Rod Halvorsen at EVR_Forge.

Bible = Roadmap to the Catholic Church.

[Rod Halvorsen at EVR_Forge. @EVR_Forge]

This is the post of the Year.

[Catholic Land Movement @CatholicLand]

Christ was born into a family, not an empire. His thirty hidden years were spent not in revolution but in obedience, labor, custom, and prayer. That is our pattern.

To rebuild Christian civilization after the fall of liberalism, we must build hidden Nazareths everywhere—homes of justice, work, prayer, and joy. From these will come a society in which Christ is King, not only of hearts, but of land, law, and labor.

“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” —Joshua 24:15

[Rod Halvorsen at EVR_Forge. @EVR_Forge]

@bandy1803 @TheVietGwent IMO Mackenzie was a uniquely effective commander. Not a genius which would discount his ability to learn from his and others’ mistakes, but rather a man willing to admit limitations and tenaciously build on past failures or inadequacies.

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@rickbrennanjr @Burgess7281975 Of course Catholic doctrine is sound.
As I stated your religious opinions bear no authority whatsoever.

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@FrDaveNix Exactly.

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@capnjonesy @HilarityjaneArt Exactly. And my experience is that it engendered endless arguments.

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@arctotherium42 @willsolfiac 👍🏻
The observations are not the demanded “solutions”.

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@Sacred_Panda_ @Burgess7281975 Your opinion is that of presumption. A religion of presumption.

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@MagnumKeith Checked regularly, clean as needed. BP after each shooting. ARs except target gun rarely, ranch guns kept wet.

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@capnjonesy @HilarityjaneArt And I’d just add more benefit is gained by both the individual and the collective.

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@HilarityjaneArt This was one of the obvious cultural elements indicative of a crisis we saw even during or RCIA program. Taught the teaching properly we immediately saw the collapse of application. The culture reflects the liberal Protestantism I left in the ‘80’s.

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SSPX has never stated that.
This guy is one of those that demonstrate a striking lack of integrity on this subject.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

There is no 'crisis,' in the sense meant by the Society of St. Pius X, nor could there be.

The Church cannot lose the means of salvation, as they allege has occurred, nor can she formally embrace heresy.

Unless the Society repudiates this theology, it cannot be reconciled.

[Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier]

For several years I was the leading staff representative of an organisation where I represented 5000 employees.

Since human nature is fallen, it is only to be expected that in any large organisation there will be incidents of harassment.

The commonest in my opinion are:

- Pharoah's "bricks without straw" technique. Give staff a task but deprive them of the means to carry it out. Then punish them for failure
- Stalin's "find me six traitors and shoot them" technique. A quota of staff is expected to be marked down in their appraisal, regardless of what they have done.
- The "impossible dream" technique. Set unreachable targets and then punish staff for not reaching them
- The Soviet "parasite" technique: take away a staff member's responsibilities and then punish him for doing no work
- The Lord of the Flies technique: ostracise a staff member for his association with a non-existent problem, then punish him

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@RorateCaeli @holysmoke But not surprising?

[Elizabeth Yore @ElizabethYore]

Leo must Repeal the CCP/Vatican deal. Support the faithful underground church. Otherwise, the handwriting is on the Vatican wall.

[Rod Halvorsen at EVR_Forge. @EVR_Forge]

Marching with communists, taking part in a pagan ritual, publicly treating a married transvestite woman as a man…all reflecting a consistent formation, indicates with substantial clarity that such an individual would have no principled interest or reason to object in any way to allowing CCP control over bishops or participation in other functions of the Catholic Church in China.

[Rod Halvorsen at EVR_Forge. @EVR_Forge]

This is real trouble. The challenges faced by stock raisers and farmers are enormous and unfortunately obscured by their amazing success overall. Tenacity and ability to feed the nation and world allows many who are ignorant of those challenges to think all that food somehow just appears of its own accord at the supermarket.
Not so.
Prayers for all those who keep at it.

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@PetriOP Thank you very much.
Question: Our bishop allowed a Native American “cup dance”during at Mass. Is it correct that technically he was required to obtain permission from the Holy See before allowing this?

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

This business about kneeling for Holy Communion was settled long ago. In fact, the USCCB was subtly corrected on the matter in the publication of the 2010 American translation of the 2000 edition of the Missale Romanum. Here's what happened...

In 2000, the third edition of the Missale Romanum was promulgated by St. John Paul II, which included a revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal (i.e., the GIRM). Every episcopal conference could then make adaptations proper to their own bishops' dioceses as long as the Holy See approved those modifications.

In 2002, therefore, this revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal was issued for the United States with the approved adaptations for the United States.

Paragraph 160 of that 2002 US GIRM said: "The norm for reception of Holy Communion in the dioceses of the United States is standing. Communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel. Rather, such instances should be addressed pastorally, by
providing the faithful with proper catechesis on the reasons for this norm."

Communicants couldn't be denied Holy Communion for kneeling, but they should be "addressed pastorally." Keep in mind, we were still using the 1972 translation of Mass found in what was called then the Sacramentary.

In 2004, the then-Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Holy See issued an all-encompassing document addressing deficiencies and abuses regarding the Most Holy Sacrament called Redemptionis Sacramentum.

In paragraph 90 of that document, the Holy See affirmed: "'The faithful should receive Communion kneeling or standing, as the Conference of Bishops will have determined', with its acts having received the recognitio of the Apostolic See. 'However, if they receive Communion standing, it is recommended that they give due reverence before the reception of the Sacrament, as set forth in the same norms.'"

Note the Holy See's insistence here on the norm that any determination by an episcopal conference on these matters must have the approval (the recognitio) of Holy See.

The following paragraph (91) says this: "In distributing Holy Communion it is to be remembered that 'sacred ministers may not deny the sacraments to those who seek them in a reasonable manner, are rightly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them'. Hence any baptized Catholic who is not prevented by law must be admitted to Holy Communion. Therefore, it is not licit to deny Holy Communion to any of Christ’s faithful solely on the grounds, for example, that the person wishes to receive the Eucharist kneeling or standing."

Fast forward to 2010 after the US Bishops approved an English translation for the 2000 Missale Romanum, it's sent to Rome to be approved, but NOT WITHOUT a change in the US GIRM at paragraph 160--a change that wasn't reported at the time as being requested by the USCCB. In other words, it's a change that the Holy See simply made on its own authority.

Unlike the 2002 US GIRM at 160, the 2010 and CURRENT US GIRM at 160 doesn't mention any pastoral issue needing to be addressed about the faithful kneeling to receive Holy Communion. Presumably, this is because the Holy See doesn't think it is a pastoral issue.

The 2010 US GIRM, approved by the Holy See and changed from the 2002 version by the authority and initiative of the Holy See, now says:

"It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling" (and cites Redemptionis Sacramentum, paragraph 91).

Thus, in 2010, the Holy See changed the US GIRM specifically to remove any sense of kneeling being a pastoral issue. Yes, standing is the norm in the United States, UNLESS a member of the faithful wishes to receive Holy Communion while kneeling.

Sources in the replies:

[Joseph Shaw @LMSChairman]

It is a real comfort to me on this hellsite to see the strength of the reaction against the killing of a Downs baby in utero, and how it contrasts with many ‘conservative’ voices. The Church is still able to inculcate her children with something distinctive. Well done, everyone.

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@PaulinusOfTrier @AntiWokeEvil An incomparable blessing for both him and for you.
May he welcome you into heaven after the fullness of his 92 hour vigil for you is complete. A son’s love for his father returned from father to son.