Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Thy Mouth Remains An Open Sepulcher

Although my email’s inbox gets very little in the way of personal messages any longer, the promotions, spam, and trash folders get a whole lot of unwanted mail, almost all of which I ignore and delete when I get the chance to do so.

Some, although not all, of the mail that goes to the trash bin gets there because I have filtered messages from some well-meaning Catholics who permit themselves to be agitated about every development in the worlds of naturalism and Modernism to such an extent that they hyperventilate in the “urgent” messages they send out to their extensive lists.

However, there are some times that these messages contain links that are very useful as they lead me to stories that I would not otherwise have noticed, which is how I discovered the following report on the militantly anti-sedevacantist and anti-resist while recognize Church Militant website:

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Seminarians from Barcelona say they were scandalized when Pope Francis reportedly used the f-word and other expletives at a papal audience in Rome. 

According to testimonies from the seminarians, Francis ranted against "f***ing careerists who f*** up the lives of others." The pope criticized "those who climb to show their a**," the Italian media outlet Daily Compass reported on Monday. 

The trainee priests were shocked when Francis also reportedly insisted that priests should never deny absolution to penitents in the confessional under any circumstances. 

Eyewitnesses describe how the pontiff, at the audience on Dec. 10, tossed his prepared speech aside, saying that "it would have been boring." Instead, Francis told the seminarians to ask him questions. 

"After handing out the address prepared for the occasion, the pope engaged in dialogue with those present at the meeting," the Holy See Press Office clarified.

The pope's speech, which was sent to the Vatican press corps, is very different in content from the Holy Father's alleged off-the-cuff remarks. The former reminds the seminarians that their "first obligation will be a life of prayer born of gratitude" when they become priests. 

The prepared address urges the seminarians to "never extinguish that fire which will make you fearless preachers of the Gospel, dispensers of divine treasures" and to "take up your rosary" and ask Mary "to help you to unveil the mysteries of the priesthood." 

"It is not the first time that the Pope has stated that the speech he had prepared (or that had been prepared for him) is very boring and foisted a different message on the audience," Spanish website Germinans Germinabit reported. 

"What is serious about this weekend's visit is that the media have picked up some words that Francis did not utter and the Holy See provided the media with some words that Francis had not uttered," the blog noted. 

Describing the pope's words as spoken with "total crudeness," the website reported how it had compiled from witnesses "a fairly extensive account in which the crude language used by the Pope has been collected in its entirety." 

In Francis' answer to a question from one seminarian, the pope is reported to have invited them "not to be clerical, to forgive everything" and "if we see that there is no intention to repent, we must forgive all." 

“We can never deny absolution, because we become a vehicle for an evil, unjust, and moralistic judgment," Francis reportedly told the seminarians, who were accompanied by the auxiliary bishop of the diocese, Javier Vilanova Pellisa.

Priests who deny penitents absolution are "delinquents," the pontiff allegedly stressed.

seminaries in Latin America earlier in November, Francis similarly put aside his 12-page written speech, remarking, "It is a heavy thing, let us read it calmly" and proceeded to deliver an extempore message, the Italian section of Vatican News reported. 

Francis told the Latin American rectors and formators that priests "have to ask the permission of the bishop" to withhold absolution in the case of mortal sin. 

"This happens, please! Our people cannot be in the hands of criminals! And a priest who behaves like this is a criminal, in every word. Like it or not," the pope emphasized. 

At the same November meeting, Francis also insisted that priests and seminarians must practice "closeness." The pontiff elaborated, "This must be contagious, that is, the priest, the seminarian, the priest must be 'close.' Close to whom? To the girls of the parish? And some of them are, they're close, then they get married, that's fine." 

"With the Barcelona seminarians, however, it seems that the joke with an inappropriate double meaning was turned into language that would embarrass even a sailor," Daily Compass commented. 

Sources who live in Casa Santa Marta in proximity to Francis told Church Militant that they had witnessed outbursts of foul language from the Holy Father when he loses his temper.  

In his bestseller The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy, author Henry Sire (whose pen name is Marcantonio Colonna) records several instances of the pontiff exploding with expletives. 

According to Sire, Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, former superior general of the Jesuits, wrote a damning report on Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1991, accusing Bergoglio, who required a dispensation to be appointed auxiliary bishop, of "a series of defects, ranging from habitual use of vulgar language to deviousness." 

"When the publicity cameras are off him, Pope Francis turns into a different figure: arrogant, dismissive of people, prodigal with bad language, and notorious for furious outbursts of temper which are known to everyone from the cardinals to the chauffeurs," Sire wrote.

Sire quoted other commentators to confirm how "Pope Francis' outbursts of temper, his rudeness towards subordinates, and his vulgar language have become notorious throughout the Vatican."

Church Militant contacted the Holy See Press Office for comment but received no response as of press time. (Francis Shocks Seminarians With Obscenities.)

There are several important aspects to this report that are deserving of commentary.

First, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s use of profanity, vulgarity and crudity, is legendary, and none of it befits a supposed Catholic priest or bishop, no less one who believes himself to be the Vicar of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on earth.

Each baptized Catholic is supposed to comport himself in the manner of the Divine Redeemer, which means that our eyes must abhor what He abhors, our mouths must speak only that which He would speak, our ears must be closed to all that is untrue, impure, salacious, and indecent. Profanity, obscenity, crudity, vulgarity, and other forms of impure speech, immodest attire or indecent behavior  are signs of a predestination to inhabit the lower recesses of hell, where the damned curse the demons who mock them for being so stupid as to succumb to their temptations as well as curse each other, particularly those who were their accomplices in sin and/or had never tried to exhort them to quit their lives of perdition.

Second, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, caring not for Catholic Faith, Morals, or Worship, has never had any restraint about the use of profanity and has reveled in teaching others, including his own nephew, into using it, something that a Novus Ordo Watch report from February 24, 2015, revealed:

Maria Elena Bergoglio is the only still-living sister of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man in the Vatican who goes by the pseudonym “Pope Francis.” In an interview shortly after the conclave of 2013, Maria Elena told the following story, captured by the Austrian public broadcasting organization ORF, which we have translated for you:

“When he was already wearing a collar” and much to her displeasure, the man who is Pope today taught swear words to his nephew, whose name was likewise Jorge and who was also his godson, according to Maria Elena Bergoglio. This led to an embarrassing situation when her brother began to preach “at an important Mass” with lots of priests, and her son, being surprised at seeing his uncle [at the pulpit], disturbed the calm by yelling out “a very bad word” — audible to all. “After Mass, Jorge came to us and could not stop laughing”, according to his sister. In addition, her brother dipped her child’s pacifier into whiskey. Her brother got the sanguine temperament and the joke-telling from his father, so [Maria Elena] Bergoglio. (“Kindheitserinnerungen von Papst Franziskus” [“Childhood Memories of Pope Francis”], ORF.at, Mar. 19, 2013; our translation.)

As the mother of the nephew in question, Maria Bergoglio would know what she is talking about. The fact that Jorge Bergoglio “was already wearing a collar” and was allowed to preach indicates that he was a cleric at the time, though it remains unknown whether he was a “priest” or merely a “deacon” then.

This story really speaks for itself. In the case of Jorge Bergoglio, we have a man who has no Faith, no love for the truth, no love of God, and no respect for the sacred. His “ministry” is centered on man, not God — everything is “encounter”, peripheries, and soup kitchens. He wants to feed the body while starving the soul. (As a Young Cleric, Francis taught his Nephew Swear Words.)

No believing Catholic who is serious about his immortal salvation can read such a remarkable story and not be repulsed after reading its contents.

It was not until I was serving as a manager of the varsity sports teams at Oyster Bay High School in the Spring of 1966 that I heard swear words for the first time. Let no one be deceived about how easy it is to fall in their usage when surrounded by filth, which is used to by the devil to swallow souls whole by accustoming them to uttering profane and obscene words as a matter of normal discourse. The young athletes and the coaches who used vulgarity and obscenity with regularity had, of course, learned it well beforehand. A soul’s natural resistance to that which is indecent and offensive to God can be broken down without constant vigilance and prayer. Only a firm desire to love God by cooperating with the graces sent to a soul through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces, can get a soul out of the gutter of foul words, whether uttered in the presence of others or even muttered under one’s breath or out loud in private.

Today, of course, vulgarity, obscenity, profanity and indecency are commonplace. What was once reserved to the locker room, to the dock, to sailors, to the closed doors of political clubs and to crusty life of law enforcement and the military is now to be heard almost everywhere. Words once considered unprintable now make their way into online news stories, especially by younger journalists who are without any sense of common decency or self-restraint. A culture that is awash with the stench of sin and its celebration looks with disdain and disgust upon all efforts to denounce and the curb obscene, vulgar, and blasphemous speech.

As noted last month in This is Phenomenal Even by Bergoglio’s Endless Array of Double Standards, even some true priests, especially those in urban and suburban areas of the Northeast, who were formed well before the dawning of the age of conciliarism with the “election” of Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII, were known for their use of profanity and vulgarity. Such bad example was dismissed by many as simply being the case of a priest having a “salty tongue.” Most of these men were careful not to use bad words outside of the clerical club. Some, though, were so uninhibited as to use them freely in front of infants, something that I heard in May of 1997 as I reacted with horror as a priest used one profane word after another while being completely oblivious to presence of children.

There does, however, come a point in the growth of one's interior life when one is supposed to recognize that profane language is incompatible with discipleship in Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who would never issue such language from His Holy Mouth. We are, as Saint Paul teaches us, the temples of God the Holy Ghost. We are not to profane our bodies with impure conduct or speech:

From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity. This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness. But you have not so learned Christ;

If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus. To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind: And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth. Wherefore putting away lying, speak; ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.

Be angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Give not place to the devil. He that stole, let him now steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need. Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth; but that which is good, to the edification of faith, that it may administer grace to the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ. (Ephesians 4: 16-32.)

Sadly, it is the case that even today some Catholic men consider it to be a sign of “masculinity” to use foul language. It is nothing of the sort. Foul language is of the adversary, and there is never any excuse for it to be used.

As Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, quoting The Book of Psalms, Chapter 5, Verse 11, noted in his sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost:

Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickedness cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord. (Psalms 5, 11.)

Far from having simply fallen into the use of foul language as a matter of habit and losing all sense of its wretched nature, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, presuming himself to be a priest, taught his Godson to know and to use it. It is truly the case that this man’s throat is an open sepulcher.”

Such a blasphemer, who scoffs at “rigid moralizing,” has no use for the Catholic past, which would it is safe to presume, include Saint Alphonsus de Liguori’s sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost that is a direct, firm and unmistakable rebuke of him and his foul behavior:

In this day’s gospel St. Mark relates the miracle which our Saviour wrought in healing the man that was dumb by barely touching his tongue. "He touched his tongue and the string of his tongue was loosed." From. the last words we may infer that the man was not entirely dumb, but that his tongue was not free, or that his articulation was not distinct. Hence St. Mark tells us, that after the miracle he spoke right. Let us make the application to ourselves. The dumb man stood in need of a miracle to loose his tongue, and to take away the impediment under which he laboured. But how many are there on whom God would confer a great grace, if he bound their tongues, that they might cease to speak immodestly! This vice does great injury to others. Secondly, it does great injury to themselves. These shall be the two points of this sermon.

First Point. The man who speaks immodestly does great injury to others who listen to him.

1. In explaining the 140th Psalm, St. Augustine calls those who speak obscenely “the mediators of Satan," the ministers of Lucifer; because, by their obscene language, the demon of impurity gets access to souls, which by his own suggestions he could not enter. Of their accursed tongues St. James says: "And the tongue is a fire,... being set on fire by hell." (James iii. 6.) He says that the tongue is a fire kindled by hell, with which they who speak obscenely burn themselves and others. The obscene tongue may be said to be the tongue of the third person, of which Ecclesiasticus says: ”The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered them from nation to nation." (Eccl. xxviii. 16.) The spiritual tongue speaks of God, the worldly tongue talks of worldly affairs; but the tongue of a third person is a tongue of hell, which speaks of the impurities of the flesh; and this is the tongue that perverts many, and brings them to perdition.

2. Speaking of the life of men on this earth, the Royal Prophet says: "Let their way become dark and slippery." (Ps. xxxiv. 0.) In this life men walk in the midst of darkness and in a slippery way. Hence they are in danger of falling at every step, unless they cautiously examine the road on which they walk, and carefully avoid dangerous steps that is, the occasions of sin. Now, if in treading this slippery way, frequent efforts were made to throw them down, would it not be a miracle if they did not fall? "The Mediators of Satan," who speak obscenely, impel others to sin, who, as long as they live on this earth, walk in the midst of darkness, and as long as they remain in the flesh, are in danger of falling into the vice of impurity. Now, of those who indulge in obscene language, it has been well said: ”Their throat is an open sepulchre." (Ps. v. 11.) The mouths of those who can utter nothing but filthy obscenities are, according to St. Chrysostom, so many open sepulchres of putrified carcasses. ”Talia sunt ora hominum qui turpia proferunt." (Hom, ii., de Proph. Obs.) The exhalation which arises from the rottenness of a multitude of dead bodies thrown together into a pit, communicates infection and disease to all who feel the stench.

3. ”The stroke of a whip," says Ecclesiasticus, "maketh a blue mark; but the stroke of a tongue will break the bones." (Eccl. xxviii. 21.) The wounds of the lash are wounds of the flesh, but the wounds of the obscene tongue are wounds which infect the bones of those who listen to its language. St. Bernardino of Sienna relates, that a virgin who led a holy life, at hearing an obscene word from a young man, fell into a bad thought, and afterwards abandoned herself to the vice of impurity to such a degree that, the saint says, if the devil had taken human flesh, he could not have committed so many sins of that kind as she committed.

4. The misfortune is, that the mouths of hell that frequently utter immodest words, regard them, as trifles, and are careless about confessing them: and when rebuked for them they answer: ”I say these words in jest, and without malice." In jest! Unhappy man, these jests make the devil laugh, and shall make you weep for eternity in hell. In the first place, it is useless to say that you utter such words without malice; for, when you use such expressions, it is very difficult for you to abstain from acts against purity. According to St. Jerome, ”He that delights in words is not far from the act. ” Besides, immodest words spoken before persons of a different sex, are always accompanied with sinful complacency. And is not the scandal you give to others criminal? Utter a single obscene word, and you shall bring into sin all who listen to you. Such is the doctrine of St. Bernard. ”One speaks, and he utters only one word; but he kills the souls of a multitude of hearers." (Serm. xxiv., in Cant.) A greater sin than if, by one discharge of a blunderbuss, you murdered many persons; because you would then only kill their bodies: but, by speaking obscenely, you have killed their souls.

5. In a word, obscene tongues are the ruin of the world. One of them does more mischief than a hundred devils; because it is the cause of the perdition of many souls. This is not my language; it is the language of the Holy Ghost. ”A slippery mouth worketh ruin." (Prov. xxvi. 28.) And when is it that this havoc of souls is effected, and that such grievous insults are offered to God? It is in the summer, at the time when God bestows upon you the greatest temporal blessings. It is then that he supplies you for the entire year with corn, wine, oil, and other fruits of the earth. It is then that there are as many sins committed by obscene words, as there are grains of corn or bunches of grapes. O ingratitude! How does God bear with us? And who is the cause of these sins? They who speak immodestly are the cause of them. Hence they must render an account to God, and shall be punished for all the sins committed by those who hear them. "But I will require his blood at thy hand." (Ezec. iii. 11.) But let us pass to the second point.

Second Point. He who speaks immodestly does great injury to himself.

6. Some young men say: ”I speak without malice." In answer to this excuse, I have already said, in the first point, that it is very difficult to use immodest language without taking delight in it; and that speaking obscenely before young females, married or unmarried, is always accompanied with a secret complacency in what is said. Besides, by using immodest language, you expose yourself to the proximate danger of falling into unchaste actions: for, according to St. Jerome, as we have already said, ”he who delights in words is not far from the act." All men are inclined to evil. "The imagination and thought of man‟s heart are prone to evil." (Gen. viii. 21.) But, above all, men are prone to the sin of impurity, to which nature itself inclines them. Hence St. Augustine has said, that in struggling against that vice”the victory is rare," at least for those who do not use great caution. ”Communis pugna et rara victoria." Now, the impure objects of which they speak are always presented to the mind of those who freely utter obscene words. These objects excite pleasure, and bring them into sinful desires and morose delectations, and afterwards into criminal acts. Behold the consequence of the immodest words which young men say they speak without malice.

7. "Be not taken in thy tongue," says the Holy Ghost. (Eccl. v. 16.) Beware lest by your tongue you forge a chain which will drag you to hell. ”The tongue," says St. James, ”defileth the whole body, and inflameth the wheel of our nativity." (St. James iii. 6.) The tongue is one of the members of the body, but when it utters bad words it infects the whole body, and "inflames the wheels of our nativity ;" it inflames and corrupts our entire life from our birth to old age. Hence we see that men who indulge in obscenity, cannot, even in old age, abstain from immodest language. In the life of St. Valerius, Surius relates that the saint, in travelling, went one day into a house to warm himself. He heard the master of the house and a judge of the district, though both were advanced in years, speaking on obscene subjects. The saint reproved them severely; but they paid no attention to his rebuke. However, God punished both of them: one became blind, and a sore broke out on the other, which produced deadly spasms. Henry Gragerman relates (in Magn. Spec., dist. 9, ex. 58), that one of those obscene talkers died suddenly and without repentance, and that he was afterwards seen in hell tearing his tongue in pieces; and when it was restored he began again to lacerate it.

8. But how can God have mercy on him who has no pity on the souls of his neighbours?”Judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy." (St. James ii. 13.) Oh! what a pity to see one of those obscene wretches pouring out his filthy expressions before girls and young married females! The greater the number of such persons present, the more abominable is his language. It often happens that little boys and girls are present, and he has no horror of scandalizing these innocent souls! Cantipratano relates that the son of a certain nobleman in Burgundy was sent to be educated by the monks of Cluni. He was an angel of purity; but the unhappy boy having one day entered into a carpenter’s shop, heard some obscene words spoken by the carpenter’s wile, fell into sin, and lost the divine grace. Father Sabitano, in his work entitled”Evangelical Light," relates that another boy, fifteen years old, having heard an immodest word, began to think of it the following night, consented to a bad thought, and died suddenly the same night. His confessor having heard of his death, intended to say Mass for him. But the soul of the unfortunate boy appeared to him, and told the confessor not to celebrate Mass for him that, by means of the word he had heard, he was damned and that the celebration of Mass would add to his pains. O God! how great, were it in their power to weep, would be the wailing of the angel-guardians of these poor children that are scandalized and brought to hell by the language of obscene tongues! With what earnestness shall the angels demand vengeance from God against the author of such scandals! That the angels shall cry for vengeance against them, appears from the words of Jesus Christ: ”See that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father." (Matt, xviii. 10.)

9. Be attentive, then, my brethren, and guard your selves against speaking immodestly, more than you would against death. Listen to the advice of the Holy Ghost: ”Make a balance for thy words, and a just bridle for thy mouth; and take heed lest thou slip with thy tongue and thy fall be incurable unto death." (Eccl. xxvhi. 29, 30.)”Make a balance" you must weigh your words before you utter them and”a bridle for thy mouth" when immodest words come to the tongue, you must suppress them; otherwise, by uttering them, you shall inflict on your own soul, and on the souls of others, a mortal and incurable wound. God has given you the tongue, not to offend him, but to praise and bless him. ”But, ” says St. Paul, “fornication and all uncleanness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints." (Ephes. v. 3.) Mark the words”all uncleanness. ” We must not only abstain from obscene language and from every word of double meaning spoken in jest, but also from every improper word unbecoming a saint that is, a Christian. It is necessary to remark, that words of double meaning sometimes do greater evil than open obscenity, because the art with which they are spoken makes a deeper impression on, the mind.

10. Reflect, says St. Augustine, that your mouths are the mouths of Christians, which Jesus Christ has so often entered in the holy communion. Hence, you ought to have a horror of uttering all unchaste words, which are a diabolical poison. ”See, brethren, if it be just that, from the mouths of Christians, which the body of Christ enters, an immodest song, like diabolical poison, should proceed." (Serm. xv., de Temp.) St. Paul says, that the language of a Christian should be always seasoned with salt. ”Let your speech be always in grace, seasoned with salt. ”(Col. iv. 6.) Our conversation should be seasoned with words calculated to excite others not to offend, but to love God. ”Happy the tongue," says St. Bernard, ”that knows only how to speak of holy things!" Happy the tongue that knows only how to speak of God! brethren, be careful not only to abstain from all obscene language, but to avoid, as you would a plague, those who speak immodestly. When you hear any one begin to utter obscene words, follow the advice of the Holy Ghost: ”Hedge in thy ears with thorns: hear not a wicked tongue." (Eccl. xxviii. 28.) "Hedge in thy ears with thorns" that is, reprove with zeal the man who speaks obscenely; at least turn away your face, and show that you hate such language. Let us not be ashamed to appear to be followers of Jesus Christ, unless we wish Jesus Christ to be ashamed to bring us with him into Paradise. (Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost.)

Jorge Mario Bergoglio does the exact opposite of what the Patron Saint of Moral Theologians preached as the Argentine Apostate meant to corrupt the ears and thus the minds of the seminarians from Barcelona, Spain, so that they would become “holier-than-thou” clericalists steeped in the ways of “fundamentalistic” “moralism.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, much like his fellow agent of Antichrist in the White House, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., about whom the next commentary, already in development, is completely unrestrained by the laws of God and men. Bergoglio is a man who believes that every manner of blasphemous, vulgar, profane, and lewd speech is acceptable. Such a man is, of course, one of the greatest spiritual terrorists that the world has ever known, which is why it is so very important to use this season of Lent to make more and more reparation for our sins and those of the whole world as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, especially by meditating fervently on the Mysteries of her Most Holy Rosary every day of our lives.

Third, Bergoglio’s use of profanity was used precisely to denouncing “moralizing” presbyters who would are to take seriously the following words of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that He spoke to the Apostles on Easter Sunday:

[21] He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. [22] When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. [23] Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. (John 20: 21-23.)

Although the power to retain sins is to be used rarely, one who presumes himself to be a priest even if he not be one in fact has, quite to the contrary of what the figure of Antichrist in the Casa Santa Marta, a grave obligation to refuse absolution to those who are impenitent and especially those who are grave public sinners, something that the 1950 Vatican approved English translation of the Roman Ritual, Volume I, Sacraments and Processions, explains in its section on the Sacrament of Penance:

23. The priest must take great pains to decide in which instances absolution should be given, denied, or deferred, lest he absolve such as are indisposed for this benefit—persons, for example, who give no indication of contrition, who refuse to put an end to enmity, to make restitution when they are able, to give up an approximate occasion of sin, or, who, in any other way, refuse to forsake their sins and amend their life. To this class belong also such persons who have given public scandal. Moreover he cannot absolve any whose sins are reserved to higher authorities.

24. But if anyone who is in danger of death goes to confession, he must be absolved from all sins and censures, regardless of how they are reserved, for in this case every instance of reserved sin becomes void. Yet whenever possible he should first make satisfaction, if any is required of him. And if later he recovers, and there is any reason why he would normally have had to seek absolution form higher authority, he must have recourse to this authority as soon as possible and be ready to do whatever is required. (The Roman Ritual in Latin and English with Rubrics and Plainchant Notation, translated and edited by with Introduction and Notes by the Reverend Philip T. Weller, Volume I: Sacraments and Processions, 1950, The Bruce Publishing Company, p. 309.)

It is thus sacrilegious for anyone who presumes himself to be a Roman Catholic priest to administer absolution to the impenitent as to do so is bring God’s wrath down upon his own head for abusing the power of absolution he was given by his ordaining bishop and for refusing to exhort the sinner to amend his life. A sincere, integral confession of one’s sins, true contrition for one’s sins, and a firm purpose of amendment of life are irreformable requisites for one to be absolved of one’s sins.

Yet it is, of course, that Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s entire life as a lay Jesuit revolutionary that has been cloaked in the masquerade of being that which he has never been—a priest bishop, or pope—has been about indemnifying hardened sinners in the name of a false mercy while excoriating believing Catholics as “judgmental” “moralists.”

Fourth, the fact that “Father” Jorge Mario Bergoglio was advanced to being an auxiliary “bishop” despite Father Hans Kolvenbach’s devastating letter about his Jesuit subordinate’s character flaws is yet another black mark in the record of the Polish Phenomenologist, Karol Josef Wojtyla, whose penchant for appointing nogoodniks to the hierarchy of his false religious sect was chronicled thirteen years ago in "Canonizing" A Man Who Protected Moral Derelicts.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is, of course, a figure of Antichrist. He supports all that is opposed to the teaching of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, up to and including reaffirming adherents of false religions in their false sects and, of course, reaffirming those who commit sins against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments in lives that can lead them only to Hell. 

Jorge Mario Bergolio's entire person and revolutionary agenda has been described in Holy Writ: 

[3] Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, [4] Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. [5] Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (2 Thessalonians 2: 3-5.)

Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour. [19] They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us; but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us. [20] But you have the unction from the Holy One, and know all things. (2 John 2: 18-20.)

Bergoglio is just the latest of the conciliar “popes” of the counterfeit church of conciliarism who has proved himself to be one among of the many Antichrists referred to by Saint John the Evangelist in his Second Epistle. They are not with what the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, she who enjoys a perpetual immunity from error and heresy, has taught from time immemorial without any corruption or even the slightest taint of error. They have shown themselves to be manifest heretics as each succeeding wave of them has become bolder and bolder in their public celebration of every falsehood and error imaginable. They are truly shameless in their conceits. Moreover, the conciliar revolutionaries have not had the unction from God the Holy Ghost as they have propagated the heresy that the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity can “lead” what they assert is the Catholic Church in “new directions” that contradict articles contained within the Sacred Deposit of Faith.  

These men of sin, precursors and figures of the “man of sin” who is Antichrist himself, have devoted themselves entirely to the propagation of lies and to the celebration of sin in the name of “love,” “mercy,” and “compassion.” Although many “conservatives” and traditionally-minded Catholics who are as of yet still attached to the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism are rending their garments and gnashing their teeth over the public celebration of adultery, fornication, perversity, cross-dressing and the bodily mutation known as “gender change,” the truth of the matter is that the conciliar revolution has long championed the cause of the sin of heresy, starting with the “new ecclesiology” that came to the forefront with the issuance of Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964, that contained the following heretical proposition that became the basis for “inter-religious dialogue,” “inter-religious ‘prayer’ meetings” and a process of supposed “popes” treating the clergy of false religions as “sharing” in the “mission” that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ gave to the Apostles, the first bishops, on Ascension Thursday:

This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him,(13*) although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward catholic unity. (Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964.)

The presence of this passage in Lumen Gentium was engineered in large part by none other than a German peritus at the "Second" Vatican Council, Father Joseph Alois Ratzinger, who was acting upon a recommendation by a German Lutheran "observer" at the "Second" Vatican Council, suggested should be placed into the text of Lumen Gentium, November 21, 1964, in order to give formal recognition to the "elements" of "sanctification" that exist the "ecclesial" (Protestant) "communities" and in the Orthodox churches. In other words, the man who is considered the "great dogmatist" helped to attack the Sacred Deposit of Faith at the "Second" Vatican Council to help to give birth to the heresy that is the "new ecclesiolgy," whose principal contention was refuted prophetically by Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943:

Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. "For in one spirit" says the Apostle, "were we all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free." As therefore in the true Christian community there is only one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one Baptism, so there can be only one faith. And therefore, if a man refuse to hear the Church, let him be considered - so the Lord commands - as a heathen and a publican. It follows that those who are divided in faith or government cannot be living in the unity of such a Body, nor can they be living the life of its one Divine Spirit. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, June 29, 1943.)

Yet it is that Jorge Mario Bergoglio believes that everyone is part of "the church," which is true if one is referring to the church of the adversary, who is the driving force behind his relentless effort to strip away the last bastions of anything remotely recognizable as part of Catholic Faith, Worship, and Morals. He hates Catholic doctrine with a diabolical fervor, and he is unashamed in condemning those who hold to its holy integrity.

As he has demonstrated throughout his false "pontificate," "Pope Francis" is a particular friend of those who persist in sins, whether natural or unnatural or both, against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments. He gave a "green light" to his "bishops" to give him cover to find a way to redefine what passes for Catholic morality within the confines of the counterfeit church of conciliarism almost as soon as he appeared on the balcony of the Basilica of Saint Peter on March 13, 2013, and it was within a short period of time that such figures as Walter "Cardinal" Kasper and Oscar Andres Maradiaga were unleashed to prepare the way for Amoris Laetitia in late-2013 and early-2014. Jorge's first "exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, November 26, 2013, and the "extraordinary synod" of "bishops" in 2014 and the "ordinary synod" of "bishops" in 2015. All of this, though, is just prelude to his effort to instituted “synodality” universally so as to make short work of Vatican “interference” in his program of “mercy” and “accompaniment” for those who are on the straight path to hell.

Unlike the conciliar revolutionaries, Saint Alphonsus de Liguori taught that God wants sinners to quit their sins now, not at some point the future, reminding his hearers that God does not command the impossible, meaning that all of the supernatural helps are available for a repentant Catholic to quit his sins and to seek to do penance for them, especially by making reparation for his own sins and those of the whole world as a consecrated slave of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary:

4. You say:” I cannot at present resist this passion." Behold the third delusion of the devil, by which he makes you believe that at present you have not strength to overcome certain temptations. But St. Paul tells us that God is faithful, and that he never permits us to be tempted above our strength. "And God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted above that which you are able." (1 Cor. x. 13.) I ask, if you are not now able to resist the temptation, how can you expect to resist it hereafter? If you yield to it, the Devil will become stronger, and you shall become weaker; and if you be not now able to extinguish this flame of passion, how can you hope to be able to extinguish it when it shall have grown more violent? You say: "God will give me his aid." But this aid God is ready to give at present if you ask it. Why then do you not implore his assistance? Perhaps you expect that, without now taking the trouble of invoking his aid, you will receive from him increased helps and graces, after you shall have multiplied the number of your sins? Perhaps you doubt the veracity of God, who has promised to give whatever we ask of him?” Ask, “he says,” and it shall be given  you." (Matt. vii. 7.) God cannot violate his promises.” God is not as man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said, then, and will he not do ?" (Num. xxiii. 19.) Have recourse to him, and he will give you the strength necessary to resist the temptation. God commands you to resist it, and you say: “I have not strength." Does God, then, command impossibilities? No; the Council of Trent has declared that ” God does not command impossibilities; but, by his commands, he admonishes you to do what you can, and to ask what you cannot do; and he assists, that you may be able to do it." (Sess. 6. c. xiii.) When you see that you have not sufficient strength to resist temptation with the ordinary assistance of God, ask of him the additional help which you require, and he will give it to you; and thus you shall be able to conquer all temptations, however violent they may be.  ("The Delusions of Sinners: Sermon for Quinquagesima Sunday," as found in Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, The Sermons of Saint Alphonsus Liguori For All the Sundays of the Year, republished by TAN Books and Publishers in 1982, pp. 119-120.)

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori’s sermon for the First Sunday of Lent is a discourse about the number of sins beyond which God will not grant forgiveness. The conciliar revolutionaries commit Martin Luther’s sin of Presumption by presuming that unrepentant sinners do not have to be exhort to reform their lives, that it is enough for them to know that they are loved by God and “welcomed” by what is thought to be the “Catholic community” without any mention of their spiritually suicidal behavior that is an incentive to others to follow them in leading lives of licentiousness. The founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer offered some sobering words concerning such a recklessly false notion of God and His forgiveness:

8. O folly of sinners! If you purchase a house, you spare no pains to get all the securities necessary to guard against the loss of your money; if you take medicine, you are careful to assure yourself that it cannot injure you; if you pass over a river, you cautiously avoid all danger of falling into it; and for a transitory enjoyment, for the gratification of revenge, for a beastly pleasure, which lasts but a moment, you risk your eternal salvation, saying: "I will go to confession after I commit this sin." And when, I ask, are you to go to confession? You say: “On tomorrow." But who promises you tomorrow? Who assures you that you shall have time for confession, and that God will not deprive you of life, as he has deprived so many others, in the act of sin? “Diem tenes,” says St. Augustine, “qui horam non tenes.” You cannot be certain of living for another hour, and you say: “I will go to confession tomorrow.” Listen to the words of St. Gregory: “He who has promised pardon to penitents, has not promised tomorrow to sinners.” (Hom. xii. in Evan). God has promised pardon to all who repent; but he has not promised to wait till tomorrow for those who insult him. Perhaps God will give you time for repentance, perhaps he will not. But, should he not give it, what shall become of your soul? In the meantime, for the sake of a miserable pleasure, you lose the grace of God, and expose yourself to the danger of being lost for ever.  

9. Would you, for such transient enjoyments, risk your money, your honour, your possessions, your liberty, and your life? No, you would not. How then does it happen that, for a miserable gratification, you lose your soul, heaven, and God? Tell me: do you believe that heaven, hell, eternity, are truths of faith? Do you believe that, if you die in sin, you are lost for ever? Oh! what temerity, what folly is it, to condemn yourself voluntarily to an eternity of torments with the hope of afterwards reversing the sentence of your condemnation! "Nemo," says St. Augustine, “sub spe salutis vultæ grotare.” No one can be found so foolish as to take poison with the hope of preventing its deadly effects by adopting the ordinary remedies. And you will condemn yourself to hell, saying that you expect to be afterwards preserved from it. Folly! which, in conformity with the divine threats, has brought, and brings every day, so many to hell. “Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and evil shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know the rising thereof.” (Isa. xlvii. 10, 11.) You have sinned, trusting rashly in the divine mercy: the punishment of your guilt shall fall suddenly upon you, and you shall not know from whence it comes. What do you say? What resolution do you make? If, after this sermon, you do not firmly resolve to give yourself to God, I weep over you, and regard you as lost. ("On The Number of Sins Beyond Which God Will Not Forgive: Sermon for the First Sunday of Lent," as found in Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, The Sermons of Saint Alphonsus Liguori For All the Sundays of the Year, republished by TAN Books and Publishers in 1982. The entire texs of the sermons for Quinquagesima Sunday and the First Sunday of Lent are found in the appendices below.)

Saint Alphonsus de Liguori addressed his sermon to Catholics who attended Holy Mass. Those who lived during the years of his priesthood in the Eighteenth Century were well-instructed in the Catholic Faith, which is why the great bishop and doctor could ask, “Tell me: do you believe that heaven, hell, eternity, are truths of faith? Do you believe that, if you die in sin, you are lost for ever?” It is pretty difficult for non-practicing Catholics in the conciliar structures who have committed themselves to lives of unrepentant sin to answer Saint Alphonsus’s question in the affirmative when men such as Jorge Mario Bergolio and Victor Manuel Fernandez, et al., tell them that the path to Heaven is wide open for them as they, the conciliar revolutionaries, deny the existence of Hell and almost every single other truth of the Catholic Faith, sometimes in its entirety and at other times by means of obfuscation or by the invocation of the Modernist principle of dogmatic evolution.  

Although readers of this site know these things, I am sure that some readers have relatives and friends who are more open now to considering commentaries such as this one. Truth resonates. The truths contained in the writings from and about Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, and Saint Leonard of Port Maurice, to say nothing of the prophetic witness given by Saint Francis Solano here in the Americas, will resonate anew in the souls of those who are open to accept the fact that the Catholic Church cannot be the author of heresy or error and that men who promote heresy and error cannot hold ecclesiastical office legitimately within her.

Pope Saint Pius X's The Oath Against Modernism condemned the proposition that the truths of the Holy Faith must be adapted to "the times" rather than those who live at each epoch be conformed to those truths:

Fourthly, I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical' misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously. . . .

Finally, I declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition; or what is far worse, say that there is, but in a pantheistic sense, with the result that there would remain nothing but this plain simple fact-one to be put on a par with the ordinary facts of history-the fact, namely, that a group of men by their own labor, skill, and talent have continued through subsequent ages a school begun by Christ and his apostles. I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of the Fathers in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and always will be in the succession of the episcopacy from the apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be tailored according to what seems better and more suited to the culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed to be different, may never be understood in any other way.   

I promise that I shall keep all these articles faithfully, entirely, and sincerely, and guard them inviolate, in no way deviating from them in teaching or in any way in word or in writing. Thus I promise, this I swear, so help me God. (The Oath Against Modernism, September 1, 1910.)

Does anyone who reads this site believe that the conciliar “popes” and their apparatchiks do not stand condemned by the very words that some of the older of those among their ranks had to swear to uphold before the advent of conciliarism? 

Does anyone who reads this site believe that Jorge Mario Bergoglio does not stand so condemned?

The upshot of all of this is that Jorge's like-minded Jacobin/Bolshevik revolutionaries have been further emboldened to give a green light in the "internal forum" to every manner of sin against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments in the name of "mercy," which has been extended for a long time even to those steeped in perverse acts against nature quite openly in many conciliar venues. Despite all of the false "pontiff's" protestations to the contrary, Amoris Laetitia has been for the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony what the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service has been for what purports to be Catholic worship in the Roman Rite: a trainwreck, a disaster. We see unfold before us the very spirit of neo-paganism decried by Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI.

Alas, Amoris Laetitia did not come out of nowhere, and those within the “hierarchy” of the conciliar structures who are understandably and justifiably outraged by these latest developments really have no one else to blame as they have been active apologists for false doctrines that violate the First and Second Commandments. Even those false doctrines, of course, were made possible by the counterfeit church of conciliarism's attack on the nature of dogmatic truth, no matter the different labels ("living tradition" or "the hermeneutic of continuity") that are sloppy efforts to conceal Modernism's condemned precept of dogmatic evolutionism.

Violate the First and Second Commandments, good readers, and everything else will follow thereafter.

Why should any particular respect be given to the binding precepts of the Sixth and Ninth Commandments when the honor and glory and majesty of the Most Blessed Trinity have been undermined and mocked with complete impunity?

The veritable “house of cards” that has been constructed out of the constant erosion of the sensus Catholicus by the documents of the “Second” Vatican Council and the “magisterium” of the postconciliar “popes” has been ripped down by the septuagenarian juvenile delinquent from South America, a man who delights, absolutely delights, in “making a mess” as he springs “surprises” that he dares so blasphemously to represent as coming from God when they are nothing other than the phantasms of his heretical imagination.

On the Feast of Pope Saint Marcellus I

Quite in contrast to the false spirit of Antichrist’s own Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the saint whose semi-double feast is celebrated today, Pope Saint Marcellus I, defended the integrity of the Holy Faith and he gave up his very life to the wild beasts rather than fall down to worship pagan idols.

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., provided us with a stirring around of this true pope’s commitment to defend, not defame, the honor and glory of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Catholic Faith:

The name of Marcellus is brought before us by the Calendar to-day — he was a successor of the glorious Hyginus in the papacy, and in martyrdom, and their Feasts fall in the same season of the year. Each Christmastide shows us these two Pontiffs offering their Keys in homage to our Jesus, the invisible Head of the Church they governed. In a few days hence, we shall find our Christmas list of Saints giving us the name of a third Pope and Martyr — Fabian. These three valiant Vicars of Christ are like the three generous Magi — they offered their richest presents to the Emmanuel, their blood and their lives.

Marcellus governed the Church at the close of the last general Persecution. A few months after his death, the tyrant Maxentius was vanquished by Constantine, and the Cross of Christ glittered in triumph on the Labarum of the Roman Legions. The time for Martyrdom was, therefore, very short; but Marcellus was in time; he shed his blood for
Christ, and won the honour of standing in Stephen’s company over the Crib of the Divine Infant, waving his palm-branch in his venerable hand. He withstood the tyrant Emperor, who bade him abdicate the majesty of the supreme Pontificate, and this in the very City of Rome; for Rome was to be the capital of another King — of Christ — who, in the person of his Vicar, would take possession of it, and her old Masters, the Caesars, were to make Byzantium their Rome. It is three hundred years since the decree of Caesar- Augustus ordered the census of the world to be taken, which brought Mary to Bethlehem, and where she gave birth to an humble Babe; and now, the Empire of that Babe has out-grown the Empire of the Caesars, and its victory is upon the point of being proclaimed. After Marcellus, we shall have Eusebius; after Eusebius, Melchiades; and Melchiades will see the triumph of the Church.

Marcellus was a Roman, and governed the Church from the reign of Constantius and Galerius to that of Maxentius. It was by his counsel that a Roman Matron, named Lucina, made the Church of God the heir of all her property. He established in the City, five and twenty Titles, as so many districts, for the administration of baptism and penance to Pagans converted to the Christian religion, and for the providing burial to the Martyrs. All this irritated Maxentius, and he threatened Marcellus with severe punishment, unless he laid down his Pontificate, and offered sacrifice to the idols.

Marcellus heeded not the senseless words of man, and was, therefore, sent to the stables, there to take care of the beasts, which were kept at the public expense. In this place Marcellus spent nine months, fasting and praying without ceasing, and visiting by his letters the Churches he could not visit in person. He was thence delivered by some of his clergy, and was harbored by the blessed Lucina, in whose house he dedicated a Church, which is now called the Church of St. Marcellus. Here did the Christians assemble for prayer, and the blessed Marcellus preach.

Maxentius, coming to hear these things, ordered that Church to be turned into the stable for the beasts, and Marcellus to be made its keeper. Sickened by the foul atmosphere, and worn out by his many cares, he slept in the Lord. The blessed Lucina had his body buried in the Priscilla cemetery, on the Salarian Way, the seventeenth of the Calends of February (January 16). He sat five years, one month, and twenty-five days. He wrote a letter to the Bishops of the Antioch province, concerning the Primacy of the Church of Rome, which he proves ought to be called “the Head of the Churches.” In the same letter there occurs this passage, that no Council may be rightly celebrated, without the authority of the Roman Pontiff. He ordained at Rome, in the month of December, twenty-five Priests, two Deacons, and twenty-one Bishops for various places.

What must have been thy thoughts, O glorious Marcellus, when imprisoned in a stable, with poor dumb brutes for thy companions! Thou didst think upon Jesus, thy Divine Master, how he was born in a stable, and laid in a manger between two senseless animals. Thou didst appreciate the humiliations of Bethlehem, and joyfully acknowledge that the Disciple is not above his Master. (Matt 10:24) But, from that stable wherein the tyranny of an Emperor had thrust it, the majesty of the Apostolic See was soon to be set free, and its glory made manifest to the whole earth. Christian Borne, insulted in thy person, was soon to receive an additional consecration by thy martyrdom, and God was on the point of making over to thy successors the palaces of that proud City, which then knew not the glorious destiny that awaited her. O Marcellus! thou didst triumph, like the Babe of Bethlehem, by thy humiliations. Like Him, too, thou hadst thy cross, and gavest thy life for thy sheep. Forget not the Church of thy unceasing love — bless that Rome, which venerates so profoundly the spot, where thou didst suffer and die. Bless all the Faithful children of Christ, who keep thy Feast during this holy Season, praying thee to obtain for them the grace of profiting by the mystery of Bethlehem. Pray for them, that they may imitate Jesus, conquer pride, love the Cross, and be faithful in all their trials. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Feast of Pope Saint Marcellus I, January 16.)

May Our Lady help us to persevere to the end as the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, especially as we endeavor to pray as many Rosaries each day as our state-in-life permits.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

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 Marcellus I, pray for us.