For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.
Omnes enim nos manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi, ut referat unusquisque propria corporis, prout gessit, sive bonum, sive malum.
Pray for him that he repent and dies shriven and in the State of Grace. Christ’s mercy is infinite, and even the most foul sins of Sodom are finite, and thus can be fully washed away in the Blood of the Lamb – with only one good confession.
Long time reader here (a few years, at least). A friend and I read your blog and meme sites near-daily, and occasionally discuss your posts. Although it may come across as pointed, this email and question are coming more from a friend than a foe.
Back when Francis, Bergoglio if you will, was alive, you rightly and heavily criticized “Trad Inc.” for recognizing him as a true pope, yet resisting him – the Recognize & Resist movement. You frequently and heavily criticized the Trad Inc. R&R movement by saying their ideas were “destroying the papacy.” (Forgive me if I’m not quoting you perfectly, but I remember things like that being posted with some frequency.)
Now to the SSPX. I’m not the SSPX police. I’m not a raging SSPX hater. I was once very sympathetic to the SSPX. But I still struggle to see how the current SSPX position is much different than that of the Trad Inc-R&R movement that you so heavily criticized during the time of Francis.
The SSPX seems to me to be like R&R on steroids. How are they not also “destroying the papacy” in the same sense that you said Trad Inc. was destroying the papacy?
I realize that you are on record as condemning the SSPX notion that Francis & Leo are true popes. You’ve stated that multiple times, and fair enough. But even so, I’m still often confused by your frequent friendliness and sympathies with the SSPX in other posts and shared memes.
I take this from near the end of a recent article by akaCatholic Louie, dated 8/7/2026 and linked here:
Pius X, in his syllabus condemning the errors of the modernists (Lamentabili Sane), condemns those who take lightly the condemnations of the Roman Congregations. A Catholic in good standing can’t say, “That man is the true pope,” and then laugh at and totally ignore his (or his congregation’s) condemnation and excommunication.
Feel free to share any thoughts you may have, whether you agree with my ramblings here or not – especially if not.
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You’re completely, totally right. I need to do better on this question. Thank you.
I am always struck by the Mass of a Virgin Not a Martyr, specifically the Introit, which is:
Thou has loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Psalm 44: 8
First of all, this is a very virile concept and verse to apply to Virgins-Not-Martyrs, of all people. We should be informed by this.
Also, ISN’T. IT. INTERESTING. that scripture says that people who HATE iniquity (immoral or grossly unfair behavior) and love JUSTICE, will be happy, joyful people. The world, today with Antipope “FtR” PERVost, and previously Bergoglio as its spokesman and main propagandist, tries constantly to paint such people as miserable, fundamentally unhappy, mean-spirited, joyless people. I myself am painted constantly thus – what a miserable harpy that Barnhardt is! Clearly she has no friends, and will die a miserable spinster because of her miserable comportment, joylessness, and shrewish, omni-critical worldview!
For those who have visited the “Van Down By the River/Creek”, yes, we share in the laugh.
The reason that people who hate iniquity and love justice are capable of joy and true happiness is, I think, because people who hate the bad and love the good do not go through life trying to hold or reconcile contradictory, irrational premises or positions simultaneously.
For the person who hates evil and loves good, there does not exist the soul-crushing tension that must come with denying the principle of non-contradiction as a defining characteristic of their person, nor the constant juggling of their own hypocrisies. Being a hypocrite is EXHAUSTING for anyone who has not completely descended into full-blown Diabolical Narcissism/psychopathy. This is why DNs are described, and sometimes describe themselves as being incapable of or never truly having known happiness.
In case you hadn’t noticed, post-western, post-Christian, post-human culture, and most certainly whatever “church” Antipope PERVost and Bergoglio and their ilk are busily constructing before our very eyes (let’s call it the Synodomitical Antichurch), are built entirely upon a foundation of denying that there is One Objective Knowable Truth, and a denial of the principle of non-contradiction.
The existential tension of this abject madness does, without question, bleed every bit of joy and gladness out of the human soul. All that it can ever yield is SENSUAL, MATERIAL “pleasure”, which inevitably descends into narcissism, sterility and nihilism.
Beware ANYONE who says “there’s no state of emergency.”
And at this point, I’m growing AWFULLY suspicious of people who claim to not understand why the bishops and faggot priests and dyke anti-nuns are doing things that are clearly destructive to the Catholic Church, the Faith, and to what little is left of Christian Civilization.
The pearl clutching and performative incredulity at this point smacks strongly of phonus bolonus.
This goes out to the Barnhardt Podcast listener who complains after every episode that The Tombstone Four laugh during the podcast.
We aren’t stopping. St. Lawrence was cutting up AS HE WAS BEING TORTURED TO DEATH. I hope that I can make people smile in the hour of my death, too. So we’re certainly not going to stop laughing while we’re all still very much alive and in the fight.
“All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.”– Proverbs 15:15
Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day. —Proverbs 31:25
If I should be granted the grace of martyrdom, I should like, very, very much, to crack a good joke or two at some point during the proceedings, like St. Lawrence.
It should amaze more people that rulers in modern countries can tell a man “Kill or be killed for me. You have no choice.” And to back that order with the threat of violence.
We all think it is completely normal. Even when rulers were voted in by people who could not name who… https://t.co/PdemcVRzcl
— William M Briggs – Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) August 8, 2026
“If you want Christ to love you and help you, you must love Him and always make every endeavor to please Him. Do not waver in your purpose because even if all the saints and every single creature were to abandon you, He will always be near you, no matter what your needs may be.”
Transfiguration of Christ, Paolo Veronese, ARSH 1555-56, Cathedral of Santa Maria, Montagnana
This is paragraph 15 from “Sermon on the Transfiguration of our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ” by St. Ephraim the Syrian. It seems to me that a simple verbatim recitation of this would make a spectacular sermon or homily by itself, Fathers.
“The facts themselves bear witness and His divine acts of power teach those who doubt that He is true God, and His sufferings show that He is true man. And if those who are feeble in understanding are not fully assured, they will pay the penalty on His dread day.
If He were not flesh, why was Mary introduced at all? And if He were not God, whom was Gabriel calling Lord?
If He were not flesh, who was lying in the manger? And if He were not God, whom did the Angels come down and glorify?
If He were not flesh, who was wrapped in swaddling clothes? And if He were not God, whom did the shepherds worship?
If He were not flesh, whom did Joseph circumcise? And if He were not God, in whose honor did the star speed through the heavens?
If He were not flesh, whom did Mary suckle? And if He were not God, to whom did the Magi offer gifts?
If He were not flesh, whom did Simeon carry in his arms? And if He were not God, to whom did he say, “Let me depart in peace”?
If He were not flesh, whom did Joseph take and flee into Egypt? And if He were not God, in whom were words “Out of Egypt I have called My Son” fulfilled?
If He were not flesh, whom did John baptize? And if He were not God, to whom did the Father from heaven say, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased”?
If He were not flesh, who fasted and hungered in the desert? And if He were not God, whom did the Angels come down and serve?
If He were not flesh, who was invited to the wedding in Cana of Galilee? And if He were not God, who turned the water into wine?
If He were not flesh, in whose hands were the loaves? And if He were not God, who satisfied crowds and thousands in the desert, not counting women and children, from five loaves and two fishes?
If He were not flesh, who fell asleep in the boat? And if He were not God, who rebuked the winds and the sea?
If He were not flesh, with whom did Simon the Pharisee eat? And if He were not God, who pardoned the offenses of the sinful woman?
If He were not flesh, who sat by the well, worn out by the journey? And if He were not God, who gave living water to the woman of Samaria and reprehended her because she had had five husbands?
If He were not flesh, who wore human garments? And if He were not God, who did acts of power and wonders?
If He were not flesh, who spat on the ground and made clay? And if He were not God, who through the clay compelled the eyes to see?
If He were not flesh, who wept at Lazarus’ grave? And if He were not God, who by His command brought out one four days dead?
If He were not flesh, who sat on the foal? And if He were not God, whom did the crowds go out to meet with glory?
If He were not flesh, whom did the Jews arrest? And if He were not God, who gave an order to the earth and threw them onto their faces?
If He were not flesh, who was struck with a blow? And if He were not God, who cured the ear that had been cut off by Peter and restored it to its place?
If He were not flesh, who received spittings on His face? And if He were not God, who breathed the Holy Spirit into the faces of His Apostles?
If He were not flesh, who stood before Pilate at the judgement seat? And if He were not God, who made Pilate’s wife afraid by a dream?
If He were not flesh, whose garments did the soldiers strip off and divide? And if He were not God, how was the sun darkened at the cross?
If He were not flesh, who was hung on the cross? And if He were not God, who shook the earth from its foundations?
If He were not flesh, whose hands and feet were transfixed by nails? And if He were not God, how was the veil of the temple rent, the rocks broken and the graves opened?
If He were not flesh, who cried out, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned Me”? And if He were not God, who said “Father, forgive them”?
If He were not flesh, who was hung on a cross with the thieves? And if He were not God, how did He say to the thief, “Today you will be with Me in Paradise”?
If He were not flesh, to whom did they offer vinegar and gall? And if He were not God, on hearing whose voice did Hades tremble?
If He were not flesh, whose side did the lance pierce, and blood and water came out? And if He were not God, who smashed to gates of Hades and tear apart it bonds? And at whose command did the imprisoned dead come out?
If He were not flesh, whom did the Apostles see in the upper room? And if He were not God, how did He enter when the doors were shut?
If He were not flesh, the marks of the nails and the lance in whose hands and side did Thomas handle? And if He were not God, to whom did He cry out, “My Lord and my God”?
If He were not flesh, who ate by the sea of Tiberias? And if He were not God, at whose command was the net filled?
If He were not flesh, whom did the Apostles and Angels see being taken up into heaven? And if He were not God, to whom was heaven opened, whom did the Powers worship in fear and whom did the Father invite to “Sit at my right hand”. As David said, “The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, etc.”
If He were not God and man, our salvation is a lie, and the words of the Prophets are lies.”
