"... the Trads held the same fundamental beliefs that we cherished—"

 "... —the same beliefs that were now everywhere under attack."

From a most excellent Catholic article by Phil Lawler that I highly recommend to all interested in the Church's situation.

I've said for some time now that the current Vatican regime must necessarily drive the great middle Church, the "conservative" or "Magisterium" or "JP II Catholics", to the Trads. Phil Lawler explains how he, himself, is now living proof of that.

An excerpt:

We [conservative Catholics] could no longer simply reject these [Modernist/anti-continuity] arguments, when they came from the Sovereign Pontiff. We had to take them seriously, and ask: Was there really a radical discontinuity between pre-conciliar and post-conciliar Catholicism? Because if there was, then we would be forced to ask a second serious question: Had the Church veered off the authentic Catholic tradition? Or to put it differently, were there some aspects of the Council’s teachings that required at least clarification, if not outright correction?

So we asked these questions—which our traditionalist friends had been asking for years already. The answers drove us still further toward the Trads. We could not ignore that, whatever our past differences, the Trads held the same fundamental beliefs that we cherished—the same beliefs that were now everywhere under attack. We could not ignore that traditionalist communities were growing, at a time when parishes were shrinking and dioceses were “restructuring” by closing the doors of vacated churches. Above all we could not ignore that the Traditional Latin Mass was celebrated with reverence, and conveyed the rich heritage of our faith.

Within the past week I have spoken with a half-dozen other Catholics who, like me, have begun regularly attending the Traditional Latin Mass. In every case, their movement toward the TLM began during the current pontificate. We did not move toward traditionalism because the Trads attacked the Pope; it would be far more accurate to say that we moved in that direction because the Pope attacked us.

AnP again:

Wow, just wow. Old Bergi is a God-send; he's doing more for the TLM than most, and seems clueless that he's serving God's actual intentions while blowing up his own. Quite amazing, to be honest. But it is so obviously "a God thing", how this is playing out. He's like those leaders of the Sanhedrin who ordered Sts. Peter and John beaten, and then were amazed when the two went off praising God and filled with joy.

• A microcosm mirror-image of this is the break-up of the Reformed Church in America, a 400-year-old Calvinist tradition that has gutted itself after surrendering to the homosexuals and feminists. Read the details here. The conservative Reform congregations have the membership and the money, and they've packed up and left, leaving the "official" Reformed broke, bankrupt economically and morally. It's a perfect example of the saying, "Go woke, go broke," and a mirror to the troubles and maybe the end of the Vat 2 Church.

BTW, rumors are out that Pope Francis and Cardinal Roche are planning a big anti-TLM attack for Ash Wednesday this year. An Ash Wednesday announcement would about evenly space out their attacks on the TLM during past half year, wouldn't it? Clearly, neither Traditionis Custodes nor the Vatican's later Respona ad Dubia have produced the desired result, so they are attacking again. What was it Princess Leia said in the first Star Wars movie to Governor Tarkin? "The harder you try, the more systems will slip through your fingers." Something like that.

Oh, finally, I see the the man most know as Pope Francis has said taking the "vaccine" is a moral obligation (originally in April of last year and often thereafter, and now a few days ago at a meeting with diplomats accredited to the Vatican). Reiner Füllmich, the German lawyer, is saying the Nuremberg Trials 2.0 is scheduled to open in a couple of weeks, and they have incontrovertible proof that these potions are designed to kill, as in murder, people.

They've traced batch/lot numbers of three of the major "vaccines" and know which batches killed a lot more people than "vaccines" from other lots. English scientist Micheal Yeadon has done excellent work on tracing down all this, and he'll offer expert testimony at the trial. They'll meticulously make the case for murder and when they're done, people will finally turn against all the madness. (That is something underway already, as we read daily in the news.) Füllmich says especially that all the people who carried water for the Covid fraud will not escape aiding and abetting murder; they're accomplices to murder, and I myself would think that would definitely include the Argentinian in the Vatican.

I pray it is true. Every iota. If nothing else, such revelations will vindicate Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Archbishop Viganò.

An Préachán