I suppose one thing that bothers me is the sneering tone of "Trad Inc.," implying that the diverse group of individuals who consider sedevacantism a non-starter of a position, one that a Catholic cannot take seriously, are doing so due to ignorance, prejudice, stupidity, or avarice. Maybe there are some who fall into those traps, but there are also those of us who have arrived at our views by way of argumentation and the search for truth.
For fifteen years or so I held what could broadly be called the "recognise and resist position." Certainly the common assumption in those circles is, as you put it, that the idea of an extended vacancy of the Holy See is "a non-starter of a position" and "one that a Catholic cannot take seriously".
This is confidently asserted by many people prior to an actual examination of the question. They never take the position seriously, because they have already dismissed it as a possibility. This is a good example of a prejudice.
When I began to consider the possibility that the see was vacant, I was not met with reasoned arguments explaining why it was "a non-starter of a position" and "one that a Catholic cannot take seriously" but simply an assertion that this was obviously so.
In fact, I am still waiting to read a convincing rebuttal of the arguments that I and S. D. Wright (and many others of course) have put forward. I will consider any arguments presented.
My experience is overwhelmingly that people simply don't want to consider the question because they are afraid of the further questions it raises, particular those that would affect them personally, such as doubts regarding the validity of the new sacramental rites.
These are very difficult questions, and I completely understand the reluctance that many people have to address these questions.
It's one thing not to consider a question, but quite another to vocally attack a position - and too often the people who hold it - without having considered it.
Yet the number of traditionalist commentators who vocally reject sedevacantism after, rather than prior to, considering the arguments are, I think, small minority.
They exist, but I do not think they are many.
In any case, I would be happy to consider any theological argument that attempts to show that an extended vacancy of the Holy See is "a non-starter of a position" and "one that a Catholic cannot take seriously".
Precisely the core of the problem you address is the reluctance (I'm more of the opinion now that it's a dread) to provide a refutation of the sede vacante position that actually deals with the real as opposed to the strawman arguments against it.
Nobody wants to be a sedevacantist by choice. It's the most reluctant position I ever had to adopt and other sedevacantist will say the same. I want there to be a Pope but I don't want it at the cost of the truth. Dr Peter responding to your article is a welcome positive sign and maybe the beginning of serious dialogue. No one should fear the truth and that's what dialogue is all about. The truth.
I uploaded a post today that so much relates to what you have said concerning Truth. Who in the R&Rcamp is willing to break the silence?
I reluctantly put finger to keypad knowing the effort and time required in doing so but at times I just can't remain silent. It makes me even more appreciative of what you guys do at the WM Review and the colossal amount of time and effort you' must surely put in to produce such well researched and scholarly works.
Your contrabutions have really stirred up the trad world to examine their position and inspire those in the NO to look a bit more deeply into the traditional teachings of the Church.
Obviously I have read fairly widely, but I want to give you the opportunity to suggest to me the three best articles in defense of sedevacantism that you know of, from any year or any author, that I may taken into consideration.
Could you outline the argumentation you followed--or point us to an article where you lay it out? I find it very difficult to go all the way to sedevacantism, but it's becoming more difficult by the day to reconcile the teachings/pronouncements and actions of the popes (particularly Leo XIV and Francis) with Scripture and Tradition.
I can't imagine leaving the Church--but I'm increasingly unclear as to what "the Church" actually is: a mystical phantom we all belong to and believe in and which can be misrepresented by the current hierarchy? An actual institution with faithful clerics that is largely invisible because of the predominance of apostates holding most official positions in the Vatican? Just what do I belong to if I do not accept the travesty that Rome has become? "Trad Inc." has earned this moniker by initially voicing caution about Prevost and then all of a sudden and, suspiciously in unison, doing an about face and telling us all to give him time.
All the info you'll need re- the truth of the sedevacantist position is at novusordowatch.org.
Personally, I'm convinced, although it's a minority sede position, that the prophesied Great Apostasy had its beginning with the vitiated 1958 papal conclave.
It makes sense theologically too, since 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). 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, 6.
Thank you for your comment. I'm aware of novusordowatch. In contrast to their sarcasm and name-calling, I prefer the more reasoned, careful arguments found here at wmreview. That's why I asked Dr. Kwasniewski for his line of reasoning--his work has been very important to me and I respect his anti-sedevacantist position. I'd just like to understand it in more depth.
I think you are speaking the truth. However I must admit it's only an intuition and I haven't enough time to study it and well frankly I'm not the smartest or most well-read person in the room often.
But I did read about that white-smoke thing happening twice in 1958 and it just goes so smoothly with what happened and John XXIII being an apostate is to me obvious. It is obvious he orchestrated the beginning of V2 takeover, it couldn't have worked without him.
And what does that tell you? By their fruits ye shall know them.
Just wanted to say this since I recognize people when they are speaking the truth. And I'm deeply happy about this, since I'm utterly alone in this regard mostly. It is very, very lonely being a minority of a minority of a minority. Frankly I find it very tiresome a burden.
Being alone & lonely in the sede conviction is part of the cross many are called to carry for the sake of the little known truth that we are in the time of the Great Apostasy. It greatly helps to learn as much as we can, especially, I'd say, from novusordowatch.org & whitesmoke1958.com. There's also Bishop Donald Sanborn on YouTube & others, including this WM site. If you can't get to a pre-V2 Mass it helps to have a trad Missal, e.g. St Andrew's or Fr Stedman Missal, best price at bookfinder.com. And the rosary is our spiritual weapon given more power in our time.
"In these last times in which we live, the Most Holy Virgin has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, our nations...that cannot be solved by the prayer of the Holy Rosary...." (Sr Lucia, 1957; last public words before being "disappeared" and replaced by an impostor) radtradthomist.chojnowski.me/2019/03/is-this-interview-that-caused-her.html; sisterlucytruth.org
"God is giving two last remedies to the world: the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And, being the last remedies...there will be no others." (Ibid.)
I assume you believe in the long prophesied Great Apostasy, but that it will be sometime in the future rather than in our time. And as a Thomist you know St Thomas presents the strongest arguments of contrary positions before replying to them. Have you studied the strongest arguments for sedevacantism, e.g. at novusordowatch.org?
Have you seen the evidence for a vitiated 1958 papal conclave, i.e. the Judeo-Masonic overthrow of a validly elected pope? (This is the minority position of sedes, but I find it convincing. It also explains how a heretic can sit in the Chair of Peter when Vatican I determined that it can never happen. Cf. Pastor Aeternus, 6)
Then there is prophecy, including the real (or at least complete) 3rd Secret of Fatima.
Few know that the Third Secret was read by Pius XII in 1957 in the company of various prelates (unpublicized), one of them being the American Cardinal Samuel Stritch, who indirectly revealed 2 parts of it to 2 priest associates:
And that can only happen under a false pope, "the top," as Cardinal Mario Ciappi revealed. Cardinal Ciappi, who read the Third Secret, said, "In the Third Secret it is revealed, among other things, that the Great Apostasy in the Church will begin at the top" (letter to Prof. Baumgartner, 1995), i.e., the papacy, which we can be certain means John XXIII & his successors, allowing the counterfeit, Judeo-Masonic-inspired Vatican II church to be created.
If you become part of the "remnant Catholic faithful," you'll be poorer & marginalized (although many of your admirerers would surely follow you), but what price is too much to pay for the truth?
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, 6.
The Church Fathers, based on Apostolic Tradition and 2 Thes. 2:1-7, taught that the papacy would be removed during the time of the Great Apostasy. Whether it is restored is another question. Blessed Anna Maria Taigi prophesied that Sts Peter & Paul will appear in Rome to the astonishment of all & appoint a pope after a long period with the Chair of Peter held by false popes.
From Cardinal Manning:
“The apostasy of the city of Rome from the vicar of Christ and its destruction by Antichrist may be thoughts very new to many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text of theologians of greatest repute. First Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Biegas, Suarez, Bellarmine and Bosius that Rome shall apostatize from the Faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ [Cardinal Siri/Poe Gregory XVII, 1958] and return to its ancient paganism. ...Then the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible; hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early Church.” - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See, 1861, London: Burns and Lambert, pp. 88-90)
Thank you seems so spare a comment….yet I offer it from the bottom of my heart. I said to a friend years ago, who was discussing with me resistance to seeing Truth, that until you are willing to let your heart be broken by the realization of how much you’d been lied to, you can’t.
We all tend to guard ourselves, at least to a degree, from the stark horrors of life. We are all waiting to exhale. Especially when the stakes are high, and what stakes could be higher than the Truth that is required for our salvation?
I read the following piece very recently. It is very different in some ways from yours (mine) and comes to perhaps a different conclusion but has that same beautiful and sincere ring of being willing to lose all for the sake of Truth.
As we negotiate this very tender but requisite moment in history may our common search for Truth be what binds us, even as Truth’s Sword divides away from us the Father of Lies and his works.
The title of the article would in an ideal world read “the mission of Catholics.” Thanks for writing it and attempting to address the social stigma that has been created to keep Catholics from the truth.
Also, really interesting that you both held the R&R position. It makes it easier to share your work with others who currently hold that position.
I do not know how to square the below passage of Newman's Grammar of Assent with the account of truth given in this article.
"All things in the exterior world are unit and individual, and are nothing else; but the mind not only contemplates those unit realities, as they exist, but has the gift, by an act of creation, of bringing before it abstractions and generalizations, which have no existence, no counterpart, out of it."
When Newman speaks of "abstractions and generalizations," he's referring to ideas or concepts we have in our intellect/mind, which exist only in the intellect & not in the material world, where only individual things/substances exist. Many individual cats exists in the material world, but the universal concept "cat" exists only in the mind.
The abstractions do exist only the intellect, but they conform to the reality of being outside the intellect.
For example, each individual tree is a particular instantiation of matter, distinct from every other tree. Yet the intellect can abstract from this sense data and see that they are all "trees", that they share the essence "tree".
This abstraction exists in the intellect, not in the things, but it conforms to the reality of the things.
Aristotle: "The true and the false reside not in things, but in the intellect."
The 'intellect' of R&R denies the indefectability of Christ's Church/Papal Infallibilty. V2 denies VI. Reality is 'beyond the pale', because big intellects are piqued by the audacity of God allowing a long interregnum.
The best answer I've heard to Pilate's question was given in video by Alice von Hildebrand in Stephen Payne's documentary, " The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing". The Truth is a man and God, Jesus Christ!
The Papacy Has Been Infiltrated From A Long Time Back And Not “From Pope John XIII And Onwards”
Not only Popes John XIII and onwards to the CURRENT Pope Leo XIV (prevost the false prophet of the end times) but Pope Pius XII (12) and backwards to a certain point also. Popes from long back have gone against GOD & done the work for the devil to bring in the apostasy of these end times which is in its last phase. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh (2 Thessalonians 2:7). Pope Pius XII the modernist, liberal, evolutionist grandson of Rothschild (freemasons) Banker Marcantonio Pacelli groomed by the satanic freemason Cardinal Mariano Rampolla & an ally of the Tradus Ordo controlled false opposition false leader Marcel Lefebvre, who he had sent on a "mission"[for the new world dis-order] to Africa & Popes before including Tradus Ordo false god Pope Pius X (10. TENTH), a modernist revolutionist himself, did a lot of work for the advent of SIN-ODALITY. The diabolical infiltrated work for the advent of protestantised and paganised sacrilegeous Masses has been going on from long back. Pius XII and Popes before him including Pius X are accomplice. Pius XII promoted the protestantisation of the Mass. He was the foundation layer & father of the diabolical Second Vatican Council (GOD can permit an evil council). P. Pius X by pushing bad praxis did an attack on GOD JESUS in the Most Holy Eucharist as a Sacrifice & a Sacrament. These Popes include those who wrote about modernism and freemasonary but were the biggest promoters of them. Inclusive of other evil things: P. Pius XI (11) was culapable for the murder of the Cristeros of Mexico betraying them to the freemasons & did evil investment of Church money in contraception. P. Pius XII also did the same evil investment.; P. Bendedict XV (15) a pupil of the satanic freemason Cardinal Mariano Rampolla pushed freemasonic agendas that were not "gone underground" in the previous hypocritical P. Pius X (10) pontificate but were functioning overground in his corrupt and wicked curia where he allowed the Fernandez's, Roche's & Cupich's of his time to go on with wickedness. P. Pius X (10) appointed the above mentioned satanic freemason Cardinal Mariano Rampolla head of the holy office whose head now is Cardinal Fernandez. So it is hypocritical to point fingers at the wicked Pope Francis for appointing C. Fernandez when one knows that P. Pius X appointed a way worse evil Cardinal than him [THE EVIDENCE IS IN PUBLIC]; P. Pius X abolished many Holy Days complaining that ”modern man” needs ”more time to work and plant”. The falsely called "anti-modernist" was for the "modern man" "work" to build the new world dis-order for the Antichrist at the cost of reducing the Glory that is given to GOD with Holy Days; P. Leo XIII (13) another of the disastrous Popes with his naturalistic, humanistic & 'in the world and of it' concepts in Rerum Novarum (his encyclical) pushed the whole anti GOD "social justice" poison inside the Church & pushed Catholics to be on board the evil industrial revolution which will culminate with the mark of the Antichrist the high point of the industrial revolutions which P. Leo XIV (who has said he has taken the Papal name from P. Leo XIV mainly because of Rerum Novarum) will push Catholic's & non Catholic's to take; P. Pius IX (9) another enemy of GOD and His Church, pushed a false idea of papal authority & pushed papal idolatry via the First Vatican Council with teachings which are NOT heretical but were inbalanced & not well defined, which the "Novus Ordoites" at the Second Vatican Council and later upto now have taken evil advantage to push a false agenda in the name of the falsely created "impecability" of the Pope; P. Pius IX again undermined the fundemental dogma of no salvation outside GOD JESUS CHRIST through His Catholic Church; P. Pius VII (7) and Popes after him including P. Pius IX promoted the demonic agenda of 'vaccinations' back then with small pox 'vaccination'. Not only the wicked Pope Francis. Pope Pius IX (9) during his modernist Pontificate through a notification dated 23 April instituted a small cash prize – two paoli – to anyone who returned to their doctor eight days after receiving the free vaccine to verify that it was successful. Money for 'vaccination'? Talk about pushing an evil agenda.; Long back the number of falsely "famous" Catholics who ignored Church teaching and became more than friends, but brother freemasons are too extensive to list, but they range from Wolfgang Mozart to Joseph Hayden to Edward Jenner. Pope Pius VII (7), Pope from 1800-1823, "knighted" the father of vaccionology, the vaccinologist Edward Jenner as "chevalier of the golden spur" when he knew Jenner was a freemason. P. Pius VII was a wolf. He signed a concordat with Napoleon, betraying GOD and His Church to the diabolical freemasonic revolution.; Bad Popes have been there before P. Pius VII also, upto a certain point.; The demonic sin of usury has been slowly undermined by Popes over a long course of time. When the evil usurers are at their high point, the human element of the Church is by default at its low point. One of the reasons why GOD JESUS CHRIST scourged the usurers out. Usury triggers in the other three sins that cry to heaven for vengeance namely murder (abortion included), sodomy and defrauding of labourers. The economic systems worldwide are usurious. The four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance are worldwide. The completed vengeance of GOD is not far from now. The Church before denied those who died usurers a Church burial. Popes, including Pius XII and Popes before him, have promoted freemasonic anti GOD forms of goverments. It is a sin of grave matter for any Catholic to support (includes voting) anti GOD freemasonic forms of government. See where things have reached with the sin of “voting for the "lesser of the two evils"”, which is still voting for evil. No twisting and turning Protestant style. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. (Apocalypse 18:4,5). For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation. (Isaias 60:12). The Laws of GOD are the laws of the land !! GOD created this world ONLY for His glory. He is the LANDLORD !! He wants “campaigning” to be done for nations to be converted to Him. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. (Matthew 28:18,19). He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned. (Mark 16:16). And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Matthew 28:20).; So not only the falsity of "from Pope John XIII and onwards". Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. (Matthew 7:15,16).
It is the hallmark of heretics and schismatics to weaponize the evils permitted by GOD inside His Church to try to destroy the Church and tear the flock apart.
The gates of hell will never prevail, the Catholic Church is indefectible in her essential form and perpetual in her existance. The Catholic Church is perpetually indefectible in her ESSENTIAL FORM Catholic = According to the whole (not parts) - Catholic Doctrine given by JESUS, Catholic Worship & Means of Sanctification - Holy Mass & Sacraments instituted by JESUS and Catholic Hierarchy established by JESUS.
Catholics have to do the will of GOD which is only possible by staying inside the Catholic Church. It is a sin of grave matter to partake in the sacrileges and other evils that have been and are rampantly going on in the legal structures of the Catholic Church. It is a sin of grave matter to offer masses and to assist at masses and to administer and receive the sacraments outside the legal structures of the Catholic Church (s.p.x [rampant child abuse & cover up], s.p.x resistance, sedevacantism, “indepedent” [from GOD] movement, old-(non)catholics], false orthodox etc). Catholic Doctrine (Roman Catechism): Whoever will eat the lamb outside this house is profane. It is DOGMA that there has to be Bishops sent by the Pope with mission and jurisdiction until the end of time. This is one of the easiest way to know the only true Church of GOD. THE ENDS CAN NEVER EVER JUSTIFY THE MEANS. (Romans 3:8).
Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them. (Romans 1:32)
"Deep" anti-church & "deep" anti-state are way way deeper & are in existance from a long long time back, something which most people do not know about. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh (2 Thessalonians 2:7). And the devil primarily through the TradusNovus[Dis]Ordo (the falsity called "traditional “catholicism”") side of the One TradusNovus_NovusNovus-[Dis]Ordo (TN_NN-[D]O) "movement" for the Antichrist, with their diabolical controlled false opposition operation, have tried to hide over a long time, using their "the Novus[Novus]Ordo is the anti-Church" “narrative” of deceitful falsity, when the reality is that the One TradusNovus_NovusNovus-[Dis]Ordo is the ANTI-CHURCH. The term “Novus Ordo” means New Order in Latin. It is a false evil dis-order comprising of the preternatural (demonic realm) and the natural, against the Supernatural Order established by GOD for this world which He created only for His Glory. TradNovus which is widely called “Traditionalism” is a Catholic Church infiltration of the Old “Novus Ordo”. “ Traditionalism” - For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men (Mark 7:8). NovusNovus which is widely called “Novus Ordo” is a Catholic Church infiltration of the New “Novus Ordo”. TradusNovus(Primarily from the 1960's & before to a certain point). NovusNovus(Primarily from the 1960's & after upto now). 1950’s being the peak of the Transitional Phase (Includes primarily the pontificate of Pope Pius XII). Together with the "deep" Anti-State (which also has its tradusnovusdisordo & novusnovusdisordo) belong to the one Demonic Novus Ordo Seculorum (New World Order in Latin) eventually for the reign of the Antichrist. GOD JESUS CHRIST will return not far from now to destroy by wiping out into non existence the new world disorder.
But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk. (Acts of the Apostles 3:6). Catholics need to realise that over a long time the Popes have said "You see, we no longer can say: 'silver and gold have I none' (Acts 3:6) as a result of which they have not been able to say 'In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk'. (Acts 3:6). Bad Pontificates have been there in the life of the Catholic Church from a very long time back. The prefigurations of the Popes in the Old Testament for the most part were a disaster. Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us. (Ecclesiastes 1:10).
GOD will destroy all those who make evil money in His Name if no repentance is done.
No paganism in the form of the idolatry of the church, the idolatry of the rites, the idolatry of popes, the idolatry of the papacy, the idolatry of "marianism" (mary worshipping; hyper-dulia not Latria), the idolatry of saints & apparations, the idolatry of clergymen, the idolatry of "nationalism". No making the means to attain GOD the end. The disaster of this is all over the place to see. And the protestants watch the paganism and rightly accuse. Only the right worship of the one and only true GOD in supernatural Faith, Hope & Charity in humility, through the SIMPLE means He has established through His only Church the Catholic Church.
And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2,3)
The things of GOD are absolutely simple to comprehend. The Gospel is simple and for the childlike. What is chaos from the devil is the false complicated theses & false theological complications & excesses, through a series of false theological locks which goes into a very large ocean of the naturalism of "intellectual principles". And the naturalism of ‘intellectual principles’ by default blows open the diabolical portal of liberalism. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:3). The venomous poison of the pagan false philosophers and false teachers primarily the pagan false prophet Aristotle whose poison including naturalism could never have been allowed to be infiltrated inside the Catholic Church. The Apostles had chained the pagan false philosophers. Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8). The bad fruits of this are there to see from over a long period of time. GOD who desires that all men be saved can never make salvation complicated for man. It is only man who can make it complicated for himself. Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity, Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. (Proverbs 2:6,7,8)
Those not having clarity of things need to prayer to GOD in humility, dressed properly (clothes are to conceal the body), with fasting and almsgiving for Him to show His truth and help to live it for His greater glory and the salvation of souls. I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)
No one mandatorily needs a good Pope, good Bishop or good Priest to be in union with GOD in this life and for all eternity in Heaven but only and only the never failing grace of the infinitely good, loving and merciful GOD that will always be there from Him only through His Catholic Church until the end. And His grace He only and only gives to the humble. A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psalms 50:19)
The false apparations of fatima itself is a part of the infiltration and apostasy of these end times & a work of the devil to keep Catholics awaiting a false solution ( the falsity of "consecration of russia" that will NEVER happen), which is absolute nonsense and a lie of the devil for the ongoing only one apostasy of these end times while to bring in the reign of the Antichrist which is not far from now. There is no earthly restoration foretold by GOD through Divine Revelation to end the only one apostasy of the end times (currently going on) but the eternal restoration which will be done by GOD JESUS CHRIST after His final coming. Divine Revelation Timeline of the End Times - 1. The preaching of the Gospel throughout the world. 2. A falling away from the faith = Apostasy [On going]. 3. Katechon taken out of the way 4. The Coming of the Antichrist whose manifest reign will be for three & a half years. [It is ot far from now. The Antichrist will be brought in by the False Prophet Prevost (who is also the Current Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV) who has already manifested himself]. 5. The Final Coming of GOD JESUS CHRIST who will kill the Antichrist, destroy his evil reign, end the world by fire, conduct the Final Judgement, cast the reprobates into hell and bring in the New Heaven and New Earth for His greater glory and the felicity of His Saints for eternity. From the Roman Catechsim - ARTICLE VII : “FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD” Signs Of The General Judgment: The Sacred Scriptures inform us that the general judgment will be preceded by these three principal signs: the preaching of the Gospel throughout the world, a falling away from the faith, and the coming of Antichrist. This gospel of the kingdom, says our Lord, shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come. The Apostle also admonishes us that we be not seduced by anyone, as if the day of the Lord were at hand; for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the judgement will not come.
End Times - Katechon [Papacy|Pope] and Public Sacrifice of the Mass.
On 7 August 2024 the agents of satan from the Vatican have put out the what they had said they would namely the diabolical 'Pathways for the Implementation Phase of the Synod'. Into this Pope Leo XIV has quietly formed two new study groups: dealing with [1]“The Liturgy in Synodal Perspective” and [2]“The Statute of Episcopal Conferences, Ecclesial Assemblies and Particular Councils.” [1] is work for taking away of the public Sacrifice of Holy Mass (Daniel 8:11,12; 9:27; 11:31; 12:11) for the evil reign of the Antichrist. [2] is work for taking the Katechon [Papacy|Pope] (2 Thessalonians 2:6,7) out of the way while being Pope of the Catholic Church for the Antichrist, the man of sin, to manifest himself via the false concept of "decentralization of the Papacy" which cannot be decentralized ("one among equals"; "Bishop of Rome" but not Vicar of JESUS CHRIST on earth and Visible head of the Church).
Without the Katechon [Papacy|Pope] being out of the away the Antichrist can NEVER manifest himself to begin his manifest evil reign and without taking away of the public sacrifice of the Mass the Antichrist can NEVER have His false reign. Through Prevost the False Prophet of the end times who is P. Leo XIV (the current Pope of the Catholic Church) via the diabolical Synodality -new way of being anti Church- which is the final phase of the anti Church, the false Church of satan infiltrated inside the Catholic Church in these end times, to bring in the manifest evil reign of the Antichrist which will also simultaneously be the moment when satan will be unchained from hell for a little time (Apocalypse 20:3).
(1) The Antichrist will by default begin His reign after the katechon taken out of the way will no longer be restraining. (2) The Antichrist will be ushered in when the great apostasy will be in its highest point where most Catholics instead of giving right worship in sprit and truth to the only true GOD through His Church primarily through Holy Mass and the Sacraments will be partaking with the Antichrist in the abolishment of the public Sacrifice of the Holy Mass and instead giving him false worship which will be followed by a diabolical inversion of Holy Communion by the reception of his satanic mark. (3) The abomination of desolation will be standing in the Holy place. At the beginning of the reign of the Antichrist will be where all these three diabolical threads come together into a knot which the Antichrist and his disciples will think they will have victory but will soon be hit by reality when they and their demonic new world -dis-order will be UTTERLY DESTROYED by GOD who is the: most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and greatly to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of dominion (Ecclesiasticus 1:8) and is the: Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.(Apocalypse 22:13).
GOD JESUS CHRIST is awake sleeping in His only one boat the Catholic Church during this only one end time apostasy. By His omnipotent grace which only comes through His Church having FAITH in Him is the key that brings forth HOPE in Him the catalyst and as a result of which His CHARITY the greatest of the three will be flowing through that soul for the honour and glory of Him. Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience trial; and trial hope; And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us. (Romans 5: 1-5). For our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29).
I suppose one thing that bothers me is the sneering tone of "Trad Inc.," implying that the diverse group of individuals who consider sedevacantism a non-starter of a position, one that a Catholic cannot take seriously, are doing so due to ignorance, prejudice, stupidity, or avarice. Maybe there are some who fall into those traps, but there are also those of us who have arrived at our views by way of argumentation and the search for truth.
Thanks for your comment Dr Kwasniewski.
For fifteen years or so I held what could broadly be called the "recognise and resist position." Certainly the common assumption in those circles is, as you put it, that the idea of an extended vacancy of the Holy See is "a non-starter of a position" and "one that a Catholic cannot take seriously".
This is confidently asserted by many people prior to an actual examination of the question. They never take the position seriously, because they have already dismissed it as a possibility. This is a good example of a prejudice.
When I began to consider the possibility that the see was vacant, I was not met with reasoned arguments explaining why it was "a non-starter of a position" and "one that a Catholic cannot take seriously" but simply an assertion that this was obviously so.
In fact, I am still waiting to read a convincing rebuttal of the arguments that I and S. D. Wright (and many others of course) have put forward. I will consider any arguments presented.
My experience is overwhelmingly that people simply don't want to consider the question because they are afraid of the further questions it raises, particular those that would affect them personally, such as doubts regarding the validity of the new sacramental rites.
These are very difficult questions, and I completely understand the reluctance that many people have to address these questions.
It's one thing not to consider a question, but quite another to vocally attack a position - and too often the people who hold it - without having considered it.
Yet the number of traditionalist commentators who vocally reject sedevacantism after, rather than prior to, considering the arguments are, I think, small minority.
They exist, but I do not think they are many.
In any case, I would be happy to consider any theological argument that attempts to show that an extended vacancy of the Holy See is "a non-starter of a position" and "one that a Catholic cannot take seriously".
I addressed a few of the common objections here:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/we-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-concluding-that-francis-isnt-pope-heres-why/
Precisely the core of the problem you address is the reluctance (I'm more of the opinion now that it's a dread) to provide a refutation of the sede vacante position that actually deals with the real as opposed to the strawman arguments against it.
Nobody wants to be a sedevacantist by choice. It's the most reluctant position I ever had to adopt and other sedevacantist will say the same. I want there to be a Pope but I don't want it at the cost of the truth. Dr Peter responding to your article is a welcome positive sign and maybe the beginning of serious dialogue. No one should fear the truth and that's what dialogue is all about. The truth.
I uploaded a post today that so much relates to what you have said concerning Truth. Who in the R&Rcamp is willing to break the silence?
https://open.substack.com/pub/martinfegan/p/thoughts-on-cum-ex-apostolatus-and?r=3822lj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Nice to see you are writing on here too Martin!
Thank you M J.
I reluctantly put finger to keypad knowing the effort and time required in doing so but at times I just can't remain silent. It makes me even more appreciative of what you guys do at the WM Review and the colossal amount of time and effort you' must surely put in to produce such well researched and scholarly works.
Your contrabutions have really stirred up the trad world to examine their position and inspire those in the NO to look a bit more deeply into the traditional teachings of the Church.
Thanks!
Thank you, Matthew.
Obviously I have read fairly widely, but I want to give you the opportunity to suggest to me the three best articles in defense of sedevacantism that you know of, from any year or any author, that I may taken into consideration.
Could you outline the argumentation you followed--or point us to an article where you lay it out? I find it very difficult to go all the way to sedevacantism, but it's becoming more difficult by the day to reconcile the teachings/pronouncements and actions of the popes (particularly Leo XIV and Francis) with Scripture and Tradition.
I can't imagine leaving the Church--but I'm increasingly unclear as to what "the Church" actually is: a mystical phantom we all belong to and believe in and which can be misrepresented by the current hierarchy? An actual institution with faithful clerics that is largely invisible because of the predominance of apostates holding most official positions in the Vatican? Just what do I belong to if I do not accept the travesty that Rome has become? "Trad Inc." has earned this moniker by initially voicing caution about Prevost and then all of a sudden and, suspiciously in unison, doing an about face and telling us all to give him time.
All the info you'll need re- the truth of the sedevacantist position is at novusordowatch.org.
Personally, I'm convinced, although it's a minority sede position, that the prophesied Great Apostasy had its beginning with the vitiated 1958 papal conclave.
whitesmoke1958.com (including important interviews 1-3)
novusordowatch.org/2016/10/smoke-signals-white-smoke-1958
It makes sense theologically too, since 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). 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, 6.
novusordowatch.org/2022/04/felix-cappello-heretical-pope-impossible;
novusordowatch.org/2015/04/heretical-popes-first-vatican-council
"Just what do I belong to if I do not accept the travesty that Rome has become?"
You'd belong to the "remnant" Catholic Church during the Great Apostasy, faithful to Catholic Tradition in all things, the one true Church.
Thank you for your comment. I'm aware of novusordowatch. In contrast to their sarcasm and name-calling, I prefer the more reasoned, careful arguments found here at wmreview. That's why I asked Dr. Kwasniewski for his line of reasoning--his work has been very important to me and I respect his anti-sedevacantist position. I'd just like to understand it in more depth.
Laudetur Iesus Christus, RosaryKnight.
I think you are speaking the truth. However I must admit it's only an intuition and I haven't enough time to study it and well frankly I'm not the smartest or most well-read person in the room often.
But I did read about that white-smoke thing happening twice in 1958 and it just goes so smoothly with what happened and John XXIII being an apostate is to me obvious. It is obvious he orchestrated the beginning of V2 takeover, it couldn't have worked without him.
And what does that tell you? By their fruits ye shall know them.
Just wanted to say this since I recognize people when they are speaking the truth. And I'm deeply happy about this, since I'm utterly alone in this regard mostly. It is very, very lonely being a minority of a minority of a minority. Frankly I find it very tiresome a burden.
Being alone & lonely in the sede conviction is part of the cross many are called to carry for the sake of the little known truth that we are in the time of the Great Apostasy. It greatly helps to learn as much as we can, especially, I'd say, from novusordowatch.org & whitesmoke1958.com. There's also Bishop Donald Sanborn on YouTube & others, including this WM site. If you can't get to a pre-V2 Mass it helps to have a trad Missal, e.g. St Andrew's or Fr Stedman Missal, best price at bookfinder.com. And the rosary is our spiritual weapon given more power in our time.
"In these last times in which we live, the Most Holy Virgin has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, our nations...that cannot be solved by the prayer of the Holy Rosary...." (Sr Lucia, 1957; last public words before being "disappeared" and replaced by an impostor) radtradthomist.chojnowski.me/2019/03/is-this-interview-that-caused-her.html; sisterlucytruth.org
"God is giving two last remedies to the world: the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And, being the last remedies...there will be no others." (Ibid.)
I assume you believe in the long prophesied Great Apostasy, but that it will be sometime in the future rather than in our time. And as a Thomist you know St Thomas presents the strongest arguments of contrary positions before replying to them. Have you studied the strongest arguments for sedevacantism, e.g. at novusordowatch.org?
Have you seen the evidence for a vitiated 1958 papal conclave, i.e. the Judeo-Masonic overthrow of a validly elected pope? (This is the minority position of sedes, but I find it convincing. It also explains how a heretic can sit in the Chair of Peter when Vatican I determined that it can never happen. Cf. Pastor Aeternus, 6)
novusordowatch.org/2016/10/smoke-signals-white-smoke-1958
whitesmoke1958.com (including important interviews 1-3)
Then there is prophecy, including the real (or at least complete) 3rd Secret of Fatima.
Few know that the Third Secret was read by Pius XII in 1957 in the company of various prelates (unpublicized), one of them being the American Cardinal Samuel Stritch, who indirectly revealed 2 parts of it to 2 priest associates:
youtube.com/watch?v=nO-8UhGOagg&t=4s (3 min, 40 sec; the YT channel has more)
Even Benedict XVI when cardinal credibly revealed to Fr Dollinger, a close friend of his, that the Third Secret of Fatima included the foretelling of "a bad council and a bad mass": onepeterfive.com/cardinal-ratzinger-not-published-whole-third-secret-fatima
And that can only happen under a false pope, "the top," as Cardinal Mario Ciappi revealed. Cardinal Ciappi, who read the Third Secret, said, "In the Third Secret it is revealed, among other things, that the Great Apostasy in the Church will begin at the top" (letter to Prof. Baumgartner, 1995), i.e., the papacy, which we can be certain means John XXIII & his successors, allowing the counterfeit, Judeo-Masonic-inspired Vatican II church to be created.
If you become part of the "remnant Catholic faithful," you'll be poorer & marginalized (although many of your admirerers would surely follow you), but what price is too much to pay for the truth?
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, 6.
novusordowatch.org/2022/04/felix-cappello-heretical-pope-impossible;
novusordowatch.org/2015/04/heretical-popes-first-vatican-council
The Church Fathers, based on Apostolic Tradition and 2 Thes. 2:1-7, taught that the papacy would be removed during the time of the Great Apostasy. Whether it is restored is another question. Blessed Anna Maria Taigi prophesied that Sts Peter & Paul will appear in Rome to the astonishment of all & appoint a pope after a long period with the Chair of Peter held by false popes.
From Cardinal Manning:
“The apostasy of the city of Rome from the vicar of Christ and its destruction by Antichrist may be thoughts very new to many Catholics, that I think it well to recite the text of theologians of greatest repute. First Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Biegas, Suarez, Bellarmine and Bosius that Rome shall apostatize from the Faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ [Cardinal Siri/Poe Gregory XVII, 1958] and return to its ancient paganism. ...Then the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible; hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early Church.” - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See, 1861, London: Burns and Lambert, pp. 88-90)
Thank you seems so spare a comment….yet I offer it from the bottom of my heart. I said to a friend years ago, who was discussing with me resistance to seeing Truth, that until you are willing to let your heart be broken by the realization of how much you’d been lied to, you can’t.
We all tend to guard ourselves, at least to a degree, from the stark horrors of life. We are all waiting to exhale. Especially when the stakes are high, and what stakes could be higher than the Truth that is required for our salvation?
I read the following piece very recently. It is very different in some ways from yours (mine) and comes to perhaps a different conclusion but has that same beautiful and sincere ring of being willing to lose all for the sake of Truth.
As we negotiate this very tender but requisite moment in history may our common search for Truth be what binds us, even as Truth’s Sword divides away from us the Father of Lies and his works.
https://open.substack.com/pub/radicalfidelity/p/how-to-keep-your-soul-when-the-church?r=c6q4u&utm_medium=ios
The title of the article would in an ideal world read “the mission of Catholics.” Thanks for writing it and attempting to address the social stigma that has been created to keep Catholics from the truth.
Also, really interesting that you both held the R&R position. It makes it easier to share your work with others who currently hold that position.
I do not know how to square the below passage of Newman's Grammar of Assent with the account of truth given in this article.
"All things in the exterior world are unit and individual, and are nothing else; but the mind not only contemplates those unit realities, as they exist, but has the gift, by an act of creation, of bringing before it abstractions and generalizations, which have no existence, no counterpart, out of it."
Is there a synthesis which I am missing?
When Newman speaks of "abstractions and generalizations," he's referring to ideas or concepts we have in our intellect/mind, which exist only in the intellect & not in the material world, where only individual things/substances exist. Many individual cats exists in the material world, but the universal concept "cat" exists only in the mind.
The abstractions do exist only the intellect, but they conform to the reality of being outside the intellect.
For example, each individual tree is a particular instantiation of matter, distinct from every other tree. Yet the intellect can abstract from this sense data and see that they are all "trees", that they share the essence "tree".
This abstraction exists in the intellect, not in the things, but it conforms to the reality of the things.
Aristotle: "The true and the false reside not in things, but in the intellect."
The 'intellect' of R&R denies the indefectability of Christ's Church/Papal Infallibilty. V2 denies VI. Reality is 'beyond the pale', because big intellects are piqued by the audacity of God allowing a long interregnum.
The best answer I've heard to Pilate's question was given in video by Alice von Hildebrand in Stephen Payne's documentary, " The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing". The Truth is a man and God, Jesus Christ!
Neither traditionalism nor Bergoglianism is Catholic. https://open.substack.com/pub/childrenbewareofidols/p/traditionalism-is-not-catholic?r=24l7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The combox for this site is not for long four-part monologues. You can use your own site for that.
[Part 2]
The Papacy Has Been Infiltrated From A Long Time Back And Not “From Pope John XIII And Onwards”
Not only Popes John XIII and onwards to the CURRENT Pope Leo XIV (prevost the false prophet of the end times) but Pope Pius XII (12) and backwards to a certain point also. Popes from long back have gone against GOD & done the work for the devil to bring in the apostasy of these end times which is in its last phase. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh (2 Thessalonians 2:7). Pope Pius XII the modernist, liberal, evolutionist grandson of Rothschild (freemasons) Banker Marcantonio Pacelli groomed by the satanic freemason Cardinal Mariano Rampolla & an ally of the Tradus Ordo controlled false opposition false leader Marcel Lefebvre, who he had sent on a "mission"[for the new world dis-order] to Africa & Popes before including Tradus Ordo false god Pope Pius X (10. TENTH), a modernist revolutionist himself, did a lot of work for the advent of SIN-ODALITY. The diabolical infiltrated work for the advent of protestantised and paganised sacrilegeous Masses has been going on from long back. Pius XII and Popes before him including Pius X are accomplice. Pius XII promoted the protestantisation of the Mass. He was the foundation layer & father of the diabolical Second Vatican Council (GOD can permit an evil council). P. Pius X by pushing bad praxis did an attack on GOD JESUS in the Most Holy Eucharist as a Sacrifice & a Sacrament. These Popes include those who wrote about modernism and freemasonary but were the biggest promoters of them. Inclusive of other evil things: P. Pius XI (11) was culapable for the murder of the Cristeros of Mexico betraying them to the freemasons & did evil investment of Church money in contraception. P. Pius XII also did the same evil investment.; P. Bendedict XV (15) a pupil of the satanic freemason Cardinal Mariano Rampolla pushed freemasonic agendas that were not "gone underground" in the previous hypocritical P. Pius X (10) pontificate but were functioning overground in his corrupt and wicked curia where he allowed the Fernandez's, Roche's & Cupich's of his time to go on with wickedness. P. Pius X (10) appointed the above mentioned satanic freemason Cardinal Mariano Rampolla head of the holy office whose head now is Cardinal Fernandez. So it is hypocritical to point fingers at the wicked Pope Francis for appointing C. Fernandez when one knows that P. Pius X appointed a way worse evil Cardinal than him [THE EVIDENCE IS IN PUBLIC]; P. Pius X abolished many Holy Days complaining that ”modern man” needs ”more time to work and plant”. The falsely called "anti-modernist" was for the "modern man" "work" to build the new world dis-order for the Antichrist at the cost of reducing the Glory that is given to GOD with Holy Days; P. Leo XIII (13) another of the disastrous Popes with his naturalistic, humanistic & 'in the world and of it' concepts in Rerum Novarum (his encyclical) pushed the whole anti GOD "social justice" poison inside the Church & pushed Catholics to be on board the evil industrial revolution which will culminate with the mark of the Antichrist the high point of the industrial revolutions which P. Leo XIV (who has said he has taken the Papal name from P. Leo XIV mainly because of Rerum Novarum) will push Catholic's & non Catholic's to take; P. Pius IX (9) another enemy of GOD and His Church, pushed a false idea of papal authority & pushed papal idolatry via the First Vatican Council with teachings which are NOT heretical but were inbalanced & not well defined, which the "Novus Ordoites" at the Second Vatican Council and later upto now have taken evil advantage to push a false agenda in the name of the falsely created "impecability" of the Pope; P. Pius IX again undermined the fundemental dogma of no salvation outside GOD JESUS CHRIST through His Catholic Church; P. Pius VII (7) and Popes after him including P. Pius IX promoted the demonic agenda of 'vaccinations' back then with small pox 'vaccination'. Not only the wicked Pope Francis. Pope Pius IX (9) during his modernist Pontificate through a notification dated 23 April instituted a small cash prize – two paoli – to anyone who returned to their doctor eight days after receiving the free vaccine to verify that it was successful. Money for 'vaccination'? Talk about pushing an evil agenda.; Long back the number of falsely "famous" Catholics who ignored Church teaching and became more than friends, but brother freemasons are too extensive to list, but they range from Wolfgang Mozart to Joseph Hayden to Edward Jenner. Pope Pius VII (7), Pope from 1800-1823, "knighted" the father of vaccionology, the vaccinologist Edward Jenner as "chevalier of the golden spur" when he knew Jenner was a freemason. P. Pius VII was a wolf. He signed a concordat with Napoleon, betraying GOD and His Church to the diabolical freemasonic revolution.; Bad Popes have been there before P. Pius VII also, upto a certain point.; The demonic sin of usury has been slowly undermined by Popes over a long course of time. When the evil usurers are at their high point, the human element of the Church is by default at its low point. One of the reasons why GOD JESUS CHRIST scourged the usurers out. Usury triggers in the other three sins that cry to heaven for vengeance namely murder (abortion included), sodomy and defrauding of labourers. The economic systems worldwide are usurious. The four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance are worldwide. The completed vengeance of GOD is not far from now. The Church before denied those who died usurers a Church burial. Popes, including Pius XII and Popes before him, have promoted freemasonic anti GOD forms of goverments. It is a sin of grave matter for any Catholic to support (includes voting) anti GOD freemasonic forms of government. See where things have reached with the sin of “voting for the "lesser of the two evils"”, which is still voting for evil. No twisting and turning Protestant style. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. (Apocalypse 18:4,5). For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish: and the Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation. (Isaias 60:12). The Laws of GOD are the laws of the land !! GOD created this world ONLY for His glory. He is the LANDLORD !! He wants “campaigning” to be done for nations to be converted to Him. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. (Matthew 28:18,19). He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned. (Mark 16:16). And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Matthew 28:20).; So not only the falsity of "from Pope John XIII and onwards". Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. (Matthew 7:15,16).
It is the hallmark of heretics and schismatics to weaponize the evils permitted by GOD inside His Church to try to destroy the Church and tear the flock apart.
The gates of hell will never prevail, the Catholic Church is indefectible in her essential form and perpetual in her existance. The Catholic Church is perpetually indefectible in her ESSENTIAL FORM Catholic = According to the whole (not parts) - Catholic Doctrine given by JESUS, Catholic Worship & Means of Sanctification - Holy Mass & Sacraments instituted by JESUS and Catholic Hierarchy established by JESUS.
Catholics have to do the will of GOD which is only possible by staying inside the Catholic Church. It is a sin of grave matter to partake in the sacrileges and other evils that have been and are rampantly going on in the legal structures of the Catholic Church. It is a sin of grave matter to offer masses and to assist at masses and to administer and receive the sacraments outside the legal structures of the Catholic Church (s.p.x [rampant child abuse & cover up], s.p.x resistance, sedevacantism, “indepedent” [from GOD] movement, old-(non)catholics], false orthodox etc). Catholic Doctrine (Roman Catechism): Whoever will eat the lamb outside this house is profane. It is DOGMA that there has to be Bishops sent by the Pope with mission and jurisdiction until the end of time. This is one of the easiest way to know the only true Church of GOD. THE ENDS CAN NEVER EVER JUSTIFY THE MEANS. (Romans 3:8).
Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them. (Romans 1:32)
continued next ....
[Part 3]
"Deep" anti-church & "deep" anti-state are way way deeper & are in existance from a long long time back, something which most people do not know about. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh (2 Thessalonians 2:7). And the devil primarily through the TradusNovus[Dis]Ordo (the falsity called "traditional “catholicism”") side of the One TradusNovus_NovusNovus-[Dis]Ordo (TN_NN-[D]O) "movement" for the Antichrist, with their diabolical controlled false opposition operation, have tried to hide over a long time, using their "the Novus[Novus]Ordo is the anti-Church" “narrative” of deceitful falsity, when the reality is that the One TradusNovus_NovusNovus-[Dis]Ordo is the ANTI-CHURCH. The term “Novus Ordo” means New Order in Latin. It is a false evil dis-order comprising of the preternatural (demonic realm) and the natural, against the Supernatural Order established by GOD for this world which He created only for His Glory. TradNovus which is widely called “Traditionalism” is a Catholic Church infiltration of the Old “Novus Ordo”. “ Traditionalism” - For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men (Mark 7:8). NovusNovus which is widely called “Novus Ordo” is a Catholic Church infiltration of the New “Novus Ordo”. TradusNovus(Primarily from the 1960's & before to a certain point). NovusNovus(Primarily from the 1960's & after upto now). 1950’s being the peak of the Transitional Phase (Includes primarily the pontificate of Pope Pius XII). Together with the "deep" Anti-State (which also has its tradusnovusdisordo & novusnovusdisordo) belong to the one Demonic Novus Ordo Seculorum (New World Order in Latin) eventually for the reign of the Antichrist. GOD JESUS CHRIST will return not far from now to destroy by wiping out into non existence the new world disorder.
But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk. (Acts of the Apostles 3:6). Catholics need to realise that over a long time the Popes have said "You see, we no longer can say: 'silver and gold have I none' (Acts 3:6) as a result of which they have not been able to say 'In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk'. (Acts 3:6). Bad Pontificates have been there in the life of the Catholic Church from a very long time back. The prefigurations of the Popes in the Old Testament for the most part were a disaster. Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us. (Ecclesiastes 1:10).
GOD will destroy all those who make evil money in His Name if no repentance is done.
No paganism in the form of the idolatry of the church, the idolatry of the rites, the idolatry of popes, the idolatry of the papacy, the idolatry of "marianism" (mary worshipping; hyper-dulia not Latria), the idolatry of saints & apparations, the idolatry of clergymen, the idolatry of "nationalism". No making the means to attain GOD the end. The disaster of this is all over the place to see. And the protestants watch the paganism and rightly accuse. Only the right worship of the one and only true GOD in supernatural Faith, Hope & Charity in humility, through the SIMPLE means He has established through His only Church the Catholic Church.
And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2,3)
The things of GOD are absolutely simple to comprehend. The Gospel is simple and for the childlike. What is chaos from the devil is the false complicated theses & false theological complications & excesses, through a series of false theological locks which goes into a very large ocean of the naturalism of "intellectual principles". And the naturalism of ‘intellectual principles’ by default blows open the diabolical portal of liberalism. But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:3). The venomous poison of the pagan false philosophers and false teachers primarily the pagan false prophet Aristotle whose poison including naturalism could never have been allowed to be infiltrated inside the Catholic Church. The Apostles had chained the pagan false philosophers. Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8). The bad fruits of this are there to see from over a long period of time. GOD who desires that all men be saved can never make salvation complicated for man. It is only man who can make it complicated for himself. Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity, Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. (Proverbs 2:6,7,8)
Those not having clarity of things need to prayer to GOD in humility, dressed properly (clothes are to conceal the body), with fasting and almsgiving for Him to show His truth and help to live it for His greater glory and the salvation of souls. I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)
No one mandatorily needs a good Pope, good Bishop or good Priest to be in union with GOD in this life and for all eternity in Heaven but only and only the never failing grace of the infinitely good, loving and merciful GOD that will always be there from Him only through His Catholic Church until the end. And His grace He only and only gives to the humble. A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psalms 50:19)
Continued next ....
[Part 4]
The false apparations of fatima itself is a part of the infiltration and apostasy of these end times & a work of the devil to keep Catholics awaiting a false solution ( the falsity of "consecration of russia" that will NEVER happen), which is absolute nonsense and a lie of the devil for the ongoing only one apostasy of these end times while to bring in the reign of the Antichrist which is not far from now. There is no earthly restoration foretold by GOD through Divine Revelation to end the only one apostasy of the end times (currently going on) but the eternal restoration which will be done by GOD JESUS CHRIST after His final coming. Divine Revelation Timeline of the End Times - 1. The preaching of the Gospel throughout the world. 2. A falling away from the faith = Apostasy [On going]. 3. Katechon taken out of the way 4. The Coming of the Antichrist whose manifest reign will be for three & a half years. [It is ot far from now. The Antichrist will be brought in by the False Prophet Prevost (who is also the Current Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV) who has already manifested himself]. 5. The Final Coming of GOD JESUS CHRIST who will kill the Antichrist, destroy his evil reign, end the world by fire, conduct the Final Judgement, cast the reprobates into hell and bring in the New Heaven and New Earth for His greater glory and the felicity of His Saints for eternity. From the Roman Catechsim - ARTICLE VII : “FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD” Signs Of The General Judgment: The Sacred Scriptures inform us that the general judgment will be preceded by these three principal signs: the preaching of the Gospel throughout the world, a falling away from the faith, and the coming of Antichrist. This gospel of the kingdom, says our Lord, shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come. The Apostle also admonishes us that we be not seduced by anyone, as if the day of the Lord were at hand; for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the judgement will not come.
End Times - Katechon [Papacy|Pope] and Public Sacrifice of the Mass.
On 7 August 2024 the agents of satan from the Vatican have put out the what they had said they would namely the diabolical 'Pathways for the Implementation Phase of the Synod'. Into this Pope Leo XIV has quietly formed two new study groups: dealing with [1]“The Liturgy in Synodal Perspective” and [2]“The Statute of Episcopal Conferences, Ecclesial Assemblies and Particular Councils.” [1] is work for taking away of the public Sacrifice of Holy Mass (Daniel 8:11,12; 9:27; 11:31; 12:11) for the evil reign of the Antichrist. [2] is work for taking the Katechon [Papacy|Pope] (2 Thessalonians 2:6,7) out of the way while being Pope of the Catholic Church for the Antichrist, the man of sin, to manifest himself via the false concept of "decentralization of the Papacy" which cannot be decentralized ("one among equals"; "Bishop of Rome" but not Vicar of JESUS CHRIST on earth and Visible head of the Church).
Without the Katechon [Papacy|Pope] being out of the away the Antichrist can NEVER manifest himself to begin his manifest evil reign and without taking away of the public sacrifice of the Mass the Antichrist can NEVER have His false reign. Through Prevost the False Prophet of the end times who is P. Leo XIV (the current Pope of the Catholic Church) via the diabolical Synodality -new way of being anti Church- which is the final phase of the anti Church, the false Church of satan infiltrated inside the Catholic Church in these end times, to bring in the manifest evil reign of the Antichrist which will also simultaneously be the moment when satan will be unchained from hell for a little time (Apocalypse 20:3).
(1) The Antichrist will by default begin His reign after the katechon taken out of the way will no longer be restraining. (2) The Antichrist will be ushered in when the great apostasy will be in its highest point where most Catholics instead of giving right worship in sprit and truth to the only true GOD through His Church primarily through Holy Mass and the Sacraments will be partaking with the Antichrist in the abolishment of the public Sacrifice of the Holy Mass and instead giving him false worship which will be followed by a diabolical inversion of Holy Communion by the reception of his satanic mark. (3) The abomination of desolation will be standing in the Holy place. At the beginning of the reign of the Antichrist will be where all these three diabolical threads come together into a knot which the Antichrist and his disciples will think they will have victory but will soon be hit by reality when they and their demonic new world -dis-order will be UTTERLY DESTROYED by GOD who is the: most high Creator Almighty, and a powerful king, and greatly to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne, and is the God of dominion (Ecclesiasticus 1:8) and is the: Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.(Apocalypse 22:13).
GOD JESUS CHRIST is awake sleeping in His only one boat the Catholic Church during this only one end time apostasy. By His omnipotent grace which only comes through His Church having FAITH in Him is the key that brings forth HOPE in Him the catalyst and as a result of which His CHARITY the greatest of the three will be flowing through that soul for the honour and glory of Him. Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience trial; and trial hope; And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us. (Romans 5: 1-5). For our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29).