It’s only a few seconds in. You can’t miss it.

I look at all of the Trad Inc. parti$an$ and those under their ideological thumb attacking Vatican I and papal infallibility all day every day, and I just… can’t… even…

The completely irrational, prideful obtuseness on display from people with above-average IQs is just stunning.  And as you all know, I’m pretty jaded and don’t stun easily.

How can you POSSIBLY adopt the intransigent position that an infallible ecumenical council which declared dogma is “wrong”, and that the ENTIRE CHURCH FOR 2000 YEARS, every saint, every doctor of the Church, every orthodox believing Catholic from Kings to illiterate peasants – ALL OF THEM were not just wrong about the papacy, but were guilty of the sin of IDOLATRY with regards to the papacy?  Oh, and also, the words of the EXPLICIT PROMISE of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospels to Peter in the establishment and guarantee of special protection of the Papacy was either ERRONEOUS, LIES, or REVOCABLE?

Um, maybe instead of attacking the Papacy, and by immediate logical corollary Holy Mother Church AND Our Lord Jesus Christ, you might just pump ya brakes a little and ask yourself:

“I wonder if the Divine Providence had a REASON for the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility in ARSH 1870?” 🤔

Just off the top of my head… maybe the Divine Providence in His Perfection provided for the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility in ARSH 1870 PRECISELY SO THAT THE WORLD COULD KNOW, FOR AN ABSOLUTE DOGMATIC CERTAINTY by simple observation, THAT BERGOGLIO ISN’T THE POPE, and THUS SOMETHING HAD TO BE TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY WRONG WITH THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO BERGOGLIO’S USURPATION.

Maybe if people would attack this controversy from the base assumption that GOD ALMIGHTY is THE PERFECT ONE as manifested in His Spotless and Indefectible Bride the Church, in His Angels, and in His Saints, and that THEY THEMSELVES are deeply fallible and so very capable of error, INSTEAD OF THE EXACT OPPOSITE,  there might be a bit more clarity of thought round about.

“…for men are not bound, or able to read hearts; but when they see that someone is a heretic by his external works, they judge him to be a heretic pure and simple, and condemn him as a heretic.”
-St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church

Reiterating: Bergoglio isn’t an Antipope because he is a raging heretic / apostate.  He’s an Antipope because the current Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger never lost the Petrine Office because he never legally resigned it.

Bergoglio’s heresy/apostasy is only a GINORMOUS VISIBLE RED FLAG that points BACKWARD to the root of the problem, which is Pope Benedict’s canonically invalid attempted partial resignation. It is of paramount importance to understand the logical procession in play.

Recognizing The Real is the duty of every human being, with Catholics first among them, because Our Lord Jesus Christ IS HIMSELF THE AUTHOR AND SUSTAINER OF REALITY, and we literally receive The Author and Sustainer of Reality’s physical substance- Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity- into our own bodies and souls.  When we receive Holy Communion, we receive REALITY HIMSELF.

Remember well, folks, ONLY THE REAL COUNTS.

Only The Real counts. Only The Real matters.

Subj: Memorial Day post – parallels between priests and guards

“–Priests are also supposed to walk with a very deliberate gait – slow, measured and reverent in exactly the same way the Tomb Guards walk in a slow, deliberate, reverent gait.”

The Germans have a special verb for this style of ceremonial walk: schritten. It is also the same walk a bride uses when coming down the aisle – the foot glides forward and there’s a brief stop before the next step is taken.

C.S. Lewis, in ‘A Preface to Paradise Lost’ wrote this about the proper use of ritual and ceremony:

The quality will be understood by any one who really understands the meaning of the Middle English word solempne. This means something different, but not quite different, from the modern English solemn. Like solemn it implies the opposite of what is familiar, free and easy, or ordinary. But unlike solemn it does not suggest gloom, oppression, or austerity….

The Solempne is the festal which is also the stately and the ceremonial, the proper occasion for pomp — and the very fact that pompous is now used only in a bad sense measures the degree to which we have lost the old idea of ‘solemnity’. To recover it, you must think of a court ball, or a coronation, or a victory march, as these things appear to people who enjoy them; in an age when every one puts on his oldest clothes to be happy in, you must re-awake the simpler state of mind in which people put on gold and scarlet to be happy in. Above all, you must get rid of the hideous idea, fruit of a widespead inferiority complex, that pomp, on the proper occasions, has any connexion with vanity or self-conceit. A celebrant approaching the altar, a princess being led out by a king to dance a minuet, a general officer on a ceremonial parade, a major-domo preceding the boar’s head at a Christmas feast — all these wear unusual clothes and move with calculated dignity. This does not mean that they are vain, but that they are obedient; they are obeying the hoc age [“do this”] which presides over every solemnity.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is not proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

Signed,

Ottawa

Subj: Ivermectin story from Canada

Hello Ann,

I have been your reader for years. I wanted to share my story about Ivermectin.

As I completely trust you and your judgement, I immediately ordered Ivermectin after reading your information about its efficacy. I also shared it with my friends and family.

I encouraged my cousins to order Ivermectin. They said they would but it never happened.

At the beginning of May they fell ill with COVID but did not tell me until 2 weeks later when they were already quite ill. My cousin had pneumonia and his wife was also really sick (coughing, fever, fatigue, lack of appetite). They had tests done so they knew it was COVID. Their doctor prescribed antibiotics and other medication which did not help at all.

{Sit in stillness with the fact that a doctor prescribed antibiotics for an allegedly diagnosed viral infection. Antibiotics have zero effect on viruses. Modern medicine is a total farce. Pray for the glorious restoration of the Church Militant so that actual evidence-based pro-life medicine not tied to kleptocracy can re-emerge and once again be the driving force in ALL science and education. 🙏🏻 -AlphaBravo}

After 2 weeks they called me, barely being able to speak because they knew that I had Ivermectin. I gave it to them along with a bottle of Elderberry syrup for coughing and after the second dose of Ivermectin ( 72 hours after they took the first dose of 1.75ml) they already felt a bit better.

A few days later a noticeable improvement. They are now feeling much, much better and are recovering.

I cannot help but think that had they taken it right from the onset of their symptoms they would have not been so ill.

I wanted to also share, dear Ann, that had I really paid attention to what you were writing about the future Which we are living in the present time I would have been in a better position now. We live and learn.

I am extremely grateful for your knowledge that you share with people and please continue to write.

May God bless you and keep you in good health!

E

Blame SuperNerd. Or Paul VI. I always do. 😂

I’m just going to send you over to Lifson’s piece at AmericanThinker.com.

Lifson obviously mentions the massive money-laundering boon of the non-vaccines to Big Pharma, but what he misses, and cannot be permitted to be lost amongst the “covid” rhetoric, is the fact that Ivermectin’s antiviral properties would eliminate AS A TOTAL PREVENTATIVE a massive percentage of the cold and flu symptom remedy market. If you never catch a cold or the flu in the first place, then you never become symptomatic, which means you don’t have any demand for over-the-counter decongestants, cough suppressants, fever reducers, etc.

It’s an ELEVEN FIGURE ANNUAL MARKET. $50 billion, conservatively. Don’t kid yourselves, folks. BigPharma is defending their over-the-counter cold and flu remedy high-profit-margin market every bit as much as they are fabricating this “non-vaccine” market by withholding and trying to character assassinate Ivermectin in th€ fir$t wor£d.

TH€Y. WANT. YOU. $ICK.

Th€y N€€D you $ick.

Did I mention I received ANOTHER 800 doses of Ivermectin this week? Yup. Folks, just walk into any farm supply store, tell an employee, “I need something out of the pharma case. Can you open it please?” And just BUY the 1% livestock injectable, which is TOTALLY safe for humans to take orally by drinking it. Don’t run your mouth. Just BUY IT.

Stop and think about it. Veterinarians have been taking the livestock injectable themselves orally for DECADES. And do you truly, honestly think that I would aggressively push this unless I knew for a metaphysical certitude that it was totally, totally safe?

I’m not a doctor, but I’m highly, reliably informed, and I am HAPPILY and FEARLESSLY recommending and personally distributing it. Damn right. FEARLESSLY. All day every day. I carry a 50 mL bottle and syringe in my backpack purse at all times for distribution to ANYONE who wants it. You know why? Because Ivermectin is literally the safest drug in the world. 3.7 billion human doses- no side effects. The Livestock INJECTABLE formulation is TOTALLY safe for human ORAL consumption. I take it myself, and plan on continuing to do so solely to ward off seasonal colds and flus. Because who in their right mind WANTS to be even slightly sick, ever? And because it is, without any doubt or question, the MORALLY SANE thing to do.

Kinda like burning a koran, or shuttering a brokerage firm, or calling out an Antipope.

Git ‘er dun, as the man said.

Remember the P.I.A. Triumvirate of human medicine: Penicillin, Ivermectin, Aspirin.

Be not afraid. Do the right thing, and God will provide.

My God, My God, what a glorious time to be alive!

Pssssst. He didn’t. Legally. Not even remotely close. Not even in the same galactic cluster as a canonically valid papal resignation.

Here is point 1 of 6. Do click over and read the whole thing at Tim’s place in St. Louis.

1. One must always remember that only a pope can abolish a motu proprio issued by the pope. This “duh” principle must always be remembered in our corrupt times. Let’s just spitball, and “speculate”, that Pope Benedict is still the pope. Who cares what a heretical prelate from Argentina says about Summorum Pontificum? His authority to do anything about it is about the same as his authority in my homeowners association: zero. But, for the sake of completeness, let us assume, arguendo for the rest of this post that Bergoglio is definitively and actually the pope….

Remember, the greatest rush that demoniacs feel is from openly manifesting their evil and then watching people let them get away with it.

Biden is obviously demented, but the pedophilia is intrinsic to him – he was sexually into children, including his own, according to his daughter, long before any brain injuries or dementia. So The Powers That Be placed a pedophile with rapidly fading self-censoring capability as the “president” of the “united states”.

I think at this point, this is a trolling operation. I think they are positively luxuriating in the utter refusal of the unwashed masses to do a damn thing to resist them in any way.

They can literally let their front puppet openly lust on a pre-pubescent child from the podium, and nobody bats an eye. And on a military base, no less.

Joe Biden has been slammed for ‘creepy’ remarks he made about a young girl during a speech at a Virginia military base on Friday. 

The Commander-in-chief, 78, went off-script to point out the ‘elementary school- aged’ girl as he delivered an address at Joint Base Langley-Eustis ahead of Memorial Day. 

‘I love those barrettes in your hair, man,’ the President said to the girl, who was sitting at the side of the stage. ‘I tell you what, look at her, she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed,’ Biden bizarrely continued. 

Dear Ann:

I couldn’t help but comment on the recent essay Steve Skojec posted about how traditional Catholics continue to “abuse” him because a parish priest did not give his children sacraments. I know there is another side to that story that we will never hear about, but my initial reaction was to truly feel sad for Mr. Skojec and his family. I realized that this very public emotional breakdown and what for all intents and purposes appears to be a public apostasy from the Roman Catholic faith was the fruit of the Antipope Bergolgio papacy.

I think this episode also shows how important the topic of identifying and defending the true Vicar of Christ is. Your efforts to expose the Truth is not an exercise in futility but has real and dire consequences.

Skojec’s public diatribe on issues, which most certainly should remain a private affair between him and his parish priest, was truly a cry for help after spending years attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable. If you truly believe that you are in the position of having to defend a man who claims to be the vicar of Christ, the father and spiritual leader of Christ’s visible Church on earth while at the same time that man does everything in his power to destroy that same Church, the intellectual and emotional fallout resulting from this illogical paradox and impossible position must be devastating. Sadly, if he just reconsidered his premises as you so often preach, rather than insist there is some way that 2+2 can equal 5, so much of this inner turmoil and anger would dry up and disappear like a dew drop in the desert.

There is one other component to this I want to mention. Skojec and I are about the same age. I am a 43-year-old man who also grew up as a “cradle Catholic” in the post-Vatican 2 era who attended World Youth Day in Denver in the 1990s and went through periods of losing faith. We were essentially the first generation of boys to be raised and educated by pro-feminist, anti-patriarchal, pant-suit wearing nuns where the notion of true fatherhood was systematically dismantled on a daily basis. Our father figures, even if our biological fathers were still around (which was a crap shoot for many), were nevertheless practically replaced by professional athletes on television, horror movie and pornography stars found in VHS tape rental stores, GI Joe cartoons, and homosexual abusers placed in positions of authority. Unless you had a grandfather still around who could actually teach you how to do manly tasks and take you on real adventures, most of my generation of fellow-boys grew up in a totally morally bankrupt and effeminate culture that did everything to destroy what it means to be a man.

It is no wonder then that the Bergolgio Antipapacy has caused so much confusion and damage in the Church and society today. Once again, the Evil One, using Bergoglio, tells those same boys, now middle-aged men, that there is no real fatherhood—that it’s all a lie and pointless. Just as fake and unrealistic as those GI Joe cartoon heroes were in the 1980s, so is the idea of strong, fatherly leadership in the time of turmoil. The antipapacy of Bergoglio attempts to confirm for my generation that none of this is actually real, that you are left alone, wondering in the wilderness just waiting to get eaten by the wolves who are out to get you. The Church was wrong, Vatican 1 was wrong and the priesthood is just a bunch of rigid mini-tyrants. Life is pointless and so is everything you ever thought about manhood, reality and yes—even God and His Church.

Had Skojec just been open to considering the facts and arguments showing that 2+2 does equal 4, that Christ did establish a Church with a true vicar of Christ that is a solid rock upon which Truth is grounded, and that that vicar is and always has been Pope Benedict since 2005, I think so much of his confusion, despair and hopelessness would transform into zeal, courage and strength knowing that there is Truth out there that needs to be defended by real men. It truly brings a sense of purpose and freedom, despite all the evil around us, that God would never abandon us and that we are placed on this planet at this time for a reason.

Just some thoughts from someone who grew up in the same demographic and world as Skojec, but with a vastly different understanding of who Christ’s Vicar is on earth. Yes, Ann, this issue matters, and it matters a lot.

M.

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