A recent National Catholic Reporter article detailed Cardinal Robert McElroy’s sharp criticism of Eternal Word Television Network for its content opposing Francis and other enemies of the Church. The entire story of the heretical Cardinal attempting to claim a moral and theological high ground to punish EWTN is demonically surreal, but the real clue that Satan must have had a role in scripting this mockery is in the article’s final quote from McElroy:

“It is vital that during all of these debates over doctrinal questions we resist the temptation of using negative labels against those who adopt postures that are opposite to ours.”

But God has prepared us and has even given us a great sign that Traditional Catholicism is indeed the right path: He has permitted Francis to accept every religious belief in the world other than Traditional Catholicism, against which he and the demonic globalists wage unholy war.

McElroy was evidently thinking of Bishop Thomas Paprocki having justly accused him of heresy. McElroy almost certainly knows that he, like so many others who follow Francis, is indeed a heretic. His plea for civility in response to his ongoing attempts to send souls to hell is a sign of how far so many of Francis’s followers have fallen — they no longer fear to mock God openly.

One wonders how many followers of Francis recognize the irony in McElroy’s words — after all, it is Francis who has applied various unjust labels to Traditional Catholics over the past ten years: we are backwards, rigid, Pharisees, “museum mummies,” etc. These insults should mean nothing to us: we are Traditional Catholics because we care about how Our Lord will judge us, not how Francis or his fellow destroyers judge us.

For many Catholics inclined to follow tradition, the question might have been more complicated before Francis. After all, John Paul II and Benedict XVI promoted various errors of Vatican II (especially false ecumenism) but they generally gave the impression of wanting to be Catholic. Thus one might have been truly conflicted before Francis: should I follow tradition or apparent authority?

Francis and his sycophants are imitating the chief priests and ancients who persuaded the people to choose Barabbas over Christ. The significance of what they reject is even more profound in light of what they choose instead.

For better or worse, Francis does not even pretend to be Catholic anymore. Were it not for God preparing us for this calamity in various ways, especially through the warnings of Fatima and Akita, we might see this as a sign that the Church had defected. But God has prepared us and has even given us a great sign that Traditional Catholicism is indeed the right path: He has permitted Francis to accept every religious belief in the world other than Traditional Catholicism, against which he and the demonic globalists wage unholy war. Francis and his sycophants are imitating the chief priests and ancients who persuaded the people to choose Barabbas over Christ. The significance of what they reject is even more profound in light of what they choose instead.

Thus, far from causing us to lose hope, these attacks on Traditional Catholicism only strengthen our resolve. We see these same enemies attacking Our Lord and His immutable truth. Every week they give some new sign of demonic insanity that should suffice to convince even the greatest skeptics that Satan exists. And if Satan and his followers attack us with such concentrated fury, we know it must be because we stand with God. In the face of these attacks we must take courage and wait for the Lord.

So we wait for the Lord, but not with the spirit of indolence. As Fr. Mateo Crawley wrote in his classic Jesus, King of Love, our abandonment to God’s will has nothing in common with a “stupid quietism”:

“Father, my spirit, my life, my desires, my hopes, my eternal future — I commend all into Thy hands. Properly speaking, abandonment is nothing but a logical consequence of the spirit of faith. The summit is easily reached through confidence and a love as strong as death. Needless to say, there is nothing in common between a ‘stupid quietism,’ an indolent folding of the arms, trusting that God will do everything without any cooperation or sacrifice on my part and this genuine self-abandonment which is the supreme expression of true love.” (p. 50)

Because we have absolute confidence in God, we give everything to Him. And, thanks to Francis and the globalists, we can have no doubt about what we are to give to God: if we just imagine doing the opposite of what they want us to do, we will come close to the mark of what we should do in serving God. Many Catholics might never have thought to become saints were it not for the fact that it is the last thing Francis, McElroy, Cupich and the rest of them want us to do.

For every obstacle they throw in our path toward God, God will give us sufficient grace to overcome it. The key is to obey God and the immutable Catholic Faith rather than those who attack it.

But can we really be saints? Fr. Mateo Crawley assures that we can and should:

“Entirely possible for the simple reason that we are called and invited to it by the all-wise God. Therefore we can attain it. He gives us the first impulse. He makes the first step easy and also the second. Remember, sanctity does not principally consist in laying hold of God up in the heights of heaven, but in letting ourselves be seized by Him when He swoops down like an eagle hungry for its prey. He invites and welcomes, He offers graces, light and strength, He draws and guides, He gives Himself; our part is to love Him and to give ourselves with docility, trust and generosity.” (p. 53)

God has always invited souls to give themselves entirely to Him, but now the invitation seems much more clear than in the past because we see such a great need for Catholics to truly fight evil with the strength that only God can give. He has, in a sense, allowed the crisis in the Church and world to grow so bad so that we will turn to Him with that docility, trust, and generosity that will lead us to sanctity.

So God will continue to draw good from the evil perpetrated by Francis and his fellow destroyers. For every obstacle they throw in our path toward God, God will give us sufficient grace to overcome it. The key is to obey God and the immutable Catholic Faith rather than those who attack it. As Archbishop Lefebvre wrote in his Open Letter to Confused Catholics, we know the Will of God from Tradition:

“Blind obedience is not Catholic; nobody is exempt from responsibility for having obeyed man rather than God if he accepts orders from a higher authority, even the Pope, when these are contrary to the Will of God as it is known with certainty from Tradition.”

Perhaps one might have had doubts in 1986, when Archbishop Lefebvre wrote these words. But as Michael Matt recently argued in his Remnant Underground, the crisis in the Church today has grown so bad that there is no longer even a question of whether we must obey those who seek to lead the Church in the wrong direction. We must follow Tradition and resist those who seek to lead us astray. No reasonable person can worry that following Tradition as faithfully as possible, instead of Francis, constitutes schism.

We are blessed to be able to fight this battle for Our Lord. Jesus gives us the grace to follow Him in this Passion of the Church, and we have every reason to have great courage as we stand at the foot of the Cross with His mother and ours. Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us!

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