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Greetings in the New Year!
I am going to start this post… and year off on a self-congratulatory note. On the Feast of St. Sylvester, known to you and me as New Year’s Eve, the Deus ex Machina blog recorded its 500,000 page view. Given that this blog was launched on the 8th of November 2014 or roughly 1150 days ago (actually relaunched since first few trial posts appeared one year earlier), this means that it has averaged about 435 page views per day.
Never would have imagined… if you know what I mean.
So one New Year resolution is to keep on keeping on…
Now on to the subject at hand. Today, on New Year’s Day I will start the new year off with some predictions.
As you dear and loyal readers know, its one thing to report while it’s quite another to forecast. What separates the two is what is known as “analysis”. And what separates the good analyst from your average one is the “predictivability” (yes, it is an actual word) of the analysis.
So when you dear reader come over to this blog, what you in fact read is your humble blogger’s engaging in “predictive analytics” (Encompassing a variety of statistical techniques from predictive modelling, machine learning, and data mining that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events.)
Moving on to the first of the predictions themselves…
Prediction #1
First out of the gate, I will start off with a prediction and simultaneously provide a validatory example.
Starting with the validatory example…
As my dear and loyal readers know, from time to time I allude to the “future Council of Econe”. This is an attempt to start building a NARRATIVE on the part of your humble blogger.
Now this “future Council of Econe” NARRATIVE is not like your average run of the mill, FAKE NEWS media narrative. What separates this narrative out from the rest is that it will be one that is “organically developed”. By organic development, what is meant is that it conform to the following methodology:
Organic Development: reconciliation of reason with revelation, of science with faith and of philosophy with theology, SUBJECT TO: that source of our Faith that comes from divine Revelation.
Given that the process of such organic development is quite slow, think Sacred Liturgy, what this blogger has been doing is “sowing the seeds” for this organic narrative when there appears to be fertile ground.
One example of this strategy can be seen in the below Tweet:
As you can see from the above, yours truly was “piling on” to the Massimo Faggioli tweet here:
Needless to say, “Big Beans” as he is known in some parts of the Catholic blogosphere was trying to rattle the neo-con’s and Traditionalist’s cage with that tweet.
Among the responses to Signore “Big Beans” came from none other than the Catholic affairs journalist from the “Failing” FAKE NEWS NYTimes, Mr. Ross Douthat. Here is how Mr. Douthat responded:
Aside from the comic value of the above tweet, it would not be wise to see it exclusively in that CONTEXT.
What one needs to understand from the above information is that Mr. Douthat has in fact identified the objective reality of the present situation in the Universal Church, and that objective reality is what is known as a “binary opposite”. What we are dealing with here is a situation that the respective positions of Rahner and Archbishop Lefebvre are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. Or at least in the opinion of Mr. Douthat.
No Hegelian “wiggle room” what… so… ever…
… and quite radical position for someone writing for the NY Times, if you ask me…
Drilling down a bit further into this tweet, what Mr. Douthat’s tweet encases is the non-violation of the third Law of Thought, i.e. the law of the Excluded Middle. And just as a reminder, that law states: for any proposition, either that proposition is true, or its negation is true. But they both can’t be true simultaneously.
Therefore, ceteris paribus either Rahner is a “saint” or Archbishop Lefebvre is a “saint”. But they can’t both be “saints” at the same time.
Or at least not in the same “religion”.
And that is what I would call an objectively true claim (conclusion) based on a correct premise!
Or what Stefan Molyneux would call an “argument”.
Aside, at the 15:00 minute mark, Stefan explains the difference between Catholicism and the protestant sects without knowing it.
Moving on to the wider context of narrative, what we are a witness to in Mr. Douthat’s tweet can easily be described as a germination of the “future Council of Econe” narrative.
What is happening is that mainstream Catholics, and writing for the failing NYTime must put one in that category, are recognizing the inherent contradiction within the FrancisTheology™ as espoused by “Big Beans” and the Francis himself.
This “organic development” comes on the back of developments chronicled in our post titled Restoration Round-up 2017: Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith Goes “Lefebvrian”… (w/Updates). In that post, we chronicled how the general meeting, or the plenaria of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith also recognized that a return to Tradition, as espoused by the followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is the solution to their “problems”. Once again, the relevant passage:
To be more specific, sometime in or before May of 2016, the CDF Plenaria, and according to Bp. Fellay, the Prefect of the CDF himself, realized that “what appeared to be the problem that is us (SSPX), maybe it looks like a solution (return to Tradition)” for the CDF’s problem with Modernism.
And the reason that it is a SOLUTION is as simple as this: a return to Tradition eliminates ALL the inherent contradictions presently subsiding in post-conciliar NUChurch.
And the only way to clear up PUBLICLY and DEFINITIVELY that the Catholic Church rejects the Modernist, neo-Modernist and post-Modernist ERRORS, not to mention reaffirms the FOUR MARKS of the indefectible ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC Church, is for a Council of Econe to pronounce that it is still so!
So going forward, my first prediction is that in 2018 there will be more sightings of this “future Council of Econe” narrative from the neo-conservatives, conservatives and small “t” traditionalists within the Catholic Church.
Your humble blogger will in turn be watching out for these sightings and chronicling them as they appear.
In the next post, a rather disheartening prediction.
So get ready for it, since your have been warned.
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Michael Dowd said:
Happy New Year Sam:
I suggest we all help the cause by making comments on Conservative Catholic web sites. Here is one I made today (1-2-18) on an article on ‘Crisis Magazine” by William Kilpatrick entitled: ‘Islam in the Public Square’.
Michael Dowd • an hour ago
Thanks for another insightful article William. The question that occurs to me is why do Christians put up with all this crap from secularists and Islam. One could not imagine such a thing happening without resistance prior to Vatican II.
At Vatican II the “Trojan horse” of secularism was invited into the Church as Dietrich von Hildebrand so aptly called it in a book he wrote following that infamous council. In addition, the Council invented the all inclusive umbrella ‘Church of Christ’ which legitimized all religions including Islam whose members were now considered “anonymous Christians”. This was clearly the work of the devil. The results for mankind are devastating as we see every day.
It is high time Catholics recognized what has happened to their Church following Vatican II and start resisting the Church’s accomodationalist (ecumenical/dialogue) philosophy which is destroying everything Christ died for.
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S. Armaticus said:
Yes, I think reaching out to comment boxes of conservative and neo-conservative blogs is a good idea. I also think that confusion=VII is a good meme to use. One can also drop in a link to one of Card. Kasper’s many interviews where he clearly states that the intent of the Modernists was to put phrases with the opposite meaning next to the orthodox texts.
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Binker said:
I adopted a baby monkey after I found him on the side of the road next to his mother’s lifeless body. The baby didn’t know what to do and was sad and crying so I decided to take him with me and help raise him. So I decided to daily post a YouTube video of our baby monkey so everyone can see him. Here’s my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYm1jZ-9CFQD1inehrhYcIg
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dunderberg said:
And I will be dropping that lovely expression of yours about the future Council of Econe in future comments elsewhere. If permitted!
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S. Armaticus said:
Please keep in mind that the “future Council of Econe” is something that exists in reality, i.e. outside of someones mind. This is why I think it will be a powerful narrative going forward, as well as a powerful meme. Like Jordan Peterson observed, great ideas control people, not people ideas.
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Mark Thomas said:
“On the Feast of St. Sylvester, known to you and me as New Year’s Eve, the Deus ex Machina blog recorded its 500,000 page view.”
S.A., although I disagree with you on many things in regard to your posts — that is understandable as I am in communion with the Church…conversely, you have separated from the Church as you reject communion with the Vicar of Christ, His Holiness Pope Francis — I believe that the success of your blog is very much related to your great intelligence and creativity.
The majority of “traditional” Catholic blogs that I’ve read are boring and pretty much similar as they rehash Fake News stories — that is, nonsense that spreads lies about Pope Francis — that they grab from Rorate Caeli and Canon 212.
Although you tap into those blogs from time to time, as well as share similar negative opinions about the Vicar of Christ, you present far more original thought, not to mention creativity, than just about any “traditional” Catholic blogosphere.
S.A., you blog is very different as compared to said blogs. I believe that that constitutes a major reason as to why you have enjoyed 500,000+ page views.
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S.A., there is one thing about your blog that puzzles me. You believe that Pope Benedict XVI is the real Pope. However, you don’t have a prominent photo of him. You don’t promote his writings. He is invisible on your blog.
That is strange as you have insisted that he is the Pope.
Instead, you offer several images of His Holiness Pope Francis — each one, of course, is a put-down photo/depiction of the child of God, Pope Francis…anything to attack him, right? 🙂
You also have a photo of Pope Saint John Paul II. (Archbishop Lefebvre’s photograph is displayed most prominently upon your blog.)
But why have you chosen not to promote Cardinal Ratzinger? Again, you believe that he reigns as Pope.
You focus regularly upon His Holiness Pope Francis. He is, of course, he’s always attacked by you. But your constant focus upon Pope Francis only serves to grant unto him publicity…it’s always negative publicity…but it is publicity.
Conversely, you do not promote the so-called “real” Pope (Benedict XVI) regularly. Why is that, S.A.?
Thank you.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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Akita said:
If everyone was a lemming with tedious mantras of mindless loyalty to a corrupt papacy which is taking a sledgehammer to the Faith and family values there would be no restoration of the Church and the culture.
Marcel Lefebvre, pray for us!
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dunderberg said:
I do agree that a picture/pictures of Pope Benedict XVI should always be on your blog. Yes, the photos of Bergoglio doing his thing are needed when making points, but Mark Thomas is right about this part.
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi Mark:
Yes, HH Pope Benedict should feature in my right hand margin. And feature prominently, I would add.
HH not being there is intentional. This situation is something about which I am quite distraught. There is one “incident” that is blocking me from putting him on my blog, and this “incident” negates ALL the subjective good will that I impart on him and his pontificate for reversing the pathological situation that existed with the TLM pre MP SP.
Very sad!
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Akita said:
Happy New Year!
Thanks for your labor of love done for Our King.
Marcel Lefebvre pray for us!
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