New Synodal Working Document: Continuing Plan to Ordain Women?
But if Martini was the dreamer, Pope Francis was the executive.
The Faithful React to Dark Rumors about the TLM
Cardinal Martini—the leader of the St. Gallen Mafia—publicly undermined the pope’s document. “I will not [celebrate the TLM],” Martini said, point-blank.
Francis Appoints Homosexualists to Shape Doctrine
All three new doctrine chiefs have made statements of surrender to the "gay lobby."
Francis, “Deaconettes,” and the St. Gallen Mafia
"I think we should come to it little by little." -Carinal Martini
Neo-Modernism & the DDF’s New Apparition Guidelines
In our neo-Modernist milieu, it becomes even more urgent for the Church to downgrade the supernatural.
A Successor for the St. Gallen Mafia?
Their positions sound eerily alike, as if Fernández is making Martini’s priorities for the Church come alive.
The St. Gallen Mafia and Orwellian Francis
With his new interview on the 2005 papal election, Francis is retelling an edited version of history promoted by the St. Gallen mafia.
Schismatic Synodality: Personal and Ideological Origins
Fr. Serafino Lanzetta has an excellent new book out called The Symphony of Truth. As a writer with a focus on the roots of Pope Francis’s pontificate, I found this book fascinating. From multiple angles, Fr. Lanzetta tells the backstories behind today’s ecclesial crisis. Often, we can trace the root of a current problem back…
Six Takeaways From Pope Francis’s War on the Latin Mass
When Pope Francis released the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, he dropped what Dr. Peter Kwasniewski calls an “atom bomb” on the traditional Latin Mass. Now, as the fallout accumulates and the rubble builds up, Kwasniewski has edited and released From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’s War, a collection of brilliant, clarifying essays on Francis’s militant act.…
The Weapon of the St. Gallen Mafia is Synodality
Cardinal Martini Lives on. This is a story about the origins of the “synod on synodality.” It is a story about dreams—and déjà vu. All his life, Carlo Maria Martini (pictured above left) was a dreamer. In the Italian documentary Vedete, Sono Uno di Voi, we hear Martini’s conviction that only dreams make reality bearable.…
The St. Gallen Mafia and the Latin Mass
About a decade ago, in a Southwestern church in a run-down part of town, I saw it for the first time. From a back pew, I glimpsed something beautiful, perfect. Seeing the priest celebrate it was like being plunged into some heavenly choreography from the Book of Revelation. That first Latin Mass surpassed my understanding,…