Mike the Pike

The leadership of the Catholic Church on earth at this time is dominated by a network of active homosexuals and theological modernists. --Peter Kwasniewski

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Last Ember Days of 2025

Dec 17, 2025 Ember Wednesday of Advent
Dec 19, 2025 Ember Friday of Advent
Dec 20, 2025 Ember Saturday of Advent

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Mike the Pike

Sorry I'm late.

Mike the Pike

What happened to Billy F ?

Have not seen Billy F in a while. Anyone know what happened?

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Mazza La Ragazza

Billy F mentioned he was going to Canada to visit a shrine.

Ivan Tomas

Indeed, Billy F is missing. May God bless, keep and lead him on all his ways.

"Two days before [Charlie Kirk's] death, Mr. Shillman angrily questioned Mr. Kirk for giving a platform to [Tucker Carlson] and informed him he was withdrawing a $2 million pledge to Turning Point."

TPUSA has verified that this email is legit.

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I believe Candace Owens is a good and honest journalist. Listen to hear arguments: candaceowens.com

Jeffrey Ade

As if anyone would trust TPUSA! LOL!

Mike the Pike

The synodalist eschews those weapons given to us by a triumphant conquering Christ, in exchange for the shiny new baubles of the zeitgeist.

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Tiring of God

O yes, synoding. Restrain your laughter (or fear) as I present an enticing morsel from the official
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This bears as much resemblance to Catholicism as a seven-year-old’s birthday party. More woefully, it has as much to do with religion as astrology has to do with astronomy.
But synodality is the most recent in a long line of embarrassing experiments of the past half century. It seems as though the Church’s leaders have one rule: if an experiment has failed because of its absurdity, the next one must be made more absurd.
An older generation of Catholics can bear this out. They must admit an embarrassing familiarity with such lovelies as: Call to Action, Nuns on the Bus, The Archdiocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Congress (still enduring with all the risibility of an octogenarian wheelchair race), Confessional Rooms, Lenten Rice Bowls, The St. Louis Jesuits, Liberation Theology, Seamless Garment and multi-colored clerical shirts. But that is …

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Jeffrey Ade

You caught my attention with Zeitgeist!

Mike the Pike

Acedia - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins; sloth).
• This sin of acedia results in a fleeing from God, with the manifestation of conducting business with anything save the things of God. Nothing expresses more accurately the malady of synodality. It flees from the climb to Calvary with any and every activity that bears resemblance to that salvific Hill.

Mike the Pike

Heads Up! Ember Days this week

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Instaurare Omnia in Christo

Thank you for reminding us.

Mike the Pike

As Venerable Lúcia dos Santos explained, the Blessed Virgin asks for four acts of devotion on the first Saturday of five consecutive months: Confession within about eight days before or after Saturday, with the intention of reparation (some say it can be within 20 days during this jubilee year); Holy Communion (preferably on the first Saturday, but allowed within a day if necessary); praying five decades of the Rosary; and, in addition to the recitation, meditating for 15 minutes on one or more mysteries of the Rosary.

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Cardinals Burke and Sarah Back Global Push for First Saturday Devotion at 100 Years

Cardinals Burke and Sarah Back Global Push for First Saturday Devotion at 100 Years
At the centenary of Our Lady’s 1925 request at Pontevedra, Portugal, Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah highlight the need for reparation to her Immaculate Heart.
Cardinals Raymond Burke and Robert Sarah are among senior prelates urging greater participation in the First Saturday Devotion and are backing an initiative that originated in France, aimed at encouraging the faithful to take part.
The Marian devotion, which is centered on making reparation for offenses and blasphemies against Mary’s Immaculate Heart that include denying her perpetual virginity or the Immaculate Conception, promises two immense graces for those who participate with true devotion and repentance: Our Lady’s assistance at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation, and peace on earth.
The 100th anniversary of the devotion is Dec. 10. To mark its centenary, the “Alliance of the First Saturdays of Fatima”…

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What has been done to correct the Vatican's fake narrative?

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New Evidence Confirms CDF Report, Erodes Vatican Narrative on Traditional Latin Mass Restrictions

New Evidence Confirms CDF Report, Erodes Vatican Narrative on Traditional Latin Mass Restrictions
A response to the Vatican’s July 3 statement on the newly released documentation concerning Traditionis Custodes
VATICAN CITY, July 10, 2025 — More evidence has come to light confirming the authenticity of the sections I
published last week from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s final report on its 2020 survey of bishops concerning the implementation of
The sections I published on July 1 comprised the CDF report’s
Since publishing that story, I have obtained the Vatican protocol number for the CDF final report. Additionally, I have obtained the
Both the protocol number and the new book in Italian on the CDF final report.
This follows Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni’s comments last week in which he downplayed the sections of the CDF final report that I published on July 1. He said he would not confirm the sections’ authenticity, that they “presumably” were only a “very …

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Mike the Pike

The USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities is inviting Catholics to join a focused effort of prayer to stop taxpayer funding of the abortion industry.

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USCCB urges Catholics to pray to St. Joseph for end of taxpayer-funded abortion - LifeSite

(LifeSiteNews) — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has asked the faithful to invoke the intercession of St. Joseph, Defender of Life
In a July 24 announcement, the USCCB emphasized that people should not be forced to pay for the killing of unborn children or the facilities that murder them and encouraged Catholics to say a prayer to St. Joseph, Defender of Life, each day leading up to October 1, the first day of Respect Life Month.
The U.S. bishops’ announcement comes after a federal judge blocked part of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (BBB) that bans federal tax dollars going through Medicaid to any organization that commits abortions for reasons other than rape, incest, or supposed threats to the mother’s life for one year.
“Americans should not be forced to pay for the killing of preborn children or fund the clinics that kill them,” the statement said. “The USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities is inviting Catholics to join a focused …

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Mike the Pike

"The USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities is inviting Catholics to join a focused effort of prayer to stop taxpayer funding of the abortion industry."
2025 Nationwide Invitation to Prayer

To commemorate the Army’s 250th birthday.
Back in the day, July 4th was a patriotic day.

Vanity parade comes with hefty price tag; will displace Vietnam veterans event
Jen Psaki shares reports thatupcoming military parade in Washington, D.C. is expected to cost as much as $45 million, not counting clean-up and road repairs afterward. The spectacle will also force an annual event for Vietnam veterans to be moved away from the Vietnam War memorial. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | …

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Irapuato

Mike the Pike boy, you seem to be right...

Mike the Pike

I wonder if DC is planning on starting a war...

Mike the Pike

“the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. -- Bishop Fulton Sheen, 'Communism and the Conscience of the West'

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Fulton Sheen in 1948: "Satan will set up Counter-Church"

The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in
Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself that he would deceive even the elect — and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion?
The pre-Communist Russian belief is that …

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The Synodal church.

Denis Efimov

"There will be a Counterfeit Church. Christ's Church, the Catholic Church will be one, and the False Prophet will create the other. The False Church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association, a world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content; it will be the mystical body of the Antichrist. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the False Prophet. Satan will recruit him from our bishops." (Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, (1948), pp. 24-25).

Mike the Pike

Archbishop Viganò

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SonoftheChurch

Not possible. He’s excommunicated…and is a sedevacantist.

Mike Paul Smith

Vigano for Pope!!!

Mike the Pike

Happy Easter !

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Cesar Chavez Day commemorations should highlight the labor leader's Catholic faith - LifeSite

LifeSiteNews) — March 31 is officially recognized as Cesar Chavez Day in ten states. Streets, schools, and parks across the country are named after Chavez. He is featured on a stamp in the U.S. Postal Service’s “Great Americans” series.
These are fitting tributes for the labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW). The union used nonviolent strikes and consumer boycotts to improve working and living conditions for Mexican American and other farm workers beginning in the 1960s.
But 32 years after Chavez’s death, commemorations will downplay how his public and private lives were rooted in his Catholic faith. That’s not surprising in an increasingly de-Christianized America, where violence and mayhem have become the hallmarks of the leftist movement for social justice.
Cesario Estrada Chavez was born near Yuma, Arizona, in 1927 to parents from Mexico who had acquired a 160-acre ranch through the Homestead Act. He credited his mother and grandmother …

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Orthocat

For a second I thought it was a photo of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis! Talk about "separated at birth"

Mike the Pike

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

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Mike the Pike

The last three Ember Days of 2024 are December 17, 19, and 20.
Ember Days are observed on the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday-Pentecost, the Feast of the Holy Cross, and the Feast of St. Lucia (December 13).

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All Saints

I think it is 18, 20 and 21.

John A Cassani

Up until Ember Days were abolished by Nuchurch, Ember Saturday in Advent was the day most Roman seminarians were ordained to the priesthood.