Month: April 2017

Nosce Inimicum Tuum: The Frankfurt School (Part I)

Nosce Inimicum Tuum: The Frankfurt School (Part I)

[Based on an original article by Timothy Matthews (see here), this adaptation and abridgment by Lasha Darkmoon (supplemented with her own original commentary denoted by [LD], is taken from this website (here) and reproduced below, after an introduction to the subject by Sodalitium Pianum]     In February/2002, His Excellency Bishop Richard Williamson gave a conference to…

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A Formless Darkness

A Formless Darkness

A meditation on a particular conclusion from Romano Amerio’s Epilogue in Iota Unum: “If the present crisis is tending to overthrow the nature of the Church, and if this tendency is internal to the Church rather than the result of an external assault, as it has been on other occasions, then we are headed for…

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Hugh Akins Endorses “Ipsa Conteret”

Hugh Akins Endorses “Ipsa Conteret”

We happily received this endorsement of the Ipsa Conteret Resistance newsletter from the desk of Mr. Hugh Akins today, which will run in a future edition of his excellent quarterly journal Oportet Christum Regnare (“Christ Must Reign”): “NOTE: A word about the Ipsa Conteret newsletter, a project of a group of Resistance leaders and activists:…

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Ipsa Conteret (Issue #1) Now Available!

Ipsa Conteret (Issue #1) Now Available!

http://IpsaConteret.com   Dear Friends- We are pleased to announce that Ipsa Conteret is now online, and available gratis, at the link above. The first issue runs 49 pages, and can either be viewed on the website, or downloaded (entirely, or article by article). Please send your feedback to the Editor (Samuel), using the contact function on the http://IpsaConteret.com website. We…

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Update: Bishop Fellay Expresses Gratitude for SSPX Humiliation

Update: Bishop Fellay Expresses Gratitude for SSPX Humiliation

  Our previous post commented upon the staggering new “pastoral guidelines” for SSPX marriages (approved by Pope Francis, as contained in the letter released by Cardinal Muller), which foresees the intrusion of conciliar clergy into SSPX sanctuaries to perform the marriages of Society faithful. We observed that these new guidelines directly subjected both SSPX clergy…

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Reflections on a Staggering Development

Reflections on a Staggering Development

Today, the Rorate Coeli blog published a letter by Cardinal Muller (approved by Pope Francis) which announced the issuance of “pastoral guidelines” for the performance of diocesan marriages in SSPX chapels, and in response, the earth has wobbled on its axis. The implications arising from this latest Roman maneuver are so staggering as to alarm…

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Francis Subjects SSPX Marriages to Diocesan Control?

Francis Subjects SSPX Marriages to Diocesan Control?

Step by step: Vatican issues Marriage Pastoral Guidelines for SSPX http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/04/step-by-step-vatican-issues-marriage.html#more     From Vatican Radio:   In a letter approved by Pope Francis, Cardinal Gerhard Müller says, “The Holy Father . . . has decided to authorize Local Ordinaries the possibility to grant faculties for the celebration of marriages of faithful who follow the…

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