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Here is the latest from Associated Press. For 40 Million Euros in Sales, the Irish join the mocking Jews and Romans at the Foot of Our Lord's Cross. Below this article are other links to recent events which are public acts of apostasy and acts of insult to the divine law. If people were not allowed to go to the pre-1955 Holy Week services --- with the new BXVI prayer for the Jews --- I would be REALLLLY upset.  When is the next conference? The Title of this article should have been "When Irish Drinking Jokes are No Longer Funny" 02af4c13de4d49cfa0799790cf3ca03e DUBLIN (AP) — Guinness is flowing in Irish pubs on a Good Friday for the first time in 90 years. Lines of people were reported as pubs opened at 7 a.m. to serve alcohol, thanks to legislation that overturned the 1927 ban on pubs opening on Good Friday in time for thirsty locals and tourists. The Vintners’ Federation of Ireland welcomed the change, saying it would add 40 million euros ($49 millio

                                                        Cardinal of the Counter-Revolution                                                                Louis Cardinal Billot, SJ Here the theologian Van Noort explains how a material heretic is not a member of the Catholic Church: "...public material heretics are likewise excluded from membership.  Theological reasoning for this opinion is quite strong:  if public material heretics remained members of the Church, the visibility and unity of Christ's Church would perish.  If these purely material heretics were considered members of the Catholic Church in the strict sense of the term, how would one ever locate the "Catholic Church"?  How would the Church be one body?  How would it profess one faith?  Where would be its visibility?  Where its unity? For these and other reasons we find it difficult to see any intrinsic probability to the opinion which would allow for  public  heretics, in good faith, remaining

                                            Jehovah Witnesses Convert Francis!     Thanks to Novus Ordo Watch for just reporting the following to add to our meditations during the Sacred Triduum. Here is the latest Francis interview with Antonio Scalfari.  The  Rorate Caeli  blog has just provided an English translation. For the Italian original see  francis-there-is-no-hell [Scalfari:] Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished? [Francis:] “They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore

Are you shut down every time that you insist upon adherence to the Catholic Faith as being a necessary condition for being a member of the Catholic Church? Does intelligent discussion of who is in and who is outside the Church get shut down be the "stun gun" of the cry "ONLY MATERIAL HERESY"? What exactly is "material heresy" and is it still the public heresy that separates you from the Catholic Church? Or is the "Material Heresy" card a "Get out of Defection" free card? Since I don't want to make up my own answer to this question, I will post here answers to those questions as has been sent to me by a friend. I will embolden the parts of these articles which directly refute some commonly held theological misconceptions. Big Ones! Here are the passages: Dogmatic Theology volume II Christ’s Church Msgr. G. Van Noort Chapter II The Members of the Church Scholion 1. Who are not members of the Church? “The fo

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In my phone conversation with the Investigator yesterday, we agreed that a full investigation will be needed in the "Sister Lucy" case.  This means that Facial Recognition and Biometrics testing, even using a variety of methodologies will not be enough to "crack" the case. Using 1959 as a possible date dividing the "old" images from the "new"images, he is employing the most advanced Facial Recognition technology and techniques ---- he says that his company's technique has proven to be .2% more accurate than that of the FBI --- available. These organizations employing these techniques are international. Also, an important American organization will be put onto the case --- whose name I am withholding for obvious reasons. After the pictures are analyzed there will be an investigation into interviews, statements, etc. He said to me that if he finds that there has been a replacement of the original Sister Lucy, he will then focus on fin

"God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life," the pope said. "Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve." "When we read about Creation In Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything . But that is not so," Francis said. The pope was addressing the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which gathered Monday at the Vatican to discuss "Evolving Concepts of Nature." Oct. 28, 2014

                                                       A Tiera for the Conciliar Church Dr. Chojnowski: Having forgotten that the Lord's Prayer mentions Heaven TWICE, the second time being "Thy Kingdom Come ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN," clearly identifying Heaven as a place as opposed to the place Earth, Francis in a new book --- no not "occult heresy," please --- speaks of "heaven" as if is merely identical with "omnipotence" an attribute of God but not relating much to the life of man, certainly not a final end towards which our lives our to be directed --- wait, because of God's "heaven" he can give us ice cream when we are in pain because there is no anesthesia, right?  This is a pure naturalism that certainly has nothing to do with the religion and faith that says that the most important aspect of existence is what happens after our physical death, when all the ice cream runs out. Notice how the article says that Franc

Guess what? You cannot judge a real pope. More from the final draft of the first volume of Heretic Pope? “The fourth opinion, with Suarez, Cajetan and others, contends that a Pope is not automatically deposed even for manifest heresy, but that he can and must be deposed by at least a declaratory sentence of the crime. ‘Which opinion in my judgment is indefensible’, as Bellarmine teaches.      “Finally, there is the fifth opinion - that of Bellarmine himself - which was expressed initially and is rightly defended by Tanner and others as the best proven and the most common. For he who is no longer a member of the body of the Church, i.e. the Church as a visible society, cannot be the head of the Universal Church. But a Pope who fell into public heresy would cease by that very fact to be a member of the Church. Therefore he would also cease by that very fact to be the head of the Church .      “Indeed, a publicly heretical Pope, who, by the commandment of Christ and the Apost

Dr. Chojnowski: Here are some more critical quotations from Fr. Kramer's necessary book, Heretic Pope?  How long are we going to be  hair-splitting  in order to avoid the obvious doctrinal and theological truths? Here are some more important citations from the new book: As can be seen from the above quoted text of St. Pius V's Catechism, heretics withdraw (descisco, desciscere, descivi, descitum - withdraw, leave, revolt from, desert defect), they leave the Church on their own, as opposed to the excommunicati , who are expelled by act of authority. By the act of heresy, i.e., by the sin of defecting from the Catholic faith by an external act of manifest formal heresy, the heretic, by that act of heresy suapte natura , i.e., by the effect that is intrinsic to the nature of the act of formal heresy, leaves the Church and ceases to be a member. It is not by the force of law in virtue of a latæ sententiæ excommunication, or in any manner by means of, or after any ecclesias

Here are some excerpts from Fr. Kramer's final Draft of Heretic Pope?   Defection from the Faith and the Church - Faith, Heresy, and the Loss of Office - An Exposé of the Heresy of John Salza and Robert Siscoe Part I Fr. Paul Kramer B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L. (Cand.) SECTION ONE FAITH, HERESY and the LOSS OF OFFICE      The sin of Heresy per se, like apostasy and schism, has the intrinsic effect of separating the heretic from the Church by itself, without any ecclesiastical censure or judgment; and is distinguished from other sins which do not by their very nature, separate the sinner from the body of the Church; and who, therefore, for grave offenses can only be separated from the Church by a sentence of excommunication incurred or inflicted by legitimate ecclesiastical authority. This is the infallible teaching of the universal magisterium of the Church which must be believed de fide divina et Catholica under pain of heresy, as is proven and demonstrated b