Once the foundation is destroyed, everything that was builton top of it collapses and falls to ruin.Saint Charles BorromeoIn the past few weeks, the events affecting the ecclesial body have filled us with great pain, because what we feared since Leo’s very first speeches has materialized far b...
Vos, purpurati martyres, Vos candidati præmio Confessionis, exsules Vocate nos in patriam.Ye martyrs all, a purple band,Confessors too, a white-robed train,O call us to our native land,From this our exile back again.Rabanus MaurusHymn Placare, ChristeAfter the solemn celebration of th...
Israël es tu Rex, davidis et inclyta proles; nomine qui in Domini, Rex benedicte, venis.Theodulph of Orléans,Hymn Gloria laus et honor. Gloria, laus et honor tibi sit, Rex Christe Redemptor. As ancient hymn rings out, sung on Palm Sunday before the locked doors of the church, the...
Evil must hide in plain sight, for the rules of the universe dictatethat those who are deceivedacquiesce to their own deception. Aleister CrowleyDear friends,I am pleased to speak at this event organized by Dr. Umberto Mendola for the presentation of his essay “Crimine di Stato” for which I wr...
Ex fructibus igitur eorum cognoscetis eos.Mt 7:20Introduction The present crisis in the Church is theological, not canonical, in nature. Moreover, this is not just one crisis among many in the Church’s history, but an unprecedented crisis of Authority, because it is precisely Authority that is under...
The day will come when people will no longer tolerate sound doctrine, but, itching for something new, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, refusing to listen to the truth.2 Tim 4, 3-4 A few days ago, after seventeen years of tensions with the Vatican and with...
Salve, Regina, rosa de spina,rosa d’amor, Madre del Signor.Fa’ che mi no mora e che no mora pecador,che no peca mortalmente e che no mora malamente.Hail, O Queen, Rose among thorns, Rose of love, Mother of the Lord. Grant that I may not die, nor that I may die a sinner,that I may not sin mortally, n...
I can only agree with almost everything that Professor Trabucco has stated in response to my comment . As he writes at the Duc in Altum blog :A saint who obeys a disciplinary measure that is unjust but not contrary to faith (as in the case of Padre Pio) performs an act of heroic self-denial, because...
Servile obedience is following the law out of fear, without interior grace, and thereforeserves no purpose if it is not accompanied by love; indeed, without it, it makes those who practice it guilty,because it lacks the ultimate goal, which is God.Saint Augustine Professor Daniele Tra...
Indue me, Domine, novum hominem,qui secundum Deum creatus est,in justitia, et sanctitate veritatis.Ef 4, 24There are three reasons for celebration and joy on this blessed day. The first is certainly the liturgical feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which this year providentially falls on a...
In fact, the true friends of the peopleare neither revolutionaries nor innovators,but traditionalists.Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique I remember well when, in 2014, Bergoglio decided to appoint Blase Cupich Archbishop of Chicago: it was his appointment alone, in which, as Apostolic Nunci...
Si enim secundum carnem vixeritis, moriemini:si autem spiritu facta carnis mortificaveritis, vivetis.For if you live according to the flesh, you will die;but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live.Rom 8: 13The essay by Abbé Claude Barthe’s, recently published in an I...
