The “New Mass” of 1964: Conclusion: “This multi-part study seeks to explore how the laity experienced and reacted to the very first post-conciliar liturgical changes.”
I’m a Middle Eastern Immigrant – Zohran Mamdani Is Dangerous (Amac): “Since taking office earlier this year, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made good on his dangerous campaign promises to reaffirm Gotham as a ‘sanctuary’ city”.
Sex Crime Rises Across Europe as Western Nations Top the List (The European Conservative): “Figures reveal a widening divide between high-crime Western states and far lower rates in Central and Eastern Europe.”
The American-conspiracy theory of Pope Leo’s election (Catholic Culture): “In Rome, a new book by Italian journalist Massimo Franco is drawing new attention to the claim that at the papal conclave of 2025, the electors saw Cardinal Prevost as a strong candidate because they were anxious to recover the confidence of American Catholic donors.”
Bosnian bishops reject claims they back division (The Pillar): “The Catholic bishops of Bosnia and Herzegovina have rejected claims by a local Islamic organization that the Church supports efforts to divide the Balkan nation.”
Paul Blaschko and the irony of our academic mission (The Observer): “There is a certain irony in the fact that one of the most beloved professors at the University of Notre Dame has chosen to leave.”
Canadian Doctors Try to Railroad Catholic Priest into ‘Assisted Suicide’ Over Broken Hip (Slay):“A Canadian Catholic priest is sounding the alarm after doctors tried to pressure him into “assisted suicide” twice while recovering from a broken hip in a hospital, despite him telling them that euthanasia goes against his beliefs.”
Respecting Boundaries, Papal and Political (The Catholic Thing): “The feud between Pope Leo and President Trump over U.S. immigration policy and military action in Iran raises important questions about the propriety of observing boundaries and not crossing certain lines.”
Pro-Choicers Recognize That Abortion Is Too Evil to Even Describe (Daily Signal): “A recent clip of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, questioning a pro-abortion law professor in a congressional hearing over the FACE Actopens in a new tab has gone viral over the last week.”
Catholic priest who criticized Trump immigration crackdown named West Virginia bishop (AP): “The next bishop for West Virginia Catholics will be an El Salvador-born advocate for immigrants who has opposed U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown policies.”
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“The American-conspiracy theory of Pope Leo’s election (Catholic Culture): In Rome, a new book by Italian journalist Massimo Franco is drawing new attention to the claim that at the papal conclave of 2025, the electors saw Cardinal Prevost as a strong candidate because they were anxious to recover the confidence of American Catholic donors.”
Perhaps there’s some truth to this. Pope Leo met recently in a private papal audience with members of the Papal Foundation – a group of very wealthy Catholic donors whose membership requires them to cough up signifant amounts of financial support for the Vatican. The article I read highlighted the fact that many new members were added since we now have an American pope. If my memory serves me correctly, it is the Papal Foundation that had stopped the flow of financiàl support to the Vatican because Uncle Teddy McCarrick was tapping into the funds and misusing them.
As far as the Papal Foundation is concerned, I hope that what members donate isn’t tax deductible since it is going toward the specific support of a foreign State- the Vatican City State.
Good one, Diogenes!
Highly recommend you take comfort in The Catholic Thing article in this list.
Chat GPT: “Gifts to the Papal Foundation of the Catholic Church are generally exempt from US taxes if they are made to a subordinate organization included in the USCCB group ruling. These contributions are deductible for federal income, estate, and gift tax purposes under sections 170, 2055, 2106, and 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. Donors can verify the deductibility of their contributions by referencing the group ruling determination letter and locating the subordinate organization in the Official Catholic Directory. It is important to note that not all organizations listed in the Official Catholic Directory are subordinates in the USCCB group ruling, and donors should consult the IRS’ Exempt Organizations Business Master File Extract or the organizations’ individual determination letters for the deductibility of their contributions.”
You and Pitchfork should write Sec. Bessent.
Huh?
I offered no opinion on this question. However, the Papal Foundation has no indication that gifts are tax deductible and IRS website has no entry for “The Papal Foundation”. I don’t have the interest to see if it “is a subordinate organization included in the USCCB group ruling”.
Blaise Cupich, Robert McElroy, Nite Nite Baby Joseph Tobin, Wilton Gregory and Roger Mahony (apparently stil violating the instructions of the Archbishop of Los Angeles) and Donald Wuerl are on the BoT. Full. Stop.
There’s absolutely no chance I would donate to this organization, regardless of the deductibility of donations. The most important consideration of any organization is the integrity and competence of its management. I’m a prudent donor.
It means that, in effect, ALL TAXPAYERS are subsidizing the financial viability of a foreign government i.e. the Vatican City State. That’s illegal and must stop. If rich Catholics want to support the Vatican City State, they are welcome to do that. But to force taxpayers to support this by offering tax exemption is wrong.
“Pro-Choicers Recognize That Abortion Is Too Evil to Even Describe (Daily Signal): “A recent clip of Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, questioning a pro-abortion law professor in a congressional hearing over the FACE Actopens in a new tab has gone viral over the last week.”
Since that witness was testifying before Congress about abortion, Congressman Gill asked the witness what method of abortion she preferred be used. The only other question I would have asked her is what personal experience she had with abortion. So many of these women claim to be “proud of their abortion”, that I’m certain she wouldn’t mind being asked about her personal experience with it.
Re #1 The “New Mass” of 1964: Conclusion
Haven’t read this yet but I will.
I was 14 when the “New Mass” was foisted on the laity. I’ve reached my own conclusion on the injustice it inflicted on my bewildered but wanting-to-be-faithful parents.
“I’m a Middle Eastern Immigrant – Zohran Mamdani Is Dangerous” is a classic example of Zionist Israel’s “Hasbara” propaganda media influence operation in Islamophobic fear mongering suggesting a Muslim takeover of the U.S., so you won’t realize Zionist Israel already has.
Maybe. America’s foundational roots—rather more Judeo-Christian than Islamic–are not easily forgotten. Also, the OT tradition of Israel’s monotheistic God and people in search of His Promise is something Mohammed could and will never come close to fulfilling.
It means that, in effect, ALL TAXPAYERS are subsidizing the financial viability of a foreign government i.e. the Vatican City State. That’s illegal and must stop. If rich Catholics want to support the Vatican City State, they are welcome to do that. But to force taxpayers to support this by offering tax exemption is wrong. .
Jews have been a part of the USA since its very beginning.And actually before its beginning starting with Columbus & others.
I recommend George Washington’s letter to the Touro Synagogue:
“…For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no
assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens,
in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
It would be inconsistent with the frankness of my character not to avow that I am pleased with your favorable opinion of my Administration, and fervent wishes for my felicity. May the children of the Stock of
Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.
May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several
vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.
G. Washington
Your anti-semetic bigotry aside, it is not and cannot be a “phobia” to make note of the repeatedly expressed intent of many within the giant cult of Islam that proclaims it is Islam’s purpose to dominate the entire world and eliminate any and all resistence through violence.
@ Pro-Choicers Reognize…
We read: “Waters’ testimony also points to a quietly raging debate: What language should we use to discuss abortion’s relationship to the practice of medicine?”
Some highlights of vocabulary:
“I know of not a single case where anyone came out of the chambers alive” (Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess on the destructive capacity of Zyklon B gas, 1947) and “It never ever results in live births” (an experienced abortionist on the merits of dissection and extraction, 1981);
“The subjects were forced to undergo death-dealing experiments ‘without receiving anesthetics’” (Dachau freezing experiments, 1942) and “the fetuses are fully alive when we cut their heads off, but anesthetics are definitely unnecessary” (Fetal researcher Dr. Martti Kekomaki, 1980);
“No criticism was raised” (conference of German physicians to the Ravenbrueck death camp sulfanilamide experiments, Berlin, May 1943) and “no one ever raised an eyebrow” (meeting of American pediatricians to an experiment involving beheading of aborted babies, San Francisco, 1973); and
“What should we do with this garbage” (Treblinka, 1942) and “an aborted baby is just garbage” (fetal researcher Dr. Martti Kekomaki, 1980).
In “Mein Kampf” (1925) Adolf Hitler referred to Jews as “a parasite in the body of other peoples”; fifty years later, the year of Roe v. Wade, a radical feminist group branded the unborn as “a parasite within the mother’s body” (an early edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women”).
(From William Brennan, The Abortion Holocaust: Today’s Final Solution [St. Louis: Landmark Press, 1983], Chart 6, and 100-102.)
The article “The ‘New Mass’ of 1964” brings back a lot of memories. Though only a child then, I clearly remember those days. It seemed like every week, something at Mass was being changed. I’ll leave it to heads wiser than mine (which shouldn’t be too difficult to find) to determine the exact causes of disaffection and dissatisfaction with the Mass in particular and the Church in general, but one that I can’t overlook is a sense of having been hoodwinked. For decades (centuries perhaps) Catholics had been told that such matters as Friday abstinence, Ember Days, Rosaries, processions, etc., were of vital importance to Catholic life; then the very people who had hitherto stressed the importance of these things were suddenly saying, “And you believed us? 😆 “ I don’t have any studies to back this up, and I freely admit I could be wrong, but it doesn’t seem farfetched to assume that, for some people anyway, if all the practices, once considered vital, were now of secondary importance, if even that, why shouldn’t going to Mass be considered optional? I’m glad that, in one sense, those days are gone; in another sense, however, they’re still with us.
Prayer and in particular the Rosary is important, why would you think it is not. The problem with too many Catholics is the that they have very little understanding of the faith. The gifts God has given Catholics of the Mass and sacraments are not understood by way too many Catholics. Prayers like the Rosary, the Devine Mercy Chaplet all are vital. Suggest you start learning about the Faith, skip the sports page for a month or two.
I have absolutely no memory of the Mass before VII but I always felt cheated when I looked at my late mother’s Douay Rheims bible, Holy cards, First Communion photos, sacramentals, catechism, etc. It seemed a whole way of life, cultural continuity, & community that had disappeared.
mrscracker: …ripped awsy from the Catholic Faithful almost overnight. It was like a feeding frenzy. It was horrible!
It’s so sad to hear Deacon Edward. Thank you for sharing that.
What was that song from the end of the 1960’s: “Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone…”?
I never said prayer and the Rosary are not important. Perhaps I didn’t express myself very clearly, but what I was suggesting was that in the wake of the Council, Catholics themselves were being told, either directly or indirectly, that the practices I mentioned were not important. (I know a man who recalls, as a boy in the mid-60s, his priest on Sunday morning holding up a Rosary, pulling it apart, and saying, “You won’t need these anymore.”) Far be it from me to tell you what to do, but I suggest you read my comment again. My aim was the opposite of what you seem to thiink it was. (PS, I don’t read the sports pages. I’m too busy reading the Bible, St. John of the Cross, Pope Benedict XVI, and a host of other Catholic writers who have taught me a great deal about the Faith.)
FYI One priest saying something like taking apart a rosary does not mean the Pope said that. The priest who you said, said that, was a rogue priest, probably not long for being a priest. I’m 76 and always said the Rosary, along with my mother and grand mother during the 60″s. For sure the immediate Post VC 2 was marked by an incredible level of stupidity by the Church Leaders, who gave up being leaders until JP 2 came along.
THANK YOU FOR “The New Mass of 1964.” Beautiful. Has it not ever been published in hard copy?
@ Sex Crime Rises Across Europe as Western Nations Top the List (The European Conservative).
Sweden leading the list where sexual crimes have virtually doubled in ten years 2014-24 putatively due to Sweden’s more intellectually accommodating cultural anthropology. Anthropological because Mankind is idealistically presumed equanimously tempered [we’re all decent at heart]. Regardless of alien culture and religious convictions, areas where people are still considered food stuff and grown men find raping young boys a favorite pastime.
Among the great mistakes of Christianity in the modern age is the humanistic conviction that allowance of mass illegal migration into a far more refined, culturally advanced Western Europe is pleasing to God. The figures quoted above on Sweden are within the time range of the pontificate of Pope Francis, the premier advocate of open borders, ‘build bridges, not walls’ ideology. The EU and globalists in general found an ally.
Unfortunately, a similar policy is advocated by Francis aficionado Leo XIV who seems to owe greater allegiance to his predecessor Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires than to Jesus of Nazareth.
Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar should answwer the question of whether Leo = Francis 2.0.
Why is it we should have a Bishop who benefitted from illegal entry with obvious “skin in the game” fixated on bringing more illegals in the country?
And yet at tax time, we are told to render un to Caesar, as if the Title 26 is sacrosanct.
Bishop Menjivar is also a board member of Catholic Relief Services. CRS receives more than 50% of its operating revenue from the US government, paying its CEO over $0.6 million. That’s a nice little piece of American pie.
Indeed.
George W. Bush’s “faith based initiative” program wasn’t cooperation with the charitable sector, it was a hostile takeover.
@ Catholic priest who criticized Trump immigration crackdown named West Virginia bishop
Just a thought. That it’s beginning to feel that an American Church transformation is in play. A making of a more clergy enlightened open borders embrace all comers ecclesiology. As if our American born candidates, except for the Weisenburger kind, are too stuck in the past. Might Leo XIV have taken his Trump dislike syndrome to another level now targeting the Home of the Brave traditionalist?
Fr. Morello: A home run, out of the park hit!
Indeed. The Poe names bishop of West Virginia Evelio Menjivar, who sneaked into the U.S. illegally and eventually made a career inside the Church. “As a teenager in Chalatenango, he tried to cross the southern border three times before he succeeded in 1990 — smuggled with his brother in the trunk of a car at the Tijuana–San Diego crossing.”
The Pope has also named as new bishop of Wasthington D.C. a priest named Boxie, a black man educated at no less than Harvard Law, who nevertheless considers the U.S. as carachterized by racism, inequality, etc. the entire WOKE repertoire.
“He has challenged the White House’s race-baiting campaign against diversity. He has been outspoken about it.
“he said in a recent interview. “We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.”
“So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race,” he added. “And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.”
This is the priest the pope has now made a bishop in the nation’s capital — blocks from a White House where Stephen Miller dictates immigration policy and where the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” have been struck from federal use.” [quotes are from a pro-Pope site]
We have an illegal alien in the family tree. It’s not that uncommon and only became more politicized recently. Years ago people understood folks’ need to better their lives, escape oppression, etc. And had sympathy for them.
Unfortunately, illegal entry became big business for the cartels and the whole thing became tied in with drug and weapon smuggling, money laundering,etc.
Good for West Virginia’s new bishop and God bless him. I’m glad for him and glad also that our border is better secured today and organized crime is turning less of a profit.
Thank you, Donald Trump.
Ken T. above (7:42) Re the “New Mass”
Anthony Esolon has a devastating article on the reception of the “New Mass” by people like his parents (and mine). Wish I could find it. It may have been in Crisis magazine.
Ken T. – Re: the “New Mass”
Bingo!
I Am A Restorationist – Anthony Esolen – Crisis Magazine, June 20, 2022.
Thanks for the info!
Indeed.
Re : the “New Mass”
Have now read Part One.
Never encountered that poem before.
I for one am more than ready for it to have a third or fourth wind!