Viganò and the Survival of the Catholic Faith

JMJ

The hubris of the Pope et al is quite telling.

Yet, Catholics who know their Faith know that it will survive to the end of the world.

I know a few who believe that we've reached that point.

However, that is not for us to decide. Traditional Catholics have often thought that it couldn't get any worse.

Then we had Assisi etc and now we have Pope Francis.

My Mother once prayed that our family not be blinded to the crisis. We have lived with the consequences of the answer to that prayer for almost 40 years.

Seeing the crisis through a Catholic lens is critical to understanding how to survive.

Not to worry, it isn't that complicated.

Do your duty of state and be grateful that you have the Catholic Truth. Don't be bitter or angry. Seek out a priest or congregation that gives out bread instead of stones (obviously Catholic etc).

Then be grateful, very very grateful.

In the meantime, we have more confirmation that the truth is 'leaking' out.

P^3

Meanwhile, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) obtained a brief statement from Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first Counsellor of the Nunciature in Washington whose job it was to inform Cardinal McCarrick of the sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict XVI. Lantheaume, who declined to give an interview, merely confirmed the veracity of Viganò’s report.

https://onepeterfive.com/pope-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-vigano-accusations-as-another-former-vatican-diplomat-confirms-the-report/

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/former-nunciature-official-vigano-said-the-truth-38319

Comments

"Father, Should I Attend That Mass?" Advice on Attending Non-SSPX Latin Masses

+ JMJ I see that the 'resistors' are in a tizzy because Fr. Robinson used them as an example instead of the sedevacantists. What is interesting is that you can apply the exact same reasons against going to a sede mass as that of the 'resistors'. Namely: On the other extreme are those situations where an SSPX priest knows that a certain non-SSPX traditionalist venue is a grave danger to the faith . Frankly, most, if not all, of the Resistance Masses would fall into this category. In many cases, the behavior of these priests has been and continues to be scandalous, by their (A) spirit, their (B) preaching, and their indiscriminate conferral of the (C) priesthood and (D) episcopacy. To attend a Mass with such ongoing scandals poses a serious danger to the souls of the faithful. Yep, looking at A,B,C and D the shoe fits. On this basis the "resistors" = "sedevacantists". P^3 Courtesy of SSPX.org A companion article to a recent "Questions with ...

Morning and Evening and other sundry Prayers

+ JMJ Along the theme of P^3 (Prayer, Penance, Patience), and for my own reference ... here is a collection of Morning and Evening prayers from the Ideal Daily Missal along with some additional prayers. In this crisis of the Church, I do not think it is possible to do too much prayer, penance and have patience. P^3

Stories: Early Days of Tradition Part 9 - The Novus-Ordo, Requiems and Holy Thursday

+ JMJ I am not a 'cradle' Traditional Catholic. In fact, one of my earliest 'church memories' is of the pews in my family's first parish. Specifically, how they tasted. I remember a lot of people standing up around me as I got as much of the pew in my mouth as possible. At that moment as I reached the sweet spot, an older lady caught my eye and I got the impression she was less that impressed that I had achieved the maximally effective amount of pew in my 4 year-old mouth. Looking back, I realised that the parish of my youth was a haven for Conservative Catholics. The Pastor had succeeded in isolating the parish from much of the madness of the 1970's. The result of a conservative parish with doctrinally sound teaching, catechesis and confessions was a parish packed to capacity. The downside, as I heard decades later, was that when a young member of that parish moved into another parish, he found a completely different Church from the one in which he had grow...

The Catholic Church and the Rule of Law- Part II: Dr. John Lamont

+ JMJ This is the second article from Dr. Lamont from his lecture given in May 2014. P^3 Source Part A: Society of St. Hugh of Cluny Source Part B: Society of St. Hugh of Cluny 8 May2014 The Catholic Church and the Rule of Law- Part II By John Lamont To understand how the Jesuit conception of obedience departed from earlier conceptions, it is helpful to compare it with the teaching of St. Thomas on obedience. The fundamental difference between the two is that St. Thomas considers the proper object of obedience to be the precept of the superior (2a2ae q. 104 a. 2 co., ad 3). Obedience that seeks to forestall the expressed will of the superior does not bear on what the superior wants or thinks in general, but only on what the superior intends to command. St. Ignatius’s lowest degree of obedience, which he does not consider to be virtuous, is thus what St. Thomas considers to be the only form of obedience. St. Thomas holds that St. Ignatius’s alleged higher forms of o...

Catholic World Report: Does Traditionis Custodes pass Liturgical History 101 ?

+ JMJ Legislation cannot change historical facts. Nor can an act of legal positivism determine what is or is not part of the lex orandi of the Church. The Catholic World Report has published an interesting article on TC and I've highlighted a couple of passages that caught my eye. I think the key thing is that the "Blind Suicidal Obedience is a thing of the past". Let us truly hope so! This is something that has been a key question for decades amongst Traditional Catholics. As the author mentioned, I am Catholic, sub-species Traditional Catholic 😎 . For further reading here's a link to my series on True Obedience (link) . P^3 Source: CatholicWorldReport Corruption of the liturgy?: This theory, sometimes called “ antiquarianism [Tradical: Condemned by Pius XIII] ”, denigrates all liturgical forms growing up in the life of the Church from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the Renaissance – approximately 1,000 years – denying th...

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