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I found some good news!

Good news for American Catholics, and for those who value having a strong, faithful Catholic Church thriving in American society....

Nationwide survey shows orthodox Catholic priests are rapidly replacing ‘progressive’ clergy

Amidst a crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass, confusion on established Church teachings on sexuality, and liturgical abuses, good news has emerged for faithful American Catholics and the future of the Catholic Church.

A new study from Catholic University of America found that most new priests, those ordained after 2020, consider themselves “conservative” or “orthodox,” while there are fewer and fewer “progressive” priests.

The survey of 10,000 priests conducted by The Catholic Project represents a statistically significant amount, as there are roughly 37,000 priests in the United States.

“Simply put, the portion of new priests who see themselves as politically ‘liberal’ or theologically ‘progressive’ has been steadily declining since the Second Vatican Council and has now all but vanished,” the report stated.

All of the right people are upset about this:

Dissident National Catholic Reporter has also taken notice, with articles about the increasing conservatism of priests and seminarians.

There a few reasons for the dramatic shift:

1) After the sex abuse crisis broke in 2002, there was a purge of many homosexual priests. Seminaries were scrutinized and many were reformed entirely -- to restore holiness in formation and orthodoxy in faith.

2) After Pope Benedict allowed the Latin Mass to be made widely available, young families with lots of kids found themselves in communities who desired to raise their children together in devotion and faith. Vocations come from large families.

3) The appearance of homeschooling groups and new Catholic classical academies also created communities of young families devoted to truth and faith.
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Just for fun, here is National Catholic Reporter's reaction to a similar survey from a few years ago:
New survey raises concerns about increasingly conservative clergy

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BREAKING: Pope Francis personally removes America’s Bishop Joseph Strickland

In removing Bishop Strickland from the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, Pope Francis has canceled one of the most faithful, forthright and vocal bishops in the United States.

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– Pope Francis has removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from his role of shepherd and bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas.

The shock announcement came via the Holy See’s daily bulletin, November 11. It stated simply:

The Holy Father has relieved from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler (U.S.A.) H.E. Msgr. Joseph E. Strickland and appointed the Bishop of Austin, H.E. Msgr. Joe Vásquez, [Bishop of Austin] as the Apostolic Administrator of the vacated diocese.

Bishop Strickland had been formally asked to resign by Pope Francis, in a request that came via the papal nuncio Cardinal Cristophe Pierre. Strickland declined this request, but now – upon the direct order of the Pope – is vacating his diocesan see.

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BREAKING: Pope Francis personally removes America’s Bishop Joseph Strickland

ANGER

[Jocose]

I found some good news!

Good news for American Catholics, and for those who value having a strong, faithful Catholic Church thriving in American society....

Nationwide survey shows orthodox Catholic priests are rapidly replacing ‘progressive’ clergy

Amidst a crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass, confusion on established Church teachings on sexuality, and liturgical abuses, good news has emerged for faithful American Catholics and the future of the Catholic Church.

A new study from Catholic University of America found that most new priests, those ordained after 2020, consider themselves “conservative” or “orthodox,” while there are fewer and fewer “progressive” priests.

The survey of 10,000 priests conducted by The Catholic Project represents a statistically significant amount, as there are roughly 37,000 priests in the United States.

“Simply put, the portion of new priests who see themselves as politically ‘liberal’ or theologically ‘progressive’ has been steadily declining since the Second Vatican Council and has now all but vanished,” the report stated.

All of the right people are upset about this:

Dissident National Catholic Reporter has also taken notice, with articles about the increasing conservatism of priests and seminarians.

There a few reasons for the dramatic shift:

1) After the sex abuse crisis broke in 2002, there was a purge of many homosexual priests. Seminaries were scrutinized and many were reformed entirely -- to restore holiness in formation and orthodoxy in faith.

2) After Pope Benedict allowed the Latin Mass to be made widely available, young families with lots of kids found themselves in communities who desired to raise their children together in devotion and faith. Vocations come from large families.

3) The appearance of homeschooling groups and new Catholic classical academies also created communities of young families devoted to truth and faith.
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Just for fun, here is National Catholic Reporter's reaction to a similar survey from a few years ago:
New survey raises concerns about increasingly conservative clergy

https://x.com/Sachinettiyil/status/1723 ... 84477?s=20

The joyful ordination of 18 young Americans at St Peter’s Basilica

According to a survey conducted by the Catholic Project, around 85 percent of the newly ordained Catholic priests in the US consider themselves as conservative/orthodox or very conservative/orthodox on theological issues.

The future belongs us who love the Church teachings and the ancient liturgy!

[Wosbald]

+JMJ+

Source: Catholic Review / OSV News
Link: catholicreview DOT org/jesuits-minister-to-migrants-waiting-in-dangerous-mexican-border-cities/

Jesuits minister to migrants waiting in dangerous Mexican border cities

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MATAMOROS, Mexico — Celebrating an outdoor Mass in a camp for migrants amid a cold and unrelenting rain, Jesuit Father Brian Strassburger preached patience. He spoke of “The Parable of the Ten Virgins” from the Gospel of Matthew, urging the assembled migrants to “wait well” as they bided their time in trying conditions.

“Things don’t always go as quickly as we want or hope for and sometimes we have to wait — and we have to wait well,” Father Strassburger said.

To wait well, he said, “we ask for God’s wisdom to comfort us and help us to be more patient and trust in God.”

He urged them to become involved in tasks such as maintaining the camp, forming friendships and taking advantage of catechism classes given by local priests — recalling how migrants have been able to have their children baptized and confirmed while waiting in shelters.

“God’s time is perfect,” he said. “We cannot think of our time here as wasted time.”

More than 2,000 migrants are waiting in Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, Texas, as they attempt to snag appointments through a phone app for entering the United States known as CBP One.

The process can be frustrating as some of the appointments are randomly assigned, while others are given to people who have been in the system for long periods of time, according to Father Strassburger.

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But waiting can prove trying, especially with insecurity rife in Matamoros and migrants targeted by kidnappers.

“People are not meeting their (CBP One) appointments because they’re being kidnapped,” Sister Norma Pimentel, director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, told OSV News.

“I started seeing people abandoning their appointments and crossing the river because they were afraid” to remain in Mexico, said the Missionary of Jesus sister. She added that U.S. officials still grant appointments to those who were absent due to kidnapping.

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The Mexican bishops’ conference’s migrant ministry issued a statement Nov. 15, describing Mexican migration authorities’ strategy as “containment, detention, deportation and militarization,” while warning, “We do not see a clear strategy of coordination between the three levels of government in response to the inhuman conditions experienced by migrants and refugees in Mexico.”

It also expressed alarm over large numbers of migrants being stuck in cities throughout Mexico and warned of Mexico “becoming a big migration station for migrants, in which they are not permitted (legal) stays, but neither are they allowed to transit toward their destination.”

Mass at the migrant shelter — set on an abandoned hospital site surrounded by tents — ends with the Jesuit team providing migration information as best they understand it.

Father Strassburger counsels sticking with the CBP One application, which he says has improved after being “beta tested on migrants” after its introduction in January.

“The shelters here were full of desperate people and now they’re in the United States,” he told the migrants. “With patience and faith everyone is going to receive their appointment.”

Father Strassburger has worked with migrants stranded in Mexico since his ordination in 2021 and assignment to work in the Diocese of Brownsville.

Working with Jesuit Father Flavio Bravo and Jesuit scholastic Joseph Nolla, Father Strassburger celebrates Mass for migrants four days a week in Matamoros and Reynosa, 50 miles west, along with celebrations at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, where newly arrived migrants are assisted reaching their final destinations in the United States.

He often ministers to them in trying conditions — such Mass in a soggy camp along the Rio Grande, where migrants not wanting to leave sight of the U.S. border wait for CBP One appointments or stay until paying smugglers to cross the river.

Amid the difficulties, he sees inspiration in the migrants’ perseverance.

“I find the migrants are the best example of how they use their faith as a source of hope in the midst of a situation that can be otherwise so despairing,” Father Strassburger said. “They often inspire me.”

[Del]

+JMJ+

Source: Catholic Review / OSV News
Link: catholicreview DOT org/jesuits-minister-to-migrants-waiting-in-dangerous-mexican-border-cities/

Jesuits minister to migrants waiting in dangerous Mexican border cities

Lots of real Christians are helping victims of Biden's migrant crisis too.

[Hugo Drax]

Somebody should minister to the Jesuits.

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The socialist government in Spain has just outlawed public recitation of the Rosary.

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https://x.com/ShaneSchaetzel/status/172 ... 40712?s=20

The socialist government in Spain has just outlawed public recitation of the Rosary.

A news story to back this up:
https://www.outono.net/elentir/2023/11/ ... he-street/

Just under 100 years ago, the secular zealot government of Mexico attempted to outlaw and suppress religion. The very Catholic population rose up in rebellion, with three years of protests, violent persecutions, and many martyrs. We call this unrest "The Cristero War."

This was a mere decade after the Russian Revolution. Another zealous secular government attempting to suppress the faith of Orthodox Christians.

Not to mention Nazi persecution of German Catholics.

The last century or so have seen many instances of "leftist" tyrannies striving to suppress religion and persecute Christians in Christian nations. This is not new. It can easily happen here.

[Del]

Somebody should minister to the Jesuits.

And suppress them.