
"Who is GOD?"

THE LOSS
OF CHRIST TO ECUMENISM
and the Pantheon of the
Post-Catholic “conciliar church”
Christ will one day return
— yes, imagine, even
in this cesspool of human and diabolical misery that we
proudly, even defiantly, call the “post-Modern World”
where
the only ethic is the abolition of every ethic — that is
to say, the calculated repudiation of truth
as the vertex of all moral authority.
Of course, we can stand as
Pilate did and ask with feigned ignorance,
“What is truth?”
1
even as Pilate stood
before Truth itself (Jesus Christ) — and then go on
to crucify it. In fact ...
we have!
But why?
Why this renunciation
of Christ as absolutely singular and indispensible
to salvation, such
that Saint Paul unequivocally declares
“Neither is there salvation in any
other. For there is no other Name under Heaven given to
men, whereby we must be saved.”
2
The answer is quite
pedestrian; in fact it is strikingly simple: the centrality
and indispensability of Christ is an impediment to
something deemed greater than Truth itself
which, since Vatican II, has been the Ecumenical project,
perhaps best understood as religious neutrality.
Every religion
(however absurd, illogical, self-contradictory, and in manifest
contradiction to every other religion) is not just “correct”
— but is, in a way that defies reason and logic (to say
nothing of Divine Revelation), an equally true expression
of the “One, True, Religion” — which is the affirmation
of all religions. We hasten to add that
this is not Catholicism, but a different religion
altogether — which had been mistakenly conflated with
Catholicism for 60 years — but which has emerged as a phenomenon
of itself and in its own right, having no distinct creed
and in need of no doxological credentials — the very phenomenon
which we have come to know as Ecumenism! Consider the following
which Francis proclaimed to the Plenary Session of the Pontifical
Council for Promoting Christian Unity on May 5, 2022:
“I
would like to emphasize that today,
for a Christian, it is not possible or practicable
to go alone with one’s own denomination.
Either we go together, all the fraternal
denominations, or we do not go ahead at all.
Today the awareness of ecumenism is such that
one cannot think of journeying on the path of
faith without the company of brothers and sisters
from other Churches of ecclesial communities.
And this is a great thing.
Alone, never.
We cannot do it. Indeed, it is easy to forget
this profound truth. When it happens to Christian
communities, it exposes us to the serious risk
of the presumption of self-sufficiency and self-referentiality,
which are grave obstacles to ecumenism.
And we see this. In some countries there are
certain egocentric revivals – so to speak –
of certain Christian communities that either
go backwards, or cannot advance.
Today, either we all walk together or we do
not walk.
This awareness is a truth and a grace from God.”
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2022/05/06/220506c.html
This is why we insist that Francis is not simply the
culmination, but the personification of
the failed logic of that malignant enterprise — a
pantheistic project, really — benignly dubbed “Ecumenism”.
Since Vatican II, reason, logic, and revelation have been
effectively abolished. Ecumenism — not Christ
— is the ne plus ultra, the summit of every religious
aspiration and impulse. It has two coinciding mantras:
Who is the True
God?
We see this clearly in the
three
“Inter-Faith-Assemblies”
initiated by three popes in Assisi (John
Paul II on Oct. 26, 1986, “to be together to pray”
and then on January 2002 his next pan-religious prayer meeting
in the same venue — to be followed by Benedict XVI’s
prayer “Meeting for peace” on October 27, 2011, and
Francis’s “Day of prayer for peace”, in Assisi, Italy,
Sept. 20, 2016).
On these occasions, when the
absence of certainty concerning THE
One, True, God was the sine qua non of the
merest possibility of Ecumenism, and when praying
to Islam's Allah, the Shinto Kami, Hindu’s
Trimurti, the Zoroastrian Ahura Mazdā, the
African animist’s snake god
Dan, or the Buddhist’s Dali Lama who possesses no
fewer than 108 “avatars” — was — in a quite uncertain
way — praying to the same
god in a kind of iridescent cope which each acclaimed
as the certain god, although they could not reconcile
all the alternating perceptions and contradictions of which
they were certain that they were quite uncertain;
a situation in which a stunned world — and the faculty of
reason — both baffled and infuriated the “progressive” Catholic
Ecumenist who could, of course, resolve these otherwise
insuperable issues in the snap of a chat.
It is a strange, recursive
world completely apart from the world of men. And its epicenter
is the Vatican.
It is
a world that expropriates madness from the narrow halls
of the insane asylum, confiscating insanity, not only as
emblematic of, but necessary to, the psychopathy encountered
at every level of “higher authority” and “higher learning.”
— religious and secular — but most especially
the Vatican and Francis-as-pope.
This mantra —
“the certainty of uncertainty (except the irrational
notion of the certainty of uncertainty …)”
— appears to verge on something intelligible
… until you examine at it more closely:
“Of this
alone are we certain: the certainty of uncertainty (except
the certainty of uncertainty …”
The religious epicenter of
this mental illness is, of course, the post-Catholic Vatican
— and its primary sponsor — and vector — Francis, who infects
— with typical Jesuitical casuistry — everyone with whom
he is in collusion — that is to say, the over 5000 Cardinals
and Bishops (with a few courageous and notable exceptions)
throughout the world. Francis is indeed the vector of this
devastating disease that manifests itself in “certain
uncertainty”.
Ambiguity ,
we must understand, is the first symptom: state nothing
with unimpeachable certainty, and never in
unambiguous terms that possess the insolence of exactitude.
That is to say, apodictic (absolute) certainty is the first
organ infected. It then advances through meaningless
neologisms which sound meaningful to the dull-witted
— until they are rationally examined by uninfected
minds and reveal themselves as so much drivel, or unembellished
nonsense. But let us allow Francis, a heretic, Modernist,
and the apex of evil in the Vatican, to prove our point:
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“A
first principle for progress in building a people: time
is greater than space.”
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“Space hardens processes”
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“Spaces and power are preferred to time and
processes” 3
Unless you are the keeper
of, or an inhabitant within, an insane asylum, such “Analects
from Chairman Francis” would be impossible to parse in rational
terms, let alone attain to something meaningful, or, for
that matter, coherent.
Once this ambitious policy of ambiguity and uncertainty
infests the offices and bookshelves of every
seminary rector, pseudo-scholar, and all the “carefully
groomed” future priests in virtually every Catholic
seminary — it entirely suppresses and then ruthlessly
supersedes (but can never abolish)
the 2000 year patrimony and the indefeasible competency
of the “certain” Magisterium of 2000 years,
together with the equally certain Sacred Deposit of Faith,
and Holy Tradition, replacing all three with both
spurious and meretricious parodies — none
of which possess “certainty”.
“Pink Palaces”
There is a desperate, decisive,
and crucial need to return to sanity — and with sanity,
certainty — through a complete reversion of
all things to what is and ever was
genuinely, unquestionably, and unapologetically Catholic.
Everything: a specifically numinous and universal
language crafted for divine and eternal worship — Latin
— unchanging and unchangeable (hence no meaningless improvisations,
no geographic or cultural inflections; only complete and
formal universality). Everything religious, liturgical,
intellectual, devotional, musical, every rubric, every response,
enunciated without ambiguity — everything
must be restored to the 2000-year-old form preceding
the sacrilege of Vatican II.
This can only be achieved not by schism from
— NO! — but REVERSION TO
the One, True, Holy, Catholic Church of our forebears for
two millennia — and apart from which there is no
salvation, for “there is no other Name
[or god, or goddess, or pagan
idol — ed.] by which we are saved” (Acts 4.12) except
Christ Jesus Who is the Head of the Church, and through
Whom we have become members).
Our hot-bed-homosexual seminaries, rectors, Liberal and
disaffected “teachers”; our “carefully groomed” pederast,
pedophile, and predatory priests must first be immediately
and unceremoniously thrown out, and the buildings they partied
in and “co-occupied” must be thoroughly fumigated from the
few seminaries that remain — and no Feminist (or female)
should be instructing Catholic MEN on how to be priests.
That is madness! Imagine lay-MEN instructing
women on how to become contemplative cloistered
nuns! In what venue would that occur? In a papally enclosed
monastery? A Convent?
“Certain” ... “feelings”?
The notion of certainty
is both epistemological and invariable. The notion
of feelings is both emotional and variable.
The two are completely separate. “Certainties” pertain
to universally accepted definitions that cannot be contravened
without contradiction. Anything less would be mere opinion.
“Emotion” and “feelings, on the other hand, can consistently
be contradictory. They are not confined by reason or any
other objective constraint.
My emotional “feelings” are different from
your “feelings”, but my cognitive understanding,
say, of a geometric Triangle must correspond, be
in agreement with, your understanding (if you
have one) of a Triangle: there is absolutely no latitude,
or alternative definition. The sum of the three angles
comprising a Triangle will always — without exception
— equal 180 degrees. That absolute certainty
may not please you, but you cannot possibly make it otherwise.
You can state that it has 120 degrees, but simply
stating it will not make it so.
What
we have Lost
Everything;
everything we held dear and precious to us, everything distinguishable
as uniquely Catholic — everything held sacred to us as Catholics
has been has been torn from us by those who deem
themselves “intellectually superior”, “aligned with
secular times”, “more “enlightened”, “progressive”,
“liberal”, and fashionably “dissident”. These, of course,
are both subjective and subversive credentials.
Virtually every aspect of genuine,
historical Catholicism has been thrown under the feet
of Modernists: the avant-garde (that is to say, the increasingly
Protestant) cardinals, bishops, theologians, and “liturgists”
— together with the “ever-experimental” priests incardinated
by apex homosexual predators with an impenetrable network
of homosexual advocates both inside and outside the Church.
We absolutely must remember Christ’s admonition:
“Do not give what is holy
to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest
they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you
in pieces.” (Saint Matthew 7.6)
Every genuine traditional
Catholic understands the force behind this admonition. It
is not simply marginalization, exclusion, and ridicule—
but open hostility. One is much more likely to encounter
a warm and welcoming reception toward a Calvinist, an animist,
an atheist, or a pagan … but definitely not for a traditional
Catholic. Why? Because a traditional Catholic
possesses certainty — and central to that certainty
is Jesus Christ Who is largely ignored in “ecumenical gatherings”
as an impediment to Francis’s program of “Accompaniment”
with all men and all gods under any and all conditions.
Christ sometimes spoke analogically,
but for the greater part of His (that is to say, God’s)
discourses or simple utterances, He spoke with forceful
clarity, unmitigated austerity, and absolute unambiguity.
There was no misunderstanding Christ — or Saint Peter,
Saint Paul, and Saint John. No effort was made to accommodate
the “sensitivities” of men, or the utter repugnance of the
world. As Saint Peter succinctly stated, regardless of the
consequence, “We ought to obey God,
rather than men.” (Acts 5.29)
Judge for yourself: if the
absence of certainty is not ineluctably the absence of Christ
— of what He taught, what He commanded, and what He mandated
for all who presume to follow in His footsteps — we have
no warrant, no reason whatever, to appeal to what is uncertain
— and being uncertain, inconsequential.
The corruption,
estrangement, and ultimately the repudiation of Catholicism
by Vatican II must be recognized, confronted, and not simply
“resisted”
— but actively abolished by a refusal to legitimize it by
participating in it.
FIND A
TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH!
In a very practical
aside,
when you “support” your local
Novus Ordo church or every diocesan plea for your
money, recognize that you are actually paying for the exorbitant
fee of lawyers hired by the diocese to defend homosexual-predator-priests
who rape your children and grandchildren. What is more,
much of that (your) money is sent to the Vatican in billions
of dollars (for the poor, you understand ...) which are
used for countless ventures having absolutely nothing to
do with alleviating the condition of “the poor”, or “evangelizing
non-Catholics in poor nations; rather, it is used to sponsor
films like “Rocket Man”, a bio of the openly homosexual
Elton John, to the tune of $4.5 million, in what
the Daily Beast describes as, “Elton John’s rather
steamy biopic Rocketman, which portrays the entertainer’s
drug problems and is the first studio movie to portray gay
sex between men in an authentic way.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-vaticans-charity-spent-millions-on-elton-johns-rocketman-biopic
Or it may go to totally secular real-estate deals such as
the €350 million investment in a luxury London real estate
venture.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/explainer-behind-the-vaticans-london-real-estate-scandal-vatican-london-explainer-pope-francis-rome-b1877668.html
Because of a blatant lack of transparency or accountability,
your donation may simply be used in money-laundering for
gangsters. Don’t believe me? See
https://www.europeanceo.com/finance/top-5-financial-transgressions-committed-by-the-vatican/
On the other hand, it may have gone to building the $2.2
million Tudor mansion by LBGT-friendly Atlanta
Archbishop Wilton Gregory (now a cardinal of Washington,
D.C.!), or Newark New Jersey's Archbishop John Myers
whose archdiocese spent $500,000 “to expand his retirement
home, adding an indoor therapy pool, fireplaces and an office
library.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atlanta-archbishop-wilton-gregory-apologizes-for-22-million-mansion/
It is not only American Catholics who are getting fleeced:
German bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst spent
$43 million on a new residence and related
renovations, including a 5 foot deep fish tank, filled
with Koi carpfish, at a cost of $300,000.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/28/how-the-bishop-of-bling-spent-43-million-renovating-this-house/
Is this really where you want your very hard-earned
money to go? It does!
Refuse to legitimize this travesty. As we encouraged
you earlier, find a Traditional Catholic Church not associated
with the religious and financial scam that the Vatican has
become since that tragic Council in 1962 when the children
sold their Mother into shame.
A Lingering Question
Should we, then, dismiss Novus Ordo Catholics?
NO! The vast majority
of them do not know — for they were never
taught — the most basic concepts of genuine
Catholicism, let alone proper comportment and apparel at
Mass (which is not a free-for-all for every
religious impulse and expression!). The blame lays squarely
on the narrow shoulders of their “bishops” who never
exercised oversight or authority over their priests — and
their priests who never assured the proper catechesis of
their flocks.
Let us be frank, for the past 60 years Catechesis
essentially became crayons and insipid but expensive glossy
books with not so much as a crease in their bindings. Most
Catholic Masses remain effectively Protestant in tenor,
presentation, architecture, statuary, stained-glass, Marty
Haugen (not a Catholic) music and “I’m okay, you’re okay”
homilies geared to the brainless.
This is not to impugn the
piety of the aging congregation who — in the absence
of proper and authentic Catechesis — never took
the time to examine the unimpeachable credentials
of their own religion, or even its differentiation from
every other religion.
Despite the ignorance (understood in its actual
definition as “a lack of knowledge, an absence of information”
) of doctrine and dogma that we almost universally encounter
in the post-Vatican II church, it is vital to us,
as traditional Catholics, to understand — and answer —
two essential points of confusion:
I. Does this
mean that the Eucharist confected by a Novus
Ordo priest in a Novus Ordo Church is
not Sacramentally valid?
No. It is still the Holy Eucharist
providing that the priest “does what the
Church does”, that the priest has a real internal
intention to act as a minister of Christ, or
to do what Christ instituted the Sacraments to effect.
In short, the minister does not have to intend
what the Church intends, but only what the
Church does. The object of his
intention is the action or ceremony performed,
not the purpose of the action. To wit:
“The Council of Trent does not mention the purpose
of the sacrament or say that the minister ought
to intend to do what the Church intends
but what the Church does. Moreover, what
the Church does refers to the
action, not the purpose. There is
required the intention with regard to the action,
not in so far as it is a natural action, but in
so far as it is a sacred action or ceremony, which
Christ instituted or Christians practice. If one
intends to perform the ceremony which the Church
performs, that is enough.” (Saint Robert Bellarmine,
de Sacramentis in genere chapter 27)
II. Traditional Catholics
who (justly) defy Vatican II should be paradigms
of humility and holiness, remembering the admonishment
of the Beloved Apostle:
“If any man say, I love God, and hateth his
brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not
his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love
God, whom he seeth not? And this commandment
we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love
also his brother.”
(1 Saint John 4.20-21)
When we are reviled, we bless; when persecuted we patiently
endure, when mocked we do not reproach but pray for those
who despise us; we do good to those who do us evil; nor
are we overcome by evil, but — by the grace of God alone
— overcome evil with good — as Our Blessed Lord and His
Apostle taught us and all who would follow them.
But we will not call evil good, nor good evil, nor will
we compromise with deceit, crucifying Truth anew.
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1
Saint John 18.38
2 Acts of the
Apostles 4.12
3
Quotations from Chairman Francis
Geoffrey K. Mondello
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