So What Should We Make of This?

Yet another revealing 'error' in a Vatican translation

What was left out of the Synod's final report?  If the Italian had been translated accurately it would have read that the Synod Fathers renewed “their commitment to the family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”  

But the English translation instead was translated to say that the Synod Fathers came together to “discern how the Church and society can renew their commitment to the family.” 

What do you think? Just an oversight or a deliberate act to deceive? 

Goodness...it would be sooo insensitive to restrict marriage to the way God ordained it. Besides, Catholic doctrine is open ; it's fluid and not a "closed system" as Cardinal Kasper tells us. So we wouldn't want the English speaking world to get the wrong idea.

I think we're safe in saying there's something rotten in the Vatican City state.

Pray for the Church

Mourning at Mass this Morning

I don't know why it overcame me this morning at Mass, but as I stood for the Our Father and sign of peace, I started thinking about the excommunication of the SSPX in Italy and all the faithful who attend their services. I have friends who go to an SSPX parish here in Annandale so the excommunication felt personal even though it doesn't affect them.

What also grieved my heart was the realization of the double standard, the almost total lack of discipline for the heretics who peddle the murder of the unborn and the destruction of the family and publicly agitate for women's ordination and normalization of fornication and serial marriage.  The list goes on and on.

None of the nuns on the bus or the priests running gay parishes have been disciplined. Clergy and laity who promote contraception and abortion and gay relationships for the most part go on their merry way undisturbed by the local bishop. I think Bishop Bruskewitz was the only one EVER to excommunicate the radical dissenters of Call to Action which he did along with a long list of Masonic organizations and the SSPX.

Time to Strip these Universities of the Name Catholic

Let's have a little truth in advertising for parents paying the bills. And even for students putting themselves deep in debt for their "education." Do they have to be buried deep in doo-doo as well?

Lecture ‘Not for a G-Rated Audience’ during LGBTQ History Month at Fairfield University 

Homosexual-Themed Productions Take the Stage at Notre Dame

Georgetown Univ. Celebrates ‘LGBTQ History Month’ with ‘OUTober’

Thank God for some Catholic schools upholding the truth!

Vocations Continue to Pour from Thomas Aquinas College

The Dark Side of Euthanasia: Did Brittany Know?

Brittany Maynard became the poster girl for Compassion and Choices in the last months of her life. Did she know the dark side of this evil group that sprouted from the Hemlock Society founded by Derek Humphrey? Probably not. Here's just one piece of the puzzle about the suicide of Ann Humphrey, Derek's second wife. His first wife, Jean, killed herself (with a little push). Ann also killed herself after Derek abandoned her following her diagnosis of breast cancer, an ugly divorce, and his marriage to third wife Gretchen Crocker. Ann left a suicide note that revealed the truth about the death of Derek's first wife, Jean. He also assisted the double suicide of Ann's parents which led to her own depression and sense that they were murderers. Ann exposed the truth about Jean's death in her suicide note:

Good Questions, Pat!

The Price of Papal Popularity

From the article:

In his beatification of Paul VI on Sunday (October 19th), Pope Francis celebrated change. “God is not afraid of new things,” he said, “we are making every effort to adapt ways and methods … to the changing conditions of society.” 

But among the social changes since Vatican II and Paul VI have been the West’s embrace of no-fault divorce, limitless promiscuity, abortion on demand and same-sex marriage. 

Should the church “adapt” to these changes in society? 

Should the church accommodate itself to a culture as decadent as ours? Or should the church stand against it and speak moral truth to cultural and political power, as the early martyrs did to Rome? 

Pope Francis is hugely popular. But his worldly popularity has not come without cost to the church he leads and the truths he is sworn to uphold. 

“Who am I to judge?” says the pope. But wasn’t that always part of the job description? And if not thee, Your Holiness, who?

Remember Our History and Vote Tomorrow for Our Constitutional Republic!

Defeat liberalism, the godless assault on the values upon which this country was founded! Vote pro-life and pro-family. Disqualify every politician who supports the murder of children waiting to be born and for the destruction of the traditional family.

Victory for the Death Peddlars

Brittany Maynard Kills Herself.

Where is she now? I'm praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for her. To think she spent the last months of her life advancing the agenda of the euthanasia movement.

So evil.

Father, forgive her, she didn't know what she was doing.

And may God forgive all those surrounding her who supported her decision.

Holy Innocents in Manhattan Spared -- For Now!

Holy Innocents will remain open and will NOT merge with the local homosexual parish. One bit of good news.

But the bigger question is why are all these parishes closing?

When the apostles went out at Pentecost inspired by the Holy Spirit, they began a movement that converted much of the known world in only a few decades. So what has happened to us as Catholics? Where is our zeal and our witness?

Why do the the Jehovah Witnesses, the Morman missionaries and even the Islamic terrorists show more zeal than we do? Why are we, who have the fullness of the truth, not the leaven in the culture?

Time to examine our consciences.

SuperTradMom Pegs it: Many Clergy at the Synod had a "Protestant Mind-Set"

The Protestant Mind-set in the Synod

May all the saints who fought against the protestant revolution and its heresies intercede for the hierarchy of our Church so infiltrated by false ideas and mushy thinking.

You can be sure that listening to clerics and laity who spout all kinds of mish-mashed views on doctrine are suffering from mush-brain. Don't let them infect yours.

Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the early Church Fathers, Church history, papal encyclicals (not just recent popes!), and trustworthy theologians and Catholic philosophers like Fr. John Hardon, S.J., Fr. William Most, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and the doctors of the Church.

Love the faith enough to study it so you can share it with others. And while you're at it, why not get a group together to join you! Knowledge is power and it will enable  you to "be ever ready to explain the reason for the hope within you." 1 Peter 3:15

Will We See More of This - To Celebrate the" Gift" of Homosexuality?

Boston priest puts rainbow flag on chapel at Brandeis University

How do you think Catholic parents feel about this Catholic chaplain?