under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic By the rivers of Babylon there
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THE MORAL ISSUE ON VACCINATION: ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT JUSTIFICATION BY THE SSPXWe respond to a further offering from the US website of the SSPX endeavouring to justify the unjustifiable. more AUSTRALIA'S BISHOPS' CRISIS OF LOYALTY - PART IIThere is another, and more insidious, reason why Australia's bishops moved to suppress the Statement upholding the Church's teachings in faith and morals by some 75 of their priests. more AUSTRALIA'S BISHOPS' CRISIS OF LOYALTYMany of Australia's Catholics became aware of an initiative taken by six priests from different dioceses around the country on September 14th, 2021, to publish a statement of Catholic principle respecting the issues confronting the faithful in their care as a result of the current viral crisis. One may gather that they had been driven to the task by the signal failure of Australia's bishops to provide necessary leadership. On the morning of September 22nd, the morning, it will be recalled, when Australia suffered her biggest earthquake since settlement by the British in the 18th Century, the bishops intervened and quashed the priests' initiative. Why? more THE SSPX AND COVID-19 VACCINATIONSThis article replaces the Commentary on the Opinion of Fr Selegny published on this website on May 17th. It refines the argument against the position advocated by Fr Selegny and posted as representing that of the Society. It addresses certain issues raised in discussions with a member of the Society. more PENALISING THE UNVACCINATEDIs the State entitled to punish those who refuse to embrace vaccination with the Covid-19 vaccines on offer by limiting their rights to access to services generally available to the public? more DEAR ARCHBISHOP FISHERWe publish here a letter from the writer to Anthony Fisher, Archbishop of Sydney, in response to a Pastoral Letter to his bishops and clergy urging them to undertake vaccination against the Covid-19 virus. We have advised the Archbishop that we will publish any response to the letter he may care to send. more THE SCHISMATIC POPEA schismatic act is an act against the unity of the Church. Whether Pope Francis is a heretic remains open to debate. But Traditionis Custodes proves he is a formal schismatic, for his motu proprio attacks the unity of the Church. more TRADITIONIS CUSTODESThe clue to a right interpretation of Pope Francis’s motu proprio, which endeavours to stifle the Roman Rite of Mass laid down by Pope Pius V, lies in its title. more THE TROUBLE WITH SUMMORUM PONTIFICUMThere is agitation abroad among orthodox Catholics over what Pope Francis may attempt to do to Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum. This analysis of Pope Pius V’s Bull Quo primum (1570) may relieve their concerns. The lesson it teaches is this: put not your trust in Pope Benedict, and even less in his successor! more THE INFINITE DIGNITY OF THE PERSON—AN ANSWER TO ROBERTO DE MATTEIItalian Professor of History, Roberto de Mattei, has published a long screed defending the use of vaccines tainted by cells taken from aborted children. This is our answer. more THE MORALITY OF VACCINES DERIVED FROM CELLS OF ABORTED CHILDRENThis paper addresses the vexed question set forth in the title. It invokes the authority of five of the Church’s bishops and the theologian Don Pietro Leone in support of a negative answer. It provides reasons why Catholics cannot rely on advice emanating from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.The paper has been amended slightly to clear up the point whether a vaccine may be morally licit that uses cells derived from an aborted child in its testing phase only. more THE STATUS OF THE NOVUS ORDO MISSAEA recent discovery of tapes of the late Fr Gregory Hesse S.T.D., S.J.D. has precipitated this addendum to the arguments against the novus ordo rite of celebration of Mass. Previous papers on this website attacked the rite through its effects. This paper looks at its causes and finds them bereft of any legitimacy. This paper was published in February 2021. We have amended it on the advice of Dr Peter Kwasniewski to include the argument of Fr Hesse that the fact that three of Pius V’s successors endorsed, and did not replace, his Bull demonstrates that they agreed with his assertion that Quo primum was irreformable. more THE VACCINES & THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DOUBLE EFFECTThis is a technical paper which weighs tainted vaccines against moral principle. more WOMEN IN DEFENCE…The following is a link to the authoritative article (cited by Don Pietro Leone) by 86 women around the world opposing any use of vaccines that rely in any way on elements of the bodies of aborted children—https://edwardpentin.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/STATEMENT-The-Voice-of-Women-in-Defense-of-Unborn-Babies-and-in-Opposition-to-Abortion-tainted-Vaccines-WORD-DOC.pdf GOVERNANCE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIAThis is a criticism of the Response of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to a 200 page report by a team, consisting mainly of lay people, on ‘the future governance of the Catholic Church in Australia’. It reflects not so much on the Catholic Church as on its counterfeit, ‘the Synodal church of Vatican II’, established after the close of the Council, of which our bishops are functionaries. The inability to distinguish their conduct as bishops from their conduct as functionaries of this counterfeit will lead inevitably to harm to the Church and the Catholic faithful. more
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