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the Seraphim"

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over and over again! ” - H.S.,  Toronto

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Lunacy: Church Bells to Ring out "Warning" on Climate Change

The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming.

New Fatima Film

Review of The 13^th Day

By John Vennari

In the spring of this year, I saw the riveting trailer for The 13^th Day, and looked forward to its release with great anticipation.  I recently viewed the movie itself. The film is good, though there are some aspects I found disappointing...

Vatican II and the
Components of Liberal
Catholicism – A Review

by Michal Semin

"The eight-part series of talks, presented by John Vennari, explains not only the principles of liberal Catholicism, but also makes clear that what we face today as the postconciliar reform and new orientation is nothing else than their triumphant reincarnation.”

Pope Benedict's Recent Interreligious Prayer Gathering

A five-minute video from the Vatican (on YouTube)
apparently from the Pope's recent trip to the Holy Land.
Pope Benedict participates in interreligious prayer.
 

Originally on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KORUSKocCPg

SSPX Bishop de Galarreta Foresees  "Years of Discussion"
 

Abortionist-in-Chief at Notre Dame
 

Articles on Obama at Notre Dame
Allen Keyes Arrest, etc.

Action Alert: Tell Your Senator
Why He Should Oppose Hate Crime Legislation

Please pray for the repose of the soul of a dear friend of Catholic Family News,
Father Laszlo Juhasz, S.J.
Father Juhasz was a little-known
traditional priest who died this
morning (May 7) at 1:30 am.

Bishop Fellay Calls
for New Rosary Crusade
(Spring 2009 Letter to Friends and Benefactors)

 • Twelve Million Rosaries by March, 2010
     - for next stage of discussions with Rome
     - for the proper Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Interview with Bishop Fellay
video

PART II now on line!

During an interview given at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary on Palm Sunday April 5, 2009, the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X addresses questions regarding Bishop Williamson, the current and possible future situation of the SSPX. etc. 

Senate to Pass Hate Crimes
Bill as Amendment
"Senate leadership has decided to pass hate crimes legislation as an amendment to another bill instead of a standalone piece of legislation, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Trevor Thomas, an HRC spokesperson, told the Blade in a statement Monday that the Senate settled on this method of passage." (click here)

(Comment: It seems the Senate wants to
avoid public debate of this "Pedophile Protection Act")

The GM Threat
By Bernadette Vesco

“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people.” - Henry Kissinger

Christmas Pastoral Letter
of Archbishop Hayes

Editor’s note: In this beautiful and hard-hitting 1921 pastoral, New York’s Archbishop Hayes treats of Christmas; the Holy Family; Christian Family life; and the evils of contraception and divorce. Oh for the days when an American Bishop would speak like this.  Click here
  

Who Owns Christmas?
A Santa Fe Memory

By Edwin Faust
  "The day was like most days, except that it was Christmas Eve. I was due at work in a few hours at The Quick Bite, where I was a short-order cook, and the prospect impressed upon me how dismal my life had become. There would be no Christmas cheer at The Quick Bite, which was owned by Sheldon..." (click here)

Planned Parenthood President Furious at Bush's "Conscience Protection" for Pro-Life Health Care Workers
by Steve Ertelt

“Frankly, I'm livid,” said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. “Even with a new president and administration coming in soon, this won't be easy to fix. It's going to take more than a simple signature to reverse it..." (click here)

Outgoing Bush Administration Enacts Conscience Protection for Pro-Life Health Care Workers - Can Refuse to Participate in Abortion

Rule goes into effect on Inauguration Day

By John-Henry Westen
 
The right of federally funded health care providers to decline to participate in services to which they object, such as abortion, is affirmed by a final regulation that has been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is on display today at the Federal Register.  Of note, the timing of the issuance places the day it is to take effect on January 20th - the same day pro-abortion President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama will be inaugurated.  (click here)

Sarah Palin and Contraception

By John Vennari

            It is rare to see Pat Buchanan enthused over a Republican candidate, but he is certainly enthused about Sarah Palin... (click here)

Bishop Fellay Contests Transalpine Statement Regarding Supplied Jurisdiction for Religious Superiors

"I can affirm to you that we never had any problem in justifying our jurisdiction or the one used in the various religious Congregations of Tradition."

go to www.cfnews.org/Fellay-SuplJurs.htm

More Ecumenism:
Pope Benedict to Kick Off Interfaith
Reading of Bible on Italian TV

Benedict's Ecumenical Opening
to Pauline Year

On the June "Ultimatium" to SSPX

Modernism in the works…

Vatican’s Working Document for Synod
Undermines Inerrancy of Sacred Scripture

By John Vennari

            On June 12 the Vatican released its “Instrumentum laboris” (working document) for the upcoming October Synod of Bishops.
            The document entitled “The Word of God in the Life and the Mission of the Church” contains a disturbing section that appears to undermine the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture.
              Go to www.cfnews.org/SynodScripture.htm

Benedict XVI defends
memory of Pius XII

Pope Benedict XVI strongly defended the memory of
Pope Pius XII on October 9, as he celebrated Mass
in the Vatican basilica for the 50th anniversary
of the wartime Pontiff's death.
 

Mandatory Homosexual Indoctrination in
Grade School Survives after
Supreme Court Turns Down Case

By Kathleen Gilbert

     After mounting a ferocious battle to preserve traditional marriage values, David Parker could only watch helplessly as the United States Supreme Court left intact a lower court ruling that allowed Massachusetts schools to promote homosexuality in the classroom without telling parents or allowing them to opt out....

Rabbi Bashes
Pius XII at Synod

First Rabbi ever to address a Synod of Bishops trumpets
his opposition to the Beatifcation of Pope Pius XII

"The first Jew to address a Vatican synod told the gathering yesterday Jews "cannot forgive and forget" that some major religious leaders during the Second World War did not speak out against the Holocaust. Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen's words, spoken in the presence of Pope Benedict, were a clear reference to Pius XII, the wartime pope who many Jews say did not do enough to help them

"We oppose the beatification of Pius XII. We cannot forget his silence on the Holocaust," Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the Grand Rabbi of Haifa, told the daily La Stampa.

“At least five members of the
audience walked out”
Bishop Soto stuns national
homosexual ministries conference
"For this reason, it is sinful..."

The Fall of the
Phantom Assets:
Economic Autumn 2008

By Peter Chojnowski, Ph.D.

Editor Note: We are indebted to Dr. Peter Chojnowski who gives a brief, comprehensive treatment of the seemingly impenetrable complexity of the current economic chaos.

Pope Benedict Calls Latin Mass
Motu Proprio "An Act of Tolerance"

“There is no opposition at all between the liturgy approved by Vatican II and the liturgy celebrated according to the old rite,” the pope said. 

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The Ottaviani Intervention
A Short Critical Study of the New Ordo of Mass

"The Novus Ordo Missae ... represents both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent."

Paul VI with Protestant Ministers
Who helped create the New Mass

Paul VI’s contribution to the Church
becoming increasingly evident,
Benedict says
 

September 3 - Feast of Pope St. Pius X
The Greatest Pope of the 20th Century!

Two Saints of the Eucharist:
Tarsicius and Pius X

by Susan Vennari

When I was eight years old, I fell in love. The boy was not much older than I was; I first read about him, or maybe someone told me about him. His name was "Tarsicius" -- Saint Tarsicius, and he became my dearest friend. How those few words I learned about him burned in my heart. Tarsicius, the boy- saint of the early days of the Church.  

Fatima and
Russia’s New War

By John Vennari

          No student of the true Message of Fatima is surprised by the war now erupting between Georgia and Russia. For over twenty-four years since Pope John Paul II’s consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1984, Father Nicholas Gruner’s Fatima Crusader, and other concerned Catholics (including CFN), have insisted that Russia has not converted and we still await the period of peace promised by Our Blessed Mother. - go to www.cfnews.org/RussiaWar.htm

World Youth Day 2008

Aboriginal Dance at Pope's Closing Mass

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Pope Gives Communion to those kneeling
and on the tongue only

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 Heavy metal, acid jazz, reggae, rap, Gospel,
Afro-Caribbean, Gregorian Chants and Christian rock
- hear it all at World Youth Day

once again, WYD lives up to its sordid reputation.

... simultaneously  ...

Inside the  Vatican reports Pope willl administer
Communion at WYD to communicants kneeling
and on-the-tongue only. Click here.

OUTRAGEOUS!
Learn what World Youth Day is really like and
then decide if you want to send your youngster!

to order DVD, go to http://www.cfnews.org/WYD.htm

 On YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPNomC8ON08

Thoughts on the recent papal visit

 The Kingdom of God
vs. the Civilization of Love

by John Vennari

"Post-conciliar Church leaders have succeeded in creating new categories that eclipse true categories established by 2000 years of Catholic teaching..."

Bishop Fellay at Ridgefield
February 17 2008
A summary by Denis Giannelli

Tradition • Motu Proprio • New Good Friday Prayer

go to www.cfnews.org/Fellay-Ridgefield.htm

The New
Good Friday Prayer

Ecumenical Chapel at St. Paul Outside the Walls

“Ecumenism is the Enemy
of the Immaculata” - St. Maximilian Kolbe

by John Vennari

    The Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls will open an ecumenical chapel where non-Catholic religions may perform their own liturgies and prayer services. The initiative is part of the Pauline year to begin in June, 2008. Sadly, the opening of the chapel has every indication of being part of Pope Benedict XVI’s ecumenical program that he urged upon his newly-created Cardinals in the consistories of both March 2006 and November 2007.

 Vital Organ Transplantation
and “Brain Death”
A Re-Examination of the
Basic Issues by Dr. Paul A. Byrne

"In 1968, an ad hoc committee was formed at Harvard University in Boston for the purpose of redefining death so that vital organs could be taken from persons declared “brain dead,” but who in fact, were not dead."

ARTICLES:

Kobler’s Key to the Council

Book review by Paul Zarowny, Ph.D

“I take Kobler to be a 'friendly witness' for the traditionalists’ case regarding the problems of Vatican II.  I think he is correct in his interpretation of the Council documents.  His identification of the role Husserl’s phenomenological reduction played in the writing of the documents provides a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the supposed 'ambiguities' in the texts.  His presumption that the Council was convened as a reaction to the Cold War places it in its proper historical context.”

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A Colossal Monument
to Diabolic Disorientation

 The new Church of the Holy Trinity opened at Fatima on October 12, the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun. It is a project conceived and completed by Shrine Rector Luciano Guerra, the man who permitted Hindus to worship at the Catholic altar at Fatima in 2004.

Three New Stories on Third Secret:
 

September 24 Newsflash
Vatican Bodyguards Rough Up
Socci and Paolini
Bertone Refuses any Challenge
regarding the Third Secret
By John Vennari

• • •
September 18, 2007
Declaration
of Dr. Solideo Paolini 

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Special Expanded Report
My Meetings with Archbishop
Capovilla and the Socci-Cardinal
Bertone Struggle
by Solideo Paolini
from speech given in Brazil

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The Latin Mass Motu Proprio:
To Tell the Truth
by John Vennari

A commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of the new document

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   House Passes Hate Crime Bill on May 3
White House Threatons Veto
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Cardinal Bertone's TV Interveiw Raises More Questions about the Third Secret

by John Vennari

"Socci points out that even though he — Socci — was the 'target' of the program; he was not invited to participate in the on-air questioning of the Cardinal. 'Above all', says Socci, 'he avoided my challenges. He didn’t give a single answer.' In fact the Cardinal inadvertently demonstrated that there is still a text of the Secret kept hidden."

Why does the Anti-Defamation League Support Pro-Gay “Hate Crimes” Legislation?

By John Vennari

  The Jewish Anti-Defamation League fiercely supports Hate Crime Legislation to give homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites and cross-dressers special protection that even children and the elderly do not enjoy.  Why? The answer comes from an unlikely source!
 

In his papal constitution Auctorem fidei, Pope Pius VI condemned the rejection of Limbo as "false, rash, scandalous to Catholic Schools".

Limbo to be Cast into the Outer Darkness?

by John Vennari

On April 20, 2007, the Vatican announced that it is discounting the doctrine of Limbo, saying that it is a too "restrictive view of salvation". The modernist falsehood now propounded about Limbo defies traditional Catholic doctrine, as is explained in the following article written on the subject last year.

The Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist
Ever in Search
of the New Synthesis

by John Vennari

"More Latin in the New Mass, tabernacle in central location in churches, inculturation, limited intercommunion with Protestants — these are just some of the proposals Pope Benedict XVI offers in Sacramentum Caritatis, the newly released Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist."

Intelligent Design:
Proof of Creation
by Michael A Denk

Written by a Grade 12 Catholic home-schooled student who has nutured a keen interest in biology from his early years.

Perseverance in Prayer
A story of 11th hour conversion

Post-Conciliar Vatican Finally
Tells the Truth About Pro Multis

by John Vennari

"...though we recognize the justice of this long-overdue correction, we cannot lose sight of the bigger picture. ...  Most Catholics forget that the Church throughout the centuries has always frowned upon an all-vernacular Roman Rite liturgy.

Hundreds Gather in Anaheim California for Conference on Traditional Mass

  On Saturday November 4, an outstanding conference was held in Anaheim, California entitled “Liturgy and Sanity — The Catholic Mass and the Order of the New World (Old and New)." featuring three prominent Catholic priests who are dedicated to the Tridentine Mass, to the exclusion of the Novus Ordo: Father Stephen Somerville, Father Paul Kramer, and Father Patrick Perez... (READ FULL REPORT - AUDIO LECTURES OF CONFERENCE NOW AVAILABLE)

Hindu "Mass" Sparks
Violent Altercation in
Toronto Churchyard

by Cornelia Ferreira

"George’s eyes were glazing over. The 'Indian Rite of Mass' was in full swing at St. Ann’s Church in Toronto on Sunday, July 2, 2006, and he felt he was being hypnotized by the endless monotonous chants and the flowing hand movements of the Indian dancing girls..."

A Charismatic Weekend
at Steubenville
"Fusion Catholicism"

 by John Vennari

"It was Saturday night at Franciscan University of Steubenville
and all around the gymnasium, bodies were dropping to the floor..."

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"Catholic" Pentecostalism:
Grown in the Garden of Heresy

by John Vennari

A companion piece to the "Steubenville Weekend". Explains where "Cathoilc Pentecostalism" came from and why it is abhorrent to the Catholic Faith.

“Where is the New Theology Leading Us?”
by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.

The classic 1946 article that warned the "New Theology" of de Lubac and others is heading straight back to Modernism. This modernist "New Theology" became the "official theology of Vatican II."

Pilate’s Silver:
Josephus’ Account of the Passion

"If we were to attempt to find an extra-biblical historical source to confirm the happenings described in the Gospels, there is certainly none better than that of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37–100 A.D.)"

Mother Teresa "Beatified"
with Idolatrous Rites

Horrific! Demonstrates the insanity of "Inculturation"!

Report on Bishop Fellay's
Ordination Sermon

Comments on present relationship with Rome,
Winona: June 22, 2006

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"...there is no idea, no thought in our heads of making any kind of compromise. It's nonsense. There is nothing to compromise. There is nothing to negotiate; we can not negotiate the Faith." - Bishop Fellay

Catholics and Lutherans
Prepare to Commemorate 2017
Fifth Centenary of the Protestant Revost

 by John Vennari

What would Pope Saint Pius V say?

 

Documents Put Americans on Notice: Iraq is Just the Beginning

by Gary Potter

Two important documents that surfaced in March 2006 — "The Israel Lobby" and "'The National Security Strategy " — indicate that America may be in for a long war.

 

Catholic Shrines and Pilgrimages
Worldwide to be Ecumenized
by John Vennari

"The new program for shrines and pilgrimages, on the days it is enacted, will force ecumenism into the faces of Catholics who still visit Catholic Shrines for a Catholic motive and with a Catholic mindset. This violation of the faithful is a further rape of the Church by that smiling beast named aggiornamento."

Where Do Rome and
the Neo-Catechumenal Way
Stand in 2006?
By Mark Alessio

Is it true that Rome is "cracking down" on the
Neo-Catechumenal Way?
"Hardly!" says former
NCW member, Mark Alessio.

EWTN: Vehicle of Neo-Modernism

A Catholic Family News interview with Christopher Ferrara on his new book, EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong

Note: this is an external link to the book's "Network Gone Wrong" webpage

A Review of
EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong
By Edwin Faust

 "I recall the first time I tuned in to EWTN, late at night and quite by accident..."

 On Rome and the
Society of Saint Pius X

A Joint Statement from
The Remnant and Catholic Family News

by Michael J. Matt & John Vennari

 Rumors and more rumors now ricochet throughout the press and internet about present negotiations between Rome and the Society of Saint Pius X...

 

Communion in the Hand
is a Sacrilege

Posted by request of numerous subscribers

 

An Interview with Bishop Williamson
of the Society of Saint Pius X

In a recent 30 Days interview, (No. 9, 2005), Vatican Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, admitted that the Society of Saint Pius X is not in formal schism, and that the Latin Tridentine Mass was never abolished. Then on December 8, Una Voce of Italy published that Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, had a confidential five-hour meeting with Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos at the Vatican in late November. Catholic Family News Editor, John Vennari, contacted Bishop Richard Williamson, Rector of Nuestra Senora Corredentor Seminary in Argentina, for his comments.

An interview with Bishop Williamson on

Pope Benedict XVI’s
Christmas Address to the Curia

On December 22 of last year, Pope Benedict XVI gave a Christmas greeting address to members of the Roman Curia at the Vatican. Given the possible importance of the address, CFN asked Bishop Richard Williamson of the Society of Saint Pius X for his thoughts and analysis. In light of these remarks, Bishop Williamson briefly comments on the present negotiations with Rome.

"I Have Handed on
What I Have Received"
On the Biography of
Marcel Lefebvre
by John Vennari

November 29, 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Lefebvre. Read more about this remarkable man to whom all traditional Catholics are indebted.
 

Interview with
Father Paul Sretenovic
Conducted by Thomas A Droleksy, Ph.D.

The second part of a s erioes of interviews
with four priests who have abandoned
the Novus Ordo to embrace Catholic Traditiona
without compromise.

Pope Benedict XVI

A Commentary

by John Vennari

“Will his pontificate be one of restoration of Tradition, or
will it be yet another post-Conciliar papacy of the New Theology?
His track record up to now would indicate the latter…”

Vatican II vs. the Unity
Willed by Christ
by John Vennari

Demonstrates that the architects of Vatican II puposely worded the Vatican II documents in such a way as to open wide the doors for the new, pan-religouis ecumenical orientation. A young Father Joseph Ratzinger in 1966 happily admitted that the groundwork for ecumenism was laid in the Council document Lumen Gentium.

Will Seminary Document
Stay Straight?
by John Vennari

Right-thinking Catholics had hoped that the new Directive would contain the same sort of unambiguous ban against homosexuals in the seminaries as did the 1961 Vatican Instruction. It appears that this may not be the case. If the new document contains the “three-year” clause, then the Vatican has left the door open for homosexuals to continue to be admitted to Catholic seminaries.
 

The "Bible Alone" is Not Enough!
Answers to 25 questions on the History of the New Testament
which complete refustes the Protestant "Bible Only" Theory.
 

Karl Rahner's Girlfriend

Father Karl Rahner, the progressivist Jesuit who set the direction for the Second Vatican Council carried on a secret 22-year romance with German writer Luise Rinser.

Ecumenical Archbishop Levada to
Head Sacred Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith 

by John Vennari

" The secular press repeatedly calls Archbishop Levada a doctrinal conservative, but this is not true. Levada is a man of Vatican II, an enthusiast for ecumenism and interreligious practice. He would have been condemned for his words and actions had he said and done them under Cardinal Ottaviani, his predecessor of the Holy Office."

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