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Posted by: Stone - 07-25-2025, 09:24 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Shared on gloria.tv:
Guilty Of Treason (1950, Biography) Behind the Iron Curtain
When Roman Catholic Cardinal Mindszenty (Charles Bickford) boldly defies the iron curtain's shadow, he finds himself caught in a high-stakes game of spiritual chess against ruthless Soviet officials. Meanwhile, brave teacher Stephanie Varna (Bonita Granville) and determined journalist Tom Kelly (Paul Kelly) dance with danger as they navigate a Budapest battleground where speaking truth becomes the ultimate act of rebellion! Original title: Guilty Of Treason (1950) AKA: As We See Russia
Director: Felix E. Feist Writers: Emmet Lavery, József Cardinal Mindszenty Actors: Charles Bickford, Bonita Granville, Paul Kelly
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Movie can be viewed online in this link.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: He Will Not Kneel to Error (For the Man in the Pew – No. 1) |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-24-2025, 06:58 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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He Will Not Kneel to Error (For the Man in the Pew – No. 1)
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The Catholic Trumpet | July 23, 2025
The phrase was quiet, but it landed heavy. It came from Fr. Paul Robinson of the new SSPX during a public defense of the Society’s decision to accept priests with doubtful Novus Ordo ordinations without always conditionally reordaining them. With measured tone, he referenced Bishop Fellay, spoke of trust in the bishops, and then dismissed the growing concern of faithful Catholics with one phrase:
“For the man in the pew.”
The meaning was clear. Do not question. Do not search. Leave it to the superiors.
But that is not the spirit of Catholic Tradition. And it is not the voice of +Archbishop Lefebvre.
The man in the pew is not a passive observer. He is the father who carries the Faith into his home. He is the mother who teaches catechism by candlelight. He is the convert who walked out of the Novus Ordo and will not go back. He is the one who kneels when no one else does. Who prays when the Church seems silent. Who asks hard questions because his soul, and his family’s souls, depend on the answers.
We are not theologians. We are not scholars. But we are Catholics. And we remember what our ancestors did when the Faith was threatened. The peasants of the Vendée. The Cristeros. The recusants in the dark days of England. They did not wait for permission to stay faithful. They did not hide behind titles. They stood, poor and unnoticed, but firm.
It was not rebellion. It was love of the Faith.
We are not against bishops. We are not above priests. But when silence becomes policy and compromise replaces clarity, it is not wrong to speak. It is right.
Because the man in the pew still believes what the Church has always taught. And he will not be quiet just because it makes others comfortable.
He is awake. He is watching. And he will not kneel to error.
[See also: SSPX attempts to explain their new change of direction re conditional reordinations]
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| Holy Mass in Canada [St. Catharines area] - July 27, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-23-2025, 03:27 PM - Forum: July 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, July 27, 2025
Time: Confessions - 9:00 AM
Holy Mass - 9:30 AM
Location: Glenridge Lawn Bowling Club
84 Glen Morris Dr.
St. Catharine's, Ontario
Contact: (905) 682-3444
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| "Rome and Constantinople are not called to vie for primacy" - Leo XIV Contradicts Leo I |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-22-2025, 07:54 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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"Rome and Constantinople are not called to vie for primacy" - Leo XIV Contradicts Leo I
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gloria.tv | July 21, 2025
Pope Leo XIV said on July 17 in Castel Gandolfo to a group of byzantine Catholics from the USA:
Quote:"Unity among those who believe in Christ is one of the signs of God’s gift of consolation; Scripture promises that 'in Jerusalem you will be comforted' (Is 66:13). Rome, Constantinople and all the other Sees, are not called to vie for primacy, lest we risk finding ourselves like the disciples who along the way, even as Jesus was announcing his coming passion, argued about which of them was the greatest (cf. Mk 9:33-37)."
However, Catholicism teaches that the primacy belongs to the Pope.
Pope Leo I (†461)
“The See of Constantinople cannot be made equal to that of Rome.”
Council of Florence (1439)
“We define that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff holds the primacy over the whole world; and that the Roman Pontiff is the successor of the blessed Peter, prince of the Apostles, and the true vicar of Christ, the head of the whole Church, and the father and teacher of all Christians.”
First Vatican Council (1870)
“If anyone says that the Roman Pontiff has merely an office of supervision and guidance, and not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church... let him be anathema.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
“The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, ‘is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.’ For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.”
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| Opinion: Rome Only Blinks When You Push |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-21-2025, 02:08 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Mr. Jackson's picture is incomplete - he passes over in silence those priests and laity of the True Resistance who have stood up to both the new conciliar-SSPX and the fake Resistance [which allows for many of the same doctrinal errors of the now conciliar-SSPX with respect to the New Mass, etc].
But his overall point is well made.
Rome Only Blinks When You Push
Turns out Rome doesn’t reward loyalty, it rewards leverage.
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Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | July 21, 2025
Let’s stop pretending. If you’re still waiting for Rome to reward docility with doctrinal clarity or liturgical protections, it’s time to wake up. The evidence is in. The path to concessions, respect, and liturgical preservation doesn’t run through obedience. It runs through rupture.
No one wants to say that out loud, but the proof is right in front of us. Has it ever been clearer?
Orthodox in Schism, Orthodox Untouchable
Start with the Orthodox. Officially outside the Church for nearly a millennium. They reject Vatican I. They don’t believe in papal infallibility or universal jurisdiction. They’ve lit candles to mutual excommunications and walked away from reunion councils.
So what does Leo XIV do?
Smiles, embraces, ecumenical photo-ops. And now, this: “Rome and Constantinople are not called to vie for primacy.” That’s going beyond ecumenism to capitulation. It’s a pope publicly walking back what a prior pope defined as divinely revealed dogma.
And yet no one bats an eye.
Eastern Rite Catholics get their Divine Liturgy untouched. No guitars. No clown Masses. No inculturated dance processions. Their liturgical dignity was preserved for one reason and one reason only: the Orthodox Schism.
If Bugnini had gotten his hands on them without the Orthodox to flee to, they’d be reciting Eucharistic Prayer II in track suits by now. But Rome’s fear of these Catholics leaving for the Orthodox kept them safe. That’s the reality.
SSPX: Results Through Resistance
Now shift to the Society of St. Pius X. Excommunicated in 1988 or so we were told. For decades they were treated as pariahs, “not in full communion,” sniffed the bureaucrats. But what did the SSPX do in return?
They kept building chapels. Kept training priests. Kept publicly calling out the postconciliar popes for heresy, blasphemy, apostasy, you name it. Lefebvre’s spiritual sons were the last public voice of clarity in a Church drunk on aggiornamento.
And what happened?
Rome blinked.
We got the 1988 Indult. Then Ecclesia Dei. Then Summorum Pontificum. Then a sudden discovery: the Latin Mass had never been abrogated after all. Funny how that worked.
Doctrinal talks followed, and they weren’t just one-sided lectures. Rome conceded, at least implicitly, that some documents of Vatican II might not be binding. They told the SSPX, in essence, “You can come back without accepting everything.” Try saying that to a diocesan trad.
Resistance got results. Public confrontation made space for tradition. Everyone knows it even if they don’t want to admit it.
Then Came the Silence and the Collapse
But after 2012, something changed. The SSPX went quiet. In the last letter of Bishop Williamson to the faithful he quoted a priest who was leaving the SSPX with many of his congregation:
Quote:What we came to realize was that, for all practical purposes, the Society of St. Pius X had become in effect the tenth religious Congregation to have rallied to the Conciliar Church. Even if no deal has yet been signed, the principle of such a deal was adopted by the July 2012 General Chapter. For indeed, however few or many conditions the SSPX leaders might insist on for such an eventual deal, they decided that the Society could henceforth sign a pact with those who are relentlessly changing the Catholic Faith…
The present management of the Society is stamping out dissent and expelling critics…
And if we ask when we can fully trust the SSPX again, the answer is the same: when all SSPX leaders and priests of the Society who have promoted the new line will be demoted; when the texts of the 2012 Chapter will be properly condemned; when the faithful priests will be vindicated by the new management; when a book on the history of this crisis will be published and read yearly in our communities; when a new General Chapter will abjure any contact with Conciliar authorities, until Rome has cleaned up its mess.
Let us merely do our duty, give glory to God, and let Him deal with our former colleagues who are in danger of compromising. We pray and sacrifice for their conversion, sure enough. But compromise, and put ourselves in harm’s way? Never! Nevertheless, let us remain united with them in prayer.
In effect, Francis took the Chair, and suddenly the firebrand critiques faded. The Society stopped calling out the daily scandals. No more public condemnations. No more naming the errors of the new regime.
And then what did Rome do?
They gave the new kinder, gentler SSPX its private pay-out: jurisdiction for confessions and marriages, ceased condemnations, no new charges of schism.
And what did the rest of us get?
Traditionis Custodes.
Diocesan Latin Masses shut down. FSSP priests cornered into ghettos. Public declarations that the Novus Ordo is now “the unique expression” of the Roman Rite. Summorum was torched, and with it, any illusion that good behavior earns you favor.
The SSPX’s silence bought them protection. Everyone else got crushed.
Obedience Is for the Outcasts
Let’s be blunt: Rome rewards disobedience. In practice, those who resist get courted. Those who submit get sidelined.
The Orthodox reject Rome outright? They don’t have to accept Roman primacy, Leo speaks of changing our Easter date to theirs, Rome allows Eastern Rite Catholics to revere schismatic Orthodox Saints locally, and Rome gives Eastern Rite Catholics zero interference in their liturgy for fear they will flee.
The SSPX loudly call out heresy for 18 years, illicitly ordain priests and consecrate bishops, invade the bishops’ dioceses and disobediently offer the Latin Mass and old sacraments to the faithful? Rome suddenly approves the FSSP to say the TLM and use the old sacraments, issues Ecclesia Dei opening up the diocesan TLM with bishop approval. Then 20 years later, after even more vocal SSPX resistance and growth, Rome offers to compromise on Vatican II, lifts the “excommunications,” admits the Latin Mass was “never abrogated,” and frees it for all Catholics.
You obediently attend the diocesan TLM, support your bishop, pray for the pope? You get locked doors, Mass cancellations, and a lecture on Vatican II.
But for any of this to work, it has to cost Rome something. One man resisting doesn’t move the dial. A dozen priests in exile doesn’t either. What forces Rome’s hand is numbers: mass defections from the pews, entire families fleeing to chapels outside diocesan control, vocations drying up, donations vanishing. In other words: Rome only notices when a rival center of gravity starts pulling people, and legitimacy, away from the Conciliar machine. That’s what the Orthodox have. That’s what the old SSPX built. A competing brand Rome could reclaim, but only by rolling back its own revolution. And the only way to make them consider that? Be big enough that ignoring you becomes a liability.
This is the reward structure. It works. That’s all Rome seems to care about.
A Note to the Silent Sons of Archbishop Lefebvre
There are still priests in the Society who know all this. They were formed in the days when calling out Rome’s heresies wasn’t controversial, it was the daily apostolate. They remember when the SSPX was feared by the Vatican, not flattered. They know that Summorum Pontificum wasn’t the result of compromise, it was the fruit of confrontation.
So here’s the question: if LifeSite News can be reclaimed by its faithful after an attempted coup, why can’t the Society reclaim its original mission?
The men who took back LifeSite didn’t wait for permission. They saw the direction things were going, softness, silence, strategic surrender, and said: not on our watch. And they acted. Traditions don’t defend themselves. And neither will the legacy of Archbishop Lefebvre, unless his sons decide it’s time to start fighting again.
If they do, they won’t be alone.
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