Posted on 07/03/2026 3:01:24 PM PDT by ebb tide
This photo says it all. My mom always said, "Birds of a feather flock together." So here we have the scandalous porn-writing head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith sharing an intimate moment with the pope, il papa, my daddy in the spiritual life. I'm heartbroken and shaking my head after reading the explanatory note from Fernandez. [Published at the end.]
Will I stop going to the SSPX? No. My conscience tells me that in order to be in "full Communion" with Rome these days, I must accept those things I know to be untrue and against the faith. Fernandez talks about Canon Law, but, according to Infovaticana the formula of the decree and the explanatory note "lacks penal efficacy." So am I excommunicated? Who knows? In today's sad situation the Vatican Tower of Babel speaks with the voice of Humpty Dumpty. You remember the egg's philosophy right?: “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Through the Looking Glass
Fernandez reigns as the Humpty Dumpty spokesman for the Vatican. Can we trust anything he says or does? I certainly can't.
Several months ago, Bishop Schneider said that excommunication of the SSPX would be invalid. Go here to read more. One thing he stated quite clearly:
“It is not a secret that there are strongly influential high-ranking clergy in our day, who simply hate all that is authentic Catholic tradition in doctrine and liturgy,” he wrote, and these people “would be happy if the SSPX could be just excommunicated, whereas in the same time they show the greatest possible tolerance towards all what is ambiguous and heretic in doctrine and liturgy, as it is the case with the so-called German Synodal Path.”
Schneider emphasized that for the neo‑modernist cardinals and bishops currently in power—who, in his view, support “sacrileges and heresies”—even a “minimal ecclesial integration of the SSPX would be unacceptable,” since they are “cowardly collaborators with the agenda of the world’s ideological elites.” Any agreement with the Society, he argued, would “unmask their betrayal of Christ and increase a reconquest of true Catholicity within the life of the Church in our day.”
Will Schneider be excommunicated next?
As I consider all these things I ask myself, whom do I trust more? Pope Leo and Cardinal Fernandez or Bishop Schneider. Goodness! I'll have to think about that...for a nanosecond.
It's a terrible thing to recognize that your father in faith is preaching a different gospel, a gospel of indifferentism and novelties. And that reminds me of St. Paul saying, "If any one [even an angel] preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema." Dare I say that the pope and Fernandez are no angels? No human is. We are fallen and subject to temptation and sin.
So where do I look for the truth? In what was handed on to the apostles by Jesus and transmitted by them over the millennia with correction from legitimate councils like Nicea, Trent, and Vatican I among others.
In the meanwhile, I'm sorry it has come to this, but I will continue to attend the SSPX in peace confident that the excommunications are invalid and that all will be well when God, as He always does, brings good out of evil. I will continue to pray for Pope Leo and poor, lost Cardinal Fernandez who is truly a pitiful and pathetic individual. May God shower them with grace and bring all persecution of the faithful to an end.
This morning I posted this on Facebook before I saw the decree of excommunication:
The sheep are discussing the SSPX consecrations. I overheard them complaining that they are being called black sheep because they are following a good shepherd disapproved by the master of the house. Poor sheep.
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“It is not a secret that there are strongly influential high-ranking clergy in our day, who simply hate all that is authentic Catholic tradition in doctrine and liturgy,” he wrote, and these people “would be happy if the SSPX could be just excommunicated, whereas in the same time they show the greatest possible tolerance towards all what is ambiguous and heretic in doctrine and liturgy, as it is the case with the so-called German Synodal Path.”
Schneider emphasized that for the neo‑modernist cardinals and bishops currently in power—who, in his view, support “sacrileges and heresies”—even a “minimal ecclesial integration of the SSPX would be unacceptable,” since they are “cowardly collaborators with the agenda of the world’s ideological elites.” Any agreement with the Society, he argued, would “unmask their betrayal of Christ and increase a reconquest of true Catholicity within the life of the Church in our day.”
Ping
Nine years of Dominican nuns and four years of Jesuit priests here, but two gay commie popes in a row and I’m out.
Great article.
If Only there was an instructions
Manuel....
I overheard them complaining that they are being called black sheep because they are following a good shepherd disapproved by the master of the house.
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