TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Monday, December 20th, 2021.
As I'm sure you've heard by now, the modernist apostate Jorge Bergoglio,
also known by his pseudonym Pope Francis,
has just wished all of the traditionalists in his church a very Merry Christmas.
Of course, he did it in a way only he could.
This past Saturday, December 18th,
Francis had the prefect of his so-called Congregation for Divine Worship
and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archlaemon Arthur Roche,
release a letter in which he responds to 11 questions,
dubia, they're called,
about Traditiones Custodes,
Francis' motu proprio released on July 16th of this year,
that severely curtails the traditional Latin mass
and basically phases it out in the long run.
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly the Vatican modernists can respond to dubia
if they really want to.
Cardinals Braunmuller and Berg are still waiting
after over 1,900 days,
to have Francis respond to their dubia
about the exhortation Amoris Laetitia,
which permits publicly unrepentant adulterers
to receive the Novus Ordo sacraments.
The reason Francis won't respond is because he can't.
No matter how he would answer, he would lose.
He would either have to admit that Amoris Laetitia contradicts divine law,
which would make it void since not even Francis,
can overrule God,
or he would have to say that there is a misunderstanding
and Amoris Laetitia doesn't, in fact,
permit adulterers to receive the sacraments.
But he can't say that either,
because to allow them access to the sacraments
was the whole point of issuing the document in the first place.
And so, Francis does nothing.
He simply sits in the Vatican
and hopes the cardinals who submitted those questions
will be able to answer.
And so, Francis does nothing.
He simply sits in the Vatican and hopes the cardinals who submitted those questions
will be able to answer.
And so, Francis does nothing.
He simply sits in the Vatican and hopes the cardinals who submitted those questions
will die before he does.
And two of them already have.
They were a total of four originally,
and two are deceased now,
and out of the two remaining,
one is already 92,
and the other just barely survived COVID.
But then there are other dubia
the Vatican has no problem answering,
in fact, was probably most eager to answer,
and that's what happened this past Saturday.
The document's official title is
Responsa at Dubia
Responses to the Dubia
of the Congregation for Divine Worship
and the Discipline of the Sacraments
on some provisions of the Apostolic Letter
issued motu proprio
Traditiones Custodes
of the Supreme Pontiff Francis.
That's the title.
Now, the instruction begins with
some introductory remarks by Archlaemon Roche,
and he first explains
that his worship congregation
has received a number of questions
on the correct application
of Traditiones Custodes.
And indeed, Francis' motu proprio
had left some questions open.
So, this instruction now
was somewhat expected, I guess,
also because Francis presumably
wants to make sure that
no conservative bishop will have
any excuse to wiggle his way
out of submission to him,
the Frankster on a matter so near and dear to his heretical heart, the suppression of the
traditional Catholic Missal. And so, what are these new directives, these clarifications
of Tradiciones Custodes? Let's have a look. It's a total of 11 questions that were answered,
and before anyone now says that that's not a binding document, it's not authoritative,
it wasn't issued by Francis, it's just some archbishop talking, let me read you this portion.
Quote, the Supreme Pontiff Francis, in the course of an audience granted to the prefect of this
congregation on November 18th, 2021, was informed of and gave his consent to the publication of
these responsa ad dubia with attached explanatory notes. Unquote.
Quote, so there, that thing comes with Francis' full authority. Not that he has any, but if you
believe he's the Pope, then in your universe, he does. All right, so here's what the document says.
I'm going to mention only the most important of the 11 points and simplify them a little bit so
it'll be easier to understand. Brace yourselves because this is really severe. All right, ready?
All right, first one.
Regarding the celebration of the traditional mass in the parish church. Remember, Tradizionis
Custodes forbids it to be offered in the main church of a parish. And this new document now
says that if the people who want this mass can't find a suitable location for it, the local bishop
can petition the Vatican for a dispensation to use the parish church temporarily. That is,
until a proper,
venue has been found. And if the Vatican graciously grants the dispensation,
well, then the mass still cannot be advertised in the official parish mass schedule. Okay,
this is how much they hate anything reminding them of traditional Catholicism.
All right, next point. The sacraments of baptism, penance, and extreme unction,
and the nuptial mass for holy matrimony,
can only be
celebrated in the traditional rite with the local bishop's permission and only in the so-called
personal parishes that have already been established. So that will be churches used
by the Institute of Christ the King, the Fraternity of St. Peter, and similar groups.
On the other hand, confirmations and ordinations are forbidden in the old rite entirely.
Then, priests authorized to say the traditional
mass who refuse to
concelebrate the Novus Ordo for the
chrism mass during Holy Week
ought to have their permission
to offer the traditional mass
revoked.
But don't worry,
first the bishop is supposed to reach
out and attempt to establish
a fraternal dialogue
with the offending
presbyter.
Before a bishop
is allowed to give permission to
any new priest ordained after
July 16th, 2021
to offer the traditional
mass, he, the bishop,
has to obtain permission
from Rome for that.
Okay? You can imagine
how that's going to go, right?
Yeah.
The document then recommends
that permission
for the offering of the
traditional mass be given only for
a time, and not
indefinitely. And then,
after that time is up,
an assessment be made
if the time should be continued
or not.
And then
there are also a bunch of minor restrictions
which we don't need to get into.
Things like, you know,
if a priest who's authorized
to offer the traditional mass can't
make it one Sunday, then whoever replaces
him also has to have permission.
Stuff like that.
Oh, and
since all of this
is obviously of the utmost
importance to the salvation of
souls, all of these stipulations
went into effect
immediately upon publication
this past Saturday,
December 18th.
Alright, so, as you
can see, this is
beyond cruel.
Rome is making it
extremely difficult for their
traditional mass people to still have
their mass, especially
when you compare it to what was allowed
by Benedict XVI's
Summorum Pontificum, which
Francis just revoked in
July.
The new regulations now
are so severely restrictive
and even silly to some
extent that it's evident
that they're not only torturing
their traditional mass people,
they're really enjoying
it. They're laughing at them.
These
modernists are monsters. They despise
Catholicism. They despise
the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass.
They despise the so-called
Old Church.
That's because they've long established
a new church with a new
religion. And
their original intent was
always to get all the
Catholics of the Old Church
to go along with the New Church.
And when that didn't quite work out,
rather than
lose those people, the Vatican modernists
decided to make some concessions
to them in terms of
the celebration of the traditional
mass. And look, I
keep saying traditional mass, but it's
technically, it's the 1962
Missal of Angelo
Roncalli, John XXIII,
the man who called Vatican II.
But
it's so close to the Missal of
Pope Pius XII and its predecessors
that for our purposes here, we'll
call it the traditional Latin mass.
Yeah, so the
modernists allowed those people to
have the traditional mass
because they figured that giving them the
mass and, you know, which they'd
known from childhood, was
probably a pretty good deal because
it would keep them in the new church
and keep them from making too much of a
fuss and eventually they would just
die out and then everybody
would be in line with the new religion
and the new mass.
And, you know, the so-called Novosorto
mass. That was the plan
but it didn't quite work.
So
the Vatican kept making more and more
concessions to these
people, the traditional Latin mass people,
in exchange for them staying in the
new church.
But the more concessions
they made, the more those people
distanced themselves from the
new religion of Vatican II
and the new mass.
The reason for that is
that the traditional mass
teaches the traditional Catholic
faith. It
expresses the old and true
ecclesiology of the
Catholic Church being the one
true religion and the
holy mass being the one
true sacrifice of Calvary
offered to the Most Holy
Trinity in adoration,
thanksgiving, petition
and atonement.
At the end of the day,
that theology
is incompatible with the
new mass, which is essentially a
Protestant Lord's Supper service
in which friends gather around the
table to share a meal.
And if you're really conservative
in the new church,
you believe that what is consumed
at that meal is literally
Jesus Christ. But it's a
meal nonetheless, and not
a sacrifice.
And so this is why the
modernists in Rome are so adamant
about the traditionalists in their
church having to submit to Vatican
II and the new mass.
Whereas their original
intent had been to give all these
concessions for the traditional mass
in order to gently lead
those people into the new religion,
it got out of hand, and
the traditional mass became for them,
or at least for many of them,
probably most, the symbol of
resistance to Vatican II
and the post-conciliar magisterium.
And the
tantrum these traditionalists
are now throwing proves it.
Why do you think they're so upset?
Because they
want nothing to do with the
Vatican II or the new mass
or any of the post-conciliar
garbage. Because that's not
their religion. That's not
Catholic worship.
That's not the magisterium they follow.
Now, you might say,
well, wait a minute, all this has been around
since the 1960s.
Why are they in a tizzy over it
now?
Because now, it actually
affects them directly
in their personal lives.
Now, it acutely
interferes with their practice
of religion.
See, in the last 33 years
or so, since John Paul II
issued the Ecclesia Dei
indult, if the Vatican
put out some heretical document,
for example, they could just shrug
it off and ignore it. They could
resist it, speak against
it, whatever. It didn't seriously
impact their life.
They used the old catechisms
to teach their children anyway,
and they went to the traditional Mass.
If John Paul II got anointed
with cow dung by a Hindu
priestess, or Benedict XVI
prayed at a mosque, it was
bad, but it ultimately
didn't matter to them because
they could ignore it. They could
pray for the Holy Father,
listen to tapes by
Gregory Hess,
and subscribe to The Remnant,
and read Michael Davies.
That's how that worked.
But now, it's personal.
Now the Vatican has
actually moved to take away
their Sunday Mass.
Or they've restricted it so much that it's
extremely difficult to still get to it
and the writing is on the wall.
The traditional Mass is being phased
out. No new
traditional priests, except those Rome
permits. Of course, they're
going to permit very few, if any.
And besides,
as of this past Saturday,
no more easy traditional
baptisms. Now they have
through hoops to get that.
And definitely no more traditional
confirmation. So if your son or daughter
needs confirmation, it'll be
either at the Novus Ordo, or
it won't happen.
Yeah, well, or of course you could go to the
Society of St. Pius X, but officially
that's not allowed.
And yeah, of course, no more
traditional ordinations.
So,
what do you think
that does to all those seminarians
that were wanting to be traditional
priests in communion,
with the new Church?
So, that's why
this is such a big deal now.
And the reason
why there is so much tension
between the pre-Vatican II and the
post-Vatican II is quite simply
that the Vatican II religion is
not Roman Catholicism.
You cannot reconcile
the Vatican II religion
with the Roman Catholic faith
before the Council.
And this whole kerfuffle about
the Old Mass proves it.
See, if the
traditional Mass were perfectly
compatible with Francis'
Magisterium and the whole new religion,
if the Old Mass and the
Old Catechisms were compatible
with that, if they were essentially
the same thing, then the
modernists in Rome wouldn't
care if anyone attended
the traditional Mass
or used the old books.
But they sure do
care, don't they?
So, from the perspective
of a faithful Novus Ordo
Vatican II believer,
what the Vatican under Francis
just did makes perfect
sense. The Council
called for a liturgical reform.
That reform was put
together and promulgated by the
Supreme Pontiff, and the prior
liturgical rite was then superseded
by that reform, and therefore
it can no longer be used now
because it was modified,
it developed. Again,
I'm speaking here from the perspective
of the new Church.
Now, they showed some mercy
to those souls that were really
attached to the old Latin Mass
and let them have it a little while longer,
but always with the intent to
reign them in.
They just figure that we have a few stragglers
here and they need some extra attention,
some additional help
to get them to comply with the
new program. And now
they're finding, wait a minute,
after decades of our
kind and generous treatment,
these people have
no intention of
embracing Vatican II. They're
hostile to the new Mass
and to the papal magisterium of
the past few decades. They despise
Francis.
They use the Mass we've
generously given them
and are saying that it alone
is the true Mass.
They publish writings
and give speeches denouncing the
post-conciliar magisterium,
the recently canonized saints,
new liturgical directives,
encyclicals, and exhortations of the
Holy Father, all the while proclaiming
themselves to be the real
Catholics.
You know what? I think it's time
to take away their Mass.
And then we'll
see just how faithful
they really are.
That,
ladies and gentlemen, is the perspective
of the faithful Vatican II
believer. And you
know what? It makes all
the sense in the world.
It's not true, but it's
totally consistent
in itself. If
Francis were Pope, then
submission to him would be
the living criterion for
orthodoxy. Sounds
scary, doesn't it? Well, there's
your hint. He's not the Pope.
So,
yeah, this idea of
the traditional Mass as a gracious
concession to those who
need a little more time to accept Vatican II,
and the new Church,
that isn't an invention
of Francis. That was the thought
behind any concessions Paul VI
made to individual
priests in the very beginning.
It was the thought behind
John Paul II's limited
1984 indult, and
then the broader Ecclesia Dei
indult of 1988.
And granted, it's a
little more complicated with
the 2007
Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of
Benedict XVI.
There, I think Ratzinger was trying really hard
to get the Lefebvris of the
Society of St. Pius X on board.
So, he tried
to find a way to put the
Novus Ordo Mass and the traditional Mass
on an equal footing and concocted
this utterly absurd idea
of there being two forms
of the one Roman Rite
that supposedly mutually
enrich each other. I mean,
just nutty stuff,
right? But when that came
out, most of the Semitrats
didn't care because they liked
the result. They had their
traditional Mass and had it more
widely available, and
that was ultimately all that
mattered to them. They didn't
care that the theology that
gave them their traditional Mass
was actually a train wreck
and a dangerous one at that.
Novus Ordo
Watch published a big article
back then blasting Ratzinger for
his dangerous and false theologies,
but of course it fell on deaf ears.
Verrata Caeli
and many of these Semitrat
outlets were singing the praises
of their Benedict XVI
who was now restoring tradition
and whatnot, and
you just couldn't get to those people.
They were in ecstasy.
And you were just a party
pooper to them, a naysayer,
a Sedevacantist who was upset that
the Vatican II Church was becoming traditional
again, and so do away with
any need for Sedevacantism.
Basically.
Well, now the chickens have
come home to roost,
and the disillusionment, the frustration,
the anger couldn't
be greater.
Well, theology has consequences.
If your access to the traditional
Mass depends on
the concession of modernists,
then don't be surprised
if one day that concession
is revoked.
What one modernist gives,
another can take away.
The real question is
why are you
recognizing a modernist
as Pope?
There's a lot more to say about this
and say it we will. Also,
we'll look at some reactions, especially
from Michael Matt
of The Remnant in the next
podcast, which I anticipate will be
published within 48 hours
of this one.
Stay tuned.
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