The Bellarmine Forum

Get ready to dive into a divine cocktail of faith, history, and a sprinkle of intrigue! Our latest BFP podcast episode takes you on a journey from a young bishop's mission in Akita Japan to a Buddhist woman's leap of faith, all the way to the Vatican's secret corridors. It's like your favorite detective novel, but with more rosaries and revelations. Tune in and let's unravel the divine mysteries t...

Francis, who praised and honored enemy of God, Martin Luther, a heresiarch and schismatic, now prosecutes Vigano for "Schism" .. nonfeasance, misfeasonce, and drama on the way.

Discover the dangers of modernism and its subversion of the priesthood in this thought-provoking sermon by Father Vincent Micelli, S.J. delivered on the Feast of the Sacred Heart at the 1977 Thirteenth Annual National Wanderer Forum. ​ Learn how modernism attacks the high priesthood of Jesus Christ and undermines the teachings of the Catholic Church. ​ Gain insights into the false concepts of mora...

If you've ever wondered why the Miracle of the Sun was what Our Lady chose for the finale to Fatima, then this podcast is for you -- from the Errors of Russia and the symbols of the enemies of God, she was sending a message, Old Testament style. Even down to the Egyptian and like Moses battling Pharaoh's priests -- the Miracle of the Sun is rich with symbolism. 00:00 - Like a Horse head left in th...

It is the 90s all over again - but despite the smoke of prophecy-mania afflicting us today, there are some curious prophecies from Anne Catherine Emmerich and commentary by Yves DuPont, as well as some quotes from Masonic sources in 1955 conspire to make strange explanations of the Lutheran Synodality we see making democratic "collegiality" in the Vatican today. But why is the Synod silent on thin...

The USCCB Synod Synthesis is a product of Game Theory, McKinsey and Co Communications, and a lot of Filtered Messaging designed to stuff you, faithful Catholic, into meaninglessness.

Let's sit down and chat about this mess today, and how we've come to the end of the modernist climb and marxist normalization of the Church. The "listening church" of synodality appears to be nothing more than an enactment of Richard McBrien's Catholicism.  How the shock cycle of media today seems to feed the balkanization of Catholics, the use of "defending the pope" as brown shirts, the calumnie...

Pope Francis is reported to have said that we should not make a battlefield of the liturgy.  Because he complains of Catholics hanging on to outdated things and old ideas, it is like he is saying that people who want a united and sacred liturgy (traditionalists or trads) disrupt the purpose of liturgy...  who are the real combatants?  why is this deja vu?  and what did Father Hardon say we can do...

Jesus hated compromised clergy and look this week at what they did to Him. As promised last time, this episode we discuss the Third Secret of Fatima in light of the situation in the Church today. Good priests and Bishops must tow the party line (or suffer the consequences) while those under kompromat are advanced. It is like the Gospels of Palm Sunday where the people - under the pressure of the c...

This past Friday, on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis performed a Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. While this is a laudable act, is it what Our Lady Asks of us today? Looking at the second secret of Fatima itself, actual history, and the message of Akita, it appears that we are not doing what she wants... and we are paying for it. We'll hear what p...

Cincinnati’s past ignoring heterodoxy and heresy have caught up to it as Archbishop Schnurr rolls out a PR consultant led “Beacons of Light” crisis communications program designed to steer public opinion, but there is a much better (and far cheaper) way he could be fixing the problem instead of papering it over.

Continuing the discussion on informed consent, Catholic morality, and medical "mandates" in the midst of media mayhem sowing fear and misinformation.

Part 2 of the discussion on Catholic moral teaching on medical treatments, your strict duty to avoid harmful/deadly activity, and Title VII protections of your religious beliefs.  How to express your religious exemption.

Can a Bishop Mandate you to undergo a health procedure that has a risk of death, and against what you'd decide for yourself? Why are bishops playing doctor anyway?

Learn about what Mary's Assumption can tell you about your own assumption some day, the need to do penance and keep your body as God wants, following her example.  It can even influence your thinking about COVID and whether anyone should be "Forced" to charity,

Cardinal Cupich padlocked a Latin Mass church in 2002, calling it “unity.” In 2021, Traditionis Custodes echoes the same term. Coincidence? Join John B. Manos on The Bellarmine Forum Podcast to uncover this chilling pattern and question what “unity” means for the Traditional Latin Mass. Listen now!

News about the Motu Proprio issued by Pope Francis and how it was important to vanquish this greatest threat to the Church today! (tongue in cheek interviews included)

At this last USCCB meeting, the Spring 2021 meeting, setting the agenda resulted in a parliamentary question when a retired Bishop wished to add something to the agenda.  The parliamentarian is Archbishop Schnurr, the Archbishop of Cincinnati. It was the spring meeting of the NCCB/USCCB in 1977 where the agenda discussion resulted in a parliamentary trick that removed a threshhold question from th...

You will be surprised at this one thing that happened at the USCCB meeting -- and we have Archbishop Sample to thank for it. Is this what Bishops are supposed to be doing? Naturally, there was something dumb done right after Archbishop Sample spoke -- now some bishops want "They/them" inclusive language in sacramental texts. Today's readings from Mass make a strong point that Modernists can't fath...

On June 13, at Fatima, in 1917, Our Lady spoke to the children and introduced the Fatima Prayer said after each mystery of the Rosary. She also told Sr. Lucy that she would spread devotion to her Immaculate Heart (yesterday's feast on the new calendar). We take a stroll through history to see that Moscow was viewed to be the third Rome (after the collapse of Byzantium), that they crushed the Rosic...

The Sacred Heart is one of two weapons left for us in these times. Here's why a new statement on Communion from the Bishops won't matter.

Audio for Fr. Clarke's Little Book for Holy Week: Easter Sunday Meditation: The Fruits of the Passion.

Audio for Fr. Clarke's Little Book for Holy Week: Holy Saturday Meditation and Spiritual Reading; The Obedience of the Passion; and The taking down from the Cross.

Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ. 

Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.