Pacificus vocabitur,et thronus eius erit firmissimus in perpetuum.I Ant., II Vespers, Solemnity of Christ the King Most Reverend Excellency,I am writing to you on the occasion of the coming Feast of Christ the King, and I permit myself to share with you a certain fundamental question: is there...
Regnum meum non est de hoc mundo.Jn 18:36I. IntroductionThe wound inflicted by the Second Vatican council on the ecclesial body and – consequently – on the entire social body is anything but healed after sixty years, and indeed continues to become gangrenous with very serious damage before the eyes...
With the prosopopoeia that distinguishes ideological propaganda, the recent Bergoglian panegyric (here) on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Opening of the Ecumenical Council Vatican II did not fail to confirm, beyond the empty rhetoric, the total self-referentiality of the “conciliar...
To His Most Reverend EminenceCardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, sjPrefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and, by competence:His Most Reverend EminenceCardinal Pietro ParolinSecretary of State of His Holiness His Most Reverend EminenceCardinal Peter TurksonChancellor of...
I am very happy to be able to speak at this conference, organized by Regan Long, Craig Hudgins and Christine Bacon: you all know what great admiration I have for American Catholics, and what confidence I have in the success of your commitment to a Great Awakening that restores dignity and prosperity...
1. Many Catholics today believe that Holy Mother Church is suffering the worst crisis in history, surpassing even that of the Arian Heresy. Do you believe this to be the case? I cannot say whether this crisis is the worst that the Church will have to face between now and the end of time. Certainly,...
On October 6, at Duc in altum, a comment was published titled “Questions in the Margins of Archbishop Viganò’s Statements.”The author writes: “Is it acceptable that those who utter very grave accusations against the Pope consider it absolutely logical, I would say almost normal, to continue to profe...
The new political situation that emerges from the recent elections confirms the common feeling of the electorate that some were able to grasp in advance. After two years of disturbing violations of the most elementary rights, and after two governments that have shown us that they are simply obeying...
With great scandal for the salvation of souls and the honor of the Church of Christ, the Bishops’ Conference of Belgium has approved and published a rite for the “blessing” of homosexual unions, brazenly contravening the immutable teaching of the Catholic Magisterium, which considers such unions “in...
Juxta crucem tecum stareet me tibi sociarein planctu desidero. On this solemn day, on which the Church celebrates the Seven Dolors of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Sorrows, my meditation will consider the Seven Dolors, which in sacred iconography we see symbolized by seven swords that pierce...
You shall not kill the fruit of the womb by abortion,and you shall not cause a newborn infant to die.Didachè Apostolorum, V, 2 One of the main historic achievements of Christianity in the social sphere was the eradication of the horrible crime of abortion and the abandonment of newborn children...
1. Your Excellency, why, after Vatican II, is the question of the liturgy such a burning question?Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: The liturgical question is of great importance because, the sacred action of the Mass contains the doctrine, morality, spirituality and discipline of the ecclesial body th...
