TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Tuesday, May 21st, 2024.
Catholic Diocesan Hermit, approved by Kentucky Bishop, comes out as transgender.
That is the headline of an article published by Religion News Service on Pentecost Sunday.
In other words, the individual known as Brother Christian Mattson,
who was formerly known as Mr. Cole Mattson, is actually a woman.
For those who don't understand what that means,
it means that Mattson's DNA is that of a human female,
which in turn means that her 23rd chromosomal pair is XX, not XY, as it would be in males.
That 23rd chromosome is XX, not XY, as it would be in males.
That 23rd pair is what makes her female, and the name her parents gave her is Nicole.
Around 2006, Nicole underwent medical treatments and or surgery to make herself look like a man.
And boy, no pun intended, did she succeed.
But while appearance may be one thing, reality is another.
Nicole is and remains a woman.
Her longtime identity as Cole, and later, as a woman,
and later as Brother Christian, is a lie.
God chose to make Nicole female, and God's choice is good.
It is not something to be ashamed of, or denied, or fought against.
Much less is it subject to being revised by man or woman.
In 2020, Mattson approached the wokest of all American Novels Ardo bishops,
John Stowe of Lexington, about becoming a hermit,
disclosing to him,
her transgender status.
Sure enough, Stowe saw no problem with her taking the role of a hermit,
even while pretending to be a male.
In fact, the pseudo-Catholic bishop of Lexington even recommended
she spend some time first in a Benedictine monastery to experience religious life.
In August of 2022, Mattson took her first vows as a diocesan hermit.
Vows of obedience,
chastity,
and poverty.
What makes things more interesting still is that Mattson is a former Presbyterian
who once appeared on EWTN's conversion show, The Journey Home.
That was in January of 2015, when, of course, nobody knew that Cole was, in fact, a woman.
EWTN has taken down the video from YouTube, but it is still available elsewhere,
linked in the show notes, of course.
Let me be clear here that, of course, there is no denying
that some people sincerely struggle with accepting their God-given sex.
That is not something to be scoffed at or dismissed.
It is something to be taken seriously.
People who suffer from so-called gender dysphoria
should be offered generous help and support in accepting who they really are.
They are precisely the sex God gave them.
They are not in the wrong place.
They are in the wrong body for the very reason that no human being is in a body at all.
The body is the human being, together with the soul.
Humans are composites of body and soul.
The soul is the life principle of the body.
We are not ghosts trapped inside a machine.
This whole transsexual craze is a modern-day, real-life version of the Emperor's new clothes,
and everyone knows it.
We are slowly but surely being pressured and conditioned
to accept obvious lies, and even to tell lies ourselves.
As our society is moving farther and farther away from God,
indeed in ever greater speed,
we are being pressured to deny not just divine revelation anymore,
but now even empirically verifiable biological facts.
Let us not play along to get along.
No one can force us to lie.
A woman is a woman and not a man,
and a man is not a woman.
Look, I can sit in a garage all day and say I'm a car.
That doesn't make me a car.
And I could even have my kneecaps replaced with hubcaps
and get spark plugs implanted into me.
That still wouldn't make me a car.
And if I could get the whole world to call me a car,
I still wouldn't actually be.
It would, however, demonstrate that I am in need of serious help.
The powers that be are counting on human weakness,
human respect, cowardice,
and man's natural desire to fit in
for their absurd agenda to succeed.
But make no mistake about it,
transgenderism is by no means the intended end of the road.
It's just the latest step.
Further insanities,
are already waiting in the wings.
Transspeciesism,
trans-ableism,
and autogynephilia, for example,
are already a thing.
So, what is going on here?
It really cannot be explained outside of what we know by faith.
Slowly but surely,
the world is preparing to receive the Antichrist.
Remember what our blessed Lord said
to those who refused to recognize him as the Messiah.
Quote,
I am come in the name of my Father,
and you receive me not.
If another shall come in his own name,
him you will receive.
Unquote.
That's found in John 5, 43.
Nicole is not Brother Christian,
and she's not Cole either.
She can pretend otherwise,
she can lie to herself and deceive others,
but she cannot demand that everyone who knows better
affirm her.
In her allusions.
Bishop Stowe, of course, is happy to play along.
Just today, the Diocese of Lexington
issued the following brief statement.
Quote,
On Pentecost Sunday,
Brother Christian Madsen,
a professed hermit in the Diocese of Lexington,
has made it public that he is a transgender person.
Brother Christian has long sought to consecrate his life to Christ in the Church
by living the evangelical councils of poverty,
chastity, and obedience.
He has consistently been accompanied by a competent spiritual director
and has undergone formation in the Benedictine tradition.
He does not seek ordination,
but has professed a rule of life
that allows him to support himself financially
by continuing his work in the arts
and to live a life of contemplation in a private hermitage.
Bishop John Stowe, Order of Friars Minor Conventional,
accepted his profession
and,
and is grateful to Brother Christian
for his witness of discipleship,
integrity,
and contemplative prayer for the Church.
Unquote.
So, what will happen next?
Will Francis remove Bishop Stowe?
I think he just might.
You see, in nearby Cincinnati, Ohio,
they're in need of a new archbishop,
and Stowe might just be the right fit for that role.
In Francis' judgment, of course.
In other news,
the Argentinian apostate Jorge Bergoglio,
commonly known by his stage name, Pope Francis,
went to visit the Italian city of Verona on Saturday,
and one of his stops there was at a prison.
During his address to the inmates,
Bergoglio said the following,
quote,
God is one.
Our cultures have taught us to call him by one name or another
and to find him in different ways,
but he...
He is the same father to all of us.
He is one.
And all religions, all cultures,
look at the one God in different ways.
Unquote.
Well, if that doesn't sound like Freemasonry.
The message the false pope is communicating here
is rather clear.
God exists, and it doesn't matter what we call him
or what exactly we believe about him.
Some religions say this, and others say that,
but at the end of the day,
it's basically all the same.
The difference between religions
are nothing to lose sleep over.
In fact, God wants the differences.
They're necessary,
and they're an enrichment to humanity,
making up a beautiful mosaic
showing forth God's diversity.
That is apostasy,
but it is the basic message
Francis preaches to non-Christians.
We've got it all documented
in our Novels Order Watch blog post
linked in the show notes.
Remember that on October 5th, 2021,
Francis stated at an interreligious education conference,
quote,
If in the past our differences set us at odds,
nowadays we see in them
the richness of different ways of coming to God
and of educating young people
for peaceful coexistence in mutual respect.
For this reason, education commits us
never to use God's name to justify violence and hatred,
towards the other religious traditions,
to condemn all forms of fanaticism and fundamentalism,
and to defend the right of each individual
to choose and act in accordance
with his or her conscience.
Unquote.
Yeah, different ways of coming to God.
My eye.
Christ Jesus, our Lord, said in John 14, 6,
that He is the way, the truth, and the life,
and no one comes to the Father except by Him.
Neither is there salvation in any other,
said St. Peter in Acts 4, 12.
For there is no other name under heaven given to men
whereby we must be saved.
Francis is throwing out the most central truth
of the entire gospel.
No, the center of the gospel is not the poor.
It's not soup kitchens or fraternity.
It's the truth of Jesus Christ,
the only Savior,
who became incarnate,
suffered, died, and rose from the dead
for our salvation.
But Francis doesn't care about that,
though of course he does pay lip service to it now and again
when he is addressing Christians,
who already believe that.
He's got a different gospel for different folks.
In Verona, Francis ended his meeting with inmates
by giving them an interreligious silent blessing,
which Freemasonry couldn't agree with more.
He said,
quote,
Now I would like to give you the blessing,
but I will give it in silence.
In this way, each person receives it from God
in the way that he or she believes.
A minute of silence,
and I will give the blessing to you all.
Unquote.
Well, that wasn't the first time he did that.
In fact, he's done it on multiple interreligious occasions,
beginning in 2013,
his very first year at the end of his life.
of a meeting with journalists.
What a betrayal of the only true triune God
who said, go and preach the gospel.
He didn't say, go and respect everyone's conscience.
In case you're wondering why Francis doesn't give a hoot
about eternal salvation,
it's because he doesn't believe in original sin
or its consequences,
and so the redemption is not necessary.
You may have heard that he just gave an interview
to CBS's 60 Minutes that was released
this past Sunday, May 19th.
While a lot of attention has been given
to what he said about conservatives
and homo blessings and women deacons,
the arguably worst part came at the very end
when he said this, quote,
People are fundamentally good.
We are all fundamentally good.
Yes, there are some roads,
rogues, and sinners,
but the heart is good, unquote.
Yeah, actually, that's heresy,
but hey, what's one more at this point, right?
Yes, it is Pelagianism.
It is naturalism,
because it denies original sin or its consequences
and the necessity of grace.
If everyone has a fundamentally good heart,
well, what do we need a redeemer for?
Why did Christ say,
we must do penance and carry the cross?
Why did he say,
many will try to enter heaven and not be able to?
Sacred scripture is pretty clear
regarding man's condition without grace,
and it's not looking too good.
The heart is perverse above all things
and unsearchable.
Who can know it?
Jeremiah 17, 9.
For from the heart come forth evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
Our Lord said in Matthew 15, 19.
Thus saith the Lord,
Cursed be the man that trusteth in man
and maketh flesh his arm,
and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
Jeremiah 17, 5.
You cannot make sense of Jorge Bergoglio
under the supposition that he is the Pope
or even a Catholic.
But unfortunately,
so few people are willing to let the evidence
determine what they believe about Francis.
As St. Paul wrote in his second letter
to the Thessalonians, verses 10 and 11,
Therefore God shall send them the operation of error
to believe lying,
that all may be judged who have not believed the truth
but have consented to iniquity.
And that is why we now live in a world
in which Jorge Bergoglio is the Pope.
Jorge Bergoglio is accepted as Pope
and Nicole Madsen is accepted as a man.
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