Failing To See The Elephant In The Room -- Again! Cardinal Who Announced Bishop Strickland’s Removal Backs Pope Leo’s Leadership!

 Leadership?

Really?

As the article will point out, that "leadership" is a monstrous hate for Tradition and the TLM of the ages.

Is that hate directly from the mouth of Prevost, or is it more about the abomination of his appointments to the bishoprics in the U.S. and around the world?

Again, it is the elephant in the room that is hiding in plain sight, but those with the veil of unbelief cannot see nor recognize that huge beast stomping on the flock of the faithful!

Don't kid yourself; these lunatics are true believers in that they think they are fulfilling the will of God -- by their fruits you will know them!

But remember, it is the SSPX that has been excommunicated and declared in schism...

From lifesitenews.com and written by Myles Allman Thu Jul 16, 2026 - 3:55 pm EDT: Cardinal who announced Bishop Strickland's removal backs Pope Leo's leadership - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — Texans can rest assured that Pope Leo XIV is leading the Catholic Church with compassion, resolve, and deliberate clarity, according to Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston.

Catholics may recall that Cardinal DiNardo was responsible for announcing in 2023 the removal of Bishop Joseph Strickland by Pope Francis after an apostolic visitation determined it was “not feasible” for Strickland to remain as bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.

Three years later, after DiNardo’s participation in the second extraordinary consistory of 2026 convened by Pope Leo XIV on June 26-27 in Rome, the cardinal offered strong reassurance to the faithful in Texas. “I think Texans can be completely assured that Pope Leo is governing the Church very, very well with kindness, but with decisiveness when it’s necessary,” he stated.

The gathering drew 178 cardinals from six continents for two days of discussion and consultation. Cardinals met in language-based groups to address pressing issues, including “synodality” and the pope’s recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Participants reported back to the full assembly, fostering what DiNardo described as “good dialogue.”

“The point of the consistory, I think, is the pope wants to hear from all the cardinals,” DiNardo explained. “The College of Cardinals now is drawn from all over the world … so that you get quite a point of view.” His own English-language group included leaders from Canada, Nigeria, India, and elsewhere.

Cardinal DiNardo highlighted Pope Leo’s leadership style as measured and purposeful. “He’s a canonist, so I think you’ll see in Pope Leo everything is done with a great sense of purpose. He’s not flashy. Everything is done very clearly.” The pope listened attentively, taking personal notes during sessions.

READ: ‘This is a canonical mess’: Fr. Murray explains why SSPX priests, laity are not excommunicated

He remains focused on reviewing the Roman Curia and advancing synodality discussions. DiNardo emphasized that Texas Catholics’ perspectives reach the highest levels through representation in the College of Cardinals. “Insofar as one of the cardinals from Texas, our particular point of view always gets into the consistory.”

During the consistory, DiNardo spoke privately with the pope about the Diocese of Amarillo, where he serves as apostolic administrator while awaiting a new bishop. He described Pope Leo as “very American” in his approachable manner, blending warmth with resolve.

Bishop Strickland: Leo’s encyclical ‘obscures the primacy of God’

Yet another bishop from Texas has expressed an “unease” with some of the “broader theological shift” represented in Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical that was a focal point of discussion during the consistory.

In May, Bishop Joseph Strickland, former ordinary of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, expressed concerns that Magnifica Humanitas “risks placing man at the center in a way that obscures the primacy of God.”

The language of the new papal letter “centers on human flourishing, human vulnerability, human solidarity, human fraternity, human communion, human relationships, human participation, and the preservation of humanity itself,” Strickland wrote at the time.

“The repeated emphasis creates the impression that the primary crisis of the modern world is ‘dehumanization,’ rather than sin against God,” the bishop said. “Evil is often described in terms of fragmentation, domination, exclusion, technological reductionism, or broken relationships, rather than rebellion against divine law and the need for repentance and conversion.”

READ: Bishop Strickland: Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical centers on a theology of man, not God

Cardinal Müller: Synodality a ‘hostile takeover’ of the Church

With regard to “synodality,” Cardinal Gerhard Müller ripped this concept in 2022 under the pontificate of Francis calling this synodal process a “hostile takeover” of the Church that threatens to “end” Catholicism.

“This is a system of self-revelation and is the occupation of the Catholic Church” and “the hostile takeover of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is a column of the revealed truth,” Cardinal Müller told EWTN host Raymond Arroyo at the time. “This has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, with the Triune God, and they think doctrine is only like a program of a political party who can change it according to their voters.”

Yet in his first address after his election on May 8, 2025, Pope Leo affirmed “we want to be a synodal Church,” and in May, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Germany celebrated that Pope Leo XIV “stands in clear continuity with Pope Francis.”

READ: New ‘Synodal Church’ is proceeding full steam ahead under Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo’s appointments promote heterodox views

Concerning the appointment of bishops, the Church has always confirmed the bishop’s solemn duty to safeguard the deposit of faith that it may be handed down to successive generations in all its integrity and vitality.

Expressing as much, Pope St. Pius X quoted the great reformer after the Council of Trent, St. Charles Borromeo, affirming “the Bishop must be eternally on guard and continually vigilant in preventing the contagious disease of heresy from entering among his flock.” And should such a tragedy occur, “he must use every means at his command to expel it immediately.”

Echoing this duty, the Second Vatican Council affirms that among the “principal duties of bishops” is “vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock.” And Pope St. John Paul II also reminded a group of American bishops in 1982 of their vital role in maintaining the “faithful custody of the deposit of faith” and their “duty to defend the word of God against whatever would compromise its purity and integrity.”

Yet, after only 14 months in the Chair of Peter, Pope Leo XIV has appointed bishops who reject the Church’s teaching on sexuality, support the blessing of same sex “couples,” and impossibilities such as “women’s ordination,” attend Masonic Lodge opening ceremonies, and more.

With regard to the consistory, Cardinal DiNardo maintained that “the meetings were excellent,” stating they addressed “some general themes and the pope will deal with them.”

He also told the Texas Catholic Herald that his trip to Rome was “ultimately for the good of Catholics everywhere, including those in Texas.”'

RELATED:

A look back at Pope Leo XIV’s heterodox bishop appointments in his first year

Cardinal Marx: Pope Leo XIV ‘stands in clear continuity with Pope Francis’

Pope Leo XIV’s seminary classmate goes nuclear: The Synodal Church is ‘diabolical’

Pope Leo XIV affirms informal ‘blessing’ for homosexual couples and downplays sexual sin

UNEARTHED: 1995 photo shows Pope Leo XIV participating in Pachamama ritual

End of stunning article!

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

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

Always Remember, It Is The SSPX That Has Been "Excommunicated," And In "Schism"! While THIS Goes On!

 From massresistance.org dated: July 16, 2026

I must apologize in advance for the horrible blasphemies you will read and see in the following article...

In fact, I should WARN all so as not to be scandalized.

Pray earnestly for the conversion of these poor, sick souls and for the clergy that encourages the sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance!

"California MassResistance Catholics confront “gay pride" Mass and radical priests in San Diego

For “Pride” - church interior is desecrated and Mass service altered

Our Catholics have had enough: “Go, and sin no more!”

July 16, 2026

 Contrasting messages from San Diego Catholics: Traditional Catholics outside (left) vs radical message inside (right) during the St. John the Evangelist Church's "pride" Mass.

For many years, faithful Catholics have endured a disturbing pro-LGBT turn in many of their churches. But lately, in some places, that has gone completely overboard. And many Catholics have had enough of it.

The Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego is the most “LGBTQ+” area in town. One would hope that the most prominent Catholic Church there, St. John the Evangelist, would be a beacon of light and truth on that issue. But sadly, it has gone in the other direction.

 St. John the Evangelist Church in San Diego.

Throughout San Diego County, July 11-19 has been designated as “San Diego Pride Week” by the various LGBT organizations – with the Hillcrest neighborhood being the center of activities. As part of that, the St. John the Evangelist Church advertised that it would have an LGBT-themed “All Are Welcome Mass” on Sunday, July 12.

When our MassResistance Catholic leaders in San Diego saw that promotion, they contacted us. They wanted to do something to confront this outrage and let everyone know that there are Catholics standing up to it!

We got right to work with them. At the very least, a strong protest was in order. They also wanted to document what happened inside during that blasphemous Mass. Over the next several days they contacted other local Catholic activists.

Catholics confront the blasphemy

On July 12, our protesters gathered across the street from the church entrance. So the theological tension surrounding the event was evident even before entering the church! The protesters held a Rosary prayer vigil. They held a large banner depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and signs reading “God’s Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman” and “Go, and sin no more” (the latter echoing Jesus’s scriptural words to the woman caught in adultery).

 Across the street from the church entrance Catholic demonstrators prayed the Rosary and sent a strong message.

The vigil drew sharp, hostile reactions from the surrounding Hillcrest traffic. The demonstrators  received numerous obscene gestures, horn blasts, and profane shouts from car windows – much worse than at vigils outside abortion clinics, one of the demonstrators told us.

Inside the church – worse than imagined

Upon entering the church, one immediately noticed the extensive array of LGBT symbols, decorations, and banners everywhere – on the walls, doors, and pews. They were a vivid contrast to the traditional sacred church architecture.

Toward the front, several rows of pews were specifically reserved for representatives of regional parish "LGBTQ ministries," each with rainbow ribbons affixed. In the sanctuary, the visual theme extended to large rainbow flower bouquets and ribbon adornments surrounding the altar space. Even the candles flanking the tabernacle were fitted with decorative collars matching the colors of the pride flag, and a single rainbow ribbon was tied to the parish collection box.

As the Mass was about to begin, representatives from several Catholic churches across the region marched down the center aisle carrying their respective parish LGBTQ ministry banners.

Catholic priests and deacons from across the region participated. Some clerics wore rainbow-patterned stoles over their liturgical vestments. A special pro-LGBT welcome from the Bishop of San Diego was read aloud to the congregation.

While the structural layout of the readings reflected the universal Catholic calendar, the liturgy incorporated a specific scriptural substitution. The universally slated responsorial Psalm for the day (Psalm 65) was replaced with Psalm 139, with the congregation singing the refrain, "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

The petitions explicitly prayed for the LGBT community, transgender individuals, parents of LGBTQ children – as well as refugees, the homeless, the marginalized, and those struggling with mental illness or addiction.

For more detail about this disturbing service, see the Liturgical Observation Report on this "All Are Welcome" Mass, written by one of our Catholic activists who was inside. [Photos by MassResistance]

 Also note the "progress pride" flag hanging from the balcony.

Final thoughts

It’s clear that the local Hillcrest neighborhood residents – and those who attended the Mass that day – got our protesters’ message. Our activists prayed the Rosary, but their signs were bold and hard-hitting (and spoke the truth). It shows how important it is in these situations not to just stand there and be polite.

As we’ve been saying, even if you feel outnumbered, it’s necessary to do at least something!"

   

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End of extremely disturbing article...

Pray for the defeat of these modernist, sodomite 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

This Is Very Scary! Doctors Are Now Making The Case For Death By Organ Donation!!

 I hate going to the hospital, but unfortunately, I've had to make the hospital my "second home" out of the necessity of treating some ailments due to my military service.

For the most part, I was treated well and the protocols did what they were supposed to do.

But going to the ER -- as I've had to do recently -- is not a pleasant thing, taking a toll on me physically and psychologically, not to mention the angst it causes my dear wife, Kathy...

It can be pretty scary for anyone having a long hospital stay for any serious physical trauma not knowing what the eventual outcome will be.  That too, can play very heavily on the mind.

Being a practicing Catholic, though I fall short in many areas of my spiritual life, I offer up the challenges that I have to live with now on a daily basis.  This is all part of growing older -- and hopefully -- wiser!

I do hope I make it to 80 (I just turned 79) that is, if that is what God wants for me... I hope I still have some things to accomplish on this earth, but time will tell...   

Don't get me wrong, I'm really not complaining, especially when I see other veterans and civilian folks a lot worse off.  I often say a prayer for them or include them in our evening Rosary.

If I may relate one instance that occurred while I was in the ER in the Kansas City, Missouri, VA hospital a few years back...

There was a fellow veteran placed in the same cubicle -- separated only by a curtain between us.  This vet was wheeled in by his daughter -- he was in very bad shape.  I could almost see the concern on her face... I had no choice but to hear what they were saying to each other, and how they loved each other, not only in words, but by the concern and her actions toward her dad.

Right then and there I decided to say the magnificent Hail Mary for my fellow brother vet...

As the daughter left the room to get something, as she passed, I quickly said that I was also a Vietnam vet, and that I will pray for your dad.  She was taken aback -- in a good way -- and thanked me very much.  

I'm not bragging here, but it is good to know that others do appreciate a good thought or, better still, a prayer -- a spiritual work of mercy -- that shows kindness and charity toward their loved ones, especially at the time of great physical, mental and spiritual need.

I don't know what the outcome for that Vietnam vet was, but I hope he made it out of there and was able to get back home with his loving daughter and be reunited with other family members as well.

                                                *****

Now the article from lifesitenews.com and written by Heidi Klessig, M.D. 

Mon Jul 13, 2026 - 10:23 am EDT: Doctors are now making the case for death by organ donation - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — A July 8 New England Journal of Medicine article proposes the direct killing of people via organ donation.

In the article “Contextualizing the Dead Donor Rule in an Era of Voluntary Euthanasia,” Dr. Robert Truog and colleagues say that since we’ve already redefined death for our current system of organ harvesting, allowing explicit death via donation is just the next logical step.

The authors’ argument deals with the Dead Donor Rule (DDR), an ethical standard that says patients must be dead before organ procurement and that clinicians must not cause death by organ retrieval. This rule is supposed to maintain the public’s trust in our organ donation system.

But, according to Truog and colleagues, the dead donor rule has already become stretchy:

Though the DDR is considered the “ethical linchpin” of transplantation, it has thus functioned less as a moral absolute than as a moral anchor, whose application requires ongoing interpretation and adaptation.

The authors cite the example of  “brain death,” saying that brain death isn’t actual biological death, but serves as an example of how we can change the definition of death to suit our needs:

Despite philosophical and biologic uncertainty, brain death was adopted into law and medical practice with the 1981 enactment of the Uniform Determination of Death Act, which defined death as the irreversible cessation of all brain functions. Accumulating clinical experience, however, exposed inconsistencies in this integrative concept of brain death. [Dr. Allan] Shewmon reported many cases of prolonged biologic survival after the determination of brain death. These patients were able to grow, assimilate nutrition and eliminate waste, recover from infections and wounds, even gestate a fetus. Amid uncertainty, organ donation continued, revealing a deeper conceptual pivot. The DDR shifted the determination of death away from strictly biologic criteria toward adherence to diagnostic criteria that were enumerated and endorsed by a definitional authority. The Death Requirement and trust in the organ-donation system were not violated if the new concept of death was accepted in social and legal standards. Such contextualization rendered the DDR a flexible moral safeguard, upholding the commitment not to take organs from living people even as the meaning of “death” itself was revised.

READ: ‘Dirty plague rat’: Trauma surgeon describes how unvaccinated were treated during COVID pandemic

When you signed up to be an organ donor, did they tell you that the meaning of death itself had been revised? Most people registering as organ donors believe that they will be cold, gray, and stiff when they donate their organs, but this is never the case. Organs very quickly become unsuitable for transplantation in the absence of circulation: corpses cannot donate viable organs. So, people in a deep coma (with beating hearts) were redefined as being “brain dead,” meaning that the definitional authorities deemed them to be “dead enough” to become organ donors.

The New England Journal of Medicine article also discusses the fact that Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) organ donors also don’t actually meet the U.S. legal criteria for death, which require an irreversible loss of circulatory and respiratory function:

Debate persists over whether DCD practices truly uphold the DDR, particularly in that permanence is not necessarily equivalent to irreversibility. In DCD, death occurs not because resuscitation is impossible, but because it is intentionally withheld, in accordance with patient values, placing patients on a trajectory toward death, which is considered “irreversible” because it will not be reversed. This shift from a biologic to a procedural conception of death again contextualized the DDR, aligning it with general social and ethical understandings rather than empirical finality.… Again, the DDR persists not as an immutable boundary but as a moral framework whose ethical force is maintained by contextualization.

When you registered as an organ donor, were you told of this shift from a biological to a procedural conception of death? That your death would not actually meet the Uniform Determination of Death Act’s legal standard but that you would be considered to be “dead enough” to become an organ donor via “contextualization”?

The article’s authors also say that organ donors all end up dead anyway, so the precise moment of death doesn’t really matter:

In death by organ donation, the patient’s authorization, experience, and outcome are not altered by whether death occurs moments before or during organ retrieval. Ethical focus should therefore shift away from identifying a precise moment of biologic death and toward respecting patients’ autonomous decisions, ensuring that safeguards against coercion and exploitation are robust, and advocating for a transparent and publicly accountable process.

Transparency? Currently, organ donors receive absolutely no transparency about how their deaths will be determined prior to organ donation. No organ donor is ever given the information that any reasonable person would want to know in order to give fully informed consent. Do we really think the process will be transparent and publicly accountable going forward?

Dr. Truog and colleagues say that the ways we are already redefining death for organ donation justify their idea of plunging ahead and allowing direct killing via organ harvesting: “Although death by organ donation may be viewed as a departure from the DDR … we interpret it as consistent with a historical pattern of recontextualization.”

READ: Half of SIDS cases occurred within 48 hours of vaccination, former police detective says

So, because historically we have gotten away with redefining living people as being dead enough to become organ donors, apparently we can now openly call for euthanasia via organ harvesting. This process is also known as the slippery slope.

Rather than continuing to justify these ever-expanding definitions of death for the sake of organ donation, we need to return to recognizing death as a biological reality. And we need to find new, ethical solutions for people with organ failure that don’t involve killing."

Heidi Klessig, M.D., is a retired anesthesiologist and pain management specialist who writes and speaks on the ethics of organ harvesting and transplantation. She is the author of The Brain Death Fallacy and her work may be found at respectforhumanlife.com.

End of very disturbing article...

Pray that these doctors come to recognize the Natural Law and the precious gift of life of our good and loving God and Creator has given to us...

Pray too 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

Are We Surprised At This? ACLU To Spend $25 Million Ahead Of Midterms, Pushing Abortion, Transgenderism!!

 We know that the Church can tolerate evil, but the Church also teaches that evil has no rights, period.

When we see entities, not only pushing evil, but also supplying the money for it, then it is easy to determine that they do not believe in God, His Ten Commandments, or even the Natural Law.

Such is the case with the diabolical -- ACLU!

I cannot figure out which organization is eviler and more wicked: the ACLU, or the SPLC?

We know the track record of both, so perhaps they are fellow travelers in this continued attack on the pre-born -- and the family unit!

These maniacs are the bloodthirsty thugs who are all for the killing of the pre-born, bodily mutilation, as well as fighting for the "rights" of those who perform such barbaric acts upon society -- and themselves!

All sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance!  

As the "midterm" elections are quickly approaching these godless fools are pouring millions of dollars into defeating the politicians (almost all Republicans!) who show any glimpse of being pro-life and who recognize the Natural Law.

The following article from lifesitenews.com and written by Calvin Freiburger Mon Jul 13, 2026 - 4:38 pm EDT: ACLU to spend $25 million ahead of midterms, pushing abortion, transgenderism - LifeSite, will show the extent of what they are doing -- I'm sure, however, that there is a lot going on behind closed doors that we don't see or know about -- does bribery or blackmail come to mind?!

"(LifeSiteNews) — The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has announced a $25 million spending blitz for the 2026 midterm elections, under the guise of advancing “key civil rights issues.”

The ACLU announced July 6 that it and its Voter Education Fund are spending $13 million to “educate” voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, and North Carolina on candidates for state legislature, state supreme courts, and secretary of state races; plus $12.5 million on ballot measures pertaining to “expanding the right to vote, protecting the right to abortion, fighting back against anti-trans measures, and protecting state courts from politicized judicial selections” in Kansas, Missouri, Montana, and Virginia.

“This isn’t just hypothetical: officials across the country have taken action to protect their residents from attacks on our rights and freedoms,” the group declared. “Through our Firewall for Freedom initiative, our efforts have helped secure over 135 executive, legislative, or municipal actions.”

The investment follows $2 million announced by Planned Parenthood Action Fund to target nine vulnerable Republican incumbents in the House of Representatives and a $23.5 voter mobilization campaign launched by Reproductive Freedom for All (the group formerly known as NARAL).

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, national Republicans have largely played defense on the issue, due to public opinion trending against life in polls such as those conducted by Gallup, Pew, and Marist, as well as a difficult track record for abortion-related ballot initiatives.

But those polls also show the public is not on board with the full extent of the Democratic Party and the abortion lobby’s position, which is effectively unlimited abortion throughout pregnancy for any reason, at taxpayers’ expense. Polls also suggest that of those voters for whom abortion is their top issue, pro-lifers are more strongly motivated than abortion advocates.

Republicans are facing an uphill battle in the midterms, as President Donald Trump continues to struggle with an overall 56.5 percent job disapproval rating and widespread discontent with his handling of issues such as abortion pills, federal spending, tariffs, the Iran war, and mass deportations.

The ultimate question remains how that dominance translates to the general electorate. RaceToTheWH currently projects a tied Senate and a Democrat takeover of the House.

But emphasizing social issues popular with their progressive base at the expense of kitchen-table concerns has burned Democrats and their allies before, and could do so again.

After the 2024 presidential election, polling by the pro-Democrat firm Blueprint found that the statement “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class” was the third-biggest reason for why overall voters chose not to vote for her, and the number one reason why swing voters rejected her and voted instead for Trump. A confidential autopsy report initially suppressed by the Democrat National Commission but finally released in May admitted the same."

End of article...

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

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

 

An Italian Archbishop Proposes That A Woman "Co-Preside" The Mass With A Priest!!

 Always remember, it is the SSPX that has been "excommunicated," and is in "schism," but not these wolves in sheep's clothing!

Will Rome condemn this bad actor of the new "synodal church"?

Don't hold your breath...

From infovaticana.com 11 July, 2026: An Italian archbishop proposes that a woman "co-preside" over the Mass with a priest – INFOVATICANA

"The statements of the archbishop-abbot of Modena-Nonantola and bishop of Carpi, Monsignor Erio Castellucci, have opened a new controversy about the liturgy and the ministerial priesthood. In an interview with Notizie Carpi, the prelate raised the possibility of a "co-presidency" of the Eucharist between a priest and a woman, a formula unknown both to the liturgical tradition of the Church and to canon law and the Magisterium.

"As long as women cannot access the ordained ministry, and therefore also the diaconate, a shared presidency of the Eucharist could be imagined: a woman would preside over the liturgy of the Word and a priest would preside over the Eucharistic liturgy. It would be a prophecy of the co-presidency," Castellucci said.

The proposal introduces a concept that does not exist in Catholic liturgical doctrine. The Church has never contemplated a "co-presidency" of the Mass, nor does it understand the liturgy of the Word and the Eucharistic liturgy as two autonomous celebrations that can be presided over by different people. The Eucharist is a single act of worship whose president is the priest or bishop, who acts in persona Christi.

A proposal alien to the discipline of the Church

Although the lay faithful—men and women—may exercise various ministries during the celebration, such as proclaiming the readings (except the Gospel), leading the singing, or performing other instituted liturgical services, the presiding over the Mass belongs exclusively to the ordained minister.

For this reason, the terminology used by Castellucci goes beyond a simple expansion of the participation of the laity. By speaking of "co-presidency", he introduces a category that does not exist in the liturgical books or in the Code of Canon Law and that directly affects the Catholic understanding of the ministerial priesthood and of the very nature of the Eucharist.

A debate already resolved by the Magisterium

The archbishop's statements come as some ecclesial sectors continue to call for an expansion of the sacramental role of women in the Church. However, the Magisterium has set precise limits on this question.

In the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, ["]St.["] John Paul II declared that "the Church has in no way the faculty to confer priestly ordination on women." Likewise, the various commissions created during the last pontificates to study the possible female diaconate have not led to any modification of ecclesiastical discipline.

In this context, the proposal for a "co-presidency" of the Mass raises doctrinal questions that go beyond a mere pastoral initiative, since it affects essential elements of the Eucharistic celebration defined by the constant tradition of the Church.

Waiting for clarification

So far, neither the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith nor the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments have commented on Castellucci's statements.

Meanwhile, the Italian archbishop's initiative once again highlights the tensions between certain pastoral proposals promoted in some ecclesial circles and the liturgical and sacramental doctrine constantly maintained by the Church. It remains to be seen whether the Holy See deems it appropriate to publicly clarify a proposal that, by its formulation, is unprecedented in the Catholic liturgical tradition."

End of very disturbing, but not surprising article...

Pray for the defeat of these very modernist monsters -- and for their conversion to the Catholic Faith that they have abandoned!

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

‘Dirty Plague Rat’: Trauma Surgeon Describes How Unvaccinated Were Treated During COVID Pandemic!!

 'The vaccinated and unvaccinated were treated differently' by medical professionals during the COVID pandemic, says Dr. James Miller.

From lifesitenews.com and written by Doug Mainwaring Sat Jul 11, 2026 - 3:19 pm EDT: 'Dirty plague rat': Trauma surgeon describes how unvaccinated were treated during COVID pandemic - LifeSite

"(LifeSiteNews) — Confirming what many have suspected all along, a former trauma surgeon says that those who did not receive the COVID-19 jab were treated differently during the pandemic, receiving a far lower standard of care than vaccinated individuals did.

In a podcast discussion with host Alix Mayer, Dr. James Miller made one startling statement after another, alleging that the unvaccinated were treated as “dirty plague rat[s]”, and that hospitals were actually nothing more than “killing fields.”

“The vaccinated and unvaccinated were treated differently,” said Miller in a clip of the video interview provided by Sense Receptor. “They started just denying basic health services to unvaccinated people, which spurred not giving diabetes medicine.”

“You could still get emergency care in the ER, but 100% you were treated differently,” said Miller. “You were treated as a dirty plague rat. And this was common in social media, but it was no different in the hospital. The medical community is no different.”

Miller asserted that the Overton window has shifted since the pandemic, with people realizing that the medical establishment is not what they had previously trusted it unquestionably to be.

“After COVID, most people realized their doctors were there for themselves,” he said. “Their doctors were more than happy to give them a toxic substance that would hurt them, like the COVID injection.”

“And I think most people came to see that the hospitals were really killing fields. And that shift has been pretty dramatic,” said the doctor. “I felt that shift in ’22, when I was still working as a trauma surgeon.”

Miller first went public with his story in April 2023, publishing his “COVID-19 Cancellation Story” on the A Midwestern Doctor’s Substack.  Shortly thereafter he appeared on Fox & Friends First to describe how difficult it was to watch the alleged disparity in treatment between those who were vaccinated and those who were not. 

“The hospital and medical community had already been struggling prior to COVID with various departures from reality with narratives including ‘racism everywhere’ and ‘diversity as long as it supports deviancy,’ but it wasn’t appearing to dramatically affect patient care,” explained Miller in his Substack piece. 

RELATED: NYC firefighter’s COVID jab injury case raises the question: ‘Are we entering a new age of tyranny?’

Soon after COVID hit, “[s]uddenly, our hospital outcomes and quality data became hidden and opaque to us,” said Miller. “Prior to this, … data was openly shared and discussed in quality assurance meetings.  The hospital forced upon us a narrative that was pure lunacy and contrary to all available observations and previously available data.”

The narrative soon supplanted observable truth. When a local newspaper’s headline blared, “Local ICU Overwhelmed,” in April 2020, Miller told his colleagues to “laugh at the morons writing the paper” because his hospital — the focus of the article — had never been overfull. 

“I knew we were in serious trouble as a medical community when clinical leaders started believing the words in a newspaper and hospital administrators more than their own eyes and experience,” said Miller. “Then I watched as every policy, practice, and quality metric that makes a trauma and surgical program have good patient outcomes be undermined or abandoned by my colleagues and hospital administration.”

Dr. Miller recounted:

The medical community in the county I was working in (Snohomish, WA) started refusing to care for unvaccinated patients, except in the hospital setting. I couldn’t believe that patients were banned from accessing basic primary care at first, but then I spoke to a man at my church who was denied both refills of his diabetic medications and treatment for a sinus infection by his primary care provider, all because of his COVID vaccination status. 

This was so inconceivable that I still didn’t believe it! Even when patients did make it to the hospital, I learned that the physicians and staff in the emergency room were directed to provide a lower tier of medicine to this group of patients.  It was less than acceptable, and worse, less dignified, than the care given to any other patients pre- and post-COVID.  

I had to verify with physician leaders that they approved of this inhumanity.  I found out that all the major healthcare systems in the county had agreed to this action, and drove the creation of the policies that demanded physicians act in direct opposition to their oaths.  After discovering this, I departed from the medical community in spirit.

With the help of his pastor, Miller went on to create a free clinic at his church to “care for those ostracized from society.”

His clinic patients were “met with maskless smiles, prayer, support, and free medical care,” said Miller.  “Sometimes, people would be waiting in my driveway for me when I arrived home in the early morning after a night shift or late at night after I finished a day shift.” 

“What became obvious as the most important thing about our clinic, is that our patients needed to be treated as valuable people created in God’s image,” Miller declared."'

RELATED: Kaiser Permanente pays over $350k for forcing religious employees to take COVID shots

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Truly bizarre and troubling article...

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Gene DeLalla