Dear fellow Mad Trads and Sad Trads, those of you filled with righteous anger over the betrayal of the True Church by those (Trad Inc $$$$) currently groveling before “F**k the Rules” Prevost, behold, you are not alone. You fight not for mere breadcrumbs of Latin. You choose to fight against lies, against Satan, against the sodomitical church of synodality, and rightly so. After all, souls are at stake, and the Supreme Law of the Church is the Salvation of Souls (Can. 1752… the very last line of the 1983 code).
h/t “Michael Stephen” via commentary on the last Barnhardt Podcast.
“To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.” – Catholic Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, 10 January 1890
I couldn’t find a post here regarding a post of Ann Barnhardt’s referencing an answer to why the papal vacancy began with Francis.
Didn’t Pope Benedict deny an infallible doctrine of the faith by his view that there could be more than one pope at a time? He not only wrote about it but acted on it in his belief, whether or not he validly resigned or not. He held the view. He is the source of the current problems. Another thought, had he died as an acting pope who never submitted a resignation, what are the chances that we would have had a holy pope to follow?
Lately, these are my thoughts too. Ratzinger was a professor of theology, a CDF prefect and one of the main people behind the 1983 Code of Canon Law and the Catechism. I don’t see how he was just in error instead of heresy.
Don’t you know that Pope Benedict was a victim of his massive German intellect and was therefore not capable of falling into heresy, unlike Pope Leo?
Yes, interesting how Barnhardt & Mazza just conveniently sidestep the issue of Benedict being a heretic before and during his papacy if he believed what they claim about the papacy…hmmm
Even if we do grant, for argument, that Benedict personally denied an infallibly defined doctrine of the Faith, it has to be the strangest denial in history. For publicly he said nothing directly; we can only arrive at the true picture by assembling the positive pieces of the puzzle we have – his earlier writings, his odd not-a-resignation, his conduct and remarks afterward, the remarks of his closest confidant.
It’s quite strange. Why not come out say directly what he obviously believed? Particularly someone like Benedict, for whom the study and discussion of Theology was both his life’s work and his delight? It’s almost as if there was some kind of supernatural force arranging for his private, mistaken opinions to remain… private. A negative space, hidden from the Faithful, preventing them from being lead into error.
A supernatural negative protection, if you will.
How did this happen? Which came first, bad clergy or bad lay people?
Something must have occurred in the 1800’s that angered God greatly. Russia fell from grace and then spread her evil errors around the world. We are living in a terrible chastisement. And I think we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
From the 1800’s onward, the Catholic Church heirarchy were being pressured and falling to the defined and denounced heresies of Heliocentrism, then followed by Darwinism. The two horns that the protestantizing and inevitably atheistic world adopted; therefore ultimately rejecting Papal Infallibility and the Book of Genesis.
The heliocentrists concluded the the Scriptures were either wrong, or had to be reinterpreted contrary to the 100% Consistentcy of Mosaic & Christian Tradition and the 100% Consensus of the Church Fathers.
If Tradition and the Fathers could be found to err, then the arguments of the Catholic Church to safeguard and always teach what has always been taught have no foundation. Scientific rationalism trumps Tradition.
Because the Holy Inquisition and numerous successive Papacies defined Copernicus and Galileo’s beliefs in the Earth’s rotation and revolution, and the Sun’s immobility, as contrary to Scripture, the Fathers, and philosophically in error; condemned it as Formal Heresy, and forbade not only Galileo, but the entire Christian world from holding and teaching these errors throughout both the 1600’s and 1700’s; then those who believed the Church and the Papacy erred, concluded that Scientific rationalism demonstrated that Papal Infallibility was a religiously-driven falsehood.
As Darwinism won over the fallen academics, not even the heresy of Sola Scriptura survived. The Bible was reduced to a collection of spiritual myths belonging to lesser evolved pre-modern men.
Cardinal Ratzinger, writing about the Second Vatican Council, stated that the mindset of the periti entering the council was that of men wanting to make up for the mistake and embarrassment of the Galileo Affair.
But Ratzinger also admitted what so few people today know… Science had never demonstrated that the Church had ever been wrong – the current Relativistic paradigm, at best, holds that Geocentrism is a completely legitimate model, only rejected democratically out of prejudice in favor of materialistic dogmas, and secular animosity againt religion; particularly any evidence in favor of one very specific one.
Sadly 99% of the world, 99% of Catholics, 99% of Trads, and even 99% of classical Sedes all unwittingly accept and promote these heresies.
Invincible ignorance does exist.
But if these sedes insist that the Church and Papacy erred on Galileo, then they have no choice but to admit that the trajectory of the Vatican II Council and the synodal path has a justified trajectory.
If error is compounded off an error based on invincible ignorance that undermines the entire basis of an institution, then arguably the person may not be a formal heretic, provided correction can straighten them out.
The point is that the Scientific Revolution, divorced from True religion, destroyed the foundations of the Faith and it has continued to drive evil, anxiousness and much insanity today, always stemming from the intellectual classes.
Until Catholics get their act together about the Fact that the Holy Spirit did move the Papacy and Church to condemn Heliocentrism for good reason, and proper science and history backs it up, the intellectual poisoning of our times will never be alleviated.