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St Michael on display on St Peter.
Tapestry of St. Michael the Archangel now on display on the facade of St. Peter’s basilica.
via Edward Pentin

I think it is important to pray most fervently both the Rosary and the St Michael's prayer as Pope Francis asks. Prayers are much more powerful when in obedience to the petrine office. Our Lord and King, Jesus Christ, is fully aware of the identity of His enemies and His solutions are the most resplendent multifaceted jewels, full of exquisite irony. So let's pray as Pope Francis asks in full knowledge and delight that our good God will hear our prayer.

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German Bishop Firmly Refuses to Ordain "Traditional Minded Priests”
Bishop Felix Genn, 68, of Münster, Germany, stated during a press conference that “I can tell you firmly: I do not want pre-conciliar clerical guys and I will not ordain them”. The quote was reported by DieTagespost.de (September 28).
Last year Genn ordained for his 1.9 million Catholics diocese three priests.
He will participate at the Bishops’ Synod on Youth. One of Genn's priests, Father Norbert Happe, is furnishing his parish library with homosexual literature for young people.
In January 2018, the rector of Genn's seminary confessed that he has “sleepless nights” due to the lack of vocations.
In 2013 Genn was among the first promoters of the abortive morning-after pill in "Catholic" hospitals in Germany.
Genn is considered to be a "conservative". He is the superior of the priestly branch of the Johannesgemeinschaft which was founded by Father Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Picture: Felix Genn, © wikicommons, CC BY-SA…

He should be delighted to have them in his seminary and delighted to ordain them. They are faithful to the Church's teachings. They are a useless feeding ground for McCarrick types. They are chaste so fornication or sodomy would be out the window. Furthermore they make great saints. What's the problem Bishop Felix Genn, why do you not want to ordain these wonderful Catholic men? Without a commitment to the Faith the Catholic church in Münster will go the way of the Dodo.
"The dear God placed me in a position in which I had a duty to call black 'black' and white 'white'." ( Cardinal Clemens August von Galen, the bishop of the diocese of Münster in Germany from 1933 to 1946). Where have all the great men gone!

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Cardinal says women should train priests to fight abuse 'crisis'
Women should play a greater role in the training of priests to fight the child abuse "crisis" that has engulfed the Catholic Church, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has said.
More must be done within the church to tackle the root causes of the latest wave of global abuse scandals to rock the institution, said Ouellet, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
"We would need participation of more women in (training) of priests," he told reporters on Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting in the Polish city of Poznan.
Better care must be taken when choosing bishops, he said, adding that more women should select candidates for priesthood and assess their suitability for the job.
His comments at the four-day assembly of the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe come amid a slew of devastating assault allegations spanning several continents.
People in Australia, Europe, and North and South America have charged they …

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Well I think if you prevent perverts from sexually abusing the seminarians and if you defrock pervert Bishops and their enablers and stop ordaining known perverts it would solve most of the problems. It's not really complicated. The person responsible is Pope Francis.
Pope Francis needs to address the McCarrick issue once and for all. Did he or did he not enable a known abuser. He needs to purge the Church of the perverts and, if he himself is an enabler, he must resign himself to a life of prayer and penance and call a new conclave.
If we were to follow Cardinal Ouellet's suggestion without this purge we would only end up with more perverts and a coven of fag hag enablers to boot - a far greater problem.
Which or whether, the fact of the matter is that priestly formation is a man's business. Normal decent women are not attracted to such a role. The problem is not the lack of women but the lack of proper manliness and holiness. I dare say the Church needs proper holy fathers to guide her sons in virtue and holiness. We are all sick to the teeth of half men who, under the guise of a "respect" for women refuse to embrace their masculine roles. Man up for goodness sake! and Yes we the laity need to embrace holiness and pray for our clergy. We need to support them with fasting and penance too. A lot more work needs to be done by all. So let's get down to it!

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District Attorney: U.S. Bishop Was Falsely Accused of Homosexual Abuse
Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades, 60, is not guilty of any wrongdoing regarding an alleged abuse of J.T. who died in 1996, a Pennsylvania district attorney has concluded on September 13.
The district attorney noticed that unnecessary harm was done to the bishop's reputation by [illegally] leaking accusations to the press.
A cousin of J.T. made up the story that Rhoades had improper contacts with J.T. while travelling with him when he was a minor.
But the district attorney concluded that Rhoades never met J.T. while he was a minor.
The diocese criticises the bishop’s condemnation “in the court of public opinion”, an expression meaning the oligarch media.
Picture: Kevin Rhoades, #newsXyaileddyr

That cousin of J.T. needs to answer in court for the trouble and harm to reputation caused. This sick sin is very serious and accusations of this nature are very grave matters. Both real abusers AND false accusers where there is no doubt need to be punished severely. This is not simply a case of not enough evidence but clear defamation. What does the DA intend to do with that cousin. This is an offence against society itself as well as the Bishop. The DA needs to act before that cousin abuses other people surely!

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Two Priests Arrested in Miami for Homosexual Crime
Father Diego Berrio, 39, the pastor of Misión San Juan Diego in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Father Edwin Giraldo Cortes, 30, a priest from Soacha, Colombia who served at St Aloysius Parish in Chicago for one month in August, were arrested in Miami on September 3 on a very public Miami Beach street.
The police found Berrio performing oral sex on Giraldo Cortes in the front seat of a parked car in full view of the public passing by at 3:20 in the afternoon.
The two were so engaged, they didn’t even notice that police were there. The officer had to tap on the window to get their attention. In the meantime pro-gay Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich suspended Berrio from ministry.
According to Restore-DC-Catholicism.blogspot.com Berrio, was a tribunal judge for Cupich's Archdiocese and was involved in "youth ministry". The blog suggests a thorough review of that "youth ministry".
#newsYzicuazurn

Cardinal Cupich needs to apologise for his dreadful remarks regarding Pope Frances's position on the McCarrick case. Abuse is a very serious sin and we need to get to the bottom of this whole affair. It is not going down a rabbit hole to insist on a proper investigation of the credible allegations made by Archbishop Vigano. I for one would like to see him join his voice to all those others who have insisted on a proper investigation. What's the problem for goodness sake. Just do the right thing! Its not complicated.

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'There Are No Tints On The Window': Miami Beach Police After Two Priests Caught Performing Sex Act In Car
September 4, 2018 at 12:24 pm
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MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) — Two Chicago-area priests were charged Monday with Lewd and Lascivious behavior and Indecent Exposure after being caught performing a sexual act inside a car parked on a Miami Beach street.
According to Miami Beach Police, 39-year-old Diego Berrio and 30-year-old Edwin GiraldoCortez were in the front seat of a car performing oral sex.
Police got a 911 call about a lewd and lascivious incident taking place in the 1300 block of Ocean Drive.
When officers arrived, the police report states, the two were performing sex acts on each other “in full view of the public passing by on Ocean Drive and the sidewalk.”
It was 3:20 in the afternoon.
Diego Berrio (left) and Edwin GiraldoCortez were arrested and charged with Lewd and Lascivious behavior and Indecent Exposure after being caught …

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What the blazes is going on here! They seem to not even care that they could get caught. I'm glad Cardinal Cupich suspended his faculties and removed him from ministry but is this the same as being defrocked? Is he still being paid by the diocese?
I think the crux of the matter and what we must keep focused on is that Cardinal Cupich should not have referred to the question of Papal knowledge of McCarrick as going down a rabbit hole and suggesting that climate problems are more important than the serious sins involved in the whole affair. He needs to deal with that error of judgment. He needs to apologise to victims for his irrational remarks and join his fellow Bishops in demanding that, what appear to me, credible allegations regarding Papal knowledge of the McCarrick affair is properly investigated for everyone's sake.

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Death Penalty: "The Holy See is apparently in error"
The parish of the Fraternity of Saint Peter in Westwood, Kansas, has placed the following announcement in the bulletin for this weekend
Dear Parishioner,
You may have read that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has recently announced that the Catechism of the Catholic Church will be amended to teach that the Death Penalty, i.e. the judicial condemnation of an evil-doer to death, by competent authority, is now to be considered always inadmissible.
Leaving aside any discussion of particulars, and making reference only to the general principle, such a position runs contrary to the natural law and constant teaching of the Church.
The Holy See is apparently in error, and in my view, no Catholic should feel himself bound to the Catechism in this regard.
Please pray for the Pope and the bishops.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Father John Fongemie
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Did not the Church always and everywhere teach that it is admissible for the proper authority and for grave reasons? I do not understand how this proposition is not a rejection of Church teachings. Furthermore the CDF explanation is not coherent in my view for the following reasons
1. Not all countries have penitentiary systems capable of dealing with extremely evil people.
2. A criminal may die unexpectedly in prison without due preparation thus damning himself to hell. Whereas a criminal who knows the hour of his death is more likely to make proper preparation.
3. The act of execution itself allows the criminal to suffer just punishment for his crime that, if he is truly repentant, will mitigate against his much greater suffering in purgatory. Indeed many death row inmates have given testimony to the value of this opportunity to make amends for the crime they have committed.
Of course you have to know there is an afterlife, hell, purgatory and heaven for all that to make sense. If you erroneously believe that the unrepentant soul is simply obliterated after death then when one speaks of reform and redemption one might merely be talking about nonrecidivism.

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Alma Deutscher creates a piano sonata from four notes in a hat in under a minute.
Source : 60 minutes overtime - CBS News

Very good but I don't like the mixing of classical with ragtime and romantic. 😁

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Psychologists Who Dissent from the Reigning Gender Ideology
JUNE 20, 2018
Psychologists Who Dissent from the Reigning Gender Ideology
WANDA SKOWRONSKA
The word “dissent” is usually associated with those courageous opponents of the Soviet regime during the Cold War but may well be applied now to psychologists and psychiatrists opposed to strange diagnoses. Dissidents usually state unpleasant truths and are silenced by denunciation, ostracism, or imprisonment. While dissident psychologists are unlikely to be sent to a physical gulag, they are sent instead to a social one wherever ideology infiltrates the profession. The important thing is that there are dissident psychologists who are willing to risk it.
Recently, some psychologists and psychiatrists publicly disagreed with the heavy lobbying by activists to normalize Gender Identity Disorder (GID) by removing it from the category of “disorder.” The most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, volume …

Some people argue that psychology is a false science that dresses sin up in medical terms - sin that naturally will manifest in the mental disorder so medicalised. What we are seeing now are the clothes coming off. We see the bare naked truth that sin as a perverse will set against the natural law is now acceptable and that the false science of psychology needs to get with the program and stop labelling as mentally disordered people, who will to live as they like without any regard to the natural law. The lunatics have literally taken over the ayylum. Its an interesting perspective.

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No more excuses.
Don't think about yourself. Trust God.

Lazarus was dead! - Well I guess that beats all 👏 . We surely have no excuse.

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Jacob Rees dismantles Verhofstadt.
That's right, the EU does seem to make its own rules up

Thats like saying they don't want to change the doctrine: that obviously can't change, No, they just want to change the pastoral practice. If they don't change the pastoral practise into a practise that allows them to ignore the doctrine then the doctrine prevents them from doing what they want which is clearly an untenable prospect. 🙂

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Francis Fell During Mass.
Pope Francis had a little tumble at the end of Mass in Geneva on June 21. He also fell getting out of the minibus for the Ecumenical Meeting. Walking stick?

He should have taken the outstretched hand of Msgr Marini on both occasions. www.youtube.com/watch
He recovers well all the same for a man of his age.