Cardinal pals, McCarrick and Weurl

The Prince of this World has made a grand display of his authority in the last few centuries. Our saving grace is that, while Westerners no longer believe in God, they still believe in the Devil. We’re at least clear-eyed enough to recognize true evil at work in the world, even if we can no longer see the great Good hidden behind the veil.

Still, we’re also averse to speaking in terms of good and evil. Right and wrong? Maybe. But good and evil have a supernatural ring we usually reserve for dramatic and abominable crimes, like genocide. Yet everything right is good, and everything wrong is evil. The evils we encounter in our day-to-day lives might not be a spectacle, like jihadists beheading a journalist on live television. All the same, evil is part of ordinary life. It dwells deep in our hearts – each and every one of us.

51 Years of The Remnant are About to Become Live Online...

Archbishop Lefebvre

Editor's Intro: Last year, The Remnant Newspaper celebrated its 50th anniversary in the Catholic press apostolate. This means that ever since 1967—just two years after the close of the Second Vatican Council and two years before the promulg­ation of Pope Paul’s New Mass—The Remnant has been going to press every two weeks, chronicling both the history of the Modernist revolution in the Catholic Church as well as the grassroots Catholic counterrevolution that followed, i.e., the traditional Catholic movement.

It can be said without exaggeration, then, that The Remnant is the newspaper of record for the post-conciliar Traditional Catholic counterrevolution in the English-speaking world.

In point of fact, when the founding editor of The Remnant died in 2002, the late, great Michael Davies wrote this in the pages of The Remnant:

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. – Shakespeare, As You Like ItPope Francis and Cardinal Farrell sit with students at the 2018 pre-synodal meeting for young people.

* Fool me once, the Synod on the Family 2014

* Fool me twice, the Synod on the Family 2015 (Amoris Laetitia)

* Fool me thrice, the Synod on the Young People 2018?

During the last 5 years of this papacy, Francis and his Synodal Schemers masterfully manipulated, rigged, and exploited the synodal process. The backdoor tactics and machinations were brilliantly documented by Edward Pentin, Henry Sire, George Neumayr and an array of investigative journalists.

How long will Catholics play the fool?

"If you'll permit me, what the Church needs now is more hatred! As I have said previously, St. Thomas Aquinas said that hatred of wickedness actually belongs to the virtue of charity. As the Book of Proverbs says 'My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness (Prov. 8:7).' It is an act of love to hate sin and to call others to turn away from sin. – Bishop Robert Morlino 

Editor’s Note: Over the years, Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Madison has confirmed several of my children according to the traditional Rite of Confirmation, as his diocese has been a port in the storm for many displaced and disillusioned Catholic families. We don’t see eye-to-eye on everything, of course, but his faith and pastoral solicitude have for us been a light in the darkness and proof that God has not left us orphans.  And now this, finally, a bishop with the courage to look the beast in the eye and speak its name out loud. Bishop Morlino does this in a moment when he is under heavy attack as a “hater” for defending the Church’s teaching on marriage—an attack, by the way, which prompted us here at The Remnant to join the fight to DEFEND BISHOP MORLINO last year.

Editor's Note: The following article is the latest installment of our popular column, "The Last Word", which appears on the last page of every print edition of The Remnant. Given today's news out of Pennsylvania, I've decided to post it here, as well. Pray for the Church.  The evil Spirit of Vatican II is finally silencing the Church completely, at least in all areas that matter. It has emasculated the Catholic priesthood in a way befitting its thoroughly emasculated liturgy that for fifty years has been burying the very idea of sacrifice in the Mass. Without sacrifice what need is there for priests? The Roman Catholic priesthood is being spiritually castrated. After all these years, it is good that the evil spirit is now finally being exposed, but let us not forget what happens to us and to our children once/if Holy Mother Church is silenced and the whole world is left without any moral authority at all. There are no winners here, other than the forces of hell itself. At this point, nothing will correct the course and right the ship other than a formal rejection of the Modernism in the Church that has given us stones rather than bread, turned too many of our priests into predators and left wolves prowling about where shepherds used to stand. Restore Catholic Tradition now! MJM  

A long standing saying among priests is that once we are ordained, we forfeit all rights, except the right to Christian burial. Actually, this is not far from the truth, as four priests discovered recently. As widely reported, four Catholic priests attended a President Trump rally in Montana—in collar. They were seated in an area that made them highly visible to television cameras, exposing them to the enemies of liberty.

Cor Orans Revisited...

Read Hilary's Cor orans, Part I HERE.

[Editor’s Note: “Cor Orans” (“Praying Heart”) is the title of an April 1, 2018 document that implements instructions on how to apply Pope Francis’ 2016 Apostolic Constitution – “Vultum Dei Quaerere” (“Seek the Face of God”) addressed to Catholic women religious in contemplative communities. MJM]

One of the abiding characteristics of documents coming from the current administration in the Vatican is the aspect of “bait and switch,” the clever couching of completely opposite intentions in pious Catholic language. Many of the critics-of-the-critics of Amoris Laetitia pointed to the “good” passages of that document praising the family, and excoriated as “paranoid” the people who pointed out that these were there mainly to serve the function of the sugar that helped the drop of arsenic go down.

Pope Francis and Cardinal Newman

August 2, 2018 will go down in Catholic history as the day when the supposedly impossible happened.

On that day, Pope Francis unilaterally dismissed centuries of moral teaching from both Scripture and Tradition by proclaiming capital punishment as immoral, even as a punishment for first-degree murder. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith changed the Catechism in May to embody the new teaching.

Those defending it claim the new moral teaching reflects doctrinal development, an idea Cardinal John Henry Newman popularized in the 19th Century. But upon closer examination, the new moral teaching contradicts all of Newman's tests for evaluating such development.  

New from Remnant TV...

RTV's 'Sunday Sermons from South St. Paul' blows the lid off Pope Francis's attempt to change the constant teaching of the Catholic Church on capital punishment. In what surely must be one of the most courageous sermons of 2018, this diocesan priest takes the gloves off and asks:

"What's it going to be? The constant teaching established by Scripture, doctors and fathers of the Church, sainted popes and God Himself? Or that which rests on the whim of Pope Francis, who seems to think the Catholic Church’s binding teaching is whatever his opinion happens to be."

God help us, what is this man thinking, that in the middle of the most outrageous clerical sex scandal to date he decides it’s time to go after capital punishment...

Remnant Editor’s Note: As part of our ongoing effort to show how Francis, far from being some roguish papal maverick, is in fact part and parcel of the deeply-entrenched conciliarist revolution in the Catholic Church, we present this excellent Remnant article whose esteemed author foresaw Francis’s latest scandal on the horizon already twenty years ago. This article from March of 2001 was prompted by earlier and more subtle papal attempts to undermine the Church’s teaching on capital punishment. Of course, Pope Francis has taken it much further, but the fuzzy-headed Modernist take on capital punishment is certainly not something Francis invented. His ban on capital punishment was a long time coming, its groundwork having been laid back when Jorge Bergoglio was still in short pants. MJM

TO ARGUE AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY is to contend with constituted reality. Ever since Adam and Eve committed the Original Sin, every living creature is subject to it. Every one of us is born on Death Row and lives out his allotted lifespan in its shadow without hope of reprieve. God made that clear when He told Adam that “in what day soever” he preferred his own will above his Creator’s, “thou shalt die the death,” condemning him sooner or later to “return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return” (Gen. 3:19). In other words, there has always been a death penalty. God instituted it, and He was the first to impose it, embedding it in the very fabric of natural law.

The Latest Addition to the Bergoglian Pseudo-Magisterium...

For the past five years the Church has suffered under a Pope who actually believes that the Magisterium is literally whatever he thinks. To quote his own admission in this regard, made during one of his infamous interviews: “I’m constantly making statements, giving homilies. That’s magisterium. That’s what I think, not what the media say that I think. Check it out; it’s very clear.”