Over the transom just now. As long as they’re alive, it’s NEVER too late. God works in mysterious ways, and in His time. Never forget the parable of the workers. Those who rolled in at the last hour received the same wage as those who started at daybreak. And Our Lord said, “Or, is it not lawful for Me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I AM good?” Remember what we pray all day every day in the Pater Noster: THY will be done. Also, GO TO CONFESSION. —-AB

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A dear friend and my husband converted in the midst of the lockdowns in 2020. My friend subsequently discovered that her family were lapsed Catholics, something she had never known in the previous 50+ years of her life. Today, her father went to confession for the first time in 60 years. Hallelujah!

Merry Christmas and God bless you, Ann.

T

Today is the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle!

John 20: 19-31

At that time, when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the midst and said to them: Peace be to you. And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you. When He had said this, He breathed on them, and He said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe. And after eight days, again His disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you. Then He saith to Thomas: Put in thy finger hither, and see My hands, and bring hither thy hand, and put into My side; and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas answered and said to Him: my Lord and my God. Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen Me, Thomas, thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed. Many other signs also did Jesus in the sight of His disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life in His Name.

Here’s an amazing tidbit from Fr. Z. In the original Greek, the word for “hand” actually sometimes refers to the hand plus the wrist plus the lower forearm. In Ancient Greek, when you are speaking of just the hand proper, additional words can be added to make that precision. Given this, the reality of what exactly happened to St. Thomas might be far, far more intense that what we imagine.

Our Lord has breathed upon the other ten Apostles, minus the absent Thomas, thus imparting the Holy Ghost upon them, and giving them all the power of binding and loosing, thus instituting the Sacrament of Confession. Then, Our Lord appears to them again on the eighth day, and Thomas arrives, and puts his fingers into the finger-sized nail holes in Our Lord’s hands. Then he puts what the Greek indicates is his entire hand, wrist and lower forearm all the way into the lance wound made by Longinus in Our Lord’s thoracic cavity, at Our Lord’s command.

It is conceivably possible that Our Lord breathed the Holy Ghost upon Thomas WHILE THOMAS WAS HOLDING OUR LORD’S LUNG IN HIS HAND, and that Thomas literally touched Our Lord’s BEATING SACRED HEART, and PALPATED THE STAB WOUND in Our Lord’s Sacred Heart.

Now, consider being Thomas and doing this, but also consider being one of the other Apostles standing there watching this happen, watching Thomas stick his hand and forearm into Our Lord’s side.

And if you’re thinking to yourself, “That isn’t possible…”, well, neither is walking through walls. The resurrected body of Our Lord is in an entirely different category. It isn’t held to the laws of the physical universe that bind us as we await our resurrection that He purchased for us.

People wonder why and how the Apostles were able to do what they did, and all but John were killed for the faith, and John was miraculously prevented from being killed, despite multiple efforts. Well, I reckon if we saw one of our friends stick his hand into Our Lord’s thoracic cavity up to the forearm, hold His breathing lung, and touch His Sacred Heart, we might be… confirmed and quickened, to put it mildly.

Click over and read Fr. Z’s full piece.

So, Happy Feast of St. Thomas! I hope you never think of it quite the same way again.

St. Thomas, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, on Pope Benedict, the one and only living Vicar of Christ on Earth whether he likes it or not, the Papacy, and on Your Holy Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

(A repost from two years ago. This can never be repeated enough. It is precisely the absolute authority and universal jurisdiction of the Papacy that we need, in FULL manifestation, potency and unapologetically virile exercise. In short, we need a saintly “Pope Pitbull I.” -AB ‘23)

All of the “Fwanciss is deffinetwee Pope, shut up, Stoopid!” talking head contingent are pounding daily the lie that the dogmatic definition of Papal Infallibility was clearly a huge mistake and that, essentially, the Papacy itself is a giant albatross that MUST be reduced to a meaningless figurehead position and nothing more.  Further, these poor, poor people now argue that to believe in the words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel:

And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19] And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. 

…that to believe these words is to commit the mortal sin of IDOLATRY, which they oh-so-cleverly call “papolatry”.  Further, I have seen these Trad Inc grifters and hangers-on declare that the GOSPELS THEMSELVES ARE UNRELIABLE AND THAT THE PETRINE PROMISE RECORDED IN MATTHEW 16 WAS LIKELY A FABRICATION INSERTED BY POWER-HUNGRY MEN – aka St. Peter and St. Matthew working in cahoots, specifically – IN ORDER TO ASSIGN AUTHORITY AND EARTHLY POWER AND JURISDICTION TO PETER AND HIS “SUCCESSORS” WHICH OUR LORD NEVER CONFERRED NOR INTENDED.

Um.  Isn’t this lie EXACTLY what the schismatic Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans and Freemasons have been trying to convince the world of all along?

Isn’t it ODD that NOT ONE of these Trad Inc. “thought leaders” EVER countenanced this thought BEFORE they decided to define their entire Christian identity by militantly embracing an Antipope? Isn’t it strange that these people have literally turned themselves completely inside out trying to avoid admitting that maybe – just maybe – they have been wrong about the identity of the Vicar of Christ, which has now become what can only be described as a blind rage of pride which prevents them from ever, ever, ever, even unto eternal damnation, admitting that maybe, perhaps Barnhardt (and others) have seen and understood something clearly visible and obvious that they, with their UNIVERSITY DEGREES (please, be kind, don’t laugh TOO hard, they actually think university degrees in theology mean something today, and most of them have massive outstanding student loans that they can never repay incentivizing this delusion) have not only missed, but have been beaten over the head with it for over ten years now? Odd indeed.

But I want to talk about Love, as in Love Himself. I want to talk about how the definition of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility at Vatican I in ARSH 1870 was one of the most gratuitously loving acts that God has wrought in the 2000 year history of His Holy Church.

God, being omniscient, knew everything that satan and his mercenary body on earth, the Freemasons, were going to attempt to do.  God knew that the luciferian plan was to attack and destroy The Church from WITHIN – because attacking from the outside was clearly a non-starter strategy.  The luciferian plot, the entire purpose of the founding of Freemasonry in ARSH 1717, was to usurp the Papacy and install an Antipope who would completely dismantle and destroy The Church Militant FROM WITHIN – FROM THE VATICAN ITSELF, and replace The True Church with a satanic Antichurch without most people even noticing the switch.  In fact, most people would be in favor of what they saw, because the Antichurch would abolish the notion of sin and hell, and ratify every depravity, and make MAN the center and object of worship.

So. God, knowing this and loving infinitely His Bride, The Church, moved and worked through an infallible Ecumenical Council to provide a 100% rock-solid means of positively identifying the Freemason’s Antipope when the True Pope was usurped and the luciferian imposter was installed.

If a man who claims to be the Pope starts spewing lies against the faith – like declaring that sodomites and other perverts, adulterers and fornicators can be blessed AS COUPLES DEFINED BY THEIR MORTALLY SINFUL ACTS, like ratifying divorce and “remarriage”, like denying the Divinity of Christ, like saying the Blessed Virgin was “just a normal girl” who wasn’t born a saint, and doubted God at the foot of the Cross, like denying the existence of hell and openly proclaiming the lie of soul annihilation, like declaring proselytism a sin and explicitly condemning The Great Commission, and LIKE ATTEMPTING TO ABROGATE THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS IN THE VENERABLE RITE OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, MADE CANONICAL BY POPE ST. PIUS V – when some chucklehead Jesuit moron with a BUNCH of super-close sodomite “friends” who is also in bed with the New World Order Malthusian oligarchy starts spewing this stuff on a near-daily basis… you might want to pause and ask a question or two.

Folks, it is PRECISELY because we have the declaration of Papal Infallibility in Pastor Aeternus that we can today, even as unlettered laynothing harridans (speaking for myself), look at the situation with Antipope Bergoglio and KNOW beyond ANY DOUBT that THAT piece of human detritus, Jorge Bergoglio, AIN’T THE POPE.

Okay.  So we got that.  The next question is, WHAT HAPPENED? Did anything hinky happen right before this evil apostate luciferian showed up and started calling himself the… Bishop of Rome?

WHY YES! The most completely bizarre thing in the 2000 year history of the papacy occurred DAYS BEFORE.  The reigning Pope, who announced upon his election in no uncertain terms that HE WAS UNDER PRESSURE AND ATTACK AND MIGHT LITERALLY FLEE, proffered a substantially erroneous “partial resignation” of just the ministry of the active governance of the Church, while retaining the Petrine Munus, complete with the Papal White, the Papal Style and Name “His Holiness Pope Benedict”, continuing to reside inside the Vatican, and continuing to confirm the brethren, and continuing to give “MY APOSTOLIC BLESSING”.

Without Vatican I and the dogmatic definition in Pastor Aeternus, we might all be sitting here thinking, “Well, this SEEMS wrong, but we can’t know for sure because there is so little guidance on this contingency. Everything that has been written on this possibility has been highly speculative.”

WELP.  The Divine Providence in His infinite kindness and incomprehensible love made ABSOLUTELY SURE that we could – ALL OF US – know, and know as a matter of DOGMATIC FAITH, what exactly it is that is going on here.  No secret decoder rings needed.  Quite the opposite.  A dogmatic declaration is the exact opposite of any sort of gnostic secrecy because it makes a given article a make-or-break matter of holding the Catholic Faith.

And isn’t that EXACTLY where we are, right now? There is an Antipope that is openly telling people that they MUST embrace lies as truth, and that they MUST be in union with HIM and HIS HERESY in order to be “in The Church”.  Antipope Bergoglio is telling the world that you MUST embrace HIS HERESY and APOSTASY in order to not be a schismatic.  This is a clear violation of the Law of Non-contradiction: Antipope Bergoglio claims to be BOTH the standard of Schism in his person, and SIMULTANEOUSLY he is the vector of schism.  He claims to be simultaneously a thing AND its ontological opposite.

You can parse Pastor Aeternus as fine as you like, but there is absolutely no way to claim that the Law of Non-contradiction vis-a-vis the Pope and Schism in se is NOT clearly within the domain of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility.  NONE.

Finally, I’d like to mention a concept in the same vein as this piece, specifically the simply boundless and infinite love of God for us, but now in the context of TECHNOLOGY.  Yes, technology.  I know most of us look at the modern world and see the horrors of technology around us, such as the ubiquitousness of pornography, the tracking/Mark of the Beast dynamics now emerging in real time, the destruction of economy and community that springs from economy by Chinese slave labor and Amazon, and of course, the near-total control of the media that satan holds, propagandizing and warping reality in the minds of nearly all men today.

But I’d like to argue the other side.  I’d like to postulate that maybe – just maybe – the Holy Ghost inspired men at an absolutely unprecedented pace in all of human history to advance technology for an overarching purpose that trumps all of the temporary negative aspects listed above for a reason.

I postulate that we have the ability to communicate with almost anyone on the planet in real time, the ability to record and disseminate information at the speed of light, precisely so that the Freemasons’ luciferian Antipope – Antipope Bergoglio – COULD NOT HIDE BEHIND THE VATICAN WALLS, could not hide behind the speed of information dissemination being limited to the speed of a horse or a sailing ship.

I think that we have this technology coupled with the dogmatic declaration of Papal Infallibility so that lucifer and his minions would have every bit of their hamfisted plot circling the globe being observed, hashed out and discussed, with every papal document and the whole of Canon Law available in every language, by unlettered lay nothing harridans who carry a baby television around in their pocket which gives them instant, unfettered access to all of it – down to Antipope Bergoglio’s raging tantrums as he eats his lunch, down to his physical assault of a Chinese woman begging for help for the Church in China, down to his ordering a demonic Pachamama talisman to be placed on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the offertory of the Mass, thus desecrating the Basilica.  IT’S ALL RECORDED. EVERYONE CAN SEE IT.  Many will see it and ignore it.  Pride.  Greed. Cowardice.  BUT, whoever the Divine Providence wants to see it will see it. And it is the technology that makes that possible, whether one lives in the Center of Rome, or in a Van Down By the River.

Never forget what Our Lord said to satan when satan declared his intent to destroy the Church, as overheard by Pope Leo XIII in ARSH 1884:

GO AHEAD AND TRY.

If you know Who God Is, and you believe it, those words are just about the most edifying possible.  I AM Omniscient and Omnipotent, and I am saying to you: go ahead and try, because I will utterly crush and humiliate you, and manifest My Power and My Love.  GO AHEAD AND TRY, AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

The truth of the Bergoglian Antipapacy and the awesomeness of God can be appreciated AS IT IS HAPPENING.  It’s not necessary for centuries to pass before anyone can appreciate what is happening RIGHT NOW TO US. What a tragedy that so many people are not only missing out, but being scandalized and even apostatizing, when they should be, in a certain sense, enjoying being able to see and even participate in this Holy War – even if only, for now, through a baby television that you carry in your pocket. Savor these days, friends.  Savor these days. And DON’T squander the opportunity that you have been given to know, love and serve God in this world, so that you may be happy with Him forever in the next.

I hope this helps.

Our Lady of Copacabana, slayer of the Pachamama demon, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, on your Holy Church in terrifyingly visible eclipse, and on the Petrine See, vacant now these 354 days.

St. Paul on sodomites and their enablers and tolerators in his opening paragraphs to his letter to the Romans.

For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things. Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves. Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;  Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Romans 1: 22-32

Use your brains, folks. If buttsecks can receive a “blessing”, then so too can straight vanilla fornication, self abuse, ANYTHING.

This is nothing less than satan’s attempt to completely destroy any notion of “sexual morality” whatsoever. Remember the satanic creed: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

I’m on the road this week, but will have plenty to say in the coming days. For now, if you’re the least bit “shook” by any of this, if you’re confused and thinking that nothing makes sense, let me remind you that I explain EXACTLY what has happened in the following video presentation from early October, in addition to two more videos, plus who-knows-how-many hundred thousand words in essay form, all openly accessible on this website.

Jorge Bergoglio is an Antipope. Pope Benedict XVI never validly resigned. The Petrine See has been vacant for 352 days and counting. Nothing Antipope Bergoglio says or does has anything to do with the Catholic Church or the Papacy. Antipope Bergoglio gives every indication of being the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist – the ape of John the Baptist.

If you acknowledge the obvious truth of this situation, that Bergoglio is an Antipope, then not only are you NOT scandalized by any of this, it’s actually a positive to see the truth so openly exposed. Good. Let it be shouted from the rooftops. Let everyone see. Let everyone understand.

That really is a sweet little clip. The child who voiced Linus had such a quintessentially warm American accent, even down to the little lisp. Magic in a bottle – from the voices to the soundtrack. It was made in ARSH 1965 and stands as a marker of the end of the Christian American culture, only recognized now in retrospect.

Here’s a super-cool observation on this clip that you might not have noticed before.  Note that when Linus gets to the words of the Angels to the Shepherds, “Fear not…”, he drops his security blanket, the motif for his (and our) fears and insecurities, and leaves it on the ground for the duration of his proclamation of The Word of God. Cool, huh?

But, a nit to pick, and a great lesson for all in how important an accurate translation of the Bible is. Most Bibles today read Luke 2:14 as:

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.”

The last clause is mangled, as anyone who knows the Gloria in Latin (as one should, because it is said at a plurality of Masses throughout the year) can see.

The Vulgate Latin, which is St. Jerome’s synthesis of the original source texts commissioned by Pope St. Damasus I, triple cross-referenced against each other in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew in preparation for the eventual setting of the canon of scripture at the Councils of Rome in ARSH 382, and Carthage in ARSH 397, reads thusly:

“…gloria in altissimis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis”

In English, in the Douay-Rheims translation thus reads:

Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.

These are two completely different ideas. Radically different. The first translation has peace and goodwill together as co-subjects, as unqualified universals: “peace, goodwill TOWARD men”. The Vulgate clearly has goodwill not as the COMPOUND SUBJECT along with peace, but as the QUALIFIER. To men OF GOOD WILL. Good will isn’t the subject, it is the OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION.

The Peace of Our Lord is a massively qualified, and extremely rare and precious thing. When the priest says at Mass, “Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum” (The peace of the Lord be always with you), he isn’t just saying “nice things” as filler. This is a profound and precious prayer.

Why would God, in His Perfect Justice, wish good will towards those men who are at war with Him, and thus His Church? Is not the Second Person, God Incarnate in the Manger in Bethlehem, the Judge of mankind? Is not the Baby wrapped in swaddling clothes He who will sort the sheep from the goats? Is He not the One who is come to sift the wheat from the chaff? Did He not say:

“Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.”

Cornelius of Lapide says in his commentary on Luke 2:

But all the Latins, and, among the Greeks, Origen, S. Chrysostom, and Cyril, read, and with better reason, for ευ̉δοκία good will, ευ̉δοκίας—of good will, making the hymn consist of two members. For as glory is given to God as to Him who is glorified, so peace is given to men of good will as to those whom the peace of Christ belongs and befits; and in this way the concatenation of the whole sentence hangs better together. The peace on earth cannot be supposed to be other than that which belongs to men of good will.

Oh, but if we are under attack by Freemasonic-Communist-homosexualist infiltrators, pushing their heresies of “universal salvation” and Indifferentism, and we want God reduced to an abstract philosophical construct, an “I’m okay, you’re okay” joke of a deity, an effete, toothless “idea” that is merely an excuse for Freemasonic neo-pagan self-worship and narcissistic performance opportunities, then, by all means, mangle and rearrange the Word of God. As the infiltrators tell their victims, “It doesn’t really matter what the original texts said or did not say – all that matters is what today’s translation means to you . . . “

Luke 2:14 is a quick, easy way to check the veracity of any translation of the Bible. Break yours out and check right now. And then, when you find it incorrectly translated, as you almost certainly will, ask yourself what other verses have been mangled. And then ask yourself what you’re missing in the seven books that Luther removed. Uh-oh.

Then, just GET A DOUAY-RHEIMS and use the Church’s authoritative English translation without fear or worry that you are reading Freemasonic-Communist-homosexualist agitprop.

Have a blessed Ember Week in Advent and then… Christmas!

This day you shall know that the Lord will come and save us: and in the morning you shall see His glory.

Introit and Gradual of the Mass of the Vigil of the Nativity

Addendum over the transom:

Happy Octave Day of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

Welp, I’m a Believer.

Feliz Navidad!

Visibility, visibility, visibility, folks. The hits just keep on a-comin’.

The current Antipope, the vomitous apostate wretch, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, just announced that when he shuffles off this mortal coil, he wants to be buried NOT out of the Petrine Basilica, but out of Santa Maria Maggiore – St. Mary Major.

BUT, but , but, the Bergoglian cultists will say, “He has such a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary!” To which I reply, “IN WHAT UNIVERSE??” His blasphemies against HER are COUNTLESS! He said that she wasn’t “born a saint, but became one.” He said that she “doubted and called God a liar at the foot of the Cross.” He despises the Rosary, and within months of his usurpation was openly laughing at people who had sent him a spiritual bouquet of Rosaries while talking to a group of religious sisters, saying, “Can you believe this? There are these crazy people who actually COUNT their Rosaries!”

Let me explain this. For those who haven’t been able to make pilgrimage to Rome, this maneuver is CRYSTAL, CRYSTAL clear to everyone who has been to Rome, and to all Romans.

The plaza in front of St. Mary Major is tiny. It only takes maybe three thousand people to fill it. Antipope Bergoglio has seen the EMPTY St. Peter’s Square, which holds 200,000+, for all of his sulphuric eruptions of verbal flatulence over the years, and knows that he is despised by pretty much everyone, ESPECIALLY work-a-day Italians, who have made up the vast majority of huge crowds at St. Peter’s. Folks, I was physically present at Pope Benedict’s “final audience” in St. Peter’s Square on 27 February, ARSH 2013, and when I tell you that we were packed in shoulder-to-shoulder, I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. I HAD to take off my backpack and put it between my feet because there simply wasn’t room to keep it on my back. There were, AT MINIMUM, 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that day. Most of them were local Romans, by practical definition.

Today, local Romans wouldn’t urinate on Antipope Bergoglio if he were on fire. The only reason a work-a-day Roman would show up to Antipope Bergoglio’s funeral would be to HECKLE. And rightly so.

Further, Antipope Bergoglio INCENSED the nobility of Europe and the world (such as it is) by the MASSIVE disrespect to Pope Benedict at his funeral in January. EVERYONE agreed that Pope Benedict WAS a sovereign head of state, a monarch, and the fact that he was buried with the level of disrespect that he was infuriated even non-Catholic nobles and aristocrats. Antipope Bergoglio knows that these people will probably not even show up to his send-off.

Finally, and most importantly, Antipope Bergoglio IS NOT THE POPE, and so, this is YET ANOTHER edifying and amazing manifestation of the Divine Providence, making the enemies of Jesus Christ and His Holy Catholic Church TESTIFY THEMSELVES to their own falsity. No, Antipope Bergoglio will most certainly NOT be buried out of St. Peter’s AS IF he were a Pope, because he is not, and never has been.

Ideally, Antipope Bergoglio will be buried in quiet obscurity in Argentina, after he is declared an Antipope and sent packing. Yes, I know this is a long-shot, but it is the IDEAL. And isn’t the history of Christianity and the Church just one spectacular long-shot after another… actually happening, actually coming to pass? Keep fasting and praying. KEEP THE FAITH.

And so let us add YET ANOTHER item to the “Visibility, visibility, visibility” list. NOTHING about this Antipapacy is hidden. No secret knowledge required. As the Gospel from Sunday, and the ferias of this week says, quoting Our Blessed Lord, speaking to the disciples of John the Baptist:

Eúntes renuntiáte Ioánni, quæ audístis et vidístis.

Go and report to John what you have heard and seen.

No, Antipope Bergoglio, most certainly shall NOT be buried out of the Petrine Basilica.

This is the Lord’s doing: and it is wonderful in our eyes.
A Domino factum est istud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris.

Psalm 117: 23

The plaza of St. Mary Major. Relatively tiny. Pray that antipope Bergoglio is removed and banished from Rome before he dies and can stain Our Lady’s basilica.

I just received an email from the son of a longtime reader who just died. She left no burial instructions and her son didn’t know what to do, but he did know from her browser history that she was a devout Traditional Catholic. To his great credit, he emailed me after seeing this website in her browser, asking for advice as to what his mother would have wanted. I informed him that Traditional Catholic teaching (pre 1963) is that voluntary cremation is forbidden, that she should have a funeral Mass with the body present, and then she should be buried in a Catholic cemetery (in Catholic cemeteries the ground is consecrated!) with clergy present for the final blessing at the graveside.

Folks, if you don’t have WRITTEN instructions worked up and left with your family and/or executors, do it. The Antichurch is now pushing cremation and scattering and even keeping ashes in homes, so you cannot assume that the fact that you are Catholic will ensure a proper burial.

Someone dear to me died this past year, and was buried, unembalmed (undertakers will know your state’s burial laws), in a pine box with a muslin lining in a dirt hole – no cement vault. I found the elegant simplicity moving, and it speaks to the belief in the resurrection.

In your charity, please say an Ave for the repose of the soul of CF.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei,
requiescant in pace.
~Amen~

Simple pine casket with muslin lining. Dignified and inexpensive.