The Vatican still hasn't obeyed Our Lady of Fatima's command

Walt is pleased to share an e-mail just received from Michael Matt, Editor of The Remnant newspaper, on the subject of  the blatant and egregious hypocrisy being shown by Pope Leo and his acolytes and minions in (supposedly) excommuniating the bishops and priests of the Society of St. Pius X, and even the faithful Catholics who in any way "adhere to" or support the SSPX. Like me, for one.

People who live in glass (papal) palaces shouldn’t throw stones. The Vatican likes to brag about how merciful they are but have evidently failed to notice the hypocrisy of brutally kicking faithful Catholics out of the Church without even giving them a fair hearing.

They say they want to listen to the people, but evidently only if the people parrot back to them what the Vatican wanted them to say in the first place.

They say they are synodal and yet behave like rigid idealogues to those who disagree with their new ideas. Most recently, the world looked on in disbelief as the Vatican refused to hear the desperate cries of a million Latin Mass Catholics whose only crime was an earnest desire to keep the Faith of their fathers.

These rigid shepherds demand obedience of their sheep even after they themselves have offered an example of sustained disobedience to God’s law, the laws of the Church, and now even the natural law.

For a hundred years before Fiducia Supplicans detonated -- whereby the Vatican greenlit blessings for homosexual couples -- they had steadfastly refused to obey Our Lady's command to reveal the "Third Secret."

This, by the way, is the same apparition wherein Our Lady said: “More souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other reason.” No wonder a Jimmy Martin-friendly Vatican would ignore Fatima for as long as possible.

Eventually, they trotted out a doctored-up version of her "Third Secret", which even Mother Angelica famously declined to accept as legitimate. And of course, they've refused to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, exactly as she had asked. In fact, the world is still waiting.

Would that the Vatican were as patient with the SSPX as heaven has been with the Vatican. In any case, in our day Pope Pius X’s prophecy has proven to be alarmingly accurate – Modernists have infiltrated the Church.

The good news? They will fail. In fact, they’re failing already. Far from blowing the Traditional Catholic counterrevolution apart, their recent pharisaical crackdown on Latin Mass Catholics is backfiring. The SSPX has forced the Vatican's true agenda into the light, thus helping millions to see the destructive nature of their Revolution.

My new Underground contains a special message to the Catholic clans of the world: Do not lose hope! To beat them at their own game -- and to not be deceived by their forked tongues -- we must develop a better understanding of the Modernist Revolution and what the endgame has always been. (St. Pius X, pray for us.)

God has not abandoned His Church. I am just old enough to remember what the great pioneer traditionalists did when all of this happened the first time around. At that point, the Latin Mass had been “abrogated” and was gone forever. And then 1988 happened!

Keep the Faith and Modernism will be powerless against you. And in God’s good time, the Modernist Pharisees will become yet another set of forgotten footnotes in the glorious history of Christ’s Church. It is just a matter of time. 

In Christo Rege, Michael J. Matt

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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.

 

Walt's forecast on Leo XIV's papacy: no change expected

Since May, Walt has said nothing much about Pope Leo XIV, whom many traditional Catholics had hoped (and prayed) would slow down, if not stop the descent of the Roman Catholic Church into wokeness, heresy and irrelevancy. "Give him time," said our old friend Michael Matt. Well, we did, and are saddened to report that the passage of nearly three months has revealed the new pope to be very little different from his predecessor, Francis the Talking Pope.

Pope Prevost's appointments to the Roman Curia, announced very quietly on Friday, have been mostly modernists, and protégés of Francis. 

Nor has he stopped the crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass, ordered by some bishops "in accordance with the wishes of Pope Francis", even though Francis had gone to his reward.

And today, we have news of a meeting between Pope Leo and Father James Martin, to whom we devoted an entire post just last week. 

Father Martin is as gay as 18 balloons, and found favour in the eyes of Francis as one of the most prominent advocates for "gay marriage" and "greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church". Father Martin told the meeja that Leo "encouraged his ministry", just days before a planned Holy Year pilgrimage of LGBTQ+ Catholics to the Vatican, in a sign of "continued welcome in this new pontificate."

He said also that Leo told him he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the Church. "I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people," the objectively heretical priest told AP after the audience. "It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and frankly a lot of fun."

The meeting, which lasted about half an hour, was officially announced by the Vatican in a sign that the new pope wanted it made public, to signal continuity with Francis, who more than any of Leo’s predecessors worked to make the Catholic Church more queer-friendly. 

From his 2013 quip, "Who am I to judge?" about a purportedly gay priest, to his decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples, Francis distinguished himself with his message of welcome. During his 12-year papacy, Francis met on several occasions with Fr Martin and named him an advisor in the Vatican's communications department and a member of his "Synod on synodality", a big multi-year meeting on the future of the Church.

Still, Francis never changed church teaching saying homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered". Whether Leo will attempt to change dogma is something of a question. Soon after he was elected in May, remarks surfaced from 2012 in which Father Robert Prevost, as he then was, criticized the "homosexual lifestyle" and the role of mass media in promoting acceptance of same-sex relationships that conflicted with Catholic doctrine. 

When he became a cardinal in 2023, Catholic News Service asked Prevost if his views had changed. He acknowledged Francis' call for a more inclusive church, saying Francis "made it very clear that he doesn’t want people to be excluded simply on the basis of choices that they make, whether it be lifestyle, work, way to dress, or whatever." The doctrine of the Church had not changed, Cardinal Prevost said, "but we are looking to be more welcoming and more open and to say all people are welcome in the church." 

So where does the new Pope Prevost stand today? Fr Martin, who knew him from their time working together in the aforementioned synod, told AP he wasn't worried about Leo's views, and had always found him to be "a very open, welcoming, inclusive person.... But it's wonderful to hear this continuation."

Walt's reading of the signs and portents? See headline.

Worth viewing! "Bishop Renounces The Idea Of Sin And Says EVERYONE Deserves The Eucharist", by Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition, 1/9/25.

What about that "Father James Martin"? - BONUS VIDEO ADDED

Some readers have expressed puzzlement over Walt's reference in "What made her/him do it?!", WWW 27/8/25, to "evil priests of the Father Hames Martin type". "Who he?", we hear them ask. That's him  on the right in the picture, giving his priestly blessing to a gay couple.

Father Martin is an American Jesuit priest and pro-queer activist. He was a great friend of the late Jorge Bergoglio (a Jesuit known by some as Pope Francis), and is now in the very good graces of Pope Leo XIV and members of the Mauve Mafia in the Vatican.

Father Martin is objectively a heretic in that he not only denies but openly advocates one of the mortal sins that deprive the soul of grace. They are serious transgressions of God's law, done freely and deliberately with a clear understanding of what they are. Their result is to deny a soul entrance to heaven. 

There are particular mortal sins that are so evil that they cry to heaven for vengeance. They are (with Biblical references for our readers who insist that only what's in the Bible counts): murder (Genesis 4:10), sodomy (Genesis 18:20-21), oppression of the poor (Exodus 2:23), and defrauding workers of their just wages (St. James 5:4).

Sodomy and other "choices" of the liberal/libertine lifestyle are still regarded by Holy Mother Church as grave sins, even though modernists priests and bishops don't say the silent part out loud since the days of Pope Benedict XVI. Just one day before his election, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger delivered a homily in which he denounced modern trends he said were undermining Catholicism and Western civilization. "We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism," he said, "which does not recognize anything for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."

As enforcer of Catholic dogma, Cardinal Ratzinger chastised dissident theologians, said no to female priests, no to married priests and no to gay marriage. He described homosexuality as an "objective disorder and an intrinsic moral evil."

One of the pontiff's most successful and most emotional trips was to the United States in 2008, where he tackled the most painful issue for the Catholic Church in America — clerical sex abuse — saying he was deeply ashamed. "It is in the context of this hope born of God's love and fidelity that I acknowledge the pain which the church in America has experienced as a result of the sexual abuse of minors," he said. "No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse ... nor can I adequately describe the damage that has occurred within the community of the Church." 

Readers should now understand my wondering, yesterday, if Robin (formerly Robert) Westman might have been "influenced" by "evil priests of the Father James Martin type." If, indeed, the Minneapolis shooter was "influenced" by an evil priest, that does not excuse her/him. But it condemns the one who led the little one astray.

He that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. (St. Matthew 18:6)  

Worth watching! "Nightmare in Minneapolis" Where did the Catholic Church go wrong?", with Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper.

What made her/him do it?!

The lickspittle woke media in the USA and around the world are working feverishly today to keep people from drawing any transphobic inferences from today's tragic murder in Minneapolis of two grade-school children by Robert/Robin Westman, an obvious product of the current fad for "transitioning", which we used to call changing your sex.

For those who were absent on another planet, someone who the authorities and media call "Robin" Westman (without referring to her/his gender) opened fire on a church in which students from Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending Mass to celebrate the start of the new school year. Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed where they sat in the pews. 17 other people were wounded, 14 of them children. Ms/Mr Westman, aged 23, then shot himself behind the church. 

The authorities were quick to say that he/she acted alone and are investigating what s/he left behind that would speak to her/his motive. A video timed by Robin/Robert for posting on YouTube at the very moment of the shooting was quickly taken down, lest we think there must have been something wrong with this individual. 

We all know there's nothing abnormal about wanting to change your sex, right? Google's AI know-it-all tells us: "Gender transition is the process of affirming and expressing one's internal sense of gender, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. It is a recommended course of treatment for individuals experiencing gender dysphoria, providing improved mental health outcomes in the majority of people."

Since Robin Westman would appear to be the exception, let's consider what might have led her... or him... whatever... to attempt to change the way God made him to what he was this morning, as shown in this photo, which, unlike those in the mainstream media, hasn't been cropped to hide his lovely fluffy dyed hair.

Robin Westman was born Robert Westman. Citing court records from Dakota County, WaPo reports that his mother, Mary Westman, applied for a name change for her child in 2019 from "Robert Paul Westman" to "Robin M. Westman" -- "M." for "Mary"? -- because her child "identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification."

Let's start, then, with the theory that her mother made her do it. Perhaps she hated her mother, who worked at the school. But there are other possibilities, other people and organizations who may have influenced young Robert to become Robin.

Minneapolis cops say they are investigating the murders as possible "domestic terrorism" and/or "anti-Catholic hate crime". Is it possible that Robert came to hate the Church and all Catholics as the result of some counselling or encounters in the confessional with evil priests of the Father James Martin type so highly regarded by the Mauve Mafia in Rome? Was Robert an altar boy who wanted to become an altar girl to promote more "inclusivity" in the Church?

What did young Robert do in his spare time? Was he perhaps a member of the Boy Scouts? Did he go to drag queen storytime at his local library? Did he play soccer? Or maybe become a male cheerleader for a real football team?

What did he watch on TV? Sesame Street, home of the openly gay (now) Bert and Ernie, not forgetting Tickle Me Elmo?  The Big Bang Theory, which doesn't have a single truly masculine character in the entire cast? How about Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? [I think that's only shown in the UK. Ed.] 

Was Robin interested in politics? As we write, a story is breaking that her video manifesto revealed her to be suffering from TDS, and that she wanted to kill President Trump. Was she perhaps influenced in this by Minnesota goverenor Tim Walz, who is suspected of being a bit light in the loafers himself.

Those are just a few innocent questions that occurred to me at sunset on a black day in America. Certain politicians -- Democrats, of course -- are already saying that Republicans and other conservative types dare not use this tragic "isolated incident" to throw shade on the "transgender community". So I predict you won't see such questions asked in the determinedly pro-queer lickspittle media. Everyone will be very busy looking the other way.