“Graffiti is valid art, but it is hardly Michelangelo.”

“In TC Pope Francis stipulated that celebrants of the TLM could only be permitted to do so if they recognised the “validity and legitimacy” of the Vatican II liturgical reforms. But even so that is apparently not enough to allow the unfettered celebration licensed by Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum.  That said, questions of validity seem somewhat beside the point. Graffiti is valid art, but it is hardly Michelangelo. 

“Moreover, one has to wonder where the singling out of the SSPX is coming from if not personal animus. Bishops are regularly appointed by the Communist Government of China, and yet Rome is silent in the face of it, and no penalties ensue to the offending bishops who collaborate. Similarly, the German bishops who hold contrarian views and practices relating to gender and moral issues, and appear poised to go their own way, are not removed from office or even censured. So why is the SSPX exiled for dissenting (in conscience) on some fallible teachings of Vatican II?

“The late great mythologist, Joseph Campbell, had this to say on the question of the liturgical wars in the 1988 PBS series, “The Power of Myth”:

“EVEN IN THE Roman Catholic Church, MY GOD: THEY HAVE TRANSLATED THE MASS INTO A VULGAR VERNACULAR LANGUAGE THAT HAS A LOT OF DOMESTIC ASSOCIATIONS. LATIN IS A LANGUAGE THAT THROWS YOU OUT OF THE FIELD OF YOUR DOMESTICITY. THE PRIEST IS TURNED AND WITH HIS BACK TO YOU AND WITH HIM YOUR INNER DIVINITY ADDRESSES THE DIVINE OUTSIDE YOURSELF. NOW THEY HAVE TURNED THE ALTAR AROUND AND GIVING A JULIA CHILD DEMONSTRATION, AND IT IS ALL HOMEY AND COSY, PLAYING A GUITAR. THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT THE FUNCTION OF A RITUAL IS: TO PITCH YOU OUT, NOT TO WRAP YOU BACK IN TO WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN ALL THE TIME. RITUAL THAT ONCE CONVEYED AN INNER REALITY HAS NOW JUST BECOME A DEAD FORM.” (The Power of Myth: Truth and Theory).

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Catholic Star Wars: The SSPX Excommunication as You’ve Never Seen It

• By: Arthur Hallett-West
• August 1, 2026 
  
  
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Bishop Schneider: ‘Nothing more dangerous for religion’ than liturgical ‘interference’

The Church's 'apostolic rule' is that 'antiquity was retained, novelty was rejected,' according to Bishop Schneider.

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(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned in a sermon this weekend that “nothing is more dangerous for a religion” than “interference with the liturgy.”

The auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, defended the importance of upholding the Church’s sacred tradition, including its traditional liturgy, during a visit to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Limerick, Ireland.

He emphasized that it is a perpetual precept of the Catholic Church to remain faithful to its tradition, both “doctrinally and liturgically,” The Catholic Herald reported.

“True piety admits no other rule than that only those things which have been (faithfully) received from our fathers, those same are to be (faithfully) consigned to our children,” said Schneider.

“It is our duty not to lead religion wherever we would, but rather to follow religion where it leads, and that it is the path of Christian modesty not to hand down our own beliefs or observances,” he continued. We must “preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us.”

Apparently commenting on the current “liturgy wars,” Schneider affirmed that “public worship is inherently traditional,” stressing that this involves praying the liturgy as it exists “according to the norms already established by divine authority and handed over by the ancestors.”

Source: LifeSite

BREAKING: Vatican claims Mass is ‘ecological school’ in ‘climate change’ document

The Vatican’s International Theological Commission said the Eucharist can lead to ‘the ecological conversion that we so urgently need to undertake as a human family,’ in a new document on Wednesday look.

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Antonino Cambria

Wednesday, September 2

 VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A lengthy document published by the International Theological Commission entitled “Caring for our Common Home – A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God” refers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as an “ecological school.”

In the September 2 document focusing on the environment, “ecological conversion,” and so-called “climate change,” the Theological Commission devoted an entire paragraph (Chapter 2, section 108) to describing the Mass and the Holy Eucharist as an “ecological school.” While this paragraph acknowledges that the Mass is meant to offer glory to God, it appears to diminish the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament as a means of “caring for creation.”

“From the Eucharist flows a spirituality capable of supporting and encouraging the ecological conversion that we so urgently need to undertake as a human family,” the document said. “In it, we recognize God’s gifts in nature. Our intellect opens itself to the transparency of God in creation.”

While the faithful can offer prayers for the good of the environment, the purpose of the Mass is not for our “ecological conversion.”

On the contrary, the Catholic Church teachesthat the purpose of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is to adore God, offer thanksgiving for the many graces we have received from Him, imploring His graces for ourselves and others, and to atone for the sins we have committed against Him.

“In the Eucharist, as a community of brothers and sisters, we recognize the purpose of creation and of history: to give glory to God through the offering—transfigured by his Spirit—of the gifts we have received from him, uniting ourselves to the self-giving life of the Lord Jesus,” the document continues.

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-claims-mass-is-ecological-school-in-climate-change-document/

Cardinal Sarah calls liturgical divisions ‘a true and proper sin’

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Cardinal Robert Sarah has described divisions over the 

Traditional Latin Mass as “a true and proper sin” and warned that the Church in the West is living through “a time of great difficulty, even of confusion”. He also called for a return to Pope Benedict XVI’s approach, allowing the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo to coexist

Cardinal Robert Sarah has warned that the Catholic Church in the West is passing through “a time of great difficulty, even of confusion” and called for the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo to continue to exist side by side.

Inan interview with Il Foglio editor-in-chief Matteo Matzuzzi, the former Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments reflected on the state of the Church, the transmission of the faith, liturgical disputes and the early months of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. He also insisted that the Church’s renewal depends not on adapting to contemporary culture but on prayer, reverent worship and formation.

On the state of the Church, Cardinal Sarah said the greatest challenges were found in the West, where confusion had spread across doctrine, morals and discipline. “Certainly the Church, at least in the West, is in a time of great difficulty, even of confusion, both at the doctrinal level and at the moral and disciplinary level,” Cardinal Sarah said. “The interweaving of culture and faith has never been irrelevant; on the contrary, it often conditions the transmission of the faith in a decisive way.”

The cardinal argued that the cultural assumptions which once sustained Christianity could no longer be relied upon to pass on the faith. His Eminence said: “I think it is beyond doubt that one can no longer entrust the transmission of the faith to culture; rather, it can be handed on to the new generations only through significant experiences and testimonies that place at the centre prayer, silence, the well-celebrated liturgy, a fundamental fidelity to the Gospel and therefore a renewed humanity, a more human way of living relationships.”

The Guinean cardinal linked that vision to Pope Benedict XVI, saying those communities founded on prayer and faithful worship were already beginning to emerge. “These are the communities to which Benedict XVI referred, and of which we are already seeing the dawn arise,” Cardinal Sarah stated.

Despite the difficulties facing the Church, Cardinal Sarah rejected any suggestion that its future was in doubt, telling Il Foglio that the Catholic Church, “over the centuries, has gone through many storms, but we must never forget that she is divine, and therefore will never fail. Yes, the Church will always be a beacon, because she is the Mystical Body of Christ, and Christ is the Light.”

The interview devoted considerable attention to the liturgy. In his comments, the Cardinal described continuing divisions over the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo as damaging to the Church’s unity and argued that the liturgy must never become a battleground. “It is a drama, indeed a true and proper sin, that on an essential theme such as the liturgy there should be a kind of war,” His Eminence told Matteo Matzuzzi. “The liturgy is the source of the Church’s communion and it is unthinkable that on liturgical themes—indeed I would say ritual ones—there should be such opposition and such fierce confrontations.”

More: https://advaticanum.com/article/cardinal-sarah-calls-liturgical-divisions-a-true-and-proper-sin/

Fauci, the Science, and the Church

When "science" takes the 5th, who speaks the truth? 

PHIL LAWLER AUG 1 Dr. Fauci asked— demanded, actually— that we take his statements on faith, and encouraged— demanded, actually— the suppression of dissenting opinions. We now know that he didn’t believe those “scientific” statements himself. It’s not surprise that, as he’s revealed in the past, his conception of religious faith starts and ends with himself. What’s disturbing is that Church leaders allowed Fauci’s faith in “science” drown out the message of true religious faith. Listen: https://open.substack.com/pub/pflawler/p/fauci-the-science-and-the-church?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

St Therese: 129 years ago

129 years ago today.

The final photo taken of Saint Térèse of Lisieux alive on earth.

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Traditional Latin Mass is “Unstoppable”

NEW: Archbishop Cordileone on the Latin Mass -- 

“This is unstoppable. It’s what is drawing young people in & will continue to do so”

“I don’t think it’s realistic” to keep restrictions in place, he said in response to Cardinal Roche

Via @WorldOverLive

Video: https://x.com/WorldOverLive/status/2083187600907547103/video/1?s=46

N.B. The Archbishop stops himself and makes a distinction, correcting himself on the notion that the Mass was changed “by” the Second Vatican Council. Because it wasn’t. It was changed “after” the council, by a closed committee under the leadership of the very questionable Annibale Bugnini. There is a very wide gap between what the fathers of the Council envisioned for the reform of the Mass and the “on the spot product” that was turned out by the committee long after the Fathers of the Council returned to their home dioceses.