[ 0 → 17] Tradcast Express, it's Thursday, March 2nd, 2017, and this podcast is back after I had [ 17 → 18] to recover from some illness. [ 19 → 23] Well, with Francis, there's always plenty going on, and today is no different. [ 24 → 28] First, now that we're coming close to the four-year anniversary of the election of Jorge [ 28 → 34] Bergoglio as Pope Francis, various journalists and bloggers are taking a moment to blow off [ 34 → 35] some steam about the guy. [ 36 → 43] An interesting piece was posted yesterday at LifeSiteNews.com by Pete Buklinski that [ 43 → 49] basically talks about how the election of Francis was engineered by various ultra-modernist [ 49 → 53] forces to give the Novus Ordo Church a complete makeover. [ 54 → 58] Unfortunately, as we've mentioned several times before in our blog at NovusOrdo, [ 58 → 64] NovusOrdoWatch.org, people's acknowledgement of the evils of Jorge Bergoglio comes at a [ 64 → 72] terrible price, the price of denying the truth about what took place the decades before Francis [ 72 → 72] came on the scene. [ 74 → 75] Buklinski writes, quote, [ 75 → 84] The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio followed upon 35 years of clear, solid, orthodox teaching [ 84 → 88] under the distinguished pontificates of St. John Paul II. [ 88 → 92] and Benedict XVI, unquote. [ 95 → 96] Wow. [ 96 → 98] Now, this could not be further from the truth. [ 99 → 106] What we're witnessing here is a complete whitewashing of the time from John XXIII through Benedict XVI. [ 107 → 113] As we've said before in our blog, perhaps Francis' job is only to make his five predecessors [ 113 → 115] of unhappy memory look orthodox. [ 116 → 118] And by comparison, they do. [ 118 → 119] By comparison. [ 120 → 123] But that's obviously not the right standard by which to judge these things. [ 124 → 128] We don't judge the purity of drinking water by comparing it to sewage. [ 130 → 132] Then, this is absolutely hilarious. [ 133 → 140] Cardinal Coco Palmerio has now proposed that we reflect on this rigid notion of valid versus [ 140 → 141] invalid sacraments. [ 142 → 147] You see, this is causing a real problem for ecumenism with Lutherans and Anglicans, since [ 147 → 149] they don't have a valid priesthood. [ 150 → 153] Well, the Novus Ordo's don't either, actually, but they think they do, right? [ 153 → 154] Officially, they do. [ 155 → 160] So, Coco Palmerio suggests that it's time to reflect on this issue. [ 161 → 162] And you know how it is. [ 162 → 164] Famous last words, right? [ 164 → 165] Let's reflect on this. [ 166 → 168] That's usually the first step to modernist destruction. [ 168 → 174] They threaten to reflect, i.e., rethink a traditional teaching. [ 175 → 177] Well, anyway, here's what Coco... [ 177 → 182] Coco said, verbatim, in an interview conducted by Ed Penton of the National Non-Catholic [ 182 → 184] Register, released on March 1st, quote, [ 185 → 188] We say everything is valid, nothing is valid. [ 189 → 192] Maybe we have to reflect on this concept of validity or invalidity. [ 193 → 198] The Second Vatican Council said there is a true communion, even if it is not yet definitive [ 198 → 199] or full. [ 200 → 204] You see, they made a concept not so decisive, either all or nothing. [ 204 → 206] There's a communion that is already good. [ 206 → 208] But some elements are missing. [ 209 → 213] But if you say some things are missing, and that therefore there is nothing, you err. [ 214 → 217] There are pieces missing, but there is already a communion. [ 217 → 219] But it is not full communion. [ 219 → 225] The same thing can be said, or something similar, of the validity or invalidity of ordination. [ 226 → 227] I said let's think about it. [ 227 → 228] It's a hypothesis. [ 229 → 231] Maybe there is something, or maybe there is nothing. [ 231 → 232] A study. [ 232 → 233] A reflection. [ 233 → 234] Unquote. [ 234 → 236] It's actually quite hilarious how... [ 236 → 241] He concludes it by saying maybe there's something, maybe there's nothing, when the whole point [ 241 → 246] of what he just said was that you don't have to have only something or nothing, but there [ 246 → 247] could be something in between. [ 247 → 249] Anyway, get this. [ 249 → 254] After Vatican II declared that the true church exists in elements in other religions, and [ 254 → 260] Francis insisted that matrimony can exist in elements in fornication and adultery, Coco [ 260 → 265] Palmerio now takes it one step further and argues that we can have elements of validity [ 265 → 266] in the sacraments. [ 266 → 272] Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to partially valid sacraments, conferred by people who [ 272 → 274] possess elements of the priesthood. [ 276 → 279] Well, you know, this elements thing is quite the rave right now, actually. [ 280 → 285] I mean, Benedict XVI basically claims to be holding on to some elements of the papacy, [ 285 → 285] right? [ 286 → 288] While Francis enjoys them in their fullness. [ 289 → 290] Folks, let me tell you something. [ 291 → 295] Have no fear to be a Sedevacantist. [ 295 → 296] Because if this modernist... [ 296 → 302] circus in the Vatican is the true religion, then what the heck does anything matter, really? [ 303 → 305] I mean, then you might as well be a Sedevacantist. [ 306 → 311] If fornication is marriage and sacraments can be partially valid and all that, then [ 311 → 314] believe me, Sedevacantism won't damn you to hell either. [ 315 → 319] There's lots more to talk about today, but we'll have to continue tomorrow because this [ 319 → 320] is an express podcast. [ 321 → 324] So just make sure you tune in again in 24 hours. [ 325 → 326] By the way, today is... [ 326 → 330] the 141st birthday of Pope Pius XII. [ 331 → 334] It's also the 78th anniversary of his election as Pope. [ 334 → 337] The last Pope, for the time being. [ 337 → 342] Yes, he was elected on his 63rd birthday in 1939. [ 343 → 346] Tradcast Express is a production of Novus Ordo Watch. [ 347 → 349] Check us out at tradcast.org. [ 350 → 355] And if you like what we're doing, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution at [ 355 → 356] novusordowatch.org. [ 356 → 358] Donate.