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Sean Johnson's avatar

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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John Lewis's avatar

You’re right. You aren’t a prophet. I don’t see the society making any moves towards this man.

Irrespective while many are keeping an eye on the faults of the SSPX they’ve failed to watch their own gates and heresy has entered at least three formally orthodox sede organisations.

If this isn’t combatted many will unwittingly find themselves outside of the Church.

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Martin Fegan's avatar

So predictable as you say. Give them a Francis then give them a tranquilizer in the form of a modernist they can now accept much more amicable but even more liberal than the founders of New-church who less than a few decades ago they wouldn't accept.

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Michael Wilson's avatar

We can only hope that Our Lord will appear to him as he did to St. Teresa and showed her the place reserved for her in Hell, if she continued on her lukewarm path in the religious life. The people who identify the seven headed dragon of the Apocalypse with the false VII Popes, may be right, in that case there is one more, "And the beast which was, and is not: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction.

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