TrapCast Express
TrapCast Express, it's Ascension Thursday, May 25th, 2017.
Folks, we have some catching up to do.
It really is overwhelming to try to keep up with it all.
And our next news digest to be published on our blog soon will be humongous.
Here are some recent news stories from Novos Ordo land that you might have missed.
France is creating more bogus cardinals.
On June 28th, there will be a consistory in the Vatican to bestow the red hat on the following individuals in the Vatican II Church.
Jean Zerbo, the Archbishop of Bamako, Mali.
Juan Jose Omela, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain.
Anders Arborelius.
Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden.
Louis-Marie Lingemang...
I'm not even going to try that one.
Apostolic Vicar of Paxe, Laos.
And Gregorio Rosa Chavez, Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.
Now, the last choice there is particularly interesting because Francis is naming an auxiliary, a cardinal, in an archdiocese where the Archbishop himself is not a cardinal.
I have to say, though, that I'm really disappointed that Francis hasn't created any cardinals yet in Liechtenstein, Monaco, or Singapore.
Go to the peripheries, man.
Then, on May 21st, this past Sunday, Francis visited St. Peter Damian Parish on the outskirts of Rome.
CruxNow.com has posted an article on it with the title,
Pope, Christians Without Tenderness Respect Our Serpents Who Divide.
How have you been doing on that, by the way?
I mean, that tenderness thing.
If there's a way to be paid a quarter for every time Francis uses the word tenderness, could someone please let me know?
I mean, we could fund the entire year's budget for Novus Ordo Watch just on that.
Which, by the way, reminds me, the month of May has not been going so well in terms of donations here.
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All right.
Cardinal Burke has called on Francis to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
On May 19th, Burke...
Burke was speaking at the Rome Life Conference.
By the way, does anyone know what Burke does when he isn't traveling or giving a conference or doing an interview?
In any case, Burke was speaking at a conference sponsored by Voice of the Family.
And so, this is a big, big story, of course, in the semi-traditionalist world.
Because it, once again, gets everybody excited about Fatima and Burke and,
oh, look at all those great conservative prelates we have.
That we just need to follow to keep the church from collapsing.
That kind of thing.
Well, I have no idea what planet Mr. Burke is on.
But the very idea of Francis fulfilling a request by Our Lady of Fatima is grotesque.
I mean, here we're talking about a man who doesn't even believe in the Catholic notion of sin.
Francis doesn't believe in Catholicism, period.
I mean, Burke just wrote a letter to Francis refuting his false theology.
In Amoris Laetitia, remember?
That's the dubia.
So, instead of calling on such an apostate as Francis to bring about the conversion of Russia,
Burke should be calling for the conversion of Francis.
I mean, let's go step by step here.
Now, regardless of Burke's intent, the effect of his call for the consecration of Russia, as always,
is it will keep people inside the Novus Ordo church just a little bit longer.
It'll get them fired up again.
It'll get all their hopes up again about, you know, changing something inside the false church
rather than abandoning it and embracing true Roman Catholicism,
albeit without a pope, since there currently isn't one.
At the same Rome Life conference, by the way, one of Burke's buddies, Mr. Cardinal Caffara,
also gave a talk, and he said that Sister Lucy of Fatima told him in a letter in the 1980s,
quote,
will come when the decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over
marriage and the family, unquote.
And so, this is another thing that keeps goodwill people in the Novus Ordo church, this apparent
connection that is constantly being maintained via Sister Lucy between Our Lady of Fatima
and the Vatican II sect.
Now, there is plenty of evidence that the woman who claimed to be Sister Lucy of Fatima,
after 1959, actually is not Sister Lucy, okay?
And there's photographic evidence to that effect, though I really don't want to get into all that now.
Well, it makes sense, you know, that they would have presumably killed the real Sister Lucy around
1959, since they weren't going to release the third secret in 1960, and so it makes sense that
they would have replaced her with another woman instead. Anyway, the point I want to make is that
I do not think that Sister Lucy is the real Sister Lucy, and I do not think that Sister Lucy is the
real Sister Lucy. I do not think for a minute, and this is really just my opinion, I do not think for a minute
that the decisive ultimate battle between Jesus Christ and Satan will be over holy matrimony and
the family. Now, as important as marriage and the family are, to me, that's a bit, you know,
anticlimactic. Surely, the ultimate battle, the Armageddon, is going to be about something
supernatural. Neither marriage nor the family are going to be about something supernatural.
Now, it's true, of course, that our Lord raised holy matrimony to a sacrament for the baptized,
and that is supernatural, but you can have a true valid marriage even among non-baptized people,
and it's still a marriage. So, in any case, I don't buy it. I don't think that the final battle
will be about something natural. I think it will be about the true faith,
kind of like we're seeing now, actually, but probably a lot...
worse. But these people, you know, people like Kefara, Burke, Schneider, and the rest of them,
these people really only seem to get all bent out of shape when their imposter pope messes
with doctrine related to the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, when he blasphemes, when he denies
the true God, when he denounces converting people as a sin against ecumenism. I don't know,
but I don't recall any of those people putting out petitions or setting up conferences,
giving interviews, or anything of the kind regarding those things.
Recently, Francis said that Jesus Christ became the devil when he suffered for our sins. That's
blasphemy. That's heresy. And that's a bit worse than, you know, turning a blind eye to adultery,
as bad as that is. But, I don't know, people don't seem to care. In fact, they hold up John
Paul II, for example, as the great orthodox defender.
of the faith, only because he said that unrepentant adulterers cannot receive the sacraments.
And what they don't tell you is that John Paul II also said, for example, in his 1979 encyclical
Redemptor Hominis No. 6, that the firmness with which members of non-Christian religions
cling to their errors is a result of the Holy Ghost operating outside the church. That is
blasphemy.
That is heresy. But you won't hear about it from Cardinal Burke.