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Am I a prophet, or was it just so predictable? I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that a more moderate (but no less equally zealous) advocate of conciliarism would follow Francis, just as Ratzinger followed JPII:

Two steps forward, one step back. That’s how you take the steam out of any burgeoning counterrevolution and consolidate the gains made by your predecessor.

Now the SSPX will be able to sell its deal, and achieve the de jure sellout it achieved de facto long before 2012. Now everyone will say this is a man they can work with. Now turning back the clock will lose its urgency. And with every subsequent putative claimant, calls to revert to Tradition will seem more eccentric, unrealistic, and improbable, such that, en masse, the psychological inertia beckons to us to accept the new reality, however distasteful, and make the best of the situation.

Most will succumb.

But these are satanic whispers, demoralizing us into surrender.

That’s the strategy.

No, I’m no prophet. I just have the thread to Rome’s (and Menzingen’s) modus operandi. This was entirely predictable, proven by the fact I HAVE BEEN predicting it everywhere online, for years.

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