Yes, it’s June. Not only is it (((pri DEMON th))), but you also have to put up with this cringe-fest. I’m sorry to pile on in what should be such a beautiful month of the year – the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This year, as the consciously engineered inflation tax attempts to economically grind the non-Epstein class to powder, let me take an odd tack for a person with a “donate button” and the unmitigated gall to publicize it:
I promise to never allow donation revenues or my own fear of potentially losing donation streams to ever affect what I write or say. Putting it another way, I promise to never self-censor the truth in order to keep “gettin’ your money.” In this day and age, I think assurances that the human respect of donors and inordinate attachment to donations are NOT my driving principles is the best, albeit odd, thing I can say in a … donation drive. My driving principle is Jesus Christ, Who is Himself the Truth. Every other concern, especially the financial, I entrust to the Infant Jesus of Prague, Truth Himself.
Having said that, my gratitude to all donors and supporters the Barnhardt.biz Blog, The Barnhardt Podcast, and BarnhardtMemes.com is massive, and grows every year. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered DAILY for all of my current AND past benefactors and supporters. Once on the list, you never, ever come off of it, no matter what. I hope to be able to meet up with and share a meal with the priest during June. Having the Holy Sacrifice of Calvary offered for oneself during life is one of the most powerful gifts that flows through Holy Mother Church, and the fact that I can help this happen for so many people, even a few who no longer like me, is an unfathomable blessing and consolation to me.
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We have LOTS of work ahead of us. The fight continues. In Christo Mariaque– Alpha Bravo, ’26
“As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly sinful. Saint Peter and Saint Paul condemn this nefarious and depraved sin. In fact, the Scripture denounces this enormous indecency thus: ‘The scandal of Sodomites and Gomorrhans has multiplied and their sins have become grave beyond measure.’ So the angels said to just Lot, who totally abhorred the depravity of the Sodomites: ‘Let us leave this city….’ Holy Scripture does not fail to mention the causes that led the Sodomites, and can also lead others, to this most grievous sin. In fact, in Ezechiel we read: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor. And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me; and I took them away as thou hast seen’ (Ezech. 16: 49-50).
Those unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of this never sufficiently execrated depravity.”
-St. Peter Canisius, Summa Doctrina Christianae, III a/b, p. 455
Note what St. Peter Canisius says here quoting Ezechiel: that the CAUSES that LED to this most grievous sin (sexual perversion) are, in a nutshell, a lack or absence of Charity. Sexual perversion is a DERIVATIVE PATHOLOGY. It doesn’t “just happen”. You have to have the self-purgation of love from the soul FIRST. Then the sexual perversion follows. This is why there is no such thing as a “psycho-spiritually healthy” sex pervert. Sexual perversion in any form is, by definition, a monstrosity. Yes, MONSTROSITY. This is why there is no such thing as a “benign” sodomite. Because of the antecedent pathology of lovelessness (aka Diabolical Narcissism), ALL SODOMITES, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, ARE A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to others, but most especially children.
And, this quote from St. Peter Canisius should probably be framed and hanging in every home:
“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.”
In this episode the Tombstone Four meet up at the Oriental for a discussion of feedback from SSPXers about the upcoming episcopal consecrations, the fact that even SSPXers are confused and misguided by the SSPX continuing to refer to Antipope “FtR” PERVost as “the Holy Father”, leaving some STILL wondering if they will actually be excommunicated (no!!!) and where they should go to Mass, if at all. Short answer: continue going to the SSPX if that’s where you go, just show up earlier to ensure a parking spot and seating! We then critique the extremely tone-deaf idea of using QR code bracelets for cashless transactions with concession vendors at the Econe consecrations in July. NOT cool, SSPX. We conclude with a discussion of the idea of printing higher denomination cash bills, and who should be on them. JFK? Reagan? Lassie? Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island? Call me when the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart appear on every bill. Maybe someday….
The Infant Jesus of Prague handles Ann’s financial stuff. Click image for details. [If you have a recurring donation set up and need to cancel for any reason – don’t hesitate to do so!]
I almost forgot! It’s summer, the sodo-luciferians are flying their wretched colors everywhere, so it’s important to counter-represent!
Cruise over to TradFlags.com and peruse their selection of beautiful, high-quality flags, banners and magnets. They have greatly expanded their selection since last year. New this year is this fantastic Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces garden flag. 💪🏻🤩
And this is their classic June Sacred Heart flag, which is gorgeous:
My Grandmother said frequently in her wisdom, “You can never go home again.” It’s a key truth. People waste and ruin their lives, and some their bodies, trying to go back to their youth, decades ago, in utter futility. We can’t go back. Time is linear. That world is gone. When this piece aired I was 6 years old, having just finished kindergarten one month before. Fond memories, to be sure, but memories.
What we should do is make today into something that we will look back in fond nostalgia of decades from now. We can and certainly should use the past as a pattern and example, but live in the present building every day as something that has its own ever-unfolding nostalgic potential.
So maybe be inspired by this lovely piece, but create the ARSH 2026 version. Don’t just sit in bitter paralysis trying to “go home again”, because that’s exactly what satan wants.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I have some nostalgia to go cook up, because theseare “the good old days” of the future, if we choose to make today something memorable, beautiful and good, no matter the circumstances.
I’ve just re-read this Laramie Hirsch and find his and your logic adamantine and pellucid – black and white – and which is also rarely found today. (Look at Damian Thompson’s recent pontificating retreat from reality on X). What’s keeping the SSPX from simply stating that this state of emergency exists precisely because there is no pope and therefore there could be no papal mandate for consecrating new bishops?
Why has this occurred? We are still (some of us, sadly not the whole Church) in the Octave of Pentecost. The gifts of the Holy Ghost would resolve this situation in the Church in a moment by the “breath of inspiration” working on a hierarchy inclined to God and His Church. The beginning of Wisdom is the Fear of the Lord – servile and filial. How many Cardinals hate sin and its effects, love the Lord and His Mystical Body and have the Fortitude to lay down their lives for Him and His Church?
Trad Inc lack these gifts (mislabeling their approach incorrectly as “prudence”). It appears that most of the hierarchy, if they’re not all of them revolutionaries, are clearly weak men who value inordinately their earthly honors, human respect and lifestyle.
Man through his intellect, rightly ordered by the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost along with man’s will strengthened by His Holy inspirations, would see clearly the assault on the Church, the papacy and the faithful, and would strive mightily to end this revolution.
Something strange has happened over the past thirteen years. The same Trads who once defended the papacy now spend their days explaining why Catholics need not listen to it.
People have no idea what they’ve done.
So, with that, I cannot go another day without touching upon something very heavy and significant that was discussed last week on Ann Barnhardt’s podcast. I know that not everyone has time to listen to podcasts, so I’m going to revisit some of the discussion from that day, and I’ll be adding my own two cents as we progress along.
Today: Trad Inc. Defends Bergoglio/Prevost As Though He’s Pope
Popesplainers. A lot of us know what that word means. Such people will defend the idea that Bergoglio and Prevost are popes through thick and thin, no matter what evidence clearly shows they’re wrong. Popesplainer traditionalists are so committed to defending these last two usurpers, that they’ve dismantled the very doctrine of the papacy they thought they were defending. Trad Inc—with their commitment to Bergoglio and Prevost—is literally teaching Catholics that popes can teach error. And they are literally telling you that popes can be safely disregarded.
Barnhardt really hit it out of the park last Thursday:
So now Satan’s got the Trads and the Trad Inc. people arguing against the papacy as well, whereas every single one of them—what would it be, 13, 14 years ago today?—were solid on the papacy. They were sound on the papacy. They knew that somebody had to be in charge. They also clearly—if you read these people’s propaganda—they clearly do not believe in our Lord’s promise. They don’t believe in the Petrine promise. They don’t believe that there is the [Holy Spirit’s] supernatural negative protection.
Clearly they don’t believe that, because they keep on arguing: “Well! Popes can totally teach heresy! Popes can totally do this, popes can totally do that!” They all believed in the supernatural negative protection that our Lord promised to Peter and his legitimate successors. They have to deny it. They have to deny our Lord’s words in the Holy Gospel in order to reconcile their position that Bergoglio and now Prevost are the Vicar of Christ so that they can continue to grift or be employed by the institutional Church—or in the case of clergy and prelates, that they can continue on with their careers and not potentially sacrifice anything.
And of course now we’ve got the whole deal with, apparently, the hierarchy in the SSPX—the upper echelons of SSPX—have that same mindset, which is incomprehensible. And so, they’re in the position where they’re going to do the consecrations of their bishops—which they should, they absolutely should. There’s no pope. Of course it’s a state of emergency exception, of course it is.
But then they’re also trying to reconcile the contradictory positions that “this is not the Catholic Church, but we’re being excommunicated from it, but that doesn’t count.” I mean, it is so irrational and so illogical. –Barnhardt Podcast Episode #254: There Is No Dead Man’s Switch, podcast timestamp 25:56
What Trad Inc popesplainers are saying today is not what they’d have said at the beginning of Bergoglio’s regime. Let me put it this way. In 2013, these people would speak about the papacy confidently and clearly. They’d defend the Vicar of Christ’s unique authority. They’d insist upon the indefectibility of the Church. They’d reject notions that Catholics could disregard “inconvenient” heretical teachings.
Thirteen years later?
Arguments have changed dramatically. The pontificate is constantly scandalized, and it always looks like Rome is confusing and dividing the faithful. So many people have consequently abandoned their previous certainties. In an effort to explain away this emergency—while simultaneously maintaining everything is quite normal—they’ve developed new theology.
There’s an endless parade of new exceptions, qualifications, and escape hatches concocted to “legitimize” Bergoglio and Prevost’s anti-papacies. “Popes teach error now! Ignore those papal statements!” A good Catholic is supposed to sift, filter, and resist evil somehow. And so now? We have a bitter irony, that men who once defended the papacy now spend their time explaining why Catholics shouldn’t listen to it.
Tomorrow: Trad Inc. Is Your Enemy
So. Let’s suppose that the day finally comes. The day everyone’s been waiting for. Brave cardinals and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church are finally accepting their cross, and they’re coming out and telling us that, yes indeed, Bergoglio and Prevost were fakes, and an evil cabal of men in cardinal positions rigged them into place. And the time has come to denounce them, proclaim these evil men as antipopes, and undo every evil thing that’s transpired since 2013.
What will happen when this time comes? Barnhardt makes it clear:
Well, what’s going to happen if the papacy is restored? And we do get Pope “Saint S.O.B.,” who’s just going to be knocking heads. What are all of the enemies of Jesus Christ and His Holy Church going to do? They’re going to cite every one of these tradding partisans who’s been arguing that the papacy is not important and you don’t have to listen to anything that the pope says, and the pope can teach error.
So when a real pope comes along and says: “Voluntary sodomy is always and everywhere mortal sin. Contraception is mortal sin. Divorce and remarriage is mortal sin.” When a real pope comes back and says this, it is precisely the argumentation of these Trad Inc. partisans that will be used to deny the authority of the papacy. They’re doing Satan’s work.
We’ve been trying to point this out to them for a decade now. It’s been a decade. What excuse could they possibly, possibly have at this point? “That? Well, I never considered it that way!” Oh, bull. You know perfectly well. But you sit down, and you do the calculus, and what’s more important to you is maintaining your income and maintaining your career.
And for some of them, it’s as pathetic as just maintaining their social circles. Really, literally for some of them, that’s all it is—which is sickening, absolutely sickening. The vast majority of them know exactly what we’re dealing with here and just for whatever comfort won’t do anything about it, won’t say anything about it. –Barnhardt Podcast Episode #254: There Is No Dead Man’s Switch, podcast timestamp 59:07
The satanic enemies of God will NOT be using their own arguments to fight these good cardinals and bishops. To fight the verdict against them, they will NOT be pointing to canon law, making juridical arguments. No citing Voltaire or quoting Karl Marx. They won’t be stereotypically appealing to the French Revolution or waving rainbow flags or anything like that. They won’t blatantly demand destruction of the Catholic Church like some sort of Dr. Evil villain. And there will be no elaborate theological systems of their own or anything like that.
There’ll be no need for any of that. Because SATAN’S ALREADY BENT THE TRAD INC. PEOPLE TO HIS WILL. And Christ’s enemies will have the luxury of using Trad Inc.’s words against whatever authentic Catholics are left.
That is what will happen. That is the fight that is coming. You think someone will wave a magic wand and make the evil go away? Oh no. Trad Inc. and its timid, evasive, just-laugh-it-off, equivocating, mealy-mouthed justifications will have provided EXACTLY the ammunition and cannon fodder to be shot at whatever remnant of Catholics are left for that great battle.
Thank you so very much, popesplainers. You’ve ensured one of the most difficult battles of the era is just right around the corner. You have done this. Your fickle cowardly arguments have built up a golem that will be used to bludgeon the true resistance that will come after this mess. You’ve invested, bit by bit, into our strife and pain. You’ve been an enemy this entire time…we just won’t see it until the fight comes to our door.
We have cried for years: “The Catholic Church is being raped!” And you snickered and sneered and whispered: “No, fools. It was consensual.”
History will not look so fondly on what you have done. Certainly not on that day.
And remember, there was no Dead Man’s Switch, therefore no “secret code.” Pope Benedict was a weak man with a long, consistent history of quitting, and trying to quit. Don’t make him into a fake hero – what he did was absolutely appalling. He fled for fear of the wolves. In fact, it probably makes him the worst Pope in the near 2000 year history of the Church. What he did gave the Antichurch two consecutive Antipopes, and all of the damage that they have wrought and continue to wreak is squarely at the feet of Pope Benedict and his attempted, failed partial abdication. Lord Jesus, send us virile men with the wisdom, strength and courage to publicly acknowledge this reality, and the authority to fix it.—AB
(Today has the double grace of being not only Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost, but also the feast of my dear patron, St. Philip Neri, whom I met when on pilgrimage to Rome these thirteen years ago. He continues to take good care of me, and I commend all of you to his intercession. –AB ’26)
Lord, have mercy.
–Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
–Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
–Lord, have mercy.
Christ, hear us.
–Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
–Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
–Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
–Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
–Have mercy on us.
Holy Mary,
–pray for us.
Holy Mother of God,
–pray for us.
Holy Virgin of Virgins,
–pray for us.
Saint Philip, -pray for us.
Vessel of the Holy Spirit, -pray for us.
Child of Mary, -pray for us.
Apostle of Rome, -pray for us.
Counselor of Popes, -pray for us.
Voice of Prophecy, -pray for us.
Man of Primitive Times, -pray for us.
Winning Saint, -pray for us.
Hidden Hero, -pray for us.
Sweetest of Fathers, -pray for us.
Martyr of Charity, -pray for us.
Heart of Fire, -pray for us.
Discerner of Spirits, -pray for us.
Choicest of Priests, -pray for us.
Mirror of the Divine Life, -pray for us.
Pattern of humility, -pray for us.
Example of Simplicity, -pray for us.
Light of Holy Joy, -pray for us.
Image of Childhood, -pray for us.
Picture of Old Age, -pray for us.
Director of Souls, -pray for us.
Gentle Guide of Youth, -pray for us.
Patron of thine Own, -pray for us.
Thou who observed chastity in thy youth, -pray for us.
Who sought Rome by Divine guidance, -pray for us.
Who hid so long in the catacombs, -pray for us.
Who received the Holy Spirit into thy heart, -pray for us.
Who experienced such wonderful ecstasies, -pray for us.
Who so lovingly served the little ones, -pray for us.
Who washed the feet of pilgrims, -pray for us.
Who ardently thirsted after martyrdom, -pray for us.
Who distributed the daily word of God, -pray for us.
Who turned so many hearts to God, -pray for us.
Who conversed so sweetly with Mary, -pray for us.
Who raised the dead, -pray for us.
Who set up thy houses in all lands, -pray for us.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
-Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
-Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
-Have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
-Christ, graciously hear us.
V. Remember thy congregation.
-R. Which thou hast possessed from the beginning.
Let Us Pray.
O God, Who hast exalted blessed Philip, Thy confessor, in the glory of Thy Saints, grant that, as we rejoice in his commemoration, so may we profit by the example of his virtues, through Christ Our Lord.
R. Amen.
Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the celebration of the Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962. I have reviewed my correspondence with the Holy See from 2023 where it was indicated: “If after this period of time, you wish to renew the permission you will need to send us a further relatio along with your request. This relatio should contain details of the number of participants at these Masses and it should recount the steps which have been taken to lead the faithful who are attached to the antecedent liturgy towards the celebration of the liturgy according to the liturgical books reformed by decree of the Second Vatican Council and which form the unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.” As I am unable to demonstrate that this condition has been met, I have no standing to request an extension of the Holy See’s instruction, and I am directing you to not celebrate the Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962 after June 30, 2026.
I know that in some dioceses the faithful who have shown a preference for the Mass celebrated in Latin have accepted the Novus Ordo Mass celebrated in the Latin language. I trust that between now and July 1, 2026, you can obtain the appropriate Missal of Paul VI in Latin. I will grant the singular permission to offer this Mass ad orientem.
As we discussed I have permitted nearly a year to pass beyond reception of this consent from the Holy See. I did this in recognition of the death of Pope Francis. I allowed the continuation of the traditional Latin Mass after the election of Pope Leo XIV to see if he would reconsider the matter of the Mass offered in parish churches. After more than a year, and the January Consistory of the College of Cardinals in which they specifically chose not to review Traditionis custodes I feel obligated as bishop to act in accord with the direction of the Holy See.
For the faithful who may object to this directive you may certainly refer them to me, but please make clear that I am acting in accord with my promise to the Pope, the Bishop of Rome.
I am grateful for your ministry to this small and unique community. And I assure you of my prayers for them and for you and I kindly ask that you all pray for me.
Sincerely in Christ,
Most Reverend William F. Medley
Bishop of Owensboro
Do we see why the identity of the Pope matters? Do you see why I and others have been jumping up and down screaming about the Bergoglian and now Prevostian Antipapacies for a decade-plus? Do you see why I told Cardinal Burke TWICE in private extended audiences that he had to do something?
The salvation of souls is the Supreme Law of the Church.
F.X. Wernz, P. Vidal: “Finally they cannot be numbered among the schismatics, who refuse to obey the Roman Pontiff because they consider his person to be suspect or doubtfully electedon account of rumours in circulation.” (Ius Canonicum, 7:398, 1943)
Rev Ignatius Szal: “Nor is there any schism if one merely transgress a papal law for the reason that one considers it too difficult, or if one refuses obedience inasmuch as one suspects the person of the pope or the validity of his election, or if one resists him as the civil head of a state.” (Communication of Catholics with Schismatics, 1948)
De Lugo: “Neither is someone a schismatic for denying his subjection to the Pontiff on the grounds that he has solidly founded [‘probabiliter’] doubts concerning the legitimacy of his election or his power [refers to Sanchez and Palao].” (Disp., De Virt. Fid. Div., disp xxv, sect iii, nn. 35-8)
