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| Holy Mass in Idaho [Pocatello area] - December 30, 2025 |
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Posted by: Stone - 22 minutes ago - Forum: December 2025
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Time: Confessions - 11:30 AM
Holy Mass - 12:00 PM
Location: Holiday Inn Express - Scout Mountain Room [Confirm location with coordinator at number below]
200 Via Venitio
Pocatello, ID 83201
Contact: 208-406-7144
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| "I Am Not Here to Give Dates or Names of Future Bishops" - Father Pagliarani FSSPX |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-24-2025, 04:43 AM - Forum: The New-Conciliar SSPX
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"I Am Not Here to Give Dates or Names of Future Bishops" - Father Pagliarani FSSPX
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gloria.tv | December 23, 2025
The Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, Fr Davide Pagliarani, spoke on December 13 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, about the future of the Fraternity. Main quotes, video sequence below.
- The question of future bishops' consecrations is the million-dollar question.
- I am not here to give dates or names.
- Does a state of necessity exist in the Church today, as it did in 1988 when Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four bishops? This state of necessity is more clearly recognisable today than in 1988.
- After the pontificate of Pope Francis, we find ourselves in an emergency situation. Although the Pope has passed away, his decisions remain epoch-making, problematic and far-reaching. This pontificate exemplifies the state of necessity within the Church from start to finish.
- In ordinary parishes, the means for the salvation of souls are often lacking. The preaching of the truth and the administration of the sacraments are no longer guaranteed.
- The consecration of bishops is not about an internal problem of the Priestly Fraternity, but about the good of the Church.
- It is not only necessary to prepare the ceremony of bishops' consecration, but also hearts. Such decisions must be made through prayer.
Video here: https://gloria.tv/post/ry2gLtGG78VR6KERaNAaR1nc8
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| Diocese of Charlotte to have seminarians to spend extra ‘pastoral year’ teaching, living as laity |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-24-2025, 04:22 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Diocese of Charlotte will require seminarians to spend extra ‘pastoral year’ teaching, living as laity
Each seminarian will receive full pay and benefits, but they will be required to pay bills out of their teaching salary, and they won't be permitted to wear clerical garments.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — The Diocese of Charlotte under Bishop Michael Martin, OFM, plans to add an extra “pastoral year” to its seminary formation that will require seminarians to work in Catholic schools full-time while largely living as ordinary laymen, beginning the next academic year.
The changes to priestly formation, announced in a December 15 email memo obtained by The Pillar, will require seminarians to spend an additional “pastoral year” in between their required philosophy and theological studies, teaching full-time at local middle or high schools, purportedly to experience the daily challenges of the lay faithful they hope to shepherd as clerics.
During this “pastoral year,” each seminarian will have a “lay mentor” and receive full pay and benefits, but they will be required to pay bills out of their teaching salary, apparently in addition to paying for an extra year of tuition, and they won’t be permitted to wear clerical garments.
The changes to seminary formation are just the latest changes made to the diocese by Martin who has heavily restricted the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and even banned the use of communion rails for Novus Ordo Masses.
READ: Charlotte bishop officially bans altar rails for Communion as of January 16
This pastoral year will be an opportunity for those seminarians “who have little working experience to take on the demands of a full-time job, paying bills, and learning how to manage the elements of daily life that the people in our parishes have to balance all the time,” the memo said.
The memo added that the goal of this pastoral year is to allow “sustained and substantial time in pastoral ministry in a way that the assignments given by our seminaries simply cannot provide.”
One anonymous diocesan priest told The Pillar the additional pastoral year is “bizarre.”
“(The program is) adding another year to the (seminary) formation for something that doesn’t seem to be directly applicable to priestly life and ministry,” he said.
Some faithful have also noted concerns that these men are likely unqualified to teach before they begin their theology studies.
The Diocese of Charlotte did not respond to LifeSite’s multiple requests for comment on the new seminary requirements by publication time.
The seminary changes are just the latest changes Martin has made since being installed as the bishop of Charlotte in 2024. Earlier this year, Martin set off a firestorm of controversy when he merged the diocese’s four Latin Masses to just one small Little Flower chapel 40 miles from downtown Charlotte, which purposely cannot accommodate all the faithful who wish to attend the TLM.
Within the last week, Martin officially ordered that all altar rails and kneelers no longer be used for the reception of Holy Communion at all Novus Ordo Masses by January 16, 2026. He also ordered churches to remove all “temporary or movable fixtures used for kneeling” for Holy Communion.
As The Liturgy Guy pointed out, the Diocese of Charlotte inherited from Martin’s predecessor, Bishop Peter Jugis, a relatively high number of vocations to the priesthood, suggesting this may 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 high number of seminarians could also have been attributed to Jugis’s previous seminary program.
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| Pope Leo’s new bishop of Tucson supported Communion kneeler ban, Latin Mass restrictions |
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Posted by: Stone - 12-24-2025, 04:17 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Pope Leo’s new bishop of Tucson supported Communion kneeler ban, Latin Mass restrictions
Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Monsignor James A. Misko, the vicar general of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, as the next bishop of Tucson, Arizona.
Tue Dec 23, 2025
(LifeSiteNews [slightly adapted, not all hyperlinks included from original]) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Monsignor James A. Misko, the vicar general of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, as the next bishop of Tucson, Arizona.
Bishop-elect Misko will be consecrated and installed as the eighth bishop of Tucson on February 20, 2026, the diocese announced December 22.
As vicar general of Austin, Misko enforced the suppression of multiple Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) and the ban on Communion kneelers, while also urging the faithful to get the abortion-tainted COVID jab.
Misko, 55, will succeed Archbishop Edward Weisenburger, now the archbishop of Detroit, who has also suppressed the Latin Mass and was one of the strongest supporters of the COVID jab.
Misko’s background
Misko was ordained to the priesthood in 2007 in the Diocese of Austin, where he would serve at various parishes. Since 2019, he has served as vicar general and moderator of the curia for the diocese, and served as the diocesan administrator from March to September 2025, following Bishop Joe Vásquez’s appointment as the bishop of Galveston-Houston until his successor Bishop Daniel Garcia officially replaced him.
Misko holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from St. Edward University in Austin, as well as a Master of Arts in theological studies, a Master of Divinity, and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the University of St. Thomas and St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston. Between 1991 and 2000, prior to his time in seminary, Misko worked in the restaurant industry.
TLM suppression and Communion kneeler ban
Misko has long shown an apparent disdain for traditional liturgical practices. In 2024, the Austin diocese under Bishop Vásquez, during Misko’s tenure as vicar general, shut down the well-attended Latin Masses that had been celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral, citing Traditionis Custodes and guidance from the Dicastery for Divine Worship (DDW). The two Sunday TLMs were replaced with Latin Novus Ordo celebrated ad orientem (facing east) with Gregorian chant.
In September of this year, just as Bishop Garcia officially took over the diocese, a scheduled Latin Mass at Texas A&M University was abruptly canceled.
In November, under Garcia’s direction, Misko signed a memorandum asking pastors to no longer use kneelers for the reception of Holy Communion, emphasizing that standing to receive the Eucharist is considered the “norm” in the U.S. as determined by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
READ: New bishop of Austin directs priests to remove kneelers for Communion: ‘Wicked and cruel’
The use of kneelers (prie-dieus) during Holy Communion “could confuse the faithful” about this norm, while communicating that kneeling to receive the Eucharist is “more appropriate,” Misko wrote in the directive.
Setting out a kneeler near the distribution of the Eucharist could also allegedly “could put undue pressure on the communicant” to receive kneeling, the directive added.
Misko further instructed pastors to explain to communicants who have difficulty getting up without a rail after kneeling that “they are not offending God by not kneeling” and that the priest recommends they receive standing.
“At the same time, it is important to catechize the faithful that one can receive Holy Communion with the same reverence standing and that there should not be an emphasis on kneeling for Holy Communion by priests, deacons, and lay liturgical leaders,” he wrote.
The tradition of the Catholic Church, 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, the Code of Canon Law, which binds all bishops and priests in the Roman Rite, is very clear that the faithful’s choice to kneel to receive Communion is not a sufficient reason for them to be denied the sacrament:
Quote:Sacred ministers cannot deny the sacraments to those who seek them at appropriate times, are properly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them. (Can. 843 §1.)
Any baptized person not prohibited by law can and must be admitted to Holy Communion. (Can. 912)
Championing of abortion-tainted COVID shots and migrants
Misko also championed the COVID jab, urging the faithful to get vaccinated as soon as the experimental shots were available. The monsignor even dismissed Catholics’ concerns about taking some of the abortion-tainted shots in an interview with a local media outlet.
“The good that can come from using these vaccines so far outweighs the remote evil that the person would be participating in,” Misko said.
Several Catholic prelates have refuted the idea that the supposed good from the COVID shots outweighs the remote evil cooperation that recipients participate in by taking the abortion-tainted jabs.
In a seminal intervention of December 12, 2020, around the same time Misko urged the faithful to get their shots, Bishop Athanasius Schneider – along with co-signers Cardinal Janis Pujats, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Archbishops Tomash Peta and Jan Pawel Lenga – expressed their strong conviction that any use of a vaccine-tainted with the “unspeakable crime” of abortion, under any circumstances, “cannot be acceptable for Catholics.”
Like many of Pope Leo’s bishop appointments, Misko is also staunchly pro-migrant. The monsignor, along with leaders from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, had helped to create “welcome centers” for migrants, one of which was hosted by Catholic Charities of Central Texas. It’s unclear whether these “welcome centers” provided aid to only legal immigrants in need or illegal aliens as well.
Catholic Charities has been sharply criticized, including by Catholics, for its alleged aiding of illegal immigration. Catholic Charities manages the day-to-day care for many unaccompanied alien children (UACs) and, along with the USCCB, has received $449 million from the U.S. government to shelter and transport unaccompanied immigrant children over the years.
Similarities to previous bishop of Tucson
Misko’s predecessor, Archbishop Weisenburger, has been involved with similar restrictions on the TLM and traditional liturgical practices in his new archdiocese of Detroit. In June, the archbishop officially suppressed most celebrations of the Tridentine Mass in the archdiocese and even banned the ad orientem posture for Novus Ordo Masses.
READ: Detroit archbishop shuts down most Latin Masses, bans ad orientem worship
While serving as bishop of Tucson, Arizona, Weisenburger was also among the most stringent in the country in applying restrictions on the faithful during the COVID crisis, closing churches and implementing mask mandates in the spring of 2020 while encouraging Catholics to take the abortion-tainted shots and instructing all priests within his diocese not to issue religious exemptions for the jab or mask mandates.
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