TRATCAST EXPRESS
TRATCAST 018
We cover a lot of ground and many different topics in that show, so be sure to check it out. You don't want to miss it.
So, what's going on? Well, the papacy is under attack, not only from the usual suspects, most notably the false Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio.
No, it is also, and perhaps even more so, under attack, wittingly or unwittingly, by those people who obstinately refuse to let go of the idea
that France is a country of the rich and the poor.
Francis is a valid Pope, the true vicar of Christ and successor to St. Peter.
We've pointed this out many times before. The papacy has consequences, and if you try to squeeze the Jesuit apostate Bergoglio into it,
you're doing great damage to the Catholic notion of the papacy.
To demonstrate that, we just put up a post entitled,
A Dangerous Experiment, Taking Francis' Claim to the Papacy Seriously.
And that post, published on July 4th,
we go through the entire dogmatic constitution on the Church, promulgated by the First Vatican Council in 1870,
and every time the phrase Roman Pontiff appears, we put in Pope Francis instead, to show you how it reads.
And the results are staggering. Check it out yourself.
Go to novosortowatch.org slash wire, and look for the post dated July 4th, 2017.
In his June 16th installment,
for his Fatima Perspectives column, Christopher Ferreira writes,
As incredible as it may seem, the Church is under attack by the Pope himself.
And there we go again.
They would rather make the papacy into an instrument that can defect and attack the Church,
rather than be its sure foundation, its unshakable rock, where the faith can know no failing,
than come to the conclusion that there's someone in the Vatican who claims,
to be the Pope, but actually isn't.
And so the semi-traditionalists, like Chris Ferreira,
are sooner willing to give up the Catholic doctrine of the papacy,
than the belief that Jorge Bergoglio possesses it.
That is madness.
Now, in case you didn't hear about it yet, but you probably did,
Francis has fired Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller,
the supposed chief guardian of orthodoxy in the Vatican.
Technically and officially, it was not a firing, of course.
It was merely a non-renewal of the five-year term that expired on July 1st.
But anyone who's been paying attention knows that this was simply Francis waiting for an opportune moment
to finally get rid of Müller, who, although a heretic himself,
does oppose adultery, which Francis is trying to promote.
Müller found out about his dismissal one day prior in a papal audience that lasted one minute.
What?
He was not given any reasons for his dismissal,
other than being told that Francis was now going to start limiting all terms in the Curia
to just five years, and he, Müller, was going to be the first one.
Sure.
Now, although Müller didn't know he was going to be fired, and certainly didn't expect it,
he made what could be called an effective farewell gift to the Society of St. Pius X,
and that is a huge story,
although almost no one has picked up the call.
On June 27th, just a few days ago, and less than 72 hours before he was told of his dismissal,
Müller sent a letter to the Society of St. Pius X headquarters in Menzingen, Switzerland,
informing them that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had some new requirements for them
if they want to be in full communion with the Vatican and be regularized.
Those new requirements are...
Number one.
Number two.
The new doctrinal declaration they need to sign must include an explicit statement from the signatories
in which they declare their acceptance of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council
and those of the post-conciliar period,
rendering their acceptance of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.
Those teachings the degree of adherence that is due to them.
And number three.
Last but not least, each member of the SSPX must recognize not only the validity of the new Mass,
the Novos Ordo Missae, but also its lawfulness.
Now you might say,
Oh, but what does it matter since Müller is no longer part of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith now?
Well, here is why it matters.
Müller made sure...
just before his dismissal...
that Francis would approve these new requirements,
and that's exactly what happened.
In other words, Francis is the one imposing these new conditions.
And with that, the SSPX Vatican Reconciliation is dead in the water
because obviously they cannot fulfill these new conditions
without totally betraying everything they've ever stood for.
At that point, they would just be the Fraternity of St. Peter 2.0.
Meanwhile, although the SSPX has not yet published any official response to the letter
and the new conditions,
Bishop Fellay made some comments about it on June 29th
during his sermon at an ordination ceremony.
He said that this new development was a huge blow
and acknowledged that they were basically back to where they started 17 years ago.
Quote,
It is like in the Game of the Goose.
We were almost at the end,
and then we landed on the go-back-back,
to start square.
Everything has fallen to the ground.
It is necessary to begin again from square one.
Unquote.
Yes, Bishop Fellay, you are correct.
It is like in the Game of the Goose.
The question is, why are you even playing?
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