MESSAGE OF ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ TO AMERICAN CATHOLICS AND TO ALL AMERICANS OF GOOD WILL Dear Brothers and Sisters, As devout Christians and faithful citizens of the United States of America, you have intense and heartfelt concern for the fate of your beloved country while the final results of the Presidential election are still…
Editor’s note: the following text was shared with us to share with our readers for their edification about the tactics of the enemy who is destroying the Church from within. Though the motif is lighthearted, in the spirit of Lewis’s original, the tactics are absolutely real. Screwtape Explains to the ‘Chosen’ Cardinal How to…
Catholics have been brawling for about a week now over the pope’s comments, released in the new documentary Francesco, in support of homosexual civil unions. Some stragglers, apparently immune to reality and all its pomps, are still in denial over the unprecedented support shown by Francis for these “gravely immoral” (the Church’s words, not mine)…
Editor’s Note: On October 24th, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò gave the address below to the attendees of the 2020 Catholic Identity Conference. He sent the text of his address to 1P5 for publication. Since our receipt of that address, The Remnant has also published a video of the talk, which we have included preceding the…
In his most recent podcast, Steve Skojec described the obviously deliberate games of ambiguity of the Bergoglian pontificate as a “Lovecraftian puzzle game”. “Francis is a monster of ambiguity and insinuation, making him a walking Rorschach test. Trying to pin down what he actually says or does often feels like the kind of Lovecraftian puzzle…
Yesterday, on the occasion of the Rome Film Festival, the director Evgeny Afineevsky presented a documentary called Francesco, which proposes several interviews done with Jorge Mario Bergoglio over the course of the last few years of his pontificate. Among other disconcerting statements, there are several about the legitimization of homosexual civil unions: “What we have…
By a Homeschooling Catholic Mom I just finished Rod Dreher’s outstanding new book, Live Not by Lies. I knew his book discussed the coming soft-totalitarianism, and I was hoping for some ideas of HOW to react to such persecution coming from secular actors, whether the state, big corporations, or both. Dreher provides great encouragement, explaining…
DECLARATION of His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò about the documentary film Francesco Rome, October 21st, 2020 – The Vatican News website[1] has reported the news that today at the Rome Film Festival a documentary film will be screened called Francesco made by director Evgeny Afineevsky. This documentary – according to what has been reported…
In a new documentary about Pope Francis that premiered in Rome this week, the pope offers new comments, on camera, in support of civil unions for homosexuals. As reported by CNA: “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should…
Despair abounds. A bleak hopelessness seems to be permeating our world, perhaps at more and deeper levels than most of us realize. The pandemic and the ensuing tyrannies are but the very surface, immediately beneath which we find tectonic fissures down to the core of our institutions. The culture wars are really only a skirmish…
I begin with a sentimental longing. The longing is inspired by a scene from Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock. The passage takes place in 17th century Quebec, and concerns St. Francois de Laval, the first bishop of Quebec. Behold how the saintly Laval called his flock to Mass every morning: “The Bishop got up at…
