THURSDAY
April 4, 2002
 volume 13, no. 64
Easter Thursday.
Feast of Saint Isidore of Seville, Bishop and Doctor of the Church who died in 636. Potential Patron Saint of the Internet

                              
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IN TODAY'S ISSUE:

 Appreciating the Precious Gift of our Faith
 How appropriate with all of the mea culpas coming forth and the people demanding the truth that we begin to feature the healing Sacrament of Penance, so played down in the post-conciliar church. Confession must be a regular habit if one is to be truly Catholic. Today we bring you the 267th installment of this series on The Sacrament of Penance.

 Christ or chaos
In Today's issue we bring you the fourth installment of a generous "Dose of Droleskey" week during which Dr. Thomas Droleskey is about to become a father for the first time. Because of his immense love for the Sanctity of Life he rails at those who are outraged over abuses to animals and nature, but don't blink when innocent unborns are slaughtered in the womb. Enough is enough as he explains in his column Oh, the Humanity!

It's a Girl!
We are pleased to announce that Tom and Sharon welcomed into the world their first born Lucy Mary Norma Droleskey on Wednesday of Holy Week, March 27th at 7:22 Central Standard Time. She was baptized at the Hour of Mercy on Easter Sunday by Father Eric Flood, a priest of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter at St. Patrick's Church in Omaha. As a special bonus, we share Tom's announcement with you at It's a Girl!

 "Father, forgive them..."
Today we present an excerpt from Michael Rose's forthcoming book Goodbye! Good Men with comments by Gary Morella on a Baltimore Sun article that covered Cardinal Keeler's blatant attempt to diffuse the blame when the proof is in the pages of Rose's book. Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse and the seeds of sodomy have spoiled the fruits of vocations and the whole bad tree must be exterminated and the seeds of sanctity replanted before we can once again have holy shepherds as Gary points out in The root of the problem
 The Great Sacrilege
Father James F. Wathen, O.S.J. has granted permission to publish his entire work which was first published by Tan Books in 1972, and which we urge you to read for everything he wrote back then is backed by the solid depositum fidei - the Sacred Deposit of the Faith and still holds true. It takes up where the Ottaviani Intervention left off as you'll see in Thursday's issue when Father addresses the whole facade behind the over-exaggerated Rite of Peace that has become an excuse to elevate the social instead of the Immolated Lamb as Father will explain in the second section of Part Fourteen of Chapter Four The Rite of Peace.

COMING TOMORROW:

 Christ or chaos
In tommorow's issue we bring you the fifth installment of a generous "Dose of Droleskey" week when Dr. Thomas Droleskey clues the reader in on the dumbing down of America and how we have had the Muslim agenda pushed down our throats and how Christian principles have been foresaken in the name of tolerance and strategy. No matter how the media spins it, no matter what the government and military may say, they can't put "Humpty Dumpty" together again unless they resign themselves to the fact that it can only be done with Jesus Christ in place as the King of all nations and His Blessed Mother as the rightful Queen of Heaven and earth as he points out in his column All the King's Horses.

 Traditional Insights
On Friday in Easter Week Mario Derksen will begin a new series on the The Humanism of John Paul II with his first part exposing the 'savor of heresy' exhibited at Assisi a few months ago, something that causes great scandal to those who have always been taught the absolutes of Catholic Dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church. Sadly the post-conciliar church has so blurred the line of this unchangeable truth that conversion is on the back burner in favor of compromise. Also he addresses the issue of the First Commandment regarding the blasphemies that occurred in the Umbrian Hills with part one in his column Friday The Assisi Interfaith Prayer Scandals - I For Mario's column last week, see The Skimble-Skamble of the Post-Conciliar Church: Razzmatazz III
 Exspectans exspectavimus Ecclesia Dei
Tomorrow, though a week after Good Friday, Bishop Richard Williamson harkens back to that time leading up to the Passion and likens the modern teachers today in the post-conciliar church to Judas Iscariot. In illustrating the similarities he makes it very clear that all those who seek to uphold the Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church can never compromise with the modernists in his letter Teachers of Our Lord - Judas and Newchurch.

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:

 Pro Life Prescriptions
Wednesday Dr. Frank Joseph pointed out how the American Church got into this whole scandalous mess in the first place because the shepherds were not keeping watch, too interested in offending the politicos and money-changers. Because of the severe laxity of the bishops on all fronts the blood of aborted babies runs freely across America for the last 27 years where, in truth, had the bishops acted as true bishops, legalized abortion and the homosexual agenda would never have seen the light of day as he explained in his column A Sad State of Affairs!

 Christ or chaos
In Wednesday's issue we brought you the third installment of a generous "Dose of Droleskey" week as Dr. Thomas Droleskey continued his railing against the hypocrisy of the American hierarchy, specifically the bishops and chanceries who still don't seem to want to deal in a humane, moral way with the victims. Because of their tactics more Catholics drift farther from the true moral position which Holy Mother Church has always upheld. But to hear the bishops tell it, well all is peaches and cream and Tom is fed up with their posturing as he illustrated in his column The Hypocrisy is Astounding!
 Simply Sheen
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen showed the difference between the great holy thinker Saint Thomas Aquinas and the modern thinkers. What he finds is a great chasm between Thomas' approach and theirs and that chasm is widening ever more as reason has seemingly taken a holiday from logic and Christian ideals in a secular, pagan manner make it more difficult for anyone to be able to see it from Thomas' point of view because it is so distorted as the bishop explained in Reason enough!
 "By their fruits you shall know them"
 Tuesday we will introduced another series wherein we exposed the bad fruits of Vatican II. The title is taken from Our Lord's undeniable words in Matthew 7: 18-20 in which He said, "A good tree cannot yield bad fruit, neither can a bad tree yield good fruit. Every tree that yieldeth not good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.". We featured a scripture-based piece by David May first published in The Remnant which zeroed in on the problems of sodomy in the post-conciliar church. Through the good graces of editor Michael Matt, we presented May's excellent essay Homosexuality, Pedophilia and the Priesthood.
 Christ or chaos
In Tuesday's issue we brought you the second installment of a generous "Dose of Droleskey" week when Dr. Thomas Droleskey pulled no punches in telling it like it is with some tough talk that lays the blame for this whole scandalous mess where it should be in his powerful column Time for Plain Talk!
 FOCUS
Through the gracious permission of John Vennari of Catholic Family News, we completed Mark Fellows' excellent treatise on John Paul II. Mark's third and final part "The Jewish Assessment" which is a perfect lead-in to the blockbuster release coming soon by Atila Sinke Guimarães as stated below. On this past Tuesday Fellows presented part three of Man With A Mission.
 White Smoke, Black Fire!
In the sixth episode of Chapter Six in Part II - "The Smoldering" Pat, secure in his hotel room in Rome, still has no idea of the fate that has befallen Fasif, Elias, Helena and possibly Niki as the latter races for his life to escape his pursuers, leading him right back to the airbase where the coffins are being loaded on C-130's. Destination: Rome!
  Doctors of the Church
  On Monday we brought to you, and every following Monday we will be bringing you, a profile of one of the 33 great Doctors of the Church. Of all the saints down through the ages, only 33 have been bestowed with such a title spanning from the 4th century through late in the 19th century. There are 30 men, three women. The first to be proclaimed a "Doctor of the Church" was Saint Athanasius, the Alexandrian Bishop who persisted against the Arian heresies through numerous popes and was banished by emperors and the Arians four times. But in the end the True Faith won out, thanks to the persevereance of men like Saint Athanasius
 Catholic PewPOINT
In Monday's issue editor Michael Cain analyzed the problems inherent in the post-conciliar church today with all the scandals breaking out as the house of cards begins to fall for it was not based on the solid foundation of rock, but on the shifting sands of Humanism, Ecumenism and Modernism and is destined to fall. The malaise that afflicts the modern Catholic Church could easily have been prevented had those responsible followed the fail-safe prescriptions of the Holy Doctors of the Church. Cain pointed out how a few Doctors of the Church saw this coming centuries ago as he explained in his commentary They've been listening to the wrong doctors!
 Christ or chaos
In Monday's issue Dr. Thomas Droleskey completed his focus on the glaring differences between the Old Roman Rite observed for centuries and the New Roman Rite that is like the 'flavor of the month.' While some may think the only difference between the Novus Ordo Mass of Modern Rome and the Traditional Latin Mass of Eternal Rome is no different than preferring one flavor over another - like a chocolate cone over a vanilla one - in truth the Tridentine Mass satisfies fully in every way, leaving one satiated in grace, while the New Mass is more like a Baskin-Robbins with the flavor of the month where everyone can decide for themselves as the true Faith melts into a pan-religious ideology as Tom explained in part four of Merely a Matter of Preference?
COMING SOON!
Atila Sinke Guimarães has spent weeks analyzing the Pontifical Biblical Commission's flawed document "The Hebrew People and its Holy Scriptures in the Christian Bible" carefully, and will come up with his conclusions soon. Dr. Marian Horvat is assisting in the translation and preparation of this important review and we will publish it as soon as it is available. The issue of this document is certainly the most important official event of the Conciliar Church on the topic of the Jews since Nostra aetate and the visit John Paul II made to the synagogue of Rome (April 1986). Stay tuned.




"Of all conceivable forms of enlightenment, the worst is what these people call the Inner Light. Of all the horrible religions, the most horrible is the worship of the god within. Anyone who knows anybody knows how it would work: anyone who knows anyone from the Higher Thought Center knows how it does work. That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones."




Today in Church History
Two Popes Passed Away on this day 386 years apart
   Today is the anniversary of the death of two Sovereign Pontiffs, one Pope Formosus, the 111th successor of Peter, died on this date in 896 after a five year papacy. He is best remembered for converting the Bulgarians to Christianity. The other is Pope Nicholas IV, the 191st in the line of Peter and the first Franciscan Pope ever whose claim to fame during his four year pontificate was strengthening the missions, bringing order to the Court of Portugal and promoting scholasticism. He died in 1292.


In each issue we will feature a special prayer to enhance your Catholic devotions


Novena of Divine Mercy:

    "Today bring Me the souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy , and immerse them in My Mercy. These souls sorrowed most over My Passion and entered most deeply into My Spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death."

Today, Easter Thursday is the Seventh Day of the Nine Day Novena of Divine Mercy. Though this private revelation is relatively new, having been imparted to Saint Faustina Kowalska in the 1930's it has great merit when accompanied by the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, recommended to be said at the great hour of Mercy - 3 p.m. for that is the time Our Lord died on the Cross and when the centurion pierced His Most Sacred Heart with a lance. Blood and Water poured forth as a Font of Mercy for all generations. For this Novena, see Novena of Divine Mercy

For prayers posted thus far, see Devotions and Reflections
LITURGY OF SAINTS FOR EASTER WEEK

THURSDAY, April 4:
Feast of Saint Isidore of Seville, Bishop and Doctor of the Church who died in 636.

FRIDAY, April 5:
Feast of Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest and "Angel of the Apocalypse" who died in 1419, and historical feast of Blessed Juliana of Mount Cornillon, Virgin who died in 1258.

SATURDAY, April 6:
Historical feast of Saint Marcellinus of Carthage who was martyred in 413.

SUNDAY, April 7:
Traditionally Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday. In the new it is Divine Mercy Sunday and the feast of Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Religious who died in 1719. He is considered the Patron Saint of Teachers. Historical feast of Saint Herman Joseph, Priest who died in 1241.

For reflections on Sunday, see Fr. Cusick's reflections

MONDAY, April 8:
Transferred Feast of the ANNUNCIATION. Historical feast of Saint Julie Billiart, Virgin who died in 1816.


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