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| The Love of Eternal Wisdom by St. Louis De Montfort |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-18-2025, 07:52 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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THE LOVE OF ETERNAL WISDOM
CONTENTS:
Prayer to Eternal Wisdom
Preliminary observations
CHAPTER 1. TO LOVE AND SEEK DIVINE WISDOM WE NEED TO KNOW HIM
1. Our need to acquire knowledge of divine Wisdom
2. Definition and division of the subject
CHAPTER 2. ORIGIN AND EXCELLENCE OF ETERNAL WISDOM
1. Wisdom in reference to the Father
2. The activity of eternal Wisdom in souls
CHAPTER 3. THE MARVELOUS POWER OF DIVINE WISDOM SHOWN IN THE CREATION OF THE WORLD AND MAN
1. In the creation of the world
2. In the creation of man
CHAPTER 4. MARVELS OF WISDOM'S GOODNESS AND MERCY BEFORE HIS INCARNATION
1. The Incarnation is decreed
2. The time before the Incarnation
CHAPTER 5. MARVELOUS EXCELLENCE OF ETERNAL WISDOM
CHAPTER 6. EARNEST DESIRE OF DIVINE WISDOM TO GIVE HIMSELF TO MEN
1. Eternal Wisdom's letter of love
2. Incarnation, Death and the Eucharist
3. The ingratitude of those who refuse
CHAPTER 7. CHOICE OF TRUE WISDOM
1. Wisdom of the world
2. Natural wisdom
CHAPTER 8. MARVELOUS EFFECTS OF WISDOM IN THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO POSSESS HIM
CHAPTER 9. THE INCARNATION AND LIFE OF ETERNAL WISDOM
1. The Incarnation
2. Life of Wisdom Incarnate [Jesus Christ]
CHAPTER 10. THE CAPTIVATING BEAUTY AND THE INEXPRESSIBLE GENTLENESS OF INCARNATE WISDOM
1. Wisdom is gentle in his origin
2. He is declared gentle by the Prophets
3. He is gentle in his name
4. He is gentle in his looks
5. He is gentle in his words
CHAPTER 11. THE GENTLENESS OF THE INCARNATE WISDOM IN HIS ACTIONS
6. He is gentle in his actions
7. He continues to be gentle in heaven
CHAPTER 12. THE PRINCIPAL SAYINGS OF WISDOM INCARNATE WHICH WE MUST BELIEVE AND PRACTICE IF WE ARE TO BE SAVED
CHAPTER 13. SUMMARY OF THE UNBELIEVABLE SORROWS THE INCARNATE WISDOM CHOSE TO ENDURE OUT OF LOVE FOR US
1. The most convincing reason for loving Wisdom
2. The circumstances of his Passion
3. The great love with which he suffered
CHAPTER 14. THE TRIUMPH OF ETERNAL WISDOM IN AND BY THE CROSS
1. Wisdom and the Cross
2. The Cross and ourselves
CHAPTER 15. MEANS TO ACQUIRE DIVINE WISDOM
1. THE FIRST MEANS: AN ARDENT DESIRE
2. THE SECOND MEANS: CONTINUOUS PRAYER
CHAPTER 16. THE THIRD MEANS: UNIVERSAL MORTIFICATION
1. Necessity of Mortification
2. Qualities required for mortification
CHAPTER 17. FOURTH MEANS: A LOVING AND GENUINE DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN
1. Necessity of genuine devotion to Mary
2 What genuine devotion to Mary consists in
CONSECRATION OF ONESELF TO JESUS CHRIST, WISDOM INCARNATE, THROUGH THE HANDS OF MARY
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Fighting with the Queen Against the Revolution |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-18-2025, 07:03 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Fighting with the Queen Against the Revolution
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | July 17, 2025
Millions today pray the Rosary. Thanks be to God. But if that Rosary is said while remaining in the Conciliar Church, attending the New Mass, or accepting Vatican II, it is not resistance. It is camouflage.
As St. Louis de Montfort warned:
Quote:“The devil, like a false coiner, puts out a great deal of counterfeit devotion to Mary…” (True Devotion to Mary, §90)
Our Lady is not a sentimental symbol. She is the Destroyer of All Heresies. She does not negotiate with error. She crushes it.
At Lepanto, the Rosary won a miraculous victory over the Turks. In the Vendée, peasants tied Rosaries to their rifles and died for the Mass. In Mexico, Cristeros shouted “¡Viva Cristo Rey y Santa María!” as they resisted Masonic tyranny. In Japan, hidden Catholics clung to the Rosary for 200 years rather than attend one false Mass.
These were not ecumenical gestures. They were acts of war. True Marian devotion is always counter-revolutionary.
Yet today, many pray the Rosary while accepting the false religion of Vatican II, a Council that taught religious liberty, praised heresies, and replaced the true Mass with a man-centered fabrication. This is not Marian. This is betrayal dressed as piety.
Quote:“The Church which affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is, therefore, not Catholic.” —Archbishop Lefebvre, 1976
If you love Mary, you must reject the revolution that hijacked her Son’s Church.
To fight with Mary means:
- Rejecting Vatican II, entirely.
- Refusing the New Mass, completely.
- Praying the Rosary, daily.
- Embracing the Tridentine Faith, without compromise.
- Consecrating yourself to the Immaculata, totally.
This is the path of the martyrs, the faithful remnant, and the true children of Our Lady.
Quote:“Only the Immaculata has from God the promise of victory over Satan.” —Maximilian Kolbe
You can pray the Rosary and still serve the revolution.
Or you can pray it as a soldier, with fire, in truth, at war.
Choose.
Because the Rosary is enough, when it is the Rosary of battle.
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| Leo’s War on Consecrated Life Continues: Foxes are Running the Henhouse |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-17-2025, 07:51 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo’s War on Consecrated Life Continues: Same-Sex Blessers and Amazon Rite Advocates Now Oversee Traditional Orders
A new Vatican junta takes shape. One that venerates Pachamama more than St. Benedict.
Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile [emphasis mine, slightly adapted and reformatted] | Jun 25, 2025
What better way to safeguard the future of consecrated life than by handing it over to men who bless same-sex couples, advocate pagan syncretism, and treat the priesthood like a job-share? That, apparently, is Leo XIV’s vision, judging by his June 24 appointments to the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL): the Vatican body tasked with overseeing religious orders, including those attached to the Latin Mass.
The lineup is nothing short of a theological provocation. Among the newly appointed members are Cardinal Arthur Roche, the liturgical arsonist of the Francis era; Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, a full-throated defender of Fiducia Supplicans and its same-sex “pastoral blessings”; and Cardinal Jaime Spengler, the Brazilian prelate actively pushing for an Amazonian rite steeped in indigenous paganism and “open” to married clergy.
All three will now have a voice in the very dicastery responsible for regulating the FSSP, the Institute of Christ the King, and other traditional religious institutes. In other words: the foxes are now running the henhouse.
The Return of Cardinal Roche: Liturgical Hostility Elevated
Roche’s place in this cabal is no surprise. As the enforcer of Traditionis Custodes, he spent the better part of the last decade snuffing out the Latin Mass wherever it dared to bloom. His disgust for traditional piety is well documented; so much so that a senior member of his office once reportedly expressed dismay at the success of the Chartres pilgrimage purely because it featured the Tridentine liturgy.
Now installed at DICLSAL, Roche will have a hand in scrutinizing the constitutions, leadership, and very existence of traditional communities. The man who once called the old Mass a “threat to unity” is now positioned to determine whether the monks, nuns, and priests who love it will even be allowed to exist.
Cristóbal Romero: Fiducia’s Favorite Salesman
Cardinal Romero, Archbishop of Rabat, is best known for his ideological loyalty to Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s Trojan horse for same-sex blessings. After most of Africa rightly rejected the document, Romero issued a statement urging Catholics to “avoid any spirit of controversy” and accept the declaration as a deepening of “discernment.”
In other words, shut up and bless it.
Romero has insisted that even “irregular couples” asking for blessings deserve the benefit of the doubt. Gone is any fear of scandal. Gone is clarity. What remains is a muddle of emotional affirmations posing as mercy; all designed to baptize moral disorder.
This is the man who will now help decide the fate of religious congregations bound to traditional vows, traditional morals, and traditional theology.
Spengler’s Jungle Rite and the March of the Viri Probati
Cardinal Spengler, president of the Latin American Bishops’ Conference, has long danced on the edge of doctrinal disaster. His flirtation with an Amazon rite, including pagan symbolism and indigenous rituals, has been well documented. He praises the “dignity” of tribal inculturation and hints at approving the ordination of married men as a pastoral necessity.
When asked about blessing homosexual couples, Spengler offered the kind of sentimental drivel that passes for pastoral wisdom today: “Are they people? If they are people, they deserve our respect.” It’s the theological equivalent of “Love is love.” And now, this same man will help determine whether a traditional Carmelite monastery in the Alps is sufficiently “synodal.”
Inculturation or Infiltration?
With Spengler now a voting member of the dicastery overseeing religious life, his long flirtation with a new Amazonian rite takes on new gravity. The process of inventing a syncretistic liturgy, complete with tribal dress, clay incense bowls, and ambiguous gestures toward the divine, is already underway. The very bishops Spengler represents have openly admitted that these practices stem from indigenous pagan rituals. They are not merely inculturated Catholicism, but the sacral forms of another religion, now invited into the sanctuary.
In 2019, Rome welcomed Pachamama to St. Peter’s. In 2025, we may see her liturgy receive ecclesial approval.
And who will approve it? The same men now overseeing traditional religious life. The same men who want monks in sandals and rainbow stoles, not cowls and cassocks. In their hands, the question is no longer whether religious life should be conformed to Christ, but whether it can be adapted to every authentically “human need,” a category so elastic it now includes blessing mortal sin and rewriting the Mass to appease local spirits.
The Real Target: The Few Orders Still Faithful
Let us not forget why this dicastery matters. DICLSAL has been the Vatican’s preferred instrument for strangling traditional religious life. Under Francis, it produced Cor Orans, the document that wiped out the autonomy of contemplative convents. It’s the same dicastery that now demands bishops get Vatican approval before founding any new religious institute; effectively blocking new traditional communities from ever forming.
It now boasts a female religious as prefect (Sr. Simona Brambilla) and a laywoman on its governing body. Welcome to the synodal Church, where governance without ordination is a feature, not a bug.
This is no longer the age of St. Bernard or St. Teresa of Ávila. It is the age of Brambilla and Roche.
Conclusion: Not Reform, But Reeducation
The few remnants of faithful religious life, those who cling to the old Mass, the old vows, the old teachings, are being placed under the control of men who have openly rejected them. This is not a matter of governance or oversight, but a hostile takeover.
And as the Latin Mass communities undergo visitations, restructurings, and “pastoral dialogues,” the same prelates who promote syncretism and moral ambiguity will smile from their thrones in Rome, reminding us that “discernment” is the new doctrine and “unity” the new faith.
But faithful Catholics should not be fooled. This is not unity or discernment. This is coercion.
And the war on consecrated life is no longer waged in shadows. It now marches under the banner of synodality: blessing irregular unions, praising Amazonian rituals, and silencing what remains of the sacred.
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| Half of Polish Priests Say They Were Attacked Last Year |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-17-2025, 07:38 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Half of Polish Priests Say They Were Attacked Last Year
gloria.tv | July 16, 2025
A recent survey by the Church's Institute of Statistics (ISKK) has revealed a concerning increase in violence against priests in Poland (Zenit.org, 14 July). Based on 996 responses, the findings show that almost half of the clergy surveyed (49.7%) had experienced some form of aggression in the previous 12 months.
- 41.6% faced verbal abuse (threats and name-calling)
- 33.6 % experienced online harassment
- 19% had aggression directed towards church properties
- 10.8% reported physical or property damage.
The survey indicates that most incidents go unreported. Over 80% of priests did not file formal reports, often because they did not consider the incidents to be serious enough, or because they lacked trust in the authorities.
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| Our Lady of Humility - July 17th |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-17-2025, 06:19 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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The Humility of Mary
By St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)
Most Zealous Doctor of the Church
The Humility of Mary
Excerpt from: “ The Glories of Mary”
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anastpaul.com [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | July 17, 2022
NB: The Feast of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary was included in the General Roman Calendar of 1954 among the feasts ‘pro aliquibus locis’ (in some places) but was removed from the General Roman Calendar of 1960. However, many Diocese worldwide still celebrate this beautiful Feast as do all Traditional Catholics.
“Humility” says St. Bernard, “is the foundation and guardian of virtues” and with reason, for without it, no other virtue can exist in a soul. Should she possess all virtues, all will depart when humility is gone. But, on the other hand, as St Francis de Sales wrote to St Jane Frances de Chantal, “God so loves humility, that whenever He sees it, He is immediately drawn there.” This beautiful and so necessary virtue, was unknown in the world but the Son of God Himself came upon the earth, to teach it by His Own example and willed that in that virtue, in particular, we should endeavour to imitate Him – “Learn of Me, for I am meek and humble of heart.”
Mary, being the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus Christ, in the practice of all virtues, was the first also in that of humility and by it, merited to be exalted above all creatures. It was revealed to St. Matilda that the first virtue in which the Blessed Mother particularly exercised herself, from her very childhood, was that of humility.
The first effect of humility of heart is a lowly opinion of ourselves: – “Mary had always so humble an opinion of herself, that,” as it was revealed to the same St Matilda, “although she saw herself enriched with greater graces, than all other creatures, she never preferred herself to anyone.” The Abbot Rupert, explaining the passage of the Sacred Canticles, Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, …with one hair of thy neck, [Cant. 4:9] says, that the humble opinion, which Mary had of herself, was precisely that hair of the Spouse’s neck, with which she wounded the heart of God.” Not indeed that Mary considered herself a sinner: for humility is truth, as St Teresa remarks and Mary knew that she had never offended God: nor was it that she did not acknowledge that she had received greater graces from God, than all other creatures; for a humble heart always acknowledges the special favours of the Lord, to humble herself the more but the Divine Mother, by the greater light wherewith she knew the infinite greatness and goodness of God, also knew, her own nothingness and, therefore, more than all others, humbled herself, saying with the Sacred Spouse – Do not consider that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour. [Cant. 1:5] That is, as St Bernard explains it, “When I approach Him, I find myself black.”
“Yes,” says St Bernardine, for “the Blessed Virgin had always the majesty of God and her own nothingness, present to her mind.” As a beggar, when clothed with a rich garment, which has been bestowed upon her, does not pride herself on it, in the presence of the giver but is rather humbled, being reminded thereby, of her own poverty, so also, the more Mary saw herself enriched, the more did she humble herself, remembering that all was God’s gift; whence she herself told St Elizabeth of Hungary, that “she might rest assured that she looked upon herself, as most vile and unworthy of God’s grace.” Therefore, St Bernardine says, that “after the Son of God, no creature in the world was so exalted as Mary because, no creature in the world ever humbled itself, as much as she did.”
Moreover, it is an act of humility to conceal heavenly gifts. Mary wished to conceal from St Joseph, the great favour whereby she had become the Mother of God, although it seemed necessary to make it known to him, if only to remove from the mind of her poor spouse, any suspicions as to her virtue, which he might have entertained on seeing her pregnant: or, at least the perplexity, in which it indeed threw him: for St. Joseph, on the one hand, unwilling to doubt Mary’s chastity and on the other, ignorant of the Mystery, was minded to put her away privately. [Matt. 1:19] This he would have done, had not the Angel revealed to him that his Spouse was pregnant by the operation of the Holy Ghost.
Again, a soul that is truly humble refuses her own praise and should praises be bestowed on her, she refers them all to God. Behold, Mary is disturbed at hearing herself praised by St Gabriel and when St Elizabeth said, Blessed art thou among women … and whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord should come to me? … blessed art thou that hast believed, [ Luke 1:42] Mary referred all to God, and answered in that humble Canticle, My soul doth magnify the Lord, [Ibid., 46-47] as if she had said: “Thou dost praise me, Elizabeth but I praise the Lord, to Whom alone honour is due, thou wonders that I should come to thee and I wonder at the Divine Goodness in which alone my spirit exults” and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Thou praisest me because I have believed; I praise my God because He hath been pleased to exalt my nothingness: because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid. Hence Mary said to St Bridget: “I humbled myself so much and thereby, merited so great a grace because I though, and knew, that of myself I possessed nothing. For this same reason I did not desire to be praised, I only desired that praises should be given to the Creator and Giver of all.” Wherefore, an ancient author, speaking of the humility of Mary, says: “O truly blessed humility, which hath given God to men, opened Heaven and delivered souls from Hell.“
It is also a part of humility to serve others. Mary did not refuse to go and serve Elizabeth for three months. Hence St Bernard says, “Elizabeth wondered that Mary should have come to visit her but that which is still more admirable, is that she came, not to be ministered to but to minister.”
Those who are humble are retiring and choose the last places and, therefore, Mary, remarks St Bernard, when her Son was preaching in a house, as it is related by St Matthew, [12:46], wishing to speak to Him, would not, of her own accord, enter but “remained outside and did not avail herself of her maternal authority to interrupt Him.” For the same reason, when she was with the Apostles awaiting the coming of the Holy Ghost, she took the lowest place, as St Luke relates, All these were persevering with one mind in prayer, with the women, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus. [Acts 1:14] Not that St Luke was ignorant of the Divine Mother’s merits, on account of which, he should have named her in the first place but because she had taken the last place amongst the Apostles and women and, therefore, he described them all, as an author remarks, in the order in which they were. Hence St. Bernard says, “Justly has the last become the first, who being the first of all became the last.”
In fine, those who are humble, love to be contemned, therefore, we do not read that Mary showed herself in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, when her Son was received by the people with so much honour but, on the other hand, at the Death of her Son, she did not shrink from appearing on Calvary, through fear of the dishonour which would accrue to her, when it was known that she was the Mother of Him Who was condemned to die an infamous death, as a criminal. Therefore, she said to St Bridget, “What is more humbling than to be called a fool, to be in want of all things and to believe one’s self, the most unworthy of all? Such, O daughter, was my humility, this was my joy, this was all my desire, with which I thought how to please my Son alone.”
The Venerable Sister Paula of Foligno was given to understand, in an ecstasy, how great was the humility of our Blessed Lady and giving an account of it to her Confessor, she was so filled with astonishment at its greatness that she could only exclaim, “O, the humility of the Blessed Virgin! O, Father, the humility of the Blessed Virgin, how great was the humility of the Blessed Virgin! In the world there is no such thing as humility, not even in its lowest degree, when you see the humility of Mary.” On another occasion our Lord showed St Bridget two ladies. The one was all pomp and vanity. “She,” He said, “is Pride but the other one, whom you see with her head bent down, courteous towards all, having God alone in her mind and considering herself as no one, is Humility: her name is Mary.” Hereby God was pleased to make known to us that the humility of His Blessed Mother, was such that she was humility itself.
Then, O my Queen, I can never be really thy child, unless I am humble but dost thou not see that my sins, after having rendered me ungrateful to my Lord, have also made me proud? O my Mother, do thou supply a remedy. By the merit of thy humility, obtain that I may be truly humble and thus become thy child, Amen.
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| Convicted Child Porn Priest Acts Freely Within the Vatican Power Structures |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-15-2025, 08:08 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Convicted Child Porn Priest Acts Freely Within the Vatican Power Structures
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gloria.tv | July 12, 2025
The former Vatican diplomat Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella - who was convicted for possessing and distributing child pornography in 2018 – has been quietly reintegrated into the Vatican’s inner circles, reports InfoVaticana.com (July 12).
Ordained to the priesthood in 1993, Rev Capella joined the Vatican diplomatic service in 2003. He served in India and Hong Kong, as well as at the Vatican Secretariat of State, before being sent to the Nunciature in Washington, D.C. in 2016.
In August 2017, the U.S. State Department alerted Vatican authorities that Monsignor Capella was suspected of violating U.S. child pornography laws.
The U.S. pushed for prosecution, but Francis' Vatican shielded Capella through diplomatic immunity. Francis – who was known for protecting perverts – brought Capella back to the Vatican and opted to try and imprison him there.
During the Vatican trial in June 2018, Capella acknowledged guilt. He was sentenced to five years in a Vatican prison, consisting of three jail cells in the Gendarmerie building.
As of 2021 he was allowed out during the day to work in an office that sells papal blessings.
Today, InfoVaticana received an update: “The reinsertion of this criminal has not consisted in taking care of his elderly mother in a remote parish, but in living in San Benedetto, the residence destined for nuncios, a few meters from where Pope Leo XIV himself resides.”
And, “The information, confirmed by an eyewitness who was with him in the last hours, shows that Capella is not only free, but protected and probably active in ‘internal tasks’. Of what kind? We do not know, but in any case, it does not seem that his depraved history has prevented his integration into the clerical circuits closest to power.”
In summary: “Everything indicates that the lavendermafia, far from dissolving, continues to grant safe-conducts to its fallen members.”
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| Which is Novus Ordo, which is Protestant? |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-15-2025, 07:00 AM - Forum: New Rite Sacraments
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Which is Novus Ordo, which is Protestant?
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TIA [slightly adapted] | July 13, 2025
The two photos above capture two liturgical ceremonies: one is a Novus Ordo Mass, another is a Protestant service. They look very similar, don't they?
This similarity proves the success of Paul VI's New Mass in making it as close as possible to the Protestant services. It was for this purpose that he invited a commission of six Protestant theologians to be present during its elaboration to point out any objections they had. [...] The reader has also in these two photos a proof of the enormous apostasy we are witnessing. Indeed, for four centuries, influenced by the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church molded herself as a Militant, Hierarchical and Sacral institution turned toward the glory of God. After Vatican II we have seem a "Copernican revolution," presenting her as Tolerant, Synodal – or democratic – and Vulgar turned to the glory of man. Is it not the Great Apostasy predicted by St. Paul? (2 Thes 2:2-12)
Top: St. Patrick Catholic Church, Chatham, New Jersey (44:43 mark on their August 22, 2021, Livestream on YouTube, here).
Bottom: First Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (49:30 mark on their July 6 2025, Livestream on Facebook, here).
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| Leo XIV Appoints New Gender Ideology Bishop |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-12-2025, 07:24 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo XIV Appoints New Gender Ideology Bishop
Fr. Thomas Hennen helped draft LGBT pastoral guidelines that sidestep chastity, affirm “gender minorities,” and speak the language of synodality.
Leo XIV didn’t just approve, he promoted him.
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Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Jul 11, 2025
Bishop Joseph Strickland may have been ousted from his diocese, but his voice remains one of the few still willing to cry out in the wilderness. His July 10 statement, denouncing Leo XIV’s appointment of Fr. Thomas Hennen as bishop of Baker, Oregon, deserves to be remembered, not merely as another bold stand, but as a devastating indictment of the post-conciliar trajectory now accelerating under new management.
For those keeping score, Fr. Hennen is no obscure cleric. As Vicar General of the Diocese of Davenport and rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hennen has helped steer diocesan policy on “sexual and gender minorities,” drafting guidelines that repackage ambiguity in the pastel tones of pastoral accompaniment. What makes this more grotesque is that Hennen was once affiliated with Courage International, the only mainstream Catholic apostolate that dares to call same-sex attracted persons to chastity. That was over a decade ago. Now, he talks of “LGBT+ Catholics” and “transgender persons” with the rhetorical confidence of a James Martin press release.
The Diocese of Davenport’s 2023 “Guidelines for Pastoral Accompaniment of Sexual and Gender Minorities,” which Hennen helped draft, omit any explicit call to chastity. Instead, they emphasize listening, accommodation, and collaboration with “healthcare providers”: a phrase that in today’s context might as well read “gender-affirming professionals.” At one point, Hennen even mused aloud whether the Church could make “appropriate accommodations” that “neither ‘sell out’ on our beliefs nor slam the door” on transgender persons. The illusion of doctrinal fidelity is preserved only by its absence in practice.
The Lavender Thread
Strickland names the enemy: the so-called Lavender Mafia. For years, Catholics were told this term was conspiratorial, exaggerated, even homophobic. But what else do you call a clandestine episcopal network that promotes one another into positions of power while undermining Catholic moral doctrine, first with soft language, then with sacramental betrayal?
Fiducia Supplicans was the coup de grâce of the Francis era, giving Rome’s stamp of approval to the ritual blessing of same-sex couples. If Leo XIV were the great corrector his defenders imagined, the one who would restore clarity and clean house, this appointment of Fr. Hennen would not have happened. But it did. And Strickland’s words make clear: Leo is not reversing course. He’s entrenching it.
> “We face a troubling reality: instead of correcting the trajectory set by Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV is doubling down on it.”
Synodality as Trojan Horse
Fr. Hennen calls his diocesan process a “synodal approach.” Of course he does. That phrase has become the holy oil by which anything heretical can be anointed. Synodality is the spirit that permits listening to the “lived experiences” of LGBT activists while silencing faithful Catholics who beg for the clear teaching of the Gospel.
We’re told that “transgender people are not pretending,” that they “do not choose” this “deep disconnect between their bodies and their perception of themselves.” But the Church does not teach psychology-by-feelings. It teaches metaphysical truth: God made them male and female. To affirm a contradiction of that truth is not mercy but malice.
Strickland understands this. He rightly points out that when sexual identity becomes negotiable, the Gospel becomes negotiable. And when the Church makes peace with a lie, she ceases to sanctify.
The Appointment Heard Round the West
Fr. Hennen’s new post, Baker, Oregon, might seem insignificant. It isn’t. Baker is a test case. It’s how you smuggle heterodoxy into America’s remaining strongholds of tradition. Bit by bit, one appointment at a time. Fr. Hennen was trained in the Traditional Latin Mass. That fact will now be wielded as a shield. “Look,” the defenders will say, “He’s liturgically sound!” as if incense could cover the stench of doctrinal erosion.
This is the same game the Vatican has played since Summorum Pontificum: use traditional aesthetics to neutralize traditional theology. And once the faithful are disarmed by the smells and bells, in comes the “pastoral accompaniment” to finish the job.
The Silence from Rome
Strickland concludes his statement with sorrowful defiance:
> “If that is too strong for Rome, then the silence from the top is deafening proof that nothing has changed.”
And nothing has. The “change” promised by Trad Inc. after May 8, those first breathless hours of Leo XIV’s election, was always a fantasy. The very people who spent a decade sounding the alarm under Francis have now gone quiet. They urge docility. Prudence. Optimism. But what they cannot offer is proof.
The papal appointments tell the real story.
The Lavender Mafia has not been purged, it has been promoted.
And faithful Catholics are once again being told to accept the unacceptable.
We won’t.
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