Based Department

🇻🇦Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased by chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

I love being Catholic.

We think in centuries and millennia. We build for eternity.

Construction of this amazing Basilica began under Pope Leo XIII in 1882.

It is complete under Pope Leo XIV in 2026.

[Cowgirl Revolt 🔱 @CowgirlRevolt]

ok not to be a tweet stealer but ranch dressing is only coded as declasse because it's American. If the french made an emulsion of oil, buttermilk, garlic, dill, mustard, chives, and parsley, y'all would pay 6 dollars for a side of it

[Max @minordissent]

This is how we win btw

[Leo Papa XIV @Pontifex_ln]

In #Hispaniam venimus ad novam fidelitatem credentium erga Evangelium corroborandam, fovendam ac suscitandam, necnon ad profundiorem reconciliationem et cooperationem inter varias huius Nationis partes promovendam. Ipsa enim eiusdem historia ostendit non rationem contentionis, sed occursus stabilitatem et prosperitatem gignere. #IterApostolicum

[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:

[⚽️Augustine of the Valley⚽️ @AugustineOTV]

Can parishes please stop using AI art slop?

[conspiracybot @conspiracyb0t]

Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks very clearly: “They are not refugees, they are invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy historical culture in Europe.”

[Based Department @BasedDept_]

@FeelsGuy2003

[Christian B. Wagner 🔫🐒 @WalmartThomist]

The CCC is actually a great catechism. It filled the lacunae of the Roman Catechism on certain topics (as evidenced from reading the sections on Divine Revelation and the Trinity, for example).

Its combination with the Compendium of the CCC makes it a very helpful resource.

[Fuentes Updates @FuentesUpdates]

Nick Fuentes can feel himself getting dumber from doomscrolling all the time 😭

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

The certainty of faith is the highest: Shortly before Father Alfred Delp SJ was executed by the henchmen of Germany's National Socialist regime, he looked at them and calmly said: "In a few minutes, I will know more than you."

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

Christian B. Wagner has compiled papal testimonies affirming the enduring authority of St. Alphonsus in matters of moral theology. The video also offers an insight into the high degree of differentiation with which the Church uses to approach such matters:
https://t.co/WiCcQMA8YU

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

God of Mercy and Compassion

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Seeing my own sins for what they are radicalized me more than anything else

[Based Department @BasedDept_]

1 John 4:20
“If a man say, “I love God,” and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

[Adrian F. Pascal 🇻🇦 @deusimpera]

“False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country, is a pity that is shown not to the mugged but to the mugger, not to the family of the murdered but to the murderer.”

- Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “Life is Worth Living”

[Christian B. Wagner 🔫🐒 @WalmartThomist]

The Popes have been confessing Rome's role in causing the Reformation for 500 years, bud.

"You are to say also that we frankly confess that God has allowed this pun­ishment to overtake his Church because of the sins of men, and especially those of priests and prelates...Holy Scripture loudly proclaims that the sins of the people have their source in the sins of the priesthood...We are well aware that even in this Holy See much that is detestable has appeared for some years already — abuses in spiritual things, violation of the command­ments — and that everything has been changed for the worst. Hence it is not to be wondered at that the sickness has been transmitted from the head to the members, from the popes to the prelates. All of us, prelates and clergy, have turned aside from the road of righteousness and for a long time now there has been not even one who did good. Hence we must all give glory to God and humble ourselves before him. Everyone of us must consider why he has fallen and judge himself rather than be con­demned by God on the day of his wrath. You must therefore promise in our name that we intend to exert ourselves so that, first of all, the Roman Court, from which perhaps all this evil took its start, may be improved. Then, just as from here the sickness proceeded, so also from here recovery and renewal may begin. We regard ourselves as all the more obliged to carry this out, be­cause the whole world demands such a reform...However, no one should be amazed that we do not liquidate all abuses at one blow. For the disease is deeply entrenched and of many shapes. Therefore, progress must be made step by step, and first of all the most serious and most dangerous evils must be dealt with by proper medicines, lest everything become still more chaotic through a premature reform." (Pope Adrian VI)

[Christian B. Wagner 🔫🐒 @WalmartThomist]

The moon landing was the perfect display of Anglo-Germanic excellence…

[Prayerbooks & Papistry @PBandPapistry]

On the Origins of Trinity Sunday from the Anglican Breviary made by the Frank Gavin Liturgical Foundation, 1955: