Christopher Columbus and His Dream 


http://www.catholictradition.org/Traditi...m#COLUMBUS

A man's religious beliefs sets the seal of his heart, forms his character, and directs his every action. In short, a man's religion and the devotion it inspires is the history of his story and the story behind the story of history.   "Christopher Columbus had a mystic belief that God intended him to sail the Atlantic Ocean in order to spread Christianity. He said his prayers several times daily. Columbus wrote what he called a Book of Prophecies, which is a compilation of passages Columbus selected from the Bible which he believed were pertinent to his mission of discovery. ... Columbus's own writings prove that he believed that God revealed His plan for the world in the Bible, the infallible Word of God. Columbus believed that he was obeying the mission God staked out for his life when he set sail west across the Atlantic Ocean." [5]  The year was 1451 and a son had just been born to the Colombos of Genoa, Italy. The boy, who was the eldest of five children, was Baptized with the name of Christobal [Christopher]. Although his father was a successful weaver---the internet fabric framing the table is a scan of a genuine linen weave from Genoa---Christopher set to sea at the age of 22, taking part in several expeditions, some to the East Indies. His education had not been thorough and he was almost illiterate going by today's standards for most of his youth; however, he was bright and taught himself to read and write, especially Spanish, which he found easier than the dialect of Genoa, along with Latin, because maps and geography were in Latin. Columbus is the Latin form of Colombo. From youth Christopher helped his father at the loom while dreaming of a life at sail. It is thought that because Genoa is a port city that the young Columbus would have had some experience on the ships in the harbor.  In 1476, he almost lost his life on a convoy, from Genoa to England on the ship, Bechalla. The ship was attacked off the coast of Portugal and Columbus was wounded; the ship was lost. As it sank, he took hold of a long oar and used it as a raft to reach shore. He ended up Ireland after some land travel and back to Portugal, in Lisbon, the following year. His brother Bartholomew had opened a shop that sold charts and nautical instruments there. By then the Portuguese had explored the Azores, colonized the Madeiras and had reached almost to the African equator. The Portuguese were expert seamen and had invented a special type of sailing vessel, called the caravel, designed to gain ground against the wind rather than merely moving with it. These visionary explorers and seamen knew of China and the Orient and hoped to sail there by going around Africa in order to avoid the costly caravans that made spices and other goods very expensive. Columbus thought that it was possible to go west, not east, to reach the same destination. [6]  It is a myth that in Columbus' day it was thought that the world was flat. Actually, long before 1492, experienced cartographers and sailors knew that it was anything but. The lie that people of the 15th century believed that the earth was flat was popularized by 19th century atheists in order to use science in their war against religion. [5b] What these men lacked was an accurate method of calculation and a shorter sea lane to the East. One of the these learned men was an associate of Columbus, a Florentine named Paolo Toscanelli, who believed that Japan was 3,000 nautical miles west of Lisbon. A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the equator and is equal to one minute of the arc of the circumference. Columbus' first plan was to sail to the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa and then to Japan. He had mastered more than two languages, but he was not a mathematician and his calculations did not impress those who could back an expedition. Meanwhile he held the rank of captain and had married a Portuguese woman, Felipa de Perestrello. They lived in the Madeiras. She bore him their only son, Diego and died shortly after. It was now 1480.  Five years later Columbus went to Spain to offer his services to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. He took his young son with him. About five miles from Palos was a friary called La Rabída which had a school for young boys. Columbus left Diego there with the friars, one of whom was Father Juan Perez, who became a friend of the navigator and recommended him to the Queen. The King and Queen had were fully engaged staving off the advance of the war-mongering Moors, but Isabella liked the Italian and put him in the service of the court, even though she did not think his calculations for reaching Japan realistic. But by 1492, they had managed to evict the Moors from Granada, the last stronghold of the Islamic invaders, and could now turn their attention to exploration. Some of her advisors were against the employment of Captain Columbus for this endeavor. Her treasurer, Louis de Santangel was not among them and he told her to take him up on his offer. Eager, she offered to sell her jewels to finance the ships and supplies but Louis was able to retrieve the $14,000 needed from the coffers, a small price to pay for the new world.  Columbus made more than one voyage to the American continent. The first one had three wooden vessels, the Santa María, the Pinta, and Niña. The first was manned by a crew of 39 while the other two had 26 and 22 seamen. The only instrument for measuring the distance of the sun was a crude kind of quadrant that was only accurate if the sea was calm. They did have good compasses, however. The tiny fleet sailed from Palos [Cape de Palos today] on August 3, 1492, just before Columbus birthday, which is thought to have been between August 25 and the end of October.   The date "Columbus selected for departure reflected his profound Catholic faith and that of his crew. August 2, 1492 was the fiesta of Our Lady of Angels, patroness of the Franciscan monastery of La Rabída whose friars had supported Columbus and called for the realization of his dream from the beginning; and protector of the people of Palos, from which his ships would depart, when they were in danger at sea (as Pope Eugenius IV had proclaimed 55 years before). It was a day of thanksgiving for Our Lady's favors, and like all Spanish fiestas, a day of special celebration. Columbus scheduled his departure on the morrow of the fiesta, so that his men could join in thanksgiving and prayer with their families and relatives on the feast-day especially dear to them and to their people." [4]  The last land sighted was Ferro, in the Canary chain, September 9. From there Columbus, the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" set the course due west. [6]  "Before Columbus' time all European voyages had followed coastlines, or crossed open seas to lands previously known or at least sighted by storm-driven ships. Only Columbus set off directly across a broad, unknown sea with no specific knowledge of how far it extended or what lay on the other side. ... But Columbus undertook his voyage with more evidence that he could complete it than his unfounded assumptions about the size of the world and the distance to Asia. For most of his professional life as a seaman he had ranged the eastern Atlantic, from West Africa to Iceland, in particular spending much time on Portugal's Atlantic islands. He had picked up reliable reports of strange vegetation and carved, hand-worked objects drifting in from the west, even of two bodies of men who were neither whites nor blacks. He had studied the wind patterns of the Atlantic, noting that from the Canary Islands off the Atlantic coast of North Africa the winds (now called trades) mostly blow from east to west, while further north, on the coast of Portugal and northern Spain and France, the winds (now called prevailing westerlies) blow just as steadily from west to east. Therefore he could sail west with the trades and home with the westerlies, with the winds fair both ways. No other man of his time had thought of that.   "The vegetation and the carved objects and the bodies could not have floated all the way from Asia to Europe if they were as far apart as the experts claimed who believed the world to be larger than Columbus had calculated. He was sure---and he was right---that there was land to the west within reach of the sailing ships fifteenth-century Europe had. He was convinced that God had chosen him to reach that land, hidden from the Western world for ages, which the Roman philosopher Seneca had once prophesied would be revealed. His discovery would bring the Catholic Faith, to which he was devoted, to the people who lived in that land.  "It is for the boldness of his conception and his magnificent courage in laying his life on the line to carry it out that Christopher Columbus is most rightly honored. It was these qualities that Queen Isabella of Spain recognized in him, that caused her to override the cautious advice of counselors doubtful that such an unprecedented enterprise could succeed. Isabella knew nothing of navigation and little of world geography, but she was a superb judge of men and women. It was to Columbus the man and to Columbus the devoted Catholic that she gave her support. She believed in him---believed that he could achieve the goal to which he was so passionately committed." [4]  Most of that first voyage was relatively calm and easy as the winds were favorable. The only problem was from some of the crew who grew afraid the further and further they sailed without sighting land. They had been before the mast for three weeks, the longest known time that anyone had ever sailed in the same direction out of sight from land and Columbus struggled to overcome their trepidation. He told the men that he "had sailed to go to the Indies and would continue until he found them, with the Lord's help." "Adelante! Adelante!" [Sail on! Sail on!]  It was now October 10 and they agreed to continue for three more days, then return if land was not found. Just two days later, the island that Columbus named after our Savior, San Salvador, was sighted at two in the morning. Before noon Columbus had disembarked at Fernandez Bay and claimed the land for Spain. He still thought he was near the East Indies or Japan. There were men who came to greet them in all felicity, the Arawak, whom he named Indians because of his mistaken notion. And this is how the Amerinds became to be known as Indians and the islands he found, the West Indies. the little fleet remained there for until late in the month when it entered Cuba on October 28. Thinking this was China he and the men explored several of the harbors, from Punta Brava to Cape Maisi; Captain Columbus sent men up to Holguín because he though that this must be Peking. he had a letter in his possession from the King and Queen for the Emperor. Instead the men found the natives smoking cigars---the first an European had seen of tobacco. From Cape Maisi the ships crossed the Windward Passage, a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. He named the new island Hispaniola, "little Spain" because the climate and trees reminded him of Spain. [6]  "Columbus was entranced by the beauty and promise of the lands he had found, but greatly disappointed to find no gold anywhere but on Hispaniola, and only a little there. It is easy for us, with universally accepted paper money and a computerized banking system, to mock or scorn the Spanish search for gold. But gold was then the essence of wealth, the only universally acceptable medium of exchange, both for governments and individuals, throughout Europe and the Middle East. To pay for Columbus' expeditions it was necessary to find gold, for it would be many years before a profitable transatlantic trade in any other commodity could be developed---even apart from his greater hopes for giving his adopted country of Spain a large return on the investment made in him and his project.  "Exploring these totally unknown coasts---it is worth taking a moment to attempt seriously to imagine the risks of taking a sailing ship along a coast where no large ship has ever gone before, where there are no buoys, no lighthouses, and no charts---Columbus and his men became so exhausted that on Christmas Eve of 1492, no one was left awake on Santa Maria but one sleepy cabin boy. With him at the wheel where he was never supposed to have been, the ship ran aground, and could not be freed. Columbus had to abandon her, and leave most of her crew behind in a fort made from her timbers." [4]  After a storm-tossed passage with much prayer, the ragged fleet arrived at Palos, from whence they had set sail. Our Captain made for Barcelona where the King and Queen were staying. He had no gold to bring, but a sort of treasure in its own way, strange new plants of a medicinal nature, seeds, gourds, cotton and fruit and even some birds. [3]  Queen Isabella was not as disappointed as one would think. She was delighted to hear about the new world he had found. Most thought that he would retire after his discovery. But God had another destiny in store for Columbus who wanted to bring the Catholic Faith to the Indies. This pleased Isabella who was known for her pious faith and zeal for the Church. So in 1493, he set sail once again but with a larger fleet. [1]  The cadre of seventeen ships carrying colonists, priests, officials, gentlemen of the court, and horses, left Cadiz on September 25, 1493 and reached the new world in just three weeks. His flagship was still named after Our Lady, this time bearing the title Mariagalante, the name he gave to an island in the West Indies.  Columbus established the first colony of Santo Domingo and became the governor of the island.   "When he had first arrived at Hispaniola he found that the men from wrecked Santa Maria whom he had left behind had broken discipline, attacked the Indians, and been massacred. Though later investigation established with reasonable clarity that the Spaniards were to blame, at the time---in view of the continuing difficulty of communication---no one could be sure, and many blamed the Indians. Columbus---by royal grant governor of all the lands he found---established a new and larger colony, and a fort in the gold-producing region of Hispaniola, selecting Pedro Margarit to command its garrison.  "Soon Columbus left for more exploration, without waiting to see how his men would behave on the island or even making it clear just how much authority his brother Bartholomew, who was put in command of the colony, had over it and especially over Margarit and his garrison of the distant fort in the gold-producing region. It was the first example of the unfortunate but hardly surprising fact that this great explorer much preferred being at sea to being ashore, that his immense talents did not include a capability for administration. Furthermore, he tended to be disliked by many Spanish because he was a foreigner, an Italian.  "Exploring Cuba almost to its western tip and then beating his way slowly back against the trade winds, Columbus was absent from his new colony for no less than five months, which proved more than time enough for disaster. Pedro Margarit ravaged the countryside around his fort, extorting gold, food, and women. Bartholomew Columbus tried to stop him, but Margarit claimed he had independent authority from his brother. When Margarit had collected a considerable amount of gold he simply seized three of Columbus' ships and sailed back to Spain in them. When Columbus finally returned from his five months' voyage, he was prostrated by a severe fever; after recovering from that, he was crippled for weeks with arthritis.   "Unable to control the Spaniards on the island, Columbus blamed the Indians for his troubles and the very small production of gold. In January 1495 he seized over a thousand Indians to make them slaves. There can be no excuse for this, but it is very important to remember that it was contrary to Spanish law and vigorously countermanded by Queen Isabella as soon as she found out about it. She declared firmly that no one had authorized her Admiral to treat 'her subjects' in this manner, released the Indian captives who had been brought to Spain, and made clear her unalterable opposition to enslavement of the Indians. She then sent a former member of her household named Juan Aguado to investigate what Columbus was doing as governor of Hispaniola and report back to her.  "Before Aguado could reach Hispaniola, full-scale war with its Indians had broken out because of Columbus' seizure of the slaves. The Spaniards easily won all military engagements with the Indians, demanded from them a tribute in gold too much for them to collect, and ravaged their lands and pursued them into the mountains when they did not collect it. Aguado's arrival forced Columbus to stop all of this, and he returned to Spain in June 1496.  "On Hispaniola, Columbus eventually agreed to grant each Spaniard a substantial tract of cultivated land with a number of Indians to till it. This was the origin of the repartimiento or encomienda system, formalized into law on Hispaniola in 1503, which Bartholomew de Las Casas, the "apostle to the Indians," spent his life fighting, and which Isabella's grandson, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was to struggle desperately and with only limited success to eliminate. If not quite slavery, the repartimiento system was certainly serfdom, imposed upon a people who had no custom or tradition of regular hard work on the land and would often die quickly if forced to do it.   "However, by no means all or even most of the Indians lived and worked as encomenderos. Others worked in the mines, and although sometimes this was forced labor, a substantial number worked voluntarily there for pay. Others fled to the mountains where they long remained entirely free of the Spanish government. Many Indian women entered Spanish households, not only as servants and mistresses but as wives. The oft-denounced oppression existed, but so did good treatment and opportunity.  "Finally deciding that Columbus was simply not competent to govern a colony, Isabella relieved him of that duty and sent Francisco de Bobadilla to replace him. Bobadilla arrived in Hispaniola in August 1500, put Columbus under arrest, seized his papers and property, and sent him back to Spain in chains. When he arrived, Isabella had the chains removed at once; but she did not reinstate Columbus as governor, even when Bobadilla also began to abuse the Indians. A third governor, Nicholas de Ovando, was sent out in 1501 with orders to force Bobadilla to restore the property he had taken from Columbus.  "In 1502 Columbus sailed on his fourth and last voyage. After surviving a hurricane with all four of his ships that sunk every ship but one of the returning flotilla carrying Bobadilla and his ill-gotten gains, Columbus reached the Central American mainland at Honduras, where he landed and took formal possession of this previously unknown coast for Spain. Through September he beat southward along the coasts of what are now Nicaragua and Costa Rica, hoping to find a strait which would be a sea approach to civilized Asia. All during the fall and on into the winter he explored the coasts of Panama, where the American continent is in fact at its narrowest---though it does not appear Columbus knew that---in the hope of finding the desired strait.   "He carried on until Easter of 1503, when his ships were so riddled by holes made by the teredo or shipworm (previously unknown to European mariners) that he had to beach them on Jamaica. By the time he was finally rescued and returned to Spain, the great Queen Isabella was dying.  "Ten days after her death Columbus wrote to his son Diego:  The most important thing is to commend lovingly and with much devotion the soul of the Queen our lady, to God. Her life was always Catholic and holy, and prompt in all things in His holy service. Because of this we should believe that she is in holy glory, and beyond the cares of this harsh and weary world.  "Columbus knew how much he owed Queen Isabella, and repaid her with these words of appreciation and devotion even as he knew that his own work was finished and his life nearly so. He died two years later, in near-poverty and already almost forgotten by the court.  "From this record it should be clear that, despite occasional lashing out at the Indians, Columbus was never their systematic oppressor, but simply unable to control the Spaniards on land who were supposed to be under his command. If he had only been willing to confine himself to what he did so superlatively well---sailing and exploring---few if any could have traduced his memory. But because he insisted on remaining governor of the lands he had discovered, his reputation was blackened by the atrocities that occurred during the period when he still had final responsibility for their governance. But it is Columbus the discoverer and explorer whom we truly celebrate and honor, not Columbus the civil governor. His personal influence on the ultimate fate of the Indians of the Caribbean was slight; in no significant way did he change what their history would have been without him, once the discovery was made.  "Within thirty to forty years the Indians of the Caribbean islands had disappeared as a distinct population, the greater part of them dying from diseases brought first by the white men, then by the black slaves they began to introduce [this had nothing to do with Columbus]. There were not nearly as many Caribbean natives as the Indians' champion Las Casas believed; modern researchers estimate a population of about 100,000 for Hispaniola when Columbus arrived, and substantially less than that for Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. The great population decline did not begin until 1508, after Columbus' death. Smallpox and malaria, the most deadly plagues in the history of Europe except for the Black Death, along with yellow fever from Africa, were the principal killers. In the state of medical knowledge of that time, there was no help for this mortality and no escape from it. The mingling of the peoples of the Old and New World, never before brought into contact with one another, carried this heavy and unavoidable price.  "Ultimately the American Indians as well as the Europeans benefited from Columbus' great discovery. An interracial culture developed in much of Latin America, notably in Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Human sacrifice and cannibalism were ended, and the Indians were almost all converted to Christianity. Large-scale evangelization began with the arrival of a group of Franciscans in Hispaniola in 1500 and continued steadily from then on. Though many Indians were long held in a state of virtual serfdom and some were forced contrary to law to work against their will for long periods of time in gold and silver mines, none were enslaved after the first colonial generation. Spanish law never recognized Indian slavery. And, back in Spain, a prolonged debate at the highest levels of Church and state finally convinced the highest authorities of both---the bishops and the King---Emperor Charles V---that the Indians had souls equal before God to the souls of white men, and rights equal before the law to the rights of any Spaniard." [4]

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Cardinal Müller says Pope Francis’ Synod is a ‘hostile takeover of the Church’ in explosive interview
'This is a way to undermine the Catholic faith,' said Cardinal Gerhard Müller about the Synod on Synodality in some of his sharpest comments yet about direction of the Church under Pope Francis.



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Quote:The doctrine of the Apostles is a reflection and manifestation of the Revelation of the Word of God. We have to listen to the Word of God, but in the authority of the Holy Bible, of the Apostolic Tradition, and of the Magisterium, and all the councils said before that is not possible to substitute the Revelation given once and forever in Jesus Christ by another revelation.

Quote:Here is a hermeneutic of the old cultural Protestantism and of modernism, that individual experience has the same level as objective Revelation of God, and God is only all to you which you can project your proper ideas, and to make a certain populism in the Church. And surely everybody outside of the Church who wants to destroy the Catholic Church and the fundaments, they are very glad about these declarations. But it’s obvious that is absolutely against Catholic doctrine. We have the Revelation of God in Jesus Christ, and it’s definitely closed and finished in Jesus Christ – it’s fully present – and we have to follow Jesus and not have to fulfill our subjective wishes. This is absolutely clear that Jesus has spoken about the indivisibility of matrimony.

Apparently Padre Pio did NOT think that the New Mass gives grace or nourishes one's Faith (as Bishop Williamson has been claiming since 2015):

If the SSPX embarked upon “Operation Suicide” in 2012, and if the Resistance is meant to be “Operation Survival”, then that must make the Fake Resistance...

audio of Bp. Williamson previous to 2012

listen to audio @ .55 min mark:
"... The New Mass is in any case illicit.  In any case.  It's designed to please Protestants, it's designed to undo Catholicism. It's intrinsically offensive to God, it's intrinsically evil. That's how it was designed and that's how it turned out."  -right from the mouth of Bp. Williamson

 The New Mass and the Satanic Mass are both valid, illicit and intrinsically evil.

audio @ 2.40 min. mark:
"If the New Mass is valid but illicit, may I attend?   NO! ... The fact that it's valid does not mean it's ok to attend."  - words spoken by Bp. Williamson


The burning question-  Why the change?
We are well aware of the new Bishop Williamson and what he now says about the New Mass, along with other erroneous things, such as N.O. Eucharistic miracles.  We know his words are quite the opposite of what the old Bishop Williamson used to say, "the New Mass is intrinsically Evil."   

So the burning question is... why?  Why has he changed?
Another question could be asked- Did he really and truly leave the SSPX or is he a planned subverter? 
Before the deal with Rome became public the SSPX could reasonably assume there would be some priests who would resist the Doctrinal Declaration and all, so they needed to have a net ready to catch and control the opposition.  Of course the priests would naturally be seeking a Bishop for guidance when the storm hits.
  I think the Recusant figured it out and demonstrated very well what Bishop Williamson and all those connected to him are about in the October 2015 Recusant editorial.  Thank you once again The Recusant for excellent detailing of the happenings since 2012!


Enemy Tactics – Take Note!
  Although I am able to offer no proof and no other reason than my own general impression, it does seem to me that the revolution is advancing and is now already much further advanced than it was a mere two years ago. The enemy is incredibly clever, and his plan is to neutralise Tradition - take note! - which means more than just making the SSPX assimilate into the conciliar Church, although that is surely a large part of it. To try to get an idea of what may be going on behind the scenes, what we might reasonably expect, it is useful to put ourselves in the shoes of the enemy. Try very, very hard to imagine that you are him. You want to see the destruction of all Tradition, of all resistance to the Council and to modernism, starting with the SSPX. You are very, very clever, you have a wealth of experience of using fair means and foul to get your way, not excluding subversion and outright lies and deception. And you are patient: you are prepared to wait all the time in the world to get your way, as long as you win in the end. Got that? Good. Let’s proceed with a little snippet of interview, somewhat in the style of the Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, where I will play the part of the enemy, sitting in campaign headquarters at anti-Christ HQ and answering questions candidly on how the campaign is to proceed.
Firstly: why has the open, unabashed, unashamed deal between conciliar Rome and conciliar Menzingen not yet been proclaimed? “Because I want to see the destruction of all Tradition, not just the SSPX. The SSPX was the largest bulwark of Tradition, it is important to neutralize it. But suppose I were to succeed in reducing the SSPX whilst allowing a small chunk of it to break off and continue resisting. What then? These fanatical extremist groups are like weeds, you stamp them out and in no time at all they’re back. However small their beginnings, they’ll be back. Just recall 1969, not long after our last major success: six ‘exiled’ seminarians living with one retired and marginalized Archbishop. It didn’t look much of a threat then, but in hindsight we would have been better to strangle the SSPX in its infancy! We waited patiently to reduce Fortress Vatican. We then had to wait patiently for another forty years to reduce Fortress SSPX. Do we really want to find that another fortress has been built despite our patient siege? No. This time we are going to do the job properly. We are going to be thorough. There will be no survivors!”
What, does that mean, practically speaking? How can you possibly prevent a breakaway from carrying on a war against you? What steps can you take to ensure the destruction not only of Archbishop Lefebvre’s SSPX, but also of anyone else wishing to break away and continue Archbishop Lefebvre’s SSPX?
“In theory it is remarkably simple. Experience shows that direct attacks have only a limited value. The more flexible and easily-adaptable the revolution can become, the more quickly and effectively it will advance. Remember the 1970s when we replaced the Mass of the Saints with a bastardized rite specially designed to make them lose the Faith? We thought that we had carried all before us and won the day, but before long we found that we still had some mopping up to do. Here and there the true Mass persisted, and with it Tradition. What was worse, we found that because refusing the New Mass in those days took guts and determination and a clear sense of Tradition, the result was that people could rally around the Traditional Mass and almost take for granted that the priest offering it was clear about what he was doing and why. The people went in search of a Traditional Mass for all sorts of mixed motives (sometimes no more than that this Mass was ‘more to their liking’) and ended up stumbling upon Tradition almost as a happy coincidence.
Once we realized what was happening, we soon began to refine our tactics and eventually found a very effective way to overcome this problem. Where direct attacks on Traditional chapels failed, we found that controlled opposition to them, although not entirely successful, worked remarkably well. Look at what a success Ecclesia Dei, the Indult Mass, the Motu Proprio have been for our cause!
With this Resistance then, we are finding the same thing. Our agents began by trying the usual old tactics: denunciations for disobedience, lamenting the disunity, crying wolf about “lies”, “calumny” and “slander”, emotional blackmail (“Think how much you appreciate your local chapel! Can you really live without the sacraments?” etc.) - the whole lot. To begin with these unimaginative, rusty old weapons did have some limited success. But a large part of the Resistance remained immune and as time went on we observed, paradoxically, that in many ways made the Resistance grow stronger with each attack. Going silent about the Resistance proved a short-term option and slowed down their growth, but it leaves the real troublemakers unmolested so that is no long-term solution either.
For the long term, then, what will probably work best is something more subtle, something akin to the way in which we enticed so many souls away from Tradition over the last twenty years, even before our subversion of the SSPX bore visible fruit. The indult, or “approved” Traditional Mass was something which only our fiendish intelligence could have conceived. Who controls an Indult Mass? Why the local bishop, of course. And he answers to Rome. Which is controlled by us. An Indult Mass, then, is controlled ultimately by us. We can afford to allow them the trappings and illusion of Tradition: they pose no threat to us once they are safely within our holding pen. Then we slowly, slowly squeeze out all their Faith until all that is left is pietistic sentimentality and a preference for “old” liturgy.
And all the while allow them to flatter themselves that they are still being “Traditional” and resisting the Council. After all, what they think they are doing does not matter half so much as what they actually are doing! We can afford to allow them the delusions as long as in reality they are achieving nothing. In fact, the delusion is key: above all they must have no shock which might wake them from their illusion. That most people nowadays tend not to think in terms of abstract principles, preferring instead to attach themselves to personalities and things, is a great help.”
How will you accomplish such a thing with the Resistance? It’s all very well talking about the idea, but how will you actually bring it about? “I am not at liberty to reveal the full details because our Fiendish Planning Department has not yet declassified them for general circulation. They will appear in due course when it is too late for the poor unsuspecting souls to do anything. But you do see the principle, the idea? We will create a harmless playpen, label it “Resistance” or some such, allow them to think that they are accomplishing something useful. And all the while we will be in ultimate control.
Most of our victims, once inside the holding pen, will keep themselves there. All we have to do is sow a little doubt and sap a little courage from their convictions. That’s all. Isn’t it wonderful? Just think. Even if the mask temporarily slips and they are tempted to doubt whether they really are resisting, the majority of them will feel too self-conscious to explore further, much less to act, and ultimately their doubt will end in inertia. They will say to themselves: “No, no, that can’t possibly be true!” and by the next morning they will have forgotten what they saw. We might even - and this is just pure evil genius! - encourage these poor fools to squabble with the SSPX. Only over trivial things, of course: personalities, personal injustices, and so on. Not doctrine! This will encourage them all the more to think that they are in the right place and doing the right thing. What is important is that our own fake “Resistance” will eventually supplant the real Resistance.
The SSPX has no chance of winning any argument with the Resistance and its only hope for avoiding losing more souls to the Resistance lies in silence. So we cannot use the SSPX to attack the Resistance. That is worse than senseless. But we can use a “Resistance” to attack the Resistance. If anyone sees our manoeuvre and raises the alarm we can get our agents to denounce him as a crackpot, a hater, etc.
Remember the disaster of 2012? We should have taken greater care! Hardly any priests spoke out or started resisting openly, but the ones who did were more effective than we could ever have guessed or dreamed possible. What’s more, like the 1970s, people who followed them for the most simple reasons ended up by chance receiving far more than they had asked for and in the care of priests who really had vision and clarity and were prepared to sacrifice themselves for the flock. The poor fools who followed them for silly mundane reasons had struck gold without even realizing it! Part of our plan must involve changing this unfortunate state of affairs. Our priests will look as close to the real thing as possible without actually being it. Their mission will be to supplant these enemy priests, to slowly but surely take as many souls away from them and leave them marginalized. When 80% of the souls in the Resistance are with them, we will know that 80% of the souls in the Resistance are in fact no longer in the Resistance, but in the play-pen controlled by us. These fake-Resistance priests can then set about weakening their flock by encouraging selfish tendencies. ‘You need your Mass. I can give you regular Mass. Come with me. Don’t be extreme like those others. Be balanced, be comfortable, think of the air of respectability and feeling of security which I can offer you.’ An occasional squabbly-sounding chat to the more ‘hard-line’ of the flock, you know, I hate Bishop Fellay, he’s a really bad guy, that sort of thing - nothing of any real consequence! and the trap is sprung. As long as the poor sheep do not ask too many questions nor probe too deeply about our fake priests and their motives, as long as they don’t stop to consider what they are really doing or why, or whose good they really have at heart, then they are in the bag for good!!
 Our agents can then deal with these “pockets” of fake “Resistance” when the time comes.  You’ll see.  It will make the previous masterstroke look like child's play!”

- from The Recusant Issue 30, October 2015
https://www.stmaryskssspxmc.com/?page_id=46

Italian bishop attends inauguration ceremony for new Masonic temple
The Masonic Grand Master expressed typical anticlerical sentiments at the event and attacked what he called the 'domination of the Church' in Italy.



Bishop Soddu (third from left) pictured at the inauguration of the Masonic House in Via Roma in Terni.
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Bishop Soddu (second from left) joins ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Masonic House in Via Roma. Credit: Grande Oriente d’Italia/Twitter

Quote:In 1968, a book by French writer Jean Madiran appeared entitled The Heresy of the Twentieth Century (L’Hèrésie du XX siècle, Nouvelles Editins Latines, Paris 1968): the heresy Madiran was referring to was that of the bishops, particularly the French bishops, whose heretical or heretizing positions he denounced as having been taken after the Second Vatican Council.

Madiran observed how it all stemmed from a yielding of Catholics to modern philosophy, and in particular to the principle that the evolution of society would force a change in the very concept of salvation brought by Christ. The Church should open up to the world, listen to its Gospel message of understanding the positive value of modernity, turning its back on the traditional, rigid and intolerant faith.

Madiran’s analysis, after more than half a century, is more relevant than ever, but perhaps today more than heresy we should speak of apostasy of the bishops, that is, of a global denial of the Catholic faith, which is expressed not only through heresies and errors, which are abundantly widespread among the ecclesiastical leadership, but by an underlying attitude that is also expressed in words and gestures of a strong symbolic value. We limit ourselves to citing one of the most recent examples […]

One of the first acts of Msgr. Francesco Antonio Soddu, bishop of Terni since Oct. 29, 2021, was to visit a headquarters of Freemasonry, a secret association condemned by countless Church documents that proposes a worldview directly antithetical to the Catholic one.

The condemnation of Freemasonry has never been abolished. The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in one of its documents dated Nov. 26, 1983, states that “the Church’s negative judgment regarding Masonic associations remains unchanged, since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church and therefore membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful who belong to Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and cannot have access to Holy Communion.”

And this applies to every type of Freemasonry, whether Latin or Anglo-Saxon. There are not two or more Freemasonries, some good, some bad. Freemasonry, from its founding document, the “Anderson Constitutions” of 1717, presents an ideology, which sets aside all religious and moral truth, reducing traditional religions to subjective opinions. Relativism constitutes in this sense the soul of Freemasonry, although it does not encompass its entire essence. Freemasonry, in fact, presumes to be a “universal religion,” the repository of a secret of which the Freemason gradually becomes aware through the rites, symbols, and texts he assimilates, but also through the enthralling atmosphere he breathes in the lodges in which he is placed. The newly inaugurated temple of Freemasonry in Terni will be a place where the unwary would-be Freemason will abandon the Catholic Church and be placed in an anti-Christian sect in which he will lose his soul and lose his way to the destiny of eternal happiness to which fidelity to the Gospel calls him.

The bishop of Terni is a successor of the Apostles. There is a golden booklet by St. Alphonsus Maria de’Liguori, titled Riflessioni utili a’vescovi per la pratica di ben governare le loro chiese, republished a few years ago in Umbria itself (edited by Mario Colavita, Edizioni Tau, Todi 2015), which we recommend for Msgr. Soddu and all Italian bishops to read.

The task of pastors is to save the souls of their flock, not to lead them to apostasy and perdition. Therefore, St. Alphonsus explains, if the bishop is negligent about the health of his sheep, “he will be reprobate in the tribunal of Jesus Christ.” This, unfortunately, is the path Msgr. Francesco Antonio Soddu, bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia, set himself on as he participated in the inauguration of the Grand Orient of Terni, side by side with the Grand Master of Italian Freemasonry.

What can one do in the face of such a serious event, if not openly denounce it and pray for an intervention of Divine Providence to put an end to these scandals that are multiplying in Italy and around the world?