TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Wednesday, October 17th, 2018.
You've really got to feel bad for Francis.
He's tried everything he possibly can to prove to the semi-traditionalists that he is not the Pope of the Catholic Church, but to no avail.
The frequent heresies and blasphemies, the contempt shown for our Lord and our Lady, the claim that Christ made himself the devil,
the assertion that sometimes God desires people to commit adultery, the candid admission that his ecumenism of blood may be heretical,
his comment that God does not exist, the non-stop naturalism and indifferentism that emanate from his lips,
his reduction of the gospel to the corporal works of mercy,
his canonization of John Paul II and John XXIII as saints,
the relentless attacks on rigid Christians,
his repeated claim that faith without works is not true faith,
his comment that he is the devil,
his denial of hell,
his declaration that the death penalty is per se contrary to the gospel,
his use of a sorcerer's staff for a crozier at the opening mass of the youth synod, and on and on.
All these are justifications.
Just not enough to convince the Semitrads.
But now, the latest attempt to prove he's not the Pope.
He officially declared Paul VI to be a saint of the Catholic Church.
Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini, or as we sometimes call him, Formaldehyde Paul.
That's the apostate bishop who claimed to be Pope from 1963 until 1978,
and is the one individual most responsible,
for the wicked new church that the world has known since roughly the Second Vatican Council.
The Vatican II Church is essentially the creation of Paul VI.
His predecessor, John XXIII, had laid the groundwork.
And after Paul's death in 1978, his successors developed and perfected it all,
but he, Paul VI, is the one who really codified and properly instituted the whole thing.
No wonder that he died the way he did on August 6th,
1978.
Biographer Peter Heblithwaite writes about that day in his 1993 book,
Paul VI, the First Modern Pope, quote,
As mass ends, Paul has a massive heart attack.
It is as though he had exploded from within.
Reverend John McGee thinks he would have been thrown out of bed had his hand not been held.
Unquote.
As his body was transported from the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo to the Vatican,
Paul VI's body started decomposing very rapidly.
So much so that his body had to be injected with more formaldehyde
because his rotting corpse stunk so badly that they couldn't have held the funeral otherwise.
As he was lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica,
his skin began to turn dark,
and his odor of sanctity was so overwhelming
that fans had to be installed to keep people from falling into ecstasy,
if you know what I mean.
Yes,
this is part of the historical record,
and we even bothered to purchase the rights to be allowed to display the full picture
of his lying in state on our website,
where one big fan is visible right in front of his body.
You can read about and see that
if you go to
and click on the post dated October 14th entitled
A Tribute to Paul VI.
The supposed sainthood of Paul VI,
now declared officially by Francis,
is simply the latest definitive proof
that Francis cannot be the Pope of the Catholic Church.
The semi-traditionalists,
realizing that and not wanting to admit that Francis is not a true Pope,
of course have tried to find a way around this.
So we are once again hearing from them,
as we did years ago when John Paul II and John XXIII were canonized,
that either canonizations,
are not infallible,
or even if they are,
they don't really mean anything
other than that the canonized saint
somehow made it to heaven,
despite the sinful and scandalous life
he may have led.
This is the impious nonsense
non-Sedevacanist traditionalists are forced to argue
simply because they want to avoid the conclusion
of Sedevacantism.
And so they believe that a church
that can hold up an apostate destroyer of Catholicism,
such as Paul VI,
for the veneration and imitation of the faithful,
that's not a problem
and does not contradict the infallibility,
authority,
or even credibility of the church.
They would rather hold that
than to say that this blaspheming heretic,
Jorge Bergoglio,
who goes by the stage name of Francis,
is not the Pope of the Catholic Church.
It simply defies belief.
But while the semi-trads at the remnant,
one Peter,
five Catholic family news and wherever else,
will tell you that you don't have to
believe Paul VI is a saint,
the even bigger question for them is,
is one allowed to consider him a saint?
Is one allowed to venerate him,
imitate him,
and pray to him for intercession?
And of course,
for their position to be meaningful at all,
they would have to say no,
that that is not permitted either.
But then they have an insurmountable problem
because,
the person they insist
is the vicar of Christ
decreed the following three days ago.
Quote,
For the honor of the Blessed Trinity,
the exaltation of the Catholic faith,
and the increase of the Christian life
by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ
and of the holy apostles Peter and Paul
and our own,
after due deliberation and frequent prayer
for divine assistance,
and having sought the counsel
of many of our brother bishops,
we declare,
and define,
blessed Paul VI,
and he mentions six others,
to be saints,
and we enroll them among the saints,
decreeing that they are to be venerated as such
by the whole church,
in the name of the Father,
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Unquote.
So then the question is,
how can you say that
not only is one not bound to,
but one is not even allowed to
hold that Paul VI
is a saint
and is to be venerated
as one by the whole church?
Remember, according to them,
Francis is a true pope.
And that would mean
that the vicar of Christ,
about whom Christ said,
he who hears you hears me,
in Luke 10, 16,
that the vicar of Christ
just declared Giovanni Montini
for the honor of the Holy Trinity,
for the exaltation of the true faith,
and by the authority
of the holy apostles Peter and Paul
to be a saintly,
saint to be venerated
by all Catholics.
You can't just go in there
and say, well, I disagree.
If Francis is a true pope,
then this is an infallible decree.
The words alone show that.
At the very least,
it's authoritative and binding
and not subject to review
by your favorite columnist,
blogger, lawyer, or even cleric.
The papacy has consequences
to a faith that is not
a true pope.
If you affirm that Francis
is a true pope,
you must affirm of him
everything the church teaches
about the pope
and not just mention his name
in the mass
and say a few prayers for him
and put up as a picture
in the sacristy.
Now, of course,
the argument is made
that these canonizations
are not infallible
or not authoritative
or whatever
because the vetting process
for saints has been changed
so much since Vatican II
and really watered down
and therefore,
it's no longer valid.
It's no longer reliable.
And Chris Ferrara
just argued as much
in his latest
Fatima Perspectives column.
The problem with that argument
is that the infallibility
or authority
of the canonization of saints
is not based
upon the vetting process,
no matter how good
or bad it may be.
It's based upon
the infallibility
and authority
of the Catholic Church.
No process,
no matter how rigorous
and thorough
will ever be
infallible.
What's infallible
is the papal declaration.
The same goes
for the definition
of a dogma.
Before proclaiming
a dogma,
the Pope will commission
all kinds of theological
and historical research.
And he will ask the Church
to join him in prayer.
But in the end,
the dogmatic pronouncement
is guaranteed
by the infallibility
that God has granted
to his Pope
and his Church.
And so,
just as the infallibility
of the definition of the dogma
and the definitions
of the Immaculate Conception
and the Assumption,
for example,
is not rooted
in the theological research
done in preparation for them,
neither is the infallibility
of canonizations
based on the vetting process,
which is necessarily
always liable to error
because it is a human process.
All right,
let's move to something else
here before we go.
When Francis visited
the Baltic States last month,
as is his custom,
he met with the Jesuits there
and had a conversation with them.
And he said,
and had a little
question and answer session.
Here's one of the things he said.
Quote,
What needs to be done today
is to accompany the Church
in a deep spiritual renewal.
I believe the Lord
wants a change in the Church.
I have said many times
that a perversion of the Church
today is clericalism.
But 50 years ago,
the Second Vatican Council
said this clearly.
The Church is the people of God.
Read number,
12 of Lumen Gentium.
I know that the Lord
wants the Council
to make headway in the Church.
Historians tell us
that it takes 100 years
for Council to be applied.
We are halfway there.
So if you want to help me,
do whatever it takes
to move the Council forward
in the Church.
Unquote.
So that's it.
What we need is
more Vatican II.
Obviously.
I mean,
what else is there?
And finally rid the Church
of that wicked perversion
of clericalism
because Vatican II
obviously trumps
Christ's institution
of the Church as a hierarchy.
So finally,
some good old renewal
is in order.
Since the 1960s,
they've been renewing
the Church nonstop.
And now that they're looking
at the mess they made,
they're calling for renewal.
Folks,
they must think
we're all idiots.
But don't worry.
I'm pretty sure
the Novus Ordo sect
will not be around
in 50 years.
There's just no way.
They don't reproduce.
They don't attract vocations.
They're the epitome
of irrelevance in society.
And they're filled to the brim
with heresy,
sacrilege,
blasphemy,
and moral corruption.
And their solution
to every problem
is more Vatican II.
Well,
Saint Paul VI
would certainly be impressed.
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