RadTrad Thomist

Well Benedict Ratzinger in his interview turned book, God and the World , said that priests don't go around to the faithful anymore when they are very ill or near death, since that "makes people afraid." Well, I suppose if you reject sanctifying grace, as John Paul II, Benedict, and Francis did, there would be no need. 

The friends of Sister Lucy Truth that I have met in Rome so far, tried to provide me an answer to the question as to why, so many pilgrims of all ages, especially young people a couple of days ago, would be flocking to fawn on every aspect of Francis/Bergoglio, the viewing of his body, his funeral, and to view his awful grave that stands in stark contrast to the astounding beauty of St. Mary Major. A cement hole in the wall with Francis' abstract "crucifix" are the things that strike you the most when you visit.  My friends, who are traditionalists in the widest sense, say that what I am looking at is a facade. The Italian Left were big lovers of Francis, for the simple reason that he was one of them. The young people like the New Church doctrine of living together without marriage and no demand to believe in particular doctrines, especially the doctrine of Hell. Francis has culminated Vatican II by creating a "church" without definitive lines, both with re...

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As I stood crushed against a metal barrier in front of St. Peter's Square, originally looking for a way out, but then following a string of Italian youth somehow making their way forward into the center of St. Peter's Square for the funeral of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, known to the world as Francis I, I realized that a critical moment had come in the history of the Church, the World, and even of the human race. We had arrived at the moment when the dreams of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, Freemasonic Secretary of State for Leo X|II and leader of a Vatican Masonic Lodge, had achieved his triumph. There were hundreds of thousands of pressing people, many youth, religious from around the world, and nearly the entire leadership of the world, cheering for and honoring as a triumphal pope, a man who any other Catholic age, any Father of the Church, any saint prior to those "canonized" by Francis, any scholastic theologian of former ages, would certainly  have thought of...

“If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” Jn. 15:19 The crowds, feeling like hundreds of thousands of people, who "lined up" last night to pass by Jorge Bergoglio's open casket, were faces without tears. I checked. Was there one person in that ocean of people trying to get into Vatican City, who gave off even the slightest appearance of feeling sorrow in their hearts over the passing of the man whom the world knew as Pope Francis. Maybe mourning is something that has passed from our collective consciousness? But I don't think so. There is always tears, sometimes streams of them, when a person dies, especially when a person dies "before their time." There is also or there should be, a spirit of gravity as friends and family collectively confront the stern realities of life and death, absence and the hole that opens up in one's ...