As I keep trying to drive home, the Church is a Supernatural institution, created by God as His Bride, and Mystical Body, of which He is the Head.  And God, being God, is a really, really, really good organizer and “Human Resources manager”.  Being omniscient tends to yield… COMPETENCE.

The Divine Providence – always perfect, by the way – has given us the 1983 Code of Canon Law.  That is the Law of the Church.  To think that the Divine Providence would put us, the Church Militant, into this situation with the Bergoglian Antipapacy – a JURIDICAL situation – without any sort of Rule of Law, or even a Rule of Law that didn’t provide clear, visible protections of the Petrine See is madness, and flirting with blasphemy.  Why?  Because it would directly imply an INCOMPETENCE on God’s part, a failure of the Divine Providence.  Argue this at your own peril.

So, given this, let’s look at Canon 359, which very clearly addresses the juridical competence of the College of Cardinals, a body which Trad Inc. “thought leaders” simultaneously declare INFALLIBLE on a DOGMATIC LEVEL, any questioning of which is an act of SCHISM, and then literally in the next breath declare the same men to be subscribers to “a different religion”, and “not the Church” (because remember, ALL Cardinals are Novus Ordo). Yes, the cognitive dissonance is absolutely staggering, and is simply a proof set that “diabolical disorientation” is real, and what it looks like. Daily Mass and Rosary (while in a state of grace, obviously) is the first line of defense against diabolical disorientation.  This is why I recommend it so VERY strenuously in these dark days of confusion.

Can. 359 When the Apostolic See is vacant, the college of cardinals possesses only that power in the Church which is attributed to it in special law.

Can. 359 — Sede Apostolica vacante, Cardinalium Collegium ea tantum in Ecclesia gaudet potestate, quae in peculiari lege eidem tribuitur.

Folks, the very first clause is the punchline in this situation: WHEN THE APOSTOLIC SEE IS VACANT.

What this Canon does is 100% prohibit and utterly nullify ANY conclave convened while the Petrine See is STILL OCCUPIED, that is, NOT VACANT – no matter what the circumstance, including totally unprecedented circumstances, such as this current situation of Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger trying to partially resign only the administrative/governance ministerio, and “expand” the Petrine Office into a “collegial, synodal, shared ministry”.

I have to laugh at the argument that any situation without precedent, such as this situation today, must therefore be non-existent, because EVERY situation JUST MUST have a precedent.  If this were true, then it would negate existence itself, because if nothing can exist without a precedent, then by LOGICAL DEFINITION, no “first instance” can EVER occur.  But if a first instance is required to set a circumstantial precedent, but no first instance can ever occur because everything MUST have a circumstantial precedent…. Oh dear.  [begin sarcasm] So much for Our Lord’s Incarnation.  That had never happened before, so it must not have actually happened.  And so much for God dying on the Cross.  God had never died before, so that must not have happened either.  So much for the Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the physical substance of God, because that had never happened before, so it must not have actually happened at the Last Supper, and thus it has never happened subsequently.  I’m afraid reality itself is all a lie.  So much for John 1:1.  I guess that has been a gross misunderstanding by a bunch of bead-squeezing simpletons, too. [end sarcasm]

WHAT WE ARE LIVING THROUGH RIGHT NOW HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. NOTHING EVEN CLOSE. WHINING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL BECAUSE THERE ARE NO IKEA INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS AND WE THEREFORE HAVE TO USE OUR OWN FACULTIES OF RATIONAL DISCERNMENT ILLUMINATED BY FAITH AND THE GIFTS OF THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION IS AS CLEAR A MANIFESTATION OF THE VICES OF EFFEMINACY AND SLOTH AS CAN BE IMAGINED. I can think of no clearer and more severe historical example of the near-total dearth of masculinity in a human population, ever. No human society is history has ever been this emmasculated.

If the See is occupied, for whatever reason and under whatever circumstance – IF THERE IS A LIVING POPE, OCCUPYING THE SEE, WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT – it is completely, totally, 100% impossible for a valid conclave to be convened.  This isn’t an instance of “illicit yet valid” – as we see from Canon 359 above.  It is ONTOLOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a valid conclave to be called, much less a valid Pope coming out of such an invalid conclave.  PERIOD.  This is absolutely essential in order to protect the Papacy.  To think that God couldn’t foresee this and specifically, explicitly provide for it in these dark days is madness.

Why?  Because God isn’t an idiot, and is, in fact, a really, really good “Human Resources manager”. And loves us.  Don’t ever, ever forget that.  He loves us, and would NEVER break his promise to us, His Church. That Antipope Bergoglio is proof that God has reneged on His promise to Peter and Peter’s successors is now taken for GRANTED by most “Trad Inc.” partisans (many of whom are now coming out publicly as either atheists or open schismatics in the true sense of the word.)

Think about it folks, do you honestly believe that Our Lord would permit the College of Cardinals to call in error, malice or for any other reason a conclave WHILE THE SEE IS STILL OCCUPIED? While there is still a sitting Pope?  Do you honestly believe that Our Lord would:

WITHDRAW the ONTOLOGICAL REALITY of the PAPACY from a VALIDLY SEATED (and in this case, STILL VALIDLY SEATED due to the proffering of a Substantially Erroneous attempted “partial” resignation of the ACTIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE MINISTERIO, BUT NOT THE OFFICE IN SE) Pope, and then bestow the Papacy upon another man, all because the College of Cardinals said so?  Law be damned?  Common sense be damned?  Order be damned?  The Papacy be damned? THE CHURCH HERSELF BE DAMNED??

[begin sarcasm] So all this time, the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth COULD have been deposed if the College of Cardinals got together and decided to simply call a conclave.  So, what this means is that the Papacy, all this time, has been subject to a VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE, and that hence forth, we should expect that the Pope will serve AT THE PLEASURE OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, and the truth is, it has been this way all along, it’s just that the entire Church Militant, every saint, and every doctor of the Church for the past 2000 years has completely misunderstood the Papacy, and only NOW, only NOW in this age of moral depravity, social media addiction, and a near-total collapse of anything that could honestly be called “Academia” in the Church, only NOW is all of this being figured out BY ATHEISTS AND LITERAL SCHISMATICS.   [end sarcasm] 

Ummmmm.  NO.

[begin sarcasm] Every instance of the “Tu Es Petrus” being prayed for these 2000 years has been a hideous manifestation of the stupidity and ridiculous and MORTALLY SINFUL papolatry of the Church Militant.  Youbetcha. 

Latinists?  We need a translation.  Instead of “Tu es Petrus….” we need the Latin for:

“You are the College of Cardinals, and upon this slag heap I will build My Church.”

Because Jesus clearly got it wrong, and the Holy Ghost clearly erred in recoding Our Blessed Lord’s mistake in the Gospels.

Funny, though, how the play on words goes away.  Huh.  Funny that.  It’s almost enough to make one think that the whole changing of Simon Bar-Jona’s name to ROCK, like, meant something profound.  Ah, what infantile stupidity!  Thank God that “Pope Fwaanciss” has liberated us from such childish notions!  Now, finally, the Church can move forward, acknowledging the supremacy of the College of Cardinals as the REAL power, and the Papacy can finally, at long last, be understood as the meaningless figurehead position that it always has been. [end sarcasm]

Folks, WELCOME TO FREEMASONRY.  Whether you enter the Lodge through the front door, or the back door in the alley, you’re still in the Lodge.

Pro tip: if your position is irrational and lines up EXACTLY with the clearly stated goals of freemasonry, and of satan himself, you MIGHT want to check your base premise.

And remember, this is of the utmost importance because IF Bergoglio somehow “goes away” while Pope Benedict XVI is still alive and occupying the See as he is today, and another “conclave” is called, that conclave WILL ALSO BE INVALID, and it will yield ANOTHER Antipope.

Folks, we HAVE TO GET THIS RIGHT.  Half-measures and half-truth simply doesn’t work.  Either this situation gets fixed at the root, or else it will only get worse.  The chaos of the false base premise will continue and grow, and then we will end up with an Antipope Zuppi or Antipope Tagle, 20 years younger than Antipope Bergoglio. This is why the whole “Bergoglio is a heretic” tack, and likewise the “electioneering” of the ARSH 2013 faux-conclave are rabbit holes that both lead to hell, even though the folks pursuing them are really good people.  Bergoglio never has been the Pope and thus his obvious status as an arch-heretic is NOT LEGALLY GERMANE, because there WAS NO CONCLAVE in March of ARSH 2013.  We HAVE to get this right.

Pray for Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger, the Papacy, and Holy Mother Church.

And GO TO MASS, and consider asking Our Lord to give YOU, in imitation of Our Lord in the Garden, scourged at the Pillar, and being nailed to the Cross, any temporal punishment that might be due to a priest who erroneously or under fearful coercion commemorates the wrong man at the Te Igitur.  “Give it to me.” NOTHING enflames fraternal charity quite so quickly as volunteering to take on temporal punishment for another, most especially for priests and bishops, who, God knows, need all the support in this sense that we can give them.

Our Lady, undoer of knots, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and on Your Holy Church.

One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic…

Some beauty of the Catholic Church. This African old lady singing in Latin perfectly. Hope you love this video, blessings! pic.twitter.com/mUXfO1vm9I

— Rev Fr Petros Mwale (@fr_petros) December 13, 2022

Hi Ann,

I’m not sure if it came to anyone’s attention that Christopher Ferrara made pretty much the exact same argument as Dr. Mazza is making now back in 2013 before Bergoglio was even “elected”.

What’s with these people?

Yours sincerely,

J

Dear J,

Sadly, as I reported years ago, when Father Nicholas Gruner died in ARSH 2014, there was jockeying over the assets of and donor pipeline of The Fatima Center. The former (?) 33rd Degree Freemason, John Salza, swooped in and pressured a family that was getting ready to make a seven-figure donation to The Fatima Center to make the donation contingent upon the Fatima Center totally reversing Fr. Gruner’s very public position that Pope Benedict never validly resigned – a position that Fr. Gruner’s disciple, Christopher Ferrara, shared, as clearly seen in his essay below dated March 1, ARSH 2013.

Remember, in the summer of ARSH 2016, Chris Ferrara walked up to me at a social gathering as I was chatting with Mike Matt and said, “Look, we all think that you’re probably right [about the Antipapacy and Pope Benedict’s invalid resignation].” And then proceeded with the “Who do you think you are to be saying it publicly?” idiocy. My response is, Who do I have to be?  Keeping this fact in mind, read Ferrara’s essay from the day after Pope Benedict attempted to quit, and understand that YES, he really does think that I’m right – and NonVeni Mark is right, and Dr. Mazza is right. Because Ferrara held exactly the same position UNTIL FR. NICHOLAS GRUNER DIED. Then, when that estate and that donation pipeline came up for grabs, Chris Ferrara, with the “encouragement” of the former (?) 33rd Degree Freemason John Salza, did a one-eighty.

I reprint in full, for the historical record, Chris Ferrara’s essay from March 1, ARSH 2013. Remember, there was no “Pope Fwanciss” when this was written. There was no daily heresy, no worshiping and enthroning of Taco-mama demons, no attempts to suppress the Holy and August Sacrifice of the Mass in the Venerable and Immemorial Rite of Pius V, no aggressive cooperation with the CoronaScam and Human Depopulation agenda, none of it. And yet the canonical invalidity of what Pope Benedict had done was ALREADY GLARINGLY VISIBLE. And if you’re thinking, “Man, that sounds like Dr. Mazza or NonVeni Mark could have written that…” you’re exactly right.

HERE IS THE LINK ON THE WAYBACK MACHINE.

A Quasi-Pope?

by Christopher A. Ferrara
March 1, 2013

The See of Peter is now vacant and the Church will be without a Pope until the next one is elected. But in his last audience address on February 27, Pope Benedict XVI introduced some ambiguity into the matter, as did his entire decision to resign while retaining his papal garb — the white cassock — his papal name, Benedict XVI, and even the title His Holiness. (In terms of outward appearances, it seems the only changes will be Benedict’s residence and the color of his shoes — no longer red but brown.)

As the Pope remarked during his last public audience, when he became Pope on April 19, 2005 “I was always and forever committed for the Lord. Always — those who assume the Petrine ministry no longer have any privacy. Always and totally [they] belong [] to everyone, the entire Church. His life is, so to speak, totally deprived of the private sphere.” But, he went on to say:

The “always” is also a “forever” — there is no return to the private [life]. My decision to forgo the exercise of active ministry does not revoke this fact. I am not returning to private life, to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences and so on. I am not abandoning the cross, but I am remaining at the foot of the Crucified Lord. I will no longer vest the power of the office for the government of the Church, but in the service of prayer rest, so to speak, in the yard of St. Peter. St. Benedict, whose name I bare as Pope, is a great example of this. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

What is one to make of this affirmation? The statement that Benedict’s abdication of the papacy represents merely “forego[ing] the exercise of active ministry” is curious. Will the new title of “Pope Emeritus” have some sort of passive ministry, and will it be, passively, some sort of papal ministry?

Notice, moreover, the ambiguous, and I must say rather disturbing, phraseology: “I will no longer vest the power of the office for the government of the Church, but in the service of prayer rest, so to speak, in the yard of St. Peter.” What is the meaning of this distinction between “the power of the office” of Pope and the office itself?

Further, if the papacy was the cross that God laid upon Benedict’s shoulders in 2005, how can it be the case that he is “not abandoning the cross” by renouncing the papal office, as he states he is doing in the announcement of his resignation? Does Benedict mean to imply that in some way he has not renounced the papacy entirely? Is this why he will retain the name, title, and garb of his office?

I do not mean to suggest that Benedict is implying that he will, in some legal or juridical sense, remain Pope. But there is an implication here of some kind of ontological papal residuum, so to speak, that remains in him even now. Yet, unlike the Sacrament of Holy Orders or the Sacrament of Baptism, election to the papacy leaves no indelible mark on the soul.

So, why does Benedict thus muddy the waters instead of simply making it clear that he will cease entirely to be Pope — rather than simply losing the power of the office? Do we not see here yet another example of the blurring of concepts that has plagued the Church since Vatican II, or what the genius Romano Amerio called a “loss of essences” — the clear distinction between one thing and another — in post-conciliar thinking?

Must we now accommodate an ambiguity even as to the nature of the papal office? Have we seen the emergence of the latest post-conciliar novelty in the Church: the quasi-Pope? The “retired Pope” who in some vague way remains a Pope of sorts? Does this make any more sense than “retired King”? Or is this just another way of signaling the rejection of the traditional teaching on the monarchical character of the papacy, which reflects the monarchical constitution of the universe itself?

Am I being unreasonable? The thought occurred to me. But just after writing the column I received by email a report by Robert Moynihan, the estimable editor of Inside the Vatican, who addresses precisely this issue. He writes:

And yet, if Benedict’s words of this morning mean anything — and I acknowledge that my way of interpreting the situation may seem quite mysterious and strange — they also mean that the See is not totally vacant…

I hesitate to formulate it in this way, as it may seem that I am proposing that there are two Popes, or soon could be. This is not the case. Rather, there are emerging two ways of exercising the Petrine office, one of action, the other of prayer and contemplation.

In this interpretation, the new Pope will take up the active office, while the “emeritus Pope” continues that aspect of the office which is of prayer and contemplation. This is what Benedict seems to be saying — disconcerting, perplexing, confusing as it may seem.

Disconcerting, perplexing and confusing indeed! But after years of confusion in the Church, often remarked by Benedict himself, what we need is clarity, utter clarity, once again.

Let us pray that the next Pope restores the “Yes, yes, no, no” that Our Lord enjoins upon all the members of the Church He founded. The first step in that regard will be to do at last what Our Lady asked of the Pope at Fatima nearly a century ago — a centenary that should fill us with apprehension as one Pope abdicates and is replaced by another.

-Christopher Ferrara
March 1, 2013

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What a brilliant and beautiful gift. Talk about an amazing baby shower gift – a gift certificate for a portrait of the baby in utero! I can just envision families with a wall of prenatal portraits, as sonograms were first introduced in the 70’s. It would be possible for some families to have these portraits of three generations now: grandparent – parent – child! And, the artist also has done commissioned portraits of children lost to miscarriage “In memoriam”. Again, how beautiful, and consoling. What a moving way to live the scripture:

Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.
Priusquam te formarem in utero, novi te : et antequam exires de vulva, sanctificavi te, et prophetam in gentibus dedi te.