David Elsberry

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@alphafox Yes, I would have removed her.

[Father Joseph DeMarzo @Joseph_DeMarzo]

“More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason”

“Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.”

-Our Lady of Fatima

I am outraged by this performance, it is scandalous. Should women be dancing like this in front of a Catholic priest, let alone young people?

Is this pleasing to Jesus, does this help souls get to Heaven?

Is this Catholic?

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@CarloMVigano thank you for keeping the faith. May God bless you and send his angels to keep you safe.

[FSSPX Actualités @FSSPXFR]

Selon https://t.co/K7CU8dN93X, le Vatican déclarerait la FSSPX excommuniée et schismatique, après les sacres épiscopaux qui auront lieu le 1er juillet prochain à Écône (Suisse). Le site germanophone rapporte les propos du journaliste italien Nico Spuntoni à la vaticaniste américaine Diane Montagna : « Des sources bien informées m’ont confirmé que le Dicastère pour la doctrine de la foi se prépare déjà à un schisme après les nouvelles consécrations épiscopales. » Et selon les mêmes sources, Nico Spuntoni affirme que le dicastère du cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández envisage d’apporter « un soutien pastoral aux membres du clergé appartenant à la Fraternité qui ne souhaitent pas y rester, après une nouvelle rupture avec Rome ».

Cela fait penser à la Commission pontificale Ecclesia Dei, structure conçue par Rome pour accueillir les prêtres qui refusèrent les sacres de 1988, avec le succès qu’on sait ! Cette commission a été intégrée à la Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi en 2009, puis dissoute purement et simplement en 2019, en sorte que les communautés ex-Ecclesia Dei se trouvent soumises au bon vouloir des évêques. C’est ainsi que la Fraternité Saint-Pierre a été brutalement remerciée en 2024 par Mgr Laurent Dognin, évêque de Quimper et Léon.

Au sujet de cette éventuelle excommunication, il est utile de se reporter à l’avis du P. Jaime Mercant Simó, canoniste espagnol, déclarant le 21 février dernier qu’il n’y aurait « ni schisme, ni péché » du fait des sacres d’Écône. Dans la même ligne, le site américain Rorate Cœli publie, le 6 mai, le jugement d’un chanoine de Shaftestbury, dont on comprend qu’il tient à préserver son anonymat en ces temps agités. Ce canoniste anglophone n’hésite pas à publier « une défense canonique, théologique et pastorale contre l’excommunication envisagée de la FSSPX ».

Selon lui, une excommunication, « si elle était imposée, ne serait ni canoniquement sensée, ni théologiquement cohérente, ni pastoralement opportune. En s’appuyant sur la tradition juridique de l’Église, les précédents historiques et les impératifs pastoraux constamment invoqués par les pontificats récents, on peut soutenir que l’excommunication envisagée serait arbitraire, incohérente et contre-productive pour l’unité et la mission de l’Église catholique. »

Et de signaler : « Depuis des années, la Fraternité cherche une régularisation et une solution négociées à la question de la succession épiscopale. L’incapacité apparente du Vatican à rencontrer la Fraternité, tout en étendant l’accueil réservé à des groupes doctrinalement bien plus hétérodoxes, révèle un “deux poids, deux mesures” troublant qui mine la crédibilité de l’autorité disciplinaire de Rome et envoie un message néfaste aux fidèles attachés à la tradition de l’Église. »

Le canoniste souligne que ce projet d’excommunication manifesterait un triple échec, car :

« 1. Canoniquement, l’état de nécessité, l’absence d’intention schismatique et l’interprétation stricte du droit militent contre la sanction.
« 2. Théologiquement, la différence de traitement entre les catholiques fidèles à la doctrine et les hétérodoxes révèle une incohérence ecclésiologique.
« 3. Pastoralement, la sanction abandonnerait des communautés vivantes à une marginalisation injuste, alors que des solutions pacifiques existent. »

Et de plaider en faveur d’une solution pacifique : « La FSSPX répète depuis des années que l’Église traverse une crise de la foi, de la liturgie et de son identité même. La réponse du Saint-Siège aux consécrations prévues risque de confirmer ce diagnostic : lorsque ceux qui défendent la tradition sont traités en ennemis, et ceux qui la contredisent sont considérés comme des partenaires, c’est qu’un désordre s’est installé. Le remède n’est pas le marteau de la loi, mais la main tendue du dialogue, de la miséricorde et d’une application vraiment pastorale du droit canonique que l’Église conserve pour le bien de tous ses fidèles. »

Cet avis sera-t-il entendu à Rome ? L’avenir, qui appartient à Dieu, le dira. https://t.co/2P6JVRx0jj

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@sincerelykath @ArdorNew Bernardin was a bishop. Just not in service of any church you’d ever want to be associated with. Think darker, much darker. He followed the advice of his own pope who said it was “better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@KayHeadley @ItsRobbAllen I have my own beliefs, and respect yours. May God bless you for believing in him regardless ❤️

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@SG_WestVirginia Suzie, I was also Baptist and Catholicism has been life changing for me. I know exactly how you feel. Walking into the Catholic Church for the first time, I could feel Jesus present and just stood there and cried.

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@pontificatormax @normale40897509 He has no depths that he won’t subject the Throne of Saint Peter to.

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

Pathetic. But Chicago is beyond hope.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

Catholicism is the way, and we should not forget that the pathway was laid before us by God.
Men are by nature corrupt, and we should remember this as well. Keep your eyes and heart turned to God and worry not about the men leading, for they are blind and many have turned their eyes downwards.

[Hilary White @HilarityjaneArt]

The Vatican - the men in charge of the Catholic institution - do not care. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care.

When you fix that in your mind as the guiding principle in Rome, you will be relieved of the constant shock and horror that blights your soul.

[LaMamiChula @EsUnaMorenaza]

@DavidElsberry3 @WashArchdiocese @NovusOrdoWatch We, the people are the church. Not the cardinals
Nor bishops. We are. We need keep protecting our faith. Monsignor has been practicing exorcisms
For 19 years!!! He knows a thing or two about demons.

[Catholic Christendom @shiningsweu]

On Corpus Christi Day

I do not desire your endless meetings, your committees, your assemblies without faith, or your speeches filled with the wisdom of the world.

When you come before Me, who asked for these things?

Who told you to fill My sanctuary with confusion and call it renewal?

Your rainbow banners hang in My churches, and you call it mercy.

You bless homosexuality, which My law condemns, and you call it compassion.

You remain silent about sin, and you call it pastoral care.

You bring pagan symbols into My house and call it dialogue.

You bow before Pachamama and other idols, and call it inculturation.

You mix truth with error, Christ with false gods, and call it openness.

Offer Me no more your innovations and novelties.

The incense of your self-congratulation is an abomination to Me.

Your congresses, synods, declarations, and manifestos weary Me.

You have turned houses of prayer into places of entertainment.

You have filled sanctuaries with worldly noise.

You have replaced reverence with casualness, sacrifice with performance, worship with self-expression.

Your liturgies are filled with improvisation and anarchy.

Your ceremonies follow the spirit of the age rather than the Spirit of God.

You tear down what generations built and mock what saints held sacred.

Your clerics preach accommodation instead of repentance.

They speak endlessly about humanity and rarely about God.

They praise the world that crucified God made flesh and look with suspicion upon those who defend My commandments.

You honor Me with your words, but your actions deny Me.

You speak of mercy, yet neglect justice.

You speak of inclusion, yet exclude My truth.

Your feasts and celebrations have become burdensome to Me.

Your ceremonies are empty because your hearts are far from Me.

You seek the approval of the world and wonder why the world despises you.

Return to the ancient paths.
Restore what has been cast aside.

Teach what was taught from the beginning.

Honor My commandments.

Offer Me worship in spirit and in truth, then your prayers will rise before Me like pleasing incense, and I will remember My people with mercy.

[Chris Jackson @BigModernism]

🚨 NEW AT HIRAETH!

Leo’s New Prefectress Rejects Jewish Conversion

A new lay prefect makes conversion optional, McElroy fires an exorcist, German clergy queer the Gospel, and cardinals prepare to bury just war.

Read here: https://t.co/mqfpxUktAS

#PopeLeoXIV #TraditionalCatholic #VaticanII #CatholicTwitter #LGBTQChurch

[Ryan Grant: Cigar smoking pseudo-intellectual 🚬 @chesterbelloc3]

It's rich for +McElroy to accuse anyone of undermining Church teaching; that's what he has spent his entire episcopal career doing!

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

It truly is and being the kind character that Monsignor Rossetti is, he chose humility and obedience and took this as an opportunity to apologize for whatever he had done when everyone knows that he did nothing wrong. He clearly hasn’t been persecuted as much as some of the priesthood have been by these vipers. It shows much more character for the Monsignor than it does the Bishop.

[Catholic Christendom @shiningsweu]

Is Leo XIV Homosexual?

"An article today addresses the thorny issue of homosexuality in the Church, the “lavender mafia,” and expresses little confidence that Pope Leo is willing to tackle the problem decisively.
“Unlike homosexual popes, bishops, and priests, heterosexual priests like me do not believe that ‘we must change attitudes before even thinking about changing what the Church says on any given issue.’ When Pope Leo said this in response to a question about changing the Church’s doctrinal teaching on homosexuality, was his use of ‘we’ unconsciously referring to members of the LGBTQ community? And if that is the case, could Leo have been manipulated and initiated into gay sex by the Augustinian priests Reinhard J. Sternemann or Nelson Daniel Rupp, two documented predators who were professors at the Augustinian high school seminary in which Prevost was enrolled during his psychosexual developmental period?”
The extensive investigation by the Michigan Attorney General into Catholic clergy abuse details allegations of sexual abuse within St. Augustine Seminary in Saugatuck, Michigan, a place known for documented abuse."

(source: Specola/Infovaticana)

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

Imagine getting fired from a diocese for this milquetoast opinion on Aliens. McElroy really is an evil man.

[David Elsberry @DavidElsberry3]

@dianemontagna Can’t they just stay home and not mess anything else up?