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We TRADITIO Fathers have been quite honest in reporting to our readers all of the health problems that Francis-Bergoglio has, which are barely mentioned in the establishment press that continues to characterize his health as "excellent." Nothing could be further from the truth. Bergoglio has lost most of one lung so that he can't even sing Mess, has a gross obesity problem, and equilibrium problems. Then there is the as-yet unconfirmed report that he has cerebral carcinoma. Now, on July 28, 2016, before a horrified crowed at the Youth Day in Warsaw, Poland, he went splat! on his arse in front of millions of people.
Bergoglio himself has said that his Newpapacy will not last more than five years. He could well be right. At this rate it looks as if he will soon be joining the infamous Ex-Newpope Benedict-Ratzinger in the sumptuous ex-papal retirement villa in the Vatican Gardens.
Now it seems as if God Himself is tripping up the man who purports to be his vicar. Bergoglio is in Poland for the 31st World Youth Festival, known for its blasphemies, including the Newchurcher-Protestant youth fornicating in the stands during the Newpapal Mess and vendors handing out condoms with the Newpope's picture imprinted on them. As Bergoglio simulated a Novus Ordo Mess at the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Czestochowa, he literally fell on his arse in front of some thousands of people and a television audience of millions. His M.C., Guido Marini, tried to grab at his chasuble as the unbalanced Bergoglio awkwardly struggled to get to his feet. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the U.K. Daily Mail.]
Good Catholics, this is not the first time that Bergoglio has tumbled to the floor. On the first day of his Newpapacy, he stumbled in front of the College of Newcardinals when getting up from his cathedra, and he is reported frequently to fall on stairs. The Romans, a superstitious people from antiquity, would have interpreted this bad fortune as an omen for a bad Newpapacy. And they would have been right, as Bergoglio's reputation is falling sharply because of his open heresies, which can no longer be denied by the Newcardinals or the international press.
When two Islamic terrorist slit the throat of a Novus Ordo presbyter simulating the phony Novus Ordo Mess at a eucharistic dinner table in a church near Rouen, France, on July 26, 2016, the terrorists screamed the Mohammedan jihadist war-cry" Allahu akbar. For two years the black-clad jihadist army has called for attacks on Christians in Rome, throughout Europe, and across the world. It has even called for the assassination of Francis-Bergoglio. The Islamic State has launched numerous attacks within Europe's borders. In the last several months, Islamic calls for attacks on Europe have built to a fever pitch, proclaiming a Jihad (Holy War): "Truly, we will fight you even in your churches until we raise there that the name of Allah is the only God."
In view of all this, what does the Marxist Newpope Francis-Bergoglio say? He told the international press on July 27, 2016: "The world is at war..., but not religious war." Of course not. If it were, Bergoglio would have to admit that his believed Vatican II Anti-council's doctrine of Oecumenism ("we all worship the same god," "one religion is as good as another") would be shown up for the heresy that it is. Instead, Bergoglio maintained: "All religions seek peace."
Another lie from the Marxist Newpope. Bergoglio must have read the Koran. Bergoglio must know the history of Islamic jihadism. Even Bergoglio's infamous predecessor, Benedict-Ratzinger, in what was a kind of contorted lapsus linguae, admitted in September 2006 that Mohammed was "evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Oops!
The Islamic State's onslaught against Christianity has long been in full effect in the Middle East, where soldiers force Christians to convert or die and have destroyed churches, tombs, and sacred artifacts that date back to Christ?s time. Militants went on a rampage through Iraq's Mosul Museum in February 2015 using pickaxes, sledgehammers, and explosives to destroy forever historic and irreplaceable Christian shrines. In August 2015 the Islamic State devastated an ancient Christian monastery. In 2015 the Islamic State proudly showcased the mass beheading of Egyptian Christian fishermen in Libya and called for the assassination of Bergoglio. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by La Stampa.]
Good Catholics, the doctrine of the Catholic Church is that Mohammedans, like Jews, are Infideles, "Infidels," literally "Faithless Peoples." Marxists, like Bergoglio, are past masters of the Big Lie. As Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, famously said: "If you tell a lie often enough, it will be believed." The post Vatican II Anti-church has had fifty years to tell the Big Oecumenical Lie. And most Newchurcher-Protestants have cluelessly bought the false teaching -- until now.
We TRADITIO Fathers have for over 15 years, before most even were aware of rampant moral corruption Newchurch, have tied to the worldwide paedophile sex crimes on the part of Newchurch clergy all the way to the top a corresponding financial corruption in what we have termed the Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust. Under the regime of Francis-Bergoglio, both the sexual and financial corruption has become more widespread. Now the international press is reporting that Francis-Bergoglio is engaging in a cover-up of financial crimes and embezzlement in his regime.
The international press reports that the reform-minded Secretary of the Economy, in reality Newvatican's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Newcardinal George Pell, has been castrated by Francis-Bergoglio on July 4, 2016, because, under the authority given to him by Bergoglio himself, he hired the world-class auditing firm of Price-Waterhouse-Cooper to perform an external audit of Newvatican.
What the auditors discovered was so damning of Bergoglio that the Newpope, fearing disclosure that his Newvatican was engaging in financial fraud, issued a Motu Proprio withdrawing Pell's authority to perform an external audit. But not before it was revealed that Bergolgio's supposed charity for the poor, known as Peter's Pence, was actually going, to the tune of 80 per cent, to support a luxurious and lascivious lifestyles of Bergoglio's Newvatican prelates, and Bergoglio himself.
"There's a certain fearlessness in these people who feel impervious to scrutiny," according to one Newvatican source, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals from Bergoglio. "They're very confident they can get away with it. It's a sleazy, courtier mentality in which all depends on who has the ear of the throne."
The international press has reported that Bergoglio is engaging in a concerted effort to obstruct revealing financial misconduct in his Newcuria. In his vulgar-tongued Motu Proprio Il beni temporali, Bergoglio turned control of Newvatican finances back to the chief perpetrator of the financial crimes, the Patrimony of the Holy [sic] See. Newcardinal Pell, as well as Newcardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the Council for the Economy, had authorized the external audit in an effort to bring accountability and transparency to Bergoglio's finances and make sure that they conformed to international standards. But Pell and Marx were blindsided by Bergoglio, who didn't even inform his chief financial officers about the Motu Proprio! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
True Catholics, this latest scandal sounds just like the continuing paedophile sex crimes holocaust all over again. Francis-Bergoglio and his lieutenants don't want to be exposed for their corruption, both moral and financial. So Bergoglio has turned to what Newvatican has become famous for: the art of the cover-up. Meanwhile, donations to Bergoglio's regime from Newchurcher-Protestants around the world are drastically falling, as more and more undeniable corruption by Francis "Mr. Bunko" Bergoglio is exposed.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I have the misfortune to attend a local SSPX Chapel. Lately the priest-presbyter has not been praying the prescribed Leonine Prayers after Low Mass. There seems to be a lot of confusion among traditional Catholics about when the Leonine Prayers after Low Mass are supposed to be said. Could you clarify this point, please?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply
You are apparently seeing just another intrusion of the Novus Ordo into Bernie Fellay's Neo-SSPX -- which is certainly not the original, traditional Society of St. Pius X founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. This intrusion of the New Order into the Neo-SSPX is going on all over the world as Fellay draws his Neo-SSPX ever closer to a final sellout to the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order.
The traditional rubrics and traditional Catholic rubrical authorities are quite clear about when the Leonine prayers are to be said after a Low Mass (they are not to be said after a Missa Cantata, High Mass, or Solemn Mass). The rubrics prescribe that they may be omitted after a Low Mass that is celebrated "with a certain solemnity." Examples given by the rubricists include:
It should be noted that although the recitation of the Leonine Prayers is, in some places, conducted in the vulgar tongues, such a practice contravenes the traditional Catholic principle that before God's holy altar with the priest in the sanctuary, only the Sacred Latin Language is to be used.
The "New Mess" of 1969 did away with the Leonine prayers entirely. Even the Half Novus Ordo Mess of 1962, erroneously sometimes called the "Extraordinary Mess," did away with the prayers partially. With its suppression of the appeal to the Blessed Virgin, its suppression of the Prayer for the Church, and particularly its suppression of the Exorcism in the Name of St. Michael the Archangel, no wonder that after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) the Newchurch of the New Order has been chocked with fumus Satanae, the smoke of Satan, as even Paul VI-Montini admitted already in 1968, a year before the Full-blown "New Mess" was introduced.
Germany is a good paradigm for the death of the Newchurch of the New Order (Novus Ordo). And traditional Catholics won't have to wait many years for that well-deserved death. Finally, the death of the Newchurch, which replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church in 1964, is becoming an undeniable fact after fifty years of horror and relocation of the Catholic Faith to traditional churches, chapels, and oratories worldwide independent of the anti-Cathoiic Newchurch.
Germany is the most populous country in Europe with over 81,000,000 inhabitants. France is a distant second with just over 78,000,000. Yet figures released on July 15, 2016, by the German Newbishops' conference drew a bleak picture of the ongoing decline of Newchurch in Germany. Barely more than one out of four Germans claims to be a Newchurcher. Germans are leaving NewChurch in droves. The long-term figures describe a steep downward trend.
Baptisms are down by more than a third. Marriages are down by almost half. Attendance at the invalid New Mess has sunk to one in ten. 200,000 Germans formally leave Newchurch each year. Many more leave and don't bother to go through the formalities. Barely half of Newchurcher-Protestants partake of the invalid Unsacrament of "Reconciliation," which replaced the valid Sacrament of Penance in 1973. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Agency.]
True Catholics, Germany is a paradigm for what is happening throughout Europe. Newchurch is sinking everywhere. But not to weep. This may be the very mechanism that Almighty God is using to obliterate the anti-Catholic Newchurch off the face of His earth, so that the mustard seed of true traditional Catholicism that has been nurtured worldwide these last fifty years by independent traditional Catholic churches, chapels, and oratories, by traditional Catholic priests and bishops will bloom once again. Like a great forest fire that destroys the rubbish, and in so doing, provides the fertile soil in which life can once again rise heartier than before. As Scripture says: "Magna est veritas, et praevalet" (1 Esdras 4:41/V).
Newchurch shovels out so much false propaganda through its media apparatus that Francis-Bergoglio has spent far more on the so-called "Vatican Information Services" than his predecessors. It seems that the more lies Newchurch needs to dish out, the more propaganda money it must spend. This propaganda indicates that all is well in the Newchurch of the New Order, which replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church in 1964 during the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) with its anti-Catholic "New Mess," its anti-Catholic Newdoctrine, and its anti-Catholic Newmorality. The reality is that Newchurch membership is dropping like a rock, paedophilia among its Newclergy continues unabated, and many Newchurcher-Protestants are sick and tired of the anti-Catholic "New Mess." The novelty is well past.
On July 19, 2016, Newarchbishop Georg Ganswein, confidential secretary to both Newpope Francis-Bergoglio and Ex-Newpope Benedict-Ratzinger, revealed to the press that Ratzinger is so hated in Germany for his suborning paedophile Newprelates and presbyters that Ganswein cannot return to his native Germany. Likewise, it is unlikely that Bergoglio will ever return to his native Argentina.
Ganswein also hinted that his principal, Francis-Bergoglio, is confusing Newchurch no end. "When a pope wants to change an aspect of the doctrine, then he has to do so clearly, so as to make it binding. Important magisterial tenets cannot be changed by half sentences or somewhat ambiguous footnotes." This is exactly the method that Bergoglio is accused of using. Ganswein went on to state: "Statements that can be interpreted in different ways are a risky thing. One has simply to accept the fact that his [Bergoglio's] way of speaking can at times be somewhat imprecise, indeed nonchalant." In other words, his own private secretary thinks that Bergoglio is incompetent!
Ganswein admitted that -- just as the TRADITIO Network had predicted -- the so-called "Francis effect" of increased Mess attendance and Newvocations has not in fact occurred. It was all mendacious smoke and mirrors. In fact, Bergoglio has become one of the most hated Newpopes since Vatican II because he has tried -- illegally -- to change Catholic doctrine. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Schw?bischen Zeitung.]
True Catholics, the Newpopes' private secretary was unusually candid, particularly for being in such a confidential position. You might well ask why. One explanation is that Ganswein, having to live with Bergoglio and Ratzinger every day, is getting pretty sick of their doctrinal duplicity and complicity in paedophilia on the part of their Newprelates and presbyters. Yes, even Newarchbishops have been known to vent the truth to the press!
The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), which features replays of once-traditional Bishop Fulton Sheen, whom Newchurch is trying to make a Newsaint, is going under. Sheen was perhaps the most noted Catholic orator of the 1940s and 1950s, but fell under the influence of the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order created after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). His popularity waned as he became a mouthpiece for the New Order, which he regretted before his death and started to promote Holy Hours. It was too little, too late, because there was no longer any valid "eucharist" or valid priests in Newchurch after the "New Mess" replaced the Traditional Latin Mass there. Sheen died a bitter and guilt-ridden man in 1979 at age 84.
From July 21-24, 2016, TBN's Christian theme park, Holy Land Experience, in Orlando, Florida, is selling off scores of artifacts from thrones to a Roman gladiator's helmet to angels' wings to a near-life-size Nativity scene. In 2010 the Biblical theme park received 42,000,000 U.S. dollars in contributions. By 2014 that amount had shrunken to around 2,000,000 dollars, and the park had a 1,300,000-dollar deficit. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Orlando Sentinal.]
True Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio's example of embezzlement -- a recent investigation showed that 80 per cent of the money donated to his fraudulent Peter's Pence charity for the poor actually went to finance his and his Newcardinals' extravagant lifestyles -- has rippled through other "charitable" organizations as well. TBN is in court over embezzlement and spending charitable donations on extravagant lifestyles. Just another example of the Bergoglio's immorality poisoning not only his own Newchurch but other religious organizations as well.
County prosecutors in St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota, revealed on July 21, 2016, that one of Bergoglio's highest officials was involved in the destruction of evidence and quashed an investigation into sex crimes perpetrated by Newarchbishop John Nienstedt there. The high official was Newarchbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Bergoglio's Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Prosecutors said that he had two auxiliary Newbishops there destroy an incriminating letter about the case.
The letter detailed Nienstedt's history of "sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, reprisals in response to the rejection of unwelcome advances, and excessive drinking." Nienstedt perpetrated these offenses and perversions against Newseminarians in his seminary, whom he forced into unspeakable perversions and inebriation, threatening them that if they didn't submit to him sexually, he would throw them out and ruin their Newchurch careers. The two auxiliary Newbishops relayed the report to Bergoglio's Nuncio, who ordered them to stop the investigation and destroy the written documentation of Nienstedt's offenses and perversions.
County prosecutors told a press conference that "the destruction of evidence is a crime under federal law and state law." One presbyter associated with "Nasty" Nienstedt sexually assaulted two children in a trailer outside his Newparish and is now serving a five-year prison term. Nienstedt, of course, claims that he is "innocent," but internal Newchurch documents now published show that Newchurch knew he was "guilty as sin." County prosecutors have filed both civil and criminal charges against the Newarchdiocese, calling the facts of the case "appalling." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.]
True Catholics, Francis "Mr. Fraud" Bergoglio has remained silent and simply allowed his Nuncio to retire quietly. If the Nuncio did not have diplomatic immunity from the pseudo-state of Vatican City, he might himself be in prison in the same cell with the paedophile presbyter!
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Those who have so much concern about what is happening within Bernie Fellay's reorganized Neo-SSPX can leave. By the way, Archbishop Lefebvre himself committed the Society priests to the 1962 missile [sic - the writer means "missal"] because it was last one he believed was acceptable.
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
It is not a matter of "choice," as you have described it. It is a matter of what is right and what is wrong, what is Catholic and what is not. Fellay's sect is already half Newchurch. That is wrong, dead wrong.
All too many NSSPXers prefer to play ostrich and blind themselves to what is happening within their own sect. That is cowardly and unCatholic. We need to keep pricking their consciences, as we do the Newchurcher-Protestants' consciences, reminding them that Fellay's Novus Ordo-leaning Neo-SSPX is not Archbishop Lefebvre's original traditional Catholic SSPX. Fellay's Neo-SSPX is a different group with different goals. Fellay has slyly perpetrated upon Neo-SSPX members the same fraud as the New Order perpetrated on its members by changing his New Society's nature and goals, but retaining its old name to deceive its members into thinking that it is still Archbishop Lefebvre's original Society. It is not. The Archbishop would not recognize it.
Many NSSPXers have informed us that they know what is going on and are taking steps to leave Fellay's sites, or have already done so. Over one hundred of Fellay's priest-presbyters have already done so. Fellay's desire to attach himself to Newchurch is clear to anyone who has his eyes open to reality, not false propaganda disseminated at the NSSPXers' expense. Fellay's former senior bishop saw reality and abandoned Fellay. We have received reports that at least one of the two remaining bishops may be preparing to do the same.
As to the Half New Order Mess, Archbishop Lefebvre stated on several occasions that he did not approve of Hannibal Bugnini's 1962 gutted version of the Roman Missal, but that because he couldn't fight Newchurch, which he called "Modernist Rome," on all fronts at once, he was focusing on doctrine and would deal with the Mass problem later. After 1988, he indicated that he was preparing the Society to shift back to the fully Traditional Latin Mass. Unfortunately, death took him a little over two years later, before he could fully implement his plans, which Fellay subsequently rejected.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
Why is it that Bernie Fellay sends his communiques to his Neo-SSPXers in long, verbose doublespeak in Vatican II's indirect, "nuanced" style, saying in many disjointed paragraphs what he could say in a few direct sentences? Also, he has prohibited his priest-presbyters from commenting on the careful planning by the Newpopes to overthrow the Catholic Faith. Rather than admit what is obvious, that Francis-Bergoglio is a heretic, Fellay maintains that he is "confused." Think of that: Fellay thinks that the man he claims to be the pope is too "confused" to know what is Catholic. What an admission!
I was a member of independent traditional Catholic Fr. Paul Wickens's church in West Orange, New Jersey. When he was dying, Fellay somehow tried to wrest the church away from traditional Catholicism and take it over for his Newchurch-leaning Neo-SSPX. Eventually, a pseudo-traditionalist group associated with Newchurch, the Institute of Christ the King, took it over. Beware of Fellay's deceitful tactics!
Fr. Wickens celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass, spoke eloquently from the pulpit denouncing the heresy of Modernism, the diabolical machinations of the anti-Catholic Newpapacy, and the Novus Ordo anti-Catholic sect. All this is missing now that Fellay took over Fr. Wickens's church. I am monitoring Fellay's priest-presbyters' deviations from the pre-1950 Catholic Missale Romanum.
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
The Neo-SSPX Superior-Dictator Bernie Fellay, from his contact and love for Newchurch "authorities," has imbibed their Vatican II doublespeak. Fellay is a not a leader in the image of Christ, but a petty dictator in a way that would have scandalized Archbishop Lefebvre, the founder of the original traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), which Fellay has deserted to found his own Neo-SSPX, just as the Newchuch of the New Order dumped the Catholic Church to found its own Protestantized sect.
As to Fellay's Neo-SSPX Masses, some of which are now said by Novus Ordo presbyters in provenance, Fellay demands that NSSPX clergy must use the Half Novus Ordo Mess of 1962+, sometimes called the Novus Ordo "Extraordinary" Mess, engineered by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department in the section "Descent into the Black Hole of the 'New Order.'"
We are well aware of, and reported in our Daily Commentaries at the time, how Fellay took over the church of Fr. Wickens when dying and perverted it toward the New Order. Fellay has perpetrated such tactics upon many independent traditional Catholic churches around the world. Information on this topic will be found in past Daily Commentaries from the TRADITIO Fathers department. Use the TRADITIO Search Engine there to find the Commentaries that cover this topic with the search term "Wickens."
In pre-Christian times it held Vercingetorix, the leader of the Gauls during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 B.C.), recounted Caesar's Commentaries that were widely read, in Latin, in Catholic schools before the Newchurch of the New Order substituted itself in 1964 for the Catholic Church. It also held Jugurtha, the king of Numidia, who dared to rebel against the Roman Republic in 112 B.C., was defeated, and died in that dark pit, as recounted in Sallust's Jugurthine War, another text widely read, in Latin, in Catholic schools before Newchurch rejected the Roman Catholic Church and turned Protestant -- and worse.
This place is the Mamertine Prison, Rome's place of detention before execution, which became even more famous when Sts. Peter & Paul were held there before their martyrdoms for the Roman Catholic Faith. The prison in the heart of the Eternal City, on the slope of the Capitoline Hill, was reopened to the public on July 21, 2016, after three years of excavation and painstaking restoration works. St. Peter was reputed to have performed baptisms in a spring at the bottom of the prison before his crucifixion. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Archaeology.]
Tradition has it that on the same day in Rome, June 29, probably in the year 67, under the persecution of the Roman emperor Nero, these two greatest of the Apostles were united in martyrdom. St. Peter was taken from the prison to be crucified in Nero's Circus. At his own request St. Peter was crucified head down, for he deemed himself unworthy to die in the same manner as his Divine Master.
St. Paul was raised from the Mamertine prison and conducted to a place somewhat to the west of Nero's Circus, at Tre Fontane, about ten kilometres from the Roman Forum. There it is said that he was kept in a small cell for some hours awaiting the arrival of the Roman emperor Nero himself. Some historians say that the great Roman philosopher Seneca, Nero's chief counsellor, who had previously exchanged several Latin letters with St. Paul, spoke to him in this cell. St. Paul had the dignity of being a Roman citizen, so Roman law forbade that he be executed by torture or for public entertainment. Therefore, he was beheaded by the sword in the military manner.
The martyrdoms of Sts. Peter & Paul sanctified Rome, the capital of the secular empire, for all time as the center of the Roman Catholic Church. From Rome their Apostolic teaching radiated throughout the world and throughout the centuries.
"Saint" John Paul II-Wojtyla, the First Paedophile Newpope. "Blessed" Theresa of Calcutta, who pandered a paganized New Faith to the Hindus. "Blessed" Paul VI-Montini, who, with a stroke of his pen, expelled the Catholic Faith from the "establishment" Church and substituted an anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order complete with its invalid "New Mess" and "New Sacraments." Have you ever wondered what it was like when the establishment Church was actually Catholic and when Saints were actually holy?
In the lithograph reproduced above, you see Pope Benedict XV seated on the papal cathedra (throne), capped by the papal conopaeum (canopy), flanked by the papal flabellae, (fans), constructed from ostrich and peacock feathers symbolizing immortality, and served by ten ministers. Today the Newpopes are lucky if they get two servers like any presbyter. The papal throne, canopy, and fans have been relegated to the Newvatican basement.
The pope wears the papal tiara, given away in 1968 by Paul VI-Montini, which was imposed upon him at his coronation with the words:
Accipe thiaram tribus coronis ornatam, et scias te esse Patrem Principum et Regum, Rectorem Orbis, in terra Vicarium Salvatoris Nostri Jesu Christi, cui est honor et gloria in saecula saeculorum.
[Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that thou art the father of princes and kings, the ruler of the world, the vicar on earth of Our Savior, Jesus Christ, to Whom is honor and glory for ever and ever.]
In this way, Pope Benedict XV solemnly canonized St. Joan of Arc on May 16, 1920, in St. Peter's Archbasilica in Rome. St. Joan died in 1431, so her canonization, which took almost half a millennium, in order that the Church could be certain that everything was investigated down to the last iota, was not rushed through like the phony con-anizations of the New Order sect. The First Paedophile Newpope was con-anized in less that ten years. Wojtyla was barely investigated, although he publicly participated in dozens of pagan ceremonies and was alleged to have had a daughter out of wedlock, not to speak of his heretical writings proposing such anti-Catholic fabrications as his "theology of the body."
For further information, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files: FAQs and Traditional Apologetics department, in the section "'Canonizations' - New Order."
It seems that the clueless Neocon Newchurcher-Protestants have been fooled again. As usual, they seize on anything that might be a little more "conservative" in the Novus Ordo, which is, of course, flawed from its foundation, not just in some superficial details. The Neocons had seized upon the July 5, 2016, recommendation of Robert Sarah, Newprefect of Newvatican's Congregation for [Novus Ordo] Worship, who called for a return, on the First Sunday of Advent 2016, to the traditional practice of having the presbyter face away from the congregation.
The Vatican II-loving Francis-Bergoglio almost immediately wasted no time to put the Newpapal Nequaquam! -- No way! -- to that idea. Four days after Sarah dared to make the recommendation, Bergoglio hauled him in for a royal dressing down. The Instructiones Generales Missali Romani for the Novus Ordo Mess dictate that the eucharistic dinner table "should be built away from the wall so that M[e]ss can be celebrated at it facing the people," in the Protestant manner. Bergoglio also made it clear that the Half Novus Ordo Mess of 1962+ -- often loosely termed the "Latin Mass," but in no way the Traditional Latin Mass -- which Ex-Newpope Benedict-Ratzinger allowed under very limited circumstances in 2007, cannot "take the place of" the Full-blown Novus Ordo Mess of 1969.
The Novus Ordo Mess is almost exclusively performed with the presbyter facing the congregation in the Protestant manner, not ad orientem, toward the East, the usual direction of the tabernacle on the high altar of a traditional Catholic church. The Newchurch Primate of England and Wales, Newcardinal Vincent Nichols, has already written to his presbyters telling them to ignore Newprefect Sarah and to face the congregation during Mess. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic Herald.]
True Catholics, this is just more of the shell game that the Newvatican Modernists love to play with the clueless Newchurch Neocons. Everybody in Newvatican, from Francis-Bergoglio on down, hates the Traditional Latin Mass, which shows them all up for the anti-Catholic frauds they are. The only way a true Catholic can receive the graces of the true Catholic Mass and Sacraments is to shun the heretical Newchurch entirely and seek out a traditional Catholic site that is entirely independent of it.
Since Francis-Bergoglio is a Marxist, it is not surprising that he would seek to meet with Communist leaders with whom real popes never would meet. It seems that Bergoglio proposes to semi-pardon some independent Chinese bishops in the same way that he semi-pardoned Bernie Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, and Alfonso Galarreta of the Neo-Society of St. Pius X. As a Marxist, Bergoglio sees no difference between Fellay's semi-traditional NSSPX bishops and Communist China's semi-traditional Newbishops. In 2015 Francis-Bergoglio tried to set up a meeting with the head of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, but he was surprisingly rebuffed, even though Bergoglio is a fellow Marxist.
The situation in China is a bit confusing. The 30 Novus Ordo Newbishops, associated with Francis-Bergoglio, are not Catholic and are not recognized by the Chinese government. Thus, they are called the "Underground Church." The bishops of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, not associated with Francis-Bergoglio, are semi-traditional Catholic and are recognized by the Chinese government. Some of the 110 bishops of the CPCA retain the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments, whereas the Novus Ordo bishops use only the invalid and anti-Catholic New Mess and New Sacraments. The Novus Ordo Newchurcher-Protestants in China themselves are hostile to Francis-Bergoglio. They feel betrayed by a previous Newvatican deal with the Communists in Beijing.
The semi-traditional CPCA have been a thorn in the Newpopes' side because they are independent and consecrate their own bishops, whether Newvatican likes it or not, to retain the Apostolic Succession. Newvatican hates anything the least bit traditional and hates the independence the CPCA bishop exhibit in retaining the Catholic and Apostolic Faith.
True Catholics, it is reported that Francis-Bergoglio's solution is to give up his Newpapal authority and allow the Chinese Newchurcher-Protestants to elect their own Newbishops. What does that say about Bergoglio's view of his own Newpapacy? Bergoglio has in the past given indications that he really doesn't think of himself as a true pope. Is Bergoglio himself a closet sede-vacantist?
Francis-Bergoglio is now batting zero for two. Just a week ago his Peter's Pence was exposed as a scam, as he and his Newprelates skim 80 per cent of Newchurcher-Protestants' collection donations for the poor off the top for their own private luxuries. Now one of his Novus Ordo Eastern-rite presbyter-pastors has been charged in a half-million-dollar fraud to gamble away the collection-plate intended to settle Syrian refugees in Canada. Amer Saka, an Eastern-rite presbyter-pastor stationed at a Chaldean Newchurch in London, Ontario, admitted to gambling away over half a million U.S. dollars donated by families who thought that it was supposed to go to Syrian refugees, a "charity" beloved of Francis-Bergoglio. Saka obtained the money "under the guise of a (state-run) sponsorship program."
Presbyter Saka didn't show up for his court date on July 14, 2016, and left his Newbishop, Emanuel Shaleta, who was going to get him out on bail, abandoned at the bench. Police had already warned Shaleta back in March 2016 not to interfere in the investigation. Nor did Francis-Bergoglio's fraudster presbyter-pastor repent of his crimes. His lawyer stated that Saka has "remained committed to his Christian faith and his parishioners." With that kind of commitment, who needs atheists? [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the London Free Press.]
True Catholics, we have had messages from some of our readers claiming that the Eastern rites have not been contaminated by Newchurch. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, they are in many cases worse, having dumped the Catholic and Apostolic Eastern rites to "modernize" or "Novus Ordo-ize" their rites. Now we have an Eastern-rite presbyter who is stealing from the collection-plate big time to finance his gambling habit. He's not the first, as we have reported previously in these Daily Commentaries.
As far as we TRADITIO Fathers can recall, it has never before happened in the modern history of the Church that its prelates and theologians have become so hostile to a (New)pope, they have formally petitioned the electing body, the College of (New)cardinals, to repudiate the heresies of a (New)pope. Yet this is just what 45 Newchurch prelates and theologians from Newdioceses around the world have done. They have petitioned the College of Newcardinals in the case of Francis-Bergoglio over his Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris laetitia, the Joy of Sex, in which they have documented several heretical propositions.
The group has submitted a formal appeal through the Dean of the College of Newcardinals, the body that elected Francis-Bergoglio, that the Newcardinals call upon Bergoglio to repudiate "in a definitive and final manner" a list of erroneous, not to say heretical, propositions in Amoris laetitia. The Dean, Newcardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano will be sending the appeal to the 218 Newcardinals in the coming weeks. The group has submitted that the Exhortation contains "a number of statements that can be understood in a sense that is contrary to Catholic faith and morals." The technical term for such statements is heresy. The group has submitted along with the formal appeal a documented list of theological censures applicable to Bergoglio. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
The thirteen-page document quotes nineteen passages in Bergoglio's Exhortation that conflict with Catholic doctrine. Such doctrinal errors of Francis-Bergoglio include:
True Catholics, these Newchurcher-Protestants are paper-tigers. They will not achieve their purpose. In any case, who cares? The Newchurch of the New Order and its officials are not Catholic; they are Protestants. These Newchurcher-Protestants were missing in action after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) and as a result they allowed the replacement of the Catholic Church by the Newchurch of the New Order as the institutional Church. They allowed the true Mass to be replaced by an invalid Protestantized "New Mess." They allowed Catholic doctrine to be destroyed. They allowed Catholic morals to sink to the level of a pig-stye. Now the grace of the sacraments is absent from Newchurch because the Newchurch sacraments are null and void, lacking the form, matter, and/or right intention required for validity. These clueless Newchurcher-Protestants are daftly pouring a little water on a building that that has already been completely consumed by fire.
Francis-Bergoglio, desperate to recover his popularity and reputation since his Peter's Pence charity was exposed as a fraud from which he and his Newprelates skim 80 per cent of Newchurcher-Protestants' collection donations for the poor off the top for their own private luxuries, on July 7, 2016, released a message, encouraging Newchurcher-Protestants to visit the "Blessed Sacrament." The problem is that Newchurch no longer has the Blessed Sacrament. It was done away with in the wake of the Vatican II Anti-council, when in 1968 the Catholic priesthood was replaced by Protestantized presbyters (ministers) and in 1969 when the Mass was replaced by an invalid Protestantized prayer service.
Bergoglio is quite well aware of the scam, as his message specifically referred to the Conciliar document on the "liturgy," Sacrosanctum concilium, promulgated on December 4, 1963, just two weeks after the U.S. Catholic President, John Kennedy, was assassinated, and his traditional Catholic Requiem Mass was telecast around the world, the first and last time that such a Mass would be televised. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican Radio.]
True Catholics, the story is told that Henry Cardinal Henry Manning, of Great Britain, an Anglican divine who converted to Catholicism in 1850 and was elevated to the cardinalite in 1875, was walking by the door of a great Anglican cathedral. The Gothic architecture was sublime, the stained-glass windows delighted the eye, and music of the pipe organ boomed forth. Externally, everything looked as if it were still Catholic, but Cardinal Manning, now a Catholic, knew the truth. On the occasion he quoted the words of the Angel at Christ's tomb on that first Easter morning: "He is not here" (Matthew 28:6/DRV). The Anglican sect had apostatized from the Catholic Church in the time of Henry VIII and no longer had the priesthood or the Blessed Sacrament -- the same condition in which the heretical Newchurch shamefully finds itself today.
Padre Pio, who rejected the Newchurch of the New Order, certainly had that false institution's number. As he was a true Catholic, his prayer was that the Father defend the true Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, which Newchurch already in his time corrupted to invalidity, by bringing an end to the world. Yes, Pio believed, better that the world end than that so much sacrilege, idolatry, blasphemy and iniquity persist.
A prayer that Padre Pio composed for one of his spiritual daughters on March 8, 1915, has come to light. It is even more pertinent against today's corrupt and anti-Catholic Newchurch than it was in 1915, when Pope St. Pius X had fought so mightily against the heresy of Modernism that was permeating the Church in his time. Addressing the Heavenly Father, Pio prayed:
May the apostasy of many souls [e.g., the Newchurcher-Protestants of today] belonging to the sheepfold of Jesus Christ come to an end once and for all.... May God destroy the reign of Satan and reveal, to the confusion of this infernal beast, all his evil snares; may He reveal to all slaves of this awful wretch what a liar he is.... We must knock at the divine Father's heart, with holy and filial confidence, and pray that He Himself will take on the defense of Jesus in the [Most Blessed] Sacrament, either by bringing about an end to the world or to stop so much iniquity.
True Catholics, Padre Pio is no Saint of Newchurch of the New Order. That is just false Newchurch propaganda. In fact, Pio detested the Newchurch that replaced the Catholic Church in the 1960s. Newchurch deviously tried to coopt him in order to conceal the fact that he hated Newchurch as against Christ's true doctrine, and he refused to use its phony "New Mess." For further information, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the section "Padre Pio" in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files: FAQs and Traditional Apologetics department.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
On July 3, 2016, the External Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ or, in some countries, the External Solemnity of Sts. Peter & Paul, I walked into a traditional Catholic chapel and was puzzled by the mixture of liturgical colors:
The celebrant told me after Mass that he had forgotten his red vestment set and used the closest color he could find, which he thought was violet. Is that permitted by the rubrics?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
On that day one Mass of the External Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood or of Sts. Peter & Paul was celebrated by papal indult on the Sunday after those respective feastdays (June 29 and July 1, respectively). The tabernacle veil and frontal would be red for that one Mass. It is possible that another Mass of the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost was going to be celebrated on the same day in green, or a red frontal was unavailable, so the frontal was not changed to red for that Mass. An External Solemnity is a Mass that is said on a preceding or succeeding Sunday by indult, sometimes optional, sometimes mandatory, which is not associated with the Divine Office of the Sunday; that is, it is "external" to the Office of the Sunday.
The violet is completely extra-rubrical. If red vestments were not available, then gold or silver could have been used, or, in case of necessity, green, the actual color of the Seventh Sunday. There is no provision for using "the closest color." In such cases -- accidents do happen, particularly when traditional priests have to travel to offer the Mass at various sites--, in order to avoid scandalizing the faithful, the celebrant would properly make an explanation before Mass or before the sermon, explaining the exceptional circumstances that required violating the rubrics.
Needless to say, "rainbow" vestments are a sacrilege, and no traditional Catholic priest would ever be seen using them under any circumstances.
On July 9, 2016, just two days after one of Francis-Bergoglio's Newprelates and one of his P.R. agents were convicted of leaking damaging financial documents, Francis-Bergoglio was exposed once again as involved in financial corruption. In 2014 he had appointed Newcardinal George Pell as Prefect of a New Secretariat of the Economy, when the European Unions threatened to shut down Bergoglio's Vatican Bank because it was being used as a conduit for money-laundering for the Mafia and others. Pell took his job seriously. He set in motion an internal audit, as well as an external audit by the respected Price, Waterhouse, Cooper accounting firm. What the audits revealed was shocking.
Peter's Pence, Bergoglio's personal charity, to which many Newchurcher-Protestants contribute, perhaps unbeknownst to them, through Newchurch collection-plates, was embezzling 80 per cent of the funds received, using the donations not for charity, but to subsidize high lifestyles by Bergoglio's Newvatican officials, including prostitutes of both sexes.
When notified that his charity was corrupt, Bergoglio did not correct the corruption, but proceeded to limit Pell's authority to conduct audits of the embezzled funds. Of course, Bergoglio didn't want his own corruption known! [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Agence France-Presse.]
True Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio is a bunko artist. As a Marxist, he has perverted doctrine, liturgy, and morals in his Newchurch of the New Order. As a fraudster, he has been embezzling money that his Nechurchers blindly put into the collection-plate for charitable purposes, which he spends on luxurious and immoral lifestyles for his Newprelates. It is clearer today than ever that Newchurch is not the Catholic Church, but a worldwide scam that serves Satan rather than Christ.
Francis-Bergoglio's notorious policy on softness toward potentially-terrorist "refugees" has now hit home -- in the Ex-Newpope's own home Newcathedral. On July 5, 2016, 40 "refugees," potential terrorists, from Balkan nations threatened with deportation by the German government took possession of the abdicated Ex-Newpope Benedict-Ratzinger's home Newcathedral in Regensburg, Germany.
The Newdiocese has been caught flat-footed, trying to straddle the civil law and Bergoglio's terrorist-friendly policies. The police have refused to intervene, leaving the problem squarely in the hands of Bergoglio's Newdiocese. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the ANSA Italian News Agency.]
True Catholics, like the good Marxist that he is, Francis-Bergoglio is bound and determined to undermine order in society by producing the kind of anarchy that led to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which kept Russia and its satellite states under totalitarian dictators for over seventy years. It was this condition that led Pope Pius XI to direct the intention of the Leonine Prayers after the Traditional Latin Mass for the conversion of Russia. After the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), these prayers were dumped, and Russia lived under a Communist dictatorship for yet another twenty years.
Aldo di Cillo Pagotto, Newarchbishop of Paraiba, Brazil, for twelve years abdicated on June 6, 2016, in face of his being investigated by a local prosecutor for "connivance in the sexual exploitation of minors." He is also accused of a sodomy with an 18-year-old minor.
Pagotto is well known for welcoming into his Newarchdiocese presbyters and Novus Ordo seminarians accused of paedophilia even after they had been expelled by other Newbishops. Pagotto was also accused running a cover-up of sex crimes in his Newarchdiocese. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Catholic World News.]
True Catholics, this case underscores the fact that Francis-Bergoglio, just like his two predecessors, Unsaint JPII-Wojtyla and Benedict-Ratzinger, has been totally incompetent in stopping the vile crimes against children committed by his presbyters and Newprelates, up to Newarchbishops and even higher. Bergoglio has done nothing but layer on the P.R., while the criticism of his inaction is growing. Who knows? Maybe this Third Paedophile Newpope will soon be forced to abdicate, just as was his scandalous predecessor, the Second Paedophile Newpope, Benedict-Ratzinger.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I am dating a woman who has turned from God as a result of her father's death at a young age and as a result of several issues surrounding her life. I have been trying for several months to bring her back to Our Lord, but I can't seem to get her to budge. Can you please advise me what to say to her to turn her thinking around?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
The flaw in your argument is that you are making yourself God. You cannot "turn her thinking around" by human action. Faith is a gift. After advancing your logical arguments, all you can do is pray that she becomes receptive to that gift.
What you should instead be seriously thinking about is distancing yourself from this situation as far as "dating" is concerned. Catholics should not be "dating" apostates. In addition to the religious implications, this is just common sense. We have seen numerous similar situations result in devastation to Catholics' spiritual and secular life.
Catholics, like all human beings, are obligated to practice the Cardinal Moral Virtue of Prudence, that is, practical judgment. This is part of what God created in your as part of the faculty of reason that he gave you as a human being. Yet Catholics often close their eyes to the practical dangers that they see before them. Better to break it off now than put your soul in jeopardy. Doing such a thing in a significant way is a Mortal Sin, that is, death-dealing to your soul.
Although the information hasn't penetrated into the West yet, we here in Asia have gotten a preview of what the duplicitous Bernie Fellay, Superior-Dictator of the Neo-SSPX, which has deserted Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's original traditional Catholic principles, has up his sleeve. In order to advance his programme to sell out to the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order and its Marxist Newpope, Francis-Bergoglio, he has resorted to a tactic that he has used before: sacrilege. In order to further his evil designs, Fellay has announced yet another fake "Rosary Crusade," daring to ensnare the Mother of God into his fraud.
This is what has just been announced to us here in Asia by Karl Stehlin, the Neo-SSPX's District Superior of Asia, in a "sermon" on July 3, 2016. You will notice that Neo-SSPX clergy, just like New Order clergy, do not talk about Our Lord, Our Lady, and the Saints in their "sermons," but about Neo-SSPX internal politics. That is no "sermon," but pure Newchurch nonsense!
Stehlin revealed that, contrary to Fellay's communique dated June 29, 2016, in which the Neo-SSPX was said not to desire "canonical recognition" from Newchurch, the Extraordinary Synod at Econe was actually ready to accept terms of a sellout. The only hang-up for the present is that some Newchurch leaders, including (apparently) Francis-Bergoglio, still want the Neo-SSPX to accept the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). Thus, Stehlin revealed, Fellay determined to start a new P.R. campaign to serve the "branding operation," for which he paid so much of the Neo-SSPXer's collection-plates to a high-priced advertising firm, by trotting out the Blessed Virgin to play "mascot" for his scheme.
Fellay and Bergoglio are, however, reported to be scared out of their wits that their mendacious stratagem is being exposed on the internet by independent reports not associated with the Neo-SSPX or the Newchurch of the New Order. Therefore, Neo-SSPXers are being threatened with literal Hell if they dare to seek out the objective truth. This has been Fellay's ploy before. Fortunately, most Neo-SSPX members long ago ceased to pay any attention to his self-serving fulminations, and a goodly number of Neo-SSPXers think that because of his numerous frauds, he has already earned for himself a place in that infernal region.
You've got to admire those early Roman Christians. The loved the Catholic Faith so much that when even popes became heretics or publicly immoral, the Romans would throw the errant popes to their death in the Tiber River that ran through Rome. To the Romans, respect was not given simply because someone had a title. Respect had to earned. Nowadays the Newchurcher-Protestants and pseudo-traditionalists just sit by while the likes of the Marxist Newpope Francis-Bergoglio teaches heresy and immorality, not just once, but again and again. Yet the Tiber flows there unused.
On July 4, 2016, a body was found by Italian investigators near the dome of St. Peter's Archbasilica, but they determined it not to be Bergoglio's, but that of an American student who had disappeared a few hours before. At this point many Newchurcher-Protestants are so sick and tired of Bergoglio's heretical and immoral teachings that they probably wished some courageous Romans had applied the ancient penalty to the errant Newpope.
In the history of the Church, popes have been subjected to deposition, excommunication, and annulment of their official acts, when they fell into heresy and immorality. Two of the worst cases were those of Pope Honorius I (r. 625-638) and Pope Formosus (r. 891-896). Honorius wrote papal letters approving the heresy of monothelitism, which denied the doctrine that Christ had two natures, divine and human. Several Saints condemned the pope as a heretic, and the Third Oecumenical Council of Constantinople (680-681) formally condemned and excommunicated the pope, finding, as confirmed by Pope St. Leo II, that:
Honorius, formerly pope of the elder Rome, had been also rejected from God's Holy Catholic Church and is being anathematized, on account of the writings that he sent to [the heretic Patriarch of Constantinople] Sergius, where he adopted his ideas in everything and reaffirmed his impious principles. He is shown to be incapable of enlightening this Apostolic Church by the doctrine of Apostolic Tradition, in that he allowed its immaculate faith to be blemished by a sacrilegious betrayal.
Pope Formosus, for his immoral deeds, was disinterred by Pope Stephen VI (896-897), vested in papal vestments, seated on a throne, and formally placed on trial before the Roman Synod, termed the "Cadaver Synod." When the pope was found guilty by the Roman Synod, Pope Stephen stripped him of his papal vestments, cut off and cast away the three fingers of his right hand, the fingers with which he conferred blessings. Pope Stephen then had his precedessor's body thrown into the Tiber River. Pope Stephen formally deposed the dead pope, annulled all his decrees, and pronounced all the ordinations conferred by him invalid.
True Catholics, so you see the Church has provided for severe punishments for (New)popes like Francis-bergoglio for heresy and immorality. So there is hope yet that God's justice can prevail against such papal Judases to the Catholic Faith. Even St. Peter was a heretic and directly confronted on that charge by St. Paul before the Apostles assembled. The difference in Peter's case was that he pled guilty and repented before all the Apostles of his heresy (Galatians 2:11 et seqq.)
One of the most common questions that we TRADITIO Fathers are asked is what charities are safe for a true Catholic to contribute to? Our answer is, outside of certain religious organization that we will describe later in this Commentary, none. And why do we say this?
Virtually all the national and international organizations that you have heard of at best mismanage donations and at worst allocate them to immoral purposes. A case in point. A watchdog organization has just completed "exhaustive" research and has revealed that United Way Worldwide, called United Crusade in some places, one of the largest and best known "charities," allocates 3,000,000 dollars annually to Planned Parenthood, which facilitates abortions.
The report concluded: "Financial support for Planned Parenthood from nonprofits like United Way helps fund an organization that engages in repulsive practices and is an advocate for policies that allow the destruction of innocent lives." Recently the Center for Medical Progress released a string of undercover videos that showed officials of Planned Parenthood clinics discussing the sale of body parts and other tissue from aborted babies. Planned Parenthood is responsible for over 300,000 abortions annually.
In addition to providing abortion services, Planned Parenthood spends a substantial amount of its donors money in anti-life political lobbying. United Way, though selective campaign donations, has many liberalist members of the U.S. Congress and elsewhere in its pocket. United Way's expenditures of donors' money for immoral purposes increased from just 2013 to 2014, the last year studied, by 15 per cent.
As to United Way's mismanagement of donations, its Chief Executive Officer was convicted of embezzling more than 1,000,000 dollars during his 20 years leading the organization. Obviously, not only is United Way's leadership immoral, but it has no real audit procedures in place to ferret out fiscal corruption among its leadership. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Daily Signal.]
So, what is a true Catholic to do about charitable donations? The Catholic's primarily obligation in justice is to contribute to the support of the Catholic site that provides him with the true Mass, True Sacraments, and true Faith. Let others contribute to the scam "charities." There are plenty of pagans around you to contribute to United Way, Planned Parenthood, and other secular scams, but how many contribute to preserving actively the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments locally? If you do not have such a site or have money left over, contribute to another traditional Catholic organization with whose work you are familiar.
There is enough money flowing into secular "charities," most of which spend exorbitant amounts on "administration," which means exorbitant salaries, cars, parties, and the like. Many "charities" declare "administrative" expenses to the tune of 80-90 per cent of all donations. Let your pagan neighbors contribute to these. Your donations should go to the most important thing on this earth: the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments.
It is ironic that Benedict-Ratzinger, who considers himself something of a Church historian, has announced that he will burn the diary that he kept during his Newpapacy from 2005 to 2013. His announcement has fueled further speculation that Ratzinger knew full well that he was running a paedophile shop in Newchurch, in which he had primary responsibility for unspeakable crimes against children by Newchurch clergy from 1991.
Ratzinger's revelation is made in a book-length interview to German author, Peter Seewald, to be published on September 9, 2016, by the Corriere della Sera newspaper, which has just released excerpts of the book. Ratzinger suspiciously referred to the "golden opportunity" that his diary would provide, presumably referring to Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust, which spread like a wildfire under his regime and which caused his shocking abdication in February 2013. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Corriere della Sera.]
The Roman Colosseum, or to give it its proper name, the Flavian Amphitheater, a monument of imperial Roman and early Christian history, has been renovated over the last three years at a cost of more than 7,000,000 U.S. dollars. The massive structure was built and expanded between A.D. 72 and 96 by the Roman emperors of the Flavian family, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. This grand structure dwarfs even most modern sports stadia; it could hold up to 80,000 spectators for public spectacles. Its restored gleam, rescued from under its man's pollution, was unveiled on July 1, 2016. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
To Christians, the Colosseum is as a holy site of the martyrdom of their numbers during the persecutions by the Roman Empire, starting under the Roman emperor Nero in A.D. 66 and ending in A.D. 313 under emperor Constantine the Great, who became a Christian before his death. Pope Pius V (1566?1572), the Saint who confirmed the canonization of the Catholic and Apostolic Roman Mass for all time, encouraged Catholic pilgrims to gather sand from the arena of the Colosseum, impregnated with the blood of Holy Martyrs, to serve as a relic. Pope Benedict XIV (1740?1758) officially declared the Colosseum a sacred site and erected Stations of the Cross around the arena. A cross recognizing the Holy Martyrs stands to this day.
Some 14,000,000 Christians are believed to have been martyred in the Colosseum and elsewhere in the Roman empire. This figure far exceeds yjsy originally claimed for the number of Jews involved in the World War II "Holocaust." Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) saved the Eternal City from the ravages of that war and prevented the Colosseum and the other monuments of ancient and Christian Rome from being obliterated by both the Allies and the Axis.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
A "deal," "a regularization," a "recognition," or whatever you want to call it between Bernie Fellay and Francis-Bergoglio cannot proceed under the present Newpontificate. By this is meant an agreement on doctrine accompanied by a juridical structure for the Neo-SSPX. Given current circumstances and trends, it's hard to see when such an arrangement could follow -- certainly not in any foreseeable future. My detailed study shows that Bergoglio is appointing Marxist/Modernist Newbishops at breakneck speed. He is filling the Newdioceses with his fellow-travelers. Benedict-Ratzinger appointed them at a snail's pace -- much more slowly, for example, than did the Unsaint JPII-Wojtyla, even when the latter was unconscious on his deathbed!
Bergoglio has been appointing his leftist allies to Newdioceses here, there and everywhere. At this rate, it will take over a century to cleanse NewChurch's filthy stables. You couldn't muck that much manure out of the barn; you'd have to burn Newchurch down and start over.
What looms, meanwhile, is the next consistory. If this Newpope gets an opportunity to elevate men -- and who knows? -- a women and the odd "transsexual" to the College of Newcardinals, that would guarantee the election of a fourth paedophile pope, a Modernist, Liberalist Marxist. We needn't wait long to learn the news. By March of 2017, the end of his fourth year, Bergoglio is likely to appoint his new leftists to their crimson sinecures. So Bergoglio has to survive only a few more months to pull it off. He can then "bow out" and will be succeeded by someone just as anti-Catholic as he is.
Fellay and his Neo-SSPX will find it just as hard to come to an "understanding" with Francis II, Francis III, Francis IV, or any of the others who will come in an endless stream. It is difficult for Catholics to sign deals on doctrine with people who believe that all Mohammedans go to Nirvana and that the goal of Jesus Christ is to bring homosexualized secular humanism to Mother Earth.
Yes, Bergoglio may act unilaterally in his fake "mercy" to grant the Neo-SSPX "recognition" of its sacraments. He will do anything to suck a willing Fellay into another attempt at a "deal" in order to split the Neo-SSPX in twain: divide et impera. But Bergoglio may do other things as well. For example, he could command that the "Indult" groups, like the Fraternity of St. Peter, abandon the Half Novus Ordo 1962 Mess in favor of something even closer to the full-blown New Mess of 1969. These groups had in the past talked about moving up to the 1964 Mess. Would the cowardly leaders of these pseudo-traditional groups finally turn around and leave Newchurch? The very suggestion would make a cat laugh!
It happened once before when the Neo-SSPX's Superior-Dictator Bernie Fellay got too full of himself and his desire to join the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order. When Fellay went too far to Newchurch under Benedict-Ratzinger's regime, the Neo-SSPX superiors met in northern Italy and gave Fellay a vote of no confidence, telling him in no uncertain terms that he had no authority from them to sell out the Neo-SSPX to Newchurch. They also demanded to see all the documents that he was secretly exchanging with Ratzinger, which Fellay had previously withheld from his own superiors and from the NSSPXers at large.
Now the remaining Neo-SSPX superiors (one-sixth of them have already abandoned him) meeting in Econe, Switzerland, June 25-28, 2016, have repeated their vote of no-confidence in Fellay. As a result, Fellay issued a brief communique that tried desperately to put favorable light on the matter. But make no mistake: the remaining Neo-SSPX Regional and National Superiors have once again slapped Fellay down.
It may be that one of the factors that contributed to this courageous action on the part of the Neo-SSPX Regional and National superiors was the addition of two new exemplary traditional Catholic bishops recently consecrated by the original SSPX's senior bishop, Richard Williamson. The loose association of traditional Catholic clergy known as the Traditional Resistance now has three traditional Catholic bishops: Williamson, Jean-Michel Faure and Dom Tomas Aquin, O.S.B. Fellay now has, in addition to himself, only two bishop remaining, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais and Alfonso de Galarreta.
Fellay's communique indicates that Fellay has been forced to pull back from his expansionistic desires and reaffirms that the central purpose of the Neo-SSPX is to ordain priests. Fellay was actually forced to do the unthinkable (for him): to state the obvious fact that all traditional Catholics already see, that Newpope Francis-Bergoglio is teaching errors. Fellay was even forced to abjure "canonical recognition" by the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order. Fellay was also force to abjure Francis-Bergoglio, when he stated that nothing can happen while the Marxist Bergoglio remains Newpope, because he is against Sacred Tradition. Thus, the Neo-SSPX must wait for better days, which at this rate may be very long in coming.
True Catholics, this slap-down of Fellay is quite remarkable. He is currently trying to pick up the pieces of his New Order ambitions, which have been smashed to smithereens by his own superiors. But Fellay, like the hated Herod Antipas, to whom Our Lord referred as "that vixen," using a play on words that alluded to Herod's homosexuality, is not one to give up easily his ambitions to become a Newchurch prelate, which he has harbored since at least the year 2000. There will be much more to this story. And the TRADITIO Network, as it has done now for over twenty years, will bring you the independent coverage for which it has been noted around the world since its inception in 1994 as the "First Traditional Roman Catholic Internet Site" and as the "Independent Voice of Traditional Roman Catholicism."
On June 24-26, 2016, Francis-Bergoglio carried the burned-out torch of the Vatican II Anti-council's heretical doctrine of "oecumenism" to the Armenian Orthodox schismatics and heretics. Bergoglio's first stop was a visit to the to Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of the heretics/schismatics. "Oecumenism" is the doctrine condemned by the Roman Catholic Church and its popes (Bergoglio is merely a Newpope), which purports to maintain that "we all worship the same god" and "one religion is as good as another." In Armenia, 93 per of whose populace are heretics or schismatics, Bergoglio touted false "oecumenism." But the Armenians weren't buying the Marxist Newpope's line. At least they are still Christian!
While in Armenia Bergoglio participated in many oecumenical worship services. He himself simulated the invalid Novus Ordo Mess -- not even in the sacred Latin language, but in vulgar Italian. The Armenians, who might have respected the Catholic and Apostolic Latin language, certainly weren't buying vulgar Italian.
On his last day on his Newpapal junket, Bergoglio physically took part in the Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Rite, which comprises Armenian Orthodox schismatics and Monophysite heretics, sitting in choro with a stole, following along, preaching, and giving the final blessing. Newvatican sources have stated that Bergoglio wanted to take the heretic/schismatic "communion," but the Armenians don't regard him as a Catholic and Apostolic Christian, so Bergoglio was denied "communion." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
True Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio is just as anti-Catholic in his doctrine as he is in his morals. Throw in his invalid Novus Ordo Messes and he merits the Triple Whammy, after Martin Luther: Falsa Doctrina, Falsa Missa, Falsi Mores!
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