If it seems like Chaos is upon us, that's because "Normalcy" is a mirage......

Amici,

Chaos is upon us, or the Great Tribulation itself – at least its opening salvos.

Our faith is being tested, daily it seems, and most cruelly by the unbelievers, especially those apostates in the Church who occupy the "seat of Moses". (Matt 23:2-3) So, under their relentless barrage, will we keep the Faith? It is a lot like being confronted with a dire medical diagnosis, isn't it? "You must have this operation or else." By the choices we make, we get to see what we're made of. And whom we trust.

Our commitment to truth, even whether we care that truth exists or want to know it, is being tested. We endure a culture built on objective truth from the teaching of Socrates to Aristotle on down, yet the elite of our civilization deny objective truth with a vehemence. To find it, like panning for gold, we have to wash away the dirt our selfish, narcissistic culture buries it with to find the gold nuggets of truth. Tolstoy says as much somewhere: you get truth by washing away all that isn't truth. And against this desire for truth is the desire for what Warren G. Harding coined as "normalcy", the normal state of things, its usual condition.

The radicals trying to change utterly both Church and State: they hate what we are, hate our identity and our traditions. They hate what we've taken for granted, our "normalcy." (They loathe their own bodies and mutilate them, and murder babies.) They don't know Christ or the spiritual freedom we've inherited from Western Christendom, nor the later political freedom our ancestors bequeathed to us. They want to overthrow everything for a murderous utopia of abject slavery, and they labor like orcs did for Sauron to achieve that. 

We "orthodox" want to believe in the world we were brought up in, however, that the World-the-Way-It-Was was good, with both Church and State looking out for us, wanting us to live to our full potential, whether in religion or the secular world. But washing away the detritus by panning it away, as though panning for gold, we now see that the world isn't like that. Not at all.

This hurts. We resist the conclusions. Looking back over my religious life, and reflecting on various Catholic people and relatives whom I knew, as I also contemplate the worship the Church provided for me since Vatican II, I can see how this mess we are in today is the logical conclusion of the lies they were fed back in the 1960s and '70s. As they disinherited me from 2,000 years of Western Liturgy, so they cut off my political inheritance. 

At the time, even as a kid or a young adult, I picked up on some of the Modernist falsehoods, some of the idiocy of what the Vatican II Church was promoting in my elders. Of course, now in hindsight, I see how our situation today had to play out. It is obvious now, but was not so then.

The secular world parallels that. Today, across the news spectrum, chaos is breaking out everywhere – not just in the Church. Those of us who pine for normalcy are told we can't have it, that it is bad, racist or sexist or killing the planet. That the human race is evil, and killing the planet. The lies are so thick they smother us entirely. Many secular governments, such as in the UK and France and Germany and Spain, show they loathe their own actual people and want to replace them with hordes of Muslim foreigners, people who have absolutely NO "mystic chords of memory" in these nations' living, historical culture. Replacement populations are being brought in and historical nations are being garroted to death. We are seeing it  happen.

It's insane. And pure evil. But we are watching it in "real time". Simone Weil says somewhere that Christianity is the religion for slaves, that "slaves can't help belonging to it", and of course, Islam exists because it is a slavers' religion, established to justify Muslim enslavement of all peoples. Is the Christian world therefore doomed to be enslaved and throttled to death by the Muslim Herrenvolk?

I usually write about the absolutely disgusting state of the official Catholic Church and the antics of its official "pope". We so want the Church to be "normal" that we are willing, just as with my relatives back in the '60s and '70s, to look away from the flagrant apostasy we see all around us. 

But again, all the evil Bergoglio and his imps engage in is replicated in secular governments and in culture – consider the absolutely putrid opening of the Paris Olympics and then the fact that men beating up women is now an official Olympic sport. All that, and "Pope" Bergoglio didn't condemn it till the Muslim ruler of Turkey shamed him into issuing a weak statement. A world upside down.

In secular governments, England is falling to armed mobs (i.e. armed with knives rather than guns) of Muslim men while the British government uses its police to make war on white (i.e. native) Britons. Such has been going on in France for some time, and all the western European countries. We knew this would come. Islam is relentless, has always been. What we didn't know is that our own governments are relentless in trying to replace us. They clearly in no way represent the actual people of their nations. Equally clear is the fact that the governmental mechanisms for representing what the people want; i.e. voting, the courts, constitutions, are completely broken or compromised. This too, was inevitable, for "government based on consent of the governed" has no Divine backstop or safeguard, and is too easily manipulated.

The U.S. mirrors this: the tens of millions of illegal immigrants are not quite yet roving across the land in large armed mobs. They're in smaller units so far, but the UK treatment is coming. The illegals such as they are are murdering and raping and thieving on a grand scale with incredible brutality as it is, while of course the FBI keeps saying the "extreme Right" and/or "Christian nationalists" are the great danger they must crack down on. The American government spouts this hogwash because the American people are armed to the teeth, and bloodshed on a national scale is quite likely. So they now, today, try to head that off by calling patriots racists, etc.

But that's nothing in comparison to the U.S. "Deep State" – the entrenched bureaucratic rulers of the Intelligence Community agencies and the military-industrial complex – who have conspired to assassinate Donald Trump while staging a coup d'état against the brain-dead Joe Biden figurehead. They're now trying to promote a complete simpleton and a most unrepentant Magdalene as a viable candidate. It is obscene, on a number of levels. However, their obvious assassination attempt on Trump failed, purely by chance – or Divine Will – and things are not quite as desperate as they would otherwise have been.

Dire, indeed, but not hopeless, not yet.

I've waited a while now before reflecting on the attempted assassination of President Trump, and everything I see is the usual "smoke and mirrors". Silly, grandstanding Congressional hearings that achieve nothing; they amount to a modern version of the infamous Warren Report the federal government issued after John F. Kennedy's assassination. The Kennedy assassination parallels the Trump attempt in many ways.  

Americans should be old hands at assassinations by now. But once again, the federal investigative agencies do their usual cover-ups, and Congress lets them get away with it. The American people are helpless before the all-conquering bureaucracy. The will of the people doesn't count to those forces of Mordor. Their overturn/coup d'état of Richard Nixon's popular vote blowout victory in November, 1972, was the bookend to Kennedy's assassination, which they prefigured with as much brazenness as they murdered Robert F. Kennedy four years earlier, on June 5, 1968.

A little time offers a lot of depth-perception. IF ONE IS WILLING TO LOOK AT IT. Nothing has been "normal" in American or world politics since November 1963. In fact, it is our willful desire for normalcy that they use against us.

These political murders the government officially "sorted" except no one believed the official results (except the gullible, such as those who believed an untested gene-therapy "vaccination" was necessary for a non-existent pandemic). The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, just two months after his inauguration, never raised too many queries, but as in all these assassinations – except Martin Luther King's assassination on April 4, 1968 –  a "disaffected" young white male loser perpetrated the crime. (King's assassin was 40 years old in 1968.)

If you reflect on all these assassination for any length of time, you surely must ask yourselves – how could we not see all this? After all, in his farewell address as president, Dwight Eisenhower warned his fellow citizens of the "military-industrial complex". He apparently had originally written "military-industrial-Intelligence complex". We've had one assassination after another, and certainly one major coup-d'état, in fact more than one if you consider the Iran-Contra Affair during Reagan's second term and then the endless caterwaul they vomited on Trump's first term, which included the ridiculous "Russia Collusion Hoax" and what, three impeachments? It's our hopeless desire for normalcy that blinds us, but we must let go of that mirage and get down in the steam and pan away the dirt to see the truth of what we are up against.

Both in Church and State, one thing is very true: with every passing day, it becomes more and more apparent that we are living in the most desperate times any of us have experienced or imagined. And in such an overwhelming confrontation, Faith will be tested and prayer is our most potent weapon. Prayer, the Sacraments, and what sacrifices we can make. May God have mercy on us. God always wins in the end. We must not fail the test while we wait for that victory.

AnP

The Catholic Church Is Underground Now, Awaiting the Counter-Reformation 2.0 (PS added)

Friends, Amici, a Chairde,

One reads and hears it across the board of the Catholic bandwidth: The Bergoglians are getting ever more desperate. From ordaining women to the priesthood to the Vatican claiming Traditional Catholics are about to take over the Church, the false "Synodal" Church bigshots are panicking. All this is birthing just before "Pope Francis" and his henchmen (Cardinals Roche, Kissy Fernandez, etc.) drop the hammer on the Vetus Ordo, the Mass of the Ages.

• A time comes in any war when one side realizes they've lost, that continued fighting is futile. Yet they often keep fighting insanely on: Ukraine has lost its war with Russia, most clearly, and the Battle of Gettysburg proved the South lost its war against the Union. The entry of the USA into World War I knelled the end for Germany, though they actually probably knew they lost as early as the end of 1914. The Vatican II types, now Synodal, surely know they've lost, and prove it by lashing out impotently. 

But for Now, the Truth Is, Real Catholicism Is Going Back to the Catacombs to Await the Synodal Church's Death Convulsions

The excellent Father David Nix has an important epistle here that everyone should read. Father Nix, a diocesan hermit under Canon 603, explains how more and more diocesan priests are willing to retreat from parish life, as he did, into the hermit life so they can say the Traditional Latin Mass and offer the Traditional sacraments. Father Nix writes in part: 

"I know it’s not what most of you lay people want to hear for your good priests, but there are priests much less extreme than me that are saying the best priests are now leaving the priesthood and getting laicized because they can’t take the wokeness from the Vatican anymore. Better to be a hermit like me than get laicized because of an infiltration in the Church."

Meanwhile, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf posted an article here about laity-prepared home chapels in which the TLM can be said after Bergoglio orders all dioceses to cancel the TLM.

Some blame the Germans, as here where the Rhine flows into and floods out of the Tiber, but the truth is the rot, the stinking septic tank overflow has deeper roots. It is essentially, quintessentially, Protestant. 

• Protestantism always constituted a desacralization of the world and the Faith that the Reformers thought necessary to be more purely "spiritual". Wasn't that the argument for iconoclasm during the post Vatican II period? In the 16th century as well as today, mostly zealous young academics thought all the beauty, liturgy, the "lived holiness" and striving for holiness of the Traditional European Christian culture "cluttered up" their purely spiritual "leap of faith". They possessed a failed anthropology. What they failed to realize is that humans, being psycho-somatic unities, naturally sanctify and "clutterify" their physical world. "All that clutter" constituted flying buttresses holding up the Faith's walls and colorful windows. They knocked them down, in an iconoclastic frenzy in order to get at "the real Faith", and the Faith collapsed. After a few generations, Protestantism of any stripe leads to atheism, and atheism leads to nihilism, a civilization surrendering itself to Muslim hordes who themselves do no have faith, but only submission. (Judaism is about inheritance, Islam about submission, and Christianity is about Faith.)

In this context, a review of Gavin Ashenden's arguments about the "decoy" Anglican Church and the Reformation is very definitely worth the review. In the same way, the Vatican II Church was a decoy intended to lead us to ever deeper Protestantization. It was for "our own good", the Reformers thought.

All this indeed conjures the English Reformation and stories of home Masses, priest holes, and St. Edmund Campion (1540-1582) and so many like him. I wonder whether we'll have anyone like Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594), who organized the underground missions to Tudor England. Perhaps Bergoglio's attempt to cancel the Mass of the Ages will finally bring about the avalanche of grace needed to truly start a Counter-Reformation 2.0, and raise up new Campions and Allens. We can pray for that avalanche. Archbishop Viganò might well be the start. Please Cardinal Müller, please Cardinals Burke and Sarah and Zen and Bishop Schneider! Join Archbishop Viganò! Bergoglio cannot resist you all together!

(We've had the Reformation 2.0; now it is time for the Counter-Reformation 2.0 and la Reconquista!)

• Of course, they fear for their lives. It turns out that Cardinal Pell was quite likely smothered to death; that's how a corpse gets its nose broken. We have as evil a crew in the Vatican now as Rome sported in the 10th century!
  

The Dawning of Our Reality Now Floods Us with Blinding Truth

Despite the odds, and with Islam about to engulf us, I write this with some degree of the Virtue of Hope. We know now – now with the cascading revelations since Bergoglio was installed as "pope", and certainly since the death of Benedict XVI, after which The Ogre, as I call him (and I am being charitable, actually) "took the gloves off" and really began whipping the Catholic Church unmercifully – that the real Catholic Church is underground. Bergoglio & Company have driven it underground. 

• But it was in the process of being driven off the stage and into the wings (as it were) since the Vatican II Council threw out the original schemas for documents that John XXIII's curia had prepared, and then went off the rails with the unreadable but malleable pseudo-"pastoral" cum absolutely-most-dogmatic-of-all-time documents it did promulgate, documents that apparently cancel all the previous Church councils entirely. (So bogus, so laughable, so cretinous.)
  
• This was a process, I say, hard to fully comprehend at first, especially for Catholics, both clergy and laity, who were so vested in the Vatican I idea of Church as to resist seeing it. 
• Even Archbishop Lefebvre took a few years for it to fully dawn on him. Same with Archbishop Viganò, though for him it took decades. John Paul II ever and always resisted seeing it, stubbornly, mulishly. Benedict – a Vatican II insider and ardent, though more middle-of-the-road, reformer – finally grasped what was happening and felt forced to counter it – which is why he himself was "countered" in the end. At least his poor 'hermeneutic of continuity" is well and truly dead. (If you don't grasp that, Bergoglio will flog you a bit more to get the point across.)
  
• Now, with Bergoglio the Junta of One, all the illusions are swept away. "Bergi" is Emperor Diocletian come again, and just as with Diocletian 1800 years ago, the Argentinian has rescinded what previous emperors (popes) granted us. We have to go back to the old Vatican II pantheon, they say, but few will actually do that.
  

The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Were you to posit the Church as a theater and a stage, it serves as a drama house whose function was to put on the Traditional Latin Mass. This is not surprising as all drama originated as religious re-enactments, from Ancient Greek drama to medieval drama flourishing during the centuries immediately leading up to Shakespeare and his Spanish contemporary, Lope de Vega. The great Cathedral churches, whether Hagia Sophia in Constantinople or St. Peter's in Rome, or the Romanesque and later Gothic and still later the Baroque churches in Europe, all were built to be stages on which the Sacrifice of Calvary God makes present to us, and the veil between Earth and Heaven His angels draw back to make us all present at the eternal sacrifice and "coming forward" of the Lamb that was slain in Revelation (Rev 5:6). No, Protestants, no! Christ is NOT re-sacrificed, but God melts away time and distance so Our Lord's one sacrifice is brought bodily to us.

This is a miracle that all the Apostolic-founded Churches embrace and teach and celebrate in as much holiness and glory as they can muster. Protestants formally reject it, and are thus more akin to Jews and Muslims than they are to Apostolic Christians. To see this miracle, to comprehend it, to embrace and partake of it is a gift, a charisma of the Faith that saves us. But the Vatican II Reformers, the Modernists led by their Masonic allies, fight against it. Protestant-like, they retreat from this central sacrament of the New Covenant, the Seventh Covenant God has established more firmly than He established the first six, because this one God the Father established with His Son.

The Protestantizing Vatican II tried to reduce the Mass, break it down, emasculate it because...

The Heavenly Liturgy is glorious and noble and transcendent: simply real beyond our poor powers to emulate, and yet, by the grace of God, we can participate in it ourselves. The Holy Spirit guided us in all Truth (St. John 16:13) and called us to participate as well as we could, hence the noble traditional liturgies of East and West. But Vatican II, the Modernist cradle of the Ape of the Church, grew a baby – a non-Catholic Changeling Church – and that baby took a long generation to grow, now going on a Biblical lifetime. And Bergoglio serves as the midwife. The Synodal Church being established by the Modernist, non-believing hierarchy, is being finalized by the Synodal process, which merely stands in for a new Church Council, a "Vatican III", that will soon put paid to the True Church. Or that's the intention and reason for the endless attacks on the Vetus Order, the Traditional Latin Mass, and all the Vatican claptrap I noted in the first paragraph of this essay.

That new church is a different church, so of course it has different worship AND cannot tolerate the old, actual Catholic, worship. As this becomes ever more obvious – day-by-day it stands more glaringly obvious – they try harder and harder to crush it, Diocletian-style. As I have written before, they've abolished every discipline in the Faith except one, and that one discipline they demand we give them unreservedly because they are about to drop their guillotine blade: obedience. 

Obedience

But we are not required to obey bad laws or bad rulers. That's true in the religious sphere as in the secular. And in the latter, people are now realizing elections are useless. 

1. England recently held an important election, but voting is useless. The pro-English national Reform Party garnered 14% of the vote yet only gets 5 seats in Parliament; the Lib-Dem Party, a mild Labor Party knock-off, got 12% of the vote and yet seats 70 new members. 
2. The people of France tried to elect Marine Le Pen's party to power in the National Assembly of France, but the Leftists rioted in the streets and Macron and the Communists connived to fix it so that Le Pen's party is blocked from power. 
3. The Demo(Demon)crats in the U.S., stunned by Donald Trump's victory in 2016, stole the election in 2020; their old trick: they stole the 1960 election, and stole the 1972 election from Nixon after his incredible blowout victory. They tried to steal the 2000 election, too.
   
4. Today, their zombie candidate – a subpar idiot and carnal maggot when he had his right mind and now is a walking corpse – as was Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in the 1944 election, actually – will probably be removed, but the Democrats have no one credible to replace him.
   
5. In the same pus-filled vein, the Catholic Church has been taken over by carnal deviants and the most venal, evil partisans of Hell, slowly but surely, since the1960s. They are not Catholics. Not Christians. Yet they demand our obedience.
   

But we are not required to obey these bad rulers and their misrule. St. Thomas Aquinas leads a long list of theologians saying so. However the secular political issues will be solved, if they are solved, at least for the religion we can support Father David Nix and Archbishop Viganò, and all the new Edmund Campions and William Allens whom the Lord God raises up for us.

May the Counter-Reformation 2.0 come quickly, oh Lord!

PS

The Ogre Pope keeps blowing things up, which I take as a sign of madness and desperation. Telling Muslims "all religions to be respected, free from proselytism" (June 26, 2024) is a renunciation of Our Lord's Great Commission, and yet another anti-Christian heretical kick in the head provided by Bergoglio. And telling that to Muslims, who have NEVER respected other religions or were ever "free from proselytism" is just cross-eyed cognitive dissonance. Bergoglio goes in for open cesspool lies, that's certain. The heretic witnesses against himself, daily now, basically. And can there be anyone who still cause this guy "pope"?

For God, Under His Mercy

AnP

Res ipsa loquitur about Bergoglio, the Novus Ordo, and "The Grooming Church"

Friends,

Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is an old legal adage in common law. And Bergoglio's actions, just as with those of the Biden Administration and the various European governments, all speak for themselves. Oh, in their talk, both Church and State babble all sorts of nonsense. But look at their actions. Both Church and State practice tyranny. They are all together thieves, liars, and braggarts, full of pride and avarice. And for them, indeed, "sin darkens the intellect", i.e., they are stupid. 

• Proof of that? A VIP in the Church told Cardinal Müller that it would be better there were NO MASSES at all instead of the Traditional Latin Mass. Yep, that's proof, all right.

Ergo, this July 4th, we should declare independence from these frauds. More specifically and accurately, we are not Schismatics ourselves, but the Church bosses are in Schism with the Church as it has traditionally existed and according to its ancient teachings. We need to declare independence for the Church herself from these Schismatics.

For another example:

The "Grooming Church"

Joseph D'Hippolito has a scathing article at The Stream: “Queering” the Catholic Church. I've rarely read a post with a theme so disgusting and so disheartening. D'Hippollito sums it up with this:

But as the spectacle of a drag performer dancing in front of children at a Vatican event demonstrates, Francis and his cohorts have no interest in protecting the innocent. By appeasing gender ideologues, by confusing mercy with enabling, Francis and his sycophants are turning the Catholic Church into the world’s largest grooming agency.

For you Catholics reading that quote, is this alright for you? Is it not a sickening abomination before God and Man? How can you tolerate the Catholic Church being turned into "the world's largest grooming agency"?

• I have written about that "drag performer" here before, the funding the drag tranny at the children's gathering was the slap in the face many needed to wake up.

With the Holy Church nearly sinking under the weight of this particular carnal sin, perhaps the worst of carnal sins that "cries out to Heaven" (Genesis 18.20-21) let alone so many others, is it any wonder belief in the Real Presence of Our Lord Christ in the Eucharist has waned? 

But even more to the point, it remains a shocking, inexplicable wonder that so many Trad Catholics insist "Francis is pope" when he clearly isn't. (It is also shocking that so many "conservative" or "magisterium" Catholics still think the Ogre is a pope! What's he got to do, declare Martin Luther a saint? ...Oh, wait.) 

The Demands of Logic, a syllogism

First premise: Bergoglio as "Pope" has clearly taught heresy of various kinds. Eleven years of his antics and bombast and put downs and curses and diktats we've endured. He's even changed the official Catechism.

Second premise: Bergoglio is obstinate about it; i.e. having been provided many dubia and other formal queries and opportunities to clarify his teaching in order to align it with Tradition (the Deposit of Faith), he refuses. 

Conclusion: Bergoglio is an obstinate heretic and manifest heretic, and as such, he cannot be Catholic – let alone pope! (See Louie Verrecchio here for a "deep-dive" into this here, and also here.)

How simple is this? It isn't rocket science and it is barely Theology 101. A Baptist or Methodist who teaches the Real Presence or the profound status of the B.V.M. can hardly be called a Baptist or Methodist. Catholicism has a two-millennia old Magisterium that's been guided by the Holy Ghost to a far higher level of understanding and detail than any other Church. Because of that, we can all see wherein Bergoglio goes against so much of the consistent Church teaching. Thus, Galatians 1:8 applies: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema."

Presentation?

Occasionally someone suggests this is all about presentation. That the Vatican IIers should have tried a gradual introduction to the Novus Ordo Mass. This is naive in the extreme. They NEVER tried any such "gradual phasing in" because A, they knew the laity wouldn't accept such guano, and B, they wanted to change Church theology, and change the Church herself, into something different – as we CLEARLY see now with this "Synodal Church" abomination. A gradual introduction; i.e. "Let's have the 10 a.m. Mass as Novus Ordo and 8 a.m. Mass as Vetus Ordo" would have resulted in direct comparison, which the Novus Ordo cannot win. After a few weeks, the N.O. Mass would have had a handful of people attending it and everyone else (in Comrade Lenin's famous phrase) "voting with their feet" by attending the Vetus Ordo, the TLM. In other words, it would have given the True Catholics far too much of an opportunity to "rally round the flag".

So, What To Do?

For myself, I reject Bergoglio and his peeps: his macabre collection of hobgoblins, imps, hobhoulards, tutgots, swaithes and wraiths. They're not Catholics. Not the ones closest to Bergoglio, who, with their Master, must be atheists because no believer, no matter how addled, would mock God and trample His teachings like this infernal crew does. And even if somehow they were "well-intentioned", as Anthony Stine says many may be (at 1:34), where do they get off denying me (and over a billion of others) our Catholic inheritance? 

Denying us our Catholic Inheritance that has built up over two millennia is their fundamental goal. (Remember Müller's revelation above.) And they cannot believe in God, and certainly not the Holy Spirit, because He has been guiding us all since Pentecost Sunday:

• (St John 14:16 & 14:26) 16 And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever. 26 "But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you."
  
• Acts 1:4 And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.
  
• Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

All that is good in our own particular lives comes from God; all the bad we are responsible for, or our fellow humans. All that is good and true and lasting in the Catholic Church likewise comes from the Holy Ghost, as the "test of time" proves. What has the test of time proven about the Vatican II Church? "By their fruits you will know them." (St Matthew 7:16) When John Paul II kept calling for a "new Pentecost", the poor guy was asserting, even if not conscious of it, an insult to the Holy Spirit that His first Descent wasn't good enough, or that it had run out of steam! (He never seemed to cotton on to what he was saying, poor man.)

But the Synodal Church creators think God is not involved at all, in any Form or Person, despite their endless affirmations they are "guided by the spirit". Spirit of what? We are supposed to think these clowns can discern spirits? The current Church leaders certainly ACT like everything is created for them by their intrigues and decided by their all too mundane and "spiritless" committees. That, or the committees, like the ostensibly huge one writing the Novus Ordo (Bugnini did almost all of that, him and a couple cronies) are just Potemkin Villages, boring charades.

No, my friends. They're the "Church of the Groomers" and that is definitely a res ipsa loquitur. As noted, they are thieves, liars, and braggarts, full of pride and avarice. Literally everything they do is about power, asserting it and lording it over us with an iron hand. They're corrupt on every level. (See Anthony Stine's report on the revelations about Cardinal George Pell's death.)

They've abolished every discipline in the Faith except one, the one they demand we give them unreservedly: obedience. 

And irony of irony, the "pope" Bergoglio, ruling with an iron hand, wants to arrange it so after he dies, the papacy will be nothing but a shadow of itself, as the Patriarch of Constantinople is now. And also irony of ironies, the great champion of the Novus Ordo is too bored with it to ever say it himself, not for years. Ironies of ironies, quoth Qoheleth. 

I say NO to their N.O. all their works.

The more of us who say it, the sooner the charade is ended. Ann Barnhardt sees it coming. 

AnP

Give Bergi a little credit, him or his "creatures and hangers on"

Friends,

Regarding this news that indeed, the Traditional Latin Mass will be widely banned, essentially outlawing it for any non-FSSP or ICKSP priest to say it  –

Give Bergoglio and his henchmen (Andrea Grillo, Tucho "Kissy" Fernandez, Vittorio Francesco Viola, & Arthur Roche) a little credit. They know full well they can't have the pre-Vatican II TLM Mass being offered because it shows – wildly, unmistakably – that the Vatican II Mass (more specifically, the Hannibale Bugnini "Spirit of Vatican II Mass") is definitely NOT Catholic, or at the very least "Catholic Lite". They can't allow the TLM to exist because it accuses them manifestly and continually. It shows them up. They want to finally "fulfill" or "complete" what they allege Vatican II started, and the TLM is a roadblock to that.

Also, remember, the Bergoglians are working on a new even more "ecumenical" liturgy that won't have a consecration. Little mentioned in the mainstream Catholic press, it has been written up and they're going to use it for the Synodal Church.

In this context, you can see why Bergoglio is pushing this right now – or his imps Grillo, Fernandez, Viola and Roche might be pushing it, as Tio Jorge himself doesn't celebrate liturgy at all and seemingly couldn't  care less. (How ironic that the champion of the Novus Ordo rite is obviously bored with it!)

Of course, trying so outrageously and stupidly to ban the TLM will ironically even prove all this to all but the most unhinged papal supremacists. Their own acts will reveal them. 

So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."

Aeschylus

Only these clowns are not eagles. They're dodos.

Kinda like the Biden administration, actually. 

  An Préachán

No to the TLM Grab: Catholic Ecumenicism with Vatican II Church Devilry Has to End /with Update

Update Note:

News of the Vatican's 'extrajudicial penal trial' against Archbishop Viganò is hardly surprising, and just confirms what I've written in the essay below. 

Amici,

One usually thinks of Ecumenicism as a "dialogue" (whatever that overused word means outside of drama or narrative) between Christian denominations, but it actually primarily occurs, I think, within the Catholic Church, and there only between the Traditional Catholics and the "Novus Ordo" Vatican II Catholics. It is NOT a dialogue, however, but a tyranny, as we've all seen these past 60 years.

It is time – long past time, but now SO obvious – Traditional Catholics ended the ecumenicalism we've had with the Vatican II Church. Yes, to be Christian is to suffer for the Faith, but it is not Christian to suffer heretics lording it over us. The secular world already hates us; we have no need to let so-called Churchmen hate us and force us to suffer their wickedness. Souls are being lost, and it has to stop.

Abrogating the TLM?

Word is out that Bergoglio and his peeps will be cracking down on – as in eliminating or banning – the Traditional Latin Mass. This will probably consist, as Anthony Stine suggests, of Rome banning the TLM in diocesan parishes. (But it could be worse, he notes.) Rorate has the initial article here. Anthony Stine provides a thorough review of it here. Stine quotes Prof. Kwasniewski discounting the rumor, but Dr Stine explains how, with Bergoglio's Vatican being what it is, we can expect literally anything to manifest. I agree. Commentator Kennedy Hall, for his part, offers a very insightful understanding of this mess. Mr Hall points out that this has happened before. This is, after all, what they forced on us in the 1970s. A billion Catholics were worshiping in the TLM, Hall reminds us, including the pope, the cardinals, bishops, religious, and the laity, and even so the Modernists dropped the hammer on it.

In this, Mr Hall makes an excellent and indispensable point. Astutely, Hall points out that Pope John Paul II (God have mercy on that confused soul) only allowed the TLM because he and his Vatican team insisted hardly anyone except old folks wanted it, as though from some sentimental attachment. And the Polish pope insisted it would not be allowed at all if any Traditionalist thought that the Novus Order slop was somehow inferior to the TLM. For JP2, attraction to the TLM was a "problem", Hall notes, reading from a JP2 document, that needed to be "solved". 

This insight says it all. For the Modernist heretics, devotion to the Traditional Faith, the handed-down Faith ("I give you what I have been given", as St. Paul says twice in First Corinthians), is merely a psychological condition that needs "solved." Or we are just plain heretics. As one Modernist wrote (referenced below), we are "not in a relationship of fidelity" to Rome, but we are "at odds" with Rome. Of course we are, you fool, because you are "not in a relationship of fidelity" to the Faith as it has been handed down from the Apostles! Duh! 

To them, the New Mass is infinitely better; we see it as infinitely inferior. To insist the Novus Ordo is better is to fry our brains on the skillet of cognitive dissonance. I, myself, grew up with the new Mass and I testify about it thoroughly in these pages; I repudiate it. It's horizontal, not vertical, secular not sacred. If nothing else, it simply prays for a lot less – literally asking for less from God – and therefore naturally far fewer graces accrue from it. Of course far fewer graces accrue from it. We've copious proof of that over the last half century, have we not? I won't go back. 

Now, clearly, these are diametrically different viewpoints between the Modernists and Traditionalists. They can't both be correct. If the Modernists (technically "post-Modernists") running the Church since John 23 called Vatican II could disregard what that impotent and flaccid Council actually recommended for the liturgy; i.e. the calls for Latin to be retained in the Mass and Gregorian Chant be given pride of place, they could get away with anything they wanted to. And they did. This despite the Vatican II Council supposedly being a "Pastoral" Council, so its teaching consists of recommendations on pastoral outreach rather than dogmatic definitions, as Vatican I and most other councils promulgated. But the Modernists use it as a dogmatic sledgehammer to smash us actual Catholics all to bits. We live in the ruins.

Whatever Bergoglio, the Anti-Pope extraordinaire, and his lavender imps and cross-eyed hobgoblins are planning for the TLM, they obviously hate it. They hate actual "bead counters" and "breeders". They obviously do not understand the Traditional Liturgy. So, therefore, surely, now it is time to say enough, as in "Good-bye to you, get out of our house!". Yes, long past time. I could list all the devilry Bergoglio has imposed on Holy Church, but you-all know most of that already. Funding the drag tranny at the children's gathering was the slap in the face many needed to wake up. The Argentinian is just the icing on the Vatican II cake.

This is why I write that our ecumenicalism with the Vatican II tumble-down disaster has to end. Yes, our Catholic engagement with Modernism and the Modernist Church has to end. 

The Apostolic Faith

There exists the Catholic Faith, the Apostolic Tradition, the Deposit of Faith that has been handed down from the Apostles, and as St. Paul wrote of it, if he himself or an angel from Heaven dare teach another, let him be anathema. (Galatians 1:8-9) Then there exists a wide variety of Churches teaching versions of this Deposit of Faith, affirming this bit while discounting that bit, picking and choosing. Some are less heretical than others, certainly, such as the autocephalous or self-headed 14 Orthodox Churches. These are separate from Rome but they have valid sacraments and Apostolic Succession. Then there are the Oriental Orthodox. Many Eastern Rite Churches exist that are indeed in communion with Rome. (Though Bergoglio is putting absolutely everything under mortal strain by making "Rome" heretical.) Then there are the Protestant Churches, 20,000 or so – some say a lot more – who are not Apostolic-founded Churches, but denominations separating themselves in profound ways from Apostolic Christianity.

Failure to Stop the World Wars

Ecumenism was a big thing post World War II, as the various theologians and church leaders tried to deal with their being totally impotent to affect such a abrutal horror as either World War – or for that matter, the looming World War III. (That's something Bergoglio could be raising Cain about, but he is too busy coddling homosexuals.) During the Covid fraud, the Vatican II Church went belly up entirely. Though the pre-Conciliar Church was quite healthy generally speaking, these disaffected leaders during Vatican II and after pushed the idea to make the Church relevant again by refounding it as more modern, more "with it", more mundane and less "religious' or "spiritual". A key to this Modernist self-inflicted murder focused on Modernists trying to attract mainly the Protestant sects into rejoining the Catholic Church via negotiations – the idiot idea being to make Catholicism more like Protestantism so Catholicism would be less objectionable to Protestants. 

• That was the origin of the Novus Ordo, the New Mass as Annibale (Hannibal) Bugnini – the toad who wrote the new Mass up – himself said. No wonder so many Catholics left the Church after the Church imposed it on them.
  
• But the basic idea on its face is asinine. 
• No Protestant can respect it, as it is so craven, and no true Catholic can tolerate it, as it most definitely isn't Catholic. 
  
• For hundreds of years now, Protestantism has defined itself in thousands of ways, but common to all its emendations stands its refusal to be Catholic. Ecumenism is as dumb as trying to "reunite" with the Jews by adopting kosher laws when Jews have spent the last 2,000 years being Jewish precisely by rejecting Christ, the point of Christianity. 
• Finally, trying to be "Protestant-lite", Catholics only succeeded in insulting Protestants by "getting into their lane". Of course they're insulted. They staked out their ground years ago and don't want us invading it. So imbecilic is all this that perhaps it is true this is all a plan of the Freemasons to bring down the Church.
  

Ecumenicism

Ecumenicalism is a falsity in and of itself. It's founded not on reason but emotion. ("Wouldn't it be nice if we could all agree?") It's not about faith but negotiation. Christianity is not – and never has been – about negotiations with other religions. Even within itself. From the beginning, Christians saw all other religions as at best false, at worst diabolical. And as one can see from St. Paul, they continually policed themselves. Christians could have saved their lives by burning a pinch of incense to the emperor; it would have been easy to "negotiate" that. Yet they would rather die. That's because they had FAITH in Christ and knew via God's grace that all else was a lie. And now we are reliving exactly this situation, with our pinch of incense now required abandoning the Traditional worship. 

This is essential to understand. While paganism is about ignorant superstition or tribal identity ("I swear by the gods my people swear by" Cú Chullainn used to boast) and Judaism is about inheritance and Islam is about submission (Al-Islam literally means The Submission), Christianity is about Faith in Christ, and Faith is more than belief: it is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is supernatural, and definitely not up for negotiation.

Besides: Individuals convert. Institutions do not. Individual pagans can become Christian, as can Jews and Muslims (though the latter might be killed for doing so). Catholics can convert to other religions or become atheists. That's the Mysterium Fidei of God's gift of grace and the vagaries of human free will. None of that is arrived at by committees negotiating minutiae – or by elite bureaucrats imposing their diktats on the Faithful.

Ecumenism, if it is anything other than being "nice" to folk of other religions, is a negotiation: "Well, if we give up this teaching, will you join with us then?" Or "If we accept your teaching on this, will you join us then?" And that is exactly how John Paul II and Benedict saw easing off on TLM restrictions. A negotiation. Offering crumbs to dumb birds to keep them from flying the coop. But they imposed a time limit from the beginning, as Kennedy Hall asserts. Their patience with us has run out. Our Traditional time is over, this new Vatican ruling is saying. Pinch the incense or else. They fully intend to force the issue. We must refuse their entire gambit.

In short: WE CATHOLICS have had to give up so much of the Traditional Teaching of the Faith to the Modernists who took over the Church just in order to "stay Catholic" and not be called Schismatics or Sedevacantists. But it was never enough, was it? It never is with terrorists, and that's what the Vatican II Reformers were. Now, with Bergoglio bringing to birth this demonic "Synodal Church" of his, they're demanding even more! The Ape of the Church is come. And it is a baboon.

What Modernists Think

No. Just no. Of course Modernists think the Traditional Catholicism isn't true, or THE Faith is just a mental condition explained by psychology. Remember the fundamental idea of Modernism is that life evolves, our understanding of things evolves, and even God evolves. And they are the elite who see all and know all and we have to evolve as they tell us to. 

Of course they think they can manipulate us, push us around, consign us to some reservation in a school gym somewhere. Until they terminate us. Remember, to them, we have a psychological condition that needs "solved." Or we are just plain heretics. Anthony Stine in a followup podcast in which he reads from an interview with Andrea Grillo, the Vatican's "leader of liturgical progressivism": it is Grillo who asserts we are "not in a relationship of fidelity" to Rome, but we are "at odds" with Rome. Grillo also callously dismisses the Chartres Pilgrimage, saying,

"What are 18,000 people compared to the great multitude of the Catholic Church? Little more than a sect that experiences infidelity as salvation, as is often linked to moral and political positions, and very concerning customs. Tradition and Traditionalism cannot be equated."

That's exactly what they think of us. This is 180 degrees opposite of Tradition's understanding of the Faith, of devotion and the innate human desire to worship God as God has laid down.

We must break with these people. They are not Catholic. Bergoglio has defected from the Church, and this Professor Grillo, a VIP in Bergoglio's Vatican speaking though the Argentinian's mouth, is a truly blind guide. Grillo is a callous ideologue whose heartlessness is as plain as if he had horns and a forked tail. Fr James Mawdsley presents an excellent explanation of why Bergoglio cannot stop priests from saying the TLM starting at 12:06, "A word about obedience".

Millions have left the Church and the Holy Sacraments necessary for Salvation – to them the Sacraments are just juju, magic superstition for mental degenerates exactly like some Protestants have so long alleged. No wonder the Vatican II Church is so "Protestant"!

Raising Christ's Royal Standard

Suffering is a part of life, and sometimes we must suffer: accident, heartache, disease, tragedy. We Catholics can carry it too far, as did Luisa Piccarreta of the false Divine Will cult within the Church. (For details, see Fr Mawdsley.) The Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Sorrows is the all-time exemplar of true Christian suffering. She endured all that God sent her after her Fiat without the slightest demur, and is therefore the greatest created being, and our Mother and Intercessor. See what the demons testify to this.

In terms of the Faith, however, the world will always hate Christians because it hated Christ. We suffer when we must but it is sadomasochistic to suffer needlessly. We instinctively draw the line at a certain point. 

1. We couldn't let the Jews kill off Christianity in the first forty years of the Faith.
2. We couldn't let the Gnostics bury it alive in its infancy.
3. We couldn't let the pagan Roman state snuff it out, the Germanic barbarians or the later Mongols crush it.
4. We definitely could not let Islam – yet another Gnostic legalistic system – swamp it and tax it to death. 
5. We couldn't let the Cathar Gnostics kill it with their homosexual cult in the Middle Ages any more than we can let perverts destroy it now. 
6. And we couldn't let Protestants dissolve it into initial confusion, then empirical irrelevancy and finally the modern all-pervasive secularism.
7. We cannot let Bergoglio and Grillo and so many others destroy it from within, either, any more than we can allow the One World Government or Communism or Consumer Capitalism or Freemasonry to throttle it. The challenges from "the world, the flesh, and the devil" never end.
   

For our children's sake, we must preserve the Faith. We must fight. Therefore I repudiate Bergoglio, and have done so for some time. If that makes me a Sedevacantist, then at least I am not suffering from Cognitive Dissonance. What we need is a bishop, just one, to start the avalanche that has been building pressure and is about to burst. Bishop Strickland, for example, or Bishop Schneider to name another, who would formally declare by their Apostolic Authority that Bergoglio and Grillo and the rest have clearly defected from the Catholic Church, and that Catholics need to anathematize them.

We need to raise Our Lord's Royal Standard, the Sacred Heart, and not take it down until God triumphs.

        AnP

Questions Taylor Marshall & Calvin Robinson's interview raise, also, Gavin Ashenden's response

Amici,

I have an initial question to start the ball rolling:

Desacralization. Can someone – some Vatican IIer, some Bergoglio acolyte, or some Protestant maven – please explain to me why it is SO important to desacralize Catholicism? The Orthodox East have always been horrified at the West's orgy of desacralization. But it is not just the West. Islam itself is another form of Christian desacralization, a Christian heresy "boiling it down" to basics. Islam and Judaism are more a mundane, law-based "ethnicization" of a faith than religions, per se. Islam has the Sufi mystics sect, of course, often shunned by regular Muslims, and Judaism has the Haredim, but they have 613 laws you must obey, for Heaven's sake; (Judaism obviously never recovered from the loss of the monastic Essenes, its most spiritual faction.) Protestantism serves as an expurgation of Catholicism, an abridgement of it. Vatican II Catholicism meanwhile is the bowdlerization of itself.

But we're talking about – please remember – a religion. A RELIGION. Don't you WANT a religion to be sacred? Holy? Set apart? Non-mundane, non-profane? Uplifting, soul-heightening? I mean, isn't that the whole point?

• Religion needs to be vertical, not horizontal. 
• God-centered or the Divine Above-centered it ought to be, rather than human-focused and earthbound.
• That's what the Reformation was, a massive desacralization. The Iconoclasm of it was precisely that, the casting down of both art and theology from the themes of heavenly sacrifice and spiritual ascendancy, the verticality of it all, knocked down to a paltry banality of prosaic credence. A whittling down to the lowest common denominator short of atheism. (But of course it would inexorably lead to atheism.)
  
• And Vatican II was a "mini-me" replication of the Reformation that left the Catholic Church completely wrecked, with now twelve types of Catholics in existence, as per this interesting video. All thanks to the Vatican II Church's idiot cognoscenti.
  

Marshall and Robinson

A fascinating interview occurred between Taylor Marshall and Calvin Robinson, an Englishman who has gained an internet following as a Christian apologist. He is not a Roman Catholic priest or a priest in one of the Eastern Rite Churches in Communion with Rome, nor yet an "Orthodox" priest. Robinson was on Marshall's podcast to explain what he is: he's been an Anglican then an English Free Church deacon and now is some form of "Old Catholic". Mr Marshall seems to agree that Robinson obtained valid if illicit orders and could easily become formally a Catholic priest in communion with Rome, and spends a lot of time trying to pin Robinson down on why he won't go ahead and become a full Catholic. Robinson dodges and weaves. "Is Catholicism Always ROMAN?" 

Then Gavin Ashenden, who knows Robinson, weighs in with a long but engrossing podcast explaining the English Reformation in great detail and utterly destroys the Anglican/Episcopal conceit that they have "Catholic Roots". Brilliantly done, Mr. Ashenden (who was himself once an Anglican bishop).

I highly recommend both the friendly, civilized Marshal-Robinson discussion, and Ashenden's friendly, civilized rebuttal of Robinson's arguments. Robinson himself is the unknown quantity, and we want to know about him. He's obviously quite orthodox in his Catholic beliefs and made the argument that historically, to be Catholic, one had to hold and teach the doctrines of the Universal (i.e. "Catholic") Church, and Marshall was making the point one also has to be in Communion with the pope to be Catholic. As an interested third party, I would say that in theory the two notions ought to go together; in practice, as we see every day, they don't. And at the core of why that is so stands this question of desacralization of the Faith.

What's Catholic?

First and foremost, heretics don't get to define what's "Catholic", and Protestants of any stripe are some sort of heretic, by definition. But now we have a crisis within the Church (as Ashenden reminds us) and things ecclesiastical are deeply awry. We have the Church desperately trying to desacralize itself. Just now Anthony Stine has a video up on homosexual priests about to "come out" and demand being fully accepted by Rome. "James Martin's Favorite Kind Of Priests Are About To Go Public In A Big Way".

As Stine points out, this is all part of the secularization of the Church that has been going on since Vatican II and is now gathering steam under "Francis". Clearly, Queer Advocate Martin and these homosexual priests seek to make "push come to shove" and force the Church to accept them, which it cannot do without dumping St. Paul, let alone Our Lord Christ. Stine says Martin has openly rejected St. Paul's teaching on deviants, and now "Pope Francis" has written a foreword to James Martin's new book.

• In a mess like this, why would a good man like Calvin Robinson want to become Roman Catholic?

Church of the Troll Bergoglio

Although Vatican II sourced the confusion, one of Bergoglio's most infamous hallmarks is his spread of utter confusion. This is the Twilight Zone papacy. We all know Bergoglio is an absolute formal heretic (or whatever term one desires to use), and certainly a professional Destructor (you know, like Gozer in Ghost Busters). Bergoglio is "cancelling" orthodox Catholic bishops and crushing the orthodox Traditional Latin Rite Mass while allowing the Sin of Sodom to disembowel the Holy Church. Did you see the Vatican sponsored a drag queen? For their World's Children Day no less? This is a "No, just stop" moment. It ought to be an officially "Damn Bergoglio and the horse he rode in on" moment. Bergoglio and his peeps have not denounced this, so far as I know, and the deposed Bishop Strickland calls for something to be done about it. Well, my dear Bishop, you shouldn't have let that Troll depose you.

Bergoglio allows all this and lets the insane German Church run wild while he sacks bishops like Joseph Strickland for the crime of being a believing Catholic. As with Joe Biden being America's worst president, so "Pope Francis" is Holy Church's worst pope – were he an actual pope, which many of us know he cannot be. So, one can reason:

• As Bergoglio's minions in the hierarchy are cancelling orthodox Catholic priests in every direction, therefore – 
  
• Why would Calvin Robinson want to become a full Roman Catholic priest when the bishop who received him would immediately "cancel" him, too? (Yes, they probably wouldn't receive him in the first place.) 
• Calvin Robinson was too polite to say this, of course.

The question is crucial. Is one not a Catholic if one is not "in Communion" with the pope, even though one is baptized and holds all the Catholic dogmas and essential doctrines? And even more basically, can one be "in Communion" with a heretic pope who is destroying the Church? In this crazy reality, Robinson can quite possibly possess valid holy orders because a "Nordic Catholic Church" bishop ordained him, a bishop who had himself received a valid although illicit consecration. Is Bergoglio himself an actual bishop because of his valid consecration when he himself doesn't believe a word of it all? Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

The Papacy

Every organization needs a top guy with whom final authority rests. A ship needs a captain, an army needs a general, a platoon needs a sergeant, a company needs a CEO and a country needs a monarch or president  The papacy serves that role for the Universal (Catholic) Church. For almost two thousand years, each bishop of a diocese was "pope" of that Church. Once elected by the clergy and people, or later appointed by higher up archbishops, a bishop stayed with his flock until he died. He was "married" until death to his town/diocese/region, and could only be "divorced" from it for serious health or moral problems. Rarely were bishops moved from one diocese to another as they are commonly moved about today. (Parish priests usually were assigned to a parish until they died, as well.) Paul VI changed all that and made bishops "retire" at 75. Also, you couldn't be a bishop without a diocese, hence the tradition of naming Vatican curia bishops to be bishops of some long extinct early Church. Vatican II changed that. Bishop Strickland is therefore now still a bishop although he's been deposed by an evil heretic. Bergoglio the Destructor will most certainly not bother to name Strickland bishop of some defunct diocese, unless as an insult it would be, say, Laodicea.

Problems worked their way up the ecclesiastical ladder to the pope for adjudication. The pope was universal pastor in that specific sense, and not pretending to be actual pastor of every diocese and parish on Earth, micromanaging it all. A system existed, worked well, and they kept to it. (Yes, the Orthodox broke off – and on, and off again – and before the Muslims came in the 7th century, the Coptic Church and the Syrian broke off as well. The remote Armenians were probably never part of it to begin with.) Dealing with Luther's narcissistic egomania is an example of how that system worked. 

1. But with the advent of modern communication technology, the papacy could wield absolute power under a domineering kind of pope. 
2. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid before the American Civil War, and although that failed, soon others followed, and Pius IX could "call up" and give direct orders to a bishop in Argentina or Australia in minutes. 
3. Pius IX was certainly domineering, and even said, "I am the Tradition" echoing Louis XIV's "I am the state". Pio Nono it was who called Vatican I and got it to formally declare his special "from the Chair" pronouncements "infallible". 
4. That had been the understanding before, of course, but never codified because a pope only acted infallibly when some issue needed a final ruling. By the nature of the system, a pope's ruling was a "final word". Usually, a pope was kept busy enough just being the actual bishop of Rome, a task they now delegate to others. 
   
5. But with the new technology, Pius IX seemed to think the bishops of the world were his secretaries and "branch managers" and put them on a leash. That may not have mattered much when the bishops were orthodox Catholics, and Ashenden takes the time to read the kindly but final response the great Pope Leo XIII made about Anglican orders. 
6. But now when popes were only in varying degrees orthodox; i.e. the Vatican II popes enmeshed in the Modernist cobwebs, that became a problem. 
7. Finally we have Bergoglio, who has taken Pius IX's absolute power and is employing it to literally deconstruct Catholicism, root and branch. He's formally creating a new Church, the Synodal one.
   

The Universal Church is thus quite divided, and no, I don't include Protestants in that Church, but only Apostolic Churches.

1. The Big Fourteen Orthodox Churches are not in Communion with the pope – definitely and defiantly so – yet they have valid Apostolic Succession and Holy Orders. (They have a problem with their divorce doctrine because some emperor or other demanded it, and otherwise, they're each a "national Church".) And the venerable Coptic Church isn't even talking to the Catholic Church now thanks to The Troll, our Juan Peron on the Tiber.
   
2. Is a "Benesedevacantist" like Ann Barnhardt a Catholic? Or myself?
   
3. Or a "regular" sedevacantist like Louie Verrecchio at AKA Catholic? He doesn't accept ANY of the Vatican II popes. (BTW Verrecchio has an excellent article here about how the Vatican II Church messed up the Collect for Trinity Sunday, with a link to Professor Michael P. Foley's amazing article on the same, here at New Liturgical Movement.) Read those two articles to see what you've been missing as a "Catholic" since Vatican II, both about the sublime doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity and also just how profound the sacrament of Confession actually is. You know, both of those are pretty basic, and we've been robbed blind by these Vatican II cretins.
   

Our Lord Christ Himself said, "If they are not against us, they are for us." (Mark 9:28-41; Luke 9:50) But what about Bergoglio? That man is definitely NOT for Christ, in any way. Bergoglio tears up Church tradition and disregards the Deposit of Faith. Hardly ever does he mention our Lord, and his documents and those of "Tucho-Touchy" Fernandez almost never mention Christ. The entire Synodal Church that they are aborning has very little indeed to do with Christ. So, no wonder there are twelve types of Catholics now.

That is a problem indeed for the desacralizing Vatican II Churchmen and the desacralized laity, and not just for a Calvin Robinson.

AnP

Prof Kwasniewski's Futility, Pius IX, and Pope Francis' Criminality - Updated

Amici,

It's been all over the Catholic news, Professor Kwasniewski's Call for the Resignation of Pope Francis. (Read its full statement here at Lifesite.) I think it is not exactly an exercise in absolute futility, but it is badly flawed, and even actually incoherent, as Louie Verrecchio explains in great detail and insight here at AKA Catholic. 

If it has any value besides grandstanding for the ridiculous and anti-Catholic "Resist the Pope" movement, of which Prof Kwasniewski serves as the great cheerleader, I think that value lies in its listing the crimes of Bergoglio. And I mean actual civil law crimes. The document details crime after crime. Bergoglio is a monster. Period.

The Papacy

Look, the Catholic (Universal) Apostolic Church has spent 2,000 years strengthening the pope's role. The Orthodox autocephalous Churches prissily dismiss the obvious. The Protestants do too, all so they can be their own popes. Whatever. But the Church probably went overboard at Vatican I regarding the importance of the Papacy. 

• I never had the feeling Vatican I's Pastor Aeternus was quite correct, and Pius IX himself haughtily said, "I am the tradition," like Louis XIV said "I am the state". What hubris! But who am I to pick and choose? 
• Pius chose his poison and thus now we have to swallow it via a (I believe anti-)pope saying, "I am the Church, and I am changing it into something totally different, and there's no going back!" 
• Bergoglio pretends to be a Mormon Prophet President who can remake anything Catholic at a whim. It's insane. His toadies and creatures make out Bergoglio to be a prophet sent from God. Forsooth! 
• Yet what does Prof Kwasniewski want? The cardinals to be able to impeach a pope by two-thirds vote? Or a Supreme Court set up somehow, independent of the Papacy?
  

The great saints and doctors of the Church long before Pius IX made it plain enough: a formal heretic can't be Catholic, let alone pope. Should one manifest, we should refuse him obedience. (Hear that, Bishop Strickland?) Bergoglio clearly teaches heresy. Has done, is doing so. He's literally Hell-bent on it. Ergo, ipso facto, he is not now, and probably never was, a valid pope. You do not "resist" such a person, you utterly ignore him. He has no validity. 

Crimes

Beyond all that, however, my friends (and anyone reading this), Jorge Mario Bergoglio is guilty of actual civil crimes, specifically (but not limited to) protecting child molesters and rapists. And of course that nun-rapist "artist" Marko Rupnik. All of these monsters are obscenely evil. Bergoglio protects them. The 'Call for Resignation' goes to great lengths to list in some detail a large number of Bergoglio's crimes. Finally! The man ought to be arrested and imprisoned. 

1. In America, bishops in favor in Rome need not worry about covering up such evil. They can do as they please, as we see every day.
   
2. A bishop who is orthodox, however, finds "covering up sex crimes" a perfect way to be "cancelled", as was Bishop Robert Finn, forced out in 2015 for a minor situation that – compared to today's filth – was insignificant. 
3. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whom apparently everyone in the U.S. hierarchy knew for decades was an insane seminarian Xōchipilli, god of Aztec homosexuality, raping seminarians, who got away with it till Archbishop Viganò and Pope Benedict put him on ice, only to have the evil Toad-Ogre generalissimo from Argentina rehabilitate McCarrick and send him to China to sell out Chinese Christians.
   
4. BTW, Bergoglio needs to be charged with simony, as well, for he certainly betrayed the Chinese Catholics for filthy lucre.
   
5. Bergoglio only removed McCarrick finally when the putrid stink of it all began making his own toady press corps vomit. 

What I find astounding is how Bergoglio so clearly exhibits being a product of a Vatican II rotten Church hierarchy that allowed the sex scandal to metastasize for so long. Way back in 1985, a certain Father Thomas Doyle raised the alarm of clerical sex abuse but the hierarchy in the form of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (which ought not to have ever existed; thank you Vatican II for a wholly useless "teat on a boar hog") ignored Doyle. Then a few cases occurred until 2002, when all hell broke loose with Fr. John Geoghan exploding the clergy sexual abuse hell-on-earth in Boston. (The local bishop, Cardinal Bernard Law, had to admit receiving a letter in 1984 about Geoghan which, of course, he "round filled". It was Bishop Joseph Strickland whom I remember reading – in an article I cannot find now, since his cancellation dominates the news – told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual meeting that nothing had really been done about this mess, which sealed his own "molestation" order (being cancelled by Bergoglio).

• This was probably in or shortly after 2016, when the National Catholic Register reports 'In late 2016, the plainspoken prelate changed his approach, from what he calls a “management bishop” to teaching the Catholic faith aggressively, including its controversial parts. He eventually began calling out others publicly when he considered their actions deficient, including Pope Francis.' 
• But Bishop Strickland didn't add two plus two together, and STILL says Bergoglio is pope, and thus abandoned his flock to Hell Hounds on the order of an anti-pope.

In any event, Bergoglio is part and parcel of this sex abuse mess. He became an Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992. His higher career parallels the trajectory of abuse allegations. True, he himself has never personally been linked to sex abuse EXCEPT in covering up predators; obviously, he has no excuse about being ignorant of what was going on. It probably has something to do with Juan Perón's dictum, "For our friends: everything. For our enemies: not even justice." (Isn't that exactly how NY Judge Juan Merchan is treating Trump? Merchan is a Colombian ex-pat!) A priest compromised by abuse allegations is a much more useful tool and toady for an unscrupulous ladder climber like Bergoglio than one having a sterling reputation.

The Kicker

Whatever the case, the Kicker is that just as the horrific, insane abuse allegations and then the evidence of actual crimes became manifest, Catholics experienced tremendous difficultly accepting the reality. It was just too horrible. And now we have a "pope" who embodies the worse aspects of Vatican II, the modernist heresy, and grotesque repudiation of everything that is actually Catholic, ESPECIALLY the most Catholic thing of all, its Traditional rites. AND HE IS A CRIMINAL TO BOOT!

Thank you Pius IX for making this mess, you and your arrogant "I am the tradition". Had you just left it the way it was, a good pope would in no way be hindered in doing his job – defending and teaching the Deposit of Faith (i.e. Tradition) and "strengthening his brothers" – while a bad pope wouldn't be so "teflon" as to escape all consequences of being a tool of Satan. Which is what we've got now.

Bergoglio is a minion of Satan, and his new Synodal Church from which he and his cronies insist there's no going back from, is a Satanic anti-Church 'Ape of the Church', and I for one reject him and all his works, root and branch.

I categorically refuse to be driven mad by the obvious cognitive dissonance of trying to believe Wild Boar Bergoglio is a valid Pope. The modernist heretics behind Vatican II and the infamous "Spirit of Vatican II" manipulated the gullible John 23rd, elected the feckless Paul 6, killed John Paul I and hindered and misled John Paul II, and kicked out Benedict. These popes all had modernist tendencies but bore nothing in themselves of the outright apostasy Bergoglio evinces every hour of every day, seven days a week.

Enough of Bergoglio and his madness!

AnP

Update: from Lifesitenews

Vatican invites Gavin Newsom, other pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Democrats to speak at climate event

As with everything else regarding Bergoglio, nothing about this is Catholic. NOTHING. Bergoglio is favoring "Catholics" who are abortionists and the unrepentant sexually deviant and therefore damned – about a fake "climate crisis" that only exists as an excuse to depopulate, to 'cull", humans from the Earth! Bergoglio is insanely evil and he just keeps going and going without major opposition. 

This must be the Great Apostasy.