The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus and the crisis in the Church were the bishop's two themes in a sermon delivered less than two months before he died.
What a timely article. I am inclined to think the good Friar was right, and would extend his thesis — “The thesis [] that the papal claimants from Paul VI onward held the office materially but not formally – validly elected, but lacking actual authority due to their lack of a habitual intention to procure the ‘good-end’ of the Church, and consequent failure to accept the election[]” — to include all the popes of the 20th C. after Pius X up to and including Montini, with perhaps the sole exception of Pius XI, Achille Ratti. The rest were clearly of the ilk, orbit nay spawn of Rampolla del Tíndaro. I would suggest a review of The Undermining of the Catholic Church (1991) by accredited Vatican journalist Mary Ball Martinez.
I heard from Gary Giuffre', who did most of the research for the material at whitesmoke1958.com, that Mary Ball Martinez was a crypto-Jew (like Malachi Martin), attempting to sow confusion by making traditional Catholics think the Great Apostasy began earlier than when it actually did, with the vitiated conclave of 1958, when Cardinal Siri/Pope Gregory XVII was overthrown by means of threat from the Judeo-Masonic powers.
We should keep in mind what the The Fathers of the First Vatican Council concluded, that no Pope had ever been a heretic – not Liberius, Honorius I, John XII, John XXII, nor any other name that is brought up in association with the accusation of “papal heresy.” Nor had any pope failed to maintain Apostolic Tradition in doctrine, worship, sacramental rites, discipline or anything essential to the Catholic faith & practice. NEVER HAPPENED AND NEVER WILL. The Holy Spirit also prevents heretics from being elected pope (like the Freemason Rampolla in 1903), and a true pope can’t even teach, promote or approve anything injurious to faith or morals or perfect worship, and not just when teaching ex cathedra.. This is the Tradition of the Church.
“…this See of Saint Peter always remains unblemished by any error, according to the divine promise of our Lord & Savior to the prince of his disciples: ‘I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail….’” – Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus, 4.
And a beautiful reflection — in the final section — on our Lord and on His Holy Name. It takes flight from the Introit of today’s Mass — In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur, cælestium, terrestrium et infernorum...
In the name of Jesus, may every knee bend, in heaven, on earth, and in hell.
“This name of Jesus is the crux of judgment, so to speak, and this very simple, elementary truth is recalled to us by these words, that we must adore the name of Jesus – that is to say the person of Jesus.”
“We who are there, we who adore the Real Presence of the uncreated Word in the consecrated species, it behooves us to perpet[uate] on earth this tradition of genuflection.”
Thank you for publishing this. Given his statements on his position if Abp. Lefebvre would go ahead with the episcopal consecrations and his unfortunate death before that event, one wonders if the Monsignor would have softened his criticism of the Archbishop after that event. It seems to me Lefebvre, while not a theologian per se and struggling mightily with how to remedy the apostasy in the Church, eventually came at least close to the conclusion that the Conciliar church was schismatic and lacking in authority only after careful prayerful reflection and the clear unwillingness of Rome to right the course over time. Especially after the hoodwinking at Vatican II, the incomprehensibility of a pope not defending the faith, and something that all of these clergy and laity had to come to terms with, whether by Cassiciacum or not.
Feast of the Holy Name
What a timely article. I am inclined to think the good Friar was right, and would extend his thesis — “The thesis [] that the papal claimants from Paul VI onward held the office materially but not formally – validly elected, but lacking actual authority due to their lack of a habitual intention to procure the ‘good-end’ of the Church, and consequent failure to accept the election[]” — to include all the popes of the 20th C. after Pius X up to and including Montini, with perhaps the sole exception of Pius XI, Achille Ratti. The rest were clearly of the ilk, orbit nay spawn of Rampolla del Tíndaro. I would suggest a review of The Undermining of the Catholic Church (1991) by accredited Vatican journalist Mary Ball Martinez.
I heard from Gary Giuffre', who did most of the research for the material at whitesmoke1958.com, that Mary Ball Martinez was a crypto-Jew (like Malachi Martin), attempting to sow confusion by making traditional Catholics think the Great Apostasy began earlier than when it actually did, with the vitiated conclave of 1958, when Cardinal Siri/Pope Gregory XVII was overthrown by means of threat from the Judeo-Masonic powers.
We should keep in mind what the The Fathers of the First Vatican Council concluded, that no Pope had ever been a heretic – not Liberius, Honorius I, John XII, John XXII, nor any other name that is brought up in association with the accusation of “papal heresy.” Nor had any pope failed to maintain Apostolic Tradition in doctrine, worship, sacramental rites, discipline or anything essential to the Catholic faith & practice. NEVER HAPPENED AND NEVER WILL. The Holy Spirit also prevents heretics from being elected pope (like the Freemason Rampolla in 1903), and a true pope can’t even teach, promote or approve anything injurious to faith or morals or perfect worship, and not just when teaching ex cathedra.. This is the Tradition of the Church.
“…this See of Saint Peter always remains unblemished by any error, according to the divine promise of our Lord & Savior to the prince of his disciples: ‘I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail….’” – Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus, 4.
novusordowatch.org/2022/04/felix-cappello-heretical-pope-impossible;
novusordowatch.org/2015/04/heretical-popes-first-vatican-council
novusordowatch.org/2025/01/pope-pius12-on-perpetual-orthodoxy-of-papacy
And a beautiful reflection — in the final section — on our Lord and on His Holy Name. It takes flight from the Introit of today’s Mass — In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur, cælestium, terrestrium et infernorum...
In the name of Jesus, may every knee bend, in heaven, on earth, and in hell.
“This name of Jesus is the crux of judgment, so to speak, and this very simple, elementary truth is recalled to us by these words, that we must adore the name of Jesus – that is to say the person of Jesus.”
“We who are there, we who adore the Real Presence of the uncreated Word in the consecrated species, it behooves us to perpet[uate] on earth this tradition of genuflection.”
Thank you for publishing this. Given his statements on his position if Abp. Lefebvre would go ahead with the episcopal consecrations and his unfortunate death before that event, one wonders if the Monsignor would have softened his criticism of the Archbishop after that event. It seems to me Lefebvre, while not a theologian per se and struggling mightily with how to remedy the apostasy in the Church, eventually came at least close to the conclusion that the Conciliar church was schismatic and lacking in authority only after careful prayerful reflection and the clear unwillingness of Rome to right the course over time. Especially after the hoodwinking at Vatican II, the incomprehensibility of a pope not defending the faith, and something that all of these clergy and laity had to come to terms with, whether by Cassiciacum or not.