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Today, being the Traditional Double Feast of Saint Philomena, we urge every Catholic who strives to live the Faith and know it better to discover more on this wonderful saint of Tradition and why she is so important in these disastrous times. The conciliar church did away with her feast for a reason and it behooves all to know why for she is known as the "miracle worker of the 19th century" - a saint venerated by our forefathers whose intercession has done wonders for the Faith. For those wanting special blessed oil of St. Philomena, contact the 
Majestic Queen of Heaven and Mistress of the Angels, thou hast received from God the power and command to crush the head of satan. Therefore, we humbly beg of thee, send forth the legions of Heaven, that under thy command they may seek out all evil spirits, engage them everywhere in battle, curb their pride, and hurl them back into the pit of hell. Quis ut Deus? “Who is like unto God?”
With firm confidence we present ourselves before thee, our most loving Mother, afflicted and troubled as we are, and we beg thee to let us understand the love you have for us by granting this petition, if it is according to the Will of God and profitable for our salvation:
last been taken to the throne prepared for thee in Heaven by the Holy Trinity.
Lift my heart with thee in the glory of thy Assumption above the dreadful touch of sin and impurity.
Teach me how small earth becomes when viewed from Heaven. Make me realize that death is the triumphant gate through which I shall pass to thy Divine Son, and that someday my body shall rejoin my soul in the unending bliss of Heaven.
From this earth, over which I tread as a pilgrim, I look to thee for help. I ask for this favor:
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Griff Ruby's Excerpts Traditional Insights    We take a break from Mario Derksen's series on the fallacies of ecumenism, to bring you one of his "Gems from the Past." And it is truly a gem on the treasure of celibacy. With so many liberals and modernists trying to rationalize that all the problems in the conciliar church would go away if priests were married is not only naive, but asinine; just look at the collapsing of the Anglican church and many Protestant churches and one can see the ridiculousness of such thinking. Mario presents a succinct reply to those who cry that celibacy is the "albatross" which has caused vocations to dry up. On the contrary, as Mario points out, celibacy is the anchor to assuring stability of the Faith. The fact that so many have relaxed their own consciences shows how satan has infiltrated. A man of God must be pure - inside and out, and the only way to ensure vocations to the priesthood in the future is to return to the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church as it was practiced and preserved from Peter through Pius XII. Mario provides Scriptural and Ecclesial justification for why celibacy is mandatory. The Apostle Paul had a good idea and throughout her history, the Church, in her wisdom has shown the fruits of priests living a chaste life. Remain chaste, vocations will flourish. Mario verifies this in his column first run on these pages three years ago, Why Celibacy is key for restoring Holy Mother Church
Making Sense of Sensus Catholicus  
Father James F. Wathen, the pioneering traditional author of The Great Sacrilege, presents today a most cogent piece that applies to each and everyone of us for we can all hold our tongue much better than we do. Our Lord has said it is not what man puts into his mouth that hinders his salvation, but what comes out of his mouth that can condemn him. The more we say, the more it can come back to haunt us just as the famous Norman Rockwell painting on gossip illustrates. We must learn to hold our tongue for, as Christ shows us so clearly, silence is golden. Father points this out so explicitly in his short essay and how we can take a lesson from the Holy Family for Our Lord, when accused remained silent; Our Lady kept silent, "pondering them in her heart", and Saint Joseph is known as the "Silent Saint." Truly the treasure of silence is gold that will accrue many more graces as Father explains. As usual we are grateful to Maria Hughes for sending Father's latest essay titled Speech Therapy
Gabriel's Clarion    Gabriel Garnica continues his weekly multi-part series which we've dubbed "Incorrigible Dirigibles" in comparing the liberal factions to blimps full of hot air which nevertheless cast a dark shadow over today's values and morals. In the manner of the Tower of Babel-like zeppelin "Hindenburg," so also these pompous, progressive windbags are full of gaseous, nauseous ideas that can be most dangerous if one seeks to hook a ride on such nonsense. In that same vein, they have nowhere to go but down. One must realize they are highly inflammable and the nearer they float toward the fires of hell, the more combustible souls become who are in their path, beneath them, or, God forbid, their passenger. This week Gabriel offers a possible dark glimpse of the future - very dark for we are fast approaching the Eclipse of Morality thanks to sodomy. While one might think he is being facetious in his words, considering what has happened over the last five years, it truly gives one pause to fear - can it happen? Unfortunately the answer is yes. If you break down the word 'mite' in sodomite, one realizes a mite is a very small or minute arachnid or creature which often infests. How appropriate for the militant homosexual lobbyists take a magnifying glass to their numbers and distort reality by posing that they are growing into a majority, and indeed they may eventually do just that by infesting all aspects of life from the courts to the chambers to the media channels to the chanceries to the curia. This aberration against God and His Natural Law has got to stop, but will it before more souls are infected? Gabriel wonders as he presents the anticipated rites of New Sodom in Part Three of the "Incorrigible Dirigibles" with his piece Sodo-Might Rites
"Qui legit, intelligat"   In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, he shows how the conspiracy that many swore could never happen has, and that many might despair of what we have been robbed of, what we have lost. In explaining briefly how society has become so gullible along with the modern church of Vatican II, Father holds up the Gospel of Luke and Matthew to show how the Good Samaritan will assure that the infernal robbers will not triumph over Christ's Holy Church. The Good Samaritan, representing Christ Himself, has given us His marching orders and we are to follow the laws He commanded - to love God first and foremost and because of that, to love our neighbor as ourselves; The golden rule. That is the simple formula for everlasting life: being good, and that means being just; and by being just we will reap the harvest of Heaven. Here on this earth the wheat will be separated from the chaff when the Harvester deems and this gives encouragement to each Authentic Roman Catholic striving to do God's will knowing that only through Faith will they be able to survive the ordeals that have swallowed up so many into that vortex of modernism and communism, for though modern Rome wants all to think communism is a thing of the past and Russia is converting, the opposite is very true and only the just will emerge victorious from the great Thresher as the golden wheat reserved for the celestial table. Father explains in his sermon
"The just will shine forth like the sun"
Echoes of True Catholicism      
Dr. Marian Therese Horvat reports on the upcoming World Youth Day "whirling dervishes" that will take place in Cologne next week, a homecoming, if you will for one of the architects of Vatican II - Joseph Ratzinger, returning as Benedict XVI. She affirms that "whirling dirvishes" are the very words used on the official WYD site and, considering the ecumaniacal bent and the fact that the conciliar church has nothing of substance to attract and keep the youth of today they'll go to any lengths to please man rather than Christ. Thus they continue to schedule scandalous rock n' roll Woodstock-like 'concerts' to keep-the- youth-mesmerized-no-matter-the-cost by plying them with the satanic sounds of rock in all modes of dress and undress to keep them there for show in order to prop up Benedict and the conciliar church. Marian fleshes out their insidious agenda in exposing the fact it's all skin-deep for beneath the veneer lies the same rotting, compromising agenda of ecumenism, syncretism, religious indifferentism and proposing non-Catholics as martyrs - all ideologies which the conciliarists have been trying to pass off as 'Catholic' for the past several decades while the youth plunge deeper into New Ageism and confusion, abandoning the New Order in droves. Sure glad that the "whirling dervishes" will clear everything up for these clueless youth. Not! Such is the state of the newchurch mentality as Marian explains in her column at Tradition In Action: WYD at Cologne:
No Sign that the Tide Has Turned
Making Sense of Sensus Catholicus  As a follow-up to Father James F. Wathen's essay last week on "Wholehearted Love", we present a meditation from the late Father Urban Snyder who wrote this piece back in early 1978. Thus, as part of our "Gems from the Past" series, we present his work, first run in The Remnant and reprinted this year. What is interesting is the fact that Fr. Snyder, one of the early pioneers of maintaining Traditional Catholicism, writes about the conversion of St. Paul and how God sends trials and tribulations to whomever He pleases and how each responds determines how much they not only love God, but want to attain holiness. He was, in actuality, foretelling his own crown of glory for he was called from this temporal earth on that very feast in 1995. We share that article as well as a link to discover more about this steadfast Kentucky-bred priest who was a true thoroughbred for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and the Immemorial Mass of All Ages. Well after his death, his words continue to inspire readers in his meditation
O Jesus Draw Me
Griff Ruby's Excerpts    In addition to his "Straight Stuff" columns, Griff Ruby provides from time to time excerpts from his excellent book The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church. Today he provides a small set of Questions and Objections from Appendix B of his book in which he answers one objection and the misconceptions many have harbored about the "pastoral" nature of a council and how the crafters manipulated the vast majority of signers into signing documents that, if they were Roman Catholic, would be considered bogus in every way. Since they are not considered bogus, but are being enforced and embraced by all in the conciliar church, then that proves a total split between modern Rome and Eternal Rome. The latter is the barque of Peter which Traditional Catholics continue to sail along with; the former is a new gib which hoists its own petard and continues to sail far off course while still flying the flag of what it once represented. Griff also points out a most pertinent fact: Confusion has never aroused from those who accepted a council of the Church, only those who rejected it. Yet, Vatican II it is reversed. No wonder so many are confused. Griff clarifies the predicaments in his excerpt from the appendix in Addressing Fallacies of Vatican II Perceptions
Traditional Insights  Mario Derksen continues in his refutation of Kenneth Whitehead's arguments for justifying the ecumenical movement begun at Vatican II. Basing Catholic truth on Pope Pius XI's encyclical condemning ecumenism Mortalium animos, Mario shows how any variation from the Catholic Faith in action, gesture or words gives scandal and the appearance of, if not actual, heresy. This week he continues to dissect Whitehead's ridiculous statements about the "reunion" of "separated brethren" with firm words from none other than the dogmatic Council of Florence. Mario also cites other pre-Vatican II Popes and shows the obvious agenda John Paul the Great Apostate employed in his non-Catholic encyclicals. Mario reveals what Catholic Truth points out that those "outside the Church" return without compromise on Holy Mother Church's terms exclusively just as the Armenians did in the middle of the 15th Century. So also today, anything less than those same terms are unacceptable according to Catholic Truth which, as is so evident over the centuries to Jew and Gentile alike, is the great stumbling block and it is the conciliar church, the false church which wants to remove the very stumbling block Christ set in place. Mario documents this apostasy in Part Nine An Attempt at a Defense (4)
Reality Check   Father James F. Wathen, the pioneering traditional author of The Great Sacrilege, changes channels from the regular presentations in "Making Sense of Sensus Catholicus" to give readers this week a frank reality check as to what is happening to civilization today. The atheists are trying to take over. That is why sodomy is making such abhorrent gains, why the ACLU is doing all they can to eliminate Christian symbols, why "Big Brother" is growing in actuality, and why America's youth are being programmed with revisionist history, and taught to embrace tolerance and diversity; tolerance for everything that does not concern the One True Triune God. Atheism, masked in the inklike blackness of progressive, modernist democracy promoted by America, stretches its tentacles over every facet of life and culture in trying to eliminate the existence of God. It can't be done and that frustrates the nihilists all the more as they try to crush souls and spirits with their insane, but dangerous nonsense that is playing right into the hands of the devil. Why can't everyone see the obvious? Fr. Wathen tells it like it is in his latest essay sent to us by Maria Hughes entitled The Bane of Atheism
Doctors of the Church   In honor of his feast today, we present the holy wise one who was decreed the thirty-second Doctor of the Church. He was born near Naples and received a law doctorate in his teens. He had the world as his oyster and chose to cast his net into the sea in being a fisher of men. He founded an order dedicated to redeeming souls and he wrote volumes during a time when the enlightenment was already threatening the foundations of the Church. He vowed never to waste a moment and never did. He was the outstanding moral theologian who held the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the greatest gift any Catholic could partake in. He foretold the very crisis the Church is suffering today. He is considered the Patron Saint of Moral Theology and Confessors, two attributes and professions that are sorely deficient in holiness today. We would all do well to invoke his help during these trying trials of the Church and the world and remember this great saint, known far and wide as the "Keeper of the Moral Compass": Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Gabriel's Clarion   Gabriel Garnica continues his weekly multi-part series which we've dubbed "Incorrigible Dirigibles" in comparing the liberal factions to blimps full of hot air which nevertheless cast a dark shadow over today's values and morals. In the manner of the Tower of Babel-like zeppelin "Hindenburg," so also these pompous, progressive windbags are full of gaseous, nauseous ideas that can be most dangerous if one seeks to hook a ride on such nonsense. In that same vein, they have nowhere to go but down.    One must realize they are highly inflammable and the nearer they float toward the fires of hell, the more combustible souls become who are in their path, beneath them, or, God forbid, their passenger. Two of these dangerous windbags mock the first woman Eve with their lust for power and we all know their names for just like Eve, they are one-name feminists: Hillary and Oprah! Madonna could be added to this list, but she has wilted as will the two dangerous women who Gabriel features in today's feature. They will eventually plummet as well. Nevertheless, because of society's penchant for greed and ease, they will follow these two women anywhere, even to the brink of the abyss of eternal perdition. That is why Gabriel pulls no punches in telling it like it is with Part Two of the "Incorrigible Dirigibles" with his column The Eves of Evil!
"Qui legit, intelligat" Making Sense of Sensus Catholicus 
Father James F. Wathen, the pioneering traditional author of The Great Sacrilege, presents today a must reading for every family to read and discern as he takes us through paragraph by paragraph of a love story for the ages and a guarantee of happiness as he shows how to love God more in letting go of the world - in other words, let go and let God. He cites the refusal to do this as the main reason there are so few true vocations today because love of self trumps love not only of God, but of working toward true happiness. Why is it so few want to delay working to shorten their time in Purgatory while they're still on this earth so they won't spend so much time there when they get there, if they get there!?! Would one rather wait in line here on earth, or for an interminable time that could be mighty long after we die? It is a fair question and in it Father has pinpointed the major problem today with the Christian mindset that they think they can have their cake and eat it too. Not so as Our Lord has said in Luke 10: 38-39. If we're not willing to fall in love with God now, what guarantee do we have that God will take us up as a suitor down the line? Sincerity is a two-way street and so far it's really only a one-way with man putting up the roadblocks. Father explains that the more one loves self and things of this world, the less will one be happy in this life and that creates a problem for assuring happiness in the next. As usual we are grateful to Maria Hughes for sending Father's latest essay titled Wholehearted Love
Living in Tradition   In concert with Fr. Wathen's essay above, we provide a short primer on how and what to teach the children, especially this summer with one month of summer vacation until the school year begins. We preface it with an inspiring short piece by Timothy A. Duff entitled, "Why me?" which gives one much food for thought. We have combined Tim Duff's inspirational short piece with the short primer of what Traditional Catholics can teach their children this summer and throughout the year. The latter was found in the vestibule of Tim's traditional church and, in concert with Father James Wathen's essay on wholehearted love today, gives a practical how-to manual for readers everywhere for putting virtue into practice. Tim's piece, which we have placed here instead of his regular Fiat Voluntas Dei series because of its brevity, is an excellent illustration of how we should look at God in all humility and gratefulness as His servants - as holy slaves of Jesus and Mary. Jesus said in Mark 10: 14, "Suffer the little children to come to Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." As Traditional Catholics, we can veer from this message for the lure of the world, especially during the carefree and sweltering months of July and August, can dull the importance of daily working at teaching our children - no matter what age - what is important and how we can carry our cross daily, loving God all the more and practice the virtues in a Catholic's necessary quest for holiness. We furnish here, along with Tim's preface, a seven-point primer, which embodies the simplicity of what God is reminding us to be vigilant and, as responsible Catholics and parents, to
Teach the Children
THE STRAIGHT STUFF    Griff Ruby diffuses the idea many Novus Ordinarians launch that Traditional Catholics ought to attend the Novus Ordo in obedience, offering their spiritual sufferings therein as a kind of penance That's the shallow thinking of those who have been so dumbed down that they fail to realize why Catholics have no choice but to attend the True Mass and why such a "sacrifice" is not an acceptable penance. Though it may be a liturgical preference to many, that is not the reason Traditional Catholics make such amazing sacrifices to drive hours and hundreds of miles to attend the True Latin Mass. It is because in the Holy Sacrifice, decreed by St. Pius V to be said "in perpetuity," is the only true Catholic worship of a propitiatory nature in which the Sacrifice of Calvary is re-enacted in an unbloody manner; something which the Novus Ordo is not because it is a man-made, synthetic and poisonous rite, and that is why every Catholic needs to realize staying with the Novus Ordo only leads to further confusion and eventual entrapment, and to all who think they need to attend the Novus Ordo out of obedience: Why be a glutton for punishment? If you are within striking distance of the Vatican II venom, their fangs will reach you. For the sake of your soul hie thee out of the viper's pit of the conciliar church as fast as you can! Your eternal life depends on it! Griff explains in his column Novus Ordo "Suffering"
Fiat Voluntas Dei    Timothy Duff, long considered an expert on The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda, completes this specific series on her Heavenly work in which Our Lord and His Blessed Mother imparted to this simple, humble and very obedient nun over 2500 handwritten pages on the definitive work that best explains the life of the Mother of God - the Blessed Virgin Mary and much about her Divine Son Jesus Christ. Today Tim illustrates how the City of God helps so much in living from Communion to Communion and staying in communion with Jesus and His Blessed Mother. We are the most privileged and blessed to be able to receive the Bread of Angels and reading the City of God brings home how important and awe-inspiring reception of the Holy Eucharist is in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and should give each person a far greater and deeper perspective on the Holy Mass' significance and help each person to better prepare and live in grace between Masses. Tim shows the significance of beginning to prepare on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for Sunday Mass in imitation of Our Lady in remembering the Passion of her Divine Son. Tim explains and documents in Part Eight of his series Mystica Civitate Dei
The Importance of The Mystical City of God
On The BattleLine   Atila Sinke Guimarães documents the exodus of the conciliar hierarchy from the certain Catholic truths on Judaism always held by Holy Mother Church by citing examples of how the conciliar popes have sabotaged a long list of pre-Vatican II Roman Pontiffs and Saints who asserted the position Catholics must take, for the sake of their own souls, that of extreme caution in regard to the Jews. This was never considered anti-Semitic for the Church preached against such prejudice towards any race, but not in regards to religion for the Jewish religion was abrogated by God Himself through His Divine Son. To encourage, as the conciliar popes have done and continue to do with modern Rome kowtowing to whatever Israel dictates and Benedict's upcoming visit to a Synagogue where he will pray in Yiddish, these things surely contradict Our Lord's charge in Mark 16: 15-16 and therefore cannot be Catholic. The whole concept of patronizing the Zionists began at Vatican II and has only intensified the longer the conciliarists barge onward in undermining Catholic doctrine. Atila provides the evidence in his Bird's Eye View column Benedict's Upcoming Visit to the Synagogue of Cologne. Traditional Insights  Mario Derksen continues in his refutation of Kenneth Whitehead's arguments for justifying the ecumenical movement begun at Vatican II. Basing Catholic truth on Pope Pius XI's encyclical condemning ecumenism Mortalium animos, Mario shows how any variation from the Catholic Faith in action, gesture or words gives scandal and the appearance of, if not actual, heresy. This week he expands on the double standard obvious from the double speak of Vatican II where the conciliar idiots not only heretically contradict the dogma of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus but contradict themselves in trying to justify such ecumaniacal rubbish. Mario points out the true Catholic stance as professed up through Pope Pius XII and then asks what exactly changed between his death in 1958 and 1965. The answer on the Protestant side is nothing, yet the ecumaniacs bend over backward to compromise the Catholic Faith in order to placate their non-Catholic 'brethren.' The Apostle Paul nailed the problem very clearly in Galatians 1: 8-11 for if one seeks to please man rather than God, they are not only not servants of Christ but are NOT Catholic. Mario explains further the obvious double standard that manifests itself so blatantly when it comes to quickly dismissing Traditional Catholics as "not in communion with" while the Protestants are in "imperfect union with". Mario exposes the insanity of this in Part Eight An Attempt at a Defense (3)
FOCUS     If only Gary L. Morella were on the confirming committee for Supreme Court, we could be assured that the person confirmed would be a man not only we could be proud of, but God would be proud of. Gary focuses on the Supreme Court issue and John Roberts in particular and applies the wisdom of Augustine and Aquinas to the unlawful laws of abortion and sodomy today, showing very clearly that by advice and consent those who subscribe to these laws are going against the natural law and that goes for those who buy into the authority of unjust judges. Gary challenges John Roberts to show he is truly Catholic by standing without compromise for the eternal truths of his Catholic Faith and do all in his power to overturn unjust laws such as Roe vs. Wade for starters. Gary magnificently lays out the argument from the Angelic Doctor to Pope Pius XI's certainly clear encyclical Casti Connubii to other writers in bringing home the point that one - whether politician or judge - can never check their faith and belief at the door. Gary explains in his excellent essay We Want a Supreme Court, Not a Supreme "Farce"
Gabriel's Clarion   With this essay, Gabriel begins a multi-part series which we are calling "Incorrigible Dirigibles" in comparing the liberal factions to blimps full of hot air which nevertheless cast a dark shadow over today's values and morals. In the manner of the Tower of Babel-like zeppelin "Hindenburg," so also these pompous, progressive windbags are full of gaseous, nauseous ideas that can be most dangerous if one seeks to hook a ride on such nonsense. In that same vein, they have nowhere to go but down. One must realize they are highly inflammable and the nearer they float toward the fires of hell, the more combustible souls become who are in their path, beneath them, or, God forbid, their passenger. A petard is just that, a case containing explosives. In this first installment, Gabriel shows the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of the organization known as PETA which places animal rights above human rights in their crusade to save the cats, mice, fish and fowl but let the innocent unborn babies be mercilessly slaughtered! The Jewish sector doesn't seem to have a problem with that, but, as Gabriel points out, those who value salvation had better realize the insanity of such thinking; otherwise such a cavalier attitude toward the sanctity of life will manifest all the more a reason for God to roil and thunder and allow those who turn against His Laws to broil. That is why Gabriel pulls no punches in telling it like it is with Part One of the "Incorrigible Dirigibles" with his column The PETA Petard: Hypocrisy for the Birds!
"Qui legit, intelligat"  In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, he points out how many Spiritual Gifts God has bestowed on His children, but many take it for granted, not realizing inside they are rotting sepulchres who castigate the pious, the poor, the publican. We can have all the talent in the world but if we do not have the peace of God and the graces available by adhering to the Divine Will, then we are prey for the roaring lion - the devil in disguise - who, through charlatans of every cloth, through shallow values, through false prophets and the godless secularism so prevalent everywhere today, we are defenseless against the fallen angel lucifer who transforms into the fanged mangy cat on the prowl for souls. Father reminds us that the evil one mocks God by imitating Him, appropriately called "the ape of God" whose screeching alerts the predators of perdition throughout the lustful lush and deadly jungle of this world. To avoid the traps, to hover above the tangling vines, we need the light of the Holy Ghost to illuminate our way, to provide a safety net against the wiles and deceits of the devil. Only grace can do that and God gives it so lovingly. Why are we such ungrateful stewards? Father wonders, especially in light of what Our Lord promises as he emphasizes in his sermon
"If God has so loved us"
THE STRAIGHT STUFF    Griff Ruby takes a vacation this week from his hard-hitting, eye-opening apologetic essays to bring us a simple parable - if you will - in going back to school - back to the school of simplicity where, with the wisdom of Solomon, a prudent nun reaches and possibly alters the lives of two young minds with practical application of how we must love our neighbor and look forward to doing it. Griff illustrates how an elementary religious conveys it so very elementary, as easy as ABC. God makes it so simple, it is man who complicates things. If we strive to love God and do His will, we can't help but love our neighbor, and put down our 'spitwads' whether they be words or actions. Can We Pray For Our Enemies?
HOT ISSUES    Gary L. Morella weighs in with his cogent words about the aberration that occurred this week north of the border when Canada became the fourth country globally to sell out to satan lock, stock and barrel by legalizing an unnatural law that is diametrically and diabolically opposed to God's Natural Law. Now Canadian souls are even more vulnerable, especially with the lukewarm 'Catholic bishops' who, when push comes to shove, show themselves to be sniveling cowards, swatting away the welfare of souls like ping-pong balls bouncing into eternal perdition. Is there a St. John Fisher in the bunch? Or a St. Thomas More in government? Doesn't look like it! Gary points out that we have brought this upon ourselves by buying into the rot that contraception is justified, which has only made it all that much easier for satan to populate hell while enticing men and women to not procreate and take responsibility for life for offspring. Yes, we are reaping the 'fruits' of the barren lustful generations with abortion, contraception, adultery, pornography, and sodomy. And people are offended when those who respect and fear God warn people that these natural disasters and man-made disasters - namely terrorism, Islamism, Modernism, Globalism for a One World Order and every other ism including infiltration and pollution in His Church - are the last warnings of a Heavenly Father Who can no longer stay back His hand of Justice. Are we so overconfident, proud and that stupid not to connect the dots and see the causes and effects of a civilization when they turn their backs on God's Laws? Evidently we are. Gary explains in his commentary
The Canadian Canard
Fiat Voluntas Dei   Timothy Duff, long considered an expert on The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda, continues his series on her Heavenly work in which Our Lord and His Blessed Mother imparted to this simple, humble and very obedient nun over 2500 handwritten pages on the definitive work that best explains the life of the Mother of God - the Blessed Virgin Mary and much about her Divine Son Jesus Christ. Today Tim emphasizes the importance of the City of God and the necessity to apply it to our daily lives by willingly giving ourselves to Jesus and Mary as Their Holy Slaves to do with as They wilt. That, as Tim points out, is true freedom, while worldly freedom is, in truth, slavery to Lucifer. Whose master do we choose to be shackled to - the holy or the unholy? It's a no-brainer for those who love God and have the fear of God in them and City of God is an excellent how-to in living as St. Louis de Montfort so excellently conveyed. Tim explains and documents in Part Seven of his series Mystica Civitate Dei
The Importance of The Mystical City of God
Traditional Insights  Mario Derksen continues in his refutation of Kenneth Whitehead's arguments for justifying the ecumenical movement begun at Vatican II. Basing Catholic truth on Pope Pius XI's encyclical condemning ecumenism Mortalium animos, Mario shows how any variation from the Catholic Faith in action, gesture or words gives scandal and the appearance of, if not actual, heresy. Derksen picks up where he left last week and expands his argument by illustrating just a few actions and gestures     that prove the conciliar church has veered far from the Catholic path. He backs this up with Pope Pius XII's warning against false oecumenism in his encyclicalHumani generis and the Church's Instruction on the Ecumenical Movement, ushered in 1949 where the Holy Father identified the dangerous infifferentism that can arise. Mario explains in Part Seven An Attempt at a Defense (2)
Making Sense of Sensus Catholicus 
Father James F. Wathen, the pioneering traditional author of The Great Sacrilege, continues, in honor of the Month of the Most Precious Blood, his treatise on its significance. He cites St. Paul's words to the Ephesians, specifically showing the definite abrogation of the Jews as the exclusive chosen people for, as Father points out, Heaven was opened for all - Jew and Gentile, but only if they follow the divine formula of the New Covenant and use the tools for redemption - His Church and sacraments - made manifest in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for which, through the merits of Jesus Christ, the fruits of that Sacrifice for all can be realized only "for the many" - Pro Multis - who adhere to the truths handed down in His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. It is there and only there where, through the Holy Mass, God's message cannot be changed, but His message can change us if we are loyal to Him and the infallible, perennial Magisterium of the Church He founded: the Church which upholds the only true sacrifice pleasing to God - the Traditional Latin Mass as infallibly decreed by St. Pius V must be said "in perpetuity." As usual we are grateful to Maria Hughes for sending Father's latest essay titled The Precious Blood of Christ Part Two
Gabriel's Clarion  Gabriel Garnica offers the lasso of faith, hope and charity in warning all of the marauders who have galloped across the last 40 years. With apologies to Grantland Rice, we paraphrase the following: Outlined against the black and white tenets of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Four Horsemen have galloped. In the Apocalypse they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases to the New Order. Their real names are Feelings, Unity, Self and Pride. They formed the crest of the ecumenical cyclone before which another fighting force - the noble Church Militant - was swept over the precipice as countless souls looked on, hapless, dumb-struck sheep, bleating in blind obedience to the bewildering panorama stampeding across the wide arid-gray expanse of lukewarm hearts. Gabriel identifies the bandits upon their steeds in his column The Four Horsemen of The New Order
"Qui legit, intelligat"  In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost, he shows the truths of St. Paul's words in Galatians 1: 8, 9 of the anathema being foisted on the faithful by the conciliar church which hopes to influence many with the lie of evolving doctrine. Yes, the modernists posit that man is so much more capable of rationalizing and correcting the 'errors' of those who were steeped in the Faith but, according to the apostate leaders of the new church, didn't have the 'fullness of truth' that we of this enlightened age have today. That is why so many opinions of heretics have taken over doctrine, turning Catholics into non-Catholics, often even non-Christians by embracing the skimble-skamble of those who now look for ways to eliminate the necessity of Baptism. Can we not see the great elation of hell rumbling forth in mocking laughter at this anathema which today is no longer considered anathema sit by the conciliarists but rather 'progress'? That is why Father reminds us of today's Gospel when our Lord was teaching daily in the temple and that we had best make a decisive turn to stand fast to the traditions handed down for we know not the time of visitation. In this same gospel Christ clearly identifies what the conciliarists have made of His Church today - a den of thieves; robbers who have twisted so many truths that they trip over their own lies and kill souls with the nonsense that Baptism is no longer necessary. That could be because ecumenism and Baptism do not mix; only conversion and Baptism. Conversion and Traditionalism are the only things the modernist church hold as anathema today. Such is the sad state of the Vatican II church as Father points out in his sermon
Simple Hopes and Decisive Turns
The Sanity of Sanctity   Down through the ages Mount Carmel has been a rock of inspiration and sanctification from the time of Elias to present day. The story of Carmel is prose, poetry and prayer and basically the benchmark of the Blessed Virgin Mary's integral role as Advocate, Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces. Carmel has been favored by Our Lady as foretold in the Old Testament and as manifested to St. Simon Stock in 1251 when she bestowed on him the Brown Scapular and the amazing promise of ultimate salvation to all who abide by the rules of the Scapular. In addition, at Lourdes the Blessed Mother appeared to Bernadette as Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on this day 147 years ago and in the same heavenly garb on her final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917. We provide a thorough backgrounder on the meaning and magnificence of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and its history, masterfully conveyed by Dom Prosper Gueranger in his masterpiece The Liturgical Year as well as the Act of Consecration to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in honor of today's Double Major Commemoration in a feature we have chosen to call The Lasting Magnificence, Grace, and Power of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
THE STRAIGHT STUFF    Back in late May and early June, we ran Griff Ruby's two-part essay titled "Project Harvest Moon and Pope Gregory XVII" in which he effectively showed that, as much as many want the "Siri Theory" to be true, it is not possible for the clock has run out on this thesis. End of story, right? Not quite. One somewhat well-known public figure took issue with Griff and his syllogisms. Normally, as we preface to Griff's response in our Editor's Forward, we wouldn't run comments from readers disagreeing with various articles or we'd never have time to publish a regular issue, but the editor provides five reasons why it is necessary this time - with the main underlying current being that Griff's response strengthens his arguments all the more. Thus, when challenged by a die-hard Siri theorist, Griff shows he's up to the task. As you can see there won't be any shying away from controversy or personal questions as Griff masterfully answers the "last hurrah" of the Siri Thesis, going through the full letter from Jim Condit, Jr. in emphasizing how his argument that Lumen Gentium was factually and actually "the straw that broke the camel's back." Griff also strengthens his points on why his arguments hold much more credibility and fact than any other theories posited anywhere, anytime. He tackles all comers head on with his response, which we've titled Harvest Moon Revisited
Fiat Voluntas Dei   Timothy Duff, long considered an expert on The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda, continues his series on her Heavenly work in which Our Lord and His Blessed Mother imparted to this simple, humble and very obedient nun over 2500 handwritten pages on the definitive work that best explains the life of the Mother of God - the Blessed Virgin Mary and much about her Divine Son Jesus Christ. Today Tim provides the proof of the pudding: the fruits of the work through conversions and vocations just as Jesus assures for a "good tree: in Matthew 7 and The Mystical City of God is a very, very good tree; most probably outside of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary and Holy Scripture, the most fruitful in the sanctification of souls. He documents just an inkling of the great fruits produced by this masterful manuscript preserved for our time as Tim explains and documents in Part Six of his series Mystica Civitate Dei
The Excellence of The Mystical City of God
Doctors of the Church  Today is the Traditional Double Feast of The Seraphic Doctor Saint Bonaventure, and, as part of our "gems from the past" we bring you our profiles on this holy twenty-third Doctor in our completed chronological series on the Doctors of the Church. Bonaventure was a man full of "good fortune" from his earliest years. Humility was his virtue; his role model was St. Francis of Assisi, the holy founder who named him. He followed this man, continuing the ideals of the Franciscans, guiding them during turbulent times when growing pains created problems in the ranks and with various ecclesial authorities opposed to the Friars Minor. This Universal Doctor was one of the first saintly Cardinals of the Church. He was close friends with "The Angelic Doctor" St. Thomas Aquinas and the saintly king of France King Louis IX. He was the architect of the 2nd Council of Lyons and, fittingly, was called home by God immediately following completion of the Council. His work done on earth but continued through his writings and example; so much so that he is known as "The Seraphic Doctor." He was Saint Bonaventure. Traditional Insights  Having completed the "gems from the past series" on "The Truth About Ecumenism" with last week's fifth installment on Pope Pius XI's encyclical condemning ecumenism Mortalium animos, Mario Derksen picks up where he left off last July with Part Six in which he refutes the feeble attempts by conciliar shills to justify the unjustifiable. Mario shreds the arguments of one of the leading defenders of Vatican II - Dr. Kenneth D. Whitehead - which appeared in last year's issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review. With the ecumania actually accelerating under Benedict XVI it is vital to bring the evil of ecumenism to light. In this installment Mario goes point by point in bursting the balloon of hot air launched by the conciliarists and without an inflated appearance that "things are better", Mario shows the bubble of bafflegab for what it really is - an illusion that has evolved into full-blown heresy in rejecting the dogmas and wisdom of the infallible, perennial Magisterium of the Church. Mario syllogizes how the heresy of ecumenism leads to indifferentism as has been so obvious over the past several decades, intensifying now all the more. Truly the conciliar church is collapsing because a house built on sand cannot stand. Mario explains in Part Six An Attempt at a Defense (1)
Pro-Life Prescriptions  
With the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to reject the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, Dr. Frank Joseph registers his indignation that this judicial tyranny, which Gabriel Garnica zeroed in on yesterday, is running amok and, like Gabriel, he points to the culprits who are responsible for this - the judges, politicians and bishops. Frank gets down to basics like the Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence and Ten Commandments to show the absolute diabolical disorientation of these men in their maddening agendas and that it is time for the common man to rise up and say, "enough! God is in charge, not you!" It all comes down to, as Frank points out that never have the opportunities been more available for President Bush to appoint more men like Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court bench in the quest to rid this land of the grievous sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance. Of course, as Frank shows, few know this because those entrusted with the spiritual welfare of souls have abrogated their responsibility because they are curs of the Democratic Party and a curse to the sanctity of life. Frank explains in his column The Gall! How Dare They!?!
Gabriel's Clarion    Gabriel Garnica focuses on two rogues who were in the news over the past week or so; one is Sandra Day O'Connor, wearing a black robe who has announced her retirement from the Supreme Court, and the other Roger Mahony, wearing the red robes of the cardinalate, who unfortunately has not announced such but many are demanding his resignation and rightly so. Neither of these two modernists are friends of the innocent unborn, as evidenced by their actions and track-record. Now there is a battle for O'Connor's replacement and pro-life forces are mobilizing, but one place to not look for much help is the USCCB for whether in purple or the scarlet, they, as well as their colleagues on the bench, have sold out to mammon as Sunday's gospel relates. The truth is these Robed Marauders in the Courts, Chanceries, and Curia have blackened hearts and bloody hands that can only be cleansed by willingly presenting themselves before the Supreme Judge to be washed in His Most Precious Blood. That can only be done by uncompromisingly respecting God's Laws and reinforcing these commandments in all they are responsible for. Gabriel explains in his column When Black Robes turn Red and Red Robes turn Black
"Qui legit, intelligat"  In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for the Eighth Sunday After Pentecost, he emphasizes that we sow what we reap and in the case of laws that go against God's Commandments and the Natural Law, we have sown chaos for God withdraws His graces from those who persist in neglecting His will.Father shows that we are in the mess we are in - in all aspects of life - our homes, church and society - because we have not been vigilant and stood for Christ. It is more evidence that the Supreme Court is in no way supreme but rather very vulgar in more ways than one and an aberration to not only God Himself, but all those who upheld His laws prior to the judicial tyranny and ecclesial rebellion that have so ravaged civilization over the past 30 to 40 years. The same goes for the usurpers who have hijacked the Church. The key is exactly what Paul speaks of in today's Epistle - to conquer the flesh for from the flesh come a multitude of sins. Look at the scandals and lack of fruits today for proof of this. As Jesus highlights in today's Gospel, "give an account of thy stewardship" and that accounting cannot be hidden when judgment time is nigh. Yet rather than taking this divine advice to heart, this disobedient generation seem to be far 'wiser' than the children of light. It brings into focus Our Lord's haunting words completing today's Gospel to make friends of mammon when one has persistently been disobedient to God. In other words, even the all-merciful and loving Son of God has said that those who reject Him and His teaching are worthy of the fate of destitution and destruction, for only through His True Church is their salvation. Those who do not grasp that, who think they have a better idea - be they 'shepherds' in the conciliar church, judges and politicians in government, or ostriches in society who refuse to recognize the truth, they are all part and parcel of
The Disobedient Generation
Traditional Thoughts  
Father Yves le Roux, rector of St. Thomas Seminary for the Society of St. Pius X in Winona, Minnesota, weighs in with a brief meditation on trust in God and how easy it is to submit to the taunts of the evil one that God is not there, that He is too busy for caring, or that one can do everything without his hope. All this is built on the devil's hope that one will despair and abandon the path of holiness. That is what satan is counting on. The basic truth is that only by trusting totally in God can we fend off the fiery arrows of the satanic archer that constantly peppers hearts and souls into thinking they can achieve holiness on their own. Father explains in his letter
"To Be Sure of God as of a Family Friend"
THE STRAIGHT STUFF   Griff Ruby, heats up the oven of traditional kibitzing by reminding us all of our need to not get too close to the flames. Traditional Catholics have a tendency to do a slow burn over the way they were deceived, but Griff says it will do no good to resent it for we'll be turned into worthless pretzels, twisting in the winds of regret and bitterness. Rather, we should be happy we have finally realized the Perfect Banquet is the infrangible Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as infallibly decreed to be said "in perpetuity" by Pope St. Pius V in ratifying the infallible, dogmatic decrees of Trent and seek to bring more to this same necessary ideal for salvation. Our Lord asserts in Matthew 5: 13 that as traditional Catholics we should be the salt of the earth, but if that salt lose its savor it is worth nothing. So also if we tie ourselves up in knots worrying over what this conciliar 'bishop' did or that Novus Ordinarian believes then we become agitated and salt-less twisted dough good for nothing but being ground into meal for the vultures of vice. If we do nothing but point fingers, we get twisted into narrow-thinking Pharisaec pretzels. Ouch! Griff explains why it does no good to go off half-baked in his column Lose the Attitude
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That gurgling sound is the last gasping of the conciLIARS who are finding their past sins coming back to haunt them such as William Levada whom Benedict XVI unwisely chose to succeed him in an office that used to be one of the Holiest of Offices that it was called the Holy Office. No longer. As one put it, the fox is now guarding the hen house. Levada is not only enmeshed in the swamp of cover-up from his woeful days in Portland, Oregon but a deposition has revealed that he had advocated artificial birth control to one of his priest's concubines to avoid scandal. With this kind of moral character how could Benedict ever appoint such a sordid rascal who should not even be a bishop, let alone a priest, let alone a Catholic in good standing?!? A true pope would never make so many errors as the conciliar ones in charge over the last 40 years have done. Think about that as you read the latest documentation of scandal and total silence from the top in modern Rome. Morals? What Morals? More proof of the collapse of the conciLIAR church. When will the vast majority wake up and realize the fulfillment of what Our Lady foretold at LaSalette? But then, if they won't even heed the Word of God, or Church Doctrine, why should we expect them to pay attention to approved messages from the Mother of God? Look what they have done to Fatima and the Third Secret. It's obvious, oh, so obvious! We provide some comments below.
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Never in the history of the Church have so many apostate foxes been put in charge of the conciliar hen houses!