RORATE CÆLI: Strong Communiqué of the Chartres Pilgrimage: “Clericalism-Caudillism never works well, motu proprio will be difficult to apply in a Church which is in a catastrophic situation.”

Traditional-minded Catholics from all over the world are familiar with the largest of all current Catholic pilgrimages, the Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage

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RORATE CÆLI: “A pope would be schismatic… ‘if he if he were to change all the liturgical rites of the Church that have been upheld by apostolic tradition’.” (Francisco Suárez / Klaus Gamber)

Only four years had passed since the publication of the new Missal when Pope Paul VI surprised the Catholic world

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RORATE CÆLI: Op-Ed by Top French Philosopher Michel Onfray: “I’m an Atheist, but the Latin Mass is Our Patrimony: Francis is Destroying It; He is Doing What He Was Elected to Do.”

OPINION – The writer and philosopher, despite being an atheist, sees in the Catholic Church and her rites the heartbeat

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RORATE CÆLI: Op-Ed: “Francis Has Unleashed a War: It Will End With the Full Triumph of Tradition.” (Roberto de Mattei)

The intent of Pope Francis’s motu proprio Traditionis custodes, of July 16, 2021, is to repress any expression of fidelity

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RORATE CÆLI: Skandalon: the drama of the history of the papacy

In the passage from Saint Matthew’s Gospel that we have just heard, Peter makes his own confession of faith in

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RORATE CÆLI: Guest Op-Ed: A Lie About John Paul II’s Words Underpins Francis’ motu proprio

The publication of this document, although expected, is much more despotic and cruel than anyone could have imagined. Canonists and

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RORATE CÆLI: A RORATE CÆLI Editorial: The Attack of Hatred and Vengeance Against the Latin Mass Should be Ignored

As confident as we were in our sources forecasting today as the day of reckoning for Summorum Pontificum and the

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RORATE CÆLI: Article: “Legal Considerations on the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes” – Restrictions demand strict interpretation

1. Principles The motu proprio “Traditionis Custodes” was issued by Pope Francis on 16 July 2021, along with an accompanying

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RORATE CÆLI: “Beyond Summorum Pontificum: The Work of Retrieving the Tridentine Heritage”: Full Text of Dr. Kwasniewski’s Roman Forum Lecture

The following is the transcript of the lecture I gave at the Roman Forum on July 3. A video of

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RORATE CÆLI: URGENT – PRAYERS! – Highly Reliable Source says Motu Proprio against Summorum could be published this Friday

We have learned from a source that is usually highly reliable that Francis’ attack on Summorum Pontificum is signed &

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