Are the Sedevacantists Right ... after all?

Is the Chair of Saint
Peter Empty?
Francis
is the culmination of quite nearly every argument brought against
the legitimacy of the popes who have sat on the seat of Saint
Peter since Pope Pius XII — at the
latest. Francis’s utterances, positions and propositions
— to say nothing of his actions — have at the very least given
credence to, and vigorously supported claims that he is not
the pope ... after all. Given
the overwhelming support of the heresy of Modernism that now
infects virtually every aspect of the Church — and which Francis
appears to champion at every opportunity — the question is quite
suddenly no longer academic. Nor can we appeal to the New
Code of Canon Law improvised during Vatican II to settle the
question, since the Code itself is infected.
Francis
sits in the Chair of Saint Peter, and exercises all the prerogatives
of a pope — but quite possibly is not the pope. His ascending
to the Throne of Saint Peter was scandalously preceded by
canonically illicit and incredibly open lobbying (the infamous
ST. Gallen Group, a.k.a the
“Vatican
Mafia”
as they enjoyed calling themselves) who were subsequently given
seats of the highest honor following his election. He has celebrated
the Protestant Reformation and ordered Vatican postal stamps
be issued with Martin Luther piously presented. He has equated
all religions as paths of sanctification — and ultimately salvation:
in a word, he appears, by word and deed, to be a Pantheist under
the guise of Ecumenism. His love for the ascription of
“humility”
to him is painfully obvious given his carefully orchestrated
and widely publicized
“humble
gestures”.
On the other hand, in the real world, to those who disagree
with him, he is a petulant, angry and often vulgar autocrat
who tolerates no dissension from his Weltanschaung and
who ruthlessly punishes critics of his signature platforms.
“An
atmosphere of fear permeates the Vatican”
2 it is often written and quoted. Of what? Of not
going along to get along; fear of not supporting
his most ambitious
“reforms”
lest punishment follow. It rather sounds more like the reign
of Caligula than a pope.
Deception
and Distortion
Francis has distorted, defied, or denied Sacred Scripture —
which is to say what Jesus Christ Himself teaches us — even
as he is portrayed on nearly every Catholic web site kneeling
and praying ... even by some of those who openly challenge what
he is doing to the Church. Think of it: when a tragedy occurs,
Catholic websites claim as
“news”
that
“Pope
Francis laments”
or
“condemns”
such and such. That is supposed to be newsworthy?
Atheists do the same but do not get the copy. It is the incessant
indoctrination of the mantra
“Francis
the humble”
that the worldly press encourages because they know he is dismantling
2000 years of Catholicism that opposed all or most of their
anti-Catholic views on abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism,
ecology, Mother Earth, and even politics ... all of which, received
more of Francis’s
“humble”
“mercy”
either explicitly or implicitly in that New Age Encyclical he
called Amoris Laetitia.
Now we are told, by one of Francis’s staunchest supporters
(and benefactor
of Francis) that “We must let
go of “cherished beliefs” (Cardinal Cupich)
“re-imagine
the Church”
(that was never imaginary to begin with)
and begin a
“revolution”
that will wean Catholics away from what he described, verbatim,
as
“an
adolescent spirituality into an adult spirituality.”
1 Presumably, given Francis’s
penchant for Lutheranism this must mean Protestant and
not historically Catholic spirituality— but which one of thousands
of Protestant sects, we wonder, does he see as the paradigm
for
“grown-up
spirituality”? Lutheranism
appears to be on the fast track. Or perhaps it may be Islam?
Judaism? Taoism? Hinduism? All?
Francis’s smug arrogance toward those who presented questions
in the form of legitimate Dubia (which a year later remain
contemptuously unanswered) for clarification by Francis has
been nothing less than scandalous — because what he stated in
Amoris Laetitia and elsewhere leaves not only
simple Catholics confused, but cardinals, bishops, and philosophers
as well (all of whom he penalized for their support
of clarification of important Scriptural and Church
doctrine which he has compromised and cannot answer without
revising his agenda for the
“Church
of Surprise and Encounter”
that he, Cardinal Cupich, and his coterie of disaffected Catholics
at the Vatican are endeavoring to build — and
that has little or no resemblance to the Catholic Church
of the 2000 years preceding Vatican II.
The Church
we Recognize no Longer
The fact is, I do not recognize the Church I once knew. Nor
its Mass. Nor its increasingly secular teachings that appear
to conform to the world and not Christ — and at the expense
of Christ and that now quaint and childish notion of
“the
salvation of immortal souls”.
Francis is genuinely a
“legitimate”
pope, and his reign will be — unquestionably — the most destructive
in Church history.
But then again, face it: we deserve this pope. He is definitely
attuned to this generation! He is — and he appears to be acutely
aware of it — and what the world wants. Of course what
the world
wants
and what Christ wants are quite different ...
in fact, diametrically opposed. (Saint John 15.19)
Although, if we are asked,
“is
Francis really pope?”
We may be inclined to infamously retort:
“Who
are we to judge?”
But the fact of the matter is that he is legitimately
— however much regrettably — our pope. He is an affliction
upon us and deservedly so. His penchant for putative “environment
issues”, Mother Earth, politics and redistributive economies
— all of which are very popular secular issues that redound
to his popularity (and he knows it) — largely reflect our own.
Even many Catholics. All those transcendent and supernatural
things with which the Church occupied Herself prior to Vatican
II and especially the pontificate of Pope Francis, interest
most Catholics as much as they apparently interest Francis —
which is to say, little. Oh, yes we make the superficial gestures
and utter perfunctory formulas at Mass ... if we even go anymore
... and some declare themselves “Pro-Abotion Catholics”!
Eternal Life — just as with Eternal Death (the
“Second
Death”
in Holy Scripture) — are non-issues for us any longer: they
belong in that reliquary we call Pre-Spirit-of-Vatican-II
— you know, Offending God, Death, Heaven, Hell, Mortal Sin,
satan and demons, Exorcisms, Penance, the Real Presence (of
Jesus Christ in the Eucharist), modesty, purity, innocence,
chastity — in a word everything we have given
up to be acceptable to the world ... however much we offend
God and lose our immortal souls.
“All
that comes later, anyway”
— right?
It appears to be fairly easy
to be
“more
Catholic than the pope”
these days.
Why don't we try it? It may even
lead us to that other long-neglected concept called
“holiness”.
NOTA BENE: Bear
in mind — for it is of the greatest importance — that
the Holy Catholic Church does not cease to exist when there
is no pope on the Seat of Peter. The longest papal election
lasted nearly three years and occurred in the 13th century
when the cardinals convened to choose a successor to Clement
IV on Mar 11, 1271. The Church endured this interregnum. It
will surely outlast Francis and friends.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
November 18, 2017
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1
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-cupich-amoris-laetitia-is-a-call-for-an-adult-spirituality-where-w
2
https://catholiccitizens.org/news/69393/pope-orders-cardinal-muller-dismiss-three-cdf-priests/
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A note about the graphic:
No, it is not the backdrop of a horror film superimposed on
the cardinals present. It is the Paul VI Audience Hall. See
“Why
does the Paul VI Audience Hall look so demonic?”
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Paul-VI-Audience-Hall-look-so-demonic
