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We call them semi-trads here, have been reacting to Francis.
I mean, there's a man who for over seven years now has done everything in his power
to convince people that he's not the Pope, but they won't believe it.
Take, for example, what Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò writes
in an October 22nd reaction to Francis' comments on civil unions for sodomites,
which I'm sure you've all heard about.
Basically, Viganò says that he believes Francis is deliberately trying to get faithful Catholics
to rebel against him so he can then exclude them from the Church
and denounce them as schismatics and enemies of the Church and the Pope.
Viganò writes that he thinks it is the goal of Bergoglio and his magic circle
to reach the paradoxical situation in which the one who is recognized as Pope
is at the center of the world.
At the same time, in a state of schism with the Church he governs,
while those who are declared by him to be schismatic for disobedience
will find themselves expelled from the Church because of the fact that they are Catholic.
Unquote.
Now, I know this may sound really insightful and profound at first,
but this is theological chaos.
According to Catholic dogma, the Pope is the principle of unity.
Union with the Pope is the principle of unity.
Union with the Pope is necessary for salvation.
Now, if the Pope could fall away from the faith or separate from the Church
and nevertheless be a valid Pope, you would have an impossible situation.
On the one hand, you'd have to be in union with him
because you're required to be in union with the Pope.
On the other hand, you'd not be permitted to be in union with him
because you're not allowed to be in union with heretics or schismatics.
So, it would be an impossible situation.
Impossible.
Not just unlikely or hard to understand,
but impossible because it would be a contradiction.
So, once again, Bergoglio is making it so obvious, so clear that he cannot be the Pope.
And yet, no matter how obvious it is, the semi-trads refuse to accept the reality.
They seriously think that one can be the Pope, but they don't.
They think that one can be a faithful Catholic in union with the Pope by refusing him submission
and that the Pope himself is a schismatic by making those faithful Catholics refuse him submission
by teaching things they can't accept.
Is your head spinning yet?
This is a complete and total mess with no basis in traditional Catholic doctrine or Church history.
And yet, the semi-trads are advancing this narrative because otherwise,
they would have to be Sedevacantists, and they don't want to be Sedevacantists.
In fact, Sedevacantism is denounced by them as the human solution to it all,
as Bishop Athanasius Schneider did during the so-called Catholic Identity Conference
that took place last weekend, sponsored by The Remnant.
Sedevacantism? The human solution? Really?
Now, isn't that curious? Let's see.
We're saying that since the Vatican II Church has not retained the faith,
but contradicted and betrayed it, teaching as Catholic doctrine what was previously sternly condemned by the Church
and what leads to perdition, giving us fake sacraments and all kinds of other evils,
it therefore cannot be the Catholic Church founded by Christ as the indefectible Ark of Salvation.
And neither can its heads be true Popes, therefore.
That's not a human solution.
It's not a solution at all, really.
It's just diagnosing the problem in accord with Catholic doctrine.
And so we beg God to fix this mess because we can't figure out how to fix it ourselves,
at least not in the practical order.
That's all we're saying.
The Semitrads, on the other hand, are the ones with the human solution
because they're treating the Catholic Church as though it were a merely human institution.
They think that apart from the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church is a human institution.
Apart from ex cathedra pronouncements, the Pope can teach all kinds of heresies
and so mislead the entire Church.
He's just not supposed to do that.
And when he does teach such infernal doctrines,
it's necessary for the faithful to rise up and courageously oppose him,
according to the Semitrad view of things.
The faithful are then called to heroically endure the state of affairs
as a kind of ecclesiastical calvary
until a future Pope, one day,
comes to his senses and says,
as determined by them, of course,
and annuls all the errors and heresies and fake saints
and invalid sacraments of the last few decades.
And then somehow that will all be binding again, of course,
necessary for all the faithful to accept,
just like in ages past.
That is essentially what they hold,
and what is that, if not a human solution?
How is that treating the Catholic Church any differently
from any other organization in this world?
And yet these people have the gall
to accuse us Sedevacanists of proposing a human solution.
You have got to be kidding.
We're just applying Catholic doctrine,
which, by the way, is divinely sanctioned.
We're just applying Catholic doctrine
to the situation at hand
and removing ourselves
from what can clearly be identified as a false Church.
How is that a human solution?
And now Archbishop,
is essentially saying that
France's attempt to rid his Church of Catholics
is yet another reason for remaining in that Church
and attached to him.
That is insane.
No matter what the guy does,
these people just refuse to believe that he's not the Pope.
It is absurd.
As one anonymous Twitter user put it the other day,
quote,
Don't tell me that Sedevacantism means
that the gates of hell have prevailed
when your Pope is standing at the gates of hell
ushering people in.
Unquote.
All right, there's been a lot of news as of late
and so we need to move along
and also look at some other stories.
Here, my favorite headline of the last few days.
I'm not making this up.
Listen to this.
It was on Catholic News Agency,
October 19th, 2020.
The headline reads,
Vatican asks UN
to eliminate the risks
of satellite collisions in outer space.
Now, that headline really reflects
the absurdity that we're in.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket,
but the Vatican is concerned
about satellite collisions in outer space.
I mean, does it get any more tone deaf than that?
No, no.
It's not wrong to worry about
potential collisions in outer space.
That's totally fine.
That's not the issue.
The issue is the misplaced priority.
It is not the task of an institution
that claims to be the Roman Catholic Church
to involve itself in every possible earthly concern,
especially not if at the same time
the real and supernatural tasks are being neglected.
Christ commanded us to make disciples of all nations,
not to solve or prevent every problem in society.
When the apostles began,
they said,
when they're preaching,
they weren't going around to discuss
unemployment or sustainable agriculture.
As noble and important as those things
might have been in themselves,
that just wasn't their job.
As St. John the Baptist said in John 3, 31,
he that is of the earth,
of the earth he is,
and of the earth he speaketh.
At this point,
the Vatican is basically
the United Nations at prayer,
and I'm not so sure about the prayer part.
Then we have an interesting tidbit
from France's general audience
last Wednesday, October 21st.
He said,
quote,
if you pray many rosaries each day
but then gossip about others
and nourish grudges inside if you hate others,
this is truly artificial.
It is not true.
Unquote.
Now, let me first say that of course he's right
in saying that your rosaries won't do you any good
if you're not willing to give up sin.
You can't do that.
You can't love God without loving your neighbor.
So there's nothing wrong with that.
However, I'd like to point out that
France's never says that your rosaries
won't do you any good
if at the same time you have no intention
of abandoning impurity.
If you cross-dress,
if you're living in an illicit relationship,
if you're stubbornly clinging to heresy
or to so-called abortion rights, etc.
No, when it comes to those things,
then France's will either be silent
or appeal to God.
Appeal to compassion, mercy,
who am I to judge, yada yada.
But heaven forbid,
you should be a devout Catholic
and perhaps struggle with certain sins
concerning your neighbor.
Then France's will throw those rosary beads
right in your face.
A double standard?
Imagine that.
And finally, a headline on Vatican News today.
Pope Francis dreams of a Europe of solidarity
and respect for all people.
Isn't that lovely?
Yeah, you know, that's what a Freemason
or a naturalist would dream about,
but not a Catholic.
See, a real Catholic, especially a true Pope,
would dream of a Europe that is Catholic,
in which Christ is recognized as King
not only by individuals and families,
but by societies and nations,
and where the people and the governments
submit themselves to the sweet yoke of his law
and where sanctifying grace
adheres to the faith.
Adorns the souls of all.
That is what a real Pope would want for Europe.
Now, I know that the first objection people will have
is that, oh man, that's totally unrealistic.
Well, let me say two things about that.
Number one, nothing is impossible with God,
oh ye of little faith.
Of course, it's unrealistic if you think of it
in merely natural terms
and leave out of account
the supernatural assistance of God and his grace.
Number two,
it's not just that Francis isn't dreaming
of a Catholic Europe for the immediate future,
he doesn't want a Catholic Europe at all,
not even as the ideal.
So don't fall for the specious arguments about,
oh yeah, that's what Francis would want eventually,
but, you know, you've got to take baby steps at first.
No, he doesn't want it even as the ideal.
His ideal world is the one described in Fratelli Tutti,
where there are not faith, hope, and charity,
but liberty, equality, and fraternity,
a Masonic paradise that is ready for the Antichrist.
Looks like Archbishop Viganò, the remnant,
and the rest of the Semitrads
are going to be resisting for decades to come.
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