Tradcast Express.
Anyway, it was a bunch of drivel.
Here are some excerpts from Vatican Radio.
The more lucid the memory of the past, the more clear the future opens up because it is possible to see the truly new path and distinguish it from the path already taken, which has never brought one anywhere meaningful, unquote.
When you hear that, I mean, doesn't your faith grow already?
He also spoke of how faith can progress backwards in a revolutionary return to the roots.
And then he got into hope.
Which, he said, opens faith to the surprises of God.
Actually, hope has nothing to do with any surprises.
It's the virtue by which we're assured of God's grace and spiritual assistance to attain eternal life.
Minor difference, I know.
Anyway, here's what else Francis said about hope.
Quote, faith is sustained and progresses thanks to hope.
Funny, didn't he just say that's what?
Memory does?
Hope is the anchor anchored in the heavens, in the transcendent future, of which the temporal future, considered in a linear form, is only an expression.
Hope is that which gives dynamism to the rearwards-looking glance of faith, which conduces one to find new things in the past, in the treasures of the memory, so that one can encounter the same God which hopes to see into the future.
Okay.
End quote.
For goodness sake.
Look, I'll spare you from what he said about discernment.
Okay.
All right.
A big story that's making the rounds on the internet right now comes from the Italian journalist and Vatican insider Antonio Sochi, who, by the way, predicted the resignation of Benedict XVI as far back as 2011.
And he was scorned for it.
In the February 28th edition of Libero, Sochi writes in his column,
that there are about a dozen or so influential Novus Ordo cardinals who, although they voted for Bergoglio in the conclave four years ago, now want him to step down because they're afraid he's running the modernist church completely into the ground.
Here's what Sochi says, taking a translation from an article that appeared in the Times of London.
Quote,
Four years after Benedict XVI's renunciation, Bergoglio's arrival on the scene, the situation of the Catholic Church,
has become explosive, perhaps really on the edge of a schism, which could be even more disastrous than Luther's.
Unquote.
Now, this is the curious part.
Sochi says,
We're not talking about conservative-leaning cardinals who've long opposed Francis, but about big-time liberals.
One unnamed Vatican expert said,
Quote,
A good number of the majority that voted for Bergoglio in 2013 have come to regret their decision,
but I don't think it's plausible that members of...
of the hierarchy will pressure the Pope to resign.
Those who know him know it would be useless.
He has a very authoritarian streak.
He won't resign until he has completed his revolutionary reforms, which are causing enormous harm.
Unquote.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here you can see very well that everyone is treating the Novus Ordo Church like a human institution,
because that's exactly what it is.
The Catholic Church, by contrast, is a divine institution,
which is miraculous.
Miraculously preserved by God,
even in the event that an unworthy man should be chosen Pope.
In an allocution given to cardinals on March 20th, 1900,
Pope Leo XIII said the following,
Quote,
The Church has received from on high a promise which guarantees her against every human weakness.
What does it matter that the helm of the symbolic bark has been entrusted to feeble hands
when the divine pilot stands on the bridge where,
though invisible,
he is watching and ruling?
Blessed be the strength of his arm and the multitude of his mercies.
Unquote.
And there is the difference the real Catholic papacy makes.
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