The Spiritual Dangers of Constant News Consumption
It doesn’t matter if you are on the Right or Left: if you are constantly consuming negative information and worrying about a coming calamity or crisis, you will experience a death in your soul.
It doesn’t matter if you are on the Right or Left: if you are constantly consuming negative information and worrying about a coming calamity or crisis, you will experience a death in your soul.
The situation for the Hispano-Romans under Don Pelayo seemed hopeless and so does ours.
Cultus, tradition, elders and piety: every culture known to man (until modern times) has these four elements.
But this appointment of bishops is one of the key pieces of their power, so it makes sense for the Dictator Pope to elevate Prevost as well.
The central presupposition is that “The protagonist of the Synod is the Holy Spirit.” But how do we distinguish the Holy Spirit from the zeitgeist? or from the evil spirit?
Seeing old ladies with tears in their eyes as they watched us pass was rather overwhelming.
None of these issues should prevent us from working together in mutual charity for the common good of a moral society.
To use political science jargon, it’s a soft auto-coup. It is soft because it is non-violent and partially legal, and it is an auto-coup because it is an effort by those in power to get more power.
Darius Milhaud described himself as “a Frenchman from Provence, and by religion a Jew.”
What altered this original goal was the Roman Forum’s decision to criticize the Missal of 1970 and work for the defense and restoration of the Traditional Roman Liturgy.
To Benedict “this aggiornamento does not mean a break with tradition,” …but this is precisely what it seems to mean to Pope Francis and his allies at the Synod of Bishops in Rome