St. Michael the Archangel, unknown Weaver; 1156-90

IT ONLY takes a few externals — traditional vestments and a public prayer or two in Latin — for crowds to hail the new leader of the Vatican II church as a break from more than 60 years of apostasy and sacrilege. So weak are would-be Catholics in their knowledge of the faith.

In a world dominated by material values, they are as blind as the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem and the mob at the foot of the crucifix. They will have their earthly kingdom no matter what, even if it means denying their Redeemer and his message. It doesn’t matter whether they are “conservative” or liberal, “traditionalist” or open fans. They are joined together in an up-swelling of public fantasy and escapism. They resort to Catholic-appearing sacramentals as if magic objects that make the faith itself unnecessary. But the unchangeable doctrines and dogmas defined over the course of almost 2,000 years are necessary. The faith is more than wishful thinking and religious impulses. The faith is more than individual desires and attachment to business as usual. The supernatural has never ceased to be at odds with our fallen nature.

Leo 14, the latest pretender to the papacy, does not profess the Catholic faith, however much he embraces aspects of it. His ordination as a Vatican II cleric was a public profession of a different faith. He likes that belief system. He wants that belief system. He freely embraces that belief system, a system of contradictions which proclaims universal salvation and a dogma-less, humanistic, One World religion that encompasses all faiths, even Traditional Catholicism. It’s a syncretistic, polytheistic, existentialist, pagan religion that denies objective truth and divine attributes that can be known with certainty by the human intellect. The perfect counterpart to secular globalism and the all-encompassing State, it is another stage in the Protestant Revolt, which held that the Church was wrong in the past and Christ’s promises had failed it. Hence its easy irreverence and its blasphemous public apologies for the corporate actions of Christ’s Mystical Body.

What does all this betrayal mean for us, for all the confused lay believers, since Christ has promised to be with his Church until the end of time?

Could it mean, we must love the faith more? Could it mean, we must accommodate our desires, our religious feelings, our personal preferences and frustrated expectations to supernatural reality?

Christ’s promises cannot be fulfilled by adhering to false shepherds, by wanting that earthly kingdom as the Jews wanted theirs.

At Betrayed Catholics, Teresa Stanfill Benns writes:

Man’s free will enters in here and it is men, evil bishops and cardinals, who betrayed Christ by electing Angelo Roncalli, an unworthy candidate on several counts as the first usurper in a long line of papal pretenders. God never deprives man of free will, and they freely conspired to betray the faithful just as Judas betrayed Our Lord. By so doing they became heretics incapable of electing anyone — for heresy means “to choose.” LibTrad pseudo-clergy accuse those praying at home of denying the Church can never fail because they maintain valid and licit bishops no longer exist and canonical election of a true pope is now impossible. But we have never said the Church has failed or no longer exists.

They, on the other hand, by operating without a canonically elected pope at their head, themselves deny that the Church will last as Christ constituted it. They also deny that the Mass has ceased and Antichrist has already come and gone, although his system remains. This they assert by their actions, pretending that invalidly consecrated bishops, without Peter’s canonically elected successor as head bishop, is the Church Christ founded on earth. To believe that Trad pseudo-clergy are valid is to deny the teaching of Pope Pius XII in Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis, an infallible papal constitution, and this results in exclusion from the Church, the Mystical Body.

There must be allowance made for that dreadful time when Antichrist will finally come, wielding power “to make war with the saints and overcome them” (Apoc. 13:7). Antichrist is identified as the abomination of desolation, for not only does he usurp the Holy See — as anticipated by Pope Paul IV in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio — but as prophesied in the book of Daniel and unanimously taught by the early Fathers, he will cause the Continual Sacrifice to cease. The Vatican Council and the Council of Trent both teach that this is a truth of faith all Catholics are bound to believe. It is not the Mass that Catholics should have rushed to save, but apostolicity of doctrine. For as Henry Cardinal Manning states above, “the doctrine of the primacy does precisely determine the doctrine of the Church.”

Read more here and here.

Those who lack confidence in God’s providence and love are easily scared by the unusual conditions of any sincere profession of the true faith today. Many of us have for a time fled to “traditionalist” chapels, where unauthorized clergy offer at least a semblance of normal times — and oh, how we want normal times.

But this is not the answer. We are forbidden to resort to clergy not in communion with a true Pope in Rome. “Hyperpapalism!” “Epikeia!” Supplied Jurisdiction!” So many scare words are flung at us that we may easily lose our Catholic sense and forget our catechisms. The Church long ago provided us with answers.  We must openly profess the faith and pray at home, practicing Church-approved Spiritual Communion and Acts of Perfect Contrition, baptizing and marrying as lay people. The Church remains visible in those who profess its unchangeable doctrine, in the teachings of the true popes and Magisterium, in those also adhering to God’s commands and seeking his loving mercy with sincere contrition and penance when they fall.

Our Lord has fulfilled his promises to the Church. We must fulfill ours. It’s as simple as that. Do you have sympathy for how Christ’s followers felt when they saw him arrested and tried as a common criminal? Can you sense how shaken they were? People thought they were crazy to view this outcast as divine king. We are living through the Passion of his Church. Our expectations are disturbed and we are outcasts. How fitting, how in keeping with God’s mysterious ways.

It would be ingratitude to be discouraged in the face of the immense treasures we yet possess.

— Comments —

Kathy G. writes:

Thank you for posting on “No Church, No Hierarchy, No Mass.” What is happening seems so obvious that it’s hard to wrap your head around it. If Bergoglio didn’t convince people they’re not in Kansas anymore, I don’t think anything would. Already, “pope” Bob is reinforcing the post V2 “magisterium” and synodality. And it’s awfully quiet about his alleged covering for “clerical” abuse of kids, which tells us our Jewish media, and Trad, Inc. media (I’m repeating myself) is probably ignoring it. The conciliar Catholics seem to lack Faith in God’s Providence, as Teresa Benns wrote. They cling to material trappings that they think are legit, the TLM, the “priests”, because they have had the understanding of the supernatural realm stripped from them. They can’t let go and trust God. LOL, as a commenter wrote on another site, they go to their TLM “masses”, larping like it’s 1962″, while the entire V2 “Church” larps it’s Catholic!

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