THE utopian disdain for hierarchy common among today’s social egalitarians — a contempt especially directed at the moment toward Donald Trump, who is (wrongly) seen as an exemplar of evil caste systems — comes to us straight from our Puritan forefathers. This is not a novel point, but it’s worth remembering now and then.

From the website Hesiod’s Corner (unfortunately taken down):

Puritanism is notoriously part of the “low church” tradition. Puritanism rejected the ecclesiastical hierarchy in favor of a priesthood of all believers – a major theme in Reformed Calvinist theology and teaching. Due to Puritanism’s low ecclesiology, they adopted an ecclesiastical egalitarianism. For those who are not that familiar with Christian ecclesiology, ecclesiology is the philosophy of understanding the nature of what the “Church” is. In Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglo-Catholic circles, the Church is hierarchal and subdivided – this is because Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and High Anglicanism understand the church to be a living reflection and embodiment of the hierarchy of the natural world in-of-itself.

The Churches tower upward to the skies, the bells call one to participate in the Mass – like the Spirit calling over the face of the Deep in Genesis 1 – the church structure is filial and patriarchal, sustained by fatherliness but nurtured by “Mother Church” tending to one’s spiritual and physical ailments and needs, etc. Catholicism goes as far as even saying that within this hierarchy all have different gifts and spiritual needs that differ from person to person, and it is the responsibility of the father to recognize these talents, but also necessary for the individual to recognize these needs too (cf. St. Gregory the Great, Pastoral Rule).

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“WHEN we once accept the infallible truth that no man who is a heretic (or suspected heretic) pre-election could ever become pope (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV), that no true pope could ever speak heresy on matters of faith, morals or discipline, (The Vatican Council, 1869-70), and that no one may usurp papal jurisdiction or change Canon Law in any way during an interregnum, then we have our answers.

1.Angelo Roncalli was a suspected heretic pre-election and a confirmed heretic post-election; he never became pope. None of his acts were valid or could ever become valid.

2.The 1958 college of cardinals was disqualified from ever electing another pope (Can 2391 §1.)

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"YOU will not see anyone who is really striving after his advancement who is not given to spiritual reading. And as to him who neglects it, the fact will soon be observed by his progress." --- St. Athanasius  

  

"O GOD who didst give us the Blessed Virgin Mary that we might venerate her as the Queen of All Saints and the Mother of Fair Love, mercifully grant that, under her protection, we may love Thee above all things here on earth, and enjoy the happy companionship of all Thy saints in heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. (Taken from Liturgical Novenas and Triduums, Imprimatur 1941)  

 Link "ABRACADABRA, Goy. "I turn your pain into my joy."  

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FAKENUKES PHIL analyzes the recent alleged shooting at Florida State University. "The propaganda is against white males ... The birth rate is being manipulated through media events like this."  

"YOU know that every evil is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud that takes away the light of reason, which reason holds in itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without the other." --- St. Catherine of Siena  

"THE prophecies of the Apocalypse show that Satan will imitate the Church of Christ to deceive mankind; he will set up a church of Satan in opposition to the Church of Christ. Antichrist will assume the role of Messias; his prophet will act the part of Pope, and there will be imitations of the Sacraments of the Church. There will also be lying wonders in imitation of the miracles wrought in the Church …There seems to be no reason why a false Church might not become universal, even more universal than the true one, at least for a time” (pgs.119, 155, [E. Sylvester Berry, D.D.]; The Church of Christ, An Apologetic and Dogmatic Treatise, Herder, St. Louis and London, 1927 and 1941). "If we are truly the apostolic Church of the ages, we will recognize the same authority. That authority was established in an unbroken line from St. Peter to the last true pope, Pius XII. Any deviation from the teaching and the succession to that line tells us it is not apostolic; that it cannot and does not issue from Christ to his Apostles and their successors. It is a terrible realization that we live in the reign of Antichrist, and the juridic Church no longer exists. But Christ has promised to not leave us orphans; we are yet the members of his Mystical Body on earth. It is up to us to find our way, as Pope Pius…

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"I TELL you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy." --- St. Paul of the Cross  

"I AM at the sea-shore; a drop of water is suspended from my finger. I ask this water: Poor drop, where would you wish to be? It replies: In the sea. And what do I in answer to this appeal? I shake my finger and let the poor little drop fall into the sea. Now, I ask you, is it not true that this drop of water is in the sea? Certainly it is there; but go and seek it, now that it is lost in the ocean, its centre. If it had a tongue, what would it say? Deduce the consequence and apply the parable to yourself. Lose sight of the heavens, the earth, the sea and its rivers, and all created things, and permit this soul that God has given you to lose herself in this infinitely great and good God Who is her first cause." --- St. Paul of the Cross, Flowers of the Passion, p. 61  

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FROM Dom Prosper Guéranger’s “Quasimodo Sunday,” The Liturgical Year:

“To return to our Apostle — Thomas had heard Magdalene, and he despised her testimony; he had heard Peter, and he objected to his authority; he had heard the rest of his fellow-Apostles and the two disciples of Emmaus, and no, he would not give up his own opinion. How many there are among us, who are like him in this! We never think of doubting what is told us by a truthful and disinterested witness, unless the subject touch upon the supernatural; and then, we have a hundred difficulties. It is one of the sad consequences left in us by original sin. Like Thomas, we would see the thing ourselves: that alone is enough to keep us from the fullness of the truth. We comfort ourselves with the reflection that, after all, we are Disciples of Christ; as did Thomas, who kept in union with his brother-Apostles, only he shared not their happiness. He saw their happiness, but he considered it to be a weakness of mind, and was glad that he was free from it!

“How like this is to our modern rationalistic Catholic! He believes, but it is because his reason almost forces him to believe; he believes with his mind, rather than from his heart. His faith is a scientific deduction, and not a generous longing after God and supernatural truth. (more…)

THE DAY last year when “Pope” Francis joined with Buddhist monks in prayer was not particularly unusual. It was yet another public and triumphant avowal of the ecumenism — just a fancy word for good, ol’ polytheism — that typified his reign and those of his Vatican II predecessors.

But still it was shocking. The Great Betrayal of the Modernists, as I wrote at the time, displayed its characteristic audacity. To the Modernist, it is mean and “rigid” not to embrace the gods of other religions. All gods are good.

We have descended into heathenism all because Catholics were afraid of being called mean, such was their vanity, such was their immersion in the things of this world at the expense of their spiritual values.

They have callously abandoned the followers of other religions to a wilderness, a jungle with no clear path to union with God.

Modernism, thou art cruel! With sweet smiles and twisted rhetoric, thou kill! Truth is a rock, and thou art a murderer of souls. (more…)