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| “Lepanto” By G.K. Chesterton |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 09:37 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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“Lepanto”
By G.K. Chesterton
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The Imaginative Conservative | October 6th, 2025
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.
Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,
The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,
That once went singing southward when all the world was young,
In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war,
Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold
In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,
Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,
Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.
Don John laughing in the brave beard curled,
Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,
Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.
Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.
Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,
And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,
And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.
They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,—
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate ;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.”
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
Sudden and still—hurrah!
Bolt from Iberia!
Don John of Austria
Is gone by Alcalar.
St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north
(Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.)
Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift
And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.
He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;
The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse
Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,
Trumpet that sayeth ha!
Domino gloria!
Don John of Austria
Is shouting to the ships.
King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,
He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,
And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey
Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,
And death is in the phial, and the end of noble work,
But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.
Don John’s hunting, and his hounds have bayed—
Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid
Gun upon gun, ha! ha!
Gun upon gun, hurrah!
Don John of Austria
Has loosed the cannonade.
The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke,
(Don John of Austria is hidden in the smoke.)
The hidden room in man’s house where God sits all the year,
The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.
He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea
The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery;
They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle dark,
They veil the plumèd lions on the galleys of St. Mark;
And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,
And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs,
Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race repines
Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.
They are lost like slaves that sweat, and in the skies of morning hung
The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.
They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on
Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon.
And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell
Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell,
And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign—
(But Don John of Austria has burst the battle-line!)
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don John of Austria
Has set his people free!
Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath
(Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)
And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,
Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,
And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade….
(But Don John of Austria rides home from the Crusade.)
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire [with Fr. Ruiz] - October 26, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:33 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ
w/ Commemoration of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
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Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Holy Mass in Tennesee [Nashville area] - October 26, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:26 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ
with Commemoration of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 3:30 PM
Holy Mass - 4:30 PM
Location: 1016 Donoho Drive
Old Hickory, TN 37318
Contact: 510-368-4994
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| Holy Mass in North Carolina [Charlotte area] - October 26, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:21 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Feast of Christ the King
with Commemoration of the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: Confessions - 9:00 AM
Holy Mass - 9:30 AM
Location: 3802 Solen Drive
Harrisburg, NC 28075
Contact: Nino 980-833-2379
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| Holy Mass in North Carolina [Raleigh area] - October 25, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 01:18 PM - Forum: October 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Our Lady's Saturday
with Commemoration of Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria
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Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time: Confessions - 2:30 PM
Holy Mass - 3:30 PM
Location: 2722 Kudrow Lane
Morrisville, NC 27560 [Raleigh area]
Contact: Margarita 510-361-4394
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Rome Has Lost the Faith — La Salette and Fatima Warnings Ignored Today |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 10:20 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Rome Has Lost the Faith — La Salette and Fatima Warnings Ignored Today
Rome has lost the Faith. The prophetic warnings of La Salette and Fatima have been ignored, and the Church is now eclipsed by Modernist errors, silent shepherds, and widespread compromise.
The post-conciliar hierarchy has abandoned the defense of truth, leaving the faithful remnant largely unprotected. This video examines the crisis of Vatican II, the betrayal of Tradition, and the ongoing fulfillment of prophetic warnings. It exposes the eclipse of the Church’s spiritual authority, the complicity of compromise-minded clergy, and the pressing need for vigilance, fidelity, and perseverance.
What the faithful must do:
• Remain in the state of grace.
• Pray the Rosary daily.
• Consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
• Fight, and reject all compromise with error.
• Uphold the perennial Magisterium and traditional sacraments.
The warnings of Our Lady are clear. The Church is eclipsed, but her restoration will come through fidelity, penance, and devotion. The faithful remnant must rise and remain steadfast, speaking and acting according to truth, even when others fall silent.
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| The Miracle Ignored: Leo XIV’s Fatima Betrayal |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 09:56 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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The Miracle Ignored: Leo XIV’s Fatima Betrayal
Before the very statue of Our Lady of Fatima, Leo refused to name Fatima, the Miracle of the Sun,
the warnings of Hell, the consecration, or the Third Secret still buried in the Vatican vaults.
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Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Oct 13, 2025
The Great Silence Before the Woman Clothed with the Sun
October 13, 2025—one hundred and eight years to the day since the sun spun and plunged toward the earth before seventy thousand terrified witnesses at Fatima and Leo XIV did not utter a single word about it. Not one.
Standing before the very statue that traveled from Portugal for the occasion, Leo offered up a pageant of soft platitudes about tenderness, listening, fraternity, and “God’s way of being a mother.” The miracle of the sun? Never mentioned. The warnings of Our Lady about souls falling into hell “like leaves in autumn”? Omitted. The command from Heaven to consecrate Russia, still unfulfilled after nearly a century? Ignored.
It was a spectacle of studied irrelevance. While the Mother of God asked for penance, he offered pablum. While she warned that nations would be annihilated if her requests were ignored, he urged dialogue and “unarmed peace.”
Even the date itself, October 13, should have rung like a church bell through the Vatican. Instead, the anniversary of Heaven’s most apocalyptic apparition passed in silence from the man who claims to be its chief interpreter.
The Fatima Statue as Prop—Not the Message
On Saturday, October 11, Leo presided over a Marian vigil and rosary before the original Fatima statue. His address was astonishing in what it lacked. Not once did he speak Our Lady’s name in the context of Fatima’s warnings or promises. Instead, he recast her as a symbol of “dialogue” and “tenderness,” quoting Cana’s “Do whatever He tells you” while avoiding the words actually spoken at Fatima: “Penance, penance, penance.”
He told the powerful of the world to “lay down their swords” but said nothing of the spiritual war against sin, heresy, and apostasy: the war that Our Lady herself identified as the true cause of human misery.
The night’s rosary was presented as a performance of peace activism, not reparation. The Eucharistic adoration became a platform for human fraternity rather than divine worship. And the Fatima statue, the very image that once drew millions to repentance, stood mute witness to its own reinterpretation, reduced to a theatrical prop for a Church that has forgotten why she came.
The Missing Consecration: Heaven’s Command Defied
Our Lady was precise. She asked for the consecration of Russia, not “the world,” not “humanity,” not “everyone including Russia and Ukraine,” to her Immaculate Heart. It was to be done publicly, solemnly, in union with all the bishops of the world, and in reparation for sin.
Not once since 1929 has this been accomplished. Every attempt has fallen short: whether through omission, dilution, or disobedience.
Pius XII mentioned Russia but acted alone.
John Paul II consecrated “the world.”
Francis in 2022 added Russia to Ukraine but consecrated “humanity” as a whole and without the bishops’ mandated participation.
Now Leo XIV inherits the same stage and refuses even to mention the word Russia. The very act Heaven commanded for peace remains undone, while popes line up to perform its counterfeit versions before crowds that no longer remember the real request.
If the condition for peace was obedience to Heaven’s precise command, what peace can follow disobedience dressed up as devotion?
The Secret Still Hidden
Quote:“As for the Secret, well I happen to be one of those individuals who thinks we didn’t get the whole thing. I told ya! I mean, you have the right to your own opinion, don’t you, Father? There, you know, that’s my opinion. Because I think it’s scary…”
Mother Angelica, May 16, 2001
The Third Secret, still suppressed, still incomplete, foretold not world politics but a spiritual catastrophe: “The great apostasy in the Church will begin at the top.” That sentence, confirmed by multiple witnesses who saw the unreleased portion, perfectly describes the post-conciliar Church’s descent.
The Vatican’s 2000 publication omitted Our Lady’s own words and replaced them with a vision of martyrdom stripped of context. The “Bishop in White” climbing a ruined city fits the crisis, but the missing words, those Our Lady spoke, are what interpret it. They remain buried.
Archbishop Viganò said in 2020 what faithful Catholics already knew: the full text has never been revealed. The secret remains hidden because it exposes the very corruption that now passes for holiness.
And so Leo XIV’s carefully worded homily, its effeminate mysticism, its rejection of militancy, its sentimentalism masquerading as mercy, only proves the prophecy true. The apostasy Our Lady warned of has become the Church’s governing program.
The False Peace of the Conciliar Church
Leo prayed for “peace,” but how can he pray for what he refuses to obtain in the manner Heaven prescribed? His is the peace of ceasefires and committees, not the peace that comes from repentance and reparation. The true peace Our Lady promised will come only after the consecration of Russia and the conversion of that nation to the Catholic Faith. Until then, wars, persecutions, and the loss of countless souls will continue.
Our Lady did not appear to teach “fraternity.” She came to warn of Hell. She showed the children souls falling into it, screaming. She asked for penance, sacrifice, and devotion to her Immaculate Heart. She did not ask for sentimental reinterpretations by modernist clerics trying to neutralize her message.
On October 13, 1917, the sun whirled above Fatima to confirm Heaven’s warning. On October 13, 2025, the Vatican spun the message instead.
In the End, Her Immaculate Heart Will Triumph
Our Lady promised that in the end, her Immaculate Heart would triumph. The question is not whether; it is how long the hierarchy will delay the triumph by refusing to obey her simple request.
Heaven does not need the permission of the Vatican’s public relations department. When the popes of the modern era substitute “synodality” for obedience, Our Lady finds other instruments, souls who believe what she actually said.
The Miracle of the Sun was Heaven’s warning shot to a world asleep in sin. One hundred and eight years later, the miracle has been buried under the rubble of a synodal church that calls disobedience renewal. But the triumph will come, and those who mocked, ignored, or falsified her message will have no defense before the Woman clothed with the Sun.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
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| Tennessee bishop to suppress all Traditional Latin Masses in his diocese by year’s end |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 09:50 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Tennessee bishop to suppress all Traditional Latin Masses in his diocese by year’s end
Citing Pope Francis' Traditionis Custodes, the Diocese of Knoxville will replace Traditional Latin Masses with Novus Ordo Masses said with Latin.
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Catholic priest celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass
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Oct 13, 2025 - 6:12 pm EDT
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — The Diocese of Knoxville under Bishop Mark Beckman plans to end the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) at all three parishes where it is currently offered and replace them with Masses celebrated in Latin, but according to the rubrics of the Novus Ordo Missae, by the end of the year in an effort to implement Traditionis Custodes, LifeSiteNews has learned.
The parishes that currently celebrate the Tridentine Mass informed their parishioners over the past week that the Masses will “transition” into Novus Ordo Masses celebrated in Latin according to the 2002 Roman Missal, which will be said ad orientem (facing liturgical east), and incorporate Gregorian chant, among other traditional elements, by the end of 2025. A spokesman for the Diocese of Knoxville confirmed the decision to LifeSiteNews, emphasizing that the decision came after much discernment on how to implement Traditionis Custodes in a way that accommodated the faithful devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass as much as possible.
The traditional Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Missal is currently celebrated at the diocesan parishes of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Chattanooga, St. Mary’s Church in Johnson City, and Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville.
“My wife and I feel gut-kicked because we just moved here, in part due to TLM nearby!” X user Discipulus wrote in a post.
“The (TLM) communities will continue to be able to celebrate Latin Mass, but they’re just going to have to use the current liturgical books,” a spokesman for the diocese told LifeSiteNews.
While strictly speaking a Mass celebrated in Latin is a “Latin Mass,” the Traditional Latin Mass, or Tridentine Mass, refers to the Mass codified in 1570 by Pope St. Pius V after the Council of Trent, which will not continue in the Knoxville diocese.
“And (the parishes will be) allowed to practice any of the traditional elements that are allowed for by the rubrics because we know how much they want to incorporate these (elements) into their worship, and so we want to respect that to the extent which we are able to,” the diocesan spokesman added.
In an October 12 pastoral letter to his congregation explaining the bishop’s decision, Father J. David Carter, pastor and rector of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, sympathized with his congregation’s devotion to the ancient Roman liturgy but urged them not to harbor a “rebellious spirit” against the Church hierarchy.
“I need to speak bluntly to you as a father to his children. Don’t be Protestant. If you feel so strongly about the 1962 edition of the Missal that you would separate yourself from union with the Church rather than follow the current Missal of the Universal Church, I urge you to repent. This is nothing more than the spirit of Protestantism,” the priest said.
“I exhort you to open the ears of your heart and mind to the Successors of the Apostles, the bishops in union with the Pope. Be wary of harboring a rebellious spirit in your heart,” he added. “Guard your heart in this moment. The danger of schism is very real. Do not be lured by the promises and sophistries of those who have the appearances of devotion but at heart have rejected union with the Church.”
Carter’s claims echo those made by Pope Francis in a letter accompanying his 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which placed heavy restrictions on the celebration of the Latin Mass. The late pontiff declared that “the instrumental use of Missale Romanum of 1962 is often characterized by a rejection not only of the liturgical reform but of the Vatican Council II itself, claiming, with unfounded and unsustainable assertions, that it betrayed the Tradition and the ‘true Church.’”
However, several vocal proponents of the traditional liturgy have decried this characterization of Catholics. Cardinal Raymond Burke has stressed that the Latin Mass was “never juridically abrogated,” and that it is not permissible for a Pope to pretend to wield “absolute power” to “eradicate a liturgical discipline.”
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, has underscored that the Holy Father does not have the right to suppress the Tridentine Mass, which served as the liturgy of numerous saints, emphasizing that it is not disobedient to continue celebrating or attending the ancient Mass:
The faithful as well as priests have the right to a liturgy that is a liturgy of all the saints (…). Therefore, the Holy See does not have the power to suppress a heritage of the whole Church, it is an abuse, it would be an abuse even on the part of a bishop. In this case, you can continue to celebrate the Mass even in this form: It is a form of obedience (…) to all the popes who have celebrated this Mass.
READ: Faithful pack Charlotte Latin Mass on first Sunday since restrictions took effect
Since the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes, several bishops across the globe have restricted its celebration or reduced the number of parishes that are permitted to celebrate the TLM.
In one recent case, Bishop Michael Martin, OFM, of Charlotte, North Carolina, set off a firestorm of controversy when he announced in May the forthcoming closure of four Latin Masses throughout the diocese in accordance with Traditionis Custodes, which states that TLMs are not to be celebrated in “parochial” churches.
After intense backlash, Martin postponed the planned merger of the TLMs from July to October. Just days before the merger was set to take effect, the bishop announced in a letter that the newly renovated Little Flower Chapel, which will replace the four suppressed congregations, is not intended to accommodate all the faithful who wish to attend the ancient Roman liturgy.
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| Vatican wishes Hindus a happy Diwali, a feast day dedicated to their gods |
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Posted by: Stone - 10-14-2025, 09:40 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Vatican wishes Hindus a happy Diwali, a feast day dedicated to their gods
The Holy See's letter does not mention the name of Jesus.
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Oct 13, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews ) — The Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue published a letter offering “best wishes” to Hindus as they prepare to observe the feast of “Deepavali,” marking the beginning of the new year and worship of god. But of which god?
Also known as the feast of “Diwali,” the religious observance is based on mythology and celebrates victory of truth over falsehood, of light over darkness, of life over death, and of good over evil.
The Vatican’s letter fails to seize the opportunity to point Hindus to the one and only great victor of truth over falsehood, of light over darkness, of life over death, and of good over evil, Jesus Christ.
Not once does the letter, signed by the Dicastery’s Prefect, Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, and Secretary, Msgr. Indunil Janakaratne Kodithuwakku Kankanamalage, mention the Name of Jesus or point to Him as the one “way, the truth, and the life,” (John 14:6).
The Hindu holiday “typically involves ritualistic prayers to Indian deities such as Maa Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity, and Lord Rama, whose triumph over evil is central to the celebration of Diwali,” according to the California Family Council (CFC).
“Other gods include Sita, the goddess of fertility and devotion; Hanuman, the monkey god; Kali, the goddess of power and destruction,” the CFC noted.
Hinduism teaches a false equivalency between religions, as pointed out by Catholic Answers.
“Hinduism is popular because, like Buddhism, it avoids conflict, since it believes all religious traditions are different paths to the same end,” Anthony Clark wrote in a 2012 article. “But, as we shall see, this is a contradiction: To assert that two conflicting positions are in fact correlative is not only irrational but untruthful.”
Catholicism is “the only true faith, founded upon the natural and revealed certainties given by one God,” so it “cannot by sound reasoning fit into the ideals of religious pluralism,” Clark explained.
The article also quotes well-respected Catholic apologist Peter Kreeft, noting the problems with Eastern mysticism. “Individuality is an illusion according to Eastern mysticism,” Kreeft said. “Not that we are not real but that we are not distinct from God or each other.”
Hinduism, thus, “denies the possibility of a creator God,” Clark wrote.
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Posted by: Stone - 10-13-2025, 07:35 AM - Forum: Church Doctrine & Teaching
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Heretics Use Ambiguity to Camouflage Error
Pius VI, Bull Auctorem Fidei of August 28, 1794
TIA | October 11, 2025
Ambiguity has been used by Progressivism to escape the condemnations of Modernism and Liberalism made by the Pontifical Magisterium in the last three centuries. With this ploy, the errors of these currents are disguised under obscure formulae in order to gain right of citizenship in the Church. Then, little by little the error comes to light and spreads everywhere.
All of the Vatican II documents were ambiguous, and progressivists used such ambiguities to completely change Catholic doctrine.
It is very useful for our readers to know that this tactic was strongly denounced by Pope Pius VI long ago when, in his Bull Auctorem Fidei, he condemned the errors of the Synod of Pistoia. We reproduce below some excerpts from this important document.
Pope Pius VI
In order not to shock the ears of Catholics, the innovators sought to hide the subtleties of their tortuous maneuvers by the use of seemingly innocuous words such as would allow them to insinuate error into souls in a most gentle manner. Once the truth had been compromised, they could, by means of slight changes or additions in phraseology, distort the confession of the faith that is necessary for our salvation, and lead the faithful by subtle errors to their eternal damnation.
This manner of dissimulating and lying is vicious, regardless of the circumstances under which it is used. For very good reasons it can never be tolerated in a synod of which the principal glory consists above all in teaching the truth with clarity and excluding all danger of error.
Moreover, if all this is sinful, it cannot be excused in the way that one sees it being done, under the erroneous pretext that the seemingly shocking affirmations in one place are further developed along orthodox lines in other places, and even in yet other places corrected; as if allowing for the possibility of either affirming or denying the statement, or of leaving it up the personal inclinations of the individual. Such has always been the fraudulent and daring method used by innovators to establish error. It allows for both the possibility of promoting error and of excusing it.
It is as if the innovators pretended that they always intended to present the alternative passages, especially to those of simple faith who eventually come to know only some part of the conclusions of such discussions, which are published in the common language for everyone’s use. Or again, as if the same faithful, on examining such documents, had the ability to judge such matters for themselves without getting confused and avoiding all risk of error.
It is a most reprehensible technique for the insinuation of doctrinal errors and one condemned long ago by our predecessor St. Celestine [8] who found it used in the writings of Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, and which he exposed in order to condemn it with the greatest possible severity.
Once these texts were examined carefully, the impostor was exposed and confounded, for he expressed himself in a plethora of words, mixing true things with others that were obscure; mixing at times one with the other in such a way that he was also able to confess those things which were denied, while at the same time possessing a basis for denying those very sentences which he confessed.
In order to expose such snares, something which becomes necessary with a certain frequency in every century, no other method is required than the following: Whenever it becomes necessary to expose statements that disguise some suspected error or danger under the veil of ambiguity, one must denounce the perverse meaning under which the error opposed to Catholic truth is camouflaged.
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