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Surviving Pope Francis and What is to Come ...

+ JMJ Even if the next Pope is a Pius XIII, Francis' legacy will be with us for a long time and the question is how to survive it as a Catholic. (N.B. I am writing this on April 29, 2025) I was thinking what advice would I give for weathering the storm to someone new to Tradition or even to the Catholic Church? First, remember that your first goal is to save your own soul and then those with whom you have an immediate relationship. That would be your spouse, children, parents, siblings etc. Second, is to hold true to what the Church actually teaches as opposed to theories. Theories includes how to determine when a Pope loses the papacy via heresy. If Pope Francis' papacy showed us anything, it showed the resilience of the Church to crossing the line into heresy. Third, feed your spiritual life with good reading. That mean spiritual works like the lives of saints, meditations like the Imitation of Christ etc. So pray, go to Mass and keep yourself in p...

SSPX: Novena for the Election of the Sovereign Pontiff Day 9

+ JMJ NOVENA FOR THE ELECTION OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF From April 28th to May 6th, 2025 As the conclave for the election of a new Sovereign Pontiff is imminent, the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X invites the entire Society and the lay faithful to invoke the Holy Ghost through a novena of prayers, which will take place from Monday, April 28 to Tuesday, May 6. This novena will consist of the Veni Creator Spiritus, to which will be added the collect from the votive Mass for the election of a Sovereign Pontiff and three invocations. The Latin/English text of the novena is included below. Courtesy of FSSPX.News: Novena for the Election of the Sovereign Pontiff | FSSPX News

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Who's In Charge? Part 5 of 5 Full Text and Map

+ JMJ Who’s in Charge? During this crisis of the Catholic Church, I know people who have been scandalized to the point where they ask “Who’s in charge of the Church, but it sure isn’t Pope so-and-so.” The goal of this article is to provide an solid answer by looking at Church Dogma and Doctine. N.B. I wrote the majority of this article before – and it turns out even during – Pope Franci’s last agony. So while Pope Francis no longer holds the office of the Vicar of Christ and the See of Peter is truly vacant, the interregnum will be of short duration – inspite of the Sede-Vacantists who claim that the Interregnum has lasted decades or even over a hundred years. Introduction So, who's In Charge? Ultimately God is in Charge and the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is the Head of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has a Visible Head on Earth and that person is the Pope. Pope Francis's papacy has been a seminal moment for the Catholic Church and the S...

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Who's In Charge? Part 4 of 5 - Conclusion

+ JMJ Conclusion Now putting Doctrine together with the Dogma what can we conclude? The Catholic Church has a history of Great, Good, Bad and Awful Popes. That the unworthy and mediocre outnumber the Great is without question ... and in itself a proof of the Divine Origin of the Catholic Church. Inspite of all that has occurred in the last hundred years, the Catholic Dogma's still stand the same as do the doctrines. There has been discipline that has been bent into ambiguous shapes - such as the Novus Ordo Missae, the Creed etc. Yet ambiguity is not Heresy in the true sense of the word. What we know from Church Teaching: The Catholic Church remains the institution of salvation. There will always be a Vicar of Christ We know we can identify the Catholic Church by Her Four Marks ( Series - Marks of the Church ) We know where the four marks exist We know that the Pope is part of the mark of Oneness ie. unity The Church "Teaching" - mea...

Who's In Charge? Part 3 of 5 - Church Teaching on the Papacy and Church

+ JMJ Church Teaching on the Papacy and Church Dogmas The following excerpts summarize what I think are the key teachings of the Church for these times concerning the papacy and the Church. As noted above a Dogma is something that must be believed by all Catholics. To deny a Dogma, like that of the Assumption, is to commit the sin of heresy. Papacy Christ founded the Church in order to continue His work of redemption for all time (DeFide) Ott p274 Christ gave His Church an hierarchical constitution (DeFide) Ott p276 The Powers bestowed on the Apostles have descended to the bishops (DeFide) Ott p278 Christ appointed the Apostle Peter to be the first of all the Apostles and to be the visible Head of the whole Church, by appointing him immediately and personally to the primary of jurisdiction (DeFide) Ott p279 According to Christ's ordinance, Peter is to have successors in his Primacy over the whole Church and for all time (DeFide) Ott p282 It ...