Fr Paul Kramer: Sedevacantist

Vigil of St. Saturninus

 

 Originally found on Archbishop Lefebvre Forums: http://abplefebvreforums.proboards.com/thread/1139/fr-kramer-on-francis?page=1&scrollTo=10487

""Pope" Francis in Evangelii Gaudium n. 247: "We hold the Jewish people in special regard because their covenant with God has never been revoked". This text is an explicit profession of heresy, directly opposed to the solemn dogmatic definition of Pope Eugenius III and the Ecumenical Council of Florence, and the doctrine taught by the supreme magisterium of Pope Benedict XIV in Ex Quo Primum, set forth repeatedly and explicitly citing the definition of Florence, to wit, that the Mosaic covenant has been "revoked" and "abrogated". I have been saying for years that when a "pope" will officially teach explicit and clear heresy flatly contradicting the infallibly defined dogma of the Catholic faith, then you will know that he is the false pope prophecied in many Church approved prophecies and Marian apparitions. St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Alohonsus Liguori, St. Antoninus and Pope Innocent III all teach that when the pope demonstrates himself to be a manifest heretic, i.e. a plainly manifested public heretic, he ceases to be pope (or, if already was a public heretic he was invalidly elected) because he is not a Catholic -- not a member of the Catholic Church. Bellarmine explains that the Roman Pontiff is the visible head of the Church, and the head is a member. One who is not a member cannot be the head, and therefore the election to the supreme pontificate of a public heretic is canonically null & void. The heresy of Bergoglio in no. 247 is such a clear cut case of manifest, public heresy, expressed in stark, unequivocal terms, that it can be said without doubt that if this proposition of no. 247 is not manifestly heretical, then nothing else can be said to be so. It is morally impossible that one who manifestly displays such clearly expressed contempt for a defined dogma of faith by plainly denying it, can be believed to validly hold the office of Roman Pontiff. St. Francis of Assisi foretold of the uncanonically elected pope who would not be "a true pastor but a destroyer". Bergoglio plainly fits the description."

Fr Kramer's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/paul.kramer.1023611?fref=ts

TB refrains from any comment at this time, though the effects of this are worth considering.  Will Fr Kramer face alienation from insistent sedeplenists?  Could his new public position on this issue create a ripple effect of sorts for other traditional priests?  Will he soon come to hold the same position on the other conciliar pontiffs?

We wish Fr. Kramer the best.

Francis: Address to Lutherans

Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Original article found here, TB comments in blue.  Formatting added, italics removed.

I warmly welcome you, the members of the Lutheran World Federation and the representatives of the Lutheran-Catholic Commission on Unity. This meeting follows upon my very cordial and pleasant meeting with you, dear Bishop Younan ("Bishop" Younan is a protestant, and they don't have valid orders), and with the Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, the Reverend Junge, during the inaugural celebration of my ministry as the Bishop of Rome.

It is with a sense of profound gratitude to our Lord Jesus Christ that I think of the many advances made in relations between Lutherans and Catholics in these past decades (Which advances are those?), not only through theological dialogue (Like this?), but also through fraternal cooperation in a variety of pastoral settings, and above all, in the commitment to progress in spiritual ecumenism (Above all?  Wouldn't the most important thing for someone who rejects the authority of the Church be to submit to it?)

In a certain sense, this last area constitutes the soul of our journey towards full communion, and permits us even now a foretaste of its results, however imperfect (Yes, heresy is delicious.  Mmmm!). In the measure in which we draw closer to our Lord Jesus Christ in humility of spirit (Except that protestants, insofar as they reject the authority of the Church, are not humble in spirit-- in fact, they are incessantly prideful in spirit by invoking private interpretations and "personal relationships" with Jesus Christ over the authority of the Magisterium), we are certain to draw closer to one another (Which is an ultimately meaningless bond if it does not include the bond of faith). And, in the measure in which we ask the Lord for the gift of unity (True unity is a unity of faith, mind you.  A unity between disagreeing faiths is a false unity.  It is as efficacious and meaningful as a unity between oil and water), we are sure that he will take us by the hand and be our guide.

This year, as a result of a now fifty year old theological dialogue and with a view to the commemoration of the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation (Oh boy, can you bear the anticipation?), the text of the Lutheran-Catholic Commission on Unity was published, with the significant title: From Conflict to Communion. Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017.

I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited (This is a wonderful idea.  Let's encourage Lutherans to abandon their heretical views on justification, their denial of more than half the sacraments instituted by Christ, their rejection of the Church's teaching authority, their contempt for sacred images and their practical concessions to modern evils like contraception). Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another (Oh, I guess he meant something else.  Sorry, Marty!) and for their offenses committed in the sight of God (Dear Lord, forgive me for the sins of my ancestors who were martyred for their faith during The Pilgrimage of Grace.  I would go to confession for it but I'm forgiven anyways). Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future (Can't wait for that brave, new world!).

In light of this decades-long journey (Reader, note that this is an allusion to VII, which opened the ecumenical flood-gates for a false union between Catholics and protestants.  Only after VII-- which occurred "decades" ago-- could such a "dialogue" occur) and of the many examples of fraternal communion between Lutherans and Catholics which we have witnessed, and encouraged by faith in the grace given to us (Us?  as in, Catholics and Lutherans?  Does Francis understand that only Catholics can enjoy Sanctifying Grace?) in the Lord Jesus Christ, I am certain that we will continue our journey of dialogue and of communion (obligatory youtube link), addressing fundamental questions as well as differences in the fields of anthropology and ethics. Certainly, there is no lack of difficulties (For a Catholic, there is no difficulty.  A Catholic has the truth, and does not barter with someone who is in error or heresy.  The difficulty is on the part of the Lutheran, who must find a true humility and co-operate with God's graces that will lead him to the True Faith), and none will lack in the future.

They will continue to require patience, dialogue and mutual understanding. But we must not be afraid! We know well - as Benedict XVI often reminded us - that unity is not primarily the fruit of our labors, but the working of the Holy Spirit, to whom we must open our hearts in faith, so that he will lead us along the paths of reconciliation and communion (Unity of faith is the only unity worth pursuing.  The fraternal unity that is being pursued by Francis and the Conciliar Church is a goal of freemasonry, not a goal of the Catholic Church.  The Catholic Church seeks only to serve Her Divine Groom, Christ Our Lord, Whose wish is to have all men united to Him in His Church by the bond of faith).

Regarding Updates

The Dedication of the Archbasilica of the Holy Savior

 

Hello, readers of TB.  We are dedicated to weekly updates.  Unfortunately, sometimes "life happens" and this goal may be left not achieved.  Please keep us in your prayers as we deal with those things which keep us from updating, though you can "take it to the bank" that more updates will be coming SOON!

In the meantime, you can read this short article on today's feast.

Pax Christi

--TB

Vatican: Happy Diwali!

Vigil of the Feast of All Saints

Diwali (Deepavali, Divali) is an Hindu festival that spans five days, usually falling between the middle of October and the middle of November. During Diwali, each day is dedicated to different Hindu "gods" or "goddesses," and certain traditions are honored in order to please them. Among these include offering a candle and sweets near a Holy Basil tree (or some other “sacred” tree) in order to appease their god of death, receiving oil massages, worshiping the goddess of wealth, and keeping one's household spotless in order to receive a visit from the goddess Lakshmi, who will look especially favorably upon you if you worship a broom (Pramodkumar, Meri Khoj Ek Bharat Ki, pp108-09).

As Diwali is about to commence, the Vatican has issued a statement addressing the Hindu community. Brief comments from TB are provided at the end

N.B.: The primary article is sporadically spaced, sometimes skipping several lines between sentences, other times having two or three words running together with no spaces. These errors were all fixed in transcription, without citing where they appear.

(Begin)

Dear Hindu Friends,

1. In a spirit of friendship, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue extends to you best wishes and cordial greetings as you celebrate Deepavali on 3 November next. May God, the source of all light and life, illumine your lives and deepen your happiness and peace.

2. In this highly competitive world where increasingly individualistic and materialistic tendencies adversely affect human relationships and often create divisions in families and society as a whole, we wish to share our thoughts on how Christians and Hindus can foster human relationships for the good of all humanity through friendship and solidarity.

3. Relationships are fundamental to human existence. Security and peace in the local, national and international communities are largely determined by the quality of our human interaction. Experience teaches us that, the deeper our human relationships, the more we are able to advance towards cooperation, peace-building, genuine solidarity and harmony. In short, the ability to foster respectful relationships is the measure of authentic human progress and essential for promoting peace and integral development.

4. Such relationships ought to flow naturally from our shared humanity. Indeed, human relationships are at the heart of human existence and its progress and naturally give rise to a sense of solidarity with others. Regardless of our ethnic, cultural, religious and ideological differences, all of us belong to the one human family.

5. Sadly, with the increase of materialism in society and a growing disregard for deeper spiritual and religious values, there now exists a dangerous trend to accord the same value to material things as to human relationships, thereby reducing the human person from a ‘someone’ to a ‘something’ that can be cast aside at will. Furthermore, individualistic tendencies engender a false sense of security and favour what His Holiness Pope Francis has described as ‘a culture of exclusion’, ‘a throwaway culture’ and ‘a globalization of indifference’.

6. The promotion of a ‘culture of relationship’ and ‘a culture of solidarity’ is thus imperative for all peoples, and calls for the fostering of relationships based on friendship and mutual respect for the benefit of the entire human family. This requires a common recognition and promotion of the intrinsic dignity of the human person. It is evident then that friendship and solidarity are closely related. In the end, a “culture of solidarity means seeing others not as rivals or statistics,but brothers and sisters” (Pope Francis, Visit to the Community of Varginha (Manguinhos), Rio de Janeiro, 25 July 2013).

7. Finally, we wish to state our conviction that a culture of solidarity can only be achieved as “the fruit of a concerted effort on the part of all, in service of the common good” (Pope Francis, Meeting with Brazil’s Leaders of Society, Rio de Janeiro, 27 July 2013) Sustained by the teachings of our respective religions and aware of the importance of building genuine relationships, may we, Hindus and Christians, work individually and collectively, with all religious traditions and people of good will, to foster and strengthen the human family through friendship and solidarity (TB: Oh really?  Pius XI disagrees: "When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony [Quas Primas]."). We wish you a happy celebration of Deepavali!

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran

President Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue

Father Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, MCCJ

Secretary 

Vatican News

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What can be said? This letter drips with masonic sentimentality, appealing to the bond of human fraternity to help foster relationships between cultures, nations and religions, completely irrespective of any objective truth -- not to mention the complete and utter disregard for the urgency of conversion on the part of the pagans.
 

Of course, it is the height of scandal for anyone who purports to represent the Catholic Church and to be sent by Her to wish a pagan people well during their celebration of a pagan feast, devoted to superstitious customs directed towards false gods which are in fact demons:  "But the things that the heathen do immolate, to devils they do immolate, and not to God.  And I will not have you become fellows of devils" (I Cor. X: 20).

Conciliar Church: Arian Pope?

Feast of Ss. Simon and Jude, Apostles

Earlier today, the pope of the Conciliar Church was quoted by Vatican Radio as stating that Christ prays and intercede for us; the man was quoted directly as saying (in translation) "It is to [Christ] we must entrust our problems, our life and many other things so that He may take them to the Father" (see full article here).

Taken together with Francis' previous sentiment that "[ . . . ] I believe in God. Not in a catholic God; a catholic God does not exist; God exists. And I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my master/teacher and pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator" (see original Italian text and the quoted English translation here).

Trads must consider:  is the pope of the Conciliar Church an Arian?

For those who require a refresher on this heresy from the time of the early Church, the Catholic Encyclopedia defines Arianism as follows:

"Such is the genuine doctrine of Arius.  Using Greek terms, it denies that the Son is of one essence, nature, or substance with God; He is not consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father, and therefore not like Him, or equal in dignity, or co-eternal, or within the real sphere of Deity.  The Logos which St. John exalts is an attribute, Reason, belonging to the Divine nature, not a person distinct from another, and therefore is a Son merely in figure of speech.  These consequences follow upon the principle which Arius maintains in his letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia, that the Son 'is no part of the Ingenerate'" (see full article here).

To reflect on the past fifty years of Conciliar revolution, how far the fall for that counterfeit faith:  first the Sacred Liturgy and other sacraments are suppressed and replaced by protestantized services, and Catholic countries are instructed to strike out the name of Christ from their constitutions; then, false sects are invited to practice their blasphemous rituals in Catholic churches in Assissi in the mid-1980s; the nouvelle theologie and its rotten fruits are identified to be in harmony with Catholic Tradition by way of Ratzingerian hermeneutics; finally, the duped flocks of the Conciliar Church are told by their pope that the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is distinct from God as creator, and that the Son intercedes for them by praying to God the Father.  How can anyone look at these past fifty years in anything besides angry, revolted amazement?

A Happy and Blessed St. Crispin's Day!

St. Isidore the Farmer, Ss. Chrysanthus & Daria

 

 Ss. Crispin and Crispinian are Catholic martyrs who died October 25th, A.D. 285/286. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, they are believed to have been brothers of “distinguished Roman descent” who went to Gaul as missionaries, where they were eventually martyred during the reign of Diocletian. Initially, Maximianus the Co-Emperor sought to tempt them away from the faith, to which they replied:

Thy threats do not terrify us, for Christ is our life, and death is our gain. Thy rank and possessions are nought to us, for we have long before this sacrificed the like for the sake of Christ and rejoice in what we have done. If thou shouldst acknowledge and love Christ thou wouldst give not only all the treasures of this life, but even the glory of thy crown itself in order through the exercise of compassion to win eternal life.

They were tortured by the rack, having their skin cut off, and awls driven under their nails. Then, a millstone was wrapped around their necks and they were thrown into the river Aisne. They swam to the other side. Afterwards, they were burnt... but they didn't burn. Finally, under the order of Maximianus, they were beheaded. They are the patron saints of shoemakers, tanners and saddlers.

According to Wikipedia, these holy saints were removed from the Calendar after Vatican II. However, according to my own research, this does not appear to be the case. According to the Divinum Officium site, no breviary commemorates the Feast of Ss. Crispin and Crispinian except at the martyrology during Prima (click to view this same commemoration) of October 24th. They are, however, commemorated according to the Sarum Use. A liturgical calendar from the Institute for Studies of Illuminated Manuscripts provides us this A.D. 1503-1505 Sarum Liturgical calendar; a bit of scrolling is required to reach October 25th.

Now we provide users with a Sarum Use breviary, which commemorates the saints on October 25th at Vespers. Readers can view for themselves the hymn for their feast, though we will provide the Magnificat antiphon and the collect:

In Heaven rejoice the souls of the saints, who followed the footsteps of Christ: and because for His love they shed their blood, therefore with Christ they shall reign forever.

Almighty, everlasting God, grant us worthily to venerate thy holy Martyrs, Crispin and Crispinian, that so we may be delivered from the dangers of this world, and may be worthy of eternal joys. Per Dominum Nostrum &c.

Saint Crispin's day, however, was immortalized not by the holy death of these brother-saints, but by the work of William Shakespeare's Henry V. In Shakespeare's account, Henry inspires his soldiers by appealing to the brothers Crispin, an identifiable pair of saints to an army of English peasants facing the might of the French army at Agincourt, A.D. 1415.

For brevity's sake, the famous St Crispin's Day speech will not be transcribed here, but hyperlinked. After reading it, we suggest a viewing of the quintessential Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V (1989) directed and starring Kenneth Brannagh (that's right, not Olivier). While the “actual” Crispin's Day speech ends around the 3:50 mark, we encourage readers to continue through the video, to watch King Henry's retort to Montjoy, who comes seeking surrender from the English army.

A tired and sickly army of Englishmen significantly outnumbered by the French Army (the ratio is usually considered 5:1) prevailed against their mighty foe, and upon victory, sung Non Nobis.  Traditional Catholics should easily find an affinity not only with the heroic martyrdom of Ss. Crispin and Crispinian, but also with the wonderful allegory that can be found in Shakespeare's story of King Henry's victory against insurmountable odds.  As resisting Catholics, we are few in number and "our gayness and our gilt" are oft' besmirched.  But by the mass, our hearts are in the trim!  

Without further ceremony (what art thou, O idle ceremony?) I wish all resisting Catholics holding to the traditions of our holy martyrs a most blessed and glorious St. Crispin's day, and an especially warm greeting to those Catholics of Celtic descent.  Ss. Crispin and Crispinian, pray for us!

Happy Anniversary!

Feast of St. Peter of Alcantara

Today -- October 19, A.D. 2013 -- marks the 544th wedding anniversary of Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon, the beginning of a marriage which would last thirty-five years (upon Isabella's death).  The "Catholic Monarchs," as they were later styled by Pope Alexander VI, may serve as an example of national leadership par excellence for their woeful 21st century successors.

Three facts Catholics should know about Ferdinand and Isabella:
-closely cooperated with the Church so as to govern their temporal sphere of influence in harmony with the spiritual
-financed the voyage of Christopher Colombus to the "new world" in 1492
-also in 1492, expelled the Jews from their territories (see here: http://www.sephardicstudies.org/decree.html; note, however, only the translation of the expulsion edict is recommended reading from that site)

Compare the Catholic Monarchs with the current king of Spain, Juan Carlos I, whose own accomplishments include:
-actively transitioning Spain from hierarchical rule to democracy/figurehead monarchy
-signing the 1978 Constitution of Spain which guarantees [the insanity of] religious liberty as a protected "right"
-signing into law legislation guaranteeing abortion as a "right"


Catholic kings and queens serve their subjects best by serving God first.  Whatever personal failings historians may attribute to Ferdinand and Isabella, their actions as King of Aragon and Queen of Castile reflect a desire to serve their subjects by rendering to God services which aid and complement His Church.  For the entirety of his reign, Juan Carlos has tried to serve his subjects by rendering service first to the whims of a minority population rightly marginalized by Generalissimo Franco -- the liberals.

Where the Catholic Monarchs held our Lord so highly, the restored king has set Mammon.

Happy anniversary, indeed.