
“Non
habemus authentice Catholicus Papa?”
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1958 — the Year
of the Last
Authentically
Catholic Pope?
It
is typically the prerogative
of the Protodeacon of the College of Cardinals who ceremoniously proclaims
the election of a new pope with the words “Habemus Papam!”, or
“We have a Pope” — following a conclave of the Cardinal Electors who
nominated him.
With something far more profound and painful
than “regret”, we have come to acknowledge what had become increasingly
obvious — and which found its clearest expression, its
culmination, in the neo-pagan “papacy”
of Jorge Bergoglio (“Francis”).
The See of Rome
is no longer authentically Catholic — in the way that Catholicism
had been understood and practiced
for the 2000
years preceding Vatican II.
This is
not to say that “Pope Francis” — is not a legitimate pope.
He is a legitimate pope — but he
is not an authentically Catholic pope.
Confused?
Legitimacy pertains to law or legality
— in other words, conforming to canonical standards and requirements
— authenticity pertains to the substance, to what is substantive
(L. substantia — “the quality of being real”, “the reality
of a thing, as distinct from outward appearance”1.)
In other words, it pertains to what possesses reality as distinct
from appearances, or in the present case, simply meeting criteria to
be deemed legal.
An example may help
Jack Ma Jun is legitimately the
owner of Alibaba, a Chinese technology giant involved in e-commerce,
retail, and Internet assets — whose personal net worth
is $38 billion dollars — but he is also a member of the Chinese
Communist Party. Communism, you may remember, eliminated private
ownership of the means of production together with all class
distinctions — all property is publicly owned and
each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
All are equally “comrades” sharing in a wealth commonly generated and
commonly distributed.
As a member of the Chinese Communist Party,
Jack is legitimately one of the Proletariat, eschewing private
ownership, personal wealth, a disproportionate share in the means of
common production, and is in the same “Class” as a rice farmer (the
average Chinese annual income is approximately $1,375 USD). Jack
Ma Yun is legitimately a member of the Communist Party, although
he is indisputably an authentic Capitalist — but he is not and
cannot be a legitimate Capitalist — for Capitalism is
the antithesis of Communism: it is the Enemy of the People. Even
while Jack is overseeing more than 100 Chinese companies, and making
38 $Billion dollars in the process, these companies are, somehow, nevertheless
considered “state-run entities” under the central control of government.
While a
legitimate Communist Party member, Jack Ma Yan nevertheless remains
authentically a Capitalist. The two do not coincide.
An Enormous Crisis of
Identity
The
authentic Catholic Church ceased to be identifiably and
authentically Catholic following that calamitous consistory known
to us as “Vatican II” which occurred between October 11, 1962 until
December 8, 1965. Since that initial and unprecedented defection
from Sacred Tradition 2
by Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli “John XXIII”, and Giovanni Montini, or Pope
Paul VI
who concluded the Council. These two pontiffs, in collaboration with
what appears to have been a body of disaffected cardinals
3 who nominated them, sought
to implement what had basically become little more than a Modernist
agenda with many of the implicitly heretical ideologies that
defined it — and which Saint Pope Pius X had clearly enumerated in his
encyclical
Pascendi Dominici Gregis in 1907, stating that Modernism
is the
“synthesis of all heresies”, and
therefore unequivocally antithetical to the One, True, Holy Catholic
Church of the preceding 2000 years.
As a matter of public
record and verifiable assertions, Jorge Bergoglio appears to be the
de facto “pope” of what has became, in significant aspects, a
possibly new religion altogether; a secularized religion
that superficially resembles the authentic Catholic Church
as it existed prior to 1962 — which it has largely denounced — while
choosing to retain a simulacrum of it. It is a church that has been
laboriously articulated through a secular lens and then framed
in terms largely acceptable to Protestantism and inseparable
from it, the new evangel of Ecumenism — rather than
promoting the Gospel through the unparalleled missionary zeal that had
accompanied the Church for millennia.
In other words, Jorge
is, essentially, an actively and legally presiding High Priest —
but of a deeply infected
“Conciliar Church”
that is, in many ways, distinct from, and literally opposed to,
the authentic
“Holy Roman Catholic Church”
of 2000 years. The conclave that elected Francis was overwhelmingly
compromised even if it was canonically lawful; and while appearing
to have the faculties of electors — but obstinately remaining in an
ideological encampment both antithetical and hostile to the historically
authentic Catholic Magisterium— they in fact possessed the legitimate
(the legal) right to vote in a papal conclave, but that legal
right does not confer authentically Catholic credentials which
would be morally binding to do so.
See Saint Gallen conspiratorial group
The formal
papacy of Jorge Bergoglio is unquestionably the most perfidious
and destructive in the 2000 year history of the Catholic Church.
We do not “judge” the man — that is reserved to God. We do, however,
examine his public statements and actions in light of
the Sacred Deposit of Faith and Tradition (Tradere:
“to hand down, to pass on” 1)
entrusted to Holy Mother Church by God — and find them irreconcilable
with Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, the Depositum
Fidei, and the canons of logic.
The question now is,
where are we to find the One, Tue, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
Church from time immemorial? It is and ever will be.
Christ promised as much. But if the “First See” can no longer be found
in Rome, where is it? Where is the “authentic” Chair of Saint
Peter rather than its legal simulacrum? And if we can
discover it, who occupies it? — if anyone! If we hold that “the Chair
is empty” in light of the repudiation of orthodox Catholic canons— are
we to be understood as “Sedevacantists” ... or simply “orthodox”?
God by any
other name ...
Is, then, being an orthodox Catholic,
or even a Sedevacantist (who holds that the Chair of Saint Peter is
temporarily vacant) more scandalous than a “Conciliar
Catholic” which maintains that there is no inconsistency in worshipping
Pachamama idols together with Jesus Christ, or who holds that the God
of the Catholic Saints and Martyrs is the same god as Islam’s Allah
(a concept no Muslim would tolerate)? Or, for that matter, that
the Sixth Commandment against adultery is not incompatible with divorce,
and that, moreover, cohabitating adulterers can receive Holy Communion
in good conscience — no matter what God said! Are “Post-Conciliar
Catholics” more in keeping with the mind of Christ in promoting
“Accompaniment” (in sin, more often than not) as more vital than
conversion to the end of the salvation of souls— indeed,
that the efforts of Missionaries to proselytize pagans into the one
true Faith is really just so much “solemn nonsense”, as Jorge describes
it?
We believe, rather, that we must be understood
simply as orthodox Catholics had always been understood: as faithful
to the Sacred Deposit of Faith and the authentic Magisterium
of the Church over the two millennia preceding “Vatican II”, the widely
vaunted “Aggiornamento”, and the unmitigated abdication of Catholicism
in the pursuit of Ecumenism and the Hydra it spawned as it ineluctably
became pantheistic.
Largely secular issues such as
discrete national states, politics, economics, environmentalism, commercial
ventures, social justice, global warming, immigration, sovereign borders,
aboriginal cultures, plastic in the ocean — to mention a few — have
no place in an institution established solely to the end of the
salvation of souls. Their strident advocates are many and
broadly strewn throughout the “City of Man”. Only one institution —
the Holy Catholic Church — is the sole advocate of the “City of God”
to which it calls all men to eternal salvation and everlasting happiness.
Much, much, more remains to be said —
so much of authentic Catholicism remains to be articulated against
the hyphenated-Catholics:
So much remains to be re-acquired because
it has not been taught for 60 years. It has been forgotten, contemptuously
dismissed, suppressed, and ridiculed by Jorge Bergoglio as “rigid”
(by which assessment Christ is the paradigm of “rigidity”,
for He was absolutely inflexible in His teachings! May we be
as inflexible, and as rigid, as our Lord!) and by his five
predecessors as “unenlightened by new and ever-evolving secular
ideologies” — or as Jorge dismissively claims, simply “Stuck
in the past.”
Grains of Incense
-
Joseph Ratzinger (“Benedict XVI”)
-
Karol Józef Wojtyła (“John Paul II”)
-
Albino Luciani (“John Paul I”)
-
Giovanni Montini (“Paul VI”)
-
Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”) the
Proto-New-Age-Pontiff with the clarion to “throw open
the windows of the Church”
Each of the above shamefully offered more
than “a grain of incense” to false gods on the altar of Ecumenism in
Assisi and elsewhere. The kissing of the Koran by nominally Catholic
popes was not simply scandalous, but treasonable to the Catholic Faith
and to Christ Himself to Whom alone allegiance and latria is
due. Jorge’s claim that virtually all religions worship the same God
is a blatant abrogation of the very First Commandment:
“Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.”
(Exodus 20.3). There are
far too many instances to enumerate in which the One, True, Holy
Catholic Faith is either attenuated, ignored, or dismissed altogether
by every pontiff since Pope Pius XII.
Of course we understand that such insistence
on authentic Catholicism, on the factual rendering of the Gospels and
Epistles, the Church Fathers, and the Sacred Deposit of Faith and Tradition
will be greeted with much enmity, contempt, ridicule, and disdain. Actually,
we delight in this! It has ever been our conviction that a faithful
Catholic cannot be on mutually good terms with the World and
God. Saint James was clear about this:
“Know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God?”
(St. James 4.4)
We choose God.
“ If
the world hates you, know that it hath hated Me
before you. If you had been of the world, the
world would love its own: but because you are not
of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.”
(Saint John 15.18-19)
O, hope beyond joy!
It remains to be said
that the reluctant position into which
we have found ourselves forced was not of our own choosing; it
was, and remains deeply painful. Obedience to the pope was the sine
qua non of every orthodox Catholic. It was unthinkable that a pope
would openly contradict God, Holy Scripture, the Sacred Deposit of Faith,
and Tradition. Indeed, to defend all four was, as we say, his
“job description” — even to the point of the shedding of his blood.
He was the faithful shepherd when all others fled. He laid down his
life for his flock — as Christ did for him. He did not lead them into
strange and foreign pastures, nor did he open the gate of the sheepfold
to flocks that were not his own. Should a wolf in sheep’s clothing attempt
to enter, his staff was ready and swift. After all, the sheep were entrusted
to him, to do his master’s will — not his own. When this obligation
to obedience, however, became obedience to sin and false gods, we fled
the false shepherd who urged us to
“accompany”
him in implementing the priorities of the world, rather than the evangel
of Christ.
We never left the sheepfold and never
will — it was the shepherd
who fled the fold to bring in recreants to mingle with and adulterate
the faithful, and we can no longer call him our own — who belongs to
these strange others as well. In the absence of a true shepherd, if
we must bar the gate ourselves and at so great a cost to ourselves,
bar it we will until the one with the Key arrives at the time of God’s
choosing.
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“We do not have an authentically Catholic pope”
1
The Latin Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University
Press, 1968
2 “traditio:”
‘the transmission of knowledge, teaching; the handing down of knowledge;
an item of traditional knowledge, belief, etc. from
“trado”
to”
hand or pass over (to a person to hold)’.
The Latin Oxford
Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1968.
In this regard, it is important to see
the word
‘tradidi”,
together with its context,
in I Corinthians
11.2 in the
ancient Latin Vulgate.
3
Cardinal Josef Frings, Fr. Henri de
Lubac, S.J., Fr. Karl Rahner, S.J., Fr. Gregory Baum, Fr. Bernard Haring,
CSsR, Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., Fr.Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P.,
Fr. Hans Urs Von Balthasar, S.J., Fr. Hans Kung, and Fr. Annibale Bugnini
who was responsible for the destruction of the entire liturgy. Bugnini
was the secretary of the Pontifical Preparatory Commission on the
Liturgy, that would become the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy.
He was described by Fr. Louis Bouyer, a peritus for the liturgy
at Vatican II, as
“a man as bereft
of culture as he was of basic honesty.”

Totally Faithful to the Sacred
Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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