Tradcast Express, it's Thursday, March 2nd, 2017, and this podcast is back after I had
to recover from some illness.
Well, with Francis, there's always plenty going on, and today is no different.
First, now that we're coming close to the four-year anniversary of the election of Jorge
Bergoglio as Pope Francis, various journalists and bloggers are taking a moment to blow off
some steam about the guy.
An interesting piece was posted yesterday at LifeSiteNews.com by Pete Buklinski that
basically talks about how the election of Francis was engineered by various ultra-modernist
forces to give the Novus Ordo Church a complete makeover.
Unfortunately, as we've mentioned several times before in our blog at NovusOrdo,
NovusOrdoWatch.org, people's acknowledgement of the evils of Jorge Bergoglio comes at a
terrible price, the price of denying the truth about what took place the decades before Francis
came on the scene.
Buklinski writes, quote,
The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio followed upon 35 years of clear, solid, orthodox teaching
under the distinguished pontificates of St. John Paul II.
and Benedict XVI, unquote.
Wow.
Now, this could not be further from the truth.
What we're witnessing here is a complete whitewashing of the time from John XXIII through Benedict XVI.
As we've said before in our blog, perhaps Francis' job is only to make his five predecessors
of unhappy memory look orthodox.
And by comparison, they do.
By comparison.
But that's obviously not the right standard by which to judge these things.
We don't judge the purity of drinking water by comparing it to sewage.
Then, this is absolutely hilarious.
Cardinal Coco Palmerio has now proposed that we reflect on this rigid notion of valid versus
invalid sacraments.
You see, this is causing a real problem for ecumenism with Lutherans and Anglicans, since
they don't have a valid priesthood.
Well, the Novus Ordo's don't either, actually, but they think they do, right?
Officially, they do.
So, Coco Palmerio suggests that it's time to reflect on this issue.
And you know how it is.
Famous last words, right?
Let's reflect on this.
That's usually the first step to modernist destruction.
They threaten to reflect, i.e., rethink a traditional teaching.
Well, anyway, here's what Coco...
Coco said, verbatim, in an interview conducted by Ed Penton of the National Non-Catholic
Register, released on March 1st, quote,
We say everything is valid, nothing is valid.
Maybe we have to reflect on this concept of validity or invalidity.
The Second Vatican Council said there is a true communion, even if it is not yet definitive
or full.
You see, they made a concept not so decisive, either all or nothing.
There's a communion that is already good.
But some elements are missing.
But if you say some things are missing, and that therefore there is nothing, you err.
There are pieces missing, but there is already a communion.
But it is not full communion.
The same thing can be said, or something similar, of the validity or invalidity of ordination.
I said let's think about it.
It's a hypothesis.
Maybe there is something, or maybe there is nothing.
A study.
A reflection.
Unquote.
It's actually quite hilarious how...
He concludes it by saying maybe there's something, maybe there's nothing, when the whole point
of what he just said was that you don't have to have only something or nothing, but there
could be something in between.
Anyway, get this.
After Vatican II declared that the true church exists in elements in other religions, and
Francis insisted that matrimony can exist in elements in fornication and adultery, Coco
Palmerio now takes it one step further and argues that we can have elements of validity
in the sacraments.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to partially valid sacraments, conferred by people who
possess elements of the priesthood.
Well, you know, this elements thing is quite the rave right now, actually.
I mean, Benedict XVI basically claims to be holding on to some elements of the papacy,
right?
While Francis enjoys them in their fullness.
Folks, let me tell you something.
Have no fear to be a Sedevacantist.
Because if this modernist...
circus in the Vatican is the true religion, then what the heck does anything matter, really?
I mean, then you might as well be a Sedevacantist.
If fornication is marriage and sacraments can be partially valid and all that, then
believe me, Sedevacantism won't damn you to hell either.
There's lots more to talk about today, but we'll have to continue tomorrow because this
is an express podcast.
So just make sure you tune in again in 24 hours.
By the way, today is...
the 141st birthday of Pope Pius XII.
It's also the 78th anniversary of his election as Pope.
The last Pope, for the time being.
Yes, he was elected on his 63rd birthday in 1939.
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