Only the best Catholics remain active, persecuted by a hierarchy that persist in their failed mid-century pipedream. In 50 years only the faithful will remain. They'll slowly rebuild, as they did when Arianism fizzled out in the 700s.
Voltaire died with a priest in the room
He had spent 50 years as the Enlightenment's most effective critic of Christianity
When he was dying in 1778 a priest came to his bedside
He made a partial confession and signed a statement affirming his belief in God
The man who built his reputation on rejecting the Church could not fully leave it at the end
Nobody who quotes Voltaire today knows this
Wow! This is the actual coffin made for Saint Cuthbert in 698, eleven years after his death. He had been buried on Lindisfarne in the far North of England and the monks planned to transfer his bones to a ‘reliquary’ or small box, to be kept in the church. However, when his grave was opened the body was discovered to be ‘incorrupt’ – no decay had taken place – which was a sign of great sainthood. A new coffin had to be quickly made.
The coffin is made from oak wood, with decoration carved using knives and a very narrow hollow chisel or gouge. The figures on it include Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, apostles and archangels. Among the earliest surviving objects of its kind, the coffin provides a unique example of techniques used for decorating wooden items in the 600s. The coffin is also probably the earliest example of an object with inscriptions using both runes (Viking carved lettering) and Roman letters.
Most of the fragments were recovered from Cuthbert’s tomb when it was opened in 1827. In 1899 the tomb was opened again and Canon William Greenwell recovered some further fragments missed in the earlier excavation. It was Greenwell who first attempted to fit the pieces together and reconstruct the coffin as it can be seen today.
FAITHFUL FIGHT: Catholic nuns who have spent their lives caring for dying patients are now in a legal battle with New York over a law they say violates their religious beliefs.
The new state law requires nursing homes and long-term care facilities to use preferred pronouns, house residents by gender identity, and allow access to sex-specific spaces.
The sisters say it forces them to choose between following the law and staying true to their deep faith.
This is something most people don’t know, so let me explain
Before Islam existed, much of the Middle East was Christian
Asia Minor (modern Turkey) was Christian. Syria was Christian. Egypt was Christian. Iraq was Christian. Lebanon was Christian. Palestine was Christian. Jordan was Christian. Parts of North Africa like Libya, Morocco and Tunisia were Christian. Antioch, Alexandria, and Edessa were among the greatest centers of Christian learning in the world
These places were arguably more central to early Christianity than Europe. The apostles preached there. The earliest churches were built there, and many of the Church Fathers came from these lands
Then in the 7th century, Islamic armies expanded out of Arabia. The wars were brutal, cities were taken by force, and the entire political and religious structure of the region changed. Christians who had once been the majority were gradually reduced to second class citizens
Within a few decades they conquered Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Persia. Within a century they controlled most of the Christian Middle East and North Africa
Most Christians were forced to convert, others fled, and some lived as second-class citizens
That's what's going to happen soon if we don't stop them
Invader smashes a stone wall in the English countryside, because he "wanted to get through it"!
Some of these walls have stood for centuries, and just like the cities, ruined by third world plebs within a few decades.
These people do not belong in England.
🚨 NEW AT HIRAETH!!
Bishop Michael Martin Knew Leo Wouldn’t Stop Him From Destroying the TLM and Altar Rails
Charlotte’s bishop admits he never expected Leo to rescue the old Mass, moves openly to stamp out its influence on the Novus Ordo, and exposes Trad Inc.’s latest fraud
Read here: https://t.co/GOgNkQZUKs
#LatinMass #TraditionisCustodes #PopeLeoXIV #CatholicTwitter #TradInc
Planned Parenthood transgender executive promotes abortion and s*x change surgeries while holding a child.
There’s something really demonic about this.
Rwandan migrant Emmanuel Abayisenga had his asylum application to France rejected multiple times since submitting it in 2012. Despite orders for deportation, he remained in the country illegally.
The priests trusted him with the cathedral keys, putting him in charge of locking up and caretaking. After he set the building on fire, destroying the organ and organ loft, Father Maire took him in, offering him shelter in his own home while awaiting trial.
He then murdered Father Maire.
Europe in a nutshell.
Left-wing activist judge Jessica Fehrenbach released an 18yo felon from prison.
FOUR days later, that same felon was charged with shooting someone dead.
JAIL THE JUDGES
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Minnesota Rep Krista Knudsen says they just found out the state TURNED OFF tracking for money being sent overseas
They turned it on for 2 weeks. Saw all the money leaving, and Democrats quickly SHUT OFF TRACKING to allow it to keep happening
READ THAT AGAIN
“Today in the fraud committee, the Department of Human Services testified that they haven't been tracking the IP addresses of money that's being literally flown out of our state and where it's going.
They did turn on that reporting for 2 weeks, and they found that yes, a lot of those IP addresses were tied to overseas computers, and then they quickly shut it off after just 2 weeks of seeing where this money is actually going”
“Every time we turn around, it's just more and more fraud scandals in our state”
Leo embraces the ecumenical heresy solemnly condemned by Pius XI in “Mortalium Animos”, treating the Anglican Communion—whose “sacred orders” were declared absolutely null and void by Leo XIII in “Apostolicæ Curæ”—as a “sister Church” with which to “walk together” by virtue of a common baptism, without requiring conversion to the one true Roman Catholic Church.
Such modernist irenicism, which praises the ARCIC dialogue (Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission) and calls for a “common witness” without affirming Catholic uniqueness, dissolves the dogma “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” and reduces the unity willed by Our Lord to a sentimental compromise. It is no surprise that the “most authoritative magisterial sources” upon which Leo legitimizes ecumenism are Vatican II and the conciliar popes. Not one of the Popes prior to the Council would ever have dared to think or write such horrors.
Finally, the greeting to a “female archbishop” compounds the scandal, violating the immutable Magisterium that excludes the possibility of a female priesthood and confirms the total invalidity of any so-called Anglican ordination.
But if “St.” Paul VI is in heaven, where is the Martyr St. Thomas Becket?
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Leo must have decided that the trads are too much trouble to fight with. No reason he should be stuck with Bergoglio's bad policy...
“Europe will return to the Faith, or she will perish. The Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith, and without that unity of soul no laws, no parliaments, no leagues will save a civilization that has forgotten what it is.”
— Hilaire Belloc
Pierre-Édouard Stérin, a French Catholic billionaire, has reportedly created a campaign fund to support right-wing candidates in municipal elections, aiming to promote a more Catholic-oriented society by encouraging higher church attendance, restricting abortion, and increasing birth rates.
Info: The New York Times
The interior of this small rural church is one of Britain’s most remarkable Victorian artistic treasures.
In the 1980s, the church was deemed structurally unsafe and this exceptionally rare and beautiful interior was almost lost to demolition.
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«Francis was not an aberration to be cleaned up. Francis was a program to be normalized.
Leo is not quietly preparing a restoration. He is regularizing a revolution. He is staffing it with men who believe in it, defending it with cardinals who sacralize it, and praising movements that embody it. The issue is no longer whether the signs are there. The signs are everywhere. The issue is whether traditional Catholics are still willing to pretend not to read them.» @bigmodernism
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