Thomas Carr (DPhil-Theol., Oxford), is President of the Ave Maria Lay Dominicans. Former professor, current publisher. Convert. Married with kids and dogs.
There is no greater sorrow parents can experience than a child who has lost the faith. There is something we can do to help: pray! This book will introduce you to St. Bridget's 12-year prayer to save our children's souls and win our own for heaven!
I can't even begin to describe how angry this makes me.
Why is it always a church? Over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized in the past three years in Canada.
It's never a mosque. It's never a temple. It's never a gurdwara. Why is it always a church?
Bp Strickland is a forerunner of a new type of Catholic...which is really the old type. One who lives in Truth, speaks Truth, and is willing to suffer for Truth.
His persecution will only open the door for countless others to rise up. Thank you, good Bishop!
The founder of genetics, Gregor Mendel, was an Augustinian friar and abbot of a priory in Moravia. Louis Pasteur, founder of germ theory, was a practicing Catholic. Jérôme JLM Lejeune, discoverer of the genetic origin of Down's Syndrome, is a "Venerable" in the Catholic Church.
Our church saw over 1500 at the Vigil alone. We got there 90mins early to get seats. Hearing similar stories around the country.
Curious to know whether or not this is mostly a Catholic thing. Were protestant places of worship also full and overflowing?
Easter Mass in this Manhattan Church was standing room only, and precious little of that. I’ve been coming to this Church for 25 years…never seen attendance higher. Don’t buy the woke hype. People are hungry for faith.
Cdl. Burke to
@catholiccom
on obedience: “if your bishop, or the supreme pastor of the Church, is affirming things not in accord with Sacred Tradition/the deposit of the faith, that can’t command your obedience.
You can’t command obedience to do something against faith & morals”
This image of the face of Christ dates back 2000 years, is a photographic negative, has no natural explanation, and can only have been imprinted on the fabric by a massive explosion of ultraviolet or Xray radiation.
Explain this, atheists.
We're in Rome right now. Masses are empty. Churches full of tourists but few praying.
Here in the heart of Catholicism, the faith is dying.
And it starts from the top.
Bp. Schneider: “You hear, almost daily, contradictory voices among the bishops. The faithful are scandalized by these contradictions & they are confused. They don’t know what the truth is. This confusion & ambiguous language means that people are losing the sense of good & evil.”
Wait...these are the "nuns" who took it on themselves to criticize a Catholic speech by a Catholic man to a Catholic college?
Why would anyone take their rebuttal seriously when they don't seem to take themselves, their vocation, their faith or, indeed, the Lord seriously?
I find it odd that both Protestants and Liberal Catholics go to great lengths to deny the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.
The most scientifically examined ancient artefact that points to the reality of the Resurrection!
What is it that they both fear?
1/ This is Protestant propaganda. Here's why.
Prior to Tyndale, there were several English versions of the Bible approved by the Church. The Church had no problem w/these...until Wycliffe's translation that was so full of corruptions/heresies that the Synod of Oxford (1408)...
Try to Community Notes this, Catholics! This is historical fact. Your church literally killed Christians for trying to get the Bible into the layman's hands because they didn't want people to read it for themselves & to see that Rome was telling them unbiblical lies. Pure evil!
Marriage between a man and a woman is also marriage between man and the Church, who is the Bride of Christ. Destroying the first union is destroying also the second. Therefore, Africa will not yield a millimeter on this. -
Cardinal Robert Sarah
How is it that Jordan Peterson, a non-Catholic, can preach the Gospel with greater clarity and fervency than our own pope? and most of our bishops, for that matter?
@jordanbpeterson
criticizes
@Pontifex
, saying Pope Francis should not talk about “saving the planet” and instead focus on “saving souls”
“That [saving souls] is how you save the planet, not by worshiping Gaia.”
@anders_aslund
Hungary voted for pro-family, pro-marriage, strong borders, national defense, and conservative values. Do these have no place in the EU?
Prayers for the newcomers and our seminarians as they begin a new school year!
Dear Lord, please send us holy priests and oblates. 🙏🏼
YOU can help by joining us for our upcoming
#ICKSP
Vocations Novena from 9/29 - 10/7.
Join:
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A doctrine proposed by a pope as his own opinion, not solemnly proclaimed as a doctrine of the Church, may be rejected as false, even if it is on a matter of faith and morals. And no pope may change any already declared doctrine.
Learned that Fr. Hardon SJ was banned from teaching at any Jesuit institution the last 16 years of his life -- a kind of "white martyrdom" -- for objecting to...
...use of the Enneagram. Hero.
Also learned that he spent 3 hours/day in Adoration.
.
Absolutely the future of the Church. The Pope can push us back into garages and hotel ballrooms but in about 50 years, the TLM will be the most popular form of Mass and will produce the greatest number of vocations.
Reform by attrition.
Just to be safe, it's best if you are either...
a) ordained a Catholic priest, or
b) sinless
...if you plan to touch the body of Christ.
Cf. St Thomas, SummTheol. III.82.3
98% of TLM-goers believe in the Real Presence, that contraception is evil, and attend at least weekly Mass.
30% of NO-goers believe in the RP, that contraception is evil, and only 17% attend weekly Mass.
So thinking objectively here...which Mass is more is schism-inducing?
Sometimes they say the darker stuff they're thinking out loud.
The TLM is not the problem.
The problem is that it attracts the young, it promotes Catholic faith and practice, and it's going to ruin their plans to create NEW CHURCH if they don't stop it.
Call it what you want, Tom, but TLM parishes double every 3 years and produce 7x the priests per capita.
If things don't change, there will come a day (maybe about 2050?) when most Catholics attend the TLM.
It's a self-selecting group. Each young family who drives 40 minutes to attend TLM is leaving an empty pew at the local Catholic parish five minutes away. The "rising trad generation" is an illusion.
A bishop in a small, ultra-rich enclave of Texas, who was radicalised by TLM advocates at the WYD in 2016 in Poland, has now formally declared the break with Rome he has long hinted at. The people of God deserve pastors, not ideologues.
Growing parishes are out there. Find out what they are doing, and replicate it.
Ave Maria Parish over 2 years:
-from 826 families to 1,321
-70 parishioners baptized
-82 first communions
-59 confirmations
-20 marriages
Observing Ramadan, a sacred time of fasting in the Islamic world, heightens my awareness of the afflictions that so many are forced to endure and the ways our world still needs healing.
Poor John the Baptist. If only he had read the Pope's new document on blessings...he would have blessed Herod and his mistress instead of condemning them.
Would have saved him so much trouble...
The Church: losing members, not enough priests, bankrupt dioceses, growing apostasy, priests blessings SS unions, the faithful persecuted
The Pope: Let's talk about the environment!
#PopeFrancis
confirms he intends to publish a new document, "a second Laudato Si'" on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi and the end of the monthlong Season of Creation, which begins Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
Dumping on Scott Hahn for retweeting a Bishop who calls attention to possible apostasy…
…while ignoring the German Archbishop who actually committed apostasy yesterday…
…PRICELESS.
Albert Biderman was a PhD sociologist who worked for the US military. In 1956, he developed a list of coercive tactics used by communists to control a population.
Presented here without comment.
The Left hates family, hates marriage, hates children.
Ordinarily they claim to support these things...but when someone stands up in public to defend the traditional values that ACTUALLY uphold marriage and family, all hell breaks loose.
TRENDING: Thousand of social media users, including ‘Swifties’ are calling for
#Chiefs
kicker Harrison Butker to be “BANNED FROM THE
#NFL
, like Colin Kaepernick”
He is being called “misogynistic, homophobic, & transphobic” after this speech at graduation
Vance supports a national ban on abortion over 15 weeks.
Vance supports a national ban on SSM.
Vance supports a national ban on gender mutilation of minors.
Let's celebrate these wins, shall we?
Also: he's a summa cum laude PHILOSOPHY major. He'll come around.
So, to sum up:
1. Trump has gutted the GOP platform of its pro-life plank
2. He chose as his running mate a man who supports mifepristone, responsible for half the abortions in the U.S.
3. Hordes of “pro-life” MAGA folks are absolutely enraged at… those who object to 1 and 2
No Pope can just fire a Bishop. There are 4 ways a Bishop can lose his office: death, transfer, resignation, or criminal penalty.
But as we saw with Bishop Torres in Puerto Rico, the Pope doesn't seem bothered about the restrictions of canon law:
Here’s my speech in the Florida legislature in support of this bill.
There is no such thing as a transgender child. They are called girls and boys, and they’re beautiful just as they are.
No drugs or scalpels needed.
FACT CHECK:
-the Benedictine Sisters of MSS no longer represent Benedictine College
-they do not/cannot speak for the College's founders
-are understood by students to be "radically liberal"
-are all over 65 yrs old and have no vocations
-will likely be shuttered in 10 yrs
The Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, who co-founded and co-sponsor Benedictine College, have joined the chorus of voices denouncing remarks made by commencement speaker Harrison Butker.
@ArdorNew
99% of Catholics like the Pope when he agrees with them. It's just that this is the first time the conservatives have faced it. We had decades.
In the whole of Ireland, there are only 20 seminarians training to become priests.
Yet there are 17 Irish Dominicans on their way to priesthood.
The coming Catholic revival will be led by Dominicans.
Seventeen seminarians are in priesthood formation for the Dominicans in Dublin, Ireland.
Irish Dominican priest Fr Kellan Scott O.P. gives Holy Communion to his mother.
Liberal Catholics: "Open the doors of the Church, the Eucharist is for sinners, mercy mercy mercy! Everyone is welcome inside! Todos, todos, todos."
Also liberal Catholics:
1100 new Catholics in 1 diocese!!
The revival of Christ's Church has begun.
It will be led by laity, by converts, by traditionalists, and by the priests who love and serve them (oh, and Dominicans, of course!)
@ArdorNew
There were at least 800 people at our parish's Easter Vigil Mass, out in rural NC--standing room only for almost 4 hours.
Over 1,100 new Church members in our diocese (Charlotte).
This is correct. The Pope us not abusing his authority when he silences one of his critics who speaks the truth.
The Pope hasn't that authority.
Rather he is using/abusing the power of the office...and critically undermining his authority.
I suspect he will now go after Bishop Schneider...then Cardinal Sarah...
You can take the man out of Argentina, but you cannot take Argentina out of the man (nothing wrong with Argentinians, they are lovely people, but the corruption in governance is in the water).
@stclairashley
Wow, I just searched medical research papers and it turns out that birth control meds triple the risk of suicide!!
I never heard that before you posted.
@FaithWithMase
I did. Converted on my last day at Princeton Theological Seminary on my way to becoming a Presbyterian pastor.
There is no "man-made system" as man-made as Calvinism, Lutheranism, Zwingliism. The man is right there in the name.
@Aurelians_Wall
Sisters pretending to be priests and "celebrating" Mass....are not, I'm sorry, "sisters of the faith". Not the Catholic faith, at least.
21st century science can’t duplicate it or explain how it was formed. We have an avalanche of evidence—twenty-six peer-reviewed science articles—that, since 2005, establish beyond any reasonable doubt that the Shroud of Turin is the shroud of Christ.
Pope Francis has removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from the leadership of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.
The move comes after an investigation which is understood to have found problems with his governance of the diocese including a breakdown in relations with priests & local
Arguments for the TLM:
*unity of language/form
*prayers/gestures more fitting
*greater reparation for sin
*preservation of history
*saint-making Mass
*more contemplative
*aesthetics more fitting
*efficiency in distribution
*kneeling/COTT/ad orient. standard
Others?
It seems to be a general rule -- let's call it the "Ratzinger Ratio" (since he would agree) -- that the greater the reverence/beauty/traditionalism of a Mass, the greater the fidelity of the parish to the teachings of the Church...and...the greater the attendance.
Mass was full at St. Roch, Vienna’s Oratorian parish, this morning.
Rates of Sunday Mass attendance are higher in Austria than neighboring Germany (as high as 17% of Catholics pre-COVID), but are likewise in sharp decline.
“Families have stopped going to Mass because of his unkind words," Fr Kelly said. "He [Bishop Strickland] needs time for reflection. He needs time to rebuild the bridges he burned when anger and certainty of his own righteousness consumed him.”
If the Pope were a wise man, he would allow the TLM and traditional devotions to exist side by side with his synodalist Church...and let people decide what kind of Catholicism they want.
The shortest way to a great revival of Catholic faith and practice is to restore 3 things that were inadvisably changed in the 1970's:
a) restore altar rails in all churches
b) forbid communion in the hand
c) encourage those who are able to kneel
Thoughts from a priest-friend:
BREAKING -- the Aztec Council of Elders just passed a resolution calling for human sacrifice to be added to the Tenochtitlan Charter of Fundamental Rights.
St Vincent Ferrer was one of the most gifted preachers in history. His missions converted over 25k Jews and 15k Muslims. He preached to crowds of 50k and 10k penitents followed him from town to town.
He only preached on 5 things: sin, death, judgment, hell, heaven. Not dignity.
Oh, if only St Thomas Aquinas had lived in the Novus Ordo age! Imagine how much sweeter his hymns and Corpus Christi Mass would have been had he not been so impoverished by the darned TLM!
This is rubbish. Most bishops ignored both the Synod and TC (ours did) and got no censure.
So basically,
#Strickland
was sacked by not schmoozing enough.
JUST IN—
@BishStrickland
tells
@RaymondArroyo
the US Nuncio cited a lack of “fraternity” with brother bishops, lack of support for the
#Synod
, & failure to implement
#TraditionisCustodes
as basis for his removal. Strickland said “he didn't mention a single administrative concern.”
Best approach to the TLM v NO debate is to let both flourish side by side and may the best Mass win the hearts of the faithful.
Deal with schismatic attitudes per capita, not per liturgia, for there are many in de facto schism who never set foot in a TLM.
At a 2020 Vatican meeting that laid the groundwork for
#TraditionisCustodes
one cardinal expressed alarm that close to 13,000 young people had registered for the Chartres pilgrimage & said we need to get to the bottom of why they are attracted to the TLM. What would he think now?
Labelling Archbishop Schneider's new catechism, "Credo", as "dissident propaganda" tells you all you need to know about how far the Left-Cath journos have veered from orthodoxy/praxy. They defend an alternate vision for the Church.
The magnificent ceiling of the Lateran.
Catholicism will never be able to fully modernize as long as these Roman churches continue to bear witness to Tradition.
I've said this many times. Solving the Church decline and lack of priests is not rocket science.
Simply find the pockets of real growth, and do whatever it is they are doing.
#SaveAmericasBishop
No one is looking to depose the Pope (for no one can).
No one is judging the Pope (for no one can).
But there are many who have evaluated his teachings, writings, and off the cuff statements and found them deficient, divisive, disorienting and, in the end, disheartening.