Perhaps that is the best that can be said about a priest who partakes in Bollywood routines as his hobby. No doubt dancing is good for the cardio-vascular system.
Link for those who can’t access the video directly HERE:
Month: May 2023
A fascinating article about Freemasons & Catholics from Pillar Catholic
when catholics could be masons by nico fassino at pillar catholic
For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church has prohibited its members from joining Masonic lodges.
Freemasonry has been denounced by numerous popes, beginning with Pope Clement XII in 1738, on the grounds that it promotes religious indifferentism.
But after the Second Vatican Council, many Catholics around the world suddenly became confused about whether it was permissible for Catholics to become Masons.
In fact, there was a seven-year stretch in the 1970s when the English-speaking Catholic world was taught by its bishops that, although it was not encouraged, it was in fact permitted to become a Mason, as long as certain conditions were met.
Then, at the end of those seven years, these Catholics were suddenly informed that joining the Masons was actually still forbidden under pain of excommunication – and always had been.
That period in history is all but forgotten today. But a survey of Catholic newspapers from the time period offers a glimpse into the confusion that surrounded the subject of Masonry in the American Catholic world 50 years ago.
Changes anticipated: 1971-1974
While work was underway on the revised Code of Canon Law in Rome in the early 1970s, it became clear that there was widespread anticipation that the Church would soon change her teaching on Catholic participation in Freemasonry.
In August 1971, National Catholic News Service – the news service of the U.S. bishops – issued a lengthy report which predicted that the Church would soon modify her teaching on the matter.
Headlined, “Catholic-Masonic Relations Enter Friendly New Era,” the report included commentary from leading experts in Rome, including Fr. Jean Beyer, SJ – Dean of Faculty of Canon Law at the Gregorian University in Rome and a consultor to the Vatican Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Law. The syndicated story ran in official diocesan newspapers throughout the nation.
Two years later, in June 1973, National Catholic News Service again reported that Church officials were expecting and planning for a change in Church teaching.
The article, headlined “Church ban on Freemasonry expected to be relaxed,” revealed that the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales had sent letters to all priests in their country, informing them that some “relaxation” in the ban on Freemasonry was expected soon.
According to the letter from the English hierarchy, “it seems probable that each national bishops’ conference will be left to decide whether Masons will have to resign membership in being received into the Church, and also whether requests from laymen [to] join the Masons may be granted.”
This news was widely printed in official diocesan newspapers throughout the country and continued to be discussed in newspapers and clerical journals between the summer of 1973 and spring 1974.
The growing consensus — as promoted by the U.S. bishops’ news service — was that the old prohibition would soon be changed.
Continue reading this article at Pillar Catholic:
Note regarding the main image: it was found at this site and is obviously taken more recently than the 1970″s!!
Ecclesiastical Freemasonry by Fr Paul Kramer
This rather long video may prove enlightening for some. Fr Kramer is the distinguished author of several books on Fatima and The Crisis, although he unfortunately adopted the sedevacantist position after the abdication of Pope Benedict. Nevertheless, Fr Kramer is very knowledgable on the topic of Freemasonry and this lecture may shed some light on that very dark tool of anti-Christ. If the video can’t be accessed directly, then please try this link:
For those who would like to hear more from Fr Kramer, here is a podcast interview between that priest and Fr Dave Nix from 2022.
Papal Encyclicals go Arty
If there was a prize for inane events, it would have to go to the Vatican.
Take the latest offering: an exhibition at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale – touted as “an internationally renowned event that showcases both classical and modern artwork from around the world.”
The Vatican’s exhibition is titled “Social friendship: meeting in the garden” and is meant to represent Benedictine simplicity. Included in this display of ‘simplicity” are these juvenile wooden sculptures, made by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza. Perhaps the poor fellow was ‘simple-minded” and someone felt sorry for him.
Perhaps the wooden blocks are Jenga pieces and the whole thing it is a statement about evolution and how mankind randomly fell together from a jumble of DNA. (Like these Jenga pieces ending up as humanoids – get it?)
The Dicastery for Culture and Education tells us that the exhibition is “a way of celebrating the ten years of Pope Francis’ pontificate and the dialogue he has established with the world.” I’m glad there’s something to celebrate after this decade of apostasy overseen by Francis the Destroyer.
A sycophantic Cardinal from the Dicastery spouted some Bergoglio-esque drivel about the papacy: Cardinal Mendoca:
“We want to see how some of the main ideas of this pontificate can be key to a dialogue with contemporary architecture and converge in a vision that takes the risk of imagining a different future.“
The Cardinal explains that Laudato si’ and Fratelli Tutti:
” … help us not only to make a critical, precise and sincere diagnosis of the present, but also challenge us to raise our gaze, rediscovering the capacity to dream with determination of the prophecy of a better world.“
Why does this example from the exhibition …….
…. remind me of this?
And why do both of those images give me the feeling that Francis’ “better” One-World-Government-One-World-Religion world is something along the lines of THIS???
Spiritual Effects of Sodomite Priests
This extract is taken from Slaying dragons II: The Rise of the Occult
“The effects of sodomy on the individual, in particular on a clergyman, are so much more devastating than many in the hierarchy seem to accept in our age. This sort of devastation, as Fr Athanasius [a pseudonym] explained, can indeed make priests disposed toward occult practices. He said, “Once someone compromises the conscience and habitually lives in sin, the devil’s suggestions become more constant and acceptable. But consider the interest the devil has in high value targets such as priests. Every mortal sin of a priest is a sacrilege. It makes sense that the Enemy will concentrate on them to bring about anti-priests, anti-liturgy, anti-Church. And today we’ve got a lot of possessed clergy thanks to their sodomitical ways, You’d be surprised.” When I further asked if he thought there were occultists in today’s hierarchy, he replied, “Absolutely!”
“The compromising of the conscience mentioned by the above exorcist is surely accomplished by the enemy through the moral and spiritual effects produced by the sin of sodomy. In The Book of Gomorrah, St. Peter Damien presented the evil effects brought about by the presence of this abominable vice within the priesthood in the eleventh century. From these, and in light of the comments by Fr. Athanasius, we can see how this could easily dispose those clergy today to embrace the occult, guilty as they are of the same abominations condemned by St. Peter Damien. St. Peter Damien said that sodomy “evicts the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart; it introduces the devil who incites to lust.” Further, “It casts into error [and] extinguishes the light of the mind … It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything.” The damage done to the priest or Bishop involved in such behaviour is immense:
In fact, after this most poisonous serpent once sinks its fangs into the unhappy soul, (moral) sense is snatched away, memory is borne off, the sharpness of the mind is obscured. It becomes unmindful of God and even forgetful of itself. This plague undermines the foundation of faith, weakens the strength of hope, destroys the bond of charity; it takes away justice, subverts fortitude, banishes temperance, blunts the keenness of prudence.
St. Peter Damien, “Book of Gomorrah”, p 63-4.
“Further, St. Peter Damien added, “This vice casts men from the choir of the ecclesiastical community and compels them to pray with the possessed and with those who work for the devils.” With all these negative effects articulated, the mind is quick to respond, “How can a man, given over to this vice, seek to govern the Church as a Bishop or priest, or lead souls to Christ, or protect the Mass, or raise up new holy priests, and avoid leading the people into error?” These men, St. Peter Damien declared, “Try with such desire to ensnare the people of God in the bonds of [their] own ruin,” and lamented, “What fruitfulness can still be found in the flocks when the shepherd is so deeply sunk in the belly of the devil?”
“Given the rampant acceptance of homosexuality in the clergy today, and the presence of these men even among the Bishops, as it was in St. Peter Damien’s day, these criticisms and laments need to be considered as we seek to understand the spiritual fallout which is the result of having these men as the spiritual leaders of the Church today.”
Ecclesiastical Freemasonry 