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THE UNIQUENESS OF FATIMA
There must be a difference if competent Church authority can declare that Fatima came from God but Garabandal and Medjugorje did not. Not only must there be a difference: it must be possible to tell them apart and to point out the difference to Marian Catholics who love their Church as much as they love their Mother. (Frits Albers)
The Uniqueness of Fatima
 
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SOME THOUGHTS ON COMMUNION IN THE HAND
The practice of receiving Holy Communion in the hand has been acompanied, in many places, by ridicule and ostracisation of those who refused to go along with this practice and stayed with the age-old tradition of the Church of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue.
This short study will put before readers: (i) just what has been sanctioned by the Holy Church, and (ii) what was never sanctioned by the Holy Church in the matter of the way in which communicants receive their Lord and God in Holy Communion.
Some Thoughts on Communion in the Hand
 
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MEDJUGORJE AND THE FLOW OF GRACE
Medjugorje promoters are quick to point to “good fruits” (i.e. the flow of grace) as proof of the authenticity of the ‘apparitions’, and to justify a bad fruit: the disobedience manifested in the continued promotion of Medjugorje in the face of consistent “not supernatural” judgements from the Church. In this they are holding up Medjugorje as a tree that produces both good and bad fruit! Our Lord has taught us that it is impossible for both good fruit and bad fruit to grow on the same tree, and since disobedience is a bad fruit that is clearly identifiable in Medjugorje, it behoves us to discover once and for all where the flow of grace at Medjugorje comes from.
Medjugorje and the Flow of Grace
 
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VISIONS ON DEMAND
Here we study two documents carrying the full authority of the Papacy: an Apostolic Letter and an Encyclical - both written by Pope Leo XIII - to see what verdict they cast on the happenings at Medjugorje exactly one hundred years later.
Visions On Demand
 
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DISCERNMENT
“To Discern” is the second of the seven priceless Gifts of the Holy Spirit by which we see and understand what is going on all around us, and what our attitude to this so necessary understanding should be. In this article the author analyses for us exactly what the Modernist and WCC ‘faiths’ are based upon; and by which millions of ex-Catholics, non-Catholics and other dupes are being enticed to enter the Modernist-WCC joint creation: the One-World ‘church’ of the New Age; a creation seen, foretold and described in great detail by Pope St Pius X in 1910. (Frits Albers)
Introduction
A Search For Meaning
A Dual System
The Need For Discernment
 
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DAMIEN MACKEY’S “HARD ‘GOD’ OF FUNDAMENTALISM”
An Analysis by Frits Albers of Damien Mackey’s article “The Hard ‘God’ of Fundamentalism”, which appeared in the October 1999 ‘Matrix’. (After downloading and opening up the Analysis in Acrobat Reader go to the bottom of the screen and click on Acrobat Reader’s magnifying glass button. In the setting box that then comes up increase the magnification to 130 percent, and click OK. This makes the Analysis easier to read.)
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Further to substantiate the contents of this Analysis we have
  • made available “The Bride and the Reject”, which Damien had planned to publish in Matrix back in 1998, and
  • refined what was previously the final section of the Analysis and made it available as a stand-alone Critique of “The Bride and the Reject”.
  • The Analysis and the stand-alone Critique are the defense of the honour of Our Lady and Our Lord that Frits Albers indicated would be made in his final email to Damien Mackey.
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