Excommunicated After Abortion?
Since Apostolic days (1 Jn 5:17) the Catholic Church has delineated between venial sin and mortal sin. In the category of mortal sin, there are four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. A small percentage of mortal sins also carry the weight of ex-communication (being cut off from the Church.) Canonically speaking, latae sententiae (automatic) excommunications are divided into “reserved” and “unreserved.” The former are reserved to the Apostolic Penitentiary, while the unreserved (e.g. elective abortion) are under the jurisdiction of the local ordinary. Some canonists say a person must know he is doing an ex-communicable sin to be ex-communicated. By this logic, a Catholic woman who knows she is killing her child in an abortion center would be incurring ex-communication whereas the Catholic woman who has chosen to believe Planned Parenthood that she is only relieving herself of [...]
TCE 22: Lifting of Excommunication After Abortion
Theology and Current Events 22 is on various types of excommunication. It also delves into how and why a priest can lift the excommunication incurred by abortion, but not other reserved sins. LATIN ABSOLUTION: "Misereatur tui omnipotens Deus, et, dimissis peccatis tuis perducat te ad vitam aeternam. Amen. Indulgentiam, absolutionem, et remissionem peccatorum tuorum, tribuat tibi omnipotens et misericors Dominus. Amen. Dominus noster Jesus Christus te absolvat: et ego auctoritate ipsius te absolvo ab omni vinculo excommunicationis, suspensionis, et interdicti, in quantum possum, et tu indiges. Deinde ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen." ENGLISH ABSOLUTION: "God, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of his Son has reconciled the world to himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins. Through the ministry of the [...]
Ex Substántia Matris
On Holy Trinity Sunday, every traditional priest reads the Athanasian Creed during Prime. Prime is the third canonical hour of his Divine Office (Roman Breviary) of the day. What struck me while reading this in Latin was this line: Deus est ex substántia Patris ante sǽcula génitus: et homo est ex substántia matris in sǽculo natus. This is translated as: God, of the Substance of the Father, Begotten before the worlds: and Man, of the substance of His mother, born in the world. St. Athanasius in his 4th century Creed of Trinity (against the Arians) is asserting that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity who is consubstantial with God the Father (ex substántia Patris.) Of course, this a truth in eternity, even before these earthly ages began (ante sǽcula génitus.) Equally sure is it that Christ [...]
CPX 71: Holy Mass Part 2
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 81-82. Q/A 11-21 Pope Pius XI's Marylike standards of modesty: http://www.olvrc.com/reference/documents/Modesty.Pius.XI.pdf Eric Sammons with AB. Cordileone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opvUFk9SSQY&t=2319s Text of St. Francis De Sales' Meditation on the Mass: http://www.semperficatholic.com/page19.html Video of St. Francis De Sales' Meditation on the Mass: https://vimeo.com/283322245 Spiritual Communion of St. Alphonsus Liguori: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/act-of-spiritual-communion-339 https://youtu.be/vG6q-zgKc78
Even the Left Criticizes Modernist Clergy
Notice this tweet from the Catholic Charities of the diocese of Oakland, California and how it had one "like" in 22 hours. Perhaps nobody in the bay area pays attention to the Catholic Church anymore. Or perhaps most Bay Area LGBT folks who are ex-Catholic have no interest in "liking" a group that can't even stand for its own values. In other words, most people (straight or "gay") have no interest in "liking" a liberal branch of a conservative organization such as the Catholic Church. Everybody knows we Catholics traditionally stood for chastity and purity for those who are "straight" and those who struggle with other issues. However, twenty years ago, hypocrisy on the right was more disgusting to liberals than mere stringency in morals. Nowadays, as first amendment rights get eroded away, the leftists of 2021 have proceeded [...]
VLX 71: Humble of Heart
Mt 11:20-24 Support my work here: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://youtu.be/TAk8qDoRr2Y “One will be sent in the flesh,” thundered the most beautiful Trinity to the angels and all the courts of heaven eons ago. In perfect harmony they rejoiced. But later they wondered if anyone but a lowly archangel like Raphael (still more glorious than a burning star) could dare condescend again to take flesh as Raphael did for Tobit. Their best guess for the new assignment was Gabriel. God said “Gabriel will go…but in spirit as preparation. One much higher than he will become flesh.” “But how?” the angels wondered, “A cherubim's eyes would melt the trees and mountains. No human warrior's body could even instantaneously hold the power of a seraphim. Who will go in the flesh?” And they intuited through each other like laser beams, seared and alit by [...]
TCE 21: Antiquarianism
Theology and Current Events 21: If Catholic doctrine "develops" rapidly is that from a good spirit or bad spirit? Support my work here: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGZ51jPFuw
Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
This Act of Reparation was prescribed to be recited on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor (8 May 1928). A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful, who piously recite the above act of reparation. A plenary indulgence is granted if it is publicly recited on the feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus: Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence, and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject. Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of [...]
CPX 70: Holy Mass Part 1
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 79-80. Q/A 1-10 Support my work here: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://youtu.be/klgu5ReWhEE
Propaganda Reveals A Nation’s Personality
The above picture is a 1931 Russian propaganda poster that reads We Smite the Lazy Workers and can still be found in a collection in the Russian State Library in Moscow. Westerners might laugh at the notion of hard-work being a snare to any political system, but Russians always saw life (including manual labor) as communal, not individual, even before communism. Archbishop Fulton Sheen warned hundreds of times that Russia's communism might come to the United States. But what many American Catholics may forget is that Sheen was a Russophile, a great lover of Russia. AB. Fulton Sheen frequently pointed out that Russia's ancient desire for community and Holy Russia's rejection of individualism were precisely the virtues manipulated by the enemy of human nature to establish communism there. Indeed, brainwashing propaganda is always needed entice a population to move towards [...]