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| Mass for care of creation ready for US churches after Vatican finalizes translations |
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Posted by: Stone - 3 hours ago - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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“Well, we are not of this religion. We do not accept this new religion. We are of the religion of all time; we are of the Catholic religion. We are not of this 'universal religion' as they call it today-this is not the Catholic religion any more. We are not of this Liberal, Modernist religion which has its own worship, its own priests, its own faith, its own catechisms, its own Bible, the 'ecumenical Bible' - these things we do not accept.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Sermon, July 29, 1976)
“What could be clearer? We must henceforth obey and be faithful to the Conciliar Church, no longer to the Catholic Church. Right there is our whole problem: we are suspended a divinis by the Conciliar Church, the Conciliar Church, to which we have no wish to belong! That Conciliar Church is a schismatic church because it breaks with the Catholic Church that has always been. It has its new dogmas, its new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship… The Church that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is, therefore, not Catholic. To whatever extent Pope, Bishops, priests, or the faithful adhere to this new church, they separate themselves from the Catholic Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Reflections on his suspension a divinis, July 29, 1976)
Mass for care of creation ready for US churches after Vatican finalizes translations
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Pope Leo XIV leads the Mass for the Care of Creation, in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 9, 2025. (Pool Via AP/Yara Nardi)
by Brian Roewe, NCR environment correspondent [Slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original, emphasis The Catacombs] | August 27, 2026
The Mass for safeguarding the environment that Pope Leo XIV first celebrated last summer is now available for Catholic churches in the U.S., just in time for the upcoming ecumenical Season of Creation.
The Vatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments finalized Aug. 4 English and Spanish translations of the Mass "for the care of creation," a new set of prayers and texts the Vatican added to the Roman Missal in June 2025.
The completion of the translations proved providential for the Seattle Archdiocese, which plans to use the new texts (known as a formulary) at a Mass Sept. 2 celebrated by Archbishop Paul Etienne at St. James Cathedral to open its celebration of the Season of Creation. The monthlong period of prayer and actions for God's creation runs from Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, to Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
"The timing is ideal to be able to celebrate it when it's new and fresh and just start a new tradition, I guess, to do this each year," said Corinna Laughlin, the cathedral's pastoral assistant for liturgy and consultant for the archdiocese's liturgy office.
The Mass for creation joins 17 other "civil needs" formularies in the Roman Missal, among others for particular needs and other circumstances. Several touch on environment-related themes, such as times of harvest and famine along with prayers for good weather.
Vatican officials said its development was in response to requests for a liturgical means to celebrate the messages of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." In that papal teaching document, Francis bemoaned the numerous ecological threats facing the planet, including climate change and biodiversity loss, and called on Christians to act.
"At this time it is evident that the work of creation is seriously threatened because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods God has endowed to our care," Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the divine worship dicastery, wrote in the decree issuing the new formulary.
The first iteration of the Mass for creation was celebrated in July 2025 by Leo at the Borgo Laudato Si' ecology project in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome. He is set to do so again on Sept. 1. But before it could be used in most churches in the U.S., it first needed to be translated from Latin.
Along with the exemplar originale Latin text, the Vatican released working translations to assist national bishops' conferences in preparing them for use in their native languages. The English translation was led by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, which includes the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In June, the U.S. bishops' unanimously approved the translation, which were then sent back to Rome for final confirmation.
A similar process unfolded for the Spanish translation, which was undertaken through a collaboration by the U.S. bishops' conference and the Mexican Episcopal Conference.
Fr. Dustin Dought, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Divine Worship, said the procedure for approving adaptations of liturgical texts was outlined in Francis' 2017 motu proprio ("on his own initiative") Magnum Principium. That document gave bishop conferences responsibility for translating into local languages.
"His insight there was that the conference of bishops is closest to the culture and language that it serves," Dought said.
The new formulary will be included in future editions of the Catholic Lectionary for Mass. In the meantime, the U.S. bishops' conference has posted translations for both the English and Spanish versions of the Mass for the care of creation on its website, as well as bulletin inserts.
Along with creation-themed prayers, the formulary suggests readings for the Liturgy of the Word, including passages from Matthew's Gospel where Jesus calms the sea and where he instructs his disciples to learn from the birds in the air and flowers in the field to trust in God's providence.
Before the Mass for creation was issued, some Catholic churches prepared ecological liturgies at various times, even at the occasion of the first Earth Day in 1970. The practice has grown in the past decade, including with "Green Masses," following Francis' invitation for Catholics to join fellow Christians in marking the Season of Creation.
Tuty Gunawan sings during a prayer service marking the summer solstice and celebrating the beauty of creation at the motherhouse campus of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, N.Y., June 20, 2024. (OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Having a Mass for the care of creation formally added to the Roman Missal is a major step, said Jesuit Fr. James Hug, who for years has developed liturgical resources for the Season of Creation.
"It's official, and that makes it legitimate to use," he said, calling the prayers "lovely" and affirming the Christian mission to care for the world God has created.
That stamp of approval from the Vatican is important, Hug added, for many priests who may have been hesitant to use other creation-centered liturgical resources in the past, whether ones he prepared or from groups like the Catholic Climate Covenant or Laudato Si' Movement.
"It says that this is the concern of the whole church," Laughlin said. "This isn't just a thing we pray about but a really important universal concern."
At Seattle's St. James Cathedral, the new formulary will be used at the Mass with the archbishop as well as a weekend Mass later in the month. Other parishes have also expressed an interest in planning their own liturgies for creation.
Dought said his office has received many inquiries about when the Mass for the care of creation would be available.
Preparations are already in the works in at least a half-dozen dioceses to celebrate the Mass for the care of creation. That includes the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese, where Archbishop Bernard Hebda will be the lead celebrant Sept. 6 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Lake St Croix Beach, situated along the St. Croix River in Minnesota.
School Sister of Notre Dame Kathleen Storms, who too for decades has developed creation prayer services, is eagerly anticipating the first use of the new formulary in the Twin Cities region.
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Sr. Kathleen Storms shows tomatoes grown in a raised garden bed made by her brother with recycled cedar planks at her apartment in West St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 17, 2022. (CNS/The Catholic Spirit/Dave Hrbacek)
"Even with everything we've seen just this summer — with the fires and the floods and the huge hurricanes and all of the rest — sometimes there is no connection between what's going on there and what the church teaches about care for creation," she said.
Storms hopes the new Mass for creation will lead more priests to uplift Catholic social teaching on creation and to preach on environmental concerns. How and when a formulary is used is mostly left to the discretion of the pastor, who weighs it against other feast days and holy dates on the liturgical calendar.
Catholics who have been eagerly anticipating the new formulary see in it the potential to expand awareness of Laudato Si' and other church teachings on creation, as well as cultivate the ecological conversion both Leo and Francis have said is essential to spur the level of collective action needed to address crises like climate change and deforestation.
"The liturgy does something that a lecture can't do. The liturgy does something that a catechism can't do," Dought said.
Laughlin, the liturgical consultant in the Seattle Archdiocese, turned to the church adage "Lex orandi, lex credendi" — how we pray expresses what we believe.
"What we lift up at Mass really shapes our understanding of what church teaching is, even without going to other documents. ... It tells us this is part of what we believe. This is significant enough and substantial enough that this is part of the Mass, which is source and summit.
"So I think planting the seeds there will make a difference, because obviously we need to be praying about this."
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| Leo XIV's New Chinese Bishop Composed Hymn to Communist Party |
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Posted by: Stone - 3 hours ago - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo XIV's New Chinese Bishop Composed Hymn to Communist Party
Leo XIV announced that Honggang Liu, 55, was consecrated a Bishop for the Chinese Diocese of Datong on August 31.
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gloria.tv | August 31, 2026
ChinaCatholic.cn admitted today that Liu was elected bishop-designate of Datong on 28 April 2026. Vatican.va wrote today that Leo XIV did not formally appoint him until 10 August. Thus, Liu was selected unilaterally through the Chinese process more than three months before the papal appointment.
Career Cleric of State Church
Liu has been since his seminary time a career cleric of the state-controlled apparatus “Patriotic association”.
He became the state’s diocesan administrator of Datong in March 2005. He effectively administered the same diocese for two decades before becoming its bishop today.
Chinese sources has called him for years the director of the Datong Municipal Catholic Patriotic Association and head of the diocese. Currently he is vice-director of the Shanxi Patriotic Association (provincial-level leadership post).
Raising Chinese Flags in Churches
In October 2018, the Datong Catholic Patriotic Association and diocese participated in the nationwide campaign to raise Chinese flags at Catholic religious sites.
Liu led personally priests, sisters and Catholics at the flag-raising ceremonies while officials attended.
The stated objectives included the strengthening of national consciousness and practicing “socialist core values”.
2018: Datong Catholics Denounce State Pressure
On 26 November 2018, AsiaNews.it published an open letter by eight Catholics of the Diocese of Datong. The title was: “We cannot remain silent on the oppression of our faith.”
The Catholics mentioned that in Liu’s diocese:
- a church cross had been demolished;
- an entire church had been demolished;
- Catholics' freedom to attend gatherings was obstructed;
- large religious gatherings were severely restricted;
- regular celebration of the Eucharist was being restricted;
- they lacked a fixed place for Mass;
- purchasing Bibles/religious books had become difficult;
Liu wrote a reply simply denying the facts as completely fabricated.
Communist Re-Education for Clergy
On 25 June 2021, Liu personally led Datong Catholic clergy on a Communist Party-history education excursion.
They visited the Daqüanshan memorial and the Dongfanghong Museum, studied Mao Zedong's history and Communist revolutionary history.
Furthermore, they viewed Mao badges, quotations, portraits and collected works. The official report says participants wished a greater prosperity for China under the Party's leadership.
To express the sentiments of “all the clergy of the Diocese of Datong,” Liu wrote a poem celebrating the Communist Party's centenary during the excursion.
2023: State Demolition Continues
On 22 February 2023, AsiaNews.it reported that the police had demolished a diocesan building in Datong which had been used as a residence for priests and nuns.
It had stood for approximately 100 years and had the necessary permits.
Datong Catholics circulated messages asking people to pray for the mayor's “unreasonable behaviour” to stop.
AsiaNews explicitly connected the incident to the 2018 open letter, recalling that Datong Catholics had already complained of increasing government oppression.
There is no public protest or condemnation of the demolition by Monsignor Liu.
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| Pope Leo appoints archbishop who offered Pachamama ritual |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 06:53 PM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo appoints archbishop who offered Pachamama ritual
Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera was named coadjutor archbishop of Cusco, Peru, after participating in a Pachamama ritual.
Aug 31, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV named Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A, as coadjutor archbishop of Cusco on Saturday, just weeks after Herrera attended a ritual offering to Pachamama.
Per the Vatican daily bulletin on August 29, Pope Leo appointed Bishop Herrera, who had served as the auxiliary bishop of Cusco and as secretary general of the Peruvian bishops’ conference, as coadjutor archbishop, meaning he will become the next ordinary of the archdiocese upon a vacancy.
Earlier this month, during a conference in the same Peruvian city ahead of Leo’s November visit to the country, Herrera attended an Andean ritual dedicated to Pachamama, which involved cocoa leaves, food offerings, and guided breathing exercises.
Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, a priest and canon lawyer who serves in the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and as papal commissioner for clerical sexual abuse cases, notably took an active part in the August 13 pagan ritual. Bishop Miguel Ángel Cadenas of Iquitos, Peru, was also in attendance.
Following the ritual, Michael Hichborn reported that the event was also organized “to dialogue, share their demands, and build agreements around human rights and the common good,” drawing together:
Quote:Representatives of social organizations, indigenous and peasant communities, women’s and youth groups, LGBTIQ+ people, people with disabilities, human and environmental rights defenders, relatives of victims of state violence, and faith communities.
“So, in addition to opening the meeting with idolatrous veneration of a pagan deity, the meeting was held in conjunction with LGBT groups to include such in the promotion of ‘human dignity’ and ‘human rights,’” Hichborn stated in his article.
Exactly a week after the ritual, an “unusually powerful” 6.7-magnitude earthquake that struck near Arequipa was felt by about 2.4 million people, including those in Cusco. Thankfully it appeared to have resulted in no deaths and minimal injuries and structural damage.
Earthquakes have historically been associated with God’s divine punishment for sin. And while this earthquake may not have been the result of God’s punishment, the possibility cannot be ignored.
The Catholic Church teaches that as a result of the fall, evil entered the world and affected nature, creating the possibility for natural disasters.
Indeed, in the book of Genesis, we see God punish the world for its grave sins by destroying it through the great flood, or the deluge, sparing only Noah and his family.
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| Fr. Gelineau: With the New Mass We Destroyed the Roman Rite |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 06:34 PM - Forum: The Architects of Vatican II
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Fr. Gelineau: With the New Mass We Destroyed the Roman Rite
Joseph Gelineau, Demain La Liturgie: Essai sur l'évolution des assemblées chrétiennes, Paris: Les Éditions du CERF, 1976, pp. 8-12
TIA | August 28, 2026
Fr. Joseph Gelineau (1920-2008) was a Jesuit priest, a preferred member of Bugnini’s Consilium, the Pontifical Commission established to implement Vatican II’s liturgical directives. His words about the New Mass can thus be said to carry the weight of Consilium's authority.
In this excerpt from his essay, Tomorrow the Liturgy, he states that the New Mass destroyed the Roman Rite, transforming it into a completely different liturgy.
“In truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This must be stated without ambiguities: The Roman Rite as we knew it no longer exists. It is destroyed.”
He also explains how those changes were prepared and declares that the original Roman Rite will never return.
Below, our translation from the French original.
Quote:On the eve of the Council, the vast edifice of Roman rites seemed capable of withstanding the centuries to come. At least, that was what most Catholics – bishops and laity alike – believed.
Slowly built up through the life of local churches and the sharing of their distinctive customs; gradually unified throughout the Roman Church following the Council of Trent; increasingly encumbered with meticulous prescriptions and prohibitions by rubricists; ideologically exalted by the revival of liturgical piety initiated by Dom Guéranger and Saint Pius X; firmly upheld through the publication of liturgical books ... this edifice appeared unassailable. Yet, it was riddled with serious cracks.
The absolute nature of a rubric ... can persist for a time and up to a point by appealing to "obedience to the Church" and by virtue of the aura of the "sacred" naturally inherent in the rite. But when such practices end up stifling prayer or reaching a certain level of absurdity, people eventually recall that just as the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath, so also are rites made for people, not people for rites. Once such a critique takes hold ... the process becomes unstoppable. ...
The most dramatic instance is that of the Latin language, to which the chant repertoire was inextricably linked; upon this repertoire, in turn, depended the temporal unfolding – verbal, sonic, ceremonial and visual – of the liturgy, all of which combined to create the overall image of the rite. Let there be no mistake: Translating is not simply saying the same thing using equivalent words; it is a matter of changing the form. Yet, liturgy is not merely a vehicle for information or instruction where only the content matters; it is a symbolic action enacted through meaningful "forms." If the forms change, the rite changes. If a single element is altered, the entire structure of meaning is transformed. Let those who, like me, experienced and celebrated the High Mass sung in Latin and Gregorian chant recall it – if they can. Let them compare it with the current post-Vatican II Mass. It is not only the words, the melodies and certain gestures that differ.
In truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This must be stated without ambiguities: The Roman rite as we knew it no longer exists. It is destroyed. The walls of the original edifice have fallen, while others have changed in appearance to the point that the structure today resembles either the ruins or the partial foundation of another building.
The point is neither to weep over the ruins nor to dream of a historical reconstruction. Liturgical renewal is a manifestation of the Church’s will to live – much like missionary or biblical renewals. When the poor are starving because no one breaks the bread of the Word for them, something must be done. ...
However, it would be a mistake to equate this liturgical renewal solely to the reform of rites mandated by Vatican II. This reform has much deeper roots and extends far beyond that specific event. Liturgy is a work in progress. The fact that the rites ... had eventually reached a state of near-total stagnation does not mean their evolution ended. Indeed, the current renewal was gradually prepared even within the context of that post-Tridentine fixation. ...
In another area, a significant shift was taking shape. Since the Middle Ages, the liturgy had been primarily a clerical act that the laity merely attended. Even cantors or altar servers had to be classified as clerics to serve as ministers of worship. Gradually, the baptized relearned that they, too, were "empowered for worship" – that they were not merely passive, silent spectators, but active participants in the celebration. The symbol of this growing awareness was the widespread adoption after the 1930s of the "dialogue Mass" – a development achieved only after a struggle against the “rubricists”.
The thirty years preceding the Council saw all these seeds begin to germinate. This was the "liturgical renewal" – what Pius XII called a "passing of the Holy Spirit through His Church." ... Many of the French hymns that still form the core of the repertoire for congregations today date back to that era. Without this ferment and long period of preparation, the Second Vatican Council’s reform would neither have been possible nor made sense.
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| Holy Mass in New Hampshire - September 6, 2026 |
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Posted by: Stone - Yesterday, 10:39 AM - Forum: September 2026
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Date: Sunday, September 6, 2026
Time: Confessions - 10:00 AM
Holy Mass - 10:30 AM
Location: The Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary
66 Gove's Lane
Wentworth, NH 03282
Contact: 315-391-7575
sorrowfulheartofmaryoratory@gmail.com
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| Amish fight New York vaccine mandate for children: ‘Left with no choice’ |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-29-2026, 08:09 AM - Forum: Health
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Amish fight New York vaccine mandate for children: ‘Left with no choice’
New York has fined Amish private schools $118k – more than they can pay – for refusing to vaccinate children, and now the Amish are heading to the Supreme Court.
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Amish people in Leola, Pennsylvania on June 30, 2017.
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Aug 28, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — New York’s large Amish population is threatening a mass exodus from the state as a court battle against forced vaccines for children rages on. The Amish are now pinning their hopes on the case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Governor Kathy Hochul has continued to insist that Amish children attending school in one-room schoolhouses — which receive no state or federal funding — must submit to her state’s tyrannical vaccine mandates or incur massive fines.
New York requires schoolchildren to receive between 24 and 27 shots, according to the New York Department of Health (DOH) vaccine schedule.
So far, three state-targeted Amish schools have racked up a total of $118,000 in civil penalties.
The attorney for the Amish explained to the New York Post that they could only pay if the state seized their land.
Up until 2019, the Empire State allowed religious exemptions for vaccines required for schoolchildren but rescinded those exemptions after a measles outbreak in an Orthodox Jewish community.
“Have we gotten to a place where we aren’t going to make room for the Amish anymore?” plaintiff attorney Hiram Sasser asked.
“When you think of Americana — apple pie, fireworks — the Amish are on that list. They’re part of the American fabric. They’re a good litmus test of our religious liberty and our tolerance,” Sasser told the Post.
“Watch ‘Little House on the Prairie.’ It’s the one-room schoolhouse and Laura Ingalls Wilder teaching the kids. It’s a way of life that used to predominate across America, but the Amish are still holding on to it. We’ve acknowledged that as a nation and given them their space this whole time. And now that’s being tested,” Sasser said.
“Hochul previously told a church congregation that those who refuse Big Pharma’s vaccines on religious grounds ‘aren’t listening to God and what God wants,’” Tucker Carlson’s Friday news brief noted.
“Who does she think she is?” he asked.
Conservative online commentator Liz Churchill expressed similar shock and dismay over Gov. Hochul’s heavy-handedness.
“Kathy Hochul’s New York State is fining the Amish over $100,000 DOLLARS because of their tyrannical vaccine mandate. They’re legally abusing the only people in America who don’t bother anyone,” Churchill wrote on X.
“Absolute Psychopath,” she added.
Hochul isn’t the only one condemning the Amish, who only want to be left alone from government overreach.
“The religious exemption in New York State is made up. It’s fake. Because there is no religion that objects to vaccines,” New York Sen. James Skoufis is quoted as saying in the Amish’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.
New York Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz likewise objected to the notion of religious exemption, claiming, “It is just utter garbage.”
“We, as a peace loving religious group, are sincerely sorry that we are causing the state a prob (sic). We are indeed grateful to the state of NY for the many privileges, freedoms, and protections they have blessed us with, for many years,” plaintiff Ezra Wengerd 55, wrote in a letter shared with reporters.
“Our Almighty God wants us to fully put our faith and trust in Him. Which is in conflict to put our trust in vaccines. We are also commanded to not be conformed to this world,” he added.
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| The North American Martyrs and the Myth of the Noble Savage |
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Posted by: SAguide - 08-28-2026, 08:18 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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The North American Martyrs and the Myth of the Noble Savage
Paul Krause
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September 26 is the feast day of St. Isaac Jogues in the pre-55 Calendar (0ct. 19 in the N.O. calendar). He was a Jesuit missionary working and living among the Mohawk Indians in the 1630s and 1640s before being tortured and beheaded on October 18, 1646. Few Catholics, especially Catholics in America, even know of the story of the North American Martyrs. Why?
In an age when we are meant to weep and cry over the tragedy of the Native Americans due to European settlement and Christianization, none are told to weep over the Europeans who were brutally butchered at the hands of the indigenous populations that routinely warred and killed each other prior to the arrival of European settlers. The Mayans were active sodomites, and some of their surviving artwork celebrates sodomite lust and violence. The Aztecs engaged in human sacrifice, cannibalism, and a slavery far worse than the Atlantic slave trade. The mound-building Native Americans in the interior river basins of North America also engaged in ritualistic human and child sacrifice. These were hardly noble and peaceful people before the arrival of Europeans.
The defenders of these horrors argue that the Christian (predominately Catholic) sources overexaggerated the brutality of the natives to justify conquest. This is typical among the Christ-hating intellectual establishment. Dismiss all the evidence that doesn’t conform to your presuppositional ideology. If facts don’t fit the theory, dismiss the facts as fake.
It is important for Catholics to have the memory of the North American martyrs for several reasons.
First is that the story of the Catholic martyrs suffering from the hands of the Native Americans dispel any illusion that the natives were peaceful victims of supposed European aggression. On the contrary, it was often native aggression toward Europeans that sparked the wars between the settlers and Native Americans. Why weep for Native Americans when holy saints were flayed alive and had their skulls crushed by tomahawks? Eradicate that memory and the tragedy of the Native Americans can be weaponized for contemporary political goals.
Second is that the story of the Catholic martyrs shows that America’s founding, her true roots, rest not in the Protestant settlement of New England or the American Constitution but in Christ’s holy work through His Church. The seed of America is bathed in the blood and labor of Christ’s ministers and martyrs and not abstract political documents which make no reference to Christ, His Gospel, or His Church, whatever benefits may have come from those documents.
Equally bound up with the remembrance of St. Isaac Jogues, and the other North American martyrs: St. René Goupil, St. Jean de Lalande, St. Antoine Daniel, St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Noël Chabanel, St. Charles Garnier, and St. Gabriel Lalemant, is the inspirational faith that they exhibited—especially among the Jesuit missionaries, considering the state of the Jesuit order in North America today. St. Isaac Jogues, for instance, reportedly said upon his missionary odyssey, “I go, but I shall never come back again.”
St. René Goupil, a lay assistant for St. Isaac Jogues, was the first to be tortured and killed, in 1642. He, along with the martyred missionary priest, began to convert the Huron to Christianity, which enhanced Mohawk animosity toward them (because, contrary to the myth of peaceful Native American relations, the Huron and Mohawk hated each other and were bitter enemies; the Mohawks used the Hurons’ conversion as a pretext for war).
When the two missionaries entered Mohawk villages, they were immediately captured without provocation, tortured, and St. René Goupil was butchered by several strikes to the head with a tomahawk. St. Isaac Jogues was ransomed by Dutch traders afterward but was undeterred by native brutality and continued his missionary efforts. What a heroic faith! When he pressed into the wilderness frontier in 1646 to continue his missionary efforts, he was once again tortured. He was then killed alongside St. Jean de Lalande and their bodies were desecrated and thrown into the Mohawk River.
The Native Americans who had converted to Catholicism later captured the killers of the French missionaries. Condemned to death, one of the killers, much like the Good Thief, converted and was baptized and took the name of Isaac Jogues before he, too, went to stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.
Culture is bound up with memory. The memory of the saints is one of the hallmarks of Catholic culture and keeps the culture Christian. The loss of the memory of the saints leads to the deracination of culture and the poverty of memory. Why are these heroic, martyred saints not remembered or widely known among the North American faithful? The answer is that there is a war on Christianity in the form of neglection and forgetfulness; and this is the subtle killer of Christian culture, the neglect of memory and consciousness that passes on stories from generation to generation.
Moreover, Catholics who venerate the Native Americans who killed such brave ministers of Christ and His Gospel are the unwitting pawns of the new cultural vandalism. The attempt to impose onto the Catholic faithful the memory of Catholic atrocities against the Natives while ignoring the Native killing of Europeans and Catholic missionaries inverts the celebratory heart of Catholics. Rather than celebrate the holy martyrs who died for Christ, Catholics are subtly forced to mourn those who waged a war against Christ and His Church.
But the war against Christianity and Christian memory doesn’t stop with the idolization of the myth of the noble savage. Some go as far as to politicize the issue—as always—and now claim that the decline of the Native Americans caused “climate change.” This ideological propaganda aims at destroying any Christian veneration of the Christianization of the New World because Christianity, which is directly tied to North American settlement, “caused climate change.” If we are to remember Christianization in the New World, it is something to be understood as bad.
The stories of the martyred saints who engaged in the true “errand into the wilderness” remain an inspiration for all God-fearing Catholics on this continent. It is also a window into the realities of Native American society in contrast to the myths we propagate about them. Lastly, the story of the martyred saints in the North American wilderness reveal to us the true roots of American civilization and culture: Christianity, the Catholic Church, and the missionary heart.
The martyred saints courageously crossed boundaries and learned new languages and sat—side by side—with people different than they, people with injured souls in need of the treatment only Christ can offer. The North American martyrs are the real heroes of the faith who embarked on a true errand into the wilderness to try and serve and save souls in desperate need of God. Their efforts to lovingly convert the Native Americans to the Church of Christ ought not be forgotten. They continue to show us the true, and only, path forward in a culture as barren as the seventeenth century and in need of the seeds of life and love.
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| RFK Jr. confirms: This vaccine has ‘billions’ of aborted baby DNA pieces |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-27-2026, 08:19 AM - Forum: Health
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RFK Jr. confirms: This vaccine has ‘billions’ of aborted baby DNA pieces
RFK Jr. said the MMR vaccine has around ‘646 billion’ pieces of DNA from an aborted baby cell line, correcting the leftist governor of Pennsylvania.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Aug 26, 2026
(LifeSiteNews) — Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro on Tuesday for denying religious exemptions to vaccines and also confirmed that aborted babies’ tissue was used in the creation of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
“At his press conference today, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro accused me of promoting conspiracy theories because I told him, during an earlier telephone conversation, that some Americans had religious objections to the MMR vaccine because it contained fetal tissue. ‘There is no fetal tissue in the MMR,’ he told me,’” Kennedy recounted in a lengthy X post.
“The rubella virus used in MMR-II is grown on the cultured cell line composed of lung tissue from an aborted three-month-old female embryo and listed as ‘WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts’ in the ingredients of MMR-II as portions of these cells end up in each vial of MMR II,” he noted.
Kennedy included a clip from a videotaped deposition of Stanley Plotkin, inventor of the MMR vaccine, taken in 2018. The deposition was conducted by attorney Aaron Siri.
During his testimony, Plotkin admitted to “butchering” 76 aborted babies – all of whom were over three months old – “in just one of the many studies that led to the development of his vaccine,” the HHS secretary said.
Kennedy further noted that “approximately 646 billion pieces” of DNA from an aborted baby cell line are in every vial of the MMR-II vaccine.
“In addition to the human DNA, there is also an unspecified amount of human cellular debris in each dose of MMR-II,” he said.
When questioned, Plotkin said that he was cognizant of objections to the inclusion of aborted babies’ tissue in the development of vaccines, and the fact that they are actually part of the ingredients of vaccines.
“I’m aware of those objections,” said Plotkin, a self-described atheist. “The Catholic Church has actually issued a document on that which says that individuals who need the vaccines should receive the vaccines regardless of the fact.”
“I think it implies that I am the individual who will go to hell because of the use of aborted tissues, which I am glad to do,” he declared.
Plotkin has served as a consultant for Big Pharma for decades on how to make their products. He admitted to Siri during the 2018 deposition that he used experimental vaccines on orphans and the mentally ill for testing purposes.
During a December 2024 interview with Tucker Carlson, Siri told his stunned host that some childhood vaccines have “literally millions of pieces from the cultured cell line of an aborted fetus in every single injection’ and that vaccines are cultivated on ‘aborted fetal tissue’ that are ‘alive.’”
Siri also took to social media on Wednesday to back up Kennedy’s response to Gov. Shapiro.
“RFK Jr. is correct,” said Siri. “The fact is that there are billions of fragments of human cellular debris and DNA from the cultured cell line of an aborted fetus in every injected dose of MMR, chicken pox, and Hep A vaccines.”
Siri then provided links to articles that chart the use of aborted fetal cell tissue in the development of vaccines.
Kennedy pushed back on Pennsylvania governor’s lies:
Quote:“During our phone conversation, Governor Shapiro also accused me of promoting vaccine misinformation. When I asked him for an example, he was unable to provide one, but this did not deter him from publicly repeating that accusation during his press event,” explained the HHS secretary. “As I told him, HHS does not tolerate misinformation by any employee. I offered to point to hundreds of instances of vaccine misinformation by the Biden administration about which I had never heard him complain.”
He continued:
Quote:Governor Shapiro also faulted me for the decline in Pennsylvania vaccination rates from 97% – 93.2%. When I pushed back on this assertion, he acknowledged that most of the decline occurred during the Biden administration. It’s unfortunately true that the government lockdowns, deceptions, manipulation, and overreach during Covid severely damaged public faith in the vaccine program.
Governor Shapiro’s press conference was an example of the same species of gaslighting.
Kennedy added that “The Trump administration is working to restore public trust not by gaslighting or manipulating, but by being truthful, at last, with the public.”
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| Padre Ruiz biography page |
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 08-25-2026, 08:26 AM - Forum: Fr. Ruiz's Sermons August 2026
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Fr. Hugo Ruiz Vallejo
Full page and more pictures link here: Fr. Ruiz bio page
The YouTube channel connected to this site is honored to house the sermons of Fr Ruiz, ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Econe, Switzerland on June 29,1985. He was the first Mexican priest ordained by the Archbishop. His apostolate is currently just outside Mexico City, serving the Catholic “Resistance” faithful of Mexico and far beyond via his internet sermons.
To contact Fr. Ruiz, you may email him at: cinefamiliarmexicano@gmail.com
May God bless this true son of Archbishop Lefebvre and may he continue to persevere in the Faith. Deo gratias!
Buenos Aires, agosto 1979. Padre Ruiz primer año de seminario. El es tercero de derecha a izquierda.
Buenos Aires, August, 1979. Fr. Ruiz’s first year of seminary. He is third from right to left.
Fr. Ruiz’s Ordination on June 29, 1985 in Econe, Switzerland
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