EVOLUTION HOAX? Michael Matt Interviews Chris Ferrara

Family Life International: a Michael Matt Interview (London)

Save the Family, Save the World (Michael Matt, London)

Vatican II & Pope Francis: Fr. Clovis Interviewed by Michael Matt

RTV in LONDON: Michael Matt interviews Father Linus Clovis. The conversation covers the question of refusing Communion to pro-abort politicians, the necessity of the TLM, Pope Francis, and Amoris Laetitia, which Father calls a "Trojan Horse." Plus, is Pope Francis an anomaly, or did Vatican II make Francis inevitable?

POPE HONORS KATY PERRY: Vatican Promotes TM

The Remnant: Catholic Colleges & Universities, RIP

MERCY MISUNDERSTOOD: Modernist Notions of Confession

Remnant TV: FROM THE SYNOD ON YOUNG PEOPLE, Libera Nos Domine

NO HELL BELOW US? (Staying Catholic Despite Pope Francis)

Quo Vadis? Pat Archbold at The Remnant

From The Remnant today:

We will fight in our parishes, we will fight in our dioceses, we will fight every lupine shepherd in sheep's clothing, we will fight online, we will fight with our wallets, we must fight and never stop fighting. We don't fight in hopes of a truce or for some less-unholy middle ground.  We fight for all of it. 

Recently a question was put to me by a friend. That question, in its essentials is this, "What now?  What are our options, given the current trajectory? What are we, lay people and individual clergy who see what is happening, to do when the destroyers have all the power?  How do we persevere and preserve?  How can we?" 

Thinking to formulate a systematic policy-based response to stem the tide, I struggle with the idea that there might be no such thing, that there is no flanking maneuver or rope-a-dope strategy that can stop the invasion and pummeling most certainly coming our way. 

It is foolish to try and envision a path out of this disaster without first looking at the path that brought us here. I am not qualified to offer a treatise on the scourge of modernism over the last century and a half, nor do I think such knowledge is required to address the realities of the situation.  I take rather the view of the ordinary Englishman as the Nazi scourge scoured the last vestiges of freedom from the continent knowing that when that task was done, he too would face it, he and his. 

I was born in 1967 into a Church that had already surrendered to the enemy, I just didn't know it. After that surrender, it became the task of successive Pontiffs to cede ground in order to maintain something that still resembled that which they inherited.  The Popes that ceded the least territory to the enemy in order to "conserve" that which remained, were hailed as heroes on the global stage.  Those who put up little resistance and gave ground easily had to content themselves merely with sainthood.  But each in their turn gave precious ground to the enemy. 

Those few faithful that refused to flee and abandon the Church altogether were told by those they trusted that all the ground ceded to the enemy was of no value anyway, that is was actually an encumbrance better jettisoned to preserve those things that really mattered. Then those things that really mattered were artfully moved into the encumbrance category and jettisoned with the rest.  Better to do this, we were told, then to fight.  Fighting only made things worse, made the tiger clench its jaws even tighter.  Best not to wiggle and squirm, it just turns people off.  This was the "conservative" approach.  That we should only be concerned with the 5 year rolling average of truth and not focus on what was already lost. 

But with the current papacy things have changed, somewhat. Yes, more people are waking up to the fact that there is no land left between us and the tiger and it has us in its jaws.  Feeling the clench and the pain, there are those that are finally waking up to the reality of the threat posed.  There can be no doubt that this is a necessary and crucial step to mounting any serious resistance.  But old habits are hard to break.  I recently saw a prominent clergyman, once firmly committed to the "conservative" approach, but now valiantly resisting that which must be resisted, publicly pining for the Church of 2012.  If only we could return to that golden era, things could be grand again.  If only we could take a few steps back from the tiger, surely, we would be saved. But this is the same mindset of surrender that brought us to this precipice. 

So where does that leave us? What do we do? 

What we must first do is recognize that the enemy, modernism and its mitred minions, will never stop. They will never just take enough and stop.  They will never be satiated. They will relentlessly continue until there is nothing left of True Religion.  Digging trenches is not a strategy for victory, but merely a delaying tactic for inevitable defeat.  That means we cannot just fight this fight where the current lines are drawn, our aim has to be to take it back, all of it.  That means the aim must be the recovery of all Truth and return fully to traditional Catholicism in its liturgy and formulations of the Truth and every promulgated falsehood, whether direct or indirect, must be purged from the Church.  Yes, traditional Catholicism is the only answer.  Seeking any kind of middle ground leaves the enemy on the field.  That can never be tolerated.  There were those valiant men who told us this at the beginning of the onslaught, but all too many of us were not prepared to listen. 

We can make no pretense that our backs are not currently to the wall. And even though most of the Church at every level has fallen into the iron grip of the enemy, we can never despair, even if we are reduced to a most pitiable state, persecuted by our own even in concert with oppressive states, seeking sacraments in secret, or worse.  We have God's promise that the Church will survive.  And we further have the promise of His mother that the Church will be restored after this terrible way of the cross. 

But in the meantime, we fight. There is no fleeing to the hills in hopes that we will be left alone there to rebuild Christianity.  The enemy would never allow it.  We must fight them on everything.  

We shall fight against every unholy innovation of this dark and destructive Church, not just the new ones, but all those that have brought us to this state. 

We will fight in our parishes, we will fight in our dioceses, we will fight every lupine shepherd in sheep's clothing, we will fight online, we will fight with our wallets, we must fight and never stop fighting. We don't fight in hopes of a truce or for some less-unholy middle ground.  We fight for all of it.  And we can never stop fighting until that day God calls us home or He decides in His infinite wisdom that His body has suffered enough and provides for that break in the front that will send the enemy scurrying.  

It is not in our power to win any given battle or the war, it is ours only to fight for what is right. That is the strategy, fight and never stop fighting until the strategy emerges in God's good time.  And then fight some more until the enemy is defeated.  It is us or them.

VATICAN SCANDAL: Exploiting The Benedict Option

The Remnant: Christopher Ferrara on The "Benedict Letter"

Chris Ferrara, writing yesterday on The Remnant, provides (maybe) the final analysis of the now infamous doctored "Benedict Letter."

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3789-more-fake-news-from-the-vatican-the-pope-in-the-attic-and-the-end-of-the-line-for-neo-Catholicism

The unprecedented and untenable division of the Church into traditionalist, “conservative” and liberal branches, with Bergoglio now clumsily attempting to saw off the first two branches, signals an historical turning point at which it seems only divine intervention of the most dramatic sort will be able to restore the Church to the path of Tradition from which her human element so tragically deviated at the Council. 

That day of divine reckoning seems almost to be upon us. But whenever it comes, and in whatever circumstances it takes place, our abiding faith in the Church’s indefectibility allows us confidently to predict an ultimately decisive defeat of what Pope Pius X, the sainted foe of Modernism in all its guises, denounced as the “unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. OMNIA INSTAURARE IN CHRISTO.”

The Remnant: Hilary White: Et Tu, Benedict?

https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/3786-et-tu-benedict-some-final-thoughts-on-joseph-ratzinger

Who is the real Joseph Ratzinger?
I have had long-time Vatican watchers say to me, more than once, “Maybe it’s really just that he wasn’t who we thought he was.” I suspect there is a lot more to this than most people might imagine. I think we made the mistake of believing the press. We were delighted that the bitterly anti-Catholic media hated and feared him. We failed to recall that they know nothing at all about Catholicism. 

What the papers never told us was that as a young priest and theologian Joseph Ratzinger was known as a “progressive,” as the term was understood in 1962. This reputation was cemented during his work as the peritus, the theological advisor, of one of the Council’s most influential of the bishops of the progressive camp, Cardinal Josef Frings of Cologne. Frings’ claim to fame in that great drama was a speech criticising the CDF – and its prefect Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani – for the “conservatism” in the “schema,” the documents prepared by the CDF for guiding the bishops’ discussions.

Pope Francis: The Movie (Catholics To Boycott)

Remnant TV: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS & CHURCH CLOSINGS: The Neo-Catholic Spring

SAINT Pope Paul VI? (When Pigs Fly!)

Down in the catacombs, Michael Matt looks as the life and legacy of one of the worst popes in history—the man Pope Francis now intends to canonize in October. Does papal infallibility seriously come into this farce? Please! At this point, claiming the Holy Ghost has anything even to do with such an obvious political stunt—aimed at canonizing the revolution of Vatican II—borders on the blasphemous. Plus, Francis is reportedly set to stab Chinese Catholics in the back in favor of Communist puppet bishops. Everybody okay with that? Has the Vatican lost its mind completely?

PRO-LIFE PREZ: Main Reason They Hate Trump

From Remnant TV:

Sunday Sermons of South St. Paul. Father tackles the question of the Vatican's rediscovered "seamless garment"-- calling it a 'filthy rag that needs to be burned'  And then he moves on to President Trump, hailing him -- from the PULPIT, mind you -- as the 'most pro-life president in 45 years.  Given the volatile political climate at present, we really wonder how many other priests in America would have the courage to give this sermon. Many, we hope and pray. 

CONFUSING CATHOLICS: Inclusivity Trumps Morality

Down in the catacombs, Michael Matt discusses the case of a young priest in Minnesota who's taking heat for firing "married" homosexual musicians in his parish.  The parish is divided, the media are outraged, and the faithful are confused. Whose fault is this? The priest's? No, he's just doing his job. The gay musicians’? No, not really—they've been working in the same parish for over ten years, and nobody objected. Michael calls on Catholics—liberal and conservative alike–to demand that the 'Church of Accompaniment' either edit and remove the Catechism of the Catholic Church's moral teaching on this question….or enforce it. There is no other way.  Hate has nothing to do with it. Padre Pio and Pope John Paul were pretty clear on this question too, by the way. Are we to conclude that they too were intolerant, non-inclusive haters? 

How long does the madness go on before Catholics demand answers  from our feckless priests, bishops and popes?

SCHISM RISING? 7 Bishops Resist Pope's Revolution

TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM: International Youth Movement

From The Remnant Newspaper:

When even more conservative bishops such as Alexander Sample find it necessary to partner with Evangelical outfits such as the 'non-denominational' ministry, ‘Young Life, to try to get disenfranchised Catholic kids to come back to the Church, it's obvious there's a big problem. 

Just 50 years after Vatican II the Catholic world has lost its Catholic identity to such an extent that the bishops are reduced to consulting non-Catholic ministries to help them stop the hemorrhaging of Catholic young people out of the Church. One wonders if a non-denominational Protestant partnership can help resolve problems caused by a largely Protestantized Catholic liturgy.  But there is a Catholic alternative that is working and that is taking root all over the world. 

What is it? It's called going back to the future, and it’s an international Catholic youth movement based on the Traditional Latin Mass.