Damian Thompson @holysmoke Twitter profile

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

Rest in peace, my beautiful sister Carmel, who died a few hours ago fortified by the love of her friends, her Catholic faith and her own astonishing courage.

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4 years

Just once more before the year ends...

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1 year

This is terrible news. Cardinal Pell, a hero of the Church and a true friend, has died.He endured unbelievable suffering as the victim of a malicious plot. May God rest his soul and forgive his lying despicable persecutors.

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@holysmoke

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He did no such thing. The girl was not morally responsible, was NOT excommunicated, would NEVER be excommunicated under any circumstances. Your tweet is spreading a despicable lie.

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@shailjapatel

1 year

Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her stepfather raped her and impregnated her with twins. Excommunicated her mother too. Guess who he didn't excommunicate? The rapist stepfather.

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1 year

We have lost one of the greatest Christian thinkers of the 20th century, who offered the Catholic Church a radiantly beautiful vision of its future. Unfortunately it is necessary to fight to preserve the legacy of this great pope. So let us do so.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

Why the Tories should back the extraordinary @KemiBadenoch . Me for @spectator online:

Why the Tories should gamble on Kemi Badenoch

There’s only one candidate for prime minister with the guts to dismantle the self-loathing culture of identity politics that is destroying Britain. She’s uniquely qualified to take on the challenge...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 months

I understand that 500 British Catholic clergy will today release a statement declaring that the same-sex blessings envisaged by Fiducia Supplicans aren't theologically permissible and that they won't have anything to do with them. The moment of crisis has arrived.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

Cardinal Zen reveals some of the creepy details of the Vatican-China deal.

Ed. Condon

@canonlawyered

4 years

Cardinal Zen: 'Parolin manipulates the pope,' and Vatican's China policy is 'immoral' via @cnalive

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

20 days

I was there. My favourite memory is the fury of the BBC correspondent.

Catholic Arena

@CatholicArena

20 days

VATICAN On this day 19 years ago, ecstasy and joy in St. Peter's Square as Cardinal Ratzinger was elected to be Pope Benedict XVI

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

6 years

We are witnessing one final, massive push by the anti-Brexit establishment, including civil servants at the highest level, to reverse the referendum result of 2016. They have almost limitless resources at their disposal

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@holysmoke

3 years

Sources in Rome tell me that the formidable Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, former Anglican Bishop of Rochester, has become a Catholic and will be ordained a priest of the Ordinariate later this month.

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@holysmoke

1 year

Bombshell from Cardinal Pell, written for the @spectator just before he died: an attack on the 'toxic nightmare' on the 'neo-Marxist' Synod on Synodality, which he said sidelined Christ and was rigged by organisers:

The Catholic Church must free itself from this 'toxic nightmare'

Shortly before he died on Tuesday, Cardinal George Pell wrote the following article for The Spectator in which he denounced the Vatican’s plans for its forthcoming ‘Synod on Synodality’ as a ‘toxic...

www.spectator.co.uk

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@holysmoke

1 year

'I dread the day Charles becomes king,' I must have said hundreds of times. Well, I got that one spectacularly wrong, didn't I?

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

6 months

Strickland is kicked out of his see while Uncle Ted’s lying collaborators receive cardinal’s hats, Chinese Communist Party thugs are embraced as bishops and a rapist enjoys papal protection. It’s the desperate act of a Latin American dictator whose time is thankfully running out.

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@holysmoke

16 days

She’s been received by the priest who ministered selflessly to my dying sister and if you say ONE WORD to attack him I will go nuclear.

David Gibson

@GibsonWrites

17 days

Candace Owens has become a Catholic because, of course.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 months

Here is the statement I've been shown by the British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, which consists of more than 500 priests and deacons in England, Scotland and Wales. My emphasis at the bottom:

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

6 months

This is an intensely moving photograph.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 months

A year ago the Church lost the heroic cardinal it most needed to guide it through its present crisis. Rest in peace, Your Eminence.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

What a joy to talk to one of my heroes this evening. I thought I’d never meet him again. Let me assure you: this is not a broken man - far from it - and his mission continues.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 years

No pope for centuries has done more damage to the Catholic Church than Francis.

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@holysmoke

2 years

There is something happening here. The power of the TLM to move young people is something I could never have foreseen. It must be fully harnessed in a gigantic campaign to rescue the ancient liturgy.

JuventutemDC

@juventutemDC

2 years

We did not have " #ShiaLaBeouf becoming Catholic thanks to celebrating the Latin Mass in a movie role as Padre Pio" on our 2022 Bingo card, but we are moved and touched by it. Deo gratias, and welcome, Shia!

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 years

With my sister Carmel after her successful cancer surgery. She’s doing brilliantly, fortified this morning by visit from Fr Julian Large bearing relic of St Teresa of Avila 😇.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 months

I think this is the highlight of my 15 years on Twitter…

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 months

How wonderful to find a church in Rome not defaced by a piece of IKEA furniture in the sanctuary. SS Trinità de’ Pellegrini, thriving as a parish of the FSSP:

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

At last! Cardinal Pell has had his monstrous conviction quashed. His courage has inspired Catholics everywhere. The reputation of the judicial system of the State of Victoria is stained forever; the wickedness of Pell’s enemies in Australia and Rome plain for all to see.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

1 month

Oh, for crying out loud, why don’t you just convert?

Archbishop of Canterbury

@JustinWelby

1 month

I wish a blessed Eid al-Fitr to all Muslims celebrating today. At the start of Ramadan, I had the joy of attending an iftar at Canterbury Mosque. I was met with such hospitality and kindness – things that we so often encounter in Muslim communities across the UK. Our society is…

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@holysmoke

5 months

This is a very big deal. Things are falling apart unbelievably quickly.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

7 years

Let’s deport the Glastonbury crowd to Venezuela, where they can croon ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’ as they dodge police thugs & try to buy loo paper.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

3 months

The reputation and moral authority of Cardinal Burke has been boosted, not diminished, by the Pope's malicious treatment of him.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

Look at the average age of these priests! A demographic time bomb is heading towards Francis and Uncle Arthur.

Michael J. Matt

@Michael_J_Matt

2 years

Want some hope? Some of the 250 traditionalist priests at this year’s Chartres Pilgrimage.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

3 years

The Pope’s attack on the celebration of the Latin Mass is a despicable insult to faithful traditional Catholics and to his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 years

Twenty-five years ago today two dear friends – Mary Kenny and Cristina Odone – persuaded me to stop drinking. I haven’t had a drop since. They literally saved my life. God bless them!

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 years

My first tweet as a free man. It’s now obvious that Pope Francis is deeply implicated in terrible scandals. My concern isn’t theological: it’s the spectacle of a corrupt pope, something I never expected to see in my lifetime.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

Catholics unable to attend an Easter service can take comfort from the fact that a holy and heroic priest will be celebrating Mass for them:

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

10 months

This tweet by DW Lafferty, who calls himself @rightscholar , is one of the nastiest things I've ever read on Catholic Twitter. If such grotesque thoughts go through his head when he sees this photograph, then he needs to seek help. Blocked.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 months

'Not for implementation in Zambia'. I can't think of a document that has blown up in the Pope's face like this one.

Fr. Edmond Nyoka

@ednyoka

5 months

Zambia Episcopal Conference. My neighboring country.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

My beloved sister was laid to rest in a pretty Sussex graveyard yesterday. I'm most grateful to Fr Robin Farrow for conducting the brief service so beautifully.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

When my mother was in her last months, Cardinal Pell sent her a video message thanking her for her 'love of the Lord’ and tireless service to the Church. It was the only thanks from a bishop she ever received. When she died, he sent me a heartfelt message from his prison cell.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 months

This is what real synodality sounds like:

Sachin Jose

@Sachinettiyil

4 months

Over 20,000 Catholic students sing Salve Regina at the SEEK 2024 conference organised by FOCUS ministry in St Louis, Missouri.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

3 months

Disastrous comments. I didn’t think it was possible to make this crisis worse, but he managed it.

Edward Pentin

@EdwardPentin

3 months

“Regarding criticisms of [Fiducia Supplicans], the Pope noted that "those who vehemently protest belong to small ideological groups." He described the Church in Africa as "a special case," since "for them, homosexuality is something 'ugly' from a cultural point of view; they do…

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

6 months

My sister’s 21st birthday. Today she’s been gone two years 😞

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 months

Malawi, while not admitting it publicly, has told Francis where he can put his new document. This is the beginning of a global reaction that will destroy “synodality” and possibly force the cancellation of the October session.

Fr. Edmond Nyoka

@ednyoka

5 months

The Episcopal Conference of Malawi statement.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

6 years

This is becoming clearer in my mind. Danneels: complicit in sex abuse, campaigned for Bergoglio. McCarrick: sex abuser, campaigned for Bergoglio. Bergoglio becomes pope. Both men – mirabile dictu – are rehabilitated. THIS STINKS.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

1 year

This man does everything in his power to facilitate infanticidal late-term abortion. That tells us much more about him than his ostentatious 'Catholicism'.

Michael Kelly ن

@MichaelPTKelly

1 year

People question President Biden’s Catholicism. I can’t judge, but it seems impossible to understand him apart from his Catholicism. The Church’s job is to form conscience, not to replace it. #BidenInIreland #JoeBiden #JoeBidenvisit

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

In previous years, it's often fallen to me to choose the @catholicherald Catholic of the Year. Not this year, obviously. (Anyone know who it is? Liz Hurley?) Anyway, here's the @holysmoke Catholic of the Year: H.E. Joseph Cardinal Zen, a true hero of the faith.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

So devastating that it deserves to be a pinned tweet:

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

13 days

The shocking hidden scandals surrounding Pope Francis – and the battle to succeed him. Me for @Unherd

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

6 years

I keep thinking of those friends of mine who’ve converted to Catholicism in recent years – only to find this shameful mess. I hope they realise that they’ve arrived when we need them most! Their presence is such a blessing.

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@holysmoke

4 years

I didn’t think it was possible for me to admire the Queen any more than I already did – but tonight’s broadcast exceeded all expectations. And how many other heads of state can refer to a broadcast to the nation they made *eighty* years ago?

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

Catholic liberals haven’t been this furious since Humanae Vitae.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

“And now we’ve asked Mrs Pelosi to say a few words about Planned Parenthood and the wonderful work they do.”

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

Interesting rumours that the Vatican, up to its neck in corrupt dealings with China, is worried about the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

The visionary @KemiBadenoch transformed this contest. None of the remaining candidates can ignore the points she raised with unforgettable freshness and eloquence.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

A wonderful start to the year. Fr ⁦ @benedict_kiely ⁩ said the Ordinariate Mass in my sister Carmel’s house today and blessed her with a relic of Ven. Cardinal Mindszenty. She starts chemo again next week and would value your prayers!

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 months

This is a youth Mass. No, seriously, just look.

Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

@ICKSP

4 months

Evening Solemn High Mass at the Institute’s St. Louis apostolate, St. Francis de Sales Oratory @SFDSOratory , for the #SEEK24 participants.* Thank you for praying with us! *Hosted by @FOCUScatholic #ICKSP #Catholic #LatinMass #TLM

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@holysmoke

7 months

My sources indicate that the #Rupnik fury is so great that Francis may be forced to backtrack on his repugnant decision to allow the incardination of his friend in Koper diocese to go ahead.

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@holysmoke

3 months

This is the persecution of Christians. It's not comparable, of course, to the dreadful scenes in Nigeria, nor even to the herding of Chinese Catholics into syncretist CCP 'Masses' by Francis's allies. But it is persecution none the less, and it's about time champions of religious…

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3 months

452 today. Standing room only. Mass was extra beautiful today and the tears wouldn’t stop. 🥹 I couldn’t stop crying knowing that this beautiful liturgy (this diamond) will no longer be in this setting. #TLMAustin #StMarysCathedral

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@holysmoke

3 years

When I met Cardinal Burke in Rome, I discovered that what his friends say is true: he radiates holiness. Get well soon, Your Eminence!

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6 years

On a personal note…

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1 year

Ten years ago, the Sistine Chapel was the scene of a catastrophe: the election of a man morally, intellectually and emotionally unsuited to be pope. Sex abuse victims have paid the price. Me for @unherd .

Ten terrible years of Pope Francis

The church has lost all its moral authority

unherd.com

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@holysmoke

7 months

BREAKING: Unbelievable – serial sex abuser, Fr #Rupnik , accused of gross sexual abuse against young women religious, has been allowed into a new diocese where he can prey on women. The Pope has permitted this, to his eternal disgrace.

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@holysmoke

4 years

To bring you up to date, folks. Archbishop Wilton Gregory politely told the White House in May that he couldn’t attend Trump’s visit to the JPII shrine. Then when it happened he was suddenly outraged – and he or his people claimed he only found out the night before. A lie.

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@holysmoke

6 months

When I was young, the Tridentine Mass was celebrated by marginalised priests from the least influential group in the Church. The Prefect of the CDF, Cardinal Ratzinger, never did so. Now his successor celebrates it for the fastest-growing youth movement in the Church.

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@dcrosaryrally

6 months

Cardinal Muller celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass yesterday at the Institute of the Good Shepherd, Casa San Clemente. Saint Clement, pope and martyr, pray for us!

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6 months

On reason Bishop Strickland was removed was his refusal to suppress the Church’s ancient Latin liturgy. Today would be a very good day to donate to the dynamic Arlington Latin Mass Society. I just have. Click here:

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 months

Many happy returns to the greatest of living cardinals!

Joseph Zen

@CardJosephZen

4 months

I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High. (Psalm 7:17) I would like to thank the Lord for the gift of life and all of your birthday wishes. Please continue to pray for me.

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7 months

It is the presence of Cardinal Zen on the list that will cause huge anxiety in the Vatican. He is rightly regarded as one of the heroes of the modern Church, a man of conspicuous bravery who is admired by millions.

Joseph Zen

@CardJosephZen

7 months

5 conservative cardinals challenge pope to affirm church teaching on gays and women ahead of meeting

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5 months

The Pillar newsletter says Francis’s vindictiveness toward Burke could swing the conclave in a more conservative direction and force cardinals close to Francis to distance themselves from him.

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@holysmoke

7 months

It’s beyond parody. They’re seriously talking about “creating space for those who feel excluded” after TLM congregations got kicked out of their beloved churches and told to get stuffed.

Edward Pentin

@EdwardPentin

7 months

Images of Synod on Synodality participants arriving and taking part in this morning's prayer. This week synod participants are discussing topics including "justice and care for our common home" and how to "create spaces" for those "who feel hurt by the Church and unwelcomed"…

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@holysmoke

2 years

A challenge for persecuted Catholics: make sure there are *more* traditional Masses celebrated in 2022 than 2021. It can be done. Hold unobtrusive parish and house Masses. Fight back.

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2 years

Many Catholics despise the cruel careerists Cupich and Roche. But hundreds of “orthodox” bishops see Chinese Catholics forced to worship the CCP and traditional Latin worship crushed *by the Vatican* – and say nothing. How do they sleep at nights?

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2 years

Before I met Cardinal Burke, friends told me he was a holy man, charming and lacking in self-importance. I was sceptical. Then I was with a group of people who had dinner with him in Rome – and my friends were right! Being in his presence was such a joy.

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3 years

A woman with Down’s Syndrome is revealing the abortion industry’s eugenicist agenda. Thank you, Heidi Carter!

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6 days

It’s a gay wedding in all but name, completely forbidden by Fiducia supplicans but also prompted by it. Cupich is well and truly skewered by this priest. If he doesn’t act against this spectacular breach of the rules, incoherent as they are, then he puts the DDF on the spot and…

Novus Ordo Watch

@NovusOrdoWatch

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Raw video: Rev. Joseph S. Williams of St. Vincent de Paul #Catholic Church in Chicago presides over Lesbian Exchange of Vows and gives Blessing! - Williams is in full communion with Cardinal Blase Cupich and #PopeFrancis , we might add. #catholictwitter

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5 months

I'm impressed by all the photos of Tridentine liturgies that crop up in my feed. Most of these were taken in the past month. The nastier the Bergoglians are, the more the TLM flourishes. Note the presence of three cardinals.

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6 years

Sorry to bang on, but the people fulminating over @toadmeister ’s appointment will cheerfully install a former IRA ally and apologist for squalid Marxist regimes in No 10.

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@holysmoke

2 months

New pre-conclave memo by anonymous cardinal: Francis has been vindictive, intolerant, dangerously ambiguous on faith and morals. Next pope must be orthodox but not a bully:

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@holysmoke

1 month

He’s not a Catholic and therefore didn’t profane the Sacrament by receiving it while planning to widen access to infanticide.

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@GibsonWrites

1 month

Where did Trump go to church on Easter Sunday?

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@holysmoke

2 years

Her Majesty’s last gift to the nation.

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2 years

The Liberal Democrats have cancelled their autumn party conference, which was expected to begin next weekend, following the death of the Queen

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@holysmoke

5 months

"Tradition dies a slow death, sometimes a bloody death" says McCarrick protégé Cardinal Gregory with creepy relish, justifying his cruel ban on the Latin Mass.

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@dianemontagna

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@holysmoke

2 years

This bishop is brave. And right.

Bishop J. Strickland

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2 years

Important “the West needs to remember that our bishops do not derive their authority from the pope. They are not the Vatican’s regional managers. They are Successors to the Apostles in their own right. They have their own teaching authority. They are the shepherds of their sheep”

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Here's something rather touching. When the nurse gave me my jab on Friday, I looked at her name tag and she wasn't a nurse: she was a professor of cardiac surgery! I said: how come? And she smiled shyly and said she was volunteering. Such a lovely thing to do.

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5 months

What sort of man is happy to install a serial sex predator in parish life (until the news leaks), creates a swanky job to protect a mate accused of multiple crimes, rehabilitates a notoriously corrupt sex pest, tries to keep a child abuser out of jail (and lies about it) but…

LifeSiteNews

@LifeSite

5 months

. @Pontifex reportedly set to remove the 'flat and salary' of his ‘enemy’ @cardinalrlburke Pope Francis recently announced his intention to evict Cardinal Burke from his lodgings in #Rome and declared the prelate his ‘enemy,’ according to a report by the @DailyCompassBQ .…

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1 year

Fr Marko Rupnik is accused trying to force a woman to drink his semen out of a chalice. The Pope refused to waive the statute of limitations and last Sunday Rupnik publicly concelebrated Mass. Meanwhile holy priests are banned from celebrating the ancient Latin Mass.

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5 years

Everyone at the @CatholicHerald is disgusted beyond measure by the wicked decision of Mrs Justice Lieven to force a mother to let her unborn child be killed. This is a shameful moment in our history.

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@holysmoke

5 years

The Pope’s meeting with Fr James Martin today is intended to taunt the US conservatives that he demonises. Egged on by Spadaro et al, he is now flirting with conspiracy theories. He’s recklessly partisan and ill-informed. Ordinary American Catholics are the victims.

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3 years

Please show your support for @FrDavidPalmer , a truly outstanding priest targetted by pro-abortion cancel culture: via @cnalive

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5 years

It makes me so angry that rich Catholics are fighting the celebration of the traditional Mass while New York practises infanticide and Christians in Africa are being slaughtered like animals.

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5 months

Popesplainers today:

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9 months

Five years ago today, my sister rang me to tell me that our dear mother had died. I miss them both so much.

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2 years

Nigerian Catholic bishop: horrific massacre caused by terrorists – NOTHING to do with climate change.

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8 days

Note the ‘grandmother’s lace’. Pizzaballa is papabile and deservedly so. Belongs to no faction, a scholar, brave in his Christian witness.

Michael Haynes 🇻🇦

@MLJHaynes

8 days

ROME: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa @LPJerusalem takes possession of his titular church of Sant'Onofrio, home to Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. Pizzaballa spoke on the Kingdom of God & how being a cdl is a “responsibility” not just a “title.” Church packed w Knights & clergy.

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6 years

If these claims are true, then Francis must vacate the Chair of Peter immediately.

Catholic News Agency

@cnalive

6 years

BREAKING: The former nuncio claims Pope Francis knew that Pope Benedict XVI had imposed sanctions on then-Cardinal McCarrick, but chose to repeal them.

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Enough Twitter point-scoring for now. Some good news. Here’s my lovely sister Carmel, with whom I spent a blissful Easter, making spectacular progress after her major cancer operation – sustained by the prayers of so many of you!

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

4 years

Finally watched this. The woman tried to yank Francis’s arm off, and he reacted as most people would.

ALBΞRT MacGloan

@AlbertMacGloan

4 years

The Pope HITTING someone pretty much sums up 2019

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

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I've written the @spectator 's Saturday Essay on the disastrous pontificate of Pope Francis, who is steering the Barque of Peter towards the rocks of liberal Protestantism:

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

Cardinal Sarah posted this photo today. I read it as a powerful reproach to Pope Francis for issuing the sinister Traditionis Custodes – currently being enforced by the bullying buffoon Roche, who succeeded the cardinal at Divine Worship.

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

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This is an astonishing and richly deserved rebuke from the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Rorate Caeli

@RorateCaeli

6 months

Cardinal Müller on Strickland's Sacking: "It's an abuse of the Divine Right of the Episcopate."

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

3 years

Unspeakable. @metpoliceuk invade the sanctuary during Good Friday service in a Polish Catholic Church in Balham, South London. Video here:

Polish RC Church raided in Balham by Met

A service was disrupted this evening by the Metropolitan Police in Balham - South West London. It is believed that attendance was pre-booked and that all saf...

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

5 years

The new owners of the @CatholicHerald and I do not agree on the future direction of the company (for my stance, see @RaymondArroyo ’s show last week). Therefore I’m moving to the @spectator where I will be free to tell you what I really think :)

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Damian Thompson

@holysmoke

2 years

Tory MPs, you have one opportunity to avoid a total massacre at the election. Here she is.

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