“Our dedication to Tradition must be total, we cannot settle for anything less.”
The above-named essay, bearing the subtitle, “Mysticism and Human Calculations”, appeared in the June 2015 newsletter of the Catholic community of Vocogno, in the Diocese of Novara, Italy.
We republish the same essay here, below, in English, thanks to (more…)
Interview with a [real] courageous Bishop
Read Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s balanced, steady, bold interview, given during a visit to England last month.
Liturgy, Family, the Great Crisis of the Church – “Thanks be to God the Internet exists”
How seriously does the Roman Curia need ‘cleansing’?
For those paying attention, it is reported in a few reliable places that the 300-page report prepared by three Cardinals to investigate the “Vatileaks” scandals has to do with the need (more…)
An history lesson about the Roman Papacy, and reform of the Roman Curia
With the express permission of The Lepanto Foundation, we post the following unabridged essay by the eminent historian, Prof. Roberto de Mattei, PhD.
Among the many questions the essay provokes is whether the Roman Curia has ever (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…)
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…)
Roman Cardinal hurls a bombshell with an almost magical power to restore whatever its blasts touch
Though even 2009 may seem long ago to some afflicted with an equivalent of an ‘ecclesial alzheimers’ disease, Mons. Domenico Bartolucci, now a Cardinal Prince of the Roman Church, back then gave an interview on the liturgical reforms and the so-called ‘reform of the reform’ which is hardly an everyday kind, (more…)
Then-Father Ratzinger’s words on genuine reform
In case you hadn’t yet read the excerpts from a book by then-Father Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI — the excerpts were, after all, rather ‘buried’ in the post (of June 1, below), we re-post some of the more salient passages here, to entice you to read more in the post of June 1.
We emphasize these excerpts in the context of the Holy Father’s perseverance to reconcile the Holy See with the Society of St. Pius X, urging those Catholics who aspire to serve him loyally with the spirit of humble sons seeking wisdom to edify the members of the Church at large, to learn from what the Pope has been thinking for a long time, in order to be ready, should the opportunity arise, to communicate better to him how to draw on or from the (re)sources of tradition and put them to work for the salvation of souls today.
The Church now finds itself in a situation of Babylonian captivity, in which the ‘for’ and ‘against’ attitudes are not only tangled up in the oddest ways, but seem to allow scarcely any reconciliation.
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Rome is ‘occupied’
The following post, written in July of 2005, might have been written yesterday. (more…)
Reform of the Reformer 