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| Black smoke after Thursday morning votes: no new pope yet |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-08-2025, 10:10 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Black smoke after Thursday morning votes: no new pope yet
The black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney once again on Thursday
at the close of the first of two sessions of votes being held today.
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Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel on morning go May 8, 2025
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May 8, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel after the morning votes on Thursday, meaning that cardinals in conclave remain undecided about who is to be the new pope.
At around 11.50am local time, onlookers in the square below witnessed the black smoke emerge from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. The smoke came to mark the conclusion of the morning session of the conclave, which is comprised of two rounds of votes.
On a full day of conclave, cardinals hold a morning session with two rounds of votes, and an afternoon session which also has two rounds of votes.
If no pope is elected in the first round of either the morning or afternoon session then the cardinals proceed straight to the second session, without releasing the black smoke.
However, if a new pope is elected during any round of votes then white smoke will be released from the temporary chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the world will wait to see a new pope presented from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The cardinals began the conclave yesterday morning, starting with the Mass for the election of a new pope before processing into the Sistine Chapel in the afternoon.
Once inside the famous chapel, they swore their oaths of secrecy regarding the conclave – promising not to reveal details to any non-cardinal electors under pain of excommunication.
Previous conclaves back to that which elected Pope Paul VI have taken just two days. Precedent of the recent decades thus suggests that a new pope could be elected swiftly, perhaps even on Thursday or Friday.
However, many cardinals have observed that they do not know each other, and this key aspect might lead to a slightly longer conclave than normal.
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Posted by: Deus Vult - 05-07-2025, 09:45 PM - Forum: Event Schedule
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This year's Young Adult Gathering will be from July 18th - 21st, 2025
at the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart in Wentworth, New Hampshire!
For Catholic Singles aged 18 - 35
Please include the following info:
Full Name, Age, Address, Phone Number, Email, and if you’ll need transportation from Boston MA airport
(and flight info if applicable)
Transportation to and from the Boston MA [Logan] airport is available if needed.
[Another airport option to fly into would be MHT Manchester-Boston Regional Airport]
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| The Catholic Trumpet: Legitimately Promulgated? |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-07-2025, 01:18 PM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Legitimately Promulgated?
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | May 6, 2025
In 1988, +Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre signed a protocol with Rome, and retracted it in 24 hours.
He refused to legitimize the New Mass.
He called it a “bastard rite.”
He saw the revolution behind the reform.
And he chose fidelity over false peace.
But in 2012, Bishop Bernard Fellay signed a new doctrinal declaration.
This time, one word changed everything: “legitimately.”
That single word accepted the New Mass not just as valid—but as lawful.
And it has never been retracted.
This episode exposes the entire war hidden in one phrase. It contrasts Lefebvre’s 24-hour retraction with Fellay’s 12-year silence. It walks through St. Thomas Aquinas’ definition of law, the SSPX’s own 2001 liturgical study, and the devastating reality of compromise.
One word once split Christendom.
One word today defines the battle for the Church, and by the grace of God, we will continue exposing the rest of the compromises of the 2012 Declaration until it is publicly retracted by the SSPX or Bishop Fellay.
This isn’t about semantics. This is about the Catholic Faith of all time.
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| Viganò sues Vatican Bank, implicates Cardinal Parolin |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-06-2025, 12:55 PM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Viganò sues Vatican Bank, implicates Cardinal Parolin
'The Civil Court of Rome will be asked for an international rogatory so that the competent Vatican Authorities order the preventive and precautionary seizure of the aforementioned assets.'
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May 5, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued a press release saying he has sued the Vatican Bank for appropriating assets meant for charity and that Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin knows about the alleged impropriety.
“I gave a mandate to Prof. Attorney AUGUSTO SINAGRA with Legal Firm in Rome in Viale Gorizia n. 13, to file a lawsuit with the Civil Court of Rome against the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) of the Vatican, in the person of the previous Directors General and in the person of the current Director General, Dr. Gian Franco Mammì, along with a Prelate of the Roman Curia,” Vigano wrote in the press release issued Monday.
Summing up the alleged affair, Viganò said:
Quote:The lawsuit concerns an undue appropriation of very valuable assets deposited at the IOR that were intended to be used for works of charity.
The Civil Court of Rome will be asked for an international rogatory so that the competent Vatican Authorities order the preventive and precautionary seizure of the aforementioned assets. At the same time, all the expert opinions – in addition to those already acquired – necessary to assess the responsibility of the various people involved, and the quality of their conditions and their conduct will be requested.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, among the most favored papal appointees, has been fully aware of the story and all its implications for some time, also on the impetus of the significant endorsement given to him by the Freemason Prof. Giuliano Di Bernardo, former Grand Master of the Great East Lodge of Italy.
His Eminence is well informed about the facts and all the events that in his time, and even recently, saw him involved and questioned. I considered it my duty to proceed through the courts to request the return of said goods following a repeated denial by Cardinal Parolin to make reparation outside of court of the serious damage that has been caused to me.
The Cardinal will be – along with many others – also called as a witness to confirm what is already incontrovertibly proven from documents in my possession and also possessed by Cardinal Parolin himself.
This story is developing …
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| Leading Freemason supports Cardinal Parolin for Pope, says Francis had masonic ties |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-06-2025, 12:52 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Leading Freemason supports Cardinal Parolin for Pope, says Francis had masonic ties
'If the Church still has a glimmer of rationality, it must elect Pietro Parolin as Pope. It is the only way to restore its authority,'
declared Freemason Giuliano Di Bernardo.
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May 6, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Pietro Parolin is a leading Italian Freemason’s choice for Pope, and the former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy has also hinted that the late Pope Francis may have been a Freemason himself.
In an interview published by the Italian Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper on May 3, 2025, Giuliano Di Bernardo, a leader in masonic circles, revealed that he is a close friend of Cardinal Pietro Parolin. He said that he and Cardinal Parolin have known each other for at least twenty years and have mutual respect for each other.
“If the Church still has a glimmer of rationality, it must elect Pietro Parolin as Pope. It is the only way to restore its authority,” he declared.
Giuliano Di Bernardo has belonged to more than one masonic group. In the 1990s, he left Grand Orient of Italy to found a new masonic order, the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy, which was, he says, more aligned with the principles of the English masonic tradition. Disillusioned even by this experience, in 2002 he founded another masonic group, called “Dignity Order” as well as the Academy of the Illuminati.
He became friends with Pietro Parolin about twenty years ago. After he founded the “Dignity Order” and the Academy of the Illuminati in 2002, a request came from the Vatican to include a Church representative, he said. Di Bernardo was then introduced to Bishop Gheorghi Eldarov, who at the time was investigating, on behalf of the Secretariat of State, the so-called ‘Bulgarian track’ (actually a diversion) related to the attempted assassination of John Paul II. To this day, Eldarov is officially listed among the founders of the Academy.
“One day, Eldarov told me that there was someone in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State who wanted to meet me. I found myself face-to-face with the then-Undersecretary, Pietro Parolin,” Di Bernardo said. “There was an immediate intellectual affinity, so much so that we collaborated on several projects. We have remained very close friends.”
Di Bernardo spoke more extensively about this collaboration when he was questioned by the Italian judiciary regarding certain mafia infiltrations into Freemasonry. On that occasion, he stated that, after 2002, “I returned [to the Secretariat of State] several times and helped Parolin resolve a problem with the Chinese government.”
The former Grand Master believes that the Church’s decline began with the Second Vatican Council, but that it was under John Paul II that the institution of the papacy was eroded at its foundations. According to Di Bernardo, Benedict XVI tried to save the papacy but, faced with the “abyss” that had already been opened, eventually decided to step down.
RELATED: Freemasonic lodge hails Pope Francis’ work as ‘deeply resonant’ with their ‘principles’
The Freemason holds that Pope Francis continued this great dismantling of the papacy rapidly and effectively, and that that his entire program was revealed in his initial greeting in St. Peter’s Square, when he introduced himself as the Bishop of Rome, rather than as the Pope.
Di Bernardo suggested that Jorge Mario Bergoglio had very strong ties, if not an actual initiation, to Freemasonry in Argentina.
“Bergoglio, as a cardinal, certainly had relations with Freemasonry,” he declared.
Di Bernardo criticized Pope Francis for reaffirming the Church’s condemnation of Freemasonry, which has been reiterated by all popes over the past three centuries. However, the journalist asked him: “There are strange letters circulating in which, before becoming pope, Bergoglio on several occasions signed his name by placing three black dots in the shape of a triangle at the end—symbolism linked to Freemasonry.”
The former Grand Master, without going so far as to confirm the suggestion, stated: “I believe I know the kernel of truth behind it. In South America, Freemasonry is very powerful and widespread, but those who are Freemasons are often also Catholic—there is no incompatibility.”
This is not a view held by the Catholic Church. In response to the rise of the Masonic Lodges, Clement XII regarded them so seriously, and membership in them so dangerous, that in the 1738 papal bull In Eminenti he imposed an automatic excommunication on any Catholic who joined them.
This sentence of excommunication was renewed by successive popes many times over. It was incorporated into the 1917 Code of Canon Law, and although not explicitly mentioned in the 1983 Code, a special intervention and clarification from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), titled Declaration on Masonic Associations and Irreconcilability of Christian Faith and Freemasonry, instructed that the Church’s discipline and judgement regarding freemasonry remained unchanged from the 1917 Code.
The reasons the Church forbids membership in Freemasonry include the latter’s secretive and binding oaths, its hatred of the Catholic Church and mission to destroy it through undermining the papacy, and its denial of the truths of faith.
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| Washington governor signs bill forcing priests to break Seal of Confession |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-05-2025, 09:20 AM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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Washington governor signs bill forcing priests to break Seal of Confession
Left-wing Washington Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson – a professed Catholic – signed legislation
on Friday that will force priests to break the Seal of Confession in some cases or go to jail.
May 2, 2025
OLYMPIA, Washington (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original aritcle]) — Citing his alleged Catholic faith, Washington’s leftist Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson signed a bill today that orders priests to divulge when they hear of purported abuse in the confessional – or face potential jail time.
The governor also cited his uncle, a Jesuit priest, when signing the bill.
Ferguson is a liberal, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT governor. While running for governor, but still serving as attorney general, he threatened prosecution against several other candidates with the same name. He also initiated legally dubious investigations into pro-life nonprofits as attorney general. He additionally supports prosecuting Christians who decline to provide their services to homosexual “weddings.”
READ: Washington state Democrats pass bill effectively legalizing infanticide
SB 5375 is the latest attempt by Washington state Sen. Noel Frame to force Catholic priests to break the Seal of Confession and reveal what they hear in the confessional – or go to jail. The bill explicitly singles out priests, removing their “privileged communication” exception, while allowing it for professionals who may hear of abuse.
Frame previously cited the Catholic Church’s support for penitential secrecy in her decision to no longer practice Catholicism. However, she already had a history of supporting abortion and the LGBT movement, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.
“At this time the Washington State Catholic Conference has no comment,” Tracey Yackley told LifeSiteNews on Friday morning when asked prior to the signing for comment.
The debate over the bill often involved severe misunderstandings of how the Catholic Church operates, with some people asking why the late Pope Francis could not simply change the Church’s teaching about the Seal of Confession. Frame herself berated Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Frank Schuster for not agreeing with her on this bill. Bishop Schuster shared how he counseled victims of abuse and could still help them while protecting Confession.
Last year, a similar bill that was backed by the Washington Catholic Conference, though not by all bishops in the state, died.
At the time, Frame and the Catholic conference gave contradictory explanations for the bill. Frame told her colleagues that she wanted to go further and eliminate all exemptions but that such a bill could not pass. Meanwhile, the Catholic conference said it supported this bill because it feared a law eliminating all exemptions would pass, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.
This year, Frame’s bill includes no exemptions at all for the religious liberties of priests. It passed the state senate 28 to 20 – all but two Democrats voted to violate the religious freedom of Catholics and remove the clergy-penitent privilege. All Republicans voted against the measure on February 28.
Senate Bill 5375 and House Bill 1211 in the state of Washington are “no exemption” bills that remove all protections for what priests hear in Confession when it comes to alleged abuse. Frame said the bill will not compel priests to testify but only to report abuse. However, that is not written in the text of the law.
Furthermore, a priest would presumably have to reveal the name of a person admitting to the abuse in the confessional in order to alert authorities about a child who might allegedly be at risk, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.
Frame previously dismissed religious freedom concerns during a hearing. “I have tried really hard over the last couple of years to find a balance and to strike a careful compromise,” she claimed before saying “sorry” for not being willing to “make a compromise anymore.” She criticized efforts to protect clergy-penitent privilege “in the name of religious freedom.”
Yet canon law is incredibly clear on this issue.
Canon 1386 states, “A confessor (priest) who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence.”
Efforts to force priests to do so, including Montana and Washington this year, have drawn condemnation from Catholic groups as well as several legal experts.
“Putting aside the obvious violation of the sanctity of the confessional, it presents a novel problem for priests if they both encourage the faithful to unburden themselves while at the same time reminding them anything that they say can and will be used against them in a court of law,” Professor Jonathan Turley previously wrote on his commentary website.
“In my view, the Washington State law is a frontal attack on free exercise and would be struck down if enacted,” the George Washington University law professor wrote.
“The only question is why Democrats consider such legislation to be any more viable politically than it is constitutionally.”
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| 133 cardinals will elect the new pope as 3 drop out |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-05-2025, 09:16 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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133 cardinals will elect the new pope as 3 drop out
May 7 will see the cardinal electors gather for the conclave in the Sistine Chapel, looking to discern who is to be the next pope of the Catholic Church.
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An image of Pope Francis’ 2013 election is displayed in the Borgia Apartments of the Vatican Museums
©MichaelHaynes
May 2, 2025
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews [adapted - not all hyperlinks included from original]) — With 133 cardinals due to gather in the Sistine Chapel from Wednesday, how is the number of electors established and who are they?
Starting on May 7, the conclave to elect the 267th pope will begin in the Vatican. As confirmed by the Holy See Press Office, 133 cardinals will take part in the papal conclave, out of a total of 135 possible cardinal electors included on the Vatican’s list.
The two who are absent are:- Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, the retired archbishop of Valencia and promoter of the traditional Mass. Cañizares’ absence had been noted earlier in the week, but was confirmed by the Vatican on Friday.
- Cardinal John Njue, the retired archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya.
The theologically conservative Croatian Cardinal Vinko Puljić, aged 79, previously told media he would not be participating in the conclave due to his health; however, a later news report published April 24 noted that Puljić does in fact intend to participate in the conclave.
Another cardinal is also not partaking in the conclave, although he is participating in the pre-conclave meetings currently taking place. Angelo Cardinal Becciu announced April 28 that he would skip the conclave, following swirling controversy about his participation and whether Pope Francis had banned him or not. He had not been included in the list of 135 electors by the Vatican, due to the controversy surrounding his official status as a cardinal.
Who elects the pope?
Pope John Paul II’s document Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG) – which set the law for the conclave – notes that all cardinals have the right to elect a new pope, providing they are under the age of 80 on the day the pope dies.
Thus, 136 cardinals fit the age requirement, including Becciu. With the two drop outs, and Becciu’s exclusion, only 133 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope.
The English translation of UDG stipulates that “the maximum number of Cardinal electors must not exceed one hundred and twenty.”
However, the pope can dispense from this stipulation, given that he is the supreme legislator in the Church for such matters.
Commenting on this passage from UDG and the likelihood of a conclave taking place while there are more than 120 cardinal voters, canon lawyer Father Gerald Murray explained to this correspondent that since the first line of UDG section 33 preserves the right only to cardinals of electing the pope, in this case “all cardinals under age 80 have the right to enter the conclave and to vote for the next pope.”
“The limit of 120 cardinal voters is effectively rendered null when the pope creates more than that number,” Murray added.
In fact, this interpretation was affirmed by the College of Cardinals this week, when they noted that Pope Francis had dispensed the cardinals from this limit of 120 when he created more than 120 cardinal electors.
Who can be pope?
As for who can be elected pope, it is most likely to be one among the voting cardinals, although it does not have to be: the last pope elected who was not part of the College of Cardinals was Pope Urban VI in 1378.
The requirements are:- That the candidate be a baptized, Catholic man having reached the age of reason.
- If he is not a bishop, he must be consecrated prior to taking on the office.
However, the chances of the pope being someone other than one of the cardinals taking part in the conclave are immensely slim.
A majority of two-thirds of the vote is necessary for a candidate to be elected, meaning that for this election 89 votes are required.
As noted in LifeSiteNews’ explainer of the full process from a pope’s death to the completion of the election, the cardinals decide on the new pontiff by a process of secret ballots.
How does voting work?
The first day of the conclave sees all the cardinal electors in Saint Peter’s Basilica, where they celebrate the special votive Mass for the election of a pope. After this, they gather in the Pauline chapel in the Apostolic Palace that afternoon. There, they listen to an exhortative homily, before processing to the Sistine Chapel, where they shall swear their oaths for the conclave itself.
That afternoon sees the first vote take place, which is widely understood to be an event to take stock of who has early support, but also for some cardinals to pay respect to some honored member of conclave by voting for them even though they are not expected to actually be elected pope.
Each cardinal must walk up to the altar in the Sistine Chapel and place his written ballot paper in a container for it to be counted.
According to UDG, the men who count and check the ballots are themselves chosen by lot. If they find discrepancies in the number of ballots in a vote, then they burn all of the papers before officially nullifying the vote.
The ballots of every vote are burned and mixed with a chemical to produce the famous black smoke, so eagerly watched for in St. Peter’s Square. UDG sections 64 through 71 contain precise details about how the votes proceed.
The second day sees the start of voting in earnest. There are two rounds – morning and afternoon – each with two votes, meaning a total of four votes per day according to the laws governing the conclave.
The ballot counters read aloud each name on the ballot papers, and tallies are created to record the votes each cardinal receives.
Upon a candidate receiving two-thirds of the vote, he is asked formally if he accepts the election as Supreme Pontiff.
If the man accepts, he is then asked what name he will take as pope. When he reveals this, the Master of Papal Liturgical Ceremonies swiftly writes a document detailing the new pope’s acceptance and his name.
Providing the candidate is already a bishop – which almost all the members of the College of Cardinals are – the candidate becomes the validly elected pope as soon as he pronounces his formal acceptance of the election.
The ballots are collected, mixed with the chemical for white powder, and burned so that those in St. Peter’s Square see the famous white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.
The cardinals greet the new pope in the chapel and make their individual acts of “homage and obedience,” before all collectively making a prayer of thanksgiving.
The newly elected pope is taken into the sacristy next to the Sistine Chapel, where he changes into one of the white cassocks already prepared for him.
Once he is ready, the formal announcement to the world is made, with the senior cardinal deacon stepping onto the loggia of the Vatican to pronounce the famous words: “Annuncio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam” — “I announce to you a great joy: we have a pope.”
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| Where Compromise Ends and the Cross Begins |
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Posted by: Stone - 05-04-2025, 07:11 AM - Forum: The Catholic Trumpet
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Where Compromise Ends and the Cross Begins
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The Catholic Trumpet [slightly adapted and reformatted] | May 3, 2025
Why the True Faith Must Come Before the Sacraments in This Age of Apostasy
This is not just another sermon.
This is where compromise ends and the Cross begins.
In an age when many offer valid sacraments while remaining in submission to Modernist Rome, one priest refuses to trade the Faith for access. While others hide behind externals and avoid confrontation, Father Hewko stands where the saints stood: uncompromised, undiluted, unafraid.
No Indult. No Neo-SSPX. No Sedevacantism No false resistance.
These are not vague labels. Each represents a real and deadly betrayal of Christ and His Church.
The Indult functions by permission from those who reject Christ’s Kingship.
The Neo-SSPX silences its founder and seeks reconciliation with the very errors he condemned.
The false resistance tolerates scandal and doctrinal ambiguity while pretending to defend Tradition.
All of them may offer valid sacraments. But validity is not enough.
This is the dangerous error of sacramental minimalism: the idea that as long as the form is correct and the rite is valid, the Mass is safe to attend. But the Church has never taught that validity alone guarantees spiritual fruit. The sacraments work ex opere operato, but only within the framework of the true Catholic Faith. Outside that framework, they can become a danger to souls. They can even become a trap.
A Mass offered in union with error may appear holy. But it becomes a doorway to compromise. It forms consciences to accept half-truths. It weakens the will. It tells the soul that union with Modernist Rome is tolerable, even beneficial. But it is not.
To attend such a Mass is not a neutral act. It is a silent consent to betrayal.
Only the full Catholic Faith remains pleasing to God. Not partial truths. Not conditional fidelity. Not sacramental minimalism.
This is the test of our time. Will we accept valid sacraments from those who have betrayed the Faith? Or will we remain faithful, even when that means sacrifice, isolation, and suffering?
This is where the saints stood in every age of apostasy.
They were exiled. They were hunted. They were martyred.
Not because they lacked Masses, but because they refused to attend Masses that were offered in union with error.
They knew what we must remember. The Faith comes first. The sacraments are not magic. They are not given to cover betrayal. They are for those who remain with Christ, even when that means the cross.
Watch. Share. Stand with the truth.
Because the time has come when even the sacraments are used to lead souls into error. And only those who love Christ more than comfort will see the danger.
This is the line. This is the battle.
This is where the Cross begins.
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