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| The Catholic Trumpet: With Mary Until the End? |
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Posted by: Stone - Today, 09:03 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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With Mary Until the End?
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The Catholic Trumpet | June 29, 2025
In 1712, St. Louis de Montfort foretold “apostles of the latter times,” humble Marian warriors who would rise to defend the Faith in an age of apostasy. In 1846, Our Lady at La Salette showed Melanie Calvat these same apostles, calling them to die for Jesus as true children of Mary (M.P.J., E.D.M.). In 1923, Church authorities suppressed her warnings.
Six years later, on February 11, 1929, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Lateran Treaty was signed, choosing earthly compromise over Heaven’s requests. Then on June 13, 1929, Our Lady explicitly asked for Russia’s consecration at Tuy, a command still ignored.
Today in 2025, the errors of Russia have infected even traditional circles.
In these times, are we not called to strive quietly and faithfully to remain Marian, with no deals, no silence, no compromise, like the apostles of the latter times, guarding the Faith and preparing for Christ the King’s triumph?
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| Vatican announces new votive Mass ‘for the care of creation’ |
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Posted by: Stone - Today, 08:24 AM - Forum: New Rite Sacraments
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Vatican announces new votive Mass ‘for the care of creation’
The new text of the Mass will be issued Thursday, and comes on the back of Pope Francis' special focus on climate change issues
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Jun 30, 202
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included; emphasis mine]) — The Vatican is set to publish a new Mass text called the Mass “for the care of creation.”
In a press note issued June 30, the Holy See Press Office announced details of a press conference on Thursday which will be the launch pad for a new Mass.
“There will be a press conference to present the new form of the Mass ‘pro custodia creationis,’ which will be added to the Masses ‘pro variis necessitatibus vel ad diversa’ of the Roman Missal,” the note read.
The Mass is believed to be joining the list of votive Masses in the Roman Missal.
Presenting the new Mass text will be two notable Vatican officials from the relevant dicasteries:- Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., prefect of the Dicastery for Service of Integral Human Development.
- Archbishop Vittorio Viola, OFM, secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship.
At the moment, it is not yet known how long the Mass has been in preparation, though it is highly likely to have originated under the pontificate of Pope Francis.
It will be of key significance to examine the text upon its release, given another high-profile liturgical case that is currently underway – namely the three-year “experimental phase” of the Amazon rite, which seeks to draw from local Amazonian customs.
Alongside this is the pagan-linked, inculturated Mayan rite, which the Vatican is currently considering for the “indigenous” inculturation of people in Mexico.
Where the Mayan and Amazon “rite” differ to the expected Mass “for the care of creation” is that the former have been posited as inculturated rites, while the latter is understood to be more akin to a votive Mass.
Francis made the “care of creation” a prominent theme throughout his pontificate, dedicating numerous speeches and addresses to it.
His 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si’ became the reference text for a number of Vatican and papal initiatives focused on the so-called “green” agenda. In it, Francis spoke about a “true ecological approach” which listens to “both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” The document later gave rise to the Laudato Si’ Movement, which aims to “turn Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’ into action for climate and ecological justice,” as the mass divestment from “fossil fuels” finds inspiration in the late pontiff’s environmental writings.
In October 2023, Francis published a second part to Laudato Si’ in the form of an apostolic exhortation named Laudate Deum.
The late pope also made numerous calls to action for global leaders to implement the pro-abortion Paris Climate Agreement, citing the “negative effects of climate change” and an “ecological debt” which required “climate finance, decarbonization in the economic system and in people’s lives.”
Cardinal Czerny’s Dicastery for Service of Integral Human Development is the Roman office charged with the practical implications of Pope Francis’ ecological concerns, along with his focus on the topic of migrants.
Recently, the dicastery recalled the 10th anniversary of of Laudato Si’, calling it “a unique opportunity to relaunch the commitment to our common home, a mission in which we are all called to actively participate.”
Archbishop Viola of the Dicastery for Divine Worship is better known for his opposition to the traditional Mass – a campaign which has been in full swing with increased pace in recent years, following Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes. Expanding even on those restrictions, Viola was believed to be writing a new document last summer which would have seen Pope Francis attempt to implement a new sweeping ban on the traditional Mass. That document never emerged; it is believed the text made it to Francis’ desk but that he never signed it.
As LifeSiteNews’ Jeanne Smits documented, Viola is a known admirer of one of the main architects of the Novus Ordo in 1969: Archbishop Annibale Bugnigni. Viola has chosen to wear Bugnini’s episcopal ring.
No official meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Viola has been recorded in the Pope’s public diary. One meeting has been documented between Leo and Viola’s superior, Cardinal Arthur Roche, which took place on June 3.
Czerny has been received on two official occasions, although it is quite possible that Pope Leo met with Czerny and Viola privately to discuss the new Mass text.
The text will be released on Thursday morning.
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| England’s First Martyr St. Alban Converts His Executioner |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 08:13 AM - Forum: The Saints
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England’s First Martyr St. Alban Converts His Executioner
Adapted from Bede's Ecclesiastical History, (London: George Bell and Sons, 1907)
Hugh O'Reilly, TIA | June 37, 2025
St. Alban was a Roman citizen living in Verulanium in Britain (today, in Hertfordshire, England). He converted to Christianity around 300 A.D. and became the first-recorded British Christian Martyr. St. Bede's Ecclesiastical History gives an account of Alban being beheaded on a hill outside the city, which has been adapted for our readers below.
Now then, this Alban, being yet a pagan at the time when all manner of cruelties was being practiced against the Christians, gave refuge in his house to a certain priest Amphibalus, who was fleeing from his persecutors. Alban observed this cleric to be engaged in continual prayer and watching day and night and became impressed with his faith and teaching.
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The priest Amphibalus baptizing & teaching the people
Thus, following the inspirations of divine grace that was shining on him, he began to imitate the example of faith and piety that was set before him. Thus Alban determined to cast off the darkness of idolatry, and he became a Christian in all sincerity of heart.
After Amphibalus had been sheltered some days at that dwelling, it came to the ears of an impious prince that that a confessor of Christ was being concealed at Alban's house. Whereupon he sent some soldiers to make a strict search after him.
When they came to seize the priest, St. Alban himself, wearing the priest’s cloak and habit, came forth to the soldiers and presented himself to the soldiers in place of his guest. He was swiftly bound and led before the judge.
It happened that the judge, at the time when Alban was brought before him, was standing at the altar and offering sacrifice to devils. When the judge heard that Alban had offered himself up in place of the priest, he became enraged that Alban would shelter a person who despised and blasphemed the gods. Thus he ordered that Alban should endure all the punishments that were to be inflicted upon the priest unless he would comply with the pagan rites of their religion.
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Crowds of people witnessed the miracles & beheading of St. Alban
But St. Alban was not at all daunted by the judge's threats, but putting on the armor of spiritual warfare, publicly declared that he would not obey his command to sacrifice to idols because, he affirmed: "I worship and adore the true and living God who created all things."
Then the judge, filled with anger, said: “If you would enjoy the happiness of eternal life, do not delay to offer sacrifice to the great gods.”
Alban rejoined: “These sacrifices, which by you are offered to devils, neither can avail the worshippers nor fulfill the desires and petitions of the suppliants. Rather, whosoever shall offer sacrifice to these images shall receive the everlasting pains of Hell for his reward.”
The judge, hearing these words ordered that Alban be scourged by the executioners, believing that he might by stripes shake that constancy of heart, on which he could not prevail by words. But Alban, being most cruelly tortured, bore all with patience and even more, with joyful countenance for Our Lord's sake.
When the judge perceived that he was not to be overcome by tortures to put aside the practice of the Christian Religion, he ordered him to be put to death.
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The executioner is converted to see the river dry up on St. Alban’s request
On the way to the site of execution outside the town, he came to a fast flowing river that could not be crossed. There was a bridge but the multitude of persons who had been moved by divine inspiration to come witness the martyrdom of Alban made it impossible for him to pass over it.
St. Alban, therefore, urged by an ardent and devout wish to attain martyrdom sooner, drew near to the waters and lifted up his eyes to Heaven. Whereupon the river immediately dried up, thus making a way for him to pass.
The astonished executioner who was assigned to put him to death observed this, and moved doubtless by divine grace, cast down his sword which he had carried ready drawn. Falling at the feet of St. Alban, he prayed earnestly that he might rather be accounted worthy to suffer with the martyr whom he was ordered to execute or, if possible, in place of him.
The other executioners rightly hesitated to take up the sword lying on the ground. Meanwhile, the Holy Confessor, accompanied by the multitude, ascended a hill, which was adorned with flowers of many colors as a fittingly beautiful place to be consecrated by a martyr’s blood.
Reaching the summit of this hill, St. Alban began to thirst, and prayed that God would give him water. Immediately a spring sprang up at his feet. It was here that the head of the undaunted Martyr was struck off and here that he received the crown of life, which God has promised to them who love Him.
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The eyes of the executioner pop out his head
But the second executioner who delivered the fatal stroke was not permitted to rejoice over Alban’s dead body, for his eyes popped out of his head and dropped to the ground at the same moment as the Blessed Martyr's head fell.
Immediately afterward, the first executioner who had refused to strike Alban and prayed to join him was also beheaded. Of whom it is apparent that though he was not purified by the waters of Baptism, yet he was cleansed by the washing of his own blood, and rendered worthy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then the judge, astonished at the unwonted sight of so many heavenly miracles, ordered the persecution of the Christians to cease immediately, and began to honor the death of the saints.
The Blessed Alban suffered death on the 22nd day of June outside the city of Verulam, which is now by the English nation called Verulanium.
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| The Anselmianum Distances Itself From Its Own Professor, Andrea Grillo |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-26-2025, 03:59 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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The Anselmianum Distances Itself From Its Own Professor, Andrea Grillo
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gloria.tv | June 25, 2025
The Pontifical University Atheneum of Saint Anselm in Rome has distanced itself from Andrea Grillo, a layman and professor of sacramental theology at the university.
Grillo is believed to have played a key role in drafting Francis' document Traditionis Custodes.
On June 17, Grillo wrote on CittaDellaEditrice.com an article mocking Carlo Acutis for his veneration of the Blessed Sacrament: "Should this form of grave Eucharistic miseducation perhaps become, through Carlo who was its first victim, a model to propose to all young people? Are we seriously joking?"
On 23 June, Pro-Rector Father Laurentius Eschlböck OSB wrote on Anselmianum.com:
Quote:"We resolutely distance ourselves from what is individually expressed by professors who, in their personal capacity and under their sole and full responsibility, publish on their sites or blogs, theses, opinions or personal positions."
These positions "do not represent what is taught in the various faculties of our Athenaeum, which welcomes and transmits, in full trust and obedience of faith - in the perspective of a healthy dialectic on which true theological research is based - the teaching of the Church and the Roman Pontiff."
Father Eschlböck did not mention Grillo by name. Thus, the ridiculing of the Eucharist at the institution will continue.
See also the following from Rorate Caeli: His Own University is Now Against Him: Andrea Grillo, Francis' Liturgist and the Father of Traditionis Custodes, Hates the Eucharist and Must Have His Imprint Erased
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| Pope Leo appoints Cardinal Roche, same-sex ‘blessing’ supporters to Dicastery for Consecrated Life |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-25-2025, 07:48 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Pope Leo appoints Cardinal Roche, same-sex ‘blessing’ supporters to Dicastery for Consecrated Life
The new members include 5 cardinals – including Cardinal Arthur Roche – 5 bishops, 4 priests, 4 religious women, and one lay woman.
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Cardinals Spengler (L) and Roche ®
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Jun 24, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original article]) — Pope Leo XIV today appointed members to the Vatican office overseeing religious orders and the Latin Mass communities, including some cardinals who have opposed the traditional Mass and supported blessings for same-sex couples.
As outlined in the Holy See Press Office bulletin on June 24, Leo XIV appointed 19 new members to the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL).
The new members include five cardinals, five bishops, four priests, four religious woman and one lay woman.
Among the cardinals are certain notable figures, such as:
- Cardinal Arthur Roche: prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship under Pope Francis who led the late pontiff’s charge against the traditional Mass and enforced restrictions on it.
- Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero: Archbishop of Rabat who has supported blessings for same-sex couples in light of Fiducia Supplicans, adding that synodality is a “prophetic sign” for the world and that opponents of its decisions are “morally obligated to support” them.
- Cardinal Giorgio Marengo: the second youngest cardinal and the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, the Catholic territory encompassing Mongolia numbering around 1,000 Catholics.
- Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, famous for offering himself as a hostage exchange in 2023 and considered papabile in the May 2025 conclave.
- Cardinal Jaime Spengler: Archbishop of Porto Alegre and president of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil along with the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM). Spengler has given mixed messages about his support for the highly controversial Amazon rite while also supporting Fiducia Supplicans’ blessings for same-sex couples.
- Other non-cardinalatial appointments to the dicastery include male and female religious superiors, along with Luisa Muston, a lay woman who leads the secular institute called the Missionaries of the Infirm “Christ the Hope.”
It is quite normal for cardinals to be appointed to various offices of the Roman Curia, particularly so for those who are already working in the Curia or who have occasion to be in Rome more frequently.
On May 9, Pope Leo already requested all Curia leaders, members, and secretaries to remain temporarily in place until further notice, meaning that a notable number of cardinals are already members of the dicastery.
But the names nevertheless always contain significance and can highlight preferences identified by the reigning Pontiff for particular Roman offices.
Pizzaballa is perceived as a conservative member of the College of Cardinals, as is Marengo, while others named by the Pope today would align more with liberal or “moderate” sectors on varying issues.
Roche is already prominent and well known for his opposition to the traditional Mass.
But Spengler and Romero have gained less notoriety in the English-speaking world. Romero was raised to the episcopate by Pope Francis in 2018, made cardinal in 2019, and participated most recently in the Synod on Synodality.
After Fiducia Supplicans and the furor over blessing same-sex couples, Romero deviated from the Africa-wide rejection of the document led by Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, and later defended his position on the text when asked by this correspondent.
The document became one of the most hotly contested of Pope Francis’ pontificate, with many theologians and prelates calling on Pope Leo to issue a formal clarification of the text.
Spengler has also defended the text. In a 2023 interview, he commented that that Church “can’t deny” blessings on same-sex couples, adding that the Church must “meet every authentically human need.”
More uniquely, Spengler has been linked to the controversial “Amazon rite” of the liturgy. Created a cardinal in December, Spengler told LifeSiteNews in October that married deacons and priests may be a help for regions with few priests, adding that the Amazon rite and indigenous inculturation of the liturgy is taking place in Brazil.
He confirmed that the local Amazonian bishops were “speaking of the possibility of a specific rite for the Amazon region – this is a fact.” However he also sought to link back to the universal Church, noting that “on the other hand there is also something that says the following guidance: today in the Latin Church we have the Roman rite and the Roman rite must be inculturated in the different realities.”
Speaking to The Pillar around the consistory in December, Spengler downplayed the idea of an Amazon rite or of female deacons and married clergy. Such questions, he said, “require further study.”
Continuing, he stated:
Quote:I always like to say that there is a single rite in the [Latin] Church: The Roman rite and this rite needs to be and is called to be adapted to the different cultural realities. Creating the conditions for this adaptation requires, I believe, the best means for us to find the necessary means for inculturation to happen harmoniously. It’s not a question of bringing in a rite from outside to make reality adapt to it. Moreover, how many cultures are there in that reality?
Increasingly prominent Vatican office
For a long time, the DICLSAL has flown somewhat under the radar, apart for those keen to stay abreast of Vatican affairs. But under Pope Francis, it became increasingly prominent, especially due to the document Cor Orans and Vultum Dei Quaerere, which ushered in tighter Vatican control over religious life and has been widely – though often quietly – used against convents and religious orders noted for being too traditional for the liking of Roman officials.
In addition to restricting already existing groups, a 2022 Rescript via the dicastery prevented diocesan bishops from autonomously establishing any groups of the faithful looking to become religious institutes or societies in a move which was described as an attempt to prevent any new traditional communities from being formed.
Not least in the reasons for the dicastery’s newfound prominence is the highly controversial appointment by Pope Francis of a religious woman – Sister Simona Brambilla, M.C. – as the prefect, rather than a cardinal, earlier this year. In order to attempt to satisfy the canonical requirement necessary when signing documents or wielding authority, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime SDB was made the pro-prefect.
Since Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions contained within Traditionis Custodes, Sr. Brambilla’s dicastery has key responsibility for overseeing the orders that celebrate the traditional Mass such as the Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), Institute of Christ the King Soverign Priest (CKSP), and Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP).
The FSSP is currently undergoing an Apostolic Visitation from the dicastery after having a meeting in2022 with Pope Francis, who confirmed their constitutions and that they are exempt from the “general provisions” of Traditionis Custodes.
The arrival of a staunch anti-traditionalist figure such as Cardinal Roche to the dicastery will be key to observe what impact such an appointment has for the future of these traditional communities. It was only last year that Cardinal Gerhard Müller remarked that “a senior representative” from Roche’s office was dismayed to hear of the popularity of the Latin Mass Chartres pilgrimage, solely due to the traditional Mass being celebrated.
As of the past few weeks, the dicastery now has a female religious serving as secretary, a move welcomed by activists as a sign of continued female leadership in the Church under Leo.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: When Screens Replace Saints and Silence Replaces Shepherds |
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Posted by: Stone - 06-24-2025, 10:55 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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When Screens Replace Saints and Silence Replaces Shepherds
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | June 23, 2025
I’ve stepped back from the complete touchscreen world.
The iPhone is gone. In its place: a CAT S22 Flip Phone, basic and blessedly boring—yet powerful enough to let me install apps like NewPipe, where I can still listen to Fr. Hewko, Fr. Ruiz, +Archbishop Lefebvre, and St. Alphonsus. But gone are the rabbit holes. Gone are the distractions. Gone is the sin-soaked scroll of Babylon.
What replaced it?
Better sleep. Sharper thought. More silence. Deeper prayer.
This one small change has helped push The Catholic Trumpet from screen to street. Every Sunday, our remnant here prays 15 decades of the Holy Rosary publicly—in reparation for sin and for the one request from Heaven that remains scorned: the 1929 Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in union with all the bishops of the world. It has not been done. We will not stop praying until it is.
If you want to step back into sanity, I suggest the CAT S22 Flip. It’s about $130 CAD—and worth every cent if it saves you even one mortal sin.
But this is not just about phones.
It’s about war.
It’s about priests—good priests who are now silent. Priests who once resisted Vatican II, but now ignore the betrayal of the Neo-SSPX, or worse, justify it. Priests who once red-lighted compromise, but now look the other way while souls attend Novus Ordo Masses, indult Masses, and sedevacantist chapels.
It’s about bishops who once stood with Lefebvre, but now seem to stand for nothing.
It’s time to write them. Call them. Warn them.
The priests and two bishops left in the Neo-SSPX must return to the uncompromising position of +Archbishop Lefebvre. And the priests and bishops orbiting Bishop Williamson—whose “resistance” long ago fell silent—must be reminded that silence in the face of error is betrayal.
A resistance that resists nothing is not a resistance.
I now lean toward a better name: The True Assistance. Because it assists Modernist Rome through its silence. It assists the betrayal by doing nothing. It assists confusion by speaking in riddles while Rome burns.
Let us be honest: Bishop Williamson was once a lion. A voice for truth. But around 2013, the voice faltered. He began promoting alleged miracles in the Novus Ordo, softening his critique of the Neo-SSPX, tolerating indult, sedevacantist, and even Novus Ordo masses. The fire became a whisper. The resistance became an observation deck.
But this is not the time for observations.
This is the time for saints.
But if I’m being honest, there’s something deeper that’s been haunting me lately. A common denominator I keep seeing in Catholics who are sliding into compromise—good people, even priests—is this:
smartphone reliance, and use.
It’s become a kind of “necessary evil” for many. And in some cases, perhaps it is. But the real evil is that we’ve stopped calling it evil. We’ve stopped fighting it. We’ve stopped guarding our souls and our homes.
We are desensitized, addicted, distracted—and wide open to influence.
Even good Catholics spend hours scrolling, absorbing modernist moods, tolerating filth in the name of “information” or “balance.” And slowly, the fire fades. The clarity dims. The prayers shrink. The resistance dies.
I don’t take the puritan view that all technology is evil—there is good tech. But when nearly every major doorway into a Catholic’s home has become a glowing portal to sin, softness, compromise, and confusion, the line must be drawn.
This isn’t just my own opinion. One priest saw it long before the smartphone even existed. And his words have been ringing in my conscience like a thunderclap.
As Fr. Frank Poncelet warned:
Quote:“The priest… must come to an honest recognition of the primary avenue to the destruction of souls in his Catholic homes… the television set. And he must continually point out to his parishioners that acceptance of TV entertainment is simply not compatible with the Christian life of spirituality.”
“The disintegration of real Catholic culture has been a slow process begun two generations back… thanks to the constant depiction—in an entertainment mode—of immoral acts… now pass[ing] for commonplace… even among those claiming religious convictions.”
“We cannot hide from basic Catholic moral laws forever. And the sins that are most easily committed, and which involve most grievous matter, are also the sins most exploited on television—those against chastity and purity.”
The medium has changed.
But the evil is the same.
And we’ve grown far more silent.
If this doesn’t make priests, fathers, and faithful souls tremble—it should.
We can not be spectators in this war.
We must be soldiers.
We either resist, or we assist and cooperate.
We either pray publicly, or we betray silently.
We either speak the truth, or we assist the lie.
Choose the Rosary.
Reject the screen.
Contact the priests.
Confront the silence.
And never, ever compromise.
✠ A. Mari Servus
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