Just “Child’s Play”? Refutation of a Historian who says Vatican II Church will “Bounce Back” from Bergoglian Chaos
Every so often, perhaps because they are exhausted by all the cognitive dissonance adhering to the Novus Ordo Sect while trying to be Catholic brings, certain conservative and semi-traditionalist writers and pundits will push the idea that despite the current morass, things really aren’t quite so bad after all. Compared to other periods of Church history, they contend, the present situation is not nearly so troublesome, or at least it is certainly not without equal precedent.… READ MORE
The Open Letter accusing Francis of Heresy:
A Sedevacantist Analysis
More than a week has now passed since the publication of the “Open Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church” released on Apr. 30 by nineteen Novus Ordo clergymen and academics accusing “Pope” Francis of being a pertinacious heretic and asking the addressees to declare him such and thereby remove him from office. Since then, many more academics and clerics have added their names to the Open Letter, and at the time of this writing, the total is up to 81 (see updates here).… READ MORE
In face of the overwhelming evidence that Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) is not a Catholic but a public heretic, Schneider’s objective was to find a way to reconcile Bergoglio’s obvious stubborn adherence to heresy with his claim to the Papacy, the legitimacy of which Schneider refuses to question.… READ MORE
The Limits to Invoking “Papal Lapses” as a Justification for the Recognize-and-Resist Position:
A Response to Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
by Francis del Sarto
“Lessons from Church History: A Brief Review of Papal Lapses” is an article by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski that was published on August 6, 2018, by the OnePeterFive website. An editor’s note informs the reader that it is an update of an article that first appeared in October 2015. The author is identified as “a Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, and choral composer…”, who has taught at Novus Ordo colleges in Austria and the United States, written six books, and is a regular contributor on “Catholic blogs”.… READ MORE
These days, recognize-and-resist adherents are in an extremely difficult spot: They can no longer deny the horrendous public apostasy perpetrated by Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) on a near-daily basis, yet they absolutely refuse to consider even as a possibility the idea that the greatest apostate the world has ever known is not at the same time the Vicar of Christ and head of the infallible and indefectible Roman Catholic Church.
Time and again, therefore, they are eager to find historical precedent for their position, and few things seem to please them more than to find, ostensibly, a “heretical Pope” in Church history they can point to in support of their stance.… READ MORE
At the beginning of January of this year (1873), I was called upon to give a public course on Church history at Laval University. The subject was left to my choosing. Knowing from the experience I had acquired during my studies at the Roman College how useful it is to throw light on numerous historical questions debated in our times, and upon which so many clouds continue to hover; knowing, on the other hand, that the divine prerogatives of the primacy and the infallibility of the Sovereign Pontiffs have been and continue to be the object of the most violent attacks, I believed it necessary to choose this topic, to lay down the facts as clearly and as succinctly as possible, and to thereby show the fulfillment of Jesus Christ’s promises in the annals of history.
The Vacancy of the Papal Throne since the Death of Pope Pius XII
The Chair of St. Peter in Vatican City(image: shutterstock.com)
On this page we present a slew of links to articles, blog posts, books, audios, and videos dealing with the subject matter of the Papacy, Sedevacantism, the false theological position known as “recognize-but-resist”, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), the Second Vatican Council, and the Novus Ordo Magisterium. We have tried as much as possible to group the links by topic. Due to the recent publication of the book True or False Pope? Refuting Sedevacantism and Other Modern Errors by John Salza and Robert Siscoe, there is a separate group of links relating just to that.… READ MORE
Andrew Likoudis publishes big Novus Ordo anthology responding to 'Catholic Traditionalism'. No doubt their refutations of the various recognize-and-resist errors is right on the money, but of course they're also defending the errors of Vatican II and the post-conciliar church. https://x.com/NovusOrdoWatch/status/1986537323417288755/photo/1
How many semi-trads agree with this? "In proscribing errors, the Church cannot demand any internal assent from the faithful by which the judgments she issues are to be embraced." It's too bad it's one of the MODERNIST ERRORS condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (n. 7)
Leo XIV in letter to seminarians: "The Church has always recognized that the encounter with the Lord needs to be rooted in intelligence and to become doctrine" - https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/letters/2025/documents/20250917-lettera-seminario-trujillo.html BECOME doctrine? That sounds very much like the Modernists' idea of religious formulas being
Leo XIV to seminarians: ‘Piety without doctrine becomes fragile sentimentality’ - https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/11/05/pope-leo-xiv-to-seminarians-piety-without-doctrine-becomes-fragile-sentimentality/ But wait a minute! On March 31, 2019, Francis said: "Being a Christian is not about adhering to a doctrine"! https://novusordowatch.org/2019/04/francis-being-christian-not-about-doctrine/
More recognize-and-resisters are, naturally, resisting while recognizing: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/fr-heimerl-of-course-the-blessed-mother-is-co-redemptrix/
In Charlotte, hey are frantically trying to do all they can to prevent their new 'bishop' from succeeding in his desire to suppress every semblance of Catholicism. One can sympathize with their piety and good will, but the solution is to recognize that this Modernist lowlife is
Notice how Kennedy is framing the issue so as to give him an advantage in the argument. He claims Mater Populi Fidelis comes from "a Roman theologian". But Fernandez wasn't issuing the document in his capacity as private theologian but in the exercise of his office as head of the
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