Charlotte "Bishop" Bans All Altar Rails For Receiving Communion Starting The First Sunday Of Advent!!

 From lifesitenews.com and written by Emily Mangiaracina Mon Nov 10, 2025 - 4:00 pm EST: Charlotte bishop bans all altar rails for receiving Communion starting the first Sunday of Advent - LifeSite

I'll let the article speak for itself...

"(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte has banned the use of altar rails during the reception of Holy Communion, effective the first Sunday of Advent.

Father John Putnam, the pastor of St. Mark Catholic Church, announced the new rule on Friday, embracing it as the “liturgical norm” of the U.S.

In a letter to his parish, Fr. Putnam said he “personally” believes altar rails foster “reverence and devotion” but nevertheless endorsed Bishop Martin’s instruction to abandon altar rails that has not yet been officially promulgated.

“At the same time, obedience is a virtue, and I think it is important to be united with other parishes in the diocese and return to the normative practice as noted above,” wrote Fr. Putnam, citing a statement by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that “(t)he norm … is that Holy Communion is to be received standing.”

Everyone “retains the right to kneel to receive the Eucharist,” he added, again citing the USCCB.

“I simply believe that it is better that we are faithful to the liturgical norms given to us by legitimate Church authority as outlined in the General Instruction to the Roman Missal,” Fr. Putnam wrote.

An announcement at St. Mark’s noted that the church will be “offering additional catechesis to help with the transition” to receiving Holy Communion without altar rails.

Because altar rails help the elderly and those with other physical impediments to receive Holy Communion while kneeling, the abandonment of their use will have the effect of forcing some people to receive the Eucharist while standing.

While Martin has claimed that it is “absurd” to “instruct the faithful that kneeling is more reverent than standing,” Scripture itself highlights bending of the knee as a gesture of reverence proper to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

“That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth,” St. Paul wrote in a letter to the Philippians. (Philippians 2:10)

As God Himself, the Eucharist deserves nothing less than a posture of profound reverence. Whereas the posture of kneeling is proper to worship of God Himself, standing is a posture one uses when interacting with an equal. 

Accordingly, the tradition of the Catholic Church for many centuries, 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. 

Furthermore, a recent study confirmed that traditional liturgical practices surrounding the Eucharist, including the manner in which He is received, increase belief in the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist.

In fact, Dr. Natalie Lindemann, the author of the study, suggested reinstalling altar rails and offering kneelers during Holy Communion at churches to increase belief in the Real Presence.

The Liturgy Guy has pointed out that the Diocese of Charlotte inherited from former Bishop Peter Jugis a relatively high number of vocations to the priesthood, suggesting that this could be related to the prevalent use of altar rails within the diocese.

Of the diocese’s current seminarians, “75% of those young men come from parishes where the use of altar rails or communion kneelers has been the norm,” the Liturgy Guy noted, pointing to the study that shows reverent Eucharistic practices increase belief in the Real Presence.

The ditching of altar rails has been a priority near and dear to Bishop Martin’s heart, according to The Pillar, which previously reported, “that’s his big thing, he’s really focused on that.”

In late May, a draft was leaked of a letter from Martin detailing plans for restrictions on traditional practices within the liturgy, including a ban on altar rails and kneelers, less than a week after Martin announced sweeping bans on the traditional Mass.

Martin stipulated that “in new constructions and renovations of sacred spaces, altar rails are not permitted” and that “Moveable altar rails should be removed, and permanently fixed altar rails should no longer be used.”

“The placement of a prei dieu (a kneeler) for the reception of communion is not appropriate,” he added.

The Charlotte Latin Mass Community earlier reported that the presbyteral council meeting at which Bishop Martin requested that the use of altar rails be discontinued was “contentious,” and that “canon lawyers were referenced.”

The local TLM group exhorted, “Priests & faithful: he can ask but cannot command. USE THE RAILS!”'

End of article...

Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic faith!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

Outrageous Attacks On The Blessed Virgin Mary -- MOTHER OF CHRIST! -- Coming From? The Heretics Of The "Synodal Church"!

 I hope you folks have not been living in a cave recently, but if you have, then get ready for some devastating news concerning our Blessed Lady...

I'll not post any of the insulting articles, but all you have to do is a simple search and see and read what the apostates are saying about Our Lady, that is, if you can stomach it!

(Do they believe that Our Lady was crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth -- The Coronation?

I bet they don't.) 

Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic faith of our fathers and martyrs...

Pray for strength and honor, because in the coming days we will need it more now than ever before!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

Extreme Lunacy! Pope Francis Apologizes For A Lie About "Mass Graves" At A School Run By Catholic Nuns And Clergy...

That's correct, see here: Yes, Pope Francis apologized for the mass graves found at Indigenous schools run by Catholic nuns. During his visit to Canada, he expressed deep sorrow and asked for forgiveness for the deplorable actions of the Catholic Church in relation to the residential school system, which resulted in the tragic loss of many Indigenous children. He acknowledged the cultural destruction and forced assimilation that occurred, stating, "I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples".

There's only one problem with this: AFTER YEARS OF RESEARCH THERE WERE NO MASS GRAVES FOUND!

It was a total lie perpetrated by the haters of the Catholic Church!!

Yet the lie and the consequences of stating or believing it was a lie, can now put you behind bars in the lunatic country of Canada!!!!!

From lifesitenews.com and written by Anthony Murdoch Fri Nov 7, 2025 - 6:10 pm EST: New Canadian bill would punish those who deny residential indigenous schools deaths claims - LifeSite

So, don't you Canadians dare to use your common sense and hold fast to the truth, because the extreme left -- who hate the Catholic Church -- will throw you in prison!!!

"OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A new bill looks to give jail time to people who engage in so-called “Denialism” and question the media and government narrative surrounding Canada’s “Indian Residential School system” that there are mass graves despite no evidence to support this claim. 

The private members’ Bill C-254, An Act To Amend The Criminal Code, introduced by New Democrat MP Leah Gazan, would give out stiff penalties to deniers, saying the bill is needed to “end Residential School denialism.”

Gazan said that her bill is for all “Residential School survivors and our families.”

She said that so-called “denialism is spreading, twisting facts, denying genocide and reigniting harm,” adding, “It is not only hurtful, it is dangerous.”

Bill C-254, should it become law, would give a maximum two-year jail sentence for people who “other than in private conversation willfully promotes hatred against Indigenous people by condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian Residential School system in Canada or by misrepresenting facts relating to it.”

The bill does read that exceptions are given for people who “establish the statements communicated were true” or if the statements are “relevant to any subject of public interest.”

This is not the first time Gazan has tried to get such a bill passed. A bill she previously brought forth that sought to criminalize the denial of the unproven claim that the residential school system, once operating in Canada, was a “genocide,” lapsed after an election was called.

Last year, retired Manitoba judge Brian Giesbrecht said Canadians are being “deliberately deceived by their own government” after blasting the former Trudeau government for “actively pursuing” a policy that blames the Catholic Church for the unfounded “deaths and secret burials” of Indigenous children.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, John Carpay, founder and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), blasted what he said are “false” and “virtue-signaling” displays of “truth and reconciliation” goals pushed by the federal government and media when it comes to indigenous “land acknowledgments.”

In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some Canadian residential schools. The reality is, after four years, there have been no mass graves discovered at residential schools.

However, as the claims went unfounded, since the spring of 2021, over 120 churches, most of them Catholic, many of them on indigenous lands that serve the local population, have been burned to the ground, vandalized, or defiled in Canada.

(My emphasis.)

Recent polling has shown that over two-thirds of Canadians want some kind of proof of the “unmarked graves” before believing the claims that Indigenous children were secretly murdered and buried at residential schools by Catholic clergy."

End of very disturbing article...

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

R.I.P. Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo... Rome Remains Silent On Death Of Heroic Underground Chinese Bishop.

 I ask, does this surprise anyone?

The sellout of the Vatican to the Red Chinese Communist Party all for the sake of some sort of "unity," continues to this very day...

The faithful Chinese Catholics are being driven further and further underground in order to practice the religion of our Fathers and Martyrs -- with some becoming present day martyrs in the full sense of the word.

The article I will post from lifesitenews.com and written by Ray Hilbrich Sat Nov 8, 2025 - 5:25 pm EST: Rome remains silent on death of heroic underground Chinese bishop - LifeSite will point out this continued betrayal of those faithful to Our Blessed Lord and a heroic bishop who recently passed away at age 90...

"(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, a leader of China’s underground Catholic Church who endured decades of persecution under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has died at 90 years old. Yet his passing has drawn no official response from the Vatican. Bishop Jia, long targeted for his pastoral ministry, was repeatedly arrested by the Communist Party.

Starting in 1962, Bishop Jia endured multiple prison terms, ranging from periods of house arrest to as long as 15 years in confinement, for refusing to submit to the regime’s state-sanctioned church. His arrests marked significant stoppages in negotiations between Rome and China.

In 2009, Jia’s arrest led to a stalemate in negotiations between the Vatican and China’s state-approved Catholic Patriotic Association. Under the pontificate of Benedict XVI, Rome expressed caution in its relations with Chinese prelates, as persecution of the underground Church loyal to the Vatican intensified.

“Situations of this kind create obstacles to that constructive dialogue with the competent authorities.… This is not, unfortunately, an isolated case,” stated the Vatican commission.

After the Sino-Vatican agreement, overseen by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, this tone changed. As tensions grow within the Vatican regarding the Provisional Agreement with China, which grants the CCP authority in the appointment of bishops, many members of China’s underground Catholic Church feel abandoned by Rome.

The Vatican insisted in L’Osservatore Romano that the agreement was in the name of “unity.”

“The main purpose of the Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops in China is to support and promote the proclamation of the Gospel in those lands, reconstituting the full and visible unity of the Church,” stated the Vatican.

The unity the Vatican sought to achieve has yet to materialize, as persecution of Catholics in China continues.

Jia operated an orphanage in China for 30 years, enduring constant pressure from the Chinese government to remove the children from his care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP reportedly attempted to make him sign an agreement allowing his church to remain open only if he promised that no children under 18 would attend.

In an interview with La Stampa in 2016, Bishop Jia explained how he was able to undergo such intense persecution.

“All we needed was to have God in our heart,” stated Jia.

“This is what sustained and protected me all that time. So it is His doing, not mine. There were many difficulties along the way but God stood by my side and that was enough for me. Our minds were at rest because we placed all our trust in the Lord. Sometimes difficulties can also help us grow, trusting and loving Jesus.”'

End of very revealing and sobering article...

R.I.P. Bishop Jia Zhiguo -- and pray for us!!

Pray for strength and honor... 

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

Charlie Kirk -- And St. Michael The Archangel...

 

Erika Kirk: ‘Charlie loved St. Michael the Archangel’

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The wife of the slain Turning Point USA founder shared that her husband ‘loved St. Michael, so every time he put this on he just felt like it was his armor.’

LifeSiteNews staff Fri Nov 7, 2025 - 7:39 pm EST: Erika Kirk: ‘Charlie loved St. Michael the Archangel’ - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, explained that her husband had a devotion to St. Michael the Archangel, a devotion that was evidenced by the medal he wore along with a cross.  

In a video clip that is again circulating on the internet, Erika recounted how when she began dating Charlie, she asked him “Why don’t you wear a cross? You say you’re a Christian but you don’t wear a cross.” 

Charlie responded, “I’m not a jewelry guy.”

“So for his first birthday present I got him this cross,” Erika said, “and then throughout time I would always add different medals to it.”    

“He loved St. Michael, so every time he put this on he just felt like it was his armor,” said his widowed bride as she showed the camera Charlie’s St. Michael medal and cross.

Charlie started wearing the necklace with the cross and St. Michael medal as “he felt the weight of the world on him,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told Fox News. “He never took it off again, until he was assassinated, and the people caring for him ripped it off as they tried to save his life.”

Erika wore Charlie’s cross and St. Michael medal as she spoke before a crowd of 70,000 people gathered at her husband’s memorial service on September 21 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. 

In 1886, Pope Leo XIII composed the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer in response to the threats of evil consuming the world and required it to be recited after the celebration of every Holy Mass.  

The shortened version for use by the laity reads:

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Dom Prosper Gueranger (1805-1875), explained St. Michael’s extraordinary role in his classic work, The Liturgical Year:

The very name of Michael urges us to honor this glorious spirit; it is a cry of enthusiasm and fidelity, for it signifies: “Who is like unto God?” Satan trembles at hearing this name, for it reminds him of the noble protest wherewith the bright archangel answered the call of the rebel angels.

Michael proved his strength and prowess when he fought the great battle in heaven. On that account, he was made the guardian and protector of God’s people – of the Jews first, and afterwards of the Christian Church, for the synagogues forfeited all her honors. Michael now watches over Jesus’ Spouse, our mother; he supports her in her trials, and she wins no triumph in which he has not had some hand.

But we are not to suppose that the holy archangel is so engaged in looking after the general interests of Christ’s kingdom on earth that he cannot attend to the prayers of each individual member of the Church. God has given him a compassionate love for men; and there is a not a single soul that escapes his notice. He wields the sword in defense of the Spouse of Christ; he wars with the dragon, who is ever lying in wait for the woman and her Child; (Apocalypse 12:3) – but at the same time, he is attentive to each one of us; for, after having confessed our sins to Almighty God, and to the Blessed Mary ever virgin, we acknowledge them likewise to Blessed Michael the Archangel and beseech him to pray for us to the Lord our God.

He assists at every death bed, for his special office is to receive the souls of the elect, on their quitting the flesh. He, with loving solicitude and princely bearing, presents them to the light eternal, and introduces them into the House of God’s glory. It is holy Church Herself that tells us, in the words of Her liturgy, of these prerogatives of the great archangel.

She teaches us that he has been set over paradise, and that God has given him the charge of leading to heaven the souls of them that are to be received there. On the last day, when our risen Jesus is to appear on the clouds of heaven to judge mankind, Michael will have to fulfill a ministry of awful import: he, with the rest of the angels, will have to separate the good from the bad, all of whom will then have resumed their bodies in the general resurrection."

End of article...

Remember the corroborated story of St. Michael helping a Marine in Korea by slaying the Commies who tried to kill the Marine?   A fascinating -- true -- story!

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

 

Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes...

 This is genocide!

From: Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes – Caitlin Johnstone

"Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. 

In an article titled “Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid agencies say,” Reuters reports that “Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire” due to Israeli restrictions preventing aid trucks from getting to their destinations, and that according to an OSHA report last week “a tenth of children screened in Gaza were still acutely malnourished.”

A report from the UK’s Channel 4 News shows warehouses full of food that aid groups say isn’t being allowed into Gaza nearly as rapidly as needed.

In an article titled “‘Under the Guise of Bureaucracy’ — Israel Blocks Humanitarian Groups From Delivering Essential Aid Despite Calm in Gaza,” Israeli outlet Haaretz reports that “Israel has implemented a new procedure requiring all humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank to reapply for official approval, with many denied, despite the relative calm in Gaza following the cease-fire.”

They’re using bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary restrictions to put as much inertia on the effort to rush aid into Gaza as possible. As Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah put it, Israel has “successfully rebranded its genocide as a ‘ceasefire.’”

Still can’t wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians, and the world just shrugged and moved on.

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It’s so silly when US empire apologists cite “the Monroe Doctrine” to defend US warmongering in Latin America, as though “the entire western hemisphere is our property” is a perfectly legitimate policy to have.

The Monroe Doctrine was just American imperialists telling Europe, “You see all these brown people over here south of our border? These are our brown people. You can do whatever you want to those brown people over there in Africa and Asia, but these brown people over here belong to us. Only we get to dominate and exploit them.”

That’s all it has ever been, and people cite it to justify warmongering toward Venezuela or wherever as though saying “yeah well that’s the Monroe Doctrine” is a complete argument in and of itself. It’s bat shit insane nonsense and it should be rejected in its entirety.

US regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous wherever it happens. It always causes immense suffering and instability, it’s always justified by lies, and it never accomplishes what its proponents claim it will accomplish. No amount of bleating the words “Monroe Doctrine” will ever change that.

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The US empire backs genocidal Gulf state monarchies like the UAE and Saudi Arabia because if those states were democratically governed their people would prioritize their own interests over the agendas of the west. They wouldn’t permit US military bases on their territory, and they never would have tolerated Israel and its abuses in the region. Fossil fuel policy would be set without regard for western interests. The entire region could long ago have united into a superpower bloc which rivaled or outmuscled the western power structure using its critical resources and trade routes.

That’s why you see the US and its allies preaching about the values of Freedom and Democracy to the public while privately telling these tyrannical monarchies they can do whatever they want and receive the backing of the imperial machine. Not until their pet tyrant fails to sufficiently kowtow to the interests of the empire does the west suddenly get interested in advancing Freedom and Democracy in their nation.

This is one of the major dynamics at play in Sudan. The United Arab Emirates has been backing the genocidal atrocities of the RSF and the US empire is placing no pressure on them to stop, because that’s part of the deal. As long as the UAE plays along with the agendas of the empire, the empire will tolerate or actively facilitate its abuses.

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I saw a clip of Joe Rogan telling Elon Musk that AI music is his “favorite music now,” gushing about how soulful and moving it is.

Imagine admitting this about yourself in public. AI art is shallow, vapid sensory stimulation made for shallow, vapid people who don’t have enough depth and dimensionality in their consciousness to be moved by profound arisings from the human spirit. They’re just stimulus-response amoebas.

If you tell me you love AI art I won’t try to convince you, I’ll just side-eye you, because while you may not realize it, you are telling me something very revealing about yourself.

People who think AI art is awesome are the AI art of people. 

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We’ve all known someone like Israel. Someone who lies and manipulates all the time. Someone who’s always stirring up conflict and acting like the victim. Someone who’s obtained everything they have by stepping on top of others.

Healthy people avoid such individuals like the plague. We have labels that we use to warn others to stay clear of them. Drama queen. Narcissist. Compulsive liar. Sociopath. Manipulator.

Under ordinary circumstances such people gradually find themselves socially alienated by all but the most gullible and malleable codependents, because normal people can’t stand being around them.

Israel is like if everyone was being forced to be that person’s friend at gunpoint. Say nice things to the sociopath and pretend to believe their lies or you’re getting your head blown off.

Nations who oppose Israel’s crimes find themselves in the crosshairs of the imperial war machine. Organizations who oppose Israel’s abuses find themselves smeared, targeted, and proscribed as terrorist groups. Individuals who oppose Israel’s atrocities get fired, slandered, marginalized, censored, and silenced.

The healthy impulse we all have in ourselves to pull away from such loathsome entities is being overridden by brute force. All normal people want to turn against Israel and do whatever is necessary to end its tyranny and abuse, but the imperial institutions are doing everything in their power to coerce them to comply.

That’s the only reason Israel has any remaining support at all. Hopefully someday they won’t even have that."

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End of very disturbing and revealing article...

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

 6, 2025