June 2020

• 55 YEARS LATER: Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Appraisal of Vatican II
Bishop Athanasius Schneider has today issued a text titled “Some reflections on the Second Vatican Council and the current crisis in the Church,” in order to clarify his stance on the Council, and to dispel any confusion among the faithful. - June 24, 2020

• Abp Viganò on the ‘roots of deviation’ of Vatican II and how Francis was chosen to revolutionize the Church
In a historic text, Archbishop Viganò agrees with Bishop Athanasius Schneider in his criticism of the Second Vatican Council. - June 10, 2020

• VIGANÒ WRITES ON THE VATICAN II. WE ARE AT THE REDDE RATIONEM.
I read with great interest the essay of His Excellency Athanasius Schneider published on LifeSiteNews on June 1, subsequently translated into Italian by Chiesa e post concilio, entitled There is no divine positive will or natural right to the diversity of religions. - June 10, 2020

• Bishop Schneider: There is no divine positive will or natural right to the diversity of religions
'There have been statements made by other Ecumenical Councils that have become obsolete and been forgotten or have even been corrected by the later Magisterium' 
There is sufficient reason to suggest that a cause and effect relationship exists between the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, and the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, signed by Pope Francis and Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb in Abu Dhabi, on February 4, 2019.  - June 1, 2020

• Abp Viganò: Recognizing problems of Vatican II essential to fighting today’s crises
In a letter to a cloistered nun, the archbishop says it’s ‘essential’ to recognize that ‘the present crisis is the metastasis of the conciliar cancer.’ - June 1, 2020

• George Weigel: ‘Catholic lite’ and Vatican finances will top next pope’s agenda
Evangelizing countries where the faith has been watered down and resolving the ongoing financial crisis in the Vatican are challenges which will extend past the reign of Pope Francis, author George Weigel said on Monday. - June 23, 2020

• French bishop tells faithful to defy govt interference in right worship
'I proclaim that nothing is above God and that we are not to serve the State when it prevents us from serving God.' - June 23, 2020

• Shaun King Calls For Destroying Statues Of Jesus, Smashing Stained Glass
Shaun King, a prominent left-wing fundraiser and activist, endorsed the destruction of religious icons and statues in which Jesus appeared “white.” He described the artwork, which includes some of the most recognizable pieces of art in the Western canon, as tools of white supremacy. - June 22, 2020

• Underground Bishop Detained in China
The news of Bishop Cui’s arrest comes as the 2018 Vatican-China agreement on the ordination of bishops is set to expire in September. - June 22, 2020

• Liberal Catholics to LGBT activists in new video: ‘We’re transforming the Church from the bottom up’
Outreach 2020, an 'LGBTQ Catholic ministry gathering,' was canceled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Speakers put out this video instead. - June 22, 2020

• Austrian Bishop: I Launched Study, Not Book, on Catholic Blessings for Same-Sex Couples
While Archbishop Lackner has been reported to have commissioned or even published the book, a spokesperson said June 18 that the archbishop put in motion a study project on same-sex liturgical blessings, but he did not oversee the publication of that particular text. - June 22, 2020

• Bishop releases ‘Pride Month’ video lamenting ‘white privilege,’ apologizing to gays
Bishop Stowe told active homosexuals he was 'happy to say a word of gratitude to you for the way that you strive to integrate your faith and your identities as people of God.' - June 18, 2020

•Australia’s senior cleric says report calling for Church governance by lay women will be amended
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said that the report published in various media outlets is 'an interim version rather than the final report.' - June 18, 2020

• Catholics Fearful About Looming Chinese Restrictions on Hong Kong
‘We fear we’re at the end of the road,’ Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, told the Register. - June 12, 2020

• Buffalo bishop ‘honors witness’ of Catholic man injured in protest
The interim bishop of Buffalo paid tribute to a Catholic peace activist who was hospitalized after an encounter with police last week. - June 11, 2020

• Trump tweet latest twist in Archbishop Vigano saga
President Trump on Wednesday tweeted that he was honored by a letter written to him by former apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Viganò, which warned the president against secular and ecclesiastical agents of an atheistic globalist new world order. - June 11, 2020

• Australian bishops’ commissioned report calls for Church governance by lay women
The review recommends that 'the appointment of lay women and men to senior decision-making bodies and agencies be accelerated' among other radical proposals. - June 10, 2020

•Vatican halts German diocesan plan to turn 800 parishes into 35
The Vatican has intervened to halt a controversial plan to reorganize a German diocese.​​​​​​​ - June 10, 2020

• Catholic Charities of San Francisco archdiocese promotes ‘Pride Month,’ genital cookies
Catholic Charities in San Francisco retweeted an article from the San Francisco 'lifestyle' web-site 7X7 including some shocking recommendations for celebrating 'Pride Month.' - June 10, 2020

• Bishops in Middle East and Nigeria Applaud Trump’s Religious-Liberty Executive Order
The presidential directive, signed on June 2, prioritizes international religious freedom in foreign policy and overseas government aid projects, among other things.​​​​​​​ - June 10, 2020

• Alleged Theodore McCarrick Victim Says He Is Helping Fact-Check Abuse Dossier
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston told the U.S. bishops’ conference during Nov. 2019 that the Vatican intended to publish the report “soon, if not before Christmas, soon in the new year.”​​​​​​​ - June 10, 2020

• Archbishop Gregory Invited to JPII Shrine Trump Event Days Before Public Statement
In correspondence dated May 30th and obtained by CNA, Archbishop Gregory’s office declined “the kind invitation to attend the event celebrating International Religious Freedom on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at the Saint John Paul II Shrine.“ - June 8, 2020

• Pope Francis Called El Paso Bishop Seitz After Prayerful Demonstration
Bishop Seitz was the first U.S. Catholic bishop to join the protests and demonstrations against racial injustice and police brutality which spread across the country after Floyd’s death.​​​​​​​ - June 4, 2020

• Canadian Catholic university raises pro-homosexual ‘Pride’ flag on campus
St. Jerome’s University, a publicly funded Catholic institution federated with the University of Waterloo, explained in a press release that it was doing so to be welcoming to all. An Ontario Catholic university raised the pro-homosexual “Pride” flag on campus Monday to mark “Pride” month. - June 2, 2020

•US archbishop forbids priests to say public Masses if they offer Communion on tongue
'This matter is too serious for us to take any other approach than one of extreme caution for the safety of others,' the archbishop of Mobile, Ala. insisted. - June 2, 2020

•Pope Francis Issues Decree to Address Vatican Corruption, Reduce Nepotism
The papal document aims to promote ‘faithful and honest administration’ with respect to public contracts, an area of Vatican finances that has previously involved problematic practices. - June 1, 2020

•Pope Francis Issues Law to Combat Corruption in Vatican Financial Transactions
The new law aims to show that Pope Francis is serious about his frequently stated commitment to internal reform. - June 1, 2020

• Interview with Phil Lawler
Lawler: First, what are you saying about Vatican II? That things have gone downhill fast since then is certainly true. But if the whole Council is a problem, how did that happen?

• Time to stop making excuses for Vatican II and the New Mass
Many good authors have told the tragic story well. Now it is time for clergy and laity both to do something about it. - June 30, 2020

• Italian prelate to Viganò: We would like to ‘accompany your sure steps along the path of truth’
'We embrace you, Your Excellency, and as disciples we would like to be able to accompany your sure steps along the path of truth, beauty, and goodness.' - June 30, 2020

• Defending Saints Is for the Laity, Defending Sinners for the Bishops
“Unite the clans!” frequently urges Michael Matt of the Remnant Newspaper. After months of shambolic infighting amongst faithful Catholics over the status of the SSPX, with one small tweet, Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and former rector at Mundelein seminary, has gone where no traditional Catholic has been able to go before. He has united the clans, momentarily. Nothing unites like a common enemy. - June 30, 2020

• Why Viganò’s Critique of the Council Must Be Taken Seriously
Is the recent “attack” on Vatican II a “crisis moment” for traditionalists? Are we turning on a legitimate and laudable Council instead of rightly directing our ire at the inept leadership that has followed it and betrayed it?​​​​​​​ - June 29, 2020

• Video: Dr. Taylor Marshall: Good Bishops & Priests are Protecting Statues: Let's Rally to Them: HERE'S THE GAME PLAN
We have seen Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Father Stephen Schumacher of St Louis, and Bishop Donald Hying of Madison (and others) come out to defend our beloved statues of holy saints. Now is the time to rally to these clergy, support them, and call upon our bishops and other clergy to do the same. Dr. Taylor Marshall lays out a plan on how to accomplish this in the next week. - June 28, 2020

• Lay Catholic social action: The bishops must have our backs.
A family member texted me on Wednesday to suggest that Bishop Robert Barron’s response to an important question had been inadequate. As Catholics decried the toppling of the statues of St. Junipero Serra in several California locations, Bishop Barron noticed that many wanted to know what the bishops were going to do about it. He responded that this is the wrong question because (citing Vatican II) it is the province of the laity to engage directly with the larger secular world.​​​​​​​ - June 26, 2020

• Catholic prof: Abp Viganò is right in calling for reform, but Church cannot simply repudiate Vatican II
‘All Councils ratified by the Pope become part of the Ordinary Magisterium, and we must take what is good, while clarifying and purifying what is not so’ - June 26, 2020

• Archbishop Vigano’s challenge on Vatican II
[The following are my reflections on a new statement by Archbishop Vigano, which he made in response to questions that I had raised about his views on the authority of Vatican II.]
Early in June, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano—who had drawn international attention in August 2018, when he charged that Vatican officials including Pope Francis had covered up the predatory sexual misconduct of Theodore McCarrick—earned headlines once again, with an open letter to President Donald Trump. The former apostolic nuncio to the US praised President Trump for his defense of human life, and encouraged him to resist the efforts of the “deep state.” - June 26, 2020

• Our Deeper Task
A spirit of Gnosticism has been sweeping our nation. It proclaims that a person is whoever or whatever that person claims to be. At the same time, a similar spirit (or is it the same spirit?) strives to wring from America a forced confession: that this country’s “true identity” can and must only be found in the very worst version of itself. - June 25, 2020

• Fr. Z's Blog: ASK FATHER: All who enter a church must sign a visitors book, include name, contact details
From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
In my home diocese (in Australia) our Bishop has decreed that all people who enter a church must sign into a visitor’s book and include their name, contact details and the time of entry and departure. - June 22, 2020

•Debating How to Debate Vatican II
Abp. Viganò’s latest open letter continues the vital conversation about the nature of Vatican II and the extreme necessity to properly respond to this “pastoral event.” This conversation must happen openly among the bishops who are courageous enough to face the difficult questions honestly. - June 22, 2020

•Dr. Taylor Marshall: Statue of Junípero Serra Pulled Down - Where are the Bishops?
A statue of Catholic missionary Father Junipero Serra was pulled down in San Francisco park on Friday. Father Junipero was the missionary who established the California missions and a defender of the native people and a champion of human rights. This act reveals that politics is not the limit of attack, but Christianity, too. Ultimately, they hate God more than they hate George Washington or Francis Scott Key. Dr Taylor Marshall reflects and analyzes on the event and what could be happening. - June 21, 2020

•ON REVOLUTION
The order in any society depends on its morals, beliefs, traditions, laws, religion and values – in short, its culture.  The revolution which is the subject of this essay is a movement which seeks to change or supplant the social order through the activities of an intending agency to change its culture. - June 20, 2020

•First they came for Father Moloney...
Father Dan Moloney, the Catholic chaplain at MIT, was forced to resign within 48 hours after making a public statement that both the university and the Boston archdiocese found unacceptable. What was that statement? You can find it all here. - June 19, 2020

• Viganò: Vatican 2 Should be “Dropped & Forgotten” - Dr Taylor Marshall Show
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a second letter against the Second Vatican Council (Vatican 2) on June 14. The first one was on June 10 2020 and covered last week on the Taylor Marshall Show here: Viganò Critiques Vatican II as: “Doctrinal Deviations” https://youtu.be/HVRgfVW9Em0Viganò speaks directly of “heretical propositions or those which favor heresy” in the Second Vatican Council and states that the Council should be “dropped” and “be forgotten.” There is also a rumored opposition between Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Archbishop Viganò but Dr. Taylor Marshall dispels this rumor and explains the difference in their positions regarding Vatican 2. - June 18, 2020

•1P5 Minute #27 – Gregory Petition, USCCB on Scotus Ruling, & Zanchetta Back At Work
First, Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s remarks about President Trump have raised Catholic ire, prompting tens of thousands of people to sign a petition demanding he apologize to the president, and to the Knights of Columbus, who maintain the JPII Shrine in DC. - June 17, 2020

• Black Lives Matter and Anarcho-Tyranny in the Church
When Garces Memorial High School sacked theology teacher Tim Gordon for telling the truth about Black Lives Matter, the school divulged a dirty little secret about the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. - June 17, 2020

• Why Viganò Reached out to Non-Catholic Trump? Bible History with Fr Dave Nix
Why did Viganò Reach out to Non-Catholic Trump? Fr Dave Nix explores Old Testament examples in which the Israelite hierarchy is so corrupt, that God chooses unlikely heroes, sometimes from outside of Israel. Rahab, Ruth, Cyrus, et al. Without denying EENS, Fr Nix and Dr Marshall try to make sense of our time in which the bishops seem rotten and not Christ-centered - during a time of great moral devastation. - June 16, 2020

• How Amoris Laetitia’s Stalemate Debases Marriage
In modernity, monogamy is often defined to mean “one partner at a time” or, in other words, “anything short of a harem.” As the Sexual Revolution enters its third generation, the figures are becoming clear: a greater number of sexual partners corresponds to a lower success rate in a later marriage. - June 16, 2020

• Can Viganò Reopen ‘Dialogue’ about Vatican II?
The latest epistle of Viganò has provoked a wider controversy than has his other recent letters, especially as it comes within days of a highly publicized letter to President Trump that the latter approvingly tweeted about. Remarkably, at least one member of the “mainstream” episcopate has made a statement that is not a pure vilification of Viganò. - June 16, 2020

• Important RTV Video BLOCKED in Italy, Vatican City
Does Pope Francis support defunding America’s police departments?
Yesterday, the original version of this video was blocked in some countries.
Given the dramatic rise of racial tension in America, I pray this edited and much shorter edition will make it through. - June 15, 2020

• Vision of Two Popes: by Ann Catherine Emmerich on May 13 and Fatima
On May 13 (feast of Our Lady of Fatima) in 1820, the visionary Blessed Ann Catherien Emmerich (died 1824) had a vision of two popes and two churches. The remarkable element here is that the vision happened on May 13 almost 100 years prior to the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima on May 13 1917. Dr. Taylor Marshall analyzes the vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich about the two popes and sees if it applies to the current situation of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. - June 15, 2020

•Dr. Taylor Marshall: Trump, Viganò & “The Invisible Enemy” - Review of Letter and Tweets
Please Like the Video and Share it on Facebook. It's been a big week for President Trump and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as they speak of "the invisible enemy". Dr. Taylor Marshall and Mike Church review all the events of the last week regarding Trump and Viganò. - June 12, 2020

•Dr. Taylor Marshall: Viganò Critiques Vatican II as: “Doctrinal Deviations”
Archbishop Viganò just recently issued a criticism of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) using the language of: "a logical consequent effect in the doctrinal, moral, liturgical, and disciplinary deviations.” Importantly, Vigano has voiced his opinion against the so-called Hermeneutic of Continuity of Vatican 2 as a failed project. Catholics must now speak directly to the errors of Vatican II, namely: religious pluralism under the name of Ecumenism, Collegiality and Synodality, liturgical "customization", and a false ecclesiology that posits the "People of God" as a wider circle including the non-baptized as redeemed. Dr. Taylor Marshall provides the analysis of Vigano's statement and describes his similar journey in trying and then rejecting the Hermeneutic of Continuity. - June 12, 2020

• Trump Tweets Viganò’s Letter to Him: Analysis by Dr Taylor Marshall- June 11, 2020

• Is Pope Benedict XVI Still Pope (but Francis Bishop of Rome?) Mazza Thesis Revisited
Dr. Ed Mazza returns to discuss whether Pope Benedict XVI Still Pope (but Francis Bishop of Rome?) He and Dr. Taylor Marsahll will review the three theological positions on this and debate the facts and details and try to find clarity on the matter. For reference: Dr. Marshall holds to Thesis 1. Dr. Mazza holds to Thesis 2. Dr Mazza also discusses 2 Thess 2 about the "Roman Restrainer" theory. - June 10, 2020

• Viganò: Vatican II Marked The Beginning of a False, Parallel Church
I feel the need to offer a preface to the following text, the latest essay from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, because I have recently been accused of being an opponent of his. This is not true, but the misperception is a consequence of public comments I have made to the effect that he now speaks so frequently that he has degraded himself from prophet to pundit and that he has consequently lost some of his force. - June 10, 2020

• Analysis: Archbishop Gregory promised the truth. Has he told it?
At the press conference announcing his appointment as Washington’s new shepherd, Archbishop Wilton Gregory made a pledge: “I will always tell you the truth as I understand it.” - June 10, 2020

• VIGANÒ on REVOLUTION in the CHURCH: “From Vatican II onwards, a parallel church was built...”
Introduction by Michael J. Matt: Over the past half century of crisis in the Catholic Church, one of the main points of division among Tradition-minded Catholics centered around the question of whether there was something inherently contrary to Tradition about the Second Vatican Council itself, or was it merely the Modernist interpretations of the Council that flowed abundantly into the lifeblood of the Church after the close of the Council in 1965. - June 10, 2020

• The Cult of the Mask
THE CHURCHES ARE open now in the Archdiocese of Detroit for “public Mass,” but Catholics have not been set free. The rules for being permitted to kneel at Calvary are in perfect accord with the rules of the state. Check-ins. Reservations. Social Distancing. Face covering. Every hollow one of them. - June 9, 2020

• Can Benedict XVI Divide Papal Primacy from Bishop of Rome? 3 Views
There are three non-heretical views on whether the Pope can as Supreme Legislator divide the Papal Peterin Primacy from the Roman See. Dr. Taylor Marshall explains the three positions, gives their strengths and weaknesses, and then explains which one he holds and why. - June 9, 2020

• A Brave New Liturgical World is Coming…Again
From a recent Mass titled 2020 Pentecost Mass for all Cultures — what could possibly go wrong with a Mass of that title? — a video was produced of a woman preparing the altar for the consecration, while Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego sat and watched approvingly. - June 9, 2020

• Fr. Z's Blog: Moral Injury, traditional Catholics and burnt out priests
From a reader…

I am a physician and have had the opportunity to work with several burnt out priests over the years. I am concerned about the emotional well being of priests during the current situation because of a stressor being called moral injury. - June 9, 2020

• Christ, the Church, Culture, and Cardinal Cupich
In a recent article in America magazine, “How Vatican II can help us navigate the politics of a pandemic,” Chicago Cardinal Blaise Cupich claims that Vatican II identifies a “clear pathway of public engagement, conscience formation and authentic witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” - June 9, 2020

• Fr. Z's Blog: Another vain attempt to impose Novus Ordo lockstep unity on the faithful: Archdiocese of Seattle
It is at least ill-advised to attempt the same thing again and again and again with unvarying poor results, and yet keep on the poorly chosen course. - June 8, 2020

• How China Canceled Public Worship & Divided Nations
Consider the Emperors of China? Did they ever wield this much power to burn cities, destroy global economies, and convince the Pope to shut down public worship? And yet in 2020, a dictator with the help of NGOs brought the world to its knees. Dr. Marshall explores the principle of "everything flows from the altar" and how the shut down of public worship leads societal chaos. - June 8, 2020

• Fr. Z's Blog: This is what’s going on where I am. I’ll bet it’s going on where you live.
This is really interesting from the MacIver Institute. The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based think tank that promotes free markets, individual freedom, personal responsibility and limited government. - June 7, 2020

• Fr. Z's Blog: VIDEO: Steven Mosher on the Vatican/China Secret Agreement
Michael Matt of The Remnant posted a video of a talk about the China/Vatican secret agreement given by Steven Mosher, head of the Population Research Institute. - June 7, 2020

• Viganò Warns Trump of Baphomet Inscription: Solve et Coagula and Infiltration of Deep Church
What did Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò mean when he warned President Donald Trump with the obscure Latin phrase: Solve et Coagula - which is the tattoo printed on the two forearms of the Free-masonic Sabbatic Goat? (It's also tattooed on the wrist of Harry Potter author JK Rowling). Dr. Marshall will explain what "Solve et Coagula" means and why occultists and magicians use the term. It's a profound yet subtle warning by a Catholic Archbishop to the American President. - June 7, 2020

•OPEN LETTER to DONALD TRUMP: Former U.S. Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Viganò, Stands with President Against the Mob
Introduction by Michael J. Matt: As I write these words, reports are circulating that as many as one million protesters are expected to descend on our nation’s capital this weekend. The radical leftist mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, has set the stage for a showdown with the White House by having city workers paint a two-block-long “Black Lives Matter” down the street leading to the White House. - June 6, 2020

• On Synodality and the German call to expand it
The Church has been thinking more about operating synodally over the past sixty years (hence, for example, the triennial Synod of Bishops instituted by Pope St. Paul VI in 1965). The word “synod” derives from the Greek roots “syn” (together) and “hodos” (way), which led to the Greek “synodos” and the Latin “synodus”, which denote “a meeting”, terms which finally emerged as “synod” in Middle English. ​​​​​​​- June 5, 2020

• George Floyd and How the Church Abandoned the Inner Cities
One Sunday morning, during the summer of 2018, when much of America had come to regard the Catholic Church in America as a decaying organization beset by hidden evil, Baltimore auxiliary bishop Mark Brennan paid a visit to my former parish to celebrate Mass.​​​​​​​ - June 5, 2020

•Pope Francis Submits to Religious Leaders Opposed to Our Lord Jesus Christ
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- June 5, 2020

•Does Archbishop Gregory’s Objection to Trump Break New Ground?
COMMENTARY: It is possible that Catholic rhetoric regarding Trump is influenced by the high-octane and low-civility rhetoric that is found all over Washington, beginning with the White House.​​​​​​​ - June 5, 2020​​​​​​​

• STEVEN MOSHER: The Vatican/China Secret Agreement
The president of the Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher, discusses everything Catholics need to know about Communist China, the Church in China, the persecution of the Church and the Vatican's secret agreement with Beijing. ​​​​​​​- June 4, 2020

• Former U.S. Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Issues Urgent Warning to Priests and Faithful of the Diocese of Washington
Grace and Peace are always with you, in Jesus Christ, our only Lord. Although I am no longer among you in Washington D.C. as Apostolic Nuncio, I feel particularly united to all of you in this time of so grave moral and physical trials with which you are afflicted, and I wish to send you the sentiments of my deepest affection in Christ.​​​​​​​ - June 3, 2020

• Three Things Archbishop Gregory Should Have Said Instead of Criticizing the President
Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory lashed out against President Trump and the First Lady’s visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in the nation’s capital on June 2. The long-planned event caused an uproar because it happened the day after the President walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House. He visited the historic church, the day after protesters had set it afire on May 31.​​​​​​​ - June 3, 2020

• Did the Church ‘Forget’ the Holy Spirit until the ’60s?
When I was growing up, I distinctly recall hearing, more than once, presumably well-meaning teachers and preachers say something like the following: “The Church kind of forgot about the Holy Spirit for a long time, and with Vatican II, we remembered Him. This is now the Age of the Spirit.”​​​​​​​ - June 3, 2020

• HYPOCRISY: James Martin Rebukes Trump for Holding Bible
During the riots in Washington DC, President Donald Trump went to St John's Episcopal Church and held up a Bible called for an to violence, looting, and racism. Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and a host of "Catholic" politicians are allowed parade in Catholic Masses without any criticism at all by Catholic bishops, cardinals or James Martin. Dr Taylor Marshall focusses on the hypocrisy of those that use not only the Bible but the priesthood and liturgy as props to promote a message contrary to the Gospel. - June 3, 2020

• Baffling and reprehensible
“I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles,” said Archbishop Wilton Gregory after President Donald Trump visited the St. John Paul II Shrine in Washington. - June 3, 2020

• It’s an issue
A friend recently called my attention to a debate held at the Oxford Union last June, on the resolution: “This House believes the Catholic Church can never pay for its sins.” It wasn’t really much of a debate. With their focus on the sex-abuse scandal, the speakers couldn’t quite agree as to whether the Church is more criminal than vicious or more vicious than criminal. - June 2, 2020

• Why bishops are wrong to allow govt to dictate opening churches, how to receive Communion
The U.S. bishops, with a few notable exceptions, have been silent and supine in the face of State encroachments on religious practice in the period of the coronavirus. - June 2, 2020