"Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many,
desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith." -St. Peter Canisius
May 20, 2005 AD
Ember Friday in Pentecost
Dear Reader,
The recent election of Fr. Joseph Ratzinger as "Pope"
Benedict XVI, the new head of the Concilar Church, marks the beginning
of a new era. After almost 40 years since the end of the Second Vatican
Council, and over 46 years since the selection of Cardinal Angelo Roncalli
as John XXIII, in order to finish its triumph over the Catholic Church,
the Conciliar Novus Ordo Church must now move into its final stages
to complete its work of inquity, that is, the setting up of a universal
one-world religion, under the pretext of human dignity, that has abandoned
all that is distinctively Roman Catholic.
Catholic traditionalists have hitherto been the last great
resistance against the New Church's complete destruction of Catholicism.
In order to succeed fully in implementing the New Religion, therefore,
the Novus Ordo Church must once and for all break down the traditional
Catholic resistance. In what follows we propose what we believe Benedict
XVI has planned to bring about the demise of Traditional Catholicism.
We put these considerations before you today, before the plan
is carried out, that you may know to beware of the great dangers
ahead and identify them as such as they come to pass.
(1) Benedict XVI will seek to destroy the traditional Catholic resistance
not by attacking it, but by neutralizing it: he will seek to
undermine its reason for being.
(2) As time goes on, Benedixt XVI will bend over backwards to appear
conservative, even traditional; he will do everything in his power
to reconcile with and fully regularize the Society of St. Pius X and
similar traditionalist groups. He will allow all Novus Ordo priests
to say the traditional Mass and perhaps even command that the traditional
Mass be said on a regular basis in every Novus Ordo parish. (This
reintroduction of the traditional Mass in regular parish life will
be absolutely essential.) He will lure good-willed but confused and
battle-weary traditionalists by letting them voice their concerns
concerning Vatican II and the New Mass and fully accept their reservations
concerning these. He may even reform the New Mass into a more conservative
liturgy. He will say that it is time to come to the aid and comfort
of the one faction in the Church still marginalized and neglected
for so long, namely, the traditionalists. He will pretend to have
an open mind and heart for them and do everything in his power to
regularize their status, with the ultimate goal of having all traditionalists
be part of the New Church, under the tacit banner, however, of "unity
in diversity."
(3) After having regularized and fully accepted the formerly traditionalist
priestly societies, and perhaps even erected Apostolic Administrations
for them, Benedict XVI might even go so far as to ordain priests for
those traditionalist groups. This will anger the ultra-modernists
but at the same time be a great defeat for traditional Catholicism,
for the ordinations will not be valid. They will not be valid because
Benedict XVI is not a bishop. Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict's real name,
was ordained a priest in 1951, but his consecration as "bishop"
occurred in 1977 and took place in the new rite of consecration promulgated
by Paul VI (in 1968), a rite that is clearly invalid because the words
of episcopal consecration were changed so much that they no longer
express that what is taking place is the consecration of a Catholic
bishop. Against this, Pope Leo XIII has taught clearly and infallibly
that a form that does not signify the grace it confers is unable to
confect a sacrament: "That 'form' consequently cannot be considered
apt or sufficient for the Sacrament which omits what it ought essentially
to signify" (Bull Apostolicae
Curae, 1896 A.D.). Therefore, any and all ordinations "conferred"
by Benedict XVI are invalid. Hence it will not matter how many "traditional
priests" he will seem to ordain, for all the "Masses"
they will ever say will be invalid. Yet none of the former traditionalists
then reconciled to Rome will dare speak against this, for they will
necessarily recognize Benedict as the Bishop of Rome, and it is absurd,
of course, to acknowledge someone as the Bishop of Rome while
at the same time maintaining that he is not a bishop. All this will
happen while the last few surviving bishops appointed by Pope Pius
XII are dying.
(4) Benedict XVI will seem conservative and traditional not only
in words but also in deeds. He will move to excommunicate the more
obvious ultra-modernists in the Novus Ordo Church. He will strike
down the left-wing dissidents against his Novus Ordo magisterium.
He will not tolerate openly homosexual organizations that claim to
be Catholic, such as "Dignity USA." He will perhaps provoke
a schism with "Cardinal" Roger Mahony of Los Angeles to
further make people believe that he, Benedict, is an orthodox anti-modernist,
the "great Pope" to "save the Church," and that
Mahony and his ilk are liberals and modernists. He will be uncompromisingly
against abortion and euthanasia--and the death penalty.
(5) Benedict XVI will be very successful in this endeavor. He will
be successful mainly because many traditionalists are tired of fighting.
They are worn out from the battle. They will welcome the illusion
of a "traditional Pope" who will finally "restore the
Church." Benedict will take advantage of this unique moment.
(6) But all of this will be facade. It will serve only one purpose:
to lure the faithful Catholic remnant into the New Church and invalidate
the last valid Latin-rite sacraments, all while the last Catholic
bishops are dying. This tactic will reveal itself as extremely cunning
and successful, for there is no better way to destroy traditionalism
than by apparently acceding to its every demand. Thus they will succeed
in deceiving everybody, except for the elect, which is impossible
(see Matthew 24:24). The few faithful Catholic souls who will then
still have refused to join the New Church will be easy to deal with,
for their number will be small. They will be marginalized, ostracized,
and persecuted in ways without precedent. They will be derogated as
"extreme right-wing lunatics" and "rabid fundamentalists"
who are "very uncharitable" and "can never be pleased."
They will be denounced as enemies of the Catholic Church, even though
they are but the enemies of the New Vatican II Church. They will be
put on a par with the followers of the David Koresh cult. They will
be denounced as left-overs from the Inquisition and witch-burning
times. They will be denounced as antisemitic. Quite possibly, even
publications formerly known as traditionalist will join in the bashing.
Once this has succeeded, everything will be in place; the last stage
of the Great Persecution of the Holy Catholic Church will have begun.
Pray hard, therefore, for the Novus Ordo hierarchy will
move swiftly to smash that last outpost of Catholicism, that last bastion
they so far still haven't been able to demolish. "They
[the faithful] must pray above all for the Church of Darkness to leave
Rome," counseled the visionary Ven.
Anne Catherine Emmerich on August 25, 1820. So do not be surprised if this comes
to pass. We are telling you beforehand. The remaining true Catholics, however, will
be consoled by the fact that "Catholics who remain faithful to
Tradition, even if they are reduced to a handful, are the true Church
of Jesus Christ" (St. Athanasius), and that Our Lady of Fatima
promised that "in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph."
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
St. Pius X, pray for us.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.