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| The Catholic Trumpet: Fighting with the Queen Against the Revolution |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-18-2025, 07:03 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Fighting with the Queen Against the Revolution
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | July 17, 2025
Millions today pray the Rosary. Thanks be to God. But if that Rosary is said while remaining in the Conciliar Church, attending the New Mass, or accepting Vatican II, it is not resistance. It is camouflage.
As St. Louis de Montfort warned:
Quote:“The devil, like a false coiner, puts out a great deal of counterfeit devotion to Mary…” (True Devotion to Mary, §90)
Our Lady is not a sentimental symbol. She is the Destroyer of All Heresies. She does not negotiate with error. She crushes it.
At Lepanto, the Rosary won a miraculous victory over the Turks. In the Vendée, peasants tied Rosaries to their rifles and died for the Mass. In Mexico, Cristeros shouted “¡Viva Cristo Rey y Santa María!” as they resisted Masonic tyranny. In Japan, hidden Catholics clung to the Rosary for 200 years rather than attend one false Mass.
These were not ecumenical gestures. They were acts of war. True Marian devotion is always counter-revolutionary.
Yet today, many pray the Rosary while accepting the false religion of Vatican II, a Council that taught religious liberty, praised heresies, and replaced the true Mass with a man-centered fabrication. This is not Marian. This is betrayal dressed as piety.
Quote:“The Church which affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical. This Conciliar Church is, therefore, not Catholic.” —Archbishop Lefebvre, 1976
If you love Mary, you must reject the revolution that hijacked her Son’s Church.
To fight with Mary means:
- Rejecting Vatican II, entirely.
- Refusing the New Mass, completely.
- Praying the Rosary, daily.
- Embracing the Tridentine Faith, without compromise.
- Consecrating yourself to the Immaculata, totally.
This is the path of the martyrs, the faithful remnant, and the true children of Our Lady.
Quote:“Only the Immaculata has from God the promise of victory over Satan.” —Maximilian Kolbe
You can pray the Rosary and still serve the revolution.
Or you can pray it as a soldier, with fire, in truth, at war.
Choose.
Because the Rosary is enough, when it is the Rosary of battle.
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| Leo’s War on Consecrated Life Continues: Foxes are Running the Henhouse |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-17-2025, 07:51 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo’s War on Consecrated Life Continues: Same-Sex Blessers and Amazon Rite Advocates Now Oversee Traditional Orders
A new Vatican junta takes shape. One that venerates Pachamama more than St. Benedict.
Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile [emphasis mine, slightly adapted and reformatted] | Jun 25, 2025
What better way to safeguard the future of consecrated life than by handing it over to men who bless same-sex couples, advocate pagan syncretism, and treat the priesthood like a job-share? That, apparently, is Leo XIV’s vision, judging by his June 24 appointments to the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL): the Vatican body tasked with overseeing religious orders, including those attached to the Latin Mass.
The lineup is nothing short of a theological provocation. Among the newly appointed members are Cardinal Arthur Roche, the liturgical arsonist of the Francis era; Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, a full-throated defender of Fiducia Supplicans and its same-sex “pastoral blessings”; and Cardinal Jaime Spengler, the Brazilian prelate actively pushing for an Amazonian rite steeped in indigenous paganism and “open” to married clergy.
All three will now have a voice in the very dicastery responsible for regulating the FSSP, the Institute of Christ the King, and other traditional religious institutes. In other words: the foxes are now running the henhouse.
The Return of Cardinal Roche: Liturgical Hostility Elevated
Roche’s place in this cabal is no surprise. As the enforcer of Traditionis Custodes, he spent the better part of the last decade snuffing out the Latin Mass wherever it dared to bloom. His disgust for traditional piety is well documented; so much so that a senior member of his office once reportedly expressed dismay at the success of the Chartres pilgrimage purely because it featured the Tridentine liturgy.
Now installed at DICLSAL, Roche will have a hand in scrutinizing the constitutions, leadership, and very existence of traditional communities. The man who once called the old Mass a “threat to unity” is now positioned to determine whether the monks, nuns, and priests who love it will even be allowed to exist.
Cristóbal Romero: Fiducia’s Favorite Salesman
Cardinal Romero, Archbishop of Rabat, is best known for his ideological loyalty to Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s Trojan horse for same-sex blessings. After most of Africa rightly rejected the document, Romero issued a statement urging Catholics to “avoid any spirit of controversy” and accept the declaration as a deepening of “discernment.”
In other words, shut up and bless it.
Romero has insisted that even “irregular couples” asking for blessings deserve the benefit of the doubt. Gone is any fear of scandal. Gone is clarity. What remains is a muddle of emotional affirmations posing as mercy; all designed to baptize moral disorder.
This is the man who will now help decide the fate of religious congregations bound to traditional vows, traditional morals, and traditional theology.
Spengler’s Jungle Rite and the March of the Viri Probati
Cardinal Spengler, president of the Latin American Bishops’ Conference, has long danced on the edge of doctrinal disaster. His flirtation with an Amazon rite, including pagan symbolism and indigenous rituals, has been well documented. He praises the “dignity” of tribal inculturation and hints at approving the ordination of married men as a pastoral necessity.
When asked about blessing homosexual couples, Spengler offered the kind of sentimental drivel that passes for pastoral wisdom today: “Are they people? If they are people, they deserve our respect.” It’s the theological equivalent of “Love is love.” And now, this same man will help determine whether a traditional Carmelite monastery in the Alps is sufficiently “synodal.”
Inculturation or Infiltration?
With Spengler now a voting member of the dicastery overseeing religious life, his long flirtation with a new Amazonian rite takes on new gravity. The process of inventing a syncretistic liturgy, complete with tribal dress, clay incense bowls, and ambiguous gestures toward the divine, is already underway. The very bishops Spengler represents have openly admitted that these practices stem from indigenous pagan rituals. They are not merely inculturated Catholicism, but the sacral forms of another religion, now invited into the sanctuary.
In 2019, Rome welcomed Pachamama to St. Peter’s. In 2025, we may see her liturgy receive ecclesial approval.
And who will approve it? The same men now overseeing traditional religious life. The same men who want monks in sandals and rainbow stoles, not cowls and cassocks. In their hands, the question is no longer whether religious life should be conformed to Christ, but whether it can be adapted to every authentically “human need,” a category so elastic it now includes blessing mortal sin and rewriting the Mass to appease local spirits.
The Real Target: The Few Orders Still Faithful
Let us not forget why this dicastery matters. DICLSAL has been the Vatican’s preferred instrument for strangling traditional religious life. Under Francis, it produced Cor Orans, the document that wiped out the autonomy of contemplative convents. It’s the same dicastery that now demands bishops get Vatican approval before founding any new religious institute; effectively blocking new traditional communities from ever forming.
It now boasts a female religious as prefect (Sr. Simona Brambilla) and a laywoman on its governing body. Welcome to the synodal Church, where governance without ordination is a feature, not a bug.
This is no longer the age of St. Bernard or St. Teresa of Ávila. It is the age of Brambilla and Roche.
Conclusion: Not Reform, But Reeducation
The few remnants of faithful religious life, those who cling to the old Mass, the old vows, the old teachings, are being placed under the control of men who have openly rejected them. This is not a matter of governance or oversight, but a hostile takeover.
And as the Latin Mass communities undergo visitations, restructurings, and “pastoral dialogues,” the same prelates who promote syncretism and moral ambiguity will smile from their thrones in Rome, reminding us that “discernment” is the new doctrine and “unity” the new faith.
But faithful Catholics should not be fooled. This is not unity or discernment. This is coercion.
And the war on consecrated life is no longer waged in shadows. It now marches under the banner of synodality: blessing irregular unions, praising Amazonian rituals, and silencing what remains of the sacred.
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| Half of Polish Priests Say They Were Attacked Last Year |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-17-2025, 07:38 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Half of Polish Priests Say They Were Attacked Last Year
gloria.tv | July 16, 2025
A recent survey by the Church's Institute of Statistics (ISKK) has revealed a concerning increase in violence against priests in Poland (Zenit.org, 14 July). Based on 996 responses, the findings show that almost half of the clergy surveyed (49.7%) had experienced some form of aggression in the previous 12 months.
- 41.6% faced verbal abuse (threats and name-calling)
- 33.6 % experienced online harassment
- 19% had aggression directed towards church properties
- 10.8% reported physical or property damage.
The survey indicates that most incidents go unreported. Over 80% of priests did not file formal reports, often because they did not consider the incidents to be serious enough, or because they lacked trust in the authorities.
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| Our Lady of Humility - July 17th |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-17-2025, 06:19 AM - Forum: Our Lady
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The Humility of Mary
By St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)
Most Zealous Doctor of the Church
The Humility of Mary
Excerpt from: “ The Glories of Mary”
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anastpaul.com [Slightly adapted and reformatted] | July 17, 2022
NB: The Feast of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary was included in the General Roman Calendar of 1954 among the feasts ‘pro aliquibus locis’ (in some places) but was removed from the General Roman Calendar of 1960. However, many Diocese worldwide still celebrate this beautiful Feast as do all Traditional Catholics.
“Humility” says St. Bernard, “is the foundation and guardian of virtues” and with reason, for without it, no other virtue can exist in a soul. Should she possess all virtues, all will depart when humility is gone. But, on the other hand, as St Francis de Sales wrote to St Jane Frances de Chantal, “God so loves humility, that whenever He sees it, He is immediately drawn there.” This beautiful and so necessary virtue, was unknown in the world but the Son of God Himself came upon the earth, to teach it by His Own example and willed that in that virtue, in particular, we should endeavour to imitate Him – “Learn of Me, for I am meek and humble of heart.”
Mary, being the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus Christ, in the practice of all virtues, was the first also in that of humility and by it, merited to be exalted above all creatures. It was revealed to St. Matilda that the first virtue in which the Blessed Mother particularly exercised herself, from her very childhood, was that of humility.
The first effect of humility of heart is a lowly opinion of ourselves: – “Mary had always so humble an opinion of herself, that,” as it was revealed to the same St Matilda, “although she saw herself enriched with greater graces, than all other creatures, she never preferred herself to anyone.” The Abbot Rupert, explaining the passage of the Sacred Canticles, Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, …with one hair of thy neck, [Cant. 4:9] says, that the humble opinion, which Mary had of herself, was precisely that hair of the Spouse’s neck, with which she wounded the heart of God.” Not indeed that Mary considered herself a sinner: for humility is truth, as St Teresa remarks and Mary knew that she had never offended God: nor was it that she did not acknowledge that she had received greater graces from God, than all other creatures; for a humble heart always acknowledges the special favours of the Lord, to humble herself the more but the Divine Mother, by the greater light wherewith she knew the infinite greatness and goodness of God, also knew, her own nothingness and, therefore, more than all others, humbled herself, saying with the Sacred Spouse – Do not consider that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour. [Cant. 1:5] That is, as St Bernard explains it, “When I approach Him, I find myself black.”
“Yes,” says St Bernardine, for “the Blessed Virgin had always the majesty of God and her own nothingness, present to her mind.” As a beggar, when clothed with a rich garment, which has been bestowed upon her, does not pride herself on it, in the presence of the giver but is rather humbled, being reminded thereby, of her own poverty, so also, the more Mary saw herself enriched, the more did she humble herself, remembering that all was God’s gift; whence she herself told St Elizabeth of Hungary, that “she might rest assured that she looked upon herself, as most vile and unworthy of God’s grace.” Therefore, St Bernardine says, that “after the Son of God, no creature in the world was so exalted as Mary because, no creature in the world ever humbled itself, as much as she did.”
Moreover, it is an act of humility to conceal heavenly gifts. Mary wished to conceal from St Joseph, the great favour whereby she had become the Mother of God, although it seemed necessary to make it known to him, if only to remove from the mind of her poor spouse, any suspicions as to her virtue, which he might have entertained on seeing her pregnant: or, at least the perplexity, in which it indeed threw him: for St. Joseph, on the one hand, unwilling to doubt Mary’s chastity and on the other, ignorant of the Mystery, was minded to put her away privately. [Matt. 1:19] This he would have done, had not the Angel revealed to him that his Spouse was pregnant by the operation of the Holy Ghost.
Again, a soul that is truly humble refuses her own praise and should praises be bestowed on her, she refers them all to God. Behold, Mary is disturbed at hearing herself praised by St Gabriel and when St Elizabeth said, Blessed art thou among women … and whence is this to me, that the Mother of my Lord should come to me? … blessed art thou that hast believed, [ Luke 1:42] Mary referred all to God, and answered in that humble Canticle, My soul doth magnify the Lord, [Ibid., 46-47] as if she had said: “Thou dost praise me, Elizabeth but I praise the Lord, to Whom alone honour is due, thou wonders that I should come to thee and I wonder at the Divine Goodness in which alone my spirit exults” and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Thou praisest me because I have believed; I praise my God because He hath been pleased to exalt my nothingness: because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid. Hence Mary said to St Bridget: “I humbled myself so much and thereby, merited so great a grace because I though, and knew, that of myself I possessed nothing. For this same reason I did not desire to be praised, I only desired that praises should be given to the Creator and Giver of all.” Wherefore, an ancient author, speaking of the humility of Mary, says: “O truly blessed humility, which hath given God to men, opened Heaven and delivered souls from Hell.“
It is also a part of humility to serve others. Mary did not refuse to go and serve Elizabeth for three months. Hence St Bernard says, “Elizabeth wondered that Mary should have come to visit her but that which is still more admirable, is that she came, not to be ministered to but to minister.”
Those who are humble are retiring and choose the last places and, therefore, Mary, remarks St Bernard, when her Son was preaching in a house, as it is related by St Matthew, [12:46], wishing to speak to Him, would not, of her own accord, enter but “remained outside and did not avail herself of her maternal authority to interrupt Him.” For the same reason, when she was with the Apostles awaiting the coming of the Holy Ghost, she took the lowest place, as St Luke relates, All these were persevering with one mind in prayer, with the women, and Mary, the Mother of Jesus. [Acts 1:14] Not that St Luke was ignorant of the Divine Mother’s merits, on account of which, he should have named her in the first place but because she had taken the last place amongst the Apostles and women and, therefore, he described them all, as an author remarks, in the order in which they were. Hence St. Bernard says, “Justly has the last become the first, who being the first of all became the last.”
In fine, those who are humble, love to be contemned, therefore, we do not read that Mary showed herself in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, when her Son was received by the people with so much honour but, on the other hand, at the Death of her Son, she did not shrink from appearing on Calvary, through fear of the dishonour which would accrue to her, when it was known that she was the Mother of Him Who was condemned to die an infamous death, as a criminal. Therefore, she said to St Bridget, “What is more humbling than to be called a fool, to be in want of all things and to believe one’s self, the most unworthy of all? Such, O daughter, was my humility, this was my joy, this was all my desire, with which I thought how to please my Son alone.”
The Venerable Sister Paula of Foligno was given to understand, in an ecstasy, how great was the humility of our Blessed Lady and giving an account of it to her Confessor, she was so filled with astonishment at its greatness that she could only exclaim, “O, the humility of the Blessed Virgin! O, Father, the humility of the Blessed Virgin, how great was the humility of the Blessed Virgin! In the world there is no such thing as humility, not even in its lowest degree, when you see the humility of Mary.” On another occasion our Lord showed St Bridget two ladies. The one was all pomp and vanity. “She,” He said, “is Pride but the other one, whom you see with her head bent down, courteous towards all, having God alone in her mind and considering herself as no one, is Humility: her name is Mary.” Hereby God was pleased to make known to us that the humility of His Blessed Mother, was such that she was humility itself.
Then, O my Queen, I can never be really thy child, unless I am humble but dost thou not see that my sins, after having rendered me ungrateful to my Lord, have also made me proud? O my Mother, do thou supply a remedy. By the merit of thy humility, obtain that I may be truly humble and thus become thy child, Amen.
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| Convicted Child Porn Priest Acts Freely Within the Vatican Power Structures |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-15-2025, 08:08 AM - Forum: Vatican II and the Fruits of Modernism
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Convicted Child Porn Priest Acts Freely Within the Vatican Power Structures
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gloria.tv | July 12, 2025
The former Vatican diplomat Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella - who was convicted for possessing and distributing child pornography in 2018 – has been quietly reintegrated into the Vatican’s inner circles, reports InfoVaticana.com (July 12).
Ordained to the priesthood in 1993, Rev Capella joined the Vatican diplomatic service in 2003. He served in India and Hong Kong, as well as at the Vatican Secretariat of State, before being sent to the Nunciature in Washington, D.C. in 2016.
In August 2017, the U.S. State Department alerted Vatican authorities that Monsignor Capella was suspected of violating U.S. child pornography laws.
The U.S. pushed for prosecution, but Francis' Vatican shielded Capella through diplomatic immunity. Francis – who was known for protecting perverts – brought Capella back to the Vatican and opted to try and imprison him there.
During the Vatican trial in June 2018, Capella acknowledged guilt. He was sentenced to five years in a Vatican prison, consisting of three jail cells in the Gendarmerie building.
As of 2021 he was allowed out during the day to work in an office that sells papal blessings.
Today, InfoVaticana received an update: “The reinsertion of this criminal has not consisted in taking care of his elderly mother in a remote parish, but in living in San Benedetto, the residence destined for nuncios, a few meters from where Pope Leo XIV himself resides.”
And, “The information, confirmed by an eyewitness who was with him in the last hours, shows that Capella is not only free, but protected and probably active in ‘internal tasks’. Of what kind? We do not know, but in any case, it does not seem that his depraved history has prevented his integration into the clerical circuits closest to power.”
In summary: “Everything indicates that the lavendermafia, far from dissolving, continues to grant safe-conducts to its fallen members.”
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| Which is Novus Ordo, which is Protestant? |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-15-2025, 07:00 AM - Forum: New Rite Sacraments
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Which is Novus Ordo, which is Protestant?
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TIA [slightly adapted] | July 13, 2025
The two photos above capture two liturgical ceremonies: one is a Novus Ordo Mass, another is a Protestant service. They look very similar, don't they?
This similarity proves the success of Paul VI's New Mass in making it as close as possible to the Protestant services. It was for this purpose that he invited a commission of six Protestant theologians to be present during its elaboration to point out any objections they had. [...] The reader has also in these two photos a proof of the enormous apostasy we are witnessing. Indeed, for four centuries, influenced by the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church molded herself as a Militant, Hierarchical and Sacral institution turned toward the glory of God. After Vatican II we have seem a "Copernican revolution," presenting her as Tolerant, Synodal – or democratic – and Vulgar turned to the glory of man. Is it not the Great Apostasy predicted by St. Paul? (2 Thes 2:2-12)
Top: St. Patrick Catholic Church, Chatham, New Jersey (44:43 mark on their August 22, 2021, Livestream on YouTube, here).
Bottom: First Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (49:30 mark on their July 6 2025, Livestream on Facebook, here).
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| Leo XIV Appoints New Gender Ideology Bishop |
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Posted by: Stone - 07-12-2025, 07:24 AM - Forum: Pope Leo XIV
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Leo XIV Appoints New Gender Ideology Bishop
Fr. Thomas Hennen helped draft LGBT pastoral guidelines that sidestep chastity, affirm “gender minorities,” and speak the language of synodality.
Leo XIV didn’t just approve, he promoted him.
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Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Jul 11, 2025
Bishop Joseph Strickland may have been ousted from his diocese, but his voice remains one of the few still willing to cry out in the wilderness. His July 10 statement, denouncing Leo XIV’s appointment of Fr. Thomas Hennen as bishop of Baker, Oregon, deserves to be remembered, not merely as another bold stand, but as a devastating indictment of the post-conciliar trajectory now accelerating under new management.
For those keeping score, Fr. Hennen is no obscure cleric. As Vicar General of the Diocese of Davenport and rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hennen has helped steer diocesan policy on “sexual and gender minorities,” drafting guidelines that repackage ambiguity in the pastel tones of pastoral accompaniment. What makes this more grotesque is that Hennen was once affiliated with Courage International, the only mainstream Catholic apostolate that dares to call same-sex attracted persons to chastity. That was over a decade ago. Now, he talks of “LGBT+ Catholics” and “transgender persons” with the rhetorical confidence of a James Martin press release.
The Diocese of Davenport’s 2023 “Guidelines for Pastoral Accompaniment of Sexual and Gender Minorities,” which Hennen helped draft, omit any explicit call to chastity. Instead, they emphasize listening, accommodation, and collaboration with “healthcare providers”: a phrase that in today’s context might as well read “gender-affirming professionals.” At one point, Hennen even mused aloud whether the Church could make “appropriate accommodations” that “neither ‘sell out’ on our beliefs nor slam the door” on transgender persons. The illusion of doctrinal fidelity is preserved only by its absence in practice.
The Lavender Thread
Strickland names the enemy: the so-called Lavender Mafia. For years, Catholics were told this term was conspiratorial, exaggerated, even homophobic. But what else do you call a clandestine episcopal network that promotes one another into positions of power while undermining Catholic moral doctrine, first with soft language, then with sacramental betrayal?
Fiducia Supplicans was the coup de grâce of the Francis era, giving Rome’s stamp of approval to the ritual blessing of same-sex couples. If Leo XIV were the great corrector his defenders imagined, the one who would restore clarity and clean house, this appointment of Fr. Hennen would not have happened. But it did. And Strickland’s words make clear: Leo is not reversing course. He’s entrenching it.
> “We face a troubling reality: instead of correcting the trajectory set by Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV is doubling down on it.”
Synodality as Trojan Horse
Fr. Hennen calls his diocesan process a “synodal approach.” Of course he does. That phrase has become the holy oil by which anything heretical can be anointed. Synodality is the spirit that permits listening to the “lived experiences” of LGBT activists while silencing faithful Catholics who beg for the clear teaching of the Gospel.
We’re told that “transgender people are not pretending,” that they “do not choose” this “deep disconnect between their bodies and their perception of themselves.” But the Church does not teach psychology-by-feelings. It teaches metaphysical truth: God made them male and female. To affirm a contradiction of that truth is not mercy but malice.
Strickland understands this. He rightly points out that when sexual identity becomes negotiable, the Gospel becomes negotiable. And when the Church makes peace with a lie, she ceases to sanctify.
The Appointment Heard Round the West
Fr. Hennen’s new post, Baker, Oregon, might seem insignificant. It isn’t. Baker is a test case. It’s how you smuggle heterodoxy into America’s remaining strongholds of tradition. Bit by bit, one appointment at a time. Fr. Hennen was trained in the Traditional Latin Mass. That fact will now be wielded as a shield. “Look,” the defenders will say, “He’s liturgically sound!” as if incense could cover the stench of doctrinal erosion.
This is the same game the Vatican has played since Summorum Pontificum: use traditional aesthetics to neutralize traditional theology. And once the faithful are disarmed by the smells and bells, in comes the “pastoral accompaniment” to finish the job.
The Silence from Rome
Strickland concludes his statement with sorrowful defiance:
> “If that is too strong for Rome, then the silence from the top is deafening proof that nothing has changed.”
And nothing has. The “change” promised by Trad Inc. after May 8, those first breathless hours of Leo XIV’s election, was always a fantasy. The very people who spent a decade sounding the alarm under Francis have now gone quiet. They urge docility. Prudence. Optimism. But what they cannot offer is proof.
The papal appointments tell the real story.
The Lavender Mafia has not been purged, it has been promoted.
And faithful Catholics are once again being told to accept the unacceptable.
We won’t.
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Fr. Hewko - "Faith Higher than Sacraments" |
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"Faith Higher than Sacraments"
[Transcription of Fr. Hewko's Sermon for the Feast of St. Athanasius - May 2, 2025]
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The Catholic Trumpet [Slightly adapted and reformatted, emphasis mine] | July 8, 2025
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.
This is the very northern regions of British Columbia, and today is first Friday of May 2025, May the 2nd. So it's a wonderful combination of two great events.
One, first Friday, where we make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for all blasphemies and insults against Him. We want to pull out at least a thorn, several thorns out of His Sacred Heart by receiving communion and reparation, and pray in this Mass at the foot of Calvary with the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the foot of the cross. You know, one of the most powerful prayers we could ever offer, and this is the privilege of a priest every day, and I have found when you pray these and offer these, the Father, God cannot refuse the offering of this prayer.
He cannot refuse it, because it's the highest prayer that we can give to God, and that is, He's given it to us in the great devotions that He has revealed from the crucifix, His crucifixion, and down to our time, and how many great popes have emphasized these great devotions, and they are: Every Mass, we can offer the Sacred Heart of Jesus with all His burning love and all His wounds, and then you can offer His Holy Face, the face of Jesus Christ, which is pure, innocent, manly, and the adoration of all the angels and saints in Heaven, the joy of the Virgin Mary, the bliss and happiness unspeakable of God the Father and the Holy Ghost. So, to offer the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Face, and then the five wounds of Our Lord, the wounds of His hands, the wounds of His feet, there is no greater prayer that can be offered, and that's exactly what the Catholic Mass is, the offering of the wounds of Jesus Christ, His burning heart, His priestly heart, and His Sacred Face, and that is the highest treasure we have, and it's ours to give, not just at Mass, and that's the happiness of a priest, every day he can offer this treasure of the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Face, and the Sacred Wounds for the whole world, for the conversion of sinners, for the whole souls in Purgatory, to save souls from Hell, and in reparation for blasphemy, sacrilegious insults, [and] offences against Almighty God and the Sacred Heart.
But you, who cannot offer Mass, you can offer the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Face, the Sacred Wounds, any time in the day, with all the Masses, well, probably the very few Masses offered throughout the world that are truly valid, and the true Sacrifice. So we should do this often. I have found, when I do this, no prayer is refused, nothing I have ever asked [is refused when] offering the Heart of Jesus, His wounds, [and] His Sacred Face. And then you add to that, since Our Lady of Fatima, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Burning Heart of Mary, which on June 13, 1917, appeared, she held it in her hands and showed the three children, but the heart was all surrounded by thorns, bleeding, that's the heart of the Virgin Mother, bleeding, bleeding tears, bleeding blood for souls who are lost, so many souls lost. Look at our modern world that drinks in sin like water, where the most horrendous murders have become convenience, abortion, where the most horrendous crimes and blasphemies have become the normal language of people, the most filthy things regarding holy purity have become normal to people, and now little children at a young age exposed to things that no grown man would ever see in his whole lifetime years ago, because of the corruption of our days, the immodest fashions, and so forth. So look how many souls, poor, poor souls that are lost.
And so if we offer the Heart of Jesus with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it's hands down, it's a win, win, win, win, win, win, you're going to get your prayers answered, you will. That's something God cannot refuse: the Face, Heart, Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest and King, and then the Immaculate Heart of Mary, you just can't say no, you cannot say no, especially when you offer these things for souls, for particular souls, particular people by name. And do that often, because God, He loves the Heart of His Son, He loves the Sacred Face and the wounds of His Divine Son, and He loves with a love unspeakable His Beloved Mother and the Immaculate Heart. So that's what we need to do, because these devotions have been emphasized by Popes, emphasized by Saints, emphasized over and over again by Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph, maybe you can add a third one there, that's another hands down win. Offer the heart of Saint Joseph, the pure and manly heart of Saint Joseph, how can God refuse.
So when we pray and God doesn't seem to answer, and He seems to delay our request, He does that so that we persevere in praying and not give up, because if we pray and we get our answer right away, well that was easy, we give up prayer. But sometimes God doesn't want us to get our answer right away, but later, and He will always answer and in a better way we can possibly imagine. Look at Saint Monica, her heart was broken when Saint Augustine left for Northern Africa to study. And in Carthage, he left home, Togast, he was from Togast. And Saint Augustine left home and yeah, he lived a wild life, he had an illegitimate son, but you know what, that son became a saint and a monk, Deodatus was his name. We don't know what happened to the wife or the woman [but] she probably died a holy death, I'm sure, and he himself became a repentant, a repentant soul, was baptized at age 30 and not only became a priest, but a bishop, and not only a great bishop, but one of the unbelievably greatest defenders of the faith in the history of the Church, Saint Augustine. Every priest knows this, every monk and nun know this, you don't go a day hardly without praying Matins without some sermon of Saint Augustine or some quote of his, that's how great he is. So look, look at Saint Monica when Saint Augustine was 25 years old, she just probably said, "Lord, how come you don't answer my prayers, why is my son so far away and so gone and so lost", and by that time he was in the Manichaean Harley-Davidson gang, Harley-Davidson bike gang, he was in a real sect, a really wacky sect called the Manichaeans, I mean really wacky, where they praise starvation and suicide as something good. So poor Saint Monica, look at her heart, look at her dilemma, but God didn't answer her prayers until Saint Augustine turned 30. And if He waited even for another 10 years when he was 40 or 50, God knows when is best to answer the prayers, but it's for us not to give up, it's for us to keep asking, keep knocking, that's what we have to do, and this is the case called perseverance. We must persevere, and God knows what He's doing, He's a good doctor, He's the best coach, He's the best captain, He knows sometimes He does answer our prayers right away, [but] sometimes He does actually, He often does, [and] sometimes He doesn't, but He always hears our prayer. And as the Psalms put it, God stoops down and lowers His ear to near our mouth, the mouth of our heart to hear our prayer, and that's how He loves, that's the closeness of God to each one of us, so again I repeat, the infallible prayers that God will never refuse: to offer the Five Wounds, the Sacred Heart, and the Sacred Face, and then you throw in there the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Saint Joseph, that prayer will not go unanswered, and better than we can ever imagine.
Please let me, bear with [me] on your patience a little bit by comparing two great champions of the Catholic Faith, and that both are great, and both are from similar times, one is Saint Athanasius, whose feast day is today. Saint Athanasius had to flee for his life five times, he was falsely condemned, he was excommunicated not by a true pope, but a weak pope, Pope Liberius, who happened to be the first pope not canonized, why? Because he was weak in condemning the Arian heresy, he should have condemned it, and he should have named the heretic by name, which is what the Catholic Church has always done. Father Arius was a Catholic priest, and he started this heresy, which actually came from a Bishop Eusebius before him. So Saint Athanasius, he combated this heresy, and he didn't pull any punches. Saint Jerome also didn't pull any punches against this heresy, this heresy was vicious, and it was deceitful, and it was very convincing, because they could quote scripture, right? Protestants continually quote scripture to back their heresies, but they interpret scripture as Saint Peter, our first pope says, "to their own destruction", because they misinterpret it, and that's what the Arians were doing. They were saying, "Well, the Bible says, look, it says, Jesus said, 'the Father is greater than I'", “My God, My God, why hast Thou abandoned me?” “I do the works, but it's My Father who works in Me.” So the Arians took those quotes, and said, “See, the Father is greater than the Son, the Son is not equal to the Father, He's lower, He's a creature, the Son is a creature, He was created by God long before the earth was created,” so it sounds very pious, it sounds very, you know, but it was heresy. Because Christ, Jesus Christ, is not just a creature, He is one with the Father and the Holy Ghost, so they leave out the quotes in the Bible that say, when Our Lord says, “I and the Father are one, I and the Father are one, it's the Father who works in me, and I live in the Father, [the] spirit of my Father lives in me, and I live in Him,” so they forgot those quotes, like the Protestants often do, they pick out quotes to favor their heresy. The only authority that interprets scripture properly is the Holy Catholic Church and the Church of Tradition, and that's why we turn to the great saints, St. Augustine, St. Basil, St. John Chrysostom, St. Hilary of Portier, St. Gregory, to have the right interpretation of scriptures, and the great councils of the Church, especially the Council of Trent, that hammered the Protestant heresies of our time, and also Vatican I.
So Archbishop Lefebvre, he was the Saint Athanasius of our time, why? Because he loved Our Lord, and he was not going to sit back and watch Holy Mother Church be kicked, be stabbed, be violated, and he rose up to defend Holy Mother Church, and that's something every bishop and priest is bound to do, to defend the honor of Mother Church, defend her doctrine, which has always been taught, the same catechism, the same Mass, the same sacraments, but what happened at Vatican II, all these things [were] a revolution to destroy the Catholic Church from within, and it was all done with nice words and fancy documents, but very deadly, ambiguous phrases, and you know, we often hear the priests, well you should often hear the priests condemning it publicly, and speaking against it, because look, Vatican II today is still taking souls to Hell, it's still making modernists of all the bishops and priests, still destroying the Mass, it's still taking souls to Hell.
It just probably took one of the most recent popes to Hell, God knows, he certainly promoted Vatican II, may God have mercy on his soul, but what [are] the fruits of Vatican II? It's disaster, it's overthrow of religion, overthrow of all devotion, overthrow of everything sacred, and why? Because Vatican II was loaded with heresies that attack Christ, that attack Him as God, attack Him as the only Redeemer, attack Him as priest, because remember, it's in the very text of the Vatican II on the liturgy, that say the Mass should be adapted to the culture of the people. That's right in the text of Vatican II, inculturation, and bishops are encouraged to adapt the language, adapt ceremonies, to fit the culture of the people. So the culture of modern West is rock and roll, and guitars, or folk dance, or folk music, or in Poland, polka dances, or in Mexico, mariachi dances, and they incorporate that into the Mass, it's the most illogical thing. But the texts are right in Vatican II, so Vatican II is the problem, it is the engine that has been messed up, messed with, and toyed with, so that it doesn't function anymore, but does damage. So that's the greatness of Archbishop Lefebvre, who stood up right during the council, and said “I accuse the council,” that was the great role of Archbishop Lefebvre, and later with him, Bishop de Castro mayer, actually with him at the council, there were 250 bishops, that were traditional, out of the 2,500 bishops, 2,700 bishops, only 200 were traditional, and even after the dust settled, it was only two bishops who continued to fight for the Faith, the rest slid right along. So let me just quote from Archbishop Lefebvre himself, this is a great interview in 1990, this is published in one of the great Catholic papers of the SSPX in its golden days, this was issued in May-June 1991, The Catholic Guardian, issue number 14, this was a Canadian publication, and the good priests back then used to preach this, Father Girouard used to preach this, Father Boullée used to preach this, all the Canadian district priests whom I know well, they were great priests, Father Violette, they all used to preach this.
But let's see what does [the] Archbishop say, he says here, the question is, it's an interview with Fideliter magazine, “Since the episcopal consecrations in June of 1988, there have been no more contacts with Rome, however, as you told us, Cardinal Odey telephoned you, saying we must come to an arrangement, make a little apology to the Pope, and he is ready to welcome you, then why not try this final step, and why does it seem impossible to you?”, so this is 1990, so Cardinal Odey is saying to Archbishop Lefebvre, "Look, just apologize to the Pope, tell him you're sorry that you consecrated four bishops, tell him you're sorry you attacked the New Mass and attacked Vatican II, and everything will be just fine", well, here's what Archbishop Lefebvre says, what does he say, yeah, I'll write I'm very sorry, I'll send it off tomorrow, does he say that? No, here's what he says, “It is absolutely impossible in the present climate in Rome, which is becoming worse and worse, we must be under no illusions, the principles now directing the conciliar church are more and more openly contrary to Catholic doctrine, speaking to the United Nations Commission of the Rights of Man, Cardinal Casaroli recently declared, quote, I wish to spend a little time on a specific aspect of the fundamental freedom of thought and action according to one's conscience, hence freedom of religion, the Catholic Church and its supreme pastor who has made of the rights of man one of the main themes of its preaching, have not failed to recall that in a world made by man and for man, the whole organization of society only has sense to the extent that it makes of the human dimension a central preoccupation, close quote, Cardinal Casaroli. Hearing that from the mouth of a cardinal!
He does not mention God, for his part, continues Archbishop Lefebvre, for his part Cardinal Ratzinger, in presenting a long document on relations between the magisterium and theologian states, he says for the first time with clarity that decisions of the magisterium may be not the last word on the matter in hand as such, but a sort of provisional disposition, the coronal remains stable, but particular aspects on which the circumstances of the time have an influence may be in need of further rectifications,” so this is Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger, saying truth can change with some adaptions, “In this respect we may highlight the declarations of the popes of the last century, the anti-modernist decisions rendered a great service, but they are now out of date,” close quote, Cardinal Ratzinger, in other words, in other words, Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors was great for his time, but this is now the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s, we need to adapt the doctrine, Syllabus of Errors doesn't apply anymore, nor does Pius X's condemnation of modernism, that's good for back then, but not for now, that was the modernism of Pope Benedict, and then the archbishop says, “And there you are, modernism is a closed chapter, these reflections of Cardinal Ratzinger are absolutely senseless,” and notice he gives the name, "Lastly, the Pope is more ecumenical than ever, all the false ideas of the council are continuing to develop and to be restated with ever more clarity, they are more and more coming out into the open, it is therefore absolutely unthinkable that we should accept or collaborate with such a hierarchy.” Next question is about the profession of faith of Cardinal Ratzinger, “Do you think that the situation has deteriorated ever since you entered upon the conversations prior to the episcopal consecrations, which resulted in the drawing up of the protocol of May 5th, 1988?”
Answer of Archbishop Lefebvre, “Oh yes, for example, the fact of the profession of faith which is now being required by Cardinal Ratzinger since the beginning of 1989, this is very serious, because he is asking all those who have rejoined Rome, or who might do so, to make a profession of faith in the Council's documents and in the post-Conciliar reforms, for us that is out of the question, we will have to wait a while before we can envisage any prospect of agreement, for my part, I think that only the good Lord can intervene, for humanly speaking, there is no chance of Rome reversing the tide. For 15 years we have been in dialogue with Rome in the effort to give to tradition the honor due to it in it’s rightful place within the church. We have come up against a continual refusal. What Rome is presently granting in favor of tradition is a purely political gesture, a diplomatic move to make people rejoin Rome, but it is not out of any conviction in the benefits of tradition.”
So you see Archbishop Lefebvre, he didn't fall for their deceits, their tricks, their traps, and he's held firm in tradition, and he once said, “I cannot form priests in the New Mass”, because Rome once asked him, "Just say the New Mass once and there'll be peace between us", and the Archbishop said, “I can't, the New Mass is an insult to God, I can't do that”.
Next question, this regards Saint Peter's Fraternity, “When people see that Dom Gerard, who was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in France, and the fraternity of Saint Peter have obtained from Rome the right to keep the old liturgy and the catechism without, they say, giving anything away, some people are troubled that they find themselves in difficulties with Rome, and they may be tempted in the long run to rejoin Rome, like the others, out of weariness, such people, they say, have managed to come to an agreement with Rome without giving anything away.”
So this was the argument why the SSPX made the agreement in 2012, “We're not giving up anything,” but they did, they accepted in the Doctrinal Declaration, they accepted the New Mass as legitimate, they accepted [that] Vatican II enlightens tradition, and tradition enlightens Vatican II, they accepted the new profession of faith, condemned here by Archbishop Lefebvre, they also accepted the new Code of Canon Law with no distinction, so here's Archbishop Lefebvre's response, and he would say the same about the new SSPX right now, “When they say they have not given anything away, that is not true, they have given away the possibility of opposing Rome, they can no longer say anything, they must keep quiet, given the favors which have been granted them, it is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the conciliar church, little by little they are adhering to Rome, if only by the profession of faith which is being asked of them by Cardinal Ratzinger, I think that Dom Gerard is in the process of bringing out a little book written by one of his monks on religious liberty, and which is going to try to justify it”, so that book later was printed, a horrible book, two thousand something pages, all garbage, trying to defend religious liberty that all the previous popes have condemned, so what happened to Le Barroux, all these monks, they went liberal, and Archbishop Lefebvre continues, “From the point of view of ideas, gently they are slipping, and they will finish by agreeing with the council's false ideas, because Rome has granted them a few favors for tradition, they are in a very dangerous situation.”
And don't think any of us are not out of such danger either, if you or I accept the New Mass in the slightest degree, and accept that it sanctifies souls, that it gives grace, that it nourishes your faith, you accept that, you are in danger of losing all the faith, all of us, you accept one compromise with Vatican II's errors, you are in danger of losing the faith. Look what happened to hundreds of bishops, priests, nuns, we are talking thousands of consecrated souls, swept into apostasy by compromise, by accepting the errors of Vatican II and the New Mass, none of us are not in danger of falling as well. We must be humble, we must pray, and we must hold fast to tradition, because even the tall trees, the fighters of tradition, Bishop Williamson, Bishop Fellay, Bishop Gallaretta, Bishop Tissier, these were giants, and they have crumbled, they have accepted error.
It's frightful, and the Archbishop, you know, I could quote Archbishop [Lefebvre] forever and ever and ever, condemning the New Mass, condemning Vatican II, it's just constant with him, and it's so clear, we're his sons, we're supposed to hold his position, hold to the faith, and the archbishop says, "look at the danger, if we don't fight it, you're going to slide with them", so he says here, “In the course of the audience, which the pope granted to Dom Gerard, into a delegation of monks from Le Barroux in France, the pope expressed the desire to see them evolving further, he did not hide his thinking, they must submit still more to the archbishop of Avignon, and they must take care not to act in such a way as to depreciate the conciliar reform, on the grounds that they have been granted exceptions to the council's liturgical rule, also they must make an effort to bring back to Rome, all those who are not yet under obedience to the Holy Father." So they bring him into the conciliar church, very slippery. "Pressing invitations were made to them in this sense, and such indeed as the aim of the privileges which were granted to them, that is why Dom Girard wrote to mother Anne Marie Simolin, to father innocent Marie of the Dominicans in France, to the Capuchins of Morgon, and to other persons in the hope of ever reaching me, when Dom Girard returned from Rome, he launched this offensive to attempt to convince all those who do not follow him, to follow in his wake, and to rejoin with Rome.”
So their efforts were, get all these traditional groups, Dominicans, Benedictines, Capuchins, get them all to capitulate, and come into the conciliar church. You see this is the war! it is very serious, because if you and I compromise on Vatican II and the New Mass, we're goners. And yes Saint Mary Magdalene sinned much against the flesh, but she repented and saved her soul, and if you and I can sin against the flesh, we can repent and save our soul, but if you and I lose the Faith, forget it, you're gone. Even in this world, even in this life, those who have lost the faith, short of a miracle, they're already in Hell, they have a foot in Hell, and that's why we need to pray for poor sinners, pray for atheists, pray for Jews, pray for Muslims, but the Faith, if we lose that, we lose everything.
Next point from Archbishop Lefebvre, “Everything that was granted to these groups was only agreed to with the purpose of bringing about, that all those who belong to or are connected with the society should separate from it and submit to Rome”, that's when the SSPX was solid and good and fighting, so what wisdom of Archbishop Lefebvre, if only our bishops of the society kept this. Next question, “Dom Girard is thus taking up the role that was Monsignor Pearls at the time of the visitation in 1987,” all right, so he goes on and on and on here. Let me just jump ahead to another point from Archbishop Lefebvre, he says this, “This idea of interpreting signatures to signify an approval of conciliar documents”, all right, so what's being said here, Archbishop Lefebvre was accused by one of these priests in France of signing two documents that he later condemned, Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes, and Lumen Gentium, three corrupt and rotten documents of Vatican II, full of heresy. Archbishop Lefebvre was at the council and he signed the sheets, but the Archbishop answers and says “I didn't approve of these documents, all these sheets that my name is on was the attendance sheet, it just meant I was there in attendance, that's all,” so he was just clarifying that exaggeration. Next question, “Some of the faithful are being tempted to stay on good terms with those who have rejoined Rome, such as Saint Peter's, now we can say the new SSPX, even to attend Mass or ceremonies celebrated by them, do you think there is a danger here?”
In other words, can I go to the Mass of compromised groups like Saint Peter's, the new SSPX, Christ the King Institute, the indults, this is a question. So here's Archbishop Lefebvre's answer, can you take a guess what it'll be? “Well, if you have [nowhere] else to go to, you can go to that Mass”, you think that's what he's going to say? “Well, if that's all you need to nourish your faith, go ahead”, is that what he's going to say? “They promote the New Mass or they fail to condemn it, but it's okay, you can nourish your faith with that, after all, there's New Mass miracles”, do you think that he's going to say that? Listen to his own words, and I'll tell you what, Archbishop Lefebvre was, he was a French gentleman, he was a real gentleman, Saint Athanasius would have been more aggressive, Saint Athanasius, you read his writings, he doesn't pull punches, he levels insults, he levels almost cuss words, but he doesn't cuss, but he sure puts them in their place. If Saint Athanasius lived during this crisis, people would have been scandalized by his aggressiveness, and his, we would say, lack of politeness, because he wouldn't pull any punches, he would just unleash against these modernists. So Saint Athanasius, you know, he called Father Arius, "a child of hell", "son of Satan", "another Lucifer", he didn't pull punches. Sometimes you got to call a spade a spade, in fact, it's better to, and that's why you notice in this interview, Archbishop Lefebvre is not hiding names, he's giving names: Cardinal Ratzinger, he's a modernist snake, here's what he says, “stay away from him,” Pope John Paul II, a globalist, he gives names, Cardinal Casaroli, a globalist. So sometimes you see in the lives of saints, they give the names, and they have to expose those who will lead them into hell, lead them into error. That's why the church condemns heresiarchs, those who invent heresy.
So Archbishop Lefebvre, what does he say to this question? Can I go to these compromised masses? Here's his response, “I have always warned the faithful, for example, with regard to the sedevecantists, people say their Mass is good, so we go to it, true, there is the Mass, the Mass is good, but there is also the sermon, there is the atmosphere, these are conversations and contacts before and after Mass, which bring about a whole slow change of a person's ideas, hence there is a danger, and that is why in general, the Mass and the surroundings are one whole, one not only goes to Mass, one is blending into a whole environment, obviously there are people who are attracted by the beautiful ceremonies, who go also to Foucamboult, which is a Novus Ordo monastery, where they have gone back to the old Mass, there people are in a climate of ambiguity, which in my opinion is dangerous.” Now that's a monastery with monks singing Gregorian chant with the old Mass, and he's saying this is dangerous, because they accept the new Mass, they accept parts of Vatican II. "There people are in a climate of ambiguity, which in my opinion is dangerous, as soon as one finds oneself in this environment, in submission to the Vatican, in submission finally to the Second Vatican Council, one finishes by becoming ecumenical.”
There it is, you dance with the devil, you're gonna get broken legs, you lay down with dogs with fleas, you're gonna wake up with fleas, you sit down to dinner with the devil, you're gonna be poisoned, and this applies to all of us, me too, me too, because we are always invited, “Come back to the SSPX”, “Come back to the new SSPX, Father, everyone will be happy to see you back,” and I have three nephews who are priests of the Society, and I can't, because they have accepted Vatican II, and so far has accepted the New Mass as legitimate, as an official statement by Bishop Fellay, who was the Superior General. That's a serious thing. That's a serious thing. That's like, I don't know how to compare it, that's like the foreman is head of the construction of building a bridge, coming out and saying, “We don't believe concrete works anymore, we have to use foam.” Foam, if you use foam, it's not going to hold diesel trucks, it's not going to hold the weight of cars going over the bridge, are you out of your mind? "Well no, because we have to adapt to the modern engineering, modern engineers say that concrete's outdated, [we’ve] got to use foam now." So let me ask you, would you drive your truck or tractor over that bridge, won't last long, but that's exactly what Bishop Fellay did, and all those who have compromised with Vatican II and the New Mass, they replace concrete of the true Catholic Faith and it's integrity with foam. And it's all collapsing, they're all compromising, they're all becoming, like Archbishop Lefebvre says, “ecumenical”, and what did Cardinal Ratzinger say as Pope Benedict XVI, he said, I quote, “We will slowly get these traditional communities to abandon their rigid positions and to accept the council and the reforms,” close quote, and look how many groups have fallen you know, and this is not just some bickering between Catholic groups. And why are [there] these fragmentations, why are Catholics always fighting over these [things], well it's just, it comes down to the Faith, that's why.
What's the first question when we're baptized by our God, by the priest, through our godparents, “What do you seek from the church?” “Faith”, and "What does the Faith give unto you”, “eternal life”. So the Faith gives us eternal life, but if we lose it, we lose eternal life. That's how important the Catholic Faith is. So that Saint Paul says, “If I or an angel from Heaven preach to you a different Faith, a different gospel, don't listen to him, it's not from God”. And that's how we have to treat all novelty, all heresies, it's not from God, Vatican II is a certain definite novelty, and we're still fighting it, and there's still SSPX priests, and now resistance priests compromising with Vatican II and the New Mass, and they are the fake resistance. That's why they're called the fake resistance, because what are they fighting? They tell the people, "Yeah you can go to the", down in Post Falls, the priests tell them, Bishop Zendejas tells them, “You can go to the SSPX Mass, no problem, when we're not here.” So what happens? They all go to the SSPX Mass, all of them that are going to the fake resistance Mass, so those priests come in, and when they come in, they rent a hall and have Mass, and what are they fighting? Why do they go make a sacrifice to say Mass in Post Falls, when they can just go to the SSPX? What's the point? And for them there is no point, and I argue the purpose of the fake resistance was to dissipate the Catholic resistance, to lose focus on the Faith, and the doctrine, and the purity of the defense of the Faith, and the line of Archbishop Lefebvre, to confuse it, to make it all confused, so people don't know what's up, what's down, “New Mass gives grace,” “Well Bishop Williamson's saying this, New Mass miracles, all right, well maybe, if I guess, if it gives grace, and there's miracles, why can't I go to it?”, and maybe your generation listening here now, won't go to the New Mass, but I'll tell you what, you teach your children, there's grace in the New Mass, they can nourish their Faith, there's New Mass miracles, believe me, and write this down, because it will happen, your grandchildren will go to the New Mass. “Grandpa said it's okay, Grandpa said it gives grace, why can't I go?”
So you see, we're not just playing politics, if I go lose the Faith, I go to hell. I don't want to go there, and I don't want you to go there, that's why we have to fight for the Faith. And then we got to call out liberals by name, and I like Archbishop Lefebvre, look what he's, I mean this, you got to read the whole interview, I'm not going to do that to you, because we'll be here forever, but let me just close with another point here, question to Archbishop Lefebvre, “The Pope is very popular, (that's John Paul II), he mobilizes crowds, he wishes to gather all Christians together according to his ecumenism, of which he has said that he was making it the cornerstone of his pontificate, at first sight that seems to be a noble thought, to wish to bring about the gathering together of all Christians", so let's have peace, friendship, let's have no more fights, but let's have hand holding, and peace, and love, and sounds all good, doesn't it, answer of Archbishop Lefebvre, and I tell you Saint Athanasius would be far more aggressive in his language, "the Pope is wishing to create unity outside of the Faith, it is a communion, a communion with who? With what? In what? It is no longer a real unity, unity is only possible in the unity of the Faith, that is what the Church has always taught, that is why there were missionaries to convert people to the Catholic Faith, now we must no longer convert anybody, the Church is no longer a hierarchical society, it is a communion, everything is falsified, that is the destruction of the notion of the Church and of Catholicism, it is very serious, and that explains why so many Catholics are leaving the Faith, when you add to that all the scandalous remarks made in the course of the synod on the priesthood in Rome, statements such as those of Cardinal de Courteret and Cardinal Daniels”, notice he's giving names, “one wonders how there can still be any Catholics left, after the meeting of Assisi and similar statements, one understands why there are many people going off to the Mormons that Jehovah witnesses and elsewhere, they are losing the Faith, it's quite normal”, and then another, I'll close with this, another response of Archbishop Lefebvre, “Rather than a question of liturgy, you often say, it is now a question of Faith, which stands between us and present-day Rome?” Answer, “Certainly the question of the liturgy”, that's the Mass, and the sacraments, “is very important, but it is not what is most important”, let's sink that one in, it is not what is most important, the Mass and the sacraments are important, but it's not what is most important, and that's the problem with the fake resistance, Mass and sacraments, Mass and sacraments, Mass and the new SSPX, Mass and sacraments, Mass and sacraments, but the Faith, they end up becoming ecumenical, because they swallow Vatican II and the New Mass. This is the war we're in folks, it's a real war, with real bullets flying, real traps to avoid, real bombs, we're in war, and it's no fun, I know, but God put us in this time, we either slide or we fight, answer of Archbishop Lefebvre, “what is most important is the question of the Faith, as far as we are concerned, the question is settled, we have the Faith of all time, of the council of Trent, of the Catechism of Saint Pius X, of all the councils, and of all the popes prior to Vatican II."
And if Saint Athanasius [were] alive today, he'd say exactly the same thing, with more colour, more adjectives, but he would say the same thing, and he would hammer heresies, like he did in his day, "for years they have striven in Rome to show that everything that was in the council was perfectly in conformity with tradition, now they are taking off the mask, Cardinal Ratzinger had never stated his mind with such clarity, there is no tradition, there is no longer any deposit of Faith to transmit, tradition in the Church is what the pope today says it is, you must submit to what the pope and the bishops today say, for them that is what tradition is, their famous so-called living tradition, the only reason for our being condemned, now they are no longer seeking to prove that what they say is in conformity with what Pope Pius IX wrote, or with what the Council of Trent promulgated, no that is all over, that is out of date, as Cardinal Ratzinger says, it is clear, and they might have said so sooner, it was not worth their getting us into talks and discussions with them, now we have the tyranny of authority, because there is no rule, there can no longer be any reference to the past, in one sense the situation is becoming more clear, it is more and more proving that we are right, we are dealing with people who have a different philosophy from ours, a different way of seeing things, who are influenced by all the modern subjectivist philosophers, for them there is no fixed truth, there is no dogma, everything is in evolution, that is a wholly Masonic way of thinking, it is truly the destruction of the Faith, fortunately we ourselves are continuing to lean on tradition."
And that's what we're all about, so dear faithful, we must beg the Mother of God to persevere, pray to Saint Athanasius, the great Saint Athanasius, who was the poor guy, had to flee for his life, many times he was hunted down like an animal, and he always had good humor, but when he was in exile with the monks, he wrote some great books, and those works still still exist, and then another Saint, another great Athanasius, which will probably be canonized someday, is Athanasius, General François Athanase Charrette of the Vendée, he's another champion, and there was a movie made of him in France, and Michael Matt at the remnant, he adapted it, so you have the English subtitles, it's a pretty good film, I have to say it's pretty good, but Charrette, he was like the Archbishop Lefebvre, the Saint Athanasius of the French Revolution, he would not surrender, and he was in war, and they just told him many compromises, "Just accept the republic, accept the new regime, accept the new religion", and when he died, he was shot, of course they captured him, because they hunted him like an animal, literally, and he was finally surrounded and arrested, they wanted him not dead, but alive, and he requested, "I don't want a compromising priest, one who signed the oath", in our day, we would say, "I don't want a priest who agrees with the New Mass, Vatican II, or the new Code", that for us should be, shut the door, "I love you father, God bless you father, peace, but come back when you abandon these liberal positions", and that's what Charrette did, and he said, "I don't want any of your juring priests to absolve me", so he arranged it with his friends, that as he passed under the bridge, a non-juring priest would be there in disguise, and give Charrette, Athanasius of Charrette, absolution, as he passed under the bridge, which that good priest did, and Charrette, he refused [the] blindfold, and he only had one request, "Shoot me when I bow my head." And that's what he did, he offered his soul to God, he professed the Catholic Faith, "Long live the Catholic Faith, long live the king", he bowed his head, and they shot him, Charrette, Athanas Charrette.
So these are the great heroes we need to look to, these are the saints that are in Heaven, and there's a lot of liberals down in Hell, and all those compromising bishops, and priests, and nuns, a lot of them down there, there really are, it's a frightening thing, so let's profess the Faith, and in doing so, you'll become saints, because it's a tough fight, and you'll become saints, you'll become holier, you'll draw closer to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, because in the end, Her Immaculate Heart will triumph, and let's ask Her that Her heart triumphs in each one of us, by a victory over sin, by a victory of professing the Faith, by the victory of obtaining Heaven with Jesus, and Mary, and Joseph, which happiness I wish for all of you.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
and for those who do not have recourse to thee, especially all communists, and freemasons, and other enemies of Holy Mother Church, amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, amen.
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