The one who would carry out the final mission of betraying the Church when it went through its painful passion.
This is a very good point. We must be careful here not to become a circle of stone-throwers, as nearly the entire laity of the Catholic Church has engaged in reprehensible acts unapologetically for decades, while the rest looked on and became desensitized. We have all sinned, in one way or another, and have not prayed and atoned enough, and as a result our Church is suffering a terrible punishment. We should see the rainbow crowd proudly marching into the Vatican as ourselves, blinded to our own level of sin and the harm we've done to the Church and the world. Our pride alone is bad enough. My pride. For ever thinking I'm better than others because of the good life I think I live and the bare minimum of prayers I offer to the God who deserves far more from me. The sense of dread I feel about this event should be directed only at myself. I have to keep reminding myself of this. But God's mercy is still here; He still loves with His arms reaching out. We can still run to Him and beg for mercy. We can still atone for our sins and failures and do everything we can with renewed vigor to save souls. We may have precious little time left. Let's go to Heaven one day carrying many, many souls with us! St. Carlo Acutis, pray for us and for our children! St. Pier Giorgio Frassati, pray for us!
The biblical false prophet prepares the way of the antichrist. I'm not saying that Pope Leo is the antichrist, but I think we are living in the time of the antichrist, which I think is AI-related. I often wonder if Pope Francis was the false prophet.
Beautiful post. I concur heartily. From St John Henry Cardinal Newman: “He may hide my future from me, He may make my spirits sink. Still, He knows what He is about. Therefore, I will trust Him.” The evil Freemasonic forces have been foisting the acceptance of sodomy for decades. Imho, no human power can stop it. Our Lady has told us what to do. How many of us keep the First Saturdays? I know I have not. Mea culpa
I do have a certain sympathy with the sodomites who have been mislaid by folks like Father James Martin and Papa Leo into thinking that evil is good. I do not however have sympathy with the folks who are doing the misleading. They are literally leading these people like blind sheep to hell.
One thing I noticed about going to Mass In Rome and this is especially true of St Peter's itself was the very high quality of the Liturgy, both for the Novus Ordo and Latin Mass and standards generally. For instance they wear full clerical and religious garb. I could understand this because this is the very heart of the Church. They set the standard for the rest of us. They rather like our Spiritual Parent, the First Church of us all. So to have this abomination in Rome itself, in St Peter's, it is rather like watching your mother being raped since St Peter's is the mother Church of us all.
I get that Pope Leo must be welcoming to everyone, even great sinners, but where is the line drawn? It is impossible to get past the fact that this group wearing such inappropriate attire, carrying a blasphemous rainbow cross, was allowed into St. Peter's. This LGBT pilgrimage group looked like street thugs that were dressed for an angry NYC protest, I do not see how this behavior is compatible with Christ's Church. That said, the welcome mat should have been tossed into to Tiber River along with their rainbow cross, flag, and obscene t shirt. The Vatican has a pretty strict dress code, if they got past the Swiss guards and various clergy then one must assume that this was allowed by someone in authority. This has created a scandal for the Church. If this is tolerated at the Vatican, what is to stop this from happening at our home parishes. The Holy Catholic Church cannot accompany those who cause scandal, and if this goes uncorrected it will only embolden these LGBT groups. This scandal was an offense to Our Lord, and deserves an apology. I am praying for Pope Leo, he must be under a tremendous amount of pressure. We know that the smoke of Satan is becoming very, very thick within the Vatican.
During the pandemic, the expression “new normal” was often used to describe the set of adjustments in customs and behaviors while the global health emergency was in effect. Now we can speak of a “new normal” in the Church, in the post-Fiducia Supplicans context. Francis opened a door that he knew could be closed by a traditionalist successor, but he managed to secure a successor in his own image and likeness. Only a divine intervention can save us from falling into the Anglican death spiral. There was a turning point in Anglican history when even its most faithful and sincere adherent could realize that it was not the true Church. In the current case of our Church, the apparitions of Fatima are an anchor of salvation that point to the path of restoration, but they also seem to point to a great chastisement that will lead us to it.
I find it hard to buy it that Pope Leo's under pressure, because he would get the overwhelming support of all true-believing Catholics if he took a stand. If it's these people he chooses to listen to, while ignoring all who are opposed to and scandalised by it, that's his choice. It's impossible to know that he isn't delighted to make this choice.
This would be an excellent moment for him to "take that stand", silence will do him no favors in this instance. He is a new pope, there has to be a certain amount of pressure coming at him from all sides. Prayers to the Holy Spirit to guide Pope Leo.
I see things different in many ways than others on the forum. I look at men's hearts. Not at what they say but at what they are. People talk so much. But when you get older you don't talk so much. I don't believe there is anything worse under heaven than an older person who talks too much. In the young talking a lot is even to expected and good. In the older silence is recommended.# I suspect in the Church and the World we have never had a time when men have talked quite so much. With the Synod on Synodalties in the Church we have had people from all over the world at huge , huge expense talking and talking and talking. But the truth of the matter was never to arrive at God's truth/ The reason for the all the talking as the reason for organising the Sodomite pilgrimage to Rome was to put forth an agenda. That Sodomy is fine. The bible was wrong. The Church got it wrong. Get with the times Sodomy is fine. Let me be quite straight about this. Papa Leo is 100% on board with the sodomy agenda. Papa Frankie was 100% on board with the Sodomite agenda. That's the way it is. Papa Leo will be in charge of making Bishops and Cardinals for the next twenty years. Just as Frankie was. I very strongly suspect that Papa Leo and Frankie were/are sodomites themselves. Else why would they have pushed all this? It was to justify themselves.Both have a very, very questionable history in the cover up of homosexual abuse. By the time papa Leo is finished the Catholic Church will be dead. The only thing that can save us is the direct intervention of God.
How does the person on the video know that the Pope refused to meet the US ambassador? The video was uploaded four day ago. According to the an article in Rome Reports, dated 2nd September: "Credentials in the Vatican are official documents that accredit an ambassador as their country's representative to the Holy See. The protocol establishes two steps: first, a copy of the letters is delivered to the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, and then the official ones are delivered to the Pope. Upon presentation, the ambassador is authorized to fully exercise his diplomatic functions. Brian Burch, recently appointed United States Ambassador to the Holy See, presented the first step: a copy of the credentials to Monsignor Edgar Peña Parra, as announced by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See on its social media." https://www.romereports.com/en/2025...-burch-with-the-vatican-secretariat-of-state/
I have read through all the contributions. All I can say is we are in shark infested waters. We have danger on every side but Jesus & Mary will carry us safely through. I can only influence my own little sphere which is mainly my family circle. I think as others have said here pray and make sacrifices and trust totally in Jesus. He is in charge. Heaven has a plan and all will be renewed. Radiate trust and joy. We are chosen for these times. Prayer can change hearts.
Obedience to the Vicar of Christ is traditional Catholicism. That modernism is the synthesis of all heresies doesn't make it the only heresy. "Irregular" is the most favourable description I can find of the status of the SSPX. Another description was "in partial union with the Holy See". That's not full reconciliation. The attached article from June 2023 written by John Paul Meenan in Catholic World Report more or less sums up my own view of the Society: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2023/06/21/the-sspx-the-papacy-and-the-situation-today/ Meenan mentions a practice of the SSPX to request permission to set up in a diocese and when permission is refused they move in regardless. I found this report from last month of a case in Sweden where Bishop Fellay performed "episcopal functions" without the knowledge or consent of the Diocesan Bishop: https://www.catholicworldreport.com...of-st-pius-x-status-after-unauthorized-visit/ Whether the SSPX approves of him or not, Cardinal Arborelius is the lawful authority in Sweden. Here's what the Cardinal said about the SSPX: "The diocese made clear that the SSPX does not live or act in communion with the Holy See, and its canonical status remains unclear". One link in Meenan's article didn't work. The link was to an account by Pete Vere, a former SSPX member. I found something from Pete Vere but I'm not sure it's the same one referenced by Meenan so won't include the link in this post. I did find helpful this question and answer from 2021 on the Canon Law Made Easy website: https://canonlawmadeeasy.com/2021/09/16/when-is-it-okay-to-go-to-an-sspx-mass/ There have been a few changes since 2021 but overall there hasn't been any official change in the Society's status. So, the SSPX have a valid Mass which is illicit unless the celebrant has permission from the Diocesan Bishop and there are no SSPX diocesan bishops, yet the SSPX continues to administer Sacraments and presumably offer Masses without permission from the Diocesan Bishop. That's not full reconciliation. It's very troubling, also, that the US spokesman for the SSPX seems to believe that it's ok to skip the Sunday obligation if SSPX Mass is not available (Meenan provides a link to Vogel's interview with Eric Sammons of Crisis Magazine). I trust, Michael, that you aren't accusing Pope St. John Paul 11 of modernism. I'm sure that you also wouldn't accuse Pope Pius X11 of Modernism, yet in his Encyclical Mediator Dei, issued on November 20, 1947, he said that the sacred liturgy is entirely subject to the discretion and approval of the Holy See. He reserved that right to the Holy See more than once in the Encyclical: https://www.vatican.va/content/pius...ments/hf_p-xii_enc_20111947_mediator-dei.html I don't doubt for a minute that Archbishop Lefevbre would have been happy with that Pope's liturgical preferences and as far as I know there is no record of his having criticised Mediator Dei. So, does the authority of the Holy See wax and wane depending on the opinions of individual Bishops? Bishops with a lot of support as in England? Priests and later Bishops as in the Reformation? I'd rather not get into an argument about the SSPX. I would love to see their situation fully regularised. I do see a problem, however, with groups in the Church ignoring excommunication of their favourite leader(s) and sitting it out until they garner enough support to pressurise/persuade the hierarchy to lift the excommunication. Why is it ok for the SSPX to do that and not some LBQT crowd to do it? One group claims to be defending tradition in the liturgy. The other group claims to be defending tradition by charitable outreach to the lost sheep. Yes, the SSPX are far and away more preferable than the Alphabet crowd but one group being better than the other doesn't make either group good when they both undermine the papacy. John Paul Meenan hit the nail on the head in his final paragraph: "Although any given Pope can sow great confusion and scandal—and there any number of examples in history—it is through the papacy that God will correct and clarify what is needed. Without the papacy—the rock on which Christ built His Church—it is every man for himself. And the devil may take not only the hindmost."
