TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Friday, March 10th, 2017.
Well, the party is over.
Today, Francis returned to the Vatican from his Lenten retreat,
and it looks like the Swiss guards didn't get a chance to change the locks in the meantime,
so it's going to be back to business as usual.
News from Rome today.
Archbishop, so-called Bruno Forte,
who, by the way, was ordained a bishop in 2004 by none other than Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger,
announced that giving communion to unrepentant public adulterers is an act of, quote,
obedience to God's mercy, unquote.
See, that's it.
For 2,000 years, the Church just wasn't obedient to God
and didn't understand a thing.
There's nothing about mercy.
Well, good thing we finally have Francis and Bruno to straighten us all out.
We live in such times of grace.
Then, the biggest story making the rounds right now comes from LifeSiteNews.com.
Vatican Cardinal enlists the help of the SSPX to fight the modernists.
That is the headline, and that story is dated March 9th, 2017.
Here is an excerpt from that story.
Quote,
Bishop Bernard Fillet reported the comments of Cardinal Gerhard Müller
asking the SSPX to join his fight against the modernists,
according to the SSPX's USA District.
Unquote.
Now, this is just rich, okay?
And the problem here isn't LifeSiteNews,
because they just reported what Bishop Fillet said.
No, the problem is Bishop Fillet.
In the very same sermon in which Fillet wants to make you believe
that Cardinal Müller is interested in fighting the modernists,
he says that in 2013,
Müller had the decree of excommunication ready against the SSPX,
and the only reason it didn't,
is because France has refused to sign it.
So, this is the Cardinal who now supposedly wants the SSPX to fight the modernists?
Does Bishop Fillet ever listen to his own sermons?
Now, remember, Fillet keeps insisting that the SSPX has not changed,
and that Rome has to accept them as they are.
So, there would have been no reason for Müller to change his mind,
at least not according to Bishop Fillet.
Besides, irony of ironies, Müller himself is a modernist.
You know, here at Novels Ordo Watch, we have a very nasty habit,
and that's that we remember things.
You know who accused Müller of heresy just a few years ago?
It was the SSPX.
On September 18, 2012,
and this was when Benedict XVI was still at the helm,
Father Franz Schmidberger,
then the German district superior of the Society St. Pius X,
said in an interview that then-Archbishop Gerhard Müller was
and he would know because Müller was Bishop of Regensburg, Germany,
before Benedict XVI transferred him to Rome.
And so, Müller has a history of opposing the SSPX in his German diocese.
But, Father Schmidberger added in the interview,
what concerned him even more was Müller's, quote,
What's that heterodox teaching?
Well, Müller denies transubstantiation,
he denies the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and he denies the bodily resurrection of Christ as they have been defined.
And you can find the evidence for that on our website at
Just use the search box.
So, this is the Gerhard Ludwig Müller that Bishop Feli is now promoting
as the...
the anti-modernist who wants to enlist the help of the SSPX.
Whom is he kidding?
And by the way, in 2013, Bishop Feli denounced Francis himself
as a genuine modernist.
Remember?
So, what I'd like to know is,
does Cardinal Müller want the SSPX to help him fight himself only,
or himself and Francis?
That is the question.
Unbelievable.
Meanwhile,
the remnant,
has published a thing or two critical of Sedevacantism.
First, there's a brand new episode out of The Remnant Underground,
entitled,
Populatory R.I.P.
Pope Ignites Counter-Revolution.
And in the last six or seven minutes,
Michael Matt goes after Sedevacantus,
and once again repeats his
What does it matter whether Francis is a pope or anti-pope?
Objection.
Doesn't matter.
Well, we answered that at great length
in Tradcast No. 16,
published on December 21st,
the 24th, 2016.
You can find it at Tradcast.org.
But, in our next Tradcast, No. 17,
we will respond directly to what Michael Matt says in that new video.
Then, Remnant contributor Chris Jackson published a response to our rebuttal of his blog post
that attempted to show that Pope Clement XIV's suppression of the Jesuits in the 1700s
was resisted by faithful Catholics.
Now, his new post, published on March 7th, 2017,
is entitled
And, folks, that title right there is a good indication
of what a sloppy writer Mr. Jackson is
because what the title should have been is
But, of course, that's not as catchy of a title,
so the facts had to be.
So, let's get started.
Let's get started.
Once again, give way to rhetoric.
And that's what you get at The Remnant,
at least when it comes to Sedevacantism.
So, in any case,
we'll respond to that post as well
on our blog, but
I don't know exactly when yet, but it'll be sooner
rather than later.
Oh, and guess what?
Our March donor incentives
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It's Lent, and almsgiving, if done with the right disposition,
is a very salutary practice.
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