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Francis's Vatican News reported that Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin in a interview said that Apostolic Nuncios  cannot “criticize the Pope," quoting Francis, and must "maintain unity" which appears to be a implicit threat: "Regarding the part of his speech in which the Pope said a nuncio is called to be a 'man of God', a representative of the Church and of the Pontiff, thus it is inherently incompatible with his mission to 'criticize the Pope , write blogs or join groups that are hostile to the Pope and to the Church', Cardinal Parolin said there can never be a total uniformity of thought, and that there are issues that need to be discussed as upheld by the ancient axiom that says   in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas ("unity in necessary things; freedom in doubtful things; love in all things")." "... At the same time, he said, ' we must try to maintain unity , which is th...

Jesus is God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, Three Persons yet One God, is the greatest mystery of the Catholic faith which is beyond wonder. Jesus choose to save us from our sins so we can have eternal happiness with Him by coming to us through the Holy Family which is another wonder of wonders. Fr. Andrew Doze, a chaplain at Lourdes, on reflecting on these wonders wrote: "St. John of the Cross [wrote]... 'God grants her [Mary] the favor of attaining to being deiform and united in the Most Holy Trinity, wherein she becomes God by participation, how is it a thing incredible that she should perform her work of understanding, knowledge and love in the Trinity, together with It, like the Trinity Itself, by a mode of participation, which God effects in the soul Itself?'"9 "It pleased God that Joseph should be the first to have experienced these wonders in Mary. As for us, it is in Joseph and Mary that we are called to experience them." (Sa...

The Urban Dictionary defines Satan's minions as: "A person spreading evil on small and large scale, bending people towards tempting tasks" "That's the guy who taught me how masturbate and showed porn, a true satan's minion he is." The thought that the minions of Francis are like Satan's minions came to me when Fr. Thomas Reese promoted the big lie that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is "disgraced" for exposing Francis's sex abuse cover-ups. Anyone who has studied Francis's career knows he has a problem with lying and Reese is following in his footsteps "spreading evil on small and large scale[s]." Jesus said Satan "was a murderer from the beginning.... When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature for he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8, 44) One of Francis's most faithful minion Reese following in the footsteps of "the father of lies" stated in a 2009 debate the big lie th...

The Gay Star News which according to Wikipedia "went live with the backing of investors: Goldman Sachs, PwC and [the] National Australia Bank" said: "And the question is, if we see a statement on decriminalization of homosexuality or blessing of same-sex civil unions, is it worth... how we educate Catholics on trans issues." "Progressive Catholic groups hope Francis will not make that sacrifice." (Gay Star News (GSN), "Will Pope Francis sacrifice trans lives in exchange for gay sex progress?" June 13, 2019) The article which reported it had "Vatican insider" sources divulged that the GSN "exclusively revealed in March" that Francis's "Vatican was planning to make its biggest LGBTI rights statement in history." But, the homosexual news site speculated that a Benedict XVI's anti-sodomy essay at least temporarily stopped Francis's attempt to betray Catholic moral teachings by promoting a sin that ...

Canon 212's Frank Walker is exactly what is needed in our effeminate Francis Church. He is a crusty character with a heart of gold. He is a St. Jerome for our time. The Okie Traditionalist apparently is a good man even though, today, he broadsided Walker. The Okie speaks much truth, but he seems like many in the Church who prefer to whine instead of acting against the evils in the Church. He complained: "Frankly (pun intended), I'm at a loss why much of the headlines are now written with added editorial flavor of a polemical and snarky tone .  Which I get doing about some headlines here and there, to leave your own mark on the story, but not most unless the theme of Canon 212 has changed from being an unbiased presentation of the news to a satirical editorial. Which would be fine that change has not been officially stated.   Or am I off in seeing a shift??" "... I've wondered how Frank keeps all the details arranged in his mind every day to organ...

On Thursday night, the Catholic Monitor posted 5 dubia questions for One Peter Five publisher Steve Skojec to answer and like Francis he has refused to answer. Also, on Thursday, Skojec was banned from posting in the Monitor comment section until he allowed a free forum for debate on these dubia questions on the One Peter Five website comment section. As far as we can see, there is still no freedom to debate at that website, but a priest and others banned there as well as a Italian canon law expert and supporters of Skojec (one of the 1P5 publisher supporters is a well known blogger) have been carrying on a debate for two days that still continues. It is beautiful to see honest debate. Today in the debate, Jonathan D'Souza posted a "Dubia for Benedict." Please go to the post before this to read it. I loved the idea so here are the Catholic Monitor's 5 dubia questions for Benedict XVI. But, before we get to the dubia questions, I want to say that I totally...

Here are five really short and easy to answer dubia questions which hopefully aren't too complicated for Steve Skojec, publisher of the One Peter Five website, to answer. To make it really easy for the publisher of One Peter Five it has been formatted so that he only has to answer: yes or no. 1. Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales said "The Pope... when he is explicitly a heretic... the Church must either deprive him or as some say declare him deprived of his Apostolic See." Was St. Francis de Sales a Sedevacantist or a Benevacantist? Answer: yes or no. 2. "Universal Acceptance" theologian John of St. Thomas said "This man in particular lawfully elected and accepted by the Church is the supreme pontiff." Was John of St. Thomas for saying "the supreme pontiff" must be BOTH "lawfully elected and accepted by the Church" a Sedevacantist or a Benevacantist? Answer: yes or no. 3. Do you think that a "supreme pontiff...

The Catholic Monitor received this request in the comment section from Steve Skojec, publisher of the website One Peter Five, to "feel free to post our entire correspondence" on our give-and take: Please feel free to post our entire correspondence, Fred. I think the context would be informative for your readers, if you're done self-aggrandizing. [ http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-dare-skojec-to-counter-bp-gracida-and.html?m=1 ] I, also, received a request from a new Catholic Monitor reader to give the whole background of the "tit for tat" between Skojec and the Monitor. I will post the latest correspondence between the One Peter Five publisher and the Monitor after the whole story is told about the give-and take which started in the beginning of this year: The Catholic Monitor received a third comment from the former public relations and (apparent) semantics expert OnePeterFive publisher Steve Skojec that was puzzling. But before I respon...