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| An Open Letter to Bishop Fellay by The Catholic Trumpet |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-05-2025, 09:15 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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An Open Letter to Bishop Fellay by The Catholic Trumpet
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The Catholic Trumpet [adapted] | January 4, 2025
Your Excellency,
In the spirit of charity and truth, and for the salvation of souls, we address this letter with profound humility yet great urgency. The crisis in the Church and the world demands clarity and courage from those entrusted with the defense of the Faith.
We write this letter to plead with Your Excellency to act decisively: to publicly and formally condemn the doctrinal and moral errors that have emerged under your leadership, particularly the 2012 Doctrinal Declaration and the SSPX’s silence—or tacit approval—on moral issues such as the COVID vaccines tied to abortion.
This is not written to accuse but to implore: to urge Your Excellency to stand firmly with Tradition and Archbishop Lefebvre’s mission, even at the cost of temporal backlash. The salvation of souls, including your own, depends on fidelity to Christ and His unchanging truths.
The Errors of the 2012 Doctrinal Declaration
The 2012 Doctrinal Declaration is not merely a misstep or misunderstanding; it codifies errors that strike at the very heart of the SSPX’s mission. Two key paragraphs reveal its devastating implications:
1. Paragraph III, 4: Vatican II “Enlightens and Deepens” Doctrine
The Declaration states:
“The entire tradition of Catholic Faith must be the criterion and guide in understanding the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, which, in turn, enlightens—in other words, deepens and subsequently makes explicit—certain aspects of the life and doctrine of the Church implicitly present within itself or not yet conceptually formulated.”
This paragraph is utterly indefensible. To suggest that Vatican II “enlightens” or “deepens” Catholic doctrine is to grant the Council a level of authority and legitimacy that Archbishop Lefebvre categorically rejected. Lefebvre stated:
“Vatican II is not an authentic Council; it is a revolution within the Church, introducing errors and heresies that contradict Tradition.”
Even more troubling, the footnote to this paragraph cites Lumen Gentium, no. 21, which contains the flawed teaching on the episcopacy—a hallmark of the collegiality Archbishop Lefebvre condemned. This alignment with Vatican II is an implicit endorsement of its errors, contradicting the SSPX’s founding principles.
2. Paragraph III, 5: Acceptance of Religious Liberty and Ecumenism
The Declaration further states:
“The affirmations of the Second Vatican Council and of the later Pontifical Magisterium relating to the relationship between the Church and the non-Catholic Christian confessions, as well as the social duty of religion and the right to religious liberty, whose formulation is with difficulty reconcilable with prior doctrinal affirmations from the Magisterium, must be understood in the light of the whole, uninterrupted Tradition, in a manner coherent with the truths previously taught by the Magisterium of the Church, without accepting any interpretation of these affirmations whatsoever that would expose Catholic doctrine to opposition or rupture with Tradition and with this Magisterium.”
This paragraph is a textbook example of the “hermeneutic of continuity”, a sophistic approach advanced by Benedict XVI to mask the irreconcilable contradictions between Vatican II and prior magisterial teaching.
By framing religious liberty and ecumenism as reconcilable with Tradition, the Declaration endorses doctrines explicitly condemned by the preconciliar Church:
• Religious Liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) contradicts the Kingship of Christ, which Pope Pius XI reaffirmed in Quas Primas: “It would be a grave error to believe that all religions have the same rights as the one true Church of Christ.”
• Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) denies the Church’s unique claim to truth and salvation, violating Pope Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be achieved by the return of dissidents to the one true Church.”
By adopting this language, the Declaration relativizes Catholic teaching, reducing immutable truths to matters of “interpretation.” As Fr. Méramo warned:
“Mixing truth and error can only result in new error. This relativism destroys the principle of non-contradiction and jettisons objective truth.”
The SSPX’s Silence on the COVID Vaccine Scandal
Your Excellency, the SSPX’s failure to condemn COVID vaccines tied to abortion has caused grave scandal. Some priests even suggested their use was permissible—a position that violates Catholic moral teaching.
Pope Pius XII taught that cooperation with intrinsic evil is never permissible, even when remote, especially when it involves the destruction of innocent life. Archbishop Lefebvre echoed this:
Quote:“We must reject even the appearance of consent to evil, for such consent endangers our souls and the souls of others.”
Your Excellency, silence or ambiguity on this issue is a grave failure to protect the faithful. We implore you to address this scandal publicly.
A Call for Public Condemnation
We respectfully but urgently ask Your Excellency to:
1. Publicly condemn the 2012 Doctrinal Declaration as a grave error and betrayal of Tradition.
2. Reaffirm the SSPX’s rejection of Vatican II and the New Mass as incompatible with the Catholic Faith.
3. Issue a formal condemnation of the COVID vaccines and clearly prohibit their use.
Such actions would restore clarity to the SSPX’s mission and renew the trust of the faithful.
Eternal Consequences
Your Excellency, Our Lord has warned: “To whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48).
Failure to act has eternal consequences. The responsibility of shepherding souls comes with immense accountability. Every soul misled by these errors will cry out for justice before God. Archbishop Lefebvre reminded us: “We are not of this world, and our treasure is in Heaven.”
Encouragement and Hope
We assure you that if you take these courageous steps, you will not stand alone. Faithful Catholics worldwide will support you, and more importantly, Our Lord and Our Lady will sustain you.
Let us resist apostasy with all our strength, knowing that the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is certain.
In Christ the King and Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth,
- The Catholic Trumpet
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| The War on Farming |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-05-2025, 09:00 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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The Modern Farm (James McCracken, 1930s)
Farmers across the West are going through financial hell, especially small farmers, many of whom are leaving the profession that was once a noble vocation carried out by hard-working families.
I used to work as an agricultural correspondent and editor of a farming magazine some 20 years ago and things were bad back then throughout the West. But now the cow dung has really hit the fan, especially aggressively in the UK and EU.
The war on farming in the past was less obvious, but it goes back a long time to late-1950s/early ’60s, when new expensive machinery led to bigger intense farming and less farm employees, amongst other socioeconomic factors.
Currently, with AI technologies, some farms are already hosting robotic ‘workers’ toiling away on the land, from dusk to dawn. These tend to the livestock’s needs, but there are also plans to have them watch over crops, while other agri-robots hoe weeds and spray pests. Experts claim that self-guiding machines will soon revolutionize farming and perhaps redraw some of our landscapes. And there is the danger that future generations of large farming animals will become unfamiliar with human contact and aggressive/territorial when approached by a person.
Even in the field of entertainment, negative views on farming were often portrayed in drama. This subtle push to get rid of farms was active in TV soap operas (more like psy-operas), and not just through taxation and Green red-tape, anti-farming initiatives.
In 1965, a dark paradigm shift in world social history prefacing the Sexual Revolution and attack on the Nuclear Family exploded, when TVs went mainstream in every home throughout the West, although many American homes had TVs some years prior to the 1960s. This powerful machine can be used as a Trojan Horse devise, as it is one of the most effective mind-controlling tools of propaganda to influence mainly weak-willed, Normie couch potatoes, especially those lacking in spiritual/social/political discernment.
The year after 1965, when Vatican 2 closed to the sound of singing nuns and trendy priests, the opening of the Church of Satan in San Francisco occurred. Its founder, Anton LaVey, referred to a TV as a “Satanic altar in a room.”
It was also the year an American TV sitcom called Green Acres broadcast its first episode. This hilarious comedy was about a wealthy New York City attorney, fulfilling his dream to become a farmer, with his pretty, high-maintenance wife, uprooted against her will from her Manhattan luxury apartment to a run-down farm in a place called Hooterville. The childless couple’s domestic pet in their farm house was a pig called Arnold, an animal that they treated like a fellow human.
During the same year (coincidence?), across the Atlantic Ocean, another well-made TV drama began, coinciding with the broadcast of Green Acres. Called The Riordans, this well-produced drama was about a farming family in Ireland, screened by the State broadcaster, RTE.
In its early episodes, it was the first soap opera to film exterior scenes, in gritty black and white under dark grey clouds, punctuated by interior studio ones of the bland ‘kitchen sink’ variety.
Both dramas, when viewed by a semiotic/psychological perspective, seem to subliminally ridicule rural life and family wholesome traditions, especially farming. But to a regular ‘Joe’ or ‘Karen,’ they look innocuous and quite entertaining.
In Green Acres, the townsfolk fellow farmers, store owners, and other workers were physically unattractive bumpkins. Similarly, The Riordans, depicted a rural village of plain-looking, curtain-twitching yokels, who were dull, gossipy, and mostly Catholics.
In one scene, broadcasted around suppertime, the young goofy protagonist, Benji, had his arm up a cow’s rectum (part of an artificial insemination process). In another scene, Benji’s parents, looking more like his grandparents, are having tea in the kitchen when the ceiling caves in on them.
The name Benji subsequently became slang for something smelly, as in, “there’s a smell of Benji off you.” One can imagine young boys viewing such scenes as something to be avoided when pondering on their future careers; or young women thinking, “I don’t want to marry a farmer. All that drudgery, muck, and hard labour.”
These women in Western countries during the 1970s would also have viewed The Mary Tyler Moore Show: A sexy sitcom on the joys of a young woman being carefree, beautiful, single, and working as a journalist.
When Moore died in 2017, Newsweek wrote: “It would be an understatement to say The Mary Tyler Moore Show was an important moment in the women’s rights movement in the 1970s.” But the MTM show was a lot tamer than what followed some 25 years later in the hit TV series, Sex and the City: The story of four single young attractive women with top-class professions.
Some of these women are depicted more sexually overt compared to the MTM character. In such a decadent “exciting world,” who needs motherhood and family? Yes, the family-destroying Feminist project was in full flight in tandem with the MTM show and, later, SATC, influencing tens of millions of young Feminists who craved “Girl power” and “freedom.”
Aside from the the television programmes, fast-forward to recent times: In 2023, Irish farmers were pressured to cull up to 200,000 cows to meet climate goals. Most farmers did not go along with this, as dairy farmers, whose herds allegedly produce much of Ireland’s emissions, said large-scale culling was not the answer.
In England, the main political parties were recently up in arms regarding a row about farming finances. During the last Budget, Labour’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, was slammed for “destroying the family farm” by imposing inheritance tax on agricultural land.
According to Daily Mail, TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp accused Chancellor Rachel Reeves of leaving all farmers “f****d,” following her inheritance tax raid during an explosive broadside online.
Reeves dropped a £40bn tax bomb, and was accused of destroying the traditional family farm. The result is that, for all farms worth more than £1 million (this includes expensive equipment), the ‘death tax’ will apply with a 50% relief at an effective rate of 20% from April 2026. The UK Spectator reported some constituents warned they would “have to now consider selling up.” A popular TV star called Jeremy Clarkson, who owns a 1,000-acre farm in Oxfordshire, posted on X that farmers had been “shafted” by Labour’s inheritance tax hike.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a Dutch common-sense politician and farmers’ activist. She said there is a global war on farming going on under the guise of ‘saving’ our ‘greatest global good’: The planet. In a recently published policy paper called Powering Up Britain, ‘The Net Zero Growth Plan,’ the UK government announced that it has a plan to tackle cows’ seemingly deadly burps and farts.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live recently, a potato farmer called Mark said he was left fearing for his livelihood. He told host Nicky Campbell: “It was a sleepless night last night. I started farming 27 years ago … and I have no idea where to go now.
“I’m a third-generation farmer. My next-door neighbour calls us a window-box farmer; we’re just under 500 acres … I’ve worked out I will have £2 million to pay. I have no idea what I’ve got to do other than it will be sold and I will be the last generation which will farm it, which will be a sad state of affairs.”
As for America, farm debt is at an all-time high and thousands of farmers have given up farming. In 2019, Time magazine wrote: “Suicides in farm communities are happening with alarming frequency. Farmers aren’t the only workers in the American economy being displaced by technology, but when they lose their jobs, they are also ejected from their homes and the land that’s been in their family for generations.”
Despite the doom and gloom, we should never lose hope. As we begin our journey at the dawn of 2025, things might get better, as there are many signs of a regime change. History shows us that these (circa) 50-year paradigm shifts come in cycles. Ultimately, God is in charge.
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| Spanish bishops condemn mockery of Sacred Heart of Jesus on Spanish public television |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-05-2025, 07:12 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Spanish bishops condemn mockery of Sacred Heart of Jesus on Spanish public television
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus. | Credit: Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
ACI Prensa Staff [adapted] | Jan 3, 2025
Spain’s bishops are speaking out after the host of a new year’s countdown on Spanish public television showed during the broadcast a picture with the face of the mascot of a well-known program in place of the face of Jesus on a traditional image of the Sacred Heart.
Laura Yustres Vélez, known as “Lalachús,” is a Spanish actress and comedian who appears on the program “La Revuelta” (“The Revolt”), a nighttime comedy show on Spanish public television characterized by its irreverent humor and asking the show’s guests about their sex life and financial worth.
Yustres starred on the New Year’s Eve episode along with David Broncano, host of “La Revuelta,” in a segment from the Puerta del Sol, a large plaza in Madrid, as its famous clock chimed the last few moments of 2024.
At one point during the broadcast, Lalachús showed an image in which the face of a bull that is a character on “El Gran Prix,” a well-known family entertainment show in Spain, was superimposed over where the face of Jesus would be in an image of the Sacred Heart.
The image includes a halo behind the character’s head, a Sacred Heart on the chest on which the left hand rests, and the right hand is raised with three fingers extended and two folded, symbolizing the Trinity.
“I always carry my little image of the Vaquilla [‘the cute bull’] of the ‘Gran Prix’ with me,” said Yustres, showing it to the viewers as one of her amulets for the new year.
Spanish bishops react
The president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Luis Argüello, said he was saddened by the controversial image. “With the excuse of freedom of expression and the excesses of the festivities, TVE [Spanish public television] makes fun of the symbol of the heart so dear to all Catholics,” he said.
“The saddest thing is that those responsible are not aware of what they’re doing. Once again banality surrounds us,” he added.
The archbishop of Seville, José Ángel Saiz Meneses, also criticized the mockery and asked: “How long will they take advantage of our patience?”
The archbishop of Oviedo, Jesús Sanz Montes, emphasized that “if she tried to do [the same thing] with [an image of] Mohammed, it wouldn’t be funny at all.”
The bishop of Vitoria, Juan Carlos Elizalde, pointed out that “Catholics are not second-class citizens, and even less so in a country where the vast majority of citizens are baptized or are children of Catholics.”
Fernando Prado, the bishop of Bilbao, invited people to protest the incident by choosing other television options next year.
Christian Lawyers Foundation files complaint
The Spanish Christian Lawyers Foundation filed a complaint against the president of Spanish Radio Television, José Pablo López, and Yustres for an alleged hate crime under Article 510 of the Spanish Penal Code and another complaint in violation of religious sentiments under the code’s Article 525.
In addition, the complaint points out that López posted on his social media the image of Yustres holding the altered holy card, together with other images from the program, stating he is “happy to work with people who take risks.”
For the lawyers, “this message on social media shows that the mockery of Christians had, at the very least, his approval or was even orchestrated by him.”
The organization also charged “that attacks on Christians are being used to create controversy and thus increase viewership, something that already happened with the opening gala of the Olympic Games” and that “the use of the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the [bull] on the ‘Gran Prix’ denotes clear contempt and mockery toward the rites and symbols of Catholicism and constitutes an affront, an insult, and an outrage toward religious sentiments and Catholic beliefs.”
Eliminating crimes against religious sentiments
Last July, the Spanish government announced it would address the issue of eliminating the crime against religious sentiments from the penal code, which has been criticized by different entities and personalities, including the president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference.
The announcement became official last September when the measure was included in the so-called Action Plan for Democracy.
Argüello noted on X that “feelings have been elevated to a category in the law, for example, to be able to change one’s sex; more and more expressions are considered hate crimes. In this environment of paying tribute to emotions in the law, religious sentiments cease to be a protected good in the law.”
The government’s intention has also been opposed by Christian denominations other than the Catholic Church as well as by the Jewish and Muslim communities.
In a recent joint statement they stressed that “as citizens and believers, we also claim the right of our faithful to be able to live their faith in a climate of respect for religious sentiments, protected by other rights also protected by the constitution, such as the right to religious freedom, freedom of conscience, and the right to one’s dignity and moral standing.”
This measure would remove Spain from the majority of the countries in the European Union that protect religious freedom, since 21 of the 27 member states provide penalties for actions against religious sentiments.
The minister of the Presidency, Justice, and Relations with Parliament, Félix Bolaños, reacted to the complaint by Christian Lawyers with a message on X stating that their complaint represents an “attempt by the right-wing opposition to intimidate” in which he reiterated the government’s intention to repeal the crime of offending religious sentiments.
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| Spanish Republic: Attempts to Deny the Anti-Church Genocide |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-04-2025, 08:10 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Spanish Republic: Attempts to Deny the Anti-Church Genocide
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gloria.tv | January 3, 2025
The hatred of the Spanish Popular Front (Communists) against the Church in 1936 went so far as to regularly desecrate the tombs in churches and cathedrals, even posing with the corpses, writes Juan Manuel de Prada in Abc.es (30 December).
After ten years of "hard work", four "political scientists" have produced a forty-page (sic) study in which they claim that the massacres of priests, nuns and religious during the Spanish Civil War were not motivated by hatred but had a "strategic character".
The left has 'explained' the massacres as the work of people who were 'out of control' or who 'disobeyed' the orders of the [Communist] authorities.
De Prada exposes this as a "completely implausible thesis" and writes that "delirious studies are being promoted [by the heirs of the genocidaires] in an attempt to justify these crimes.
In order to avoid the characterisation of the Left as an organisation gangrenous with a blistering hatred, these apologists claim that the violence against the Church was "neither blind nor indiscriminate, but rather obeyed political calculations" and sought to "prevent the formation of a resistance" against the Spanish Republic.
In other words, in order to deny that the massacres were dictated by hatred, they defend the existence of a calculated plan to destroy a "dangerous" group.
In their attempt to deny a hate crime, they acknowledge the existence of a "calculated genocide" directed against "figures with the capacity to mobilise, which points to the strategic nature of the violence".
De Prada recalls that in those unhappy years 13 bishops, 4,184 priests, 2,365 religious and 283 women were murdered. In the Spanish Civil War, however, Church hierarchs and novices, barely out of their teens and with no 'mobilisation capacity', were killed indiscriminately.
Juan Manuel de Prada had the opportunity to study the 'anti-clerical violence' of the Civil War while writing the biography of the Catalan writer Ana María Martínez Sagi (+2000).
Martínez Sagi came from a good family but ended up embracing the murderous anarchist ideology and demonic rage against the Catholic faith, which she exposes in many bile-filled articles.
De Prada offers some quotations published in Nuevo Aragón on 12 May 1937:
Quote:"It would be necessary, out of dignity and ethics, to wage a campaign against those who have unjustly adopted the attitude of mourning beggars, of tortured outcasts, of victims and martyrs, persecuted by misfortune and calamity.
"The Catholic religion, with its justifications for sacrifice, resignation and renunciation, with its anathemas against joy, material enjoyment, against the pursuit of glory and triumph, with its lurid legends and the martyrology of its thousands of saints, has succeeded in darkening the spirit and the life of the majority of mortals".
"Let us fiercely persecute all those who, systematically and with malicious intent, seek to destroy our faith in the destiny of humanity, our faith in ourselves and in the results of our efforts and our work".
"Let all our anger, all our hatred fall on them".
Unsurprisingly, all this is hushed up in the disinformation encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
Such a criminal appetite would lead organisations 'in the service of the Republic' to incite their followers to commit all kinds of crimes in order to eradicate the Church.
In the regime's press of the time, calls for murder, destruction and religious devastation were constant.
De Prada cites as an example an editorial published in Solidaridad Obrera on 18 October 1936:
Quote:"It is necessary to destroy. All the old dogmas must be reduced to ashes. And on the ashes of so much barbarism, raise the monument of freedom. Without hesitation, with blood and fire".
"Not only must not a single beetle be left standing, but we must uproot every germ it has hatched. We must destroy! Their world and ours are incompatible, they do not fit into one, they drown. So let them die, for they represent barbarism, uncivilisation and, what is worse, a constant danger to our existence".
De Prada concludes that the persecution of Catholics was not about "rendering leaderless" an enemy organisation.
He quotes Chesterton, who spoke of a "halo of hatred" which opposes the Church of God from the outside.
"And now they [= the Left] are trying to disguise that halo of hatred academically, to justify it vomitously as a necessary 'strategy'," he writes.
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| If +Archbishop Lefebvre Were Alive in 2025 AD |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-03-2025, 09:06 PM - Forum: Articles by Catholic authors
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If +Archbishop Lefebvre Were Alive in 2025 AD
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted] | January 3, 2025
A Call to Fidelity Without Compromise
Quote:“Thus those who were with us and were working with us for the rights of Our Lord, for the salvation of souls, are now saying, ‘So long as they grant us the old Mass, we can shake hands with Rome, no problem.’ But we are seeing how it works out. They are in an impossible situation. Impossible. One cannot both shake hands with modernists and keep following Tradition. Not possible. Not possible.”
+Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Écône Address, September 1990
A Timeless Fight for Truth
As Catholics in 2025, we find ourselves in the same fight that Archbishop Lefebvre described over three decades ago: the City of Satan against the City of God. His prophetic words ring truer now than ever. The crisis in the Church has deepened, the modernist errors condemned by Popes for over a century have flourished, and the faithful remnant must now grapple with an even more subtle and pervasive infiltration.
+Archbishop Lefebvre warned us not to waver, not to be deceived by a false charity, and not to collaborate with those betraying the Faith. His guidance gives us a clear roadmap for navigating the challenges we face today.
No Compromise, No Retreat
In 2025, we face the same temptation that plagued many in Lefebvre’s time: the urge to compromise for the sake of peace or unity. +Lefebvre stated:
Quote:“We must make up our minds if we too want to collaborate in the destruction of the Church and in the ruin of the Social Kingship of Christ the King, or are we resolved to continue working for the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ?”
Today, as many celebrate the traditional Mass under structures that compromise the Faith, we must remain steadfast. The Faith is not preserved by outward appearances alone. True fidelity requires unwavering adherence to the doctrines and traditions of the Church of all time.
The Grave Importance of the Faith
+Archbishop Lefebvre emphasized that the greatest crisis is not the loss of the Mass but the loss of the Faith itself:
Quote:“Certainly the question of the liturgy and the sacraments is important, but it is not the most important. The most important question is the question of the Faith. This question is unresolved in Rome. For us it is resolved. We have the Faith of all time.”
The modernist Church continues to promote Vatican II’s errors, which seek to dethrone Christ and replace Him with the cult of man. This fight is not over. We must ensure that every decision we make as Catholics—whether in worship, association, or apostolate—is rooted in the Faith of all time.
A Warning Against Betrayal
[Archbishop] Lefebvre’s stern warning about betrayal speaks directly to us today:
Quote:“Friends, to the Church’s defenders, to those fighting on the battlefield, they look to our enemies on the other side. ‘After all, we must be charitable, we must be kind, we must not be divisive, after all, they are celebrating the Tridentine Mass, they are not as bad as everyone says’—but THEY ARE BETRAYING US—betraying us! They are shaking hands with the Church’s destroyers.”
The faithful must discern clearly between true allies in Tradition and those who use Tradition as a veneer while undermining the Faith. Collaboration with modernists is not charity; it is capitulation.
What Must the Faithful Do?
1. Choose the Faith Over Unity
[Archbishop] Lefebvre declared:
Quote:“We have to choose between you and the Council on one side, and your predecessors on the other; either with your predecessors who stated the Church’s teaching, or with the novelties of Vatican II.”
This choice is as stark in 2025 as it was in 1988. We cannot straddle the line between Tradition and modernism. Fidelity to the Faith demands separation from those who compromise it.
2. Reject False Charity
The Archbishop warned against false ecumenism and compromise:
Quote:“Stay in touch with them to bring them back, to convert them to Tradition, yes, if you like, that’s the right kind of ecumenism! But give the impression that after all one almost regrets any break, that one likes talking to them? No way!”
3. Trust in God’s Providence
Despite the bleakness of the crisis, Lefebvre urged us not to despair:
Quote:“No, the Good Lord does not want this fight to come to an end… We find ourselves caught up in the continuation of the same fight, and we thank God.”
The battle is not ours alone. It is God’s fight, and He will sustain us through grace and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A Call to Action
+Archbishop Lefebvre’s legacy is one of courage, clarity, and uncompromising fidelity. In 2025, his words call us to take up the fight with renewed zeal. We must uphold the Faith of all time, reject modernism in all its forms, and resist the temptation to compromise. As he stated:
Quote:“Humanly speaking, there is no chance of any agreement between Rome and ourselves at the moment.”
Our focus must remain on preserving the Kingship of Christ and the salvation of souls.
Let us resolve, with Archbishop Lefebvre as our guide, to stand firm in the face of modernist betrayal. Let us remain the faithful remnant, uncompromised and undeterred. As we do so, we entrust this fight to God, trusting in His grace and the ultimate Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
A Final Note
+Archbishop Lefebvre’s unwavering principles leave no room for ambiguity: he would have categorically rejected the 2012 agreement with Rome and the compromises outlined in Bishop Fellay’s Doctrinal Declaration. To accept Vatican II “in light of Tradition,” or to claim 95% alignment with a Council that +Lefebvre identified as the foundation of a “new religion,” is to betray the mission he gave his life for. As he famously declared:
Quote:“We have to choose between you and the Council on one side, and your predecessors on the other; either with your predecessors who stated the Church’s teaching, or with the novelties of Vatican II.”
The Archbishop fought not merely for the Tridentine Mass but for the fullness of Catholic Tradition, untainted by modernism or the errors of Vatican II. He would have seen such agreements as nothing less than a surrender to the enemy. The bishops and priests of the SSPX know this in their hearts. To betray the Archbishop’s stand is to betray the fight for the Kingship of Christ and the eternal truths of the Church.
Let us pray, through the grace that flows through Our Lady, that Bishop Fellay publicly retracts and condemns his declaration. We love you, Bishop Fellay, and we pray that you will return fully to the mission entrusted to +Archbishop Lefebvre: the defense of Catholic Tradition without compromise, without retreat.
Let us honor +Archbishop Lefebvre’s legacy by remaining faithful—steadfast, unwavering, and united in the fight for the reign of Christ the King.
No Compromise,
No Retreat.
-The ☩ Trumpet
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily on the Octave of Most Holy Christmas |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-03-2025, 10:55 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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The first day of January coincides with the Octave of Christmas, when the Liturgy is centered on the Circumcision of the Lord and the Divine Motherhood of Mary Most Holy, proclaimed by the Council of Ephesus in 431 as Deipara – in Greek Theotokos – or Mother of God. In ancient times, two Masses were celebrated on this day, one of the Octave and one in honor of the Virgin Mother. Later the memory of the Marian celebration remained in the postcommunio and in the station church at Santa Maria in Trastevere.
In the Incarnation, the Word of God became flesh, making fruitful the unblemished virginity of the Holy Mother of the Redeemer. The Word takes shape – Verbum caro factum est – generating Emmanuel in the womb of the Virgin, by the power of the Holy Spirit. And he will be called, as Scripture says in Isaiah’s prophecy, admirable counsellor, strong God, Prince of peace, Father of the coming age, Angel of the great counsel (Is 9:6). Even the Archangel Gabriel, in bringing the announcement to Mary, says to her: Behold, you will conceive and bear a son, and you will call his name Jesus. He will be great and called the Son of the Most High; the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will have no end (Lk 1:31-33). With the Circumcision, His Name is imposed on Him: Jesus, God saves.
To name someone or something means to define the person or thing in its essence. And this is the prerogative of the Most Holy Trinity, of the Triune God who manifests Himself by revealing His Name. In the creative act, the name designates creation itself: Let there be light. And there was light (Gen 1:3). And he called the light day and the darkness night (Gen 1:5); he called the firmament heaven; he called the dry land the earth and the mass of the waters the sea (Gen 1:10). Having decreed that man should be in His image and likeness (Gen 1:26) and that he should rule the earth, He allows Adam to participate in some way in the creative act by allowing him to give a name to the animals: Then the Lord God formed out of the ground all kinds of wild animals and all the birds of the air and brought them to the man, to see what he would call them: whatever the man called each of the living beings, that was to be his name (Gen 2:19). The name expresses reality and defines it: this is why the Word is holy, and why the name of God is holy and terrible (Ps 111:10) – as the Psalm says – because it is the Word of Truth. This is why the sacraments have matter, intention and form, that is, the sacramental word: “I baptize you,” “I absolve you,” “I confirm you,” are all words that bring about what they say and signify.
In a few days we will celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus: so that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth; and every tongue may proclaim – here too, the word proclaimed, spoken – that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil 2:10-11). In the Name of Jesus the devil is cast out: because the Name makes present the one who bears it, and the Truth makes the lie manifest as the Light dispels darkness. Creator and creature are in some way united by the word: Ecce, venio, says Wisdom in the eternity of time. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum, replies the Seat of Wisdom, Mary Most Holy. And that blessed body that by obedience the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity assumes in the hypostatic union begins His journey towards the Passion from the cradle, facing the rigors of winter in a cave; and shortly thereafter, again out of obedience, the Holy Child will shed the first drops of His Precious Blood in the rite of Circumcision, in which the Passion is prefigured.
In this new civil year, which for two thousand and twenty-five years has been counted from the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, I would like us to reflect on the importance of the word: the Word of God, in which the meaning of our eternal life is preserved; and the word with which we communicate and express ourselves, which preserves the meaning of our daily life.
The Revolution, the satanic matrix of this rebellious world hostile to the Incarnate Word, knows well that changing words also changes their meaning. This is why the lie of the ancient Serpent uses false and deceptive language. This is why the servants of the Evil One hide their deceptions behind words that are only apparently harmless. It is the Orwellian newspeak that renames the horrendous crime of abortion as reproductive health, mutilation as gender transition, vice and transgression as freedom, the destruction of Creation as green deal, the extermination of humanity as net zero, and ethnic replacement as inclusion.
And if up until a few decades ago Holy Mother Church knew how to oppose this subversion by repeating unchanged the eternal and true Word of God and using the language proper to Faith and Morals, today a corrupt Hierarchy shows its betrayal in the same way, manipulating language, thus annulling the word of God (Mk 7:12). It renames the destruction of the divine constitution of the Church and the manipulation of the Papacy as synodality, the renunciation of the need for evangelization and conversion as ecumenical dialogue, redefines the poor as the real presence, and the legitimization of sin as acceptance.
The Word of God is the word of Truth. It does not limit itself to echoing in eternity, but becomes flesh and food, immolates itself on the Cross so that the Word proclaims the glory of the Father, redeems us from Satan’s lie and preserves us on this earthly journey from the falsehood and deception of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Remaining faithful to the Word of God means remaining faithful to the Gospel, to doctrine, to Tradition, and to the Mass of all time in which the words, spoken in the sacred language of the Church, keep their meaning intact and communicate it unequivocally, as light shines in darkness. Remaining faithful to the Word of God, that is, to God himself, means knowing how to respond to the word with the word, as Mary Most Holy did when she welcomed the greeting of the Archangel Gabriel.
Let us therefore call things by their name: let us refer to virtue as virtue and vice as vice; mindful of the admonition of Sacred Scripture: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who change darkness into light and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter (Is 5:20). Let your speech, therefore, be Yes, yes, no, no: all the rest comes from the Evil One (Mt 5:37). And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
1 January 2025
Octava Nativitatis
In Circumcisione Domini
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| The Catholic Trumpet: The Lay Crusade - Defending Christ the King in a World of Apostasy |
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Posted by: Stone - 01-03-2025, 09:05 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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The Lay Crusade: Defending Christ the King in a World of Apostasy
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The Catholic Trumpet [adapted] | January 2, 2025
The Call to Public Witness
Quote:“Today, this day, is Operation Survival. If I had made this deal with Rome, by continuing with the agreements we had signed, and by putting them into practice, I would have performed ‘Operation Suicide.’”
— Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Sermon at the Consecrations of Four Bishops, June 30, 1988
The faithful of every era are called to rise against the unique challenges of their time. Today, amidst the ongoing crisis in the Church and society, Catholics must embrace their role as lay crusaders, publicly witnessing to the Kingship of Christ and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This public witness is not merely a reaction to modernist errors; it is an act of fidelity to the mission entrusted to us by Our Lord Himself. As Archbishop Lefebvre taught, the defense of the Faith requires total reliance on the grace of God, courage to resist compromise, and the steadfast proclamation of Christ’s Kingship.
Operation Survival: Fidelity Without Compromise
The term Operation Survival is more than a slogan; it encapsulates the mission of Archbishop Lefebvre to preserve the Faith in its entirety. The doctrinal compromises seen in modernist Rome and among certain branches of Tradition necessitate a response that is uncompromising in fidelity yet humble in execution.
Archbishop Lefebvre warned:
Quote:“We want to remain united to Jesus Christ, as the Vatican has dethroned the Lord. We want to remain faithful to our Lord King, Prince and Ruler of the world. We cannot change anything in this line of conduct.”
(Flavigny Conference, December 1988)
The Catholic Trumpet follows this same line, emphasizing that public witness is not optional but a divine mandate for all Catholics who seek to preserve and defend the Faith.
The Example of the Vendée Martyrs
The Vendée martyrs of the French Revolution exemplify the spirit of public witness and resistance. When their priests were exiled or executed, the faithful of the Vendée rose in defense of Christ the King, armed with Rosaries and the Sacred Heart emblazoned on their chests. Against the cannons and bayonets of the Revolutionary army, they stood firm, declaring their allegiance to God.
Their battle cry,“We have no King but Christ!” echoes across the centuries to our own time. In an era where modernist Rome seeks to enthrone the cult of man over the Social Kingship of Christ, we too must rise with the same courage and fidelity. As Archbishop Lefebvre declared:
Quote:“We want to remain united to Jesus Christ, as the Vatican has dethroned the Lord. We want to remain faithful to our Lord King, Prince and Ruler of the world. We cannot change anything in this line of conduct.”
(Flavigny Conference, December 1988)
Fr. Arminjon on the Signs of the Times
Fr. Charles Arminjon, in his renowned work The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life, speaks of the necessity of vigilance and public witness in times of crisis. Reflecting on the rise of the Antichrist and the persecution of the faithful, he warns:
Quote:“The Church must pass through her Passion, just as Christ did. The Cross is the way to victory.”
(First Conference, “The End of the World”)
Fr. Arminjon reminds us that, while speculation on the timing of the end is often misguided, the faithful must be ever prepared, rooted in prayer and active in the apostolate. This vigilance demands public witness to Christ’s Kingship, even amidst opposition and persecution.
Public Witness as a Lay Crusade
Public witness is not reserved for clergy or religious; it is a call to all Catholics. The Catholic Trumpet emphasizes the necessity of visible, active participation in the fight for Christ the King. This includes:
1. Rosary Rallies and Processions: Public demonstrations of faith that proclaim the Kingship of Christ and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
2. Catechetical Outreach: Educating others on the errors of modernism, the truths of Tradition, and the importance of Marian devotion.
3. Defending the Faith: Standing firm against heresies and compromises, proclaiming the truth with clarity and charity.
As Fr. Roger Calmel reminds us:
Quote:“The Church of all time will endure, and the Lord will preserve her. Let us persevere with confidence in this eternal Church, resisting all modernist distortions.”
Addressing Questions of Focus and Purpose
Some readers may wonder about the recent focus of The Catholic Trumpet on topics such as transhumanism, the Antichrist, and the errors of Rabbinical Judaism. These articles were not written to sensationalize or provoke but to warn the faithful of the dangers that threaten the Church and society in these times. They are a reflection of the mission to expose error and uphold truth, always in service to Christ the King and His Church.
As Fr. Charles Arminjon reminds us in his meditations on the end times:
Quote:“Men no less holy and learned than Holzhauser have often indulged in such calculations and have constantly been mistaken.”
(Second Conference, “The Persecution of Antichrist”)
We humbly acknowledge that we do not possess the sanctity or wisdom of such men. Our reflections are offered in a spirit of vigilance and fidelity, grounded in prayer and always seeking the guidance of Our Lady. The duty to inform and prepare the faithful is a grave responsibility, especially in times of widespread confusion and error.
The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart[b][/b]
Our ultimate hope lies in the promise of Our Lady at Fatima:
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
This promise is the cornerstone of The Catholic Trumpet’s mission. By calling all souls to the refuge of her Immaculate Heart, we aim to equip the faithful to resist error and embrace truth with confidence. Public witness, rooted in prayer and devotion, is the means by which we can participate in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and proclaim the Kingship of Christ in a world yearning for truth and hope.
No Compromise, No Retreat
The Catholic Trumpet calls all Catholics to join this lay crusade, proclaiming Christ the King in a world of apostasy. Let us follow the example of the Vendée martyrs, the teachings of Archbishop Lefebvre, and the warnings of Fr. Arminjon. Together, we can stand firm in the truth, trusting in the victory of Christ and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
In the words of St. Louis de Montfort:
Quote:“Mary will raise up apostles of the latter times who will crush the head of Satan and establish the reign of Christ.”
Vive le Christ Roi! Vive Marie, Reine du Ciel!
-The ☩ Trumpet
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