Really? You don’t think tolerating and enabling this has anything to do with the death of the Republic and the civilization?

The Coronation of St. Joseph, Juan de Valdés Leal, ARSH 1665

Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of having been chosen by God to be the foster-father of His Divine Son. As a token of your own gratitude to God for this your greatest privilege, obtain for me the grace of a very devoted love for Jesus Christ, my God and my Savior. Help me to serve Him with some of the self-sacrificing love and devotion which you had while on this earth with Him. Grant that through your intercession with Jesus, your foster-Son, I may reach the degree of holiness God has destined for me, and save my soul.

Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.

Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.

Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:

(Mention your request).

Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.

MEMORARE

Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.

As I have said for years, all it will take is for a few people to speak out on the Bergoglian Antipapacy, and once it starts and critical mass is reached, there will be people crawling out of the woodwork to testify to the invalidity of Pope Benedict’s resignation and the subsequent Antipapacy of the wretched criminal apostate Antipope Bergoglio. I hope that the poll Canon212.com did just recently helped people see just how many believing Catholics have come to know this truth, per Canon 748.

Here is the latest, by Sergio Russo, published at Marco Tosatti’s website. Russo and co-author Rosanna Boccacci are set to release a book on the invalid resignation of Pope Benedict.

Please note that they make exactly the argument we have been making for almost five years: an OFFICE is a state of BEING. Pope Benedict IS the Pope. A MINISTRY is an optional contingent ACTIVITY proceeding from an Office. The Pope presides, legislates, judges, teaches, confirms the brethren. These are optional contingent activities, because a Pope in a coma, or imprisoned can’t DO the ministerial functions, but he IS still the Pope.

Office = Being

Ministry = Doing

This distinction is addressed here beginning at the 07:55 timestamp:

In order to validly resign, the Pope must resign from BEING the Pope, not merely from DOING the “active governance” and administrative functions of the Papacy, which is what Pope Benedict EXPLICITLY said he was doing.

Russo also echoes Dr. Mazza in recognizing the Pope/Papacy as the Katechon of 2 Thessalonians 2.

CLICK HERE FOR THE ALGORITHMIC TRANSLATION OF RUSSO’S PIECE AT TOSATTI’S BLOG.

We are in the midst of a suicidal mass psychosis on a scale never before seen in human history. We all know about the Jonestown cult and their mass suicide (the origin of the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid”), but the better example of an entire society falling overnight into an intransigent insistence upon committing mass suicide is the Xhosa people of Southern Africa beginning in ARSH 1856.

The thing to remember about what is happening now is that this is, beyond Big Pharma, beyond Gates, Soros and Fauci, beyond the Central Banks, beyond the government-media combine, beyond all of these dynamics, the ultimate driver of this is satan, and this is all, at its core, a ritual sacrifice to satan. Satan wants the entire human race to commit ritual suicide as a final holocaust offering to him, the total inversion of Calvary. For God so loved the world that permitted Himself to be sacrificed to redeem mankind, and mankind filled with self-loathing and hatred of God chooses to embrace satan and eternal damnation by self-immolation ritual suicide as a final sacrifice to Satan.

Now, your reading assignment for today is to read about the ENTHUSIASTIC mass suicide, pretty much out of the blue, of the Xhosa people of Southern Africa.  On the word of one young girl who claimed she had a “vision” an entire race of people slaughtered all of their livestock and burned all of their crops.  Because two girls told them it was the only way they could be saved and bring about a Utopia, and if they didn’t do this, they would be destroyed along with the entire world.

Sound familiar?  Read up.  Excerpt below.  Be warned, this author tries to blame this diabolical act on Christianity somehow, and paint is as a protest against Christian proselytism.  It was a purely pagan manifestation of evil – if any these people actually saw anything preternatural, it was demonic.  The white Christians BEGGED the Xhosa to not do this evil and insane thing.  I think you will be struck by the similarities to what is happening now – even down to the terminology… “New World” Order.

One morning in 1856, a fifteen year old Xhosa girl named Nongqawuse went with another girl to scare birds from her uncle’s crops in the fields by the sea at the Gxarha river mouth in the present day Wild Coast area of South Africa.

When she returned she said that she had seen a man, who had told her that ‘The whole community would rise from the dead; that all cattle now living must be slaughtered’. The girls returned home and told their families what had happened but they were not believed. Later, however, when Nongqawuse described one of the men, her uncle Mhalakaza, himself a diviner, recognised the description as that of his dead brother, and became convinced she was telling the truth.

As a result, between April 1856 and June 1857, the various sections of the Xhosa people of the Eastern Cape and the Transkei slaughtered almost all their enormous stocks of cattle and deliberately killed their crops. This apocalyptic event, rather than being some kind of ‘mass suicide’s described by early colonial historians, was actually the earliest example of a mass ‘passive resistance’ movement in South Africa. The themes and symbols of the Cattle-Killing can be found in the various resistance movements of South Africa right into the modern era.

Nongqawuse and Mhalakaza said that those who had appeared to them were the spirits of their dead ancestors, who had come back to life in order to bring the Xhosa nation back to its former glory and to ‘render the Xhosa the assistance they required in order to drive the white man out of the land’.

A few days later Mhalakaza met with the spirits himself, and said that all the dead of the Xhosa nation would arise again, that they would come up out of the sea, bringing with them new and uncontaminated cattle, along with ‘sheep, goats, dogs, fowls and every other animal that was wanted, and all clothes and everything they could wish for to eat. . . and all kinds of things for their houses.’ The cattle, said Nongqawuse, were at present in underground caverns waiting to arise and start a new world for the purified Xhosa people. On the day of their coming, she promised, ‘the blind would see, the deaf would hear, cripples would walk, and the whole Xhosa nation would arise from the dead’ and begin a golden age without disease, death or misfortune.

As word of the prophecies grew, the Xhosa paramount chief, Sarhili, sent emissaries to the Gxarha river mouth to investigate the prophecies. They did not actually meet the strangers, but returned home convinced of the truth of the prophecies and immediately began killing their cattle. Sarhili then sent two of his councillors to notify the chiefs under British jurisdiction that they must sacrifice their ‘bewitched’ cattle. Once Sarhili had come out in support, the movement gained enormous momentum.

But not all the Xhosa killed their cattle. Many refused to believe the truth of the prophecies and refused to waste their corn and neglect their gardens. By the end of 1856, so many cattle had been killed that the adherents of the movement had gone too far to turn back. Searching for a reason why the dead had not been resurrected as the prophecies promised, they blamed the ‘selfish’ actions of the ‘Unbelievers’ in preserving their cattle.

As the Cattle-Killing frenzy swept Xhosaland, rumours flew. The most striking of these was that the ‘New People’ foretold by Nongqawuse were in some way connected to the Russians, against whom the British were currently fighting -and being defeated -in the Crimean War. The Russians were therefore believed to be black, and coming over the sea to liberate the Xhosa and drive the whites into the sea, whereupon a new Utopia for the nation would begin. The individual magistrates who were stationed with chiefs under Governor Grey’s system tried to persuade the chiefs of the foolishness of slaughtering their cattle, but with little success.

As hunger set in, the farms of the unbelievers were plundered and rage against them mounted. Blamed for the destitution around them, and denied any help from the colonial government, they became outcasts, scarcely any better off than the Believers.

By February 1857 , starvation and destitution was widespread. No definite date had as yet been set for the beginning of the New World, and so many cattle had been killed there was no sense in keeping those that remained alive.

Sarhili visited the Gxarha river mouth, and spoke with Nongqawuse and Mhalakaza for a long time. When he returned, he announced that the New World would begin in eight days. On the eighth day the sun would rise blood-red, before setting again, there would be a huge Thunderstorm, and then “The dead would arise”. During the next eight days the Cattle- Killing rose to a climax. The Xhosa historian Gqoba reported that on the eighth day – ” The sun rose just like any other sun. The Believers withdrew into their houses all day, fastened tightly behind their doors, peeping outside occasionally through little holes in their dwellings until the sun disappeared. . . “

The estimated figure of those who died as result of the cattle-killing stands at 40,000. In addition, the Governor of the Cape instigated a massive programme of labour ‘recruitment’ which led to thousands of Xhosa being transported across the border into Cape Colony. Magistrates were instructed only to give food and relief to those who were willing to be contracted for labour in the colony. Those who agreed were obliged to sign a term of agreement whereby they expressed their willingness to work anywhere in Cape Colony for any wage that was offered.

The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.
Proverbs 28: 1

It’s a rhetorical question. We all know why. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin points DIRECTLY to Christ’s DIVINITY, and to the reality of Original Sin, and Antipope Bergoglio’s entire satanic agenda is to deny Christ and destroy His Holy Church, ESPECIALLY in front of and to ingratiate himself to pagans and atheists.

Antipope Bergoglio’s tactic is to convince the world that “Immaculate Conception”, like “Vicar of Christ”, is an antiquated, superstitious title to be cast off. There is no place for such inanities in his One World Religion Universal Antichurch. And so, as we see, the Vatican has put scare quotes around the words “Immaculate Conception” in order to indicate that this title is NOT to be believed, but is an antiquated term that is an unfortunate relic of a soon-to-be-replaced thing that was called “the Catholic Church”.

The scare quotes are NOT in the other languages on the Vatican website. Only the Italian and the English. Interesting. Perhaps actual Catholic translators caught it and corrected it. Don’t worry. I’m sure they’ll soon be fired for this sickening display of triumphalism and for having callously offended all non-Catholic peoples by implying that Christ is Divine and that Original Sin exists.

Everyone who knows anything about Freemasonry gasps at this upon seeing it, before even knowing the context. Including me.

It’s a giant compass and square.

And yes, that’s Antipope Bergoglio in Iraq.

FYI, Fr. Z has a post up in which he drops the term “SUBSTANTIAL ERROR” numerous times, and thinks aloud about the Mazza Thesis. How ’bout that?

Americans aren’t much interested in snooty-pants European stuff like coats of arms, the study of which is called “heraldry”, so this compelling visible datapoint has flown under the radar outside of Europe.  BUT, it actually is a big deal, because we all agree that the Vicar of Christ is not only an Absolute Monarch, he outranks all other kings on earth, and, as SuperNerd likes to point out, and it is absolutely true, the entire physical universe is his jurisdiction, including low earth orbit (which currently has human presence), the Moon, and Mars.

The reason that Papal Heraldry has come up is because a prominent Italian Vaticanista whom you might remember from his ARSH 2018 book in which he argues that Pope Benedict is the Pope, Antonio Socci, has published a piece on another prominent Italian Vaticanista’s website, Stilum Curiae by Marco Tosatti, in which Socci states the following as the last item in a LONG list of indicators that Pope Benedict has and intended to remain the Pope:

Vatican journalist Saverio Gaeta has noted that “on Pope Bergoglio’s coat of arms the pallium is missing, while it is present on the coat of arms of Pope Ratzinger: an element that in Vatican symbology is decidedly not negligible.

“Decidedly not negligible” is nuclear-strength understatement, folks.  Coats of Arms are AGONIZED over by professional, career heraldists.  There is no possible way that the team of heraldists who worked on Bergoglio’s “Papal” coat of arms just FORGOT the pallium.  I can tell you right now: they had to be ORDERED, almost certainly over their protests, to delete the pallium from what they thought was a papal coat of arms.

Here is a real-time screen cap of the Vatican.va webpage of the official “Coat of Arms of Pope Francis (sic)”. Also note that the Papal Style, “His Holiness” is not used. Search and search all you like, there is NO PALLIUM on Antipope Bergoglio’s “papal” coat of arms.

And, GUESS WHOSE COAT OF ARMS STILL HAS THE PALLIUM, TO THIS VERY DAY?

Yup. Pope Benedict XVI, gloriously reigning (whether he likes it or not).

Here is the real-time screen cap of the Vatican webpage of “Coat of Arms of His Holiness Benedict XVI.” See the pallium, the white stole-like thing with the three red crosses on it at the bottom?  That’s the Papal Pallium.

Visibility, visibility, visibility…

First, the results.  I’m not surprised that Pope Benedict won the poll.  I am surprised by how much.  I knew that we were making significant headway, but this is REALLY encouraging:

My thanks to news aggregator extraordinaire Frank Walker at Canon212.com and his webmistress for doing the poll.  This poll was done purely to gather information as to the situation on the ground in terms of what Traditional Catholics in the English-speaking world, i.e. the demographic of the Canon212.com audience, are thinking.  As Mark Docherty pointed out, and cannot be pointed out enough, the identity of the Vicar of Christ on Earth is an objective reality.  It is NOT in any way a matter of “popular opinion”.  Christ Jesus bestows the Papacy DIRECTLY upon the man who is legally elected AND assents to the office with ZERO mediation from either the College of Cardinals or even the Church.  This was made clear in no uncertain terms in Pastor Aeternus at Vatican I.  It is also Christ Jesus who WITHDRAWS the Papacy from a man who LEGALLY AND VALIDLY resigns.  The arbiter of this validity is Canon Law, which is backstopped by Christ Himself.  When Christ said to Peter, “What you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven,” what that means is that Christ Himself is the guarantor and backstop of “Peter’s Codex”, which today is the 1983 Code.  Peter’s successor promulgated the 1983 Code of Canon Law, and therefore Christ imbues and vivifies it with His own authority.  Canon Law judges the validity of a Papal Resignation.  We merely point to the results and state them.  My meat thermometer judges the temperature of my meatloaf.  I merely state the thermometer’s determination as to the state of said meatloaf and act accordingly.

We must NEVER forget Canon 748.1 or allow ourselves to be scandalized by others into thinking that the Truth about the Holy Catholic Church is “none of our business”, or even worse that it is some sort of sin to sincerely seek the identity of the Vicar of Christ on Earth; which would be nothing less than a direct denial of Our Lord’s words in the Good Shepherd Discourse AND a denial of the Second Great Commandment to love our neighbors because God loved them first.

Can. 748 §1. All persons are bound to seek the truth in those things which regard God and his Church and by virtue of divine law are bound by the obligation and possess the right of embracing and observing the truth which they have come to know.

BUT ANN!  BUT ANN!  Don’t you think that the fact that you linked to the poll skewed the results?

Actually, I don’t think my link skewed it too badly, because my audience and Canon212.com’s audience have a HUGE overlap.  Most people who read this space also check Canon212, so I didn’t drive many people to Canon212 that wouldn’t have seen it themselves anyway.

BUT, just for giggles, tellya what I’m gonna do.  Let’s give the Holy Father Pope Benedict a little haircut shall we?  Just for fun.  How about… oh, I dunno… FIFTY PERCENT.  Yes.  Let’s take fully HALF of Pope Benedict’s votes away and see where that leaves us.

Hmmm.  So Bergoglio would still have 1219 votes, and Pope Benedict would have 1550 votes.  Where I’m from in Kansas, we’d say that Pope Benedict STILL goes all Cassius Clay on him.  “DOWN! GOES! FRA…NCIS!! DOWN! GOES! FRA…NCIS!!”

So.  Yeah.  I think it is very, very clear that a strong majority of Traditional Catholics today have come to the conclusion per Canon 748 that Bergoglio is an Antipope and Pope Benedict is the one and only living Vicar of Christ on Earth.

Two other cohorts to mention.  Novus Ordo Watch (1958 sedevacantists) linked and publicized the poll, so most of the “Neither” votes came from that.  Not all, but most.

Fr. Z posted and linked the poll, and there was a sharp uptick in “Francis” votes as a result of that.  Fr. Z’s audience is a mix or Trad, semi-Trad and Novus Ordo.  Several things stood out in the comment thread on Fr. Z’s post.  First was the significant percentage of people who said that they didn’t care, it was none of their concern, etc. who the Vicar of Christ is.  I hope Fr. Z avails himself of this chance to explain to his readers that indifference to other human beings being scandalized unto eternal damnation by an Antipope isn’t something we are permitted to shrug off.  Second Great Commandment.  Second Joyful Mystery of the Rosary – the Visitation.  Fruit of the Mystery? FRATERNAL CHARITY, LOVE OF NEIGHBOR.

Several commenters on Fr. Z’s thread said they voted “Francis” only because no prelate has spoken out on the question.  GOODNESS, SOMEONE SHOULD TELL Cardinal Burke THAT EVERYONE IS DEFERRING TO HIM AND HIS AUTHORITY, AND THAT HE HAS THE POWER TO “TURN LOOSE THE LION OF TRUTH” AT ANY TIME.  “Significant canonical irregularities have been identified with regards to the resignation proffered by Pope Benedict XVI in February of 2013.  Pending further investigation….” Because maybe he doesn’t realize how much power he wields as not only a Cardinal Prince of the Church, but also the top-ranking Canon Lawyer in the Church. Still. And perhaps even more so now than ever.

The next was a comment by a lady named “Anita”.  She repeated the oft-heard mantra, “BUT THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DOOOOOO!”

Anita, my dear, SPEAK. FOR. YOURSELF.

Next, I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge two men who have done essentially all of the work in demonstrating that Pope Benedict never validly resigned and that Jorge Bergoglio is an Antipope.  Those two men are, of course…

Pope Benedict Ratzinger and Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Visibility, visibility, visibility….

And finally, now that we know that among Catholics who hold the actual Catholic faith, who don’t think that sodomites can marry, nor that women can be ordained, nor that the Mass is a symbolic community meal, nor that God wills religious plurality and deems proselytism a sin, and nor that there is no hell, only soul annihilation – among people who are ACTUALLY CATHOLIC, the SENSUS FIDELIUM is that Pope Benedict is the Pope.  Exactly as one would expect given the words of Our Blessed Lord and Savior, God Incarnate, in John 10:

Amen, amen I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers (vocem alienorum).

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The look on Our Lord’s face here says it all.