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As Francis, the bishop of Rome is ending another annus horribilis, with his pontificate descending into complete and utter chaos, your humble blogger has compiled 10 5 of the major themes running through the ecclesiastical sub-set of human activity of the Visibilium Omnium, et Invisibilium, i.e. the Institutional Catholic Church in Anno Domini 2016.
(1) Continued disintegration of the post-conciliar NUChurch.
The disintegration of NUChurch has continues unabated in the countries that comprise what is commonly referred to as Western Civilization. The news coming from the post-conciliar church in Spain (see here), Germany (see here) and the US (see here) is simply atrocious. It is these developed world countries where most of the funding revenue comes from, revenue that feeds the Holy See’s coffers.
Of note is the situation in Germany. The reason being that the German Church Tax, i.e. the notorious Kirchensteuer is the main funding mechanism for NUChurch globally. It is this funding mechanism that your humble blogger outlined in the post titled: Fully Funding FrancisEpicFail™. This unsustainable situation, when combined with the issues that will no doubt arise due to the Eurozone crisis (as gauged by our proxy – Deutsche Bank stock price) will be the shock that will ultimately kill off the evil “spirit of Vatican II” and will put an end to another Failed Neo-Moderist Experiment, like that which we are observing in the FrancisEconomy of Venezuela.
What is of major importance is the table provided in the above mentioned “Fully Funding” post. We see that the growing revenue collected under the dastardly Kirchensteuer is increasing, yet from a rapidly disintegrating tax base. This situation implies that as goes the German economy (not to mention the death rate – since most payers into the tax pool are older folks), so goes the ability to increase the rate that those payers are willing to pay. And given the size of the payroll of the German Church (between 700,000 and 1.4 million depending on who is counted), any hiccup in the German economy will generate serious downstream effects to the total amount of Kirchensteuer that can be collected. And as we know, it is this revenue that not only funds the German Bishops’ Conference’s heretical operations in the third world (see here), but likewise directly feeds the Holy See’s contributions made pursuant to Canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law.
Given the above, your humble blogger will be watching two statistical indicators in 2017, namely: number of people leaving the Kirchensteuer payer pool in 2016 and the price of Deutsche Bank stock – a canary in the coal mine indicator for the economic performance of Germany.
(2) Francis holed up in the Domus Sanctae Marthae Bunker.
Over the life of this blog, one aspect of the current “bishopric” of Francis that your humble blogger has been chronically and quite accurately at that, if I may say so myself, is the OBJECTIVE REALITY behind the Sacred Vatican Walls. Your humble blogger has identified the correct situation inside the TeamFrancis Headquarters in the Synod of the Three Paragraphs on the 18th of December, 2014 as follows:
The Synod was controlled and manipulated by a group of clerics who were taking their directives from Francis himself. The way in which the Manipulators wanted to change church teaching was first by discarding the Church’s existing Magisterium and the foundations for the Church teaching on homosexuality, replace this body of teaching with something new, only grounded in the speeches, newspaper interviews, musings at the Domus Sanctae Marthae and off-the cuff remarks the magisterium of Francis. They tried to find the magic formula,i.e. Modernist Magic Words that would allow for this change in teaching to slip past the Synod bishops.
And that same “group of clerics” who has … what can colloquially be called “skin in the game”, had their hidden agenda exposed in the post titled So It Was The Homo Agenda All Along. Edward Pentin in an interview given to Raymond Arroyo of ETWN had the following exchange (see here):
Arroyo: And what was that other agenda?
Pentin: That other agenda basically centered on validating same-sex unions within the Church, changing the Church’s views on human sexuality, the Church’s doctrine in a sense, so the Church’s pastoral practice, which in turn… they argue affects doctrine. So in loosening of the teaching on cohabitation for example, and so forth…
The Trojan Horse post appeared on 7th of September, 2015. This same cabal of intrinsically disordered Marxist revolutionaries identified in that post, i.e. TeamFrancis has been active this year likewise. We put up a page on this blog titled What’s In The BOX? to provided proper CONTEXT. But I digress… Here is how this group, and the atmosphere on the 4th floor of the Domus Sanctae Marthae was presented on the OnePeterFive blog a few days ago by Der Speigal’s Rome correspondent Walter Mayr via Maike Hickson:
In Mayr’s eyes, as well, “much is at stake.” For him, “Francis seems to be increasingly isolated” and also “worn down.” A confidant of the pope tells Mayr: “Many do not recognize any more in the Francis of the year 2016 the man whom they elected in 2013.” The journalist also describes how the Year of Mercy “has kept everything open” and it “did not at all fulfill the expectations.” The curial reform does not advance, either; and, “from some dicasteries, there now come reports of ‘total chaos’.” According to Mayr, Francis’ “volubility causes additional problems”; his comments about the media and their tendency toward “coprophagy” have even caused indignation among his own sympathetic followers.
In this last paragraph, as related by Maike Hickson from the Walter Myar article (see here), we see 4 themes that your humble blogger has identified and chronicled. Just to review:
- Francis increasingly isolated, (see here)
- Year of Mercy “did not fulfill expectations” disaster, (Expected 33million. On June 10, total was 9,100,935. Final figure was given as 21,292,926. NB: I am very skeptical of this figure and the “did not fulfill expectations” suggests that the numbers are not correct).
- Complete chaos in the dicasteries,
- “Volubility” causes indignation even among Francis sycophants in “Fake News” Legacy Media.
NB: Remember where you read all this first, dear readers. And as you can see, we have a very good bead on these subversive revolutionaries holed up on the 4th floor of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
(3) Soap Bubble Effects – Exposing “Fake News” before exposing “fake news” was cool.
When your humble blogger put up the first post and simultaneously coined (and ™-ed it) the term “Soap Bubble Papacy™“, what lied underneath this complete fraud was the following NARRATIVE:
IF Francis is popular in the Legacy Media,
THEN this is a positive development for the Universal Church.
Now, being the quantitatively inclined and empirically oriented type of a guy that your humble blogger is, yours truly set out to find and document the EVIDENCE to support this HYPOTHESIS. This HYOTHESIS became known as the Real FrancisEffect.
Needless to say, there was no evidence of any Real FrancisEffect.
What turned out to be the case though, was that the observation made by Cardinal Walter Brandmüller as early as on the 26th of August 2014, was spot on (see here). That observation is as follows:
“It is superficial. Were this a religious movement, the churches would be full.”
The result for the search for the Real Francis Effect and the sizeable number of accumulated posts led to yours truly putting up an entire page dedicated to the Real FrancisEffect, or rather the lack there of, titled The Soap Bubble Papacy™.
But there is more to the story. It would appear that as your humble blogger was chronicling and evidencing one FALSE NARRATIVE, namely the Real FrancisEffect, another FALSE NARRATIVE came across the radar screen. This false narrative was later dubbed the Soap Bubble Candidacy™ and referred a situation pertaining to another neo-Modernist, namely Sick, Crooked, Unelectable Hillary Clinton. What became self evident in July of this year was that this Soap Bubble Effect was likewise common in this other areas of human endeavor, i.e. the candidacy of Sick Hillary in the 2016 US Presidential election. And since this Soap Bubble Candidacy™ was so glaringly obvious and becoming so well documented (WikiLeaks), your humble blogger turned his attention to the 2016 Presidential Election and chronicled this FRAUDULANT NARRATIVE , i.e. “Hillary can’t lose”, in real time. (see here) Here is how OBJECTIVE REALITY met with a VIRTUAL REALITY created by that cabal of neo-Modernists: The Election Results: Donald J Trump WINS!
It was through this event that the mechanism for creating a Soap Bubble Effect was explained, presented and defined in minute detail. In a few of summary posts titled: The Battle Is In Your Mind – Francis’ Gaslighting, War Of The FAKE NARRATIVES and How TeamFrancis Makes The Doughnuts!, we laid out the Modus Operandi for how a Soap Bubble Effect is generated. Below is a brief summation:
False Narrative established => Talking Points supporting False Narrative defined => a Virtual Reality created by promulgation of Talking Points in conjunction with dissemination operations y “Fake News” Legacy Media => this Gas-Lighting process is executed to convince rational people that Virtual Reality is correct.
Any dissonance introduced by external objective evidence that may arise is countered with “fake news” label.
The best example of how this False Narrative operation was executed was viewed in real time through the daily WikiLeaks reports. These reports contained information of how a large group of Legacy Media “journalists” were continuously meeting with the Sick, Crooked, Unelectable Hillary camp (John Podesta). The simplest and most likely explanation for why no less than 65 “MainStream Media” “journalists”, or as we called them, Presstitutes had to continuously meet with Mr. Podesta was to coordinate the False Narratives in order to keep them consistent (see here).
Numquam Ponenda est Pluralitas Sine Necessitate.
(4) Words – Highlighted, Bolded, Italicized and ™-ed Words.
One aspect of this humble blogging effort of your most humble blogger that came in for a bit of… let’s call it “fraternal correction”, was the appearance of “words” that were highlighted, bolded, italicized and ™-ed. I must admit that I might have gone a bit overboard in this respect. Yet there were some of you dear readers, who follow this blog on a regular basis, grasped why I presented these certain words in the manner in which I did.
Quickly, what is key to understand my excessive highlighting is that the neo-Modernists have no underlying philosophical (reasoned, objective) basis for believing or propagating that which they believe and propagate. They cannot win a logical, reason based argument since their basis for that which they believe and propagate is IDEOLOGICAL, i.e. devoid of reason and logic. And when one has a belief system based on a TRANSRATIONAL IDEOLOGY, the only manner in which that person can argue and sustain this position is to change the meaning of the underlying words that he uses, or to completely ignore the common laws of thought (SYNTAX) altogether. But when the neo-Modernist is called out on his rather devil-may-care disregard for the OBJECTIVE MEANING OF WORDS AND THEIR COMMON USAGE, their faulty SYNTAX (sentence structure) becomes readily apparent. A great example of this was the recently identified numerous violations of the second (non-contradiction – NC) and third (excluded middle – EM) laws of “coherent” thought made in support of the FrancisDocument “Joy of Sex” by Francis’ sycophantic supporters. (see here and here) So highlighting the words was done to make the reader think about their proper definition and the correct context.
But back to the “words” themselves. The other reason that your humble blogger has been highlighting words is due to their underlying signaling effect. (see here) What is in fact the case is that each word (or phrase) that is capitalized, bolded and highlighted contains an attached and underlying signaling component. A good example of this is the word “IDEOLOGY”. On our blog, much time is spent defining and identifying that which is IDEOLOGICAL as opposed to that which is non-IDEOLOGICAL, i.e. philosophical. In the post titled Everyone Has A Plan, the difference is laid out and explained in painstaking detail.
Yet the word IDEOLOGICAL would not have the same amount of importance if not for the signaling effect that comes when that word is used in certain situations and is used by individuals in high level decision making positions. Here’s what I mean.
Your humble blogger has established hypothesis that neo-Modernism is an IDEOLOGY, as opposed to a rational belief system based on an objective body of knowledge learned through a scientific process (philosophical). An example of the later is scientifically determined belief system is Scholasticism. Aside, please keep in mind that the meaning of philosophy is the “study of acquiring knowledge”. Now if neo-Modernism is an IDEOLOGY, this means that it has no grounding in objective reality. To be more precise, an IDEOLOGY is not a systematic methodology for the study of that which God has made. In other words, the neo-Modernist IDEOLOGY is a human construct imaged in the mind of the neo-Modernist, due to his God given capacity of abstract thought. The common term for this phenomenon is what is known as “magical thinking”(see here).
Given the above, it is with no small interest that your humble blogger came across a passage attributed to Cardinal Gerhard Mueller on the MondayVatican blog, in a post titled Pope Francis: What If It Is Just A Matter Of Language?, that reads as follows:
This spirit of false renewal – he insists – is marked by ideology. Ideology is “always the arrogant attempt to subject the Word of God and the doctrine of the Church to the prejudice of its thought, with the goal of achieving a manipulative power over the faithful and their lives.” While theology – Cardinal Mueller continues – “is the humble reflection of faith that raises us up after the listening to the Word of God.”
Notice how something that your humble blogger has been identifying, documenting and chronicling for at least the last two years, i.e. IDEOLOGY, is now being recognized and condemned by no less of a authority than the Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith!
But it gets better. Your humble blogger has also been making a case for the introduction of a system of OBJECTIVE SYSTEM OF MEASURES when assessing the qualifications for advancement within the Church’s clerical ranks.
Your humble blogger has been focusing on SEMINARY VOCATIONS since this blog was established. The reason being is that these figures (statistics) appear regularly. We have highlighted this “really” REAL FrancisEffect, i.e. the neo-Modernist ordinary’s dearth of vocations, contrasting it the Catholic bishop’s VOCATIONS overabundance. A few of these posts can be found here and here and here and here and here and here.
Of note are two post. The first is titled A Final Rendezvous With Destiny and With Death, explaining how the neo-Modernist’s behavior is very similar to that of the lemming. The similarity can be described as follows: just like the lemming entering into the water and swimming away from shore, wherein it meets its final rendezvous with destiny and death, the neo-Modernist engages in a behavior pattern that is likewise suicidal. The difference of course being that the neo-Modernist is cognizant of the fact that his behavior is suicidal, while the lemming acts out of inherent instinct. And just to drive this point home, your humble blogger produced a post titled: Raging, Raging Against The Coming Of The Light which highlights a an analogous situation where a neo-Modernist, dying religious order would rather give away their convent to an Indian tribe than to sell it to a prospering Catholic religious order.
And then there is the situation in Spain (see here)!
Back to our themes of “vocations” and “words”. It is with no amount of amazement that your humble blogger read another MondayVatican post, this time titled: Seminaries: Key To The Next Conclave. And in this post by Andrea Gagliarducci, we learn from his sources embedded behind the Sacred Vatican Walls, that the next conclave will be all about the seminaries. Here is how he explains it:
The future of the Church is being played out in the field of priestly formation. Vocations, the way that local bishops will manage them, the education of priests and the way this education influences their work with the flock will all be crucial. But also crucial will be the number of seminarians in the future, as proof of how many vocations the new emphasis on pastoral care is able to produce.
Yes, it’s all about the numbers, because… numbers don’t lie!
We summed up this point in our post titled: Revenge Of The Saturno: Death Of The “spirit of VII” Is At Hand. As you can see, it would appear that the future of the Universal Church will be based on an OBJECTIVE SYSTEM OF MEASURES with respect to promotions within the clerical class. And numbers of vocations will be a YUGE, if not the KEY component of that measure.
(5) The Restoration: It’s much bigger than anyone suspects!
And finally, what would a 2016 yearly review be without a summary of the progress of the Restoration. What I would like to stress today is that the Restoration appears to be a lot wider than anything that we identified even one year earlier.
If you dear reader recall, a good post to summarize what we considered the Restoration, in a very narrow sense of that term, can be gauged from the post titled: Summorum Pontificum’s ABUNDANT “Good Fruit”. In this post, we took a random period (one month) and catalogued the various news stories that appeared regarding the Restoration that is taking place in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. It turned out the be the longest post (word count) of the entire year.
What is also of note, is that this Restoration is taking place quietly and in an environment that can be described as very “unfriendly”, if not outright hostile. The “unfriendly” nature of this environment we described in one of our posts titled: SOAP BUBBLE PAPACY ™ – Ungrateful plebs!. In that article we mentioned a passage that read as follows:
The day is March 13, 2013 [Ed note: Francis elevation to Throne of St. Peter]– its remains could be seen in this striking picture of St. Peter’s Square in the General Audience of December 2, 2015, now a recurring sight, as mentioned by Camillo Langone in his article for Il Foglio just published by us below. How fickle are the multitudes, how untrustworthy are the crowds!… Even when one does everything to please them! Ungrateful plebs!
So what we have is a situation where our South American populist bishop of Rome, (see here) despite all his efforts, can’t seem to fill up either St. Peter’s Square or the Paul VI Hall with crowds, yet new proper Masses (TLM’s) are appearing in the Universal Church continuously. We summed up this REAL FRANCISEFFECT in the post titled: Francis’ “Money for Nothing, Chicks for Free” “c”atholicism Rejected!
Yet at the same time that Francis’ “money for nothing, chicks for free” “c”atholicism was being rejected by the “ungrateful plebs”, a simpler form of Catholicism was reasserting itself. This Catholicism was reasserting itself in the sub-sets of human endeavor not only inside the Church, but also outside of the ECCLESIASTICAL sphere.
In the POLITICAL area of the Visibilium Omnium, we saw a NORMALIZATION PROCESS taking place in Poland (see here), United Kingdom (see here), Austria (see here), the United States (see here) and in Italy (see here). In all these cases, including the upcoming French Presidential Election (see here), a strong sense of Catholicism was present. To be more precise, it was the reemergence of that dormant part of Catholicism that comes to us as known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”.
But it gets even better. Another area of the Visibislium Omnium where the Restoration has started to take hold is in the secular areas of sociology, clinical psychology and philosophy. Over the past year, your humble blogger has introduced you dear reader to personalities such as Stefan Molyneux, Jordan Peterson, Dr. Duke Pesta and Gavin McInnes.
If you listen closely to what these individuals have to say, you will hear that which is nothing short of Catholicism. To prove my point, please take 25 minutes of your time and listen to the discussion between Stefan Molyneux and Gavin McInnes in the video at the top of this page.
Closing and on an aside, a gentle reminder to always, always remember the 1st Principle of the LEX ARMATICUS. It is this 1st Principle that allows us to understand the “disconnectedness” of God’s creation and our proper place in it!
1nd Principle:
Those individuals and institutions that comply to the et Invisibilium, will remain a part of the Visibisium Omnium. Those that do not, will be consigned to the trash heap of history.
Where the following definitions hold:
Visibisium Omnium – all the material “things” that we can identify with our senses (touch, sight, feel, smell, taste)
et Invisibilium – all the non-material laws and processes that regulate thevisibilium omnium (e.g. the laws of physics – classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, laws of mathematics, rules of logic, etc.)
Nuff said…
I will end this very long post here.
Closing I would like to wish all my readers a Very Happy New Year and see you in Anno Domini 2017 where we will pick right back up with the “chronicling of the Restoration to all things in Christ”
UPDATE : 15:40 30 December 2016
A Christmas bonus!
Still don’t believer point (5)?
It gets really, really, really,…. really good at about the 50:00 minute mark.
Hint: This is the explanation of the “exact point” where reason meets faith. Once properly understood, the only question is then: why are you still not Catholic?
Mark Thomas said:
S.A. said…”I remember the TLM from my grade school days and always searched to find it wherever I could. And this was during the time before the Indult Mass was allowed in 1984.”
At that time, how successful were you at having located the TLM?
Thank you.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
There were none (regular).
The first one I found was around 1990, shortly after Fr. Phillips introduced it at St. John Cantius.
I also remember that the SSPX had a chapel in one of the Western suburbs of Chicago (Oak Park). But I could never find it.
That was before the internet days, and it was a different world.
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Mark Thomas said:
S. Armaticus said: “There were none (regular).
Deo gratias that you preserved in your holy quest to worship via the ancient Roman Mass. Have you written about your search for the TLM? Please let me know if such a story is in your archive. Such a story — how the TLM early in your life had left it’s mark upon your heart and soul — would be interesting to read.
Thank you for promoting the TLM. We are in tremendous need of the TLM’s restoration throughout the Latin Church.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
HI:
Here you go.
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Mark Thomas said:
Thank you. I just read the post that you had linked. It is beautiful to know that at any early age, your love of the ancient Roman Mass had been formed in your heart, mind, and soul.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
I was always in awe of the Latin Mass. I still remember my First Holy Communion. Still have the little hand Missal. That was May of ’67. I used to love Holy Week, but unfortunately didn’t get a chance to serve.
Like I said in the post, it was a traumatic experience. The only one that really sticks in my mind from an otherwise very happy childhood.
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S. Armaticus said:
PS Notice that this post was written in Dec 2014. And what has happened since then? Francis is undermining the Sacred Priesthood, while the Catholics are resisting him through the call to return to Ad Orientem worship. I.e. resistance through the Holy Sacrifice. Just like the saintly Archbishop Lefebvre.
It really is that simple.
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Mark Thomas said:
S.A. said…”The disintegration of NUChurch has continues unabated in the countries that comprise what is commonly referred to as Western Civilization. The news coming from the post-conciliar church in Spain (see here), Germany (see here) and the US (see here) is simply atrocious.”
Although I’m not comfortable with the use of the term “NUChurch (but this is your blog, not mine), there isn’t any question that the Western Church is in dire need of spiritual repair.
I believe that the best way to undertake said repair is via the restoration of the ancient Roman Mass. From the Traditional Mass, an abundance of graces will flow which, in turn, will bring about the restoration of Holy Tradition throughout the Western Church.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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Mark Thomas said:
S.A. said/..”I sense an Irish pedigree?”
I am a mixture…that’s for sure…including Eastern and Western Church heritage. But you called it. I even have some Irish.
Pax.
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Mark Thomas said:
S.A.,
Hello. In regard to the Year of Mercy “disaster.”
I submit that the Holy Year of Mercy was a tremendous “success.” Should one wish to measure Holy Year of Mercy “success” in terms of of statistics, then, in that regard, the statistics provided by the Apostolic See indicated that the Holy Year was “successful.”
But of far greater value than sheer numbers is the measure of Holy Year of Mercy “success” in terms related to the spiritual sense.
Heaven rejoices when even one sinner returns to the flock. Throughout the Holy Year of Mercy, as Catholic and secular news stories documented, many lapsed Catholics returned to Confession and the Faith via their interest and participation in the Holy Year of Mercy.
Heaven rejoiced each time sinners returned to the flock via participation in the Holy Year of Mercy.
That is why as Catholics we know that Deo gratias, the Holy Year of Mercy was a tremendous spiritual success.
The bottom line is that via the Holy Year of Mercy, millions of Catholics…
— Went to Confession.
— Assisted at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
— Received Indulgences.
The Holy Year of Mercy was not a “disaster.” Rather, in the manner in which God measures “success,” the Holy Year convoked by His Holiness Pope Francis was a tremendous success.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi:
Unfortunately, Francis’ inner circle would not agree.
S.A.
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Mark Thomas said:
S.A., in what way would they disagree?
Thank you.
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S.A., you said earlier…”I have no editor, no staff and no research. So when you read a post, what you see is a “product” that is a one and done.”
That is fantastic. I have noted on your blog that I have found that many traditional Catholic blogs pretty much reproduce Rorate Caeli copy. Your blog is very different in that regard. Your blog is unique and very interesting.
You even present your material/thoughts in creative fashion. Example: You coin interesting terms. I would say that there’s an artistic sense to the manner in which you present your blog.
You love of God is very evident.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
Thanks again. W/r/t Rorate Caeli, they haven’t been posting too frequently lately, so I think the other bloggers are getting their “inspiration” from somewhere else.
S.A.
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dowd2015 said:
Mark on the Unholy Year of Mercy. 2016 was one of the unholiest years in the history of the Church based on the various heresies promulgated by Pope Francis. Initially, like you, I thought the Year of Mercy might be a good idea provided it was tied in with confession. At our Cathedral parish confession was evidently not part of the Mercy Deal as it was not mentioned by any of the priests as having anything to do this Year of Mercy. Neither was it written about. I even sent a letter to one of our priests suggesting Mercy should be dependent on repentance. There was no answer to my e-mail. Mercy and repentance were uncoupled during 2016 which further diminishes the need for confession and is, in itself, a heretical idea.
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Mark Thomas said:
Dowd2015,
Hello.
I don’t know of any heresies promulgated by His Holiness Pope Francis. All I know is that via Divine Liturgy offered by Holy Mother Church, holy priests throughout the world, as well as the Faithful, commemorate Pope Francis as the orthodox chief shepherd of the True Church.
Example: At my local FSSP and SSPX parishes, the Roman Canon is prayed during each Mass offered by God’s holy priests. In turn, our FSSP and SSPX priests, as well as the Faithful present, commemorate Pope Francis as the orthodox Roman Pontiff who God has authorized to teach, govern, and sanctify the Holy People of God.
Dowd2015, I take seriously the testimony of God’s holy FSSP and SSPX priests and Faithful. Again, they testify during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that Pope Francis is our orthodox Roman Pontiff.
The Catholic Church — Church Triumphant, Militant, and Suffering — doesn’t commemorate heretics during Holy Mass. Therefore, if Pope Francis is a heretic, why would the True Church, via Her holy priests and Faithful during Mass, commemorate him as our orthodox Pope?
If Pope Francis is a heretic, then a monstrous error and lie is promoted during each Divine Liturgy offered throughout the Church.
Sorry, but I don’t accept that. Therefore, I trust, for example, the Holy Masses offered by our local FSSP and SSPX priests…actually, offered everywhere, as the FSSP and SSPX are in communion with Pope Francis.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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dowd2015 said:
Thanks for your reply. I agree with S. Armaticus, The Remnant, One Peter 5, Vox Cantoris, Ann Barnhardt, Hillary White among others. You seem to agree with Pope Francis and his spokespeople. Personally, I am hoping for divine intervention during 2017 so that Pope Francis will renounce his heretical ways or is replaced.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi:
I notice that papal positivists are become an extinct species. Mark might just be the last of his kind. But he is going down fighting. I sense an Irish pedigree?
Am I close?
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Mark Thomas said:
Dowd2015,
Thank you for the New Year greetings. May you and your family enjoy peace and good health in 2017 A.D.
In regard to Pope Francis…I agree with Holy Mother Church. She proclaims that His Holiness Pope Francis is Pope. I accept Her teachings. Therefore, I accept that I am to submit to Pope Francis, as God has authorized him to teach, govern, and sanctify us.
All that I know is that our Cardinals and bishops are in communion with Pope Francis.
That includes my bishop and, of course, my parish.
The Society of Saint Pius X has chapels in (or near) my diocese. The Society of Saint Pius X, via each Mass that they offer, commemorates Pope Francis as the orthodox guardian of the True Faith.
The FSSP, which has a parish in my diocese, does the same.
Therefore, from my parish, to the Traditional Latin Mass FSSP parish, to the two SSPX chapels in my area, God’s holy priests and congregations, via the Divine Liturgy, proclaim Pope Francis as orthodox.
Dowd, I agree with those holy people.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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Mark Thomas said:
dowd2015 said…”I agree with S. Armaticus, The Remnant, One Peter 5, Vox Cantoris, Ann Barnhardt, Hillary White among others.”
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but, for example: I believe that those folks attend (or certainly have attended) Masses offered by the FSSP and SSPX. In fact, I read a piece by Ann Barnhardt in which she talked about having assisted at Masses offered by the FSSP.
As I’ve noted here, the FSSP and Society of Saint Pius X recognize, of course, that His Holiness Pope Francis is the Roman Pontiff.
During each Mass offered by the FSSP and SSPX, their holy priests and congregations testify via the Roman Canon that Pope Francis is orthodox.
Dowd, via their collective “Amen” during the prayer of the Roman Canon, the people you mentioned proclaim that Pope Francis is the orthodox Roman Pontiff of the True Church.
Via their “Amen” to the prayers offered during the Roman Canon of the Holy Mass, the people you mentioned are in agreement with the Faith of the True Church — Church Triumphant, Militant, and Suffering — that Pope Francis holds the True Religion.
Dowd, how can a person proclaim to Heaven via Holy Mass their belief that Pope Francis holds the orthodox Faith…but outside of Mass insist that Pope Francis is unorthodox?
How can Pope Francis be orthodox and unorthodox?
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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JRuskin said:
S.Armaticus–I, too want to thank you for your blog. Not being the highest watt bulb I often must reread posts a couple of times! But when I finally understand, it is pure gold. I especially had fun on election night, assuring the hoosband that Trump was going to win based on following your reporting of objective reality. He was gobsmacked because he thought the Legacy media was reporting accurately. Hah! But I am avidly reading and rereading your analyses. Keep up the wonderful work. Your style is such that I am thoroughly entertained while engaged in thorny intellectual effort. May God continue to richly bless you and your family.
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi JR:
Thanks for your kind comment. I really enjoyed reading it. I like when readers take what I write and then go and apply it. That is one of the great side effects of writing this blog.
As to my writing style, I know that my blog is a tough read.
I come in the morning, look through my “filters” to see what info flow happened over the last 24 hours. I chose that info that I find significant. And then I write going down the news list. I have no editor, no staff and no research. So when you read a post, what you see is a “product” that is a one and done. Sometimes I go back and correct syntax to make a point more clear. When I have the time, that is. I initially tried to limit myself to 1 hour per day to this blog. Lately it is pushing on 1 1/2 hour. The point I am making is that even with my “hurried” style, stick with the posts, they are worth the effort.;-)
AS to the subject matter of most of my post, it is hard. I like a passage written by John Lamont (link below this post) , when he was explaining why the neo-Modernists were able to suppress the Thomists during the VII. He writes:
“Thomism made an easy target for this (neo-Modernist) propaganda, just because it is a highly developed philosophy. Any advanced field of study, such as philosophy, mathematics, or physics, can be convincingly portrayed as ‘arid’ and ‘rigid’.”
And then he nails it by writing:
“For most people’s tastes, this portrayal (of advanced fields like philosophy) will often be true. Precise and rigorous subjects inevitably have arid components. Because it deals with fundamental questions whose answers are true always and everywhere, philosophy will be ‘ahistorical’ and ‘immutable’”
This is so true. I remember sitting in a high school religion class when the topic was Scholasticism. I remember thinking, what’s with all these definitions and mind-numbing boring text? Now I know better.
And then Lamont finishes by saying:
“It (rational philosophy) will not meet the desires and expectations of individuals or societies, because these desires and expectations are never geared towards subtle and difficult concepts. It will meet their needs – if it is true.”
And that is the key. The reason that you “where the star” on election night is that you were able to discern that which was OBJECTIVELY TRUE. More precisely, you were in a position to filter out that which was real from that which was not. And you made that call from information that you read on an anonymous blog. You discerned real value through your “EFFORT” and your intelligence.
And here is the last sentence from Lamont:
“But a demonstration of philosophical truth is a feeble counter to propaganda”.”
This statement is true, but only in an environment that in not “susceptible” to testing. Yet when one uses a methodology underpinned with “philosophical truth” in an environment that is “testable”, i.e. a presidential election, the objectively true methodology comes out on top.
And you were able to understand this, which suggests that your comment about “the highest watt buld” is an OBJECTIVELY FALSE statement. 😉
Once again, thanks for your lovely comment.
May God bless you and your family in this upcoming year!
S.A.
PS The John Lamont post referred to above is here: https://sarmaticusblog.wordpress.com/why-thomism/
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Wanda said:
As always, you optimistically provide for your readers the “lay of the land” as far as the Faith and the world is concerned. Your assessment encourages me to look at particular situations in a different light. In other words, you get me to think and see things in a different perspective. Your analysis is spot on — quite fascinating. Please continue to bold color code, etc., to your heart’s content. I find it endearing. May you and your family have a Blessed New Year.
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S. Armaticus said:
Thanks Wanda.
Always a pleasure to read your comments.
One reason that I write this blog is to understand what is real myself. And if this blog helps others, it is more the better. I like to say that this blog is one of my Spiritual Works of Mercy.
Finally, thank you for your New Years wishes and I would like to reciprocate and wish you and your family the best of New Years.
God bless,
S.A.
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dowd2015 said:
Thanks S,A. for your most uplifting post. My guess is that we will get some visible help from God Himself during 2017 in recognition of how the Catholic Church has treated the requests of Our Lady of Fatima.
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi:
It really is good news all around.
We are on the brink of a MASSIVE Catholic revival, what one can call a Traditional Catholic one at that.
Francis is a lame duck, and the 4 Card. correction will make him even lamer.
So all in all, next year will be a better year than this year was.
Happy New Year.
S.A.
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Steve Muise said:
SA – first time comment on your blog. I enjoy reading for your insights and appreciate the work you put into it.
I know a recent contributor opined about the frequent use of bold text. If I may humbly add that the cryptic writing style you use on the blog can be a bit frustrating for me. I’d prefer a more straight forward style.
As to your comment above, “We are on the brink of a MASSIVE Catholic revival, what one can call a Traditional Catholic one at that.” From your mouth to God’s ears!! My thoughts 20(+) years ago when I began reading the ‘Latin Mass’ magazine was that this is the future.
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi Steve,
W/r/t the Latin Mass, I am one you never got with the N.O. game plan. I remember the TLM from my grade school days and always searched to find it wherever I could. And this was during the time before the Indult Mass was allowed in 1984.
As to the proper context of the TLM in the wider scheme of things, I came to this understanding reading the blogs that began proliferating during the Benedict pontificate. This led me to start this effort two years ago.
What is amazing is this: over the last 10 years (actually since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008), I sensed that there was a “need” for something more substantive than what our culture was providing. The Obama presidency really drove the point home just by demonstrating that modern culture has no basis in reality WHAT SO EVER!
The illegal immigration issue I think brought that home for most people. It is not reasonable to take in millions of people, introduce them into a culture that these people do not want to assimilate into, then to expect the indigenous culture to “change” into the culture of the guest population. Yet on the other hand, the guest population is running away from their culture since it has been a demonstrable FAILURE. And it is this situation that can’t be explained rationally.
And this is just one example.
So what we are seeing is people, who have no connections with Catholicism, looking for reasonable answers to the present predicament. And it is thi search for reasonable answers that is leading them to classical Scholastic Catholicism. Just like all roads used to lead to Rome, it is the desperation of these individuals, who have families to support and maintain (with small children that they are trying to raise0, that are leading this “r”estoration effort.
And the further they go down this road, the closer they actually come to Catholicism and its most perfect form of prayer: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all Ages!.
Closing, the Happiest of New Years to you and yours…
S.A.
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