Modernist Germany Remains Without Priests

Modernist Germany Remains Without Priests

 The number of newly ordained priests in Germany is at a new historic low. In 2017 the whole of Germany saw only 76 priestly ordinations. In 2000 the number was more than twice as much. In 1962, when the Second Vatican Council started, 557 young men were ordained to the priesthood in Germany.

The main reason for the disaster: Theological Modernism has undermined the German Church and made it unattractive and boring for young people. Nevertheless, the German recipe for failure is now promoted by Francis.

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Priests, seminarians must conform to Malta bishops’ guidelines on communion or face consequences

Priests, seminarians must conform to Malta bishops’ guidelines on communion or face consequences 

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Seminarians and priests in Malta who are not in line with the bishops' interpretation of Amoris Laetitia are under pressure to conform.  

A set of certain “criteria” for the interpretation of chapter 8 of the Apostolic Exhortation was given as guidelines for implementing Amoris Laetitia, allowing civilly remarried divorcees to receive Communion.

Excommunicable offence under previous popes, women priests now open for discussion

Excommunicable offence under previous popes, women priests now open for discussion 

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 Arguments for the ordination of women are being presented in the oldest Jesuit Journal of Italy; a journal which is reviewed by the Vatican prior to publication.

Though in the recent past the “belief in” and “public support for” female ordination, as in the case of Fr. Roy Bourgeois, led to a clear reproach from the Vatican in the form of “canonical warning” and the threat of excommunication, today one of the highest ranking Catholic journals lists “arguments” for it in an article by a priest.

Pope Pius IX: AMANTISSIMI REDEMPTORIS "ON PRIESTS AND THE CARE OF SOULS"

AMANTISSIMI REDEMPTORIS

ON PRIESTS AND THE CARE OF SOULS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS IX
MAY 3, 1858

To Our Venerable Brothers, the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, other Ordinaries who have Friendship and Communion with the Apostolic See.
Greetings and Apostolic Blessing.
Christ's love towards men was so great that not only was He willing to endure most cruel sufferings for our salvation and an atrocious death on the cross, but also He wished to nourish us eternally in the sacrament of His body and blood. In this way, He might strengthen us by the presence of His divinity and be the safest bulwark of our spiritual life.

Francis frets about ‘hemorrhage’ of priests, nuns from church

Francis frets about ‘hemorrhage’ of priests, nuns from church

People have had enough of the New Religion of Vatican II.

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Francis says he is concerned about what he calls a “hemorrhage” of priests and nuns from the Catholic church.

Celibacy For Priests. The Defense Takes the Floor

It will not be discussed at a synod, but pressure is growing in favor of the ordination of married men. The most highly esteemed of the Italian theologians has puts a spotlight on the question in an authoritative magazine. And he is opting to hold on to celibacy: not only “opportune,” but “necessary”

by Sandro Magister

Interviewed a few days ago by Gianni Cardinale for the newspaper of the Italian episcopal conference, “Avvenire,” the secretary general of the synod of bishops, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, confirmed that the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the new session in 2018 - “Young people, faith, and vocational discernment” - was the same one that the fourteen cardinals and bishops of the synodal secretariat had put on the top of the list of their proposals.

Pictures: Br. Theophilus of the Trinity and Sr. Bonaventura-Magdalena of Jesus of New Zealand Make Their Profession

Pictures: Br. Theophilus of the Trinity and Sr. Bonaventura-Magdalena of Jesus of New Zealand Make Their Profession

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Pray for Vocations

I am happy to announce that Br. Theophilus of the Trinity and Sr, Bonaventura-Magdalena of Jesus, both of New Zealand, made their profession into the Third Order Secular of St. Francis on October 16, 2016.  Deo gratias!  The ceremony was conducted by Fr. Edward MacDonald.  We thank Father for receiving them during his visit.  Below are a few pictures of the ceremony.

Mark Wahlberg on why he loves priests

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Actor Mark Wahlberg speaks during the Festival of Families in Philadelphia last year as Pope Francis listens in the background.

By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff  October 06, 2016

Some folks in Hollywood are reluctant to talk about their religious beliefs. Mark Wahlberg isn’t one of them. The actor, who joined Pope Francis at a World Meeting of Families event in Philadelphia last year, has made a short video proclaiming his support for priests. The minute-long video, posted on Facebook by the Diocese of Providence’s vocations office, coincides with the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors, which is taking place in Boston.

Saint Quote of the Day- Pray for Priests!

'Do we not see priests who, in church, at the altar, in the confessional, and even when vested for Mass, not only raise their eyes, but turn them round in all directions and fix them on people as if they wished to study them, and who are so uneasy and restive, craning their necks and moving hands and feet, that they show plainly that they cannot control themselves? How is it possible for the people to be edified at such a sight and learn to respect the house of God, and stand with reverence and composure?

On one occasion it happened that a layman came into a church looking for a priest to hear his confession. As soon as he entered he saw a confessor who, having dispatched a penitent from one side of the confessional before turning to the other, had a good look round the church, and not content with that, leaned out straining his eyes in order to get a better view of everything. At such a sight the man took his hat and went out saying that such a confessor would hardly suit him.'

St. Joseph Cafasso, 'The Priest, The Man Of God, His Dignity and Duties'

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Persecution: Priests' murders rattle Mexican city gripped by violence

Persecution: Priests' murders rattle Mexican city gripped by violence

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POZA RICA, Mexico (AP) -- In this eastern Mexican oil town already weary of rising gangland violence and extortion, the abduction and murder of two priests this week sank many residents only deeper into despair.

The killings in Poza Rica, in the troubled Gulf state of Veracruz, also came at a moment of heightened tension between the Roman Catholic Church and Mexico's government.

Not Enough Celibate Priests! Make Way For Married Priests?

This is the remedy being considered by Cardinal Hummes and Pope Francis for regions with a scarcity of clergy, starting with the Amazon. But there were also few missionaries in 17th-century China, and yet the Church flourished. It’s all in “La Civiltà Cattolica”

by Sandro Magister

Cardinal Claudio Hummes

 

ROME, September 21, 2016 – Pope Francis received in audience a few days ago the Brazilian cardinal Cláudio Hummes, accompanied by the archbishop of Natal, Jaime Vieira Rocha.

Hummes, 82, former archbishop of São Paulo and prefect of the Vatican congregation for the clergy, is today the president both of the commission for the Amazon of the episcopal conference of Brazil and of the Pan-Amazonian Network that joins together 25 cardinals and bishops of the surrounding countryside, in addition to indigenous representatives of different local ethnicities.

Two priests murdered in Mexico

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Please keep them in your prayers

One day after they were kidnapped from their parish, Mexican priests Alejo Nabor Jiménez Juárez and José Alfredo Suárez de la Cruz were found murdered in a field.

Saint Quote of the Day- Sins of the Flesh

'Come ye to Him and be enlightened. He that wants light must draw near to God; but because, according to the words of St. Thomas, "a thoroughly impure man is mostly removed from God," impurity removes man to a great distance from God, the unchaste becomes, as it were, senseless brutes that no longer apprehend spiritual things. But the sensual man, says St. Paul, perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. Hell, eternity, and the dignity of the priesthood, no longer make any impression upon the incontinent ecclesiastic: He perceiveth not. Perhaps he will, as St. Ambrose says, begin even to entertain doubts about faith: "Whenever one begins to be incontinent, one begins to deviate from the faith." Oh! how many miserable priests have by this vice even lost their faith? His bones, says Job, shall be filled with the vices of his youth (the vices of youth are impurities), and they shall sleep with him in the dust. As the light of the sun cannot enter into a vessel filled with earth, so the light of God cannot shine into a soul habituated to sins of the flesh: her vices shall continue to sleep with her till death.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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Francis: The sin of a priest is as grievous as the sins of the whole people, stop giving scandal!

Francis: The sin of a priest is as grievous as the sins of the whole people, stop giving scandal! 

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Mr. José Pinto, is a Novus Ordo priest

St. Alphonsus De Liguori, a Doctor of the Church and a moral theologian, explains that, "The Lord ordained in Leviticus that for the sin of a single priest a calf should be offered, as well as for the sins of the entire people. From this Innocent III concludes that the sin of a priest is as grievous as the sins of the whole people. The reason is, says the Pontiff, that by his sin the priest leads the entire people into sin ('Unde conjicitur quod peccatum Sacerdotis totius multitudinis peccato coaequatur, quia Sacerdos in suo peccato totam fecit delinquere multitudinem' - In Consecr. Pont. s. I.) 

Video of the Day- Novus Ordo "Dance-A-Thon!"

Video of the Day- Novus Ordo "Dance-A-Thon!"

I can hear the Modernist's mumbling in attempted refutation that they are "dancing before the Ark of the Lord" 

Please continue to pray for an end of that wicked Second Vatican Council and modernism in general. The New Mass is the Modernist's Faith in act.  These priests and poor people following are being prepped to follow the soon False Prophet and Maitreya who will be HIGHLY CHARISMATIC!

Resistance: Wonderful News From France & USA

Resistance: Wonderful News From France & USA

Today (February 5th) in the church at the Dominican Friary at Avrille, six seminarians (three French, one English, one Brazilian and one Italian) from the Seminary of St Louis de Montfort received the cassock during the Pontifical Mass celebrated by His Lordship Bishop Faure with Bishop Williamson in attendance.
Please remember them all in your prayers.