This guy is mister hard-left Novus Ordo. An Italian that teaches at Villanova. A total God-hating trainwreck of a human being whose purpose life seems to be to do as much damage to God’s Holy Catholic Church and souls as he can.

He delivers a speech annually which he calls “The Cardinal Joseph Bernadin Lecture.” Oddly, this lecture is not about sodomy and raping children in satanic black masses, as the sodo-satanist Bernadin was wont to do.

He’s saying the “secret” part out loud. Just listen. Folks, when these people tell you what they’re up to, believe them.

Massimo Faggioli has the stones to admit that the theology of the TLM and the NO are not the same. The problem is the new stuff contradicts Tradition. And the new stuff isn't good for mankind es muy mal amigo! pic.twitter.com/K2AYsDV7DJ

— The Gringo Salado/HealYourWounds (@TheGringoSalado) July 10, 2024

“Christ committed adultery first of all with the women at the well about whom St. John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying: ‘Whatever has He been doing with her?’ Secondly, with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the women taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even, Christ who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died.”
(ref. Trishreden, Weimer Edition, Vol. 2, Pg. 107.)

Luther, an Augustinian priest, was a filthy pervert, looking to ratify and excuse his disgusting, sick perversions and in doing so dragging as many souls into hell with him as possible.

This is Luther.  This is the piece of s*** that is celebrated as the “great reformer”, by a list of atheists, perverts and God-hating degenerates including, not surprisingly, Antipope Bergoglio and now his successor Antipope Bob “FtR” Prevost.

Martin Luther was a diabolical narcissist, and, after years of shameless sacrilegious fornication with his concubine, a nun, Katarina von Bora, while a priest – descended into full-blown psychopathy.  

We see in today’s world the result of unworthy reception of the Eucharist – a world full of diabolical narcissists unable to think or reason clearly, utterly detached, it seems, from reality.  Fornicating priests commit not merely the mortal sins against the 6th Commandment of fornication and adultery, but because the Aggrieved Spouse is Christ Himself and His Holy Church, the sin is that of sacrilege – a sin against the 2nd Commandment.  Can you imagine the damage done to such a priest by not only his reception of the Eucharist, but by his very offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? It is said that nothing short of actual satanic “black liturgies”, such as satanic “black masses”, attracts demons like these sins of sacrilegious fornication.

Being a diabolical narcissist, Luther was obsessed with convincing himself of the grandiosity, superiority, perfection and “sinlessness” or better said, “faultlessness” of his false self.

Everything he did and said revolved around his need to convince himself that the fact that he, a priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek, espoused to Jesus Christ and His Holy Church, was fornicating with Katarina von Bora (and apparently also the maid when Katarina “had a headache”) was NO BIG DEAL. This is why Luther despised the priesthood, despised the Eucharist, despised marriage itself, and preached his satanic heresy of “total depravity”. He had to convince himself that his fornicating was not only no big deal, but also “natural”.

This satanic filth is what Antipope Bergoglio was so enamored of, and openly celebrated.  

I have copied these quotes from David L. Gray’s site. Be warned, there is extreme blasphemy here involving Our Lord engaging in sex acts.

Remember, every single one of these quotes is from Luther himself, and is fully acknowledged by the Lutheran sect.

“I look upon God no better than a scoundrel”
(ref. Weimar, Vol. 1, Pg. 487. Cf. Table Talk, No. 963).

“Christ committed adultery first of all with the women at the well about whom St. John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying: ‘Whatever has He been doing with her?’ Secondly, with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the women taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even, Christ who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died.”
(ref. Trishreden, Weimer Edition, Vol. 2, Pg. 107.

“I have greater confidence in my wife and my pupils than I have in Christ”
(ref. Table Talk, 2397b).

“It does not matter how Christ behaved – what He taught is all that matters”
(ref. Erlangen Vol. 29, Pg. 126).

“[The Commandments’] only purpose is to show man his impotence to do good and to teach him to despair of himself”
(ref: Denifle’s Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J. Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), Volume III, p. 364).

“We must remove the Decalogue out of sight and heart”
(ref. De Wette 4, 188)

“If we allow them – the Commandments – any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of all evil, heresies and blasphemies”
(ref. Comm. ad Galat, p.310).

“It is more important to guard against good works than against sin.”
(ref. Trischreden, Wittenberg Edition, Vol. VI., p. 160).

“Good works are bad and are sin like the rest.”
(ref. Denifle’s Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J. Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), VOl. III, pg. 47).

“There is no scandal greater, more dangerous, more venomous, than a good outward life, manifested by good works and a pious mode of life. That is the grand portal, the highway that leads to damnation.”
(ref. Denifle’s Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J. Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), VOl. II, pg. 128).

“…with regard to God, and in all that bears on salvation or damnation, (man) has no ‘free-will’, but is a captive, prisoner and bond slave, either to the will of God, or to the will of Satan.”
(ref. From the essay, ‘Bondage of the Will,’ ‘Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings, ed. by Dillenberger, Anchor Books, 1962 p. 190).

“Man is like a horse. Does God leap into the saddle? The horse is obedient and accommodates itself to every movement of the rider and goes whither he wills it. Does God throw down the reins? Then Satan leaps upon the back of the animal, which bends, goes and submits to the spurs and caprices of its new rider… Therefore, necessity, not free will, is the controlling principle of our conduct. God is the author of what is evil as well as of what is good, and, as He bestows happiness on those who merit it not, so also does He damn others who deserve not their fate.”
(ref. ‘De Servo Arbitrio’, 7, 113 seq., quoted by O’Hare, in ‘The Facts About Luther, TAN Books, 1987, pp. 266-267).

“His (Judas) will was the work of God; God by His almighty power moved his will as He does all that is in this world.”
(ref. De servo Arbitrio, against man’s free will).

“No good work happens as the result of one’s own wisdom; but everything must happen in a stupor . . . Reason must be left behind for it is the enemy of faith.”
(ref. Trischreden, Weimer VI, 143, 25-35).

“Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides… No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day.”
(ref. ‘Let Your Sins Be Strong, from ‘The Wittenberg Project;’ ‘The Wartburg Segment’, translated by Erika Flores, from Dr. Martin Luther’s Saemmtliche Schriften, Letter No. 99, 1 Aug. 1521. – Cf. Also Denifle’s Luther et Lutheranisme, Etude Faite d’apres les sources. Translation by J. Paquier (Paris, A. Picard, 1912-13), VOl. II, pg. 404))
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“Do not ask anything of your conscience; and if it speaks, do not listen to it; if it insists, stifle it, amuse yourself; if necessary, commit some good big sin, in order to drive it away. Conscience is the voice of Satan, and it is necessary always to do just the contrary of what Satan wishes.”
(ref. J. Dollinger, La Reforme et les resultants qu’elle a produits. (Trans. E. Perrot, Paris, Gaume, 1848-49), Vol III, pg. 248).

“Peasants are no better than straw. They will not hear the word and they are without sense; therefore they must be compelled to hear the crack of the whip and the whiz of bullets and it is only what they deserve.”
(ref. Erlangen Vol 24, Pg. 294).

“To kill a peasant is not murder; it is helping to extinguish the conflagration. Let there be no half measures! Crush them! Cut their throats! Transfix them. Leave no stone unturned! To kill a peasant is to destroy a mad dog!” – “If they say that I am very hard and merciless, mercy be damned.Let whoever can stab, strangle, and kill them like mad dogs”
(ref. Erlangen Vol 24, Pg. 294).

“Like the drivers of donkeys, who have to belabor the donkeys incessantly with rods and whips, or they will not obey, so must the ruler do with the people; they must drive, beat throttle, hang, burn, behead and torture, so as to make themselves feared and to keep the people in check.”
(ref. Erlangen Vol 15, Pg. 276).

“If the husband is unwilling, there is another who is; if the wife is unwilling, then let the maid come.”
(ref. Of Married Life).

“Suppose I should counsel the wife of an impotent man, with his consent, to give herself to another, say her husband’s brother, but to keep this marriage secret and to ascribe the children to the so-called putative father. The question is: Is such a women in a saved state? I answer, certainly.”
(ref. On Marriage).

“It is not in opposition to the Holy Scriptures for a man to have several wives.”
(ref. De Wette, Vol. 2, p. 459).

“The word and work of God is quite clear, viz., that women are made to be either wives or prostitutes.”
(ref. On Married Life).

“In spite of all the good I say of married life, I will not grant so much to nature as to admit that there is no sin in it. .. no conjugal due is ever rendered without sin. The matrimonial duty is never performed without sin.”
(ref. Weimar, Vol 8. Pg. 654. In other words for Luther the matrimonial act is “a sin differing in nothing from adultery and fornication.” ibid. What then is the purpose of marriage for Luther you may ask? Luther affirms that it’s simply to satisfy one’s sexual cravings “The body asks for a women and must have it” or again “To marry is a remedy for fornication” – Grisar, “Luther”, vol. iv, pg. 145).

“What harm could it do if a man told a good lusty lie in a worthy cause and for the sake of the Christian Churches?”
(ref. Lenz: Briefwechsel, Vol. 1. Pg. 373).

“To lie in a case of necessity or for convenience or in excuse – such lying would not be against God; He was ready to take such lies on Himself”
(ref. Lenz: Briefwechsel, Vol. 1. Pg. 375).

“St. Augustine or St. Ambrosius cannot be compared with me.”
(ref. Erlangen, Vol. 61, pg. 422).

“What I teach and write remains true even though the whole world should fall to pieces over it”
(ref. Weimar, Vol. 18, Pg. 401).

If you heard strains of Bergoglianism, Marxism, post-modern oligarchism, AND islam in these quotes, you were not imagining things.  All of these “isms” have the same root – diabolical narcissism: the purging of all love from the self and the elevation of the self above all else including God – this is what Lucifer and the demons did, and this is what diabolical narcissists do. That’s why I made a video about it, and will be writing about it ad nauseam for the foreseeable future.

Now do you see why giving Holy Communion to the Lutherans in St. Peter’s Basilica was an explicit act of Eucharistic desecration?

Now do you see why this business of “celebrating” the Lutheran Revolt of ARSH 1517 is nothing short of satanic?

And to any Lutherans out there, if you genuinely love Jesus Christ, get the hell out of that cesspit of a sect.  Find a traditional Catholic parish where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (or Divine Liturgy) is offered and jump the Tiber – before it is too late.

Good grief, this is positively ARTISTIC. Please, Sweet Jesus, let this Chris Jackson (a pen name), be a normal, decent, non- trainwreck, genuine, believing Catholic man.

The topic is: does Pope Paul IV’s bull of ARSH 1558 declaring that a heretic cannot hold ecclesiastical office still apply to the Church today?

Jackson writes:

“No one seriously denies that Cum ex has been overtaken by later legislation. But Grant’s deeper claim is that this fact somehow erases the principle behind it: that because a sixteenth-century penal mechanism was later streamlined, the theological axiom it expressed has evaporated too. That leap is untenable.”

I have to stop quoting or else I’ll just end up cross-posting the entire piece. It’s short, and every paragraph is a beatdown like Cassius Clay standing over a helplessly supine Sonny Liston.

Wait. One more. Jackson again:

“The question that matters is not whether Paul IV’s document is laminated in canon law, but whether the divine law it presupposes still applies: Can a public non-Catholic be the visible head of the Catholic Church?

That question remains. And Cum ex remains relevant; not as a talisman of legalism, but as a historical witness to an unchanging truth: membership in the Church precedes jurisdiction. The bull may have gathered dust in the Vatican archives, but the principle it articulates did not.”

Just click over and read it.

https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/the-paper-trail-and-the-papacy-ryan

Over the transom from a reader….

“Accordingly we may distinguish a threefold obedience; one, sufficient for salvation, and consisting in obeying when one is bound to obey: secondly, perfect obedience, which obeys in all things lawful: thirdly, indiscreet obedience, which obeys even in matters unlawful.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Secuns Secundae Partis, Q. 104

I will probably be pounding on this drum until the day I die, but indiscreet obedience is the silent poison leading those who otherwise wish to follow Christ into co-operation with the Adversary and his wolves in the destruction of the Church and the persecution of Christ.

As far as AI goes, I am reminded of Chesterton – “A man is not even certain of the Solar System as he is certain of the South Downs.” Text reports, pictures, even videos were already unreliable; all AI does is reveal that unreliability more thoroughly. Reports are arguments from authority; they depend on the trustworthiness of the authority, and have none themselves.

God bless.

C

7×7. The perfect number times the perfect number. It also occurred to me that 49 is roughly the age of The Blessed Virgin as she stood beneath the Cross. 33+16=49.

And now, posting for the 22nd consecutive year, the question remains: Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown?

I am thinking today of that beautiful land
We shall reach when the sun goeth down
When through wonderful grace by my Savior I stand
Will there be any stars in my crown?

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Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown
When at evening the sun goeth down?
When I wake with the blest in those mansions of rest
Will there be any stars in my crown?

—

In the strength of the Lord let me labor and pray
Let me watch as a winner of souls
That bright stars may be mine in that glorious day
When His praise like the sea billow rolls.

—

Oh, what joy it will be when His face I behold
Living gems at His feet to lay down
It would sweeten my bliss in the city of gold
Should there be any stars in my crown.

Thank you, Lord for this year!

Dóminus iudex noster, Dóminus légifer noster: Dóminus Rex noster, ipse salvábit nos.

The Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver: the Lord is our King, He will save us.

This is the Fourth Antiphon of First and Second Vespers of the Feast of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

I find it to be a manful, succinct encapsulation of reality. Perhaps a little license with emphatic capitalization would be opportune.

He WILL save us.

And remember, He is King of All by Divine Right, because He is The Creator, He is King hereditarily (yes, St. Joseph was the hereditary heir to the throne of David), but He is also King of All by Conquest via His Incarnation as True Man. And that Conquest occurred at the instant of His Incarnation in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. So even as an Infant, nay even as a Single Celled Zygote, He was and is truly the Sovereign King of the Universe BY CONQUEST.

And that includes maybe above all else the land that is referred to today as “Israel”. Do you know when there will be “peace in the Middle-East”? When the world acknowledges that “Israel” today, and for the last 1991 years since Our Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection, means exactly ONE thing: The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Period. Anything founded by a group of militant atheists claiming divine right by a deity that they openly confess that they don’t believe in AT BEST and despise at worst, is a bad, bad joke and abomination. The Holy Land is OURS. WE are the everlasting Israel. WE are the one and only path to peace. Anything less than full acknowledgement of the Universal Kingship and Dominion of Jesus Christ is a lie. From the river to the sea, and everywhere else in the entire physical universe.

Ecce ancilla Domini.

King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest in the womb. He WILL save us.

King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest as an infant. He WILL save us.

King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest on the Cross. He WILL save us.

King of the Universe by Right and by Conquest now and forever. He WILL save us

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Christ at the Pool of Bethesda, ARSH 1780. See the Archangel Raphael swooping in above to agitate the pool as a messenger of Our Lord’s mercy? Fun fact: “Angel” means “messenger.”

Today is the feast of the Archangel Raphael, who is known as the “angelical physician”, not only for his healing works in the Book of Tobias, but also for his deeds as recounted in John chapter 5, one of the most moving narratives in scripture.  It was St. Raphael the Archangel who would agitate the waters once per year at the Pool of Bethesda which would then heal the first person to touch the waters.  Fun fact: “Bethesda” means “House of Mercy.”

In John 5, even though St. John is sparse in his prose, one can immediately hear the anguish of the man who tells Our Lord that he has tried every year for thirty-eight years to be healed of his infirmity, but because he has no one to help him, he never makes it to the pool in time.  And yet, this man has kept the faith and persevered.

Our Blessed Lord in His Mercy healed the man, and afterward, finding the man at the Temple, Jesus told him, “Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee.”

Mercy is inextricably tied to renunciation of sin. The “worse thing” that would come from presuming upon God’s Mercy and NOT ceasing the sinful activity (or at least having a firm, immediate purpose of amendment) is ETERNAL DAMNATION.  Thirty-eight years with a horrific physical infirmity is NOTHING compared to all of eternity in hell in unceasing torment, never, ever to see God, and knowing how being damned was 100% one’s own free choice, and thus completely unnecessary.

None of us need wait for St. Raphael to swoop in as depicted above (wheeeee!), and then win a foot race.  All we have to do is enter The Church and GO TO CONFESSION, wherein the waters of Baptism are perpetually and inexhaustibly available, and the Blood of Christ removes every stain of sin. EVERY STAIN.

Then, we must do what Our Lord commanded the cripple that He healed:

1.  STAND UP – Stop committing the sin.  Do not, after being healed, think you can lie there and continue to wallow in your sin.
2. PICK UP YOUR MAT – Confess and do penance and make satisfaction for your sins.
3. WALK – Advance in the good, always moving towards greater sanctity.

St. Raphael, pray for us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

It’s all real:

https://ignatius.com/four-witnesses-fwecp/

This book was HUGE in my reading my way into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and I’m not the one who feels that way.

I mentioned it on the Kokx Podcast last Friday. And I misspoke and scrambled my Ignatius’ with my Irenaeus’ (as one does). The Four Witnesses in Rod Bennett’s book are Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyons.

And I see on the Ignatius Press website that Bennett has a sequel, “Four More Witnesses”.

Here’s the dust jacket blurb for The Four Witnesses:

What was the early Church like? Contrary to popular belief, Rod Bennett shows there is a reliable way to know. Four ancient Christian writers – four witnesses to early Christianity – left us an extensive body of documentation on this vital subject, and this book brings their fascinating testimony to life for modern believers. With all the power and drama of a gripping novel, this book is a journey of discovery of ancient and beautiful truths through the lives of four great saints of the early Church: Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyons.

“A treasure! The early Church and its teachings come to life in this story. Did the first Christians believe what you believe? Buy this book, read the words of the early Church Herself, and fall in love with the historic Church that Christ Himself founded.”
-David Currie, Author, Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic

“Rod Bennett has immersed himself in the fascinating writings of four early Fathers of the Church and has made the discovery from reading them that sincere and attentive readers of them ought to make. The author’s imaginative account of these four great Church Fathers is not only an excellent introduction to their work; it is a convincing rendering of what the early Church must really have been like. This is an important new contribution to Christian apologetics.”
-Kenneth Whitehead, Author, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic