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

Easter: Open Letter to Catholics re: Our Perceptions of Schism

Friends,

We know that this Easter week, Pope Francis, whom I call "Bergoglio" (when I'm being polite) is ailing. Whatever the immediate future holds for him, though, the Catholic Church suffers massive ailing as well. Catastrophic ailing. The first step to any cure is to recognize the sickness. Curing ills cannot occur if we don't know what's causing the ailment. And our understanding of anything, from the Church to Black Holes to Reformation History to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is based on perception.

It is precisely this essential perception of our realities that generates the problem we're having in the Catholic Church. We perceive – most of us – that there's one Catholic Church that has a host of difficulties and numerous factions who seem increasingly divergent. I suspect this view in the clergy at least stands strongest among those bishops consecrated, and priests ordained, when Karol Józef Wojtyła held the papal throne. Their ranks are thinning out now, but many remain. "The Church" for them is as they perceive it to be. But is it? And was it ever? And what of the other ideas of "The Church" that exist, pre- or post-John Paul II?

What if we could willingly change our perception? What if we perceived more closely that three separate "Catholic Churches" exist: i.e. the steadily drying up (and confused, and fading, and straying) Vatican II Church, the aborning Synodal/One-World anti-Church that Bergoglio is midwifing, and of course the Traditional Catholic Church, with its Traditional Latin Mass and Traditional Catholic teaching.

• This is a simple perception, and it doesn't involve endless contortions of cognitive dissonance. Achieve the perception by simply asking about the Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. Polls indicate that around 25 percent of the Vatican II laity believe in that, probably next to none of the Synodal Church believes it, while most likely near 100 percent of Traditional Catholic believe it. Thus, this question serves as a simple way to discern which of the three Church "avatars" one belongs to.
  

How did this situation develop?

Look again at Church history over the past three-quarters of a century. Under pressure from the Modernists, the Vatican II Church clearly broke ranks with the entire Church before it, as exemplified in the multitudinous Vatican II documents and the basically impossible ditching of the Traditional Latin Mass (impossible on a number of levels, not least Pope Pius V's famous 1570 Apostolic constitution Quo Primum). These dense, tedious, and prolix Vatican II decrees – that naturally very few have read or certainly studied – contain a thorough mixture of typical Catholic orthodoxy, Protestant heresy, and 1960s "pop-psych" palaver. They basically offer "something for everyone", depending on who is reading and what their conceits are. Whichever Church faction is strongest can implement them in any way they like. They laid the foundation of the infamous "Spirit of Vatican II" that blew in so many dire phantoms that plague the Church today.

• To use a metaphor, they set the Barque of Peter's voyaging on an initially slightly divergent course from what it had been sailing on for nearly two millennia, and slowly, imperceptibly to millions, it began to head away from its ancient Witness Against the Worldly Powers route, and into dangerous Waters of Surrender to the secular, fallen "pop" culture. The Church went from "The world will always hate me because it hated my Lord" to "The world will love me because I will surrender to it."
• While probably 20 percent of Catholics (and certainly many onlooking Protestants and Jews) were not fooled by this new trajectory, millions of priests and laity were indeed misled. But now, nearly 70 years on, can we not see how far the Church has wandered off the counter-culture course its Founder chartered for it? Grasp our reality. We now have no excuse to tolerate this misdirection any longer.

I can't be sure of John Paul I, poor man, or the vacillating Paul VI who became a recluse after 1968 and Humanae Vitae, but clearly Pope John Paul II was the only pope who actually believed the Vatican II Church would be THE Church from now on. Perhaps the Polish pope's near assassination refocused his understanding a bit, but still, it was his Curia (papal court/administration) that held the line for Modernism. For example, John Paul II's refusing to approve bishops for the SSPX – and the perfidious way his people kept saying "yes" then changing that to "er, wait a bit longer," stringing the SSPX along – forced the necessity of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's ordaining bishops without papal approval. This was pure "Deep State"-style treachery.

Pope Benedict XVI would eventually rescind the resulting automatic excommunications of the SSPX bishops because of the absurdity of it all, and even the cunning, duplicitous Bergoglio seemed to occasionally favor the excellent Society's work to some extent, though technically it remains somewhat "canonically irregular". (I discount all such qualms entirely, of course. "Partial communion" is nonsense. And it remains a blessing the SSPX is not under full Vatican control.)

Benedict's Fall

Although an early and idealistic Vatican II revolutionary, the hyper-intelligent Joseph Ratzinger was no fool. Eventually, he could see "the handwriting on the wall" for the Vatican II Church. But as pope, Benedict's inability to control the "Junta" of homosexual mafia, Communist sympathizers, and the Freemasonry-Globalist clique that runs the Church – and has done so for decades – proved that the Vatican II version of Holy Church was hopelessly hollowed out and drifting toward the rocks. Yet Benedict knew he was not going to be allowed any true course correction. To buy time, therefore, he tried a subtle, sideways attack via his Summorum Pontificum, creating a Hegelian type synthesis-antithesis via his "Ordinary Form" and "Extraordinary Form" of the Mass. Very clever. 

But of course it only enraged the Junta. They removed Benedict in a less violent way than John Paul I had been, or the attempt to assassinate John Paul II. (Ever notice how the "cancellation"of Jack Kennedy, Nixon, John Paul I & II, and assassination attempt on Reagan and the lawfare against Trump all just seems to coincidentally happen? "Gee, what bad luck we have in our popular leaders getting removed!" Well, it ain't no coincidence, my friends! Wake up and see the very clear pattern going on here.)

1. Bergoglio was brought in to put paid to Benedict's "Reform of the Reform". 
2. But the Vatican II Church was too far gone. 
3. The Covid fraud gut-punched it and left it prostrate. It's a husk of what it was even 20 years ago, though the remnants of Team Pope John Paul II might not see that yet. 
4. So, Bergoglio began his employment of a legion of heresies to pave over it, to bury it alive, in effect, enabling the Synodal Church to drive over its grave. 
5. The Argentinian Peronist "Junta of One" clearly now wants to create a new Church entirely, an Anglican doppelganger called the Synodal Church. It happens to serve as the Jewish, Muslim, and Globalist-approved non-governmental organization for the New World Order that the elites want to establish. (None of those powers want to see a strong, confident – and independent – Christianity in the world.)
   

Schism from all that

So where does that leave the One, Holy Catholic Church? The Church of the traditional theology, worship, and spirituality? The events of a Biblical lifetime have partially submerged it, and scattered it too, though thanks to Benedict's Summorum Pontificum, it began a serious comeback. Now Generalissimo Bergoglio wants to crush it. Therefore, this Traditional Latin Mass Catholic Church simply HAS to break with the other two ecclesiastical avatars, or they will drag it down into the Abyss with their own self-destruction.

In other words, we actual Catholics – Catholic Christians who pray the Tradition, thus believe the Tradition, and thereby live the Tradition: Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi – MUST perceive full schism to be a necessity from what one needs call the Unbelievers. In a metaphor, the S.S.Vatican II is going down, and it has only two lifeboats; one boat is leaky and full of trannies, catamites, and absolute landlubbers, the other staffed by regular old-time sailors; indeed, the veterans of Lepanto. Which lifeboat would you chose?

Perception, Perception, Perception

Again, this is about perception, perception of our reality. And once you see this, grasp it, comprehend what's going on, there's no more trying to square the circle. A great burden is lifted from the soul, and cognitive dissonance is banished.

  An Preáchán

Pray against Catholic Church Collapse by Contemplating Catholic Truths

Friends,

Catholic Church collapse is happening rapidly now. It is self-evident. On November 30, Bergoglio publicly said in an address to theologians: “This is the job I ask of you: Please, demasculinize the church.” (What? Like him and his creeps?)

OK. That's it for me. The Vatican II Church is comatose. It is about to breathe its last. Meanwhile, the True Church is being crucified. I could thesaurus all the synonyms for "putrid" I can find, but enough. The Church's "rank and file" bishops are already "demasculinized". They're reprehensible eunuchs.

We're on our own. Well, we have Someone on our side. 

Pray for God's will to be done as the Synodal Church/Bergoglio's Mirror Church gains strength and seemingly stomps and wallops the True Church. For some detail on that, see Anthony Stine's report here about how incredibly bad things are getting: such as one archbishop formally excommunicating priests and laity for simply celebrating/attending any Traditional Latin Mass in his archdiocese while allowing some Voodoo thing to occur, or Msgr Charles Pope deleting and recanting his refreshingly and perfectly honest 'X' commentary about how nasty Bergoglio is showing himself to be, and so on. (Anthony Stine does excellent reporting.) 

Now, I know it seems trite, cliché, the constant advice to "pray". But there's prayer and then there's prayer. 

Try contemplative prayer at this time of the liturgical year – Advent. It's the beginning of the liturgical year and the end of the secular year, and as we can be certain 2024 will be a disaster on all levels, it is a good time collect ourselves.

Adventus, the Coming of Christ. It's a Lenten time of fasting and preparation for Christ's Incarnation. Consider praying by reflecting on what the Incarnation itself means.

God rejoices in His creations, and His creations rejoice in Him, and in us. Incarnate Creation reflects His Glory, His Being. Prayerfully reflect on

Psalm 5: ⁴ For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded. ⁵ What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him? ⁶ Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: ⁷ And hast set him over the works of thy hands. ⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields. ⁹ The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

God incarnated us into being as a wonder. Our unique part angelic, part animal ensouled body constituting a being to rejoice in His Creation of us in the marvel of His earthly creation. The good angels certainly glorify Him for material existence and for creating us. Can we do less? And He blessed us, and our world, in the first three verses of Genesis 2. I take this to be a Covenantal blessing. The Lord God made a pact with his physical Creation, and that is why He did not kill Adam and Eve when they fell as Genesis 3 reports; instead, God kept them alive, cursing them, yes, but covenanting with Eve, as well, promising that her seed would rise up to crush the Devil's head (Genesis 3:15). 

That first Covenant with Humanity turned our shame into blessing. No one, no anti-Christ, can undo that. We can follow Satan to Hell, yes, but we cannot undo God's glory, only witness to it, even in the Inferno.

Prayerfully reflecting on this, how can Bergoglio and his lavender monkeys in clerical garb separate us from what God ordained for us? They cannot. Especially in this season. God, the pure spirit, takes on human nature, becomes a true human being yet wholly God as well. The Incarnation. Contemplate it. God has thus elevated our nature by His Incarnation in us, that we may take on God's nature, the Church doctrine called in Greek Theosis. And the good angels, God's first creations, pure spirits formed in the image and likeness of God, they marvel and rejoice in this awesome Divine Incarnation and the superlative transformation this miracle sets in motion.

Not by nature, but by grace (i.e. gift: all creation is gift), "Theosis" (Divinization) enables our incorporation into Christ, raising us up to participate in His Divinity, as St. Peter teaches in 2 Peter 1:4. Usually described in the Western Church as an Infusion of Grace, our natures are changed. Protestantism teaches Imputation of Grace: God assigns grace to us but doesn’t actually divinize or change our nature.

•    St. Athanasius: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." (De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B) and [CCC 460]
•    St. Thomas Aquinas: "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." (Opusc. 57, 1-4) [CCC 460]
•    This teaching is stated in many ways throughout the New Testament. Prayerfully contemplate Romans, chapters 6 and 8 ("Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry 'Abba, Father'). See also:
•    John 1:12 “But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God; 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” (Obviously, a new creation)

•    2 Cor 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (Again, a new creation) 2 Peter 1:4 might well put it best; see also Romans, 6:4, 7:6, 12:2; Galatians 3:27; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:8-12.

•    Two Old Testament examples: Isaiah 65:17; Ezekiel 36:25-26

So, Friends,

Despite the Church's woes and the disgrace she suffers with that mountebank anti-pope currently installed and her gutless emasculated sons who won't remove him, we should rejoice with our angelic brethren, and they’ll show us how, joining our voices – and our awe – to theirs, together contemplating the Divine Glory of Our Blessed Lord’s Incarnation into human nature, and what it portends for our salvation. The True Church is bursting with this most incredible grace, this all-conquering gift. May it triumph, by God's will.

The Peace of Our Lord be with you all and all priests who "believe in His name" and may Bergoglio, the Scourge of the Vatican II Church and would-be murderer of the True Church, repent and believe before it is to late – and Bergoglio and his creatures and hangers-on experience the eternal payment for their evil. 

And shame, great shame, on Msgr Charles Pope and all the bishops who won't stand up for Christ in this time of trial. After a decade of Bergoglio, they have absolutely, ontologically, no excuse.

An Préachán

The Synodal Church, cognitive dissonance, and the video "What on Earth Is Going on at the Vatican"

Amici,

Michael Matt has for years been a major player in the Trad Catholic scene in America, and so has his family. But at the moment, like so many others, he insists Bergoglio is actually pope. See an interview here at LifeSiteNews for details. One commentator to that article wrote that Matt is making a lot of sense. 

Matt is not making sense. Honestly, this whole "Bergoglio is pope" meme has to stop. Why? Insisting Bergoglio is pope will force anyone maintaining that position into severe cognitive dissonance. Insisting that ANYTHING is X, when it is clearly Y, will make you "cross-eyed" as it were; i.e. induce in you cognitive dissonance. Allow that cognitive dissonance to continue, not clearing it up immediately, will leave you psychologically prone, knocked flat. Leave it too long, allow it to fester in you, and you'll lose your faith. 

And THAT is the plan, my friends, of Bergoglio or whoever is managing him. Drive regular, "orthodox" Catholics out from their faith, and ultimately simply render them deeply ill in the soul. Let me prove this very easily. 

Did you-all see the circus like freakshow video of the capering and antics of performers around Bergoglio? All the exotic dancers and contortionists? Here it is, on Rumble. I assume they were "celebrating" the opening of the synod – yet with Tio Jorge, any reason would do – and it looked for all the world, well, Hellish. Just simply Hellish. Watch. Decide for yourself. Bergoglio enthroned in the City of Dis, rather distantly flanked by two high-level churchmen, impassive as a Mardi Gras-like carnival swirls around him. 

• Merely seeing that would make me ill were I somehow thinking Bergoglio in some way actually served as a valid pope. 
• I do not, not for an instant, and so I dismissed what I saw as idiocy. Fluff. Nonsense. 
• But the producers of this twaddle did not intend this show for people like me. 

Oh, no. It was intended for those who insist Bergoglio is pope. For such folks, it will cause great pain and torment. For them, it's an insidious manipulation. Grotesque. A mockery of everything they ever believed about the Church. A stake through their hearts. And please believe me when I say it is making Catholicism a laughing stock among Protestants, Jews, and Muslims. I'm seeing endless comments from them via the conservative political blogs regarding the descent of the Church into, well, Sodom. I've never read such a aggregate of vehemence against the Catholic Church before on these sites. And the sites and their commentators are "conservatives", and generally religious and valuing the importance of religion. 

Just crazy.

Just brutal.

And very effective.

Do not fall into their trap. 

Do not allow yourself to be devastated.

         AnP

The People vs Bergoglio, the Inimicus Ecclesiæ

Amici,

Like a great ship steaming at high speed takes time to change course, so the Church takes time for a "course correction" regarding its current trajectory. But certain signs suggest such is finally happening.

Crises everywhere

Once again curiously mirroring the revolution in the U.S. (Speaker McCarthy out, "RINOs" exposed at UniParty hacks, etc.), the Catholic Church undergoes its own and parallel revolution. In both cases, one can say it's "Us against Them", the American people in the one instance against the "Deep State", the Catholic laity against the Modernist Synodal Church in the other. Regarding the Church, I put the crisis as "The People vs Bergoglio". A rather unique case, but as in the American situation, one long building up to this moment.

Things ecclesiastical are heating up and push is coming to the long-awaited shove. The pressure builds. LifesiteNews reports that a Swiss bishop is supporting Cardinal Müller's open endorsement of the five Dubia Cardinals. Unlike the typical Bergoglio pick for cardinal (mostly men of mediocre achievement, but also many first-rate "yes-men" disasters such as Cupich in Chicago, McElroy in San Diego, and of course "Tucho" Fernández in the Vatican), these Dubia Five are a very impressive cadre:

1. Walter Brandmüller, former prefect of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences; 
2. Raymond Leo Burke, former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican's Supreme Court, more or less), and removed chaplain of the Maltese Order; once Archbishop of St. Louis;
3. Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, former Archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, and apparently a supporter of the TLM; 
4. Robert Sarah, the widely admired former prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (his parents Archbishop Lefebvre converted from paganism); and...
   
5. Joseph Zen, the venerable, the saintly, former bishop of Hong Kong, persecuted by Bergoglio's friends the Communist Chinese and like some of the others – Cardinal Burke – cruelly abused and "dissed" by Bergoglio. (Both Brandmüller and Burke signed the previous 2016 Dubia submitted to Bergoglio; remember that one? The one Bergoglio utterly and permanently ignored; two of the four cardinals who signed that one died waiting for Bergoglio, who, like Godot, never showed up.)

So, I wondered why Cardinal Müller hadn't signed on. But he quickly published his whole-hearted support of the Dubia Five. Bishop Athanasius Schneider has done likewise. Now the auxiliary bishop of Chur, Switzerland, Bishop Marian Eleganti, has also published his support. His eight-points of truth, listed here by LifeSiteNews, are quite excellent and to the point. Please read them.

Also, the exceptional (literally, the singular) American bishop, Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, offers his support of the Dubia Five by firing a broadside at Bergoglio's Synod on Synodality with a new episcopal letter to his diocese that states the traditional Catholic teaching on marriage and carnal matters outside of marriage. Bergoglio, to the extent he remains sentient, has to be "hating him some Strickland" right now.

Also significant, as this Synod on Synodality convenes in Rome, 600-some Catholic women have gone on record opposing its aims. 

I'm getting the feeling, now that the "Dubia Five" have acted, and tag-alongs sign up and others, on their own, join in, as these Catholic women who are getting involved – I mean CATHOLIC women who embrace the Deposit of Faith – that finally, FINALLY, we're seeing some traction with "The People vs Bergoglio". We're finally seeing the ship's rudder turn a bit, at least. Or it's like the first hints of a change in the wind in The Return of the King before the Battle for Gondor. 

The five Dubia Cardinals, (three new ones and the two 2016 Dubia survivors) are also maneuvering Bergoglio into some sort of curtailment of his antics, as in a formal declaration of heresy. In Matt 18:16-17, Our Lord explained how we are to try to correct someone, and after the third time, if the troublemaker won't listen/reform his ways, then treat him as "a pagan or tax collector". Many (Taylor Marshall, etc.) suspect that's in play, here. We'll see. But one thing I think everyone can agree on, and this obviously these 600 women are insisting on, is that this papacy can't continue the way it's been going for the past decade. The rising chorus (still low-voiced, for now, but rising) is an indication that more and more of the laity see this, as well.

Prosecutor for the People

Perhaps the People's chief public prosecutor facing off against Bergoglio is the estimable Archbishop Viganò. LifeSiteNews carried his latest letter here. It is truly a tour de force, this masterpiece of an argument must be read in full. Just a few direct quote highlights (I've highlighted one sentence in yellow but all of these should be so highlighted):

• The recent case of Marko Rupnik is evidence of one who exercises power like a despot, legibus solutus, who considers himself free to act without being accountable for any of his actions.
  
• I think of the shameful handling of the Rupnik case, which in addition to having rehabilitated a criminal responsible for horrendous crimes, in contempt of the numerous victims, has also discredited the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ladaria. 
• The silence of the Episcopate in the face of the Bergoglian nonsense confirms that the self-referential authoritarianism of the Jesuit Bergoglio has found servile obedience in almost all the Bishops, terrified by the idea of being made the object of the retaliation of the vengeful and despotic satrap of Santa Marta.
  
• The proliferation of declarations and behaviors completely foreign to what is expected of a pope – and indeed in contrast with the Faith and Morality of which the Papacy is the guardian – has led many of the faithful and an increasingly large number of bishops to take note of something that until some time ago seemed unheard of: the Throne of Peter is occupied by a person who abuses his power, using it for the opposite purpose to that for which Our Lord instituted it.
• An enemy who, precisely because he occupies the Throne of Peter and abuses papal authority, is capable of inflicting a terrible and disastrous blow, such as no external enemy in the entire history of the Church has ever been able to cause. The worst persecutors of Christians, the fiercest adherents of the Masonic Lodges, and the most unrestrained heresiarchs have never before succeeded, in such a short time and with such effectiveness, in devastating the Lord’s vineyard, scandalizing the faithful, disgusting the Ministers, discrediting its authority and authoritativeness before the world, and demolishing the Magisterium, Faith, Morals, Liturgy, and discipline.
• The evidence of Bergoglio’s alienity to the office he holds is certainly a painful and very serious fact; but becoming aware of this reality is the indispensable premise for remedying an unsustainable and disastrous situation.
• In these ten years of his “pontificate” we have seen Bergoglio do everything that would never be expected of a pope, and vice-versa everything that a heresiarch or an apostate would do. There have been occasions when these actions have appeared manifestly provocative, as if by his utterances or certain acts of government he deliberately wanted to arouse the indignation of the ecclesial body and urge priests and faithful to react by giving them the pretext to declare them schismatic. 
• We must ask ourselves if the 2013 election was in some way invalidated by a lack of consent; that is, if the one elected wanted to become pope of the Catholic Church or rather head of what he calls “our synodal church” – which has nothing to do with the Church of Christ precisely because it stands as something other than it.

Conclusion

The People's Prosecutor makes his case. The whole essay is an essential read for anyone remotely interested in our current phase in "the clash of civilizations". Remember my essay about cult being the root of culture, and the Traditional Latin Mass being the root of the entire Western Civilization as it developed from the Dark Ages on? (An essay derived from excellent articles.) How the attempt to quash and prohibit that Mass since the Vatican II Council strikes at not only the "source and summit of the Christian life", the Holy Eucharist, but at the root of Western Civ itself? What can we say, therefore, of the attempt to entirely replace the Catholic Church with a "Synodal Church" professing the moral blindness of the mainline Protestant Churches? (You know, those empty shell denominations ignored by almost everyone?)

We are experiencing a true clash of civilizations, indeed. Everything is at stake. We each must make our Joshua statement. (Joshua 24:15)

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