Sean Johnson
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Tucho Supports the Demand: “ Unrepentant Homosexuals Must Be Excommunicated”

Two more statements like this, and the conciliar conservative dupes will be cheering for him to become pope (it worked wonders for Huonder, Schneider, Muller, and Burke, flushing all their modernism down the memory hole). The dupes don’t understand the “two steps forward, one step back” strategy intended to defuse their resistance.
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Happening later today.... LIVE: PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITS THE SOUTH BRONX IN NEW YORK – 5/23/24

What a joke. He’s going to talk about how bad Biden is, while taking credit for the death vax, lobbying to overturn anti-abortion laws he considers too restrictive, promoting gay rights, reassuring people he won’t restrict birth control, and pledging allegiance to Israel. Can someone explain to me the differences between democrats and republicans again? Reminds me of the famous pic of Clinton and …More
What a joke. He’s going to talk about how bad Biden is, while taking credit for the death vax, lobbying to overturn anti-abortion laws he considers too restrictive, promoting gay rights, reassuring people he won’t restrict birth control, and pledging allegiance to Israel. Can someone explain to me the differences between democrats and republicans again? Reminds me of the famous pic of Clinton and Bush sitting together at a pro baseball game. And stupid Americans still don’t get that both parties are heading in the same direction, with the GOP’s job being to pick up those reluctant voters and bring them along to prevent a counter reaction (much like the conservative bishops in the Catholic bring would-be trads along to V2).
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Cardinal Burke: Apocalyptic Situation in Church, Caused by Clergy

Until the modernist bishops like Burke, Schneider, and Muller stop trying to save V2, the crisis will only worsen. These hermeneuticists do more damage than the overt modernist, by keeping the well-intentioned (but doctrinally naive) would-be trads neatly corralled within the conciliar pasture.
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Once a year, on Pentecost Sunday, rose petals are dropped from the oculus of the Pantheon while the …

I was fortunate enough to visit this once-Catholic church with a priest, and spit at the casket of Voltaire.
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20'000 Young Pilgrims in Chartres! Francis' Traditionis Custodes Cannot Stop the Future

Unmentioned, is the fact that this conciliar pilgrimage was erected to contradict and oppose the true SSPX Chartres Pilgrimage, which marches 20k strong in the opposite direction (from Chartres to Paris): Just as modernist Rome erects an insult parish wherever the SSPX is established to lure the superficial away, so to does it establish pilgrimages.
But have no fear: The new branded SSPX no longer …More
Unmentioned, is the fact that this conciliar pilgrimage was erected to contradict and oppose the true SSPX Chartres Pilgrimage, which marches 20k strong in the opposite direction (from Chartres to Paris): Just as modernist Rome erects an insult parish wherever the SSPX is established to lure the superficial away, so to does it establish pilgrimages.

But have no fear: The new branded SSPX no longer harbors such revulsion of conciliarism (which it now equates with Catholicism), and therefore, there’s really no more point to them having their own pilgrimage. In 2-3 years, they’ll want to show Rome that they’re on the same team, and simply merge the two pilgrimages (with the conciliar absorbing the SSPX, just as is happening step by step in the greater church).
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

Not sure why you’re bringing Sanborn into it. Even the FSSP and ICK are heading towards the true pre-Pian Holy Week rites. Soon the only group still using Pius XII’s Novus Ordo will be the SSPX
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

Vincentian Father Carlo Braga, who assisted Archbishop Hannibal Bugnini (d. 1982) in the creation of the 1955 Holy Week, called it “the head of the battering ram which pierced the fortress of our hitherto static liturgy.”
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

Bugnini continues to explain his condemned antiquarianism behind the Pian Holy Week revisions:
An Incoherent Liturgical Reform - Dialogue Mass XVI - Dr Carol ByrneMore
Bugnini continues to explain his condemned antiquarianism behind the Pian Holy Week revisions:

An Incoherent Liturgical Reform - Dialogue Mass XVI - Dr Carol Byrne
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

In which case, you should have no reservations in attending the Novus Ordo.
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

Excerpt:
The self-contradictory nature of the Easter Vigil reform
The Church was ordered to return to the catacombs. It is perplexing that the same Pope who had condemned such a retrograde step in the strongest terms as “antiquarianism” only four years earlier, could have countenanced this reversal of his own teaching:
“The liturgy of the early ages is most certainly worthy of all veneration.…More
Excerpt:

The self-contradictory nature of the Easter Vigil reform

The Church was ordered to return to the catacombs. It is perplexing that the same Pope who had condemned such a retrograde step in the strongest terms as “antiquarianism” only four years earlier, could have countenanced this reversal of his own teaching:

“The liturgy of the early ages is most certainly worthy of all veneration. But ancient usage must not be esteemed more suitable and proper, either in its own right or in its significance for later times and new situations, on the simple ground that it carries the savor and aroma of antiquity. The more recent liturgical rites likewise deserve reverence and respect. They, too, owe their inspiration to the Holy Spirit, who assists the Church in every age even to the consummation of the world. They are equally the resources used by the majestic Spouse of Jesus Christ to promote and procure the sanctity of man.” (8)

A post-Vatican II Easter Vigil celebration in the Los Angeles Cathedral
But the point about his 1955 Decree Maxima Redemptionis was that it did state that the early Christian Easter Vigil was “more suitable and proper” than what had developed over the intervening centuries; and it didreject the principle that “the more recent liturgical rites likewise deserve reverence and respect.” There is no mistaking the language used in the Decree to denigrate the liturgical tradition as it had developed up to the 1950s. Maxima Redemptioniscarried a note of reprobation of what had been approved and maintained as Catholic practice for centuries, with the scarcely veiled implication that for most of her history the Church had conducted her worship on wrong lines.

In it, the accusation was made that the Easter Vigil had lost its original clarity and the meaning of its words and symbols when it was “torn” from its “proper” nocturnal setting and was no longer in line with the Gospel accounts. According to the reformers, it had even become “harmful” to the symbolic meaning of the Vigil. (9) Anyone would think they were referring to a monstrous iniquity that must be removed from the Church.

In other words, the Holy See (echoing the reformers) was claiming that the public prayers of the Church celebrated continually for many centuries, sanctified by long usage and codified by the Council of Trent were theologically defective and liturgically “improper.”

Is it conceivable that the traditional manner of celebrating the Easter Vigil in the daytime was a disastrous mistake and that the Church had to wait 14 centuries for Bugnini and his henchmen to put the matter right?

Of course not, and in the next instalment we will be examining the spurious reasons for the Easter Vigil changes, which were published in the 1951 and 1955 Decrees.

Continued
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

All condemned liturgical archaeologism is foisted upon the faithful in the name of pastoralism.
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Foxnews on Butker

Arroyo points out that 41 (!) of Butker’s Kansas City Chief teammates have multiple arrests, but the NFL feels no need to distance itself from them.
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Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena in crackdown on hoaxes

No doubt there are plenty of frauds, but as the old Catholic Encyclopedia reminds us, private revelation is occurring all the time. Sounds to me like ‘ol Francis might not like what heaven has to say (or am I to believe that the Church’s delegation to local bishops for centuries was implicitly imprudent, or that they have suddenly lost the competence to judge wisely?).
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

Your post has nothing to do with my comment.
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NFL condemns Harrison Butker’s sexist, anti-LGBTQ graduation speech: We’re ‘steadfast in our commitment …

Hopefully his devotion to the TLM leads to a deeper doctrinal conversion to tradition.
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Liturgical Disobedience - The Rejection of the Liturgical Reforms of Pope Pius XII

Brief refutation of this poor apologetic:
Major: Pius XII condemned liturgical archaeologism (Mediator Dei).
Minor: The experimental rites of 1951-1956 are primarily based upon archaeological principles.
Conclusion: The revised Holy Week rites are based upon principles condemned by Pius XII himself.More
Brief refutation of this poor apologetic:

Major: Pius XII condemned liturgical archaeologism (Mediator Dei).

Minor: The experimental rites of 1951-1956 are primarily based upon archaeological principles.

Conclusion: The revised Holy Week rites are based upon principles condemned by Pius XII himself.
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SSPX, quo vadis?

Video on the SSPX’s abandonment of Archbishop Lefebvre in favor of a practical accord with unconverted Rome.