Catholic Church

By Fr. Joachim Heimerl, LifeSiteNews - Anyone who has wondered why Francis not only rejects the traditional Mass but persecutes it has recently received an answer from his own lips: the Pope is not concerned with beautiful rites or Latin; instead, Francis believes that the Second Vatican Council made the reform of the Church dependent on the reform of the Mass. Anyone who is even slightly informed knows that this is wrong. What’s more, Paul VI’s liturgical reform went far beyond the Council’s proposals and led to a dramatic downfall of the Church.

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - All was forgotten anyway when Fr. Jeff Norfolk stepped down from the altar to move down the line of the quiet men with cracked hands—ranchers, mechanics, deer hunters, cattlemen, hog and grain farmers, linemen, marines, and the like—who had dropped to their knees to receive the Sacrament on their tongue like pheasants shot from the sky. The priest knows he can’t fake it here, these people know reality; so he’s surrendered his priesthood to Mary, where, like de Montfort, he’s become her slave in prisons, on poverty-ravaged Indian reservations, and at snakebitten farms.

By Elizabeth Yore, LifeSite News - Fiducia Supplicans came home to roost in all its rainbow feathers and sequins. No one should have been surprised by the “whore” drag queen show at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It was entirely predictable as the radical homosexual circus is amped up in America by its ringleader James Martin, S.J. Nor was it a surprise to learn that Martin was invited to speak at the event. It beggars belief that the staff at the Cathedral was unaware of the notoriety of the decedent. ....

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - What happened in St. Patrick’s cathedral last week could happen in your parish soon, if your community is unprepared. Is your parish ready?... Granted, New York, the self-proclaimed “capital of the world,” offered a unique opportunity for the activists of the sexual revolution. The grotesque “funeral service” for Cecilia Gentilli was a carefully planned ploy to use a renowned Catholic church as the stage for an event glorifying sexual perversity. Sadly, it worked—and the cathedral was desecrated in the process. And because it was successful, we can all be sure that other LGBT activists will try it again. And again and again. ....