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Pope Leo’s Letter to the SSPX
Dear Friends: The Catholic Church is on the verge of civil war. The Vatican has greenlit the homosexual lifestyle, as I proved in last week’s Underground (link in comments), and this week we have Cardinal Bob McElroy teaming up with Father Jimmy Martin for an alphabet soup conference that beautifully confirms what I was saying last week.
And who’s getting excommunicated? Certainly not Cardinal Bob or Father Jimmy! But wait, there’s more!
This morning, Pope Leo sent a letter to the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X, warning them not to tear the “seamless tunic” of Christ’s Church in half tomorrow. He says he is finally ready to dialogue.
“Trust us! We’re from the Vatican, and we’re here to help!”
I'm sorry, but maybe His Holiness should have thought of that before continuing his predecessor’s mad rampage to cancel the Latin Mass worldwide -- a big part of the reason why the SSPX is seeking recourse in the emergency provisions of Canon Law to safeguard the Traditional Mass and Sacraments.
With due respect, does His Holiness think we're suffering from Stockholm Syndrome to such an extent that as the Vatican continues to ruthlessly rip the Latin Mass out of our lives, we’d somehow welcome a papal sermon on how the SSPX is tearing the seamless tunic apart? Since that Latin Mass is the only Mass our children ever knew, Traditionis Custodes is basically an encyclical letter instructing our children to go to hell.
Trust the Vatican? Why ever would the SSPX do that?
And what about the Vatican's role in tearing the “seamless tunic” to shreds by throwing traditionalists out of their churches, treating their priests like criminals, and driving their communities into gymnasiums? Just ask Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte how it works.
And this is to say nothing about the clerical sex scandals that have been rocking the Church ever since our children can remember. But the SSPX is the problem, because they want to establish oases of Catholic life for our kids in the middle of the spiritual desert the Vatican has made of the Catholic Church?
Meanwhile, we’ve got some Novus Latin Mass buffs – perched precariously on the fence, moistened fingers in the air – trying to please the guards by throwing the SSPX even further under the bus: “The SSPX are behaving like Protestants,” they solemnly inform their follower. “We are NOT like THEM!”
It’s not that I don’t admire their courage to speak in the absence of knowledge but were it not for Archbishop Lefebvre, these guys would never have had the Latin Masses Francis canceled in the first place. Why not? Because that Mass would have died the death in August of 1988.
But that doesn't stop these windbags with liturgical preferences and an assigned seat in the choir loft. Nope, they tell us that Archbishop Lefebvre and his successors are "no better than Martin Luther."
Okay, but two talking points about that:
1) From the point of view of the ecumenical all-religions-are-good Vatican, even if that were true -- and the SSPX is just a modern iteration of Martin Luther -- wouldn't that be a good thing?
2) Ever since Pope Paul VI invited six Protestant consultants to Vatican II, the Vatican has been obsessively Protestant-friendly. Why, we even got a thoroughly Protestantized Mass out of the deal.
So, if the SSPX were to act more Protestant, they obviously wouldn't be getting excommunicated in the first place. This might be quite funny, I suppose, were it not so tragically indicative of a massive state of emergency in the Catholic Church... that starts right at the top!
Like and share (link in comments). No matter where you come down on the SSPX, do not let Cardinal Tucho Fernandez blow us all apart. The SSPX is NOT the problem in the Church today. Pray for the Pope, pray for the SSPX, and unite the clans.
In Christo Rege,
Michael J. Matt
@HOTDNewsHBO One of my favorite scenes, the ending of one of the most evil, backstabbing, heartless, cruel, charlatan, a person who only had loyalty to himself.
@DavidJHarrisJr True faith aligns with the Commandment 'Thou shalt not kill’, & 2000 years of Christian faith. Life is a gift from God from conception to natural death, claiming His presence in the death of the unborn is a grave distortion of the Gospel and a rejection of the natural law.
@CatholicSOTC This is why many are returning to the Traditional Latin Mass. When a priest loses sight of the sacredness of the Blessed Sacrament, the faithful suffer. The "mechanical" nature he dislikes is actually the humility of the ritual, where the priest steps aside for Christ.
@SarahAllisonFl If Muslim children were forced into a Catholic Church for a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament, the world would erupt in outrage. Why is it 'education' when it’s a mosque, but 'intolerance' when it’s our own faith? We must stop the self-destruction of our Christian roots
@WHLeavitt It isn't 'hatred' to speak the truth. In the West, we are forced to tolerate everything while our faith is erased. But if I took a Rosary or a Eucharist procession into a strict Muslim nation, I’d face arrest, lashing or beheading!! Why is 'tolerance' only a one-way street?
@TarekTx@WHLeavitt It isn't 'hatred' to speak the truth. In the West, we are forced to tolerate everything while our faith is erased. But if I took a Rosary or a Eucharist procession into a strict Muslim nation, I’d face arrest or lashing or beheading! Why is 'tolerance' only a one-way street?
@elonmusk360news Imagine the outcry if a Catholic held a Rosary or led a Eucharist procession in a strict Muslim nation. In many places, that leads to arrest or worse. Why do we allow our culture and Christian roots to be eroded while others fiercely protect their own borders?