"The hierarchy of the Catholic Church are just a bunch of weird perverts"

Cazart! Who said that?! None other than our old friend, Dr Taylor Marshall, one of the leading advocates for traditional Catholicism. But fear not. Dr Marshall has not converted to Francis' New Church of the World Order. In this video he is just discussing the optics of the appointment by Pope Leo XIV of  Ramón Bejarano as the new bishop of Monterey CA. 

What's wrong with that? In this video, Dr Marshall discusses the new bishop's celebration of an “All are Welcome LGBT Pride” Mass, at which a drag kween activist was permitted to speak. What are we to think of a church in which "sin doesn't matter any more"? 

How can we look to people like these to show us the path to salvation, when they, by their actions and blatant rejection of the teachings of Holy Mother Church and the Commandments of God, have condemned themselves to eternal separation from God, to hell!?

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This is a long video, over an hour. Before you decide you haven't got time to listen, read a few lines from the transcript.

3:23: ...when you bring up to the pulpit or the ambo those who advocate 3:56 for teachings that are contrary to the Catholic Faith, you are featuring them. 4:03 You are promoting them and you are eroding Catholic belief, morality and 4:09 identity and we are done. 

Now that doesn't mean leave the Catholic 4:14 Church....  4:19 you stay in the Catholic Church. We've had troubles before. We have troubles 4:25 now. And the problem right now is there's this permissive attitude that we 4:30 can wink at sin and bring it into the pulpit and bring it into the mass and highlight it 4:38 and pretend that sin doesn't matter anymore. 

...I believe modernist heretical liberal 4:44 clergy, whatever you want to call them, I don't think they have supernatural faith. I don't think that they believe 4:51 that the grace of baptism and confirmation can transform a sinful person, 5:00 a person who is living a disordered lifestyle that the grace of Jesus Christ... can actually transform that person out of 5:11 their disordered habits and lifestyle....

...this person who 5:23 was in the pulpit during the mass, Nicole Murray Ramirez... I don't think people really realize who this person is. This is that person 5:34 at mass. This is that person in their drag outfit. Notice they got the cross on. 5:40 But if you go to Wikipedia and check that out here, here is also 5:46 the drag queen. Nicole Murray Ramirez is a Lmento [???] activist and frequent San Diego 5:55 city committee appointee known as Empress Nicole the Great. 6:01 Queen Mother of the Americas with the imperial court system of which 6:07 she is the titular leader.... 

This person 6:18 says that he or she is the queen mother 6:24 and the empress of Americas. 6:29 That's sacrilege. That's evil. Why? you know, let's just be Catholic 6:38 and just go off the truth. I knew it was offensive to pious ears 6:44 because my ears burned when I when I heard that.... 

Pope Pius XII 6:53 of blessed memory declared that Our Lady of Guadalupe was the empress of Americas in 1945, 6:59 not this person.... 7:19 Pope St. John Paul II in 1999 proclaimed Our Lady Guadalupe as 7:25 patroness of the Americas, empress of Latin America, and protector of unborn 7:31 children. And we know that if you watch my videos, the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen Mother. 

So why is this person 7:41 dressing up in this way? Look over here. Look, born 1940. Other names, Empress 7:48 Nicole the Great. Queen Mother of the Americas, Empress, Queen Mother. What is 7:53 going on here?...  8:12 Nicole Marray Ramirez has been a Latino and gay activist for 45 years, serving in roles in the national chair of Leggo and the national 8:23 chair of Stonewall 25. Stonewall, if you're a Catholic, you need to look into that. 

8:31 And and the only gay activist in the country who has been elected to all four national boards on the Marches on DC. He 8:39 was also elected chair of the Millennium March. He is the past state chair of the Equality California. 8:47 He served four-year term on the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 8:53 He takes the title of Queen Mother. 8:59 It's been grand marshal for the parade for on its 30-year anniversary. 9:05 And he is the founder. Okay, this is the person that mass tall brought up [???] by the new bishop. All 9:11 right. Pope Leo just appointed this guy as a new bishop in Monterey and and this 9:18 is what he's this is what he's bringing into the Mass.

Warning from Ed.: When you watch this on YouTube, do not, repeat DO NOT look to their transcript to clarify something you hear Dr Marshall say but are not certain that you heard it correctly. The YouTube transcript is AI slop, generated by a machine that knows nothing about the Catholic Faith or the words we use to talk about our Church and our Faith. I have copied the few lines above just to give you the flavour of Dr Marshall's talk, and even so have had to indicate with [???] words or phrases that I think are incorrectly transcribed. Rewind the tape (so to speak) and listen for yourself.

VIDEO: Dr Taylor Marshall on Pope Leo's apparent endorsement of Father James Martin

Yesterday we posted a brief video by our old friend Michael Matt, as part of an update to "What about that 'Father James Martin'?". We also gave you, in "Walt's forecast on Leo XIV's papacy: no change expected", the link to another commentary by Anthony Stine. Both videos deal with what Mr Matt called "the nightmare in Minneapolis" and the connection with Father James Martin, the heretical priest who is the chief Catholic [not really Ed.] promoter of the LGBTQ agenda.

Today we want to share the thoughts of  Dr Taylor Marshall, another powerful voice of traditional Catholicism, and author of the just-released Christian Patriot! To get your copy,  hot off the press, follow the links in the YouTube feed.

In this video, live-streamed earlier today, Dr Marshall shows a photo of Pope Leo XIV meeting with the Queer Priest whose mission is to turn Catholics (and everyone else towards -- not away from, but towards beliefs and practices that are antithetical to the Gospel of Salvation.

Dr Marshall argues that the Holy Father should immediately issue a profound mea culpa, and reaffirm the Faith of our fathers. And if he doesn't? Is this the end of the "wait and see" period for Pope Leo? The video is long, but worth watching, at least the first 40 minutes or so. In the second half, Dr Marshall answers questions and comments from those watching the livestream.

 

VIDEO: Dr Taylor Marshall on the possibility of Pope Leo XIV "unleashing" the Traditional Latin Mass

Traditional Catholics have been waiting (and praying) since May for Pope Leo XIV to do something to end the "liturgy wars" being waged by the Vatican on those who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass -- the Mass of All Time, established by Pope St. Pius V following the Council of Trent.

In his latest commentary on the crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, Dr Taylor Marshall explores three possibilities for whether Pope Leo XIV will "unleash" the TLM: 

1) Leo overturns Traditiones Custodes; 

2) Leo gives the decision to bishops; or 

3) Leo continues the strict measures of Pope Francis.

This is a long video, and probably of interest only to Catholics, but you'll hear some interesting things, including the latest on Vatican reporter Diane Montagna's revelation that Francis lied about his reasons for issuing Traditiones Custodes.

Let us pray that the Holy Spirit will guide and direct Pope Leo to do the right thing, and protect Holy Mother Church from Her enemies without... and within... And let us pray to Saint Michael the Archangel:

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

VIDEO: Catholics starting to say the S-word out loud

The S-word word is "schism". It means a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.

Can you say "schism", boys and girls? If you're Catholic, you should know what it means, if only because you have heard about the Great Schism, which started in 1054 AD with the excommunication of Michazel Cerularius, the Patriarch of Constantinople. 

That created the split, the division between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox church. Catholics refer to Orthodox Christians as "our separated brethren" for that's what they are, good Christian people who have separated themselves from Rome.

Now Roman Catholics, from lay people up to and including Cardinals -- but not "Pope" Francis -- are starting to talk, not just whisper about the very really possibility of a new schism which may be provoked by Francis' "Synod on Synodality" which is set to start in October.

In this video, Dr Taylor Marshall talks about the de facto schism which has persisted since Vatican II. The synod puts the Church at risk of making that de facto schism "de jure"... official... as believers are forced to choose whether they wish to hold fast to the Faith of our fathers, or join the Francis' New Church of the World Order. 

My dear Catholic friends, be prepared to be asked "Which side are you on?" Dr Marshall says, and I repeat, "Do not leave the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church." Outside the Church there is no salvation, so stay in the boat! The Holy Spirit will sort it out. So let it be.

VIDEO: Why Catholics MUST pray the Prayer to St. Michael NOW

In "Now they're coming for the Catholics" (WWW 11/8/23) we urged our Catholic readers to keep praying to Saint Michael the Archangel. Today we offer proof that doing so is a most important part of keeping the True Faith. How so? Because Cardinal Blase Cupich, Pope Bergoglio's bumboy (maybe not literally), banned the public recitation of the Saint Michael Prayer in his Archdiocese of Chicago! 

In this video you'll hear comments from Dr Taylor Marshall, including some simple and practical advice on how to save yourself and your family.  

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If the evil men who have infiltrated the hierarchy of the Church are afraid of the Saint Michael Prayer, it must be very powerful indeed. Keep praying!

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

VIDEO: Now they're coming for the Catholics... sez who? WHO?!

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a socialist. 

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a trade unionist. 

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— 

Because I was not a Jew. 

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

(German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, from a 1946 post-war confessional speech) 

In this video, our old friend Dr Taylor Marshall looks at the testimony of Attorney-General Merrick Garland, when he was questioned by Senator Josh Hawley in the hearings into the weaponization of the FBI. 

Brandon's A-G tried to distance himself from "the Richmond product", a report from the FBI's office in the capital of the Confederacy (and there were others) into the "dangerously extremist views" being expressed in Catholic churches, particularly those traditional Catholic churches which resist secular humanism and the Soros/Francis/Biden New World Order.

Dr Taylor shows and discusses clips from the speech given by President Trump last Saturday in Montgomery AL, at the Alabama GOP Summer Dinner. What the Donald said, very plainly, was that "they" are coming for Catholics, particularly "Rad Trads" like yr obdt servant. . 

 

You don't need to be told who "they" are... right? If you're in any doubt, click on the link above to hear Mr Trump's speech in full starting at the 43-minute mark), before it gets pulled down.

As Dr Marshall (and Fr Edward Meeks, Michael Matt, Anthony Stine, and many others) say, you should take heed and join the resistance, even if you're not Catholic. Because if you believe in the values that built western (i.e. Christian) civilization, you're next!

Let us keep praying to Saint Michael the Archangel: 

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

Footnote: A few hours ago Merrick Garland -- yes, the one mentioned above -- appointed David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. David Weiss is the federal prosecutor who cut the plea deal with the Boy Hunter which was rejected by the judge as being a sweetheart deal that would never have been given to anyone else. Click here to watch commentary by constitutional lawyer and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley.

VIDEO: Priest accuses "Pope" Francis of TEN heresies

I hope non-Catholic readers will forgive me for dwelling on the crisis in the Catholic Church. Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself "'Pope' Francis", by embracing secular humanism, globalism and wokeism, has brought the Church to the brink of open schism. 

The destruction of the Church will be welcomed by the one-worlders of the WEF because it will be followed, as surely as night follows day, by the downfall of Western civilization, which is founded on the truths and teachings of the Christian Faith.

For this reason, everyone -- not just Catholics -- should be deeply concerned about the push by Francis and his James Martinesque [= homosexual] friends -- the Lavender Mafia -- to substitute for the the Faith of Our Fathers ideas and teachings which are anti-Christian and heretical.

In this video, published yesterday, our old friend Dr Taylor Marshall analyzes an open letter to Francis penned by a faithful priest -- Father Jesusmary Missigbètò, from Côte d'Ivoire -- who (like the late Father Nicholas Gruner) was suspended in March of 2021 after criticizing Francis’s change to the theology of of matrimony.

Father Missigbètò accuses Francis of preaching and teaching no fewer than ten heresies, which Dr Marshall explains in detail.

Make no mistake. In promoting these heresies as authentic teachings of the Magisterium, which Catholics are obliged to believe and follow, Francis is leading us to hell. It is the duty of faithful Catholics, like Father Missigbètò, to resist Francis to his face, to stand up and say "This is wrong!" It is also our duty to pray for the Church (and for ourselves), in words like these.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls.

VIDEO: Want to stay a priest? Don't speak against abortion... or Biden!

There was still more news late last week. What better time to release bad news than in the ten days or so before Christmas the Winter Holiday, when people have their minds elsewhere, thinking about presents and turkey and travel and (maybe) the coming of Jesus the Christ, to bring light into a dark world.

Speaking of the dark world, the Vatican chose the peak of the Christmas holiday rush to send out a notice to anyone who might care that Father Frank Pavone, the head of the advocacy group Priests for Life, and sometime spiritual advisor to President Trump, was "laicized" -- removed from the priesthood -- in November, and should now be referred to as just "Mr Pavone".

What could Father Pavone (who remains a priest even though he may be barred from priestly office) have done to deserve such a punishment? Even Father Nicholas Gruner, the Fatima Priest, whose voice the Vatican tried to silence for decades, was never "laicized".

The man who calls himself Pope Francis must have either approved the decision or stepped aside to allow it to happen. Priests don’t get defrocked every day, and a well-known priest like Father Pavone must have transgressed beyond a few curses on Twitter to force the hand of the Unholy Father and receive the ultimate priestly punishment.

The Vatican said merely that Father Pavone was "found guilty in canonical proceedings of blasphemous communications on social media, and of persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop."

No specifics were given, but it is well known that Fr Pavone frequently clashed with his superiors over some of the language he has used in his social media postings. In 2020, in the heat of the election campaign, a tweet he authored referred to "supporters of this goddamn loser Biden and his morally corrupt, America-hating, God hating Democrat party."

Aha! The real sin was criticizing the apostate President Brandon! Was there more? We hand the narrative over to our old friend Dr Taylor Marshall.

Father Pavone promises to keep fighting. And he has some powerful supporters. Most Rev. Joseph Strickland, Bishop of Tyler TX, tweeted: "The blasphemy is that this holy priest is canceled while an evil president promotes the denial of truth & the murder of the unborn at every turn, Vatican officials promote immorality & denial of the deposit of faith & priests promote gender confusion devastating lives…evil."

Just  so. Let us pray, once again: "Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen."

VIDEO: Chicomms convict and punish Cardinal Zen

This is further to our post of September 21st, in which we asked you to join with us in prayer that God will protect Cardinal Zen, His faithful priest, and deliver all Chinese Christians from Communist oppression and persecution.

In this video, Dr Taylor Marshall reports that the prelate has been convicted of supporting the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement -- the Communists don't like democracy -- and has been fined. Not a suprise.

But... there's another trial coming. Will a fine be enough punishment for the Commies to inflict on the little 90-year-old who dared to stand up to them, who has been abandoned by the "Church of Francis"? Dr Marshall suggests (and Walt concurs) that we pray more, and pray harder.

 

But wait, there's more. Dr Marshall also suggests that, in our Christmas (and other) shopping, we boycott Chinese good and products. Even if you don't care about Cardinal Zen, that's an excellent idea!

Near the end of the video, Dr Marshall prays an Ave Maria for Cardinal Zen. Fine. Please add this Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

VIDEO: Blood moon on election night: is it a prophetic sign?

It's been a while since WWW featured a video by Dr Taylor Marshall, an Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism and is now one of Traditional Catholicism's leading commentators. Here's his take -- or should I say the Bible's take -- on the possible meaning of the blood moon which we'll see on the night of November 8th... as the votes are being counted.

 

Make sure your vote counts, and is counted! As Dr Marshall says, "Go out there and be salty!" I'll see you on the beach.

VIDEO: Dr Taylor Marshall reveals reason for FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago

Dr Taylor Marshall's videos have been featured on WWW many times. Usually he talks about the crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. This time it's different. For the first time anywhere (as nearly as Ed. can tell), Dr Marshall makes the connection between the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's Floriday residence, and the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal! 

The connection is this. The judge who approved the unprecedented raid has been named (by left-learning Politico, no less!) as Bruce Reinhart, who worked as a federal prosecutor until 1 January 2008. A day later he became a defence attorney representing employees and clients of Jeffrey "Pedo" Epstein, the convicted pimp and pervert.

  

It comes down to this. President Trump said he would drain the swamp -- the Deep State which controls the real US government. He didn't swing the axe fast enough or deep enough. They are still there, giving a pass to those they like (Hello, Hunter Biden!) and doing their damndest to cancel those they don't, like President Trump.

Christians! You are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. As Dr Marshall says, "Go out there and be salty!"

Further viewing: "Trump search warrant was subterfuge to take him down", Fox News, 9/8/22. 

Further reading: "After raid heard `round the world, the choice is between Constitutionalism and de facto Communism", by Steven Mosher, LifeSite News, 9/8/22.

VIDEOS: Persecution of Chinese Catholics worsens as Commies arrest Cardinal Zen

In one of my earliest posts on WWW, "Zen and the maintenance of the Faith - the REAL Catholic Church in China" (WWW 15/7/09), I summarized the efforts of the Freemasons and leftists in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church to hand control of the Church in China to the Communist-founded, schismatic Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI had written (or at least signed) a letter urging Chinese Catholics who remained in the "underground Church" -- loyal to Rome, not to Beijing -- to reconcile with the Commies' CPCA.  Not long before the Pope's letter appeared, the then Archbishop of Hong Kong, Joseph Zen, was elevated to the rank of cardinal, and given a special mission to "bridge the gap" between the Holy See and Beijing.

Imagine the consternation in the Vatican Secretariat of State when Cardinal Zen, rather than toeing the party line, turned out to be a tireless champion for religious freedom! He insisted that you can't be truly Catholic and truly Communist at the same time, and he exhorted Chinese Catholic leaders -- especially those of the "official" church recognized by the government -- to be more courageous in resisting compromise, and especially in rejecting the claims to authority made by the CPCA.

Two years later, in "Communist Chinese persecution of Catholic Church intensifies" (WWW 24/8/11), I reported that 1000s of Roman Catholic bishops, priests and laypeople have been arrested, imprisoned, tortured, even executed, because of their persistent refusal to join the "official" CPCA. Cardinal Zen excoriated Vatican attempts at rapprochement, saying that the imboglio confirms the lunacy of attempting to appease and co-operate with a Communist régime. 

To abandon the fight against Communism, the prelate said, is to say that the thousands of Chinese Catholics who gave up their freedom and often their lives for the sake of fidelity to the Roman Church were wrong, and that their sacrifices were for naught.

A profile of Cardinal Zen is included in the latest video from Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper. Warning to faith followers of Pope Francis: This is really strong stuff. It will make you cringe, and cringe you should!

In this video, Mr Matt condemns the virtual non-response of the Vatican to Wednesday's arrest of Cardinal Zen by the Communist authorities in the so-called Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, which has sparked outrage from clergy and politicians around the world. It is no exaggeration to say that the arrest marks a new low for a Chinese Communist régime that has already sunk to shocking levels of inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty and mendacity.

Cardinal Zen was accused of "allegedly colluding with foreign forces" for his role as a trustee of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. which  was established to offer legal, medical, psychological and emergency financial assistance to those involved in the 2019 protests against the Communist government's Extradition Law Amendment Bill, which would have allowed prisoners to be transferred to China for trial.

Cardinal Zen is 90 years old. If the Commies had run true to form, they would have let him die in jail. Fortuntely, worldwide expressions of shock and outrage forced them to release the prelate shortly after his arrest. 

In this video, Dr Taylor Marshall and John-Henry Westen, editor of LifeSite News, discuss the history of the persecution of the underground Church in China by the Chinese Communists, whom Pope Francis and his Secratary of State seem unable... or unwilling... to oppose.

   

As Mr Westen says, the Vatican, in the agreement with Communist China negotiated by Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin (aka "Peter of Rome"), fed the Chinese faithful to the lions! 

For details of Cardinal Zen's denunciation of the capitulation of the mainstream Church to godless Communism, see "Vatican-China agreement 'terrible, terrible, terrible'" (WWW 4/12/19) and "Cardinal Zen decries/Vatican defends sell-out of Chinese Catholics" (WWW 3/3/20.) 

Responding to the arrest of Cardinal Zen, the Diocese of Hong Kong issued a statement later saying the diocese "is extremely concerned about the condition and safety of Cardinal Joseph Zen and we are offering our special prayers for him. We have always upheld the rule of law. We trust that in the future we will continue enjoying religious freedom in Hong Kong under the Basic Law. We urge the Hong Kong Police and the judicial authorities to handle Cardinal Zen’s case in accordance with justice, taking into consideration our concrete human situation. As Christians, it is our firm belief that: “The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack.” (Psalm 23:1) 

Our Lady of China (中华圣母) pray for Cardinal Zen, for all Catholic Chinese, and for all who hold and teach the True Faith.

VIDEO: The Consecration of Russia will be TOO LATE (Taylor Marshall)

I can't help but return to the discussion of the Church's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and whether the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary will have the effect of bringing an end to the conflict and a period of peace to the world, as Our Lady of Fatima promised.

So many of us who believe in the Fatima Message, and have worked to make it known and obeyed, are hoping and praying that Pope Francis will do the Consecration in the manner requested by the Blessed Virgin. See "Notes and thoughts re Consecration of Russia & Ukraine", WWW 16/3/22.

But will he? Dr Taylor Marshall, whose podcasts we have featured many time on WWW, doubts it. And if Francis fails to do it right, will his act be to any avail? Dr Marshall answers these questions in his podcast of March 16th, "Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine (Will it Work?)".

In case you don't have 3/4 of an hour to watch that podcast, Dr Marshall posted this short clip, with the key takeaway. The Consecration (by Pope Francis) will be too late, but still the Immaculate Heart of Mary will save Russia and Ukraine. Listen.

 

Dr Taylor repeats what he wrote at pages 100ff of his book, Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within, which I commend to you. There have already been five or six consecrations, and none of them have worked as hoped, because none of them were done validly, according to the request of Our Lady of Fatima. 

Does that mean that Pope Francis shouldn't try again? Certainly not! And even if this new consecration is flawed -- through not using the right words (the Consecration Prayer of Pope Pius XII), or not being made in union with the world's bishops -- graces will certainly flow from it. So let us pray. Amen.

VIDEO: "The most radical thing Pope Francis has ever done..."

In a letter to the world's bishops accompanying the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI* wrote: What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. (My emphasis.)

Yesterday, the man who calls himself "Pope Francis" said, in effect, "Wanna bet?!"

Following up my earlier post, "Catholics outraged: 'Pope Francis' nukes Traditional Latin Mass", here's a look at how the man who calls himself "Pope Francis" is trying to extinguish forever the Traditional Latin Mass in his latest Motu Proprio, Traditionis Custodes. In the video, Dr Taylor Marshall calls this "the most radical thing Pope Francis" has done in the eight years of his papacy."

Commentators like Dr Marshall and Dr Peter Kwasniewski (see link at end of this post) are shocked by the extremism and autocracy of the Pope Bergoglio's lateset attack on the traditions of the Church. Dr Kwasniewski says it "doesn't make sense unless you're an ideologue." Dr Marshall calls it simply "a punch in the gut". Here's what's going to happen....

Item: Pope Bergoglio has declared that the Novus Ordo (New Order) Mass of 1969 is the "unique" (read: only) liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. What Pope Benedict XVI* called the "extraordinary" rite is not recognized, except temporarily by exception. 

Item: Only the diocesan bishop has "exclusive" power to authorize the Latin Mass, and that only within the even narrower confines of whatever restrictions the Vatican -- Pope Bergoglio and those surrounding him (Hello, "Peter the Roman"!) -- feel like imposing on any given day. A bishop may say OK, but not unless Rome says OK!

Item: Existing Latin Mass "groups"-- that's the word used -- like the Institute of Christ the Kind and the Fraternity of Saint Peter must undergo a loyalty test to ensure that they accept fully the Novus Ordo Mass of 1969. And they cannot have any hesitation to accepting fully the heresies of Vatican II, out of which came the "New Mass."

Item: Latin Masses, if allowed, must be moved outside of regular parishes. Dr Kwasniewski says thosse who want to celebrate the TLM are being treated like lepers, shunted off to disused churches and meeting rooms where they can't "contaminate" ignorant "mainstream Catholics".

Item: Even though a traditional Mass may be ["must be"! Ed.] celebrated in Latin, the Epistle and Gospel must not be proclaimed in Latin, only in the vernacular. tongues. This was one of the goals of the Modernist liturgical movement in the 1950s and of the Protestants and Freemasons who helped draft the Novus Ordo Mass approved by Vactican II.

Item: There to be no "new groups" centred around the Latin Mass. Not even bishops can allow the formation of such a group. That's for the Vatican alone. One wonders what will become of the existing "groups", like those mentioned above and the Society of St Pius X, the latter not being recognized by the Vatican in the first place. Goodbye to any hope of reconciliation!

Item: Pope Bergoglio has taken "the firm decision to abrogate all the norms, instructions, permissions, and customs" that precede Traditionis Custodes. Previous "indults" for the TLM are abolished. So as of yesterday, the celebration of the Latin Mass is forbidden, pending new permissions granted by the bishops (which really means the Vatican -- see above).

In the accompanying letter of instruction to the world's bishops (which is longer than the document itself), Pope Bergoglio slams down his dictatorial hand even harder! This Motu Proprio, he says, was necessitated by the bishops' responses to a skewed 2020 questionnaire that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith sent out. He doesn't give any details of what the bishops said, but obviously it didn't conform to the Bergoglio's New Age/New World Order/ agenda.

He goes on to blame traditional Catholic priests and laymen for using the Latin Mass "to widen the gaps, reinforce the divergences, and encourage disagreements that injure the Church, block Her path, and expose Her to the peril of division." In other words, those who want the TLM are nothing more or less than a bunch of narrow-minded schismatics -- the same charge leveled against Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the SSPX. 

In effect, Francis has hit the reset button. He orders the Church to return to "a unitary form" of celebration. But he doesn't mean the united form of the Mass of All Time, the Roman Mass of Saints Peter and Paul, the Fathers and Popes of the Church, canonized by Pope St Pius V. He means the quasi-Protestant New Mass, the validity of which is questioned by more and more faithful Catholics, as more is learned about how the New Mass was inflicted on us by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II.

Does Pope Bergoglio really think he can get away with this? Does he think he can, with the stroke of a pen, obliterate the memory of and devotion to the Mass of All Time, which faithful Catholics have handed won for sixteen centuries? Does he think he can put the genie -- the demand for a return to the Traditional Latin Mass -- back in the bottle?

Popes can say and write what they like, but unless they declare their utterances to be dogma, to be matters of Faith, Catholics may follow their precepts... or not! I predict that Traditionis Custodes will be honoured as much in the breach as in the observance. And when Jorge Bergoglio has shuffled off this mortal coil, his successor may very well abrogate this latest diktat, just as Francis now purports to abrogate Summorum Pontificium. Please, God, let it be so. 

Enough from me. Here are the thoughts of Dr Taylor Marshall.

  

Further viewing: "Did Pope Francis Just Ban the Latin Mass? Reaction to 'Traditionis Custodes'" - Dr. Peter Kwasniewksi and Cameron O'Hearn discuss what this "ecclesiastical atom bomb", this "historical slap in the face", means for the future of the Traditional Latin Mass and the future of Holy Mother Church.

* Footnote: Pope Benedict XVI is still alive, as far as we know. Some believe that his purported resignation is invalid, and that the election of Jorge Bergoglio as Pope is therefore canonically illegal and invalid. In other words, Pope Francis is not the Pope! Others say that's right, because a real pope wouldn't, couldn't say and do the things that Francis says and does. QED. 

VIDEO: Hard to believe the Catholic Church has come to this

Dr Taylor Marshall posted this short video yesterday. I don't know whether to laugh, cry, vomit... or all three.

   

This appears to have come from somewhere in Germany. Such a beautiful church building. Such irreverence and sacrilege. Such a shame and I mean that in the most literal sense. But that's the new, cool Catholic Church -- spawned by Vatican II, and approved by Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself Pope Francis. 

Elsewhere in Germany: Priests in over 100 "Catholic" churches, with the blessing and encouragement of their bishops, this week offered "blessings" to "homosexual unions" -- they stopped short of calling them "marriages" -- in defiance of a recent pronouncement of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which said Catholic clergy cannot bless same-sex unions because God "cannot bless sin."

The "blessings" are the latest escalation in tensions between "progressive" and traditional Catholics that have sparked alarm that part of the Church might be heading into schism. Where all this modernist nonsense will end, only God knows... and I mean that literally, too.

VIDEO (for Catholics): Serious (and sad) thoughts for a Sunday

Dr Taylor Marshall discusses a recent statement by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in which the prelate accuses the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church -- "heretical and depraved modernists" -- of trying to turn Holy Mother Church, the Bride of Christ, into a philanthropical organization like the Rotary Club or the United Nations.

   

Let us pray that God will intervene to protect His Church from Her enemies. Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

Footnote for the Catholic faithful: Have you been lazy... not paying attention to the crisis in the Church? If you understand and agree with what Archbishop Vigano, Archbishop Sheen, Dr Taylor and so many others are saying... if you are afraid for our Church... wake up and speak up! Copy the URL and send this to your pastor and to all others who are blindly following the leadership of Jorge Bergoglio into heresy and damnation.

Further viewing: Click here to hear Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, discuss the upcoming Vatican conference mentioned by Dr Marshall in this video. How seriously (Mr Matt asks) should we be taking "Pope Francis the Globalist"? Really!

UPDATED: Anus horribilis 2020: So farewell then....

Ed. here. 2020 is almost over, thank God, truly an Annus Horribilis if ever there was one. (I know my Latin but Walt insists on leaving the headline as he wrote it.) We continue now with our yearend review, saying farewell to some people we liked who have shuffled off this mortal coil, and will be missed....

Before we get to that, let's start with three on whose death you might want to make book on for 2021. 

HRH Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Ireland [really? Ed.] and her other realms and territories, on the left in the photo, will be 95 next April. Some think she is taking ibogaine or something to keep from dying just to spite her jug-eared son Charles, Prince of Wales, from becoming king, and his second wife Camilla "forever a duchess".

You can probably get 5-2 on Elizabeth, shorter on her seldom seen husband, Phil the Greek. 10-1 on Charles. 

Also rumoured to be still alive (although not seen in public recently) is Sleepy Joe Biden. To those who call him "President-Elect", Walt says "Not yet!"

The Democrats and other never-Trumpers who are breathed a shallow sigh of relief when, in the week hours of November 4th, Mr Biden emerged from his Delaware hideout to say that he was confident that before dawn enough votes would be found to elect him. And so they were. 

Then came the challenges, and now the fear is that he will die before he can be sworn in. Better for everyone, the lefties say, if he makes it through the inauguration ceremony, and then succumbs to a heart attack or other "natural cause" [like falling up the stairs from his basement? Ed.], leaving the Oval Office to that well-known Indo-Jamaican, Kamala Harris. 

Odds on Joe pegging out before January 20th are 20-1. Thereafter, 5-1.

Another world leader ["One World", shurely. Ed.] still in the land of the living is Jorge Bergoglio, aka Francis, Pope of Rome. At the beginning of his possibly illegitimate papacy, the Humblest Pope Since Saint Peter (TM) said that he expected his reign to be a short one. That was nearly 17 years ago.

Traditional Catholics, who believe that Jorge-Francis religiously says three stupid things every morning before breakfast, are hereby reminded that it is a sin to pray for the death of a pope, or anyone for that matter. Praying for God's will to be done is, of course, another matter!

And we can pray always that Saint Michael the Archangel will defend us in the day of battle, and by the power of  Almighty God cast into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Further viewing, added 29/12/20: "Will Pope Francis resign? Dr Taylor Marshall responds to the rumour"

Ed. here. Walt seems to have lost sight of the theme of this post, which was supposed to be, errr, obituaries of people we liked. Check in again tomorrow.