under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136

Pope Francis

I. Cleansing the Augean Stables of the Church

II. The Pope & Thomas Merton: Centrality of the Will

Pope Francis and his followers in the Amazon are emulating the errors of Thomas Merton.  more

III. Archbishop Vigano on the Syncretism of Pope Francis

We reproduce here a recent paper by the retired papal nuncio to the the United States linking the conduct of Pope Francis to errors promulgated
by Vatican II.  more

IV. Canonisation Under the Current Regime

V. A Breath of Fresh Air

Five bishops, two of them Cardinals, have issued a Declaration of truths relating to some of the most common errors in the life of the Church of our time.  The document rejects positions taken by Pope Francis in theological and moral matters and his endeavours to have Christ’s Church conform to the zeitgeist.  more

VI. The Call for the Bishops to Act

In their Open letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church a number of clerical, religious and lay members of the faithful throughout the world have urged the Church’s bishops to grasp the nettle of Pope Francis’s heretical views, to weigh them against Catholic truth and to act.  This is our comment on the initiative.  The letter ought inspire our Mass intentions and our prayers for the good of Christ’s Church.  more

VII. The Pope's Easter Message: An Exercise in Ineptitude

The Pope is not the head of some merely secular institution but of the one institution on earth established by Almighty God for man’s salvation.  What should he have said in his Easter message?  more

VIII. Abdication ?

We reproduce here the latest comment from Archbishop Vigano on Pope Francis’s heterodox words and actions and ask the question whether the Pope has not abdicated de facto, if not de jure, the papal office.  more

IX. Is the Pope a Catholic?

How fortunate we are to have the frequent interventions of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano to assist us in dealing with the frequent theological misdirections of Pope Francis.  more

X. In Defence of Pope Francis

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.  Those who seek to condemn Pope Francis shouldn't rely on Vatican II.  This paper is an ironic defence of the Pope by a theologian who shall remain nameless against recent charges of heresy grounded, inter alia, on the documents of Vatican II.  more

XI. Saint Francis and Pope Francis

Before his death in 1226 St Francis of Assisi is reported to have prophesied an extended period of sedes vacancy in the papacy during which "a man not canonically elected will be raised to the pontificate who by his cunning will draw many into error".  If, as we and others have argued the Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio, was not validly elected Pope, it is entirely likely that he is the one of whom St Francis spoke eight centuries ago.  If so, this exposes an immense irony in respect of his choice of 'papal' title.  more