RadTrad Thomist

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 ...

Rome is crowding up with mobs of people in the days before the funeral of Jorge Bergoglio. The streets are full of the people and Novus Ordo religious, nuns and small streams of Franciscans, who can be seen flowing down all of the main arteries of the city. There is absolutely no sign of mourning . None. What is occurring in peoples' hearts cannot be known by mere sight, but normally the emotions are revealed by external acts. Tears. No such thing is happening in Rome on the day before the funeral of a man currently being lionized by the press and granted a pass by almost all. The world, which includes the "Catholic" world, is treating him like an old grandfather who was nice to people and who was concerned for the poor. I do not sense any love for Francis here amongst the people gathered in Rome. On several occasions, in the last few days, there has been literal dancing in the streets by youth who were rapping, seemingly unaware that the flags of the Second Italian Repub...

If we did not have the promises of Our Lord Jesus Christ that the Church of Christ would survive to the end of the world and that the Roman See is indefectible, we could reasonably view the traditionalist war for the Catholic Religion as a near complete failure. A man who said publicly that Luther was correct with regard to the question of Justification, that there is no Hell, that God wills all religions and does not just tolerate them, that non-believers should not be converted to the Church --- that being a supreme no-no, that sodomitic "unions" could be blessed, and that divorced and remarried people should not worry about taking "a piece of bread and a little wine," should be looked at with horror by the faithful and, even, by a world that appreciates the Catholic Church's role in the world. But he is not, quite the contrary. It is this man who began, if we except Jose Marie Escriva, to canonize all of the pantheon of Novus Ordo "saints." All of t...