Thursday, April 30, 2026

Why Leo won’t meet the SSPX

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It's most likely an act of pastoral charity.

APR 29, 2026

As the Society of St. Pius X continues preparations to consecrate several bishops without a papal mandate, leaders within the group have begun preparing the ground for the seemingly inevitable canonical consequences.

For months, the society’s leadership have insisted they will go ahead with the consecrations, currently scheduled for July. In February, Rev. Davide Pagliarani, the superior general of the SSPX, said the decision to consecrate new bishops was made after he requested an audience with Pope Leo XIV in August 2025 which remains ungranted, and after he recently received a letter from the Vatican “which does not in any way respond to our requests.”

Pagliarani has stated that consecrating new bishops is essential to securing the society’s future, ensuring that it has the sacramental means to ordain priests. He has also stated that the work of the society is itself essential because, according to him, “in an ordinary parish, the faithful no longer find the means necessary to ensure their eternal salvation.”

At the same time, the SSPX have insisted that any dialogue with the Vatican must include matters of doctrine and ecclesiology over which the society “disagrees” with the Church, “particularly regarding the fundamental orientations adopted since the Second Vatican Council” — something the Holy See has said it will simply not accept.

Through all of this, the society’s leadership has appeared to strike a tone of aggrieved seekers of compromise, while insisting their illicit consecrations will go ahead without papal mandate.

Last Sunday, the society’s Bishop Bernard Fellay appeared to warn supporters of the group that “there is an enormous probability that all of you, we included, may be excommunicated, declared schismatic” by the Vatican if the consecrations proceed as expected.

Although Fellay claimed “there is a very high probability” that everyone — bishops, priests, and laity — affiliated with the SSPX would be canonically excommunicated “because they [the Vatican] already said it in public,” the Vatican has made no such statement, and the assertion is not supported by the relevant canon law on the subject.

However, the bishop’s statement appears in line with an SSPX communications strategy, to portray itself as a the victim of a vindictive and unreasonable Vatican, unwilling to meet its supposedly modest requests.

Key among these “requests” has long been an audience for its superior with Pope Leo XIV. And, as the scheduled consecrations draw closer, those around the SSPX and sympathetic to it have increasingly highlighted Leo’s refusal to meet with Pagliarani as evidence that Rome isn’t interested in reconciliation — and is even goading the SSPX into a fuller and more formal breach.

But while that portrayal might serve a convenient narrative, the reality is Leo’s refusal to meet with the SSPX leadership is more likely to be an act of charity towards the society’s leaders, and a desire to keep a moment of ultimate crisis at bay for as long as possible.

More: https://x.com/frbmulcahyop/status/2049907481933975558?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Fordham President Publicly Rejects Church Teaching

APR 30, 2026 JOE DOYLE

The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts press statement…

Fordham University in the Bronx is one of America’s leading Jesuit institutions of higher learning.

In what must be a first for the Catholic Church in the United States, Fordham President Tania Tetlow is the daughter of a former Jesuit priest.

A supporter of same sex marriage, the ordination of women and the LGBT agenda, Tetlow has characterized the traditional understanding of gender as “fundamentalist.”

She is a friend and ally of homosexualist priest James Martin.

Now, Tetlow has expressed, publicly, her rejection of perennial Catholic teaching on the impermissibility of artificial birth control.

Earlier this month, in response to a student government proposal to allow the distribution of contraceptives on campus, Tetlow stated:

“I will tell you that, like the vast majority of American Catholics, I disagree with the Church on its policy on contraception, but it is the Church’s policy and, as a Catholic institution, we don’t violate that.”

On April 28th, reporter Matt Lamb of LifeSiteNew contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment.

League Executive Director C. J. Doyle issued the following statement:

“Jesuit higher education in America is in an advanced state of apostasy and has been for decades.

This is reflected in every aspect of university life: the choices of commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients; the public figures who are given platforms; the persons invited to serve on boards of trustees; the persons hired as administrators and faculty members; the student groups which are recognized and funded and afforded access to university facilities; the provisions for student health services; the links to institutions which offer students internships; and the ubiquitous LGBTQ advocasy.

Fordham is no different. It is a corrupt, secularized, post-Christian institution.

Its statement of Fordham Values never mentions Jesus Christ or the Catholic Faith, while its Mission Statement ignores Christian formation in favor of “the living tradition of Catholicism.”

Its list of commencement speakers include such pro-abortion public figures as Senator Chuck Schumer; Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo; Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III; Irish Presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese; and broadcaster Chris Matthews.

This year’s commencement speaker will be former NBC Today Show host Hoda Kotb, long known for her support for homesexual causes.

Fordham hosts two undergraduate same sex organizations, the Pride Alliance and the Rainbow Alliance.

It also sponsors a plethora of other groups and events, including The LGBTQ and Ally Network of Support.

Fordham’s formal prohibition of contraceptive distribution on campus is fraught with loopholes.

President Tania Tetlow’s candid remarks are emblematic of a pervasive university culture of systemic institutional rejection of Catholic teaching.

Tetlow made her remarks confident that there would no consequences for her public dissent from Catholic morality—no repercussions from the Board of Trustees, no rebuke from the parent religious sponsor—the Eastern Province of the Society of Jesus—no walkaways by major donors, and no protests by students, faculty or alumni.

It would have been unusual, surprising and controversial had the President of a Jesuit university publicly defended Humanae Vitae or spoken out about the right to life.

That would have provoked protests.

Tania Tetlow has, obviously, a lucid appreciation of her position in the mainstream of American Jesuit culture.

Institutions like Fordham were built by and for Catholics. They are now controlled by assimilated, culturally conforming, modernist progressives, or who, in another time, would have been called heretics.

Faithful Catholics have been dispossessed. What has happened to American Catholic higher education since the Land O’ Lakes Statement has been, arguably, the greatest dispossession of Catholic property and institutions since Henry VIII seized 900 religious houses in England and another 200 in Ireland.

Institutions like Fordham need to be reclaimed for the Faith and for the Catholic community.”

C. J. Doyle is an alumnus of Jesuit administered Boston College. Doyle was a freshman in 1972 when BC separated from the New England Province of the Society of Jesus to become a secular, non-profit Massachusetts corporation, the Trustees of Boston College, Incorporated.

C. J. Doyle’s remarks were included in a story published today, April 29th, in LifeSiteNews.

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Simple faith: the antidote to modernism

@FrLavery:

Below is a quote from Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, OP, the great anti-modernist theologian, writing on the danger of an excessive preoccupation with theological complexities leading, ironically, to the loss of that simplicity of mind which is needed to see clearly, and the inability to correctly perceive theological truths.

The remedy, he says, is devotion to Mary, especially consecration to her as recommended by St Louis de Montfort. By this means, piety prevents learning from becoming an obstacle to the truth rather than a benefit, and one is able to see the truth clearly and with simplicity rather than it being obscured in the entanglements of the mind.

From his book, The Priest in Union with Christ, from the chapter on union with Mary:

"Problems of philosophy, of

theology, of history, of canon law—these are their constant pre-occupation. Sometimes they become so entangled in the complex network of these problems that they lose that higher simplicity of mind which is essential for preserving a wise and correct critical faculty—all the more necessary as the problems

become more complex. In other words, their intellectual pursuits are no longer sufficiently inspired by the spirit of faith and of love for God and for souls...

"They find themselves entangled in a maze of questions, possessing no unity of mind. Why? Because they lack that supernatural spirit which is essential if they are to order their study correctly towards God and the saving of souls.

In a word, their outlook is almost exclusively directed towards externals, it is too superficial, too complicated. Their mind lacks unity, depth, and elevation—or, as the moderns would say, the third dimension is missing. Extent and breadth of knowledge they possess, but no depth. Hence they are mentally immature and without that keen perception of intellect which is required if a priest is to have the critical faculty expected of him...

"In order to become a good priest, the seminarist or novice needs the help of a spiritual mother, holy, vigilant, brave, benevolent, loving, who will keep him on his course like the star of the sea; who, as the invisible mistress of his soul, secretly but none the less really and securely directs his intellect, will, and sense-faculties.

"I myself had personal experience of this need as a young student. At that time I was so engrossed in the many and varied questions of critica and metaphysics that I was in danger of losing my simplicity and elevation of mind and balanced judgment. It was then I realized that I needed a spiritual

mother with unlimited kindness and wisdom. This is easily understood when we remember how any child receives its early training."

Charlotte liturgical restrictions on TLM face Vatican review

Thomas Colsy

The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is formally reviewing a canonical appeal against sweeping liturgical restrictions in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, as a reported incident on April 29 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, in which a family says it was passed over for Holy Communion while kneeling, has intensified scrutiny of their enforcement under Bishop Michael Martin. The case, filed on February 9 and registered under protocol number 369/25, concerns the bishop’s handling of requests on liturgical matters and has now entered the Vatican’s administrative process.

Source: Catholic Herald (Paywall)

https://x.com/catholicherald/status/2049868266428928409?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Charlotte Bishop Violates Church Teaching, Denies Catholic Family Holy Communion

“Redemptionis Sacramentum states that it is not licit to deny Holy Communion solely because a member of the faithful wishes to receive kneeling or standing. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal for the United States likewise says that standing is the norm, but communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel.”

Charlotte’s Bishop Michael Martin and His Greensboro Priests Ignore, Humiliate, and Deny Communion to Reverent Family at Altar Rail

Meanwhile, Rome prepares penalties for the SSPX, Belgium pushes married priests, Germany keeps its homosexual blessings, Zurich excuses Eucharistic sacrilege, and the Synod smiles beside Canterbury

CHRIS JACKSON

APR 30

Charlotte and the Crime of Kneeling

Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte and his priests at Our Lady of Grace parish in Greensboro refused Holy Communion to a reverent Catholic family after they approached the altar rail during a Confirmation Mass. LifeSiteNews reported the father’s statement that Martin “simply ignored” them and that “all the priests turned their backs” while everyone else received Communion. The father called the experience humiliating.

Humiliating indeed.

The humiliation was the point, or at least the natural fruit of the policy. These reverent Catholics were not public blasphemers, same-sex couples seeking a photo-op blessing, or Anglican clergy cosplaying apostolic succession. They were a Catholic family kneeling before what the Church teaches is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.

See full video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/V_7jvyqvVdk?si=ZQLVvlx

Their apparent offense was that they wanted to receive as though the Eucharist is actually God.

Martin’s campaign in Charlotte has never been merely about “order.” He ordered parish churches to stop using altar rails and remove kneelers for the reception of Holy Communion. He suppressed parish celebrations of the Traditional Latin Mass and moved the old rite into a small former Protestant chapel far from Charlotte. His proposed and enacted liturgical regime has been aimed at the visible signs of tradition: rails, kneelers, ad orientem, Latin, ornate vestments, and the old instincts of reverence.

The absurdity is that even the postconciliar legal framework does not support denying Communion merely because someone kneels. Redemptionis Sacramentum states that it is not licit to deny Holy Communion solely because a member of the faithful wishes to receive kneeling or standing. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal for the United States likewise says that standing is the norm, but communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel.

So even by their own books, this should not happen.

And yet here we are.

Martin has created a climate in which kneeling at the rail is no longer treated as a normal Catholic act of reverence, but as a visible contradiction of the diocesan project. Once that climate exists, things like this become almost inevitable. The old gesture becomes suspect. The people who keep doing it become “those people.” The rail becomes a provocation merely by remaining what it always was.

That is how revolutions usually work. First the thing is discouraged. Then it is explained away. Then it is called divisive. Then the people who still do it are treated as if they brought the trouble upon themselves.

The family kneeling at the rail did not create the scandal. The scandal is that kneeling at the rail now has to be defended.

Why the Rail Bothers Them

The altar rail has become one of those objects that reveals more than anyone intended.

If it were just furniture, nobody would care. Bishops do not spend this much capital on meaningless wood and marble. Liturgists do not write norms against architectural trivia. Priests do not become nervous around harmless decoration.

The rail says something.

It says the sanctuary is set apart, the altar is not a table in a meeting hall, and the priest is not a facilitator of communal self-expression. It says the faithful come to receive what they cannot give themselves. It says the Eucharist descends as a gift, not as a token distributed by the assembly to itself.

More: https://open.substack.com/pub/bigmodernism/p/charlottes-bishop-michael-martin?r=2x82t4&utm_medium=ios

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Sant Camil, the hospital where Noelia was killed, is owned by a Catholic order.

by Redacción March 28, 2026

The Hospital Residència Sant Camil, in Sant Pere de Ribes, is a work of religious ownership linked to the Order of the Ministers of the Sick, the well-known Camilian religious order. Sant Camil was born as a healthcare infrastructure promoted by this Catholic order on land donated precisely for an assistance work.

The history of the center begins with the donation of land linked to Amanda Sagristà Colomé, widow of Josep Marcer Carbonell, with the purpose of building a residence for the care of needy people. On that basis, the Camilians first developed a residence and then a hospital, configuring a healthcare complex that has been united from its origin to the spirituality and assistance mission of the order. It was not simply a matter of managing beds or medical services, but of embodying in the healthcare field the charism proper to San Camilo de Lelis: caring for the sick with love, tenderness, and reverence for human life.

Religious ownership and public management

Over time, that reality was legally reorganized. In 2002, the Fundación Hospital Residencia Sant Camil was established, created by the Spanish province of the Camilian Religious to manage the complex. And in 2009, that foundation agreed to transfer the assistance management to the Consorci Sanitari de l’Alt Penedès i Garraf, integrating the hospital into the Catalan public healthcare network. That is the scheme that remains in force: Camilian religious ownership and public management by agreement with Catalan healthcare.

We are not dealing with a purely public hospital in which the Church has an accessory pastoral presence. Nor with a center that was once religious and completely ceased to be so. What exists is a hospital of religious ownership, articulated through the foundation linked to the Camilians, whose ordinary management was transferred to a public entity. The management is public; the work, its root, and its identity remain Camilian.

More: https://x.com/infovaticana/status/2037843405267456373?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

‘Something’s Happening’: Catholic Converts Surge in Many U.S. Dioceses

‘It’s the Holy Spirit,’ Bishop Frank Dewane told the Register. ‘Yes, we follow promptings, also. But I think it’s the work of the Holy Spirit right now in society and in the Church.’