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by Fr. Richard CipollaThis in the Traditional Roman Mass is Septuagesima Sunday, the first of three Sundays before Lent. These Sundays form a season of preparation for Lent. This season is one of the oldest elements of the Church calendar, which was omitted in the calendar changes after the Second Vatican Council with no explanation except they were omitted for pastoral ..read more
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Those who are blessed with access to Holy Week in the Tridentine Rite, that is, the rite celebrated for a thousand years and more prior to Pius XII's changes in the mid-1950s, may find helpful a resource published by Os Justi Press: The Masses of Holy Week & Tenebrae, which contains the liturgy (in Latin with English translation) for Palm Sunday, the Triduum Masses, and the Office of ..read more
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Roberto de Matteifor Voice of the FamilyFebruary, 2025The profound crisis afflicting the Church is traced by many to the reign of Pope Francis, interpreted as a radical split with the pontificates before it. In reality, the very gravity of the crisis, which today pervades every ecclesiastical sphere, from the upper echelons to the smallest local realities, should make it clear to us that this ..read more
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1w ago
On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the anniversary of her first apparition to Saint Bernadette, I offer this reprise from our kind benefactor NC:It is a well-known account. Sister Marie Bernarde (Bernadette) Soubirous is in the convent of the Sisters of Charity in Nevers, it is 1870, war is raging throughout northern France as the Prussian-led German armies march towards Paris. The first ..read more
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1w ago
The current American administration took office three weeks ago. It has been a busy three weeks, but one thing that has surely not happened are "mass deportations"... Deportation procedures and flights have remained what they were under Biden, and still under much lower levels than they were under the previous Democrat administration (Obama).Still, the fact that nothing in practice has changed so ..read more
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Children or Pets?by Archbishop Héctor AgüerEmeritus of La Plata, ArgentinaBuenos Aires, February 11, 2025Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes[The collapse of birth rates in Argentina] I read in [the Argentine daily paper] “La Prensa” that, since 2016, births in the City of Buenos Aires have been decreasing. Between January and mid-December 2024, 37,864 births were ..read more
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1w ago
What would happen if the Holy Father restated some salient items of Catholic dogma? First of all, I am thinking about this dogma: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Suis. This is defined as follows: “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull Unam Sanctam, 1302 ..read more
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1w ago
Catholic Family News will be holding a Conference near Orlando, Florida on March 1-2, 2025. The theme is the Global Conflict to Implement the Catholic Plan for Social Order, covering a wide array of topics including politics, education and the current challenges traditional Catholics face today.The conference will feature prominent traditionalist figures such ..read more
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The relics of Saint Maria Goretti are on a worldwide tour — and in one of those stops, her martyred body has been subjected to the horror and humiliation of a dance by some apparently “devout” “Catholic youth” that is nothing but mockery of her purity.“TikTok evangelization,” we guess — video below: pic.twitter.com/HqGv11OAJU— (@PoesiayPatria) February 4, 2025 ..read more
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Sisters in the Churchby Archbishop Héctor AgüerEmeritus of La Plata, ArgentinaBuenos Aires, February 4, 2025 Pope Francis has discovered that machismo and misogyny reign in his Vatican Curia. And that, therefore, the sisters who work there - numerous in all ranks - are not properly appreciated. He believes that, in order to elevate them, they must be turned into civil ..read more