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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · 1d

Time for some real talk.

Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.

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Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass

Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...

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The Amish Anglo-Catholic @amishcatholic.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is just textbook 1930’s fascism

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Jul 28

The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.

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False orthodoxy and fired professors

Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Aug 8

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Jul 28

The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.

wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...

False orthodoxy and fired professors

Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...

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Dawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, STD @dawnofmercy.bsky.social · Jun 27

"Ultimately, The Sacred Heart: A Love for All Times by Dawn Eden Goldstein is more than a book about a devotion; it’s a heartfelt invitation to draw closer to Jesus Christ, whose Sacred Heart remains open to each of us."
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · Jun 9

Trad: “DO SOMETHING Bishops! Less dialogue, more keys! Man up!"

Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on”

Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · Jun 8

I see that the Bishop of Winona-Rochester has announced and named his quarrel with "the extreme Catholic left." I presume he means the "woke" Catholics.

It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · May 20

Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear sister Kate. I wrote this two days after she died.

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My Sister’s Heart

One of the most formative events of my life happened a year before I was born. When she was about six weeks old, my sister Katie—my parents’ firstborn, the answer to prayer after years of infertility—...

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Apr 23

I think each of them revealed their true colors. I was initially a fan of all three, but each of them eventually showed that deep down their ego came first.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Apr 23

As I wrote several years ago.

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“What’s wrong with the Church in your country?”

Last year, I spent two weeks in Rome. During my visit, I met with many interesting people from all around the world, from Church officials to Vatican journalists to clergy and seminarians working and ...

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Apr 10

Spain and Mexico have a few movements but mostly, yes.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Apr 10

“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes:

Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag

To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Apr 1

Schism is "the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff." They are well past that point. So the question is whether the Church will actually do anything. It's extremely rare for the Church to act.

Personally, I think (just my opinion) they have both automatically excommunicated themselves.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Apr 1

I don't think these characters are salvageable. Obviously the Church will go on. But there's obviously big money funding a schism.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.

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Strickland, Altman, and the Making of a Parallel Church

Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronit...

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Apr 1

I figured it out.

I think it needed to be retranslated because it was really inaccurate - not just the people's parts but the prayers of the priest.

I think the failed 1998 translation sounded better because it was in actual English. But they inserted ideological changes too, and that sunk it.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

In the Latin Mass, they also elevate the host and chalice AFTER the consecration, not during, so it's like you miss the whole thing as it's happening.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

It's interesting but there are a few elements that I prefer in the current Mass. For example, being able to see, hear, and pray along with the priest during the Eucharistic prayer. In the TLM, he whispers it in Latin with his back to you.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

The ideology extends far beyond the liturgy. My guess is that most of the people in the anti-Francis movement don't actually go to the Latin Mass. They just like the idea of it.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

Strickland did toss in some chant and there was incense, if I recall correctly. But my guess is that the music and so forth is what the congregation is used to.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

It's a Novus Ordo guitar Mass held in a Maronite Church.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 31

Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.

wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...

Strickland, Altman, and the Making of a Parallel Church

Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronit...

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Heidi Pohl @battlemaiden82.bsky.social · Mar 31

My brother, Dr. Joseph Stuart, was on Paul Fahey's podcast, a discussion about Pope Francis' letter on the renewal of the study of Church history

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16: Joseph Stuart - Renewing Church History

In today’s episode, I had a great conversation with Dr.

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thank you!

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