The Pope knows that Traditional Catholics will outlast him, and it maddens him to no end.
PopeWatch: Triumph
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Heretics come and they go. Christ is King forever.
Commonweal is régime media, and survives on subscription revenue from institutions and from individual persons in the church-o-cracy. I’ll wager if you looked at their IRS 990, you’d also find grant money, some of it from very sketchy foundations.
Grant Gallicho last I heard was employed in PR for the Archdiocese of Chicago, an early appointment of Cupich. Reading his anecdotes (“my gay friends think…”), I had to figure he was either exceedingly gregarious and regularly socialized with scores of people or that he hung around homosexual men most of the time.
Ivereigh’s Commonweal piece actually ran back in January, but apparently Commonweal decided it was necessary to retweet it out the other day to have some kind of useful commentary to offer in the wake of the flood of hostile coverage (even from the Post and CRUX!) and social media response to Cardinal Gregory’s shutdown of Traditional Masses in DC parishes.
Most here will not wish to inflict Ivereigh’s extended rant on themselves, understandably. But the short version is this: “Traditional Catholics are in fact a pack of bigoted deplorables, beyond any human intervention. You can’t dialogue with them; you can’t reason with them. It’s long past time that we should have purged these atavistic nitwits out of the Church, so these kind of crackdowns are all to the good. The Revolution must be perserved.”
Triumphalism, indeed.
I would note that Commonweal has not been relevant for decades. Used to read it when I was still in high school but stopped when I entered the military, Checked back years later but found it so insipid I decided I had missed nothing of importance.
The best way to deal with the calculatedly poisonous tactics of the Bergoglio “church” is how the traditional Benedictines of the monastery of S. Benoit in Brignoles, France, are doing now, having planned for the inevitable attack.
The Benedictines some time ago purchased a property that had a small church on it, built some very simple monastic structures, and held that title themselves. Then, realizing that the one elderly priest they had who was celebrating the traditional Latin Mass would not be able to live forever, they arranged secretly, it is said, with Card. Burke for a traditional ordination of their prior, Dom Alcuin, and two other priests. Those ordinations were consummated in secret some months ago. Their very friendly Bishop, Dominique Jean Marie Rey, knew of the ordinations it is fairly certain, but because of Vatican pressure, did not perform them himself; and because of his friendliness to tradition, it is rumored he will be replaced by Bergoglio very soon anyway, even though he is nowhere near retirement age (age 69). Of course his diocese is thriving under his leadership. As usual in these types of things.
Meanwhile, the Benedictines have mostly rendered themselves immune to the typical Bergoglio actions, having seen what happened to the Franciscan Ftiars of the Immaculate, which would be to seize their properties, evict them and suspend their Institute. A visitation is supposedly planned, but Dom Alcuin has made it clear that although they will be charitable and polite, they do not intend to stop practicing what is essential to their institute and their vows.
They know they will eventually outlast Bergoglio. And it must drive him mad.
Ah, good ol’ Wormtongue Ivereigh.
As predictable as a metronome but somehow less diverting.
“Ah, good ol’ Wormtongue Ivereigh.
As predictable as a metronome but somehow less diverting.”
Solid gold, Mr. Price. I was going to say “priceless” but it would look like a very bad pun, so I didn’t. 😉