On Vatican II: Lefebvre from 1972...

Editor’s Note: NEWSFLASH: Being ‘rad trad’ is now very much en vogue.  I guess nobody wants to be on a losing team, and Team Bergoglio will surely never make the playoffs.  Strange days indeed!  Folks who were defending the regime just a few months ago are suddenly presenting themselves as traditionalists who’ve more or less been here all along. Good for them! Welcome to the front, boys. Still, natural justice impels us to recall that the pioneers of Traditionalism didn’t need to be on any winning team. In fact most of them were losers for Christ, who died excommunicated or otherwise disgraced for the lonely stand they took. But history will cast them as the heroes they surely were—men and women who didn’t require a buffoon like Francis to help them recognize a massive problem in the Church that had first outed itself in the Vatican, not in 2018, but sixty years earlier in 1958. Francis is hardly the ramrod. His arrival on the scene was as inevitable as sunrise. But now that resisting Modernist popes is all the rage, some Internet heroes are out there denouncing men such as Archbishop Lefebvre for doing fifty years ago what they finally mustered the courage to do just a few months ago.  This article is dedicated to the pioneer traditionalists—men who did their Catholic duty and became traditionalists long before Traditionalism was cool. Let’s never forget. MJM

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Michael Matt takes on Catholics who are not supporting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, including those so-called traditionalists who dismiss Viganò on the grounds that he's not a traditionalist. Plus, in the face of the Pope Francis crisis can faithful Catholics jump ship and join the Orthodox? Michael talks strategy and issues a clarion call to stay in the Church and fight, while standing strong with Archbishop Viganò.

Exclusive Access to CIC 2018 Via On-Demand Video:

Dear Friends:

I'd like to let you in on an early bird special for this year's Catholic Identity Conference (November 2, 3, and 4).  We're opening up early registration this week for the CIC On-Demand service, which means that if you cannot be with us physically this year, you can at least join us virtually.

There are only 25 seats left over at www.CatholicIdentityConference.org which we hope to fill over the course of the next week; but there will be unlimited availability via Remnant TV's CIC On-Demand.

Our RTV crew is already hard at work making sure to bring you top quality video of the event, along with special interviews, interactive online features and full access to each exciting CIC talk within minutes of its completion.

As Catholics begin to feel the noose tightening around their own necks here in 2018, it seems somehow appropriate to remind ourselves of the persecution that may come, that please God never will, but that did visit itself upon our brothers and sisters in Mexico not so very long ago. May their heroic example inspire us to stay strong and to never surrender that which meant everything to our fathers in the years and centuries leading up to the Second Vatican Council: the ancient traditions of the holy Catholic Faith, especially the old Latin Mass. 

Few Americans—and amazingly few Mexicans—are aware of the epic, three-year struggle to save the Catholic faith that convulsed Mexico in the 1920s. Fewer still are aware of the key players in this dramatic event that came to be known as “La Cristiada,” or “The Cristero War”.

Mexico has a long and fascinating history. In 1924, a deadly period was ushered in by the tenure of President Plutarco Elias Calles. This shift catalyzed the period known as the Maximato. It was during the Maximato that La Cristiada took place. 

See Part I HERE

Can a Canonization Be Based on Dubiously-Miraculous “Miracles”?

Tomorrow, October 14, Pope Bergoglio, having already authorized Holy Communion for public adulterers and declared the death penalty immoral—flatly contradicting bimillennial Church teaching and practice in both cases—will declare that both Paul VI and Oscar Romero are saints the universal Church must venerate as such. Yet Paul VI unleashed an unprecedented liturgical debacle and the post-conciliar revolution in general, over which he spent the rest of his life weeping and wringing his hands while faith and discipline rapidly collapsed all around him. Whereas Romero, a complex figure one cannot honestly call a Marxist, was not assassinated on account of hatred of the Faith as such, but rather on account of his public agitation against the government of El Salvador, then in the midst of a civil war with Marxist revolutionaries. Nor has it ever been determined with certainty which side of the conflict was responsible for his murder, for which no one has ever been prosecuted or even identified definitively as a suspect.

New from Remnant TV. . . 

Down in the Remnant Underground, Michael Matt takes a closer look at the Synod on Youth taking place inside the Vatican right now. With a massive clerical sex scandal erupting all over the world, Team Bergoglio has decided to pretend like they’ve got this by ignoring it completely. With Pope Francis addressing the Synod in a way that can only be described as completely ‘out of touch with reality,’ Michael calls on Catholics to form organized counterrevolution, which starts with a promise to stand with the Vatican’s chief nemesis, Archbishop Carlo Viganò.

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Did Pope Francis call us to pray the Rosary to silence Archbishop Carlo Vigano? In this latest Sunday Sermon from South St. Paul, Father explains the history of the Holy Rosary and then stresses the necessity of praying the Rosary for the intention of a heavenly intervention in the ongoing crisis in the Church under Francis of Rome. “Let Heaven hear the sound of your rosaries so that the voices here on earth trying to expose the wickedness in the Church might be heard and this help bring an end to this wickedness.”

New From the Remnant Underground...

What the heck is going on at the Synod of Young People over in Rome right now! 

Down in the Remnant Underground, Michael Matt takes a look at some interesting video images of the 2018 Synod on Young People, and uses this as a springboard to discuss the traditional Catholic attitude toward those priests and bishops who know something is going terribly wrong inside the Vatican and who are speaking out, but who are not traditionalists, who don’t fully understand the problems with Vatican II and still offer the New Mass.  What do you think? Are prelates such as Vigano, Burke, Morlino, Chaput, Sarah and Schneider part of the problem, or a long-awaited first step in the right direction?  Michael discusses this, the continuing auto-demolition of the Francis pontificate and the Catholic response, i.e., The Catholic Identity Conference 2018 to be held near Pittsburgh on November 2, 3 & 4, 2018. 

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(Michael Matt presents powerful testimony from an actual sex abuse survivor) 

Down in The Remnant Underground, Michael Matt has a wholly different take on the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, making the point that the witch hunt is all about one thing: liberal America's commitment to human sacrifice. Plus, Michael brings in the devastating testimony of an ACTUAL survivor of sex abuse who was permanently handicapped by her abuser, and yet who is standing in defense of Judge Kavanaugh's nomination. Modern feminism is a joke, argues this young millennial, as she blasts it to hell and tells Dr. Ford to get over herself and stop using her victim status as a political football. Please share this video, or download and share the written transcript of this abuse victim’s powerful letter.

All the world's a stage. And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances …
Shakespeare...As You Like It

For nearly two weeks, millions of Americans have watched the televised confirmation hearings regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. In an earlier comment in The Remnant about the nomination,  I wrote:

"I buttress my favorable assessment of Kavanaugh not on my limited first hand knowledge of Kavanaugh's record, but on that of two other experts in the field: one of them is Ed Whelan, a former law clerk of Justice Scalia, who totally supports the Kavanaugh nomination, and believes that he will be helpful in moving another step forward along the way of bringing back sanity to the High Court, including in the field of religious liberty. The other is Eugene Scalia. I strongly doubt that the lawyer son of  the late Justice would endorse anyone whose legal views were antithetical to those of his saintly father. I believe that Judge Kavanaugh will be confirmed, and that he will join the fight to restore the religious liberty that the current court has set in motion."