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Jorge Demands that His Clergy Suborn Sins That Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance, part two
As is the case with hardened ideologues within the anti-Incarnational, Judeo-Masonic world of Modernity, especially those who adhere to one or more currents to be found within the false opposite of the naturalist “left,” Jorge Mario Bergoglio is entirely without the capacity to understand any concept that is foreign to his false belief system and thus, perforce, must all manner of pejoratives and other choice invectives to disparage those who not see things as he does through the Modernist prism of dogmatic, ecclesiological, pastoral, moral, Scriptural, and liturgical evolutionism.
That is, one who has intellectual honesty can assess opposing arguments and dissect them without resorting to the use of ader hominem attacks. Saint Thomas Aquinas anticipated opposing arguments and presented them in the Summa Theologica before replying to those arguments in a very dispassionate manner. Modernists are incapable of doing this as their entire belief system, being as it is the “synthesis of all heresies, is constructed out of a web of sophistries consisting of mutually contradictory statements that comes gift-wrapped in Hegelian doublespeak.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been at war with the entire patrimony of Holy Church throughout the course of his fifty-four years as a lay Jesuit revolutionary who is presumed to have Holy Orders impressed upon his immortal soul. He groused and complained his way through the false “pontificates” of Karol Josef Wojtyla/John Paul II and Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI before being let loose by the adversary to run amok in his personal playpen in the Santa Carta Martha to put into practice every Modernist shibboleth that has been advanced by every dime stone conciliar “progressive” for the past sixty years. Nothing that this wretched man says is in the least bit original. Indeed, many of us heard Bergoglio-speak from the pulpits of Catholic churches in conciliar captivity during the 1970s and beyond. Younger Catholics who did not experience the ideological blubbering with their own ears may be “shocked” by what Senor Jorge says or does, but most of what he believes and has done was advanced at the “retail” level long before he emerged on the balcony of the Basilica of Saint Peter on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, as the sixth in the current line of antipopes.
Even though he rescinded Summorum Pontificum seventeen months before the death of Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI after waiting what must have seemed like to him like an eternity to do act against what he called the Vetus Ordo, Ratzinger/Benedict’s death plainly has “liberated” to embark upon a veritable crusade against the Girondist/Menshevik conciliar revolutionaries and their confused defense of Catholic doctrine that is all too often premised upon a belief that it, Catholic doctrine, and the magisterium of the “Second” Vatican Council are perfectly compatible one with another. Despite the loud noises made by the since stricken “Bishop” Joseph Strickland, “Archbishop” Carlo Maria Vigano, Raymond “Cardinal” Burke, Gerhard “Cardinal” Muller and several others, “Pope Francis” has “skated” his way through the controversies caused by Amoris Laetitia, the Pachamama scandal during the Amazonian synod, the Theodore Edgar McCarrick scandal, the signing of the Document on Human Fraternity and World Peace and Living Together, and the recension of Summorum Pontificum, he might be finding himself blindsided now by the reaction to Fiducia Supplicans that is coming not from the “conservative” “bishops” within the United States of America but from the “bishops” in his beloved Third World, especially on the continent of Africa, who are standing up against the man they think is the Vicar of Christ on earth without realizing that a true pope would never put into question matters of revealed truth and of Catholic morality that exists in the very nature of things as Bergoglio is doing by means of conciliarism’s patented use of ambiguity contradiction, paradox, and outright dissimulation.
It is my belief that those among the “conservative” members of the conciliar hierarchy within the United States of America have been neutralized by the removal of “Bishop” Joseph Strickland from the See of Tyler, Texas, not that too many of them were profiles in courage before Strickland’s removal on November 11, 2023. No matter how much these “bishops” and some of their like-minded priests/presbyters might cluck, cluck and cackle amongst themselves, their silent acquiescence to things that they know are opposed to Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals makes them no different than the “Anglo-Catholics” within the “Worldwide Anglican Communion,” most of whom have gone along with the same sort of “initiatives” undertaken at Lambeth Conferences that have been advanced, either incrementally or more progressively, by the conciliar “popes.”
The “conservatives” within the American conciliar hierarchy went “cluck, cluck” about Assisi I. They groused about what purports to be Communion in the hand and girl altar boys, and perhaps more than several have grumbled even publicly in the past ten years about their “pope’s” entreaties to the divorced and civilly “remarried,” to sodomites, fornicators, pro-aborts, statists, globalists, the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, the World Economic Forum, Jeffrey Sachs, Paul Ehrlich, George Soros, and open Communists such as Xi Jinping.
Keeping one’s head down has been part of the “conservatives’” modus vivendi since the heady revolutionary days of Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria/Paul VI, and I suppose that what has worked well for past generations of clergy to maintain their “good standing” and their pensions and health benefits will keep working as they sublimate even the slightest thought that the conciliar enterprise is a false religious sect that cannot be reconciled with Holy Mother Church’s spotless, infallible purity in all matters pertaining to Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals.
Who cares if souls are deceived into thinking that what is true for all time can be untrue and possibly even “harmful” given new “insights” and “situations” that necessitate “innovations” that are nothing other than the deceits of the adversary to trick men anew as he tricked Eve and, through her, Adam?
Who cares if hardened sinners are reaffirmed in their sins by their receiving “blessings” that, no matter the protestations to the contrary, convey at least an implicit, if not explicit, show of ecclesiastical approval?
No, very few of the conciliar clergy are willing to look at the truth of our situation today, and the few who do speak out against the one they believe is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter do not realize how their own concept of the Holy Faith has been corrupted by conciliarism’s new ecclesiology, episcopal collegiality, false ecumenism, inter-religious prayer services, separation of Church and State, religious liberty, and the entire ethos of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical abomination.
It is no longer 1978 when it appeared to many of us goofballs that the dark era of Paolo Sicko was going to be swept away by the conquering “hero” from Krakow, Poland, and we know how that all turned out, don’t we? The time has long since past to stop believing that a little patch here and a little patch there is going to “fix up” problems that were caused by the rotten foundation upon which the conciliar enterprise is based and upon which it must collapse on top of itself.
As far as the folks in the Ce-ment Palace (cf. Jedediah Clampett) in Washington, District of Columbia, are concerned though, the Bergoglian era representations the fulfillment of their fondest Montinian dreams of “inclusiveness,” which is why the mealy mouthed, fence sitting mugwumps (cf. Father Frederick Schell, 1916-2002) have issued a statement that echoes Fiducia Supplican’s exercise in positivism by claiming the doctrine about marriage has not changed when, in fact, many of the apparatchiks who work in the offices of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops have long worked for the day when the “rights” of “gay people” would be recognized and “blessed” in some form or another by what they think is the Catholic Church:
WASHINGTON – In response to the Declaration “Fiducia supplicans” issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith today (December 18, 2023), the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) offered the following statement from its spokesperson, Chieko Noguchi, executive director of public affairs.
“The Declaration issued today (December 18, 2023) by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) articulated a distinction between liturgical (sacramental) blessings, and pastoral blessings, which may be given to persons who desire God’s loving grace in their lives. The Church’s teaching on marriage has not changed, and this declaration affirms that, while also making an effort to accompany people through the imparting of pastoral blessings because each of us needs God’s healing love and mercy in our lives.” (Statement of USCCB on Vatican’s Document Addressing Pastoral Blessings. For a ringing condemnation of Fiducia Supplicans, please see “Archbishop” Philip A. Anyolo’s instructions that his clergy in the Archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya, to administer “blessings” to sodomites: Statement by “Archbishop” Philip A. Anyolo.)
The repeated efforts by the likes of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Victor Manuel Fernandez, “Bishop” Robert Barron, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to claim that the doctrine on Holy Matrimony will not change is rather hollow when one considers the fact that the 2021 Responsum that forbade pastoral “blessings” of “same-sex” practitioners of perversion was overturned within the pace of thirty-four months and, perhaps even more importantly, when one considers that the conciliar church attempted to overturn the ends of Holy Matrimony by subordinating the procreation and education of children to the personalist-based “unitive end.” Although this effort has been absurd as the ends proper to marriage are part of the Natural Law and, as such, are fixed and immutable, most Catholics, including most “conservative” and many “traditional” Catholics either accept this inversion, are ignorant about it, or indifferent to the damage it has done to the nature and stability of marriage.
Here, once again, is proof of this inversion:
856. The primary object of marriage is the procreation and education of offspring; the secondary purpose is mutual assistance and the remedy of concupiscence. (This can be found on page 205 of the following link, which is the 1917 Code of Canon Law in English: 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law.)
Can. 1055 §1. The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring, has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized. (Canon 1055.1.)
The entire fabric of the counterfeit church of conciliarism’s teaching on the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony is built on the fabric of the inversion of the ends of marriage that was condemned personally by Pope Pius XII on March 29, 1944, a condemnation that he cited and reiterated in the strongest terms possible in his Address to Italian Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951:
Certain publications concerning the purposes of matrimony, and their interrelationship and order, have come forth within these last years which either assert that the primary purpose of matrimony is not the generation of offspring, or that the secondary purposes are not subordinate to the primary purpose, but are independent of it.
In these works, different primary purposes of marriage are designated by other writers, as for example: the complement and personal perfection of the spouses through a complete mutual participation in life and action; mutual love and union of spouses to be nurtured and perfected the psychic and bodily surrender of one’s own person; and many other such things.
In the same writings a sense is sometimes attributed to words in the current documents of the Church (as for example, primary, secondary purpose), which does not agree with these words according to the common usage by theologians.
This revolutionary way of thinking and speaking aims to foster errors and uncertainties, to avoid which the Eminent and Very Fathers of this supreme Sacred Congregation, charged with the guarding of faith and morals, in a plenary session on Wednesday, the 29th of March, 1944, when the question was proposed to them: “Whether the opinion of certain writers can be admitted, who either deny that the primary purpose of matrimony is the generation of children and raising offspring, or teach that the secondary purposes are not essentially subordinate to the primary purpose, but are equally first and independent,” have decreed that the answer must be: In the negative. (As found in Henry Denzinger, Enchirdion Symbolorum, thirteenth edition, translated into English by Roy Deferrari and published in 1955 as The Sources of Catholic Dogma–referred to as “Denziger,” by B. Herder Book Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and London, England, No. 2295, pp. 624-625.)
The ends proper to the married state are immutable, making anyone's continued insistence on the “orthodoxy” of Montini/Paul VI’s Humane Vitae, July 25, 1968, without any foundation as it stands truth on its in head, an immutable truth that Pope Pius XI noted as follows in Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930:
10. Now when We come to explain, Venerable Brethren, what are the blessings that God has attached to true matrimony, and how great they are, there occur to Us the words of that illustrious Doctor of the Church whom We commemorated recently in Our Encyclical Ad salutem on the occasion of the fifteenth centenary of his death:[9] "These," says St. Augustine, "are all the blessings of matrimony on account of which matrimony itself is a blessing; offspring, conjugal faith and the sacrament."[10] And how under these three heads is contained a splendid summary of the whole doctrine of Christian marriage, the holy Doctor himself expressly declares when he said: "By conjugal faith it is provided that there should be no carnal intercourse outside the marriage bond with another man or woman; with regard to offspring, that children should be begotten of love, tenderly cared for and educated in a religious atmosphere; finally, in its sacramental aspect that the marriage bond should not be broken and that a husband or wife, if separated, should not be joined to another even for the sake of offspring. This we regard as the law of marriage by which the fruitfulness of nature is adorned and the evil of incontinence is restrained."[11]
11. Thus amongst the blessings of marriage, the child holds the first place. And indeed the Creator of the human race Himself, Who in His goodness wishes to use men as His helpers in the propagation of life, taught this when, instituting marriage in Paradise, He said to our first parents, and through them to all future spouses: "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth."[12] As St. Augustine admirably deduces from the words of the holy Apostle Saint Paul to Timothy[13] when he says: "The Apostle himself is therefore a witness that marriage is for the sake of generation: 'I wish,' he says, 'young girls to marry.' And, as if someone said to him, 'Why?,' he immediately adds: 'To bear children, to be mothers of families'."[14]
12. How great a boon of God this is, and how great a blessing of matrimony is clear from a consideration of man's dignity and of his sublime end. For man surpasses all other visible creatures by the superiority of his rational nature alone. Besides, God wishes men to be born not only that they should live and fill the earth, but much more that they may be worshippers of God, that they may know Him and love Him and finally enjoy Him for ever in heaven; and this end, since man is raised by God in a marvelous way to the supernatural order, surpasses all that eye hath seen, and ear heard, and all that hath entered into the heart of man.[15] From which it is easily seen how great a gift of divine goodness and how remarkable a fruit of marriage are children born by the omnipotent power of God through the cooperation of those bound in wedlock.
13. But Christian parents must also understand that they are destined not only to propagate and preserve the human race on earth, indeed not only to educate any kind of worshippers of the true God, but children who are to become members of the Church of Christ, to raise up fellow-citizens of the Saints, and members of God's household,[16] that the worshippers of God and Our Savior may daily increase.
14. For although Christian spouses even if sanctified themselves cannot transmit sanctification to their progeny, nay, although the very natural process of generating life has become the way of death by which original sin is passed on to posterity, nevertheless, they share to some extent in the blessings of that primeval marriage of Paradise, since it is theirs to offer their offspring to the Church in order that by this most fruitful Mother of the children of God they may be regenerated through the laver of Baptism unto supernatural justice and finally be made living members of Christ, partakers of immortal life, and heirs of that eternal glory to which we all aspire from our inmost heart.
15. If a true Christian mother weigh well these things, she will indeed understand with a sense of deep consolation that of her the words of Our Savior were spoken: "A woman . . . when she hath brought forth the child remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world";[17] and proving herself superior to all the pains and cares and solicitudes of her maternal office with a more just and holy joy than that of the Roman matron, the mother of the Gracchi, she will rejoice in the Lord crowned as it were with the glory of her offspring. Both husband and wife, however, receiving these children with joy and gratitude from the hand of God, will regard them as a talent committed to their charge by God, not only to be employed for their own advantage or for that of an earthly commonwealth, but to be restored to God with interest on the day of reckoning. (Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930.)
There is a straight path from inverting the ends proper to Holy Matrimony to Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s promotion of “civil unions” for “married” sodomites and for “informal blessings” to be administered by various conciliar “bishops” upon those “wedded” in a very united march to eternal perdition as to defect in one thing of the Holy Faith leads to a welter of unforeseen errors, the magnitude of which keeps growing over time. Conciliarism is not Catholicism. (Please see Fifty Years After Humanae Vitae for a discussion about that "encyclical's revolutionary nature. The analysis is also the first entry in Life, Death, and Truth: Under Attack by Medicine and Law.)
As, according to Victor Manuel Fernandez in Fiducia Supplicans, “blessings” are “ever evolving,” does anyone really think that the day will not come within the conciliar sect that sodomite “marriages” will be “blessed,” if not officiated, by its clergy? A false religion based upon dogmatic evolutionism will always scuttle its own “prohibitions” over the course of time in the name of some kind of “deeper” understanding that is actually a rationalization of immoral, amoral, and/or abnormal behavior that cries out to Heaven for vengeance.
As was noted in part one of this commentary, the homosexual collective has long militated for social acceptance, which its has received, by and large, ever since the first big push began for this acceptance after the Stonewall Inn riots fifty-four years ago, followed by efforts by television programs such as All in the Family, Maude, Three’s Company, at least two episodes of Cannon in its fifth and final season (1976-1976), Barney Miller, and That Certain Summer (a television movie starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen that aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network on November 1, 1972) in the 1970s to make what the American Psychiatric Association termed until 1972 a mental illness into a cause celebre and an expression of “love” that must be accorded full social recognition, and they will not stop militating for the recognition by the conciliar revolutionaries until they approve of their “marriages” and endow them with their own rites and ceremonies.
Indeed, there are a number of parishes within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism that have been known as homosexual enclaves about which the conciliar authorities have tolerated with a spirit benign neglect or celebrated publicly. Some of the more notorious such enclaves have been found at the Church of Saint Brigid in Westbury, New York, the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Deer Park, New York, the Church of Saint Francis Xavier in the Greenwich Village section of New York City as well as the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in the Lincoln Center section of the same city, Saint Joan of Arc Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro District of the City of San Francisco, California, and there are scores upon scores of others from coast to coast, from border to border, and all across the fruited plains. Despite the fact that there is no such thing as “gay people,” these parishes have fed into the cultural propaganda that makes those who choose to identify by a proclivity to commit the sin of Sodom into a legitimate category of human self-identification when it is nothing more than the justification for the persistence in grave vice.
Additionally, as Mrs. Randy Engel documented in The Rite of Sodomy in 2006, almost every religious of men is infected with the pestilence of perverse behavior, thus becoming breeding grounds for the metastasizing of this sickness throughout the quarters of what passes for Catholic higher “education” in the United States of America and elsewhere in the so-called “developed world at the same time that the sodomite named Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini was appointing his lavender brethren to the conciliar hierarchy and began to systematically recruit, protect, and promote fellow sodomites into the conciliar presbyterate and hierarchy. Several generations of young Catholic minds have been polluted with this propaganda, and we will only find out in eternity how many young Catholics chose to become practitioners of perversities that cry out to Heaven for vengeance because of the explicit classroom brainwashing on its behalf all throughout the course of grade school, high school, and college/university “education.”
The acceptance of unnatural vice as an expression of “love” is found throughout the conciliar hierarchies of countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland. Fiducia Supplicans is seen in these places as what it is meant to be despite all the worthless protestations to the contrary: an evolutionary step towards the acceptance and blessing of “civil unions” and, yes, even “marriage” as the “heavy lifting” in the redefinition of the ends of marriage was done, as noted just above, when Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini/Paul VI first inverted the ends proper to matrimony, especially in Humane Vitae, July 25, 1968, and when that inversion was codified by Karol Josef Wojtyla/John Paul II approved the 1983 conciliar code of canon law.
Thus, although Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Victor Manuel Fernandez may protest long and loud about how “nothing” has “changed,” the approval given by the so-called “blessings” of sodomites who think that they “love” other sodomites.
There is a particular irony in all this as the translation of verses 18-32 in Saint Paul the Apostle’s Epistle to the Romans found in The New American Bible, which is the official text for the Scriptural readings used the Novus Ordo’s Lectionary within the United States of America, refers to how those engaged in sodomy seek the approval of others:
18 The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. 20Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse; 21for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22While claiming to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.
24Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 27and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. 28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. 29 They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips 30and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. 31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. (New American Bible Translation of Romans 1:18-32.)
This is a very fine definition of what sodomites have been seeking from society-at-large and what they have gotten courtesy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Victor Manuel Fernandez: Approval.
Men such as Victor Manuel Fernandez and his superior, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, whose soul is forever "hurt" over the deforestation of forests to plant soybean crops ("It hurts me in my soul when I see deforestation to plant soy"--see Apostate laments destruction of forests to plant soy) but not over the vivisection of an innocent preborn baby's brain as his heart is still beating after he has been aborted by those “loving” folks at Planned Barrenhood (see I saw an aborted baby's heart beating outside his body), give active approval to those who practice sodomy.
Bergoglio and Fernandez do not believe that unrepentant sinners need to change their behavior as they only need to "encounter" Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The people who need to change are those who condemn sodomy for what it is and who seek to perform the Spritual Works of Mercy by admonishing the sinner to quit his sins and to confess them to a true priest in the Sacred Triubnal of Penance. Men such as Bergolgio, Fernandez, Blase Cupich, Joseph Tobin, John Stowe, Wilton Gregory, James Martin, Timothy Radcliffe, et al., are simply willing servants of Antichrist, which means that they believe, think speak and act in ways that are contrary to Christ and what He has revealed to us exclusively through His Catholic Church for its eternal safekeeping and infallible explication.
Those who are unchaste must be exhorted to quit their immoral behavior, seeking out the Mercy of the Divine Redeemer in the Sacred Tribunal of Penance at the hands of a true priest as he acts in persona Christi as an alter Christus, resolved from thence on to live penitentially as the consecrated slaves of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying as many Rosaries each day as their state-in-life permits. You will hear no such exhortations from the lips of the conciliar "bishops," staring with Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself.
We do not base human self-identification on the basis of an inclination to commit various sins. If we did, of course, perhaps we could refer to the "blasphemers' community" and the "killers' community" and the "thieves' community" and the "adulterers' community" and the "gossipers' community" and the "enviers' community." (Well, come to think of it, the counterfeit church of conciliarism is a collection of blasphemers, isn't it?) Human self-identification is not based on the inclination to commit any sins, and for the conciliar revolutionaries to reaffirm those inclined to the commission of perverse sins demonstrates that they, the conciliar revolutionaries, do not understand that true love of God requires us will the good of others. the ultimate good of others is the salvation of their immortal souls, which they conciliar revolutionaries impede, not advance, as they write about the "elements of true love" and concern that perverse sinners have for each other than can "inspire" others by the "sacrifices" they make for each other.
To assert, as defenders of Fiducia Supplicans are doing, that the “spontaneous,” non-ritualized “blessings” are bestowed upon “persons” and not “situations” is to ignore the fact that Holy Mother Church has provided an abundance of means to open up the channels of grace into the souls of those living in states of Mortal Sin, starting by performing the Spiritual Work of Mercy to admonish the sinner and also by having genuine Holy Masses offered for the conversion of specific sinners as well as to pray to Our Lady through her Most Holy Rosary for their conversion. There is all manner of spiritual helps that Holy Mother Church can give from to sinners, but specifically “blessing” those who live in objective states of Mortal Sin is not one of them.
In what must be something of a surprise to Senor Jorge, many of his African “bishops” are forbidding their clergy from administering these “blessings,” and they are doing so on right principles. In addition to “Archbishop” Anyolo’s statement on behalf of the Kenyan conciliar clergy, conciliar “bishops” in Malawi and Rwanda have forbidden the implantation of Fiducia Supplicans within their countries, and the “bishops” of Cameroon have issued their own very strong condemnation of the document that was produced by one Argentinian heretic and approved by another Argentinian heretic:
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic bishops of Cameroon have issued one of the strongest rejections of Pope Francis’ document advocating for same-sex blessings, stating that they “formally forbid” any blessings of same-sex couples in the country.
“Homosexuality falsifies and corrupts human anthropology and trivializes sexuality, marriage and the family, the foundations of society,” read the Cameroon bishops’ statement. “In fact homosexuality sets humanity against itself and destroys it.”
Signed by on behalf of the 33 prelates of the country by Archbishop Andrew Fuanya Nkea (president of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon) their document was issued “for the sake of human dignity and the salvation of all humanity in Jesus Christ.”
Published December 21 – in response to Pope Francis’ and Cardinal Victor Fernández’s December 18 text Fiducia Supplicans approving blessing of same-sex couples – the statement made reference to a “wave of indignation, questioning and concern” which had spread in light of Fiducia Supplicans.
The Cameroon bishops’ statement marks perhaps the strongest intervention yet in the unprecedented, swift fallout over the Vatican’s document. They condemned not just the practice of same-sex blessings, but the practice of even tolerating homosexuality. Drawing on Catholic teaching and Sacred Scripture, the text stated how the practice of homosexuality is “a flagrant violation of the heritage bequeathed to us by our ancestors,” and was a “clear sign of the imploding decadence of civilizations.”
quoted from Romans (1:26) noting that “homosexual acts are not ‘sexual,’ but ‘acts against nature.’”
Continuing, they wrote:
homosexuality is not a human right. It is an alienation that seriously harms humanity because it is not based on any value proper to the human being: it is a dehumanization of love, “an abomination.” (Lev 18:22)
Furthermore, “rejecting it [homosexuality] is in no way being discriminative; it is a legitimate protection of the constant values of humanity in the face of a vice that has become the subject of a claim to legal recognition and, today, the subject of a blessing,” they added.
While the Pope’s text argued in favor of blessings for couples in same-sex relationships, without demanding repentance of rejection of the homosexual lifestyle, the Cameroon bishops warned that this practice was impossible for the Catholic Church. To offer a blessing to a homosexual couple “would be tantamount to encouraging a choice and practice of life that cannot be recognized as being objectively ordered to the reveal designs of God,” they wrote. (Cameroon bishops ‘formally forbid all blessings of homosexual couples’.)
I do not believe that too many conciliar priests or presbyters, in the United States of America, many of whom have made so many compromises over the years as their have progressed up the clerical ladder in their careers that they no longer possess the prophetic courage necessary to stand up as forthrightly as have many of the African “bishops” (as well as those in Hungary, Kazakhstan, and the very secular country of Uruguay), will suddenly find the courage that they have suppressed for so long to defend the plain truth that homosexuality and effeminacy are abhorrent in the sight of the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity.
As strong as some of the statements from some of the conciliar "bishops" in Africa have been, however, there is the itsy-bitsy little problem represented by the fact that a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter would never have issued Fiducia Supplicans, and perhaps more to the point, no true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter would have approved Sacrosanctum Concilium, Lumen Gentium, Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes, Nostra Aetate, nor would he have engaged in inter-religious “prayer” services, signed “joint declarations” with various Protestant and Orthodox officials, praised pagan religions and wished them well on their diabolically inspired festival days, or embraced all manner of globalist and transhumanist agenda items as ritualistically has been done by the conciliar “popes.” The conciliar “bishops” who are opposing Fiducia Supplicans must come to realize that their problem is not Jorge Mario Bergoglio per se but the false, Hegelian and Judeo-Masonic foundation upon which, as noted earlier, the entire conciliar enterprise is built and upon which it must collapse right on top of itself.
While it remains to be seen whether the “merciful” Pope Francis will move against those “bishops” who are firmly opposing Fiducia Supplicans as he moved so quickly against “Bishop” Joseph Strickland, this opposition, however much it is contrary to the monarchical nature of the papacy, might serve to be for Bergoglio what Humanae Vitae was for Montini/Paul VI: the vitiation of his “pontificate’s” ability to persuade his “bishops” to obey him.
That is, Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini/Paul VI’s refusal to act against dissenters to Humanae Vitae in 1968 was, effectively, the death knell to his “papacy.” He got “rolled” and could only cry pitiably about how the “dying pope” was suffering (it took ten years for the “dying pope” to die, by way). As Jorge Mario Bergoglio is unlikely to act against entire bodies of African “bishops,” he may find that the courage exhibited by those men will embolden others whenever he attempts to push the envelope again on one or more of his ideological agenda items, and more, importantly insofar as Catholic ecclesiology is concerned, more and more Catholics will be emboldened to think of a pope as they would of a president and thus ignore him with impunity.
Perhaps it would be wise to turn our attention to how and for what purposes a true pope, Pope Saint Sylvester I, whose feast is commemorated today, Sunday, December 31, 2023, the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, governed Holy Mother Church as she continued to emerge from the catacombs following Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313 A.D.
Pope Saint Sylvester was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Saint Marcellinus when he was just about thirty years old, distinguishing himself by the exquisite perfection with which he offered the Sacred Mysteries. He succeeded to the Throne of Saint Peter following the death of Pope Saint Melchiades in the year 314 A.D. It was during his blessed reign that the Church was able to come up out of the catacombs following the end of the age of persecution with the issuance of the Edict of Milan by the Emperor Constantine in the year before his ascended to the papacy. Saint Sylvester thus oversaw the restoration of the Church buildings that had been seized by the state and persuaded Constantine to build basilicas. The emperor, grateful to Saint Sylvester for having given him the gift of the Faith in the baptismal font, endowed these churches and basilicas were marvelous statues and images. Constantine further ordered that the worship of the false idols cease once and for all. God had seen to it that Pope Saint Sylvester I, a priest at around thirty years of age, was to preside as the Supreme Pontiff as the era of Christendom dawned upon the world and as the Church Militant arose from the catacombs.
Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., explained the importance of the life of Pope Saint Sylvester, who guided Holy Mother Church out of the catabombs to begin the epoch of Christendom in Europe over the course of the ensuing centuries:
So far, the only ones we have seen standing round the Crib of our Jesus have been Martyrs: Stephen, overwhelmed with the shower of stones; John, the Martyr in heart, who survived his fiery torture; the Holy Innocents, massacred by the sword; Thomas, murdered in his Cathedral—these are the champions of Christ, who keep guard in the palace of Bethlehem. Yet all Christians are not called to be Martyrs. Besides this countless battalion of the King’s favorite soldiers, there are other troops of sainted heroes which form the heavenly army—and amongst these, there are the Confessors, who conquered the world without shedding their blood in the combat. Though the place of honor in the service of the King belongs to the Martyrs, yet did the Confessors fight manfully for the glory of his name and the spreading of his Kingdom. The palm is not in their hands, but they are crowned with the crown of justice, and Jesus, who gave it to them, has made it be part of his own glory that they should be near his throne.
The Church would therefore grace this glorious Christmas Octave with the name of one of her Children, should represent, at Bethlehem, the whole class of her unmartyred Saints. She chose a Confessor—St. Sylvester: a Confessor who governed the Church of Rome, and therefore the universal Church; a Pontiff whose reign was long and peaceful; a Servant of Jesus Christ adorned with every virtue, who was sent to edify and guide the world immediately after those fearful combats, that had lasted for three hundred years, and in which millions of Christians had gained victory by martyrdom, under the leadership of Thirty Popes—predecessors of St. Sylvester—and they too all Martyrs.
So that Sylvester is messenger of the Peace, which Christ came to give to the world, and of which the Angels sang on Christmas Night. He is the friend of Constantine; he confirms the Council of Nicaea; he organizes the discipline of the Church for the new era on which she is now entering—the era of Peace. His predecessors in the See of Peter imaged Jesus in his sufferings; Sylvester represented Jesus in his triumph. His appearance during this Octave reminds us that the Divine Child who lies wrapped in swaddling clothes and is the object of Herod’s persecution is, notwithstanding all these humiliations, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the world to come. (Isaiah 9:6) (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)
The following is a brief description of the life of Pope Saint Sylvester as found in today's Divine Office:
Sylvester was a Roman by birth, and his father's name was Rufinus. He was brought up from a very early age under a Priest named Cyrinus, of whose teaching and example he was a diligent learner. In his thirtieth year he was ordained Priest of the Holy Roman Church by Pope Marcellinus. In the discharge of his duties he became a model for all the clergy, and, after the death of Melchiades, he succeeded him on the Papal throne, in the year of our Lord 314, during the reign of Constantine, who had already by public decree proclaimed peace to the Church of Christ. Hardly had he undertaken the government of the Church when he betook himself to stir up the Emperor to protect and propagate the religion of Christ. Constantine was fresh from his victory over his enemy Maxentius, on the Eve whereof the sign of the Cross had been revealed to him limned in light upon the sky; and there was an old story in the Church of Rome that it was Sylvester who caused him to recognise the images of the Apostles, administered to him holy Baptism, and cleansed him from the leprosy of misbelief. (Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Pope Saint Sylvester I.)
Saint Sylvester, who was known for his prudence and charity, understood that it was both prudent and charitable to condemn error by its proper name. This is why he and Emperor Constantine, who was most eager to put defend orthodox doctrine, convoked in the year 325 the First Council of Nicea, at which over 300 bishops participated, to condemn Arius as a heretic and Arianism as a heresy, thereby demonstrating that popes have a solemn duty to condemn heresy and to discipline heretics severely. The Nicene Creed, which was elaborated upon by the Council of Constantinople fifty-six years later, is still recited by Catholics in the context of those offerings of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of a solemn character (Sundays, Double Majors of the First Class, Feasts of Apostles and Doctors). The Council of Nicea was truly an extraordinary event as it reflected the concern of both the Sovereign Pontiff and a secular potentate that right doctrine was essential to the establishment and maintenance of civil peace.
Sadly, as we know only too well, the the counterfeit church of conciliarism is all too tolerant of unsound doctrine and outright heresy. It was in August of 2005 that the well-known critic of the doctrine of papal infallibility and a promoter of a one world religion, the late Father Hans Kung, who remained, yes, even to his dying breath, a priest in "canonical" good standing in the counterfeit church of conciliarism thirty-seven years following his removal from a Chair of Theology at Tubingen University for his dissident writings, has spoken glowingly of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and even spent four hours with Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI in the Apostolic Palace over dinner in 2005. Not a word of concern over Kung's lifelong warfare against the Faith was uttered. This is quite a contrast to what happened at the Council of Nicea when Saint Nicholas rushed at the heretic Arius and slapped him across the face. Saint Nicholas knew the harm that Arius had been doing to the Faith. So did Pope Saint Sylvester.
The condemnation of Arius and Arianism also stands in very sharp contrast with the Opening Address of Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII to the "Second" Vatican Council on October 11, 1962, the Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Rejecting the admonitions of his predecessors about the dangers of Modernity, Roncalli, who forbade any criticism of Communism at the Council, said:
In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to ou r regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but prevarication and ruin. They say that our era, in comparison with past eras, is getting worse, and they behave as though they had learned nothing from history, which is, none the less, the teacher of life. They behave as though at the time of former Councils everything was a full triumph for the Christian idea and life and for proper religious liberty.
We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand.
In the present order of things, Divine Providence is leading us to a new order of human relations which, by men's own efforts and even beyond their very expectations, are directed toward the fulfilment of God's superior and inscrutable designs. And everything, even human differences, leads to the greater good of the Church. . . . .
At the outset of the Second Vatican Council, it is evident, as always, that the truth of the Lord will remain forever. We see, in fact, as one age succeeds another, that the opinions of men follow one another and exclude each other. And often errors vanish as quickly as they arise, like fog before the sun The Church has always opposed these errors. Frequently she has condemned them with the greatest severity. Nowadays however, the Spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity. She consider that she meets the needs of the present day by demonstrating the validity of her teaching rather than by condemnations. (Angelo Roncalli/ John XXIII 's Opening Address)
This is why the now retired Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, who was a peritus at the "Second" Vatican Council, called Roncalli's council a "Counter-Syllabus of Errors." The condemnations of the past had to give way in favor of an allegedly more "enlightened" attitude of "dialogue" in a spirit of "opening up to the world." The result has been a widespread toleration of, if not open support for, dissident and heretical positions that have confused the faithful, caused many souls to leave the true Church altogether in favor of Protestant sects, and has silenced the authentic, perennial teaching of the Catholic Church in an effort to appear "sensitive to" the realities of contemporary life. Nowhere is this more evident than in the conciliar apostasies of ecumenism and religious liberty.
Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend contains a description of how Saint Sylvester, at the invitation of Emperor Constantine, entered into debate, not "dialogue," with Jewish elders in Rome. Those elders had been sent to Rome by the emperor's mother, Saint Helena, who had yet to convert to the Faith, for the purposes of ascertaining whether her son had converted to the true religion. Here are a few brief excerpts:
Now the eighth master, Aroel, spoke, "It is certain that God is the summit of all perfection and that he needs no one. Of what use, then, could it be to him to be born in Christ? Secondly, how do you call Christ the Word, for this too is certain, that before he had a son, God could not be called Father; therefore, if afterwards he is called Christ's Father, he has become subject to change." Silvester replied: "The Son was begotten of the Father before all time, in order to create what did not yet exist., and he was born in time to remake those that had been lost. He could have remade them by his sole word, but he could not redeem them by his passion unless he became man, because he was not capable of suffering in his divinity. Nor was it an imperfection but a perfection, that in his divinity he could not suffer. Moreover, it is clear that the Son of God is called the Word, because the prophet says, 'My heart has uttered a good word.' God also was always Father because his Son always existed, for his Son is his Word and His Wisdom and his Power. The Son was always in the Father as his Word according to the text, 'My heart has uttered a Word.' He was always the Father's Wisdom: 'I came out of the mouth of the Most High, the firstborn before all creatures.' He was always the Power: 'Before the hills I was brought forth, nor had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.' Since, therefore, the Father was never without his Word, his Wisdom, and his Power, how can you think that the name Father came to him in time?"
Aroel being dismissed, Jubal, the ninth doctor, said: "We know that God did not condemn nor curse marriage. Why therefore do you refuse to have the on your worship born of a marriage--unless it is your intention to denigrate marriage? Another question: how can one who is almighty be tempted, and how does one who is power suffer, or one who is life die? And lastly, you are forced to say that there are two sons, the one whom the Father begets, the other born of the virgin. And again, how can it be that the humanity which is assumed suffers without injury to the divinity which assumed the humanity?"
To all this, Silvester responded: "It is not to condemn marriage that we say Christ was born of a virgin and we have already stated the reasons for his virginal birth. Nor is marriage discredited by that assertion; on the contrary, it is honored, because this virgin who became Christ's mother was herself the child of a marriage. Christ was tempted in order to vanquish all the devil's temptations; he suffered in order to bring all suffering under subjection; he died to thwart the reign of death. In Christ there is the one and only Son of God: as Christ is truly God's invisible Son, the Son is the visible Christ. what is invisible in him is God, what is visible is man. We may show by an example that the man assumed can suffer what the godhead assuming does not suffer. Let us use the emperor's purple mantle as an example. it was wool, and blood was applied to the wool and gave it its purple color, but when the wool was held in the fingers and twisted into thread, what was twisted? The color that signifies the royal dignity, or the wool that was wool before it was dyed purple? So then, the wool stands for the man, the purple color for God. God was present in Christ's passion when Christ suffered on the cross, but was not subjected to suffering in any way."
The tenth master, Thara, said: "I am not pleased by this example, because the color is twisted with the wool!" All present disagreed, but Silvester said: "Very well, take another example! Imagine a tree filled with the splendor of the sunlight. when the tree is cut down, it feels the sharp bite of the ax, but the sunlight suffers nothing from the blow! So, when the man suffered, the divinity underwent no suffering!"
Sileon, the eleventh doctor, now spoke. "If the prophets foretold these things about your Christ," he said, "we would like to know the reasons for all this mockery and suffering and death!" Silvester: "Christ suffered hunger that he might feed us; he thirsted in order to quench our dryness with a life-giving draft; he was tempted to liberate us from temptation; he was taken captive to deliver us from capture by the demons; he was mocked to free us from the demons' mockery; he was bound in order to untie for us the knot of bondage and malediction he was humiliated in order to exalt us; he was stripped of his garments to clothe with his pardon the nakedness of our primal privation; he accepted the crown of thorns in order to give back to us the lost flowers of paradise; he was given gall and vinegar to drink in order to bring man into a land flowing with milk and honey and to open for us fountains running with honey; he took mortality upon himself to confer immortality upon us; he was buried to bless the tombs of the saints; he rose to restore life to the dead; he ascended into heaven to open heaven's graces; he is seated at God's right hand to hear and grant the prayers of the faithful." (Archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, O.P., The Golden Legend.)
Jacobus de Voragine wrote that even the Jews applauded Pope Saint Sylvester I after he finished that particular discourse in defense of the Faith. One elder, Zambri, though, was unconvinced and demanded that a sign be performed. Zambri uttered a word, probably that of a demon, into the ear of a bull and it died. Zambri then challenged Pope Saint Sylvester to awaken the bull in "name of Jesus, the Galilean, and we will believe in Jesus, for even if Silvester can sprout wings and fly, he cannot do this!" The narrative concludes as follows:
All the Jews then promised that they would believe if Silvester brought the bull to life. He therefore prayed and, bending down to the bull's ear said: "Bull, get up and go back nicely to your herd!" The bull got to its feet and went away gently and quietly. Thereupon the queen, the Jews, the judges, and everybody else were converted to the Faith. (Archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, O.P., The Golden Legend.)
Imagine if we had a true pope today who was concerned about converting the Jews to Catholicism so as to save their immortal souls. The false "popes" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, however, have indeed been "puddy tats" who refuse to proclaim the Holy Name of Jesus, announced publicly for the first time at His Circumcision eight days after His Nativity, in front of Jews or Mohammedans or other non-Christians. Pope Saint Sylvester I knew that the Apostles themselves were unafraid to proclaim the Holy Name, that they went forth from the Sanhedrin on one occasion, "rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus" (Acts 5: 41).
We need to pray for the restoration of the Church Militant on earth so that we will have true popes who act once again in the pattern of Pope Saint Sylvester, men who will condemn, yes, condemn error at the same time as they proclaim the truths contained in the Deposit of Faith clearly and unambiguously and as they hold forth to the form of worship that Pope Saint Sylvester himself offered God when he was but thirteen years of age. We need true popes who will proclaim the Holy Name as fearlessly as Saint Sylvester did in front of the Jewish elders. And we need true popes who will seek to restore the glories of Christendom, a time when emperors knew that the good of their empires depended upon the good of souls, and that the good of souls depended upon their total subordination to the Catholic Faith without one iota of dissent.
Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., composed the following prayer in honor of Pope Saint Sylvester, who had the privilege of governing Holy Mother Church during an era of peace as she emerged from the catacombs and a period of persecution that had lasted for two hundred forty-seven years under the Roman caesars and their minions:
Supreme Pastor of the Church of Christ! thou lendest to the beauty of the holy Octave of Christmas the luster of thy glorious merits. There thou worthily representest the countless choir of Confessors, for it was thou didst steer the barque of Peter after the three hundred years’ tempest, leading her with watchful love in her first hours of calm. The pontifical Diadem, reflecting heaven in its gems, sits on thy venerable brow. The Keys of the Kingdom of heaven are in thy hands; thou openest it for the admission of the Gentiles, who embrace the faith of Christ; thou shuttest it against the Arians, in that august Council of Nicaea, where thou presidest by thy Legates, and to which thou givest authority, by confirming it with thy apostolic approbation. The Furious storms will again soon rage against the Church, and the angry billows of heresy will beat against her; thou wilt then be in the bosom of God; but, together with St. Peter, thou wilt keep guard over the purity of the Faith of Rome. Thou wilt support Julius; thou wilt rescue Liberius; and Athanasius, aided by thy prayers, will find a shelter within the walls of Rome.
Under thy peaceful reign, Christian Rome receives the reward of her long-endured persecution. She is acknowledges as Queen of Christendom, and her empire becomes the sole empire that is universal. The Son of thy pastoral zeal, Constantine, leaves the city of Romulus, which has now become the City of Peter; the Imperial majesty would be eclipsed by that greater one of the Vicar of Christ; he makes Byzantium his capital, leaving Rome to be that of the Pontiff-King. The temples of the false gods become ruins, and make room for the Christian Basilicas, in which are enshrined the Relics of the Apostles and Martyrs. In a word, the Church has triumphed over the Prince of this world, and the victory is typified by the destruction of that Dragon, which infected the air by its poisonous breath.
Honored with all these wonderful prerogatives, saintly Vicar of Christ! forget not the Christian people, which was once thy flock. It asks thee, on this thy Feast, to make it know and love the mystery of the Birth of Jesus. By the sublime Symbol which embodies the Faith of Nicaea, and which thou didst confirm and promulgate throughout the whole Church—thou hast taught us to acknowledge this sweet Infant as God of God, Light of Light, begotten not made. Consubstantial to the Father. Thou biddest us to come and adore this Little Child, as He by whom all things were made. Holy Confessor of Christ! vouchsafe to present us to him, as the Martyrs have done, whose Feasts have filled up the days since his Nativity. Pray to him for us, that our desires for true virtue may be fulfilled, that we may persevere in his holy love, that we may conquer the world and our passions, and at length, that we may obtain the Crown of justice, which is to be the reward of our Confessing him before men and is the only object of our ambition.
Pontiff of Peace! from the abode of rest where thou now dwellest, look down upon the Church of God, surrounded as she is by implacable enemies, and beseech Jesus, the Prince of Peace, to hasten her triumph. Cast thine eye on that Rome which is so dear to thee, and which is so faithful in her love of thee. Protect and direct her Father, King, and Pontiff. May she triumph over the wiles of political intrigue, the violence of tyranny, the craft of heretics, the perfidy of schismatics, the apathy of worldlings, and the cowardice of her own children. May she be honored, loved, and obeyed. May the sublime dignity of the Priesthood be recognized. May the spiritual power enjoy freedom of action. May the civil authority work hand in hand with the Church. May the Kingdom of God now come, and be received throughout the whole world, and may there be but one Fold and one Shepherd.
Still watch, O holy Sylvester! over the sacred treasure of the Faith, which thou didst defend when on earth against every danger. May its light put out the vapors of man’s proud dreams, those false and daring doctrines which mislead countless souls. May every mortal bow down his understanding to the obedience of faith in the divine Mysteries, without which all human wisdom is but folly. May Jesus, the Son of God and Son of Mary, be King, by his Church, over the minds and hearts of all men.
Pray for Byzantium, that was once called the New Rome, but which so soon became the capital of heresies, and the scene of everything that could degrade a Christian country. Pray that the days of her deep humiliation may be shortened; that she may again see herself united with Rome; that she may honor Christ and his Vicar; that she may obey, and by her obedience be saved. May the people, misled and debased by her influence and rule, recover their dignity as men, which can only subsist when men have faith, or be regained by a return to the faith.
And lastly, O Conqueror of Satan! keep this hellish monster in the prison whither thou didst drive him; confound his pride and his schemes; let him no longer seduce the people of God’s earth; but may all the children of the Church, according to the word of Peter, thy predecessor, resist him, by the strength of their faith. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)
May we make this prayer of the late Bishop Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P., who died on December 16, 2015, our own:
O Lord, grant us a true pope.
Our Lord has given us the path back to such heroic, clear-sighted leadership. That path runs through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, His Most Blessed Mother, Our Lady. May we, as we end the calendar year of Our Lord 2023 and commence the year of Our Lord 2024, continue to beseech Our Lady for the miracle that it will take to restore the Church Militant and to sweep away the conciliar revolution as we pray at the same time for the conversion of the conciliar revolutionaries themselves.
Her Most Holy Rosary has vanquished the enemies of the Church in the past.
It will do so again.
Isn't it time to pray a Rosary now?
A blessed and holy New Year of Our Lord 2022 to you all.
Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
Pope Saint Sylvester I, pray for us.