TUESDAY
January 29, 2002
 volume 13, no. 17
Traditional Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Patron of Catholic Journalism, who was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church who passed to his Heavenly reward in 1622. Historical Feast of Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot who died in 570.

                              
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IN TODAY'S ISSUE:

 "Father, forgive them..."
The Remnant correspondent Christopher Ferrara gives first-hand accounts of Thursday's aberration at Assisi in reports sent by Gary L. Morella. We are grateful to Michael J. Matt for sending Chris to Assisi and allowing us to share this with you in such a timely manner. Chris cites Pope Pius IX's Mortalium Animos and Pope Saint Pius X's Omnia Instauare in Christo to prove the grave error of such a gathering. Inside Assisi

 Traditional Thoughts
In this issue we begin a special series on what Traditionalism truly is - Roman Catholicism. Peter Miller, editor of the www.Seattle Catholic.com, shares a simple, concise response to 'conservatives' who see their beloved Church collapsing everywhere but continue to keep their heads in the sand, refusing to see the obvious. Peter shows the distinctions between 'traditionalist' and 'conservative' and clears up misconceptions that hopefully will better alert neo-Catholics to the true path they need to follow and to dispell the many myths about Traditionalism as we present the first part of his excellent article A Brief Defense of Traditionalism.
 The Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart
Today we continue with the excellent work by Father Joseph McDonnell, S.J. first written during the Pontificate of Pope Saint Pius X and which, now out of print, Catholic Family News has given us permission to reprint following their publishing of it. It is a beautiful meditation and commentary that should encourage more devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus with Part Eight - Meditation on the Fourth Promise.
 White Smoke, Black Fire!
In the fifth episode of Chapter Five in Part II - "The Smoldering" Fasif draws Pat deeper into the intrigue as a crucial, final chess game is revealed; one between good and evil, between good kings and bad kings, good queens and bad queens, good knights and bad knights, good bishops and bad bishops...very bad prelates as we learn of major religions' involvement, including Rome and the Israeli Mossad and the deadly compromise with Freemason interests.

COMING TOMORROW:

 Pro Life Prescriptions
Tomorrow Dr. Frank Joseph gets down to brass tacks by clearly showing how to embrace the Democratic platform of pro-abortion and call oneself a Catholic is a contradiction of the greatest degree. Jesus says if you love Me, keep My Commandments. If one does not keep His Commandments, even though they know better and every Catholic does, then the natural syllogism would have to be that one doesn't love God. Since the Democrats openly defy His Commandments, then for a Catholic to be a Democrat would greatly jeopardize his soul. There is absolutely no rhyme nor reason to compatibility of being both as Dr. Joseph will point out in his column How Can a Catholic be a Democrat?

 Guest Column
In Wednesday's issue we bring you a probing article by Gary L. Morella which every Catholic must read for he illustrates how the dumbing-down and desensitizing of Catholics and the compromising of Catholic truths are playing right into the hands of those out to destroy Holy Mother Church. The entire ecumenical agenda is on a one-way course toward the abyss because the ultimate goal of those out to establish a one world religion is to get the Holy Roman Catholic Church to apologize and deny the Nicene Creed. It is heresy plain and clear. He pleads for Catholics to know their Faith if they are to survive the multicultural, politically correct, pan-christian, post-conciliar march toward a worldly global utopia that has no place in it for the One, True God - Jesus Christ, present Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Gary sounds the clarion in his excellent insightful article tomorrow titled The Dangers of Syncretism and Indifferentism
 Exspectans exspectavimus Ecclesia Dei
In the aftermath of Assisi II and the compromise by the traditional priests of Campos, Brazil, Father Peter Scott points out that though Rome has managed to lure the Campos contingent into compromising the principles they previously had so defended and stood for, the Society of Saint Pius X remains strong in rejecting the path post-conciliar church has taken in their quest to accommodate all religions and therefore compromise the church's once unyielding position as the True Church. Ecumenism is the death knell and Father reasserts that rather than caving to accepting modernism this second aberration at Assisi should reinstill in Traditional Catholics the resolve to stand ever stronger for the unchangable Truths and Traditions of Holy Mother Church as he points out in What price for the Campos Compromise?
  Simply Sheen
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen continues in Wednesday's issue on the very topic so greatly twisted and misunderstood today: TOLERANCE. He speaks of the four kinds of way one can love - utilitarian, romantic, democratic and Divine. The fourth is the most important as His Excellency points out. He also expresses the concern that too many emphasize the 'brotherhood of man' while ignoring the 'Fatherhood of God.' He asks if they will "make humanity a brood of illegitimate children?" That is a serious concern with the late, great prelate in Four ways to love, but only one way to truly love!
LATER THIS WEEK:

 Echoes of True Catholicism
On Thursday Dr. Marian Horvat poses the problem facing many young Catholics today as she illustrates how what a child sees will not prompt him to want to sacrifice, not move him to want to convert others to his Faith, not light a fire of zeal in him to join others in the Church Militant. In this lack, another soul multiplied by millions will stray from the most precious gift he has been given and embrace such false religions that worship everything and everybody but the One, True God. She offers as an excellent example the Dalai Lama's appearance at Fatima as merely a photo-op for advancing the heresy of ecumenism while causing scandal to countless souls who don't see the distinction. She puts it plainly and quite clearly in her column Actions Speak Louder Than Words

 Precious Gift of our Faith
This Thursday we continue a beautiful catechetical apologetic series taken from The Glories and Triumphs of the Catholic Church on the true meaning of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The 257th installment continues to unveil the poetic, inspiring essence of why the Mass is the fulcrum of our Faith corresponding to the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ as passed down in the uninterrupted traditions with Ecclesiastical Vestments and Colors.
 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 with Part Six of Chapter Four - The New Form of Consecration - second part in THE "NEW MASS."
 Christ or chaos
This coming Friday Dr. Thomas Droleskey continues his series on G.I.R.M. Warfare. He comments on paragraph 81 and 82 on the Protestantization of the Mass, which is especially noticeable during the Lord's Prayer and the greatly abused 'rite of peace' which has turned into a social function instead of a reverent, necessary time of preparing the faithful for receiving Our Lord, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Most Holy Eucharist as Tom explains in his 37th installment There can be no peace in the piece-meal new order!
 Traditional Insights
Mario Derksen continues with his young and refreshing Traditional Insights with a four-part series on The Crisis in the Catholic Liturgy. Friday he highlights how feelings dictate how one worships in the post-conciliar church which explains how the charismatic movement has made such inroads and taken Catholics farther away from how they truly should worship because the emphasis is taken away from sacrifice and placed on celebration. They forget that there can be no resurrection without the crucifixion as Mario points out in part three Warm 'fuzzies' quickly cool off the Faith!
 The Fatima FILE
On Friday we present the second in a new series on the consequences to the world and Russia for the failure to faithfully follow Our Lady's specific messages at Fatima. . This series will include articles that address these issues. Through the good graces and permission of John Vennari of Catholic Family News we present the first set of articles, with part two - Communism's New Look in an excellent, fact-filled feature by Cornelia R. Ferreira on The Perestroika Deception Updated

WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED YESTERDAY:

Council of Constance


  Just over a century after the Council of Vienne the sixteenth Ecumenical Council was called in the French area of Switzerland in 1414. For unity's sake Pope Gregory XII abrogated the throne and the Council took control and elected Pope Martin V to the seat of Peter in 1417, three years after the Council was opened. It brought to an end the Great Schism and opened a whole new can of worms with the struggle between papal power and conciliar power. Condemned were the heresies of John Wycliffe and John Hus, the tip of the iceberg that would erupt a century later. For the full documents of the sixteenth Ecumenical Council see COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE

 Catholic PewPOINT
In the aftermath of Assisi II, editor Michael Cain took the gloves off in Monday's issue. He asked if conservatives are aware of how the Pope in his agenda of ecumenism has violated the First Commandment and contradicted so much of what past pontiffs decreed. He asked if those who consider our Holy Father errorless cannot see the grave scandal the Pope gives by continuing his ecumenical bent and promulgating beliefs that were condemned by the infallible, perennial Magisterium of the Church. Assisi was supposedly about praying for peace. There can be no peace when there is division and there is plenty of division inside and outside the Church. This is because the Marks that distinguish the True Church have been greatly blurred by the post-conciliar church, thus calling into question if, indeed, it is still truly Catholic today as Cain pointed out in one of his hardest hitting commentaries ever in Perhaps it is time to consider calling Trent II
 Standing with the Church Militant On the BattleLine
In Monday's issue Atila Sinke Guimarães continued a multi-part series The Ideal of the Universal Republic Blessed by the Conciliar Pontiffs first carried in Catholic Family News on the alarming trend of the post-conciliar pontiffs to cater to the idea of a Universal Republic. Atila points out how Paul VI rejected the wisdom of all his predecessors by parrotting the very cry of the French Revolution with his infamous pledge at the United Nations in October 1965. Atila documented all of this in the third installment of his column How Paul VI distanced himself from holy and wise Pontiffs of the past by embracing the ideals of the French Revolution

            
            
Day Six of the Novena to Our Lady of Good Success

   This Novena honors an early 1600 visionary Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, a Spanish Conceptionist nun whose mission was Quito, Ecuador where she received prophecies for these time in which Our Lady warned of the dire crisis the Church is undergoing today. For more information we urge you to see Our Lady of Good Success.

For the Novena, see Prayer and Devotions

Anniversary of the North American College in Rome

On this date 142 years ago in 1860, while America was on the verge of Civil War between the North and South, Pope Pius IX officially approved the North American College in Rome which the United States Bishops had founded a year earlier in 1859. The College offered an intellectual refuge for seminarians and priests from the United States with the first ordination of an alumnus occurring on June 14, 1862. It would not be granted "pontifical status" until October 25, 1884 by Pius' successor Pope Leo XIII.

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


Prayer for the Conversion of Freemasons

O Lord Jesus Christ, Who showest forth Thy omnipotence most manifestly when Thou sparest and give compassion, Tho Who didst say, "Pray for those who persecute you," we implore the clemency of Thy Sacred Heart on behalf of souls, made in the image of God, but most miserably deceived in the treacherous snares of Freemasons, and going more and more astray in the way of perdition. Let not the Church, Thy Spouse, any longer be oppressed by them; but, appeased by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, Thy Mother, and the prayers of the just, be mindful of Thy Infinite Mercy; and disregarding their perversity, cause these very men to return to Thee, that they may bring consolation to the Church by a most abundant penance, make reparation for their misdeeds, and secure for themselves a glorious eternity; who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.

For prayers posted thus far, see Devotions and Reflections

Liturgy of the Saints

MONDAY, January 28:
Traditional Feast of Saint Peter Nolasco, Religious and Founder of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom and second feast of Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr. In the new liturgy it is the Feast of the Angelic Doctor of the Church Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron of Catholic Teaching.

TUESDAY, January 29:
Traditional Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Patron of Catholic Journalism, who was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church who passed to his Heavenly reward in 1622. Historical Feast of Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot who died in 570.

WEDNESDAY, January 30:
Traditional Feast of Saint Martina, Virgin who was martyred in 228. Historical Feast of Saint Bathildis, Widow who died in 680.

THURSDAY, January 31:
Feast of Saint John Bosco, Priest and Founder of the Salesian Order and beloved as Patron Saint of Altar Boys, Editors and Apprentices. He died in 1888. This holy visionary died in 1888.

FRIDAY, February 1:
Traditional Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop who was martyred in 107. Historical Feast of Saint Brigid of Ireland, Virgin and Patroness of Dairy Workers who died in 523.

SATURDAY, February 2:
FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. This feast is also known as Candlemass, or the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Historical feast of Our Lady of Good Success

SUNDAY, February 3:
Traditionally Sexagesima Sunday; the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time in the new. Also the Feast of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Patron Saint of those with throat diseases. He was martyred in 316. In the new liturgy it is the feast of Saint Ansgar, Bishop and Patron Saint of Scandinavia who died in 865. For reflections on Sexagesima Sunday, see Fr. Cusick's reflections


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