Pope Francis and the strange case of Marko Rupnik: Francis' undoing?

Amici,

It's hard to keep up with "Pope" Francis and his sado-masochistic destruction of the Vatican II Church. So many scandals. So little time. One could pick just one sordid tale, say the scandal of the attempted "rehabilitation"of the loathsome Theodore (Uncle Teddy) McCarrick, and after due consideration, one would think that were Bergoglio's actions in McCarrick's regard more widely known in the Catholic World, Bergoglio would be out on his ear – regardless of the fact the Church (now, since 1917) has no legal mechanism to remove a misbehaving pontiff.

Maybe. Maybe not. But perhaps this newly erupting scandal involving yet another putrid human being wearing a clerical collar, this time a diabolical artist named Marko Rupnik, becomes more widely known, then, indeed, this might take down Bergoglo. For a detailed article on the subject, read Damian Thompson here at unherd. Blogger Anthony Stine offers his take on it here at his Return to Tradition. Regarding the actual art:

Rupnik's putrid, rancid images are just everywhere now, all over the place. For example, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., Blessed Sacrament chapel in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, Spain, Facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary at Lourdes, France, Holy Family Chapel, Knights of Columbus headquarters, New Haven, Connecticut. Check here for a wide collection of this creep's "art". 

Notice how the eyes are ALL black – and dead. Every  single image! Creeps me out! As others have noted, they look like the black, liquid eyes of "aliens" in the movies. This is seriously foul, and yet Rupnik, a rapist, mind you, a rapist of nuns, yet, for decades, has his "art" ALL OVER the Catholic world now. Can anything bespeak the moral, cultural, civilizational putrescence of the Vatican II Church's bigshots, the ones with the money and connections to commission art? It all needs removed and – one would hope, destroyed – as the product of a sick, lecherous mind of a black soulless fiend. 

Do NOT Despair

Being the student of Sun Tzu that I am, I look at it a bit differently. I suspect that another John Paul II-type of pope, a Vatican II Church mega-star, would just continue the "killing us by degrees" that Paul VI and (alas) Benedict XVI ended up doing. The underlying problem obviously isn't Tio Jorge Bergoglio, is it? He could have been tossed ten years ago. He need not have been elected. Benedict need not have run away. Instead, Cardinals Müller, Burke, and Sarah, and the host of craven time-serving bishops in the Church today are the essential part of the problem, and I think the esteemed and excellent Fr. James Mawdsley has the reason why. The ordination rite for bishops was changed! He explains in this 16 minute video titled provocatively: What have the sedevacantists got right? Why we should listen to them. He's not a sede himself, but here he delineates many problems the Church has, and the consecration change for bishops is one of them. They went from servers of Christ and defenders of Tradition (which IS the Deposit of Faith, remember) to rulers, bosses, managers. CEOs. Specifically, the wording of the consecration was changed from "Fulfill in Thy priest the completion of Thy Ministry, and adorned in the ornaments of all glorification sanctify him with the moisture of heavenly unguent" to "So now pour out on this chosen one that power which is from you, the governing Spirit whom you gave to your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the Spirit of him given to the holy apostles, who founded the Church in every place to be your temple for the unceasing glory and praise of your name." (Just as an aside, note how pronouns referring to God are not capitalized? Modern usage. Ugh!) And isn't that what we see today around the world? Bishops as rulers, bosses, managers? CEOs? They're like corporate branch managers and certainly Bergoglio treats them as hirelings, mere branch managers who can be dismissed at any time, as he did with Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres.

The goddess Athena herself poured "the moisture of the heavenly unguent" over Odysseus (a certain Crow was so envious!) in the Odyssey. It was a gooey, divine gift. Christians used the same word Homer used, χαριτόω/χάρη for the transformation in Christ that is Theosis, and χάρη in Latin is Gratia, Grace. But Fr. Mawdsley explains how the new consecration of bishops tosses all those meanings and replaces them with sheer power. What happened to bishops being the servants of the servants?

God's Use of Imperfect Vessels

Be of good cheer, my friends. God sent Bergoglio and uses him just as God uses the Devil. The Devil cannot do anything to us that God doesn't allow him to do, and He makes sure what the Devil is allowed to do will ultimately enable us to grow in Faith and "earn a crown". Similarly, and I've said this before, Bergoglio is leveling and humiliating the Vatican II Church from the scene. When the smoke clears and the klaxons die down, the True Church, the Church of Tradition, of the Deposit of Faith, will have weathered the chaos. Just as during the farcical Covid lookdowns, when the Traditionalists, such as the SSPX, kept offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass when the everyday Catholics actually began to notice the Traditional Latin Mass was still among them, so it will be after the destruction that Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his band of spiritual delinquents wreak upon the Church runs to its end.

The Chastisement – for this round – will be over.

    An Préachán

More anti-Sede rant...

Just a bit more anti-Sede rant.


To all Sedevacantists, at least those not trying to set up their own little church, in effect:

Look, I don't mean to be unkind, but you are just like meé i.e., a peon in the Church and our "opinion" and whatever "research" we do or did do or might conjure up is immaterial, inadmissible, and irrelevant. 

Repeat this: WE ARE NOBODIES. We're like those low-level imps and hellions in a Possession who do a lot of chatting, and take up time making noises and stinks, but we're the bottom of the totem pole. Heaven and Hell have hierarchies. Should we end up in Heaven, we'll be cleaning the paving stones of the streets using toothbrushes. We're that low.

The Big Shots in the Vatican 2 Church hierarchy could care less what we do -- or think -- or believe. And both Heaven and Hell are far more interested in what we do, than what we putatively convince ourselves we believe. (You can bet they're very interested in what the modern bishops have done: lists are kept, the records are exact, and diabolical teeth are being sharpened.)

And as for prophesy, and those who quote Our Lady from various of her visits: Our Lady is our Shield and Limitless Resource, but for this one Jewish girl, born in utter obscurity and through her own freely-given Fiat, is through Our Lord Co-Redemptrix with her Son, we would none of us be here discussing this.

However, regarding her prophesies, powerful and shocking a warning as they are: I'm sorry: neither you nor I have the authority to interpret prophesy. We can keep our eyes open, definitely. But we're just nobodies trying to account for the absolute disaster that the Vatican 2 Church is. You go "whole hog" whereas I, being Irish and phlegmatic, know all too well how miserable life is. For example, in the last couple of days, Taylor Marshall and George Neumayr posted a Youtube discussion about the recent USCCB meeting in the Harbor Marriott in Baltimore. 

Three-quarters of those lemmings in Roman collars should have been just marched into Baltimore harbor. Listen to it. I get so angry with what's going on that I could chew neutronium.

But the bottom line is, as the Vat2 Church collapses and -- I hope -- the Reconquista Church is born, all we can do is pray for a firm God-given Faith in the New Covenant, regardless of the unbelief of others, and treat our neighbors as Our Lord requested, while staying in the sacraments as best we can. That latter is a problem if you think you can't find any validly ordained priest who's been given the faculty to hear Confession by a bishop who's also valid, but there it is. We're just too low on the totem pole to decide which bishop is which. Thank God there are enough good priests left -- maybe more than we hope for or maybe fewer than we fear -- who can administer the sacraments.

It's called Faith. No one said it would be easy.

An Préachán

Sedevacantism and Romans 3:3

I myself have never had much interest in Sedevacantism, unless it would be discussing whether Josef Ratzinger could be said to still be pope. My guess is that some future pontiff will declare Ratzinger's quasi-abdication/retirement/whatever-you-call-it to have been invalid, and thus that Bergoglio -- an obvious heretic, if ever heresy was practiced, preached, or professed -- was (past tense, since this is a future pope talking) an anti-pope.

But of course I don't know that will happen, and though I can clearly know "Bergi" is a heretic, and a rank one, especially odious in that he has no time to answer the Dubia Cardinals, nor the collection of theologians and laity who have asked him pleadingly to clarify his teaching on divorce and remarriage, and God-knows-what-else, but yet he somehow he manages to find the time to give lengthy interviews to old Eugenio Scalfari, that ridiculous Communist "journalist". Whatever. He may validly be pope, or not; but he's definitely a heretic. For what that's worth. 

So, I understand the Sedes' frustration. Declaring the popes since (who? John 23, Paul 6? Or...?) whomever to be invalid popes solves one aspect of the absurd Modernist Church. But it creates even worse ones, such as I wrote to a Sede at OnePeterFive:

Will you just stop about the Sedevacantist garbage? Just. Stop.

The Vatican II Church is a mess, true. But Sedes throw the Infant Lord out with the dirty bathwater. You, and all Sedes, need to re-read the opening of Romans chapter 3, especially the context of that chapter's verse three, which famously says, "For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid." That is what should be the engraved-in-gold motto of all Trads regarding even the most absurdly celebrated N.O.

You write, "Maybe the [New] Mass created by enemies of Christ isn't even valid." Subtle, as a brick. Oh, yeah, and like you KNOW that, do you? You blaspheme God, actually, for you're writing that the unbelief of the servants of the New Covenant are making God's side of the Covenant, His signature on it, without effect. Outrageous.

It's as simple as that, and what St. Paul wrote about those Jews of his day who rejected the New Covenant through their unbelief, applies to all Sedes.

Most Sedes are just desperate Catholics trying to hang on to their Faith in an Age of Heretics in High Places. Some of them, though, do commit both Blasphemy and Protestantism. I.e., they say God is not faithful, and they say that they themselves somehow have the authority to assert this and that. They don't. 

But St. Paulo had it right, in spades. So what if a bunch of these clowns are unfaithful. Does that invalidate God's side of the Covenant? Not. One. Iota.

An Préachán