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| Pope Leo XIV meeting: 'It was the largest meeting with false religions ever gathered at the Vatican' |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-26-2025, 07:35 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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'On the path to establishing full communion...'
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Speech for religious leaders May 19, 2025
Photo from L'Osservatore Romano
TIA | May 25, 2025
On May 19, 2025, Leo XIV received at Clementine Hall 161 representatives of different religions, above, who had travelled to the Vatican for his inauguration Mass the day before. As far as we know, it was the largest meeting with false religions ever gathered at the Vatican.
We offer to our readers some excerpts from the Pope's address, taken from L'Osservatore Romano (May 19, 2025, p. 6)
Words to the Schismatics and heretics: "As Bishop of Rome, I consider one of my priorities to be that of seeking the reestablishment of unity and visible communion among all those who profess the same faith in God the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit. ...
"Aware, moreover, that synodality and ecumenism are closely linked, I wish to assure you of my intention to continue Pope Francis' commitment to promoting the synodal character of the Catholic Church and developing new and concrete forms for an ever stronger and more intense synodality in ecumenical relations."
To the representatives of other religions: "Now is the time for dialogue and for building bridges. Therefore I am pleased and grateful for the presence of representatives of other religious traditions, who share the search for God and his will, which is always and only the will of love and life for men and woman and for all creatures."
To the Jews: "In a special way I wish to send a greeting to our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters. Because of the Hebrew roots of Christianity, all Christians have a special relationship with Judaism. ... The theological dialogue between Christians and Jews remains ever important and close to my heart."
To the Muslims: "Relations between the Catholic Church and Muslims are marked by a growing commitment to dialogue and fraternity, fostered by esteem for these our brothers and sisters 'who adore the one God, living and subsistent, merciful and almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth.' {Document of Abu Dhabi, 3)"
To pagans: "To all you representatives of other religious traditions, I express my gratitude for your participation in this meeting and for your contribution to peace. ... I am convinced that if we are in agreement, and free from ideological and political conditioning, we can be effective in saying 'no' to war and 'yes' to peace, 'no' to the arms race and 'yes' to disarmament, 'no' to an economy that impoverishes the peoples of the earth and 'yes' to integral development."
These words of Leo XIV show that, far from being a conservative, he is rather a radical disciple of Francis and the previous Conciliar Popes
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| Pope Leo XIV confirms priest who supports ‘women’s ordination’ as new bishop of St. Gallen |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2025, 05:11 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo XIV confirms priest who supports ‘women’s ordination’ as new bishop of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Pope Leo XIV confirmed the election of heretical Fr. Beat Grögli as bishop St. Gallen.
Grögli said that ‘the women's priesthood will come,’ among other heterodox statements.
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St. Gallen Cathedral
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May 23, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has confirmed the election of a heterodox priest who supports “women’s ordination” to be the new bishop of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Father Beat Grögli, the pastor of the Cathedral of St. Gallen, will be the new bishop of the diocese on Wednesday. The day before, he was elected by the cathedral chapter, a group of 13 local priests.
Due to the Concordat of 1845 between the Holy See and the Catholic Swiss state Church authority, the bishop of St. Gallen is chosen by the cathedral chapter with input from the local Catholic College, a type of church parliament that is elected by the Catholics in the diocese and also consists of laypeople. The Holy See can then confirm or deny the elected man as bishop. “I simply take great pleasure in the trust that the cathedral chapter has placed in me,” the 54-year-old Grögli said upon his election. He chose “In concordiam Christi,” which translates to “In the harmony of Christ,” as his motto.
Grögli was ordained a priest in 1998 by Bishop Ivo Fürer and has been the parish priest of the landmark St. Gallen cathedral since 2013. He is a strong proponent of “female ordination,” in blatant contradiction to Catholic doctrine. He has said that the Church needs “a broad roof” and, according to a report by SRF, stated in response to a diocese’s questionnaire that “The ordained ministry [Holy Orders] can no longer just be a matter for men.”
During a press conference after his election, he reiterated: “The women’s priesthood will come” but also stressed that “we have to walk the path together,” in reference to the Universal Church.
The Catholic Church teaches that only men can be admitted to the Sacrament of Holy Orders. In his 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Pope John Paul II reaffirmed this perennial teaching:
Quote:Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.
Grögli has reportedly expressed support for homosexual “blessings” as well and claimed that the Church should “adapt” its teaching on marriage, sexuality morality, and contraception.
Grögli’s fondness for “female ordinations” can also be seen in his actions. During several Holy Masses recorded on video in the St. Gallen Cathedral that Grögli celebrated, women read the Gospel and gave the sermon, in contradiction to canon law and liturgical provisions for Mass. While giving a sermon during a Holy Mass in the Carnival season, Grögli put on a colorful court jester’s hat.
Grögli’s ordination will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2025, in the St. Gallen Cathedral. Until then, Bishop Markus Büchel will continue to lead the diocese as apostolic administrator.
The St. Gallen Mafia
The Diocese of St. Gallen is known to most Catholics as the meeting place of the infamous St. Gallen Mafia, a group of high-ranking, heterodox clerics who opposed Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s election to the papacy in 2005 and reportedly plotted to elect Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope. The group had multiple meetings in St. Gallen, Switzerland, between 1995 and 2006.
The meetings were hosted by Bishop Ivo Fürer, who ordained Grögli a priest. Fürer was a heterodox cleric who has been accused of covering up sexual abuse cases in his diocese. His successor and now still administrator of the diocese, Bishop Markus Büchel, is known for his heterodox positions on homosexual behavior.
Already in 2013, Büchel called upon homosexual priests to “come out” and not to hide their homosexuality. He was then the president of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference.
It was also under Büchel’s leadership that the Swiss Bishops’ Conference asked Dr. Arnd Bünker, an LGBT activist and promoter of “homosexual liturgies,” to write up a report for the Synod of Bishops on the Family in Rome. That report asked for the admittance of “remarried” divorcees to Holy Communion.
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| Charlotte bishop suppresses Latin Mass by relegating it to Protestant Christian center |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2025, 05:05 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Charlotte bishop suppresses Latin Mass by relegating it to Protestant Christian center
Charlotte Bishop Michael Martin cited Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes in his decision to shut down Latin Masses,
a devastating blow to faithful across North Carolina.
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Sharon Kabel
May 23, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted- not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Bishop Michael T. Martin of Charlotte, North Carolina announced Friday he will be shutting down traditional Latin Masses at parish churches in his diocese — four in total — and merging them into one non-Catholic chapel, citing Traditionis Custodes.
The traditional Catholic social media account Sensus Fidelium posted a copy of the letter to X on Friday morning explaining that the decision shutters two diocesan TLM parishes in Charlotte at St. Ann and St. Thomas Aquinas as well as one in Tyron (St. John the Baptist) and one in Greensboro (Our Lady of Grace).
Bishop Martin shared that, effective July 8, the traditional Latin Mass will no longer be offered at parish churches in the diocese but instead will be moved to a designated “chapel” at 757 Oakridge Farm Highway in Mooresville, a Protestant center (Freedom Christian Center).
Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes states that TLMs are not to be celebrated in “parochial” churches.
The DC Rosary Rally for the Latin Mass X account decried the decision as “evil” and called for Pope Leo XIV to “restore Summorum Pontificum immediately.”
The TLM previously held in Boone was suppressed as of Jan. 9, 2024, along with those at few other Catholic churches in the diocese. Charlotte’s previous bishop, the outspokenly conservative Bishop Peter Jugis, had announced in December 2023 that due to Traditionis Custodes, the number of Sunday Latin Masses would be reduced from six to four, and that the remaining four would only be allowed to continue until 2025.
As Bishop Martin noted in his letter, Bishop Jugis — who had overseen the growth of TLM locations, including a new minor seminary that offered training in the old rite – had obtained Vatican approval of a continuation of diocesan TLMs until 2025.
Latin Masses offered by priests of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) will continue at St. Anthony of Padua in Mount Holly, near Charlotte. The Charlotte Latin Mass community has noted:
Quote:The Holy See has, on various occasions, written that the Masses of the SSPX are valid and that the faithful who attend them fulfill their Sunday and Holy Day obligations. The Holy See has even written that in justice, we are free to contribute to their collections at Mass.
It remains to be seen whether Pope Leo XIV will reverse any of Francis’ restrictions on the TLM.
“The fight ain’t over yet,” declared the moderator of the Sensus Fidelium account. “We’ll hit Rome up. Bishop probably thinks if he puts it in no mans land (away from everyone) that nobody will go and it’ll die off. He doesn’t get the people have more heart.”
“They’re robbing us,” lamented X user Atticus Isidore, who said the Greensboro TLM “attracts people from as far as Graham.” Greensboro is an hour and half’s drive from downtown Charlotte, and Tyron is two hours from Charlotte.
Traditionis Custodes, which has led to the suppression of dozens of Latin Masses around the world, has been denounced by clergy and scholars as a repudiation of the perennial practice of the Catholic Church and even of solemn Church teaching.
Cardinal Raymond Burke has affirmed that the traditional liturgy is not something that can be excluded from the “valid expression of the lex orandi.”
“It is a question of an objective reality of divine grace which cannot be changed by a mere act of the will of even the highest ecclesiastical authority,” wrote the cardinal in 2021.
Liturgical scholar Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has also implored priests to resist Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying Responsa ad dubia “regardless of threats or penalties,” since obedience to these documents would undermine the very mission of the holy Catholic Church.
Kwasniewski has made the point that “the traditional liturgical worship of the Church, her lex orandi (law of prayer),” is a “fundamental” “expression of her lex credendi, (law of belief), one that cannot be contradicted or abolished or heavily rewritten without rejecting the Spirit-led continuity of the Catholic Church as a whole.”
‘The traditional Mass belongs to the most intimate part of the common good in the Church. Restricting it, pushing it into ghettos, and ultimately planning its demise can have no legitimacy. This law is not a law of the Church because, as St. Thomas [Aquinas] says, a law against the common good is no valid law,’” he said in a speech at the 2021 Catholic Identity Conference.
He quoted the solemn words of St. Pius V’s bull Quo Primum, which authorized the traditional Mass in “perpetuity.” Quo Primum states:
Quote:(I)n virtue of Our Apostolic authority, We grant and concede in perpetuity that, for the chanting or reading of the Mass in any church whatsoever, this Missal is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used. Nor are superiors, administrators, canons, chaplains, and other secular priests, or religious, of whatever title designated, obliged to celebrate the Mass otherwise than as enjoined by Us. We likewise declare and ordain … that this present document cannot be revoked or modified, but remains always valid and retains its full force …
Would anyone, however, presume to commit such an act (i.e., altering Quo Primum), he should know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.
Respectful communications to the Diocese of Charlotte can be submitted here.
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| Archbishop Viganò: Prevost continues Bergoglio's path |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-25-2025, 04:57 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano
May 24, 2025
It is normal and humanly understandable that more than a decade of open persecution of Catholics by the one who presented himself as their Pope would lead many of us to desire a truce, hoping that Our Lord would give His Church - if not a new Pius X - at least another Benedict XVI.
But this legitimate desire - certainly animated by good feelings and love for the Church - cannot transform itself into a virtual reality in which, even against all evidence, everything must necessarily be read as a confirmation of what we would like, and not of what is really happening. We cannot build for ourselves a "virtual church" with a "virtual papacy" that we love and serve in a consoling but unreal fiction.
The confirmation of a notorious heretic to the Cathedra of Saint Gallen in Switzerland; the appointment of a nun as Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, in line with the appointment of a Prefectess by Bergoglio; the repeated references to the heretical documents of his predecessor and to Vatican II; the declarations on ecumenism and synodality, and finally the acceptance of climate fraud; all place Robert Francis Prevost in evident and disturbing continuity with his predecessor, and it will certainly not be the stole and mozzetta that will change reality.
May looking at reality with supernatural eyes help us to recognize the deceptions of the Evil One and push us, today more than ever, to place all our hope in Christ the King and Pontiff, so that He may help and protect His Church. May He who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life be our guide in a rebellious world doomed to perdition, lies, and death.
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| Jesuits in Spain issue prayer to pagan god pachamama for ‘Mother Earth Day’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-23-2025, 07:25 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Jesuits in Spain issue prayer to pagan god pachamama for ‘Mother Earth Day’
On March 31, Jesuits in a region of Spain issued a brochure in celebration of 'Mother Earth Day'
which featured a prayer to the pagan 'god' pachamama.
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Amaru people from the Andes performing a Pachamama ceremony involving leaves and flowers.
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May 22, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — In celebration of “Mother Earth Day,” a group of Jesuits in Spain issued a prayer to the pagan idol pachamama in direct violation of the First Commandment.
On March 31, the Jesuits of Cantabria, La Rioja, The Basque Country and Navarre, in Spain, issued a brochure in celebration of “Mother Earth Day” which featured a prayer to the pagan “god” pachamama. The Catholic Church infallibly teaches, as affirmed by Sacred Scripture, that prayer to any “god” except the one true God is, in fact, prayer to demonic forces, and thus constitutes a grave violation of the First Commandment.
Specifically, the brochure included the subheading “PRAYER TO MOTHER EARTH,” and featured the following text, which has been translated from Spanish to English:
Quote:Mother Earth, teach us to love each other as brothers and to care for you with love. Guide us to give light, to be radiant like the Sun. Pachamama, Pachamama, we come to thank you for all the riches you give us. Receive this offering so that the earth may be good. Thank you Pachamama and good mother.
The constant teaching of the Catholic Church, as affirmed by St. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae, is that idolatry is carried out under the “influence of the demons” who offer themselves to the “worship of erring men, giving answers from idols or doing things which to men seemed marvelous.” In support of this teaching, Aquinas points to Sacred Scripture, “whence the Psalmist says (Psalm 95:5): ‘All the gods of the gentiles are devils.'”
This so-called prayer to pachamama follows years after Francis, also a Jesuit, allowed a pachamama idol to be used in ceremony in the Vatican Gardens, an act which caused great scandal among the faithful.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Pope Leo XIV Meets and Praises False Religions |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2025, 05:56 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Pope Leo XIV Meets and Praises False Religions
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly reformatted and adapted] | May 21, 2025
On May 19th, 2025, Pope Leo XIV stood before leaders of Judaism, Islam, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy—not to call them to conversion, but to affirm them in their errors.
See Our Video Below:
He spoke of “shared prayer,” of “unity without division,” of “building bridges” and “walking together.” He invoked the ecumenical dreams of Francis and John XXIII. He praised Nostra Aetate, defended Fratelli Tutti, and called for new synodal structures to deepen interreligious fraternity.
But the Catholic Church has already spoken.
She has defined—once for all time—that there is no salvation outside her walls. That Christ is not one among many, but the only name under Heaven by which men are saved. That unity without truth is betrayal. That to affirm false religion is to deny the Gospel.
What took place in the Clementine Hall was not a witness to the Faith.
It was a contradiction of it.
We do not mock. We mourn.
And we beg all Catholics to see what is unfolding.
To pray for the Pope’s conversion.
To offer reparation to the Sacred Heart.
And to hold fast to the one true Faith—whole and entire—without compromise.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: The NeoSSPX PR Shift Begins |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2025, 05:53 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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The NeoSSPX PR Shift Begins
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The Catholic Trumpet | May 21, 2025
Not much to say here. Just watch the video.
Pray for the Neo-SSPX.
Pray for Kennedy Hall.
And pray that all negotiations with Modernist Rome cease—until Rome converts to the Catholic Faith of Tradition.
That’s the only unity Heaven will recognize.
Video is embedded below, you can also see Kennedys original video this was taken from by clicking this link: Pope Leo And The SSPX Need For Bishops: What Will He Do?
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| ‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2025, 05:49 AM - Forum: Global News
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‘No exceptions’: UK moves to crush sacred seal of confession in abuse cases
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, told the IICSA that the seal is 'an essential part of the exercise of priesthood.'
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Priest holding a rosary during Confession
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May 21, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Under proposed new legislation, Catholic priests in England and Wales would be required to report child sexual abuse heard in confession under a new government policy—despite Church law imposing automatic excommunication for breaking the sacramental seal.
Jess Phillips, Labour’s safeguarding minister, confirmed the Crime and Policing Bill will include no religious exemptions.
In a May 13 letter to the National Secular Society (NSS), the Home Office said it was not considering “any kind of exception” and that “there are no exceptions on the basis of where disclosures are received, including confessionals.”
“The duty will apply to all individuals undertaking relevant activity with children, including within religious and faith-based settings,” Phillips wrote.
The NSS had urged the government to adopt the recommendations made by the 2022 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) for mandatory reporting without exceptions for confidential or religious settings. “Safeguarding children must take precedence over religious interests,” said NSS spokesperson Alejandro Sanchez.
Catholic teaching holds the seal of confession to be absolute. Canon 983 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states: “The sacramental seal is inviolable.” Canon 1388 imposes automatic excommunication on any priest who directly violates it.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, told the IICSA that the seal is “an essential part of the exercise of priesthood.”
READ: Washington bishops say priests won’t comply with new law requiring them to break Seal of Confession
David Paton, a Catholic academic who submitted evidence to Parliament, said the policy could backfire. “There is no evidence that mandatory reporting by priests would reduce abuse,” he told The Pillar. “Priests will still be forbidden by canon law from breaking the seal, so there could be no practical benefit.”
He warned the policy would expose clergy to malicious accusations without any possibility of defence.
The Crime and Policing Bill, now at Report Stage in the House of Commons, does not include criminal penalties for failure to report. Instead, it allows for professional sanctions or disqualification from working with children—effectively ending the ministry of accused priests.
This move comes at the same time of similar attempts elsewhere, including the USA’s Washington state and Hong Kong.
The Church has long held that no earthly authority may compel a priest to violate the confessional seal.
The Roman Catechism teaches that priests must observe “a perpetual and religious silence concerning all the sins confessed to them” and that penitents should never fear that their sins will be revealed.
Catholic teaching insists the integrity of the sacrament depends entirely on its absolute and inviolable confidentiality. Meanwhile, Catholics in England and Wales were subject to at least some form of legal harassment and exclusion from public life from 1534 until the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.
READ: Trump DOJ investigating Washington for new law forcing priests to break Seal of Confession
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| KY archbishop issues new guidelines discouraging faithful from kneeling for Holy Communion |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-22-2025, 05:42 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Kentucky archbishop issues new guidelines discouraging faithful from kneeling for Holy Communion
The archbishop of Louisville released a document stating that clergy must instruct parishioners that standing is ‘normative’ for receiving the Eucharist, based on the USCCB’s designation.
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Archbishop Shelton Fabre
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May 20, 2025
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Shelton Fabre of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, issued a document on the norms for receiving the Eucharist last week that notably discouraged communicants from kneeling as they receive the Blessed Sacrament.
The May 14 document entitled Norms for Posture and the Communion Rite emphasized that while the faithful cannot be denied Holy Communion if they choose to kneel, diocesan clergy will be required to instruct parishioners no later than June 22 that standing is the “normative” posture for receiving the sacrament in the United States. These guidelines are similar to other statements bishops have made that discourage kneeling while receiving the Eucharist.
“Standing is the norm for the reception for Holy Communion,” Archbishop Fabre wrote, citing the designation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 2002.
“While communicants may not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel, catechesis of the faithful (such as sacramental preparation) should instruct that standing is the normative posture for reception of Holy Communion,” he added. “Deacons, servers, and other liturgical ministers are to observe the normative posture of standing to receive Holy Communion to appropriately model this norm for the faithful.”
The tradition of the Catholic Church, unbroken until after the Second Vatican Council, is that the lay faithful receive the Blessed Sacrament, administered by a priest, his hands having been consecrated for the handling of the sacred Eucharist, on the tongue while kneeling.
The Code of Canon Law, which binds all bishops and priests in the Roman Rite, legislates the following:- Sacred ministers cannot deny the sacraments to those who seek them at appropriate times, are properly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them. (Can. 843 §1.)
- Any baptized person not prohibited by law can and must be admitted to Holy Communion. (Can. 912)
Additionally, Cardinal Francis Arinze, the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS) under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, has underscored the importance of receiving the Blessed Sacrament while kneeling to show proper reverence while receiving the Lord.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, too, citing Cardinal Arinze’s past comments, recently promoted kneeling for Holy Communion in a series of X posts.
It’s worth noting that Archbishop Fabre’s document also featured more traditional guidelines for communicants to follow as they approach to receive the sacrament, including kneeling from the Agnus Dei until they join the Communion procession. One of the guidelines also noted that the faithful can’t be denied the sacrament if they choose to receive the Host on the tongue.
READ: Italian priest scolds ‘disobedient,’ ‘prideful’ parishioners for receiving Communion on tongue
Archbishop Fabre’s guidelines about standing to receive the Eucharist echo those of other notable Catholic prelates such as Cardinal Blase Cupich, the heterodox archbishop of Chicago. Last year, Cupich all but forbade the faithful from kneeling to receive the Blessed Sacrament, claiming that doing so “disrupts the flow” of the Communion procession.
READ: Cardinal Cupich discourages kneeling for Holy Communion, says standing is the ‘norm’
“(N)o one should engage in a gesture that calls attention to oneself or disrupts the flow of the procession (to and from Holy Communion),” he wrote, though he has allowed heterodoxy and liturgical abuses in Chicago parishes.
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