Monthly Archive: February 2014

Blog issues

As you may have noticed, some idiot hacked into my website and placed text in some places. My web guy is cleaning this up. Reading and posting doesn’t pose any risk to visitors in the mean time. Should be handled soon. Thanks. UPDATE: …

CMTV’s mystery manifesto

The now infamous manifesto, ChurchMilitant.TV Will Not Engage in Public Criticism of the Pope, is causing a sizable stir among some traditional Catholics and one might reasonably wonder why. We have bigger fish to fry than this, don’t we? The visible structures of …

When in Rome…

Cardinal Raymond Burke is back in the news for having once again reflected upon the pontificate of Pope Francis in a public forum. Unlike his EWTN interview in December, during which His Eminence made a number of candid statements that betray his own …

Francumenism: Mission Accomplished

A video recently surfaced in which Pope Francis extends a greeting, roughly seven minutes in length, to attendees of the Kenneth Copeland Ministries Conference (KCMC), a gathering of Pentecostal “ministers” from all over the United States. A 45 minute video, wherein KCMC attendees …

The Real “Francis Effect”

For some time now we have been hearing about the so-called “Francis Effect” whereby the Catholic Church is allegedly on the verge of experiencing that oh-so-elusive “New Springtime.” In an article written last September, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore put it this way: …

Fashion Week

In light of the Holy Father’s suggestion that attachment to the traditional Mass is tantamount to an addiction to a certain fashion, I thought it might be useful to provide an audio “fashion show” of excerpts from this past week’s Septuagesima Sunday for …