The largest survey of U.S. Catholics ever conducted shows that the faithful want reverent, solemn worship, an end to distributing Holy Communion in the hand, and the use of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion.
On Tuesday, the Real Presence Coalition (RPC) released the results of its massive July 2024 survey seeking to identify causes of a lack of faith in the Eucharist among many self-professed Catholics in the United States.
The survey, conducted with assistance from the national polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, received nearly 16,000 responses, including from 14,725 U.S. lay Catholics across every Latin diocese in the country. 780 responses were submitted by attendees of the U.S. bishops’ National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis.
“This is the single largest survey of Catholics ever undertaken in the United States,” said RPC spokesperson Vicki Yamasaki. “Surveys from organizations such as Pew Research and Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) come nowhere close to the number of Catholics participating in this survey.”
Anti-Catholic: labeled extremists for defending life and His sacred image in every human person
Anti-God.
New York Times today:
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Breaking news: President Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control
The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.
Dom Louis-Marie de Geyer d'Orth, Abbot of Barroux, France, celebrated the closing Mass of the 15th pilgrimage in the Roman Rite to Luján, Argentina, on October 13.
With nearly 2,000 participants, this year's pilgrimage set a new record, reports InfoCatolica.com. For the first time, a chapter from Guadalajara, Mexico, participated.
More than two dozen priests accompanied the faithful for three days on the hundred kilometer journey between Rawson and Luján, in the province of Buenos Aires.
The number of faithful doubled at Sunday Mass, as friends and family members joined them.
Holy Mass was celebrated on improvised altars in tents.
The pilgrimage ended at the Basilica of Luján. In the Basilica only the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the recitation of the Rosary were possible, not Holy Mass ("todos, todos, todos").
Pictures below are from the Portuguese priest João Silveira.
Last evening to celebrate and continue the legacy of Blessed Karl of Austria, at the Eagles Club of Alexandria, the young men and women of the Chorus of Wyoming Catholic College stunned with traditional and contemporary gems of Catholic choral repertory, also accompanied on some hymns by the Washington Strings Orchestra.
I met for the first time and sat with Charles Coloumbe, lately of Austria and currently affiliated with the ITI there.
I had the privilege of meeting Her Highness Maria Anna Galitzine, granddaughter of Blessed Charles, using some of my now vestigial German in the process. She spoke compellingly of his Catholic witness, impossible of course except together with that of his wife, Zita.
I also had the pleasure to meet Paul Habsburg, son of Eduard, ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See. Paul is a recent graduate of the Massachusetts campus of Thomas Aquinas College.
A third young member of the extended Habsburg family, descended from the children of Karl & Zita, raised in Hungary, also spoke to the gathering of Blessed Karl’s message of peace so needed today with Europe once again torn apart by mutually destructive killing in Russia and Ukraine.
It was over all a restorative and invigorating evening, reminding all of us of the power and beauty of our Catholic Faith and culture, mutually life-giving and enriching for our witness and salvation. Also together with that of all the saints who courageously paved the way before us, with, we pray, soon to be canonized Blessed Karl.
A church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Tyre, Lebanon, was hit by a missile from Israeli airstrikes in the country’s south Oct. 9, killing at least eight people, the British branch of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has reported.
Local sources told ACN that the church, located in the town of Derdghaya, was sheltering people displaced by the conflict. A priest’s house and a three-story building housing parish offices were also completely destroyed by another missile.
Pope Francis called for peace in the Middle East on X, stating that “all nations have the right to exist in peace and security: Their territories must not be attacked, their sovereignty must be respected and guaranteed through dialogue and peace.”
Those around Kamala Harris have been warned: Not to stand too close.
This comes after the Democrat nominee for president, hand-picked after the party’s elite threw Joe Biden under the bus and chose her as a substitute this year, mocked a rally attendee who shouted “Jesus is Lord.”
The social media opinion included, “Mock Jesus at you’re (sic) own peril,” and, “Nobody stand too close to her.”
Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit headlined a report on the comment, and reaction, “EVIL: Kamala Harris and her supporters mock Christian attendee…”
Harris was promoting America’s industry of killing unborn children at the time, saying, “We remember Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade and they did as he intended.’
Actually, the Supreme Court ruled that the Roe decision was faulty from its outset and not based on the Constitution, so it was overturned, and the result returned regulation of the abortion industry to states.
The report said the Christian “bravely stood up and proclaimed, ‘Jesus is Lord.'”
Only to be mocked by Harris: “I think you’re at the wrong rally.” She added. “Try the smaller one down the street.”
The documentation came from Jennifer McKinney, a Wisconsin resident who attended both the Trump rally in late August and the Harris event.
She explained the “smaller” Trump rally had about 7,000 attending, while Harris had perhaps a reported 2,500.
The Chiefs Pro Bowl kicker declared his support for Donald Trump on “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday, telling the Fox News host his choice came down to one major issue.
“I’m supporting the president that’s going to be the most pro-life president I think, Donald Trump,” the 29-year-old Butker told host Laura Ingraham while seated next to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley during a campaign event for the lawmaker — whom he also endorsed.
Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci star in a scene from the movie "Conclave." The OSV News classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (OSV News photo/Focus Features) By John Mulderig OSV NewsFiled Under: Movie & Television Reviews
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – A serious, even lugubrious, tone and a top-flight cast add heft to the ecclesiastical melodrama “Conclave” (Focus). Yet the film is fundamentally a power-struggle potboiler kept roiling by attention-grabbing plot developments — the last and most significant of which Catholic viewers will likely find uncomfortable at best.
The story centers on Ralph Fiennes’ Cardinal Lawrence. In the wake of the sudden death of a fictional, unnamed pope (Bruno Novelli), it’s Lawrence’s duty — as dean of the college of cardinals — to organize the gathering of the title.
A trio of leading candidates for the papacy quickly emerges as down-to-earth liberal Cardinal Bellini (Stanley Tucci) vies with flamboyant conservative Cardinal Tedesco (Sergio Castellitto) as well as with Africa’s favorite son, the supposedly reactionary Cardinal Adeyemi (Lucian Msamati). A Canadian prelate, Cardinal Tremblay (John Lithgow), is also in the running.
As these favorites jockey for position, complications arise. Rumors swirl of shady behavior on the part of Cardinal Tremblay while an unexpected newcomer, Cardinal Benitez (Carlos Diehz), makes his mysterious presence felt. Benitez, the Archbishop of Kabul, Afghanistan, produces documentation that the late pontiff appointed him to the cardinalate but kept the matter secret.
Neither references to Lawrence’s shaky hold on his faith nor the clay feet several of his colleagues turn out to possess are cause for much alarm. But rival viewpoints within the church are caricatured with a broad brush in director Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ 2016 novel — and the deck is predictably stacked in favor of those who advocate change.
As scripted by Peter Straughan, the movie gets canon law wrong, since promotions such as Benitez’s — traditionally known as nominations “in pectore” (within the chest) — are null and void if not publicly announced during the lifetime of the pope who made them. And Benedict XVI is implicitly slandered in the dialogue via an allusion to a past pontiff who fought for Hitler.
“Conclave” also traffics in sordid secrets of varying plausibility in the lead-up to a climactic revelation that many will find offensively exploitative, others merely loopy. Since this concerns a rare anatomical anomaly rather than any kind of lifestyle choice, its inclusion makes more of a symbolic statement than an ethical one — either acceptable or otherwise.
Still, for all the delicacy and bet-hedging with which the matter is handled, it constitutes a characteristic instance of the way the picture elevates the pieties of the current zeitgeist over eternal truths. Thus Lawrence assures his peers early on that the ultimate sin is certainty.
Not only professors of dogmatic theology but all moviegoers committed to the church’s creeds will, accordingly, want to approach this earnest, visually engaging but manipulative — and sometimes sensationalist — production with caution. The ideological smoke it sends up remains persistently gray.
The film contains murky moral values, plot developments requiring mature discernment and a couple of mild oaths. The OSV News classification is L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
Sermo 23 in die Pentecostes alter, circa medium There is no other true knowledge given but that which is given by the Holy Ghost. And this is granted to the humble only. Have we not known great theologians who spake marvellously of the virtues but did not practice them? Have we not seen, on the contrary, many women who did not know how to discourse on the virtues, practice the works of virtue worthily? The Holy Spirit hath made these wise because they had fear of the Lord, piety and humility.
The final session of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality has opened with a “No” regarding the possibility of women deacons presently, though it appeared to suggest that the issue may still be looked into in the longer term, while also emphasising that women do indeed have an important role to play in the Church.
The study group responsible for evaluating the female diaconate has said that, while still exploring other forms of women’s involvement in the Church, they will not become deacons.
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, made the announcement during the synod’s afternoon session on 2 October, the first official working day of the synod running 2-27 October.
“We would like to share from the outset that, based on the analysis conducted so far – which also takes into account the work done by the two Commissions established by Pope Francis on the female diaconate – the dicastery judges that there is still no room for a positive decision by the Magisterium regarding the access of women to the diaconate, understood as a degree of the Sacrament of Holy Orders,” Cardinal Fernández said.
“The Holy Father himself recently confirmed this consideration publicly,” he said, while adding that the Dicastery “judges that the opportunity to continue the work of in-depth study remains open”.
ANALYSIS: Tuesday’s ‘women’s ordination’ event, which synod delegates were invited to via mass email, is a good illustration of how side events attempt to influence the process.
In the next day or two, don’t be surprised to see a fresh round of news stories about support for ordaining women at the Synod on Synodality.
It’s a reasonable prediction, given that, earlier today, an advocacy group blasted out an email, obtained by the Register, inviting synod delegates to join them tomorrow at an event promoting the cause.
Hosted by AmerIndia, a network of progressive Latin American Catholics, and entitled “Called to Be a Woman Deacon,” the Oct. 15 pizza luncheon will feature a handful of women sharing why they’re convinced they’re being called to sacramentally ordained ministry (which the Church teaches is not possible).
Sympathetic journalists are likely to amplify the event, making sure to note that the presenters come from multiple continents, possibly even implying that this undercuts the criticism that women’s ordination is a “niche issue” pushed by rich Westerners. They’re also likely to point out the number of synod delegates who are in attendance — that is, if the total is favorable.
The Vatican Secretariat of State’s “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate a laicized priest, blocked this week by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, may prove to be the most significant Vatican story of the year.
Little is known, as yet, about why sostituto Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra issued an order trying to reinstate a man convicted of child sexual abuse by two interdiocesan tribunals in Argentina.
But his decision to do so, and the DDF’s move to publicly void the attempt, raises real questions about the role of Pope Francis, the rule of law, and the exercise of power in the Vatican.
According to canon law, Ariel Alberto Príncipi’s case was clear — convicted on multiple counts of abuse of minors by two local courts and laicized, his line of appeal was to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and ultimately to the pope personally, but through the same department.
Instead of that process, “subsequent evidence presented by some diocesan bishops of Argentina” (though it is not clear to whom it was presented) led to the a statement from the deputy of the papal secretariat, saying he had overturned the entire canonical process and its results and convened his “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate the priest to limited ministry, finding him guilty only of unspecified “reckless” behavior.
It is not known who else, if anyone, was involved in Peña Parra’s attempted star chamber process, which seems to have considered only the “evidence” presented by advocates and allies of Príncipi, and to have proceeded without reference to the victims, Church prosecutors, or the Vatican department with sole jurisdiction of the case.
To canonical ears, the entire process seemed as obviously “illegal” as it was “extraordinary.” The emphatic action from the DDF’s Archbishop John Joseph Kennedy to void the whole attempt and declare the case closed suggests his department came to the same conclusion.
But if the law is clear, and the canonical results now settled, it remains strikingly unclear how or why Peña Parra imagined his intervention could possibly stand — or how he came to be involved in a case nowhere near his office’s remit in the first place.
Regarding the latter question, there are several possible answers.
For years, officials in the DDF’s disciplinary section have complained privately about attempted interference from the Secretariat of State in high profile abuse cases. Often, this is because local bishops will direct their own lobbying efforts via the papal nuncio, who in turn passes what he’s asked or told up to the state department in Rome.
And it is possible that in the Príncipi case, the priest’s supporters among the Argentine episcopate did just that. Still, that goes nowhere to resolving the question of why the sostituto took it upon himself to try to overturn an entire canonical process and convene his own.
The more likely answer is that appeals on Príncipi’s behalf were presented outside of any ordinary channel of communication and made their way to Pope Francis personally, who handed the matter off to his chief of staff with some instruction — either direct or implied — for Peña Parra to resolve the matter.
Of course, if the pope were to circumvent the entire canonical process for handling accusations of child sexual abuse — a process he has staked much of his pontificate on strengthening, at least on paper — to reinstate a guilty priest as a favor to friends, it would be a scandal of cataclysmic proportions for Francis.
Card. Burke: "Prophétis meis"
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Non relíquit hóminem nocére eis: et corrípuit pro eis reges.
Nolíte tángere christos meos: et in prophétis meis nolíte malignári.
-- Sanctae Mariae in Sabbat...
S. Hilarionis Abbatis ~ Simplex
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*Scriptura: Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam XXII post Octavam Pentecostes
IV. Octobris*
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Today is the feast of St. Hilarion, Ab, under the...