James Martin, S.J. a man desperately in need of God, a priest adrift from the reality of Christ

Can there be any doubt that the mind of James Martin, a Jesuit priest is distorted beyond any semblance of reason in matter of the faith?

In an interview with the New York Times, Martin stated, “Pretty much everyone’s lifestyle is sinful,”

Martin recently stated that the catechism needs to be changed. Homosexual orientation is "objectively disordered," and the acts are "intrinsically disordered." Martin, and other to be sure, (we know who you even though we won't name you) wishes it to be "differently ordered."

This is a blasphemy; for it accuses God of creating a man or woman who will, beyond their control, live a lifestyle based upon repugnant sin that would destine them to a life of suffering and an eternity cut off from God. What kind of god would do this? Certainly not Christian God, the Catholic God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

It would be a god who would be evil, a god who would not deserve worship or adoration. A false god, a liar from the beginning.

There was a time when a priest's superiors would discipline this kind of priest. The fact that they do not proves that they not only agree with him, but that they are filled with hate. If they truly loved him, as a priest, a spiritual son, they would remove him from public ministry and get him the deep spiritual help he so desperately needs.

James Martin, S.J. is unfit to be in the public square commenting on the Catholic faith. A man unfit for priesthood. A man with a distorted mind crying out to the world for help and not having enough sense where to go to find it.

God help him.

Pope Bergoglio appoints abortion advocate to Life Academy - Cardinal accuses Catholics of not understanding "love"

The Pope of Rome has appointed a pro-abortion advocate Oxford Professor, Nigel Biggar to the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Archbishop Paglia, an alleged apostle of Jesus Christ accuses Catholics who have raised their voices at this outrageous Bergoglian action as being "sensationalist," and not understanding what "love" is. This from the putrid example of a man who commissioned homosexualist erotic art for his Cathedral and wears funny sunglasses whilst swishing his drink.

Paglia is a disgrace, a man unfit for the high office he holds. 

You must love as he reminds us all on Twitter.

Do you realize the crisis that the Church is in? Some will say, "the Church has always been in crisis." No, this is not true. They are ignorant of history. They are truly ignorant of the faith. 

The saying, "the fish rots from the head first" has never been more appropriate then it is right now. 

Please try to defend your rotten fruit of Vatican II or your Novus Ordoist culture.

You can't.

Vox sends his congratulations to Stephan Ackermann, Reinhard Marx and the rest of the pathetic sons of Satan in the Diocese of Trier

Trier, the oldest diocese in Germany will see 96% of its parishes close.

Trier is headed by Stephan Ackermann, a rather pathetic example of a bishop.

https://onepeterfive.com/oldest-german-diocese-close-96-parishes/

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2017/06/disaster-in-liberal-germany-leads-to-massive-parish-crisis-closures/

Here is some wisdom from little Stephan.

When in the name of all that is good and holy are you going to wake up?

Surely you expected this right? 

Where are all you "neo-caths," you "conservative" Catholics, worshipping at your Novus Ordo Church of Man?

How do you like it now when you papal positivists and papolaters have to wrap your heads around the complete unravelling of Humanae Vitae.

The enemy has seized the Catholic Church by the throat. He has taken over, if not literally possessed, a great many in the Church.

Adultery is now okay and not an impediment to Holy Communion.

Sodomitical behaviour is just fine and not worth shaming people by calling them out of their sin.

Now, it is contraception.

And the Bishop of Rome appoints an abortion advocate to the Pontifical Academy for Life.

https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/06/de-mattei-plan-of-reinterpretation-for.html

https://onepeterfive.com/re-intepreting-humanae-vitae-amoris-laetitia-style/

http://whatisupwiththesynod.com/index.php/2017/06/16/like-a-polar-bear-in-a-greenpeace-meme/

Yeah, go ahead, you go right on with your papal positivism and your Novus Ordo mindset.

When will you wake up?

What the hell is it going to take?

Toronto - Corpus Christi (THURSDAY) - Traditional Mass, Traditional Procession, Traditional Day!

Blessed be the Lord God, let us bless the Father, Son and Spirit, and praise Him forever!

Sung traditional Latin Mass - Canadian Forces Base Borden

For those near CFB Borden, there will be a sung Latin Mass for the Pentecost Ember Wednesday at 12:00 noon at St. Joseph's Chapel.

For more on the Ember Days, please visit:

http://www.fisheaters.com/emberdays.html

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/09/ember-day-tempura/

St. Augustine has a word for these churchmen of today

Joos van Wassenhove St Augustine Oil on wood, 119 x 62 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

In Matins, this morning, Tuesday of the Octave of Pentecost, we read a verse from the Gospel of St. John and a commentary by St. Augustine.

There are churchmen today at all levels of ecclesiastical and priestly office who are condemned by Augustine of Hippo. They will tell you that it is okay just to live a “good life,” that one must just “live good lives but not to become Christian.” They will tell others that it is better to be an atheist than a bad Christian and that atheists will go to heaven. Some will tell you to just be a “good Muslim,’ or a “good Hindoo” or even, a “good Jew.” Some of these who said this have even been declared Saints. They will tell you that there is no real need to go through the door to join the sheepfold.

St. Augustine has a word for them and with it, he concludes his homily.

Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to St. John: 10:1-10

At that time: Jesus said unto the Pharisees: Amen, amen, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber but he that entereth by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. And so on.

Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. 45th Tract on John.

In the words of the Gospel which are this day read, the Lord has spoken unto us in similitudes, touching His flock, and the Door whereby entry is made into their fold. The Pagans therefore may say, "We have good lives," but if they enter not in the Door, what doth that profit them whereof they make their boast? Good life is profitable to a man if it lead unto life everlasting, but if he does not have life everlasting, what shall his good life profit him? Neither indeed can it be truly said that they live good lives, who are either so blinded as not to know, or so puffed up as to despise, the end of a good life. And no man can have a true and certain hope of life everlasting, unless he know the true Life, Which is Christ, and enter in by that Door into the sheepfold.

There are many such, who try to persuade men to live good lives but not to be Christians. These are they who would fain "climb up some other way," "for to kill and to destroy," and are not as the Good Shepherd, Who is come to keep and to save. There have been philosophers who have treated many subtle questions of right and wrong, who have been the authors of many distinctions and definitions, who have completed many exceedingly clever arguments, who have filled many books, and have proclaimed their own wisdom with braying trumpets. These dared to say to men: "Follow us embrace our school of thought, and you will find therein the secret of an happy life." But these were not of them who enter in by the Door; they came not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.

Touching these, what shall I say? Behold, the Pharisees themselves read of Christ, and therefore talked of Christ they looked for His coming, and when He came, they knew Him not. They boasted that they themselves were among the Seers, that is, of the wise ones, and they denied Christ, and entered not in by the Door. Therefore they, if they led away any, led them away only to kill and to destroy, not to free them. So much for them. Now let us see if all they who boast the name of Christian enter in by the Door. Some there are, and their number cannot be reckoned, who not only boast that they themselves are among the Seers, but would fain appear as though their hearts were enlightened by Christ but they are heretics.

Octave of Pentecost - Paul VI wept, and we've been weeping ever since!

Veni Sancti Spiritus. The ethereal chant of the Sequence for Pentecost Sunday which is proper to the Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite as well as the Extraordinary Form.

Was this sung in your parish in the Ordinary Form (OF); even in English as you can find at the link above? 

Was it even just read after the Second Reading and before the Alleluia? 

No? then get out of the Nervous Disordered liturgy and find the traditional Latin Mass where you will be properly nourished and not suffer liturgical banality and abuse any longer. Stop being a liturgical masochist.

We are now in the Octave of Pentecost that was unfortunately lost in the Ordinary Form (OF). An "Octave" is the eight day period following a major feast, a prolongation of that feast. In the traditional, there are three, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost and of course in the OF, only Christmas and Easter. Prior to 1962 there were more including Epiphany. Others included Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart, Sts. Peter and Paul and more of lower rank. 

There is this little story from Father Z.  It seems that he was told this story by an elderly, retired Papal Ceremoniere or a Master of Ceremonies who (according to him) was present at the event about to be recounted.

The Monday after Pentecost in 1970 His Holiness Pope Paul VI rose bright and early and went to the chapel for Holy Mass. Instead of the red he expected, there were green vestments laid out for him. 

He queried the MC assigned that day, "What on earth are these for?  This is the Octave of Pentecost!  Where are the red vestments?"

"Santità," quoth the MC, "this is now Tempus ‘per annum’.  It is green, now. The Octave of Pentecost is abolished."

"Green? That cannot be!", said the Pope, "Who did that?" 

"Holiness, you did."

And Paul VI wept.

And the rest of us have been weeping ever since.

And then there is the Vigil...

More:

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2011/06/octave-of-pentecost-proposal-for-mutual.html#.VznatfkrK70

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down

For the third time in recent weeks, twice in London and once in Manchester, England's people have been the target of Mohammedan terrorist losers. 

The first duty of government is the protection of its people. England has let in to its land, tens of thousands from Europe on the EU passport. It has allowed the return of thousands from the jihadist battlefields of Iraq and Syria. 

The British Government is responsible for the continuing slaughter. The Mayor of London is complicit. Even Her Majesty the Queen and the Heir to the throne, Charles, Prince of Wales are both feckless, cowardly and dastardly betrayers of the people.

England is reaping what it has sowed.

Five hundred years ago, England's Kings and scoundrels killed their own people. They were Catholic and they rejected the Truth. They butchered monks and lay alike. They set the country back centuries in literacy and social development. They put this once great Catholic land on a path that has led directly to what happened on London Bridge.

The English people must rise up and demand action. Arrest, internment and mass deportation is necessary of those who do not renounce terrorism and have jihadist sympathies must be done.

Combined with an immediate calling out to God for forgiveness, mercy and grace to restore this once great land.

Canada is not far behind.

Modern day Jesuits call St. Jude the Apostle a liar!

The first three readings from Matins today for the Vigil of Pentecost are taken from the Epistle of St Jude.

Is St. Jude just a panacea for Catholics with hopeless causes? Is he just a pious little devotion? St. Jude, also known as Thaddeus and a cousin of the LORD had a lot to say. Shall we read it?

Lesson from the letter of St. Jude the Apostle

Jude 1:1-4

1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.

2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and charity be fulfilled.

3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

4 For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not:

6 And the angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.

7 As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

8 In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and blaspheme majesty.

9 When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee.

10 But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.

11 Woe unto them, for they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves, and have perished in the contradiction of Core.

12 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,

13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion; wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

The Apostle Jude has a lot to say to the Jesuits of today, particularly to Arturo Sosa and James Martin who have lost the faith, if they ever really had it, and teach lies and distortions on the Devil who is called Satan and on his most favourite vice, sodomy, to which James Martin is obsessed with.

When will the good Jesuits out there, and I know they are there as some actually read this blog, when will they call out their derelict brothers? 

"A slap in the face?" Well, then turn the cheek so we can slap you again!

Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, an alleged descendant of the Apostles of Jesus Christ is the head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Sorondo has referred to the Americans pulling out of the scandalous, globalist, Marxist Paris climate accord as being a "slap in the face."

A "slap in the face," Even in this, he mocks a phase so associated with Our Blessed Lord.

This is the same ecclesiastical nincompoop that said that Pope Bergoglio can bind Catholics under the pain of sin who do not believe that global warming is a sin at the equivalence of abortion. 

Yes, he really said that.

The Pope has no authority to invent new sins, he is not a god. He is a very fallible man and Sorondo is a "loser."

Sorondo wants to speak of a "slap in the face." And what does this clown of an Archbishop think that faithful Catholics have been suffering for four years since the Jesuit hordes have taken over the Church emboldened by the embedded homosexualists and globalists.

There are fossils of ferns and palms in Greenland, Alaska and northern Alberta. I was taught this in school decades ago. A short Internet search will prove this to you. Therefore, we can conclude that the earth was warmer. 

Is there climate change? 

Yes.

The climate changes and then it changes again and then it changes back. 

What these intellectual morons call Co2 is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is absorbed by green things, trees grass, and the petunias in your garden. What these created things do is give off oxygen which other created things, like people and animals use to breathe and live. Therefore, the more C02, the more oxygen, the more life.

God created all of this. He set it all in motion. We are to be responsible with His creation. We should enjoy the meat he gave us but raise the animals happy and healthy and slaughter them humanely. We should not pollute the water and air which we all breathe, we should all plant trees, I've put in two lilacs, a mountain ash, a magnolia, three birch and a crimson maple on my property in the last twenty years. Do you think I've not covered my "carbon footprint."

These globalists and the ones embedded in the Vatican are liars. They are doing the work of the Devil who is Satan himself, in whom they do not believe.

They have created a false church and a false religion and they are going along with those who seek to take over the world and control all wealth and thought for their own evil purposes. All of them, are of the Antichrist no matter what colour of cassock they wear.

God bless and protect Donald John Trump, the President of the United States.

The next slap for Sorondo may not be as pleasant. 

The Society of Jesus is not!

As reported in the Catholic Herald, in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Jesuit Superior General, Arturo Sosa said: 

“Christians believe that we are made in the image and likeness of God, and God is free, but He always chooses to do good because He is all goodness. “We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil. Social conditioning can also represent this figure, since there are people who act [in an evil way] because they are in an environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary.”

He calls Jesus a liar.

Arturo Sosa is of the Antichrist.

Back in 1965, Paul Harvey was a lot smarter than this wretched Jesuit minion. 

You see St. Michael, I see St. James, let's call the whole thing off!

This is St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto, the Seat of the Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto.

This is the Anglican Cathedral of St. James, the residing place of the Anglican Archlayman of Toronto.

This is the congratulatory advertisement taken out by Novalis on the back page of Toronto's Catholic Register special edition celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Toronto.

That is all.

But for a chicken leg, John?

Malcolm Muggeridge, the legendary English author and journalist, knew Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Soviet dictator, “Uncle Joe,” Stalin. It was through Muggeridge that it came to be known that on his deathbed, Stalin was plagued with terrifying hallucinations when suddenly, he sat up halfway in bed, clenched his fist and shook it towards heaven, before falling back down, dead. The last gesture of this murderous, sadistic loser was to defy and curse God.

As Catholics, we know that the only sin that God cannot forgive and will not forgive is the sin against the Holy Spirit – that is, final impenitence and an utter rejection of His Divine Mercy. While we cannot state with knowing certainty, based upon known knowns, it is likely that Joseph Stalin is in Hell.

In 1938, John Terrance Shields was born in New York City. The Irish-American Catholic became a priest sometime in the 1960’s probably around 1965. His formation would have been prior to, and during, the Second Vatican Council. Shields became "disillusioned" with the Church after the death of John XXIII particularly over what he saw as a rejection of the liberality of John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council by Paul VI. He was particularly disturbed by the Pope's affirmation of Original Sin, the theology of which Shields abhorred. He left the priesthood, and came to Canada in 1969. We assume that he was “laicised” by the Church. Eventually he married, a woman and then another woman.

Just like Stalin, Shields was a darling of the political Left. Alas, if only the similarity ended there.

In his book, The Priest Who Left His Priesthood in Pursuit of Cosmic Spirituality, Shields wrote, "I have drawn great personal strength from knowing that my conscious energy will persist beyond the moment of my death."

What arrogance. What hubris.

Euthanasia is now the law of the land in Canada and the cause has been led for years by those living on the west coast. Having left the priesthood and married, Shields was dying and chose, as did Stalin, to shake his fist at God and take his own life, with the aid of the doctor who murdered him, the nurses who assisted and the politicians, lawyers and judges who enabled it.

“Two days before he was scheduled to die, John Shields roused in his hospice bed with an unusual idea. He wanted to organize an Irish wake for himself. It would be old-fashioned with music and booze, except for one notable detail — he would be present. The party should take up a big section of Swiss Chalet, a family-style chain restaurant on the road out of town. Shields wanted his last supper to be one he so often enjoyed on Friday nights when he was a young Catholic priest — rotisserie chicken legs with gravy.”  John Shields, who had a rare and incurable disease called amyloidosis, was relieved to discover he qualified for medical assistance in dying. John Shields would have his “last supper.”

The link to the whole, original article in the New York Times follows. Catholics with faith will find it chilling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/world/canada/euthanasia-bill-john-shields-death.html?_r=0

A supper like the “one he so often enjoyed on Friday nights when he was a young Catholic priest — rotisserie chicken legs with gravy," on a day when Catholics, priest and laity alike, are to do penance and refrain from flesh-meat.

He was as defiant in his priesthood as he was on his deathbed actively shaking his fist at heaven and mocking the Church in exchange for a rotisserie chicken dinner.  

Catholics can have hope that if John, before taking that final breath, before the brain waves flattened and his heart ceased to beat, called out from his mind to the LORD whom he abandoned for his Divine Mercy, he would have been heard.

Because of John Shields' example, how many others will choose to follow his path where more than the chicken is on the rotisserie.

It's okay, Your Holiness, we feel the same about him.

As John Robson of the National Post, so wryly points out, "The Pope is a lucky man. Not everyone gets a chance to be lectured on moral matters by Canada’s prime minister."

A Prime Minister who barred any candidates from the Liberal Party unless they supported abortion, no tolerance for any Member of Parliament to introduce a private members bill to any way deter abortion; a man who has ordered $600,000,000.00 of Canadian taxpayers money to fund abortion overseas, marches in sodomitical rights parades, ushered in euthanasia, legalised marijuana and prostitution to say nothing of the economic theft of future generations.

Oh, and did I mention that he is a Catholic?

Ontario to establish "safe space" for baby murderers

Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi will be proposing legislation to establish safe zones around health facilities, after a rise in confrontations outside the Morgentaler abortion clinic here in Ottawa.Naqvi said women have the constitutional right to control their bodies, and the right to privacy. "It is critical that those protections be enshrined in law to provide consistent protection across the province," he told a news conference. "In an increasingly-polarized society, it is critical that we protect a woman's fundamental right to choose." Naqvi noted that several other provinces have similar laws in place. He said he plans to consult widely and hopes to have the legislation ready for consideration in the fall.

"The woman's fundamental right to choose?"

Choose what Naqvi?

Tell us, what is that choice?

It is this?

Some choice.

You're not a very good Muslim.

"If ye love Me, keep my commandments."

From the Third Reading of Matins for today, the Sunday After Ascension, taken from 1 John 2: 3, 4.

"And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

True for all, especially for popes, prelates and presbyters.

Go into all the world, to every creature

The Paschal Mystery is, liturgically speaking, complete. Our LORD ascends to heaven to prepare a place for us. He did so after forty days, not forty-three.

Mark 16:14-20 

14 At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. 15 And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned. 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues. 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover. 19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God. 20 But they going forth preached everywhere: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great29th on the Gospels

I may be allowed to say that the disciples' slowness to believe that the Lord had indeed risen from the dead, was not so much their weakness as our strength. In consequence of their doubts, the fact of the Resurrection was demonstrated by many infallible proofs. These proofs we read and acknowledge. What then assureth our faith, if not their doubt? For my part, I put my trust in Thomas, who doubted long, much more than in Mary Magdalene, who believed at once. Through his doubting, he came actually to handle the holes of the Wounds, and thereby closed up any wound of doubt in our hearts. 

Now confirm to our minds the trustworthiness of the fact that our Lord did indeed rise again from the dead, it is well for us to remark one of the statements of Luke Acts i. 4. "Eating together with them, He commanded them that they should not 1 John xiv. 16, 17 xvi. 7. depart from Jerusalem and a little afterward: "While they beheld, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight." Consider these words, note well these mysteries. After "eating together with them He was taken up." He ate and ascended: that the fact of His eating might show the reality of the Body in Which He went up. But Mark telleth us that before the Lord ascended into heaven, He upbraided His disciples; with their unbelief and hardness of heart. From this I know not why we should gather, but that the Lord then upbraided His disciples, for whom He was about to be parted in the body, to the end that the words which He spoke unto them as He left them might be the deeper imprinted on their hearts. 

When then, He had rebuked the hardness of their heart, what command did He give them? Let us hear. "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Was the Holy Gospel, then my brethren, to be preached to thing insensate, or to brute beasts, that the Lord said to His disciples: "Preach the Gospel to every creature"? Nay, but by the words "every creature" we must understand man, in whom are combined qualities of all creatures. Being he hath in common with stones, life in common with trees, feeling in common with beasts, understanding in common with angels. If, then, man hath something in common with every creature, man is to a certain extent every creature. The Gospel, then, if it be preached to man only, is preached to every creature.

Any man who would equate this, the "Great Commission," with the Jihad of the Mohammedans, is suffering from a delusion, proffering deception and possibly under some kind of diabolical possession. 

When those Shepherd's fail to "preach the Gospel to every creature," they disobey the very LORD GOD Himself. The very Jesus, that come to earth as man in the womb of the Virgin, lived, taught, suffered, died, arose and ascended. This very Jesus, they defy.

Praised by Jesus Christ, now and forever. Amen.

"Two popes, active and emeritus"

More and more, the questions are being asked and hints are being dropped, leading many to wonder, is Ann Barnhardt's hypothesis correct? Is Benedict still the Pope, the real, Pope?

When a publication in the conservative Catholic world, solid and orthodox in the Novus Ordo world publishes an article stating, the following, one cannot just conclude that Ann is wrong, or a nut; she may, in fact, be on to something.

From First Things and how Francis is not only burying Benedict, but John Paul II as well:

"And so the two popes, active and emeritus, speaking and silent, remain at odds. In the end, it does not matter who comes last or speaks most; what matters is who thinks with the mind of a Church that has seen countless heresies come and go. When Benedict’s enraptured words are compared to the platitudes of his successor, it is hard not to notice a difference: One pope echoes the apostles, and the other parrots Walter Kasper. Because this difference in speech reflects a difference in belief, a prediction can be made. Regardless of who dies first, Benedict will outlive Francis."

Francis is the Pope because he is the Bishop of Rome. Ratzinger renounced the papacy in accord with Canon Law. Francis was elected by scoundrels and manipulators, but he has been accepted as bishop by the priests of Rome and the Catholic faithful. From all we can see, Father Bergoglio is the Pope.

But what of that which we cannot see?