RadTrad Thomist

We have had a bit of interesting information provided to us by one of our readers. On August 28th, the same day that we were informed that the Canadian Branch of the Fatima Center had cut off the American Branch of Fr. Gruner's work, our reader sent a video to  someone at the Fatima Center (Fort Erie, Ontario) of Fr. Paul Kramer describing the meeting between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Francis I in Rome in 2013. In this meeting, according to Fr. Kramer's diplomatic and Vatican sources, Putin actually asked Francis about the Consecration of Russia to be done. Francis responded by saying, "We will not speak of Fatima!" Fr. Kramer then mentions a statement of a high level Vatican official who says to a Russian intelligent agent that, "We will crush Fatima!" Our reader also sent to a contact in the Fatima Center information about Fr. Kramer's Facebook page on which are posted articles that argue for the position of Resignationism, which holds tha...

This is the woman who was taught by an Angel from Heaven how to adore the Eucharistic Lord Jesus? Um, I don't think so. Update: If you look at the video on the front page of my site --- click the video to make it full screen --- you will see the awkwardness with which "Sister Lucy" received communion from JPII. Clearly she shows no awareness of how to receive communion properly as a traditional Catholic would. She demonstrates no Eucharistic piety. What you do see in this video is that clearly "Sister Lucy" is used to receiving communion in the hand --- note how she raises her hand as soon as JPII offers her communion. She then shows no awareness of how to stick out her tongue when receiving communion --- she barely opens her mouth for it --- and IMMEDIATELY after receiving she goes to grab the hand of JPII and kiss it with the host barely in her own mouth. Again, this is the woman who received holy communion from an angel??? I have posted a ...

Fatima Center Splits After Fr. Paul Kramer DISINVITED to California Conference....Details to follow soon.

Update: A collaborator has come forward who is willing to work with me in trying to attain the objective truth with regard to the "Two Lucys" question. I will update you all on how this project is progressing.  We are trying to assess the financial resources that will be needed for this investigation. Dear Readers, After over a year of study and reflection on this problem of the "Two Sister Lucys," I believe that it is imperative to tackle this question and assimilate the implications of the clear preponderance of the evidence which indicates that Sister Lucia --- the actual seer of Fatima --- was gotten rid of by Vatican officials and a fake "Sister Lucy" was put in her place, one that would not object to the complete falsification of the Fatima Message that would take place in the years after 1958-1959. Not withstanding the distortion and deemphasizing of the Fatima Message, the reality of the evil currently resident in the Vatican comes more poi...

Descartes' Dream: From Sense to Nonsense It is not surprising that the philosophical-theological error that we refer to as "modernism" should begin with a dream. The dream, or actually a set of three consecutive dreams, happened on the night of November 10, 1619, the vigil of the Feast of St. Martin of Tours, which was a time of great feasting in the France of Rene Descartes's time. We are right to wonder whether Descartes "protests too much," when he asserted in his autobiographical work that he had abstained from wine for some time before the night of his famous dreams. What he does admit, however, is that for several days prior to his experience, which would transform the basic orientation of philosophy, he had felt a "steady rise of temperature in his head." 1 The young Descartes, some 23 years old when he found himself on that cold November's night "shut up alone in a stove-heated room (poêle) " had been quite an ecc...

The Infiltration of Modernism In The Church    The commentary in the brackets is my own; I have also put in bold the sections of the conference that I want to emphasize. It is important for all sides to recognize what Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre actually thought and said. Here we have a conference given  in 1982, when the struggle over the existence of Tradition was full on. The Infiltration of Modernism In The Church The following conference was given by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre at Montreal, Canada in 1982. It demonstrates by personal experience the tragic corruption of modernism right from the time of Pope Pius XI. The Archbishop describes the extraordinary influence of Monsignor Annibale Bugnini in the framing of the New Mass and how his unprecedented daring brought about the “approval” of this protestantized liturgy. We present it to our readers to allow them to share a more personal viewpoint of the Archbishop’s battle for the Church and for the Fa...