Tradcast Express, it's Friday, July 12th, 2019.
The actual news headlines these days are beyond parody or fiction.
For example, consider this one from the British Daily Mail dated July 11th.
Yeah, that's where we're at now in terms of headlines.
But hey, when people accept a public apostate as the Pope of the Catholic Church, anything is possible.
Which reminds me of a recent post at the Non Veni Pacem blog.
On July 3rd, a post was published with the title,
Count Me In, Moral Certitude.
And the Invalid Abdication of Pope Benedict XVI Still Reigning.
So, this idea that Benedict XVI didn't really resign or didn't resign validly,
we've termed it resignationism, others call it benevacantism,
this idea is appealing to more and more people, it seems.
People who simply cannot take Francis anymore.
And of course, what better way out than to point at the other guy in white in Vatican City,
saying that he is the Pope instead.
See, just in terms of externals, you know, the papal regalia and the title and the name and the reclusion and the Vatican,
just in terms of externals, it's not nearly so crazy as sedevacantism is always claimed to be, right?
So, those who can see that Catholicism is done for if Francis is a valid Pope,
can conveniently now switch back to Ratzinger.
Benedict XVI.
And then all is saved.
Right?
Well, that's what they think.
But have these people ever considered that that was maybe the game plan all along?
Have they ever given any thought to the idea that,
considering what we know about Ratzinger,
who is no less heretical than Francis, he's just more circumspect about it,
that this whole weird resignation and Pope Emeritus circus
was created precisely so that Francis,
could shift the apostasy into highest gear,
and they wouldn't have to worry about driving everyone to sedevacantism?
Because those who can see that there's no way that Francis is Pope,
now have a new alternative to fall back on.
Benedict, the real Pope, hiding in Vatican City.
And that's where this post comes in that I just mentioned at the Non Veni Pacem blog.
There, the author outlines why he thinks Benedict's resignation
was invalid and concludes,
And this is what gets me.
The reason for concluding that Francis is an antipope,
which is obviously true,
the reason he gives for concluding,
is not the heaps and heaps of heresy and apostasy he's been spouting for years
and the poison he's been infusing into countless souls who believe him to be the Pope.
No, it's Ratzinger's idiotic view of the papacy as a kind of quasi-diarchy instead of a monarchy,
which is probably a heresy, by the way.
It's that bizarre idea that somehow keeps him not from ever being Pope, mind you,
but from not being Pope.
This is completely loony.
And that's the Anne Barnhart argument.
Benedict is in substantial error about what the papacy is,
and therefore he cannot validly resign it.
Well, hello, if he is substantially in error about the essence of the papacy,
such that it would render his resignation invalid,
then he cannot validly accept the office to begin with.
If it invalidates his resignation,
then it also invalidates his acceptance.
So, this is absolutely amazing,
but it shows what Novus Ordoism can do to souls.
Truckloads of heresy and apostasy have not been able to convince these people
that Bergoglio is not the Pope,
but when it comes to Ratzinger's resignation,
suddenly they discover moral certitude.
Unbelievable.
All right, let's move on to something else.
The Roman Curia of the Novus Ordo Church is about to get an extra infusion,
of estrogen.
The so-called Catholic News Service reports in an article on July 8th
that Francis has named seven women
to be full members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life
and Societies of Apostolic Life.
And yes, that is a first,
even for the modernist sect occupying Vatican City.
Then, in an interview given to the Argentinian paper La Nación,
that was published in the newspaper La Nación,
that was published this past Monday,
the Frankster said that he would like to visit his native Argentina next year.
Yeah, the question is just whether anyone there actually wants to see him,
because they know him very well there,
and the facade of the jolly and humble Pope who loves everybody
isn't going to fly that well.
You know, Francis has visited so many countries in the last six years
that it's become painfully obvious that he's not going to be able to visit them.
It's obvious that there's one nation he's been avoiding like the plague,
his own, Argentina.
And from the beginning, he made excuses
for why he just wouldn't be able to go there just yet.
And so, in my opinion, he knows that after six years,
no excuse is going to work anymore.
So, he knows he'll just have to bite the bullet and go.
So, yeah, my opinion is that the official plan
is to visit in 2020,
but then something will probably come up
and he'll have to postpone it till 2021.
And he's probably hoping he'll die before then,
but that's probably not going to happen.
All right.
Lastly, a very conservative Novus Ordo priest
has been excommunicated by his supposed bishop.
No, not for abusing anyone or anything.
He would have just been moved to a different parish for that.
No.
He did something that,
gets Novus Ordo bishops really upset,
where they have no sense of humor and no tolerance.
He took issue with the spirit of Vatican II
and some things done and said by the Novus Ordo popes.
Now, that is the one thing you cannot do
in the Vatican II church,
as the moniker kind of suggests.
When it comes to supposedly Catholicism,
like politicians voting for abortion, for example,
or for using federal funds to support the dismemberment
of children in the womb and the sale of their body parts,
that's when Novus Ordo bishops count on dialogue
and tolerance and the primacy of conscience.
Besides, they discover that excommunicating such people
would be a martyrs and really would not accomplish anything anyway.
But when it comes to an issue they actually care about,
like making sure people don't even think about
questioning Vatican II or all those sainted popes
that the council cranked out in bulk,
that's where they swiftly exercise the full force
of their putative authority.
And so on July 8th, Church Militant published an article
entitled Priest Excommunicated Parish Closed
After Criticism of Conciliar Popes.
Let me quote from this piece a little bit.
Quote,
The priest of the personal ordinariate of the chair of St. Peter
has been excommunicated and his parish permanently closed
months after he criticized certain actions of various popes
both during and after the Second Vatican Council.
On April 1st, Bishop Stephen J. Lopes announced
he had issued a decree of excommunication
against Father Von Trecco,
pastor of St. Bede the Venerable in suburban Minneapolis,
citing rejection of the majesty,
the ministerial authority of an ecumenical council,
and a series of popes.
The charge stems from a homily Father Trecco delivered
on November 25th, 2018,
the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
The first signs of trouble came on December 11th
when Father Trecco was contacted by
Ordinariate Vicar General Father Timothy Perkins.
Father Perkins denounced the homily as tantamount to heresy
and ordered Trecco to fly to Texas
for a meeting with the Pope.
Trecco met with Bishop Stephen Lopes,
head of the personal Ordinariate.
The following day, Father Trecco met with Bishop Lopes,
Vicar General Perkins, and Father Richard Kramer,
Director of Vocations at the Ordinariate's Houston Chancery.
And this is where it gets interesting.
You see, Trecco was asked to affirm
that he acknowledges the validity of the Second Vatican Council
and the legitimacy of the papal claimants
John XXIII, Paul XXIII,
John Paul I, John Paul II,
Benedict XVI, and Francis,
even though nothing he had said
had indicated otherwise.
How about that?
See, there's one thing and one thing only
that these people are really nervous about,
questioning the legitimacy of Vatican II
and the modernist monsters
that have masqueraded as Catholic popes since then.
And the reason?
The reason is simply this.
It's the entire basis of their religion.
If you take that away, it all collapses.
There's nothing left.
If you deny the papal claims of these charlatans
and the abominable robber senate
that is the foundation of their new religion,
you're pulling the rug out
from underneath their entire modernist edifice.
Take it all away,
and what is left of the Vatican II religion?
Nothing.
It's over.
Their religion begins with John XXIII in 1958.
They may let you have the Latin Mass,
but boy, you are not going to get from them
the old faith,
the religion of Pope Pius XII
and his predecessors.
Ladies and gentlemen,
when was the last time you heard about
a Novus Ordo priest being called in by the bishop
because of what he had said in a sermon?
See, somehow that never happens
for any of the countless garbage sermons
most Novus Ordo priests preach every Sunday.
It only happens when someone passionately preaches
something that resembles Catholicism.
Then, all hell breaks loose.
Let me quote a little more
from the Church Militant article.
Quote,
In spite of Father Treco's pledges of fidelity,
Bishop Lopes dismissed his personal profession of faith,
accusing the priest of fomenting schism within the Church.
As Father Treco and his backers point out,
the bishop has refused to specify
how and where in his homily
Father Treco incited schism,
noting that instead Lopes has lobbed accusations
only in general terms.
Unquote.
See, I find that a bit funny.
I mean, here this bishop jokester is insistent
on accepting Vatican II
and then pretends to be all concerned
about schism.
Well, has he not learned from the council
that schismatic sects are used by the Holy Ghost
as means of salvation?
Doesn't he know that schismatics are also
baptized brothers in Christ
whose sacraments give access to salvation?
Doesn't he know that he's in at least partial communion
with schismatics who are not lacking
in so many gifts
that help to build up the body of Christ?
I mean, where has this man been?
I think the real question is,
does he accept Vatican II?
So anyway, Mr. Lopes charged Mr. Treco
with a public act of schism
but refused to identify exactly
how this delict had been committed
even after being asked to do so.
Treco assured him he would be happy
to recant anything contrary to the faith
but that he's not aware of having stated
anything contrary to it.
Well, that wasn't good enough
for the pretender.
Well, that wasn't good enough for the pretender.
And he proceeded to excommunicate Treco
and on May 19th, the entire parish
was shut down.
Folks, I don't say it with glee
but with charity.
This is what you get
when you hold that modernists
can rule the Catholic Church.
If you acknowledge
as legitimate Catholic shepherds
people who are public modernists
then don't complain
if they give you
and enforce modernism.
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