Earlier this week, on a podcast with Stephen Kokx, I briefly made a statement which I think might have made some viewers uncomfortable. Not only was there not enough time left to really explore what I meant, but, as usual, my passion trumped my eloquence, and afterwards I wished I had expressed myself better.
Before I continue, I do want to give credit where credit is due by making it clear that it was a post on X (and a short video) by St. AnthonyPadau Radtrad that triggered the train of thought that led to this essay.
We will get back to his post shortly, but as I often have to do at the start of these essays, I want to ask you to make a cup of tea, relax, and hear me out until the end. Please do not read this intro, cuss, and then unsubscribe or jump into the comment section scolding me.
Despite the headline, I want to make it clear that I do not have some sadistic desire for good, decent Catholic folk who are doing their best to practice their faith to be deprived of the Traditional Latin Mass they attend, if they are even lucky enough to have one to attend. I have always appreciated that my readership includes a broad spectrum of held beliefs and convictions: from those who still attend the Novus Ordo, to those who attend indult Masses, former Ecclesia Dei communities, SSPX, SSPX-Resistance, sedeprivationist communities, and finally even hardcore home-alone sedevacantists. I have always held the sincere belief that the majority of my readership shares a love of Christ and the Catholic Faith and are all trying their best to defend the rights of Christ and His Church.
But these are terrible times we find ourselves in, where Catholicism has literally been criminalized by the usurping heresiarchy in Rome, and everyone is doing the best with where they are at, both geographically and spiritually. Therefore, please, if you do attend an FSSP TLM or a diocesan Latin Mass, do not think that I want you to find yourself out in the liturgical cold. I realize all too well that if what I am about to discuss happens, then many will have no Traditional Mass to go to.
That being said, the other side should also be considered very carefully: eventually, they are going to completely halt all access to the TLM within the Synodal Church, that is certain. It is not ‘if’, but ‘when’. So, instead of getting angry at me, maybe it is time to make peace with this looming reality, if you have not yet, and prudently make decisions accordingly.
Now though, I appeal to your charity and patience to hear me out.
On July 31, the above-mentioned X user posted the following short message:
“I am ready for the Novus Ordo to close down their Latin Masses. It will force the indults to accept their own religion.”
At first glance, this might seem harsh, but the more I thought about it, the truer it rang. Again, if you are one of those who recognize that the Synodal Church and its hierarchy are not Catholic but still have to attend a Synodally sanctioned TLM because you see no other way, this essay is not about you. Although, as I already said, best you start preparing for the inevitable coming ban on the TLM.
Who this essay is for, though, or maybe about, are those who, on the one hand, want to recognize the heretical popes and their sodomy-promoting, idol-worshipping, communism-advancing false Synodal religion, while at the same time also want to not only indulge in their little play-play fantasies of being “Traditional” Catholics, but also want to gaslight, discredit, ostracize, persecute, and mock real Catholics who had to make costly decisions and sacrifices to say, sorry, but we cannot be part of the Synodal Church and its false religion; we want to be Catholics in the Catholic Church. Who had to say: “Go ahead, and excommunicate us from your fake and gay “church”, we choose Christ and Catholicism”
It is because of these people’s luxurious hypocrisy that I thus say: the Synodal Church must outlaw the TLM sooner rather than later. Not only that, it must “excommunicate” any synodal priest or synodal layperson who dares to say the Traditional Latin Mass or attend it anywhere.
Harsh? Here is why.
For decades now, the permission from the apostate heretics in the Vatican for diocesan TLM communities and the former Ecclesia Dei institutes to exist has worsened the crisis and, in effect, paralyzed many Catholics with confusion, because it was seen as “proof” that the postconciliar “Church” still has room for Catholic Tradition. (Read this last sentence again. If something must make “room for Catholic Tradition”, it means it itself is not Catholic, but something new and different!)
On the one hand, the laity got comfortable with the idea that they had to ask “permission” from heretics to be Catholic, and, on the other, it emboldened Trad. Inc.-type influencers, fence-sitting clergy, and “conservative” prelates like Burke and Müller to not address the root problem, but rather pontificate from their hypocritical high horses.
Admittedly, these communities do serve as some kind of refuge for those who find themselves in the apocalyptic wasteland that is Synodality, but the price for these pockets of pretention is extremely high, as it means avoiding the very questions that are at the heart of the Great Deception: If the Synodal trash heap masquerading as the Catholic Church truly believes that Vatican II represents the authentic and irreversible direction of Catholicism, then why should it continue to preserve islands of resistance within its own structures? If Vatican II truly was a genuine development in Catholicism, then surely the TLM belongs to the past? But if the TLM expresses the perennial faith handed down for almost two millennia, then surely it cannot be treated as a mere tolerated exception?
The Traditional Latin Mass cannot be both the historic expression of the Roman Church and a privilege granted at the discretion of apostate bishops and infiltrators in the Vatican. One of these views must give way.
If the preconciliar Church taught one thing, and the postconciliar church taught a contradicting one, they cannot both be the Catholic Church. If A equals X, and B equals Y, then A cannot be equal to B. It is not hard to understand. Yet that is exactly the sorcery the Synodal Church has been imposing on the faithful who would rather attend these little “permission” Masses than face the difficult truth.
The postconciliar hierarchy has repeatedly insisted that the Council cannot be questioned, as recently as during the SSPX debacle, and that its reforms are here to stay. This would mean that this new anti-Catholic religion, with its new liturgy, ecumenism, heretical religious liberty, and the new pastoral approach of demonic relativism, is as legitimate an expression of Catholicism as the religion to which St. Pius X or St. Alphonsus Liguori adhered. The Synodal hierarchy has been remarkably consistent in defending the Council as the defining event of “modern Catholicism.”
By allowing these communities to exist as long as they accept the false authority of the Synodal Church, Rome has not only caused great dissonance and confusion but capitalized on it: in this “abusive relationship,” the victim—the laity—is granted some traditional optics in exchange for obedience to a new religion that wants to destroy Catholicism and usher in the Antichrist.
Due to this arrangement of compromise, we today have a large group of confused Catholics who identify as “Traditional” while remaining comfortably within the structures of the postconciliar harlot.
Do many sincerely believe that they are preserving the faith of their fathers while remaining obedient sons and daughters of the Church? Absolutely. They criticize the collapse of Catholic culture, lament doctrinal confusion, oppose many modern theological trends, and speak warmly of the Church before the Council, but continue to recognize the authority of the men responsible for governing the very institution that has been demolishing Catholicism for 60-odd years.
This is not only an unsustainable situation but also an unacceptable one.
If they recognize that the religion issuing from Vatican II contradicts previous Catholic doctrine, then why continue to lend legitimacy to it by obeying the usurpers and infiltrators who are the architects of this synodal beast?
On the other hand, if you recognize this as the legitimate Catholic Church, stop criticizing its hierarchy, reforms, new anti-Catholic doctrines, heterodoxy, and new liturgy, and submit yourself totally to it.
The continued existence of officially recognized Traditional Latin Mass communities is only worsening this dilemma by providing a false middle ground that softens the force of the underlying questions. Catholics who are caught in this erroneously think they have found a stable balance between fidelity to the past and obedience in the present. This mentality tragically makes them complicit in the war on Catholicism and Catholics.
Because of this compromise, the uncomfortable questions can always be postponed because the “old” Mass is still available somewhere, somehow, never mind the fact that you have to swear fealty to a false religion to get your permission slip to attend.
As long as that remains true, many will never examine the real problem: that the Synodal Church should be fled from, and that they will eventually go down with the ship at the expense of their souls.
This brings us to the other, dangerous part of the problem. Those, like Trad. Inc. and the conservative Synodal apologist, who, with great sanctimonious smugness, want to straddle both Catholicism and the Synodal religion while calling the shots.
If the TLM is finally completely erased in the Synodal Abomination, it will be like the opening of a festering, puss-filled sore. These peddlers of compromise and hypocrisy will then have to choose. Their masks will necessarily have to come off. Either they choose the Synodal Church, all its doctrines of devils, its anti-popes, and its Neo-Protestant liturgy, or they fully reject it and throw their weight in with those fighting for Christ, Catholicism, and the Catholic Church.
This will not be comfortable, but at least it will force Catholics to get serious about their faith again. Catholicism will then once again become something costly and precious. It will become the guiding principle around which Catholics will organize their lives, and not a religion of convenience and the least resistance.
The compromise, though, cannot continue, as it only postpones the conflict without resolving it.
Removing “permitted” Traditional Latin Masses from the equation will end the lunacy of having a group who have been able to criticize the postconciliar crisis while remaining within the institutions they believe produced it. This will force them to either denounce the modernist religion or recognize the authority of those who introduced it, but not both.
Holy Scripture warns us “to hold fast to the traditions that have been handed down” and rightly asks, “what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?” It also instructs us to choose between “life and death, blessing and cursing.”
The time has come to choose unequivocally between the Catholic Church and the false Synodal imitation. To choose between loyalty to the postconciliar ecclesiastical order or the Catholic tradition and truth they failed to preserve.
To choose to stop being lukewarm and double-minded, lest being spat out.
Our Lady, Co-redemptrix, pray for us…
Our Lady, Mediatrix of all Graces, pray for us…
Viva Christo Rey!
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Leo’s grand synodal plan will be overtaken by events - WWIII for a start. And the warning. The fulfillment of prophecies is here, while the Vatican thinks it can play the long game - and downgrade Our Blessed Mother. Big mistake.
I agree with you wholeheartedly Decisions will have to be made. I have been pushing separation since day one.
The TLM only Church I belong to are Augustinian Monks. Three of whom are Priests. I never checked their creds. I never asked about their bona fides. I suspect they are diocesan. Sometimes a Diocesan decision intrudes into the worship. Usually a calendar issue. But the diocesan burden has been very light a good thing or a bad thing I do not know. I just go to Mass. At some point THEY will be told their way of life has to go THEY will have to make the big decision. Once that decision is made by them it will trickle down to me. Then I will have to figure it out. The plus in this is they own all their Church property so they may have the liberty to do the right thing. That the Conciliar church must get rid of the TLM which represents to them the “rigid” and “old” Catholicism which they despise and is in the way of their agenda is a given how they go about it is the key. Personally I have rejected the Synodal Church. So I have burned that bridge.
As an aside I thought it genius that the SPPX is expanding into Charlotte NC. Synodal central to the quashing of the TLM. As ever stay tuned.