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Just hours after the Ireland voted on May 26, 2018, 2 to 1 to amend its constitution to permit abortions, Heaven unleashed its disapproval of the gross immorality from a country that was once one of the most Catholic in the world. However, fifty years of the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order and its rampant paedophile crimes have turned the Irish people away not only from the fake Newchurch, but also from the true Catholic doctrine and morality.
An extraordinary display, not before seen in the British Isles and surrounding areas, unleashed four hours of 15,000 lightning strikes, which destroyed buildings flooded residences with torrential rains and high winds. The heavenly attack went on for a full four hours, grounding aircraft flights and setting off widespread fires. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by BBC News.]
True Catholics, we can hardly blame the Irish people for their ignorant immorality. They have been consistently defrauded of the true Catholic Faith by Newchurch. The real blame, therefore, lies upon the post Vatican II leaders: Unblessed Paul VI-Montini, Unsaint JPII-Wojtyla, Benedict "the Nazi" Ratzinger, and Francis "the Marxist" Bergoglio, together with their henchmen, the criminal Newcardinals, Newbishops, and presbyters.
Between its anti-Catholic paganism and paedophile crimes, the Newchurch of the New Order, currently lead by the heretic Francis-Bergoglio, has managed to corrupt one of the once most Catholic countries in the West. At one time Ireland saved the Catholic Church and Western Civilization by preserving Catholicism's Latin scriptures and sacred texts while Rome had fallen at the hands of the barbarians into the Dark Ages.
On May 25, 2018, the Irish pagans voted to repeal their Eighth Amendment, providing protection of the right to life of both mother and child by what was called an "astonishing margin" of 2 to 1. In a way, one cannot blame the Irish too much. The defeat of the right to life in law is substantially the responsibility of the Newchurch of the New Order, which officially replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church in 1964, in the aftermath of the heretic Vatican II Anti-council. Since then, it has been a downward slide into heresy and immorality.
Moreover, the behavior of Newchurch and its Newpopes, particularly the Second Paedophile Newpope Benedict-Ratzinger and the Third Paedophile Newpope Francis-Bergoglio have so scandalized the Irish people that they have rightly rejected everything having to do with them. In 2010, Ratzinger was supposed to make a Newpapal junket to Ireland, but hatred of the Newpopes and their Newchurch was running so high that the Irish Prime Minister stood up in parliament and told Ratzinger not to come because he could not protect his life from the ire of the Irish people.
True Catholics, it is revealing to note that during this vote, Newchurch barely spoke up for the right to life. In fact, its behavior in Ireland over the last half century has led directly to this result. This fact is just more proof that Newchurch is not Catholic. At this point it is not even Protestant; it is pagan. And a great country that once saved the Catholic Church has now completely abandoned it.
When the Boy Scouts originated in the early twentieth century, it was a different organization from what it is today. Catholics then could conditionally join, but, as with such syncretistic organizations as the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), it was at least implicitly syncretistic ("we all worship the same god," "all religions are equally true"). Thus, Catholic parents had to exercise vigilance and caution over their children's participation in activities.
Now, however, the answer to the question, "Can a Catholic be a member of the Boy Scouts, the answer has to be a definite NO. In 2014 the Boy Scouts became a different organization from the original traditional one. In that year it began to welcome overtly homosexual and "transsexual" members. In 2015 the organization began to welcome overtly homosexual adult leaders. In 2017 the organization became bisexual, comingling boys and girls, adolescent males and females.
The regulations for the Boy Scouts' 2019 World Scout Jamboree have been announced, and they are strikingly immoral. Article 7.3 provides:
Because of the reorganization of the Boy Scouts, Catholic parents must now forbid their children to become members of the Boy Scouts. Not to do so would be not merely material, but formal cooperation (complicity) in sin. Parents, therefore, should:
True Catholics, this is a sad demise for a once great organization. The reorganized Boy Scouts organization is now openly promoting sinful behavior. Therefore, Catholic parents must pull their children out of the new organization and not have anything to do with the now morally-corrupt organization. Catholic parents have a wonderful "teaching opportunity" to explain to their children why the Boy Scouts organization is immoral and why no Catholic can be part of it, otherwise offending God. There are so many other moral organizations for scholastic, intellectual, musical, artistic, and other enrichment that association with the new Boy Scouts is unconscionable.
The noose is tightening around the necks of Francis-Bergoglio's top paedophile Newprelates. On May 22, 2018, Newarchbishop Philip Wilson, former Chairman of the Australian Catholic [Sic] Bishops Conference, was convicted of concealing a sex crime against a child. The judge found that the boy and other accusers were "very believable," but that the Newchurch archbishop was not. Wilson is a big fish, and the verdict has sent a chill all the way to Bergoglio's Newrome. A Royal Commission already found that almost 10 per cent of Australia's Newchurch clergy have been accused of sex crimes against children.
Wilson has been informed that at sentencing he can expect to spend his twilight years in an Australian prison. On the day after the verdict, Wilson abdicated his Newchurch position. Wilson is now the most senior Newchurch cleric in the world to be found guilty of failing to report a paedophile crime. Wilson was told by a 15-year-old boy that he had been sexually assaulted by the notorious paedophile New Order presbyter-minister James Fletcher, now dead, but, in spite of believing the boy's statement to be true, failed to report the crime to authorities. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Sydney [Australia] Morning Herald.]
True Catholics, the next Newchurch prelate to face trial will be Francis-Bergoglio's own Chief Financial Officer, Newcardinal George Pell, charged with complicity in numerous sex crimes while he was Archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne. After the Wilson conviction, Pell must be shaking in his boots. As top Newchurch prelates finally pay the price for their crimes before the civil courts because the Newpopes covered up their crimes for decades, will the infamous Bergoglio mendaciously called "Man of His Word" in a currently-running propaganda film, be the next to fall? Perhaps that is why Bergoglio is talking again about abdicating and joining his predecessor, Benedict-Ratzinger under house arrest in the Newpopes' Retirement Home in the Vatican Gardens.
The situation in Newrome with the Newcardinals is even worse than I had predicted in my previous report to the TRADITIO Network. Now Francis-Bergoglio has shown that he is prepared to overfill the Newcollege of Newcardinals. There is nothing to stop him from exceeding the Newchurch number of 120, which exceeds the traditional number of no more than 70, the number in the Council of the Sanhedrin that engineered the death of Christ.
Bergoglio may again overfill the Newcollege in just a few months' time, thereby gaining total control over the entire Newchurch, as one would expect from this "Dictator Newpope." The precedent for overfilling the Newcollege was set by the Polish Unsaint-Newpope JPII-Wojtyla. So the Neocon Protestant Newcardinals have been hoist by their own petard: their hero established the practice of overfilling the Newcollege, and now their rivals, the outright-pagan Newpopes, are using the same technique to oust them. That's poetic justice!
I note that, on one occasion, Wojtyla overfilled the Newcollege by quite a large margin, by something like ten Newcardinals. So Bergoglio has the green light to do the same -- not that he needs green lights from others: he also drives through red lights when he can get away with it!
Alea iacta est. There is now little hope for the Neocon Protestant Newchurchers to regain control. They were only Leftists in slow motion in the first place. Soon, they will exist no more. Ray "Bully" Burke, for example, moves more slowly than a dead man against Bergoglio, perhaps because he's secretly in league with Bergoglio.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I discovered the Traditional Latin Mass a few years ago. I subsequently moved to a Neo-SSPX site. But now I have doubts about this site. I am hoping you can shed some light on the proper course for me in these circumstances. All I want is to be a true Catholic.
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
We regret that you did not ask before you made the move. Fellay's Neo-SSPX is not Archbishop Lefebvre's original traditional Catholic SSPX organization. Fellay has seriously deviated from the sound traditional Catholic principles so clearly and eloquently taught by the Archbishop.
To be sure, Fellay's Neo-SSPX retains some of the external trappings of the Archbishop's original SSPX organization (often to cover what is going on underneath), and he uses carefully-redacted quotations from the Archbishop. But it is a fact that Fellay wants to take his Neo-SSPX into the New Order. Over this about-face from the Archbishop's clear-sighted, Catholic teaching, about one-fifth of Fellay's priests have abandoned him.
We have received numerous communications from Neo-SSPX sites indicating that Fellay is introducing New Order beliefs and practices at local sites. He has already publicly put himself under the "authority" of the Newchurch of the New Order for two of the Newchurch Sacraments. This is untenable from the perspective of one such as yourself that wants to remain a true Catholic. How can anyone now trust in the corrupted Neo-SSPX sacraments?
We cannot recommend that anyone affiliate himself with Fellay's Neo-SSPX. It is just too dangerous to the soul. On occasion, when no other fully Catholic site is available (and you should check this possibility out thoroughly in the Official Traditional Catholic Directory), some people have occasionally taken the significant risk of simply attending Mass at a Neo-SSPX site and leaving immediately afterward. Even this is a risk to their Faith because they are being subjected to tainted doctrine and a tainted Mass and Sacraments (the Neo-SSPX uses the Vatican II Anti-council's New Latin Mass of 1962). We would caution most seriously against any association with a Neo-SSPX school.
These are all factors that you have to weigh very carefully in making a decision and discerning its consequences to your Catholic Faith. Whatever you do in the interim, you should immediately begin researching the alternatives that are available to you. For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses.
Just as I had predicted, Francis-Bergoglio has announced a consistory on June 29, 2018, to pack the College of Newcardinals to control the election of his successor. The fourteen new Newcardinals, of whom eleven will be able to vote, would raise the proportion of Bergoglians in the unsacred College to 60 from 49. 60 out of 120 is exactly half of the votes that he needs to ensure a Modernist/Marxist successor. As his Newpontificate sinks deeper into mismanagement and scandal, Bergoglio is becoming desperate to control the College that will elect his successor.
We must also remember that to this total of 60/120 must be added all the Leftist Newcardinals put in place by the last two Newpopes, Wojtyla and Ratzinger, "to keep the peace" and "strike a balance" between pagan Marxist Newcardinals and Protestant Neocon Newcardinals. One can now almost feel Jorge's Bergoglian hand-picked successor slouching towards Newrome out of nowhere, as he did.
On May 19, 2018, Newvatican announced that the Marxist Newpope Francis-Bergoglio will "con-anize" two Marxists: Paul VI-Montini, the Newpope who destroyed the Catholic Church as the "institutional" church by promulgating the sixteen documents of the Vatican II Anti-council. He was operating in concert with his accomplice, the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, Chief Architect of the New Order since Pope Pius XII appointed him in 1948.
With Montini will be con-anized Newarchbishop Oscar Romero, another Marxist, from El Salvador, who was killed at his Novus Ordo dinner table because his radical Communism had deeply offended his Newchurchers. There was so much controversy in Newchurch about con-anizing the Marxist Romero that Bergoglio chocked in the end and did not declare him a martyr to Newchurch, only an ordinary Unsaint. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Zenit News Service.]
Newchurch does not have canonizations since the Newpopes took over after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), but only fake "con-anizations," so called because they "con" the Newchurchers. True canonizations traditionally were very few and took centuries to confirm. The true Church did not want to make a mistake. For example, St. Thomas More, who stood courageous for the Catholic Faith against the murderous, lecherous, heretical regime of the multi-bigamist King Henry VIII of England, was martyred in 1535. More was not canonized until 1935, exactly 400 years after his martyrdom.
True Catholics, now every Tomasina, Dick, and Harry becomes a Novus Ordo Unsaint, joining a cadre of heretics, including JPII-Wojtyla and now Paul VI-Montini. These Newchurch Unsaints are multiplying like fleas. There are so many of them that they immediately become lost in the flea-bitten coat of Newchurch -- as they should be.
Francis-Bergoglio's attempted cover-up of his personal complicity in paedophile crimes in Chile are becoming more and more desperate. An Associated Press investigation uncovered documents that proved the Chilean Newbishops had warned Bergoglio against appointing Juan Barros as a Newbishop. Barros had witnessed the infamous paedophile presbyter Fernando Karadima sexually assaulting a child and simply stood by watching without intervening; nor did he ever report it. Bergoglio had denied ever being told about Barros's paedophilia by the Chilean Newbishops. Bergoglio Lie #1.
Bergoglio also denied to the international press while on the Newpapal plane leaving for Peru after his Chilean junket in January 2018 that he had never heard a report about paedophile predations against children by his Newclergy. Bergoglio Lie #2. The Associated Press investigation discovered that he had received a letter hand-delivered by his Newcardinal-President of Bergoglio's only-half-constituted Child Protection Commission, Sean O'Malley, who publicly denounced Bergoglio for his lie.
Francis-Bergoglio, when forced by public outrage against his actions in this scandal, issued a half-hearted "apology," in which he essentially blamed everybody but himself for the crimes against children. Now, in an apparent protest against Bergoglio's complicity in the paedophile acts of his Newclergy in Chile and his attempt to cover up his own role, all 34 of his active Newchurch bishops abdicated en masse in front of Bergoglio on May 18, 2018, who is in Chile trying to deal with the scandal that he has caused.
The Chilean Newbishops were undoubtedly offended by Bergoglio's efforts to lay off on them the blame for the scandal, which began with him and then involved his efforts to cover up his role by lying, including a trumped-up document that attempted to accuse not himself, but the Newbishops, of "grave negligence." To the contrary, an Associated Press investigation uncovered documents that clearly implicated Bergoglio from the beginning. Bergoglio is falsely trying to cover himself by accusing the Newbishops, whereas the gross negligence has been clearly proven to be his. Bergoglio has already admitted to his "grave errors in judgment," but this too is a cover-up: his complicity goes far deeper than that. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Associated Press.]
Francis-Bergoglio has drawn scorn from victims for his involvement in suborning paedophilia among his Newchurch clergy. He has been denounced for lying and covering up his own role. He has been ridiculed for his "zero-tolerance" policy that, in reality, provides 100 per cent tolerance for every stripe of paedophile presbyter, Newbishop, and Newcardinal.
True Catholics, the principle of law is: "Respondeat superior" (Let the superior answer for [the charges]). Francis-Bergoglio has been responsible for this Chilean scandal from the beginning and must be forced to abdicate. He cannot fob off his personal responsibility with a half-hearted "apology." Newcardinals and Newbishops, if they had any Catholicism left in them, would be denouncing Bergoglio as the paedophile accomplice and public heretic that he is and demanding that he be deposed immediately from the Newpapacy.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I recently went to a new traditional Catholic priest for confession. The priest told me to recite the Act of Contrition. I didn't hear him give me absolution, so I asked whether I received absolution, and he said yes. Is it proper to give absolution silently like this?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
The Absolution Dominus Noster Iesus Christus, as well as the Misereatur, the Ingulgentiam, and the Passio Domini Nostri, which are supposed to be included, said aloud, confers the Sacrament of Penance. The proper practice is for the penitent to listen to the Absolution and prayers recited aloud by the priest.
The Act of Contrition is not required by the Rituale Romanum, as theologically the Sacramental intent is sufficiently exhibited by the penitent in the act of confession itself. It is improper for the penitent to be speaking while the priest recites aloud the prayers of the Sacrament of Penance.
As usual, the TRADITIO Network got the jump on all other information sources by describing Francis-Bergoglio from the day of his election as Newpope, March 21, 2013, as a Marxist.
Now the heretic Newpope Francis-Bergoglio's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has admitted that fact by publishing a front-page article in its May 6, 2018, edition, in which the founder of atheistic Marxism and author of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, is praised by his namesake, German Newcardinal Reinhard Marx as "almost" a Father of the Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Catholic News Service.]
True Catholics, Marxism is the foundation for murderous Communist autocracies, which have killed far more millions around the world since 1917 than even the highest number purported for World War II Nazism. Marx, Marxism, and Communism have all been severely condemned by the Catholic Church before the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965). In 1949 Pope Pius XII imposed the censure of excommunication as apostates from the Christian Faith on Catholics who professed the atheistic Communist philosophy.
This Newpontificate of Francis-Bergoglio may last about another year. That would give Bergoglio the time he needs to appoint enough Modernist/Leftist Newcardinals to make for a majority. By the end of this summer, Bergoglio will have already replaced over half the Newbishops with his Marxist fellow-travellers, hand-picked by his Newjesuit network of Communists, led by the present "Black Pope" (Superior General), who is a son of Vladimir Lenin and profoundly a heresiarch of the worst stripe.
Francis-Bergoglio's real job all along was to last long enough to entrench a revival of the Post-Modernist Revolution starting in the 1960s. The original revolution took place from 1964 to circa 1975, when Paul VI-Montini made Protestant the "institutional" Church. The second revolution, or revival, took place from 2013, when Bergoglio was elected Newpope, aiming to make Newchurch a pagan cult, one that cannot be described as Christian. It is no more Christian than are the Jehovah's Witnesses. The transformation from Protestantism to paganism is taking place before our eyes. Anyone who is spiritually sighted can see it clearly.
Another year of Bergoglio will seal the deal and make it sure. Then a new revolutionary will be elected Newpope. It will be a younger radical who is not tainted (yet) with a paedophile-protecting reputation. It will be someone like Newcardinal Antonio Tagle of the Philippines. It could even be Reinhard Marx, who is, ironically, a Marxist. Nothing is impossible now. It doesn't matter which Newcardinal the electors choose. The next Newpope's job will be to remove from Newchurch any trace of Catholicism that may be left.
What is the goal of the fake Newpopes and their anti-Catholic henchmen? To transform the world in accordance with their secularist, Modernist, Leftist, naturalistic, and atheist ideology. It is wrong to blame any one group. Man has turned away from God over the last several centuries, arguably since the time of the Black Death in 1348.
We traditional Catholics have nothing to worry about if we hold fast to the truth as Jesus Christ taught it. It's that simple. The true Church will survive to the end of time. If a creature walks like a duck and talks like a duck and swims like a duck and flies like a duck and looks like a duck and feeds like a duck and behaves like a duck, it's a duck. If not, it isn't. Newchurch is not the Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ. No Catholic needs a degree in theology to see reality; the truth is clear to anyone with clear sight.
On May 15, 2018, Francis-Bergoglio again implied that he is not long for the Newchurch Newpapacy and hinted at an early abdication to join the abdicated Benedict-Ratzinger. He stated in his morning "homily": "I think about myself because I am a bishop, and I must take my leave and step down." (In fact, Bergoglio is not a bishop because he was never consecrated. He was merely "installed" on June 27, 2992, under the invalid Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968.)
Bergoglio had previously stated that Benedict-Ratzinger's abdication "should not be considered an exception, but an institution." Ratzinger did not abdicate because of ill health -- that was just a cover story --, but because he was so deep an accomplice in Newchurch's continuing Great Sex & Embezzlement Holocaust that the international press threatened to reveal the whole story of his complicity unless he got out. Ratzinger got out rather than face ignominy. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Crux News Service.]
Some think that Bergoglio was alluding in his "homily" to the Chilean paedophilie scandal in which he is currently embroiled, having appointed a known paedophile accomplice as Newbishop of a Chilean diocese. So strong had enmity for his personal role in the scandal grown that he was forced to issue a half-hearted "apology." But many think that the scandal is getting to him.
True Catholics, we have predicted that the Francis-Bergoglio regime will likely not last for more than another year or so. We fully expect this Third Paedophile Newpope soon to be joining the Second Paedophile Newpope in the Old Newpopes' Retirement Villa in the Vatican Gardens. In a way, we would hate to see him go. He is such a vile Newpope because of his paedophilia support, his public heresies, and his vindictive personality that if he remained as long as possible, he would be a constant reminder of how anti-Catholic Newchurch and its Newpope really are. He has already caused attendance at (invalid) Newchurch service to plummet 6 per cent in 5 years, while traditional (i.e., real) Catholicism is making progress.
Remember when Francis-Bergoglio issued a fake "apology" after he was caught by the Associated Press investigators in two blatant lies about his complicity in paedophilia? First, he denied that he knew his appointee as Newbishop of Osorno, Chile, Juan Barros, was associated in paedophile sex crimes? Then AP unearthed a letter in which Bergoglio admitted his knowledge to the Chilean Newbishops Confeerence. Second, he denied that he knew anything about the children who had been sexually assaulted. Then one of the boys proved that he had handwritten a five-page letter to Bergoglio and had it delivered personally into his hands by a Newcardinal.
Apparently, the immoral Newpope has already forgotten his fake "apology." He is flying to Chile on May 15-17, 2018, to read his Chilean Newbishops the riot act, he announced on May 12, 2018. But they are innocent. They begged him not to appoint Barros. Instead, Bergoglio should send himself into exile and abdicate his Newpapacy on account of his complicity in suborning paedophile sex crimes by his Newbishop and his associates.
Bergoglio admits that Newchurch's credibility has been seriously damaged by a "cover-up" of his Newclergy's sex crimes, but who masterminded that cover-up? It was not his Chilean Newbishops, who had in fact brought them to his attention, but Bergoglio himself and his own Newvatican Propaganda News Service. Bergoglio threatened his Chilean Newbishops that at the meeting they had better be "docile and humble," two qualities that Bergoglio himself lacks -- in spades!
However, a key figure in the scandal, Newardinal Javier Errazuriz, of Santiago, one of the nine cardinals on Bergoglio's Executive Committee to run Newchurch, will be absent. He is now in disgrace for discrediting the stories of the child victims and failing to investigate their cases. Just another of Bergoglio's corrupt appointees to high position in his Newchurch. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Reuters.]
True Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio claims that "it is fundamental to re-establish trust in the Church." Francie, that ship has already sailed! The Chilean people are so angry at you that they literally spat at you on your Newpapal junket to their country in January 2018. You are not going to win their trust back by a mass of self-serving propaganda. You and your Newchurch are plummeting in the eyes of both Chileans and Newchurchers around the world, who are leaving your corrupt institution, which is not the Catholic Church, in droves.
On the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord, May 10, 2018, Francis-Bergoglio again went anti-Catholic to praise the syncretistic movement known as Focolare. Syncretism has been traditionally condemned by the Catholic Church as a grave violation of the First Commandment of God. It was renamed at the Vatican II Anti-Council (1962-1965) to "Oecumenism." The name may have been changed, but the heresy is the same. It either implicitly or explicitly preaches that "all gods are the same" and "all religions are equally true." Another principle of Focolare is "Economy of Communion." In other words, Newchurchers, other Protestants, non-Christians, and anti-Christians should all share the invalid "communion" cookie and Kool-Aid. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by Vatican News.]
Extremist Protestant Pentecostalism has infected many denominations since the 1960s, including the Focolare Movement of the Newchurch of the New Order. Pentecostalist services, which feature "praying in tongues," prophesying, and writhing on the ground like snakes, caught on with Newchurchers who were crazed by the anti-Catholic goals of the Vatican II Anti-council. This condemned Protestant Pentecostalism was renamed Charismaticism and insidiously took possession of other Newchurch organizations as well as Focolare, such as:
True Catholics, needless to say, no true Catholic can have anything to do with such organizations that have fallen into the Prottestant heresy, regardless whether the Protestantized Newpope Francis-Bergoglio "approves" of them or not!
Francis-Bergoglio is still pressing his heretical 2017 document, Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Sex), whose goal is to destroy the institution of marriage by recognizing bigamous unions from fake "civil" marriages between divorced and remarried people. As an added bonus, Bergoglio wants to give such people living in public sin the (invalid) Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid.
Some thought that after several Newcardinals, Newbishops, and Novus Ordo academics opposed the Newdoctrine, Bergoglio would back off. But Marxists never back off. Even in the face of loss, they never back off their corrupt goals. As in secular Leftist politics, so in the Leftist Newchurch, headed by its Leftist Newpope, Bergoglio.
On May 10, 2018, Newarchbishop Stefan Hesse, of Hamburg, told a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of Newchurch's largest lay group that Bergoglio has given a clear Richtunswink (roughly, hint of direction) for Protestants and Newchurchers to share the "eucharistic" meal together. Three-quarters of the German Newbishops have already voted to do so, but the outspoken objections of the remaining one quarter, including charges of heresy against Francis-Bergoglio himself, temporarily suspended implementation of the heretical policy. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.
True Catholics, Francis-Bergoglio is bound and determined to destroy the institution of marriage as it has existed in the Catholic Church. Who knows? With his implied support for homosexuality, can "gay" marriage be too far off? However, with the mounting opposition to Bergoglio has a Leftist ideologue, God's Providence may well bring about the demise of Newchurch before that more radical plan can be implemented. Recent studies, reported in these TRADITIO Commentaries, clearly demonstrate that Newchurch seminaries are being abandoned at a rapid rate, and attendance at Newchurch services has resumed another precipitous decline in the five years of Bergoglio's anti-Catholic regime.
A "miracle" of nature occurred on May 10, 2018, as the lava flow ensuing from the eruption of Kilauea volcano elevated a monumental statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary to look down, as if an observer from Heaven, upon the apocolyptic event taking place during May 2018 on the island of Hawaii. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.]
True Catholics, one cannot help but think of those words in the Blessed Virgin's Magnificat, chanted by the Church every day at the Hour of Vespers of the Divine Office: "Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles (Luke 1:52/V). Indeed, it seems that God's power is working these days even to "depose" a fake Newchurch of the New Order and its corrupt Newpopes, perhaps in just such a fire as is spoken of in so many of the Church's exorcisms, such as those pronounced during the blessing of Holy Water.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I filed for a Newchurch "annulment" of my marriage in 2009 and finally received it in 2012. Afterwards I married again and had my marriage "blessed." Now that I have converted to the traditional Catholic Faith, I am wondering whether that Newchurch "annulment" was even valid and whether the Newchurch "blessing" of the second "marriage" is phony.
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
Most "annulments" in Newchurch are de facto divorces. Even Newchurch itself has admitted this fact. Nevertheless, the current Newpope, Francis-Bergoglio, wants to give the (invalid) Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid to "divorced" and "remarried" individuals, who are essentially bigamists. Our Lord's teaching on this point is quite clear and direct: "Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery" (Luke 16:18/DRV), and vice versa.
Before the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order replaced the Catholic Church as the "institutional" Church in 1964, there were some 300 annulments proven. By 2000 the number of Newchurch "annulments" had mushroomed to 50,000. Clearly, "annulments" had become de facto "divorces" in Newchurch.
While a civil divorce may in some cases be tolerated for practical necessity only (e.g., legal arrangements for care of children by separated parents, child and spousal support), a valid marriage is not thereby dissolved, and the marriage vows bind for life. Remarriage after a "divorce" is prohibited by Christ Himself in Scripture, and any purported "remarriage" after a valid marriage is bigamy.
An annulment properly refers to a defect in the original marriage that made it invalid (not a marriage) from the start. An annulment has nothing to do with what may have occurred after the marriage was entered into unconditionally for life. The fact that one of the parties became a spouse-beater, an alcoholic, or seriously ill after the marriage was entered into, for example, cannot invalidate the marriage, as these conditions took place after a valid marriage was entered into. Examples of the rare case when a marriage is invalid beforehand would be the fact that one of the parties was under age or that the parties were too closely related to each other.
Individual cases are beyond the scope of the Ask the Fathers department. These are questions on which you must seek the advice and counsel of your own traditional Catholic pastor or confessor. If you do not have a regular traditional Catholic pastor or confessor, you should click on the TRADITIO Network's Official Traditional Catholic Directory department, provided to the TRADITIO Network by the National Registry of Traditional Latin Masses.
Moreover, the Church does not technically "bless" marriages (unless you are referring to the Nuptial Blessing in the Traditional Latin Nuptial Mass). In Sacramental theology, the parties marry each other by the exchange of vows, normally witnessed by a priest. It is either a valid marriage or not; blessing doesn't come into it.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
It seems that the pseudo-traditional blowhard Newcardinal Ray "Bully" Burke, has been exposed once again as a fraud after his speech in Bratislava, Slovakia, on April 27, 2018.
Things have not gotten any better in Newchurch over the last fourteen months since Burke called out Francis-Bergoglio essentially for heresy on marriage. What is next for the heretic Newpope? Suppose Francis-Bergoglio declares that God does not exist. Given that Bergoglio has denied the de fide doctrine of Hell, might this not be his next heresy in some form? If he did so, it might cause some disquiet in Neocon and pseudo-traditionalist quarters in Newchurch. Eyebrows might be raised among some "conservative" Newprelates. Not everyone in Newchurch is a pagan yet. Some still remain Protestant heretics.
The Neocons and pseudo-traditionalists would first claim that Bergoglio had been "mistranslated." When that didn't work, they could cast aspersions against the one who reported the heresy: shoot the messenger. When that failed, they could proclaim that Bergoglio's statement represents only his personal view. Meanwhile, more and more NewChurchers are sick of Bergoglio's open heresy and are, according to several objective studies reported in the TRADITIO Commentaries, leaving Newchurch in a mass exodus.
Here we are, fourteen months after Bergoglio published his heretical Amoris laetitiae (Joy of Sex) document, and Burke, after his initial statement, has been spinning his wheels ever since that day, just as he has been spinning them from the beginning. Meanwhile, no new Newcardinals have flocked to his side. He is supported from before by only two dead Newcardinals and one ancient Newcardinal, who cannot vote in a conclave, and one auxiliary Newbishop from a country where few Catholics live.
Newpopes Montini, Wotyla, and Ratzinger prepared the way for this day. There is no turning back now. Newchurch has not been Catholic since 1964, when the Vatican II Anti-council replaced the Catholic Church with the Newchurch of the New Order and give it a new, anti-Catholic Constitution, Lumen gentium. Newchurch is now no longer even Christian!
In front of sacred mediaeval and Renaissance artworks from the sacristy of the Sistine Chapel, New York's uncultured elite openly mocked the true Catholic Church that had produced the works. The May 7, 2018, lewd gala marked the opening of the blasphemous exhibition entitled "Heavenly Bodies – Fashion and the Catholic [Sic] Imagination" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The "goddess of sex" Robyn Rihanna Fenty, known for her prurient trash-music album, "Good Girl Gone Gad," mocked the papacy with her white papal mitre and cope cut to the groin. The notorious fornicatrix Lana Del Rey, who dares to characterize herself as a "Catholic," was outfitted in a costume that blasphemed the Virgin Mary. Outfits also mocked the holy priesthood, which has been lost in the Newchurch of the New Order since 1968 when it adopted the Protestantized New Ordinal of 1968. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the U.K. Catholic Herald.]
What tops it all is that Francis-Bergoglio's "Laughing Cow" Newcardinal, Timothy Dolan, appeared as His Corpulence to bless the lewd display. Dolan was only too happy to mingle with the gutter elite, in which he himself is numbered, and to turn a blind eye on their perversion, prostitution, and promiscuity. But Dolan's blasphemy is even worse: he gave Rihanna his own miter to desecrate for the anti-Catholic "fashion show"!
True Catholics, this is what over five decades of the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order and its Newpopes Montini, Wojtyla, Ratzinger, and Bergoglio have brought about: rejection and mockery of the true Catholic Faith. One has to wonder whether that wasn't in fact the their goal and that of the Vatican II Anti-council from the very beginning. In any case, true Catholics can have nothing to do with this blasphemous ilk of false Newpopes and the phony Newchurch that they lead into ever deeper heresy, idolatry, and blasphemy.
Newcardinal Willem Eijk, Newarchbishop of Utrecht, The Netherlands, has characterized Francis-Bergoglio as an apostate for failing to teach Catholic doctrine on marriage. Instead, says Eijk, Bergoglio is allowing the German [New]bishops' Conference to admit Protestant heretics involved in bigamous "marriages" simulated after civil divorces, to receive the (invalid) Novus Ordo cookie and Kool-Aid.
Newcardinal Eijk stated that when an initial group of Protestant heretics begins to receive the cookie and Kool-Aid with their Newchurch spouses, other heretics will want to do the same. Instead, Francis-Bergoglio told the German Newbishops that they could make up whatever "doctrine" they wanted as long as they had a consensus. The Newcardinal went on to characterize this apostasy from the faith as a sign that Newchurch is in her end-times. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Reporter.]
True Catholics, gradually the truth that we TRADITIO Fathers; the Founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement, Fr. Gommar DePauw; Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre; and a few others saw already in the apostasy at the time of the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) is now becoming clear to more and more fifty years later. Gradually, more and more Newchurch leaders are coming out, at least partially, against the Newchurch of the New Order and its current Marxist Newspope, Francis-Bergoglio. However, most Newchurch members are just walking out the Novus Ordo temple doors to become irreligious pagans.
"O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God!" (Romans 11:33/DRV).
Thus, when two Novus Ordo presbyter-ministers on May 6, 2018, desecrated a "eucharistic" dinner table at a Newchurch parish in Munster, Ireland, by performing deviant sex acts on it, the incident was not technically blasphemy because the dinner table was not a valid Catholic altar, and the men were not valid Catholic priests. You see how Divine Providence outsmarted the deviant Newchuvher clergy and its accomplices in Novus Ordo sites all over the world.
Photographs of the incident were submitted to Irish Newchurch "authorities" by an independent Catholic bishop, to whom a witness submitted them. The Irish State Police, the Gardai, and supposedly the Newchurch diocese are investigating the incident. Under the Criminal Law Sexual Offences Act of 2017, the Novus Ordo presbyter-ministers are subject to a two-year prison sentence on each count. The Newdiocese has not closed the church because of the pollution of its dinner table. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Irish Independent.
True Catholics, Newchurch and its "officials," all the way up to Newpope Francis-Bergoglio, is a joke. It is certainly not Catholics, nor is it even Christian. Its Mess is phony; it's presbyter-ministers are phony. No true Catholic can have anything to do with it under pain the grave sins of blasphemy, idolatry, and heresy.
The international best seller, The Dictator Pope, is already set in under a year to be issued in a second edition in hardcover, paperback, audiobook, and Kindle by Regnery Press on April 23, 2018. Authored by Henry sire, an Oxford-educated historian, documents that Francis-Bergoglio has become unaccountable to anything Catholic and has mounted a dictatorial regime within Newvatican that is based primarily upon fear, not Christianity.
Sire recently held an interview to roll out the new edition, which is enhanced with even more evidence than the first edition. He stated that Bergoglio has constructed a media "facade" that is contrary to the reality and that Bergoglio relies on propaganda to manipulate the media. "He is a dictator," said Sire, who traveled to Buenos Aires to gather evidence for the book.
Sire chose the pen-name Marcantonio Colonna, the famous 16th century admiral of the Pope St. Pius V's fleet at the Battle of Lepanto to prevent the Mohammedans from invading Europe in 1571, himself fearing that his safety would be in jeopardy from agents that Bergoglio has been known to send out against those who expose the truth about him. Bergoglio has already had him expelled from the Knights of Malta, for whom he was a resident historian.
Among the new evidence that Sire has uncovered for the second edition is the Kolvenbach Report, a 1992 reasearch document commissioned by the Superior General of the Newjesuits, among whom Bergoglio numbers himself, which concluded that Bergoglio was incompetent to be named a Newbishop. Nevertheless, the "Unsaint" JPII-Wojtyla appointed him in 1992. Sire also exposes Francis-Bergoglio's henchman, Newcardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, head of his Executive Committee to run Newchurch, whom Sire exposes as one of the "most corrupt" in the entire Newchurch, both in terms of financial corruption and moral corruption involving paedophilia in his Newarchbishopric in Honduras. [Some information for this Commentary by the National Catholic Register.]
True Catholics, Sire is avowedly anti-Vatican II, arguing that that the Modernistic anti-council has objectionable elements, which will be declared formally heretical by a future true council. He defends this approach by stating that if his views on the modern Church and the Council are considered extreme today, then Catholics from the Apostles, Saints, Doctors, and Popes up to the 1960s, who upheld the Church's Tradition, would similarly have to be viewed as extremists.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was once filled working-class Catholics going to the Traditional Latin Mass, receiving the Traditional Latin Sacraments, sending their children to traditional Catholic schools. No more. In 1950 there were 412 parishes; in 2018 there are only 188 Newparishes -- a drop of 54 per cent.
Now, in 2018, the Pittsburgh Newdiocese, in the hands of the anti-Catholic Newchurch, church doors are closing, and many churches will feel the wrecking ball. The remaining Newparishes will be reduced to 57. Newchurchers have been deserting by 2:1 in the period after the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), which was originally to bring about the "springtime" of the Church," but just seven years later, Paul VI-Montini, the first heretical Newpope, was calling it a "day of darkness." Almost all of the current 441 presbyter-ministers, one for every 2,500 Pittsburgh Newchurchers, will be transferred to another Newparish.
Because Newchurchers have abandoned a Newchurch that is no longer Catholic and because the Newchurch has been strapped for funds to pay for large settlements in lawsuits against its presbyter-ministers for paedophile crimes, the Pittsburgh Newdiocese and most others around the United States and around the world have been going under. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Pittsburgh-Tribune-Review.]
True Catholics, sometimes it is hard to see the truth for all the "fake news," that is, the Newchurch propaganda that is spewed out. For example, the Pittsburgh Newchurch's plan to deal with the near-death of Newchurch in Pittsburgh is deceptively called "On Mission for the Church Alive!" Instead, you can tell your family, friends, and neighbors that the "experiment" of Vatican II, with its anti-Catholic modernizations, vulgarizations, and vernacularizations has failed, but the true (traditional) Catholic Church, with its Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments, remains to pick up the pieces of the putrefying Newchurch when its corpse has completely decomposed.
Bernie Fellay's Neo-SSPX, which has separated itself from Archbishop Lefebvre's original traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X in its yearning to become a handmaiden to Francis-Bergoglio's heretical Newchurch of the New Order, was dealt yet another blow on April 15, 2018, when two Neo-SSPX members were prohibited from standing as godparents for their niece at St. Anthony of Padua Newparish in Buffalo, New York. The chancellor and auxiliary bishop of the Newdiocese personally confirmed the decision to exclude Neo-SSPXers. The report of the incident was issued directly from the Neo-SSPX on April 1, 2018, but hadn't got much press until now.
Why the two Neo-SSPXers would have wanted to lend their presence to blasphemous and possibly invalid Newchurch rite was not revealed. The parents of the baby were not Catholics, but Newchurchers. It is well known that Newchurch is now performing invalid Baptisms, as there have been numerous reports that many Newparishes, officially or not, are using an invalid form of Baptism. Moreover, the Neo-SSPX report also confirmed that Newchurch has been annulling NSSPX marriages and NSSPX religious vows on the grounds that Neo-SSPXers are not Catholic.
True Catholics, it has been proven once again that when you sell your soul to the Devil, you get smacked in the rear with his barbed tail! Fellay hasn't learned this lesson in his 24 years as Superior-Dictator of the Neo-SSPX since the death of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who founded the original traditional Catholic Society of St. Pius X, from which Fellay and his Neo-SSPXers have separated themselves. When you try to play both sides of the Newchurch fence, Newchurch will eventually throw you off. Fellay's Neo-SSPX organization is not Catholic. Newchurch is right about that, but then neither is Newchurch itself!
If you ask most traditional Catholics who the founder of their movement was, most of them wouldn't have an answer. Some of them might say Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who founded the Society of St. Pius X in 1970. But they that would be wrong. Such ignorance is a scandal to the Traditional Catholic Movement, as every important movement commemorates and lauds its founder.
May 6, 2018, marks the eighteenth anniversary of the death of the founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement, Fr. Gommar DePauw. Fr. DePauw was a noted Catholic priest, having received a triple doctorate, in Canon Law, Moral Theology, and Church History, from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (when it was Catholic), thereby exceeding Fulton Sheen, and having served as Academic Dean at the Primatial Seminary of the United States in Baltimore, Maryland.
Fr. DePauw passed to eternity at the age of 87 one day after the feastday of Pope St. Pius V, whose Solemn Papal Bull Quo Primum, canonizing in perpetuity the Catholic and Apostolic Traditional Latin Mass, which Fr. DePauw widely publicized, although most priests at the time had not even read the document, which was published at the front of every Missale Romanum. Newchurch thereafter suppressed its publication because it proved that the "New Mess" was heretical, anti-Catholic, and invalid.
The actual day of Fr. DePauw's death, which may well have marked his entry into Heaven, was the feastday of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, when he was tortured before the Latin Gate of Rome. Surely, Fr. DePauw saw much torture, of the mental kind, from "officials" of the nascent Newchurch of the New Order, and even from so-called pseudo-"traditionalists," who did not recognize the signal courage it took the priest -- already in 1964, remember -- to fight the Newchurch at its inception. Most of the priests and bishops at the time were too ignorant to know they had been made fools of, and the rest were actively cooperating with the Modernist heresy.
Already in 1963, Fr. DePauw, who personally viewed the debacle of the Vatican II Anti-council sessions as a peritus (theological expert assistaing a bishop), was scandalized by the promulgation of Vatican II's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and saw, before practically anyone else, clergy or lay, the devastation that this document would impose upon the Church. In 1964 Fr. DePauw left his Deanship at the Primatial Seminary and founded the Catholic Traditionalist Movement, having gone independent of the Newchurch structure. 1964 was the year in which the Vatican II Anti-council and Paul VI-Montini rejected the Catholic Faith and founded the heretical Newchurch of the New Order. This was six years before Archbishop Lefebvre founded the Society of St. Pius X.Fr. DePauw began saying a public Traditional Latin Mass in the Pan American Building in New York, when the first group of changes to the Mass were imposed by the Novus Ordo. Eventually, he purchased a beautiful Gothic-style church in Westbury, Long Island, where since the 1970s he continued to offer the Traditional Latin Mass exclusively and continued to be an outspoken critic of Newchurch and its phony "New Mess" until his death in 2005.
Heaven itself seems to have chosen Fr. DePauw to spend most of his life, especially in the tumultuous years during and after the heretic Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965), like an Athanasius contra mundum in courageous and steadfast defense of the true, traditional Catholic and Apostolic Faith. Although most priests at the time stayed within the now Newchurch "structure" and accepted the Modernist heresies of the New Order, including the invalid, sacrilegious, and Protestantized "New Mass," Fr. DePauw vehemently rejected such a course of action, as he wisely followed the counsel of St. Paul to stand firm in the two-thousand-year teachings, doctrines, and practices of the Catholic Church. Fr. DePauw not only stayed loyal to his priestly vows, which then included the solemn oath against Modernism, but also waged a largely one-man crusade to promote and maintain the traditional Catholic Faith while he led a continuous barrage against the New Religion.
One of the most remarkable aspects of his counter-Modernist campaign was that Fr. DePauw established the Catholic Traditionalist Movement before the Vatican II Anti-council had even ended! Before Archbishop Lefevre, SSPX, SSPV, CMRI, SSPV, "Ecclesia Dei," the "Indult" of 1988, and Benedict-Ratzinger's phony "Extraordinary" New Latin Mess of 2007, it was Fr. Gommar DePauw who first saw that the flowery talk of a "new springtime" for the Church was a ruse being deceptively used to befuddle the faithful while the revolutionaries enacted their Modernistic anti-Catholic agenda.
In the aftermath of the Vatican II Anti-council, there was virtually nothing left for traditional Catholics except Fr. DePauw's Traditional Latin Masses on radio from major metropolitan areas and his Catholic Traditionalist Movement periodicals and recordings, broadcast all over North America from his Ave Maria Chapel on Westbury, Long Island, New York, at a time when Newchurch was trying to claim that that the two-thousand-year Traditional Latin Mass no longer existed. For those who lived through the early Novus Ordo period, it was a bleak time, yet, because of Fr. DePauw's courageous apostolic work, countless souls were inspired to resist the New Order, and thus the groundwork was laid for the current traditional Catholic movement.
While more celebrated clerics of the post-war era, like Bishop Fulton Sheen, and Catholic "intellectuals," like William Buckley, eventually came to accept the anti-Catholic Modernistic heresies, Fr. DePauw did not grovel to the Novus Ordo seek to seek "permission" of Newchurch bishops or send petitions to Newpopes to grant an "indult" for what he and every Catholic priest has the Apostolic right and duty: to dispense the Traditional Latin Mass and Traditional Latin Sacraments for the salvation of souls and to offer the immemorial True Mass for the glory of Almighty God.
The ingratitude of the Neo-cons and pseudo-traditionalists, who glory in the invalid "Extraordinary" New Latin Mass as invalidly simulated by Novus Ordo non-ordained presbyter-ministers, to the true founder of the movement is more than shameful. Their silence is a lie. This Catholic priest of God, Fr. DePauw, courageously stood up for traditional Catholics long before Abp. Lefebvre and the Society of St. Pius X, even longer before the false pseudo-traditional "indult" societies such as that of St. Peter and Christ the King and Benedict-Ratzinger's phony "Extraordinary" New Latin Mess.
True Catholics, get down on your knees today and pray a Requiem aeternam for this courageous traditional Catholic priest who showed us all the right way, the traditional Catholic way, and refused to back down to the pretender Newclergy of the invalid New Order. If you have the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments today, you would not have them -- unless Fr. Gommar DePauw had paved the way for you.
Pell thought that he could bamboozle the Australian court into dropping the charges of paedophilia against him, but the Melbourne magistrate instead found that there was sufficient evidence for prosecutors to try the Newcardinal on several counts. The magistrate also ordered Pell to surrender his Newvatican passport so that he could not attempt to escape the jurisdiction of the court and flee to the bosom of his principal, Bergoglio, behind Vatican City walls.
In 2016 Pell had already been charged before Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of mishandling paedophile crimes against his Newchurch clergy while he served as the leader of the Newarchdioceses of Melbourne and Sydney. Then, in 2017, charges surfaced that he had himself been involved in sex crimes beginning early in his Newchurch career and continuing until he became Newarchbishop of Melbourne. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the New York Times.]
True Catholics, Newchurch leaders in Newvatican are finally being charged with the paedophile crimes that they suborned and in which, in some cases, they themselves participated. Francis-Bergoglio, the current leader of the Newchurch pack, has recently been exposed by an Associated Press investigation as a liar concerning the appointment of a paedophile Newbishop to Chile and as a lair in denying knowledge of detailed personal letters from his child victims. Deo volente, Bergoglio will soon be joining his paedophiliac predecessor, Benedict-Ratzinger, under house arrest in the ex-Newpopes' cell in the Vatican Gardens.
All Sacramental records in the Catholic Church are kept by law in Latin. These records are a treasure-trove for those researching their family history, and only those who read Latin can fully avail themselves of these records. Now 8,500,000 of these Latin records have been digitized and published by New York and Philadelphia in the United States, two large cities that received millions of immigrants from Catholic Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. One such record reads:
15o Maii baptizavi Mariam filiam Roberti Bankhead et Catherinae Magee natam, sponsa Elizabeth Lyons, P.F. McNulty.
I, P.F. McNulty, baptized Mary, daughter of Robert Bankhead and Catherine, née Magee, on the 15th of May, with the godmother being Elizabeth Lyons.
The traditional Catholic Church was one of the richest repositories of genealogical data in the world, giving information on the dates, persons, and circumstances of Baptisms, First Holy Communions, Confirmations, and Marriages, which civil records lack. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the National Catholic Register.]
The New York records include all of New York state and northern New Jersey from 1785 to 1918. New York was the largest port of entry for immigration into the United States for millions of Irish, Italian, German, Polish, and many other Catholics.
True Catholics, one has to be very knowledgeable about the Latin case-endings to be sure to get the relationships correct. In fact, the ignorant Newchurch periodical that reported the story itself mistranslated the Latin! Every Catholic should know his baptismal name, in Latin, as well as the name in Latin, of his Patron Saints when receiving each of the Sacraments. Moreover, every Catholic should make it his grave responsibility to know something about his Patron Saints. We TRADITIO Fathers are constantly amazed at how many "Catholics" are totally ignorant of these Saints. One Newchurcher named Paul had no idea of who St. Paul, the Church's greatest Saint, was!
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
In the translation of the Introit of last Sunday, the Third Sunday after Easter, the word "terrible" is used: "Say unto God: How terrible are thy works, O Lord!" (Ps. 65:2/DRV). Is this a translation issue from the original Latin?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
Actually, the Douay/Rheims version is correct. Terribilis in Latin and terrible in English (derived directly from the Latin word) both mean to inspire terror or awe. In recent English, however, it seems that most people use the word in the sense of despicable (which, by the way, is properly accented on the first syllable, DESpicable; the accent on the second syllable, desPICable is a modern mispronunciation that popped up after the 1960s). Thus, in the Introit, "quam terribilia sunt opera tua," the sense of terribilis could be rendered unambiguously in recent English as "awesome."
There is another famous usage of the word terribilis, which gives its name to the Mass of the Dedication of a Church. The Introit begins: "Terribilis est locus iste: hic domus Dei est et porta coeli," taken from Genesis, when God first showed the Patriarch Jacob the Holy Land: "How terrible is this place! This is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven" (28:17/DRV). This text is often used over the door of a traditional Catholic Church.
Dear TRADITIO Fathers:
I came across the magazine called the Philadelphia Trumpet, which is published by the Church of God. Is this magazine appropriate for Catholics to read, and what is the Church of God?
The TRADITIO Fathers Reply.
The Church of God is an extremist Protestant sect known as the Pentecostals. Pentecostal groups are even more bizarre than mainstream Protestant sects, all of which are heretical. The Pentecostals inject their own "prophetic" interpretations into their corrupted Bibles, which often lead to crazed and dangerous consequences. Their leaders like to predict the end of the world on various specific dates, all of which have so far come and gone, but their sectarians have as a result sold their houses, closed their bank accounts, and put their dogs in kennels, believing that the end of the world would have come.
The Catholic Church, to the contrary, is founded not in some spaced-out latter-day prophecies, but in the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles. Nevertheless, crazed groups of Newchurchers, such as the extreme Fatimists, have made an equally Pentecostal religion out of the so-called latter-day "prophecies" of Fatima and "end times."
Newchurch isn't doing its job in so many ways. One area in which it has failed its responsibilities, not only to the Christian Church but to the world, is that it has dealt negligently with first-class relics in its possession. These are actual remains of the Saints themselves and must be given the highest protection and veneration according to a tradition that goes back to the early Church in Rome. (Second-class relics are things that have touched a Saint's body, like part of his religious habit. Third-class relics are those that have been touched to a second-class relic and are very commonly used by the faithful for private devotion to the Saint.) [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by BBC News.]
To cite just three recent examples of negligence from once-Catholic Ireland:
True Catholics, recently we reported on the fact that the famous Catholic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, dedicated to Our Lady, is disintegrating in front of our eyes. Yet not a word has been uttered or a lira of help offered by Francis-Bergoglio on behalf of Newchurch. It is clear that Catholic churches and Saints' relics are not a priority to him. The Marxist/Modernist Newpope is obsessed with secular Leftist causes while our great Catholic heritage disintegrates.
MAY 1, 2018 - STS. PHILIP & JAMES, APOSTLES
DOUBLE FEAST OF THE SECOND CLASSThe May 1 Feast of "St. Joseph the Worker" is not traditional. It was concocted by the Freemason presbyter Hannibal Bugnini, the head of "liturgy" for the nascent Newchurch and placed in the calendar in 1956, in conjunction with Communist May Day. The concocted new feast shockingly displaced on May 1 the traditional Feast of Sts. Philip & James, the Apostles of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and suppressed the traditional Feast of St. Joseph, Patron Saint of the Universal Church, that had long been celebrated on the Wednesday after the Second Sunday after Easter. The new May 1 Feast of St. Joseph the Workman ("Worker" in genderless "modernized" English) was widely reviled in the Church at the time by the highest authorities, and was derisively called the Feast of "Joe the Worker" or the "Pseudo-feast of San Giuseppe Comunista" by the Romans and others, as it fell on Communist May Day. The traditional Sacred Congregation of Rites rejected Bugnini's new feast, and there was open opposition in the Church to it. Opposition to the new feast was so strong that the Congregation of Sacred Rites refused for four years to formulate the Gregorian chant Mass and Divine Office for the new feast.
Newchurch Scandal: It Is Not Protecting Relics
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Several First-class Relics Have Been Stolen Lately
The Reliquary Containing St. Lawrence O'Toole's Heart Was Robbed
And It Took Six Years to Recover the Relic
St. Brigit's Skull and a Relic of the Holy Cross Were Also Stolen
It Is Clear that Our Great Catholic Heritage
Is Not a Priority to the Marxist/Modernist Newpope Francis-Bergoglio
Who Is Obsessed with Secular Leftist Causes
While Our Great Catholic Heritage Disintegrates
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