Die Kirche ist in die Hand linker Ideologen geraten. Es nützt nichts, die Augen zu verschließen. Was die deutschen Kirchensteuerkirchen ihrem Publikum vorsetzen, enthält nur noch Spurenelemente des Christentums. Von Ausnahmen natürlich abgesehen. Längst organisieren säkulare Kulturkämpfer den Marsch in die Bedeutungslosigkeit.
Typisch für die nachkonziliaren, muttersprachlichen Gottesdienste ist, daß die Texte des AT und NT nur noch als Stichwortgeber fungieren. Damit ist der Weg frei für das Austoben von gefühlsduseligen Dilettanten.
Der Verlust christlicher Identität zeigt sich besonders deutlich am Weihnachtsfest. (Krämer ist letztverantwortlicher für den Schleim-Alien in der Krippe)
Hrvati Stuttgarts Beitrag Eine größere Gruppe kroatischer Katholiken aus Deutschland hat einen offenen Brief an Dr.Klaus Krämer, den Bischof der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, sowie an die Mitglieder der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz gerichtet, in dem sie ihre „Besorgnis um die Einheit, Glaubwürdigkeit und Zukunft der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland“ zum Ausdruck gebracht haben. Anlass für den o.g. offenen Brief war die TV Übertragung (ARD) der Weihnachtsmesse aus Stuttgart, bei der die Darstellung der Weihnachtskrippe mit einem „schleimigen Jesus“ bei den Gläubigen Empörung auslöste. Anbei der offene Brief der unserer Redaktion zugesandt wurde: „Die Sorge um die Einheit, Glaubwürdigkeit und Zukunft der Katholischen Kirche in Deutschland“ Seine Exzellenz, Hochwürdigster Herr Bischof Dr. Klaus Krämer, sowie die Mitglieder der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, in jedem Gottesdienst beten wir für unseren Heiligen Vater, den Papst, sowie für Sie, unsere Bischöfe. Wir beten für unsere …Mehr
Pictures by Matthew Keeny: On January 2, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Reed of Boston offered a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Roman Rite assisted by the priests and seminarians of the North American Province of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Nearly 400 college students attended. The Mass was part of the SEEK conference in the St Patrick’s Dominican Church in downtown Columbus.
Monsignore Robert Reed, Weihbischof von Boston, zelebrierte ein feierliches Pontifikalamt im römischen Ritus während SEEK 2026 in der St. Patrick Church (Dominikaner) in Columbus, mit liturgischer Unterstützung durch die Priesterbruderschaft St. Peter (FSSP). Fast 400 Studenten nahmen daran teil. SEEK 2026, eine neokonservative katholische Konferenz, zog mehr als 26.000 Teilnehmer an.
Monsignor Robert Reed, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, celebrated a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Roman rite during SEEK 2026 at St. Patrick Church (Dominican) in Columbus, with liturgical assistance from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP). Nearly 400 students attended. SEEK 2026, a neoconservative Catholic conference, drew more than 26,000 participants.
«There is a form of liturgical reductionism that the most zealous defenders of contemporary Catholicism often fall into. “It is still valid,” they assert, while ignoring that with each detail of the Church’s worship carried out sloppily or without care, a disease spreads among the faithful. The liturgy is not a sacrament machine, and the Mass is not a meal. For generations of medieval Catholics, who often received the Eucharist only once a year yet commonly and voluntarily attended Mass daily, this was clear. Every rubric of this most sacred worship mattered, consecration and communication alike. God deserves our very best. More than those in our romantic lives. More than those in our family lives. Certainly more than those in our professional lives. These loves are not in competition, nor are they opposed to love of God, and they deserve sincere devotion. But one love stands above all others, surpassing and enlivening them.... The rail slows us down. It stills the body. It grants the …Mehr
La Croix journalists attended a Sunday Mass in Lyon, at the Church of Saint-Georges. Upon leaving, they observed: numerous families with young children; only a handful of older people; some foreigners passing through; and, above all, many young adults.
By Paix Liturgique (Christian Marquant) Nicola Spuntoni, in an article published in Il Giornale on December 16, reveals that the Pope, who has convened an extraordinary consistory for January 7 and 8, will be sending the cardinals a letter before Christmas outlining the three-point agenda for this consistory: their participation in the governance of the Church, synodality, and the liturgical question. It goes without saying that, on this last point, the status of the Traditional Latin Mass after Traditionis Custodes will not be the only topic of discussion, but it is clear that it will be an important one, if not the only raising a debate among the cardinal. This is the opinion of Spuntoni, who is particularly well-informed. It is easy to imagine Cardinals Müller and Burke, and probably Cardinal Brandmüller as well, and others too—Zuppi? Aveline?—advocating for calm. In fact, the media frenzy surrounding that event, not significant in itself but of symbolic importance, as the …
Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller in homily in English at Mass in memory of Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of the Third Anniversary of his death, says of the late Pope: “Both as a professor of theology and a mass sought-after preacher, he consistently put himself in the service of the word. As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he set standards of the highest diligence, intellectual precision and incorruptibility for the Roman magisterium. During his pontificate, he was one of the greatest theologians on the Kathedra Petri.”
“The custom of offering three Masses on Christmas is very ancient, and recalls to our minds the threefold birth of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity—His eternal birth from the Father before all ages, His temporal birth in Bethlehem, and His spiritual birth in the souls of men.” (The Catholic Missal by Very Rev. Charles J. Callan, O.P.)
His Beatitude Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, addressing Christians in Bethlehem today says “the light of Bethlehem is the Light of the World”, adding that “I saw in Gaza disaster there, the situation is really catastrophic, but I saw there also the desire for life”: “Dear friends, brothers and sisters, Merry Christmas! Today I see in Bethlehem is real Christmas! And today you are giving not just to Bethlehem, or the Holy Land, but to the whole world, what is the meaning of Christmas; I’m sure we are not out of all the problems, but today in Bethlehem I see light. Not just the sun, but you the people, I see the light, you are light, we all together are the light, because you decided to be the light. And the light of Bethlehem is the Light of the World. I bring to you the greetings, the prayers, and hugs, of our brothers and sisters in Gaza. I saw in Gaza disaster there, the situation is really catastrophic, but I saw there also the desire for life. In the midst of nothing they have …Mehr
Pater Gwilym Evans von der Priesterbruderschaft St. Petrus beim feierlichen Einzug des lateinischen Patriarchen von Jerusalem in Bethlehem heute. Pater Evans studiert an der École Biblique in Jerusalem und bereitet sich auf die Prüfungen der Päpstlichen Bibelkommission in Rom vor. Behalten wir Pater Evans in unseren Gebeten.
If you have recently lost a loved one or are remembering those who used to sit at the table with you in years past, consider that the Child who is God, born in Bethlehem, came to die for us.
Wie kommt es, dass Josef, der die Augen vor dem Vergehen seiner Braut verschließt, als gerecht bezeichnet wird? Es muss so gewesen sein, dass er um ihre Reinheit wusste. Er verstand das Geheimnis ihrer Schwangerschaft nicht, und obwohl er sich über das Geschehene wunderte, schwieg er. (Hieronymus)