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Mike Lewis
@mfjlewis.bsky.social
· Mar 24
When the Scales Fell from Our Conservative Catholic Eyes
There’s something that many right-wing Catholics—especially those who fiercely oppose Pope Francis—don’t seem to understand about people like me: we were once part of their world. We admired the same ...
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What once was unthinkable—publicly accusing the pope of heresy or implying he is a danger to the faith—is now routine in certain circles.
For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
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For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
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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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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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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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October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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...
wherepeteris.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
August 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
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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...
wherepeteris.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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...
wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...
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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.
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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.
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...
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...
wherepeteris.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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...
wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...
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"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....
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
June 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"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....
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
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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!!!"
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!!!"
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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!!!"
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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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...
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...
June 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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...
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...
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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May 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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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“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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April 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“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:
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Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
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...
wherepeteris.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
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...
wherepeteris.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
Reposted by Mike Lewis
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
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
16: Joseph Stuart - Renewing Church History
In today’s episode, I had a great conversation with Dr.
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March 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
What once was unthinkable—publicly accusing the pope of heresy or implying he is a danger to the faith—is now routine in certain circles.
For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
wherepeteris.com/when-the-sca...
For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
wherepeteris.com/when-the-sca...
When the Scales Fell from Our Conservative Catholic Eyes
There’s something that many right-wing Catholics—especially those who fiercely oppose Pope Francis—don’t seem to understand about people like me: we were once part of their world. We admired the same ...
wherepeteris.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
What once was unthinkable—publicly accusing the pope of heresy or implying he is a danger to the faith—is now routine in certain circles.
For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
wherepeteris.com/when-the-sca...
For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
wherepeteris.com/when-the-sca...
Reposted by Mike Lewis
Bishop Barron attended Trump’s State of the Union and called it a “liturgy of democracy” in a dangerous attempt to erase the distinction between church and state.
My thoughts:
open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...
My thoughts:
open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...
No Country for Kings
Bishop Barron & the Catholic Performance of Masculinity
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March 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bishop Barron attended Trump’s State of the Union and called it a “liturgy of democracy” in a dangerous attempt to erase the distinction between church and state.
My thoughts:
open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...
My thoughts:
open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...
I was reminded this morning of this article I wrote about the role of emotion and sentiment in faith and liturgy.
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For a more Sentimental Church
“They were men of genius, but they had no perception of what is just and lawful in music; raging like Bacchanals and possessed with inordinate delights-mingling lamentations with hymns, and paeans wit...
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March 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I was reminded this morning of this article I wrote about the role of emotion and sentiment in faith and liturgy.
wherepeteris.com/for-a-more-s...
wherepeteris.com/for-a-more-s...
This nonsense needs to be exposed. Ripperger, Sungenis and friends are peddling fairy tales and science fiction, trying to pass it off as Catholicism. They are corrupting the innocent.
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Father Chad Ripperger versus the Little Gray Men
Due to “unforeseen circumstances,” an event scheduled for later this month in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee featuring the controversial celebrity exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger was forced to change venues...
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March 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This nonsense needs to be exposed. Ripperger, Sungenis and friends are peddling fairy tales and science fiction, trying to pass it off as Catholicism. They are corrupting the innocent.
wherepeteris.com/father-chad-...
wherepeteris.com/father-chad-...
I am beginning to fear that many of the anonymous groypers, trolls, trads, and integrists who post on the "X" website suffer from a paucity of manners, discernment, and critical thinking skills.
February 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I am beginning to fear that many of the anonymous groypers, trolls, trads, and integrists who post on the "X" website suffer from a paucity of manners, discernment, and critical thinking skills.
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I am grateful to have a new essay in @wherepeteris.com. Thanks to @mfjlewis.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to tell "A Tale of Two Converts." One of them, Julia Greeley, is featured in my upcoming book from @loyolapress.bsky.social, The Sacred Heart. wherepeteris.com/a-tale-of-tw...
A Tale of Two Converts
On June 9, 1918, in a Denver chapel, thousands of people filed silently past the body of the first American Catholic laywoman ever granted the privilege of lying in state. This extraordinary woman was...
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February 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I am grateful to have a new essay in @wherepeteris.com. Thanks to @mfjlewis.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to tell "A Tale of Two Converts." One of them, Julia Greeley, is featured in my upcoming book from @loyolapress.bsky.social, The Sacred Heart. wherepeteris.com/a-tale-of-tw...
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso issues a decree on a rogue traditionalist priest, along with some important doctrinal reminders about unity in the Catholic Church.
www.elpasodiocese.org/decree-on-il...
www.elpasodiocese.org/decree-on-il...
Decree on Illicit Chapel Jan_27_25
January 27th, 2025
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January 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso issues a decree on a rogue traditionalist priest, along with some important doctrinal reminders about unity in the Catholic Church.
www.elpasodiocese.org/decree-on-il...
www.elpasodiocese.org/decree-on-il...
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Reposted by Mike Lewis
Thousands of innocents who came legally under Humanitarian Parole are caught up in this manhunt. #immigration
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/trum...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/trum...
Trump’s First Week Sends Shudders Through Immigrant Churches and Ministries - Christianity Today
The president plunged communities into fear, upended life for thousands of refugees, and moved to stop charities from helping immigrants already in the US.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thousands of innocents who came legally under Humanitarian Parole are caught up in this manhunt. #immigration
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/trum...
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/trum...
Reverence for the inviolable, intrinsic, and infinite dignity of every person must be the foundation of all public policy.
January 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reverence for the inviolable, intrinsic, and infinite dignity of every person must be the foundation of all public policy.