In an age when the hierarchy manufactures its own martyrs and denounces imaginary enemies, the only thing more artificial than the alleged videos may be Burke’s loyalty itself.
This latest saga of Cardinal Burke reminds me of the book "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, written at the end of the 19th century. The main character acts the coward in fleeing from a Civil War battle. Later he is wounded in a way not at all related to the war. But when he returns to his unit, the wound he has makes him a hero in the eyes of his comrades. And he does begin to act with courage. Read the book, Cardinal Burke.
What stands between faithful Catholics and apostasy?
You do. And a very few others. Without your commentary, alot of Catholics would be gaslighted by these posers, may start to say well, maybe Im wrong, maybe im not looking at things the right way. Many, would probably just stop going to Mass and give up. Im sorry, this may be pressure on you that you dont need, but i believe its true. We have no heroes in the church, although Abp Vigano stands out, but we have a few outside the church. We need to support you more so you can do this important, no, critical, work.
And now we can add the Transalpine Redemptorists on Papa Stronsay to the few willing to speak out with absolute clarity in rejecting the blasphemous results of Vatican II and those responsible.
My SSPX Prior last year told me that Burke is no friend of tradition and ain’t that one true. He’s a coward like the rest of our Shepherds to include those remaining in the SSPX
The true Burke shows that he is more faithful to Prevost than to God whereas the AI version is more faithful to God, rebuking Prevost who has done so much to scatter the flock. What a shame.
Sinister appearing faux pas when a “correction” precedes the error. One might conclude that the Deep Fake video threat, if it was real, came from “inside the house.” Else how could Burke get ahead of it in faster than real time?
Prevost must be getting desperate as he realizes that he has been exposed to be a heretic and therefore, no pope according to the 1917 Code of Canon Law. If he ever issues an "authentic teaching" that conformed to the Traditional Magisterium, we faithful laity could accept that one comment, while continuing to denounce his frequent heresies. Until then, I will continue to serve the Lord, not the SINodal ape of the church which is NOT the Church established by Jesus Christ and handed down through the Apostles until the abomination of V-II.
No. 33 of Universi Dominici Gregis specifically states that the maximum number of cardinal electors must not exceed 120. In the May 7-8, 2025 Conclave there were 133.
No. 76 of Universi Dominici Gregis states that that "Should the election take place in a way other than that prescribed in the present Constitution, or should the conditions laid down here not be observed, the election is for this very reason null and void, without any need for a declaration on the matter; consequently, it confers no right on the one elected."
Ergo the May 8 election of Robert Prevost, as it was conducted against the norms laid down by Universi Dominici Gregis, was therefore null and void and the See of Peter therefore remains vacant. The sede vacante which began with the death of Francis on April 21, 2025 is still in effect
I agree that the See of Peter is vacant, but I believe the sede vacante began with the death of Benedict XVI on December 31, 2022. Either way, it's an awful mess.
I suppose my issue with the whole Benedict resignation thing is that, while I have absolutely no doubt that something terribly untoward went on there, I have no proof as to what it was.
With this last conclave they broke a black letter law and they did it right out in the open. They knew of course that the Catholic media had been trained well enough by that point to not tell anybody about what they were doing but they still did it. And it is easily provable. It is just that everyone has chosen to absolutely not talk about it.
Stephen Kokx posted a podcast with Ann Barnhardt late last week. It’s about 90 minutes, the last half about Benedict, Bergoglio and Burke. It’s a great intro to her airtight case that Benedict’s resignation was in error, and likely forced, both of which make it invalid. As you wrote, it is easily provable but many, including Burke, have chosen not to talk about it.
I looked for it on YouTube and Rumble. I did not see a video of Burke visibly speaking, with audio using his voice (or even a voiceover) saying critical things about Leo.
I did however find lots of AI slop from channels like Pope Wisdom and Faith, Divine Echoes, Leo XIV Speaks, etc, with SCREAMING ALL CAPS HEADLINES in lurid colors and ai generated pictures of Burke and Leo which have ai voices making stuff up from whole cloth about how the courageous Cardinal Burke is fearlessly confronting Pope Leo.
If it turns out this whole kerfuffle is over this obvious slop generated to produce income for fake Catholic channels to generate income with scandalous clickbait, this is beyond absurd. For Trad Inc to blame Not Trad Inc for this is scurrilous. Mr Pentin has already offered his apology.
Maybe Leo promised Burke that he could have his Rome apartment back. After Francis evicted him for being "conservative", and because Francis loved nothing better than a good purge.
Perhaps Cdl Burke was told his beloved Institute of Christ the King was millimetres away from the chopping block unless he complied. Note he offered a key word surely not missed by astute eyes: his call “to heed the AUTHENTIC teaching of the Holy Father” (emphasis mine). The adjective was not needed, but he inserted it.
Thanks for pointing this out. To be honest, it is getting to the point that I hardly know what to believe anymore. Except that I believe in salvation in Christ. Not gonna make myself popular, but I do not believe the real Catholic Church will be restored (as an institution). At least not in our lifetimes.
The ordinary believers will keep the true faith alive, with the real Mass of the Ages being said in private homes, community centers, barns, cellars ... whereever possible and necessary. Bishop Anathasius Schneider wrote about what it was like for Catholics in Soviet-ruled countries.
We might see the faithful sewing humble vestments for the priests, by hand. Homemakers baking communion hosts. Priests with hardly any income to live on. Minus all the big budgets, beautiful buildings and art, financing by the famously corrupt Vatican bank.
We might think of it as a return to what the Church originally was and was always intended to be. I would need alot of convincing to believe that in these times ANY global institution of great influence can remain honorable and uncorrupted. I just do not think that is possible. But I do hope I will be proved wrong.
Fr. Thomas Dubay wrote of the “existential power of beauty.” It is a gift from God. We are surrounded by it and edified by it. He gave us the five senses to experience it. We seek to capture beauty in our cameras and paintings. We delight at beautiful music which soothes our souls and calms our hearts. We rejoice at the beauty of a child or a person with a beautiful face.
The great gift of the Holy Mass is that God comes to earth on to the altar at every Mass. He resides in our tabernacles! God is there. The church is a place set aside for worship. It is otherworldly. And to the best of our abilities it should remain so. God who is All in all is among us in a very special way - He who is the author of Beauty and who is all Beauty.
Should we not aspire to adorn our parishes with the beauty that reflects the Beauty Who is among us - to ensure this is not just another meeting hall? We have been given talents from Him to create beauty, and here is where we can let these gifts shine in art, sculpture, design. God who is all Beauty is here and we honour Him with our gifts of being able to create beauty.
After all, we aspire to beauty on our persons, in our homes, in our buildings, concert halls, parks, our vehicles, our gardens, and so much more. How much more to honour He who comes to us in the breaking of the bread. Every knee shall bend.
Interestingly, it was the Vatican II church that got rid of the beautiful vestments and chalices, saying that this was a return to the simplicity of the early Church.
The Traditional Mass and the Divine Liturgy are based on the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Temple. That's where we get "Only The Best for God" idea.
Thanks for the reminder. I absolutely reject Vatican II and all of its impact. Am not against the beautiful art and objects. No one loves sacred Christian art more than I do. My Substack is full of such images. And I believe the sacred art is powerful and good for our souls.
What I mean is ... maybe it would be good for us to ask ourselves: What do we really and absolutely need to remain deeply faithful, to worship with great fervor?
Because if we cannot do without the Vatican and its program of destruction, we are in trouble. I would rather celebrate Mass in a parking lot than in some Novus Ordo church in a diocese ruled by an enemy of the the Mother Church.
There is such a thing the virtue of "magnificence." Magnificence is the doing of great things [magna facere]. The spending of fortunes to glorify God is one way the Church practiced this virtue. In the cathedrals, the churches, the vestments, the art, the beauty, which was done for the glory of God, the Church practiced the virtue of Magnificence. In those things She acknowledged and the greatness and beauty of God's work of creation by reflecting His magnificence in the places of worship.
You are right in that the true Catholic Church founded by Christ will seemingly disappear. It will "go underground" but it will never die because it was founded by Christ. There is only a remnant left and it will get worse. But don't lose heart; we have Our Lord's promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against His Church: "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven." (Matthew 18-19, Douay-Rheims).
I know it makes people feel better when they think Jesus, when He said the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, meant that the Church will always be protected from destruction. But I don't think that's what those words mean.
If you think about it, gates are defensive structures. Gates don't attack, they protect. They protect what is within them. So "gates of hell" must means the things that protect hell, not the Church.
And so what I think Jesus was saying is that hell cannot prevail if the Church ATTACKS: meaning, that the Apostles are being told if they boldly confront evil ideas and philosophies and practices, and pagan and heretical beliefs with the Truth of the Gospel and the Magisterium those things will not prevail.
And it was true. Eventually all the evil ideas that had predominated in most of the Western world and much of the East were overcome, and if left alone, more than likely the Church would have converted most of the whole world. So what did the devil do? He sent his infiltrators into the Church, even beginning with Luther, to stop priests, bishops, cardinals, and even Popes, from confronting the lies with truth, and his plan came to fruition when the Modernists took over the Church's power structure by way of Vatican II.
And that is why we are seeing the successful slow and painful destruction of the Church we see today, because the gates of hell are not being attacked, and in fact, hell is expanding its territory, and destroying the Church, because most of the guys inside are working for the devil, not for God.
It is said the Church, as His Bride, must undergo the same torture and death as He did, in imitation and fidelity to Him. She will appear dead, but, as He did, will miraculously be Resurrected, and be more beautiful and magnificent than she ever was. And this, it is said, will happen via the power given to Our Lady, who has said, "In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph."
Perhaps it is just saying what you are in a different way, but the Gates of Hell confined and kept humanity from achieving salvation and the beatific vision until Christ's sacrifice and descent to hell opened them up for humans to achieve those ends. Heresies, dating to Lucifer, are what keeps humans confined to an end in Hell, i.e. the Gates, as the Church Fathers apparently taught. Therefore, Christ, through the Catholic Church, and ultimately the Catholic faith, will always be present to keep those Gates from confining humanity. To me, that doesn't mean the human element of the Church, even manifest in its hierarchy, can not be weak or mislead, but that the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic faith as expressed by the infallible teaching of the magisterium will always be present as Christ promised. The Church has had many heresies foment within Her, often for a long time until corrected, but whenever one is present, like the current Modernism/Neomodernism, relying on what the Church has always taught will allow us salvation despite its presence in the the very veins of the Church.
I guess I had been thinking that the gates of hell were the confining those who had not heard and accepted the Gospel; i.e. the missionary field Christ sent the Apostles into. I guess I had assumed the Church was outside of those gates, like a militia facing a walled city they wanted to conquer.
I am going to have to take a little bit to consider what you have explained. Thanks for adding some insights to the conversation.
I completely agree that it is becoming a real challenge to discern the truth, especially as so many have an agenda that does not depend upon being truthful at all.
I would never say that the great ancient cathedrals that stood for a millennium are not what the Church was intended. Just they are not where we're at now. And problem it will take a complete and total desolation of all of the Church's worldly structures for her resurrection to occur. And that is fine with me. If it must fall then let it fall.
"the real Catholic Church" exists today in the form of CMRI. It is unwaveringly faithful to all things of the Traditional Magisterium developed over millennia until the abomination of V-II.
This would actually not be the worst outcome at all. 'A return to what the Church originally was and was always intended to be.' More and more my way of thinking recently.
Depends on where you place the emphasis. Could mean "only heed the parts of his teaching that are authentic" or, more likely given his renewed obedience, "heed all his teaching because it is all authentic".
“The AI Burke Who Spoke the Truth No One Heard”—Best title yet. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragically correct.
The Curious Incident of the Cardinal in the Night-Time.
This latest saga of Cardinal Burke reminds me of the book "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, written at the end of the 19th century. The main character acts the coward in fleeing from a Civil War battle. Later he is wounded in a way not at all related to the war. But when he returns to his unit, the wound he has makes him a hero in the eyes of his comrades. And he does begin to act with courage. Read the book, Cardinal Burke.
What stands between faithful Catholics and apostasy?
You do. And a very few others. Without your commentary, alot of Catholics would be gaslighted by these posers, may start to say well, maybe Im wrong, maybe im not looking at things the right way. Many, would probably just stop going to Mass and give up. Im sorry, this may be pressure on you that you dont need, but i believe its true. We have no heroes in the church, although Abp Vigano stands out, but we have a few outside the church. We need to support you more so you can do this important, no, critical, work.
And now we can add the Transalpine Redemptorists on Papa Stronsay to the few willing to speak out with absolute clarity in rejecting the blasphemous results of Vatican II and those responsible.
Thank you!
It’s all getting a bit much…. Don’t ch Reckon?
...to deceive, if possible, even the elect. MK 13:22.
Praying not to be deceived, eyes opened like Longinus, in perilous time.
Thank you.
My SSPX Prior last year told me that Burke is no friend of tradition and ain’t that one true. He’s a coward like the rest of our Shepherds to include those remaining in the SSPX
I gave up on Cd Burke when he said SSPX was in schism.
Glad someone pointed this out.
Failure after failure.
With each of your posts, I look east truly thinking "OK, this has to be it" and expecting the sky to crack.
I thought it was just me. 😱
The true Burke shows that he is more faithful to Prevost than to God whereas the AI version is more faithful to God, rebuking Prevost who has done so much to scatter the flock. What a shame.
Hell, at this point, an AI version of Burke's promised, hugely needed correction of Francis would be progress!!
Sinister appearing faux pas when a “correction” precedes the error. One might conclude that the Deep Fake video threat, if it was real, came from “inside the house.” Else how could Burke get ahead of it in faster than real time?
Like how the BBC announced that Bldg 7 at the World Trade Center had collapsed before it had.
Prevost must be getting desperate as he realizes that he has been exposed to be a heretic and therefore, no pope according to the 1917 Code of Canon Law. If he ever issues an "authentic teaching" that conformed to the Traditional Magisterium, we faithful laity could accept that one comment, while continuing to denounce his frequent heresies. Until then, I will continue to serve the Lord, not the SINodal ape of the church which is NOT the Church established by Jesus Christ and handed down through the Apostles until the abomination of V-II.
Cdl. Burke is a disappointment, to put it mildly.
Crux sacra sit mihi lux.
His election wasn't valid anyways so never had been pope.
Eric, I have heard that though I do not know the canonical basis for that claim. Do you know what the basis is? Thank you.
The Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis (here: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_22021996_universi-dominici-gregis.html ) was issued by John Paul II in 1996 to govern the sede vacante and the conclave. Neither of John Paul II's succesors, Benedict XVI nor Francis, ever repudiated that document and it was still the governing law of the sede vacante and the Conclave when Francis died.
No. 33 of Universi Dominici Gregis specifically states that the maximum number of cardinal electors must not exceed 120. In the May 7-8, 2025 Conclave there were 133.
No. 76 of Universi Dominici Gregis states that that "Should the election take place in a way other than that prescribed in the present Constitution, or should the conditions laid down here not be observed, the election is for this very reason null and void, without any need for a declaration on the matter; consequently, it confers no right on the one elected."
Ergo the May 8 election of Robert Prevost, as it was conducted against the norms laid down by Universi Dominici Gregis, was therefore null and void and the See of Peter therefore remains vacant. The sede vacante which began with the death of Francis on April 21, 2025 is still in effect
I agree that the See of Peter is vacant, but I believe the sede vacante began with the death of Benedict XVI on December 31, 2022. Either way, it's an awful mess.
I suppose my issue with the whole Benedict resignation thing is that, while I have absolutely no doubt that something terribly untoward went on there, I have no proof as to what it was.
With this last conclave they broke a black letter law and they did it right out in the open. They knew of course that the Catholic media had been trained well enough by that point to not tell anybody about what they were doing but they still did it. And it is easily provable. It is just that everyone has chosen to absolutely not talk about it.
Stephen Kokx posted a podcast with Ann Barnhardt late last week. It’s about 90 minutes, the last half about Benedict, Bergoglio and Burke. It’s a great intro to her airtight case that Benedict’s resignation was in error, and likely forced, both of which make it invalid. As you wrote, it is easily provable but many, including Burke, have chosen not to talk about it.
Illuminating. Thank you.
Don't forget to give Frank C212 credit for the screenshot. He links you every day, and mentions you almost every day on his Rumble channel.
The logic is this: Prevost might be an invalid pope. But his heresies are most certainly heresies.
Prevost's stance is: love me, love my heresies.
Christ's stance is: love Me, hate all heresies.
Which side will we come down on? We can gamble that Prevost is an invalid pope. But we cannot gamble that his heresies are not heresies.
There's only one good bet here.
So, the source videos have not been found, or never existed?
Rome is flinching at shadows. A sign of a bad conscience.
I looked for it on YouTube and Rumble. I did not see a video of Burke visibly speaking, with audio using his voice (or even a voiceover) saying critical things about Leo.
I did however find lots of AI slop from channels like Pope Wisdom and Faith, Divine Echoes, Leo XIV Speaks, etc, with SCREAMING ALL CAPS HEADLINES in lurid colors and ai generated pictures of Burke and Leo which have ai voices making stuff up from whole cloth about how the courageous Cardinal Burke is fearlessly confronting Pope Leo.
If it turns out this whole kerfuffle is over this obvious slop generated to produce income for fake Catholic channels to generate income with scandalous clickbait, this is beyond absurd. For Trad Inc to blame Not Trad Inc for this is scurrilous. Mr Pentin has already offered his apology.
And perhaps the video of Cardinal Burke responding to “missing” AI videos is an AI fake.
Maybe Leo promised Burke that he could have his Rome apartment back. After Francis evicted him for being "conservative", and because Francis loved nothing better than a good purge.
Perhaps Cdl Burke was told his beloved Institute of Christ the King was millimetres away from the chopping block unless he complied. Note he offered a key word surely not missed by astute eyes: his call “to heed the AUTHENTIC teaching of the Holy Father” (emphasis mine). The adjective was not needed, but he inserted it.
Thanks for pointing this out. To be honest, it is getting to the point that I hardly know what to believe anymore. Except that I believe in salvation in Christ. Not gonna make myself popular, but I do not believe the real Catholic Church will be restored (as an institution). At least not in our lifetimes.
The ordinary believers will keep the true faith alive, with the real Mass of the Ages being said in private homes, community centers, barns, cellars ... whereever possible and necessary. Bishop Anathasius Schneider wrote about what it was like for Catholics in Soviet-ruled countries.
We might see the faithful sewing humble vestments for the priests, by hand. Homemakers baking communion hosts. Priests with hardly any income to live on. Minus all the big budgets, beautiful buildings and art, financing by the famously corrupt Vatican bank.
We might think of it as a return to what the Church originally was and was always intended to be. I would need alot of convincing to believe that in these times ANY global institution of great influence can remain honorable and uncorrupted. I just do not think that is possible. But I do hope I will be proved wrong.
Mass in the barn, confessions in the horse stalls. After all the barn was good enough for Baby Jesus.
Yes! I don't recall Jesus saying in the Bible that silk robes, gold crosses and palaces were required :)
Yes, true.
Fr. Thomas Dubay wrote of the “existential power of beauty.” It is a gift from God. We are surrounded by it and edified by it. He gave us the five senses to experience it. We seek to capture beauty in our cameras and paintings. We delight at beautiful music which soothes our souls and calms our hearts. We rejoice at the beauty of a child or a person with a beautiful face.
The great gift of the Holy Mass is that God comes to earth on to the altar at every Mass. He resides in our tabernacles! God is there. The church is a place set aside for worship. It is otherworldly. And to the best of our abilities it should remain so. God who is All in all is among us in a very special way - He who is the author of Beauty and who is all Beauty.
Should we not aspire to adorn our parishes with the beauty that reflects the Beauty Who is among us - to ensure this is not just another meeting hall? We have been given talents from Him to create beauty, and here is where we can let these gifts shine in art, sculpture, design. God who is all Beauty is here and we honour Him with our gifts of being able to create beauty.
After all, we aspire to beauty on our persons, in our homes, in our buildings, concert halls, parks, our vehicles, our gardens, and so much more. How much more to honour He who comes to us in the breaking of the bread. Every knee shall bend.
Interestingly, it was the Vatican II church that got rid of the beautiful vestments and chalices, saying that this was a return to the simplicity of the early Church.
The Traditional Mass and the Divine Liturgy are based on the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Temple. That's where we get "Only The Best for God" idea.
Thanks for the reminder. I absolutely reject Vatican II and all of its impact. Am not against the beautiful art and objects. No one loves sacred Christian art more than I do. My Substack is full of such images. And I believe the sacred art is powerful and good for our souls.
What I mean is ... maybe it would be good for us to ask ourselves: What do we really and absolutely need to remain deeply faithful, to worship with great fervor?
Because if we cannot do without the Vatican and its program of destruction, we are in trouble. I would rather celebrate Mass in a parking lot than in some Novus Ordo church in a diocese ruled by an enemy of the the Mother Church.
There is such a thing the virtue of "magnificence." Magnificence is the doing of great things [magna facere]. The spending of fortunes to glorify God is one way the Church practiced this virtue. In the cathedrals, the churches, the vestments, the art, the beauty, which was done for the glory of God, the Church practiced the virtue of Magnificence. In those things She acknowledged and the greatness and beauty of God's work of creation by reflecting His magnificence in the places of worship.
Agree with you, Prodigal, but I like Mass of Ages better than mass of ages. The wider pagan press never capitalizes “Mass”.
You are right in that the true Catholic Church founded by Christ will seemingly disappear. It will "go underground" but it will never die because it was founded by Christ. There is only a remnant left and it will get worse. But don't lose heart; we have Our Lord's promise that the gates of hell will not prevail against His Church: "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven." (Matthew 18-19, Douay-Rheims).
Amen!
I know it makes people feel better when they think Jesus, when He said the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church, meant that the Church will always be protected from destruction. But I don't think that's what those words mean.
If you think about it, gates are defensive structures. Gates don't attack, they protect. They protect what is within them. So "gates of hell" must means the things that protect hell, not the Church.
And so what I think Jesus was saying is that hell cannot prevail if the Church ATTACKS: meaning, that the Apostles are being told if they boldly confront evil ideas and philosophies and practices, and pagan and heretical beliefs with the Truth of the Gospel and the Magisterium those things will not prevail.
And it was true. Eventually all the evil ideas that had predominated in most of the Western world and much of the East were overcome, and if left alone, more than likely the Church would have converted most of the whole world. So what did the devil do? He sent his infiltrators into the Church, even beginning with Luther, to stop priests, bishops, cardinals, and even Popes, from confronting the lies with truth, and his plan came to fruition when the Modernists took over the Church's power structure by way of Vatican II.
And that is why we are seeing the successful slow and painful destruction of the Church we see today, because the gates of hell are not being attacked, and in fact, hell is expanding its territory, and destroying the Church, because most of the guys inside are working for the devil, not for God.
It is said the Church, as His Bride, must undergo the same torture and death as He did, in imitation and fidelity to Him. She will appear dead, but, as He did, will miraculously be Resurrected, and be more beautiful and magnificent than she ever was. And this, it is said, will happen via the power given to Our Lady, who has said, "In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph."
Hope. Pray. And don't worry.
Perhaps it is just saying what you are in a different way, but the Gates of Hell confined and kept humanity from achieving salvation and the beatific vision until Christ's sacrifice and descent to hell opened them up for humans to achieve those ends. Heresies, dating to Lucifer, are what keeps humans confined to an end in Hell, i.e. the Gates, as the Church Fathers apparently taught. Therefore, Christ, through the Catholic Church, and ultimately the Catholic faith, will always be present to keep those Gates from confining humanity. To me, that doesn't mean the human element of the Church, even manifest in its hierarchy, can not be weak or mislead, but that the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic faith as expressed by the infallible teaching of the magisterium will always be present as Christ promised. The Church has had many heresies foment within Her, often for a long time until corrected, but whenever one is present, like the current Modernism/Neomodernism, relying on what the Church has always taught will allow us salvation despite its presence in the the very veins of the Church.
I guess I had been thinking that the gates of hell were the confining those who had not heard and accepted the Gospel; i.e. the missionary field Christ sent the Apostles into. I guess I had assumed the Church was outside of those gates, like a militia facing a walled city they wanted to conquer.
I am going to have to take a little bit to consider what you have explained. Thanks for adding some insights to the conversation.
I completely agree that it is becoming a real challenge to discern the truth, especially as so many have an agenda that does not depend upon being truthful at all.
I would never say that the great ancient cathedrals that stood for a millennium are not what the Church was intended. Just they are not where we're at now. And problem it will take a complete and total desolation of all of the Church's worldly structures for her resurrection to occur. And that is fine with me. If it must fall then let it fall.
"the real Catholic Church" exists today in the form of CMRI. It is unwaveringly faithful to all things of the Traditional Magisterium developed over millennia until the abomination of V-II.
Deo gratias.
What is CMRI?
Congregatio Mariae Reginae Immaculatae, or Congregation of Mary Queen Immaculate.
Ave Maria.
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This would actually not be the worst outcome at all. 'A return to what the Church originally was and was always intended to be.' More and more my way of thinking recently.
Depends on where you place the emphasis. Could mean "only heed the parts of his teaching that are authentic" or, more likely given his renewed obedience, "heed all his teaching because it is all authentic".
Of course that interpretation is possible.
Yet, my money is on the cardinal who was been around long enough, having accrued mountains of information, and who is offering us a little tabletalk.