TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Wednesday, June 16th, 2021.
Great news, everyone.
Francis has made it clear to seminarians that he will not tolerate perversion.
In an address to the community of the St. Pius X Pontifical Regional Seminary in Ancona, Italy,
given on June 10th, the papal imposter said,
quote,
Clericalism is a perversion of the priesthood.
It's a perversion.
And rigidity is one of the manifestations.
When I find a seminarian or a young priest who is rigid,
I say, something bad is happening to him inside.
Behind all rigidity,
there is a serious problem because rigidity lacks humanity.
Unquote.
Bam!
There goes yet another pope being all Catholic and all that.
So there, we have it.
If, on the other hand, seminarians engage in unspeakable acts,
then the papal response is,
who am I to judge?
Well, actually, let's see.
In 1 Corinthians 2.15, St. Paul says,
quote,
But the...
So, who is Francis to judge?
Well, obviously not the spiritual man.
All right.
While we're on the topic of the Frankster,
on June 10th, the false pope tweeted the following,
quote,
Perseverance is the gift of God by which all his other gifts are maintained.
Let us pray that as individuals and as church,
we might persevere in doing good
and not to lose sight of what counts.
Unquote.
Okay, it's nice to hear the Argentinian apostate talk about final perseverance for once,
but notice what he omits.
He makes no reference to the final goal.
He just talks generically about doing good.
But what is that?
And most of all, what for?
Doing good is wonderful, but it's not the goal.
It's only the means to the goal.
What is the goal?
Francis doesn't tell you.
Why not?
Because he's a naturalist,
and eternal beatitude in heaven is a supernatural goal.
See, Francis doesn't preach the true gospel from above.
He preaches the false gospel of man from below.
In other news,
on May 18th of this year,
1 Peter 5 published a heartfelt cry of desperation from a Novus Ordo seminarian
who is calling it quits because the Roman Catholic religion is simply not taught or practiced
in the Vatican II Church.
And so he asks,
Is there any reason why I should remain Catholic?
It's a really heart-wrenching piece because you can tell it comes from the heart of a
good-willed, sincere, and faithful Christian.
Sincere and pious soul who's just trying to be a faithful Catholic,
but is realizing that the religion he believes in is not welcome in the official structures
of what is supposedly the Roman Catholic Church.
Now, two days later, on May 20th,
a response to that piece was published also on 1 Peter 5 by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski.
It's entitled,
A Reply to the Discouraged Seminarist,
There are 6,000 reasons to remain Catholic.
But here's the rub.
Not a single one of those 6,000 reasons has anything to do with the Vatican II Church.
And what are those 6,000 reasons that Kwasniewski references?
Well, he says that the Catholic Church venerates at least 6,000 saints,
and he explicitly does not mean,
the post-Vatican II saint factory.
Meaning that, without question,
every single one of those 6,000 saints lived and died before Vatican II
and testified to the truth of the pre-Vatican II Church.
So, Kwasniewski is actually confirming the seminarian's very occasion of despair.
Namely, that the Church he accepts as the Roman Catholic Church today
the Vatican II Church,
gives one no reason to be a Catholic
and every reason not to be one.
In fact, as the seminarian is finding out,
one cannot really be a Catholic in it.
So, Kwasniewski has unwittingly proven the seminarian's very point.
Namely, that today's supposed Catholic Church
is an apostate institution.
But if today's Church is,
as Kwasniewski believes,
identical, in essence,
to the pre-Vatican II Church,
then that means that the Catholic Church has become apostate.
But if the Catholic Church has become apostate,
then it cannot be the Church founded by Jesus Christ.
The only way to get out of this conundrum
is to hold that the Vatican II Church is not the Roman Catholic Church.
Now, look, I'm not saying that we've got it all figured out, okay?
There is a lot of mystery here.
You know, people ask,
well, how did this happen, right?
How could this happen?
And what about Cardinal this and Bishop that?
How come they didn't see it?
Folks, at the end of the day,
we have to go by what we know
and what we know about the Vatican II Church now.
So, forget about what other people say.
Forget about what other people say.
Forget about what other people knew or didn't know or see decades ago.
You can't base your religion on an opinion.
And that's all it is.
People have the opinion that someone like, say,
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre or Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani
or Padre Pio,
that since these men weren't Sedevacantes,
then we shouldn't be either.
Well, for one thing,
Archbishop Lefebvre died in 1991,
Cardinal Ottaviani in 1991,
Cardinal Lefebvre in 1979,
and Padre Pio in 1968.
We've seen a lot more things than what they ever saw.
And we have a lot more information now than they did back then.
And without meaning to denigrate in any way
whatever good and holy things these three individuals may have said or done,
let me just make the objective observation
that no Catholic is required to believe
that any of them would be a Catholic.
That any of them was either exceptionally holy
or exceptionally prudent
or had any kind of special guidance from God
that we ought now to imitate.
On the other hand,
we are required to adhere firmly to Catholic teaching
and not to allow any individual cleric,
no matter how holy,
no matter how learned or how pious he appears to have been,
to trump that teaching.
And so,
in order to figure out this mess in the church today,
you have to look at the pre-Vatican II doctrines
and draw the conclusions that follow from them
for our situation.
You cannot outsource that
to some figure you've personally chosen
to attach yourself to.
And yet, that is precisely what happens
in these semi-traditionalist groups time and again,
especially those that aren't in full communion with Rome.
With Francis.
The Society of St. Pius X, for example,
is all concerned about being loyal to the Archbishop,
to Archbishop Lefebvre.
What they should be worried about
is being loyal to Catholic doctrine.
Now, they might say that Archbishop Lefebvre himself
was loyal to Catholic doctrine
and therefore being loyal to the Archbishop
is being loyal to Catholic doctrine.
But, funny, that's actually not what the doctrine says.
See, the doctrine says,
that the ultimate criterion
of your faithfulness to Catholic teaching
is your adherence to the Pope.
Therefore, you must be in communion with the Pope
and the one to determine whether you are or not
is not you, but the Pope.
The Pope, any true Pope,
is the divinely appointed guarantee of orthodoxy in the Church.
The papacy, you have to remember,
is a divine institution.
It is God's creation.
Not man's.
So, even though all other bishops in the world
might fall away from the faith,
the Bishop of Rome will not.
God himself guarantees it.
And now you can see the importance of Sedevacantism.
Because only if the papal claimants
after Pius XII were imposters,
were not true Popes,
only then can we understand
why the modernist revolution
was able to take place.
Why God's promises and guarantees
for the papacy didn't prevent it.
And yes, that is foretold in Sacred Scripture.
In 2 Thessalonians 2, verses 3 to 11.
Let me quote that to you.
And this time, I'm going to quote it
from the pre-Vatican tomb
and senior Ronald Knox translation,
which is easier to understand for most people
than the Douay-Rheims translation.
And perhaps it's a good thing
to hear this passage
in a different rendition for once.
So, this is St. Paul speaking.
Quote,
Do not let anyone find the means
of leading you astray.
The apostasy must come first.
The champion of wickedness
must appear first,
destined to inherit perdition.
This is the rebel
who is to lift up his head
above every divine name,
above all that men hold in reverence.
Till at last he enthrones himself
in God's temple
and proclaims himself as God.
Do not you remember
my telling you of this
before I left your company?
At present, there is a power,
you know what I mean,
which holds him in check
so that he may not show himself
before the time appointed to him.
Meanwhile,
the conspiracy of revolt
is already at work.
Only,
he who checks it now
will be able to check it
until he is removed
from the enemy's path.
Then it is
that the rebel will show himself
and the Lord Jesus will destroy him
with the breath of his mouth,
overwhelming him
with the brightness of his presence.
He will come when he comes
with all Satan's influence to aid him.
There will be no lack of power
of counterfeit signs and wonders
and his wickedness will deceive
the spirit of the devil.
There will be no lack of souls
that are doomed
to punish them
for refusing that fellowship
in the truth
which would have saved them.
That is why God is letting loose
among them a deceiving influence
so that they give credit
to falsehood.
He will single out for judgment
all those who refused
credence to the truth
and took their pleasure
in wrongdoing."
Again, that's 2 Thessalonians 2
verses 3 through 11.
And there we have it.
From the very beginning,
from Good Friday on,
when the Jews definitively rejected
the true Messiah
and so became apostate,
from that day on,
they have sought to supplant
his reign, his kingdom,
and to make war against it.
And that movement of apostasy
that they spawned
will culminate
in the reign of the Antichrist.
That's why St. Paul says,
that the apostasy
must come first
before Christ returns.
See, the Thessalonians
were under the impression
that Christ's return was imminent,
that they would live to see
the Lord return in glory.
And so in verses 1 and 2,
which I didn't quote,
he tells them,
no, don't let anyone tell you that
because other things
have to happen first.
Other things have to happen
before Christ returns.
And it is those things
that he then goes on
to describe.
This great movement
of apostasy then
that began on Good Friday
will not be victorious
until the appointed time,
just as Christ's enemies
were not able to overcome him
until Good Friday.
And not because they were
more powerful than him,
but because God wanted it that way.
God freely chose
to allow himself
to be overcome by his enemies
and so it will be.
And so it will be.
And so it was going to be
also with his church,
which is his mystical body.
Until the appointed time,
the movement of apostasy
could not succeed.
It could not usher in
this great and universal apostasy
that will produce the Antichrist
because, as St. Paul says,
there is someone
who keeps it in check,
someone who stands
in the enemy's path
until he is taken out of the way.
And who do you think
that is?
It is the Pope.
God established the papacy
as the divine guarantee
for the infallibility
and indefectibility
of the church.
But he also decreed
that the day would come
when the Pope is taken out of the way
for a time
so that the mystery of iniquity,
that movement of apostasy,
can prevail just as the Jews
and the Romans prevailed
against Christ
for a short time.
And so it will be.
For a short time.
And that is, in essence,
what Pope Pius IX teaches
in his 1853 encyclical
Inter Multiplicis.
Quote,
Now you know well
that the most deadly foes
of the Catholic religion
have always waged a fierce war,
but without success,
against this chair.
They are by no means ignorant
of the fact that religion itself
can never totter and fall
while this chair remains
in the hands of the Church.
and fall while this chair remains
intact,
the chair which rests on the rock
which the proud gates of hell
cannot overthrow,
and in which there is
the whole and perfect solidity
of the Christian religion.
Therefore,
because of your special faith
in the Church
and special piety
toward the same chair of Peter,
we exhort you
to direct your constant efforts
so that the faithful people of France
may avoid the crafty deceptions
and errors
of these plotters
and develop a more filial affection
and obedience
to this apostolic sea.
Be vigilant in act and word
so that the faithful may grow in love
for this holy sea,
venerated and accepted
with complete obedience.
They should execute
whatever the sea itself
teaches, determines, and decrees.
Unquote.
Again, that's the encyclical
Inter Multiplicis,
paragraph 17,
so Pius IX
is warning people
against the fierce attacks
of that movement of apostasy,
which of course
has many different manifestations.
It's not just one doctrine
or a group of people.
For example,
you've got Protestantism,
you've got Freemasonry,
you've got Communism,
you've got Theosophy,
and so on.
He's warning people
that all this is striving
against the chair of St. Peter.
But won't be able to prevail
for as long as that chair
remains intact.
And therefore he exhorts people
in order to ensure
that they will not be misled
by this evil movement,
by all these evil ideas,
he exhorts them
to complete loyalty
and obedience
to the apostolic sea.
The papacy is the very antidote
to the garbage
we are witnessing today
that is being put out there.
And that is being pushed
by this false church in Rome.
Yes, it is a false church.
We know that.
We know that an institution
that teaches liberty,
equality, and fraternity
instead of faith, hope, and charity,
that rejoices at the Hindu festival of lights
and wishes Muslims
that they draw abundant spiritual fruit
from their observance of Ramadan,
a church that believes
the apostate Jews
to be God's chosen people
and worships Pachamama
in St. Peter's Basilica,
a church that teaches
that the sixth commandment
is really more of a suggestion
that would be ideal to follow
if it doesn't conflict too much
with your life,
a church that claims
that God wills there
to be many different religions
as a reflection of his wisdom.
Such a church
may be a lot of things,
but it is definitely not.
The Roman Catholic Church,
the spotless bride of Christ,
an ark of eternal salvation
outside of which
no one can be saved.
Folks, figuring this out
is not that difficult.
Uncomfortable?
Yes, certainly.
Inconvenient?
Definitely.
Puzzling?
For sure.
But nevertheless, true.
And the truth,
as our blessed Lord says
in John 8, 13,
will make us free.
So, what to do?
If you're new to Sedevacantism,
if you're bewildered
about everything,
if you just need
some consoling words
and helpful guidance
to help you figure things out,
go to
novusordowatch.org
slash nowwhat.
That will give you
a lot of information
and not leave you hanging.
Again, that's
novusordowatch.org
slash nowwhat.
That's one word.
Now what?
And so you see that
the semi-traditionalists
like Peter Kwasniewski,
those recognizing resistors
who think that you can be
a Roman Catholic
in the Vatican II Church,
you just have to resist
all the evil there
while recognizing
the hierarchy as true,
make a mockery
of the very traditional
Catholic doctrine
they supposedly seek to uphold
and say, well, I don't know.
I don't know.
St. Ambrose said
that where Peter is,
there is the Church,
meaning where the Pope is,
there is the Church.
Now when there hasn't been
a Pope for decades,
it is then understandably
very difficult
to answer the question
where is the Church?
But answering that question
begins with knowing
where the Church is not.
And if there's one place
where the Roman Catholic Church
is definitely not,
it is the apostate Vatican II sect
currently headed
by Jorge Bergoglio.
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