Published Article: Attendance of Traditional Latin Mass
strongly correlated with Stronger Belief in the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament



Pontifical Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia

Quote:Catholics who attend a parish that offers Mass in Latin (versus those who do not) report moderately stronger belief in the Real Presence. This effect is stronger if the participant has ever attended the TLM. It seems likely that a priest who celebrates the NO Mass will incorporate more traditional Eucharistic-focused liturgical practices if he also offers the TLM at other times. Anecdotally, I once observed a NO Mass where parishioners received at an altar rail on the tongue: it was while visiting a parish that offers both the NO and TLM. Thus, even if one does not attend the TLM at their parish (instead attends the NO service), they may nevertheless participate in the more Eucharistic-focused behaviors prescribed by the TLM, which may account for stronger Real Presence belief.

Participants who had attended a TLM could share their impressions of it. The majority of responses were positive, with comments about its beauty and reverence. Those who gave positive comments tended to have stronger Real Presence beliefs. Replicating past work (Gray and Perl 2008; Lindemann 2024; Real Presence Coalition 2024; Vinea 2024), participants who attended Mass more often showed stronger belief in the Real Presence, as did those who were more politically conservative (Lindemann 2024). No other demographic predicted Eucharistic belief.

No surprise here...

Study finds priests aligned with Pope Francis are more likely to approve of sodomy
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Quote:I have come to a decision for the good of the Church of Monterey not to request a dispensation from the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for the celebration of the pre-conciliar Mass at Sacred Heart Parish church.

In unity with the Holy Father’s motu proprio. I have directed Fr. Stephen Akers to cease celebration of the pre-conciliar Mass in Hollister as of October 13, 2025.

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No one is surprised that once again a post Conciliar pope, who has consistently affirmed his allegiance to Vatican II, talks in a Vatican II-esque manner. Yet there are still those who are clutching their pearls that this is once again happening and use it as a reason to embrace sedevacantism.

As a reminder, the excellent articles by SiSiNoNo cataloguing the worst of the Vatican II errors is invaluable in understanding that the errors of the post Conciliar popes are not unique to them. They are 'simply' acting upon and expanding upon the tenets of Vatican II.

One of many examples where Vatican II would appear to support what Pope Leo says, is taken from The Errors of Vatican II:

Quote:Vatican II sports an erroneous concept of Sacred Tradition as a complex of teaching, thanks to which as the centuries succeed one another, the Church constantly moves forward toward the fullness of divine truth until the words of God reach their complete fulfillment in her (Dei Verbum§8).

This is to make it sound as though Tradition, which guards the deposit of faith from the time of the Apostles' preaching, does not already possess "the fullness of divine truth!" In the reading of the above, one is led to believe there might be something else to be added or that what is already there can be modified.

This idea of the Church being in "incessant tension" with the "fullness of divine truth" openly contradicts the Church's idea of the "deposit of faith" (I Tim. 6:20). In turn, this error is connected to "subjectivism"-the signature of modern thinking-typified by the "New Theology," of which the reigning idea is that everything is always moving in a continual upward progression, and that absolute truth does not exist, rather, only the endless tending of a subject toward a truth whose endpoint is himself.

Further, Vatican II teaches the incredible assertion, contrary to common sense, that all of Tradition, should be subjected to a "continual reform." Thus if, in various times and circumstances, there have been deficiencies in moral conduct or in church discipline, or even in the way that church teaching has been formulated-to be carefully distinguished from the deposit of faith itself-these can and should be set right at the opportune moment (UR §6; Gaudium et Spes [hereafter GS] §62). This last statement, proclaimed in the vernacular version of John XXIII's October 11, 1962 Inaugural Address and which Pope Paul VI confirmed to the letter, is a principle condemned by St. Pius X (Pascendi §11; Lamentabili§§63,64} and Pius XII (Humani Generis).

Leo XIV publicly doubts Catholic teaching on sexual morality and the immutability of dogma
Leo's idea that 'attitudes' must be changed before doctrine can sheds new light on the recent events in the Vatican.



Pope Leo XIV is seen for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8, 2025.
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Quote:People want the Church doctrine to change, want attitudes to change. I think we have to change attitudes before we ever change doctrine.

Quote:I find it highly unlikely, certainly in the immediate future, that the Church’s doctrine in terms of what the Church teaches about sexuality, what the Church teaches about marriage [will change].

Quote:I think that the Church’s teaching will continue as it is, and that’s what I have to say about that for right now.

Quote:What the synod had spoken about specifically was the ordination, perhaps, of women deacons, which has been a question that’s been studied for many years now. There’ve been different commissions appointed by different popes to say, what can we do about this? I think that will continue to be an issue.

Quote:Just one small example. Earlier this year, when there was the Jubilee for Permanent Deacons, so obviously all men, but their wives were present. I had the catechesis one day with a fairly large group of English-speaking permanent deacons. The English language is one of the groups where they are better represented because there are parts of the world that never really promoted the permanent deaconate, and that itself became a question: Why would we talk about ordaining women to the diaconate if the diaconate itself is not yet properly understood and properly developed and promoted within the church?

Quote:I am certainly willing to continue to listen to people. There are these study groups; the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which has responsibility for some of those questions, they continue to examine the theological background, history, of some of those questions, and we’ll walk with that and see what comes.

Quote:I at the moment don’t have an intention of changing the teaching of the Church on the topic. I think there are some previous questions that have to be asked.

Quote:For the holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles.

Quote:That meaning of the sacred dogmas is ever to be maintained… there must never be any abandonment of this sense under the pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding.