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(Originally penned and posted in June, ARSH 2019.)

Several months ago, during my post-Mass prayer litany, I realized that I was incorrect in one of my daily petitions. See if you can tell how my prayer was wrong:

“May the Church Militant remain visible, and may I always be within easy walking distance of daily Mass in the Tridentine Rite.”

So there I am, having said this prayer daily over a thousand times, and I had a total record-scratch moment.

May the Church Militant REMAIN VISIBLE? Visibility is an intrinsic constitutive quality of the Church. The Church’s visibility is guaranteed in much the same way that water is wet and time is linear. The Church will always be visible – period. That is 100% guaranteed by God Himself. The issue is, can I, can we SEE IT.

Even if one uses the imagery of “eclipse” to describe current events, remember that eclipses are, by definition, highly visible events – awesome and fearful even.

So, my petition was so very wrong in that it falsely assumed that the Church could ever be “invisible”.

Now, my corrected petition is, “May I always be able to clearly see and recognize the Church…”

We know that the Antichurch will be -really, IS BEING- built as an ape of the True Church, and that many, if not most people, including many of the Elect will happily traipse into the Antichurch and be lost. It will be so bad that Our Lord said, “But yet the Son of man, when He cometh, shall He find, think you, faith on earth?”

The problem will not be any failure of the Church to remain visible. The failure will not be God’s, the Church’s, nor even will the failure be a failure of the Papacy in se. The failure will be OURS. The Church will always be lit up like the Las Vegas Strip. But if Ray Charles is standing there, blind as a bat and can’t see what is right in front of him, does that mean the Vegas Strip is invisible? Of course not. All it means is that Ray is BLIND.

Every one of us can look back at our lives and cite numerous examples of our own blindness that caused us to go astray, which in retrospect were glaringly obvious at the time. Common examples:

“I was so in love….”

“I really wanted to keep that job/income…”

“I loved hanging out with those people…”

“I knew I couldn’t afford it, but I bought it anyway…”

“It felt right at the time…”

“I didn’t want to admit I was wrong…”

“I told myself that the person/situation would change/improve…”

“People warned me, but I didn’t listen…”

“I believed what the people on tee vee and on the internet were saying…”

Folks, the Truth is objective, external to us, and knowable. Reality is real, and visible. The Church is real, and it is guaranteed to always be visible, including AT ITS EARTHLY HEAD.

Start from the true base premise that the Church is visible, and the identity of the Pope is clear and visible, and then work from that. What is the objective reality? What is the objective dataset? What is clearly visible? What errors or prejudices or vices might cloud my vision and make me blind? Are my FEELINGS overriding logic? Is my approach rooted in sentiment and not in rationality?

I hope this helps.

Let us pray, as you did at the end of your letter, that the Lord comes to the rescue of His Church. I bless with MY apostolic blessing,

Yours,

Benedict XVI”

Walk Like an Egyptian. (Eat your heart out, Susanna Hoffs.)

Rocketman. (Minus that revolting faggot.)

Sweet Child o’Mine (minus creepy Axl Rose)

A Pirate Looks at Forty (minus Jimmy Buffet and his odious boomer wastrel lyrics)

THIS right here is why +Barron pings a LOT of Traditional Catholics’ bee-ess meter. Kelley CLEARLY does not understand that a decree of nullity means that NO VALID MARRIAGE EVER EXISTED. How can we tell? Because she refers to her “first”, that is VALID husband, as her “husband” and freely admits that they separated and their sacramental marriage (Catholic wedding in a Catholic Church with full marriage prep) was abandoned for trivial reasons (“we’re still good friends”). Kelley CLEARLY thinks that a decree of nullity means that there WAS a marriage, and that marriage CEASED TO BE… in direct contradiction to Our Lord’s words in the Gospels that marriage is INDISSOLUBLE and that anyone who abandons their spouse and takes up with another, no matter whose fault or even the amicability and mutual “consent” of the spouses to abandon each other, COMMITS THE MORTAL SIN OF ADULTERY. And +Barron just sits there mugging for the camera. Only ++Dolan is a more egregious fake.

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— Matt Lamb (@MattLamb22) April 2, 2024

It is also obvious that Kelley’s intellect is darkened by her open, proud admission of conceiving all three of her children through In Vitro Fertilization, as Nurse Claire and I just covered in Barnhardt Podcast #203. Kelley is apparently living in unrepentant mortal sin on two accounts: adultery with her “second husband” AND the mortal sin of IVF which she seems to be proud of, and thus openly unrepentant. REMEMBER: Kelley’s children are NOT culpable for the circumstances of their conception any more than children born from rape, adultery or fornication are culpable for the circumstances of their conception. The IVF is on Kelley and her “second husband”. That sin is theirs alone.

Here is my piece from several years ago, “Cutting the Crap: If you’re divorced, you’re done romancin’ “

What a luciferian evil this deception by the infiltrators of the Church has done to people, convincing them that their valid, indissoluble marriages could be “declared” dissolved – as if a sacramental marriage could undergo an ontological change – could in one moment exist, and then in the next moment with some joke document from a “marriage tribunal” cease to exist. I pity Kelley and her male adultery partner. I’m sure that they are deeply emotionally connected and want very much to continue to cohabit and have sex. But if +Barron held the Catholic faith whole and entire, he would tell Kelley in no uncertain terms that she and her “civil spouse” MUST cease masquerading as husband and wife. No more sex, and in all likelihood no more cohabiting – as the temptation and scandal would be too much. If Kelley wants to receive Holy Communion as she says, through her tears, if she REALLY wants to be in full communion with the One True Church, then she MUST amend her adulterous lifestyle AND publicly repent of having thrice committed the mortal sin of IVF and all of the corollary sins that go along with it. If she TRULY does love the man she is now civilly married to, then her primary and overriding concern MUST be for the fate of HIS ETERNAL SOUL, and for her own. Leaving the One True Church will not change the reality of her situation or the standards by which she will be judged. Megyn Kelley’s desires and beliefs are NOT the standard and arbiter of Truth. Our Lord Jesus Christ is.

Isn’t it sad and sick that NO ONE will tell this woman the truth, most especially the effeminate Bishop Robert Barron, clearly obsessed with human respect, and likely with the financial success that comes from worldly popularity, as he obviously is.

Pray for Megyn Kelley, her very likely valid “first” husband, her adulterous “civil spouse”, their three children that have been put in the middle of this tragic moral morass, and for +Barron and all the clergy whose priesthoods and episcopacies are abject public failures. And pray for the countless millions of people who are in pretty much exactly the same predicament that Kelley is in. The number of abandoned and/or abandoning spouses who recognize the lie of civil divorce, much less the lie of so many ‘c’atholic “annulments” passed out like so much candy by the Freemason-sodomite infiltrators of The Church today, and realize what is going on and continue to honor their valid, indissoluble marriage vows is terrifyingly small. Pray that these people find true shepherds that help them to get their lives back on the moral track, so that they may confess their sins, amend their lives, and someday achieve the Beatific Vision.

I hope this helps. If this piece angers you, as it will many, due to your own circumstances or the circumstances of loved ones, and you decide that you hate me personally – I’M TOTALLY FINE WITH THAT. At least the seed of Truth has been planted. All that matters is whether or not you reach the Beatific Vision. Anyone’s opinion of me personally is utterly irrelevant to that, and is really none of my business. If we both make it to the Beatific Vision, you can buy me a proverbial drink. There are no hard feelings in heaven.

ENROLL

Joseph Ratzinger’s Theology of Papacy and Church

Weekly Live Classes start Sunday April 7th, at 6pm PDT/9pm EDT and will run approximately 70-80 minutes. Q&A will follow for 10 minutes or more for those who can stay. I will suggest readings. No tests. No pressure. Content: Ages 13 and up. Recorded video link sent afterwards so you can watch on your own time! Join us this Lenten/Easter Season. (Projected duration 4 weeks)

Here is the first of Rembrandt’s two “Supper at Emmaus”.  I prefer the drama of this piece.  Note the disciple in the foreground shadow who has fallen out of his chair and is on his knees bowing to Our Lord, who has just revealed Himself in the Eucharist, and is about to disappear in His corporeal form.  The woman in the kitchen is going to walk out with a plate of something in a few seconds and say, “Where’d He go?” And the men are going to point at the Consecrated Host and say, “He’s RIGHT THERE!”