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| The Recusant #64 - Autumn 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-23-2025, 03:28 PM - Forum: The Recusant
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Contents
• Fake Resistance Lavender Mafia (Catholic Trumpet)
• Mary Cause of Our Joy, Summer 2025 (Fr Hewko)
• Fr Paul Robinson: ‘It’s all valid! Trust us!’ (Analysis)
• “Doubt and Confusion: the New ‘Canonizations’” (John Vennari)
• Is John Henry Newman a Saint and Doctor of the Church?
Part 1: Modern “Canonisations”
Part 2: Problems with Newman
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| SSPX's 2025 Pilgrimage to Rome |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-23-2025, 07:37 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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There has been much ado about the SSPX being allowed to have a large pilgrimage in Rome and allowed to say Mass in several churches. A few sobering thoughts in this and the following post:
Modernist Rome 2025: NeoSSPX Pilgrimage and +ABL Dire Warning
The Catholic Trumpet [slightly reformatted and adapted] | August 22, 2025
From August 19–21, 2025, nearly 8,000 Neo-SSPX pilgrims entered Rome’s basilicas during the Holy Year. Was this to convert modernist Rome, demand the Consecration of Russia, or reject the betrayal of 2012? No. It was submission—the incense of Tradition offered in the pantheon of apostasy.
This video calls true resistance: never compromise, never remain silent, fight, pray the Rosary, and ask the Immaculate Heart of Mary to crush this counterfeit church of Vatican II.
Listen as +Archbishop Lefebvre makes clear what so many refuse to see: the conciliar church is not the Catholic Church.
*This video features an excerpt of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre speaking on the crisis of the Church and the distinction between the true Catholic Church and the conciliar, post-Vatican II Church. Original clip:
The battle for souls demands courage. No compromise. No silence.
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| Hungary celebrates 1,000+ years of being Christian with giant cross in the sky |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2025, 03:32 PM - Forum: Global News
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Hungary celebrates 1,000+ years of being Christian with giant cross in the sky
A huge cross in light, relic procession, and public prayer celebrated the sainted monarch who consecrated Hungary to Mary the Mother of God over 1,000 years ago.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Hungary celebrated its Christian heritage on St. Stephen’s Day with fireworks and a giant cross formed in the sky by drones.
On August 20, Hungary celebrated its national holiday, the feast of Saint Stephen I, the first King of Hungary. During the festivities, drones with lights formed a giant cross above the Danube River, close to the Parliament building. Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Szijjarto, shared a picture of the floating cross with the caption “Another thousand years,” in reference to Hungary having been a Christian nation for a millennium.
The show also featured fireworks, a marching band, and a procession with the relics of St. Stephen.
“On St. Stephen’s Day, we celebrate our thousand-year-old Christian Hungarian state, the foundation of our nation – a pillar of Christian Europe,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote on X. “Proud to carry forward this legacy of faith, strength, and independence.”
During his first reign as prime minister (1998-2002), Orbán played a key role in moving the crown of St. Stephen from a museum to the center of the Parliament building, a symbolic act that stressed the importance of Hungary’s Christian heritage.
“Today, 20th of August, feast of St. Stephen: Celebrations all over the world wherever Hungarians are,” Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, Archduke Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, said. “We celebrate over 1,000 years of being a Christian nation.”
Hungary held a similar light show on St. Stephen’s Day in 2023, when drones formed a giant floating cross and a giant crown.
During the Soviet reign, the feast of St. Stephen was suppressed. The communist regime deliberately chose August 20, 1949, as the day to ratify their new Stalinist constitution in an apparent attempt to replace the feast and promote atheistic communism. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the 40-year communist occupation of Hungary ended, and the Feast Day of St. Stephen became Hungary’s new national holiday.
King St. Stephen I was a zealous Catholic and Hungary’s first Christian King. Pope Sylvester II crowned him in the year 1000. He died on the feast of Assumption in 1038, and on his deathbed he dedicated the country to Mary. He and his son Emeric were canonized by Pope St. Gregory VII in 1083.
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| Cardinal Burke: "Perfect Emblem of Post- Vatican II 'traditionalism'" |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-21-2025, 03:25 PM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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The following is an excerpt of a substack article from Hiraeth in Exile, recalling Cardinal Burke's past comments and actions regarding a 'trans' nun who started a congregation, with the Cardinal's blessing. Quite a few 'conservative' Catholics think Cardinal Burke is traditional. But in performing more than a cursory, superficial look, that tendency does not run very deep. He still praises and holds on to Vatican II. Let us hope and pray that he is lead to a full conversion to immutable Tradition of the Church.
Burke’s Trans Nun Amnesia: How a Cardinal Who Approved a Male “Sister” Now Hosts a Conference Warning About Them
Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile [adapted and reformatted] | Aug 14, 2025
At Cardinal Raymond Burke’s annual Speculum iustitiae canon law conference, a Vatican official sounded the alarm that some transsexuals may have been ordained, their surgeries only discovered after ordination. His tone was one of horror: the sort of ecclesial scandal a faithful shepherd should surely have fought to prevent.
Yet the irony is breathtaking: in the 1990s, Burke himself approved and elevated a women’s religious congregation co-founded by “Sister Julie” Green, born Joel Green, a man who had undergone sex-change surgery. When concerns were raised, Burke defended the founder, insisting “she” did not promote the morality of the surgery, and warning critics against “rash judgments.” Rome only acted after the matter went public.1234
Now, the same Burke presides over a conference where the very scenario he once enabled is treated as a symptom of the Church’s collapse. It’s the perfect emblem of post-Vatican II “traditionalism”: speak thunderously against sin from the lectern, but turn pastoral discretion into doctrinal surrender when the decision is yours to make.
Burke’s Trans Nun Legacy
In 1997, then-Bishop Burke elevated the Franciscan Servants of Jesus, a women’s order co-founded by “Sister Julie” Green, who had undergone sex-change surgery years earlier. The facts were not hidden, complaints were made, letters were sent to the papal nuncio, and Vatican consultations were acknowledged.
Burke’s written defense admitted the co-founder’s biological sex and the moral disorder of the surgery, yet still justified allowing “her” to found and participate in the order. Canon law expertise didn’t prevent the bishop from treating the case as a pastoral oddity rather than a clear impossibility.
Fast forward to 2025: his own conference warns about priests who turn out to be female-to-male transsexuals.
The hypocrisy is a straight line from Burke’s permissiveness to the “horrors” now decried under his banner.
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| Assumption-tide |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-17-2025, 04:50 PM - Forum: Our Lady
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From the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary Bulletin, dated August 17, 2025:
Assumption-tide
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Within the Assumption Octave
Traditional Catholics will be familiar with the idea of multiple overlapping octaves. The practice of celebrating an octave, while not only traced to the time spent by the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary in expectation of the Paraclete, also has its origins in the Old Testament eight-day celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:36) and the Dedication of the Temple (2 Chronicles 7:9). Truly, Christ did not come to abolish the Old Law but to fulfill it.
By the 8th Century, Rome had developed liturgical octaves not only for Easter, Pentecost, and Christmas but also for the Epiphany and the feast of the dedication of a church.
After 1568, when Pope Pius V reduced the number of octaves (since by then they had grown considerably) the number of octaves were still plentiful. At that time, octaves were classified into several types. Easter and Pentecost had "specially privileged" octaves, during which no other feast whatsoever could be celebrated. Christmas, Epiphany, and Corpus Christi had "privileged" octaves, during which certain highly ranked feasts might be celebrated. Also, the octaves of other feasts allowed even more feasts to be celebrated.
To reduce the repetition of the same liturgy for several days, Pope Leo XIII, and Pope St. Pius X made further distinctions, classifying octaves into three primary types: Privileged Octaves, Common Octaves, and Simple Octaves. Privileged Octaves were arranged in a hierarchy of First, Second, and Third Orders. For the first half of the 20th Century, octaves were ranked in the following manner, which affected holding other celebrations within their timeframes …most Traditional Catholics using the Missal of St. Pius X will be familiar with this list of octaves:
- Privileged Octaves
- Privileged Octaves of the First Order
- Octave of Easter
- Octave of Pentecost
- Privileged Octaves of the Second Order
- Octave of Epiphany
- Octave of Corpus Christi
- Privileged Octaves of the Third Order
- Octave of Christmas
- Octave of the Ascension
- Octave of the Sacred Heart
- Common Octaves
- Octave of the Saint Joseph Solemnity
- Octave of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
- Octave of Saints Peter and Paul
- Octave of the Assumption
- Octave of All Saints
- Octave of the Immaculate Conception
- Simple Octaves
- Octave of Saint Stephen
- Octave of Saint John the Apostle
- Octave of the Holy Innocents
Assumption-tide is this current period of time between the feasts of the Assumption and that of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (August 22nd, the Octave Day of the Assumption). It is a time that’s meant to both contemplate the great mystery of the Immaculata’s Assumption into heaven, as well as a preparation for the sublime, crowning feast of her Immaculate Heart on the Octave Day. We can live out this beautiful Assumption Octave by adding to our daily prayers the Collect from the Solemnity:
Almighty and everlasting God, who hath taken up the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the Mother of Thy Son, with body and soul into heavenly glory: grant, we beseech Thee, that we may always, ever intent on higher things, deserve to be partakers of her glory. Through the same . . .
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| Bishop Strickland: Archbishop Lefebvre will be ‘recognized by history’ for sustaining the Latin Mass |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2025, 08:00 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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While Bp. Strickland's praise for Archbishop Lefebvre gladdens the hearts of those who have followed and love the old/traditional SSPX, there is the same focus on the Latin Mass in and of itself without the mention of adherence to traditional doctrine and teaching that is the foundation upon which the Latin Mass rests:
Bishop Strickland: Archbishop Lefebvre will be ‘recognized by history’ for sustaining the Latin Mass
Bishop Strickland lauded Archbishop Lefebvre for helping to preserve the Latin Mass as something ‘vital to the life of the Church.’
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Aug 14, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland praised Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), for helping to preserve the Traditional Latin Mass, declaring that his service will be “recognized by history.”
In an exclusive interview with The Catholic Herald, Bishop Strickland defended the TLM and Archbishop Lefebvre; criticized the ideal of Church “unity” not based in truth; and warned that Pope Leo XIV is continuing Pope Francis’ path of undermining the Catholic faith.
When the Herald pointed out that the Traditional Latin Mass was criticized as “divisive” by Francis, Bishop Strickland flatly rejected the idea that the Latin Mass, through which “countless saints” became holy, is “harmful” or “divisive.”
“To try to suppress the Latin Mass as if it were something outdated or bad is, in my view, contrary to the faith,” Bishop Strickland said. He noted that, on the contrary, the changes to the Mass have “diminished its sacred focus and the focus on Christ,” and led to “countless examples of a loss of reverence.”
Even Vatican II and its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy did not call for many of the changes seen in the Novus Ordo Missae — the new Mass — Bishop Strickland pointed out. For example, the document called for the preservation of Latin and Gregorian chant in the Mass.
When the focus on Christ in the Mass is diminished, the Church is “in danger,” the bishop continued, adding that we have “seen the results” of this danger in the Church since the new Mass was promulgated.
Asked about his views on the SSPX, Bishop Strickland lauded Archbishop Lefebvre for helping to preserve the Latin Mass as something “vital to the life of the Church. When the Novus Ordo was promulgated, the SSPX had the only seminary training priests to offer the Latin Mass, and forming them according to the tradition of the Church.
Bishop Strickland asserted that the Mass “is at the very center” of the Church’s response to the modern world, since “the law of prayer is the law of belief” — lex orandi, lex credendi. “And we are seeing that struggle playing out,” he added.
He went on to declare that Archbishop Lefebvre, “in standing firm for the Latin Mass and insisting it could not be abolished … will be recognised by history.” Bishop Strickland believes he “will be remembered as a faithful Catholic who stood for principles that were in danger of being lost, questioned, or discarded,” primarily the Latin Mass.
The SSPX’s preservation of the Latin Mass is now especially significant because now again the Latin Mass, after Traditionis Custodes, “is treated as though it were a poison that must be eliminated, which is a complete distortion of what the Mass is,” Bishop Strickland said.
He acknowledged that Archbishop Lefebvre’s continuation of the SSPX in the face of censure by the Vatican “was a painful choice for him personally,” but he decided that he must hold fast to the Mass of the Ages (a)nd not abandon it, no matter who told him otherwise.”
The Catholic Herald framed several of its questions for Bishop Strickland in the context of “unity in the Church” as an ideal. The prelate clarified that unity, as a good, is always premised on truth as a foundation.
“Authentic unity in the Church is never built on silence in the face of error. True unity is found only in Christ, who is ‘the way, and the truth, and the life’ (John 14:6),” Bishop Strickland stated when asked about how he reconciles his “outspokenness” with “the call for unity in the Church.”
“Unity that ignores truth is merely uniformity,” he affirmed.
Bishop Strickland, who is known to have firmly criticized Pope Francis, was also asked his thoughts on Pope Leo XIV.
“When Pope Leo XIV was elected, I expressed the hope that he would faithfully uphold the Deposit of Faith,” he replied. Indeed, despite being removed from his position as Bishop of Tyler, Texas by Pope Leo XIV when he was known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, Bishop Strickland charitably forgave him and refrained from judging his papacy, even composing a prayer for him.
“That hope was genuine – but it has already been tested and, sadly, diminished,” Bishop Strickland said.
He went on to cite problematic actions and omissions by Pope Leo XIV during the first months of his papacy: having retained Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, “whose record includes undermining moral doctrine,” including by promoting Holy Communion for adulterers and downplaying the need to oppose same-sex marriage.
“He has appointed bishops who openly support the ordination of women, contrary to the Church’s constant teaching,” noted Bishop Strickland, referring to Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Bishop Shane Mackinlay — who “has publicly expressed support for the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate” — as Archbishop of Brisbane.
“These are not small matters. They represent a continuation of the same pattern we saw under Pope Francis – tolerating, or even promoting, voices that contradict the faith while sidelining those who speak it plainly,” Bishop Strickland said.
During COVID, as Cardinal Prevost, he also imposed receiving Communion on the hand and Confession by telephone, which is both invalid and sacrilegious.
Bishop Strickland said that he prays for Pope Leo XIV “every day,” but that this “does not mean remaining silent when the flock is being scattered.”
“If Pope Leo XIV chooses to uphold the same policies I have already spoken against – such as the restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass – then my course is simple: I will continue to proclaim the truth and defend what the Church has always handed down, regardless of the cost.”
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