said.

He sounded literally like Francis: "Before anything else, Jesus offers him silent closeness, through gestures that speak of a profound encounter: He touches this man’s ears and tongue."

Jesus "invited" the man who had stopped listening and speaking: "It is as if Jesus were saying to him: 'Be opened to this world that frightens you! Be opened to the relationships that have disappointed you! Be opened to the life you have given up facing!'."

After the encounter with Jesus, that person not only begins to speak again and does so plainly.

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  Pediatricians call for ‘elimination of nonmedical exemptions’ from childhood vaccines
Posted by: Stone - 07-31-2025, 08:14 AM - Forum: Health - No Replies

Pediatricians call for ‘elimination of nonmedical exemptions’ from childhood vaccines
The vaccine cabal realizes that the public is now aware of the serious and irreversible neurological, developmental,
 and immune-related risks associated with childhood hyper-vaccination.

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Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Jul 31, 2025
(Focal Points) — The Bio‑Pharmaceutical Complex is in panic mode.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued a new policy statement calling for the complete elimination of all nonmedical vaccine exemptions for child care and school attendance. That means no religious exemptions, no philosophical exemptions — only medical exemptions granted under tightly controlled conditions.

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Why now? Because the vaccine cabal has realized that the public is now aware of the serious and irreversible neurological, developmental, and immune-related health risks associated with childhood hyper-vaccination of inadequately tested products.

READ: Massachusetts bill would eliminate religious exemptions for childhood vaccines

A new CDC‑funded national survey by Vasudevan et al has exposed a collapse in parental confidence in the childhood vaccine schedule:

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  • Only ~40% of pregnant participants and parents of young children said they would accept all recommended vaccines on schedule.
  • About 60% planned to delay, refuse, or were undecided about one or more routine childhood vaccines.
  • One‑third (33%) of parents of young children already refuse some or all vaccines outright.
  • Nearly half (48%) of first‑time pregnant women are undecided about vaccinating their baby at all.
This is why the vaccine cabal is scrambling to slam the door shut on choice — they know if freedom remains, vaccine uptake will continue to crater. Instead of asking why so many parents are rejecting their products, they are doubling down on coercion and mandates.

The public is awake now. The more they push, the more families will resist.

Reprinted with permission from Focal Points.

For respectful communications only: contact the American Academy of Pediatrics here.

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  Video: Rosary & Work of St. Joseph Wednesday July 30, 20255
Posted by: Deus Vult - 07-30-2025, 06:40 PM - Forum: July 2025 - No Replies

Rosary & Work of St. Joseph 
Wednesday  July 30, 2025


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  Holy Mass in Illinois [Chicago area] - August 4, 2025
Posted by: Stone - 07-30-2025, 09:43 AM - Forum: August 2025 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Dominic


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Date: Monday, August 4, 2025


Time: Confessions - TBA [in the AM]
             Holy Mass - TBA [in the AM]


Location: Chicago area - contact coordinator below for details


Contact: Bev 630-257-1995

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  Holy Mass in Illinois [Chicago area] - August 3, 2025
Posted by: Stone - 07-30-2025, 09:40 AM - Forum: August 2025 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Eighth Sunday after Pentecost


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Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025


Time: Confessions - 3:30 PM
             Holy Mass - 4:15 PM


Location: Chicago area - contact coordinator below for details


Contact: Bev 630-257-1995

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  Holy Mass in Wisconsin [Green Bay area] - August 3, 2025
Posted by: Stone - 07-30-2025, 09:36 AM - Forum: August 2025 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

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Date: Sunday, August 3, 2025


Time: Confessions - 7:30 AM
             Holy Mass - 8:00 AM


Location: TBD


Contact: Lisa 920-680-0077
                   lstachura71@gmail.com

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  Holy Mass in Minnesota [St. Paul area] - August 1, 2025
Posted by: Stone - 07-30-2025, 09:33 AM - Forum: August 2025 - No Replies

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of St. Peter's Chains [First Friday]

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Date: Friday, August 1, 2025


Time: Confessions - 5:45 PM
             Holy Mass - 6:15 PM


Location: Contact coordinator below for location details


Contactolgs.twincities@outlook.com

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  New secular study finds Vatican II triggered a decline in Catholic Mass attendance worldwide
Posted by: Stone - 07-30-2025, 09:16 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - Replies (2)

New secular study finds Vatican II triggered a decline in Catholic Mass attendance worldwide
Economic research found that religious service attendance in Catholic nations significantly decreased compared with all other countries beginning in 1965, the final year of Vatican II.

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(LifeSiteNews) — A newly published secular study found that Vatican II “triggered a decline” in worldwide Catholic Mass attendance relative to religious service attendance of other religions, including Protestant Christianity.

By examining the religious service attendance rates for 66 countries as far back as 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that “compared to other countries, Catholic countries experienced a steady decline in the monthly adult religious service attendance rate starting immediately after Vatican II” in 1965, the final year of the council.

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Catholic countries were defined as those with a Catholic population of 50% or greater and included nations such as Ireland, Italy, Austria, France, Brazil, the Philippines, and Mexico.

A graph representing the researchers’ data shows that monthly religious service attendance in Catholic countries decreased by at least 20 percentage points relative to that of all other countries as well as relative to “Christian” countries, with a significant decline seen first in the period from 1965 to 1974. Mass attendance in Catholic countries fell on average by four percentage points per decade from 1965 to 2015.

These findings accord with those of French historian Guillaume Cuchet, who in 2022 published an analysis that found 1965, the year the Second Vatican Council ended, marked the beginning of the “collapse” of the practice of Catholicism in France.

As Phil Lawler has noted, the findings of NBER regarding Vatican II’s effects on Mass attendance are noteworthy because NBER is a “heavyweight” economic research institution with “no dog in the fight” of Catholicism’s internal debates.

While NBER has not investigated what it was specifically about Vatican II that precipitated the steep worldwide drop in Mass attendance, its researchers have cited several potential factors proposed by author Andrew Greeley, including changes to the Mass itself, a new ecumenical outlook on other religions, and the abolishing the requirement of certain practices such as abstinence from meat on Fridays.

Significant changes to the Mass itself began with the implementation of The First Instruction on the Proper Implementation of the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy, Inter oecumenici, on March 7, 1965. While it aimed to make the Mass more “accessible” and palatable, its changes would have come across as foreign and even as a shock to a number of Catholics for whom the Mass had remained virtually unchanged their entire life.

For example, Inter oecumenici stipulated that “the main altar should preferably be freestanding, to permit walking around it and celebration facing the people.” This itself is a radical change, since it imposed a literal 180-degree reversal of the very orientation of the Mass.

Already in 1965, Psalm 42 at the beginning of the Mass, and the Last Gospel and Leonine prayers at the end were suppressed; the congregation was to recite the Our Father together with the priest; the lessons, epistle, and gospel were to be read or sung facing the people; in non-solemn Masses, laypeople were to “read the lessons and epistles with the intervening chants” as the priest sat and listened; Mass-goers were to say “Amen” before receiving Holy Communion.

As the French historian Cuchet noted in reference to declining Mass attendance, while these changes in ritual may seem “secondary to intellectuals,” they “are actually psychological and anthropological determinants.”

While liturgical changes would have been the most vivid and palpable of Vatican II’s effects for most Mass-going Catholics, researchers have argued that Vatican II’s apparent doctrinal shift should not be discounted.

“The explicit questioning of centuries-old doctrines, such as the forbidding of birth control, may have shattered the perception of an immovable, truth-holding Church and replaced it with a model whereby individuals had a more direct relationship with God and were, therefore, less dependent on the Church and its formal services,” noted the researchers, echoing Greeley.

While the Church went on to uphold its ban on contraception, it was leaked to the press in 1967 that a significant majority of the members of Pope Paul VI’s commission on birth control, including 60 of 64 theologians and nine of 15 cardinals, supported lifting the ban.

While the Catholic Church cannot change doctrine, Vatican II was unique in Church history for ambiguous statements that gave the widespread impression that the Church had changed its teaching. For example, Unitatis Redintegratio said it is sometimes permissible to hold common worship with non-Catholics, whereas at least three Church councils have explicitly prohibited praying in common with heretics.

For Catholics who may not have been keeping abreast of the changes of the Vatican II documents, the slew of changes in practice, such as the abandonment of certain devotional prayers and the “sudden silence” on the Four Last Things during sermons (Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell) may have similarly given the impression that the Church had undergone a substantial change in teaching. As Dr. John Pepino put it, while summarizing the research of Cuchet, “An institution that admits to having been wrong yesterday may well be wrong today, too.”

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  Fr. Hewko's Sermons: "Martha, Martha Thou Art Troubled About Many Things" 729/25
Posted by: Deus Vult - 07-30-2025, 07:35 AM - Forum: July 2025 - No Replies

"Martha, Martha Thou Art Troubled About Many Things" 
July 29, 2025  (NH)


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  Fr. Ruiz Sermons: 2025 07 27 SACERDOCIO CATÓLICO Y CRISIS SACERDOTAL
Posted by: Deus Vult - 07-29-2025, 08:30 AM - Forum: Fr. Ruiz's Sermons July 2025 - No Replies

SACERDOCIO CATÓLICO Y CRISIS SACERDOTAL
2025 07 27

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  Leo XIV Praises Flooding the West with Migrants: “Messengers of Hope”
Posted by: Stone - 07-26-2025, 09:56 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV - Replies (1)

Leo XIV Praises Flooding the West with Migrants: “Messengers of Hope”


gloria.tv | July26, 2025

"In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost, migrants and refugees are messengers of hope.” Pope Leo XIV wrote this in his message for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees, published on 25 July.

He added: "Their courage and tenacity bear heroic testimony to a faith that sees beyond what our eyes can see, giving them the strength to defy death on the various contemporary migration routes."

They can initiate "interreligious dialogue based on everyday life and the search for common values".

Flashback: At the same event in 2001, John Paul II acknowledged that uncontrolled migration "may cause harm and be detrimental to the common good of the receiving community".

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  Austrian Diocese Publishes Ritual for Homosexual "Blessings"
Posted by: Stone - 07-26-2025, 09:51 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism - No Replies

I'm sure similar language can be found in the Protestant denominations who also promote such 'blessings':



Austrian Diocese Publishes Ritual for Homosexual "Blessings"

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gloria.tv | July 24, 2025

When homosexual concubines or adulterers ask for a blessing “for their partnership,” it should not be denied them. This is what Bishop Josef Marketz of Klagenfurt, Austria, writes in the foreword to a recently published brochure on Blessing Ceremonies. The title of the foreword is: "Binding" Explanation.

The bishop continues: "If a priest does not wish to bless for personal reasons, he must not turn away same-sex couples. In this case, it is his duty to refer them to another priest, deacon, or authorized person."

The blessing can take place in a liturgical space or after a ceremony at the registry office, during the wedding meal, or at another location.

The brochure contains a sample ceremony including the laying on of hands:

Opening prayer:
Gracious God,
you bring people together in love
so that they may share their lives with one another.
Look kindly upon N. and N., who ask for your blessing,
and strengthen them and all your people in your love.
We ask this through Jesus Christ,
our brother and Lord,
who lives and works with you in the communion of the Holy Spirit,
now and forever. Amen.

The couple's prayer for blessing:
God of love and faithfulness,
today we stand before you,
(surrounded by family and friends).
We thank you that we have found each other.
We want to be there for each other,
in all situations of our lives.
We promise here with complete confidence,
to work for our mutual well-being,
day after day.
We ask: Give us the strength
to be faithful to each other and to support each other.
We trust in your closeness,
we hope for your assistance.

The person giving the blessing prays on behalf of the congregation and may lay hands on the couple:
God and Father,
we surround N. and N. with our prayers today.
You know their hearts and the path
they will walk together from now on.
Make their bond with each other strong and faithful.
Let their home be filled with understanding,
tolerance and care,
reconciliation and peace.
May the love they share carry them through their lives,
strengthen them in their commitment to the church and society.
Give us the strength to walk with them,
together in the footsteps of your Son
and strengthened by your Holy Spirit.
Amen.

Intercessions (suggestion):
God, you love all people. We come to you with our prayers:
1. We pray for N. and N. Accompany them in their love for each other and for their fellow human beings.
2. Let them feel your loving presence in all the ups and downs of their relationship.
3. May they be well cared for by their family and friends.
4. Bless all those who celebrate with them and who are entrusted to them in their lives.
5. Welcome the deceased members of their families (today we remember N. in particular) into your kingdom of love and peace.
God, our good Father, we bring all these concerns and the requests in our hearts to you, who love us all. To you be praise and honor, now and forever. Amen.

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Star Fr. Hewko :7th Sun After Pentecost 7/27/25 “By Their Fruits You Will Know Them”
Posted by: Deus Vult - 07-25-2025, 10:03 PM - Forum: July 2025 - No Replies

Mass for the  Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
“By Their Fruits You Will Know Them”
July 27 2025  (St. Catharine's)




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Photo Fr. Hewko's Sermons: St. Anne, Mother of BVM “Grandmother of O.L. Jesus Christ” 7/26
Posted by: Deus Vult - 07-25-2025, 09:50 PM - Forum: July 2025 - No Replies

St. Anne, Mother of BVM July 26 2025
“Grandmother of Our Lord Jesus Christ”   (NH)

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  Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s Holy Wisdom on the Crisis in the Catholic Church
Posted by: Stone - 07-25-2025, 09:34 AM - Forum: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre - No Replies

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s Holy Wisdom on the Crisis in the Catholic Church

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Robert Morrison, Remnant Columnist | July 23, 2025

Understanding this holy wisdom from Archbishop Lefebvre does not make the crisis go away, but it does help us serve God without feeling “lost and confused” because of what we see from Rome. Perhaps this is why those who seek to perpetuate the crisis in the Church never stop trying to disparage the man who did more than anyone else to oppose the Vatican II revolution and preserve the Traditional Latin Mass.

One of the many interesting aspects of Diane Montagna’s report on the document which purportedly served as the pretext for Francis’s overturning of Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum was the document’s discussion of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre:

“Regarding the second objection, it should be recalled that the MP Summorum Pontificum was not intended for the SSPX; they already had access to what was granted by the MP Summorum Pontificum and therefore did not need it. Rather, the MP Summorum Pontificum stands in unity and completion, as an organic and coherent development, to the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei Adflicta of John Paul II, by which the Polish Pontiff sought to save many Catholics who were lost and confused and at risk of schism following the episcopal ordinations carried out by Archbishop Lefebvre.”

So, according to the Vatican document that supposedly provided the justification for Traditionis Custodes, we are to believe that Catholics were “lost and confused” because of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s 1988 consecration of bishops without Rome’s permission, as though Catholics had been quite comfortable with the changes that had taken place since Vatican II up until that point. To appreciate the sheer lunacy of this suggestion, we merely need to consider Paul VI’s 1972 statement about the state of affairs after the Council:
Quote:“Through some cracks the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God: there is doubt, uncertainty, problematic, anxiety, confrontation. One does not trust the Church anymore; one trusts the first prophet that comes to talk to us from some newspapers or some social movement, and then rush after him and ask him if he held the formula of real life. And we fail to perceive, instead, that we are the masters of life already. Doubt has entered our conscience, and it has entered through windows that were supposed to be opened to the light instead. . . Even in the Church this state of uncertainty rules. One thought that after the Council there would come a shiny day for the history of the Church. A cloudy day came instead, a day of tempest, gloom, quest, and uncertainty. We preach ecumenism and drift farther and farther from the others. We attempt to dig abysses instead of fillin

Paul VI rendered this cataclysmic assessment of the state of the Church over a decade before John Paul II’s prayer meeting at Assisi, which only magnified the confusion of serious Catholics. Obviously, then, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s 1988 actions cannot seriously be blamed for making Catholics feel “lost and confused.” Rather, it is certain that Archbishop Lefebvre accurately diagnosed the actual source of confusion in his 1986 book, Open Letter to Confused Catholics:
[quote]“Who can deny that Catholics in the latter part of the twentieth century are confused? A glance at what has happened in the Church over the past twenty years is enough to convince anyone that this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Only a short time ago the path was clearly marked: either one followed it or one did not. One had the Faith — or perhaps had lost it — or had never had it. But he who had it — who had entered the Church through baptism, who had renewed his baptismal promises around the age of twelve and had received the Holy Ghost on the day of his confirmation — such a person knew what he had to believe and what he had to do. Many today no longer know.  They hear all sorts of astonishing statements in the churches, they read things contrary to what was always taught, and doubt has crept into their minds. . . We naturally ask,  therefore, what brought on this state of things? For every effect there is a cause. Has faith been weakened by a disappearance of generosity of soul, by a taste for enjoyment, an attraction to the pleasures of life and the manifold distractions which the modern world offers? These cannot be the real reasons, because they have always been with us in one way or another. The rapid decline in religious practice comes rather from the new spirit which has been introduced into the Church and which has cast suspicion over all past teachings and life of the Church.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, p. 1)

Thus, the real source of confusion was, and remains, the new spirit which has “cast suspicion over all past teachings and life of the Church.”

As confusing as the crisis is, though, God permitted Archbishop Lefebvre to leave us both a clear explanation of the causes of the crisis and a well-marked path of what we must do to persevere in the Faith as the crisis continues. The quotations from Archbishop Lefebvre that follow ring more true today than they did when he wrote them decades ago, and illuminate the road ahead as we try to remain faithful Catholics.

In His Loving Providence, God Permits This Great Crisis in the Church for Our Sanctification. “Providence has allowed this painful crisis in the Church for our sanctification and in order to give more brightness to the pure gold of its doctrine and its means of redemption. This passion of the Church is a great mystery, for it reaches chiefly its hierarchy, its scholars, who seem to no longer know who they are and the reasons of their being appointed. Satan, the father of lies, as Our Lord Jesus calls him, has the extraordinary talent of finding out some words, to which he assigns a new meaning so that from their ambiguity, he achieves acceptance of the destructive falsehood which overthrows the best established societies. He found it in this “ecumenism” of the Council which has created an ecumenical liturgy, an ecumenical Bible, and ecumenical catechism, uniting truth and falsehood - marrying the true and the false.” (1978 Letter to Friends and Benefactors)

The Church’s Enemies Have Caused the Crisis Because They Seek to Hide and Distort Catholicism’s Objective Truth. “The Church is necessarily, fundamentally opposed to Freemasonry. They affirm that truth is relative, we, that it is objective. They declare that there are no dogmas, and we, that there is a revealed truth and dogmas. Accord is therefore impossible. That is why the Freemasons will continue to do everything, as Leo XIII affirmed, to attempt to destroy the Church, because, necessarily, she is against them. There is an essential incompatibility. Their naturalist principle is in formal opposition to the Church’s doctrine.” (Against the Heresies, p. 83)

Much of the Real Damage Occurred Prior to Vatican II. “My personal experience never ceases to amaze me. These bishops for the most part were fellow students with me in Rome, trained in the same manner. And then, all of a sudden, I found myself alone. But I have invented nothing new; I was carrying on. Cardinal Garrone even said to me one day: ‘They deceived us at the French Seminary in Rome.’ Deceived us in what? Had he not himself taught the children of his catechism class thousands of times, before the Council, the Act of Faith: ‘My God, I firmly believe all the truths Thou hast revealed and that Thy Church doth teach, because Thou canst neither deceive nor be deceived’? How have all these bishops been able to metamorphose themselves in this manner? I can see only one explanation: they were always in France and they let themselves become gradually infected. In Africa I was protected. I came back the year of the Council, when the harm had already been done. Vatican II only opened the gates which were holding back the devastating flood. In no time at all, even before the end of the fourth session, it was catastrophic. Everything, almost, was to be swept away; prayer first of all.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, p. 8)

But the Turning Point Came at the Council, With the Majority of Bishops Going Along with the Church’s Enemies. “Having assisted at the dramatic contest between Cardinal Bea, representing Liberalism, and Cardinal Ottaviani, representing the doctrine fo the Church, it was clear after the vote of the seventy cardinals that the rupture was consummated. One could thing, without fooling oneself, that the support of the Pope would go to the Liberals. But henceforth this problem was in broad daylight! What would the bishops do, aware of the danger which threatened the Church? All could see the triumph, within the Church, of new ideas, born of the Revolution and the Lodges: 250 cardinals and bishops rejoiced at the victory, 250 were horror-stricken, 1,750 tried not to ask questions, but simply followed the Pope: ‘. . . we shall see to it later!’” (Spiritual Journey, p. vi-vii)

The Enduring Source of the Crisis Is an Adulterous Union of the Church and Revolution, Which Places Truth and Error on the Same Level. “The adulterous union of the Church and the Revolution is cemented by ‘dialogue.’ Our Lord said ‘Go, teach all nations and convert them.' He did not say ‘Hold dialogue with them but don’t try to convert them.’ Truth and error are incompatible; to dialogue with error is to put God and the devil on the same footing. This is what the Popes have always repeated and what was easy for Christians to understand because it is also a matter of common sense. In order to impose different attitudes and reactions it was necessary to do some indoctrinating so as to make modernists of the clergy needed to spread the new doctrine. This is what is called ‘recycling,’ a conditioning process intended to refashion the very faculty God gave man to direct his judgment.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, p. 112)

It Has Been the Masterstroke of Satan to Trick Catholics Into Disobeying Tradition Through False Obedience to the Revolution. "In fact ‘the masterstroke of Satan has been to trick the Church through obedience into disobeying her Tradition.’ The Church was going to destroy herself by obeying revolutionary principles brought inside the Church by the authorities of the Church. From 1968 onwards, did not Paul VI himself speak publicly of the ‘auto-demolition of the Church’? On June 29, 1972, he admitted: ‘Through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God . . . Satan . . . has come to spoil and wither the fruits of the Council.’ Paul did not want to see where the crack was. Marcel saw it and denounced it: it lay in the break with Tradition. Already, however, the Archbishop felt that his foresight would get him condemned: ‘Satan has played a masterstroke: those who keep the Faith are condemned by those who should defend and propagate it!’” (from the Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais biography of Archbishop Lefebvre, p. 468)

However, If We Love the Church, We Must Remain Faithful to Tradition. “That is why we hold fast to all that has been believed and practiced in the faith, morals, liturgy, teaching of the catechism, formation of the priest and institution of the Church, by the Church of all time; to all these things as codified in those books which saw day before the Modernist influence of the Council. This we shall do until such time that the true light of Tradition dissipates the darkness obscuring the sky of Eternal Rome. By doing this, with the grace of God and the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that of St. Joseph and St. Pius X, we are assured of remaining faithful to the Roman Catholic Church and to all the successors of Peter, and of being the fideles dispensatores mysteriorum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Spiritu Sancto.” (1974 Declaration)

If We Have Any Doubts About Which Path to Follow, We Can Simply Judge by Fruits. "Traveling a great deal, I see everywhere at work the hand of Christ blessing His Church. . . . In the United States, young married couples with their numerous children flock to the Society’s priests. In 1982 in that country I ordained the first three priests trained entirely in our seminaries. Groups of traditionalists are on the increase whereas the parishes are declining. Ireland, which has remained refractory towards the novelties, has been subject to the reforms since 1980, altars having been cast into rivers or re-used as building material. Simultaneously, traditionalist groups have formed in Dublin and Belfast. . . . It is therefore the right road we are following; the proof is there, we recognize the tree by its fruits.” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, pp. 161-162)

By Following the Path of Tradition, We Will Do All We Can Until the Blessed Virgin Mary Triumphs. “As for me, I will not resign; I will not content myself with being present, my arms dangling, at the death-throes of my Mother the Holy Church. . . If this is how things are, you will understand that, in spite of everything, I am not a pessimist. The Holy Virgin will have the victory. She will triumph over the great apostasy, the fruit of Liberalism. One more reason not to twiddle our thumbs! We have to fight more than ever for the social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In this battle, we are not alone: we have with us all the Popes up through Pius XII inclusively. All of them combatted Liberalism in order to deliver the Church from it. God did not grant that they succeed, but this is no reason to lay down our weapons! We have to hold on. We have to build, while the others are demolishing.” (They Have Uncrowned Him, pp. 250-251)

Understanding this holy wisdom from Archbishop Lefebvre does not make the crisis go away, but it does help us serve God without feeling “lost and confused” because of what we see from Rome. Perhaps this is why those who seek to perpetuate the crisis in the Church never stop trying to disparage the man who did more than anyone else to oppose the Vatican II revolution and preserve the Traditional Latin Mass. Far from causing us to turn away from Archbishop Lefebvre’s keen insights, this unabated persecution of the saintly defender of the Faith should make his wisdom shine forth more brightly for those of us who need light in the darkness of the ongoing crisis.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!

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