"Sixty-two percent of New Hampshire adults identified themselves as Christians last year, the American Religious Identification Survey for 2008 reported. This is a 23 percent decline from 1990, when 85 percent of adults called themselves Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and other Christians...N...

John R. Donahue raises a troubling question in the current issue of Commonweal: To what extent is the restoration of pre-Vatican II liturgy and ideology a dismantling of the Church's relation to Judaism (painfully recovered at Vatican II)? Also, one wonders to what extent the neuralgic rea...

Golias magazine notes that while the Vatican bends over backwards to accommodate the Society of Pius X it has been full of suspicion and mistrust of another Society, historically its most loyal and competent collaborator, namely the Society of Jesus. Golias lists (I don't know how accurately) th...

About 2,000 Catholic Bishops gathered during the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council Man's deeper questionings *** The world of today reveals itself as at once powerful and weak, capable of achieving the best or the worst. There lies open before it the way to freedom or slavery, progress or regression...

Below is a great excerpt from Vatican II's Gaudium et Spes ("Joy and Hope"), a favorite of John Paul the Great (bold emphasis added). Read it thoughtfully and slowly. 22. The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man, was a...

The Second Vatican Council solemnly declared in its Constitution on the Church [Lumen Gentium] that all the teachings of the Council are in full continuity with the teachings of former councils: "Christ is the Light of nations. Because this is so, this Sacred Synod gathered together in the Holy Spir...

The Feeneyite Saint Benedict Center cult in Richmond, New Hampshire has posted the following at its website with the heading, "This just in: Pope Says 'Feeneyites' ok": "With regards to those who hold strictly the absolute necessity of water baptism, it would be quite wrong to charge them with heret...

. GERMAN POPE "REHABILITATES" HOLOCAUST DENIERS ARGENTINE BISHOP SAYS NOBODY DIED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS YOUTUBE: SWEDISH TELEVISION "Bishop Richard Williamson - Gas Chambers, Anti-Semitism and the Truth" The Nazi Bishop Speaks "Infallible" Ratzinger Claims He "Didn't Know" Bishop Williamson Was Den...

Commentaries on the Society of St Pius X often remind us that the issue is not simply a matter of liturgy but also of the teaching of Vatican II. One key area of discussion is the question of religious liberty and liberty of conscience. If we accept that the teaching of various Popes, especially Pop...

Encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV promulgated on December 3, 1740 To Our Venerable Brothers, the Patriarchs, the Primates, the Archbishops, and the Bishops.  Venerable Brothers, Greetings and Apostolic Benediction.  When it first pleased God to raise Us to the supreme See of Saint Peter, He entruste...