The unsmiling Pope Pius IV in Cum ex Apostolatus decreed in 1559 that public heretics automatically lose office

SO often one sees the clergy of Conciliar Church laughing. An especially vivid example comes from yesterday’s ceremony in Washington, D.C. installing Robert McElroy as one of its cardinals.

The grins said, “We’re not in the least worried.”

Sure, untold millions have defected. Sure, tens of thousands of schools, hospitals and sacred congregations have closed or are nearly closed. Sure, few good men come to our doors. Sure, we’ve lost whole continents to the faith. Sure, more and more people are accusing us of being heretics and apostates. Sure, we are the object of scandal and reproach, some of it earned and some of it not. Sure, we ourselves detest Catholicism.

But all is well — and we will laugh.

The megaphones of the media reprised its beloved theme. The Catholic Church is an institution that approves child molestation and rape, we are told. And some righteously gathered in Washington to accuse — justly — these purported bishops of racketeering in their funding of the migrant invasion of America. But the news as usual entirely missed the most important story.

These men are not cardinals or even members of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic church is not simply an organization. It’s not a club. It’s a faith, a body of defined beliefs and laws. One of those beliefs is that if you reject even one article of the Faith, you are not a member of the Catholic Church. One cannot hold authority in the Church if one has publicly rejected some of its doctrines.

“No one, therefore, unless in communion with Peter can share in his authority, since it is absurd to imagine that he who is outside can command in the Church.”

Leo XIII, Encyclical Satis Cogntium

There are so many articles of the Catholic faith these men deny — despite the evident and undeniable fact that they also hold to articles of the Faith — that 2,000 years of Church teaching condemn them. Sacred Scripture condemns them. All true popes condemn them. Even before Robert McElroy ever embraced “inclusion,” he was condemned.

Most of the popes and cardinals of the past were not photographed. But those who were photographed were rarely shown giggling and grinning in public.  They knew too well their grave responsibilities. Not that they were against joy, but they wore the Crucifix on their breasts and who could laugh on the graves of the martyrs?

Pope St. Pius X rarely is seen in smiling

There is no need for a marketing smile when you have the Faith and when you have worshipped at the sacred altar of the only true religion.

All is indeed well. But not in the way the desperate grins suggest. For these unsmiling vicars of the past lead us still. May God keep us from ever betraying those altars no matter how much these modernist monsters laugh.

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