TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Monday, September 20th, 2021.
The Church of Mercy, Tolerance, and Inclusion, headquartered in Vatican City,
has just announced that as of October 1st, only those people holding the Vatican Green Pass,
or some equivalent, will be allowed entry.
This restriction, however, does not apply to those simply attending a liturgical function.
Yeah, otherwise, I guess no one would show up.
The ordinance was issued on Saturday by the Pontifical Vatican City State Commission.
More specifically, what will be required for entry is the Vatican Green Pass,
the European Green Pass, or a foreign COVID-19 certificate.
Proving vaccination, recovery, or a negative rapid molecular or antigenic test,
as Vaticanist Diane Montagna reports on Twitter today.
Now, this is interesting also because, as we now know,
the fully vaccinated can still contract and spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus,
yet a negative test is not required of those people.
It's only required of the unvaccinated.
In other words, according to this new ordinance,
you are perfectly welcome to carry the virus into Vatican City
and spread it to others as long as you're vaccinated.
Those wanting to enter the Vatican merely to attend a Eucharistic celebration or other liturgy,
although they're exempt from these requirements,
will have to perform the usual COVID hygiene rituals of massacres,
masking, distancing, and so forth.
So, keep in mind, beginning October 1st,
if you want to enter Vatican City for reasons other than participating in a liturgy,
you will need proof of vaccination, proof of recovery, or a negative test.
Everyone else will be marginalized and excluded.
No bridge for them, just walls.
In other news, the semi-traditionalist flagship,
publication The Remnant,
is accusing the head of the Vatican II sect
of leading a war on sanctifying grace.
In an article posted on June 14th,
contributor Robert Morrison outlined the various ways
in which Jorge Bergoglio demonstrates that the salvation of souls,
how to put it,
is not exactly one of his priorities,
if he even believes in the concept at all.
Although Morrison concedes that,
Francis deserves considerable blame for the mess he's made,
nevertheless, the Remnant contributor also brings up
the diabolical disorientation that must surely play a role here as well.
Although, truth be told,
the infernal work that has been done by the Novos Ordo hierarchy
looks a lot more deliberate, purposeful, and determined
than merely disoriented.
At the end,
Morrison even expresses his hope
that Francis might convert to Catholicism one day.
That is indeed a pious thought,
and Morrison's criticism is really spot on.
The problem is just that he and the other writers at The Remnant
believe that the infernal false prophet they are criticizing
is the Pope of the Catholic Church
who keeps the gates of hell from prevailing.
And lastly,
an interesting article entitled
Tradition Devoured by the Magisterium
appeared on the semi-trad blog
Rarate Cheli on September 1st.
The name of the author is not given,
but the translator is noted as being Peter Kwasniewski,
the original having been written in Spanish.
The article criticizes what it claims is an undue recent shift
in the Church from empathy,
from emphasizing tradition
to emphasizing the magisterium.
Quote,
a kind of reduction of tradition to the magisterium
has been slowly taking place
since the beginning of the second millennium
and more rapidly in the last few centuries.
Unquote.
This, the author believes, is a dangerous development.
He writes disapprovingly,
quote,
To put it in an exaggerated way,
Catholics today believe
in tradition because the magisterium commands it.
Unquote.
Well, please pardon the flippancy here,
but duh, of course.
The Catholic believes in Scripture and tradition
because the infallible authority on earth
established by God himself,
the Catholic Church, tells him so.
She is the guardian of Scripture and tradition
and without her,
we would not know
what is divinely inspired Scripture
nor what is divine tradition.
Otherwise, all we'd have is mountains of writings
from various historical authors,
at least allegedly,
with each individual Catholic
having to figure out for himself
what is in line with God's revelation
and what isn't.
Now, speaking of tradition,
St. Augustine of Hippo,
a church,
a church father and doctor
who lived in the 4th and 5th centuries,
wrote the following in chapter 5
of his treatise against
the fundamental epistle of Manichaeus.
Quote,
For my part,
I should not believe the gospel
except as moved by the authority
of the Catholic Church.
Unquote.
So there,
that's the testimony of tradition.
You see,
the church existed before
divine revelation was even complete.
There was already a magisterium
before all of sacred tradition
had been publicly revealed
and all of sacred Scripture
had been written.
Remember, divine revelation,
public revelation,
did not cease until the death
of the last apostle,
which was around 100 A.D.
So,
how is it that we believe
in the Catholic Church
to begin with?
On what grounds
do we accept her authority?
We do so on account
of what's called
the external motives of credibility.
And these can be found
explained and defended at length
in pre-Vatican II apologetics books
such as
We Stand with Christ
by Fr. Joseph Clifford Fenton,
which has since been reprinted
under the title
Laying the Foundation.
The credentials
of the Catholic Church
by the Rev. J.B. Bagshaw.
It's B-A-G-S-H-A-W-E.
Defense of the Catholic Church
by Fr. Francis X. Doyle.
And the pre-Vatican II editions
of the book
The Faith of Millions
by Fr. John O'Brien.
So, basically 1958 and before.
That book went through
numerous editions.
And you don't want to get
the post-Vatican II ones.
So, these are just
some of the examples
of popular books
written for the laity
to prove the rational foundation
of the Roman Catholic religion.
Now, these motives of credibility
are very important,
especially in our day
because they are denied
and attacked
by the Novus Ordo modernists
who undermine
this rationalization
by appealing instead
to a subjective experience,
to an encounter with God.
But that can never be
the foundation for the true faith
because, as St. Pius X said,
quote,
on what grounds can modernists
deny the truth of an experience
affirmed by a follower of Islam?
Will they claim a monopoly
of true experiences
for Catholics alone?
Unquote.
That's from the encyclical
Paschendi, paragraph 14.
Also, the First Vatican Council
in 1870 produced
a beautiful dogmatic constitution
on the Catholic faith
that explains faith and reason
and how they work together.
And it also condemns
various errors relating to that.
We're not saying
that the Catholic faith
can be reduced
to the historical evidence
for the Catholic religion.
That would not be faith.
What we are saying is
that the motives of credibility
establish that it is reasonable
to have faith
in the Catholic Church.
This faith is still
a gift from God.
We are still required
to use our free will
to assent internally
to what God has revealed.
And His grace is needed
to move our faith.
But the motives of credibility
show that it is reasonable
to give this assent
and that it is unreasonable
not to.
Okay, now, returning
to the greatly misinformed
and misleading article
published by Rarate Chaley.
Look, of course,
we all know
what the author's motivation
is here
in publishing this article.
He's trying to de-emphasize
the role and authority
of the Magisterium
precisely because
the Magisterium he believes in,
the Nualzardo Magisterium,
isn't in sync
with sacred tradition.
And it doesn't promote
or safeguard divine revelation.
On the contrary,
it actually attacks it.
So, this article
is just another effort
to come to terms
with the false modernist Magisterium
without embracing
the dreaded Magisterium.
and detested
Sedevacantism.
But, unfortunately
for the author,
the Catholic tradition
is that it is precisely
the divinely established
and guaranteed function
of the Catholic Magisterium
to propose
what is contained
in sacred scripture
and sacred tradition,
lest each individual Catholic
should have to become
his own Magisterium
like the Protestants.
And, of course,
and so, therefore,
Pope Leo XIII taught,
quote,
it belongs to the Pope
to judge authoritatively
what things
the sacred oracles contain,
as well as
what doctrines are in harmony
and what in disagreement
with them.
And also,
for the same reason,
to show forth
what things are to be
accepted as right
and what to be rejected
as worthless,
what it is necessary to do,
and what to avoid,
doing in order
to attain eternal salvation.
For otherwise,
there would be no sure
interpreter of the commands of God,
nor would there be
any safe guide
showing man
the way he should live.
Unquote.
And that is Leo XIII
in the encyclical
Sapientiae Christianae
number 24.
Also, on October 24th, 1954,
Pope Pius XII
issued a radio message
to the International Congress
on Mariology.
Now, Mariology is the branch
of Catholic theology
that concerns itself
with divine revelation
relating to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Here is what Pius XII declared,
quote,
The work of research,
inasmuch as it concerns Mariology,
will proceed all the more safely
and with greater fruit
the more constantly,
there is present to the eyes of all
that immediate and universal
rule of truth
established for all theologians
in matters of faith and morals,
namely the sacred magisterium
of the Church.
Later, in the same message,
he says,
Nor is it lawful
to investigate and explain
the documents of tradition
and at the same time
neglect or minimize
the sacred magisterium
and the sacred magisterium
the life and worship
of the Church
as they have manifested themselves
in the course of the centuries.
For sometimes
the documents of antiquity
seen simply in themselves
give little light,
but if they are joined with
and compared to
the liturgical life of the Church
with the faith,
devotion,
and piety
of the Christian people,
which the same magisterium
supports and directs,
they furnish splendid testimonies
to Catholic truth.
In fact,
the Church,
in all the ages of her life,
is ruled and guided
by the Holy Spirit,
not only in defining
and teaching the faith,
but also in her worship
and in the exercise
of the piety and devotion
of the faithful,
and by the same Spirit
is infallibly directed
to the knowledge
of revealed truth."
Again, that was Pope Pius XII,
from his radio message
to the International Congress
on Mariology,
October 24th, 1954.
Likewise,
Pope Leo XIII
had declared,
quote,
Christ instituted in the Church
a living, authoritative,
and permanent magisterium,
which by his own power
he strengthened
by the Spirit of Truth he taught
and by miracles confirmed.
He willed,
willed, and ordered
under the gravest penalties
that its teachings
should be received
as if they were his own.
Unquote.
That's from the encyclical
Satis Conitum,
number nine.
And finally,
in his encyclical
against the neo-modernism
of his day,
Humani Generis,
Pope Pius XII,
pointed out
that Christ's words
to his disciples
in Luke 10.16,
he who,
heareth you, heareth me,
apply to the Church's
teaching authority,
and for that reason,
that authority,
that magisterium,
must be adhered to.
In the same text,
Pius XII taught
that in addition to
Scripture and tradition,
quote,
God has given to his Church
a living, teaching authority
to elucidate and explain
what is contained
in the deposit of faith
only obscurely and implicitly.
This deposit of faith
our divine Redeemer
has given for
authentic interpretation
not to each of the faithful,
not even to theologians,
but only to the teaching authority
of the Church.
Unquote.
That's Humani Generis,
paragraph 21.
Now, all of this
makes perfect sense,
doesn't it?
The reason why it doesn't jive
with the Novus Ordo Magisterium
of Francis,
and its five faithless predecessors,
is not because there's a flaw
in the Catholic understanding
of the magisterium,
or because there's been
an undue shift of emphasis,
or because tradition has been
devoured by the magisterium,
but rather because
Francis is not the Pope.
The Novus Ordo sect
is not the Catholic Church,
and its magisterium
is not the teaching authority
established.
By Jesus Christ, our Lord.
There.
Fixed it for you.
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