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.
- We couldn't let the Jews kill off Christianity in the first forty years of the Faith.
- We couldn't let the Gnostics bury it alive in its infancy.
- We couldn't let the pagan Roman state snuff it out, the Germanic barbarians or the later Mongols crush it.
- We definitely could not let Islam – yet another Gnostic legalistic system – swamp it and tax it to death.
- 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.
- And
we couldn't let Protestants dissolve it into initial confusion, then
empirical irrelevancy and finally the modern all-pervasive secularism.
- 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
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