It's Friday, July 16th, 2021.
Today's podcast program is not going to be a gloat fest.
It is a serious analysis of today's developments put together with genuine Christian charity
and solicitude for souls.
It will be challenging to many, but it will also contain a little bit of humor.
What will be said is not to condemn people, but to reach them.
It is not a big, I told you so.
So please listen to it attentively and listen all the way to the end.
God bless you.
All right, folks, the party is over.
Today, the false pope in Rome, the Argentinian layman Jorge Bergoglio,
stage name Francis, with the stroke of a pen, abrogated, suppressed, rescinded the 2007
motu proprio letter Summorum Pontificum of Father Joseph Ratzinger, stage name Benedict
XVI, concerning the use of the traditional Latin mass.
Well, technically, it's the Roncalli Missal of 1962, but for all intents and purposes,
we're talking about.
The traditional mass.
Today's podcast will be divided into three parts.
First, we'll go through the new norms established by Francis.
Second, we'll look at the accompanying explanatory letter that Francis released together with the
document.
And third, we'll provide some commentary on these developments to put everything in perspective.
So here we go.
Summorum Pontificum is history.
In its place, Francis has put his own norms, which are more restrictive even than those
of John Paul II's Ecclesia Dei of 1988.
The new norms reestablish the need for an indult, that is, a special permission from
the local bishop to offer the traditional mass.
The document Francis released today is the motu proprio letter Tradiciones Custodes,
which means,
guardians of tradition, by which he is referring to the diocesan bishops.
Here is a brief summary of the new norms, which are, in effect, immediately.
There is no more ordinary or extraordinary form.
The Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI is the unique expression of the Lex Orandi of the Roman
Rite.
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bishop alone gets to regulate the liturgical celebrations in his diocese. The diocesan bishop
is to determine whether any of the Latin mass groups in his diocese deny the validity or
legitimacy of the Novus Ordo Mise, the new mass. The diocesan bishop is to designate specific
locations where Latin mass goers may gather for their Eucharistic celebration. That's how
Francis phrased it. It cannot be in parochial churches and no new personal parishes may be
established. At those locations where the traditional mass is permitted, the diocesan
bishop is to establish specific days on which the traditional Latin mass
may be held.
When it is offered, the readings, meaning the epistle and the gospel, of the Latin mass must
be read in the vernacular language using a translation that the respective episcopal
conference has approved for liturgical use. The diocesan bishop is to appoint a suitable priest
who is entrusted not only with the celebration of the traditional missal, but also,
with the pastoral care of the people who attend it. He is to be animated by a lively pastoral
charity and by a sense of ecclesial communion, who also takes spiritual care of the people.
No new Latin mass communities or groups are to be established.
Priests who are currently using the 1962 missal must request permission from the local
bishop to continue doing so. Priests who want to offer the traditional mass for the first time
after the publication of this decree must request permission from their bishop,
who in turn must first consult the Holy See before granting that permission.
Anything contradicting this new decree, Francis hereby abrogates no matter its authority.
And finally, this new decree is in force immediately and will be published in the
Acts of the Apostolic See, the official Vatican organ of promulgation. So these are the most
important stipulations of the new decree, and it's obvious Francis is slowly phasing out
the traditional Latin mass. Now, though I enjoy predicting things,
I found out that the new decree is a very important one. I found out that the new decree is a very important
I'm not very good at it, especially not when it comes to Francis.
But I think that there are some effects that one can safely predict for sure.
First, there will be great confusion, especially because the decree is already in effect.
There are going to be all kinds of questions as to what is and isn't permissible now,
what the correct interpretation should be, and that will just generate chaos.
And Mr. Zuhlstorff, Father Z, is already talking about this on his blog.
When Benedict XVI established Summorum Pontificum in 2007, he allowed over two months before the
decree would take effect. Francis, on the other hand, wastes no time and makes his decree effective
right away. The second effect that we can predict is that there will be a lot of people who will be
there will be dioceses in which the traditional missal is severely curtailed immediately,
and there will be dioceses where the bishop will be very lenient and generous in allowing things to
pretty much go on as before, and at least until further notice. So you will have a sort of
good bishop, bad bishop kind of division, pretty much like before Summorum Pontificum.
Third, the semi-traditionalist pundits and
commentators in the Vatican II Church will try to come up with all kinds of arguments
for why Francis' decree Traditiones Custodes is not binding, not truly a law, can be ignored,
resisted, and so on, as they've already begun doing. Fourth, this development will drive a lot
of people to the Lefebvris, to the Society of St. Pius X, because since they don't submit to Francis,
they can't do anything about it. So they're not going to do anything about it. So they're going to
care less about what he decrees about the Mass. They're doing their own thing. So a lot of people
will simply go there if they can't get what they want from their diocese. And yes, we Sedevacantists
will also see an uptick in our churches, especially in areas where there is no Society of St. Pius X.
Those, I think, are consequences we can definitely expect. And now on to the second part of the
podcast. Together with the release of Traditiones Custodes, Francis also published an accompanying
letter to his bishops explaining his reasons for taking this step of suppressing Samorum Pontificum.
The letter is 13 paragraphs long, but we don't need to go through the whole thing. We can just
look at the more salient points. First, Francis goes back to the reasons John Paul II and Benedict
XVI had.
For allowing the wider use of the 1962 Missal, which Benedict called the extraordinary form of
the one Roman Rite. And Francis points out quite correctly that it was to keep those who prefer
the traditional Mass from leaving the Church, essentially. And of course, he means the Vatican
II Church. But now, after well over a decade of Samorum Pontificum, Francis found out that the
by means of surveying every diocese in the world, that a lot of people, not excluding priests in
those traditional Latin Mass communities, are opposed to some degree or another to both the
Second Vatican Council and also the new Mass of Paul VI, the Novos Ordo Missae, which was
instituted around 1970. Francis writes the following in his letter, quote,
But I am nonetheless saddened that the instrumental use of Missale Romanum, the Roman Missal, of 1962
is often characterized by a rejection not only of the liturgical reform, but of the Vatican Council
to itself, claiming with unfounded and unsustainable assertions that it betrayed the tradition and the
true Church, unquote. And he puts,
true Church, in quotes. Now, this is very interesting, because that is exactly what a lot of the
traditional Mass people in the Vatican II Church believe, that the Council and the new Mass are a
betrayal of the faith. Because, of course, they are. So, Francis is actually spot on in his analysis.
The problem is that he's representing the wrong side.
Quote,
I belong to Paul. I belong instead to Apollo. I belong to Cephas. I belong to Christ. Here he's
quoting the first letter of the Corinthians. Against which the Apostle Paul so vigorously
reacted, in defense of the unity of the body of Christ, I am constrained to revoke the faculty
granted by my predecessors. The distorted use that has been made of this faculty is contrary
to the intention of the Church of Christ. I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my
predecessors. I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my predecessors. I am constrained to
that led to granting the freedom to celebrate the Mass with the Massale Romanum of 1962, unquote.
From his perspective, from Francis' perspective, from the perspective of Vatican II and the new
Mass being good and legitimate, this is entirely right and makes perfect sense. See, from the very
beginning, the traditional Mass indult was meant to keep people from defecting from the new Mass.
But now that Francis has discovered that it has become a sort of beacon against Vatican II and the
new Mass, well, of course, it only makes sense for him to forbid it. Now, there is one sentence in the
text at which I burst out laughing, and it's this one. Francis writes, quote, Vatican Council II,
while it reaffirmed the external bonds of
incorporation in the Church, the profession of faith, the sacraments of communion, affirmed with
St. Augustine that to remain in the Church, not only with the body, but also with the heart,
is a condition for salvation, unquote. I had to laugh at that, because here Francis suddenly
pretends to be concerned about the salvation of souls. If there's one thing in the world that
this man doesn't care about, it's the salvation of souls. And if there's one thing in the world
that this man doesn't care about, it's the salvation of souls. Remember, this guy believes that good
atheists go to heaven, that God wants there to be a diversity of different religions, and that people
from any religion are part of the people of God. Now, for him to now feign concern for the salvation
of souls is hypocrisy on stilts. This man's doctrine of salvation is basically soup kitchens
and a hug. Now, further on in his explanatory letter on Tradiciones Custodes, Francis writes
the following about the traditional Roman rite, quote,
unquote. Yeah, that worked out great, didn't it? Look, the average Novus Ordo pew-sitter is
utterly clueless about Catholic doctrine on the Holy Mass, and chances are you agree with that
assessment.
If you're listening to this podcast.
Next, Francis tells something very significant to us bishops. He says,
quote, it is up to you to authorize in your churches as local ordinaries the use of the
Massale Romanum of 1962, applying the norms of the present motu proprio. It is up to you
to proceed in such a way as to return to a unitary form of celebration and to determine
case by case the reality of the groups which celebrate with this Massale Romanum. Indications
about how to proceed in your dioceses are chiefly dictated by two principles. On the one hand,
to provide for the good of those who are rooted in the previous form of celebration
and need to return in due time to the Roman rite promulgated by Saints Paul VI and John Paul II.
And, on the other hand, to discontinue the erection of new personal parishes tied more to
the desire and wishes of individual priests than to the real need of the holy people of God.
Unquote.
Bam!
So, the matter is clear. Francis wants to phase out the traditional Mass. He wants a
return to a unitary form of celebration of Mass,
which is to say, to return to a unitary form of celebration of Mass, which is to say, to return to a
which is the Novus Ordo Missae of Saint Paul VI, who upon his death stunk so badly that they had to
open the casket and put more formaldehyde in it for the funeral, but that's not our topic now.
Ladies and gentlemen, this whole narrative of how Benedict has freed the Mass, and now it will all
be going back to the way it was before Vatican II, brick by brick, that narrative,
was fantasy. It was the illusions or deliberate deceptions of false prophets.
There's a little commentary there by me. Francis ends his letter on a funny note,
saying that he wants his bishops to, quote,
be vigilant in ensuring that every liturgy be celebrated with decorum and fidelity to the
liturgical books promulgated after Vatican Council II.
Without the eccentricities that can easily degenerate into abuses, unquote.
Yeah, yeah, that's the guy talking who had a tango Mass in Buenos Aires, and at whose World Youth
Day Mass in 2013, the Novus Ordo Eucharist was distributed from disposable plastic cups.
Yeah, that guy is concerned about liturgical abuse. About as much as he is about the salvation of the
souls. All right, thus far the two documents issued by the false pope today, and now for some
commentary. What we're witnessing here, ladies and gentlemen, is the inevitable consequence of the
radical incompatibility of the real Roman Catholic Mass with the new religion of Vatican II. The two
simply do not go together, and that is why there will always be a conflict between the two.
There will always be a conflict between the two. There will always be a conflict between the two.
There will always be tension between the two, and in the end, the one must give way to the other.
See, the traditional Roman Mass is the liturgical expression of the traditional Roman Catholic
faith. The new Mass of 1969 and after is the liturgical expression of the Vatican II religion.
But the Roman Catholic faith is not compatible with the Vatican II religion,
and so neither is the traditional Roman Rite compatible with the Novus Ordo Rite.
Ratzinger used his Hegelian mind to come up with this idea of two forms of the same single Roman
Rite, but that was pure fiction, dreamed up to keep people from abandoning the Vatican II church.
And we told you that at Novus Ordo Watch from the beginning. But a lot of people didn't want to hear
that.
It was so much more comforting to live in La La Land with Ratzinger and all the beautiful externals,
and so the reassuring lie was preferred over the inconvenient truth.
The one thing every practicing Catholic comes most frequently in contact with is Sunday Mass.
It's not a papal encyclical, it's not catechism class, it's not a papal address, it's Mass. So
when the
traditional Latin Mass became widely available with Summorum Pontificum, that allowed people
to mask the ugly reality of the Vatican II church. Even though Francis taught and legislated all
sorts of crazy, blasphemous, heretical, evil things, people still had their Mass. And so in
their own little world, all was well. They could pretty much tune out of the Novus Ordo religion,
and just hide. And as long as they acknowledged Francis as Pope, so they thought they were faithful
Catholics, even though it would never occur to them for a moment to actually accord him what
Catholic dogma and doctrine teach about the papacy. Chad Ripperger, Peter Kwasniewski, Taylor Marshall,
and Steve Skojec were their sources for theology, not the pre-Vatican II theology books.
That traditional Catholic mask over the gruesome reality of the apostate Vatican II church
made everything somewhat bearable. And so now everyone is in meltdown mode because Francis
has done the unthinkable. He has stripped that mask away, revealing in all its ugliness
the truth about the Vatican II church.
Come on, folks, you know that the thought of assisting at the regular Novus Ordo Mass in the
local parish is insufferable for most of the recognize and resist traditionalists who
found their safe Samorum Pontificum haven somewhere. And here I'm not trying to assign
personal blame or judge anyone or measure people's guilt or any of that, okay? That's not what this
is about. It's totally understandable, humanly speaking, right? These people,
they just want to be Catholics. They want to be left alone. They don't want Pachamama. They don't
want Laudato Si' or human fraternity. They don't want Vatican II. They don't want the new mass.
They don't want any of this garbage. I totally commiserate. But the reality is what it is.
The Vatican II sect is an infernal counterfeit of the Roman Catholic church, and Francis has
bent over backwards to make that clear.
Come on, folks, the truth of the matter is staring us all in the face.
And so today, God has given the world a great grace, actually. He has allowed Francis to remove
the traditional mask that was Samorum Pontificum. Look at it. Look at what you see now. Is that
the Catholic church Jesus Christ built and established?
Is that the Ark of Salvation, which God has guaranteed will never fail? Does the man you
believe as Pope have the unfailing faith of Peter, as Vatican I teaches? What is the point
of a church that must constantly be resisted in order not to go to hell?
Is that the church Christ established? Is that the church you teach your children Christ established?
Other than a kind of outward organizational continuity, what sort of continuity,
what identity does this apostate Vatican II church have with the Roman Catholic church
of Pope Pius XII? So, obviously, the question is, what happened here? Where is the Catholic church?
Folks, I wish I had a clean, easy answer, but I'm afraid it's all very difficult to answer. So,
complicated. There's much we don't know, but we can't run away from this, because these are the
cards we've been dealt. And that starts with acknowledging that we don't have all the answers,
although we do have some. And so, we have to proceed very systematically, very methodically.
And that means that we can and must reject what is a genuine contradiction,
because contradiction is a contradiction. And so, we have to proceed very systematically,
are always impossible. That's why I always say that knowing where the church is begins by knowing
where she is not. And so, we know that the apostate establishment currently occupying
the beautiful Catholic buildings in the Vatican cannot be the Roman Catholic church. It cannot be
because that church in the Vatican, that's in the Vatican now, that church has obviously failed.
Okay?
It's the Church of Mama Church. Whereas, Christ promised that the Catholic church would never
fail, and we know, even apart from faith, just from the motives of credibility, that the Catholic
church is the true church founded by Christ. Is the true church an eclipse? Most definitely so.
It is Catholic dogma that the church is visible, but visibility does not preclude an eclipse,
because,
the ability to be seen, and actually being seen at all times, those are two different things.
And no, there is no alternative. See, in 1885, Pope Leo XIII issued the apostolic letter
Epistolatua, in which he taught the following, quote,
It is to give proof of a submission which is far from sincere to set up some kind of opposition
between one pontiff,
and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the
past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide
them. And in some ways, they resemble those who, on receiving a condemnation, would wish to appeal
to a future council, or to a pope who is better informed. Unquote. That is the traditional
Catholic teaching,
but the Society of St. Pius X didn't tell you that, did they?
Folks, if you're trying to figure out what the heck has happened to the Catholic Church,
if you're beginning to suspect that maybe the Vatican II Church truly cannot be that Catholic
Church that was once shepherded by Pope Pius XII, then please go to novosordowatch.org
slash nowwhat. That's now,
what,
one word,
novosordowatch.org
slash nowwhat,
and find some answers, and definitely some helpful and comforting advice there, and many resources.
Ladies and gentlemen, today, July 16th, is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
It is also World Snake Day.
No, that's not a joke. You can look it up.
It's Our Lady versus the Snake, the Serpent.
We know which side Francis is on, and we know who will win.
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