Oh, Archbishop Cupich! You’re SUCH a cutie! ~ My husband, whose conversion to Catholicism was greatly eased by his discovery of the Traditional Latin Mass, is a bit of a Latinist, so he fussed and spluttered when he came across this amusing passage in an interview with His Grace the Archbishop of Chicago: “In regard to my own pastoral work with people I’ve always tried to understand them.

The Church puts God in the center; Freemasonry puts man in the center of the universe. Freemasonry elevates man to a height beyond his nature by advocating for three main principles: liberty, fraternity and equality. “First, fraternity: It’s being lifted to a height almost never seen before in the Church. It’s not being called fraternity; it’s going under the theological name of ‘collegiality,’ but just as in politics, it’s a power grab.

Yep, it took us long enough, but both @WUWTS and @Hilarityjane66 have joined the Catholic bad kids’ in Twitter’s smoke pit at #RosicaBlockParty 10:52 AM - 19 Oct 2015 · Details " data-mentions="WUWTS" data-you-follow="true" data-follows-you="true" data-you-block="false" WhatsupwiththeSynod? ‏@WUWTS 3h3 hours ago Friends, @WUWTS has FINALLY joined the #RosicaBlockParty. Took us long enough. It was getting embarrassing. #SynodSham #SynodWalkout  

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs of the flock. What was it, O sea, that thou shouldst flee, O Jordan, that thou shouldst turn backward? Ye mountains, that you skipped like rams, ye hills like lambs of the flock?   On Saturday my husband and I went for a long walk in the Pentland Hills. Our map was inadequate, but we managed not to stay lost, thanks in part to the sheep.

One of the more upsetting results of this Synodal chaos is the division it is creating between believing and sincere Catholics. Sadly, one of the more dire results of the last 50 years of non-catechesis has been a grave defect in the knowledge of most of the faithful on the limits and nature of papal infallibility. Today I received the following note from a friend: “I am now arguing with my pro-life friends about the petition.

Get used to it folks, **Fr. Lombardi was asked questions about the process of the Synod after a suggestion was reported that, in the future, Synod Assemblies be longer processes which begin with continental meetings first. This means that issues would be more focused and refined when they were brought to the universal Synod Assembly. His Beatitude Cardinal Thottunkal responded by saying that things have to start in local contexts so that it can be brought to Synod Assemblies like this one.

Who’s the pharisee? The ones who want to allow divorce. These are the words of Christ, that divorce was only allowed for the “hardness of heart” of the Jews, “but it was not so from the beginning”. “Mercy” … you keep on using that word… His Holiness has been bashing those ‘Doctors of the Law’ again. He’s very hard on the Jews, isn’t he, His Holiness? I do wish that, as well as warning us of “their yeast,” the Pope would remind his hearers that Jesus Christ was rebuking the Jewish leaders of His day, not _the Christians who did and who would come to follow Him who have embraced Jesus’s teachings from the beginning of the Church.

He is shocked! Shocked! that there’s heresy going on… But anyway… The more I read from the Synod, the madder it all seems Who let Archbishop Cupich make his first Holy Communion, let alone ordained him, have you read him on individual conscience? I can’t recogise it as being Catholic. Substitute pederast or necrophile or bestiophiles, along with mass murderers, Klu Klux Klan members, people traffickers and members of the Mafia for the categories of people he would ‘accompany’ (what does that really mean?

** Pope Francis marks 50th anniversary of Synod’s institution** “Finally,” explained Pope Francis, “the synodal process culminates in listening to the Bishop of Rome, called upon to speak authoritatively [It. pronunciare] as ‘Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians’: not on the basis of his personal beliefs, but as the supreme witness of the Faith of the whole Church, the guarantor of the Church’s conformity with and obedience to the will of God, to the Gospel of Christ and the Tradition of the Church.

This just in by email from one of my Vatican contacts: Is everyone stocked up on booze? I think it would be a VERY good idea to stock up on booze today. Let me STRONGLY advise you all to stock up on booze… The Pope is reminding everyone that he is the Pope, the Successor of Peter. He’s essentially – and I mean, almost in words – threatening to invoke infallibility.