Thank You, Vatican II!

This travesty is the closing mess from the 2011 National "Catholic" Educational Conference held in Los Angeles. They actually had super dissenting, rolemodel for IHM Marywood nuns everywhere, "Sister" Joan Chittister, as a keynote speaker. "Sister" Joan speaks and writes constantly against Church teaching on issues such as homosexuality and the ordination of women. So we have a manifest heretic addressing Catholic educators from around the country.

Maybe this is why Catholic education is so bad nowadays.

Sign Of The Times

Who at Marywood could be working so hard to refuse Catholic speaker Michael Voris his speaking engagement this weekend? Maybe a dissenting IHM sister? Someone involved in the so-called "Liturgical Dance Ensemble"? A modernist priest? Keep your eyes here.

Calling All Men!

Do you know what it is means to be a real man?

Do you know what it takes to be a real Catholic man?

Join us at Our Lady of Victory, Pole 26, Harvey’s Lake on April 9th at 10 AM to hear Michael Voris speak on the topic – Real Catholic Men: Strength and Honor! (If you are planning to attend, please call Paul at 592-0264).

What makes a man a real Catholic man is his practice of VIRTUE.

The word “virtue” comes from the Latin word "vir" which means man, male (as opposed to mankind or humanity).

From the days of the Ancients, masculinity has always been associated with virtue and vice versa.

Virtue is also associated with Heaven. Without virtue, you may never hope to see God in the Face.

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Dogma!

Or, what you as a Catholic must believe.

A "Dogma" is an article of faith which has been revealed by God, and which the Magisterium of the Holy Catholic Church has presented to be believed.

Since there seems to be confusion about what Catholics believe I thought this Lenten season would be a good time for us to review that which we must believe.

The following De Fide statements comprise "Our Catholic Faith without which it is impossible to please God" (The Council of Trent, Session V, explaining the correct interpretation of Hebrews 11: 6). These positive "articles of faith" have the function of fundamental principles which the faithful accepts without discussion as being certain and sure by virtue of the authority of God, Who is absolute truth (Council of the Vatican). They represent the mind of Christ as St. Paul says:

• 1 Cor. 2:16. But we have the mind of Christ.
• Hebrews 13:8. Jesus Christ yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Since Our Catholic Faith comes from God, they are not open for debate, and they are not reversible.

The Christian is called to adhere to Christ and His teaching integrally; the unity of faith is the dominant motif of divine revelation on which St. Paul insists energetically, when he writes:

• 1 Cor. 1:10. I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you: but that you be perfect in mind and in the same judgement.

There is, then, no place for "pick and choose" in the truths proposed to the Faith of Christians by the Infallible Teaching Church for they are bound in Heaven by God Himself. If something is decreed on earth and is also bound in Heaven, that thing must be the truth. Otherwise, God is no longer the Truth, which is contrary to the Gospel:

• Matthew 16:19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in Heaven.

The Catholic Church is infallible because it is :

• 1 Tim 3:15. the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth.

If a baptized person deliberately denies or contradicts a dogma, he or she is guilty of the sin of heresy and automatically becomes subject to the punishment of excommunication. And that also includes ccd teachers, rcia teachers, priests, sisters, bishops, cardinals, and yes, even the Pope.

And bloggers, too!

I. The Unity and Trinity of God

1. God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things.
2. God's existence is not merely an object of rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith.
3. God's Nature is incomprehensible to men.
4. The blessed in Heaven possess an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence.
5. The immediate vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural.
6. The soul, for the immediate vision of God, requires the light of glory.
7. God's Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven.
8. The divine attributes are really identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence.
9. God is absolutely perfect.
10. God is actually infinite in every perfection.
11. God is absolutely simple.
12. There is only one God.
13. The one God is, in the ontological sense, the true God.
14. God possesses an infinite power of cognition.
15. God is absolute veracity.
16. God is absolutely faithful.
17. God is absolute ontological goodness in Himself and in relation to others.
18. God is absolute moral goodness or holiness.
19. God is absolute benignity.
20. God is absolutely immutable.
21. God is eternal.
22. God is immense or absolutely immeasurable.
23. God is everywhere present in created space.
24. God's knowledge is infinite.
25. God's knowledge is purely and simply actual.
26. God's knowledge is subsistent.
27. God knows all that is merely possible by the knowledge of simple intelligence.
28. God knows all real things in the past, the present and the future.
29. By the knowledge of vision, God also foresees the future free acts of rational creatures with infallible certainty.
30. God's Divine Will is infinite.
31. God loves Himself of necessity, but loves and wills the creation of extra-divine things, on the other hand, with freedom.
32. God is almighty.
33. God is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth.
34. God is infinitely just.
35. God is infinitely merciful.
36. In God there are three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Each of the three Persons possesses the one (numerical) Divine Essence.
37. In God there are two internal divine processions.
38. The Divine Persons, not the Divine Nature, are the subject of the internal divine processions (in the active and in the passive sense).
39. The Second Divine Person proceeds from the First Divine Person by generation, and therefore is related to Him as Son to Father.
40. The Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and from the Son as from a single principle through a single spiration.
41. The Holy Ghost does not proceed through generation but through spiration.
42. The relations in God are really identical with the Divine Nature.
43. The Three Divine Persons are in one another.
44. All the ad extra activities of God are common to the three Persons.

Taking It Back

Michael Voris, who will be speaking this weekend at Marywood University has two great new videos up. I present them here for your edification.

Quote Of The Day

"The devil has always attempted, by means of heretics, to deprive the world of the Mass..." St. Alphonsus

Did they succeed at Vatican II?

Personal Ordinariat?

Happy Sunday!

Even while our own short-sighted Bishop Bambera has forbidden faithful Catholics from attending the Society of Saint Pius X in Pittston, it seems the real authority in the matter, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, is working on a solution with the Lefabvrists.

I'll get back to the Pope in a second.

Does Bishop Bambera go out of his way to instruct the faithful to not attend the Orthodox? Or a Baptist Church? Or a Mosque?

No. No. And no.

But he will go out of his way to instruct the faithful to avoid the Society.

Go and visit the Protestants and do damage to your soul, but stay away from those other Catholics over there. We accept all the religions, all the sects, all the cults, but not those Catholics. Foolishness.

Anyway, back to the Pope and those terrible SSPXers.

The Pope is considering a personal ordinariat for the Society, which is basically a non-geographic diocese. This would secure for the Society a freedom from the local Bishops, and surely this will grate on his Excellence. But eventually I think that will need to change, as it certainly would need to include a change to the Constitution of the Church, which I don't see happening.

Anyway, things are moving along, keep a close eye on how they progress.

"Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit." Matthew 15:14

A Call To Action

You must watch this video to understand what is transpiring around the world concerning Islam. Soon it will be the dominate religion (cult) in the world. What are we going to do about it?



While you're at it, watch this one too.
Islam overtakes France

At Least 12 Dead In Afghanistan

And here's another shining example of the peaceful and oh so tolerant Muslims.

We spend billions and billions of dollars to build them a nation they could never even imagine and for what? We should just get out and leave these animals where we found them - in the 6th century.

Read here..

What's In A Name?

Would you start a Victorian Dance Ensemble if you would never be able to go to a Victorian ball and dance? Would you start a Victorian Dance Ensemble if you knew that Victorian Dance was considered a "dancing abuse"?

Well, that's apparently what some of the IHM "sisters" at Marywood University have done. No, they won't be dressed up like Scarlett O'Hara.

They have started a "Liturgical Dance Ensemble". The Diocese of Scranton, while having its share of liturgical abuses has been relatively unscathed by "liturgical dance".

It would seem our new Bishop is looking to fix that oversight.

At a Christmas concert held at the cathedral of all places, two supposedly Catholic nuns sashayed to and fro about the cathedral in an attempt to highlight their spirituality and creativeness.

Plus it has come to my attention that the good sisters have been prancing during actual Masses, but I have not been able to confirm this.

With few exceptions, the Holy See has said "no" to liturgical dance. James Akin, in his book Mass Confusion, notes that the Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship, in an authoritative 1975 document, cited specific cultures in which liturgical dance has enhanced the liturgy and reflected the religious values of those cultures. But liturgical dance has never been part of the liturgical tradition of the Latin Church, and never been deemed appropriate in the West. The documents states: "Conciliar decisions have often condemned the religious dance because it conduces little to worship and because it could degenerate into disorders." The document adds that pseudo-ballet, or "interpretive dance," which has been tried in liturgy, is also prohibited.

So what's the point?

Why bother starting a "Liturgical Dance Ensemble" if you know you cannot dance liturgically?

Similarly, why would start an organization called "Women Priests" when you know a woman cannot be a priest? There's something more at work here.

Breaking News!

Wow, never thought I'd see this! The beatification of John Paul II which was scheduled for May 1 has been postponed. Pope Benedict has called it off due to "irregularities" concerning the so-called single miracle needed.

Indefinately.

Read the story here!

Thanks to Athanasius Contra Mundum for the heads up.

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Voris Comes To Scranton!

As followers of this blog will attest, I have posted several videos from Michael Voris of Real Catholic TV. And how could I not? His passion for bringing the truth of authentic Catholicism into our homes via the internet has truly been an inspiration and a blessing.

Now, he's coming to Scranton! Saturday April 9 he will make two appearances, one at a men's conference during the day, and the other that evening at Marywood. I will be speaking with Michael the week before the event, so I will be sure to keep you up to date on all the latest information.

Please be sure to keep Mr. Voris in your prayers as their are those among us claiming fidelity to the Church and the Holy Father who do not want him here spreading the truth.

These are dangerous times...