I Suppose This Cannot Go Unremarked Upon

Well, this is weird. Good, but weird.

As reported over at Rorate Caeli here, and here, Bergoglio met with the superiors of the FSSP and confirmed the use of the “1962” books for Mass, the sacraments and the Breviary for the FSSP. The communique of the Fraternity even states that Bergoglio stated that Traditiones Custodes does not apply to the FSSP, as the use of the traditional books is part of their foundational documents.

Of course, the usual advisals apply to this story: only a Pope can issue a motu proprio binding the universal Church. No pope can abrogate the traditional Mass and no permission from Pope or Bishop is needed to celebrate that Mass.

My question is why? Why did Bergoglio do this? My initial take is he must be feeling the heat from lots of different quarters, and has decided to go incrementally, contenting himself for the time being by merely cancelling 99% of all Diocesan Latin Masses and by bringing heat to the Ecclesia Dei communities in the more strident Francisdioceses. Kill the revival of the Mass as much as he can without buying a fight with those who have indicated they will resist him. Wait until they are completely isolated.

Too cynical? Too facile? I am open to other interpretations. But good news is good news, I must admit, even if it goes to further give credence to the false base premise that this man has the authority to do any of what has transpired.

Sexagesima Sunday

Gen 6:5-8
5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
6 It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,
7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noe found grace before the Lord.

—From Matins for today

On Every Level, We Need to Wake the Heck Up

When will people “do the needful”, as my clients would say?

Pansy Hitler Sends Stormtroopers after His Disobedient Slaves

Trudeau is like a bastard, testosterone-free version of Fidel Castro.

But you knew that.

This Is How We Do It, part 2

Newly ordained priest exercises his right to celebrate the ancient Mass.

This Is How We Do It

Congratulations to and blessings upon His Excellency Bishop Robert Finn, who has recently ordained 5 subdeacons for the FSSP. By so doing, His Excellency has upheld the rights of the clergy and faithful against the invalid attempt to restrict the ancient Mass and sacramental forms.

What I really like is not only is this a thumb in the eye to Bergoglio’s evil TC and Roche’s dubious dubia, but also a reminder that the traditional order of subdeacon also remains a reality, as traditional orders have been ordaining subdeacons continuously all the way back to the SSPX when Paul VI attempted to squash it.

Good for Bishop Finn, who was railroaded out of Kansas City largely for being too Catholic. See, once they “cancel” you, they can’t do it again. A lesson we all may learn soon enough.

The Institute usually ordains priests, deacons and subdeacons in July. I look forward to Cardinal Burke, Bishop Finn, or some other brave bishop ordaining another large group of young men to serve Christ and His Mystical Body the Church.

Just by doing what they have every right to do— bishops ordaining, priests offering the Mass, laity assisting at these and supporting their clergy— they are making Traditiones Custodes the dead letter it is.

Just My Two Cents on Current Events

I wanted to make a quick post on the SSPX and the former Ecclesia Dei Communities vis-a-vis the Bergoglian attacks on the Mass. Knowing me, it won’t be that quick, but still.

Recently, the SSPX Superior General published a talk noting, after some remarks to the effect that there are many fine people in these communities and he feels sorry for them, that the Ecclesia Dei priests are suffering the results of their own poor decision-making. See, he notes, this proves the SSPX position is the only one that works.

No mention was made in this talk about how at least one such Ecclesia Dei community has not buckled under the unjust and illegal order of the odious Cardinal Cupich, but has (so far) bravely and resolutely continued to do exactly as it has done and celebrate the Mass of the Ages. No mention either was made how that same community has maintained recourse to the pre-1955 books that even Archbishop Lefebvre compromised on when he staked his defense of tradition (note: this is not a cut-down– I understand why he made that choice and I have zero criticism of this brave man’s actions in the face of great evil). No mention was made either that this same community, which so many of Fr. Pagliarani’s faithful have predicted to me personally would fold like a cheap tent, has not compromised on the Mass and (as of yet anyway) shows no sign of doing so.

Maybe a better article would have been for Fr. Pagliarani to stand with his beleaguered fellow Catholics and urge them to stand firm, with the prayerful support of the SSPX. Maybe he could wait until these communities are actually obliterated, crushed or otherwise devastated before beginning their post mortem?

(An aside: You might, dear reader, turn the tables and ask where the support was during olden times from the Ecclesia Dei people to the SSPX. A fair point, which I address in two ways. First, many of us did so support them. Some of you may or may not remember that this particular blogger did stand up for the SSPX on a number of occasions, for example, when a local SSPX pilgrimage was locked out of the Shrine of Our Lady of Starkenburg after walking many a weary pilgrim mile. I said then it was an outrage and a lack of charity. There have been other occasions. But, secondly, those of us who failed in charity and solidarity then were wrong just as those who now so fail are wrong.)

There are many ways to testify to the Faith and Sacraments, and to be loyal to Christ Our King. Some are firebrands. Some are quiet. Some speak. Some do. Any can be, and all should be, resolute in their commitment to the Mass handed down by our forefathers in the Faith and developed under the guidance of the Holy Ghost for more than a millenium.

And yet, and yet, the SSPX acknowledges Bergoglio as pope, just the other traditional groups have openly or tacitly done. The Ecclesia Dei-type communities have been in his crosshairs from early days. But Bergoglio has shown some of his famous Francismercy to the SSPX over the last several years. One wonders whether this has any effect on Fr. Pagliarani’s public support of the deathvaxx, for instance. Perhaps not. But if the other communities are crushed, and there is but one place left to go, how long before the SSPX and all who attend are “excommunicated” by the man they acknowledge as pope?

Well, if only someone would ask Father, now that he has been summoned to Rome for an audience with the Bergoglio himself.

Until the papacy/antipapacy question is squarely addressed by supporters of tradition, Bishop, priest, and lay, we all have a glaring logical and practical weakness in resisting Bergoglio’s evil diktats. Sure, even if he is pope we can rest assured that assisting at the timeless Mass is our right, but the problem solves itself cleanly (logically-speaking) if he is determined not to ever have been pope, because, you see– WE ALREADY HAVE ONE AND IT IS A ONE-MAN JOB.

I hate to reference a Freemason like Benjamin Franklin, but friends, we all must hang together, or we shall certainly hang separately.

Time is wasting.

Happy St. Valentine’s Day

May your love flourish, regardless of how unlikely it is to be real!

Marking King Lincoln’s Birthday

Feckless, soy-boy tyrant Justin Trudeau may be Fidel Castro’s biological bastard child, but he is also the political bastard grandchild of the destroyer of our Republic, Abraham Lincoln. Today is his birthday, so I thought a few words to honor his historical importance were in honor. From Ilana Mercer:

The “pseudo-intellectuals who [are] devoted to pulling the wool over the public’s eyes” have a lot to answer for. Lincoln’s violent, unconstitutional revolution took the lives of 620,000 individuals (including 50,000 Southern civilians, blacks included), maimed thousands, and brought about “the near destruction of 40 percent of the nation’s economy.” “The costs of an action cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to morality,” wrote the Mises Institute’s David Gordon in “Secession, State & Liberty.” Almost every other country at the time chose the path of peaceful emancipation. Yet today’s Americans look upon the terrible forces Lincoln unleashed as glorious events, the native appetite having habituated to carnage over time.

Lincoln lovers like to claim that the Constitution ratified in 1788 forbade peaceful secession, and authorized a federal government of so-called limited, delegated powers to invade and occupy any seceding state; declare martial law, subdue secessionists by force, burn and ransack entire cities, and then establish a military dictatorship over those states lasting a dozen years.

Suppose this indeed is the case, and that it was perfectly constitutional to intentionally wage war on civilians, to imprison without trial thousands of Northern citizens, jail—even execute—people who refused to take an oath of loyalty to Lord Lincoln, declare martial law, confiscate private property, censor telegraph lines, and shut down newspapers for opposing the war, incarcerating their editors and owners. Say, for the sake of argument, that it was indeed lawful to suspend the Bill of Rights, the writ of habeas corpus, and the international law.

If it endorsed, or even accommodated, what Lincoln did, including his disregard for the Ninth and 10th amendments, and his violation of the Second — then the Constitution is categorically evil and self-contradictory.

The more plausible explanation is that, in 1861, Lincoln kidnapped and killed the Constitution. The Jacobins who lionize Lincoln’s actions (by referring to his billowing prose) have been covering up his crimes and ignoring the consequences of his coup ever since.

Have Total Confidence in Mary

No matter what, she will triumph. God will glorify His Mother.