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Arch. Dorado: ‘The Church Must Disappear’
‘The Church Must Disappear’
A Spanish priest, Fr. Mario Leon Dorado, formerly a missionary of the Spanish Oblates of Mary in the Western Sahara, has just yesterday been named Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco by Pope Leo XIV.
An excerpt from the news report: “In 2018, Dorado described 114 Algerian imams – murdered after refusing to endorse Islamist violence – as "114 'authentic Muslim martyrs'."
He placed them alongside Catholic martyrs as witnesses to “coexistence, peace, and encounter,” and stated: “Perhaps they will all help us through their example and their intercession.” In the article “Dialogo interreligioso desde la vida” he wrote as a missionary for the Migraciones magazine, he had this shocking statement:
“The challenge of understanding — in our context — witness as a proclamation arising from one’s life... Being able to distinguish between proselytism and evangelization. The ecclesiological challenge... The Church as sacrament... at the service of the Kingdom of God. The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow: by analogy with the experience of John the Baptist—John 3:30: "He must increase, but I must decrease." The experience of John the Baptist is the experience of the Church.” (Original here, p. 18)
G.B.
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Card. Schonborn: Future Belongs to Muslims
Salve Maria!
Recently a reporter interviewed Card. Christoph Schönborn – Archbishop of Vienna and an ardent disciple of Benedict XVI – on the children in the schools of the Austrian capital.
Heute Austria reporter asked: “Islam is the largest religion among Vienna’s schoolchildren. Does that worry you?”
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn: “Whoever has the children, has the future. That’s my simple answer.”
In Jesu et Maria,
S.B.
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'Let Us Abandon Confirmation'
Here is a link to and an extract from a recent article in The Irish Times featuring octogenarian Augustinian priest Fr. Seamus Ahearne. He runs 3 combined North Dublin parishes, assisted by several retired priests in their late ‘70s.
No doubt formed, as was I, in the Church of the 1950’s, attending the Traditional Latin Mass, it is striking how far he and seemingly, his Augustinian Order, have fallen into modernism and acedia. His ‘big idea’ to relieve their workload is to abandon the Sacrament of Confirmation, because its preparation requirements are considered a time-hungry distraction from ‘real’ pastoral priorities. Amusingly, he refers to lay folk around the altar, conducting funerals and suchlike roles as “sanctuary puppets.”
Finglas has a large immigrant community, and Fr. Ahearne says young immigrants such as Africans, Indians and Filipinos would “wear you out” with Confession as they adhere to a traditional 1950s Catholicism.
“It’s lovely to see that kind of faith – it’s devotional – but the general population would have no interest in that kind of stuff at all,” he says. Fr. Ahearne says he is tired but still has the energy to keep going.
“I just can’t believe that an old fellow of 80 is as young as I am and that I have the energy that I have,” he says, noting that he never takes days off.
“It’s the kind of person I am.”
He believes this is probably more rooted in personality than vocation.
“I just love what I do. I enjoy it. I meet all kinds of issues, and problems, and homes and families.
“To be able to do that is just wonderful.”
An Augustinian priest, Fr. Ahearne served 20 years in the UK, where he was also provincial for a time, before coming to Finglas. He says he knows Pope Leo XIV, or “Bob” as he refers to the fellow Augustinian Robert Francis Prevost.
“He’s a lovely man. I wrote to him when he was elected and I said: `Bob, I just didn’t want you getting this role.’ I said: `You’re almost too good for it.’”
In addition to all his work in the Finglas parish, Fr. Ahearne is also on the leadership team of the Augustinians in Ireland. He is unfazed by his overall workload.
“I’ll keep going as long as I can,” he says.’
Yours in Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
N.M., U.K.
Posted September 15, 2026
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Salve Maria!
In discussing Daniel Bentley's recent article, I brought up that sede-vacantists, from how I have seen them attack others online, strike me as being possessed of a very liberal mentality. I quoted an old article by Dr. Plinio which describes this mentality, and Daniel thought it opportune that I share some snippets here (emphasis added):
"The starting point for the mentality of a liberal is that he does not accept the truths that are external and extrinsic to himself. He only looks for those truths that please him. He looks for doctrinal panoramas that suit his temperament, convenience and way of being. This constitutes the foundation of the liberal mentality in the intellectual sphere. In the practical sphere, in the realm of action, he wants to do only what he likes. Everything in the liberal mentality flows from these two sources.
"The liberal is a subjectivist because he only likes the truth that fits his way of thinking and being. He doubts everything that does not suit him. [...] He never doubts, however, what agrees with his way of living.
"[...] Is there a unifying point in these two fundaments of the liberal mentality – to accept only the principles that fit his lifestyle and to do whatever he wants? Whenever a mentality has two or more common characteristics, a point of unity must be present. I believe the common denominator here is egoism. The liberal is concerned only about his ideas, his own will, his convenience and comfort, and his personal preferences. He is self-centered. This is what defines egocentrism or egoism."
I rarely see such pride as I have seen in sede-vacantists. Today, I saw on Facebook that two of them would rather deny Fatima than their own position. If Fatima disproves that the See is vacant, then Fatima must be denied. "It's only private revelation, so you don't have to believe it!" How vain, stupid, and childish.
In Maria,
Dylan Catlett