Friends,
We
know that this Easter week, Pope Francis, whom I call "Bergoglio" (when
I'm being polite) is ailing. Whatever the immediate future holds for
him, though, the Catholic Church suffers massive ailing as well.
Catastrophic ailing. The first step to any cure is to recognize the
sickness. Curing ills cannot occur if we don't know what's causing the
ailment. And our understanding of anything, from the Church to Black
Holes to Reformation History to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is based on perception.
It
is precisely this essential perception of our realities that generates
the problem we're having in the Catholic Church. We perceive – most of us – that there's one Catholic Church that has a host of difficulties and numerous factions who seem increasingly divergent. I suspect this view in the clergy at least stands strongest among those bishops consecrated, and priests ordained, when Karol
Józef Wojtyła held the papal throne. Their ranks are thinning out now,
but many remain. "The Church" for them is as they perceive it to be. But
is it? And was it ever? And what of the other ideas of "The Church"
that exist, pre- or post-John Paul II?
What if we could willingly change our perception?
What if we perceived more closely that three separate "Catholic
Churches" exist: i.e. the steadily drying up (and confused, and fading,
and straying) Vatican II Church, the aborning Synodal/One-World
anti-Church that Bergoglio is midwifing, and of course the Traditional
Catholic Church, with its Traditional Latin Mass and Traditional
Catholic teaching.
- This
is a simple perception, and it doesn't involve endless contortions of
cognitive dissonance. Achieve the perception by simply asking about the
Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. Polls indicate that around 25
percent of the Vatican II laity believe in that, probably next to none
of the Synodal Church believes it, while most likely near 100 percent of
Traditional Catholic believe it. Thus, this question serves as a simple
way to discern which of the three Church "avatars" one belongs to.
How did this situation develop?
Look
again at Church history over the past three-quarters of a century.
Under pressure from the Modernists, the Vatican II Church clearly broke
ranks with the entire Church before it, as exemplified in the
multitudinous Vatican II documents and the basically impossible ditching
of the Traditional Latin Mass (impossible on a number of levels, not
least Pope Pius V's famous 1570 Apostolic constitution Quo Primum). These dense, tedious, and prolix Vatican II decrees – that naturally very few have read or certainly studied –
contain a thorough mixture of typical Catholic orthodoxy, Protestant
heresy, and 1960s "pop-psych" palaver. They basically offer "something
for everyone", depending on who is reading and what their conceits are.
Whichever Church faction is strongest can implement them in any way they
like. They laid the foundation of the infamous "Spirit of Vatican II"
that blew in so many dire phantoms that plague the Church today.
- To use a metaphor, they set the Barque of Peter's voyaging on an initially slightly divergent course from what it had been sailing on for nearly two millennia, and slowly, imperceptibly to millions, it began to head away from its ancient Witness Against the Worldly Powers route, and into dangerous Waters of Surrender to the secular, fallen "pop" culture. The Church went from "The world will always hate me because it hated my Lord" to "The world will love me because I will surrender to it."
- While probably 20 percent of Catholics (and certainly many onlooking Protestants and Jews) were not fooled by this new trajectory, millions of priests and laity were indeed misled. But now, nearly 70 years on, can we not see how far the Church has wandered off the counter-culture course its Founder chartered for it? Grasp our reality. We now have no excuse to tolerate this misdirection any longer.
I can't be sure of John Paul I, poor man, or the vacillating Paul VI who became a recluse after 1968 and Humanae Vitae, but clearly Pope John Paul II was the only pope who actually believed the Vatican II Church would be THE Church
from now on. Perhaps the Polish pope's near assassination refocused his
understanding a bit, but still, it was his Curia (papal
court/administration) that held the line for Modernism. For example,
John Paul II's refusing to approve bishops for the SSPX – and the perfidious way his people kept saying "yes" then changing that to "er, wait a bit longer," stringing the SSPX along – forced the necessity of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's ordaining bishops without papal approval. This was pure "Deep State"-style treachery.
Pope
Benedict XVI would eventually rescind the resulting automatic
excommunications of the SSPX bishops because of the absurdity of it all,
and even the cunning, duplicitous Bergoglio seemed to occasionally
favor the excellent Society's work to some extent, though technically it
remains somewhat "canonically irregular". (I discount all such qualms
entirely, of course. "Partial communion" is nonsense. And it remains a
blessing the SSPX is not under full Vatican control.)
Benedict's Fall
Although
an early and idealistic Vatican II revolutionary, the hyper-intelligent
Joseph Ratzinger was no fool. Eventually, he could see "the handwriting
on the wall" for the Vatican II Church. But as pope, Benedict's
inability to control the "Junta" of homosexual mafia, Communist
sympathizers, and the Freemasonry-Globalist clique that runs the Church – and has done so for decades – proved that the Vatican II version of Holy Church was hopelessly hollowed out and drifting toward the rocks. Yet Benedict knew he was not going to be allowed any true course correction. To buy time, therefore, he tried a subtle, sideways attack via his Summorum Pontificum, creating a Hegelian type synthesis-antithesis via his "Ordinary Form" and "Extraordinary Form" of the Mass. Very clever.
But
of course it only enraged the Junta. They removed Benedict in a less
violent way than John Paul I had been, or the attempt to assassinate
John Paul II. (Ever notice how the "cancellation"of Jack Kennedy, Nixon, John Paul I &
II, and assassination attempt on Reagan and the lawfare against Trump
all just seems to coincidentally happen? "Gee, what bad luck we
have in our popular leaders getting removed!" Well, it ain't no
coincidence, my friends! Wake up and see the very clear pattern going on
here.)
- Bergoglio was brought in to put paid to Benedict's "Reform of the Reform".
- But the Vatican II Church was too far gone.
- The Covid fraud gut-punched it and left it prostrate. It's a husk of what it was even 20 years ago, though the remnants of Team Pope John Paul II might not see that yet.
- So, Bergoglio began his employment of a legion of heresies to pave over it, to bury it alive, in effect, enabling the Synodal Church to drive over its grave.
- The Argentinian Peronist "Junta of One" clearly now
wants to create a new Church entirely, an Anglican doppelganger called
the Synodal Church. It happens to serve as the Jewish, Muslim, and
Globalist-approved non-governmental organization for the New World Order
that the elites want to establish. (None of those powers want to see a
strong, confident – and independent – Christianity in the world.)
Schism from all that
So where does that leave the One, Holy Catholic Church? The Church of the traditional theology, worship, and spirituality? The events of a Biblical lifetime have partially submerged it, and scattered it too, though thanks to Benedict's Summorum Pontificum,
it began a serious comeback. Now Generalissimo Bergoglio wants to crush
it. Therefore, this Traditional Latin Mass Catholic Church simply HAS
to break with the other two ecclesiastical avatars, or they will drag it
down into the Abyss with their own self-destruction.
In other words, we actual Catholics – Catholic Christians who pray the Tradition, thus believe the Tradition, and thereby live the Tradition: Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi – MUST perceive full schism to be a necessity from what one needs call the Unbelievers. In a metaphor, the S.S.Vatican II
is going down, and it has only two lifeboats; one boat is leaky and
full of trannies, catamites, and absolute landlubbers, the other staffed
by regular old-time sailors; indeed, the veterans of Lepanto. Which
lifeboat would you chose?
Perception, Perception, Perception
Again, this is about perception, perception of our reality. And once you see this, grasp it, comprehend what's going on, there's no more trying to square the circle. A great burden is lifted from the soul, and cognitive dissonance is banished.
An Preáchán