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The Roman Catholic Church never was, nor is she, nor will she ever be a democratic institution. The Magisterium cannot be entrusted to democratic procedures. Christ was not elected the Church’s head: he is her founder and master. - The Church Is Not a Democracy by Chilton Williamson Jr. at Crisis Magazine Years before being received into the Catholic Church, I witnessed how protest and rebellion defined and compromised the mainline Protestant community in which I was (validly) baptized. Other non-Catholic communities I attended prior to having been received into the Church were equally compromised by: divorce and remarriage (adultery); tacit approval of cohabitation (fornication); loss of Apostolic teaching about the uniqueness of Jesus Christ (heresy), the Real Presence; and so on. John 17:9; 16 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. While parents and...

Fr. Doug Hayman/foolishnesstotheworld.wordpress.com The ACS has the story:  https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2019/10/27/meet-our-new-canadian-dean/#respond

"You may not like moral reality, but it exists without your permission. In fact—and here’s the most infuriating part—it doesn’t need your permission. Rather, you need its permission, or all kinds of bad things will happen to you(.)" - Robert R. Reilly at Crisis Magazine

Grin & Bear It Polar bears - thought to be a diminishing species, are managing better than we have been led to believe, at least according to an eminent scholar recently fired from her position at the University of Victoria. A " world-renowned expert in animal bone identification" claims she "lost her position at the University of Victoria (UVic), she believes for telling school kids politically incorrect facts about polar bears." https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/was-this-zoologist-punished-for-telling-school-kids-politically-incorrect-facts-about-polar-bears A More Apt Acronym? Depending on who you talk to, Appointment Reappointment Promotion and Tenure (ARPT) committees - or is that TRAP committees? -  can behave like a pack of wild dogs or devoted Labrador Retrievers. They can do great good and may help create outstanding university departments, or they can be quite prone to dysfunction that leads to mediocrity or mayhem. Bear N...

Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, "prolific writer, (...) one of the most prominent living theologians (and) member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission", wrote an essay posted at The Catholic Thing wherein he cites several areas of serious concern. https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2019/10/08/pope-francis-and-schism/ What Francis does not realize (and his close associates fail to grasp) is that the overwhelming majority of his American critics would never initiate a schism. They recognize that he is the pope and thus the successor of Peter, and that to remain within the Catholic Church is to remain faithful to the pope, even if it entails being critical of the pope in one’s faithfulness to him. Some may wish that an actual schism will take place in America in order to get rid of the obdurate conservative element and so demonstrate that they were not really Catholic all along. But that is not going to happen, because those critical bishops, priests, theolo...

The Reverend Father George Rutler at Crisis Magazine wrote: https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/a-grammar-of-dissent An obligation attaches to the grammar that speaks heart to heart, however, and that duty consists in a simultaneous use of the brain. Sentiment detached from thought will lead down wayward paths. This “heart to heart” language—the cor ad cor of Saint Francis de Sales, which Bl. (now Saint) John Henry Cardinal Newman made his motto—is always clear. Newman described the process of attaining certitude in his “Grammar of Assent.” Few minds could match his, just as few could equal his wordcraft, and no one could be confused about what he thought or how he said it. That is not a mere coincidence. It’s thankworthy that Pope Francis will canonize Newman. Let it be a reminder to all that, no matter how nouns and adjectives and adverbs are employed, messy thinking is a Grammar of Dissent. Fr Rutler's essay invites us to investigate Newman's essay: http://ww...

On the eve of the canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2019/10/12/on-the-eve-of-the-canonization-of-cardinal-john-henry-newman/ By Deborah Gyapong The day started with Divine Worship Mass at a chapel in the North American College with Bishop Steven Lopes. With him was a group of pilgrims and clergy from Our Lady of Walsingham, our cathedral parish in Houston. Nigel McBain, a seminarian from Australia, was the cantor and what a beautiful voice he has! It was great to meet all these folks. Msgr. Carl Reid had just arrived after a long flight from Australia. So, Nigel and Msgr. Carl and I went to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith so they could get instructions and tickets, etc., for tomorrow’s canonization, then we went out to lunch. Read More: HERE John Henry Newman, a saint of the Anglican family by Christopher Mahon John Henry Newman, the world-renowned convert from Anglicanism and founder of...

Saint John Henry Newman, formerly Blessed John Henry Newman, a community of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, now has a new website: http://www.victoriaordinariate.com Do visit! Saint John Henry Newman, a quasi-parish, worships at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, 849 Old Esquimalt Road, Victoria, BC.

Music to include: Opening Hymn: Come, ye thankful people, come (St. George) Introit: Cibavit eos (Mode II) Kyrie: Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria) Gloria: Orbis Factor Credo: Merbecke Offertory: For The Beauty Of The Earth (Dix) Motet: Thou visitest the earth (Greene) Sanctus: Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria) Motet: O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria) Communion Hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus (Crusader's Hymn)

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/rambler/consulting.html I see, then, in the Arian history a palmary example of a state of the Church, during which, in order to know the tradition of the Apostles, we must have recourse to the faithful; for I fairly own, that if I go to writers, since I must adjust the letter of Justin, Clement, and Hippolytus with the Nicene Doctors, I get confused; and what revives and re-instates me, as far as history goes, is the faith of the people . For I argue that, unless they had been catechised, as St. Hilary says, in the orthodox faith from the time of their baptism, they never could have had that horror, which they show, of the heterodox Arian doctrine. Their voice, then, is the voice of tradition; {214} and the instance comes to us with still greater emphasis, when we consider—1. that it occurs in the very beginning of the history of the " Ecclesia docens ," for there can scarcely be said to be any history of her teaching till the age ...

Priesthood Discourse 3. Men, not Angels, the Priests of the Gospel  (from the Newman Reader) [...] All good men are not Saints, my brethren—all converted souls do not become Saints. I will not promise, that, if you turn to God, you will reach that height of sanctity which the Saints have reached:—true; still, I am showing you that even the Saints are by nature no better than you; and so (much more) that the Priests, who have the charge of the faithful, whatever be their sanctity, are by nature no better than those whom they have to convert, whom they have to reform. It is God's special mercy towards you that we by nature are no other than you; it is His consideration and compassion for you that He has made us, who are your brethren, His legates and ministers of reconciliation. This is what the world cannot understand; not that it does not apprehend clearly enough that we are by nature of like passions with itself; but what it is so blind, so narrow-minded as no...

Brethren, in the days before our beloved Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman is raised to the altar as Saint John, we might gather around a table of his writings and savour the clarity, depth and breadth of this master of the theological arts. And so a poem on (i.e., contra) liberalism. One could hope that the pious supporters of a certain synod might stray near Newman's writings and restore in themselves a preference for Catholicism. Laudetur Iesus Christus! 83. Liberalism {144} "Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan." Ye cannot halve the Gospel of God's grace; Men of presumptuous heart! I know you well. Ye are of those who plan that we should dwell, Each in his tranquil home and holy place; Seeing the Word refines all natures rude, And tames the stirrings of the multitude. And ye have caught some echoes of...