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Thank St. Jerome (died 30 September ARSH 420). He was fluent in… everything, so he was tasked with doing a definitive Latin translation of everything in preparation for setting the Canon of Scripture. Hence, we have to this day St. Jerome’s translation which synthesized perfectly the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic original texts. I use St. Jerome’s translation, which is the official version of The Church, called the “Vulgate”, translated into modern English, which is called the “Douay-Rheims”.

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St. Jerome was known for not being… cuddly. Hence, I always think of him as Grumpycat.

Now, be inspired by St. Jerome’s grumpy wisdom. Be attentive!

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

It is our part to seek,
His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
His to bring it to completion;
ours to offer what we can,
His to finish what we cannot.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

Grumpy, but holy.

Today is the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, and I am going with the Byzantine style this year even though on the Byzantine Calendar this feast is observed on November 8.  Why?  Because the Byzantine name of the Feast is just about the coolest, most macho thing you’ve ever heard.  Check it out:

The Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers

The term “synaxis” in this context refers to “a common commemoration of a number of saints in a single service”.

Also, I just like saying the word “synaxis”, because… easily entertained. Talk about a six dollar word!

I also like referring to Angels as “Heavenly Bodiless Powers”.  I reckon they like it too, because the whole business of depicting Angels as winged babies, or as Precious Moments figurines must be galling to them.  “Heavenly Bodiless Powers” is not only macho, it is also much more accurate a description of their nature.

Here is a really good page (albeit Eastern Orthodox, but the content is totally sound) about our friends the Heavenly Bodiless Powers.

And remember, this… YES:

This… NO:

And for your musical interlude, Bortniansky’s Cherubic Hymn Number 7:

“All we that in mystery
Holy Cherubim portray
As the life’creating Trinity
With thrice-holy hymn we adore and praise.
Come, let us cast off all earthly care,
And forget every vain employ.
FOR THE KING OF ALL COMES IN TRIUMPH
BY UNSEEN HOSTS OF ANGELS BROUGHT
TO US THAT BID HIM WELCOME.
ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!”

St. Michael and all Heavenly Bodiless Powers, pray for us!

“To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.” – Catholic Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, 10 January 1890

It can’t be said better than this:

It’s apropos that this is being posted on day 1000 of the current interregnum, as we can see on the counter on the sidebar.

NonVeni Mark gets the credit on this one, as he wrote the answer. NonVeni Mark is one of the most eloquent and accessible exponents today of the argument as to why the post-Vatican II popes were valid, albeit really, really bad, and therefore the Petrine See has only been vacant for 2 years and 9 months and counting, NOT 67 years.

Again, I didn’t write the answer to this Q&A, NonVeni Mark did, so please credit him accordingly. —-Alpha Bravo

Question:

Dear Ann and the Gang,

While I can agree that Prevost cannot be Pope based on what he is saying, the thing that bothers me is the reasoning you are using to make the case: how does it substantially differ from the arguments made by the sedevacantists who say there has been no valid Pope since Pius XII or John XIII?

If you rely on “heresy disqualifies or takes away any office” then how can you accept any of the Popes after Pius XII?

Sincerely yours,

P

Answer (written by NonVeni Mark): I believe the answer is that none of post-conciliar, pre-Bergoglian popes ever denied an infallibly defined dogma of the faith.

The errors of Vatican II do not rise to the level of dogmatic negation, and the council itself declared that it defined no new dogma. Of the errors that do exist, some are a matter of interpretation (Dignitatis Humanae, Lumen Gentium), and some are indeed more serious and opposed to perennial teaching (Nostra Aetate). Our faithful assumption is that these errors will be corrected in due time, because… this sort of thing has happened before.

The most famous case is that of the omission of the Filioque in the Nicene Creed, something that wasn’t corrected for 700 years, at the cost of schism. Surprisingly, this does not rise to the level of dogmatic error, because none of the various creeds are considered infallible.

For me, the most relevant episode in comparison to Vatican II is the Council of Constance during the Great Western Schism. This validly-convoked council eventually obtained the disposition of all three simultaneous claimants to the papacy, and the installation of a valid and universally accepted one. But before that, the council in 1415 promulgated the heresy of Conciliarism (Haec Sancta), which does indeed violate at least two infallible dogmas. This error was not corrected until a hundred years and three popes later. None of those men were considered antipopes, and no one thought the Church had apostatised. The backstop of the Petrine Promises came in the form of the Holy Ghost preventing the proper implementation of plan as was laid out in the document”Frequens” which determined the frequency of councils going forward as having the primacy of jurisdiction over the Church. Again, no one went Sede, no one claimed the Church apostatized. People simply waited, and it was eventually corrected.

Aside: The current heresy of Synodality is much worse, of course, because it uses the model of Conciliarism but extends the ruling body to the non-ordained, violating still other infallible dogmas. A laymen attempting to wield ecclesiastical jurisdiction is a heretic by Divine Law.

(Everything in the above answer was written by NonVeni Mark.)

There’s no refuting this video, my love.

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In this episode, the Tombstone Four first discuss the Charlie Kirk Memorial Revival (Erika should have spoken last), which launches into a discussion of capital punishment as a mercy that goes hand-in-hand with forgiveness. Then, by listenership and readership request, we articulate WHY Robert “FtR” Prevost is an Antipope, led by Dr. Mazza, Ph.Dizzle, because he has letters after his name, and in his case, is genuinely brilliant and worth listening to. Remember, the sheep hear the voice of the stranger and FLEE from him. Hear that, Trad Inc.?? FLEE, not lick his boots.

Defeating Evil

https://nonvenipacem.org/2025/09/22/erika-kirk-full-speech-is-a-must-watch/

https://6abc.com/post/fbi-director-kash-patel-says-investigating-possibility-accomplices-charlie-kirk-shooting/17865377/

https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-saw-through-francis?r=r9k9x&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2022/09/06/repost-by-request-the-one-about-capital-punishment/

Coward of the County

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Pope St. Linus, martyr, pray for us, and for the Petrine See, vacant these 997 days and counting.

I look forward to his feast so I can post this image. It makes me smile.

Meet St. Maurice, or Mauritius. Today is his Feast, and you need to know ALL about him. St. Maurice was the leader of the elite Roman Theban Legion headquartered in Egypt. The Theban Legion was comprised of 6,666 men, who all converted, with their commander Maurice, to Christianity en masse late in the Third Century. Emperor Maximian ordered the Theban Legion from Egypt to France in order to put down a peasant revolt.

When the Theban Legion arrived in France, Maximian ordered them to start persecuting Christians. The Theban Legion, led by Maurice, REFUSED TO OBEY MAXIMIAN’S ORDERS. Ahem. Cough.

Maximian ordered a decimation of the Theban Legion as punishment. The actual meaning of the word “decimation” means to kill one out of every ten men. After Maximian’s men had killed every tenth Theban, Maximian again issued orders for the Thebans to persecute Christians. Under Maurice’s virile, manful, authoritative and inspiring leadership, the Theban Legion stood firm and still refused Maximian’s orders, even though it meant certain death. Ahem. Cough.

Maximian ordered the entire remaining Theban Legion killed to the last man in what is now present-day St. Maurice-en-Valais, Switzerland.

Now, look at the picture above. St. Maurice is the soldier in the middle in full battle armor, manfully grasping his ASSAULT WEAPON as he consults with St. Erasmus, on the left.

St. Maurice was a black African. He wasn’t a north African. He was a sub-Saharan black man.

St. Maurice was HUGE in the Church, and was THE patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors. In fact, the Holy Roman Emperors knelt and were anointed before the altar of St. Maurice at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The Austro-Hungarian emperors used St. Maurice’s spurs and sword (assault weapon) as an integral part of their coronation rite until ARSH 1916.

Compare this to the pathetic, flaccid, supine pseudo-men of today who couldn’t even figure out if Antipope Bergoglio is a heretic, much less an apostate, much less an Antipope usurper, much less the likely False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist. And now his openly heretical, sodomy-loving successor Antipope “FtR” Prevost. It’s just sickening.

St. Maurice, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

(I’m also going to include a picture of this famous statue of St. Maurice purely for its “trigger” value.)

Vocem alienorum. Remember that phrase? It means, “the voice of a stranger.” It’s what I titled my essay in June of ARSH 2016 when I publicly announced that I knew Jorge Bergoglio was an antipope. It is from the Good Shepherd discourse 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).

This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what He spoke to them. Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. I am the door. By Me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.

I am the Good Shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep: And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know Me. As the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father: and I lay down My life for my sheep.
John 10: 1-15

The notion that we laymen – the sheep – are NOT to listen and discern whose voice it is that we hear is abject lunacy.  The notion that we laymen – the sheep – are to sit and wait for the hirelings – that is to say today’s faithless and effeminate clergy and prelates – to TELL US that the lying, hissing heresies and blasphemies we hear are, in fact, the words of a wolf before we react is clearly refuted by Our Blessed Lord.  Further, the notion that we the sheep should willfully suspend disbelief and follow A WOLF if the hirelings tell us to, is, again, utterly irrational patent absurdity which is explicitly refuted by Our Lord and Savior in the Gospels.

We laymen, the sheep, are to listen and discern. If we hear the voice of satan and follow it, we will answer for it as we stand alone, as individuals, before Jesus Christ at our particular judgments. Blaming the hirelings will be no defense.  It is abundantly clear by now that to follow the heretical, blasphemous Bergoglio, and now his hand-picked successor Bobby “FtR” Prevost, is to turn away from the sweet voice of Our Savior, and instead to follow a wolf.

It is also very instructive at this point to revisit Galatians Chapter 1.  St. Paul could have put this caution in no stronger terms.  It speaks for itself:

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.
-Galatians 1: 8-9

Who am I to judge?

WHO DO I HAVE TO BE??

Antipope Robert “FtR” Prevost said the following in an interview by his American biographer (we shall leave Elise Allen’s deeply scandalous personal life aside, but suffice it to say that she’s a HUGE fan of and is deeply, personally invested in the Amoris Laetitia heresy on adultery). The question was on sodomy and transvestitism, mortal sins that cry to heaven for God’s vengeance, and CAPITAL CRIMES according to both the Natural and Divine Law, as explicitly stated in both the Old and New Testaments – infallible, divinely inspired texts.

Living up to his moniker, “FtR” Antipope Bobby P. said:

“We have to change attitudes before we even think about changing what the Church says about any given question.”

Voice. Of. A. Stranger.

This is textbook Freemasonic “Synodality” Americanist “truth-by-democracy” satanist bullshit. Clearly, publicly, irrefutably. Bobby “FtR” Prevost isn’t Catholic. Just like his pimp daddy, Antipope Bergoglio, who tapped him and organized his fake “election”.

Truth is IMMUTABLE. Doctrine CANNOT change. Sodomy wasn’t legal or licit in the city of Sodom because all of the Sodomites agreed that sodomy was great, and openly threatened to kill anyone who dared not ratify their DISGUSTING, FILTHY, SICKENING, VOMITOUS , LOWER-THAN-ANIMAL, NEVER-SUFFICIENTLY-EXECRATED DEPRAVITY.

Antipope Bobby “FtR” Prevost is CLEARLY 100% on board with the Satanic-Freemasonic agenda to usurp and destroy the True Church and replace it with an Antichurch based on “synodality”, aka democracy, wherein “truth” is voted upon and “do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” – the creed of Satanism – is likewise the openly professed creed of the Antichurch.

There’s absolutely NO DENYING this. Just because this evil, evil man is significantly more intelligent than Antipope Bergoglio was, and thus publicly comports himself with “better manners” and “better sartorial sense” takes absolutely NOTHING away from his open, manifest heresy. To grovel before this smirking monster in hopes that he will spare YOUR backside (and cash flow) is peak effeminacy and cowardice.

If you can’t immediately discern that Antipope Bobby “FtR” Prevost is not merely a faithless hireling, but a drooling, ravenous wolf, then I don’t know what to tell you.

ROBERT PREVOST IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN THE POPE. Following him and then acting like it’s some flex of devout Catholicism is not only pathetic, it’s suicidal.

…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).

Hi Ann,

From a friend who owns a small (50ppl) business. He’s fired two people. I thought you’d appreciate his take:

“The recent spate of Charlie Kirk death celebration-firings is because Employers ALL OVER this country are using it to rid themselves of unhinged leftists. The two I fired were both absolutely useless, constant drama, constant complaints from customers. Should never have been hired in the first place. Nobody in corp. America just grew a moral compass. It’s simply a great opportunity to get rid of deadweight and if a person has blue hair and tries to ‘pronoun’ you, they 100% are deadweight.”

S