When bishops marry before laicization, basilicas rent themselves to light shows, Vienna is handed to a dissenter on “women’s ordination,” and the few who say “anathema” are shown the door
When I read about the Redemptorists, I was reminded of the famous line from the old movie “Network” where the frustrated news anchor screams “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
They have had enough of going along to get along while their religion has been hijacked and destroyed bit by bit. Our passivity from 12 years of Francis earned us Francis 2.0. Leo will be pope for the next 15 years, then what, Francis 3.0? By that time, none of the younger generation of Catholics will know their faith because, undoubtedly, a new modernist version of the catechism will be instituted. I applaud those priests for taking a stand. Hopefully, more will follow suit.
The true Catholic faith was highjacked with Vatican II where a new anti-Catholic religion was invented. It wasn't obvious for most then but after 60+ years, those who don't recognize this truth are willingly blind. There is no excuse for anyone today who values the truth to not speak this truth.
I’ll give another example of inversion. This one is not religious but socio-economic. However it has consequences for the Faith, so bear with me.
Whitney Webb just revealed that groups like Just Stop Oil are funded by oil dynasties—Rockefeller, Getty.
Why would they do that? One commentator summarizes her argument thus: “They've shifted the focus from real pollution to CO2, making you the villain, not the corporate or military polluters.”
Think about that one. It’s not the mess corporates make extracting resources, spilling them, not cleaning up properly afterwards. It’s not heavy metals or PFAS forever chemicals or glyphosate or residues of pharmaceuticals and birth-control (and soon abortion) pills in the drinking water, or a list many, many times longer than this one could draw up. It’s not nine-year-olds open-cast mining for rare earths in the Congo. Oh, no, it’s none of these: it the harmless gas carbon dioxide that’s used by plants in photosynthesis that’s the problem.
And that means that the problem is not the corporates and the military but YOU. It’s you heating your home; you cooking your meal; you driving your grandmother to the hospital.
And if you say: “How consequences for the Faith?” recall that we just saw Leo blessing a block of ice—“blessing” something not for liturgical use but as a photo-opportunity for this agenda, to the service of which Francis co-opted the Church. Which diverts it from its real mission of saving souls.
The only important question in all this is this: were Francis and Leo dupes or did they know what they were doing?
The commentator I referred to above notes: “Control energy, and you control a family's economic power, mobility, and even its size.”
Have Catholics yet realized that an intrusive state could use “carbon credits” to try to control the number of children they have?
Suddenly that block of ice in the Vatican doesn’t look merely clownish but is revealed as downright sinister—because you’ve got to look at the agenda advancing behind it.
Abortion *pills* in the water? How about abortion *remains* in the water?
Where do you think the unwanted remains wind up after being pureed - those that offer no value to industry? Down the drain. And that's been happening for decades.
We may end up with legal 'private' abortions up until birth in the UK, but no-one yet, that I've seen, has discussed how people will dispose of the end 'products' in their homes. Down the toilet? Dustbin? Compost heap? Makes me feel like doing something beginning with v.
"The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water. These also turned to blood.
Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: 'You are just, O Holy One, who are and who were, in passing this sentence. For they have shed the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you [have] given them blood to drink; it is what they deserve.'
Then I heard the altar cry out, 'Yes, Lord God almighty, your judgments are true and just.'"
It seems like it might be a marketing dilemma. To provide a means of baby disposal with the home abortion kit would be to acknowledge that there is something to dispose of, which might trigger a break in the fragile but required cognitive dissonance loop of the customer.
It's fashionable in the US to leave babies (dead or alive) from DIY abortions in the toilets of public restrooms (where you sometimes also find hypodermic-needle disposal boxes for drug users), public wastebins (at Macy's, for example) and dumpsters.
But my larger point was the assumption that at local abortion centers, what won't go down the drain must be...taken out with the trash. But what does go down the drain is blood.
But of course by this they don't mean that we directly encounter the poor. The poor are now to be 'encountered' by the government. So the way for the average person to encounter God and the poor is to vote for Democrats and pay his taxes. And how convenient, since many are inclined to do this anyway.
And a side benefit of this new 'Catholicism' is not merely easy absolution for sins, no and not even a pass for sins, but best of all the annulment of sin as being sin. Divorce and remarriage? Divorce and remarriage with someone of your own sex? Shacking up with someone of any sex? Encouraged access to the Eucharist while involved in any of this? No problemo. Enjoy! Let the good times roll with confusing papal teaching and the internal forum and private discernment and cafeteria Catholicism!
"Therefore God sends them a misleading influence, that they may believe falsehood, that all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have preferred wickedness."
Complicity with false authority can carry a heavy price.
Every one of us should pray perseveringly to receive a love of truth from God. Without a love of truth we cannot be saved.
That 'discernement' line is classic. Every time one of these bozos wants to abandon ship they tell us that they have 'prayerfully discerned' that the Lord has a 'new path' for them in life i.e. break their vows.
Rejecting the counterfeit V2 church is just too much to ask for almost everyone.
It's hard not to sometimes wonder, at least for me, what percentage are invincibly ignorant vs those who are morally guilty of remaining in a false church .
I'm confused by the practical aspects of "rejecting the counterfeit v2 church". Just for example, must we then reject Elizabeth Ann Seton is a saint? Mary Magdalene - legitimate feast, or memorial? Joseph, inclusion in all Eucharist rites legitimate?
We are called to be not only pre-V2 in all things, but pre-John XXIII, including who is called "saint," the Mass, the liturgical calendar, etc.
Most V2 believers find this too hard to accept, & understandably, but there is substantial evidence that there was a Judeo-Masonic overthrow of a rightful pope in 1958, which was what permitted the V2 & post-conciliar Revolution to take place.
Agree, that's why I gave those examples as things that look like truth to me. I can add beatification of Blessed Karl to the list; a wakeup call to the whole world that it did battle with a saint.
The (v)atican('t) expects us to obey the disordered ape of the church, but to do so makes a mockery of the faith and the teachings of Jesus Christ. The disordered "leaders" are the ones who have left the faith, not us. They are the newest version of a "Martin Luther" with their BS "sin-addled-church." When is the laity just going to quit playing along with these demons? I have had it.
You got me, Mr. Jackson! I am now a paid subscriber. While I do not want to follow many other commentators, I do wish to stay in the know. I currently am able to attend a diocesan TLM. I am in the Archdiocese of Denver. Our archbishop is now 75 and has been told he will stay in place until a new Bishop takes command. I am wondering if the Vatican is searching for the proper destroyer to come and take down our diocese as well. Our diocesan TLM is now past the so-called two year extension the archbishop had gotten for us so none of our diocesan TLMs have yet been taken away from us. We do have the FSSP in Denver and there is the SSPX outside of Denver where they have built a beautiful, made to last, Catholic Church on the eastern plains. They also have a Chapel to the north close to the Wyoming border. Many good things have come out of the Denver Diocese and there are two seminaries here; this is probably intolerable to the new religion. Many saw the harbinger when the lavender cronies of the former man in white were so very happy about the election of the new man in white but yet so many hoped for better things to come. They are not coming at present. We await the Lord and do our best to hold fast to the Church He founded. Ave Maria!
We need to organize and act in concert. Somebody with status, maybe Vigano, has to form an organization that acts towards achievable goals in a rational manner. The organized minority always beats the disorganized majority.
Concise, truthful, pointed recaps. I can do a deeper dive on my own, but you hit the highlights (lowlights?) that i need to be aware of.
You are in my prayers daily.
Please join me in a Rosary daily for the intention that Our Mother intercede on behalf of all seminarians and their teachers to keep them grace-filled. I do so -- even before my first cup of Joe!
Well done, Chris. It was good to place the bullet points at the end in order to remind us what has happened-in just one week. We simply want the Catholic faith.
Please seriously cosider tossing Chris a few bucks, like I just did. Chris, nice rehash of the hassles the faithful have to endure because of our faithless 's'elected.
I just wonder how long the Ecclesia Dei groups will buy this farce of a pontificate before they say enough is enough. I go to an ICKSP and can not see any of them falling for this. There is one fly in the ointment, Cardinal Raymond, zip it, Burke is very think with them.
Please keep us updated on the ICKSP. Is there any sign they might go 'independent'? Any further thoughts? I listen to their sermons which are very good if one can't access Trad. sermons 'live'!
"They are saying the quiet part aloud: the “chain of command” binds only insofar as it binds itself to Christ’s deposit. When authority amputates itself from that root, it becomes a cudgel. Their stance is not romantic insubordination but the classic thesis of ministerial, not absolute, authority." That was Martin Luther's viewpoint, and he was excommunicated for it.
When I read about the Redemptorists, I was reminded of the famous line from the old movie “Network” where the frustrated news anchor screams “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
They have had enough of going along to get along while their religion has been hijacked and destroyed bit by bit. Our passivity from 12 years of Francis earned us Francis 2.0. Leo will be pope for the next 15 years, then what, Francis 3.0? By that time, none of the younger generation of Catholics will know their faith because, undoubtedly, a new modernist version of the catechism will be instituted. I applaud those priests for taking a stand. Hopefully, more will follow suit.
The true Catholic faith was highjacked with Vatican II where a new anti-Catholic religion was invented. It wasn't obvious for most then but after 60+ years, those who don't recognize this truth are willingly blind. There is no excuse for anyone today who values the truth to not speak this truth.
As regards the average Catholic, no one can judge "willingly" but God.
Agreed as usual on this one. I sometimes wish there was a downvote on substack!!!
I’ll give another example of inversion. This one is not religious but socio-economic. However it has consequences for the Faith, so bear with me.
Whitney Webb just revealed that groups like Just Stop Oil are funded by oil dynasties—Rockefeller, Getty.
Why would they do that? One commentator summarizes her argument thus: “They've shifted the focus from real pollution to CO2, making you the villain, not the corporate or military polluters.”
Think about that one. It’s not the mess corporates make extracting resources, spilling them, not cleaning up properly afterwards. It’s not heavy metals or PFAS forever chemicals or glyphosate or residues of pharmaceuticals and birth-control (and soon abortion) pills in the drinking water, or a list many, many times longer than this one could draw up. It’s not nine-year-olds open-cast mining for rare earths in the Congo. Oh, no, it’s none of these: it the harmless gas carbon dioxide that’s used by plants in photosynthesis that’s the problem.
And that means that the problem is not the corporates and the military but YOU. It’s you heating your home; you cooking your meal; you driving your grandmother to the hospital.
And if you say: “How consequences for the Faith?” recall that we just saw Leo blessing a block of ice—“blessing” something not for liturgical use but as a photo-opportunity for this agenda, to the service of which Francis co-opted the Church. Which diverts it from its real mission of saving souls.
The only important question in all this is this: were Francis and Leo dupes or did they know what they were doing?
The commentator I referred to above notes: “Control energy, and you control a family's economic power, mobility, and even its size.”
Have Catholics yet realized that an intrusive state could use “carbon credits” to try to control the number of children they have?
Suddenly that block of ice in the Vatican doesn’t look merely clownish but is revealed as downright sinister—because you’ve got to look at the agenda advancing behind it.
Abortion *pills* in the water? How about abortion *remains* in the water?
Where do you think the unwanted remains wind up after being pureed - those that offer no value to industry? Down the drain. And that's been happening for decades.
We may end up with legal 'private' abortions up until birth in the UK, but no-one yet, that I've seen, has discussed how people will dispose of the end 'products' in their homes. Down the toilet? Dustbin? Compost heap? Makes me feel like doing something beginning with v.
Rev 16:4-7 reads,
"The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water. These also turned to blood.
Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: 'You are just, O Holy One, who are and who were, in passing this sentence. For they have shed the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you [have] given them blood to drink; it is what they deserve.'
Then I heard the altar cry out, 'Yes, Lord God almighty, your judgments are true and just.'"
Thanks for that - wasn't what I was expecting, but quite possibly relevant.
It seems like it might be a marketing dilemma. To provide a means of baby disposal with the home abortion kit would be to acknowledge that there is something to dispose of, which might trigger a break in the fragile but required cognitive dissonance loop of the customer.
It's fashionable in the US to leave babies (dead or alive) from DIY abortions in the toilets of public restrooms (where you sometimes also find hypodermic-needle disposal boxes for drug users), public wastebins (at Macy's, for example) and dumpsters.
But my larger point was the assumption that at local abortion centers, what won't go down the drain must be...taken out with the trash. But what does go down the drain is blood.
OK - so we know what to expect then over here if it happens. It's no wonder society is so screwed up.
"the poor as the new locus of encounter with God"
But of course by this they don't mean that we directly encounter the poor. The poor are now to be 'encountered' by the government. So the way for the average person to encounter God and the poor is to vote for Democrats and pay his taxes. And how convenient, since many are inclined to do this anyway.
And a side benefit of this new 'Catholicism' is not merely easy absolution for sins, no and not even a pass for sins, but best of all the annulment of sin as being sin. Divorce and remarriage? Divorce and remarriage with someone of your own sex? Shacking up with someone of any sex? Encouraged access to the Eucharist while involved in any of this? No problemo. Enjoy! Let the good times roll with confusing papal teaching and the internal forum and private discernment and cafeteria Catholicism!
"Therefore God sends them a misleading influence, that they may believe falsehood, that all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have preferred wickedness."
Complicity with false authority can carry a heavy price.
Every one of us should pray perseveringly to receive a love of truth from God. Without a love of truth we cannot be saved.
That 'discernement' line is classic. Every time one of these bozos wants to abandon ship they tell us that they have 'prayerfully discerned' that the Lord has a 'new path' for them in life i.e. break their vows.
I choose my side many years ago. I am disappointed that many catholics are still zombies parroting faithfulness to a false church.
Rejecting the counterfeit V2 church is just too much to ask for almost everyone.
It's hard not to sometimes wonder, at least for me, what percentage are invincibly ignorant vs those who are morally guilty of remaining in a false church .
I'm confused by the practical aspects of "rejecting the counterfeit v2 church". Just for example, must we then reject Elizabeth Ann Seton is a saint? Mary Magdalene - legitimate feast, or memorial? Joseph, inclusion in all Eucharist rites legitimate?
We are called to be not only pre-V2 in all things, but pre-John XXIII, including who is called "saint," the Mass, the liturgical calendar, etc.
Most V2 believers find this too hard to accept, & understandably, but there is substantial evidence that there was a Judeo-Masonic overthrow of a rightful pope in 1958, which was what permitted the V2 & post-conciliar Revolution to take place.
whitesmoke1958.com
novusordowatch.org/2016/10/smoke-signals-white-smoke-1958 (Many other subjects are covered at this excellent site as well.)
It sure would be hard to accept for me. I still believe the Deposit of Faith comes through, in an autopilot sort of way. Thanks for info and link.
It is the truth that matters.
Agree, that's why I gave those examples as things that look like truth to me. I can add beatification of Blessed Karl to the list; a wakeup call to the whole world that it did battle with a saint.
If you believe that the Vatican II church is a counterfeit, the practical consequences are nothing that comes from it can be believed.
Bravo! Bravissimo!!
The (v)atican('t) expects us to obey the disordered ape of the church, but to do so makes a mockery of the faith and the teachings of Jesus Christ. The disordered "leaders" are the ones who have left the faith, not us. They are the newest version of a "Martin Luther" with their BS "sin-addled-church." When is the laity just going to quit playing along with these demons? I have had it.
You got me, Mr. Jackson! I am now a paid subscriber. While I do not want to follow many other commentators, I do wish to stay in the know. I currently am able to attend a diocesan TLM. I am in the Archdiocese of Denver. Our archbishop is now 75 and has been told he will stay in place until a new Bishop takes command. I am wondering if the Vatican is searching for the proper destroyer to come and take down our diocese as well. Our diocesan TLM is now past the so-called two year extension the archbishop had gotten for us so none of our diocesan TLMs have yet been taken away from us. We do have the FSSP in Denver and there is the SSPX outside of Denver where they have built a beautiful, made to last, Catholic Church on the eastern plains. They also have a Chapel to the north close to the Wyoming border. Many good things have come out of the Denver Diocese and there are two seminaries here; this is probably intolerable to the new religion. Many saw the harbinger when the lavender cronies of the former man in white were so very happy about the election of the new man in white but yet so many hoped for better things to come. They are not coming at present. We await the Lord and do our best to hold fast to the Church He founded. Ave Maria!
Thank you!
We need to organize and act in concert. Somebody with status, maybe Vigano, has to form an organization that acts towards achievable goals in a rational manner. The organized minority always beats the disorganized majority.
This is why I subscribe to your substack.
Concise, truthful, pointed recaps. I can do a deeper dive on my own, but you hit the highlights (lowlights?) that i need to be aware of.
You are in my prayers daily.
Please join me in a Rosary daily for the intention that Our Mother intercede on behalf of all seminarians and their teachers to keep them grace-filled. I do so -- even before my first cup of Joe!
Thank you!
Well done, Chris. It was good to place the bullet points at the end in order to remind us what has happened-in just one week. We simply want the Catholic faith.
Excellent essay. The position you hold is like a castle made of granite, not sand.
Thank you!
You’re exactly right Chris! Pray and choose wisely.
Blessed be Jesus Whose mother is Mary!!!
Please seriously cosider tossing Chris a few bucks, like I just did. Chris, nice rehash of the hassles the faithful have to endure because of our faithless 's'elected.
Thank you! It is much appreciated!
I just wonder how long the Ecclesia Dei groups will buy this farce of a pontificate before they say enough is enough. I go to an ICKSP and can not see any of them falling for this. There is one fly in the ointment, Cardinal Raymond, zip it, Burke is very think with them.
Please keep us updated on the ICKSP. Is there any sign they might go 'independent'? Any further thoughts? I listen to their sermons which are very good if one can't access Trad. sermons 'live'!
"They are saying the quiet part aloud: the “chain of command” binds only insofar as it binds itself to Christ’s deposit. When authority amputates itself from that root, it becomes a cudgel. Their stance is not romantic insubordination but the classic thesis of ministerial, not absolute, authority." That was Martin Luther's viewpoint, and he was excommunicated for it.
An invalid pope does not have any authority at all.
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