Requiem for a country church, and for the larger Novus Ordo Church

Friends,

I have been reading about Columbus, Ohio diocese parish closings. So much for the new bishop. He's keeping the previous bishop's plan of closing up the diocese, and dioceses are closing up and withering away across the country. And the world. One of those Columbus diocese closings is St. Bernards, a very rural, down-in-the-hills church. I write of it more below.

So, naturally, I ask:

Why don't they close up the entire Church? I'm serious. Close it up and let it blow away. They tried that during the Covid fraud, after all. Finish the job, then. Go on, go on. Close it down. That would, after all, please a lot of people.

It goes back before the Covid scamdemic, of course. The Modernists in the Church during the 1950s staged Vatican II to implement their destruction schemes, schemes they were cooking up in secret since St. Pius X tried to squash them in the early 1900s. The Modernists had merely "gone to ground"  and laid their plans. By post-WWII, they were ready. At Vatican II they took a very healthy Church: wealthy in liturgy and money, strong in its piety and its financials, timeless in dogma, filled to the brim with parishioners, and they utterly trashed it out in what, 50 years? 

Except for the TLM sector, the Church is bankrupt liturgically, with the Novus Ordo driving people out – or more precisely, boring them out of their wits – and bankrupt financially. And you know of course that's why Bergoglio sold the Chinese Catholics to the CCP, for a lot of cashola. And I assume the Church is also in hock to important Jews, who still collectively have extraordinary influence and control of the much of the banking sector most everywhere, as they do the Entertainment world and Academia and the Law (and I'm not talking about Orthodox Jews, whom the more secular types marginalize – Jews are as factionlized as Protestants). Something Trad Catholic apologists never mention is this angle. No one wants automatically be labeled an antisemite.

So sure, Communists/Socialists/sexual deviants galore, you name them, hate the Church. But then Jews as well loathe the Traditional Latin Mass because it is uncompromising about fully using Scripture, and (what today would be deemed) the "antisemitism" of St. John and St. Paul. For an example of the latter, see 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16; I guarantee you'll not find that in the Novus Order three-year cycle! It is not in the interest of any of these powerful players to see all that come back. The Catholic Church dying out and Protestantized into pieces and factions is no threat to anyone but a Catholic Church returning to its glory days is anathema to them all.  

In requiem: I always loved St. Bernard's. It is chock-full of statues! Just chock-full. It was so lovely and "exotic" a church, down there in Corning. Built by Italian immigrants who bent over backwards to make it a gem. I used to drive my mother down to Athens for lunch and then we'd come back through the hills, and always stopped at St. Bernard's and it was always unlocked. It was built for the TLM and had that liturgy been offered there for the last 50 years, Corning would be full of Catholics and producing Catholic vocations. That's just what the TLM inspires, true Catholicism. And lot of important civilizational players do not what to see that Church return.

What are they going to do with all the statues? The windows? Have a bonfire?

Here's a list of Columbus diocese closings:

https://catholicreview.org/columbus-diocese-closes-15-parishes-amid-initiative-to-move-from-maintenance-to-mission/

Slated to close in the city of Columbus are St. Anthony of Padua, Corpus Christi, Holy Rosary/St. John, Parroquia Santa Cruz, St. Ladislas, St. Matthias, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and St. Philip the Apostle.

Also closing will be St. Bernard Church in Corning, the Church of Atonement in Crooksville, St. Francis de Sales in Newcomerstown, St. Mark Church in Lancaster, St. Mary Church in Groveport, St. Mary Church in Bremen and SS. Peter and Paul Church in Glenmont.

St. Anthony of Padua School in Columbus Grove and SS. Peter and Paul School in Wellston also will close.

Meself again:

Honestly, why don't they just close up the whole Vatican II Church. Put the dying carcass out of its misery. Or give these churches to the various Latin Mass groups – oh, wait, can't do that because of the anti-pope Bergoglio and his peeps and Modernist minions.

Bergoglio is working overtime to destroy the Catholic Faith. If anyone can't see that, what else can be said? What does "Bergi" have to do? Declare a Holy Duality instead of a Trinity? Add Muhammad to the calendar of saints? What? So, just close it all up now and save him the trouble.

I can testify to St. Mark's in Lancaster. Cement block building (unless they replaced that structure at some point) where the Masses were hyper (for the area) Novus Ordo fiascos. I remember the "sign of peace" taking 10 minutes as they shouting across the room, walked about shaking hands, all that. Just a joke. But the congregation were the poorer types, as well, or working folk at what remained of Anchor Hocking glass, the town's big factory. St. Bernadette's across town on the eastern side (and very hard to get to roadwise if you didn't live nearby) was for the doctors and lawyers in town. The elites. Brutally Novus Ordo in expensive design and material, it offered Masses but with all that money around, it ain't gonna get closed. We know where the bread is buttered, do we not?

Such is the ecclesiastical world in 2023.

         AnP

Bergoglio's war against contemplative and traditionalist nuns...

 Friends,

John Zmirak has a column here about how the anti-pope Bergoglio has been attacking traditionalist nuns. Anyone who has been paying attention knows about this, of course, and Zmirak brings it up in the context of that Satanic group of homosexuals in San Francisco who parody Catholic nuns, being invited to a Los Angeles Dodgers game. Zmirak's piece is excellent reading about an obscene subject.

It's not just that Bergoglio is an abomination, (he's technically a "material heretic" i.e. not a formally Church-declared heretic) but that the world's bishops tolerate him – that's the kicker. The bishops know, especially those who (such as many of the Italian ones, have traditionalist nunneries) what Bergoglio has been doing to the traditionalist orders. The bishops' sin is therefore the greater. They know better, or ought to know better. What are we to make of their apostasy?

Louie Verrecchio at AKA Catholic has an important column here about the bishops regarding the Dodger fiasco, about why the outrage now after tolerating militant homosexuals for decades. An excerpt:

When the city of San Francisco named a street after “Sister Vish-New,” Co-Founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, did Sal Cordileone protest, or would doing so be a little too “Church & State” for his conciliar tastes?

The drag-fag group has been headquartered in his archdiocese for the entire time he has been there. Has he ever spoken out against their irreverent mockery of Our Lady, Our Lord, and His Church?

The post-Vatican II Church has tolerated the decomposition of our world into the worst sort of socialist, moral carrion offal. It has absconded from its divinely required witness to God's truth and to His moral requirements to a Fallen World. Bergoglio, of whose salvation before he dies we can try to pray for, is the epitome of this dereliction. Were the Argentine to convert to Catholicism from his pathetic New Age paganism tomorrow, however, it is too late for him to undo the evil he will leave after himself. And it is highly improbable he'll convert, partly because his habit of evil lies so deep on his soul and has warped his mind (the obviously good and pious in his mind is bad, and the bad good, even necessary), and partly because he does not get any witness to the True Gospel from those around him. Bergoglio, like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and so many other "Catholics" do not hear, and would recoil from, any true witness. (Biden, who no longer has his right mind, cannot repent at all.)

Thank God He seems to be sending us a message via the incorrupt body of of the founder of the traditionalist Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster. Can it be a coincidence that during this time of homosexual mockery of women religious, and on the verge of the Gay Inc's infamous attempt to turn June into "Pride Month (it is actually dedicated to The Sacred Heart), Sister Wilhelmina rises, as it were, to bear profound witness to the power and truth of God?

The timing of this revelation of Sister Wilhelmina's is deeply significant. In time and with investigations, we'll learn more. It seems, however, that if what is apparently true now gets confirmed, then we can be assured that in the midst of general episcopal disdain and contempt, and confounding Bergoglio's efforts, an order of traditionalist women's convent will become a place of pilgrimage, inspiring piety and devotion in thousands. 

  An Préachán