Tag: Latin Patrimony
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How to Bring Back the Youth
The mainstream Catholic Church is failing, and will continue to fail more dramatically in the years ahead. Dioceses will downsize, parishes will close and be merged. It’s all part of the managed-decline of the Boomer Bishops who are still trying to impose a 1970s mindset on the Church. Where are the youth? How do we […]
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Pope Francis, The Latin Mass and the Ordinariates
Since the promulgation of Pope Francis’ decree Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of the Tradition) there has been wild speculation among conservative and traditional circles within the Catholic Church. The document itself is ambiguous in some areas, which has caused some to question its legitimacy. Whether legal or not, I am on record as calling the document […]
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The Ozarks – A Missionary Field for Catholics
A Eucharistic Procession in Springfield, Missouri — Photo Credit: J.B. Kelly The Ozarks are a small mountain outcropping that extends west of the Mississippi River. They are, in actuality, a westward extension of the southern Appalachian Mountain chain, though much smaller, and the last mountains one will see before entering the Great Plains of North […]
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The End of an Era
We have reached the end of an era. Pope Francis Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes has revoked and nullified Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum which liberalized usage of the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) throughout the Church. For that matter, it also nullified Pope Saint John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei which likewise […]
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The Catholic Renewal
The Catholic Church, especially in North America and Europe, is in a demographic nosedive. The writing is on the wall, and it cannot be denied anymore, at least not by any reasonably informed person. Throughout the United States, for example, parishes are closing. Congregations are being merged, and dioceses are downsizing. Our bishops today have […]