Is there anything one can promise Christ in return for a blessed outcome of the Conclave, and a resolution to the crisis of faith?
It’s 11pm in Rome, and the first ballot shows (more…)
A chilling ‘chance meeting’ with a cardinal on a cold Roman street today.
It is difficult even for a pope to change the priorities of a previous papacy after the death of a pope. One expects it will be that much harder when the previous pope (more…)
‘Til death do (its) part’.
It used to be that Peter was Peter until death did its part, just like the other kind of catholic marriage.
Since February 11 it’s not so clear.
“But this is far from the logic of the Church.
Peter must do only one thing: (more…)
Returning to the future.
Generally speaking of course, the Orthodox of the ‘old country’ do not care for (more…)
The plot thickens. The place not for chickens.
Before the last conclave, then-Cardinal Ratzinger was the one person in Rome whom (more…)
Лучше поздно, чем никогда. – Better (orthodox) late than never!
Here follows an astounding report (more…)
It is 8:01pm in Rome. (An incomparable time in The Eternal City.)
We are all sede vacantists now. (more…)
Why has Pope Benedict XVI abdicated the Papal Throne?
One may always take a German at his word. For, like “Vulcans” (yes, of the kind depicted on Star Trek) they, too, “never bluff”.
That’s because like Vulcans, Germans are (more…)
More correspondences ‘declassified’ from NCCL’s ‘TOP SECRET archives’
Two more letters have been recently declassified. Both are written to an Anglo-Catholic bishop, some time before his reception into communion with the See of Rome. Find the first one (more…)
“What does NCCL do, anyway?”
It’s a question on the mind of many a caller. Frankly, the apostolate handles issues and problems that no other group will even touch.
We’re small. We’re humble. We get results. The NCCL statement of purpose brochure lists the broad scope of the apostolate’s no-compromise action.
A concrete example? In pamphlet no. 2 (links below) you’ll read correspondence — conducted by NCCL at the request of collaborators — with a chancery and the Commission Ecclesia Dei in Rome.
(Yes, all the requests were finally (more…)
Reform of the Reformer 