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It is Watergate all over again. In U.S. President Nixon's administration, the big question was: "Did the President know?" Now the question is: "Did the pope know? Is the pope himself involved in crimes, as Nixon was?" The question has more piquancy as Benedict-Ratzinger's head of Doctrine cum Sex-crimes Czar, William Levada, former Newchurch archbishop of San Francisco, has himself been accused of spiriting a criminal Newchurch bishop out from under the arm of the law.
San Francisco Weekly and the National Catholic Reporter have exposed Levada for engineering the escape of the discredited Santa Rosa, California's Newchurch bishop Patrick Ziemann from criminal prosecution after he admitted sex crimes between himself and one Jorge Sales. In addition, Ziemann left his Newchurch diocese with a $30,000,000 debt. It is unknown how much of that amount escaped in Ziemann's pocket.
Levada assisted Ziemann to escape prosecution after he and other Newchurch officials refused to cooperate with criminal authorities. Ziemann was spirited off to a resort in Arizona. Levada himself was then spirited off by Benedict-Ratzinger to diplomatic immunity in Newrome. At the time everyone wondered why Levada, an insignificant ecclesiastical bureaucrat of no apparent talent, would be selected by Benedict-Ratzinger to head an important Newchurch congregation when Levada was under two federal subpoenas to reveal what he knew about six crimes and embezzlements under his administration. Sex, crime, and cover-up are now revealed as the answer.
Meanwhile, across San Francisco Bay from Levada, in the diocese of Oakland, California, Newchurch bishop John Cummins was admitting in a court deposition that he had colluded with civil authorities to suppress prosecution of his criminal presbyters. Parents of victim children wondered why, when they made complaints to the police, no presbyter was ever prosecuted. Now they know. Cummins admitted "a kind of mutual collaboration" with local authorities, which resulted in his criminal presbyters going scot free. A series of four detailed investigative reports in the locality's Contra Costa Times has also implicated the current Newchurch bishop of Oakland, Allen Vigneron, in the same cover-ups. Vigneron has been exposed as a liar in the investigative reports, who has yet to reveal to Oakland Newchurchers the depth of crime to which he and his presbyters have sunk.
O, what a tangled web Newchurch weaves! Benedict-Ratzinger has exceeded the record of Alexander VI, "the Bad Pope," for rampant crime under his administration, crime that he has aided and abetted by silence, cover-up, and obstruction of justice. Away with this sad excuse for a pope! Good Catholics, pray God for another Pope St. Pius X, for a courageous opponent of Modernism and crime in the Church, not a point who conspires in crimes against children.
When Benedict-Ratzinger arrives in Sydney, Australia, on July 13, 2008, for his World Youth Day rave, he will confront face to face the devastation that aiding and abetting the Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Scandal has produced. "The scale of abuse in Australia has been far greater than in the U.S," said Dr. Wayne Chamley, a spokesman for a victims group. "There are tens of thousands of victims from Catholic [sic]-run institutions who were denied education. They were used as slaves. They were sexually and physically abused.... If the Catholic church were a private company these bishops wouldn't have a job."
Hundreds of Newchurch clergy, bishops and presbyters alike, have been accused of abusing children in their care, with the crimes being covered up by Newchurch prelates in Australia and Newrome. In Australia, which has only half the population of the single state of California in the United States, Newchurch has been forced to respond to more than 1000 claims of assault against children and the mentally-retarded. One damage payment of $3,600,000 was made to 24 mentally-retarded men who were abused in Newchurch "care" facilities. Australian Newchurch officials have been accused in the assault scandal. [Source: News Australia]
The Newchurch is desperate for poster-boys for the New Order, so it has not refrained from trying to reinvent history to portray traditional Catholics as devotees of the New Order. The most despicable cases of these historical lies concerns Padre Pio, a solidly-traditional figure, who is admired by many, even in Newchurch.
The first lie that New Order minions circulated claimed that Padre Pio simulated the Novus Ordo service facing the people, even though Padre Pio died a year before the Novus Ordo of 1969 was even issued! For further information, click on FAQ10: How Do You Explain These Traditional Catholic Beliefs? in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics) in the section, "Padre Pio."
More recently, the author of a pot-boiler on Padre Pio has resuscitated an old lie on the part of the New Order to discredit the traditional archbishop. Fortunately, on August 8, 1990, the Archbishop himself left us his personal description of his meeting with Padre Pio. These TRADITIO Commentaries have previously reported on this meeting, but, as the New Order has resuscitated the old lie, we are reproducing the Archbishop's own description herewith:
The meeting, which took place after Easter in 1967, lasted two minutes. [In 1967 the Archbishop was Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost.] I was accompanied by Fr. Barbara and a Holy Ghost Brother, Brother Felin. I met Padre Pio in a corridor, on his way to the confessional, being helped by two Capuchins. I told him in a few words the purpose of my visit: for him to bless the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, which was due to hold an extraordinary General Chapter meeting, like all religious societies, under the heading of "aggiornamento" [the term that was used at Vatican II for taking the Church down the path of Modernism], a meeting that I was afraid would lead to trouble. Then Padre Pio cried out: 'Me bless an archbishop? No, no, it is you who should be blessing me!" And he bowed to receive the blessing. I blessed him' he kissed my ring and continued on his way to the confessional." That was the whole of the meeting, no more, no less.
Of course, it makes no difference what Padre Pio did or didn't do. It is just revealing that certain Newchurchers find it necessary to tell two big lies about him to make it seems that he embraced the New Order, when just the opposite was true. Apparently, Newchurchers are so desperate to get some kind of confirmation for their invalid Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo service that they are willing to tell outright lies. As we Fathers have said many times before, one has to be completely naive to trust any words emanating from Newchurch. They are all merely propaganda for the New Order.
You remember Raymond "Bully" Burke, the Newchurch archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri. The man who consecrated a tranvestite "nun." The man who attempted to steal a $12,000,000 church to pay off for sex crimes. The man who sheltered criminal presbyters in La Crosse, Wisconsin, then in 2004 moved his operation to St. Louis. On May 6, 2008, that corrupt prelate was fingered by Benedict-Ratzinger not for censure, but for membership on the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts and the Congregation for the Clergy. Since the latter group has some authority over the Newchurch's Great Sex & Embezzlement Scandal, Burke's appointment is like appointing the fox to watch over the hen-house! [Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch]
Good Catholics, you may well ask why Benedict-Ratzinger surrounds himself with New Order prelates who are no better than criminals. His #3 guy, for instance, is William Levada, formerly Newchurch archbishop of San Francisco, whom Benedict-Ratzinger spirited off to Newvatican's diplomatic immunity out from under United States federal subpoenas in two jurisdictions for an investigation into his sex-crime trail from Portland, Oregon, to San Francisco, California, with a bankruptcy thrown in for good measure. Well, what can we say but "birds of a feather flock together."
Those who have studied Gregorian chant are probably familiar with the name of Mary Berry, who died on May 1, 2008, at the age of 90. Berry was a musicologist and don of the University of Cambridge, where she founded the Schola Gregoriana in 1975. Mary Berry had been greatly influential in reviving Gregorian chant in Britain and abroad. In 1938 she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism and in 1940 joined the Augustinians as a nun and made her final profession in 1945, becoming Mother Thomas More.
In the 1950s the classical-music world was blessed by the "Authentic Music" Movement, which fostered the performance of early music (Baroque and before) on original instruments. Thus, instead of Bach being played on clumsy modern pianos, the lithe harpsichord was heard once again, and the music of Bach and other early-music composers took on new life. Gregorian chant too benefited from the "Authentic Music" Movement, but that blessing was prematurely cut off by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), whose "heritage" was the replacement of the Sacred Chant and Sacred Polyphony by pop ditties like "Kumbaya."
Berry began her studies for a doctorate in musicology at Cambridge in 1963 under the famed leader of the Movement, Thurston Dart. Unfortunately, the mid 1960s was the period of devastation in the Catholic Church under the aegis of Vatican II and the Freemason "liturgist" Hannibal Bugnini. A year after Berry received her doctorate, the Novus Ordo of 1969 was sprung upon the Church, which from this point had become the Newchurch of the New Order. (For further information, click on the TRADITIO Network's Traditional Latin Mass, Divine Office & Sacraments department in the section "The Road into the Black Hole of the Liturgical 'New Order.'")
Berry was caught on the horns of a dilemma. Should she get away from the New Order and pursue her work to further the Sacred Chant, or should she remain with the New Order and compromise her work? Like all too many of that decade and ours, she gave up her traditional religious name, Mother Thomas More, and chose to sell out and prostitute her talents to the service of the New Order. There is little doubt what Thomas More would have said of her -- the Saint who chose martyrdom over sellout to the New Order of his day.
For chant sheet music and audio excerpts of the Traditional Latin Mass and Divine Office, click on the TRADITIO Network's Gregorian Chant department. We also highly recommend there the CD series "A Traditional Chapel Sings Gregorian Chant." Every traditional Catholic should become familiar with this traditional music of the Church, which is being issued by the long-established fully-traditional St. John Schola of San Francisco.
Criminals used to respect the sanctity of a Catholic church, but with the advent of the New Order, even the criminals apparently consider Novus Ordo churches as just ordinary buildings. It is reported that more than 20 churches across Sydney have had a spate of robberies in recent months. The latest Novus Ordo church to be raided, St. Thomas More, was broken into in April 2008 and had its poor boxes emptied. The break-in came after vandals had attacked the church several times, even stripping copper pipes from the building. [Source: Australia News]
Presbyter Peter Lynch said, "It's a place of worship; it's a sacred place. Churches were always considered places of sanctity and worship and now they can be attacked as crime targets." We beg to differ, presbyter. You have turned your church from a sacred place into some New Order meeting hall. You have invalidated the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass into some pagan Novus Ordo service. No wonder even the criminals don't respect your bastardized building!
Actually, in a perverted way, the Newchurch of the New Order, has welcomed this development as an excuse to slam shut the doors of churches during the day so that the Newchurchers can't visit and pray. Even Newcardinal Ratzinger supported this move in a scandalous passage in a book of his, in which he discouraged visits to churches. Why not? The Most Blessed Sacrament is not reserved there. If anything, only the phony Novus Ordo Cookie, relegated to a closet.
Dear Fathers:
I agree with your criticism on the Novus Ordo unCatholic system. I was an associated priest of the SSPX Transalpine Redemptorists. I left them because of their hypocrisy. For several years I saw their position from the inside. They are very sly and betrayed sincere, but naive souls. They are 100% unCatholic.
When they started to construct their monastery on Papa Stronsay in Scotland, their main idea was to construct not a monastery, but a northeast tourist center. Now they totally go under the heretical New Order because they hope to obtain money from Newchurchers to realize their maniacal idea. They are no Catholic monastery because they are unCatholic.
I have provided TRADITIO readers an exclusive, no-holds-barred analysis of Benedict-Ratzinger's "Baseball" Messes and the delusion of neocon Newchurchers who are deluded into thinking that he is "traditional." For further information, click on Benedict-Ratzinger and His Deluded Newchurcher Friends: They Deserve Each Other in the TRADITIO Network's Special Features department.
Neocon Newchurch talking-heads are too much in the pocket of the New Order to tell you the truth, but the TRADITIO Network has in several Commentaries exposed Benedict-Ratzinger's support of homosexuality. Certainly his refusal since 2001 to do anything concrete about the Great Sex & Embezzlement Scandal, which involves mostly his "gay" presbyters, reeks of his support. His document allowing "gays" to enter his New Order seminaries after three years reeks of his support. Now we have yet another piece of evidence of Benedict-Ratzinger's pro-"gay" policy: his support of the heretic archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who is facing the mass exodus of traditional Anglicans because he supports "gay" ordinations and consecrations.
Williams's bosom-buddy, Benedict-Ratzinger, announced on May 5, 2008, just ahead of the decennial Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops to be held during the summer of 2008, is sending the Newvatican marines to Rowan's rescue. The 2008 Lambeth Conference is expected to see the Anglican Church rent between liberalists, who favor "gay" bishops, and the traditional Anglicans, who are fed up with Rowan's unChristian liberalist morality foisted upon them. These traditional bishops plan a separate conference in Jordan and Jerusalem, there to separate from Rowan and his liberalist Anglicans in order to maintain traditional Anglicanism.
You would think that Benedict-Ratzinger would be on the side of the traditional Anglicans, but no. In a shocking volte-face, he is supporting the "gay" faction in the Anglican clergy! He has determined that Cardinal Ivan Dias, the prefect of Newchurch's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, would speak at the heretical Lambeth Conference. Newcardinal Walter "Oecumenical-Friendly Ghost" Kaspar, prefect of Benedict-Ratzinger's own Pontifical Council, or a pontifical deputy, is expected to attend as well.
A Newvatican analyst at Newrome's Gregorian University, presbyter Keith Pecklers, stated: "Cardinal Kasper might be expected to attend, given his role, but Cardinal Dias's presence is proof that the [New]vatican wants to be supportive of Williams. The message is 'We're in this together and we are oecumenical partners." Williams and Benedict-Ratzinger are said to have forged a "warm relationship." Hmmm. [Source: The Guardian]
Benedict-Ratzinger's Congregation for the Clergy has publicly opened further argument for the invalidity of the Novus Ordo service as it confirmed that valid form is not sufficient, that there must be valid intention as well. The case in point is an April 5, 2008, directive that Newchurch dioceses should not provide baptismal records to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah for spurious "baptisms of the dead." According to a 2001 declaration of Benedict-Ratzinger himself as prefect of Newvatican's Doctrine of the Faith, Mormon baptisms are not valid because, although Mormons use the valid Trinitarian formula for baptism, they do not believe in the Trinity and thus lack valid intention.
Thus, certain neocon Newchurchers who breathed a sign of relief when Newvatican announced that in the Novus Ordo service "for many" would purportedly be changed to "for all" are all wet, according to Benedict-Ratzinger. In fact, during his own Messes simulated in the United States on his April 2008 junket, Benedict-Ratzinger spurned his own directive and consistently used the heretical "for all" form. The directive was apparently just Newvatican's usual window dressing to mislead the Newchurchers and has de facto been rescinded by Benedict-Ratzinger's own action. [Source: Catholic News Service]
No such "technical" change, even if it were to be implemented, is sufficient to correct the invalidity of the Novus Ordo service. The Catholic teaching is best formulated in Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Letter Apostolicae Curae, which declared the Anglican service invalid, and that 1896 service was far closer traditional Catholic Mass than the Freemason Hannibal Bugnini's 1969 Novus Ordo service. For further information, click on CURAE.TXT: Apostolic Letter Apostolicae Curae [On the Nullity of Anglican Orders], Given by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics).
Dear Fathers:
Our family recently left the SSPX since it insists that Bugnini's Modernized Mess, contemporary with Vatican II, is valid. When we brought up our objections with SSPX officials, we were given only hostility. We were told bluntly: "Leave it up to the bishops and the priests; trust them, they know what's right!" But isn't that just what the Modernist priests and bishops said at Vatican II to usher in the Novus Ordo? That's why we stopped attending and supporting the SSPX. It's contradictory. Its logic is flawed.
The Fathers Reply.
Yours is just one of numerous similar reports that we have received about the SSPX around the world. Apparently, Bernie Fellay's administration has broken ranks with Archbishop Lefebvre's principles and decided that that hostility is the proper response to his own members who ask Fellay perfectly reasonable questions about his pro-Novus Ordo administration.
SSPX members ask Fellay he supports the "Motu" Mess of 1962-2007-2008 and get only hostility in return. They ask why he supports the Freemason Hannibal Bugnini's New Ordinal of 1968, which is based in the heretical and invalid Anglican Ordinal, and get only hostility in return. They ask why he is using Novus Ordo presbyters instead of traditional priests at several SSPX sites and get only hostility in return.
SSPX members do not get answers to their legitimate questions, but only fulminating hostility from Fellay and his administration. Many SSPXers, such as your family, are fed up with his baseless autocracy and are leaving his SSPX ship, which is he is steering right onto the Newchurch shoals. Until the SSPX gets truly traditional and competent leadership and dumps "Blustering" Bernie, SSPX members will not protest, simply leave his sinking ship.
Dear Fathers:
When we questioned our SSPX pastor about why the SSPX celebrates only Bugnini's Modernized Mass of 1962, he replied that the Church has had "more rites than you can imagine" and said that in the early days of the Church, the Mass included a "Kiss of Peace," when the congregation hugged and kissed each other on the lips! He also said that at the Last Supper, Christ was speaking Aramaic, so the words were different from the Roman Missal anyway. This is confusing. Is any of this true, or is this more SSPX obfuscation?
The Fathers Reply.
That SSPX pastor sounds as if he has gone over to the New Order already! His answer is a half-truth at best, definitely an obfuscation. According to Catholic Tradition, the Traditional Latin Mass in all its essentials was passed on by St. Peter, the first pope, to the Church. The Apostles themselves, according to St. Ambrose, worked at its elaboration. It reached its complete perfection with Popes St. Damasus (fourth century) and St. Gregory the Great (sixth century).
As the great liturgical scholar, Fr. Adrian Fortescue, wrote, this Mass is "the most venerable in all Christendom, with a history of unbroken use far longer than that of any Eastern rite, there being no doubt that the essential parts of the Mass are of Apostolic origin." In the West, the Roman Rite was always the precedential rite, as it was the rite of the Apostolic See. In the East, there were a few more rites, principally in the Greek of the Bible. For further information, click on MASSTRAD.TXT: The Traditional Roman Catholic Latin Mass in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics).
One still hears the discredited "Aramaic" argument from the New Order sectarians, but the noted Novus Ordo liturgical scholar, Msgr. Klaus Gamber, in his Reform of the Roman Liturgy himself demonstrates that it is spurious. Even the Jews did not use their vernacular (Aramaic since their return from the Babylonian Captivity) in the Temple, but Hebrew, which was then a sacred language, as Latin is for us (and Biblical Greek for the East). For further information, click on FAQ05.TXT: Why Traditional Books Do You Recommend in the TRADITIO Network's Library of Files (FAQs and Traditional Apologetics).
What language(s) Christ spoke is a matter of debate. He would certainly have known the vulgar tongue of Aramaic and the (by His time) Sacred Language of Hebrew. Recent archaeological evidence indicates that Nazareth was a few kilometres' journey to what was known as a "Greek city," and Greek was the lingua franca of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Moreover, director Mel Gibson may have been perfectly correct in having Christ and Pilate speaking together in Latin. The presence of the Roman administration in Judaea had already gone on for several decades, and the Romans disdained any language but Latin for official purposes. In the end, however, what language(s) Christ happened to have spoken is irrelevant. Unless this SSPX pastor wants to deny Catholic Tradition, the hand of Providence placed the Apostolic See in Rome, not in Antioch, where the See had previously been. Therefore, the Mass has come to the world in the language of that See, Latin.
As to the "Kiss of Peace," this exists even to the present day at a Solemn Mass. It has been, however, not some pagan smooching, but a highly stylized barely touching of cheeks. Moreover, this has not been some puckering-up between laypeople, but a liturgical action, the Osculum pacis, amongst the clergy only.
Along with the invalidating changes that it introduced into the Mass and Sacraments, the New Order invalidated the Sacramentals, such as Holy Water, as well. The blessing of Holy Water, which Catholics use in church and at home, no longer includes the exorcism. After all, Newchurch doesn't like to speak of the Devil or Hell. It preaches salvation "for all," and the abolition of Limbo and Purgatory. No wonder that the likes of Gianni Versaci and Sony Bono are automatically given "white" funerals and assigned places in Newchurch Heaven!
Well, this story isn't about Holy Water, but Newchurch's commercialization of the sacred. If we remember our Bible correctly, Simon Magus, who gave his name to the sacrilege of simony, the sale of spiritual things, was roundly condemned for this sacrilege by St. Peter. Now it seems now that Newchurch has gotten a presbyter to "bless" commercial water in a warehouse for people to drink. Naturally, Newchurch gets a 10 per cent "blasphemy cut."
To delude the Newchurchers into sacrilege, the simonist Elicko Taieb lard up the half-litre bottles of what is essentially tap water available from any kitchen sink with images of not only the Saints, but even Our Lord Himself. "Spiritual Water" thus joins other simonistic products, such as Testamint (with Bible verses printed in the wrapper, so that you can throw them away after consuming) and Bible Gum (so that you can "chew your way to spiritual enlightenment"). And the deluded Newchurchers are falling for it, to the tune of 15,000 bottles so far. [Source: Miami Herald]
In answer to those who call this enterprise simony, Taieb says that his water is sold "with the best intentions." Well, as Samuel Johnson wrote: "Hell is paved with good intentions."
Dear Fathers:
Could it be that the 1962 Missal is not efficacious and does not emit grace? This missal was in universal use during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), but its usage did not prevent the catastrophe. Apart from numerous significant rubrical changes, John XXIII, most importantly, tampered with the ancient Good Friday prayers and the sacrosanct Catholic and Apostolic Canon, which goes to essential form. This was a breach of the irreformable and perpetual Solemn Papal Bull, Quo Primum, as a result of which Heaven spurns this Mess.
Dear Fathers:
SSPX Bishop Williamson had this to say about "moderates":
But, as in 1789, the moderates were, and remain, destroyers still. Woe, then, to churchmen of today who would try to blend with these "moderates"! They risk adding themselves on to the end of a 500-year list of hypocritical traitors, however well-meaning!
Is Bishop Williamson, in comparing the priest-sellouts during the anti-Catholic French Revolution, trying to tell us something about Benedict-Ratzinger and those who compromise with the Vatican II "moderates," what you call neo-con Newchurchers or Motarians? It sure looks like it.
In our SSPX chapel this past Sunday, our priest said that anyone in the congregation who believed Benedict-Ratzinger was not the true pope, i.e., those who supported the sede-vacantist position, were hypocrites and should not attend Mass there. But aren't Bernie Fellay and his "moderate" cronies in the current leadership of the SSPX the real hypocrites? They pronounce for Benedict-Ratzinger and fulminate against those who have doubts about the Conciliar popes (doesn't any true Catholic have serious doubts?), but they ignore him de facto. Isn't it time for Fellay to pronounce once and for all the SSPX's complete independence from the New Order, as his founder and consecrator, Archbishop Lefebvre, did?
The London Times has reported that Autumn Kelly, 31, who is engaged to marry Peter Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandson, on May 17, 2008, renounced her membership in the Newchurch of the New Order and "was welcomed in to the Church of England some time ago." She took the action of her own accord and was not pressured by the palace.
The Act of Settlement of 1701 prohibits royal heirs from marrying Catholics. However, Phillips is such a distant candidate, the eleventh in the line of royal succession, that he could easily have given up his candidacy to marry a Newchurcher. By the way, what happened to "oecumenism" in England? Why isn't Benedict-Ratzinger screaming about anti-Catholic bigotry in England?
The editor-in-chief of Newvatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano is having a conniption fit that Benedict-Ratzinger was left off Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People List, either of "Leaders & Revolutionaries" or of "Heroes & Pioneers." Apparently, Newpope just doesn't have it, even after his six-day P.R. junket to the United States, although the pagan Dalai Lama and the schismatic Oecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made the list.
Giovanni Maria Vian was quoted as saying that Benedict-Ratzinger's exclusion from the list was a "disconcerting decision." Newvatican is embarrassed about the omission, so its spokesman, presbyter Federico Lombardi, is trying to make the decision out to be nothing, even after Newvatican's huge expenditures in April 2008 to make Benedict-Ratzinger into the newest U.S. "pop star."
Isn't Newchurch ridiculous? It just can't seem to get its "rules" straight. The latest scandal involves former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who ate the Novus Ordo cookie during Benedict-Ratzinger's April 20, 2008 "Baseball" Mess. Now Edward Egan, Newchurch cardinal of New York, claims that Giuliani violated a secret agreement with him that he not eat the cookie because Giuliani had a "pro-choice" position.
But now the Newchurchers are arguing with each other about the rationale. Giuliani is now a private citizen, so his opinions are no longer those of a public official. On the other hand, Giuliani is living in a state of public sin with a woman who is not his wife, he having been married twice before.
Anyway, why should the Newcardinal of New York have a "secret" agreement with Giuliani? When Giuliani was mayor, his position was a public matter. His living in sin with a woman to whom he is not married is also a public matter. What's the secret, Edward? Obviously, you didn't want to take a public position on something that is supposedly a doctrine even in your Newchurch!
Benedict-Ratzinger has called the Koran of the Mohammedans "dear" and "precious" in spite of the fact that it is virulently anti-Christian. Newpope's comments were made after he officially received a copy of the Koran from Mahdi Mostafavi, a representative of the radical Mohammedan regime of Iran. Benedict-Ratzinger cannot be ignorant of the erroneous nature of this book, which has been condemned by every pre-Conciliar pope commenting on it, as he tried to "nuance" the Church's condemnation of it by taking a "holistic view" of the texts, and not "selective interpretations of text taken from their holy books."
Already on his U.S. junket, Benedict-Ratzinger had received a presentation copy of the Koran during the "interfaith meeting" at the JPII Cultural Center. This Newpope seems to appreciate the Mohammedan Koran more than the Christian Bible. By now he surely must have more copies of the Koran than of the Latin Vulgate in his library!
JPII had already scandalized the Catholic world when, on June 1, 1999, at the end of an audience, he bowed to the Mohammedan Koran and kissed it. The photo of that action has been shown repeatedly on Iraqi television for Mohammedan propaganda purposes. No wonder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre called Newcardinal Ratzinger "not a Catholic"!
The Scots broke away from Catholicism once to go into heresy. Are the Society of St. Pius X's Scottish Redemptorists on Papa Stronsay Island going into heresy too? For several months, the Transalpine Redemptorists of Orkney have been making favorable noises about going over to the New Order sect. The group has issued a public statement that if the New Order "authorities" are willing to "recognize" them, they will go over to the New Order sect. The group has already withdrawn its seminarians from the SSPX seminary in Australia. It is interesting that this SSPX group has, in the last several months, gone on a fund-raising binge, perhaps to deceive traditional Catholics into filling its coffers before the group "goes New Order"?
One report even states that the four SSPX bishops have been called to an emergency meeting in Econe, Switzerland, on May 5, 2008. The SSPX is still schizophrenic about its relationship to the New Order sect. Bernie Fellay's SSPX still seems to be willing to sell out to the New Order in exchange for "unexcommunication," even if such "unexcommunication" comes at the price of denying the Roman Catholic Faith and accepting the New Order sect. Fellay should learn well from the situation of the Eastern Orthodox, who have been "un-excommunicated" since 1965 by Paul VI, and the Easterners still don't even have a shared "eucharist" with Newchurch these forty years later! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes!
France's largest morning daily, Le Figaro, has reported on April 26, 2008, that Benedict-Ratzinger's health is failing. His brother, presbyter Georg Ratzinger, has said the same to several German media outlets recently. On April 24, 2008, in an interview with the German television station TDF, Georg confirmed, as previously reported by the TRADITIO Network, that his brother had suffered two strokes. Newpope has told the cardinals that his will be a "short reign." Newvatican, of course, has denied the reports, which is tantamount to acknowledging their veracity.
Le Figaro pointed to Benedict-Ratzinger's obvious fatigue during his "Opera" Mess in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, on April 19, 2008. He was so compromised that after the ceremony he had to be helped by aides so as not to trip. Newpope also had to cancel his general audience on the Wednesday following his United States junket because of fatigue.
Lost among all the staged hoopla for Benedict-Ratzinger's April 2008 public-relations junket to the United States to get the American Newchurch to resume contributing to Newvatican coffers in the midst of Newpope's Great Sex & Embezzlement Scandal, is an April 22, 2008, op-ed piece entitled Father Ratzinger Cannot Be Pope, published by the Newspaper Network of Central Ohio, which publicly questioned Benedict-Ratzinger's status as pope. This is certainly not the first time the issue has been raised that Benedict-Ratzinger was never consecrated as a bishop in the certainly valid traditional rite. He was merely "installed" in the New Order rite of the Freemason Hannibal Bugnini and his Committee of Six Protestant Ministers. The article stated:
Benedict XVI arrived in the United States last week to the accolades of everyone, Catholic or not. I am in the minority who can find no reason to celebrate him. He is one of the architects of the worst catastrophe that has ever rocked the Roman Catholic Church, Vatican II. He was the one who helped craft the heresy of religious liberty that came from the [Vatican II] Council.
I practice my Catholic faith as if I were under the papacy of Pope Pius XII. For almost 2,000 years it was a sin and liturgical crime, punished by excommunication, to worship with non-Catholics. Benedict prayed in the Blue Mosque in Turkey, facing Mecca and using a Mohammedan prayer stance. This is a sign of apostasy. Under him, Catholics are allowed to believe things that the Church has always condemned. They can openly support abortion in the pews as well as in Congress. They can actively support homosexuality, as they do at Most Holy Redeemer Church, in the Castro Street district in San Francisco.
He helped wreck the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, only to allow a modernized version of it as an "extraordinary rite," with the sacrilegious Modern Mass being the norm. It is a maxim that "one cannot be head of which one in not a member." It is a law of the Roman Catholic Church that a heretic cannot be elected pope (the law was made by Pope Paul IV). Because of this law, Father Joseph Ratzinger cannot be pope.
Good Catholics, the word is finally getting out that there are indeed many questions to be answered in the strange case of Benedict-Ratzinger.
It seems that the "Motu" Mess of 1962-2007-2008 is leading some people to believe that Benedict-Ratzinger's Newchurch is going to go traditional, or at least conservative. That belief is anathema, so the papal liturgist for twenty years, Archbishop Piero Marini, was sent on April 25, 2008, to issue a statement in Osservatore Romano that the "liturgical renewal launched by the Second Vatican Council is on an 'irreversible path" and is in no way compromised by the "Motu" Mess.
This papal statement comes on the heels of the announcement that Newcardinal Dario Hoyos' Ecclesia Dei Commission has bound the Motarians to accept the Novus Ordo calendar for "Motu" Messes.
Traditional Catholic producer/director Mel Gibson will return to the role of actor as he takes the lead role in Edge of Darkness, a thriller based on a 1985 BBC miniseries. His role as a straitlaced policeman who uncovers corruption in "the system" will return Gibson to the hero role that he played so well in The Patriot and Braveheart (1995), which won him five Oscars.
Gibson has long been a fan of the miniseries and was receptive when producer Graham King and director Martin Campbell approached him several months ago. Shooting on the independently-financed project begins in Boston in August 2008. As producer/director, Gibson released two recent blockbusters, The Passion of the Christ (2004), a biblical and graphic depiction of Christ's last hours, and Apocalypto (2006), a depiction of the cruelty of the pagan Mayans, who were to be civilized by the Christian missionaries.
So literally Christian was The Passion that radical Jewish leaders viciously persecuted Gibson for producing it, yet the anti-Catholic bigotry of the Jewish leaders was routed when The Passion of the Christ became Number 11 on the All-time Top-grossing American Movies list, grossing Mel Gibson's Icon Productions almost $400,000,000, significant amounts of which he donated to traditional Catholic churches. [Source: Reuters, Daily Variety]
Didn't the TRADITIO Network warn you that Benedict-Ratzinger's "Motu" Mess is a hoax? We have further proof that it is now no longer the "Mass of 1962," let alone the Traditional Latin Mass. It is the Mess of 1962-2007-2008. First, there was the 2007 Novus Ordo change to the ancient Good Friday service. Now the Newchurch Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, headed by Newcardinal Dario Hoyos, has decreed in Benedict-Ratzinger's name that the "Motu" Mess must use the Novus Ordo calendar.
The Newchurch Bishops' Conference of England and Wales submitted a question to Hoyos' commission, and that commission confirmed that whichever form of the Newchurch liturgy is being celebrated, Ordinary (Novus Ordo) or Extraordinary ("Motu"), the Holydays of Obligation must be simulated on the dates of the Novus Ordo calendar, not the traditional one. Thus, among other high feasts, Ascension Thursday becomes Ascension Sunday, contrary to Holy Scripture, which provides that it occurred forty days after Easter.
Good Catholics, more changes are in store to make the "Motu" Mess into the Novus Ordo Protestant-Masonic-Pagan service. It is now indisputably clear that the "Motu" Hoax Mess is just a play-toy for the New Order, to get neocon Newchurchers to put their dollars into Newchurch's Sex Crimes Fund. The only Catholic reaction to this nonsense is to reject the "Motu" Mess entirely and return it to Benedict-Ratzinger in Newrome, postage due!
Good Catholics, atheistic Communism is alive and well. Whether it still exists in the former Soviet Union is one question, but there is no doubt that it still exists in a country of over one billion souls, Red China.
The Polish weekly Wprost of April 28, 2008, shows a Soviet politburo document of November 1979, personally signed by Mikhail Gorbachev, authorizing the Communist KGB Secret Police to kill JPII. JPII's own association with the Communists is a matter of speculation, until documents now being unearthed since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 come fully to light. It is already known that one out of five clergy in JPII's episcopate of Krakow were agents for the Polish Communist Secret Police, and suspicions were raised that JPII must have known about this, but did nothing. So, will that United Nations arm known as the International Court of Justice arraign Gorbachev as it once did U.S. President Bill Clinton and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic? Not on your life! This Communist is sacrosanct, whereas the JPII the Ungreat, should have been, was not.
Benedict-Ratzinger has already sent one friendly message to Red China, and he has unofficially approved the installation of bishops associated with that murderous regime in the Patriotic National Church, the government-controlled Church. Pope Pius XII had excommunicated these sellouts to Communism. Now they too, along with the "underground" Newchurch, gone New Order. The irony is that until the 1990s the PNC actually retained the Traditional Latin Mass, Sacraments, and Faith, while the "underground" Newchurchers had sold out.
U.S. President George W. Bush has already converted from Episcopalianism to Methodism, his wife's sect. Now the Italian weekly Panorama reports that he might be considering converting at the end of his term in January 2009 to the New Order sect. Of course, all three sects are heretical and partake of the New Order heresy of Modernism. Bush's younger brother, Jeb, governor of Florida, already converted to the New Order sect some years ago because his wife is a member of that sect.
If such a thing should happen, Bush would join former British prime minister Tony Blair, who converted to his radical liberalist wife's New Order sect. Newvatican allowed this to happen without Blair's having to renounce his anti-Catholic positions in favor of abortion and "gay" marriage. Typical of Benedict-Ratzinger's hypocritical and unCatholic Newchurch!
Good Catholics, to hear the neocon Newchurchers, you'd think that the Conciliar popes are idiots, having no real control over Newchurch. This is, of course, a Novus Ordo hoax to exculpate the Conciliar popes from their sacrileges and errors.
Their latest hoax concerns Benedict-Ratzinger's "Baseball" Mess, simulated on April 17, 2008, in Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington, D.C. This was a standard Novus Ordo extravaganza, in which both JPII and Benedict-Ratzinger had previously "presided" on many occasions. It featured the Freemason Hannibal-Bugnini's phony "Presto" Eucharistic Prayer, the "For All" vernacular error, and the secular music of Protestants and Aboriginals. Nothing out of the ordinary there.
However, this typical Modernist papal extravaganza didn't sit well with the neocon papolators, who have to create an entirely false picture of the Modernist Benedict-Ratzinger as traditional, or at least conservative. In reality, from his own mouth, he is a fervent proponent of Vatican II and Modernism. The neocon papolators have to concoct some explanation, so they are choosing to use the same lie that they tried to use about previous Conciliar popes: they were too stupid to know what was going on.
One of many ignorant neocon Newchurch talking-heads tried to make it seem as if Benedict-Ratzinger had nothing to do with the invalid Novus Ordo service that he simulated in Washington, D.C., with these words: "In the name of 'multiculturalism,' the pope was subjected to music more suitable to dingy dance halls than churches. The Psalms of David were distorted to the point of ear-splitting dissonance. The congos, pan flutes, meringue rhythms, the jazz and blues and rock, the swaggering vocals, the puffed-up soloing, went beyond even the most pessimistic predictions."
So, what is the truth of the matter? As the TRADITIO Network well before the extravaganza, Benedict-Ratzinger's handpicked new papal Master of Ceremonies, Msgr. Guido Marini, announced that the guidelines that were used on Newpope's junket to the United States were "substantially the same" as the set developed during the pontificate of JPII with its "Clown" Messes. Marini confirmed that Newpope and Newvatican had raised no objections to any part of the Novus Ordo "liturgy," which was approved by the papal office in advance.
In any case, even if Benedict-Ratzinger were merely an ignorant shill for his underlings, he certain could have chosen at the altar to use a different Eucharistic prayer and, most easily, substitute "for many" instead of "for all," even extemporaneously. No, as U.S. President Harry Truman said: "The buck stops here." Benedict-Ratzinger is personally responsible for these sacrilegious and invalid Novus Ordo services and for the rampage of sex crimes on which his cardinals, bishops, and presbyters are engaged -- without his taking any action against them.
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