The Eucharist is Jesus’ flesh & blood, just as he said in John 6 & at the Lord’s Supper. The Eucharistic miracles back up the claims of the Catholic Church.
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance – it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ, and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
"They shouldn't go, and cannot participate in the Masses of schismatic priests and bishops."
— Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, speaking about the SSPX after its unauthorized episcopal consecrations (2026).
When Cardinal Müller says Catholics should not go to the Masses of schismatic priests, he isn't saying this to be harsh. He's warning us because unity with the Church matters.
Jesus prayed that His followers would be one, and He gave the Church shepherds to protect that unity.
When bishops are ordained against the Pope's clear command, it wounds the unity Christ established. Even if the Mass itself is valid, choosing to support a group that has broken communion with the Church can slowly pull us away from the unity Jesus wants for His people.
The saints corrected leaders when needed, but they never separated themselves from the Church or rejected the Pope's authority.
Real faith stays faithful even when it's difficult. The safest place to be is where Peter is.
💬 If a bishop openly defies the Pope, should Catholics follow that bishop—or remain with the Church Christ founded?
Someone you know may be struggling with this question. A simple conversation today could help them stay close to the Church Christ established.
BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: Karl Marx knew that to reshape a society, you have to dismantle religion first. Totalitarian systems demand absolute control, and faith stands firmly in their way.
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In Catholic teaching, unity with the successor of Peter is not optional. It is part of how Christ Himself chose to safeguard His Church. When decisions are made apart from the Pope’s authority, even if they are claimed to be for good reasons, they create real wounds in that visible unity.
Disagreeing with actions that separate themselves from papal approval is not about attacking people. It is about protecting the structure Christ established. The Church is not just an idea or a preference. It is a living body, and when that unity is weakened, it can confuse the faithful, especially those who are already struggling to understand where the Church’s voice truly is.
Encouraging disobedience, even unintentionally, can slowly form hearts to treat authority as optional. Over time, that weakens trust in the Church’s teaching office and can lead souls into division, doubt, or spiritual instability. What begins as “justified resistance” can easily become a pattern of selective obedience, which harms communion with the Church.
At its deepest level, division among those who claim Christ damages the visible sign of His unity in the world. Christ prayed “that they may all be one” (John 17:21), because unity is meant to be a witness to the world that He was truly sent by the Father.
I stand where I stand because I believe in Christ’s divine promises of protection to His Church and the authority of the keys He gave to Peter (cf. Matthew 16:18–19). I believe Christ will not abandon the Church He built, and that He remains faithful to His promise to guide and preserve her in truth.
Thank you again to everyone who has shown encouragement and prayerful support. 🙏
I’ve lost a lot of followers over my comments on the SSPX so I want to say something
You are not going underground to preserve tradition like the early church
They were running from pagan rulers, not from the magisterium, the pope, and the missal.
Do not risk your soul by dying outside the church. Be a traditional Catholic and with filial obedience repent and come home to your church.
Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.
This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.
There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.
Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.
This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.
But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.
Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.
What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.
If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.
Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?
A lot of Catholics are saying that unless liberal (rainbow) priests are excommunicated, it is hypocritical of Rome to excommunicate the SSPX. While I understand the sentiment, this is "apples and oranges". The SSPX situation is not fundamentally a liberal/conservative issue but a Catholic ecclesiology question. Do bishops (whether liberal or conservative) have the right to consecrate new bishops against the express wishes of the Pope? The danger of saying "yes" to such a claim is that such a precedent would also obviously help liberal schismatics as much as conservative ones. Liberals could start consecrating the most wildly unorthodox bishops you could imagine (in openly gay relationships, radically pro abortion, etc). There would be no limit.
This question on whether the Pope gets to decide who is made bishop is a much bigger question than whether you like the TLM or not. It is a much bigger question than what to do when a particular priest does something scandalous. It is the very foundation of Catholicism at risk.
Dr. Scott Hahn: “The deeper I went into the Bible, the more things came up Catholic…And Mary? Mary is the MODEL disciple. How do we know this? Just look in the Scriptures & you’ll hear her say, ‘Be it done unto me according to thy word.’”
@joshbing@EcciusMaximus@WesleyLHuff Why? St Paul commanded we keep the apostolic Traditions in 2 Thess 2:15. Those aren’t the same manmade traditions Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for keeping. Those are divinely established by Jesus and his Apostles to keep, and the Church has faithfully kept them for 2000 yrs