Troubling One's House: Wrecking the Papacy to Denounce Bergoglio...

Amici,

With his publication and clear intent to forcefully implement his fateful motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, Jorge Bergoglio is clearly "troubling his own house." (Proverbs 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.) Bergoglio has been doing almost nothing BUT "troubling his own house". 

He's now gone into high gear, as it were, in troubling his own house with Traditionis custodes. Yet – and please consider the supreme and devilish irony of this – in their efforts to try to corral Bergoglio over the past near decade, and especially now, many Trads and "Conservative" Catholics end up troubling THEIR OWN houses!

Why? One of the supremely nasty things about Bergoglio is that in order to get around the Argentine's craziness, to try to reign it in or in some way mitigate what The Ogre is doing, they denounce the office of the papacy in some degree, i.e. its power and scope. 

This is an essential problem if one accepts that Bergoglio is legitimately pope. If he is legitimately pope, he legitimately has the power to do almost anything – that's within the Deposit of Faith, of course. The kicker is, HE gets to decide to an incredible length just what that Deposit is. 

THIS is the trouble we've been having since Bergoglio's "election". 

Yet of course, if Bergoglio is not legitimately pope, should his election have been a sham, a coup d'état ecclesiastical, then all this trouble goes away. Poof! 

We have every reason to think Bergoglio was in no way legitimately elected: Benedict was clearly forced from office in a long-term operation done on many levels, mirroring the attempts to remove President Trump, and as with Trump, the efforts ended with a fraudulent election! The parallels are astounding.

Poor Benedict with his butler leaking private documents to the press and finally even with the Vatican's bank teller machine stopping to work; then there's the whole story with "the Saint Gallen Mafia" that is notorious, how they planned to put in Bergoglio when Benedict was elected, all that; and then Bergoglio's antics while in office that are "unpapal" in the extreme: pagan worship in the Vatican, embrace of the homosexual agenda, and now his clear intent, King Herod-like, to murder the children of Bethlehem, the small but vibrant and growing TLM movment. 

So, in fighting Bergoglio over the past eight years, many Trads and "Conservative" Catholics who accept the Argentine's election as legitimate have in effect been whittling away at the power of the papacy in order to try to corral the rogue "pope". You see that now in arguments that Bergoglio does not have the power to overturn Benedict, i.e. cancelling Pope Benedict's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The papal power was not supposed to be limited in this "worldly" legalistic/ersatz-constitutional fashion, but rather limited by charity, prudence, and faith.  

The power of the office is immense, and for any true Vicar of Christ, it ought to be very carefully used. And it has to be used with prudence and charity, for the position of the papacy is crucial, in fact, to the Faith. It is the oldest continuous office of any kind to on Earth. It is where "the buck stops". It's the final (Earthly) authority of the whole Christian Faith (despite what Prots and the 14 Orthies might say – their own chaos show how necessary the papacy is). And obviously such an office needs to be careful guarded – most primary in that defense is preventing the wrong man from assuming it! 

As Our Lord Christ's vicar, His vizier, His Prime Minister, a pope is only answerable to God Himself. So, a pope has the power to do most anything to support the bishops in their teaching and preaching and holding the Deposit of Faith. But deep wisdom is required. For it is often morally wrong to do something that could be otherwise licit but is in fact a sin against charity. In the process of this use of power, therefore, one has to be prayerful, humble, and Faith-filled. One has to be something very rare in the modern world: wise.

And it is not wise to "trouble one's house."  

Wisdom. If Bergoglio has "wisdom" it isn't heavenly wisdom, for it is not wisdom to trouble one's own house. 

Therefore I insist it is madness to insist on Bergoglio's election to the office was licit. That just ties one into hopeless, never-ending Gordian Knots. We see that in a flood-tide of knots now! And no, the papacy is not vacant. The office has had a properly elected pope all this time, Benedict. (He insists he no longer pope; does that make him a sedevacantist?) Every passing day proves again and against that we have an anti-pope and unless we "wise up" to this, we're doing nothing but "troubling our own house."

An Préachán

N.B. No one, least of all myself, has the right or authority to say a pope was invalidly elected; no cardinal or group of cardinals has that right: this is in the nature of the office of the papacy. But anyone, layman to cardinal, bishops, etc., have the right, and a clear duty, per Canon 212, to raise issues, and Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis does not remotely act or administer as a pope should, and the questions around his election are extremely significant. We need to let everyone know WE know that, and that we accept no blather to the contrary. Do NOT let yourself be twisted into mental 'knotage'. Alexander cut the Gordian Knot; it was the right thing to do. Being a Catholic isn't a mutual suicide pact nor is it giving one's soul to follow the Führerprinzip. A Führerprinzip defense on Judgement Day will work no better for us than it did for Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl at Nuremberg.

"There will be Civil War in the Catholic Church"

Indeed. A "Civil War" has been silently waged, what we call a "War of Position" as opposed to a "War of Maneuver" since the rejection of Humanae Vitae in 1968. (Similar to the Communist "Long March" through the Western institutions, of which, of course, this is a part; see the story of Bella Dodd.) In a sense, the Gays and Bergoglio have done us a favor, in effect, as it were, by finally coming out of their dugouts and trenches into the open field. We can all see now what they're up to, and it "stinks to high Heaven", to "coin a phrase".

We don't know the details of how this will turn out, and so much depends on how Bergoglio resists the growing pressure, and how long he holds on to the papacy, and whether the homosexual "Lavender Mafia" can be expunged. If that doesn't happen, it is clear that a Schism (which de facto exists now) must occur. The "official" Church, sort of like the "Official IRA", will wither on the vine, and end up joining the Anglican Communion or the mainstream German Lutherans. How long it will take to get the Vatican itself back, we'll have to see. But surely, God is letting this occur so we can clean the Augean Stables, though admittedly without Heracles. (With God on our side, we don't actually need ol' Herc, of course. :) But one thing is certain sure, once the majority of the laity understand that the "Lavender Mafia" in effect call all the shots, they won't tolerate it. The Church is made up of families, and few fathers and mothers want to be in a Church of the Gays, run by the Gays, and all for the Gays. (If I may conjure up that old atheist, Abe Lincoln.:)

Excellent essay below, one full of history that I didn't know.

(Paul A. Rahe holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is professor of history. )

An excerpt:

This past weekend, the chickens finally came home to roost. We had already learned of the predatory conduct of Theodore McCarrick, Wuerl’s predecessor as cardinal-archbishop of Washington. The evidence showed that he had buggered altar boys and seminarians while auxiliary bishop in New York, bishop of Metuchen in New Jersey, and Archbishop of Newark. Formal complaints had been lodged against him as the 1990s and continued to be lodged in later years, but they were ignored, and he was nonetheless promoted.

On Saturday night, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was the papal nuncio in Washington from 2011 to 2016, released an 11-page testament, revealing that Pope Benedict had learned of McCarrick’s conduct, had acted against the man in 2009 or 2010 by silencing him, prohibiting him from travel, and forbidding him to say mass in public; that in 2013 he had himself personally warned Pope Francis against McCarrick, spelling out in detail the man’s misdeeds; that Francis had reversed the restrictions imposed on McCarrick by Benedict, taken him as his chief American advisor, and ignored the advice of the Papal Nuncio and accepted that of McCarrick in choosing archbishops and bishops for the United States. This includes Blaise Cupich, the cardinal-archbishop of Chicago, and Joseph Tobin, the cardinal-archbishop of Newark.

Viganò also did something on Saturday night that, as far as I know, no high-ranking prelate has done in more than six hundred years. He called on the pope to resign.

In the meantime, Monsignor Jean-Francois Lantheaume, former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C. has emerged to confirm that Viganò‘s predecessor had been instructed to confine McCarrick by Pope Benedict, that he had witnessed the confrontation with McCarrick, and that everything else that Viganò had said was true. To this, we must add that Viganò named names in the Vatican, specifying which high officials had obstructed the investigation into McCarrick’s conduct.

As all of this suggests, we are now at a turning point. The Lavender Mafia controls the papacy and the Vatican overall, and Pope Francis is packing the College of Cardinals, who will elect the next pope, with sympathizers. Pope Francis and his minions have now been exposed, named, and shamed; and there will be a civil war within the Roman Catholic Church.

Either Francis leaves and his supporters and clients are purged, or the church is conceded to those who for decades have sheltered and promoted the pederasts and those who regard their abuse of minors as an indifferent matter. It is time that those bishops, archbishops, and cardinals who are innocent of such conduct stand up and force a house-cleaning. In the meantime, the laity should speak up loud and clear.

How bad are things in the U.S. Church? Check this out:

Cardinal Wuerl on the run? Using the Vatican to escape justice?

And this from Archbishop Charles Chaput:

An excerpt:

 Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia told a conference that had met to discuss the “young people” of the Church that in light of the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church he had written to Pope Francis asking him to cancel the upcoming Youth Synod set to take place in Rome.

“The bishops would have absolutely no credibility” in the upcoming Youth Synod, Chaput told the Cardinal’s Forum, an annual gathering to provide academic formation of seminarians and continuing education for lay people, yesterday. The synod's planned dates are set for October 3-28, 2018.

And then there's this by Rod Dreher, which overviews and links to this: 

Francis and the Journalists, by John Waters

(Clearly, the entire Irish episcopate should resign; what few good men are left haven't "stood up and been counted", so they should go, too.)

An excerpt:

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/francis-and-the-journalists

Three questions to begin:

1. Why did the World Meeting of Families, which took place in Ireland last week, all but exclude from its panels and speakers people who had been active in recent Irish referenda relating to family and children?

 2. Why did virtually every panel of commentators covering the World Meeting of Families and papal visit on Ireland’s national radio and television station comprise at least 50 percent LGBT activists?

 3. Why did the Irish media play down the explosive intervention of the former Vatican diplomat Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò until Pope Francis was preparing to leave Ireland on Sunday afternoon?

The answer to the first question has two parts. One is that the Irish Church hierarchy, having more or less avoided involvement in three referenda—on (so-called) children’s rights (2012), same-sex marriage (2015), and abortion (2018)—seek to ensure that those who tried to do the job they abandoned become non-persons within the Irish Catholic world. More and more, the Irish bishops appear to wish to curry favor with those who despise the Church, and to dismiss and disparage those who defend Christ’s proposals for humanity.

I was one of just three people who fought prominently in all three referenda on the side that the Catholic Church might have been expected to lead. Though I had gained a reputation as an arch-apologist for the Catholic Church, I was not invited to speak at the World Meeting of Families or even to attend it, and so I watched and listened from a distance.

To the second question: Media panels are stuffed with LGBT activists in order to protect the dominant narrative concerning clerical sex abuse in the Church. That narrative insists that sex abuse was perpetrated by pedophiles; that the main cause was clerical celibacy; and that the coverups were conducted by Church leaders to protect the Church from bad publicity. 

We have known since the John Jay Report published by the US bishops in 2004 that the overwhelming majority of abuse in the Church was carried out against teenage boys. The levels of pedophilia in the Church are shown by this report to be below those of the general population—whereas the levels of homosexual abuse were many multiples of the general situation. 

In Ireland, anyone who tries to state this case is immediately attacked by both journalists and LGBT activists. For this reason, the truth has never been fully reported, nor has its significance been absorbed even by the Church at the official level. Most Irish people have no sense of the true meaning of the child abuse scandals, and both the media and much of the Church’s priests and leadership seem anxious to retain the narrative that implies the victims were all “little ones.” 

See also: Thousands of Catholic Women Sign a Letter Pleasing with the Pope.

This is a "pathetic" piece in the sense that these people "don't get it" about Bergoglio, but at least they'll "get it" soon when he brings on a full-scale "civil war". In essence, it is a sort of last gasp of the Vat2 laity, the leftovers from JP2's days, the "conservatives" who are bewildered by the people running the Church off a cliff. 

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