About Bishop Michael Burbridge and the TLM procession in Washington this Saturday, September 9, 2023

Amici, 

LifesiteNews has an excellent report on this weekend's Traditional Latin Mass pilgrimage in D.C. protesting against the Bergoglian restrictions on the TLM. 

Arlington's bishop, Michael Burbridge, curried favor with Bergoglio by reducing the Latin Mass locations from 21 down to just three (parishes, with five alternative locations hither and yon). Of course, the Gay Blade archbishop of D.C. decimated the TLM in the District.

Burbridge could have shown courage. He caved. He could have shown his Faith in the face of the papal lions in the circus maximus that the Church has become. Instead, he burned a pinch of incense to Bergi. My guess, and it is just a guess, is that Burbridge didn't do worse than he did simply because so many TLM's existed in his diocese in the first place. We must not pull punches. What Burgoglio did was illegal AND immoral, and utterly ANTI-Catholic. As Kennedy Hall reports, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wrote, "Tradition IS the Deposit of Faith", and its obvious today that the Vatican II Church is in the process of "cancelling" that Deposit. It is what all the Bergoglian excesses are about, plainly.

But what had Burbridge refused, making arguments against this draconian rule – and there are a host of arguments against it – what was the worse that could happen? Bergoglio "dismiss" him? Oh, the terror! (/sarc) So what? Burbridge could have taken it to the Church's judicial system and tied it all up for years. It could have been a true cause célèbre. It could have been a turning point. Instead, crickets.

I just pray Bishop Strickland fights when "Bergi" dismisses him, which is almost certain to happen. Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres should have refused to be stampeded back in May 2022, but he caved to the Bergoglian idol. Bishops wear purple to remind them of their possible (and increasingly probable) martyrdom. We've no better a "bishops' bench" than the English had when Fat 'Arry broke in with Rome. They only had one bishop, St. John Fisher, stand up for Christ. We have Bishop Strickland.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

A final observation about the TLM pilgrimage: it is happening the a high-profile venue, in the national capital. It will get Bergoglio's attention. He loathes American Catholics in general and Traditionalist (i.e. Deposit of Faith) Catholics in particular. The recently published interview he had with Jesuits in Portugal is a classic "eye-opener" in that regard.

        AnP