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What factors contributed to Martin Luther’s eventual rebellion against the Church?

What factors contributed to Martin Luther’s eventual rebellion against the Church?

by Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI (Fall, 2017) As Protestants around the world (and modernist heretics in the Vatican) celebrate this year the 500th anniversary of the Protestant revolt against the Catholic Church, it behooves us Catholics to re-examine the life and teachings of the apostate monk who began the so-called “Reformation.” Just who was Martin Luther, and what led him to abandon his vocation and the Catholic Faith? What effect did Luther’s abusive father have on his personality? Martin Luther was born in the Ger­man town of Eisleben on November 10, 1483. Not long after his birth, the family moved to Mansfeld, some 10 miles to the northwest of Eisleben, where his father had part ownership of a copper mine. Hans, Luther’s father, was of a most stern, irascible character, and had even been accused of homicide, causing him to flee from his family home in Mohra. Luther’s mother

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Does Paul VI’s Rite of Episcopal Consecration Make True Bishops?

Does Paul VI’s Rite of Episcopal Consecration Make True Bishops?

(Spring-Summer, 2006) by Rev. Fr. Anthony Cekada A summary of Fr. Cekada’s article disproving SSPX’s claim that Novus Ordo bishops are valid bishops   Readers of The Angelus were probably surprised last year when they received the December 2005 issue with its feature article entitled “Why the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration is Valid.” What in the world was this about? And why was a traditionalist magazine published by SSPX putting concelebrating Novus Ordo bishops on its cover? Traditionalists have always worried about the validity of the New Mass. But the question of whether Holy Orders conferred with the post-Vatican II rites are valid has hardly been discussed at all, even though clergy ordained by bishops consecrated in the new rite — diocesan priests, members of the Fraternity of St. Peter, Institute of Christ the King, etc. — are now offering traditional Masses everywhere. If the bishops who ordained these

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The Origin of the Ecclesiastical Year

The Origin of the Ecclesiastical Year

From the 1935 book, Catholic Liturgics, by Richard Stapper, S.T.D. (Spring-Summer, 2006) The ecclesiastical year originated in the annual observance of certain days in memory of Christ; these commemorative occurrences have a relation to one another and represent anew the historical progress and the supernatural benefits of the work of redemption. The divinely-instituted feasts of the Old Law served as models; these feasts were especially Easter and Pentecost, on which the “chosen people” gave thanks to God for definite benefits by the offering of sacrifice and public prayers. Paganism contributed toward the development of the ecclesiastical year in two respects: in some cases, pagan practices gave occasion for the institution of Christian practices to counteract them; in particular instances, when pagan feasts could receive a Christian meaning, they were displaced by Christian festivals. Just as the Christian era is reckoned from the birth of Christ, so it was a favorite

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