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Papal Conclave and ongoing news on Pope Francis, it is
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Cardinal Bergoglio receives "joint blessing" from Catholic and Protestant pentecostal ministers
Pope Francis, Pentecostals and Interreligious Action
by John Vennari
Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, states in his newly-released book On Heaven and Earth that he happily allowed Protestant Pastors to pray over him at a huge Charismatic Conference. He further says he is baffled as to why anyone would find this objectionable. click here
Companion piece:
"Catholic" Pentecostalism:
Grown in the Garden of Protestantism
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Nigel Farage: "This EU is the New Communism. It is Power without Limits."
Magnificent - 3 minute video
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John Allen on “Healing the Lefebvre 'Schism'”
Excerpt from an NCR column and brief commentary - click here
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Pope Leo XIII predicted Obama’s America
"Now this is simply a road leading to tyranny..." - click here
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Why do you love a Council of Mass Destruction?
Why Do You Love Decay?
The 50th Anniversary of Vatican II
Some pointed questions for our Church leaders...
"I believe we should also mount a no-compromise offensive, asking our Church leaders to explain their fervor for inherently flawed documents; why they insist, contrary to their duty to teach the Catholic Faith integral and inviolate, on passing off damaged goods as quality merchandise." - click here
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Parisian Police Beat Priests:
Catholic priests pummeled by the Regime!
Pro-True Marriage Demonstration
The SSPX brothers and priest were present at the demonstration Manif Pour Tous on April 19th, and were very roundly beaten, knocked to the ground and kicked.
Click here for brief story and video
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Report: Pope Francis to give more lay-women top Vatican jobs and break the grip of Italian cardinals
From the Sunday Times, UK - click here
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New Facebook Group:
Hardheads for Tradition
Click here to join
Faithful to the Oath Against Modernism
click here for Oath Against Modernism
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Pope Francis: "Hardheaded those who want to 'go back' from Vatican II"
A friend from Italy just sent me this: Pope Francis: "Hardheaded those who want to 'go back' from Vatican II. This is certainly no suprise. Pope Francis further says, "The Council has been a beautiful work of the Holy Spirit." Disorientation! - JV - click here
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Cardinal Policarop of Lisbon
More on the Consecration of Pope Francis’ Pontificate on May 13
from John Vennari
The following was sent to me by a friend in Coimbra, one of the most well-informed, intelligent and entertaining men I know. He gives some fuller breadth to the nature of what is proposed for May 13. There is also a postsript concerning some recent history of Cardinal Policarpo. click here
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Saint Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, called Lutheranism "that wretched sect".
Flashback: Celebrating an Apocalyptic Plague
Catholics and Lutherans Prepare to Commemorate 2017
“The whole description of the locusts [in the Apocalypse]”, Father Kramer explains, “fits down to the last detail the kings and princes who established by force the heresy of the 16th Century.” click here
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Pope Francis to Celebrate 2017 Protestant Reformation Anniversary?
Pope Francis welcomed the president of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Nikolaus Schneider, in his first papal audience with a Protestant leader and his wife. oth spoke about the martyrs as a bond between Christians, as well as the upcoming anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, and the possibility that both Churches will celebrate it together. click here
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A Magnificent and Successful weekend
2013 Catholic Family News Conference - April 5-7-, 2013
Saints, Sinners, Scholars and Scoundrels, Part II
Audio CDs now available - click here
report on conference will soon be posted
click here for audio CDs
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On Papalotry
by William Marra, Ph.D.
"There is a kind of papalotry going around. It acts as if no matter what comes out of Rome, it must have been inspired by the Holy Ghost" ... click here
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In light of the present Supreme Court Hearings....
“The Overhauling of Straight America” by Marshal E. Kirk and Hunter Madsen was expanded into the 1989 book, After the Ball, How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s. It is a blueprint of media and psychology manipulation for widespread public acceptance of homosexuality. One of Kirk and Madsen’s key strategies is to vilify their oppoents: “We intend to make the anti-gays look so nasty that average Americans will want to disassociate themselves from such types.”
Tactics of the Homosexual Movement
1987 “Overhauling of Straight America”
Detailed Strategy for public acceptance of Homosexuals
“At a later stage of the media campaign for gay rights — long after other gay ads have become commonplace — it will be time to get tough with remaining opponents. To be blunt, they must be vilified... Our goal here is twofold. First, we seek to replace the mainstream’s self-righteous pride about its homophobia with shame and guilt. Second, we intend to make the antigays look so nasty that average Americans will want to dissociate themselves from such types." click here
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Pope's Foot Washing: The Final Straw for Traditionalists
[AP] Francis' decision to disregard church law and wash the feet of two girls - a Serbian Muslim and an Italian Catholic - during a Holy Thursday ritual has become something of the final straw, evidence that Francis has little or no interest in one of the key priorities of Benedict's papacy: reviving [some of] the pre-Vatican II traditions of the Catholic Church. click here
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Here is one of the programs I did with Father Gruner in Rome. It was filmed the day after Pope Francis' Inaugural Mass. - J. Vennari
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Pope washes feet of two girls, two Muslims at youth prison
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday (March 28) washed the feet of 12 young inmates, including two girls and two Muslims, during a Maundy Thursday Mass at a youth detention center in Rome. click here
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I never use the term "Pope Emeritus"
click here
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The False "Marriage Equality" Slogan
for so-called "Same Sex Marriage"
"Homosexuals have always had the exact same rights as heterosexuals, that is, the right to marry a person of the opposite sex. They just do not wish to exercise that right. They want a new 'right,' the right to marry a person of the same sex" - Dr. Dennis Bonnette - click here for more
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Archbishop Lefebvre on Vatican II's
Ecumenism and Religious Liberty
In 1964, Archbishop Lefebvre correctly warned that the Conciliar schemas “have a spirit of rupture and suicide,” and went on to say, “There exists a spirit of non-Catholic or rationalist ecumenism that has become a battering ram for unknown hands to pervert doctrine.” click here
Today, March 25, marks the 22nd Anniversary of Archbishop Lefebvre's death. As a tribute to this greatest churchman of the second half of the 20th Century, I repost a summary of the Archbishop's realistic observations on some of Vatican II's most troublesome (see below).
As we enter the new Pontificate, it is good for us to restudy the work and life of this great man, who reminds us of the nature of the Catholic Faith and the true battle in which we are engaged. By all indications, the post-Conciliar crisis will continue, and may even worsen, with the recent election of the 265 successor of Saint Peter.
Pope Francis has already announced his commitment to Vatican II's ecumenism. Miracles can happen, but if Francis stays on his life-long trajectory, the future appears ominous. Oremus.
- John Vennari
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Note to readers: I have returned from Rome and will resume updating the CFN page. While in Rome, there was a techno-quirk that prevented me from uploading to our CFN website. However, I was able to post numerous articles about the Conclave, Papal Election and new Pope at our Oltyn Library Services site. Take a look (click here). These were constantly updated the whole time I was in Italy. Also, for those who may not have seen it, I have placed above my short video of the night of the Papal election. Oremus. There is much to pray for. More later J. Vennari
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New 2013 Conclave Blog From Rome
Due to some techno-quirks with the CFN webpage while here in Rome, we are transferring our daily blog to the Oltyn Library Service site. Please check here each day for updates from Rome. I will file one or more reports daily This will be the site used for the duration of my stay in Italy. Stay tuned. - John Vennari - click here
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The “Original Sin” of Vatican II
The Council’s Pastoral Language - Lefebvre’s Prophetic Warning
By John Vennari
This past February 14, Pope Benedict XVI gave a kind of impromptu farewell speech to the Roman clergy that centered on the great love of his life: the Second Vatican Council. It was one of the saddest sights a Catholic could witness. Here, he continued to defend Vatican II as a lamb without blemish, and he faulted the media for causing much of the confusion regarding the Council.
Read about the Italian Professor who now admits the problem with Vatican II is not that it is poorly interpreted, but it is essentially flawed... click here
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First Thoughts: Feb. 11, 2013
In a Media Age, What does an Ex-Pope Do?
We can expect journalists to hound Benedict after he steps down from office. What do you think of your successor’s policies? Is this how you would have arranged things if you were still Pope? What is your opinion on your successor’s Vatican appointments? It will be fascinating to see what sort of access a post-papal Benedict allows the press. And what will be the weight – or the perceived weight – of Ratzinger’s new writings after February 28? click here
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Feb. 11: Breaking News
Pope Benedict to Resign on February 28
Surprise Announcement from Rome
"...I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is." click here
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Who Was Paul VI?
A review of Msgr. Villa’s Paul VI Beatified?
By Robert J. Siscoe
Jean Guitton, a close friend of Paul VI, said that Paul VI always seemed to him more like a layman than a cleric. “I noticed how his thoughts were of a secular kind. With him, one was not in the presence of a ‘cleric’, but of a layman, promoted, unexpectedly, to the papacy”. click here
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March for Life, January 25, 2013
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Cardinal Koch celebrates the teaching of Nostra Aetate as the “crucial compass” that effected “a fundamental re-orientation of the Catholic Church” after the Council.
| Judaism and the Church: before and after Vatican II |
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50 Year Anniversary of Vatican II: Nothing to Celebrate
Voice of Catholic Radio Interviews CFN Editor John Vennari
Broadcast December 2, 2012 - click here
(interview runs about 35 minutes)
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The Novus Ordo Mass and Divine Law
By John Salza, J.D.
Pope Pius IV’s Tridentine Profession of Faith, which is binding on the souls of all Catholics, requires that Catholic adhere to the “received and approved rites of the Catholic Church used in the solemn administration of the sacraments.” Yet the Novus Ordo is an entirely new creation. Fr. Joseph Gelineau, one of the most influential members of Paul VI's Liturgical Commission, said, “To tell you the truth, it [the Novus Ordo] is a different liturgy of the Mass. This needs to be said without ambiguity: the Roman rite as we knew it no longer exists." click here
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No Rome/SSPX Accord?
...Bishop Fellay went on to speak of the Doctrinal Discussions that took place for more than two years, starting in 2009. “They were tough,” said Bishop Fellay. There was “no agreement”. After the final discussion that dealt with the Magisterium and Tradition, Rome said to the SSPX: “You are Protestants”. The SSPX said to Rome, “You are modernists.”
Editor's note: The above report originally appeared in the October 2012 issue of Catholic Family News. We post it today with some updated comments at the end. click here
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Celebrating a Catastrophe
The 50th Anniversary of Vatican II
By John Vennari
It is time to stop the charade. Traditional Catholics should be long past simply defending their position against the architects of destruction. The situation calls for an all out offensive against the catastrophic Second Vatican Council...
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Modern "Liberty"
This photo says it all
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