I was just wondering the other day why I don’t have any time for Franciscanism. Lo que está mal en la Iglesia, todo junto.. pic.twitter.com/u8fJfYglQA — Líbranos_del_Mal (@LibranosM) November 16, 2018 Oh NuChurch… you crazy nut, you! ~

A little googling has quickly revealed the character of the bishop who made the intervention calling for the abolition of the traditional Mass. Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli is Metropolitan Ab. of Gorizia, the last diocese on the very furthest north eastern edge of the country, almost on top of the Dalmatic coast, a short drive to the border with Slovenia. Most recently Redaelli made the news by refusing to back up one of his parish priests who objected to having an adult male scout leader of the parish who was in a same-sex “civil union”.

Below is the full article, straight-up un-edited Google translate version of the full article from Messa in Latino website. NB: The Traditional Mass is barely surviving here due to the blind, insane hostility of the Italian bishops to the Catholic religion. There is actually a word for their new religion in Italian: “Cattocomunismo.” One of the more interesting Italian Catholic blogs is this one. Also noteworthy is that one of the things Bergoglio did early on that no one noticed was an effective take-over (canonically illegal of course, as usual) of the CEI.

  Actual quote. I haven’t had much to say about the bishops’ meeting in Baltimore, I guess mostly because there’s little to say about an event whose conclusion was obvious before it began. I offer only a few links to various items that seem interesting enough to be worth a few minutes, if for some reason we still think these people are relevant at all. ~ “Nighty-Night” Tobin doesn’t understand why the laity suddenly don’t trust bishops anymore…

I received this interesting email today from a lady who has lived in Japan. I have edited somewhat to avoid any chance of identifying my correspondent, but she is a person of Asian ancestry married to a white man. I offer it here, with her permission, as an interesting report from a devout Catholic “on the ground” in a country that is civilised but never Christian. Dear Miss White, I subscribe to your blog posts.

This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the things the 20th century taught us about human evil and it’s apparent lack of any real internal limits. We learned a great deal in that century about what the world looks like without Christian moral restraint. This is your society on utilitarian neo-paganism. From one of the monsters themselves, in the film Nuremberg, a litany of moral crimes of modern post-Christian civilisation.

Today I received this inspiring note from Jamie Bogle, a friend and fellow proud colonial who served in the Queen’s Own Hussars… Dear Canadians and others, After marching yesterday, brollied and bowler-hatted with officers of my old Regiment, the Queen’s Own Hussars, and with 10,000 other marchers, in a very memorable day at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, and at Horse Guards, I thought we needed more remembrance of the Commonwealth.

St. Martin of Tours, pray for us.

If you monitor a certain area of news in Europe you see a lot of articles from various sources exactly like this one. And nearly always with the same kind of punchline at the end. Pakistani asylum seeker riots in Germany and demands he’s provided a wife Said K. a 48-year-old rejected asylum seeker has demanded a wife be provided to him or he be deported back to Pakistan in court, as well as, admitting to raping a man in Stuttgart.

(Mostly it’s just any excuse possible to post my favouritest Catholic pic evah!) Found a neat YT site with the words and the little squares together so you can sing along. This is what a Mass for All Souls is supposed to look like. That thing is called a “Catafalque.” It symbolises the dead for whom we pray at every requiem Mass (a thing that Catholics used to do).