Infiltration and Denial: Germany’s Islamism Blind Spot (The European Conservative): “The charge of Islamophobia has served Islamists well. It has allowed them to dodge scrutiny and isolate their critics, often with state approval.”
Is the Church of England in a Death Spiral? (The Catholic Thing): “What would T.S. Eliot think of the Church of England today? By the time he died in 1965, he had become deeply concerned about the leftward drift in British culture.”
Archbishop Paglia’s ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Moral Theology Comes Into Focus (National Catholic Register): “The former head of the John Paul II Institute says his reforms were meant to rethink natural law and replace ‘armchair theology’ with one rooted in ‘history and people’s lives.’”
If We Can Keep It (What We Need Now – Substack): “Americans were given a democratic republic—not a democracy. America’s founders were suspicious of pure democracy, believing unchecked majority rule would be as oppressive as monarchy.”
Shivering at the Gates (The Lamp Magazine): “To be an English Anglican now is to belong to a pluralist, strained, apprehensive tradition, a sort of ecclesiastical Austria-Hungary … “
Once again, cardinals uncertain ahead of consistory (The Pillar): “When the first extraordinary consistory of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ended in early January, the general feeling in the College of Cardinals was overwhelmingly positive.”
With no ‘rational’ left wing to speak of, US politics has become a parody (The Catholic Herald): “The political left in the United States, and more particularly the Democratic Party, seems to be in a process of self-immolation. “
Leo’s Theology of Migration (First Things): “Just over a year since he assumed the throne of Peter, we can already see Leo XIV’s papal charism: He is the migrants’ pope.”
EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Burke on the Consistory and SSPX consecrations (Per Mariam: Mater Delorosa – Substack): “The prominent American cardinal noted his highlights and concerns about the consistory, while also commenting on the SSPX and the ‘state of emergency.'”
Local Community and the Quiet Work of Generosity (Philanthropy Daily): “In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans, more than any other people, had mastered the art of pursuing common ends through voluntary association.”
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In Re: If We Can Keep It
Fraudulent elections ensure the demise of the Republic. History will record the names of those involved.
@ Leo’s Theology of Migration
Here Leo told detainees: ‘God’s love knows no borders, makes no distinctions, is given to all and brings us together in unity’”.
Leo XIV is strangely bent on the deification of illegal migrants, a theological mindset that compares illegal entry in terms of missionaries bringing the richness of their culture.
Whatever has happened to the Gospels and the beatitudes? It’s perceived as a swimmingly divine phenomenon that doesn’t require adherence to national economic, cultural interests.
Pope Leo is taking his predecessor’s agenda on migration several steps further, now making it a doctrine. Paradigmatic. Nullification of the right of nations and cultures to exist. Without borders, legal entry nations collapse.
What kind of worship of Jesus Christ is this, that seeks to effect world unity by invasion, integration by disintegration?
Leo XIV’s visibility as Roman pontiff and defender of the faith is becoming muddled. More an ideologue for globalism.
“Leo XIV is strangely bent on the deification of illegal migrants, a theological mindset that compares illegal entry in terms of missionaries bringing the richness of their culture.”
So he’ll be accepting them in the country he now runs, and stop chiding the one he left?
Leo is following after Bergoglio. Not a pope for the Church or the people of God, but a sociologist to accommodate the globalists and cheer the New World Order. It is better to ignore him than to expect he may one day focus on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His gospel is one of rainbows, pink balloons, and unicorns. Christ crucified has been left behind.
True, Father. Have you read, however, how his own state treats illegal aliens? He is safe in his domain:
Vatican Promises Stiff Penalties for Illegal Aliens Crossing its Border
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/16/vatican-promises-stiff-penalties-for-illegal-aliens-crossing-its-border/
Perhaps an ideologue for feel good platitudes. It’s almost like Kamala Harris as pope.
Those who refuse to understand the true nature of evil in the world as the aggregate effects of personal sin tend to become permanent neophiliacs or revolutionaries.
A hard to believe but true story: When I was young a young woman at my job came to me after shopping at an auto parts store during her lunch hour and buying something she asked if I could install on her car. It was a gag item sold as “a solution” to a car’s pollution. A chrome plated round cap marketed to close off the car’s tailpipe. She actually believed it could work. To this day whenever I listen to a utopian, I have the thought, there goes another tailpipe cap thinker.
“The former head of the John Paul II Institute says his reforms were meant to rethink natural law and replace ‘armchair theology’ with one rooted in ‘history and people’s lives.’”
Which is not a replacement of armchair theology but rather an affirmation of a theology, which, in denying The Unity of The Holy Ghost denies The Divinity of The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed
Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and is thus apostasy.
Is Vincenzo Paglia related to Camille Paglia-can’t help noticing the titanic ego and logorrhea, perhaps its a familial defect?
“Lived experience” again. With what kind of armchair lunacy does one live in order to believe that no one has ever been delusional about sin? With what kind of armchair lunacy does one live in order to believe that God make it impossible to know right from wrong until these times where we’ve “obviously” achieved moral perfection?
@ Infiltration and Denial
At a Vatican synod in late 1999 the study topic was how to improve rapport between Christians and Muslims. An attending churchman recalls this Muslim remark: “By means of your democracy we will invade you, by means of our religion we shall dominate you” (His Eminence monsignor Guiseppe Bernardini, archbishop of the Turkish Diocese of Smyrna, in Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride [New York: Rizzoli, 2001], 98).
Wow. And Osama bin Laden famously stated in a 2001 video interview: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” One religion is now the fastest growing one in the world.
@ EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Burke on the Consistory and SSPX consecrations
“Haynes: I remember after the January consistory [a] lot of the main crises within the Church were absent from the official programme. Pope [Leo] said that this was going to be the way forward. Cdl. Burke: Yes, he’s rather insisting on it, those of us who have critical concerns need to express that to him. When we cardinals are meeting and talking about something then we should arrive at some pastoral action, some better way of caring for souls, and that isn’t always evident”.
Evident, loud and clear is the muzzling of the Cardinals. Their voices, unlike the horrible Vatican choirboy castrati, whose voices were sweetened, today’s Vatican castrati have no voice.
That is to say, that the voices of intelligent, caring [said conditionally] men of God, of Cardinals made defenders of the faith, eager to discuss the momentous issues impacting our Church are neutered. Synodality at its devious best.
Fr Peter! We must give the new system of semi -annual consistories time to formulate. Mistakes will be made snd corrections will develop over time before the cardinals feel comfortable working together. It may well take several years. The Church does not move fast like modern business.
The hope is that the consistories will remain clearly distinct from the town-hall synodality track, even if they might sit too much in roundtables. Divide and conquer? Instead, how about a restored and ripened “hierarchical communion” (Lumen Gentium, ch. 3) to not routinely move things along for the “expert” Study Group homework assignments:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/03/14/pope-francis-study-groups-to-examine-10-synod-on-synodality-themes-through-june-2025/
1. About the Eastern Churches and Fiducia Supplicans, how to avoid quarantining of the recently estranged Eastern Orthodox Church, like all of the Church in Africa (etc.), as just another culturally defective “special case;”
2. About the “cry of the poor” as not excluding those who are impoverished spiritually and culturally (as noted in the teaching of Veritatis Splendor, and Centesimus Annus);
3. In the digital environment, the preservation of analogue reality over a Nominalist digital cosmos and even AI; and affirmation–in season and out of season–of the “transcendent dignity of [each] human person,” and of the “real” Vatican Council in its Documents over the “virtual” council as is still peddled by clones of Hans Kung;
4. A “missionary perspective” which, however, clearly does not marginalize (a new “periphery”!) even the received and missionary Deposit of Faith with digital sociology;
5. About “ecclesial organizations,” wording that does not eclipse the institutional and personal accountability of each Successor of the Apostles, versus the simply administrative convenience of conferences of bishops, even if synodally national and “continental”—a matter already settled and clarified scripturally and in Apostolos Suos (May 21, 1998);
6. On the selection, judicial role and meaning of ad limina visits for bishops, perhaps guidance on how better to transcend the progressive intrusion of the zeitgeist into the particular Churches—as less divergently geographic than more as equally rooted in the incarnate Jesus Christ, “the same yesterday, today, and forever;”
7. Theological criteria (etc.) as a sober corrective to synodal Study Group #9 which would ground truth in only the criteria of our experiences.