[ 0 → 4] TrapCast Express [ 4 → 15] TrapCast Express, it's Saturday, August 29th, 2020. [ 15 → 17] Fair warning, everyone. [ 17 → 20] Francis has had a lot of time on his hands lately, [ 20 → 25] and that means he's ready to publish a new encyclical letter. [ 25 → 28] And the topic of that encyclical will be [ 28 → 31] human fraternity. [ 32 → 36] That is what Mr. Domenico Pompili said the other day, [ 36 → 41] and he is the Novus Ordo bishop of the Italian Diocese of Rieti. [ 42 → 44] The Vatican has not yet confirmed that, [ 44 → 49] but it's highly unlikely that Pompili would say that and it not be true. [ 50 → 54] Besides, Francis hasn't published an encyclical for five years. [ 54 → 57] The last one was Laudato Si' [ 57 → 58] on the worship of... [ 58 → 63] So, yeah, Francis is due for another encyclical, [ 63 → 67] and human fraternity is totally his thing. [ 67 → 72] If you remember, last year he assigned the big declaration on human fraternity [ 72 → 77] with a Muslim imam in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. [ 77 → 81] That was that blasphemous document that stated the following, [ 82 → 82] quote, [ 82 → 86] the pluralism and the diversity of religions, [ 87 → 88] color, sex, race, [ 88 → 92] and language are willed by God in his wisdom [ 92 → 95] through which he created human beings. [ 96 → 102] This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief [ 102 → 106] and the freedom to be different derives, unquote. [ 106 → 110] That is blasphemy and apostasy. [ 111 → 115] We've gone over this before, so I won't belabor the point. [ 116 → 118] So, if Francis is going to write... [ 118 → 120] If he's going to write an encyclical on human fraternity, [ 120 → 122] you can bet your bottom dollar [ 122 → 126] that you're going to hear more stuff like that, okay? [ 126 → 128] And he's probably going to try to provide [ 128 → 134] a theological foundation for this apostasy in that encyclical. [ 134 → 136] So, I think it's going to be a doozy. [ 137 → 142] In fact, I expect it's going to be filled with Masonic naturalism, [ 142 → 146] and my guess is he's going to argue for that [ 146 → 148] with a bunch of half-truths, [ 148 → 153] and out-of-context quotes from Scripture and the Church Fathers, [ 153 → 158] plus plenty of in-context quotes from Vatican II [ 158 → 161] and the post-conciliar magisterium. [ 161 → 166] So, we can expect that that encyclical will be another milestone [ 166 → 170] advancing the Novus Ordo apostasy. [ 171 → 173] And unlike the Abu Dhabi Declaration, [ 174 → 178] the encyclical will definitely be part of the Novus Ordo, [ 178 → 184] though that won't matter to the Recognize and Resist Trads, of course, [ 184 → 187] because their position isn't based on evidence, [ 187 → 190] it's based on what they want to be the case. [ 190 → 192] So, they want Francis to be the Pope, [ 193 → 196] so at this point, you know, he could define a heresy, [ 197 → 197] ex cathedra, [ 198 → 201] and they would say that it doesn't matter [ 201 → 205] because it's not ex cathedra if it's wrong, right? [ 205 → 208] And that's pretty much where they're at, [ 208 → 208] at this point. [ 208 → 210] At this point, theologically. [ 211 → 216] Well, because, look, that's basically what a canonization is, right? [ 216 → 219] If you look at the formula of canonization, [ 219 → 222] it's clear that that's infallible language. [ 222 → 224] And what do the semi-trads do? [ 225 → 228] They simply say that that doesn't matter [ 228 → 231] because, whatever, the process is flawed. [ 232 → 233] Unbelievable. [ 233 → 237] Anyway, there's lots more to cover in this podcast. [ 237 → 238] Francis has... [ 238 → 241] He has recently noted the following, [ 241 → 243] and you may want to sit down for this one, [ 244 → 245] and if you're driving, [ 246 → 248] consider pulling over, just to be safe, okay? [ 248 → 250] Because this is going to be... [ 250 → 252] This is going to blow your mind, okay? [ 254 → 257] Francis has pointed out to a nun [ 257 → 262] that God did not go to seminary [ 262 → 265] and did not study theology. [ 267 → 267] That's quite... [ 268 → 269] That's quite a revelation. [ 270 → 271] But, yes, he did say that. [ 272 → 275] He wrote that in a recent letter to a Novus Ordo nun [ 275 → 280] who built a housing complex for men who cross-dress [ 280 → 281] and pretend they're women. [ 282 → 286] And Francis commended her for her work and said, [ 286 → 287] quote, [ 287 → 291] God who did not go to the seminary or study theology [ 291 → 295] will repay you abundantly, unquote. [ 296 → 298] And if you want more information on that, [ 298 → 302] you can find it in our blog post of August 18th, 2020, [ 303 → 303] entitled, [ 303 → 309] Francis Praises Nun for Building Homes for Transgenders. [ 310 → 315] Now, speaking of so-called transgenders or transsexuals, [ 316 → 319] remember how Francis' exhortation Amoris Laetitia [ 319 → 325] recommended accompaniment of all those in an irregular situation? [ 326 → 328] Yeah, well, in his native Irish, [ 328 → 333] some logical chickens are now coming home to roost. [ 333 → 336] The following headline from Crux [ 336 → 339] gives you a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about. [ 341 → 344] Transgender woman's role at mass [ 344 → 347] stirs controversy in Argentina. [ 349 → 353] Let me quote from that article written by journalist Ines San Martin. [ 354 → 354] Quote, [ 354 → 358] Marking an historical first in Pope Francis' [ 358 → 358] home country, [ 359 → 363] the Diocese of San Luis in northern Argentina [ 363 → 366] invited a transgender woman Tuesday [ 366 → 371] to read one of the prayer intentions at a public mass [ 371 → 374] celebrated by the local bishop, unquote. [ 376 → 379] Yeah, don't you hate it when that happens? [ 379 → 382] I think I already know how they're going to resolve [ 382 → 385] their ongoing debate about women priests. [ 385 → 388] Talk about an irregular situation. [ 388 → 394] Now, the Novus Ordo bishop there did not know about this beforehand, [ 395 → 399] but he has no problem with that in principle, the article says. [ 399 → 404] His only concern was that this was too big a step too soon [ 404 → 407] for this conservative diocese, [ 407 → 409] which he took over just a few weeks ago. [ 410 → 414] Folks, can you imagine how the Vatican II church [ 414 → 417] will look in 25 years from now? [ 418 → 421] If God doesn't put an end to it before then, that is. [ 422 → 426] All right, moving on to a Novus Ordo priest [ 426 → 428] by the name of William Grimm. [ 428 → 432] Fair warning, he is a Mary Knoll missionary in Tokyo. [ 434 → 437] And on August 24th, he published an article entitled, [ 438 → 442] They're nice to have, but we don't need churches. [ 444 → 447] Well, you know, it's true that, strictly speaking, [ 448 → 451] Catholics don't absolutely need churches. [ 451 → 454] Certainly, the earliest Christians didn't have any, [ 454 → 458] and neither did those who lived in countries [ 458 → 459] where Catholicism was forbidden. [ 461 → 465] It's still wrong, though, to argue or to give the impression [ 465 → 471] that churches are just a kind of nice-to-have luxury add-on. [ 472 → 474] Here's what Grimm writes, quote, [ 474 → 477] Buildings, Sunday gatherings, [ 478 → 481] public prayers and hymns are the accompaniments of religion, [ 481 → 484] but not the essence of Christianity. [ 484 → 487] Christianity is not a religion. [ 488 → 490] It has religious trimmings, [ 490 → 494] but its most basic reality is a relationship with God [ 494 → 495] through Jesus Christ. [ 496 → 499] The religious trappings aid our commitment to [ 499 → 501] and celebration of that relationship, [ 501 → 505] but are not the relationship, unquote. [ 506 → 508] That is complete. [ 508 → 509] That is complete Protestantism. [ 509 → 513] For Protestants, it's all about the personal relationship, [ 514 → 518] and going to church is a way to nourish that relationship, [ 518 → 520] to celebrate it, to express it. [ 521 → 523] And the purpose of liturgy, according to Protestantism, [ 524 → 528] is to serve as a kind of spiritual pick-me-up, right? [ 529 → 530] That's Protestantism. [ 530 → 534] The Catholic understanding of liturgy is completely different. [ 534 → 537] The Holy Mass isn't simply a Sunday gathering, [ 538 → 540] gathering with prayers and hymns. [ 540 → 543] It's a mystical reenactment of Calvary, [ 543 → 545] the sacrifice of the cross. [ 546 → 548] Here, let me quote a little bit from the [ 548 → 551] Dictionary of Dogmatic Theology, [ 551 → 554] published in 1951, [ 554 → 557] under the entry for liturgy. [ 557 → 558] Quote, [ 559 → 562] The official worship the Church renders to God, [ 563 → 565] or, to describe it more extensively, [ 566 → 568] the complexes of the acts, [ 568 → 571] by which the Church, in union with Christ, her head, [ 572 → 574] and externally represented by his ministers, [ 575 → 580] offers to God the homage of adoration and of praise, [ 580 → 585] and communicates to souls the divine gifts of grace. [ 585 → 586] Unquote. [ 587 → 589] There's a lot more there, of course, [ 589 → 590] but that's all I'm going to quote. [ 590 → 594] So that is the Dictionary of Dogmatic Theology, [ 594 → 598] edited by Pietro Parente and others. [ 599 → 603] Christianity is not a religion, Grimm said. [ 604 → 606] Now, where have I heard that before? [ 606 → 606] Oh, yeah. [ 607 → 609] From Pope Francis. [ 610 → 613] Well, he didn't say the exact same thing, [ 613 → 615] but what he said was close enough. [ 616 → 618] While visiting Morocco last year, [ 618 → 623] he said the following in an address on March 31st, 2019. [ 624 → 624] Quote, [ 624 → 627] Being a Christian is not about [ 627 → 632] adhering to a doctrine or a temple or an ethnic group. [ 633 → 635] Being Christian is about an encounter, [ 636 → 638] an encounter with Jesus Christ. [ 638 → 639] Unquote. [ 640 → 642] Yeah, for the Novus Ordo modernists, [ 642 → 645] everything is always an encounter. [ 646 → 649] An encounter, you see, is essentially an experience, [ 649 → 653] and so it's a thoroughly subjective thing. [ 653 → 654] That's why they love it so much. [ 654 → 655] It's mysterious. [ 656 → 656] It's vague. [ 656 → 658] It's not cut and dried. [ 658 → 661] It's not something you can easily define. [ 662 → 664] It leaves room for interpretation. [ 664 → 667] It doesn't follow rules, and so on. [ 668 → 671] Now, obviously, to be a Catholic, to be a Christian, [ 672 → 676] you must have a real relationship with our blessed Lord. [ 676 → 680] But a relationship alone is not enough, either. [ 681 → 683] We must be devoted to Christ. [ 683 → 686] We must pick up our cross daily, [ 686 → 690] and follow Him, not just in word, but in deed. [ 690 → 693] We must belong to His holy Catholic Church, [ 693 → 694] His mystical body. [ 695 → 698] We must adhere to and profess the true faith, [ 698 → 699] which He has revealed. [ 699 → 702] We must be baptized and supernaturally contrite [ 703 → 707] for our sins, if we want to be saved, and so forth. [ 708 → 711] The problem with these modernists is always that, [ 711 → 712] at the end of the day, [ 712 → 715] they simply do not believe. [ 716 → 718] They do not believe in Catholicism. [ 719 → 721] That's what it ultimately boils down to. [ 722 → 726] And no one is a better example of it than the Frankster himself. [ 727 → 730] On August 25th, he tweeted the following, [ 731 → 731] quote, [ 732 → 738] The root of every spiritual error is believing ourselves to be righteous. [ 738 → 742] To consider ourselves righteous is to leave God, [ 742 → 744] the only righteous one, out in the cold. [ 745 → 745] Unquote. [ 747 → 751] Now, at first sight, that just sounds so humble, right? [ 752 → 754] But there's really nothing humble about it. [ 755 → 758] Under the guise of denouncing self-righteousness, [ 758 → 762] Francis is actually teaching Lutheranism, [ 762 → 766] because he says that God is the only righteous one. [ 767 → 772] Well, it's true that all righteousness has its source in God, of course, [ 772 → 776] but the whole point of Christ's redemption, [ 776 → 780] was to communicate God's righteousness to souls [ 780 → 782] through sanctifying grace. [ 783 → 788] And that grace truly and really makes a soul righteous, [ 789 → 790] makes it holy, [ 791 → 792] puts it in friendship with God. [ 793 → 796] It does not merely cover up sin. [ 797 → 800] And we can find that directly in sacred scripture. [ 800 → 804] For instance, in Matthew 5, 20, [ 804 → 805] our Lord says, [ 806 → 809] For I tell you that unless your justice [ 809 → 812] abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, [ 812 → 817] you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [ 818 → 821] Our justice has to abound, [ 821 → 826] and it has to abound more than that of the hypocrites. [ 828 → 832] And in Luke 18, verse 14, [ 832 → 835] our Lord says about the penitent publican, [ 835 → 838] whom he contrasts with the self-righteous Pharisee, [ 839 → 840] I say to you, [ 840 → 846] this man went down into his house justified rather than the other. [ 848 → 849] Justified. [ 849 → 851] He was actually justified. [ 852 → 855] There must be real charity in our souls [ 855 → 858] that is sanctifying grace to be saved. [ 858 → 861] And that grace comes from God [ 861 → 865] and was merited for us by Christ in his sacredness. [ 865 → 866] Passion. [ 867 → 869] Behold the Lamb of God. [ 869 → 873] Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world. [ 874 → 879] St. John the Baptist said about our blessed Lord in John 1, 29. [ 880 → 883] See, Christ actually takes away sin. [ 883 → 887] He doesn't just cover it up as Protestants believe. [ 888 → 890] And so Francis is wrong when he says, [ 891 → 893] as he does at least implicitly, [ 893 → 894] that we can never be righteous [ 894 → 897] because God alone is righteous. [ 900 → 902] And lastly, ladies and gentlemen, [ 902 → 906] I am happy to announce that the Novus Ordo bishops [ 906 → 909] of the United States have rediscovered [ 909 → 911] the power of fasting. [ 912 → 915] They've apparently finally had enough. [ 915 → 918] After decades of standing idly by [ 918 → 921] as the nation was overcome by a deluge of heresy, [ 922 → 924] abortion, indifferentism, pornography, [ 924 → 928] divorce and adultery, murder, human trafficking, [ 928 → 932] outright Satanism in schools, homosexuality, [ 932 → 933] and attempts to pervert marriage, [ 934 → 938] the American Novus Ordo bishops are now going for the jugular. [ 939 → 943] As the English language edition of Vatican News reported yesterday, [ 944 → 948] the Novus Ordo bishops have now called upon American Catholics [ 948 → 952] to make August 28th or September 9th [ 952 → 954] a day of prayer and faith. [ 954 → 958] Fasting against racism. [ 960 → 963] Tradcast Express is a production of Novus Ordo Watch. [ 963 → 965] Check us out at tradcast.org [ 965 → 966] and if you like what we're doing, [ 966 → 969] please consider making a tax-deductible contribution [ 969 → 971] at novusordowatch.org [ 971 → 972] slash donate.